C. D.

Cobnut, a gaine which consists in pitching at nuts, &c. The nut used for pitching, is called the cob. Cobshans. See Corn. Dial. Cockabell, an icicle. C. Conkabell, id. D. "I zeed 'en one day th' innocent face o'en like bassam, un hes poor hands plim'd up like pumples way chilbladders, hes hair stivering an end way th' wind, an a drap hanging to hes nose like a CONKABELL.' » Cockhedge, a quickset-hedge, on which clothes are usually dried. Cockleert, cocklight; the dawn when the cock crows.

N. D.

C.

N. D.

Codglove, a furze-glove, or a glove to handle turf, without fingers. Exm. Colbrand, colibrand, coalbrand; smut in wheat. C.

Cole, any kind of cabbage. c.
Colt, indiscriminately for either sex.

D. C.

Coltree, to, to be as playful as a colt. Exm.

Combe, a hollow between two hills, open at one end only. D. C.

Commercing, conversing." She never commerced with him;" that is, "she never conversed with him," used in Meneg: I never heard it elsewhere. In the same sense, Milton "looks commercing with the skies."

Condiddle, to, to waste; to convey away secretly. Exm.

Condudle, conceit. Corn. Dial. Copper-clouts, a kind of spatterdashes worn on the small of the leg. Exm. Copper-finch, a chaffinch. c.

Core, "Devoniensibus est ovium morbus. Ab Isl. Kaw, marcor; ægritudo mortifica." JUN.

Courtlage, the fore or back yard of a house. C.

Cowal; a fishwoman's basket, west of C. It is curious to observe the women who supply Penzance market with fish from Newlyn and Mousehole, arriving every morning with a burden that might stagger an Irish porter. The basket, in which they carry their cod, ling, macka. rel, hake, &c. is suspended from the head by means of a twisted cord fastened at each extremity of it, but resting on the back. It is called a COWAL. These people also sell train-oil, and bring it in small pitchers; it is fetid beyond all endurance. The younger lasses who sell this commodity are extremely pretty; having fine white teeth, cherry cheeks, and light hair. They incessantly cry: Buy my train! buy my train!" which they pronounce "traain." A dapper cockney is said to have fallen in love with one of these damsels, and was advancing to salute her; but the effluvium of her train-pot,. and eke her clothes, operated so powerfully, that he started back, and held his nose; so that her attraction, and his repulsion, displayed a fine specimen of centripetal and centrifugal forces, and produced a whirlabout; but at last the attraction prevailed. This gave occasion to the following lines:

"Nymph of the cowal, Newlyn fair,

With blushing cheek, but roguish eye, Poll Granken, let me, let me swear

'Thou art an angel!"- Fle, sir! fie!""Thou art all sweetness; that is plain: O let me catch thy odorous breath; Kiss me,this moment!" Buy my trasin!". "I will, I will! Oz-nds! 'tis death!""I feel a sickness too,' said Poll,

But sure it is a different smell: Mine, sir, is only pilcber-oil;

Thine is pomatum, musk, and hell!"— He, tho' half-poison'd by the stink,

Still gaz'd upon her auburn hair, Her dark blue eyes, her yielding wink; Then clasp'd and kiss'd the fragrant fair. Cowflop, foxglove.

Cozing, or coozing, loitering, soaking. c.

Crasie.

"Valetudinarius, dubiæ valetudinis. Videtur esse a xc, temperamentum corporis humani; propter Soxpacie, malum affecti corporis tempe riem: fortasse per metaphoram desumptum est ex illo Chauceriano:

"I am right siker, that the pot was crased." Vox eo sensu 'nondum abiit in desuetu dinem apud Devonienses, Est autem a Germane

nius.

Crazed, cracked. "I've craz'd the tea-pot;" that is, "I've cracked the teapot." C.

Craunch, to. See Scranch. c. Creem, to, to squeeze; and as it were to cramp. Exm.

Creem, a sudden shivering, or rigor. D. Creem'd, having such a rigor. D. Creen, to, to complain, to pine, to be sickly. D. Dean Milles. To complain with little cause for complaint. c.

Creening, complaining, yet having little to complain of. Hence we say, "a creening woman will live for ever."

C. D.

Crewdling, is always used adjectively, or as a participle. The verb, if ever there were any, is lost. It means, sensible of, and giving way to, the impression of cold; as if the blood were curdled, or erudled. "She is always crewdling and hanging over the fire." "Don't be zo crewdling." D.

Crewnting, cruning, grunting, complaining. Exin.

Crijarly! An exclamation.
Crimassy! id. D.

D.

Crick, a crick in the neck; a wrest in any part of the body occasioning pain. Cricks, dry hedgewood. c.

Cricket, a small three-legged-stool. c.D. Crickle, to, to bend, or give way shakingly under a weight. D.

Crime of the country, the whole cry, or common report, of the neighbourhood. D. Crisemore, poor creature; or a child unchristened. See Chrismer. N. D.

"Tis enew to make a body's heart ach, to see the poor CRISEMORE in his lete scrimp short jacket that a bard that is ent flish. A dured up in the morning by peep o' day to trounch in the mux urter th' horses, squash, squash, stratted up to the huxens in plid.' N. D.

