CAWKINS,

CALKERS,

vent slipping.

CALL, (1) v. To scold. North.
To proclaim by public

(2) v.
crier.
(3) v. A term in hunting: when
hounds are first cast off, and find
game, they are said to call on.
(4) 8. The outlet of water from
a dam. North.

(5) 8. Occasion; necessity. CALLANT, 8. A lad. North. CALLAR, adj. Fresh; cold. Cumb. CALLARDS, S. Leaves and shoots of cabbages. Wight. CALL-BACK, 8. A wear. North. CALLE, (1) 8. A sort of cap or network worn on the head; a coif.

(2) v. To invite. CALLED-HOME, part. p. Asked in the church.

CALLER, (1) adj. Fresh; cool. North.

(2) v. To jump; to caper. Wight. CALLET, (1) 8. A scold; a drab; a strumpet. (2) v. To rail.

CALLIERD, 8. (4.-N.) A hard stone.
North.
CALLING-BAND, 8. A leading-
string. North.

CALLOT, 8. (Fr. calotte.) A plain CALLET, coif or skull-cap. CALLOW, (1) 8. (4.-S.) Smooth; bare; unfledged; applied chiefly to birds.

(2) adj. Smooth, applied to an even wood. Suss.

(3) s. The stratum of vegetable earth lying above gravel, sand, limestone, &c. East. CALLOW-DOCTOR, S. A quack. CALLS, S. Pieces of tape. North. CALLYMOOCHer, s. A term of reproach.

I do, thou upstart callymoocher. I do; "Twas well known to the parish I have been Twice ale-cunner.

Mayor of Quinb., O. Pl., xi, p. 132. CALLYVAN, 8. A sort of pyramidal trap for birds. Somerset.

CALM, 8. Scum of liquor. East. CALMES, 8. (1) The cogs of a wheel. North.

(2) The frames of a window. Harrison's Desc. of Engl., p. 187. CALMEWE, 8. A kind of sea

CALDMAWE, bird.
CALMY, adj. Mothery. East.
CALSEY, 8. A causeway.
CALSONS,

CALSOUNDS,

CALZOONS,

8. (Fr. caleçon.) Close linen trousers for men.

CALTROP, (1) s. (A.-N.) An implement with four spikes, so contrived that, in whatever direction it is thrown, one of the spikes always stands upwards. It was used against cavalry in war. (2) A kind of thistle. CALTS, 8. Quoits. Shropsh. CALUZ, adj. (A.-N.) Bald. Weber. CALVER, v. To prepare salmon, or other fish, in a peculiar way.

CAMACA, 8. A sort of rich silk cloth.

CAMAIL, S. (1) (A.-N.) A camel.

(2) A neckguard; the thickest part of the armour near the neck. CAMALION, 8. The camel-leopard. CAMARADE, 8. (Fr.) A comrade. CAMBER, 8. A harbour. South. CAMBER-NOSE, s. An aquiline nose. CAMBLE, V. To prate saucily. Yorksh.

CAMBRIL, 8. (1) The hock of an animal.

(2) The curved piece of wood on which butchers suspend the slaughtered animal. See Gambril. CAMBUCK, S. (1) The dry stalks of dead plants. East.

(2) A game at ball. CAMBURE, adj. Hooked. CAMED, adj. Covered. North. CAMELINE, 8. (A -N.) (1) A stuff made of camel's hair. (2) A kind of sauce. CAMELS, 8. A nick-name for the natives of Cambridgeshire. CAMERIKE, S. Cambrick. CAMIL, 8. Chamomile. Somerset. CAMIS, 8. (4.-N.) A thin transparent dress or robe.

CAMISADO, 8. (Ital.) A white shirt or smock frock, which was often worn by soldiers to know each other in a night attack. "To give a camisado, viz. to wear a white shirt over their armes, that they may know one another in the dark." Howell.

CAMLE, S. A camelion. Maundev.
CAMMED, adj. (1) Crooked.

(2) Cross; illnatured. North.
(3) Short nosed.

CAMMICK, S. The plant restharrow.
CAMMISH, adj. Awkward. South.
CAMMOCK, S. (1) A crooked tree
or beam.

(2) Timber prepared for the
knee of a ship.

Though the cammock the more it is
bowed the better it is, yet the bow, the
more it is bent and occupied, the weaker
it waxeth.
"Lilly's Euphues.

Bitter the blossom when the fruit is sour,
And early crook'd that will a camock be.
Drayt. Ecl., 7.

