Part 4

=Chink=. _Fringilla coelebs_, the Chaffinch; from its note.--S.W.

=Chinstey=. _n._ The string of a baby's cap.--N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.) A horse's chin-strap.--S.W. Compare:--

'Oh! Mo-ather! Her hath chuck'd me wi' tha chingstey [caught me by the back-hair and choked me with the cap-string].'--_The Exmoor Scolding_, p. 17.

=Chip=. The fore-shoot of a plough.--S.W.

=Chipples=. Young onions grown from seed. Cf. ~Gibbles~ and ~Cribbles~.--S.W.

=Chisley=. _adj._ Without coherence, as the yolk of an over-boiled egg, or a very dry cheese. When land gets wet and then dries too fast, it becomes chisley. Compare:--'_Chizzly_, hard, harsh and dry: _East_,' in Hal.--S.W.

=Chism=. To germinate, to bud (A.B.C.). 'The wheat doesn't make much show yet, John.' 'No, zur, but if you looks 'tes aal chisming out ter'ble vast.'--N. & S.W.

=Chit=. (1) _n._ The third swarm of bees from a hive.--N.W. (2) _v._ To bud or spring (A.B.C.). 'The whate be chitting a'ter thease rains.'--N.W.

=Chitchat=. _Pyrus Aucuparia_, Gærtn., Mountain Ash.--S.W.

=Chitterlings=. Pigs' entrails when cleaned and boiled (A.B.); ~Chiddlens~ (H.S.Wr.).--N. & S.W.

=Chivy=. _Fringilla coelebs_, the Chaffinch.--S.W. (Som. bord.).

=Choor=. (1) _v._ To go out as a charwoman (A.); ~Cheure, Chewree-ring~ (H.Wr.); ~Char~ (A.S.). Still in use.--N.W. (2) _n._ A turn, as in phrase 'One good choor deserves another' (A.). Still in use.--N.W.

=Chop=. To exchange (A.B.S.). 'Wool ye chop wi' I, this thing for thuck?' (B.).--N. & S.W.

*=Chore=. A narrow passage between houses (_MS. Lansd._ 1033, f. 2); see N.E.D. (~s.v. Chare~).

=Christian Names=. The manner in which a few of these are pronounced may here be noted:--_Allburt_, Albert; _Allfurd_, Alfred; _Charl_ or _Chas_, Charles; _Etherd_, Edward; _Rich't_ or _Richet_, Richard; _Robbut_, Robert; &c.

=Chuffey=. Chubby. 'What chuffey cheeks he've a got, to be showr!'--S.W.

=Chump=. A block of wood (A.B.); chiefly applied to the short lengths into which crooked branches and logs are sawn for firewood (_Under the Acorns_).--N. & S.W.

=Ciderkin=, ='Kin=. The washings after the best cider is made.--N. & S.W.

=Clacker=. The tongue (S.).--S.W.

=Clackers=. A pair of pattens (S.).--S.W.

=Clangy=, =Clengy=, or =Clungy=. Of bad bread, or heavy ground, clingy, sticky.--N.W.

=Claps=. _n._ and _v._ clasp (A.).--N. & S.W.

=Clat=. See ~Clot~.

=Clattersome=, =Cluttersome=. Of weather, gusty.--S.W. (Hants bord.)

=Claut=. _Caltha palustris_, L., Marsh Marigold (A.H.Wr.).--N.W. (Clyffe Pypard, &c.)

=Clavy=, =Clavy-tack=. A mantelpiece (A.B.C.).--N.W., now almost obsolete. Strictly speaking, _clavy_ is merely the beam which stretches across an old-fashioned fireplace, supporting the wall. Where there is a mantelpiece, or _clavy-tack_, it comes just above the _clavy_.

=Clean=. 'A clean rabbit,' one that has been caught in the nets, and is uninjured by shot or ferret, as opposed to a 'broken,' or damaged one. (_Amateur Poacher_, ch. xi. p. 212).--N. & S.W.

=Cleat=, =Cleet=. (1) The little wedge which secures the head of an axe or hammer.--N.W. *(2) _n._ A patch (A.B.C.).--N.W. *(3) _v._ To mend with a patch (A.B.C.)--N.W. *(4) Occasionally, to strengthen by bracing (C.).--N.W.

=Cleaty=. Sticky, clammy; applied to imperfectly fermented bread, or earth that will not work well in ploughing.--N.W.

