CLOWT-CLOWT, s. The name of an old game. "A kinde of playe called clowt clowt, to beare about, or my hen hath layd." Nomencl. CLOY, v. (A.-N.) (1) To prick in shoeing a horse. (2) To nail or spike up, as artillery. CLOY, V. To claw. Shakesp. CLOYER, 8. An old slang term CLOYNER, for one who intruded on the profits of young sharpers, by claiming a share. Then there's a cloyer, or snap, that dogs any new brother in that trade, and snaps,-will have half in any booty. Roaring Girl, O. Pl., vi, 113. (2) s. A claw; a clutch. North. CLUD-NUT, S. Two nuts grown into one. North. CLUFF, v. To cuff. North. CLUM, (1) adj. Daubed. Yorksh. (2) pret. t. Climbed. North. (3) v. To handle roughly. West. (4) v. To rake into heaps. Devon. CLUME-BUZZA, s. An earthen pan. Devon. CLUMMERSOME, adj. Dirty; sluttish. Devon. CLUMP, (1) v. To tramp. (2) s. A lump. North. (3) adj. Lazy. Linc. CLUMPER, S. A large piece. So merset. CLUMPERS, S. Thick, heavy shoes. CLUMPERTON, S. A stupid fel- (3) Plain-dealing; honest. North. (4) adj. Benumbed with cold. North. CLUMPST, adj. Benumbed with cold. Northampt. CLUMPY, (1) 8. A dunce. South. (2) adj. Sticking together. Devon. CLUNCH, (1) adj. Close. North. (2) s. A thump. East. (3) s. A clodhopper. (4) 8. Close-grained hard lime stone. CLUNCHFISTED, adj. Close-fisted; niggardly. Now a pox take these citizens! and then a man may get some money by 'um; they are so hide-bound, there's no living by 'um; so clunchfisted, a man would swear the gout were got out of their feet into their hands, 'tis death to 'um to pluck 'um out of their pockets. The Cheats, 1662. CLUNCHY, adj. (1) Thick and clumsy. East. (2) Quick tempered. Northampt. CLUNER, 8. A Cluniack monk. Y A gentle cluner two cheses hadde of me. Barclay's Fyfte Eglog. CLUNG, adj. (1) Shrivelled; shrunk. (2) Empty; emaciated. Craven. (3) Soft; flabby. Norf. (4) Heavy; doughy. (5) Tough; dry. East. (6) Daubed. Craven. (7) Strong. Berks. CLUNGE, v. To crowd, or squeeze. South. Clunged, stopped. Craven. CLUNGY, adj. Adhesive. North. CLUNK, v. To swallow. Devon. CLUNTER, (1) s. A clod of earth.. North. (2) v. To walk clumsily. North. (3) v. To turn lumpy. Yorksh. CLUNTERLY, adj. Clumsy. Craven. CLUPPE, v. (4.-S.) To embrace. CLUSE. (1) s. (Fr. ecluse.) A floodgate. North. (2) (Lat.) A cell. CLUSH, v. To lie down close to the ground; to stoop low down. Cornw. CLUSSOMED, part. p. Benumbed. Chesh. CLUSSUM, adj. Clumsy. Chesh. Well, away I went with a heavy heart, CLUSTY, adj. Close and heavy; applied to bread not well fermented, or to a potato that is not mealy. Cornw. CLUT, v. To strike a blow. North. CLUTCH. (1) v. To seize; to grasp. (2) s. A miser, or grasping CLUTE, 8. A hoof. North. CLUTHER, (1) adv. In heaps. North. (2) s. A great noise. Kent. CLUTSEN, v. To shake. North. CLUTTER, (1) s. A bustle; confusion. (2) 8. A clot. "Grumeau de sang, a clot, or clutter of congealed bloud." Cotgrave. Cluttered, clotted. (3) s. A plough-coulter. South. CLUTTER-FISTED, adj. Having large fists. CLUTTERY, adj. (1)_Changeable. (2) Very rainy. Berks. CLUUTTS, 8. Feet. Cumb. CLUVES, S. Hoofs of horses or cows. Cumb. CLY, S. (1) Goose-grass. Somerset. (2) Money. CLYKE, v. To noise abroad; to chatter. CLYTENISH, adj. Sickly. Wilts. Co, (1) s. (A.