CADE,
sub. a cask, a barrel
CADDIS, sub. a galloon of
worsted
CADDIS-GARTER, adj. worsted garter (in
derision); garters of the time were worn in sight,
and
naturally were of costly material
CAGE, sub. a
prison
CAKE, sub. 'my cake is dough on both
sides'= our plans are quite frustrated
CAKED,
pt.p. coagulated, inert
CALIVER, sub. a kind of
musket
CALL, sub. a whistle to lure birds
CALLAT,
sub. a drab
CANARY, sub. a lively dance;v. i. to
dance the above dance
CANDLE-MINE, sub. a
magazine of tallow
CANDLE-WASTER, sub. one who sits
up late to study
CANKER and CANKER-BLOOM} sub.
the rose of the sweet-briar
CANKER-BLOSSOM, sub.
a blossom eaten by the canker-worm
CANTLE, sub. a
small piece, a slice
CANTON, sub. a song
CANZONET, sub. a song, a ditty [Ital. canzonetta]
CAPITULATE, v. i. to make an agreement; to combine
CAPOCCHIA, sub. a fool,—fem. of capocchio,—An
Italian word.
CARAWAYS, sub. comfits made with
caraway seeds
CARBONADO, sub. meat scotched for
broiling; v. t. to hack like acarbonado
CARD,
sub. 'cooling card'=a stroke which suddenly turns the
tables
CARDECU, sub. [quart d'écu], quarter of a
French crown
CARKANET, sub. a necklace [Fr.
carcan]
CARL, sub. a clown, peasant
CARLOT, sub.
a peasant
CARPETS, sub. table cloths
CARRACK,
sub. a huge ship of burthen [Ital. caracca]
CASE,
v. t. to strip off the skin
CASQUE, sub. a helmet
[Fr. casque]
CASSOCK, sub. a military cloak
CAST,
v. t. to dismiss; pt.p. emptied out; adj.
second-hand, cast off
CATAIAN, sub. a Chinaman, a
native of Cathay, a cant term
CATLINGS, sub. small
strings for musical instruments, made of cat-gut
CAUTEL, sub. craft, stratagem
CAUTELOUS, adj.
crafty, cunning, deceitful
CEASE, sub.
extinction.
CEINTURE [O. Ed. CENTRE], sub. cincture,
girdle
CENSER, THIN MAN IN A, 'a plate or dish,
in which was incense, and at the bottom of
which
was usually represented in rude carving the figure
of some saint' (Hanmer)
CENSURE, sub. opinion,
judgment; judicial sentence
CEREMENTS, sub. the
wrappings of an embalmed body
'CERN, v. t. to
concern
CESSE, v. i. to cease
CHACE, sub. a term
at tennis [quibbling]
CHAMBERS, sub. small cannons
CHANGEABLE, adj. varying in colour
CHANSON, sub.
a song
CHAPE, sub. the metal at the end of a
scabbard
CHARACTER, sub. handwriting
CHARE, sub.
a turn of work
CHARGE-HOUSE, sub. a school-house
CHARNECO, sub. a kind of wine, named from
Charneca in Portugal
CHAUDRON, sub. entrails
CREATOR, sub. an escheator
CHERRY-PIT, sub. a
childish game
CHEVERIL, sub. kid-leather; adj.
yielding, flexible
CHEWET, sub. a chough [Fr.
chouette or chutte], There may be an allusionto
another meaning of the
word, which is a sort of meat
pie.]
CHILDING, adj. fruitful
CHILDNESS, sub.
childish disposition
CHOPINE, sub. a high-soled shoe
CHOPPY, adj, chapped
CHRISTOM CHILD, sub. a
chrisom child, one who died within a month of birth;
the chrisom was
a white cloth put on the infant at
baptism
CHUFF, sub. a churl,
'CIDE, v. t. to
decide
CINQUE-PACE, sub. a grave dance [Fr.
cinquepas],
CIRCUMSTANCE, sub. circumlocution
CITAL, sub. a recital
CITIZEN, sub. town-bred,
effeminate
CITTERN, sub. a guitar
CLACK-DISH,
sub. a beggar's dish with a loose cover, by moving
which he attracted the notice
of passers by
CLAP,
AT A, at a blow
CLAPPER-CLAW, v. t. to beat
soundly
CLAW, v. t. to flatter
CLEPE, v. t. to
call
CLIMATE, sub. clime, region
CLIMATURES,
sub. fellow-countrymen
CLING, v. t. to shrivel up
CLIP, v. t. to embrace
CLIPPER, sub. a defacer of
coin
CLOUD, sub. a spot between the eyes of horses,
regarded as a blemish
CLOUT, sub. nail in
centre of target
CLOUTED, adj, hobnailed; or
according to some,patched
CLOY, v. t. to stroke
with the claw,
COBLOAF, sub. a misshapen loaf of
bread, run out in the baking into lumps
COCK,
sub. a cock-boat; a weathercock
COCK-A-HOOP, TO SET,
to cast off all restraint
COCKLE, sub. a weed in
corn, the corn-cockle
COCKNEY, sub. one bred and
born in the city, and ignorant of all things out of
it
COCK-SHUT TIME, twilight
CODLING, sub. an
unripe apple
COFFIN, the crust of a pie
COG, v.
