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_Carter_, 478. Used, as in “carter’s logic”, for a dull-witted ignoramus, much in the sense in which we depreciatingly use costermonger. Carter’s logic is not the logic of physical persuasion, but the ergo of the first gravedigger in _Hamlet_.

_Castrell_, 302. Kestrel, Tinunculus. The hovering hawk, a wild kind not tamable, that frightens other hawks (possibly by its loud, ringing voice), and whose effigy was placed near doves, etc., to deter other hawks. Hence, probably, arose the fable spoken of in the text.

_Cautelousness_, 469. Artful caution.

_Censure_, _A_ viii. Sentence, or judgment.

_Chapman_, 485. Generally the seller, but also, as here, the buyer; he that chaps or cheapens.

_Choine cough_, 211. Chin-cough, the hooping-cough.

_Choler_, 205. One of the supposed four humours. The compound humour generated in the liver was divided into two parts, one going to the blood, the other to the gall, as this choler or bile. It differed from melancholy, or black bile, for the reservoir of this was the spleen. Cf. _Batman on Barth._, iv, 10, and v, 39.

_Circumstance_, 24. Elsewhere, as 75, used for round-about or superfluous means. Here it has a greater ill-meaning—a round-about statement that would evade declaring the truth.

_Clam_, 208. To stick on; various dialects.

_Claweth_, 67. Scratcheth (where he itcheth), pleaseth, and therefore flattereth. Cf. the proverb, “Claw me, claw thee”, or “K. me, K. thee”, a polite abbreviation, which, I think, betokens the odious origin of the phrase.

_Clubhutchins_, 372. Old Kentish, now, I believe, almost obsolete, for a plain, rough countryman.

_Coate card_, 335. Our court card.

_Cold prophet_, _B_ ii. v. 170. One whose prophecies are far from the mark, just as children at play are hot or cold, when near or far from the thing sought. Others say that cold, as in Chaucer = col.

_Commend_, 134. Commit to, in the sense of giving, entrusting, or setting forth for his examination. Latinate.

_Complexion_, 461. The four complexions or dispositions were supposed to be due to the excess of (1) blood, (2) phlegm, (3) choler, (4) melancholy. Here it is used more generally for disposition.

_Compline_, 393. Part of the Romish even-song (Cotgrave), which, said just after sunset, completes the offices of the day.

_Conceipts_, 326. Merry or strange tricks.

_Cone_, 227. I found, I forget where, “to cone findere”, hence marginal note.

_Confirmed_, 429. Apparently “made firm”; placed or stationed together, each in his fixed place.

_Constellation._ Is sometimes used in old books, seemingly as denoting the co-ordination or coposition of the heavenly bodies (as regards one another) at any particular time. It was from these constellations that nativities were calculated.

_Constreineth._ In its primary or literal sense of drawn together.

_Contagion of weather_, 269. For = against.

_Convenient (with)._ Coming together with, agreeing with.

_Convented_, 16. Brought together with (_i.e._, before) the judge, or other.

_Convinced_, 70, 131. Overcome.

_Corrupt_, 16. Corrupted; the “ed” being assimilated by, or made to coalesce with, the “t”. Cf. note, p. 441.

_Countrie_, _A_ iiii. Used, as occasionally then, for county.

_Cousen_, _A_ vii. v. Used then as a term implying relationship of any kind, or simply between royal personages as a term of courtesy and friendliness.

_Credit_, 498. Belief; we should say crediting, etc.

_Croslet_, 357. A crucible.

_Crosse of a coin_, 388. The reverse bore a cross. Now called the tail in “heads or tails”.

_Curious_, 333. As frequently in those days, “curiosus”, full of care, careful; those who would inquire carefully or curiously into the matter.

_Cushion, missed the_, 490. Nares says it evidently alludes to archery: an unsupported guess, and not, I think, a probable one. More likely the reference is to some game, such as a variant of stool ball, or possibly to the cushion dance. Or it may simply mean missed his seat.