1. To embrace.
_King's Quair._
2. To lay hold of in a forcible manner.
_Douglas._
3. To grapple in a sea-fight.
_Wallace._
A. S. _clipp-an_, _clypp-ian_, to embrace.
~Clips~, ~Clippys~, _s. pl._
1. Grappling-irons, used in a sea-fight.
_Wallace._
2. An instrument for lifting a pot by its ears, S.; or for carrying a
barrel.
_Ramsay._
3. Hooks for catching hold of fish, S. B.
_Statist. Acc._
CLIPPIE, _s._ A talkative woman, S. Gl. Sibb.
From Teut. _kleps_, dicax, or the E. v. _clip_.
CLIPPS, CLIPPES, _s._ An eclipse.
_Bannatyne Poems._
~Clips~, _pres. v._ Suffers an eclipse.
_Complaynt S._
CLYRE, _s._
1. "A _clyre_ in meat," a gland, S.
Teut. _kliere_, id.
2. "To leave no _klyres_ in one's breast," to go to the bottom of any
quarrel or grudge, S.
~Clyred~, _adj._ Having tumours in the flesh.
_Cleland._
CLISH-CLASH, _s._ Idle discourse, bandied backwards and forwards, S.
apparently a reduplication of _clash_, q. v.
CLISH-MA-CLAVER, _s._ Idle discourse, silly talk, S.; a low word.
_Ramsay._
CLITTER-CLATTER, _s._ Idle talk, bandied backwards and forwards, S.
V. ~Clatter~, _s._ and _v._
_Cleland._
CLIVACE, _s._ A hook for catching the bucket in which coals are drawn up
from the pit, Loth.
CLOCE.
V. ~Close~.
CLOCHARET, _s._ The Stonechatter, S. Motacilla rubicola, Linn.
_Statist. Acc._
Gael. _cloichran_, id. from _cloich_, a stone, and perhaps _rann_, a
song.
_To_ CLOCHER, _v. n._ To cough; especially as indicating the sound
emitted, when there is much phlegm in the throat, S.
Gael. _clochar_, wheezing in the throat, Shaw.
_To_ CLOCK, CLOK, _v. n._
1. To cluck, to call chickens together.
_Douglas._
A. S. _clocc-an_, Teut. _klock-en_, glocire.
2. To hatch, to sit on eggs, S.
_Kelly._
CLOCK-BEE, _s._ A species of beetle, _fleeing golach_, synon.
CLOD, _s._ A flat kind of loaf, made of coarse wheaten flour, and
sometimes of the flour of pease, S.
_Shirrefs._
Qu. resembling a _clod_ of earth.
CLOFF, _s._
1. A fissure of any kind.
2. What is otherwise S. called the _cleaving_.
Lat. intercapedo.
_Lyndsay._
3. A cleft between adjacent hills, Loth.
4. The cleft of a tree, or that part of it where the branches separate
from each other, Loth.
Isl. _kloff_, Su. G. _kloffwa_, a fissure.
CLOIS, _s._ Crown.
_Douglas._
Teut. _klos_, globus.
CLOYS, _s._ A cloister.
_Douglas._
Teut. _kluyse_, clausura, locus clausus, L. B. _clusa_.
CLOIT, _s._ A clown, a stupid inactive fellow, S.
Teut. _kloete_, homo obtusus, hebes.
_To_ CLOIT, _v. n._ To fall heavily, S.
_Hamilton_.
Belg. _klots-en_, to beat with noise.
~Cloit~, _s._ A hard or heavy fall, S.
_To_ CLOK, _v. n._ To cluck.
V. ~Clock~.
CLOLLE, _s._ Apparently, skull.
_Sir Gawan and Sir Gal._
Germ. _kleuel_, glomus.
CLORTY, _adj._ Dirty.
V. ~Clarty~.
CLOSE, _s._ A passage, an entry, S. _cloce_, Douglas.
_Arnot._
Belg. _kluyse_, clausura.
CLOSERIS, CLOUSOURIS, _s. pl._ Inclosures.
_Douglas._
CLOVE, (_of a mill_) _s._ That which separates what are called the
bridgeheads, S.