i. to cheat; v. t. to filch
COIGN, sub. a
corner-stone [Fr. coin]
COIL, sub. bustle, tumult
COLLECTION, sub. inference
COLLIED, adj. sooty,
black
COMMA, sub. the smallest break or stop,
COMMODITY, sub. profit, advantage
COMPACT, pt. p.
made up of, composed
COMPASSED, adj, round, arched
COMPETITOR, sub. partner
COMPTIBLE, adj.
sensitive
CON, v. t. to learn, to know, to
understand; to con thanks=to give thanks
CONCLUSION, sub, an experiment
CONCLUSION,
STILL, silent inference, or perhaps settled demeanour
CONSUL, sub. Venetian senator
CONVENT, v. i. to
be suitable
CONVICTED, pt. p. defeated
CONVINCE,
v. t. to overcome
CONVIVE, v. i. to feast together
CONY-CATCH, v. i. cheat
COPATAIN, adj.
high-crowned and pointed
COPE, v. t. to encounter;
to requite
COPESMATE, sub. a companion
COPPED,
adj. round-topped
COPY, sub. lease
CORANTO, sub.
a quick lively dance
CORINTHIAN, sub. a wencher
CORKY, adj, shrivelled
COROLLARY, sub, a surplus
[Fr. corottaire]
CORROSIVE, & CORSIVE) sub. an
irritant remedy; adj, irritating, giving pain
COSTARD, sub. the head,—properly an apple
COTE,
v. t. to come up with, and pass on the way
COT-QUEAN, sub. a man busying himself with
the business of women
COUNTER, adv. to run or
hunt counter is to follow the game backwards on the
scent, (here a play is
intended on the name of the
well-known London debtors' prison, the Counter)
COUNTER-CASTER, sub. a reckoner, caster-up
of accounts
COUNTERFEIT, sub. a portrait; a piece
of bad money
COUNTERPOINT, sub. a
counterpane
COUNTERVAIL, v. t. to outweigh
COUPLET, sub. a pair
COURSE, sub. a large sail;
theonset of dogs in bearbaiting
COURT-CUPBOARD,
sub. a sideboard
COURT HOLY-WATER, sub. flattery
[Fr. eau bénitede la cour]
COWER, v. i. to sink
or squat .down [F. couver]
COWL-STAFF, sub. a pole on
which a basket is borne by two persons
COY, v. t.
to stroke, to caress;v. i. to disdain
COYSTRIL, sub.
a mean fellow, originally a groom
COZIER, sub. a
cobbler
CRACK, v. i. to boast; sub. a pert forward
boy
CRACKED WITHIN THE RING, uncurrent [quibbling]
CRACKER, sub. a blusterer
CRANK, sub.
a winding passage
CRANTS, sub. a garland, a chaplet
CRARE, sub. a small vessel
CRAVEN, v. t. to make
recreant or cowardly
CREEK, sub. a rivulet, a
winding part of a rivulet
CRESSET, sub. an open lamp
set on a beacon, or carried on a pole
CRIB, sub.
a hovel
CRISP, adj. curled
CRITIC, sub. a cynic,
a carper
CROSS-ROW, sub. the Christ Cross Row, the
alphabet
CROW-KEEPER, sub. the boy, or stuffed
figure, to keep away crows
CRUEL, adj. crewel,
worsted [quibbling]
CRUZADO, sub. a Portuguese coin
worth about six shillings
CRY, sub. a pack; a
company
CRY AIM, to encourage
CRY YOU MERCY, I
beg your pardon
CUB-DRAWN, adj. sucked dry by cubs,
made ravenous
CULLION, sub. a mean fellow [Ital.
coglióne]
CULLIONLY, adj. mean,
contemptible
CULVERIN, sub. a kind of cannon
CURB, v. t. to bend [Fr. courber]
CURIOSITY,
sub. scrupulosity
CURIOUS, adj. elegant; careful,
anxious
CURRENTS, sub. occurrences
CURST, adj.
ill-tempered
CUSHES, sub. cuisses, armour for the
thighs
CUSTARD-COFFIN, sub. the crust of a custard
CUSTOMER, sub. a loose woman
CUT, sub. a
horse
CUT AND LONG-TAIL, of every sort
CUTTLE,
sub. a
bully
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