CROWDY-KIT, s. A small fiddle.

West.

CROWDY-MAIN, 8. A riotous as

sembly; a cock-fight. North. CROWDY-MUTTON, s. A fiddler. CROWDY-PIE, S. An apple-turnover. West.

CROW-FEET, S. The wrinkles at the

outer corners of the eye. CROWFLOWER, s. The crow-foot. North.

CROWFOOT, S. A caltrop.
CROWISH, adj. Pert. North.
CROWLANDE, part. a. Exulting;
boasting.
CROWLE, V.

To grumble in the

stomach. CROW-LEEK, S. The hyacinth. CROWN, v. To hold an inquest. North.

CROWNED-CUP, s. A bumper. CROW-NEEDLES, S. The plant shep

herd's needle. Northampt. CROWNING, adj. Slightly arched. East.

CROW-PARSNIP, s. The dandelion. CROW-PIE, 8. Nasal dirt.

CROW-PIGHTLE, S. The butter-cup. Northampt.

CROWSE, adj. Sprightly, merry, or alert. North.

Such one thou art, as is the little fly,
Who is so crowse and gamesome with the
flame.
Drayton, Ecl. 7.

CROWSHELL, 8. The fresh-water

muscle.

CRUB, 8. A crust, or rind. Crubby,
crusty bread. Devon.
CRUBBIN, 8. Food. West.
CRUBS, S. The wooden supporters
of panniers on a horse. West.
CRUCCHEN, v. (A.-S.) To crouch.
CRUCE, S. (Fr. cruche.) A jug.

They had sucked such a juce
Out of the good ale cruce.

The Unluckie Firmentie.

CRUCHE, S. A bishop's crosier. CRUCHET, S. A wood-pigeon. North.

CRUCIAR, S. A crucifier. Wickliffe. CRUCIATE, v. (Lat.) To torment.

Hee hath kneeled oftener in the honour of his sweeteheart then his Saviour: hee cruciateth himself with the thought of her, and wearieth al his friends with talking on her. Man in the Moone, 1609.

CRUCKLE, v. To bend; to stoop.
East.

CRUD, part. p. Carted; conveyed.
CRUD, 1v. To coagulate; to
CRUDDLE, curdle.
Crudge, v.

To crush; to crowd

upon. Northampt. CRUDLY, adj. Crumbling. Shropsh. CRUDS, 8. (A.-S.) Curds.

CRUEL, (1) adj. Keen; valiant. (2) adj. Sad. Exmoor.

(3) adj. Very.

(4) s. Fine worsted.

(5) s. A cowslip. Devon. CRUELS, S. The shingles. Yorksh. CRUEL-WISE, adj.

CROW-POT

8.

STONES, CROWT, V. To pucker up. CROW-TOE, S. The wild ranunculus.

CROW-TOED, adj. Wheat irregularly beaten down. Northampt. CROYDON-SANGUINE, 8. A sallow colour. CROYN, v.

To cry, like deer in

rutting time.

Inclined to

CRUIVES, 8. Spaces in a dam or

weir for taking salmon. North. CRUKE, 8. (4.-S.) A crook. CRULE, v. (1) (A.-S.) To curl.

(2) To shiver with cold. CRUM, v. To stuff. North.

Phormio, the whole charge is laid on thy back thou thyself didst crum it, thou therefore must eat it up all: self do self have.

Terence in English, 1641.

CRUMBS, S. The loose earth at the bottom of a drain. Northampt. CRUMCAKES, s. Pancakes. North. CRUMENAL, 8. (Lat.) A purse. CRUMMEL, v. To beat. Shropsh. CRUMMY, (1) adj. Plump; fleshy. "A crummy wife and a crusty loaf for my money." Warw.

(2) s. A cow with crooked horns. CRUMP, (1) adj. Hard; crusty. North.

(2) adj. Cross in temper. North. (3) adj. Crooked. "Bossu. That is crumpe-shouldered, camell backed, or crooke backt." Nomencl.

(4) s. The rump. North. (5) s. The cramp. CRUMPLE, (1) v. To wrinkle; to contract. West.