Cruck, an iron pot, or boiler. [Sax crocca.] A pottage, or porridgecrock. D. The butter-crock, an earthen vessel.or jar to pot butter in. D. pancrock. D. c.

The

Crooks, long pieces of timber, sharp. ened above, and bent in a particular manner, to support burdens on horses. They arc, I believe, of aboriginal antiquity; but are used at this day only in Devonshire and in the highlands of Scotland. In the narrow lanes of Devon, they Occasion great inconvenience to travel lers. But the number of crooks is diminished since the more frequent use of MONTHLY MAG, No. 199,

Devon. p. 203.

"Edgee a croom;"

Croom, a little. that is, move a little. C. Cropeing, stingy, penurious. c. Croust, for crust, perhaps; as doust,

for dust.

C.

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Crowd, a fiddle, [Wall. erwth, fidicula.] from pove, pulso, y zidapau epoverv, citharam pulsare. Jun. "Kpova, sonus, qui editur cum organorum musicorum pulsatione." Casaub. Hence Butler's Crow dero. C. D.

Crowdy, to, to fiddle.

Crowe, an iron lever. c. The word obtains also in the north of England.

Crub, (for crib) a crust of bread. A pair of crubs, the wooden supporters of paniers, or bugs on a horse. D.

Cruel, very; cruel-good; cruel-sick. C. D. In Devon it is used as an amplifier in a more general manner. A Devonshire woman being told a surprising story, answered thus: "Massy! messy! cruel soce! Unaquontabel-i!" What do e tell aw! I dont at al doubt o't." In Hamp shire, desperate is used in the same sense.

Crumpling, a little knotty or wrink. led apple, sweet and crisp, and prema turely ripe. c.

Cuckoe, the harebell; so called from its appearing about the time of the cuckoe-bird. Thus, by gosling, we mean the willow-blossom. C.

Cuckold-buttons, the burrs on the plant burdock. C. D.

Cuckold, the red gurnard. c. Cuff, to, to cuff a tale; to exchange stories as if contending for the mastery. D. Culvers, pigeons. Exm.

Cunie, moss; the green mantle of a pool or well, the moss covering a pool. c. Custis, a schoolmaster's ferula. c. D. Cuyn, money.

C.

D.

Dibben, a fillet of veal. D.

Diddling, tatling." She is always a diddling." c.

Dildrums. To tell dildrums and Buckingham-jenkins;" that is, to talk strangely and out of the way. This is Exmoorian language: I once heard the expression at South Molton. Buckingham jenkins is conjectured to be an allusion to some old incredible story or ballad concerning á Jenkins of Buckingham. Dimmet, the dusk of the evening. Exm.

Dinder, thunder. Exm.
Disel, thistle. c. Dashel, thistle. D.
Dishwasher, diswash, a water wagtail.

C. D.

to talk wildly or deliriously, as in a fever. D.

Doll, to, to toll. "The bell dolls." c. Don and doff, to, to put on and put off. Literally, to do on and do off. In this sense, don and doff are used in Somerset; and doff in Devon; and still more in Cornwall. "He doffs the clothes;" "he doff his hat," that is," he puts off the clothes;" ;" "he puts off his hat.” Dott often occurs in Shakespeare and in Spenser ; and twice in Milton:

C.

"I praise thy resolution: doff these links." "Samps. Agonister

"Nature in awe to him
Had dofft her gaudy trim."
Ode on the Nativity,

Done, expended, consumed: "And now they meet where both their lives are done.-Sir W. Lucy, in Henry VL "Are on a sudden wasted, thaw'd, and done."-Venus and Adonis,

Doodle, to, to trifle. "She doodles it

away."

N. D.

D. C.

Durns, id. c.

Dorns, door-posts. D. Dotefig, the dry fig. c. Douce, doust, a blow. "A douce on the chucks or chacks;" that is, "a blow on the cheeks." "I'll doust am wi stoans." Cornish Dial. Doucet-pie, a sweet-herb pie. [Doucet, perhaps from dulcis.] D. Bishop Lyt telton and Dean Milles's manuscripts. I never heard the word in Devon, or elsewhere.

Doveth, "It doveth;" that is, "it thaws." N. D.

Dowl, the devil. N. D.

rited.

Down, downcast, dejected; love-spi"He's down in the mouth." c. Down, downs, a heathland, a coMIRON, an upland. This word (from dave, colis) seems to extend throughout what is

now called the western circuit.

Drag, a heavy harrow to break the clods in stiff land.

D.

Drang, a narrow passage between two houses; a narrow lane. D. A gutter, a wheel rut. C.

D.

D.

Drashel, the threshold of a door. Drashal, for thrashal, a flail. Drawbreech. "Amoxy drawbreech;" that is, "a filthy jade, ikat seems laden

with dirt at her tail." Ex.

Dreekstool, the threshold of a door. c.D. Dreule, to, to drivel. c. D. "Dreulling away my time;" that is, “drivelling away my time."

Dring, dringet; a press of people; a

crowd.

