elf. Clavel-tack, a mantel-piece, a place where keys
(_claves_) are kept, a shelf for keys. Holmen-clavel, an inn on Blagdon
hill, so called from having a large _holm-beam_ supporting the
mantel-piece

Cleve-pink, or Cliff-pink, a species of pink growing wild in the Cheddar
cliffs, _dianthus deltoides_

Clim, Climmer, Climber _v._ to climb. Clammer _s._ a worn footpath up
a steep bank

Clinkers _s._ hoof marks. Clinker-bells, icicles

Clint, or Clent _v._ to clench

Clit _v._ Clitty _adj._ applied to bread not properly kneaded

Clittersome _adj._ troublesome

Clivver-and-shiver _adv._ completely, totally

Clize, Clice _s._ a swinging door, or valve of a dike or rhine, (A S
_clysing_)

Cloam, Cloamen, coarse earthen ware

Clothen _adj._ made of cloth

Clotting, Clatting _s._ fishing for eels with a knot or clot of worms,
which is also called reballing

Clout _s._ and _v._ a blow in the face or head, to beat about the head

Clumber _s._ a clump, or large piece

Cly, Cliver, Clider, or Clidden _s._ goose-grass

Coathe, or Coe _v.a._ to bane, applied to sheep, rabbits, and hares

Cock-and-mwile _s._ a jail

Cock-lawt, Cock-lart _s._ a garret or cock-loft

Cock-squailing _s._ an old Shrove Tuesday sport--(in Somerset, Shaff
Tuesday), flinging sticks at a cock tied by the leg, one penny per throw,
whoever kills him takes him away

Cob-wall _s._ made of mud and straw, mud-and-stud, or wattle-and-dab

College _s._ an assemblage of small tenements, having a common entrance
from the street, and only one

Colley blackbird; Water-colley water-ouzel; Mountain-colley ring-ouzel

Colt a person entering on a new employment; Colting, Colt-ale a fine on
entering; footing; also, a thrashing

Comb-broach _s._ tooth of a wool-combe, a spit, knitting-needle (Fr.
_broche_)

Commandement _s._ (Four syllables as in Chaucer and Wiclif), command

Conk, or Skonk _s._ a collection of people (Lat. _concio_)

Connifle _v._ to embezzle, to sponge

Cop-bone _s._ knee-pan, patella

Count _v._ to think, to esteem

Couples, Cooples _s._ an ewe with her lambs; Double-couples _s._ an ewe
with twins

Coy _v._ to decoy; Cway Pool _s._ a decoy

Cowerd Milk _s._ milk not skimmed

Cow-babby _s._ a great childish fellow

Crab-lantern _s._ a cross froward child

Crap a bunch or cluster (Fr. _grappe_)

Crap, Crappy _v._ to snap, to crack

Craze _v.a._ to crack

Crease _s.