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CARRION, (a) dead flesh, (b) 'the the room of that which they
flesh' 'in the Pauline sense' steal' (Dr Johnson); 5. 2. 53
N.E.D. (v. note): 2. 2. 182 CHANSON, song, ballad; 2. 2. 424
CARRY IT AWAY, carry the day, he CHARACTER (vb.), imprint, inscribe}
victorious (cf. Rom. 3. 1. 79 *• 3- 59
'Alia stoccata carries it away')} CHARGE (sb.), (a) importance,
2. 2. 363 (b) weight, load (cf. 1 Hen. IF,
CARRY THROUGH, carry through 2. 1. 50 'great charge')} 5. 2.
difficulties, enable to pass mus- 43
ter} 5. 2. 192 CHARIEST, 'most fastidious, shy'
CART, chariot (cf. Spenser, F.Q. v, (N.E.D.), cf. M.W.W. 2.1.102
viii, 34); 3. 2. 153 'the chariness of our honesty'
CARVE FOR ONESELF, help oneself (= modesty); 1. 3. 36
at will, indulge oneself} 1. 3. CHECK AT, abandon a course. A
20 term of falconry, lit. to swerve
CAST BEYOND ONESELF, to overrun aside (cf. Tiv.Nt. 3.1. 64'And,
the trail in hunting (v. letter by like the haggard, check at every
K. M. Buck in T.L.S. Jan. 7, feather')} 4. 7. 61
1932)5 2. 1. 112 CHEERE, chair, v. anchor} 3.2.218
4
CATAPLASM, plaster, poultice} .7. CHOLER, bile, hence (a) bilious
142 disorder, (b) anger (N.E.D. c ,
i
CAUTEL, deceit, craft (cf. Lov. Com. 2)5 3. 2. 304, 308
303 'Applied to cautels' and CHOP-FALLEN, (a) chopless, q.v.,
Cor. 4. 1. 33 'With cautelous (b) cast down, dejected} 5. 1.
baits and practice'); 1. 3. 15 186
CAVIARY, caviare. The figurative CHOPINE, a shoe worn in Italy and
use derives from this passage; Spain at the end of the sixteenth
2. 2. 441 century, with cork soles and
CENSURE (sb.), opinion, judgment} heels sometimes of great height}
1. 3. 69} 1.4. 35} with a quibble 2. 2. 432
on 'disapproval'} 3. 2. 26, 85 CHOPLESS, without the lower jaw
CENTRE, middle of the earth (v. (chop or chap); J. 1. 87
note); 2. 2. 159 CHORUS, an actor who summarises
CEREMENTS, lit. wax wrappings for the action or explains the mean-
the dead, (hence) grave-clothes ing of a theatrical spectacle
generally} 1. 4. 48 (v. dumb-show)', 3. 2. 244
CESS (sb.), cessation, extinction CHOUGH, a bird of the crow family,
(v. note)} 3. 3. 15 a jackdaw, (hence) a chatterer;
CHAMELEON. 'From their inani- 5. 2. 89
mate appearance, and power of CICATRICE, scar of a wound;
existing for long periods without 4- 3-59
food, they were formerly sup- CIRCUMSTANCE, (i) circumlocution,
posed to live on air' (N.E.D.); beating about the bush} 1. J.
3-2.91 127} (ii) relevant facts, evidence;
CHANGELING, 'a child which the 2. 2. 157; 3. 3. 83
fairies are supposed to leave in CLEPE, call, name; 1,4.19