C.

Cabben, 16/23, _s._ house, sty.

Cace, 67/26, _s._ case, point.

Cadow, 46/28, _s._ jackdaw. "_Cadesse_, Daw, Jackdaw."--Cotgrave. "Cad-dow, a Jackdaw or Chough, Norfolk."--Bailey's Dict. See note in Prompt. Parv., s.v. Cadaw.

Calling, 9/1, _s._ station in life.

Camamel, 42/3, _s._ Camomile. Lat. _chamæmelum_. χαμαιμηλον [Greek: chamaimeilon], earth-apple, from the smell of its flowers.

Campe, 22/24, _v._ to play football. A.S. _camp_ = a contest. See Ray's Glossary, E. D. Soc. p. xvi.

Campers, 22/24, _s. pl._ football players. See note E133.

Campions, 43/5, _s._ Red Lychnis or Campion, _Lychnis diurna_.

Candlemas, page 84, footnote 5, _s._ 2nd February, so called from the great number of lights used on that day, being the feast of the Purification of the Virgin Mary.

Canteth, 94/8, _v. pr. t._ ? scanteth, _i.e._ is economical. The edition of 1573 reads _franteth_, which is a Somerset word meaning _to be careful_. Canteth, according to Halliwell, means "divides," _i.e._ does not use up everything at once, but only what is wanted for the time.

Canuas, 57/54, _s._ canvas.

Capitaine cheefe, 10/19, head or chief captain.

Capon, 31/3, _s._ a castrated cock.

Careles, 35/4, _adj._ unwilling, not anxious.

Carkas, 26/4, _s._ corpse, body. Fr. _carcasse_.

Carke, 114/15, _v._ to be anxious. "I carke, I care, I take thought, _je chagrine_"--Palsgrave. "Waile we the wight whose absence is our _carke_."--Spenser, Shep. Cal. November.

*Carnels, 101, _s. pl._ seeds of the haw, briar, etc. Cf. ch. 18. st. 48 and 36. 13.

Carrege, 56/21, _s._ carrying home.

Carren, 18/36, _s._ carrion, carcasses, M.E. _caroigne_. Fr. _charogne_, from It. _carogna_, Lat. _caronem_.

Carrenly, 19/36, _adj._ rotting, putrifying.

Cart gap, 56/13, _s._ the openings for carts to pass from one field to another.

Cartwrite, 58/5, _s._ cartwright.

Cast, 10/41, _v._ to count up, reckon.

Cast, 20/3, _v. pr. t._ to clean the threshed corn by casting it from one side of the barn to the other, that the light grains and dust may fall out. For this purpose is used a _skuttle_, q.v.

Cast, 33/52, _v. imp._ give over, throw up.

Casting, 65/8, _adj._ that throw up the earth as they burrow through it.

Cater, 10/16, _s._ caterer, provider. "_Cater_ a steward, a manciple, a prouider of Cates."--Baret's Alvearie. "Cates, dainty provisions."--Bailey's Eng. Dict. 1737.

Cawme, 56/15, _adj._ calm, settled.

Challenge, 72/1, _v._ claim. O. Fr. _chalenger_.

Champion (title), _s._ plain open country. Fr. _champagne_, from Lat. _campania_, from _campus_ = a field. "Worstershire, Bedfordshire, and many other well-mixt soiles, where the Champaigne and couert are of equall largeness."--G. Markham, Husbandman's Recreations, c. i.

Champions, 16/2, _s. pl._ inhabitants of counties where lands are open and unenclosed.

Chancing, 9/30, _v._ happening, falling out.

Chapman, 19/27, _s._ bargainer, dealer. A.S. _ceapman_.

Charge, 84/2, _s._ trouble, expense. Compare All's Well that Ends Well, ii. 3, 121: "She had her breeding at my father's charge."

Charged, 10/8, _pp._ burdened, busy, anxious.

Charges, 23/6, _s. pl._ works, troubles.