-N.) The neck. I have grated upon my good friends for COACH-HORSE, S. COAD, adj. Unhealthy, i. e., cold. Exmoor. COADJUVATE, s. (Lat.) A coadjutor. COAGER, S. A meal of cold victuals taken by agricultural labourers at noon. Sussex. COAGULAT, adj. (Lat.) Curdled. COAH, 8. Heart or pith, i. e., core. COAJER, S. A shoemaker. Exmoor. to any degradation. COAL-BRAND, s. Smut in wheat. COAL-FIRE, S. A parcel of firewood, containing when burnt the quantity of a load of coals. COAL-HAGGLERS, S. People who fetch coals from the pit or wharf, and retail them to the poor. Leic. COAL-HOOD, 8. (1) A bullfinch. West. (2) A wooden coal-scuttle. East. COAL-POWDER, S. Charcoal. This term occurs in an inventory of artillery stores, 1547. COAL-RAKE, S. A rake for raking the ashes of a fire. COAL-SAY, 8. The coal-fish. North. COAL-SMUT, 8. An efflorescence found on the surface of coal. COALY, S. (1) A lamplighter. Newc. (2) A species of cur dog. North. COALY-SHANGIE, 8. A riot, or uproar. North. COAME, v. To crack. Googe. weather. COARTE, v. (Lat. coarctare.) To compel. COASH, v. To silence. North. COAST, v. (A.-N.) (1) To approach. Who are these that coast us? You told me the walk was private. B. and Fl., Mind in Mill., i, 1. (2) To pursue. William Douglas still coasted the Eng- COAST, 8. (4.-N.) The ribs of cooked meat. COASTING, 8. An amorous approach; a courtship. O these encounterers, so glib of tongue, COAT, 8. A petticoat. Cumb. I am a coat-card indeed.-Then thou Rowley, When you see me, &c. Here's a trick of discarded cards of us: we were ranked with coats as long as my old master lived. Massinger, Old Law, iii, 1. COATHE, (1) v. To faint. Linc. (2) s. The rot in sheep. Som. COATHY, (1) adj. Irritable. Norf. (2) v. To throw. Hampsh. COB, (1) s. A blow. (2) v. To strike or pull the hair (3) v. To throw. Derbysh. miser. And of them all cobbing country chuffes, which make their bellies and their bagges theyr gods, are called rich cobbes. Nash's Lenten Stuff. (6) s. A leader, or chief. Chesh. (7) v. To outdo, or excel. (8) s. A stone; a kernel. East. (9) s. The broken-off ears of corn, especially wheat, are in some parts called cobs. (10) s. A young herring. He can come hither with four white herrings at his tail-but I may starve ere he give me so much as a cob. Hon. Wh., part 2, O. Pl., iii, 440. (11) s. The miller's-thumb. (12) s. A Spanish coin, formerly current in Ireland, worth about 48. 8d. (13) s. Clover-seed. East. (14) s. A small haystack. Oxon. (15) s. A sea-gull. Var. dial. (16) s. A basket for seed. North. (17) s. Marl mixed with straw, used for walls. West. (18) s. A punishment used among seamen for petty offences, or irregularities, by bastinadoing | COB-POKE, 8. A bag in which the offender on the posteriors COBBER, 8. A falsehood. North. (3) v. To hobble. Var. dial. (4) Cobble-trees, double swingle trees, or splinter bars. North. (5) s. The large cock of hay made previous to carrying. Northampt. (6) s. The stone of fruit. Norf. COBBS, S. The testicles. North. COBBY, adj. Brisk; lively; tyrannical. North. COB-CASTLE, 8. A prison; any building which overtops its neighbours. North. JOB-COALS, S. Large pit-coals. North. COB-IRONS, S. (1) Andirons. (2) The irons which support the spit. East. COB-JOE, S. A nut at the end of a string. Derbysh. COBKEY, S. A punishment at sea by bastinado, perhaps the same as cob. COBLE, 8. A kind of flat-bottomed boat, navigated with a lug-sail. COBLER'S-LOBSTER, s. A cow-heel. Camb. COBLER'S PUNCH, S. Ale warmed and sweetened, and mixed with spirits. Northampt. CORLOAF, S. A crusty uneven loaf with a round top to it. "A cobloafe or bunne." Minsheu. Here, in the halls, were the mummings, cob-loaf stealing, and great number of old Christmas playes performed. In great houses were lords of misrule during the twelve dayes after Christmas. Aubrey. COBNOBBLE, v. To beat. COB-NUT, 8. A master nut. It is the name of an old game among the children, played with nuts. gleaners carry the cobs of wheat. COB-STONES, S. Large stones. North. COB-SWAN, S. A large swan. Jons. COB-WALL, S. A wall of straw and clay. COBWEB, (1) adj. Misty. Norf. (2) s. The spotted flycatcher. Northampt. COCCABEL, S. An icicle. Cornw. COCHEN, S. (4.