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To Count, _v. n._ To think; to esteem.
Cow-baby, _s._ A coward; a timid person.
To c.r.a.p, to c.r.a.ppy. _v. n._ to snap; to break with a sudden sound; to crack.
c.r.a.p. _s._ A smart sudden sound.
Craup. _preterite_ of creep.
Cre'aped. Crept.
Creem. _s._ Sudden s.h.i.+vering.
Creemy. _adj._ Affected with sudden s.h.i.+vering.
Creeplin. _part._ Creeping.
Crips. _adj._ Crisp.
Criss-cross-lain. _s._ The alphabet; so called in consequence of its being formerly preceded in the _horn-book_ by a cross to remind us of the cross of Christ; hence the term. _Christ-Cross- line_ came at last to mean nothing more than the alphabet.
Crock, _s._ A bellied pot, of iron or other metal, for boiling food.
Croom. _s._ A crumb; a small bit.
Crowd-string, _s._ A fiddle-string.
Crowdy-kit. _s._ A small fiddle.
Crow'ner. _s._ A coroner.
To be Crowned. _v. pa.s.s._ To have an inquest held over a dead body by the coroner.
Crowst. _s._ Crust.
Crow'sty. _adj._ Crusty, snappish, surly.
Crub, Crubbin. _s._ Food: particularly bread and cheese.
Cubby-hole. _s_. A snug, confined place.
Cuckold _s._ The plant burdock.
To Cull. _v. n._ To take hold round the neck with the arms.
Cute. _adj._ [Acute] sharp; clever.
Cutty. _adj._ Small; diminutive.
Cutty, Cutty-wren._s._ A wren.
D.
DA'. _s._ Day.
Dayze. Days.
Dade. Dead.
Dad'd.i.c.k. _s._ Rotten wood.
Dad'd.i.c.ky. _adj._ Rotten, like dadd.i.c.k.
Dame. _s._ This word is originally French, and means in that language, _lady_; but in this dialect it means a mistress; an old woman; and never a lady; nor is it applied to persons in the upper ranks of society, nor to the very lowest; when we say _dame_ Hurman, or _dame_ Bennet, we mean the wife of some farmer; a school-mistress is also sometimes called dame (dame-schools).
Dang. _interj._ Generally followed by p.r.o.noun, as _dang it_; _dang em_; _od dang it_: [an imprecation, a corruption of _G.o.d dang it_ (_G.o.d hang it_) or more likely corruption of _d.a.m.n_.]
Dap, _v. n._ To hop; to rebound.
Dap. _s._ A hop; a turn. _To know the daps of a person_ is, to know his disposition, his habits, his peculiarities.
Dap'ster. _s._ A proficient.
To Daver. _v. n._ To fade; to fall down; to droop.
Dav'ison. _s._ A species of wild plum, superior to the bullin.
Daw'zin. _s._ The pa.s.sing over land with a bent hazel rod, held in a certain direction, to discover whether veins of metal or springs are below, is called _Dawzin_, which is still practised in the mining districts of Somersets.h.i.+re. There is an impression among the vulgar, that certain persons only have the gift of the _divining rod_, as it has been sometimes called; by the French, _Baguette Devinatoire_.
_Ray_, in his _Catalogus Plantarum Angliae, &c._, Art.
_Corylus_, speaks of the divining rod: " Vulgus metallicorum ad virgulam divinum, ut vocant, qua venas metallorum inquirit prae caeteris furcam eligit colurnam." More may be seen in John Bauhin.
Des'perd. _adj._ [Corrupted from desperate.] Very, extremely; used in a good as well as a bad sense: _desperd good_; _desperd bad_.
Dewberry, _s._ A species of blackberry.
Dibs. _s. pl._ Money.
Did'dlecome. _adj._ Half-mad; sorely vexed.
Dig'ence. _s._ [g hard, _diggunce_, d.i.c.kens] a vulgar word for the _Devil_.
Dird. _s._ Thread.
