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cootch, coutch, kootch,
coutch [kutʃ]
n. I.Sh. To coat with a preservative.
Cooter, Coulter, Couter, Couter_Fell, Couter_Fell,
Couter [ˈkutər]
pn. Coulter (Lanarkshire).
 
Couter Fell
pn. Culter Fell, the culmination of a network of ridges that lie south of Coulter.
catter, cooter, coother, couter, couther, cuiter, cuither, cuter, cutter, kjoder, koather, koder, kyoder,
couter [ˈkutər, ˈkjutər, I.Sh. kjodər]
also couther [ˈkuθər]
v. To nurse back to health, to pamper, fuss over, mend, patch, put to rights, coax, wheedle.
coolter, cooter, cooterneb, cooter-neb, cootrie, coulter, counterneb, couter, couter_neb, couterie, coutther,
couter [ˈkutər, ˈkuθər]
n. The coulter, the blade of a plough. col. The nose.
 
Compounds and phrases etc.
 
couterie: [NN.b. ˈkutri] The puffin Fratercula arctica.
couter neb: I.Ork. The razorbill Alca torda, U. The puffin Fratercula arctica.
cooth, coothie, coothy, coudiness, couth, couthie, couthieness, couthiness, couthy, cuthy, selcouth, silcouth,
couth [kuθ, ˈkʌud]
adj. Of people: agreeable, affable, sociable, friendly, soft, flabby. Of places and things: comfortable, snug, neat.
n. Kindness.
 
couthie [ˈkuθi, ˈkʌudi]
adj. Of people or their qualities: agreeable, sociable, friendly, sympathetic. Of things or places: comfortable, snug, neat. Pleasant, agreeable.
 
Compounds and phrases etc.
 
couthiness: Pleasantness, familiarity, kindness, facetiousness.
selcouth: arch. Strange, rare, unusual, odd.
caive, cave, co, co$, co$e, coave, coe, cove, cove$d, coved, kaive, kave, kev, ko, koave, kov, kove,
cove [koːv]
also contracted form co' [koː]
n. A cave or cavern. A recess in a wall. A worn out ledge or hag on a river-bank.
v. To hollow or scoop out the soil especially when a river hollows out its banks.
pt. pp. coved
covenant, covenanter, covenenter, coveynanter,
covenant [ˈkɔvənantər]
n. An agreement.
 
Compounds and phrases etc.
 
covenanter: A subscriber or adherent of the National Covenant of 1638 or the Solemn League and Covenant of 1643.
covet [ˈkʌvət]
v. To desire to have something.
 
Compounds and phrases etc.
 
covetous: Having or showing a great desire to possess something belonging to someone else.
covetousness: The desire to possess something belonging to someone else.
covin, covine,
covin [ˈkoːvɪn triː]
n. A compact or agreement, a plot.
couan, couaner, cowan, cowaner,
cowan [ˈkʌuən]
also cowaner
n. A mason who builds dry-stone dikes and walls. In freemasonry: one who is outside the brotherhood. Used contemptuously for an unskilled or uninitiated person, an amateur, a bungler.

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