1809.] 
Cawcheries, medicinal slops. D. 
Cawed, cored like a rotten sheep. Ex. 
Cawnse, @ pavement. C. 
Censure, judgment, opinion. ‘“ The 
King is old enough to give his censwre”— 
Shakspeare’s Henry VI. “On the ar- 
rivall of Don Antonie, the supposed 
King of Portugall, in the weste partes of 
this realme for refuge, it so fell, that I 
traveyled certayne dais journeys on Lon- 
don waye in. companie of him and his 
followers; who seemed desirous to learne 
the significations of the names of towns, 
rivers, howses, bridges.” —* Theis auctori- 
ties I produce, not as nedeful to move 
your princelie affection to favour theis my 
poore endevors—but to your royall cen- 
suREI most humblie subjecte them.”— 
Norden’s Dedication of his ‘‘ Descrip- 
tion of Cornwall” to “ Prince Jeames.” 
The words in Italics are so spelt at this 
day, on the peninsula of Meneg—from 
Monaccon to the Lizard: and it is a cu- 
rious circumstance, that CENSURE Is used 
as synonymous with opinion, throughout 
the same district, though no where else, 
to my knowledge, either in Cornwall or 
Devonshire, In Truro, and its neigh- 
bourhood, it never occurs in the above 
sense: nor is it current in the mining 
parts of Cornwall. 
Censure, to, to think, to estimate. 
Meneg (or the Lizard). 
—** Where is my judgment fled, 
That censwres falsely ?” 
Shakspeare’s Sonnets, X. 315. 
Cha, cha, cha. <A word used to call 
pigs to their wash. C. 
Chacking, choaking. “ I’m chacking 
we’ thirst..—“* Dm chouking with thirst ;” 
or, “ Iam very thirsty.” C. 
Chacks, chops. “ Vil scat thy chacks.” 
T'll slap thy chops.” C. 
Chad, a young sea-bream. C. 
Cham, I am. “ Cham agest to ge 
in”—TI amafruid to goin.” D. (Milles’s 
MSS.) 
Chaunge, a shirt, or shift. 
because often changed. Ex. 
ib. 
Channgeling, one whom the fuiries have 
changed; un ideot. Ex. 
Chave, I have. Ex. 
Cheeld, a child. C. Cheeldvean, (a 
colloguial term) literally, “ a little child.” 
Cheen, sprouted, begun to vegetate as 
seed in the ground. C. 
Cheens, the small part of the back. C. 
Chell, £ shall. Ex. 
Chets, kittens, C. Chats, kittens. D. 
Chewre, to, to choury, to assist the 
So called, 
A change, 
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servants, and supply their places occas 
sionally, Hence chour, a job of work; 
chewrer, chouring-woman. C.D. 
Chewr, to, lo chide, or scold. WD, 
(Lyttelton’s MSS.) 
Chickell, the wheatear. C. In Syk- 
leh, the hedge-chicker—* a small bird 
scarce so big as a lark, of a cinereous and 
white colour, thought by many equal food 
to ap ortolan.”—Borlase’s Scilly-Isles, 
. 80, 
Chilbladder, chilblain. D. 
Child, @ girl. “Is it a@ child, or @ 
boy? TD. (Milles’s MSS.) 
Chockling, the cackling of a hen when 
disturbed ; the hectoring or scolding of « 
mun or woman. Ex. 
Chough, the Cornish chough. “ Kemgoe, 
aivis marina et larosimilis.” Vid. Nicand. 
Alex. 166, etibid. Schol. (Gali. Chou- 
ette.) ‘* Peace, chewet, peace !”—Prince 
Henry to Falstaff, in Shakspeare, First 
Part of Henry IV. 
Chounting, taunting, scornfully re 
tiling, or jeering. Ex. 
Chowter, a fish-chowter, @ female 
vender of fish. The word chowter should 
seem to imply a voluble and clamo- 
rous disputant. As a check upon the 
vociferous eloquence of those fish-ladies, 
it was not unusual to station a pair of 
stocks and a peace-ofiicer in the market- 
place. In some towns (as at Truro), 
there was a large cage, for the confine- 
ment of such women. Hence the street 
at the west-end of the old market-house, 
in Truro, derived its name. D. Cy 
Jowster, id. C. 
Chrismer, a child unchristened. D. 
(Dean Milles.) 
Chuck, cheek. D. Chuck’d, choaked. 
Dy: : 
Chun, @ quean, a bad woman. Ex. 
Chups, cheelss, chops. Ex. 
Churchtown, the village negr «a church. 
Cladgy, clatchy, clummy, gluey. D. 
Clam, « stick luid across a brook te 
clamber over, supplying the place of a 
bridge. D. E.C. 
Clammed, clamoured, often ill. C. 
Clavent, smooth, as applied to timber, 
without knots or interruptiwns. Soutbams, 
Claths, cloths. (Sax.) D.  Claths pro 
cloths Damnonii majorum ritu dicunt. | 
Sic. Gen. xxxvii. 29. ¢ Tha ter he his 
clathas’—i. e. Then tore he his clothes.” 
Lye’s, Jun. Etymolog. fol. 1743. 
Clathers, cloches. Clathing, cloathing. 
Clibby, clammy, like birdlime. C, 
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