Cowardly, ad. Pusillanimously, timorously, basely, meanly, cravenly.
Cower, v. n. Crouch, cringe, fawn, stoop, squat, bend the knee.
Cowl, n.
- 1. Hood (especially of a monk).
- 2. Chimney-top.
Cow-pox, n. Kine-pox.
Coxcomb, n. Beau, fop, dandy, popinjay, exquisite, jackanapes, petit-maître, man of dress; vain, showy fellow.
Coxcombry, n. Foppishness, vain-glory.
Coxcombical, Coxcomical, a. Foppish, conceited, vain, pretentious.
Coy, a. Modest, diffident, shy, shrinking, timid, bashful, reserved, distant, demure.
Cozen, v. a. Cheat, trick, defraud, deceive, swindle, chouse, dupe, gull, overreach, circumvent, beguile, victimize, take in, impose upon.
Cozenage, n. Fraud, deceit, artifice, trickery, deception, imposition, imposture, duplicity, guile, double dealing.
Cozy, a. [Written also Cosy and Cosey.]
- 1. Snug, comfortable, easy.
- 2. [Eng.] Chatty, talkative, social, conversable.
Crabbed, a.
- 1. Sour, tart, rough, acrid.
- 2. Morose, surly, testy, touchy, cross, growling, snarling, snappish, cantankerous, waspish, petulant,
peevish, churlish, harsh, acrimonious, caustic, captious, censorious, splenetic, out of sorts, ill-tempered.
- 3. Difficult, perplexing, trying, unmanageable, tough, intractable, hard to deal with.
Crabbedness, n.
- 1. Sourness, roughness, tartness, acridity, acridness.
- 2. Asperity, acerbity, moroseness, sullenness, moodiness, churlishness, harshness, ill-temper, acrimoniousness,