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COUCHER

Volume 6 · 71 words · 1810 Edition

or Courcher, in our statutes, is used for a factor, or one that continues in some place or country for traffic; as formerly in Gascony, for the buying of wines. Anno 37 Edw. III. c. 16.

is also used for the general book in which any religious house or corporation register their particular acts. Anno 3 and 4 Edw. VI. c. 10.

COUGHING of a CATARACT, in Surgery. See Surgery Index.