loving.

_Cove_, a cave.

_Cowe_, to terrify, to keep under, to lop.

_Cowp_, to barter, to tumble over.

_Cowp the cran_, to tumble a full bucket or basket.

_Cowpit_, tumbled.

_Cowrin_, cowering.

_Cowte_, a colt.

_Cosie_, snug.

_Crabbit_, crabbed, fretful.

_Creuks_, a disease of horses.

_Crack_, conversation, to converse, to boast.

_Crackin'_, cracked, conversing, conversed.

_Craft_, or _croft_, a field near a house, in old husbandry.

_Craig_, _craigie_, neck.

_Craiks_, cries or calls incessantly, a bird, the corn-rail.

_Crambo-clink_, or _crambo-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-rhyme."

_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 crazed, to be
fascinated.

_Creshie_, greasy.

_Crood_, or _Croud_, to coo as a dove.

_Croon_, a hollow and continued moan; to make a noise like the low roar
of a bull; to hum a tune.

_Crooning_, 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, &c. &c.

_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.

_Crummock driddle_, walk slowly, leaning on a staff with a crooked head.

_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.

_Cummock_, a short staff, with a crooked head.

_Curch_, a covering for the head, a kerchief.

_Curchie_, a curtesy, 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 noise.

_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.

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