_ crest of a horse's neck, a crestaline of a roof
Creem _s._ and _v._ a cold shivering, to shiver; to creemy _adj._
subject to shivers
Creem _v._ to crush or squeeze severely the limbs of a person
Crewel _s._ a cowslip
Creeze _adj._ squeamish, dainty
Crip _v._ to clip--as the hair
Cripner, Kr'pner _s._ crupper strap
Crips, or Curps _adj._ crisp
Criss-cross-lain the alphabet, because in the Horn-book it was preceded
by a X (Fr. _croissette_)
Crope _pret. of creep_ crept, ex. A craup'd in
Cross-axe _s._ an axe with two broad and sharp ends, one cutting
breadth-wise, the other length-wise, called also grub-axe and twibill
Crowdy, Crowdy-kit (Celtic _crwth_) _s._ small fiddle; to crowd _v._ to
grate as the two ends of a broken bone, to make a flat creaking; Crowder
_s._ a fiddler (W. _crwthwr_)
Crown _v._ Crowner's quest _s._ Coroner's Inquest. To be crowned, to
have an inquest held over a dead body by the direction of the coroner
Crub, Croost _s._ a crust of bread
Cruel _adv._ intensive, as cruel-kind, very kind
Cry _s._ to challenge, bar, or object to
Cubby-hole _s._ a snug comfortable situation for a child, such as
between a person's knees when sitting before the fire
Cuckold _s._ the plant Burdock; cuckold-buttons, the burs, (A S
_coccel_, darnel, tares)
Cue _s._ the shoe on an ox's hoof, or tip on a man's boot
Curdle _v.a._ to curl, also, _v.n._; Curdles _s._ curls
Cut _s._ a door hatch
Curse _s._ cress
Cuss _v._ to curse; Cussin Sarvice the Commination
Custin _s._ a kind of small wild plum
Cutty _adj._ small, as cutty-pipe, cutty-wren; Cutty-bye, a cradle, a
hob-gobblin
Daddick _s._ rotten-wood; Daddicky _adj._ perished like rotten-wood,
applied metaphorically to the old and feeble
Dag-end _s._ applied to a sheaf of reed
Daggers _s._ sword-grass, a kind of sedge
Dame _s._ never applied to the upper ranks of society, nor to the very
lowest, but to such as farmer's wives, or the schoolmistress: rarely if
ever applied to a young woman
Dandy _adj._ distracted
Dap _v._ to hop as a ball
Dap _s._ the hop, or turn of a ball; also habits and peculiarities of a
person, ex. I know all the daps on'm
Dor, Dare _v._ and _s._ to frighten, stupify: ex. Put a dor on'n
Dare-up _v._ to wake or rouse up a person that is dying or asleep
Dave _v._ to thaw
Davver, or Daver _v._ to fade, to droop; Davered drooping
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