Conduct, escort, conductor.

Coney-catch, cheat.

Confect, sweetmeat.

Confer, compare.

CONGIES, bows.

Connive, give a look, wink, of secret intelligence.

Consort, company, concert.

Constancy, fidelity, ardour, persistence.

Constant, confirmed, persistent, faithful.

Constantly, firmly, persistently.

Contend, strive.

Continent, holding together.

Control (the point), bear or beat down.

Convent, assembly, meeting.

Convert, turn (oneself).

Convey, transmit from one to another.

Convince, evince, prove; overcome, overpower; convict.

Cop, head, top; tuft on head of birds; “a cop” may have reference to one or other meaning; Gifford and others interpret as “conical, terminating in a point.”

Cope-man, chapman.

Copesmate, companion.

Copy (Lat. copia), abundance, copiousness.

Corn ("powder—­“), grain.

Corollary, finishing part or touch.

CORSIVE, corrosive.

CORTINE, curtain, (arch.) wall between two towers, etc.

CORYAT, famous for his travels, published as “Coryat’s
Crudities.”

Cosset, pet lamb, pet.

Costard, head.

Costard-monger, apple-seller, coster-monger.

Costs, ribs.

Cote, hut.

COTHURNAL, from “cothurnus,” a particular boot worn by actors in Greek tragedy.

Cotquean, hussy.

Counsel, secret.

Countenance, means necessary for support; credit, standing.

Counter.  See Compter.

Counter, pieces of metal or ivory for calculating at play.

Counter, “hunt—­,” follow scent in reverse direction.

Counterfeit, false coin.

Counterpane, one part or counterpart of a deed or indenture.

Counterpoint, opposite, contrary point.

Court-dish, a kind of drinking-cup (Halliwell); N.E.D. quotes from Bp.  Goodman’s “Court of James I.”:  “The king...caused his carver to cut him out a court-dish, that is, something of every dish, which he sent him as part of his reversion,” but this does not sound like short allowance or small receptacle.

Court-Dor, fool.

Courteau, curtal, small horse with docked tail.

Courtship, courtliness.

COVETISE, avarice.

COWSHARD, cow dung.

Coxcomb, fool’s cap, fool.

Coy, shrink; disdain.

COYSTREL, low varlet.

Cozen, cheat.