(2) s.
A game of ball, formerly
practised in the Eastern counties.
(3) v. To talk of anything. Lanc.
(4) 8. A hoard of potatoes, tur-
nips, &c. North.

CAMPABLE, adj. Able to do. North.
CAMPANE, adj. Consisting of fields.
CAMPERKNOWs, 8.
Ale-pottage,

made with sugar, spices, &c.
Grose.

CAMPESON, 8. The gambison. CAMPESTRIALL, adj. (Lat.) Belonging to the fields.

CAMPLE, v. To talk, or argue; to contend. Var. dial.

CAMPLETES, 8. A kind of wine. CAMPT, part.p. Encamped. CAMSTEERIE, adj. Crazy. Northumberland.

CAN, (1) the pret. t. of canne. Knows.

(2) v. To be able.

(3) Began to; used as an auxiliary before verbs in the infinitive to express a past tense. See Gan. CANACIN, 8. The plague. Bailey. CANAKIN, 8. A small drinking can. CANARIES, 8. (Fr.) A quick and

lively dance, in which the dancer sometimes used castanets. CANARY, (1) 8. A kind of sweet wine, much used in the earlier part of the 17th cent.

Canarie-wine, which beareth the name of the islands from whence it is brought, is of some termed a sacke, with this adjunct sweete; but yet very improperly, for it differeth not only from sacke in sweetnesse and pleasantness of taste, but also in colour and consistence, for it is not so white in colour as sack, nor so thin in substance; wherefore it is more nutritive than sack, and less penetrative.

Venneri Via recta ad Vit. longam, 1622.

(2) v. To dance; to frolic.
(3) s. A sovereign.

(4) s. A kept mistress. North. CAN-BOTTLE, 8. The long-tailed titmouse. Shropsh. CANCARDE, adj. Cankered. CANCELEER, s. (Fr. chanceller.) CANCELIER, The turn of a lightflown hawk upon the wing to recover herself, when she misses her aim in the stoop.

The fierce and eager hawks down thrilling from the skies,

Make sundry canceleers ere they the fowl can reach. Drayt. Polyolb., xx.

(2) To turn in flight.

The partridge sprung, He makes his stoop; but wanting breath, is forced

To cancelier; then with such speed, as if He carried light'ning in his wings, he strikes The trembling bird. Mass. Guard., i, 1.

CANCER, 8. A plant of some kind. Who taught the poore beast having poison tasted,

To seeke th' hearbe cancer, and by that to cure him?

Who taught the bore finding his spirits wasted

To seeke a branch of ivy to assure him? Great Britaines Troye, 1609. CANCH, 8. A word used in the Eastern and Midland counties, and used to signify a small quantity of corn in the straw put into the corner of a barn; a short turn or spell at anything; a trench, cut sloping to a very narrow bottom; a certain breadth in digging or treading land, or in turning over a dung-hill. CANCRO. (Ital.) A sort of imprecation. CANDLE, S. West. CANDLE-BARK, S. A round cylin

The pupil of the eye.

drical box for candles. North. CANDLE-REAM, 8. A chandelier.

"Candle-beame, suche as hangeth in gentlemens halles, with sockettes, to set candels upon, lacunar." Huloet, 1552. CANDLE-CAP, S. An old brimless hat, with a candle in front, used by butchers. North. CANDLEGOSTES, 8. Goose-grass.

The nostrils of his chimnies are still stuff'd With smoke more chargeable than canetobacco. Merry Devil, O. Pl., v, 257. - My boy once lighted

A pipe of cane-tobacco, with a piece
Of a vile ballad. All Fools, O. Pl, iv, 187.
Then of tobacco he a pype doth lack
Of Trinidade in cane, in leaf, or ball.
Harringt. Epig., iv, 34.

CANGE, v. To whine. North. CANGLE, v. To entangle. Northampt.

CANGY, adj. Cross; ill-tempered. Cumb.

CANIFFLE, V. To dissemble; to flatter. Devon. CANIONS, 8. Rolls at the bottom of the breeches just below the knee, sometimes indented like a

screw.

CANK, (1) v. To talk; to cackle. (2) 8. A gossip.

(3) v. To persevere; to overcome. Wilts.

(4) v. To be infested with cankers. Northampt.

(5) adj. Dumb. Yorksh. CANKER, 8. (1) The common red field-poppy. East. (2) The dog-rose. (3) A toadstool. West. (4) A caterpillar. South. CANKERFRET, &. (1) Copperas.

(2) A sore or blister in the mouth. East.

CANKERWEED, 8. The ragwort.
CANKE, v. To whine. Derbysh.
CANKY, adj. Rotten, applied to
stone. Northampt.

