Cottage

kot'aj, n. a cot: formerly applied to a hut or hovel, now to a small neat dwelling. Cottager, kot'aj-£r, n. one who dwells in a cottage. Cottar, Cotter, kot'er, «. Same as Cottager. Cotton, kot'n, «. a soft substance like fine wool, got from the pods of the cotton-plant cloth made of cotton [Fr cot on— it qutun.) Cotyledon, kot-i-led on, «. a cup-shaped leaf or lobe in certain plants, forming part of the seed, and on which the growing germ is nourished. [Gr /cotyledon —kotyle, a cup.] Cotyledonous, kot-i-Te'don-us or -led'on-us, adj pertaining to or having cotyledons or seed-lobes. Couch, kowch, v to lay down on a bed, to arrange in language, to expre to depre or remove a cataract in the eye — v.i. to he down for the purpose of sleep, concealment, to bend or stoop in reverence. —Couch a spear, to fix in its rest at the side of the armour. [Fr. coucker to lay or he down, O. Fr. colcher —L collocare, to place col, and locus, a place COUCh, kowch, «. any place for rest or sleep a bed