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Choops, the heps of the wild rose. In Renfrewshire the hairy 

 seeds inside were called lice from the irritation they caused if 

 they came in contact with the skin. 



Crock, an old ewe. In the south of England this is called a 

 crone. A croaker in Renfrewshire was a slang word for a dead 

 person or animal. 



Channel Stones, curling stones. This word points more 

 directly to the origin of the game. 



Crones, the small berries of the cranberry ; evidently cor- 

 rupted from cran, which in turn is from crane. 



Cipher, a useless, diminutive person ; usually expressed "He's 

 a useless cipher." 



Clench, a valley, two steep hills. It is called a clough in N. 

 Eng. 



Chun, a term applied to the sprouts or germs of barley, but, 

 as I have heard it, to the shoots of potatoes when they begin to 

 spring in the heap. To chun potatoes is to nip off these shoots. 



Crottle, small fragments. The dry lichen of the stone dykes, 

 apt to stick to clothes laid on them. 



Crot or Criit, a short person. — S. Ayrshire. 



Curboihj, active courtship. Jamieson gives the following 

 illustration of it — " She threw water at him and he an apple at 

 her, and so they began curbody " — a lover's quarrel. 



Cladscore, twenty-one sheep sold at the price of twenty. 



Capernoity, irritable. 



D. 



Dass, a column of the hay stack. Hogg, " Brownie of Bled- 

 noch," calls a dass a grassy turf growmg in a stream. 

 Dabbles, shortbread for the Lord's Supper. 

 Daiman, rare, occasional. Burns' mouse says : 



A daiman icker in a thrieve's 

 A sma' request. 



Daiver ye, confound ye. Perhaps allied to the Ayrshire 

 Taivert, stupid. 



Darc], a day's work. There is a field in Tynron parish known 

 as the four-darg ; that is, it takes four days to plough it. Jamie- 

 son considers it a corruption of a day wark. In Scott and Burns. 



Beaj, without vegetable life. Deaf coals don't burn easily. 



Dead man's creesh, Oenanthe crocata, water hemlock. 



