Page:Glossary of words in use in Cornwall.djvu/101

80 £AST CORNWALL GLOSSART. Caper-longer, the shell-fish, Pinna ingefiis. Caprouse, a tumult, or row. '^ He keck'd up zich a capromeJ* Care, the mountain ash, Pyrua aucuparia. Cats and dogs, the catkins of the willow. Catty-ball, a ball used in play. Canch, a mess. Oanchy, sloppy ; miry. " The roads be caibchy'* Caudle, entanglement; mess. Cawed, a disease in sheep, &c., produced by the Uver fluke, Didoma hepaiicum, A sheep affected by that disease, elsewhere known as rot, is cawecL In Dorset it is a-cothed, Barnes (op. cit) auotes the Anglo- Saxon Chronicle: '*8wile coth com on mannum:^ such a dis^ise came on men. Chaoking, half famished. 'Tm chocking with hunger." See J^. <fc Q. Chak, cheek. " Til scat the' chakaJ' Chakky cheese, the fruit of the common mallow, much liked by children. Chall, the building where kine are housed. Chap, a young fellow. Cheeld, child. Cheens, the loins. Cheese, the cake of alternate pounded apple and straw from which the cider is pressed. Chien or Cheen, to germinate. Potatoes in a dark cellar cheen, in some parts cheem. Chitterlings, the small guts and mesentery. Chitter means thin ; a furrowed-fSa^ced person is caUed ** ohitter-faced." Chop, to barter. As for the cliopping of bargains. — Bacon, Esmy of Riches, Chopping and changing. — GossoN, 8c?iool of Abuse, Chow, to chew. Chuck, choke. Chuck-ohildren, the Allis Shad, Alosa vulgaris. So called from the bony nature of the fish, and its inelegibiliiy as an article of infant diet. Chuff, sulky ; suUen. Churoh-hay, churchyard. Hoez, an inclosure. This word is dropping out of use, but is often heard in the adage, A hot May Makes a &t Church -hay. Churoh-town, the church village.