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Land appendant to a cot or cottage, or held by a cottager or cotter.

ean; 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.

The condition, character, or conduct of a cotquean. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

A joint trustee.

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.…

(Eccl.)

A small house; a cot; a hut.

Set or covered with cottages. Even humble Harting's cottaged vale. Collins.

Cottagelike; suitable for a cottage; rustic. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.

One who lives in a cottage.

To fasten with a cotter.

A cottager; a cottier. Burns. Through Sandwich Notch the West Wind sang Good morrow to the cotter. Whittier.

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.]

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.

Set between two cottises, -- said of a bend; or between two barrulets, -- said of a bar or fess.

Like a fish of the genus Cottus. -- n.

A product from cottonseed, used as lard.

ing 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.

Cotton prepared in sheets or rolls for quilting, upholstering, and similar purposes.

The seed of the cotton plant.