Obs. [app. f. L. codex, the word translated in 1.]
1. The stock or stem of a plant.
c. 1420. Pallad. on Husb., IV. 148. Yerely from the codde [codice] awey let take the planntes. Ibid., V. 119. In Wynter to his codde [codici] an heep of stonys Is goode.
2. Arch. See quots.
1660. H. Bloome, Archit., A a. Caulis, the coddes out of which the Helices grow in the Corinthian head.
1664. Evelyn, trans. Freart’s Archit., 128. The Caules, and Codds breaking from the Helices.
