Isl. klifberi, clitellae, from klif, fascis, sarcina, and beri portator.
CLICK-CLACK, s. Uninterrupted loquacity, S.
From E. click and clack, both expressive of a sharp successive noise; or Teut. klick-en, crepitare, klack-en, verberare resono ictu.
CLIFT, s. A spot of ground, S.
A. S. cliof-an, to cleave, because parted from the rest.
To CLINCH, CLYNSCH, v. n. To limp,
S.
Douglas.
Su. G. link-a, claudicare.
Clinch, s. A halt, S.
CLINK, s. A smart stroke or blow, S.
Hamilton.
Teut. klincke, id.; alapa, colaphus.
CLINK, s. Money; a cant term, S.
Burns.
From the sound; Teut. klinck-en, tinnire.
To CLINK, v. a. A term denoting alertness in manual operation, S.
To Clink on, v. a. To clap on.
Ramsay.
To Clink up, v. a. To seize any object quickly and forcibly, S.
If not radically the same with the v. cleik, with n inserted; allied perhaps to Dan. lencke a chain, a link, q. gelencke.
CLINT, s. A hard or flinty rock. Gl. Sibb. "Clints. Crevices amongst bare lime-stone rocks, North." Gl. Grose.
Hence,
Clinty, Clynty, adj. Stony, Loth.
Su. G. klint, scopulus.
Douglas.
CLIP, s.
1. probably borrowed
from a sheep newly shorn or clipped.
Evergreen.
2. A colt of a year old.
Buchan.
To CLIP, CLYP, v. a.
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.
COUATYSE, COVETISE, COWATYSS,
s.
1. Covetousness.
Douglas.
O. Fr. couvoitise, id.
2. Ambition, or the lust of power.
Barbour.
COUBROUN, adj. Uncertain, both as to
signification and etymon.
Lyndsay.
COUCHER, s. A coward.
Rutherford.
Coucher Blow, the last stroke, S.
From the E. v. couch, Fr. couch-er.
COVE, s. A cave, S. A. Bor.
Bellenden.
A. S. cofe, Isl. kofe, id.
COUGHT, for couth. Could.
S. P. Rep.
COUHIRT, s. Cow-herd.
Dunbar.
To COUK.
V. Cook.
To COUK, v. n. A term used to denote
the sound emitted by the cuckoo.
Montgomerie.
COULIE, COWLIE, s.
1. A boy, S.
Su. G. kullt, id.
2. A term applied to a man in the language
of contempt, S.
Cleland.
COULPE, s. A fault.
Complaynt S.
Fr. coulpe, Lat. culp-a.
COULPIT, part. pa. Apparently, bartered,
for coupit.
Maitland Poems.
To COUNGEIR, v. a. To conjure.
Abp. Hamiltoun.
Coungerar, s. A conjurer.
Abp. Hamiltoun.
COUNYIE, s. Perhaps, motion.
Dunbar.
Fr. coign-er, to beat, to strike.
COUNT, s. An accompt; counting, arithmetic, S.
To COUNTERFACTE, v. n. To counterfeit.
Acts Ja. VI.
COUNTYR, COWNTIR, s.
1. Encountre.
Douglas.
2. A division of an army engaged in
battle.
Wallace.
To COUP, COWP, v. a. To exchange, to barter, S. A. Bor.
Su. G. koep-a, id.
Coup, s.
1. Exchange, S.
Maitland P.
2. The hail coup, the whole of any thing,
S.
Couper, Coper, s.
1. A dealer; as, horse-couper,
cow-couper.
Chalm. Air.
2. One who makes merchandise of souls.
Rutherford.
To COUP, COWP, v. a. To overturn, to
overset, S.
Knox.
To Coup, v. n. To overset, to tumble, S.
Muses Threnodie.
Sw. gupp-a, to tilt up.
Coup, Cowp, s.
1. A fall, S. couppis, S. B.
Lyndsay.
2. A sudden break in the stratum of
coals, S.
Statist. Acc.
COUPLE, CUPPIL, s. A rafter, S.
C. B. kupul-ty, id.
Wyntown.
To COUR, v. n. To stoop, to crouch, S., cower, E.
To COUR, v. n. To recover.
V. Cower.
COURCHE, s. A covering for a woman's
head. S. Curchey, Dunbar.
Wallace.
Fr. couvre-chef.
COURERS, CURERS, s. pl. Covers.
Gl. Sibb.
COUT, COWT, s. A young horse, S. corr. from colt.
Cout-evil, s. A disease incident to young
horses, Border.; E. strangles.
Polwart.
COUTCHACK, s. The clearest part of a
fire, S. B.
Journal Lond.
COUTCHIT, part. pa. Inlaid, stuffed.
Fr. couch-er, to lay.
Douglas.
COUTH, aux. v. Could.
Barbour.
A. S. cuthe, novi, from cunn-an, noscere.
COUTH, part. pa. Known.
Douglas.
COUTH, s. Enunciated sound; a word.
Popular Ball.
Isl. qwaede, syllaba, qwed-a, effari.
COUTH, COUTHY, COUDY, adj.
1.
Affable, facetious, familiar, S.
Ramsay.
2. Loving, affectionate, S.
Burns.
3. Comfortable.
Popular Ball.
4. Pleasant to the ear, S. B.
Ross.
5. Ominous of evil; no coudy, Ang.
A. S. cuth, familiaris; Teut. koddig, facetus.
Couthily, adv. Kindly, familiarly, S.
Ross.
Couthiness, Coudiness, s. Facetiousness, kindness, S.
COUTTERTHIRL, s. The vacuity between
the coulter and the ploughshare,
S.
V. Thirl.
To COW, v. a.
1. To poll the head, S.
Bellenden.
2. To clip short, in general.
Polwart.
3. To cut, to prune, to lop off.
V. Coll, v.
To cow out, to cut out.
4. To eat up as food, S.
Popul. Ball.
5. To be cowit, to be bald.
Dunbar.
6. It occurs as signifying shaven; applied
to the Roman tonsure.
Cleland.
Isl. koll-r, tonsum caput.
7. Often used metaph. S. like E. snib.
Ramsay.
Cow, Kow, s.
1. A twig of any shrub or
plant, S.
Priests Pebl.
2. Used to denote a bush.
Minst. Bord.
3. A besom made of broom, S.
Warton.
4. An instrument of correction, like E.
birch, S.
5. The fuel used for a temporary fire, S.
Ross.
6. The act of pruning, viewed metaph.
S.
Burns.
COW, KOW, s.
1. A scarecrow, S.
Hamilton.
2. A hobgoblin, S.
Philotus.
To play kow, to act the part of a goblin.
Roull.
From E. cow, to intimidate; or Isl. kug, suppressio.