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22 ANTRIM AND DOWN GLOSSARY. Cobbs, or Herring Cobb% «&. p/. joung herrings. Cook-bread, bK a mixture of hard-boiled eggs and other things with which game cocks are fed. Cocked np, adj, conceited. Cooker, bK a cock-fighter. Cockers, Caaokers, «5. pi, the heels of a horse's shoe turned down. Cookies of the heart. A warm drink or a dram is said to ' warm tiie coMu of onifB heart,* Cocks, ab. a common wild plant, Plantago, Children amuse them- selves in summer with knocking off the heads of each other's eocfei. Hus is called ' fighting cocks.' Cock-shot, ah. anything set up as a mark at which to throw stones. Cock-stride, eh. applied to the lengthening of the days. '^ About oul' New Yearns Day, the days is a ocik'tithride longer." — OLLMnaoK. Cod, (1) eh. a silly, troublesome fellow. (2) V, to humbug or quiz a person ; to hoax ; to idle about. * Quit your coddifC* Codger, eh. a crusty old fellow. Codlick, eh. a fish, the spotted gunnel. CoiBn-cntter, eh. Oeypue olene, the cock-tail, an insect larger than an earwig, of a black colour. OaUed also The Devil's Coachman. Cog, (1) eh. a wedge or support fixed under anything to steady it^ (2) t^. to steady anything that is shaky by wedging it; to place a wedge under a cart-wheel to prerent the cart going £>wn hilL Coggle, 1^. to shake. Cogglety, Coggly, adj. shaky ; unsteady. Coloannon, eh. potatoes and * curley kail ' mashed together. A dish of Colcannon used to form part of the dinner on Hallow-ere, and usually contained a ring. The finder of the ring was to be married first Cold comfort, eh. no comfort at alL ' Thaf s cold comfort ye're givin' me.' Compare " He receires comfort like cold porridge." — Tempeetj Act ii. sc i. Coldrife, adj. chiUy; cold; of a chilly nature. 'Some people's naturally coldrife.^ CoUf V. to wad a gun. Colfln', eh. the material used to wad a gun. CoUey, eh. smuts.