Obs. [Can this be f. cause, CAUSEY, as if a paviour’s hammer or mall?
The W. Cornwall Gloss. has ‘cos’send, cos’sened, hammered into shape’; but it is difficult to see any connection.]
c. 1450. Voc., in Wr.-Wülcker, 589. Incussorium, a causer, quidam malleolus est.
c. 1450. Metr. Voc., ibid. 627. Incussoria, cawser.
