C

Ca', ca't

To call, to name, to drive.

Called, driven, calved.

Cadger

A carrier

Cadie, or caddie

A person, a young fellow, a public messenger.

Caff

Chaff.

Caird

A tinker, a maker of horn spoons, and teller of fortunes.

Cairn

A loose heap of stones, a rustic monument.

Calf-ward

A small enclosure for calves.

Calimanco

A certain kind of cotton cloth worn by ladies.

Callan

A boy.

Caller

Fresh, sound, refreshing.

Callet

A loose woman, a follower of a camp.

Cannie

Gentle, mild, dexterous.

Cannilie

Dexterously, gently.

Cantie, or canty

Cheerful, merry.

Cantraip

A charm, a spell.

Cap-stane

Cope-stone, topmost stone of the building.

Car

A rustic cart with or without wheels.

Careenin'

Moving cheerfully.

Carl, carle

An old man.

Carl-hemp

The male stalk of hemp, easily known by its superior strength and stature, and being without seed.

Carlin

A stout old woman.

Cartes

Cards.

Castock

The stalk of a cabbage.

Caudron

A cauldron.

Cauk and keel

Chalk and red clay.

Cauld

Cold.

Caup

A wooden drinking vessel, a cup.

Cavie

A hen-coop.

Cesses

Taxes.

Chanter

A part of the bagpipe, the drone.

Chap

A person, a fellow.

Chaup

A stroke, a blow.

Cheek for chow

Close and united, brotherly, side by side.

Cheekit

Cheeked.

Cheep

A chirp, to chirp.

Chiel, or cheal

A young fellow.

Chimla, or chimlie

A fire-grate, fire-place.

Chimla-lug

The fire-side.

Chirps

Cries of a young bird.

Chittering

Shivering, trembling.

Chockin'

Choking.

Chow

To chew, a quid of tobacco.

Chuckie

A brood hen.

Chuffle

Fat-faced.

Clachan

A small village about a church, a hamlet.

Claise, or claes

Clothes.

Claith, claithing

Cloth, clothing.

Clapper-claps

The clapper of a mill; it is now silenced.

Clap-clack

Clapper of a mill.

Clartie

Dirty, filthy.

Clarkit

Wrote.

Clash

An idle tale, the story of the day.

Clatter

To tell idle stories, an idle story.

Claught

Snatched at, laid hold of.

Claughtin't

Gathering it.

Claut, clauted

To clean, to scrape, scraped.

Clavers

Idle stories.

Clavers and havers

Agreeable nonsense, to talk foolishly.

Claw

To scratch

Cleckin

A brood of chickens, or ducks.

Cleed, cleads

To clothe, clothes.

Cleek, cleckit

Hook, snatch; having caught.

Clegs

The gad-flies.

Clinkin'

Jerking, clinking down, sitting down hastily.

Clinkum-bell

The church bell; he who rings it; a sort of beadle.

Clips

Wool-shears.

Clishmaclaver

Idle conversation.

Clock, clocking

To hatch, a beetle; hatching.

Cloot

The hoof of a cow, sheep, etc.

Clootie

A familiar name of the Devil.

Clour

A bump, or swelling, after a blow.

Cloutin'

Repairing with cloth.

Cluds

Clouds.

Clunk

The sound in setting down an empty bottle.

Coaxin'

Wheedling.

Coble

A fishing-boat.

Cockernony

A lock of hair tied up on a girl's head, a cap.

Cod

A pillow.

Coft

Bought.

Cog, coggie

A wooden dish.

Coila

From Kyle, a district in Ayrshire, so-called, saith tradition, from Coil, or Coilus, a Pictish Monarch.

Collie

A general, and sometimes a particular name for country curs.

Collie-shangie

A quarrel among dogs, an Irish row.

Commaun

Command.

Convoyed

Accompanied lovingly.

Cood

The cud.

Coof

A blockhead, a ninny.

Cookit

Appeared and disappeared by fits.

Cool'd in her linens

Cool'd in her death-shift.

Cooser, Coosser

A stallion.

Coost

Did cast.

Coot

The ancle; a species of water-fowl.

Coothie

Agreeable.

Cootie

A wooden kitchen dish, rough-legged; also those fowls whose legs are clad with feathers are said to be cootie.

Corbies

A species or the crow, blood crows.

Core

Corps, party, clan.

Corn't

Fed with oats.

Cotter

The inhabitant of a cot-house, or cottage.

Couthie

Kind, loving.

Cove

A cave.

Cowe

To terrify, to keep under, to lop; a fright, a branch of furze, broom, etc.

Cowp

To barter, to tumble over.

Cowp the cran

To tumble a full bucket of basket.

Cowpit

Tumbled.

Cowrin'

Cowering.

Cowte

A colt.

Cozie, cozily

Snug, snugly.

Crabbit

Crabbed, fretful.

Crack, crackin'

Conversation, to converse, to boast; conversing.

Craft, or croft

A field near a house, in old husbandry.

Craig, craigie

Neck.

Craiks

Cries or calls incessantly, a species of bird, the corn-rail.

Crambo-clink, or cramble-jingle

Rhymes, doggerel verses.

Crank

The noise of an ungreased wheel -- metaphorically, inharmonious verse.

Crankous

Fretful, captious.

Cranreuch

The hoar-frost, called in Nithsdale frost-rhyne.

Crap

A crop, to crop.

Craw

A crow of a cock, a rook.

Creel

A basket, to have one's wits in a creel, to be craz'd, to be fascinated.

Creeshie

Greasy.

Creuks

A disease of horses.

Crocks

Stray sheep, old ewes.

Crood, or croud

To coo as a dove.

Croon, crooning

A hollow and continued moan; to make a noise like the continued roar of a bull; to hum a tune; humming.

Crouchie

Crook-backed.

Crouse

Cheerful, courageous.

Crously

Cheerfully, courageously.

Crowdie

A composition of oatmeal, boiled water, and butter; sometimes made from the broth of beef, mutton, etc.

Crowdie time

Breakfast time.

Crowlin'

Crawling, a deformed creeping thing.

Crummie's nicks

Marks on the horns of a cow.

Crummock, crummet

A cow with crooked horns.

Crump, crumpin'

Hard and brittle, spoken of bread; frozen snow, yielding to the foot.

Crunt

A blow on the head with a cudgel.

Cuddle

To clasp and caress.

Cuif

A blockhead, a ninny.

Cummock

A short staff with a crooked head.

Cummock driddle

Walk slowly, leaning on a staff with a crooked head.

Curch

A covering for the head, a kerchief.

Curchie

A curtsey, female obeisance.

Curler

A player at a game on the ice, practised in Scotland, called curling.

Curlie

Curled, whose hair falls naturally in ringlets.

Curling

A well-known game on the ice.

Curmurring

Murmuring, a slight rumbling nose.

Curpin

The crupper, the rump.

Curple

The rear.

Cushat

The dove, or wood-pigeon.

Cutty

Short, a spoon broken in the middle.

Cutty stool, or creepie chair

The seat of shame, stool of repentance.