V. ~Cloff~.
~Cloves~, _s. pl._ An instrument of wood, which closes like a vice, used
by carpenters for holding their saws firm while they sharpen them, S.
V. ~Cloff~.
CLOUYS, _s. pl._ Claws.
_Douglas._
_To_ CLOUR, CLOWR, _v. a._
1. To cause a tumour, S.
_Ramsay._
2. To produce a dimple, S.
_Poems Buchan Dial._
~Clour~, _s._
1. A lump, a tumour, in consequence of a stroke or fall, S.
_S. P. Repr._
2. A dint caused by a blow, S.
_To_ CLOUT, _v. a._ To beat, to strike, properly with the hands, S.
_Ferguson._
Teut. _klots-en_, pulsare.
~Clout~, _s._ A cuff, a blow, S.
_Ritson._
_To_ CLOW, _v. a._ To beat down, Galloway.
CLOWE, _s._ A hollow between hills.
_Sir Gawan and Sir Gal._
The same with _Cleugh_, q. v. also _Cloff_.
CLOWIS, _s. pl._ Small round pieces.
_Gawan and Gol._
A. S. _cleow_, Teut. _klouwe_, sphaera.
CLOWIT, _part. pa._ "Made of clews, woven." Rudd.
_Douglas._
Teut. _klouwe_, glomus.
CLOUSE, CLUSH, _s._ A sluice, S.
_Acts Ja. IV._
Fr. _ecluse_, id. Arm. _clewz_, a ditch.
CLUBBER, _s._
V. ~Clibber~.
CLUBBOCK, _s._ The spotted Blenny; a fish, Blennius gunnellus, Linn.
_Statist. Acc._
CLUF, CLUIF, _s._
1. A hoof, Rudd., _clu_, S. B.
Su. G. _klof_, ungula.
2. A claw, Rudd.
Teut. _kluyve_, unguls.
CLUKIS.
V. ~Cleuck~.
CLUMMYN, _part. pa._ of _Climb_.
_Douglas._
CLUMP, _s._ A heavy inactive fellow, S.
Su. G. _klump_, Teut. _klompe_.
CLUNG, _part. pa._ Empty, applied to the stomach or belly after long
fasting, S.
From E. _cling_, to dry up.
_Ross._
_To_ CLUNK, _v. n._ To emit a hollow and interrupted sound, as that
proceeding from any liquid confined in a cask, when shaken, if the cask
be not full, S.
Dan. _glunk_, the guggling of a narrow-mouthed pot or strait-necked
bottle when it is emptying; Sw. _klunk-a_, to guggle.
CLUNKERS, _s. pl._ Dirt hardened in clots, so as to render a road,
pavement, or floor unequal, S.
Germ. _clunkern_, a knot or clod of dirt.
CLUTE, _s._ The half of the hoof of any cloven-footed animal, S.
_Ramsay._
Germ. _cluft_, fissura, or A. S. _cleofed_, fissus.
CLUTTERING, _part. pr._ Doing any piece of business in an awkward and
dirty way, S. B.
Teut. _kleuter-en_, tuditare.
COALS, _To bring over the coals_, to bring to a severe reckoning, S.
_Forbes._
Referring, most probably, to the ordeal by fire.
COBLE, KOBIL, _s._
1. A small boat, a yawl, S.
A. S. _couple_, navicula.
_Wyntown._
2. A larger kind of fishing boat, S.
3. _Malt coble_, a place for steeping malt, in order to brewing, S.
Germ. _kubel_, a vat or tub.
_To_ COBLE, _v. a._ To steep malt.
_Fountainhall._
COBWORM, _s._ The larva of the Cock-chaffer, Scarabaeus melolontha.
_Statist. Acc._
COCK, _s._ The mark for which _curlers_ play, S.
_Burns._
COCK, _s._ A cap, a head-dress, S. B.
_Ross._
COCK AND PAIL, A spigot and faucet, S.
COCKALAN, _s._ A comic or ludicrous representation.
_Acts Ja. VI._
Fr. _coq à l'âne_, a libel, a pasquin, a satire.
COCKANDY, _s._ The Puffin, Alca arctica, Linn. S. _Tommy-noddy_, Orkn.