Charuiel, 45/4, _s._ the plant Chervil. _Chærophyllum temulentum_, Linn. Whence A.S. _cærfille_, Fr. _cerfeuil_.

Chaunting, 16/31, _v._ crying, yelling.

Cheanie, 2/6, Jeanie, Jennie.

Cheere, 22/28, _v._ enjoy oneself.

Cheere, 57/26, _s._ enjoyment, merriment.

Chees, 48/20, _s._ cheese. Lat. _caseus_; whence O. H. Ger. _chasi_, A.S. _cêse_.

Chein, 17/10, _s._ chain.

Cherie, 33/58, _s._ cherry. Lat. _cerasus_; whence A.S. _cirse_, Fr. _cerise_.

Chikins, 38/33, _s. pl._ chickens, young fowls.

Chinke, 46/27, _s._ money. A word formed from the sound of coin _jingling_ together.

Chip, 57/32, _s._ wood-choppings.

Chippings, 86/3, _s. pl._ fragments of bread. "_Chapplis_, bread-chippings."--Cotgrave.

Choised, 57/34, _pp._ selected, chosen. Fr. _choix_, choice.

Chopping, 57/40, _s._ exchange, barter. "Choppe and chaunge, _mercor_."--Huloet. A.S. _ceapan_.

Churle, 10/50, _s._ an ill-bred, disagreeable person. A.S. _ceorl_, a freeman of the lowest rank.

Cinqfile, 45/5, _s._ cinquefoil. _Potentilla_, Linn.

Clap, 10/22, _s._ blow, stroke; "at a clap" = at once.

Clapper, 36/25, _s._ a rabbit burrow or warren. "Cony hole or _clapar_"--Palsgrave. "A _clapper_ for conies, i.e. a heap of stones, earth, with boughes or such like wherinto they may retire themselves."--Minsheu. Fr. _clapier_. L. Lat. _clapa_.

Clarie, 39/9, _s._ meadow sage. _Salvia pratensis_.

Clauestock, 17/20, _s._ a chopper for splitting wood.

Cleerely, 16/25, _adj._ clear.

Clicket, 77/9, _v._ chatter. "If I disturb you with my _clicketten_, tell me so, David, and I won't."--C. Dickens in David Copperfield. "A tatling huswife, whose _clicket_ is ever wagging."--Cotgrave.

Clim, 56/23, _s._ ? Clement.

Clime, 57/30, _v._ climb. A.S. _climban_.

Clod, 114/37, _s._ earth, hence = landed property.

Clog, 89/1, _s._ charge, duty.

Closet, 14/3, _s._ retirement, seclusion.

Closeth, 62/5, _v. pr. t._ incloses, fences in.

Closier, page 2, _s._ enclosures. Fr. _closure_.

Clot, 33/24, _s._ clods. A.S. _clûd_. "Clodde or clotte lande, _occo_."--Huloet.

*Cloughted, 89, _pp._ See Clouted.

Clout, 67/16, _s._ piece of cloth. A.S. _clût_, a little cloth. Mid. Eng. _clout, clutian, clutien_, to patch.

Clouts, Cloutes, 17/10, _s._ an instrument similar to the _plowstaff_, shod with iron and used for breaking large clods, etc.

Clouted, 17/6, _pp._ "having the Axle-tree armed with Iron plates."--T.R. O. Fr. _clouet_, dimin. of _clou_, a nail, from Lat. _clavus_. See Nares, s.v. Clout.

Coast, 63/7, _s._ country, district. O. Fr. _coste_, from Lat. _costa_, a rib, side.

Coast man, 36/22, _s._ masters of coasting vessels.

Cobble, 74/5, _v. imp._ patch, mend.

Cock, 53/4, _v. imp._ put into cocks, or small stacks.

Cocking, 95/5, _adj._ over-indulgent.

Cockle, 46/13, _s._ the weed corn-rose, _Agrostemma githago_, Linn. Cockle or Cokyl is used by Wycliffe and other old writers in the sense of a weed generally.

