colewort (kolwert)

[ head is formed. Udall , tr. of Apophthegms of Erasmus, p. 125. A col - fox, ful of sleigh iniquité. Chaucer, Nun's Priest's Tale, 1. 394. Bot I haue porettes and percyl and mon i colplontes [var. coleplauntes ]. Piers Plowman (A), vii. 273. cole-prophett, col-prophett, n. [Early mod. Е., also cold - prophet (simulating cold ); col- prophet ; cole + prophet . See cole and its compounds.] A false prophet. Cole- prophet and cole-poyson thou art both. J. Heywood , Epigrams, vi. 89. [ Cole - poyson is a pun on cold poison .] Whereby I found I was the hartles hare, And not the beast col prophet did declare. Mir. for Mags. As hee was most vainely pursuaded by the cold prophets, to whom he gave no small credit. Knolles, Hist. Turks. Phavorinus saith, that if these cold - prophets , or oraclers, tell thee prosper i tie and deceive thee, thou art made a miser through vaine expectation. R. Scott, Witchcraft, Sig. M. 8. Coleps (kõʻleps), n. [NL., of and Dictyocoleps of Diesing. The species inhabit fresh and salt water, and divide by transverse fi ion. C. hirtus is an example.