_Sibbald._
COCKERDEHOY. _To ride cockerdehoy_, to sit on the shoulders of another,
in imitation of riding on horseback, S. B.
Fr. _coquardeau_, a proud fool.
COCKERNONNY, _s._ The gathering of a young woman's hair, when it is
wrapt up in a band or fillet, commonly called a _snood_, S.
_Ramsay._
Teut. _koker_, a case, and _nonne_, a nun, q. such a sheath for
fixing the hair as the nuns were wont to use.
COCKERSUM, _adj._ Unsteady in position, threatening to fall or tumble
over, S.
Fr. _coquarde_, a cap, worn proudly on the one side.
COCKY, _adj._ Vain, affecting airs of importance, S. B. from the E. v.
_to cock_.
_Ross._
COCKIELEEKIE, _s._ Soup made of a _cock_ boiled with _leeks_, S.
COCKIELEERIE, _s._ A term expressive of the sound made by a cock in
crowing, S.
Teut. _kockeloer-en_, to cry like a cock.
COCKLAIRD, _s._ A landholder, who himself possesses and cultivates all
his estate, a yeoman, S.
_Kelly._
COCKLE, COKKIL, _s._ A scallop, Fr. _coquille_.
The _Order of the Cockle_, that of St Michael, the knights of which wore
the scallop as their badge.
_Complaynt S._
COCKROSE, _s._ Any wild poppy with a red flower. _Coprose_, A. Bor.
COCK-PADDLE, _s._ The Lump, a fish, Cyclopterus lumpus, Linn., _The
Paddle_, Orkn.
_Sibbald._
COCKS. _To cast at the cocks_, to waste, to squander, S. from the
barbarous custom of throwing for a piece of money at a cock tied to a
stake.
_Ramsay._
COCK-STULE, CUKSTULE, _s._
1. The cucking-stool or tumbrell.
_Bur. Lawes._
Teut. _kolcken_, ingurgitare, or _kaecke_, the pillory.
2. This term has accordingly been used, in later times, to denote the
pillory, S.
_Ramsay._
COD, _s._ A pillow, S. A. Bor.
_Compl. S._
A. S. _codde_, a bag. Isl. _kodde_, a pillow.
~Codware~, _s._ A pillow-slip, S.
A. S. _waer_, retinaculum, Su. G. _war_, id. from _waeri_, to keep,
to cover.
CODBAIT, _s._
1. The Lumbricus marinus, Loth.
2. The straw-worm, ibid.
A. S. _codd_, folliculus.
CODE, _s._ A chrysom.
V. ~Cude~.
_To_ CODLE (corn), _v. a._ To make the grains fly out of the husks by a
stroke, S. B. perhaps from _cod_, the pod.
CODROCH, _adj._
1. Rustic, having the manners of the country, Loth. Fife.
_Ferguson._
2. Dirty, slovenly, synon. _hogry-mogry_, Loth.
Ir. _cudar_, the rabble.
COELTS, _s. pl._ Colts.
_Monroe._
_To_ COFF, COFFE, _v. a._ To buy, to purchase, S., most commonly in the
pret. _coft_.
V. ~Coup~, _v._
_Shirrefs._
Germ. _kaufte_, bought, from _kauf-en_, Su. G. _koep-a_, to buy.
~Coffe~, ~Cofe~, ~Coife~, A merchant, a hawker; _pedder coffe_, a
pedlar.
_Bannatyne Poems._
COFFING, COFYNE, _s._
1. A shrine, a box.
_Wyntown._
2. The hard crust of bread.
_Douglas._
Lat. _cophin-us_, a basket.
COFT, _pret._ and _part. pa._ Bought.
V. ~Coff~.
COG, COAG, COIG, COGUE, _s._ A hollow wooden vessel of a circular form
for holding milk, broth, &c. S.
_Watson's Coll._
Germ. _kauch_, a hollow vessel, C. B. _cawg_, a bason.
_To_ ~Cog~, ~Cogue~, _v. a._ To empty into a wooden vessel.
_Ramsay._
COG, COGGE, _s._ A yawl or cockboat.
_Wyntown._
Teut. _kogghe_, celox; Su. G. _kogg_, navigii genus, apud veteres.
