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Webster 1913 Edition

(kwoif or koif)

Noun.

Verb.

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Shak.

Noun.

A cap or hood. [See Coif.]

Verb.

To cover or dress with a coif. [This word may be discarded with advantage.]

quoif ‎(plural quoifs)

Obsolete form of coif.
- 159?, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 2
  A scaly gauntlet now with joints of steel / Must glove this hand: and hence, thou sickly quoif! / Thou art a guard too wanton for the head / Which princes, flesh'd with conquest, aim to hit.