_Carter_, 478. Used, as in “carter’s logic”, for a dull-witted
ignoramus, much in the sense in which we depreciatingly use
costermonger. Carter’s logic is not the logic of physical
persuasion, but the ergo of the first gravedigger in _Hamlet_.
_Castrell_, 302. Kestrel, Tinunculus. The hovering hawk, a wild
kind not tamable, that frightens other hawks (possibly by its loud,
ringing voice), and whose effigy was placed near doves, etc., to
deter other hawks. Hence, probably, arose the fable spoken of in
the text.
_Cautelousness_, 469. Artful caution.
_Censure_, _A_ viii. Sentence, or judgment.
_Chapman_, 485. Generally the seller, but also, as here, the buyer;
he that chaps or cheapens.
_Choine cough_, 211. Chin-cough, the hooping-cough.
_Choler_, 205. One of the supposed four humours. The compound
humour generated in the liver was divided into two parts, one going
to the blood, the other to the gall, as this choler or bile. It
differed from melancholy, or black bile, for the reservoir of this
was the spleen. Cf. _Batman on Barth._, iv, 10, and v, 39.
_Circumstance_, 24. Elsewhere, as 75, used for round-about or
superfluous means. Here it has a greater ill-meaning—a round-about
statement that would evade declaring the truth.
_Clam_, 208. To stick on; various dialects.
_Claweth_, 67. Scratcheth (where he itcheth), pleaseth, and
therefore flattereth. Cf. the proverb, “Claw me, claw thee”, or “K.
me, K. thee”, a polite abbreviation, which, I think, betokens the
odious origin of the phrase.
_Clubhutchins_, 372. Old Kentish, now, I believe, almost obsolete,
for a plain, rough countryman.
_Coate card_, 335. Our court card.
_Cold prophet_, _B_ ii. v. 170. One whose prophecies are far from
the mark, just as children at play are hot or cold, when near or
far from the thing sought. Others say that cold, as in Chaucer =
col.
_Commend_, 134. Commit to, in the sense of giving, entrusting, or
setting forth for his examination. Latinate.
_Complexion_, 461. The four complexions or dispositions were
supposed to be due to the excess of (1) blood, (2) phlegm, (3)
choler, (4) melancholy. Here it is used more generally for
disposition.
_Compline_, 393. Part of the Romish even-song (Cotgrave), which,
said just after sunset, completes the offices of the day.
_Conceipts_, 326. Merry or strange tricks.
_Cone_, 227. I found, I forget where, “to cone findere”, hence
marginal note.
_Confirmed_, 429. Apparently “made firm”; placed or stationed
together, each in his fixed place.
_Constellation._ Is sometimes used in old books, seemingly as
denoting the co-ordination or coposition of the heavenly bodies
(as regards one another) at any particular time. It was from these
constellations that nativities were calculated.
_Constreineth._ In its primary or literal sense of drawn together.
_Contagion of weather_, 269. For = against.
_Convenient (with)._ Coming together with, agreeing with.
_Convented_, 16. Brought together with (_i.e._, before) the judge,
or other.
_Convinced_, 70, 131. Overcome.
_Corrupt_, 16. Corrupted; the “ed” being assimilated by, or made to
coalesce with, the “t”. Cf. note, p. 441.
_Countrie_, _A_ iiii. Used, as occasionally then, for county.
_Cousen_, _A_ vii. v. Used then as a term implying relationship of
any kind, or simply between royal personages as a term of courtesy
and friendliness.
_Credit_, 498. Belief; we should say crediting, etc.
_Croslet_, 357. A crucible.
_Crosse of a coin_, 388. The reverse bore a cross. Now called the
tail in “heads or tails”.
_Curious_, 333. As frequently in those days, “curiosus”, full of
care, careful; those who would inquire carefully or curiously into
the matter.
_Cushion, missed the_, 490. Nares says it evidently alludes to
archery: an unsupported guess, and not, I think, a probable one.
More likely the reference is to some game, such as a variant of
stool ball, or possibly to the cushion dance. Or it may simply mean
missed his seat.