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Webster 1913 Edition
Cote
1. 
A cottage or hut. 
[Obs.] 
2. 
A shed, shelter, or inclosure for small domestic animals, as for sheep or doves. 
Watching where shepherds pen their flocks, at eve,
In hurdled
 In hurdled
cotes
. Milton.
Cote
,Verb.
 T.
 [Prob. from F. 
côté 
side, OF. costet
, LL. costatus
, costatum
, fr. L. costu 
rib, side: cf. F. côtoyer 
to go or keep at the side of. See Coast
.] To go side by side with; hence, to pass by; to outrun and get before; 
as, a dog 
. cotes 
a hare[Obs.] 
Drayton.
 We 
 coted 
them on the way, and hither are they coming. Shakespeare
Webster 1828 Edition
Cote
COTE
,Noun.
 COTE
,Verb.
T.