(2) To twist; to make crooked. CRUMPLEDY, adj. Crooked; twisted. CRUMPLE-FOOTED, adj. Having no movement with the toes. CRUMPY, adj. Short; brittle. North. CRUNDLES, 8. Scorbutic swellings. Devon.

CRUNE, v. To bellow, or roar. North.

CRUNEY, v. To whine. Devon. CRUNK, v. To make a noise like a

CRUSTY, adj. Surly.

CRUT, 8. A dwarf. North. CRUTCHET, 8. A perch. Warw. CRUTCH-NIB, S. The right-hand

handle of a plough. CRUTTLE, (1) s. A crumb. North. (2) v. To stoop down. North. CRY, (1) v. To challenge, bar, or object to. Somerset. (2) 8. A proclamation. (3) s. (A.-N.) The head. CRYANCE, 8. (A.-N.) Fear. CRYING-OUT, s. Child-birth.

Spent at fair Sarah the dairy-maids crying-out, who in her labour laid the child to your worship.

Mountfort, Greenwich Park, 1691. CRYING-THE-MARE, s. An an

CRYING-THE-NECK, cient game

in Herefordshire at the harvest
home.

CRYMOSIN, S. Crimson.
CRYSEN, s. pl. Cries.

CRYSTALS, S. The eyes. Shakesp. CRYSTIANTÉ, S. (A.-N.) Christendom.

CRYZOM, adj. Weakly. Craven.
Cu, s. (4.-S.) A cow.
CUB, (1) s. A bin. North.

(2) s. A crib for cattle. Glouc.
(3) s. A coop. "A hen house: a
place where poultrie is kept: a
cub." Nomencl.

(4) v. To confine in a narrow
space.

To be cubbed up on a sudden, how shall he be perplexed.

Burt., Anat. Mel., p. 153.

(5) s. A heap; a mass.

(6) s. A marten in the first year.

CUBA, 8. A game at cards. Cuccu, s. (4.-S.) A cuckoo. CUCK, v. (1) To throw. North. (2) To punish a woman with the cucking-stool.

CUCKING-STOOL, s. A well-known engine for the punishment of women, often, but not so correctly, called a ducking-stool.

Having lately read the rare history of Patient Grizell, out of it he hath drawne this phylosophicall position, that if all women were of that woman's condition, we should have no imployment for cuckin-stooles.

Harry White's Humour, circa 1660.

CUCKOLD'S-FEE, S. A groat. CUCKOLD'S-KNOT, S. A noose, the ends of which point lengthways. CUCKOO, 8. The harebell. Devon. CUCKOO-ALE, S. Ale drunk to welcome the cuckoo's return. A singular custom prevailed not long ago in Shropshire, that as soon as the first cuckoo had been heard, all the labouring classes left work, and assembled to drink what is called the cuckoo ale. CUCKOO-BALL, 8. A light ball of parti-coloured rags for children. CUCKOO-BREAD, 8. Wood-sorrel. CUCKOO-BUDs, s. The butter-cup (ranunculus bulbosus). CUCKOO-FLOWER, 8. Orchis mascula, Lin. The wild lychnis flosculi. Gerard, p. 201, "wilde water-cresses or cuckow flowers, cardamine." The greater stitchwort. Kent. Red-flowered campion. Northampt. CUCKOO-LAMB, 8. An early lamb. Oxf. A late-yeaned lamb. Northampt. CUCKOO-MALT, 8. Malt made in the

The barley

CUCKOO-PINTLE, s. The plant arum.
CUCKOO'S-MAIDEN, S. The wryneck.
North.
CUCKOO'S-MATE, S.
bird. East.
CUCKOO-SPICE, 8. Wood-sorrel.
CUCKOO-SPIT, s. The white froth
enclosing the larva of the cicada
spumaria.

CUCKOO-TIME, s. Spring. North.
CUCK-QUEAN, 8. A female cuckold.
CUCKUC, 8. A cuckoo.
CUCUBES, 8. Cubebs.

CUCULLED, adj. (Lat.) Hooded.
CUCURBITE, 8. (Lat.) A gourd.
CUDDE, pret. t. (4.-S.) Showed;
manifested.