_To_ COGLE, COGGLE, _v. a._ To cause any thing to move from side to
side, so as to seem ready to be overset, S.
Perhaps from _cog_, a yawl, because this is so easily overset.
~Cogglie~, _adj._ Moving from side to side, unsteady as to position, apt
to be overset, S. _Cockersum_, synon.
COY, _adj._ Still, quiet.
_Lyndsay._
Fr. _coi_, _coy_, id., from Lat. _quiet-us_.
COIDOCH, COYDYOCH, _s._ A term of contempt applied to a puny wight.
_Polwart._
COIF, _s._ A cave.
_Douglas._
COIG.
V. ~Cog~, ~Coag~.
COILHEUCH, _s._ A coalpit, S.
_Skene._
COIN, COYNYE, _s._ A corner.
_Barbour._
Fr. _coin_, id. Ir. _cuinne_, a corner, an angle.
COISSING, Cherrie and Slae.
V. ~Cose~, _v._
COIST, COST, _s._
1. The side in the human body.
_Douglas._
_Wallace._
2. The trunk of the body.
_Douglas._
3. Also used for E. _coast_, Lat. _ora_, Doug.
~Coist~, _s._
1. Expence, cost.
_Douglas._
2. The provision made for watching the borders.
_Acts Ja. II._
Belg. Su. G. _kost_, cost, charge.
~Coist~, _s._
1. Duty payable in kind, Orkn.
2. The sustenance given to a servant, as distinct from money, ibid.
_Skene._
Su. G. Dan. _kost_, food.
_To_ COIT, _v. n._ To butt, to justle.
_Fordun._
Fr. _cott-er_, to butt, Isl. _kuettr_, torvus, _kueita_, violenter
jactare.
COK. _To cry cok_, to acknowledge that one is vanquished.
_Douglas._
O. Celt, _coc_, mediant, vile.
COKEWALD, _s._ A cuckold, Chauc.
Isl. _qvonkall_, curruca, seu cornutus, from _kvon_, uxor, and
_kvola_, maculare, G. Andr.
COLEHOODING, _s._ The Black-cap, a bird, S. _Coalhood_.
_Sibbald._
COLEMIE, COALMIE, _s._ The Coalfish, Asellus niger, Ang.
Germ. _kohlmuhlen_, id.
_To_ COLF, _v. a._ To calk a ship.
Fr. _calfat-er_, Teut. _kallefaet-en_, id.
~Colfin~, ~Calfing~, _s._ The wadding of a gun, S.
_Wodrow._
COLIBRAND, _s._ A contemptuous designation for a blacksmith, Border.
_Watson's Coll._
Su. G. _kol_, carbo, and _brenna_, urere, q. the _coal-burner_.
COLK, _s._ The Eider duck, a sea-fowl, S. the _Duntur Goose_ of Sibbald.
_Monroe._
COLL, _s._ A cock of hay, S. B. _Keil_. A. Bor.
_Ross._
Fr. _cueill-er_, to gather, E. _to coil_.
_To_ COLL, _v. a._
1. To cut, to clip. _To coll the hair_, to poll it, S.
2. To cut any thing obliquely, S.
V. ~Cow~.
Su. G. _kull-a_, verticis capillos abradere.
COLLATYOWN, _s._ Conference, discourse.
Lat. _collatio_.
_Wyntown._
COLLEGENAR, _s._ A student at college, S.
_Spalding._
COLLIE, COLLEY, _s._
1. The shepherd's dog, S. A. Bor.
_Burns._
Ir. _cuilean_, Gael. _culie_, a little dog.
2. One who follows another constantly, S.
3. A lounger, one who hunts for a dinner.
_Calderwood._
_To_ COLLIE, _v. a._ To abash, to silence in an argument; in allusion to
a dog, who, when mastered or affronted, walks off with his tail between
his feet, Fife.
COLLIESHANGIE, _s._
1. An uproar, a squabble, S.
_Ross._
2. A ring of plaited grass or straw, through which a lappet of a woman's
gown, or fold of a man's coat is clandestinely thrust, in order to
excite ridicule, Ang.
Perhaps from _collie_ and _shangie_, q. v.
