Choor, s. A job; any dirty household work; a troublesome job.

Choor er,

s. A woman who goes out to do Choor-woman, any kind of odd and dirty work; hence the term char-woman in our polished dialect; but it ought to be choor-woman.

To Choóry. v. To do any kind of dirty household work.

Chubby. adj. Full, swelling; as chubby-faced. Claps. s. A clasp.

To Claps. v. a. To clasp.

Clávy. s. A mantel-piece.

Clear-and-sheer, adv. Completely; totally. Cleve-pink. s. A species of carnation which grows wild in the crannies of Cheddar-cliffs: a variety, I believe, of the Dianthus deltoides; it has an elegant smell.

To Clim.

To Climmer.

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v. a. To climb; to clamber.

Clin'kers. s. pl. Bricks or other earthy matter run into irregular shapes by the agency of heat.

Clinker-bell. s. An icicle.

Clint. v. a. To clench; to finish; to complete.
Cliver-and-Shiver. adv. Completely; totally.
Clit, v. n. To become imperfectly fermented: ap-
plied to bread.

Clit'ty. adj. Imperfectly fermented.

Clize. s. A place or drain for the discharge of water regulated by a valve or door, which permits a free egress, but no ingress to the water.

Coathe. v. a. To bane: applied to sheep.

Cob-wall. s. Mud-wall; a wall made of clay mixed

with straw.

Cock-lawt. s. A garret; cock-loft.

Originally, most probably, a place

where the fowls roosted.

Cock-squailing. s. A barbarous game, consisting in tying a cock to a stake, and throwing a stick at him from a given distance, so as to destroy the bird. I fear that cock-squailing has

not wholly disappeared from our west country sports.

Cock-and-Mwile. s. A jail.

Colley. s. A blackbird.

Comforts. s. pl. Sugared corianders, cinnamon,

&c.

Com'ical. adj. Odd; singular.

Contraption. s. Contrivance; management.
To Count. v. n. To think; to esteem.
Cow-baby. s. A coward; a timid person.

To Crap. v. n. to snap; to break with a
To Crappy, sudden sound; to crack.

Crap. s. A smart sudden sound.

Creem. s. Sudden shivering.

Creémy. adj. Affected with sudden shivering.
Crips. adj. Crisp.

Criss-cross-lain. s. The alphabet; so called in consequence of its being formerly preceded in the horn-book by a +, which was, no doubt, devised by some of the sons of the church to remind us of the cross of Christ; hence the term

Christ-Cross-line, ultimately came to mean nothing more than the alphabet.

Crock. s. A bellied pot, either of iron or other metal, for the purpose of 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. pass. To have an inquest held over a dead body by direction of the coroner.

Crowst. s. Crust.

Crow'sty. adj. Crusty, snappish, surly.

Crub.

Crubbin.

s. Food; particularly bread and cheese.

Cuckold. s. The plant burdock.

To Cull. v. n. To take hold round the neck with

the arms.

Cutty. adj. Small; diminutive..

Cutty-wren.}s. A wren.

D.

DAD DICK. S. Rotten wood.

Dad'dicky. adj. Rotten, like daddick.

Dame. s. This word is, of course, originally French, and means, in that language, as we all know, lady; but in this dialect it means a mistress; an old woman: and is never used in the sense

of lady; nor is it ever 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 schoolmistress is also sometimes called dame; it is rarely, if ever, applied to a young woman. 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.

Davison. s. A species of wild plum, superior to the bullin.

Dawzin. s. The passing over land with a bent hazel rod, held in a certain direction, to discover whether veins of metals are below, is called Dawzin, which is still occasionally practised in the mining districts of Somersetshire. 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. Polished and intelligent society is not, I believe, yet entirely free from this apparent folly.

Des perd. adj. [Corrupted from desperate.] Very, extremely; it is 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.

Dird. s. Thread.

Dirsh. s. A thrush.

Dirten. adj. Made of dirt.

Dock. s. A crupper.

To Doff. v. a. To put off.
To Don. v. a. To put on.

Donnins. s. pl. Dress; clothes.

Dough-fig. s. A fig; so called, most probably, from its feeling like dough. JUNIUS has dotefig: I know not where he found it. See FIG. To Dout. v. a. To extinguish; to put out.

To Downarg. v. a. To contradict; to contend with.

Dowst. s. Dust; money; Down wi' tha dowst! Put down the money !

Draf'fits. [I suppose from draught-vat.] A vessel to hold pot-liquor and other refuse aliment from the kitchen, for pigs.

Drang. s. A narrow path.

To Drash. v. a. To thresh.

Dras'hel. s. The threshold; a flail.

Dras'her. s. A thresher.

Drawt. s. Throat.

To Drean. v. n. To drawl in reading or speaking.
Drean. s. A drawling in reading or speaking.
To Dring. v. n. To throng; to press, as in a
crowd; to thrust.