CUDDEN, s. A clown; a fool.
CUDDIAN, 8. A wren. Devon.
CUDDY, S. (1) A silly fellow.
(2) The hedge-creeper. North-
ampt.

CUDDY-ASS, 8. A donkey.
CUDDY'S-LEGS, s. Large herrings.
CUDE-CLOTH, s. A chrisome cloth.
North.

CUDGEL, v. To embroider thickly. CUD's, s. A substitution for God's, as odd's, &c., in popular exclamations, such as cud's liggins, cud's fish, &c.

Why, realy cousin, or uncle, quo' the
young man, we may chance to pop upon
ye before y'are aware. I should be at
Cuds-
Exeter-fair this Lammas tide.
fish, quoth his cousin, 'tis but a little
out of your way, to ride to Dorchester,
and then you come within a mile of our
house.
Ladies Dictionary, 1694.
The cotton weed.
Half a farthing. A

CUD-WEED, 8.

CUE, 8. (1)

term used to signify a small
quantity of different articles.
(2) A horse-shoe. West.
(3) Humour; temper.

(4) The catch-word of a speech
in acting. Cue-fellows, actors who
play together.

CUERPO, S. (Span.) To be in cuerpo,

to be without the upper garment. Your Spanish host is never seen in cuerpo, Without his paramentos, cloke, and sword. B. Jons., New Inn, ii, 5.

CUFF, (1) v. To beat.

(2) v. To insinuate. East. (3) s. A glove, or mitten. Pr. P. (4) To cuff over, to dilate. To cuff out, to pour out. CUFFEN, 8. A churl. CUFF-SAND, 8. A deep heavy sand. Lanc.

CUGLION, 8. (Ital.) A scoundrel;

a stupid fellow.

CUIFF, v. To go awkwardly. North. CUINSE, v. To carve a plover. CUIRBOULY, 8. (A.-N.) Leather,

softened by boiling, in which condition it took any form or impression required, and then hardened. A very common material in the Middle Ages. CUIRET, 8. (Fr.) A hard skin.

Th' hast armed som with poyson, some with paws,

Som with sharp antlers, som with griping claws,

Som with keen tushes, som with crooked beaks,

Som with thick cuirets, som with scaly necks;

But mad'st man naked, and for weapons fit

Thou gav'st him nothing but a pregnant wit. Du Bartas.

CUISSES, 8. (4.-N.) Armour for the thighs.

CUIT, 8. (Fr.) A sweet wine. CUKER, S. A part of the horned head-dress.

CUKKYNE, v. Cacare. Pr. P. CUKSTOLE, 8. The toadstool. CULCH, 8. Refuse; rubbish. East.

CULDORE, 8. A colander.
CULE, 8. (4.-N.) The fundament.
CULERAGE, 8. The herb arsmart.
CULL, (1) v. To pull; to enforce.
Skinner.

(2) v. To embrace. Somerset.
(3) adj. Silly. North.

(4) s. A cheat; the devil. North-
umb.

(5) s. The bull-head. Var. di. (6) s. A kind of lamprey. CULLACK, 8. An onion. Devon. CULLEN. Cologne.

CULLICE, v. To beat to a jelly. Shirley.

CULLING, 8. The light corn separated in winnowing. CULLINGS, S. Inferior sheep, sepaCULLERS, rated or culled from the rest, as unfit for market. Culls, in Northamptonshire. Those that are big'st of bone I still reserve for breed,

My cullings I put off, or for the chapman
feed.
Drayt., Nymph., 6, p. 1496.
Ovis reicula. Kebbers or cullers, drawne
out of a flocke of sheepe: a ridgling.
Nomenclator.

CULLION, 8. (Fr.) A scoundrel.
CULLION-HEAD, s. A bastion.
CULLIONS, S. (Fr.) The testicles.
CULLIS, 8. (4.-N. coulis.) Strong
broth.
CULLISANCE, s. A badge of arms,

corrupted from cognisance. CULLOT, 8. A cushion to ride on. CULLY, (1) v. To cuddle. Worc. (2) adj. Silly; foolish.