COLPINDACH, _s._ A young cow that has never calved.
_Skene._
Gael. _colbhtach_, a cow calf.
COM, COME, _s._ Act of coming, arrival.
_Barbour._
A. S. _cum_, _cyme_, adventus.
_To_ COME, _v. n._
1. To sprout, to spring; applied to grain, when it begins to germinate,
S.
2. To sprout at the lower end; applied to grain in the process of
malting, S.
_Chalm. Air._
Isl. _keim-a_, Germ. _kiem-en_, id.
COMERWALD, _adj._ Hen-pecked.
_Dunbar._
_Comer_, a gossip, and A. S. _wald_, power.
COMMEND, _s._ A comment, a commentary.
_Douglas._
COMMEND, _s._ A benefice _in commendam_.
_Douglas._
Fr. _commende_, L. B. _commenda_, id.
COMMON, COMMOUN. _To be in one's common_, to be obliged to one, S.
_Pitscottie._
_To quite a commoun_, to requite.
_Knox._
From _commons_ as signifying fare.
COMMONTIE, _s._
1. A common, S.
Lat. _communit-as_.
2. Community.
_Acts Ja. VI._
COMPARGES, _Leg._ _compaignyies_, companies.
_Houlate._
_To_ COMPEIR, COMPEAR, _v. n._
1. To appear in the presence of another.
_Bellenden._
2. To present one's self in a court, civil or ecclesiastical, in
consequence of being summoned, S.
_Priests Peblis._
Fr. _compar-oir_, to appear, Lat. _compar-ere_, id.
~Compearance~, _s._ The act of presenting one's self in a court, S.
_Baillie._
COMPER, _s._ The Common Fishing Crog, Lophius piscatorius, Linn. Orkn.
_Barry._
_To_ COMPESCE, _v. a._ To restrain.
Lat. _compesco_.
_Baillie._
_To_ COMPETE, _v. n._ To be in a state of competition, S.
COMPLENE, The last of the canonical hours.
_Douglas._
L. B. _complendae_, officium ecclesiasticum, quod cetera diurna
officia _com-plet_ et claudit.
COMPLIMENT, _s._ A present, a gift, S.
_Sir J. Sinclair._
_To_ ~Compliment~ _with_, _v. a._ To present one with, S.
_To_ COMPONE, _v. a._ To settle.
_R. Bruce._
_To_ COMPONE, _v. n._ To compound.
_Baillie._
CON, _s._ The squirrel; A. Bor. id.
_Montgomerie._
CONABILL, _adj._ Attainable.
_Barbour._
Lat. _conabilis_, what may be attempted.
CONAND, _part. pr._ Knowing, skilful.
From _Cun_, to know, q. v.
_Wyntown._
_To_ CONCEALE, _v. a._ To conciliate, Lat. _concil-io_.
_More._
CONCEIT-NET, _s._ A fixed net, used in some rivers, S. B.
_To_ CONDESCEND, _v. a._
1. To agree, to unite, S.
_Complaynt S._
L. B. _condescend-ere_, consentire.
2. To pitch upon, to enumerate particularly, S.
CONDET, CONDICT, CONDYT, _s._ Safe conduct.
_Wallace._
CONDY, _s._ A conduit, S.
CONDICT, _s._ Conduit, passage.
_Douglas._
Teut. _konduyt_, Fr. _conduit_, id.
CONFEERIN, _part. adj._ Consonant, S. B.
_Ross._
Lat. _conferr-e_, to compare.
~Confeirin~, _conj._ Considering.
_Journal Lond._
CONFIDER, _adj._ Confederate.
_Douglas._
Fr. _confeder-ez_, id.
_To_ CONFISKE, _v. a._ To confiscate.
Fr. _confisqu-er_, id.
_Bellenden._
CONYNG, _s._ Knowledge, skill.
_King's Quair._
_To_ CONN, _v. a._ To know.
_Barbour._
_To_ CONNACH, _v. a._ To abuse, in whatever way. Aberd.
_Pennecuik._
CONNAND, CONAND, _s._
1. Engagement, contract.
_Barbour._
2. Proffers, terms previous to an engagement.
_Wallace._
Fr. _convenant_, from _conven-ir_, to agree.
