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*(2) nm, An unhealthy child. (Cunnington MS.) N.W., obsolete. 
*Clytenish. adj. Unhealthy-looking, pale, sickly. (Cunnington MS. 
A.B.H.Wr.) N.W., obsolete. 
*Cocking-poles. Poles used for carrying hay from the cock into the sum- 
mer-rick. N.W. 
Cocky-warny. The game of leap-frog. N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.) 
*Cock-sqwoilin. Add :—“ 1755. Paid expenses at the Angel at a meeting 
when the By Law was made to prevent Throwing at Cocks. 0.10.6.— 
Records of Chippenham, p. 244. 
Combe. *(3) A narrow valley in the woodlands. This paragraph was 
misplaced in the December list. It should precede, not follow, Combe- 
bottom. | 
Coniger, Conigre. This old word, originally meaning a rabbit-warren, 
occurs frequently in Wilts (as at Trowbridge and Frome) as the name of a 
meadow, piece of ground, etc. See Great Estate, note to ch. 9. 
Corruptions. Add :—The crab-apple is usually Grab in N. Wilts. At 
Etchilhampton we find Plump for pump, and Moth for moss, while at 
Huish and elsewhere proud flesh is always Ploughed flesh. Pasmet, 
parsnip, and the universal Twrmut, turnip, may be noted as illustrating a 
curious letter-change. Varley-grassey, gone green, is evidently from 
verdigris. In Great Estate, ch. 4, Jefferies traces Meejick (‘a sort of a 
Meejick” =anything very strange or unusual) back to menagerie. 
Cow-clap. A form of Cow-clat, gv. NW. 
Crazy Bets. Add :—* (2) Chrysanthemum leucanthemum, L., the Ox- 
eye Daisy. S.W. (Hamptworth.) 
Creeping J enny. Linaria Cymbalaria, Mill., Ivy-leaved Toadflax, 
S.W. (Salisbury.) 
Crick erack. Add:— “Crink-crank words are long words—verba sesqui- 
pedalia—not properly understood. See Proceedings of Phil. Soc., v., 
143-8.”—Cope’s Hants Gloss. 
*Crippender. Crupper harness. S.W. (Bratton.) 
*Crow’s-legs. Scilla nutans, Sm., Wild Hyacinth. N.W. 
Cuckoo-gate. A swing-gate in a V-shaped enclosure. N. & SW. 
Cuckoos. <Azemone nemorosa, L., Wood Anemone. S.W. (Hamptworth.) 
D. D. not sounded after a liquid; examples :—Veed, field, Vine, to find, 
Dreshol, threshold. : 
Dain. Add :—Generally applied to infectious effluvia, as “ Now dwoan’t ee 
