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- Coal-rees, 121, Lan. coal depots, bings. "A sheep-ree or fold (Loth.); rae, wrae, cattle-yard; ree, reed (Fi.), do."—Jam.
- Cöb, cop, cup, 175, 204
- Cobble, 175, dim. of cob, small, water-worn stone
- Cobbling, 175, Cu. poaching term
- Cobble-hole, 175
- Coddis, 58, husks, pillow. N. koddi, a pillow; Da. kodde, a bag, kudda. Orc.
- Cod-out, 58, to shake out—said of over-ripe pods
- Cod-ware, 58, pillow-slip; A. S. waer, pillow-cod
- Coern, 80, 94, 171, corn; Cu. cworn
- Coffin trams, 118, poles bearing the coffin
- Colies, 146, Mo. prob. Ic. kollr, round-head, a hay-cock
- Come o' wills, 189, Cu.
- Complainers, 72, appellants, Sc. law
- Compound tense, 37, Go.
- Con, 184, obs. the squirrel
- Condescends, 72, Sc. law
- Conjugational or simple passive, 37
- Contermashous, contumacious, 84, 136
- Conventional address, 207
- Convey, 72, Sc. legal term
- Coo, 68, cow
- Coo baikie, 140, 147, Fi. See baikie, 147
- Cool, 81, a cap, var. of cowl, hat, cucullus. See caillach
- Coo-lickt, 189, hair that would part in one line only. Jam. has only cow-lick, in above sense
- Coom, 135, Fi. coal-dust; O. N. kain, film of grime; Shet. koom, anything much broken, coal, biscuits, &c.; var. goom, 114
- Coom-ceiled, 128, Fi. arched or rounded top; said of a garret room; cog. Eng. coomb, a small valley.—N. E. D.
- Coonts, 134, counts, sums
- Coordie, 128, coward
- Coorie hunker, 129, Lan. cower, and hunker, to squat down on haunches
- Coosie, 128, Forf.
- Cop, 204
- Corks, 105, 112
- Correlation of adjectival clauses, 39
- Corruptions of the Taal, 216
- Coterie words, 109
- Cothie-juke, cothie-guckie, 151, Mo.
- Cothie, coothie, 68, 86, 137, 151, couthie, only in Sc., akin to O. E. cúth, from cunnan, to know, familiar, affable. Go. kunds, known, Ger. kundig, couthie; cf. kythe, known, uncouth, unco
"Ilj couthie word."—"Wh. Binkie."
- Gotten, 94, get on well together.—Swift
- Cot-toon, 65, ploughmen's row of houses at a farm
- Couatit, 58, coveted
- Coup, 97
- Cran, 207. See kraan
- Craobh, 67, Gael. a tree, the "split-table" one
- Crap-wa', 128. See coom-ceiled
- Crave, 88, to dun, for a debt
- Craw-flee, 127, Fi. a boy's game, crow-fly
- Creesh, 63
- Creuve, cruive, cruve, 67, 174, criv in Bu.; Northern only: a hovel, sty, salmon-trap; akin corf, a bfisket, Ger. Korb. "Ane schiep criff (pen) bigit on the Gallow Hill hot licence of the town," 1628.—"Banff Records."
- Crine, 133, app. Gael. crion, little, withered, crined, shrunken.—N. E. D. MacB.—"Root kre appears to belong to root ker, to destroy, as in Go. hair-us, a sword;" cf. cairneedy, as verb to cause to grow stunted, "Y've crinet yir caar (calves) by spehnin thim our seen."—Gregor; creenie-crannie, the little finger (Ab.)
- Cripple, 102, lame
- Crock, 198, O. E. croc, N. krukka; Kl. connects with Ger. Krug, Du. kruik, Ic. krukka, A. S. crocca, M. E. crokke
- Crom, 62, kink, Bu. Du. kram, a hook, crook
- Crock, 198, crockery. Or. Celt. crog, crogan, a pitcher; in Eng. and Teut. generally
- Crock-werk, 198, C. Du.=crockery; cf. Du. krug, a public-house