Glossary. 
Campe, 22/24, v. to play football. 
A.S. camp=a contest. See Ray’s 
Glossary, E. D. Soc. p. xvi. 
Campers, 22/24, s. g/. football players. 
See note. 
Campions, 43/5, s. Red Lychnis or Cam- 
pion, Lychnis diurna. 
Candlemas, page 77, footnote 5, s. 2nd 
February, so called from the great 
number of lights used on that day, 
being the feast of the Purification 
of the Virgin Mary. 
Canteth, 94/8, v. pr. ¢. ? scanteth, ze. 
is economical. The edition of 1573 
reads franteth, which is a Somerset 
word meaning Zo be careful. Can- 
teth, according to Halliwell, means 
** divides,” z.e. does not use up 
everything at once, but only what 
is wanted for the time. 
Canuas, 57/54, s. canvas. 
Capitaine cheefe, 10/19, head or chief 
captain. 
Capon, 31/3, s. a castrated cock. 
Careles, 36/4, adj. unwilling, not 
anxious. 
Carkas, 26/4, s. corpse, body. Fr. 
carcasse. 
Carke, 113/15, v. to be anxious. ‘‘I 
carke, I care, I take thought, 7e 
chagrine.”’ — Palsgrave. ‘* Waile 
we the wight whose absence is our 
carke.”—Spenser, Shep. Cal. No- 
vember. 
*Carnels, 101, s. 47. seeds of the haw, 
briar, etc. Cf. ch. 18. st. 48 and 
36. 12. 
Carrege, 56/21, s. carrying home. 
Carren, 18/36, s. carrion, carcasses, 
M.E. caroigne. Fr. charogne, from 
It. carogna, Lat. caronem. 
Carrenly, 19/36, adj. rotting, putrifying. 
Cart gap, 56/13, s. the openings for 
carts to pass from one field to 
another. 
Cartwrite, 58/5, s. cartwright. 
Cast, 10/41, v. to count up, reckon. 
Cast, 20/3, v. pv. ¢. to clean the threshed 
corn by casting it from one side of 
the barn to the other, that the 
light grains and dust may fall out. 
For this purpose is used a skuféle, 
q.v. 
Cast, 33/52, v. zmp. give over, throw 
up. 
Casting, 65/8, adj. that throw up the 
earth as they burrow through it. 
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Cater, 10/16, s. caterer, provider. ‘‘ Cater 
a steward, a manciple, a prouider of 
Cates.” —Baret’s Alvearie. ‘‘ Cates, 
dainty provisions.”—Bailey’s Eng. 
Dict. 1737. 
Cawme, 56/15, aaj. calm, settled. 
Challenge, 72/1, v. claim. ©. Fr. 
chalenger. 
Champion (title), s. plain open country. 
Fr. champagne, from Lat. cam- 
pania, from campus = a field. 
‘* Worstershire, Bedfordshire, and 
many other well-mixt soiles, where 
the Champaigne and couert are of 
equall largeness.”—G. Markham, 
Husbandman’s Recreations, c. i. 
Champions, 16/2, s. 2. inhabitants of 
counties where lands are open and 
unenclosed. 
Chancing, 9/30, v. happening, falling 
out. 
Chapman, 19/27, s. bargainer, dealer. 
A.S. ceapman. 
Charge, 84/2, s. trouble, expense. Com- 
pare All’s Well that Ends. Well, ii. 
3, 121: ‘* She had her breeding at 
my father’s charge.” 
Charged, 10/8, ff. burdened, busy, 
anxious. 
Charges, 23/6, s. Z/. works, troubles. 
Charuiel, 45/4, s. the plant Chervil. 
Cherophyllum temulentum, Linn. 
Whence A.S. cerjille, Fr. cerfeuil. 
Chaunting, 16/31, v. crying, yelling. - 
Cheanie, 2/6, Jeanie, Jennie. 
Cheere, 22/28, wv. enjoy oneself. 
Cheere, 57/26, s. enjoyment, merriment. 
Chees, 48/20, s. cheese. Lat. casezs ; 
whence O.H. Ger. chast, A.S. cése. 
Chein, 17/10, s. chain. 
Cherie, 33/58, s. cherry. Lat. cerasus ; 
whence A.S. cirse, Fr. cerise. 
Chikins, 38/33, s. A/. chickens, young 
fowls. 
Chinke, 46/27, s. money. A word 
formed from the sound of coin 
jingling together. 
Chip, 67/32, s. wood-choppings. 
Chippings, 86/3, s. ~/. fragments of 
bread. ‘‘ Chapplis, bread-chip- 
pings.” —Cotgrave. 
Choised, 57/34, pp. selected, chosen. 
Fr. choix, choice. 
Chopping, 57/40, s. exchange, barter. 
*‘Choppe and chaunge, mevcor.”— 
Huloet. A.S. ceapan. 
Churle, 10/50, s. an ill-bred, disagree- 
