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280 GLOSSARY
CASE, (i) 'case of eyes'=eye- 'perhaps the Cornish chough
sockets; 4. 6. 143; (ii) or red-legged crow, which
'heavy case'=sad state; 4. was abundant on the Sussex
6. 146 (with quibble on (i)) coast 150 years ago' (On.);
CASUALTY, risk; 4. 3. 45 4. 6. 13
CATASTROPHE, denouement; 1. 'CHUD (dial.), I would; 4. 6.
2 236
- 137
CIVET, perfume derived from
CAUSE, (i) affair; 4. 3. 52$
(ii) a legal term=offence the anal glands of civet-cat;
for wh. one is on trial (c£> (O.E.D. 2); 4. 6. 130
O.E.D. 9); 4. 6. 109 CLAMOUR, cries of grief; 4. 3.
CENSURE, judge; 3. 5. 355. 3. 3 32; 5. 3. 207
CENTURY, troop of 100 menj CLAP, 'at a clap'=at a stroke;
4. 4. 6 1. 4. 295
CERTAIN (adj.), safe; 1. 2. 84 CLEAR, glorious; 4. o. 73
(adv.) with certainty; 4. 2. CLOTHIER'S YARD, an arrow of
the standard length; 4. 6.
CHALLENGE, claim as due; 1.1. 88
525+-7-3 1 CLOTPOLL, blockhead; I. 4. 48
CHAMPAIGN, stretch of flat CLOUT, mark shot at in
open country; 1. 1. 63 archery; 4. 6. 92
CHANGES, caprices; r. 1. 286 COCK, (i) weather-cock; 3.2.3;
CHARACTER, handwriting; 1.2. (ii) small ship's boat, cock-
63; 2. 1. 72 boat; 4. 6. 19
CHARGE (sb.), expense; 1. 1. 8; COCKNEY, a squeamish or over-
2. 4. 235 refined woman; 2. 4. 118
CHARGE (vb.), (i) thrust a CODPIECE, 'bagged appendage
weapon against; 2. I. 51} to the front of the close-
(ii) stress (lit. lay a load on); fitting hose or breeches*
4- 5- 18 (O.E.D.); trans. (i)=penis;
CHATTER, shiver so that the 3. 2. 27; (ii)=fool (since
teeth chatter; 4. 6. 101 court jesters were 'usually
CHE (dial.), I; 4. 6. 238 provided with this unseemly
part of dress in a more
CHILDE, title (in ballads and remarkable manner than
romances) of youth of noble other persons'—Douce); 3.
birth, lit. one not yet
knighted; 3. 4. 182 2.40. In each case there is a
CHILDLIKE, befitting a dutiful glance at the other sense.
child; 2. 1. 106 COHORT, body of troops; 1. 2,
CHILL (dial.), I will; 4. 6. 233,
240, 242 COLD, 'catch cold'=become
CHOUGH, usually in Sh. de- cold (not the mod. 'catch
notes 'the small chattering cold', see O.E.D. 'catch'
species of the crow family, 48); 1. 4. 102
esp. the jackdaw'} but here COLOUR, character; 2. 2. 135