C.

_Ca'_, to call, to name, to drive.

_Ca't_, called, driven, calved.

_Cadger_, a carrier.

_Cadie_ or _caddie_, a person, a young fellow, a public messenger.

_Caff_, chaff.

_Caird_, a tinker, a maker of horn spoons and teller of fortunes.

_Cairn_, a loose heap of stones, a rustic monument.

_Calf-ward_, a small enclosure for calves.

_Calimanco_, a certain kind of cotton cloth worn by ladies.

_Callan_, a boy.

_Caller_, fresh.

_Callet_, a loose woman, a follower of a camp.

_Cannie_, gentle, mild, dexterous.

_Cannilie_, dexterously, gently.

_Cantie_, or _canty_, cheerful, merry.

_Cantraip_, a charm, a spell.

_Cap-stane_, cape-stone, topmost stone of the building.

_Car_, a rustic cart with or without wheels.

_Careerin'_, moving cheerfully.

_Castock_, the stalk of a cabbage.

_Carl_, an old man.

_Carl-hemp_, the male stalk of hemp, easily known by its superior strength and stature, and being without seed.

_Carlin_, a stout old woman.

_Cartes_, cards.

_Caudron_, a cauldron.

_Cauk and keel_, chalk and red clay.

_Cauld_, cold.

_Caup_, a wooden drinking vessel, a cup.

_Cavie_, a hen-coop.

_Chanter_, drone of a bagpipe.

_Chap_, a person, a fellow.

_Chaup_, a stroke, a blow.

_Cheek for chow_, close and united, brotherly, side by side.

_Cheekit_, cheeked.

_Cheep_, a chirp, to chirp.

_Chiel_, or _cheal_, a young fellow.

_Chimla_, or _chimlie_, a fire-grate, fire-place.

_Chimla-lug_, the fire-side.

_Chirps_, cries of a young bird.

_Chittering_, shivering, trembling.

_Chockin_, choking.

_Chow_, to chew; a quid of tobacco.

_Chuckie_, a brood-hen.

_Chuffie_, fat-faced.

_Clachan_, a small village about a church, a hamlet.

_Claise_, or _claes_, clothes.

_Claith_, cloth.

_Claithing_, clothing.

_Clavers and havers_, agreeable nonsense, to talk foolishly.

_Clapper-claps_, the clapper of a mill; it is now silenced.

_Clap-clack_, clapper of a mill.

_Clartie_, dirty, filthy.

_Clarkit_, wrote.

_Clash_, an idle tale.

_Clatter_, to tell little idle stories, an idle story.

_Claught_, snatched at, laid hold of.

_Claut_, to clean, to scrape.

_Clauted_, scraped.

_Claw_, to scratch.

_Cleed_, to clothe.

_Cleek_, hook, snatch.

_Cleekin_, a brood of chickens, or ducks.

_Clegs_, the gad flies.

_Clinkin_, "clinking down," sitting down hastily.

_Clinkumbell_, the church bell; he who rings it; a sort of beadle.

_Clips_, wool-shears.

_Clishmaclaver_, idle conversation.

_Clock_, to hatch, a beetle.

_Clockin_, hatching.

_Cloot_, the hoof of a cow, sheep, &c.

_Clootie_, a familiar name for the devil.

_Clour_, a bump, or swelling, after a blow.

_Cloutin_, repairing with cloth.

_Cluds_, clouds.

_Clunk_, the sound in setting down an empty bottle.

_Coaxin_, wheedling.

_Coble_, a fishing-boat.

_Cod_, a pillow.

_Coft_, bought.

_Cog_, and _coggie_, a wooden dish.

_Coila_, from Kyle, a district in Ayrshire, so called, saith tradition, from Coil, or Coilus, a Pictish monarch.

_Collie_, a general, and sometimes a particular name for country curs.

_Collie-shangie_, a quarrel among dogs, an Irish row.

_Commaun_, command.

_Convoyed_, accompanied lovingly.

_Cool'd in her linens_, cool'd in her death-shift.

_Cood_, the cud.

_Coof_, a blockhead, a ninny.

_Cookit_, appeared and disappeared by fits.

_Cooser_, a stallion.

_Coost_, did cast.

_Coot_, the ankle, a species of water-fowl.

_Corbies_, blood crows.

_Cootie_, a wooden dish, rough-legged.

_Core_, corps, party, clan.

_Corn't_, fed with oats.

_Cotter_, the inhabitant of a cot-house, or cottage.

_Couthie_, kind, loving.

_Cove_, a cave.

_Cowe_, to terrify, to keep under, to lop.

_Cowp_, to barter, to tumble over.

_Cowp the cran_, to tumble a full bucket or basket.

_Cowpit_, tumbled.

_Cowrin_, cowering.

_Cowte_, a colt.

_Cosie_, snug.

_Crabbit_, crabbed, fretful.

_Creuks_, a disease of horses.

_Crack_, conversation, to converse, to boast.

_Crackin'_, cracked, conversing, conversed.

_Craft_, or _croft_, a field near a house, in old husbandry.

_Craig_, _craigie_, neck.

_Craiks_, cries or calls incessantly, a bird, the corn-rail.

_Crambo-clink_, or _crambo-jingle_, rhymes, doggerel verses.

_Crank_, the noise of an ungreased wheel--metaphorically inharmonious verse.

_Crankous_, fretful, captious.

_Cranreuch_, the hoar-frost, called in Nithsdale "frost-rhyme."

_Crap_, a crop, to crop.

_Craw_, a crow of a cock, a rook.

_Creel_, a basket, to have one's wits in a creel, to be crazed, to be fascinated.

_Creshie_, greasy.

_Crood_, or _Croud_, to coo as a dove.

_Croon_, a hollow and continued moan; to make a noise like the low roar of a bull; to hum a tune.

_Crooning_, humming.

_Crouchie_, crook-backed.

_Crouse_, cheerful, courageous.

_Crously_, cheerfully, courageously.

_Crowdie_, a composition of oatmeal, boiled water and butter; sometimes made from the broth of beef, mutton, &c. &c.

_Crowdie time_, breakfast time.

_Crowlin_, crawling, a deformed creeping thing.

_Crummie's nicks_, marks on the horns of a cow.

_Crummock_, _Crummet_, a cow with crooked horns.

_Crummock driddle_, walk slowly, leaning on a staff with a crooked head.

_Crump-crumpin_, hard and brittle, spoken of bread; frozen snow yielding to the foot.

_Crunt_, a blow on the head with a cudgel.

_Cuddle_, to clasp and caress.

_Cummock_, a short staff, with a crooked head.

_Curch_, a covering for the head, a kerchief.

_Curchie_, a curtesy, female obeisance.

_Curler_, a player at a game on the ice, practised in Scotland, called curling.

_Curlie_, curled, whose hair falls naturally in ringlets.

_Curling_, a well-known game on the ice.

_Curmurring_, murmuring, a slight rumbling noise.

_Curpin_, the crupper, the rump.

_Curple_, the rear.

_Cushat_, the dove, or wood-pigeon.

_Cutty_, short, a spoon broken in the middle.

_Cutty Stool_, or, _Creepie Chair_, the seat of shame, stool of repentance.