CONNERED, _part. pa._ Curried.
_Chalmerlan Air._
Fr. _conroy-er_, to curry.
CONNIE, CONNEIS, _s._ Perhaps provisions.
_Chron. S. P._
O. Fr. _convis_, necessaries, Fr. _convoi_.
CONNYSHONIE, _s._ A gossiping conversation, S. B.
_To_ CONNOCH, _v. a._
V. ~Connach~.
CONNOCH, _s._ A disease.
_Polwart._
_To_ CONQUACE, CONQUES, _v. a._
1. To acquire, whether by art or valour.
_Douglas._
2. To acquire by conquest.
_Wallace._
3. To purchase with money.
_Reg. Maj._
~Conquace~, ~Conquese~, _s._
1. Conquest.
_Wallace._
2. Acquisition by purchase.
L. B. _conquestus_, id.
_Quon. Attach._
CONRYET, _pret._ Perhaps, disposed.
_Wallace._
O. Fr. _conraer_, to prepare, whence _conroi_, order of battle.
CONSTABLE, _s._ A large glass, the contents of which he is obliged to
drink, who has not drunk as much as the rest of the company, S.
CONSTERIE, CONSTRY, _s._ Consistory.
_Forbes._
_To_ CONSTITUTE, _v. a._ To open an ecclesiastical court with prayer, S.
CONTAKE, _s._ Contest.
_Douglas._
CONTEMPTION, _s._ Contempt.
_Bellenden._
_To_ CONTEYNE, _v. s._ To continue.
_Wallace._
_To_ CONTENE, _v. n._ To demean one's self.
_Barbour._
~Contening~, _s._
1. Demeanour.
_Barbour._
2. Military discipline.
_Barbour._
CONTENEU, _s._ Tenor.
_Complaynt S._
Fr. _contenu_, id.
CONTER. _A conter_, to the contrary.
_Ross._
Fr. _contre_, against.
CONTERMYT, _part. pa._ Firmly set against.
_Wallace._
Fr. _contremet-tre_, to oppose.
_To_ CONTINUE, _v. a._ To delay.
_Spotswood._
CONTRIMONT, _adv._ The contrary way.
_Douglas._
Fr. _contremont_, directly against the stream.
CONTRAIR, _adj._ Contrary, Fr.
_Baillie._
_To_ ~Contrare~, ~Conter~, _v. a._ To thwart, to oppose, S.
_Wyntown._
Fr. _contrar-ier_, id.
~Contrare~, _s._
1. Opposition of any kind.
_Douglas._
2. Something contrary to one's feelings or hopes. _Conter_, S. B.
_Ross._
_To_ CONTRUFE, _v. a._ To contrive; _contruwit_, part. pa.
_Douglas._
Fr. _controuv-er_, id.
~Contruwar~, _s._ A contriver.
_To_ CONVENE, CONVEANE, CONUEIN, _v. n._ To agree.
_Forbes._
Fr. _conven-ir_, Lat. _conven-ire_, id.
~Conuyne~, ~Conuene~, ~Conwyne~, ~Covyne~, ~Cowyne~, ~Cuwyn~, _s._
1. Paction, convention.
Fr. _convent_, id.
_Douglas._
2. Condition, state.
_Barbour._
3. Stratagem, conspiracy.
_Wyntown._
O. Fr. _convine_, _couvine_, pratique, intrigue.
_To_ CONVOY, _v. a._ To accomplish any purpose, especially by artful
means.
_Douglas._
~Convoy~, _s._
1. Mode of conveyance.
_Baillie._
2. A trick.
_Poems 16th Cent._
~Conwoy~, _s._ Mein, carriage.
_Dunbar._
COODIE, CUDIE, _s._ A small tub, also _cude_: _quiddie_, Aberd.
_Ramsay._
Isl. _kutte_, tonnula, Gael. _ciotad_, a tub.
COOF, CUFE, _s._ A silly dastardly fellow, S.
_Burns._
Su. G. _kufw-a_, to keep under, Isl. _kueif_, one who is cowardly
and feeble.
