Part 176 (1/2)
_Bannatyne Poems._
COFFING, COFYNE, _s._
1. A shrine, a box.
_Wyntown._
2. The hard crust of bread.
_Douglas._
Lat. _cophin-us_, a basket.
COFT, _pret._ and _part. pa._ Bought.
V. ~Coff~.
COG, COAG, COIG, COGUE, _s._ A hollow wooden vessel of a circular form for holding milk, broth, &c. S.
_Watson's Coll._
Germ. _kauch_, a hollow vessel, C. B. _cawg_, a bason.
_To_ ~Cog~, ~Cogue~, _v. a._ To empty into a wooden vessel.
_Ramsay._
COG, COGGE, _s._ A yawl or c.o.c.kboat.
_Wyntown._
Teut. _kogghe_, celox; Su. G. _kogg_, navigii genus, apud veteres.
_To_ COGLE, COGGLE, _v. a._ To cause any thing to move from side to side, so as to seem ready to be overset, S.
Perhaps from _cog_, a yawl, because this is so easily overset.
~Cogglie~, _adj._ Moving from side to side, unsteady as to position, apt to be overset, S. _c.o.c.kersum_, synon.
COY, _adj._ Still, quiet.
_Lyndsay._
Fr. _coi_, _coy_, id., from Lat. _quiet-us_.