=Cleet=. See ~Cleat~.

=Clengy=. See ~Clangy~.

=Clim=. To climb (A.S.). A cat over-fond of investigating the contents of the larder shelves is a 'clim-tack,' or climb-shelf.--N. & S.W.

=Clinches=. The muscles of the leg, just under the knee-joint.--N. & S.W.

=Clinkerbell=. An icicle.--S.W. (Som. bord.) occasionally.

=Clitch=. The groin.--N.W.

=Clite=, =Clit=. (1) _n._ 'All in a clite,' tangled, as a child's hair. A badly groomed horse is said to be 'aal a clit.'--N. & S.W. (2) _v._ To tangle. 'How your hair do get clited!'--N. & S.W.

=Clites=, =Clytes=. _Galium Aparine_, L., Goosegrass (A.). Usually pl., but Jefferies has sing., ~Clite~, in _Wild Life_, ch. ix.--N. & S.W.

=Clitty=. Tangled, matted together.--S.W.

=Clock=. A dandelion seed-head, because children play at telling the time of day by the number of puffs it takes to blow away all its down.--N. & S.W.

=Cloddy=. Thick, plump, stout (H.Wr.).--S.W.

=Clog-weed=. _Heracleum Sphondylium_, L., Cow-parsnip (_Amateur Poacher_, ch. vi).--N.W.

=Clot=. A hard lump of dry cow-dung, left on the surface of a pasture. See ~Cow-clat~.--N.W.

'On pasture farms they beat clots or pick up stones.'--R. JEFFERIES, Letter to _Times_, Nov. 1872.

'1661. Itm p^d Richard Sheppard & Old Taverner for beating clatts in Inglands, 00. 04. 08.'--_Records of Chippenham_, p. 226.

*=Clote=. _n._ _Verbascum Thapsus_, L., Great Mullein (_Aubrey's Wilts MS._).--Obsolete.

=Clothes-brush=. _Dipsacus sylvestris_, L., Wild Teasel. Cf. ~Brushes~.--S.W.

=Clottiness=. See ~Cleaty~. Clottishness (_Agric. Survey_).

'The peculiar churlishness (provincially, "clottiness") of a great part of the lands of this district, arising perhaps from the cold nature of the sub-soil.'--_Agric. of Wilts_, ch. vii. p. 51.

=Clout=. (1) _n._ A box on the ear, a blow (A.B.C.S.). See ~Clue~. 'I'll gie thee a clout o' th' yead.'--N. & S.W. (2) _v._ To strike.--N. & S.W.

=Clue=. 'A clue in the head,' a knock on the head (_Village Miners_). A box on the ear. Cf. _clow_, Winchester College. See ~Clout~.--N.W.

=Clum=. To handle clumsily (A.B.), roughly, boisterously, or indecently (C.).--N.W.

=Clumbersome=. Awkward, clumsy.--N.W.

=Clumper=, =Clumber=. A heavy clod of earth.--N.W. (Marlborough.)

=Clums=. _pl._ Hands. 'I'll keep out o' thee clums, I'll warnd I will!'--N.W. ~Clumps~ is used in S. Wilts in a similar way, but generally of the feet (S.), and always implies great awkwardness, as 'What be a treadin' on my gownd vor wi' they girt ugly clumps o' yourn?'

=Clungy=. See ~Clangy~.

*=Cluster-of-five=. The fist. ~Cluster-a-vive~ (S.).--S.W.

=Clutter=. _n._ Disorder, mess, confusion. 'The house be ael in a clutter to-day wi' they childern's lease-carn.'--N. & S.W.

=Cluttered=. (1) 'Caddled,' over-burdened with work and worry.--N. & S.W.

'"_Cluttered up_" means in a litter, surrounded with too many things to do at once.'--JEFFERIES, _Field and Hedgerow_, p. 189.

*(2) Brow-beaten. Said to have been used at Warminster formerly.

=Cluttersome=. See ~Clattersome~.

=Cluttery=. Showery and gusty.--S.W.

*=Clyders=. _Galium Aparine_, L., Goosegrass.--S.W.

*=Clyten=. *(1) _n._ An unhealthy appearance, particularly in children (A.B.C.).--N.W., obsolete. *(2) _n._ An unhealthy child (C.).--N.W., obsolete.

