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140 Cockle-bells, or Cockle-buttons. The burrs of the Burdock. Arctium lap^pa. Icicles are called Cockle-bells. Cock-a-hoop. Full of hope and intent. "All cock-a- hoop." Cock haw. A boy's game with hazel nuts. Cock-hedge. A thorn hedge trimmed. M.A.C. Cockly-bread. **To make cockly-bread/' i.e., to turn head over heels in bed. M.A.C. Cocky. Pert and conceited. Codgers' end. Shoemakers' wax ends. (Coajer's- end, cobler's-wax. u.J.T. Codgy wax. Cobler's wax. Codnor. " Cognomen for stewing." T.w.s. Coffins. Old surface mining excavations, often opened into by mining u;p from below. E.N. (Koffen. " The hollow of an open mine." TFhitahr.) In Celtic Cornish cofm' means a chest, a coffer; Welch, cof, a hollow trunk; Armoric, cu/er ; Irish cofra. Williams, Coining tin. " The large blocks of tin being brought to a coinage town, the officers appointed by the Duke of Cornwall, assayed it by taking off a piece of one of the under corners of the block of about a pound weight, partly by cutting, and partly by breaking;