Chapter C

_Ca_, call.
_Cadgy_, good-humoured, happy, fond.
_Canker'd_, angry, passionately snarling.
_Canna_, cannot.
_Canny_, prudent. (See _Kanny_.)
_Cantraips_, incantations.
_Canty_, cheerful and merry.
_Car_, sledge.
_Carle_, a word for an old man.
_Carna_, care not.
_Cast up_, to upbraid one with a thing.
_Cauld_, cold.
_Cauldrife_, spiritless; wanting cheerfulness in address.
_Cauler_, cool or fresh.
_Cawf_, or _caff_, a calf; chaff.
_Cawk_, chalk.
_Chiel_, or _chield_, a general term like fellow; used sometimes with
respect, as, "he's a very good _chiel_;" and contemptuously, "that
_chiel_."
_Chirm_, chirp and sing like a bird.
_Chitter_, chatter.
_Chucky_, a hen.
_Claith_, cloth.
_Clatter_, to chatter.
_Claw_, scratch.
_Cleck_, to hatch.
_Cleek_, to catch as with a hook.
_Closs_, close.
_Clute_, or cloot, hoof of cows or sheep.
_Cockernony_, the gathering of a woman's hair, when it is wrapt or
snooded up with a band or snood.
_Coft_, bought.
_Coof_, a stupid fellow.
_Corby_, a raven.
_Cottar_, a cottager.
_Crack_, to chat, to talk.
_Craig_, a rock.
_Crap_, crept.
_Croon_, or _crune_, to murmur or hum over a song.
_Crove_, a cottage.
_Crummy_, or _crummock_, a cow's name.
_Cunzie_, or _coonie_, coin.
_Curn_, a small quantity.
_Cut and dry_, a kind of tobacco.