-S.) The kitchen. Соск, (1) s. A corruption of, or substitute for, God, used variously in oaths. Cockes armes (quod the baylye) my pourse is pycked, and my moneye is gone! Tales and Quicke Answeres. By cocke they are to blame. Shakesp., Haml., iv, 5. By cock and pye, was also not an unusual oath. Now by cock and pie you never spoke a truer word in your life. Wily Beguiled. (2) s. A cock-boat. To hold up; to buzz. (8) In cockfighting, a cock of twenty is one that has killed such a number of his antagonists in the pit. Giff. (9) 8. A striped snailshell. Northampt. (10) s. A conical heap of hay. (11) v. To swagger impudently. COCKADORE, v. To lord it over another. Leic. COCKAL, S. "A game that boyes used with foure huckle bones, commonly called cockall; it is also diceplay." Nomenclator. COCK-ALE, S. A particular sort of ale. But by your leave Mr. Poet, notwithstanding the large commendations you give of the juice of barley, yet if compar'd with Canary, they are no more than a mole-hill to a mountain; whether it be cock ale, China ale, rasbury ale, sage ale, scurvy-grass ale, horsereddish ale, Lambeth ale, Hull ale, Darby ale, North-down ale, double ale, or small ale; March beer, nor mum, though made at St. Catharines, put them all together, are not to be compared. Poor Robin, 1696. COCK-A-MEG, S. A piece of timber COCK-BRUMBLE, 8. The rubus COCKEL-BREAD, 8. A game forCOCKELY-BREAD, Smerly played among young girls. COCKER, (1) v. To indulge, or spoil. (2) v. To crow, or boast. North. (3) v. To skirmish or fight, said of cocks. Skarmysh ye maie, and like capon cockers cock, But we butterflies must heare bide the shock. Heywood's Spider & Flie, 1556. (4) s. A cock-fighter. (7) s. A stocking. Lanc. An old sign of an inn in that county was, the doff-cocker, a maid pulling off her stocking. COCKEREL, S. A young cock, COCKEREK, S. A wanton. COCKERNONY, 8. A small cock's egg, which if hatched is said to produce a cockatrice. Devon. COCKERS, S. (1) Rustic high shoes, fastened with laces or buttons. His patched cockers skant reached to his knee. Barclay's Eclogue, 1570. His cockers were of cordiwin, His hood of miniveer. Drayt., Ecl., iv. (2) Rims of iron round wooden shoes. Cumb. (3) Gaiters. Northampt. COCKET, (1) v. To join or fasten timber or stone in building. (2) adj. Swaggering; pert; brisk. (3) Cocket bread was the second kind of best bread. (4) s. A docquet. COCKEY, 8. A sewer. Norf. COCK-EYE, 8. A squinting eye. COCK-FARTHING, s. A term of endearment used to a little boy. COCK-FEATHER, S. The feather which stood upon the arrow when it was rightly placed upon the string, perpendicularly above the notch. COCK-GRASS, 8. Darnel. COCK-HANNELL, S. A house-cock. "Cock-hannell, or house cocke. Gallus." Huloet. COCKHEAD, S. The part of a mill which is fixed into a stave of the ladder on which the hopper rests. COCKHEADS, S. Meadow knobweed. North. COCK-HEDGE, s. A hedge withCOCK-FENCE, S out stake, the ends of the bushes being stuck into the bank. COCK-HOOP, S. A bullfinch. I marvell then Sardinius is so old, |