*=Clytenish=. _adj._ Unhealthy-looking, pale, sickly (A.B.C.H.Wr.).--N.W., obsolete.

=Clytes=. See ~Clites~.

*=Coath=. Sheep-rot (D.S.).--N. & S.W.

=Cobbler's-knock=. 'To do the cobbler's knock,' to slide on one foot, tapping the ice meanwhile with the other.--S.W.

*=Cob-nut=. A game played by children with nuts (A.B.).--S.W.

=Cockagee=, =Cockygee= (_g_ hard). A kind of small hard sour cider apple. Ir. _cac a' gheidh_, goose-dung, from its greenish-yellow colour (see N.E.D., ~s.v. Coccagee~).--S.W. (Deverill, &c.)

=Cocking-fork=. A large hay-fork, used for carrying hay from the cock into the summer-rick.--S.W.

*=Cocking-poles=. Poles used for the same purpose.--N.W.

=Cockles=. Seed-heads of _Arctium Lappa_, L., Burdock.--N.W. (Clyffe Pypard).

=Cock's Egg=. The small eggs sometimes first laid by pullets.--N. & S.W.

=Cock-shot=. A cock-shy: used by boys about Marlborough and elsewhere. 'I say, there's a skug [squirrel]--let's have a cock-shot at him with your squailer.'--N. & S.W.

*=Cock's-neckling=. 'To come down cock's-neckling,' to fall head foremost (H.Wr.).--Obsolete.

=Cock's-nests=. The nests so often built and then deserted by the wren, without any apparent cause.--N.W.

*=Cock-sqwoilin=. Throwing at cocks at Shrovetide (A.Wr.). See ~Squail~.--N.W., obsolete.

'1755. Paid expenses at the Angel at a meeting when the By Law was made to prevent Throwing at Cocks, 0.10.6.'--Records of _Chippenham_, p. 244.

=Cocky-warny=. The game of leap-frog.--N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.)

*=Cod-apple=. A wild apple (_Wilts Arch. Mag._ xiv. 177).

=Codlins-and-cream=. _Epilobium hirsutum_, L., Great Hairy Willow-herb; from its smell when crushed in the hand. Cf. ~Sugar-Codlins~.--S.W.

*=Coglers=. The hooks, with cogged rack-work for lifting or lowering, by which pots and kettles were formerly hung over open fireplaces. Now superseded by _Hanglers_.--N.W., obsolete.

=Colley=. (1) A collar.--N. & S.W. *(2) Soot or grime from a pot or kettle (A.B.). Compare:--

'Brief as the lightning in the collied night.'--_Midsummer Night's Dream._

'Thou hast not collied thy face enough.'--JONSON'S ~Poetaster~.

=Colley-maker=. A saddler. See ~Colley~ (1).--N. & S.W.

=Colley-strawker=. A milker or 'cow-stroker.'--N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.)

=Colt's-tail=. A kind of cloud said to portend rain.--N.W.

'The colt's tail is a cloud with a bushy appearance like a ragged fringe, and portends rain.'--_Great Estate_, ch. viii.

*=Comb=, =Coom=. (1) _n._ The lower ledge of a window (Kennett's _Paroch. Antiq._). (2) _n._ Grease from an axle-box, soot, dirt, &c. ~Koomb~ (S.).--S.W.

=Comb-and-Brush=. _Dipsacus sylvestris_, L., Wild Teasel.--S.W.

=Combe=, =Coombe=. (1) The wooded side of a hill (D.); used occasionally in this sense in both Wilts and Dorset.--N. & S.W. (2) A narrow valley or hollow in a hillside. This is the proper meaning.--N. & S.W. Used of a narrow valley in the woodlands in _Gamekeeper at Home_, ch. i.

=Come of=. To get the better of, to grow out of. 'How weak that child is about the knees, Sally!' 'Oh, he'll come o' that all right, Miss, as he do grow bigger.'--N. & S.W.

=Come to land=. Of intermittent springs, to rise to the surface and begin to flow (_Agric. of Wilts_, ch. xii).--S.W.

=Comical=. (1) Queer-tempered. 'Her's a comical 'ooman.'--N. & S.W. (2) Out of health. 'I've bin uncommon comical to-year.'--N. & S.W. (3) Cracky, queer. 'He's sort o' comical in his head, bless 'ee.'--N. & S.W. 'A cow he's a comical thing to feed; bin he don't take care he's very like to choke hisself.'--N.W. (Marlborough.) It should be noted that Marlborough folk are traditionally reputed to call everything _he_ but a bull, and that they always call _she_!