D. C.

Dringi,

Dry, thirsty. c. D. "Siccus inanis sperne cibum vilem." Hur. Dubbed, blunt. Exm. Dugged, draggletailed. Exm. Dull, hard of hearing. c. Dumble-dory, the humble bee. Dump, thump. D.

C.

Dumplin, a Devonshire dumplin. Gay calls his third pastoral "the Dumps;" and "dumps," (says he) "which is a grievous heaviness of spirits, comes, in the opinion of our English antiquaries, from the word dumplin, the heaviest kind of pudding that is eaten in this country." Gay's Poems, I. 89.

Dumps, dimpse, dampse, dimmet, twilight. D.

Dung-pots, vessels slung across a horse to carry manure, &c. C.

Durnes, the side-posts of a door.
E.

C,

it..

En, (a pronoun) used both for him and "I told en;" "I bought en." D. Es, ise, ish, used for I.

D.

Eute, to pour out. Exm. Eutrir, to, to pour from one vessel to another. D. Lyttelton.

Evil, a three-pronged fork. c.

F, is generally pronounced like V. Fadge, to, to fure. "How d'ye fadge"How d'ye fare?" D.

Falky, long-stemmed, luxuriant; as applied to barley grown so high, that it requires the reaping-hook. c. [From fals.].

Fang, to, to take possession of; to receive; to earn. "Ifang'd to that estate last Christmas;" that is, "I took possession of that estate last Christmas." "I fung'd a child;" that is, "I received a child." "I fang'd a shilling;" that is, "I earned a shilling."

Farm, firm. "Make it farm;" that is, "make it firm or strong." c.

Fast, The fast is the understratum, supposed never to have been moved or broken up since the creation.

C.

Feather-bog, a quagmire, a bog. c. Fend to, to find. N. D.

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Fescue, (pronounced also vester) pin or point with which to teach children to read. Possibly a corruption of ver secue; verse being vulgarly pronounced

Fogan, fogon, a kind of cake. In some parts of Cornwall, the fogan is a cake inade of the fat of pork and barley-meal. A fogan-cake has been said to be a figgycake; but this is unlikely. Townsend may supply us with a more plausible conjecture. He tells us, (see Travels in Spain, i. 144) that "as fuel is not easily procured, the Catalonians use the utmost frugality in dressing their little dinners, seldom indulging themselves with either roast or boiled, but mostly stewing their meat in pitchers over their fogon, or little furnace." And he mentions, that near Barcelona, there are manufactories for these little fogons, which are sold very cheap to the miners. Now the fogon is out of use with our miners: but the name remains to the neat which is carried for the meal at the mine. Thus we say, a mug," meaning the beer in the mug: and thus we call wine mixed with water, &c. &c. “a cool tankard,” though we are drinking it out of a bowl.

Fooch, to, to shove; to put in; to get øter.

"He fooch'd me about; that is, "he shoved me about." "I fooch'd it through the key-hole;" that is, "I put it in through the key-hole." "I thort he might ha' fooch'd away a year or two more." "I thought he might have got ever, (that is, have lived) a year or two more." C.

Forehead, about six feet space wide of earth round the hedges of a field, which is ploughed up, mixed with lime, and carted, or wheeled upon the field for manure. D. (See Earthridge.)

Foreright," a foreright man;" that is, a plain honest mun. D. C.

Foreright, the coarsest sort of wheaten bread, made of the meal with almost all the bran; and not what we term in Cornwall, second bread, though it may probably answer to the panis secundis of

Horace. Sir Humphrey de Andarton, in
"The Old English "Gentleman:"
"Then, hunger for his sauce, and nothing
nice,

Cuts from the buttock a convenient slice,
And (often to the wonder of his wife)
Salutes the foreright with as keen a knife."*

D.

p. 54.

Foust, a foust, dirty and soiled cloaths. Rumpled, tumbled.

C.

Fraped, confined, kept buck, as applied to hair, N. D. "Cryle! how times be altered! Their mothers weared their hair fraped back-way, a forehead-cloth under their dowdes, and little baize rockets and blue aperns. They wednt know their own childern way their frippery gauzy geer, and their fallals to their elbows; and their pie-picked flimzy skittering gownds, reaping in the mur, or vaging in the wind."

French-nuts, wall-nuts. c. Frith, writh, underwood. D. Wattles, or hurdles, placed in a gap. C. From, after. D. Frooze, freeze. c. Frozzies, feasts. "They have froz. zies;" that is, “they have feasts.”

Fudgee, to, to contrive to do. N. D. "Good now, lovey! duntee think out. We shall fudgee well a fine without et. All my turmoiling, carking, and careing, will be cor you, an every thing shall be as thee wot ha et: thee shall do what th' wot."

Full-slated, said of a leasehold estate that has three lives subsisting on it. D.. Fulsh, "fush and thumpcn." N. D.

Fump, for frump, sanna, "the whole fump of the business" that is, "the whole of the jest; the material circumstances of the story."

N.D.

Funny, well, pleasing. "It looks funny," "it looks well, pleasing, regu«. lar" ç.

Fussing, making a fuss, a bustle. Fustiluggs, a big boned person, a great coarse creature. Exm.

G.