Coyne, Joseph

STIRLING, a popular English dramatist, B. 1805. He was early intended for the legal profe ion, which, however, he soon abandoned for the literature of the stage. In 1835 he made his début as a playwright, and from that time forward poured forth an almost innumerable succe ion of dramas and farces. Among the more noticeable of these are, Presented at Court, Pets of the Parterre, Did you ever send your Wife to Camber well, The Tipperary Legacy, Pas de Fascination, . His popular farce, How to Settle Accounts with your Laundre , was brought out upon both the French and the German stage. C. was also a writer of fiction, and author of The Scenery and Antiquities of Ireland. D. 1868. Coy'ne , n. Quality of being coy; reserve; shyne ; backwardne ; modesty; bashfulne . "When the kind nymph would coyne feign, And hides but to be found again."- Dryden . Coyote', n. ( Zool .) The Prairie-wolf. See WOLF. Coyote, in Kansas , a post-office of Ellis co. Coy'pu, COUIA, n. (Zool.) The Myopotamus coipus of Cuvier, a S. American rodent animal, family Sciurid a . It resembles the beaver in many respects, though of smaller size. Its head is large and depre ed; ears small and rounded; muzzle pointed, with long stiff whiskers. Its hind feet are webbed, and its habits are aquatic; it swims with great ease, lives in the vicinity of water, and burrows in the ground. Its tail is round, instead of