=Coney-burry=. A rabbit's hole.--S.W. (Amesbury.)

=Coniger=, =Conigre=. This old word, originally meaning a rabbit-warren, occurs frequently in Wilts (as at Trowbridge) as the name of a meadow, piece of ground, street, &c. See _Great Estate_, note to ch. ix.

=Conker-berries=. See ~Canker-berries~.

=Conks=, =Conkers= (i.e. _conquerors_). (1) A boy's game, played with horse-chestnuts strung on cord, the players taking it in turn to strike at their opponent's conk, in order to crack and disable it.--N.W. (Marlborough.) (2) Hence, the fruit of _Aesculus Hippocastanum_, L., Horse-chestnut.--N.W.

=Coob=. A hen-coop (H.): invariably so pronounced.--N. & S.W.

=Cooby=. A snug corner. See ~Cubby-hole~.--N. & S.W.

=Coom=. See ~Comb~.

*=Coombe-bottom=. A valley in a hillside (_Great Estate_, ch. iv). See ~Combe~.

=Coom hedder=. (A.S.). See ~Horses~.

=Coop! Coop!= The usual call to cows, &c., to come in.--N. & S.W.

=Coopy-house=. A very small house or cottage (S.). See ~Cubby-hole~.--S.W.

*=Cooted=. Cut slanting, sloped off, as the ends of the upper part of an oblong hay-rick (D.).

'Hayricks are usually made round; sometimes oblong with cooted ends, not gable ends.'--_Agric. of Wilts._

=Cord=. 'A cord of plocks,' a pile of cleft wood, 8 ft. long and 4 ft. in girth and width (D.).--N.W.

=Corn-baulk=. See ~Baulk~ (1).

=Corndrake=. _Crex pratensis_, the Landrail; almost invariably so called about Warminster and in some parts of N. Wilts.--N. & S.W.

*=Corn-grate=. The Cornbrash formation (_Agric. of Wilts_, p. 164).

*=Corn Grit=. Quarrymen's term for one of the building stone beds of the Portland series (Britton's _Beauties of Wilts_, vol. iii).

*=Corn Pop=. _Silene inflata_, Sm., Bladder Campion.--N.W. (Enford.)

=Corruptions=. Some of these are curious, and perhaps worth recording, as _Rainball_, rainbow (always used at Huish); _Lattiprack_, paralytic; _Nuffin-idols_, Love-in-idleness; _Polly Andrews_, Polyanthus. Also see _Nolens-volens_. Bronchitis is always _Brantitus_, and Jaundice always _The Janders_, plural. Persuade is always _Suade_. The crab-apple is usually _Grab_ in N. Wilts. At Etchilhampton we find _Plump_ for pump, and _Moth_ for moss, while at Huish and elsewhere proud flesh is always _Ploughed flesh_. _Pasmet_, parsnip, and the universal _Turmut_, turnip, may be noted as illustrating a curious letter-change. _Varley-grassey_, gone green, is evidently from verdigris. In _Great Estate_, ch. iv, Jefferies traces _Meejick_ ('a sort of a _Meejick'_=anything very strange or unusual) back to menagerie. Cavalry becomes _Cavaltry_, meaning horsemen, and crockery is usually _Crockerty_. Other more or less common perversions of words are _Patty Carey_, Hepatica; _Chiny Oysters_, China Aster; _Turkemtime_, turpentine; _Absence_, abscess (Cherhill); _Abrupt_, to approve (Huish); _Tiddle_, to tickle; _Cribble_, a cripple; _Strive_ (of a tree), to thrive (Steeple Ashton); _Hurly-gurly_, a hurdy-gurdy (S.W.); _Midger_, to measure; _Cherm_, to churn (_Slow_, S.W.); _Rumsey-voosey_, to rendezvous, as 'He went a rumsy-voosing down the lane to meet his sweetheart'; _Dapcheek_, a dabchick; _Drilly-drally_, to hesitate, to dawdle over anything; _Kiddle_, a kettle.

=Couch=, =Cooch=. Couch-grass in general.--N. & S.W. ~Black Couch~, _Agrostis stolonifera_ (D.); ~White Couch~, _Triticum repens_ (D.); ~Couchy-bent~, _Agrostis stolonifera_ (D.); ~Knot Couch~, _Avena elatior_.

