Caird, _carried_.
Cairn, _carrying_.
Caleb, _a turncoat_.
Cal'late, _calculate_.
Cass, _a person with two lives_.
Close, _clothes_.
Cockerel, _a young cock_.
Cocktail, _a kind of drink_;
also, _an ornament peculiar to soldiers_.
Convention, _a place where people are imposed on_;
_a juggler's show_.
Coons, _a cant term for a now defunct party_;
derived, perhaps, from the fact of their being commonly _up a tree_.
Cornwallis, _a sort of muster in masquerade_;
supposed to have had its origin soon after the Revolution, and to
commemorate the surrender of Lord Cornwallis. It took the
place of the old Guy Fawkes procession.
Crooked stick, _a perverse, froward person_.
Cunnle, _a colonel_.
Cus, _a curse_;
also, _a pitiful fellow_.