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able person. A.S. ceor/, a freeman 
of the lowest rank. 
Cingqfile, 45/5, s. cinquefoil. Potentzlla, 
Linn. 
Clap, 10/22, s. blow, stroke; ‘‘at a 
clap ” =at once. 
Clapper, 386/25, s. a rabbit burrow or 
warren. ‘‘Cony hole or clapar.” 
—Palsgrave. ‘‘A clapper for conies, 
z.e. a heap of stones, earth, with 
boughes or such like wherinto 
they may retire themselves.”— 
Minsheu. Fr. clapier, L. Lat. 
clapa. 
Clarie, 39/9, s. meadow sage. 
pratensis. , 
Clauestock, 17/20, s. 
splitting wood. 
Cleerely, 16/25, aaj. clear. 
Clicket, 77/9, v. chatter. ‘‘ If I dis- 
turb you with my clcketten, tell 
me so, David, and I won’t.”—C. 
Dickens in David Copperfield. ‘*A 
tatling huswife, whose clcket is ever 
wagging.”’—Cotgrave. 
Clim, 56/23, s. ? Clement. 
Clime, 57/30, v. climb. -A.S. climban. 
Clod, 113/37, s. earth, hence =landed 
property. 
Clog, 89/1, s. charge, duty. 
Closet, 14/3, s. retirement, seclusion. 
Closeth, 62/5, v. pv. ¢. incloses, fences in. 
Closier, page 2, s. enclosures. Fr. 
closure. 
Clot, 83/24, s. clods. A.S. clid. 
“¢Clodde or clotte lande, occo.” — 
Huloet. 
*Cloughted, 89, 2. See Clouted. 
Clout, 67/16, s. piece of cloth. A.S. 
clit, a little cloth. Mid. Eng. 
clout, clutian, clutien, to patch. 
Clouts, Cloutes, 17/10, s. an instrument 
similar to the Alowstaff, shod with 
iron and used for breaking large 
clods, etc. 
Clouted, 17/6, A. “‘ having the Axle- 
tree armed with Iron plates.” —T.R. 
O. Fr. clouet, dimin. of clow, a 
nail, from Lat. clavus. See Nares, 
s.v. Clout. 
Coast, 63/7, s. country, district. O. Fr. 
coste, from Lat. costa, a rib, side. 
Coast man, 36/22, s. masters of coasting 
vessels. 
Cobble, 74/5, v. zp. patch, mend. 
Cock, 53/4, v. zmp. put into cocks, or 
small stacks. 
Salvia 
a chopper for 
Glossary. 
Cocking, 95/5, adj. over-indulgent. 
Cockle, 46/13, s. the weed corn-rose, 
Avrostemma githago, Linn. Cockle 
or Cokyl is used by Wycliffe and 
other old writers in the sense of a 
weed generally. 
Cockneies, 92/4, s. £7. spoilt or effemi- 
nate boys. See note, and Halliwell, 
s.v. Cockney. } 
Cocks, 57/16, s. #7. small conical heaps 
of hay or corn. 
Codware, 19/26, s. all plants that bear 
pods (or cods) ; peas, beans, etc. 
“*Pescodde, escosse de poix.”— 
Palsgrave. A.S. codd. Welsh, 
cod, cwad, a small bag. 
Coeme, Coome, 17/7, s. a measure of 
half a quarter. A.S. cuméb.— 
Somner. ‘‘ There is no such word 
in A.S. as cumb ; it is one invented 
by Somner, so that the (so-called) 
A.S. cumb is really derived from 
Eng. coomb.”’—Note by Rev. W. 
W. Skeat. 
Cofer up, 10/61, v. to hoard up, lock 
up. 
Cofers, 16/4, s. 7. money-boxes. 
Cog, 63/14, v. cheat, defraud. ‘‘ Cog 
a dye, to load a die.”—Cotgrave. 
** A cogger, un pipeur. To cogge, 
piper.’ — The French Schoole- 
master, 1636. 
Coile, 4/1, s. bustle, hard work ; cf. 
Fr. cuel/ée, a mob, tumult. 
Cold, 91/2, aaj. cooling. 
Cole, 57/31, s. turf, peat. 
Colewort, 39/10, s. or collet, cabbage. 
Brassica oleracea, Linn. 
Collembines, 43/4, s. #7. columbine. Lat. 
columbina, adj. from columba, a 
pigeon, from the resemblance of 
its nectaries to the heads of pigeons 
in a ring round a dish, a favourite 
device of ancient artists—Dr. R. 
A. Prior. 
Comfort, 19/19, s. strength, fertility. 
Commodities, 37/17, 5s. p/. advantages. 
Compact, 111/1, ff. composed. Lat. 
compactus, from compango. ‘* Love 
is a spirit all compact of fire.”— 
Venus and Adonis, 149. 
Compas, 47/3, s. manure, compost. 
O. Fr. compost, from Lat. compo- 
slum. 
Compassing, 56/1, s. manuring. 
*Compast, 11, #4. manured. 
*Compound, 11, v. zp. agree, arrange. 
