A part of male dress in the 15th and 16th centuries, worn in front of the breeches to cover the male genitals. / A conspicuous protection for the male genitals in a suit of plate armor.

(law) An addition or supplement that explains, modifies, or revokes a will or part of one. / An addition or supplement modifying any official document, such as a treaty.

(transitive, intransitive) To add a codicil to something.

(UK, dialect, obsolete) A gatherer of cods or peas. / (obsolete, late 16th century) A saddler or leatherworker.

To reduce to a code, to arrange into a code. / To collect and arrange in a systematic form.

(programming) Human-readable instructions in a programming language, to be transformed into machine instructions by a compiler, assembler or other translator, or to be carried out directly by an interpreter.

(software engineering) The practice, or an instance, of identifying and verifying the choice of algorithms, coding styles and compliance with the software design.

(transitive, software engineering) To perform code review on.

(transitive) To treat gently or with great care. / (transitive) To cook slowly in hot water that is below the boiling point.

An Irish dish comprising layers of roughly sliced pork sausages and bacon rashers with sliced potatoes and onions. / (archaic) An effeminate person.