BUNNEL, a dried hemp-stalk, used by smokers to light their pipes. Cumb.

BUNNEY, a swelling from a blow. Norf. and Suff.

BUNT, smut in corn. Northampt.

BUNTING, sifting flour. The BUNTING ROOM, the Sifting Room. North.

BURR, the sweetbread. Derb.

BURNE, a brook, a small stream of water. N.

BURNISH; to BURNISH, to grow fat or increase in flesh, look jolly, or rosy. Exmoor.

BURTLE, a sweeting. Northumb.

BUR-TREE, an elder-tree. N.

BURLY, thick, clumsy. Lanc.

BURTHENSOME-LAND, land that yields good crops in general. York.

Bus, to bus, to dress. N.

BUSKED, dressed. N..

BUTT, a bee-butt or hive. Exmoor.

Butter-fingerED. Said of persons who are apt to let things fall.

BUTTER-JAGS, the flowers of trifolium siliquâ cornutâ.

BUTTER-SHAG, a slice of bread and butter. Cumb. BUTTAL, or BUTTER-BUMP, a bittern. S. Called in the North a MIRE-DRUM.

BYER, a cow-house. Cumb.

BYNE, malt. Cambridgesh.

BYON, a quinzy. N.
BY-PAST, ago. York.

C.

CA, to ca, to drive.

CADDOW, a jack-daw. Norf.

CADDY. Pretty caddy; i. e. pretty well recovered from an illness. Derb.

CAMBDE-LA, a tame lamb. Norf. and Suf.

CADGE; to CADGE, to carry; a cadger to a mill, a carrier or loader. Northumb. Cadging the belly, to stuff the belly; also to bind or tie a thing. Lan.

CADMA, called also a whinnock, the least pig of the litter. S.

CAFF, chaff. York.

CAGMAG, bad food, or other coarse things. The word, in the language of Scotland, signifies an old goose. See Mr. Pennant's Tour, Appendix, p. 9.

CAIL; to CAIL a stone, to throw a stone. Norf. Pronounced in the West country scale, also, and squale. See SQUALE.

CAINGEL, a crabbed fellow. N.

CALE, turn; it is his cale to go. Derb.

CALL, occasion, obligation; he had no call to do it. Derb.

CALL, to abuse by calling names. They CALLED one another!

CALLED HOME, asked in the church. Sedgemoor. CALLING-BAND, a leading string, or back-string, for children. Sometimes called only a CAL. York, West Riding.

CALLAR, fresh, cool; the callar air, the fresh air. N. Callar ripe grosiers, ripe gooseberries fresh gathered.

CALLETING, Scolding; a calleting housewife. To CALLET, to scold. Northumb.

CALLING, giving public notice by the cryer; I had it called, I had it cried. Northumb.

CAM, awry. Lanc. CAMM'D, crooked. Lanc.

CAMP,
CANK,

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to talk of any thing. N.

CAMPABLE, able to do. N.

CAMPERKNOWS, ale-pottage, made with sugar, spices, &c.

CAMPING, playing at foot-ball. Norf.

CAMPO, or CAMBLE, to prate saucily. N.

CANDLING, a supper given in some parts by landlords of ale-houses to their customers on the Eve of Candlemas-day: part of it is a pie, thence called a CANDLING-PIE.

CANKER, a poisonous fungus, resembling a mushroom. Glou. Likewise the dog-rose. Devon.

Called also the canker-rose.

CANKERD, cross, ill-conditioned. N.

CANKING, gossiping Derb.

CANKING, whining, dissatisfied. Derb.

CANNY, nice, neat, housewifely, handsome. Newcastle, Northumb. & N.

CANT, strong, lusty: very cant, God yield you; i. e. very strong and lusty, God reward you. Chesh.

CANT, to throw Kent. He was canted out of the chaise.

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CANT, an auction; to be sold by cant. N.

CANT, a corner of a field. Kent.

CANT, to recover or mend. N. A health to the good woman canting, i. e. recovering after lying in. N.

CAP, or COB, head, chief, or master. Cumb.

CAPO, a working horse. Chesh.

CAPT, or CAPP'D, overcome in argument. Cumb.

CARBERRY, a gooseberry. N.

CAR-HAND, the left hand. N.

CARKING, anxious, careful. N.

CARLE, a clown, an old man. N. A male; a carle cat, a he cat.

CARLED-PEAS, parched-peas. York.

CARLE-HEMP, that hemp which bears the seed. CARLING-DAY, or CARLING-SUNDAY, the second Sunday preceding Easter, when parched peas are served up at most tables in Northumberland. CARPET-WAY, a green way, a way on the turf. S. CARRE, a hollow place in which water stands. N. Also a wood of alder or other trees, in a moist boggy place.

CAR-SICK, the kennel, from CAR and SIKE, a furrow or gutter; q. the Cart-gutter. Yorks.

CART-RAKE, a cart-track. Essex.

CARVE, to KARVE, or KERVE, to grow sour, spoken of cream; also to curdle. Chesh.

CASINGS, OF CASSONS, dried cow-dung used for fuel. Northumb.

CATCH-LAND, land which is not certainly known to what parish it belongs, and the minister that

first gets the tithes of it enjoys it for the year. Norf.

CATER-CRASS, cross: you must go cater-crass dat
dare fil; i. e. you must go cross that field.
Kent. A mis-pronunciation of quite across.
CATHER, a cradle. Lanc.

CATS-FOOT, ground-ivy. Northumb.
CAT-WITH-TWO-TAILS, an earwig. Northum.
CAT-HAM'D, fumbling, awkward, without dexterity.
Exmoor.

CATTERWAULING, rambling, or intriguing in the
night, after the manner of cats. N. and S.
CATTER, to keep up, to thrive in the world. N.
CAUCHHER a medicinal composition, or stop.
CAVELS, lots; casting cavels, casting lots. Northum.
CAW, to call; CAW'D; called; CAWN, they call.«
Lan.

CAWBABY, an awkward timid boy. Dev.

CAWCH, a nasty place.

Devon.

CAW-DAWS, Jack-daws.

CAWL, a coop.

Nastiness in general.

CAWSIE-TAIL, a dunce. N. Rather CAWFE-TAIL,

CHAMM'D, chewed. Glouc.

CHANGES, shirts and shifts. Berks.

CHANNEST, to challenge. Exmoor.