cod1 (kod)

[ Hall i well . They make purses to put it [the musk] in of the skin, and these be the cods of muske. Hakluyt's Voyages , II. 242. name of the burbot, Lota maculosa. George's cod, cod from George's Bank (one of the banks of Newfoundland), or cod like them. They are very fat fish with white napes, and considered to be of superior quality. This name is becoming a commercial term to describe codfish of the finest quality in the United States. Herring-cod, a variety of cod of southeast Maine. - Murray cod, a serranoid fish, Oligorus maquariensis, of the Australian rivers. Native cod, cod living near the shore: distinguished from bank cod.-Night cod, cod that will bite at night. - Pine tree cod, cod living along the southeast coast of Maine.Red rock-cod, in New South Wales, species of Scorpæna, S. cardinal is, S. cruenta, and S. by no ens is. Rock-cod. (a) Cod living on a rocky bottom. (6) Misapplied at San Francisco to a sebastine fish, Sebastichthys flavidus, and about Puget Sound to a chiroid fish, Hexagram mus dec a grammus. The name Rock cod applied [along the Pacific coast] to other Chiroids and to Sebastichthys, and thence even transferred to Serran us, comes from an appreciation of their affinity to Ophiodon, and not from any supposed resemblance to the true codfish. Jordan. trunk: see of a tree. [the pen A Middle English form of cod1 . [ME., an accom. of L. codex , stem, caudex , codex .] The stem or trunk In Wynter to his codde [L. codici ] an heep of stonys Is goode. Palladius , Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 144. codded (kod'ed), a. [ her . , applied to beans, peas, etc., borne in the cod.-21. Bearing cods or seed-ve els. This her be is a codded her be full of oily seed. Hakluyt's Voyages , II. 163. codder1t (kod'ér), n. [ The women who gathered pease for the London markets were called codders ; a name which they still retain. Dyce, Note in Ford's Plays, III. 207. codder2 (kod'èr), n . [ cod1 , n., 4, + -ing2.] Wanton; lecherous; lustful. That codding spirit had they from their mother. Shak ., Tit. And., v. 1. Codding ton lens. See lens. coddlel (kod'l), v. t.; pret. and pp. coddled, ppr. coddling . [Also codle , E. dial. quoddle ; not recorded in ME.; prob. kvotla , dab- ble, = G. dial. quatteln , wabble: appar. a word of popular origin, orig. imitative of the gur- gling sound of agitated water. Erroneously referred (by Skinner, Bailey, etc.) to ML. or NL. * coctulare , * coctillare , boil gently, dim. of L. coquere , pp. coctus , boil, cook: see cook1 , v . The supposed connection with codling1 , an un- ripe apple, is doubtful: see codling1, n., 2. The sense of coddle may have been partly influenced by caudle , a hot drink.] To boil gently; seethe; stew, as fruit. If... codling every kernel of the fruit for them would have served. B. Jonson, Every Man in his Humour, і. 1. It [the guava] bakes as well as a pear, and it may be coddled , and it makes very good pies. Dampier , Voyages. I collected a small store of wild apples for coddling . Thoreau , Walden, p. 256. Dear Prince Pippin, Down with your noble blood, or as I live I'll have you codled . Beau. and Fl., Phil aster, v. 1. [In the last extract the sense is somewhat uncertain; probably a figurative use equivalent to 'tame.' Skeat explains it as 'castrate,' and refers it to cod1 , n., 4.] coddle2 (kod'l), v . t .; pret. and pp. coddled , ppr. coddling. [Also codle , prob. the same as E. dial. caddle , care , fondle, coax: as noun, one superfluously careful about himself (a coddle); cf. OF. cadeler , cocker, pamper, cherish, make much of; cadel , a castling, a starveling, one that needs cockering; appar. ult. cadere , fall. Connection with cadel uncertain. This verb, added by Todd (1818) to Johnson, is usually, but erroneously, merged with coddlel , stew, whence by a umpti a umption the senses 'warm,' 'cher Scotch.] I grete with myn eene When I nap on my cod , for care. And sorrow. Towneley Mysteries , p. 84. 3. Any husk, shell, envelop, or case containing the seeds of a plant; a pod. He coueitide to fille his wombe of the coddis [AS. of thâm beán- coddum, of the bean-cods) which the hogg is eeten. Wyclif, Luke xv. 16. A certaine tree or brier... bearing on euery branch a fruit or cod round, which when it commeth to the big ne e of a wall-nut, openeth and sheweth forth the cotton. (d) A percophidoid fish, Percis colias, of New Zealand. School cod, cod occurring in large schools. - Wormcod, cod feeding largely on worms and found near shore. (See also cultus - cod, tom - cod.) cod3 (kod), v.; pret. and pp. codded, ppr. cod ding. [Origin obscure.] 1. trans. To make fun of or play practical jokes upon. [Slang.] II. in trans . To play practical jokes. [Slang.] cod3 (kod), n. [ cod3 , v .] A practical joke; a guy; a grind. [Slang.] C. O. D. An abbreviation of cash (or collect payment) on delivery : as, the package was for pering; make much of; treat tenderly as an invalid; humor; pamper. The codled fool. Cat of Gray Hairs (1688), p. 169. ( Hall i well .) He [Lord Byron] never coddled his reputation. Southey, Quarterly Rev. Such coddling as he needed, such humoring of whims. C. D. Warner, Backlog Studies, p. 277. How many of our English princes have been coddled at home by their fond papas and mammas. Thackeray. [E. dial. caddle: see the 4. The scrotum.-5. The belly; paunch.-6. pl. The testicles. [Vulgar.] -7. The narrow part at the extremity of a trawl-net, usually 4 or 5 feet wide and 10 feet long. See trawl - net. cod1 (kod), v.; pret. and pp. codded, ppr. cod ding. [ a codling: said of an apple. Apples in June, when, in the language of our old writers, proved no great temptation to ladies of such exquisite they scarcely codded, either hot or cold, would have taste as the fair What-d'ye-lacks of Cheap side. Dyce , Note in Ford's Plays, III. 207. cod2 (kod), п. [ warded C. O. D.