=Couchy-bent=. See ~Couch~.

=Count=. To expect or think. 'I don't count as he'll come.'--N.W.

*=Coventree=. _Viburnum Lantana_, L., Mealy Guelder rose.--S.W., obsolete.

'Coven-tree common about Chalke and Cranbourn Chase; the carters doe make their whippes of it.'--AUBREY'S _Wilts_, p. 56, Ed. Brit.

*=Coward=. _adj._ Pure: used of unskimmed milk. Cf. 'cowed milk,' Isle of Wight (_Wilts Arch. Mag._ vol. xxii. p. 110).--N.W. (Cherhill.)

*=Cow-baby=. A childish fellow, a simpleton (S.).--S.W.

=Cow-clap=. A form of ~Cow-clat~, q.v.--N.W.

=Cow-clat=, =Cow-clap=. A pat of cow-dung (A.).--N.W.

*=Cow-down=. A cow-common (_Agric. Survey_).--Obsolete.

=Cows-and-Calves=. (1) _Arum maculatum_, L., Cuckoo-pint.--S.W. (2) When a saw has alternately long and short teeth, they are known as _cows_ and _calves_ respectively.--N.W.

=Cowshard=. Cow-clat.--N.W.

*=Cowshorne=. Cow-clats. Obsolete.

'The poore people gather the cowshorne in the meadows.'--JACKSON'S _Aubrey_, p. 192.

*=Cow-white=. See ~White~.

*=Crab=. To abuse (_Wilts Arch. Mag._ vol. xxii. p. 110). Compare North Eng. _crab_, to provoke, and _crob_, to reproach. Originally a hawking term, hawks being said to _crab_ when they stood too near and fought one with another. See _Folk-Etymology_, p. 81 (Smythe-Palmer).--N.W. (Cherhill.)

*=Crandum=. The throat (S.).--N.W.

'I first heard this word near Hungerford, where some farm hands were having a spree. There was a six-gallon jar of beer on the table, which they were continually smacking with their hands, whilst they sang in chorus:--

"Let it run down yer crandum, An' jolly will we be," &c.

I have only heard it applied to the human throat, never to that of an animal.'--_Letter from Mr. Slow._

*=Crap=. Assurance (H.Wr.). There is probably some mistake here.

=Craw=. The crop of a bird; hence, the bosom (A.). 'A spelt th' drenk down 's craw,' he spilt it down his bosom (A.).--N.W.

=Crazy=, =Craisey=, =Craizey=. The Buttercup (A.B.H.Wr.). Buttercups in general, _Ranunculus acris_, _R. bulbosus_, _R. repens_, and often _R. Ficaria_ also, but at Huish never applied to the last-named. In Deverill the term _Craizies_ is restricted to the Marsh Marigold. See N.E.D. (~s.v. Crayse~).--N. & S.W.

=Crazy Bets=. (1) The general name all over Wilts for _Caltha palustris_, L., Marsh Marigold; apparently always pl. in form. ~Crazy Betties~ (_Great Estate_, ch. ii) and ~Crazy Betseys~ are occasionally used, the latter at Little Langford, S.W. Cf. 'Pretty Bets,' Oxf. and Nhamp., for Red Spur Valerian and London Pride, and 'Sweet Betsey,' Kent, for the former. In Glouc. Marsh Marigold is merely a _Crazy_.--N. & S.W. *(2) Mr. Slow says that 'Crazy bets' is applied to the 'buttercup' in South Wilts. *(3) _Chrysanthemum leucanthemum_, L., the Ox-eye Daisy.--S.W. (Hampworth.)

=Crazy-mor=e, =Crazy-mar=, or =Crazy-moir=. (1) _Ranunculus repens_, L., Creeping Buttercup. _More_=root or plant.--N.W. (Devizes; Huish.) (2) At Clyffe Pypard, N.W., and probably elsewhere, ~Crazy-mar~ means a plant of any kind of buttercup.

=Crease=. A ridge-tile.--N.W.

'From the top of Aland's house ... a slate ridge-crest (or crease, as it is provincially termed) ... was carried northwards about 40 yards.'--_The Great Wiltshire Storm, Wilts Arch. Mag._ vol. vi. p. 378.

=Creed=. _Lemna minor_, L., Duckweed (_Great Estate_, ch. ii).--N.W.