_To_ COOK, COUK, _v. n._
1. To appear and disappear by fits.
_Burns._
2. To hide one's self.
_Kennedy._
Isl. _kvik-a_, moto, _qvika_, inquieta motatio.
COOKIE, _s._ A species of fine bread used at tea, of a round form, S.
Teut. _koeck_, libum.
COOLRIFE, _adj._
1. Cool, cold, S.
_Ross._
2. Indifferent, S.
V. ~Cauldrife~.
COOM, _s._ The wooden frame used in building the arch of a bridge, S.
_Statist. Acc._
Allied perhaps to _Queme_, q. v.
COOP, COUP-CART, _s._ A cart made close with boards, S.
_Statist. Acc._
Teut. _kuype_, a large vessel for containing liquids.
COOT, _s._ The ancle.
V. ~Cute~.
COOTH, _s._ A young coalfish.
V. ~Cuth~.
COOTIE, _adj._ A term applied to fowls whose legs are clad with
feathers, S.
_Burns._
COP, COPE, _s._ A cup or drinking vessel.
A. S. _cop_, Isl. _kopp_, id.
_Dunbar._
COPOUT. "_To play copout_," to drink off all that is in a cup or
drinking vessel; _cap-out_, S.
_Douglas._
COPE, _s._ A coffin; "a _cope_ of leid," a leaden coffin.
V. ~Caip~.
_Knox._
_To_ COPÉ _betuene_, to divide.
_King Hart._
Fr. _coup-er_, to cut, to cleave.
COPER, _s._ A dealer.
V. ~Couper~.
COPY, _s._ Plenty, abundance.
_Wyntown._
Lat. _copia_.
COPPER, _s._ A cupbearer.
_Palice of Hon._
Evidently from A. S. _cop_, a cup.
COPPIN, _part. pa. Coppin in hevin_, elevated to heaven.
_King's Quair._
A. S. _cop_, the summit.
CORANICH, CORRENOTH, CORRINOCH, _s._
1. A dirge, a lamentation for the dead, S.
_Lyndsay._
Ir. Gael. _coranach_, from _cora_, a _quoir_, Lat. _chorus_.
2. A cry of alarm, a sort of war-cry.
_Bannatyne Poems._
3. A proclamation of outlawry by means of the bagpipe.
_Warton._
CORBIE, CORBY, _s._ A raven; Corvus corax, Linn, S.
_Henrysone._
Fr. _corbeau_, Ital. _corvo_, Lat. _corv-us_, id.
_Corbie-Aits_, _s. pl._ A species of black oats, denominated perhaps
from their dark colour, S. B.
~Corbie Messenger~, A messenger who either returns not at all, or too
late, S.
_Houlate._
CORBIE-STEPS, _s. pl._ The projections of the stones, or the slanting
part of a gable, resembling steps of stairs, S.
Fr. _corbeau_, a corbeil in masonry.
CORBIT, _adj._ Apparently, crooked.
_Maitland._
Fr. _courbé_, id. _courbette_, a small crooked rafter.
CORBUYLE, _s._ Leather greatly thickened and hardened in the
preparation, jacked leather.
_Douglas._
Fr. _cuir bouilli_, corium coctum.
CORCHAT, _s._ Crotchet, a term in music.
_Dunbar._
CORCOLET, _s._ A purple dye, Shetl.
CORDYT, _pret. v._ Agreed.
_Wallace._
Fr. _accordée_.
CORDON, _s._ A band, a wreath.
Fr. id.
_Z. Boyd._
CORDOWAN, _s._ Spanish leather, Gl. Sibb. Tanned horse leather, S.
CORDS, _s. pl._ A contraction of the muscles of the neck; a disease of
horses, A. Bor.
_Polwart._
CORE, _s._ A company, a body of men, often used for corps.
_Hamilton._
CORF, _s._ A basket used for carrying coals from the pit, Loth.
Belg. _korf_, Isl. _koerf_, Lat. _corb-is_, id.
CORF, _s._ A temporary building, a shed.
_Bannatyne Poems._
A. S. _cruft_, a vault, Teut. _krofte_, a cave.
~Corf-House~, _s._ A house, shed, erected for the purpose of curing
salmon, and for keeping the nets in, S. B.
