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Jennings, James

"The Dialect of the West of England; Particularly Somersetshire"


Comforts (comfits.) _s. pl._ Sugared corianders, cinnamon,
&c.
Com'ical. _adj._ Odd; singular.
Contraption. _s._ Contrivance; management.
Coop. _interj._ Come up! a word of call to fowls to be fed.
To Cork. _v. a._ Cawk; calk; to set on a horse's shoes sharp
points of iron to prevent slipping on ice.
To Count, _v. n._ To think; to esteem.
Cow-baby, _s._ A coward; a timid person.
To Crap, to Crappy. _v. n._ to snap; to break with a sudden
sound; to crack.
Crap. _s._ A smart sudden sound.
Craup. _preterite_ of creep.
Cre'aped. Crept.
Creem. _s._ Sudden shivering.
CreA(my. _adj._ Affected with sudden shivering.
Creeplin. _part._ Creeping.
Crips. _adj._ Crisp.
Criss-cross-lain. _s._ The alphabet; so called in consequence
of its being formerly preceded in the _horn-book_ by a cross to
remind us of the cross of Christ; hence the term. _Christ-Cross-
line_ came at last to mean nothing more than the alphabet.
Crock, _s._ A bellied pot, of iron or other metal, for
boiling food.


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