cothecoathn.
/kəʊð/ Obsolete or dialect.† 1. Sickness, disease, pestilence; an attack of illness, as swooning, the pains of childbirth, etc.
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > ill health > [noun]
unhealc700
untrumnessc897
adleeOE
sicknessc967
cothec1000
unhealthc1000
woe?a1200
ail?c1225
lying?c1225
maladyc1275
unsoundc1275
feebless1297
languora1375
languishc1384
disease1393
aegritudea1400
lamea1400
maleasea1400
soughta1400
wilc1400
malefaction?a1425
firmityc1426
unwholesomenessc1449
ill1450
languenta1500
distemperancea1535
the valley of the shadow of death1535
affect?1537
affection?1541
distemperature1541
inability1547
sickliness1565
languishment1576
cause1578
unhealthfulness1589
crazedness1593
languorment1593
evilness1599
strickenness1599
craziness1602
distemper1604
unsoundness1605
invaletude1623
unhealthiness1634
achaque1647
unwellness1653
disailment1657
insalubrity1668
faintiness1683
queerness1687
invalidity1690
illness1692
ill health1698
ailment1708
illing1719
invalescence1724
peakingness1727
sickishness1727
valetudinariness1742
ailingness1776
brash1786
invalidism1794
poorliness1814
diseasement1826
invalidship1830
valetudinarianism1839
ailing1862
invalidhood1863
megrims1870
pourriture1890
immersement1903
bug1918
condition1920
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > [noun]
soreOE
cothec1000
sicknessc1000
evilc1275
maladyc1275
grievance1377
passiona1382
infirmityc1384
mischiefa1387
affectiona1398
grievinga1398
grief1398
sicka1400
case?a1425
plaguec1425
diseasea1475
alteration1533
craze1534
uncome1538
impediment1542
affliction?1555
ailment1606
disaster1614
garget1615
morbus1630
ail1648
disaffect1683
disorder1690
illness1692
trouble1726
complaint1727
skookum1838
claim1898
itis1909
bug1918
wog1925
crud1932
bot1937
lurgy1947
Korean haemorrhagic fever1951
nadger1956
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > [noun] > bout or attack of
onfalleOE
cothec1000
bitc1175
accessc1300
attacha1400
shota1400
swalma1400
storm1540
excess?1541
accession1565
qualm1565
oncome1570
grasha1610
attachment1625
ingruence1635
turn1653
attack1665
fit1667
surprise1670
drow1727
tossa1732
irruption1732
sick1808
tout1808
whither1808
spell1856
go1867
whip1891
the world > life > source or principle of life > birth > confinement > [noun] > labour or pains
cothec1000
throea1200
pining throesc1225
travailc1300
showera1350
paina1398
travailinga1400
throng1540
labouring1598
travail pang1652
travail pain1662
labour pains1703
mother-pain1709
mother-pang1710
breeding sicknessa1714
bearing pain1787
troublea1825
birth throe1837
c1000 in Thorpe Hom. II. 546 (Bosw.) Seo coðu ðe læcas hataþ paralisin.
c1000 Sax. Leechd. II. 234 Wiþ wambe coþum.
1086 Anglo-Saxon Chron. Swylc coðe com on mannum..þæt mænige menn swulton.
c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 177 Cumeð coðe oðer qualm and michel þerof felleð.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 96/1 Cothe, or swownynge, sincopa.
1447 O. Bokenham Lyvys Seyntys (1835) 173 Ne hap the wumman in ony kothe be And may returne and geyn lyf take.
a1464 J. Capgrave Abbreuiacion of Cron. (Cambr. Gg.4.12) (1983) 87 Hir cothis fel upon hir [sc. Pope Joan] betwix þe Collisé and Seynt Clement cherch.
a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. iii. 42 Thise [weders] ar so hidus, With many a cold coth.
2. Now a disease of sheep and cattle; cf. coe n.2 dialect. [Compare coed adj. at coe v. Derivatives diseased.]
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of cattle, horse, or sheep > [noun] > disorders of cattle or sheep > other disorders
shotc1500
foul?1523
redwater1594
blacklega1722
garget1725
dunt1784
black water1800
cothe1800
fardel-bound1825
navel ill1834
bluetongue1867
heartwater1880
orf1890
tick-borne fever1921
strike1932
1041 Anglo-Saxon Chron. Mycel orfes wæs..forfaren..þurh mistlice coða.]
1800 Ann. Agric. 34 The 'Caud' (Rot) does not appear so early as this.
1869 J. C. Atkinson Peacock's Gloss. Dial. Hundred of Lonsdale Cooth, a cold caught by a cow or horse.
1888 Edinb. Rev. Oct. 512 Anthrax or coad in sheep and cattle.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
cothev.
/kəʊð/ dialect.
1. intransitive. ‘To faint’ (Forby Voc. E. Anglia).
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > physical insensibility > unconsciousness > lose consciousness [verb (intransitive)] > faint or swoon
swotherc1000
swowa1250
swoonc1290
sweltc1330
trance1340
to fall on, in swowa1375
swapc1386
sound1393
dwelea1400
swaya1400
faintc1440
owmawt1440
swalmc1440
sweamc1440
syncopize1490
dwalm?a1513
swarf1513
swound1530
cothe1567
sweb1599
to go away1655
to die away1707
go1768
sink1769
sile1790
to pass out1915
to black out1935
1567 A. Golding tr. Ovid Metamorphosis (new ed.) v. f. 57 He quothing as he stood Did looke about where Atys lay.
1567 A. Golding tr. Ovid Metamorphosis (new ed.) vii. f. 95 She quoathde: and with hir bloud Hir little strength did fade.
2. transitive. To give (sheep) the ‘coe’ or rot.
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1867 J. R. Wise New Forest (1880) 281 The springs in the New Forest are said ‘to cothe’ the sheep,—that is, to disease their livers.
1880 T. Q. Couch E. Cornwall Words in M. A. Courtney & T. Q. Couch Gloss. Words Cornwall at Cawed A sheep affected by that disease elsewhere known as rot is cawed. In Dorset it is a-cothed.
1884 W. Morning News 20 Dec. 8/6 In 1879 there was a great loss among their flocks in Devon, a greater part of them being cawthed.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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