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Caird, _carried_.

Cairn, _carrying_.

Caleb, _a turncoat_.

Cal'late, _calculate_.

Cass, _a person with two lives_.

Close, _clothes_.

Cockerel, _a young cock_.

Cocktail, _a kind of drink_; also, _an ornament peculiar to soldiers_.

Convention, _a place where people are imposed on_; _a juggler's show_.

Coons, _a cant term for a now defunct party_; derived, perhaps, from the fact of their being commonly _up a tree_.

Cornwallis, _a sort of muster in masquerade_; supposed to have had its origin soon after the Revolution, and to commemorate the surrender of Lord Cornwallis. It took the place of the old Guy Fawkes procession.

Crooked stick, _a perverse, froward person_.

Cunnle, _a colonel_.

Cus, _a curse_; also, _a pitiful fellow_.