26 DORSETSHIRE FOLK-SPEECH AtfD SUPERSTITIONS. 



Clieeses : Tlie inner shell or pod of the mallow ; so called 

 by children who eat them, and liken them to a miniature " blue 

 vinny." 



Cheffon : The chaffinch. 



Chibble (dtibbol) : A young onion (Marsh wood). 



Cleden (Clydent) : Goose-grass (galium aparine) ; called also 

 cleavers, clavers, or clivers, from their cleaving to anything. 



Clock : A door-beetle ; a clinger. 



Clote : The yellow water-lily (nuphar luted). 



Cock : A cock crowing at the door is a sign of coming visitors. 

 If a cock crows in the afternoon, according to some, it foretells a 

 death in the family of its owner, or as others say, it signifies that 

 sickness in the place will shortly follow. An old woman once said : 

 " If the cock crows after twelve o'clock noon her is doing it to 

 bring I bad news, or John may be bad ageau. I can't a-bear to 

 hear 'en." 



Cockle (cuckle) : The burr of the burdock (arctium lappa). 

 (See Cookoo). 



Collie : The blackbird. 



Colt : It is generally believed that colts born in May have an 

 awkward trick of lying down in water as you ride through. 



Comfrey (sympltytum officinale) : " Is a capital cure, but I don't 

 know what for or in what form. A salve, I think (presumably for 

 sores), but you must take care to use the red-flowered sort for men 

 and the white for women." (Mr. H. J. Moule, in the Folk-lore 

 Journal y vol. vi., p. 116, and Conf. Black's Folk Medicine, pp. 108 

 et seq.) 



Conners : Ground-fish ; rife by shores with a rocky bottom. 



Conker : The ripe fruit of the wild rose ; the single or " canker" 

 rose. 



Coocli : Couch-grass, quitch-grass ; creeping wheat grass (triticum 

 repens). 



Copse (cops) : A thick head of sprouts or shoots or tufts of 

 grass. 



Coiimli Jack : The Cornish chough (corous graculus). 



