ise and fall by wheel gearing or by eccentrics. The sides and
top are made of vertical and horizontal bars, set to coincide with the
grooves in the bottom. To one set of vertical bars a similar number of
horizontal top pieces are hinged, and to the other set levers are
jointed, which hold the horizontal bars in position. When the hinged
bars are turned up, strings are drawn through the grooves, and the
bottom is covered with stout paper. The hanks are then laid in the
box, another paper is placed above them, and the hinged bars are drawn
down and locked. The bottom then rises a predetermined distance, and
automatically stops. While in this position the strings are tied, the
bottom of the press next descends, and the bundle is removed.
(T. W. F.)

COTYS, a name common to several kings of Thrace. The most important of
them, a cruel and drunken tyrant, who began to reign in 382 B.C., was
involved with the Athenians in a dispute for the possession of the
Thracian Chersonese. In this he was assisted by the Athenian Iphicrates,
to whom he had given his daughter in marriage. On the revolt of
Ariobarzanes from Persia, Cotys opposed him and his ally, the Athenians.
In 358 he was murdered by the sons of a man whom he had wronged.

See Cornelius Nepos, _Iphicrates_, _Timotheus_; Xenophon, _Agesilaus_;
Demosthenes, _Contra Aristocratem_; Theopompus in Muller, _Fragmenta
Historicorum Graecorum_, i.

COUCH, DARIUS NASH (1822-1897), American soldier, was born at South
East, Putnam county, N.Y., on the 23rd of July 1822, and graduated from
West Point in 1846, serving in the Mexican war and in the war against
the Seminole Indians. He left the army in 1855, but soon after the
outbreak of the civil war he was made a brigadier-general U.S.V. He
served as a divisional commander in the battles of the Army of the
Potomac in 1862, and at Fredericksburg (December 1862) and
Chancellorsville (May 1863) he commanded the II. corps. He had been made
a major-general U.S.V. in July 1862. During the Gettysburg campaign he
was employed in organizing the Pennsylvanian militia, and he
subsequently served in the West, taking part in the battle of Nashville,
and in the final operations in the Carolinas. He left the army after the
war. General Couch died on the 12th of February 1897 at Norwalk,
Connecticut.

COUCY, LE CHATELAIN DE, French _trouvere_ of the 12th century. He is
probably the Guy de Couci who