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COUTHUL'LAUGH

Volume 5 · 73 words · 1797 Edition

from the Saxon couth, "knowing," and u'tlaugh, "outlaw;" he that wittingly receives a man outlawed, and cherishes or conceals him: for which offence he was in ancient times subject to the same punishment with the outlaw himself.

COVERT, in heraldry, denotes something like a piece of hanging, or a pavillion falling over the top of a chief or other ordinary, so as not to hide, but only to be a covering to it.