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lived at Treluddra, and there produced 
this new variety. To the Borlases 
many prefer another variety of the 
pippins, called “ the Slude’s pippin,” 
from a Mr. Slade, in whose orchard it 
had its origin. £. C¢. ¢. 
Cobb’d; ** cobb’d it away.” . Cornish 
dialogue. 
Cobnut, a game which consists in 
pitching at nuts, &c. The nut used 
for pitching, is catled the cob. c. De 
Cobshans. See Corn. Dial, 
Cockabell, an icicle. c. 
Conkabell, id. p. ‘* I zeed-’en one 
day. th’ innocent face o’en like bassam, un 
hes poor hands plim’d up lke pumples 
way chilbludders, hes hair sézvering an 
end way th’ wind, ana drap hanging to 
hes nose like a CONKABELL.” N. OD. 
Cockhedge, a quickset-hedge, on which 
clothes are usually dried. Cc. 
Cockleert, cocklight; the dawn when 
the cock crows. N. D. 
Codglove, a furze-glove, or a glove to 
handle turf, without fingers. Exm. 
Colbrand, colibrand, coalbrand ; smut 
an wheat. C. 
Cole, any kind of cabbage. c. 
Colt, indiscriminately for either sex. 
Dm. 
Coltree, to, fo be as playful as a colt. 
Exm. 
Combe, « hollow between two hills, 
open at one end only. D.C. 
Commercing, conversing. “¢ She -ne- 
ver cominerced with him;” that is, ‘* she 
never conversed with him,” used in Me. 
neg: I never heard it elsewhere. In 
the same sense, Milton ‘* looks commer. 
cing with the ace 
Condiddle, to, to waste; to convey 
away secretly, Exm, 
Condudle, concezé. Corn. Dial. 
Copper-ciouts, a kind of spatterdashes 
worn on the small of the leg. Exm. 
Copper-firich, a chaffinch. c. 
Core, “ Devoniensibus est ovtum mor- 
bus. Ab Isl. Kaw, marcor; xgritudo 
mertifica.” JUN. 
Corn, acorncer. c. 
Cornish, to. When there is but 
one tobacco-pipe, or one glass, among 
several people, and they use it by turns, 
they are then said fo aa “be 
Corniwiilen, a lepwing. Cornich- 
wigh, id. [ Welsh. ] 
Corrosy, a grudge ; ill- og Perhaps 
from corrosive. Shakspeare’ s Henry VI. 
c. Corrosies are a sort of family-teuds, 
oiten transmitted from father to son. 
Cort, caught. ce. 
Cotten, to, to beat soundly.. Exm. 
Couch- pawed, couch-handed, awk. 
wardly left-handed. Ds 
Devonshire and Cornwall Vocabulary: 
[June 1, 
Country, the; the natural strata of 
the earth. c. 
Coure, a course of work. 
Coare hext.”""'e; 
Courtlage, the fore or back yard of a 
house. c¢. . 
Cowal; a fishwoman’s basket, west of 
c. It is carious to observe the women 
who supply Penzance market with fish 
from Newlyn and Mousehole, arriving 
every morning with a burden that might 
stagger an Irish porter. The basket, in 
which they carry their cod, ling, | ae 
rel, hake, &c. is suspended from 
the head by means of a twisted cord 
fastened at each extremity of it, but 
resting on the back. It is called a 
cowat. These people also sell train-oil, 
and bring it in small pitchers: it is feral 
beyond all endurance. The younger 
lasses who sell this commodity are 
extremely pretty; having fine white 
teeth, cherry cheeks, and light hair. 
They incessantly cry: “ Buy my train! 
buy my train: !” which they pronounce 
‘* ¢raain.” A dapper cockney is said 
to have fallen in love with one of these 
damsels, and was advancing to salute 
her; but the effluviam of her train-pot, 
and eke her clothes, operated so power- 
fully, that he started back, and held 
his nose ; so that her attraction, and his 
repulsion, displayed a fine specimen of 
centripetal and centrifugal forees, and 
produced a whirlabout; but at last the 
attraction prevailed. This gave occasion 
to the following lines: 
“‘Nymph of the cowa/, Newlyn pa 
With blushing cheek, but roguish eye, 
Poll Granken, let me, let me swear 
‘Thou art an angel !"—€ Fie, sir! fie a 
** Thou art allsweetness; that is plain: — 
O let me catch thy odorous breath ; 
Kiss me,this moment !”—<« Buy my. radiata 
§* Twill, Twill! Qz—ends ! *tis death !ame 
€ I feel a sickness too,’ said Poll, 
* But sure it is a different smell ; 
Mine, sir, is only pilcber-oil ; 
Thine is pomatum, PR and hell |’. 
He, tho’ half-poison’d by the stink, 
Still gaz’d upon her auburn hair, 
* *Tis thy 
Her dark blue eyes, her yielding wink ; 
Then clasp’d and kiss’d the fragrant faire 
Cowfllop, foxglove. 
Cozing, or coozing, loitering, soak= 
ne, Ce 
_Crasie. ‘¢ Valetudinarius, dubiz vae 
letudinis, Videtur esse a xpactg, tempe- - 
ramentum corporis humam;  propter 
cuexpaciay, malum affecti corporis tem pe- 
riem : fortasse per. metaphoram desump- _ 
tum est ex illo Chauceriano: 
**T am right siker, that the pot was crased.” 
Vox eo sensu nondum abiit in desuetu- 
Est autem a 
dinem apud Devonienses, 
; German. 
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