Cockneies, 92/4, _s. pl._ spoilt or effeminate boys. See note E460, and Halliwell, s.v. Cockney.

Cocks, 57/16, _s. pl._ small conical heaps of hay or corn.

Codware, 19/26, _s._ all plants that bear pods (or cods); peas, beans, etc. "Pescodde, _escosse de poix_."--Palsgrave. A S. _codd_. Welsh, _cod, cwd_, a small bag.

Coeme, Coome, 17/7, _s._ a measure of half a quartern. A.S. _cumb_.--Somner. "There is no such word in A.S. as _cumb_; it is one invented by Somner, so that the (so-called) A.S. _cumb_ is really derived from Eng. _coomb_"--Note by Rev. W. W. Skeat.

Cofer up, 10/61, _v._ to hoard up, lock up.

Cofers, 16/4, _s. pl._ money-boxes.

Cog, 63/14, _v._ cheat, defraud. "Cog a dye, to load a die."--Cotgrave. "A cogger, _un pipeur_. To cogge, _piper_"--The French Schoolemaster, 1636.

Coile, 4/1, _s._ bustle, hard work; cf. Fr. _cuellée_, a mob, tumult.

Cold, 91/2, _adj._ cooling.

Cole, 57/31, _s._ turf, peat.

Colewort, 39/10, _s._ or collet, cabbage. _Brassica oleracea_, Linn.

Collembines, 43/4, _s. pl._ columbine. Lat. _columbina_, _adj._ from _columba_, a pigeon, from the resemblance of its nectaries to the heads of pigeons in a ring round a dish, a favourite device of ancient artists.--Dr. R. A. Prior.

Comfort, 19/19, _s._ strength, fertility.

Commodities, 37/17, _s. pl._ advantages.

Compact, 112/1, _pp._ composed. Lat. _compactus_, from _compango_. "Love is a spirit all _compact_ of fire."--Venus and Adonis, 149.

Compas, 47/3, _s._ manure, compost. O. Fr. _compost_, from Lat. _compositum_.

Compassing, 56/1, _s._ manuring.

*Compast, 11, _pp._ manured.

*Compound, 11, _v. imp._ agree, arrange.

Confer, page 2, _v._ compare. Lat. _conferre_.

Confound, 67/27, _v._ destroy, spoil.

Conie, 15/20, _s._ a term of endearment.

Conies, 63/10, _s. pl._ rabbits. Welsh _cwning_. Irish _coinni_. Lat. _cuniculus_, cognate with Lat. _cuneus_ (what cleaves, a wedge), and comes from the Sanskrit root _khan_ = to dig.--Palmer.

Conserue, 91/3, preserve.

Constancie, 9/23, _s._ consistency, firmness.

Conster, 114/34, _v._ understand.

Contemne, 106/7, _v. pr. t._ despise. Lat. _contemnere_.

Continue, 19/35, _v._ to breed from, to keep up stock from.

Contrarie, 67/25, _v. imp._ oppose, contradict.

Cooples, 10/6, _s._ couples, husband and wife.

Coosen, 63/14, _v._ cheat, swindle. Shakespere's _cozen_.

Copie, 47/8, _s._ coppice.

Coresie, 19/24, _s._ annoyance, trouble.

Cornet plums, 34/7, _s._ cornel plums, cornel cherries.

Corneth, 75/8, _v. pr. t._ preserve and season, cure.

Corps, 53/1, _s._ body.

Cost, 32/5, _s._ coast, country. See Coast.

Costmarie, 42/4, _s._ costmary, called also ale-cost, _Balsamita vulgaris_.

Cote, 58/11, _v._ cogitate, reflect.

Coted, 2/8, _v. pt. t._ took note of, wrote down. "Howe scripture shulde be _coted_ (quoted)."--Skelton, Colin Clout, l. 758.

Count, 10/21, _v._ reckon, "be to counte" = be of account, be worth.

Counterfait, 64/29, _adj._ counterfeit, sham, false.

