obs. ff. COIF. (In quots. = ‘omentum’; cf. COIF 6, and Cotgr. s.v. Coiffe.)
1597. Lowe, Chirurg. (1634), 223. The cure [of tumor in the Navel] is … reduce the pudding and Quaffe [etc.].
1622. J. Reynolds, God’s Revenge, II. 195. On his right side; but it touch’t neither his bowels nor quayfe.