(3) s. (Fr.) One easily imposed upon, especially by women; a worthless or base fellow. CULLY-FABLE, v. To wheedle. Yorksh.

CULME, 8. (Lat.) (1) The summit, top.

(2) Smoke, or soot. CULN, s. A windmill. North.* CULORUM, S. The conclusion or

moral of a tale or narrative. CULP, 8. (4.-N.) A heavy blow. East.

CULPATE, v. (Lat.) To blame.
CULPE, 8. (Lat.) Blame; fault.
CULPIT, S. A large lump. East.
CULPONS, 8. (4.-N.) Shreds; logs;
small parcels or pieces.
CULPY, adj. Thick-set; stout. Suf.
CULPYNES, S. (Fr.) Part of a horse's
trappings.

CULT, v. To jag a dress.
CULVARD, S. (4.-N.) Cowardly.
CULVER, (1) s. (4.-S.) A dove;
the wood-pigeon. Devon.
(2) v. To beat; to throb. East.
CULVER-FOOT, s. A plant.

Ffor the ffallyng off heere, Take and
make lye of the asshes of an erbe that
is callid culvyr-foote, and wesssh thyn
hede therwith.
MS. 14th cent.

CULVER-HEADED, adj. (1) Stupid.
(2) Thatched with straw or stub-
ble, said of a stack.
CULVER-HOUSE, s. A pigeon-house.
CULVER-KEYS, 8. (1) The bunches
of pods on the ash tree.
(2) The columbine.
CULVERT, S. (4.-N.) A drain.
CULVERTAGE, S. (A.-N.) Cowardice.
CULVERTAIL, S. A dovetail.
CULVERWORT, s. Columbine.
CUм, pret. t. Came.

CUMBER, (1) 8. Care, danger, or inconvenience.

Meanwhile the Turks seek succours from our king;

Thus fade thy helps, and thus thy cumbers
spring.
Fairf., Tasso, ii, 73.

(2) s. Trouble; a tumult.
(3) v.
To trouble, or inconve-

nience.

CUMFIRIE, S. The daisy.
CUMMED-MILK, 8. Curds and whey
Lanc.

CUMMY, adj. Stale; bad-smelling.
South.

CUMNANT, 8. A covenant. Heywood, 1556.

CUMPANIABLE, adj. Sociable. CUMPUFFLE, V. To confuse. Northampt.

CUN, S. (4.-S.) Kine; cows.
CUND, v. To give notice, to indicate
the way a shoal of fish has taken.
CUNDE, S. Nature; kind.
CUNDETH, 8. A conduit; a sewer.
CUNDY,
North.

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CUNDYDE, adj. Enamelled. CUNGER, 8. (1) A cucumber. Warw. (2) A conger.

CUNGIT, 8. The level of a mine.
CUNIE, S. Moss. Cornw.
CUNLIFF, S. A conduit. North.
CUNNE, (1) v. (4.-S.) To know.
(2) 8. Kin.

CUNNIE, S. A rabbit. See Cony. CUNNIFFLE, v. To dissemble; to flatter. Devon.

CUNNING, (1)s. (4.-S.) Knowledge. (2) adj. Knowing; skilful. Cunning-man, a conjurer or astrologer. Cunning-woman was used in the same sense.

(3) s. The lamprey. North. CUNRICHE, S. (4.-S.) A kingdom. CUNTEK, 8. A contest. See Contek. CUNTIPUT, 8. A clown. Somerset. CUNY, S. Coin. Pr. P. CUNYNG, S. A rabbit. CUPALO, 8. A smelting-house. CUPBOARD, S. An open sideboard; a table or sideboard for holding the cups.

CUPEL, S. A melting-pot for gold.
CUPHAR, S. (Fr.) A cracking.
CUPPE-MELE, adv. Cup by cup.
CUPROSE, 8. The poppy. North.
CUPSHOTTEN, adj. Tipsy.
CUR, S. (1) (Fr.) The heart.
(2) The bull-head. East.
CURAT, 8. The cuirass.