Coursest, 55/4, _adj._ coarsest.

Court, 86/10, _s._ account, examination.

Cousleps, 42/5, _s. pl._ cowslips.

Couert, 63/5, covert, underwood.

Couertlie, 9/5, _adv._ closely.

Cowlaske, page 4, _s._ diarrhœa in cattle. See Fletcher's Differences, 1623, p. 33. Laske, _v._ = to _relax_, slacken. See Glossary to "William of Palerne," E. E. Text Soc. edit. Skeat.

Coxcombe, 64/18; Coxcome, 10/48, _s._ The cap of the licensed fool had often on the top a cock's head and comb and some of the feathers. Therefore he "strives for a coxcome" = he will only succeed in proving his own folly.

Crabs, 15/17, _s. pl._ crab apples.

Cracketh, 10/37, _v. pr. t._ half breaks, injures.

Cradle, 17/14, _s._ "A three-forked instrument of wood, on which the corn is caught as it falls from the sithe."--T.R.

Crake, 18/21, _v._ brag, boast. Dutch _kraaken_.

Crakers, 54/4, _s. pl._ boasters.

Cram, 114/15, _v._ feed up, satisfy.

Creake, 47/2, "to cry creak" = "to be afraid," "to desist from any object, to repent."--Halliwell.

Credit crackt, 4/1, credit or trust broken.

Creekes, 49/4, _s. pl._ corners, seek creekes = hide herself.

Creekes, 38/26, _s. pl._ servants.

Creepinglie, 9/32, _adv._ stealthily, by degrees.

Cresies, 40/5, _s._ cress. Fr. _cresson_. M. Lat. _crissomum_ from Lat. _crescere_, to grow, "a celeritate crescendi."

Crome, 17/19, _s._ "Like a dung-rake with a very long handle."--T.R.

Crone, 56/46, _v. imp._ pick out the crones, i.e. the old ewes. The meaning is, weed out your flocks.

Crones, 12/4, _s. pl._ "Ewes, whose teeth are so worn down that they can no longer keep their sheep-walk."--T.R.

Crooked, 57/46, _adj._ deformed.

Croppers, 18/19, _s._ the best or most productive crops.

Croppers, 19/20, _s. pl._ persons who extract crop after crop from the land.

Crosse, 46/9, _s._ a cross-piece.

Crosse, 9/29, _v._ happen, result unfavourably.

Crosses, 9/29, _s._ troubles, misfortunes.

Crosserowe, page 3, _s._ called also Christcrossrow; the alphabet. "A is the name of the first letter in the _Crosrowe_."--Baret's Alvearie.

Crotch, 51/10, _s._ "a curved weeding tool."--T.R.

Crotches, 60/11, _s. pl._ crutches. A.S. _cryce_. L. Lat. _croccia, crucca_. H. Ger. _krücke_.

Crotchis, 57/51, _s. pl._ crooks, hooks. O. Fr. _croche_.

Crowchmas, 50/36, _s._ St. Helen's Day, 3rd May, being the feast of the Invention of the Holy Cross.

Crowe, 46/9, _s._ crowbar.

Cubboord, 89/5, _s._ cupboard.

Culters, 17/10, _s. pl._ coulters.

Cumbersome, 10/13, _adj._ troublesome, vexatious, oppressive.

Cummin, 45/6, _s._ cumin, a plant resembling fennel, cultivated for its seeds, which have a bitterish warm taste, and are used like those of anise and carraway. Arabic _kammûn_. Hebrew _kammôn_.

Cunnie, 36/25, _s._ rabbit.

Currant, 10/44, _adj._ current coin, good coin.

Currey, 64*/2, _v._ gain by flattery. On the origin of this phrase see "Leaves from a Word-Hunter's Note Book," by Rev. A. S. Palmer, p. 63.

Custome, 77/1, _s._ custom, habit; of custome = as a matter of course.

Curtesie, 9/8, _s._ courtesy, respect.