*=Creeny=. Small (A.B.H.Wr.).

*=Creeping Jack=. _Sedum_, Stonecrop.--N.W. (Lyneham.)

=Creeping Jenny=. (1) _Linaria Cymbalaria_, Mill., Ivy-leaved Toadflax.--S.W. (Salisbury.) (2) _Lysimachia Nummularia_, L., Moneywort.--N. & S.W.

*=Cresset=, =Cressil=. _Scrophularia aquatica_, L., Water Figwort (_Great Estate_, ch. iv).

=Crew=. The tang of a scythe-blade, fastening into the pole-ring.--N.W.

=Cribble about=. To creep about as old people do.--N. & S.W.

=Cribbles=. Onions grown from bulbs. See ~Gibbles~ and ~Chipples~.--S.W. (Som. bord.)

=Crick crack=. People who try to talk fine language, and cannot, are said to use 'crick crack' words. ~Crick crach~: words not understood (S.).--N. & S.W.

'Crink-crank words are long words--_verba sesquipedalia_--not properly understood. See _Proceedings of Phil. Soc._ v. 143-8.'--COPE'S _Hants Gloss_.

=Crink=. A crevice or crack.--N.W.

*=Crippender=. Crupper harness.--S.W. (Bratton.)

=Critch=. A deep earthen pan (S.). Also used in Hants. Fr. _cruche_.--S.W.

=Crock=. A pot; especially an earthen one (A.B.S.).--N. & S.W.

=Croud=. See ~Crowdy~.

=Croupy down=. To crouch down (S.) as children do when playing hide-and-seek.--N. & S.W.

=Crow-bells= (pl. used as sing.). _Scilla nutans_, Sm., Wild Hyacinth (H.Wr.).--S.W. This is probably the flower referred to in Aubrey's _Wilts_, Roy. Soc. MS., p. 126 (p. 52, ed. Brit.), under the same name:--

'In a ground of mine called Swices ... growes abundantly a plant called by the people hereabout crow-bells, which I never saw any where but there. Mr. Rob. Good, M.A., tells me that these crow-bells have blue flowers, and are common to many shady places in this county.'

=Crowdy=. A kind of apple turnover (S.). ~Croud~ (H.Wr.).--N. & S.W.

=Crow-flower=. _Scilla nutans_, Sm., Wild Hyacinth.--S.W. (Hants bord.)

=Crow-hearted=. Young cabbage and broccoli plants that have lost their eye or centre are said to be 'crow-hearted.'--N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.)

=Crowpeck=. (1) _Scandix Pecten_, L., Shepherd's-needle (D.).--S.W. (2) _Ranunculus arvensis_, L., Corn Crowfoot.--N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.)

*=Crow's-legs=. _Scilla nutans_, Sm., Wild Hyacinth.--N.W.

=Crump=. To crunch or munch.--N.W.

=Crumplings=, =Crumplens=. Small, imperfectly grown apples.--N. & S.W.

=Cubby-hole=. A snug corner, a sheltered place (A.S.). Also ~Cooby~; cf. ~Coopy-house~.--N. & S.W.

=Cuckoo=. About Salisbury _Saxifraga granulata_ is known as ~Dry~ (or ~Dryland~) ~Cuckoo~, and _Cardamine pratensis_ as ~Water Cuckoo~, from their respective habitats. The use of _Cuckoo_ in a plant-name always implies that it flowers in early spring.

=Cuckoo-flower=. (1) _Cardamine pratensis_, L., Lady's Smock.--N. & S.W. (2) _Anemone nemorosa_, L., Wood Anemone.--S.W.

=Cuckoo fool=. _Yunx torquilla_, the Wryneck.--N.W. (Broadtown.)

=Cuckoo-gate=. A swing-gate in a V-shaped enclosure.--N. & S.W.

=Cuckoos=. _Anemone nemorosa_, L., Wood Anemone.--S.W. (Hamptworth.)

*=Cuckoo's bread-and-cheese=. The young shoots of the Hawthorn (_Great Estate_, ch. iii).--N.W.

=Cuddickwaay=! Order to a horse to 'Come this way.'

=Cue= (1), _n._ An ox-shoe (A.). Only used on flinty lands.--N. & S.W. (2) _v._ To shoe an ox.--N. & S.W.

=Cull=, or =Tom Cull=. _Cottus gobio_, the Bullhead (A.B.).