CANNEL, S. The collar, neck.
CANNEL-BONE,
The collar-

CHANNEL BONE, bone. CANNINESS, 8. Caution; good conduct. North.

CANNIS, v. To toss about carelessly

from place to place. Cornw. CANNY, (1) adj. Pretty; good; neat. North. Canny-hinny, a sly person. (2) v. To coax. Northamp. CANON, 8. A portion of a deceased

man's goods exacted by the priest.

The first and principal person in the temple was Irene, or Peace; she was placed aloft in a cant.

Jons., Coronation Entertainm. Directly under her, in a cant by herself, was Arete inthroned.

Decker, Entert. of James I.

(9) v. To humour, caress. Leic. (10) v. To backbite. Herefordsh. (11) v. To whine, or play the hypocrite.

(12) v. To set upon edge. East. (13) 8. A company, or crowd. North.

(14) s. A canter, or vagabond. (15) v. To divide. Tusser. CANTABANQUI, s. (Ital.) Balladsingers. CANTANKEROUS, adj. Contentious. CANT-DOG, 8. A handspike with a hook. North.

A rogue,
A very canter I, sir, one that maunds
Upon the pad.

B. Jon., Staple of News, act ii. Hey day! turn'd canter? this becomes thee worse than fine dress and youthful cloths an old woman. There's scarce a nun will talk thus through a grate.

The Reformation, 1673.

(2) A pint jug. Northamp. CANTERBURY, s. A horse's canter. CANTING-CALLER. An auctioneer. North.

CANTLE, 8. (1) The head. North.

(2) The leg of an animal. North. CANTLE-PIECE, s. The part of a cask into which the tap is driven. Northumb.

CANTLY, adv. Strongly. Minot.
CANTON, v. To notch.

CANT-RAIL, S. A triangular rail.
East.

CANTRAP, 8. A magic spell. North. CANTRED, 8. A term used in Wales and Ireland for a certain division of territory.

Sur. Two knights fees make one cantred, which after the first computation, amounteth to 3840 acres. Six cantreds 11-26 maketh a barony, 25600 acres, whose reliefe is 100 marks. One barony make an earldome 38400, acres whose reliefe is 100 pound.

Norden's Surveyors Dialogue, 1610. CANT-WINDOw, 8. A bow-window., CANTY, adj. Cheerful; talkative. North.

CANVAS, 8. To receive the canvas,

i. e., to be dismissed. The phrase is taken from the practice of journeymen mechanics who travel in quest of work with the.. implements of their profession. When they are discharged by their masters, they are said to receive the canvas or the bag, because in this their tools and necessaries are packed up preparatory to their removal,

I ha' promis'd him As much as marriage comes to, and I lose My honor, if the don receives the canvas. Shirley, Brothers, act ii, p. 14.

CANTSPAR, S. A fire-pole.

CANTY, adj. Merry; cheerful. North, CANVASADO, 8. A move in fencing. CAP, (1) v. To complete; to finish. (2) v. To overcome in argument; to puzzle any one.

(3) s. A challenge to competition.
(4) s. A master or head. Cumb.
(5) v. To arrest.

(6) v. To mend shoes at the toe.
(7) A shepherd's dog. I. Wight.
(8) A man's cap was said to ake,
when he was tipsy,

To walke and see a friend they both intended,

Some two mile out of towne, and merrie make

So frolique, till the husbands cap did ake. Good Newes and Bad Newes, 1622. CAP-OF-MAINTENANCE, 8. A pecu, liar cap carried before a high, dignitary on state occasions.

About x. of the cloke afore none, the king come into the parlement chamber. in his parlement robes, and on his hed a cap of mayntenaunce, and sat in his most royall majesté.

MS. Cotton., Jul. C., vi, fol. 255, ro. CAPABLE, adj. (Lat.) Comprehen

sive.

CAPADOS, 8. (4.-N.). A hood. CAP-CASE, 8. A small travelling case, or band-box. "A bag: a wallet a port-manteau: a capcase." Nomenclator.

CAPE, 8. (1) The coping of a wall. North.

(2) The sleeve of a coat. CAPE-CLOAK, s. A Spanish cloak. CAPEL, 8. The horn joint connecting

the two parts of a flail. Devon. CAPELLINE, 8. A skull-cap of steel. CAPER-COUSINS, 8. Great friends. Lanc. CAPERDEWSIE, 8. The stocks. Butler.

CAPERLASH, 8. Abusive language. North.

CAPES, 8. Ears of corn broken off in thrashing. North. CAPHA, 8. A kind of damask cloth.