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*Butter-teeth. The two upper incisors, N.W. 



Butty. A mate or companion in field-work. N. & S.W. 



*Caa-vy (PCalfy). A simpleton (S^ow). S.W. 



Caddie. Add: — {Q). v. To mess about, to throw into disorder. "Idoa'fc 

 hold wi' they binders [the binding machines], they do caddlo the wheat 

 about so." N. & S.W. 



Caddling. Add :— Meddlesome. N. & S.W. 



Cag-inag. Bad or very inferior meat. N. & S.W. 



CainS-and-Abels. Aquilegia vulgaris, L., Columbine. S.W. (Farley). 



♦Calf-white. See White. 



Call home. To publish the banns of marriage. S.W. 



" They tells I as 'ow Bet Stiugymir is gwaln to be caal'd whoam to Jim 

 Spritely on Zundy."— iS^w. 



Canker-berries, ^ic^ :— Conker-berries {Slow). S.W. 



*Cappence. The swivel-joint of the old-fashioned flail. Cai^eHn Devon. N.W. 



Cass'n. Add:—?,.yf. 



Cat's-ice. White ice, ice from which the water has receded. N. & S.W. (Steeple 



Ashton, etc.) 



" They stood at the edge, cracking the cat's-ice, where the water had 



shrunk back from the wheel marks, and left the frozen water white and 



brittle."— 2%e Story of Dick, ch. xiii., p. 153. 



*Cats'-paWS. Catkins of willow while still young and downy. S.W.(Dcvcrill.) 



Cawket. ^rfc^:— Cawk, s.w. Caa-kin (Slow), 

 Cham. Add-.-^yf. 



Charm. Add -.—Also used of hounds in full cry. N.W. 



j^dd :— (3) V. To make a loud confused noise, as a number of birds, etc., 



together. N. & S.W. 



*Chemise. Convolvulus sepium,!)., Great Bindweed. S.W. (Little Langford). 



This name was given us as Chemise, but would probably be pronounced 



as Shimmy. 

 Chiddlins or Chiddlens. Pigs'-chitterlings. N. & S.W. 



Chilver-hoo-. Add -.—" The word hog is now applied to any animal of a 

 year old, such as a hog bull, a chilver hog sheep. ' Chilver' is a good 

 Anglo-Saxon word, ' cylfer,' and means female, so a chilver hog sheep 

 simply means, in the dialect of the Vale of Warminster, a female lamb a 

 year old."— '^^^i Arch. Mag., xvii., 303. 



Chitterlings, ^rf^ :-Chiddlens. N. &S.W. 



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