Part 5 (1/2)

Clothen _adj._ made of cloth

Clotting, Clatting _s._ fis.h.i.+ng for eels with a knot or clot of worms, which is also called reballing

Clout _s._ and _v._ a blow in the face or head, to beat about the head

Clumber _s._ a clump, or large piece

Cly, Cliver, Clider, or Clidden _s._ goose-gra.s.s

Coathe, or Coe _v.a._ to bane, applied to sheep, rabbits, and hares

c.o.c.k-and-mwile _s._ a jail

c.o.c.k-lawt, c.o.c.k-lart _s._ a garret or c.o.c.k-loft

c.o.c.k-squailing _s._ an old Shrove Tuesday sport--(in Somerset, Shaff Tuesday), flinging sticks at a c.o.c.k tied by the leg, one penny per throw, whoever kills him takes him away

Cob-wall _s._ made of mud and straw, mud-and-stud, or wattle-and-dab

College _s._ an a.s.semblage of small tenements, having a common entrance from the street, and only one

Colley blackbird; Water-colley water-ouzel; Mountain-colley ring-ouzel

Colt a person entering on a new employment; Colting, Colt-ale a fine on entering; footing; also, a thras.h.i.+ng

Comb-broach _s._ tooth of a wool-combe, a spit, knitting-needle (Fr.

_broche_)

Commandement _s._ (Four syllables as in Chaucer and Wiclif), command

Conk, or Skonk _s._ a collection of people (Lat. _concio_)

Connifle _v._ to embezzle, to sponge

Cop-bone _s._ knee-pan, patella

Count _v._ to think, to esteem

Couples, Cooples _s._ an ewe with her lambs; Double-couples _s._ an ewe with twins

Coy _v._ to decoy; Cway Pool _s._ a decoy

Cowerd Milk _s._ milk not skimmed

Cow-babby _s._ a great childish fellow

Crab-lantern _s._ a cross froward child

c.r.a.p a bunch or cl.u.s.ter (Fr. _grappe_)