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149 Grummet. A very little bit. A crumb. Crumpling. A wrinkled apple. Crunk. To croak like a raven. r.c. Cuckhold dock. The Burdock. Arctium majus, (Cuckle dock. c.) Cuckoo^ or Guckoo spit. A frothy little mass like spittle, seen on bushes, as on furze, rosemary, &c. Caused by an insect to be found in the middle of it. (The Cicadia spumaria. c.) Cud. A quid of Tobacco. Cuckoo^ or Guckoo flowers. Wild hyacinths. Cudgelling. A game at fencing with stout sticks, or cudgels. The man who first "brought blood was declared the victor. Cue. An ox-shoe. An iron heel for a boot, or shoe. Culch. Oyster spat. C. Culiack. A good-for-nothing person. Davy, Zennor, Culver-hound. The lesser spotted dog-fish. c. Cunner pots. See Weelys. Cuny. Mildewed. M.A.c. Curl. A carol, as sung at Christmas. In Celtic Cornish Karoly a choir, a song. Curls. Glands. The curls (i.e. glands) of the neck." Custis. A battle-door or nearly circular shaped flat piece of hard wood, with a handle about ten inches