_Courant._
CORFT, _part. pa. Corft fish_ are fish boiled with salt and water, S. B.
CORKY, _adj._ Airy, brisk.
_Sir J. Sinclair._
CORMUNDUM. _To cry Cormundum_, to confess a fault.
_Kennedy._
In allusion to one of the Penitential Psalms.
CORNCRAIK, _s._ The Crake or land rail, Rallus crex, Linn.
V. ~Craik~.
_Houlate._
Probably denominated from its cry.
CORNE PIPE, _s._ A reed or whistle with a horn fixed to it by the
smaller end.
CORNYKLE, _s._ A chronicle.
_Wallace._
CORP, _s._ A corpse, a dead body.
~Corps-Present~, _s._ A funeral gift to the church, for supplying any
deficiency on the part of the deceased.
_Knox._
Fr. _corps_ and _present-er_, q. to present the body for interment;
or Fr. _present_, a gift.
CORRACH, CORRACK, _s._ A pannier, _Ang_.
Su. G. _korg_, a pannier or basket.
CORRIE, _s._ A hollow between hills, or rather in a hill, Gael. also
_corehead_, S.
_Statist. Acc._
CORS, CORSE, _s._ Market place, S.; from the _cross_ being formerly
erected there.
Sw. _kors_, id.
CORS, CORSS, _s._ An animated body.
Fr. _corps_.
_Douglas._
CORSBOLLIS, _pl._ Crossbows.
_Complaynt S._
CORSES, _s. pl._ Money, from its bearing the firm of the cross.
_Dunbar._
CORSSY, _adj._ Bigbodied, corpulent.
_Douglas._
CORSYBELLY, _s._ A shirt for a child, open before, S. B.
_Ross._
Q. A shirt that is folded _across the belly_.
CORTER, _s._
1. A quarter, corr. from _quarter_, Aberd.
2. A cake, because quartered, ibid.
_Journal Lond._
CORUIE, _s._ A crooked iron for pulling down buildings.
_Hudson._
Fr. _corbeau_, "a certaine warlike instrument;" Cotgr.
CORUYN, _s._ A kind of leather.
_Douglas._
Corr. from _Cordowan_, q. v.
COSCH, COSHE, _s._ A coach.
_Bruce._
Fr. _coche_.
_To_ COSE, COSS, COISS, _v. a._ To exchange; _coss_, Loth.
_Wallace._
~Cossing~, _s._ The act of exchanging.
_Skene._
COSH, _adj._
1. Neat, snug; as denoting a comfortable situation, S.
_Ferguson._
2. Quiet, without interruption, S.
_Minstrelsy Border._
3. In a state of intimacy, S.
Isl. _kios_, a small place well fenced.
~Coshly~, _adv._ Snugly, S.
_Ferguson._
COSIE, COZIE, _adj._ Warm, comfortable, snug, well-sheltered, S.
_Burns._
This seems radically the same with _Cosh_.
~Cosiely~, _adv._ Snugly, comfortably, S.
_Ramsay._
COSINGNACE, _s._
1. A relation by blood, a cousin.
_Bellenden._
2. A grand-daughter; or a niece.
_Bellenden._
_To_ COSS, _v. a._ To exchange.
V. ~Cose~.
COST, _s._ Side.
V. ~Coist~.
COSTAGE, _s._ Expence.
_Douglas._
_To_ COSTAY, _v. n._ To coast.
_Wyntown._
COSSNENT, _s. To work at cossnent_, to receive wages without victuals,
S.
_To work black cossnent_, to work without meat or wages, Ayr.
Fr. _caust aneanti_, cost abrogated, q. expences not borne.
_To_ COT _with one_, _v. n._ To cohabit, S. B. q. to live in the same
_cot_.
COTTAR, COTTER, _s._ One who inhabits a _cot_ or cottage. S.
_Statist. Acc._
L. B. _cottar-ius_, Fr. _cottier_, id. Hence S. _cotterman_,
_cotterfouk_, &c.
COVAN, _s._ A convent.
_Dunbar._
Anciently written _covent_.
_Sir Gawan._
In S., _caivin_ is still used for convent.
COUDIE, _adj._
V. ~Couth~.