=Culls=. Sheep or lambs picked out of the flock, as inferior in size or in any other way, and sold. Fairs at which they are sold are called '_Cull Fairs_.'--N.W.

=Curdle=. A curl of hair (S.).--N. & S.W.

=Curly-buttons=. Woodlice.--S.W.

=Curly-cob=. The Bullhead, _Cottus gobio_--S.W. (Bishopstone.)

=Curry-pig=. A sucking pig (H.Wr.). Also ~Cure-pig~.

=Cushion-pink=. _Armeria maritima_, Willd., Thrift; the garden variety.--N.W.

*=Cushions=. _Scabiosa arvensis_, L., Field Scabious.--N. & S.W. (Enford, &c.)

*=Cusnation=. An expletive (A.).

'Ha' done, Jonas! Dwon't 'e be a cussnation vool! I'll call missus!'--_Wilts Tales_, p. 83.

=Cut-finger-leaf=. _Valeriana_, All-heal. The leaves are good for application to sluggish sores, whitlows, &c. Mr. Cunnington quotes it as _V. dioica_.--N.W. (Huish, &c.)

=Cutty=. _Troglodytes vulgaris_, the Wren (S.).--S.W.

=D=. (1) In comparatives, &c., _d_ is frequently added to liquids, as _coolder_, cooler; _thinder_, thinner; feeldins, feelings; and _scholard_, scholar. In _Chronicon Vilodunense_, fifteenth century, we find _jaylarde_, a gaoler. (2) It is also used for _th_, as _draish_, thresh; _droo_, through; _dree_, three. (3) _D_ not sounded after a liquid; examples:--_veel_, field; _vine_, to find; _dreshol_, threshold.

=Daak=. See ~Dawk~.

=Dab=. An expert at anything; sometimes used ironically, as 'He's a perfect dab at gardening,' he knows nothing whatever about it.--N. & S.W.

=Dabster=. A proficient (A.). See ~Dapster~.--S.W.

=Dack=. See ~Dawk~.

=Daddick=, =Daddock=. _n._ Rotten wood (A.B.G.).--N.W.

=Daddicky=. _adj._ Of wood, decayed, rotten (A.B.S.). Cf. ~Dicky~.--N. & S.W.

*=Daddy's Whiskers=. _Clematis Vitalba_, L., Traveller's Joy.--S.W. (Farley.)

=Daffy=. The usual name in N.W. for the wild Daffodil.

=Daggled=. See ~Diggled~.

=Daglet=. An icicle (A.H.S.Wr.). See ~Daggled~.--N. & S.W.

'Thatched roofs are always hung with "daglets" in frost.'--_Village Miners._

=Dain=. Noisome effluvia (A.B.C.H.Wr.). Formerly applied mainly to _infectious_ effluvia, as 'Now dwoan't 'ee gwo too nigh thuck there chap; he've a had the small-pox, and the dain be in his clothes still.' (See _Cunnington MS._). Now used of very bad smells in general.--N.W.

=Dainty=. Evil-smelling. 'That there meat's ter'ble dainty.'--N.W.

=Dall=. An expletive (S.).--N.W.

''Od dal th' vor'n ungrateful varment!'--_Wilts Tales_, p. 50.

=Dandy-goshen=. See ~Dandy-goslings~.

=Dandy-goslings=. (1) _Orchis mascula_, L., Early Purple Orchis. See ~Gandigoslings~, &c.--N.W. (2) _O. Morio_, L., Green-winged Meadow Orchis. ~Dandy-goshen~ at Salisbury (_English Plant Names_), also at Little Langford.--S.W.

*=Dane=, =Daner=. In Kingston Deverill there was an old man who called red-haired men 'Danes,' or 'Daners,' as 'Thee bist a Dane.' This being in the centre of the Alfred district, the term may be a survival. In Somerset red-haired men are often said to be 'a bit touched with the Danes.'

*=Dane's Blood=. _Sambucus Ebulus_, L., Dwarf Elder (Aubrey's _Nat. Hist. Wilts_, p. 50, ed. Brit.). It is popularly believed only to grow on the ancient battle-fields, and to have sprung originally from the blood of the slain Danes.

=Dap=. (1) _v._ To rebound, as a ball.--N. & S.W. (2) _n._ The rebound of a ball.--N. & S.W.

=Dap on=. To pounce down on, to take unawares.--N. & S.W.