_Caddle_, a muddle; a puzzling plight amid untoward things, such that
a man knows not what to do first.
_Car_, to carry.
_Cassen_, _casn_, canst not.
_Chanker_, a wide chink.
_Charlick_, _charlock_, field-mustard; _Sinapis arvensis_.
_Charm_, a noise as of many voices.
_Choor_, _a chare_, a (weekly) job as of house work.
_Chuck_, to throw underhanded to a point, or for a catch.
_Clack_, _Clacker_, a bird-clacker; a bird-boy's clacking tool,
to fray away birds; also the tongue.
_Clavy_, _Clavy-bwoard_, the mantel-shelf.
_Clèden_, cleavers, goosegrass; _Galium aparine._
_Clips_, to clasp.
_Clitty_, clingy.
_Clocks_, ornaments on the ankles of stockings.
_Clom'_, clomb, climbed.
_Clote_, the yellow water-lily; _Nuphar lutea_.
_Clout_, a blow with the flat hand.
_Clum_, to handle clumsily.
_Cluster o' vive_ (cluster of five), the fist or hand with its five
fingers; wording taken from a cluster of nuts.
_Cockle_, _Cuckle_, the bur of the burdock.
_Cockleshell_, snail shell.
_Colepexy_, to glean the few apples left on the tree after intaking.
_Coll_ (7), to embrace the neck.
_Conker_, the hip, or hep; the fruit of the briar.
_Cothe_, _coath_ (_th_ soft), a disease of sheep, the
plaice or flook, a flat worm _Distoma nepaticum_ in the stomach.
_Cou'den_, could not.
_Coussen_, _Coossen_, _coosn_, couldest not.
_Craze_, to crack a little.
_Critch_, a big pitcher.
_Crock_, an iron cooking-pot.
_Croodle_, to crow softly.
_Croop_, _Croopy-down_, to bend down the body; to stoop very low.
_Crope_, crept.
_Crowshell_, shell of the fresh-water mussel, as taken out of the
river for food by crows.
_Cubby-hole_, _Cubby-house_, between the father's knees.
_Culver_, the wood pigeon.
_Cutty_, _Cut_, the kittywren.
_Cweïn_, _Cwoïn_, (4, 1) coin.
_Cwoffer_ (8, 4, 4), a coffer.