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Cot"quean` (k?t"kw?n`), n. [Cot a cottage + quean.]

1. A man who busies himself with affairs which properly belong to women. Addison.

2. A she-cuckold; a cucquean; a henhussy. [Obs.]

What, shall a husband be afraid of his wife's face? We are a king, cotquean, and we will reign in our pleasures. B. Jonson.

Cot*quean"i*ty (k?t-kw?n"?-t?), n. The condition, character, or conduct of a cotquean. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

Co`trus*tee" (k?`tr?s-t?"), n. A joint trustee.

Cots"wold` (k?ts"w?ld`), n. [Cot a cottage or hut + wold an open country.] An open country abounding in sheepcotes, as in the Cotswold hills, in Gloucestershire, England.

Cotswold sheep, a long-wooled breed of sheep, formerly common in the counties of Gloucester, Hereford, and Worcester, Eng.; -- so called from the Cotswold Hills. The breed is now chiefly amalgamated with others.

Cot"tage (k?t"t?j; 48), n. [From Cot a cottage.] A small house; a cot; a hut.

&fist; The term was formerly limited to a habitation for the poor, but is now applied to any small tasteful dwelling; and at places of summer resort, to any residence or lodging house of rustic architecture, irrespective of size.

Cottage allotment. See under Alloment. [Eng.] -- Cottage cheese, the thick part of clabbered milk strained, salted, and pressed into a ball.

Cot"taged (-t?jd), a. Set or covered with cottages.

Even humble Harting's cottaged vale. Collins.

Cot"tage*ly (-t?j-l?), a. Cottagelike; suitable for a cottage; rustic. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.

Cot"ta*ger (k?t"t?-j?r), n. 1. One who lives in a cottage.

2. (Law) One who lives on the common, without paying any rent, or having land of his own.

{ Cot"ter, Cot"tar } (k?t"t?r), n. [LL. cotarius, cottarius, coterius. See Cot.] A cottager; a cottier. Burns.

Through Sandwich Notch the West Wind sang Good morrow to the cotter. Whittier.

Cot"ter (k&obreve;t"t&etilde;r), n. 1. A piece of wood or metal, commonly wedge- shaped, used for fastening together parts of a machine or structure. It is driven into an opening through one or all of the parts. [See Illust.] In the United States a cotter is commonly called a key.

2. A toggle.

Cot"ter, v. t. To fasten with a cotter.

Cot"ti*er (-t&ibreve;*&etilde;r), n. [OF. cotier. See Coterie, and cf. Cotter.] In Great Britain and Ireland, a person who hires a small cottage, with or without a plot of land. Cottiers commonly aid in the work of the landlord's farm. [Written also cottar and cotter.]

Cot"tise (k&obreve;t"t&ibreve;s), n. [Cf. F. c&ocit;tÚ side, L. costa rib.] (Her.) A diminutive of the bendlet, containing one half its area or one quarter the area of the bend. When a single cottise is used alone it is often called a cost. See also Couple-close.

Cot"tised (-t?st), a. (Her.) Set between two cottises, -- said of a bend; or between two barrulets, -- said of a bar or fess.

Cot"toid (k?t"toid), a. [NL. cottus sculpin + -oid.] (Zo÷l.) Like a fish of the genus Cottus. -- n. A fish belonging to, or resembling, the genus Cottus. See Sculpin.

Cot"to*lene` (k&obreve;t"t&osl;*lēn`), n. A product from cotton-seed, used as lard.

Cot"ton (k&obreve;t"t'n), n. [F. coton, Sp. algodon the cotton plant and its wool, coton printed cotton, cloth, fr. Ar. qutun, alqutun, cotton wool. Cf. Acton, Hacqueton.] 1. A soft, downy substance, resembling fine wool, consisting of the unicellular twisted hairs which grow on the seeds of the cotton plant. Long-staple cotton has a fiber sometimes almost two inches long; short-staple, from two thirds of an inch to an inch and a half.

2. The cotton plant. See Cotten plant, below.