COVETISE, avarice.

COWSHARD, cow dung.

Coxcomb, fool’s cap, fool.

Coy, shrink; disdain.

COYSTREL, low varlet.

Cozen, cheat.

Crack, lively young rogue, wag.

Crack, crack up, boast; come to grief.

CRAMBE, game of crambo, in which the players find
rhymes for a given word.

CRANCH, craunch.

CRANION, spider-like; also fairy appellation for a fly (Gifford, who refers to lines in Drayton’s “Nimphidia").

Crimp, game at cards.

CRINCLE, draw back, turn aside.

CRISPED, with curled or waved hair.

Crop, gather, reap.

CROPSHIRE, a kind of herring. (See N.E.D.)

Cross, any piece of money, many coins being stamped
with a cross.

Cross and pile, heads and tails.

Crosslet, crucible.

Crowd, fiddle.

Crudities, undigested matter.

Crump, curl up.

Crusado, Portuguese gold coin, marked with a cross.

Cry ("he that cried Italian"), “speak in a musical
cadence,” intone, or declaim (?); cry up.

Cucking-stool, used for the ducking of scolds, etc.

CUCURBITE, a gourd-shaped vessel used for distillation.

CUERPO, “in—­,” in undress.

CULLICE, broth.

CULLION, base fellow, coward.

CULLISEN, badge worn on their arm by servants.

Culverin, kind of cannon.

Cunning, skill.

Cunning, skilful.

Cunning-man, fortune-teller.

Cure, care for.

Curious(ly), scrupulous, particular; elaborate,
elegant(ly), dainty(ly) (hence “in curious").

Curst, shrewish, mischievous.

Curtal, dog with docked tail, of inferior sort.

Custard, “quaking—­,” “—­politic,” reference to a large custard which formed part of a city feast and afforded huge entertainment, for the fool jumped into it, and other like tricks were played. (See “All’s Well, etc.” ii. 5, 40.)

Cutwork, embroidery, open-work.

CYPRES (cyprus) (quibble), cypress (or cyprus) being
a transparent material, and when black used for mourning.

Dagger (”—­frumety"), name of tavern.

DARGISON, apparently some person known in ballad or tale.

Dauphin my boy, refrain of old comic song.

Daw, daunt.

Dead lift, desperate emergency.

Dear, applied to that which in any way touches us nearly.

Decline, turn off from; turn away, aside.

DEFALK, deduct, abate.

Defend, forbid.