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EAST CORNWALL QLOSSART. 81 ChureTy a char-womaiu Clam, the starfish, Asteriaa glacidlis, dan, a rade wooden foot-bridge over a stream. Oliby to stick or adhere. CSlibby, sticky; adhesive. Cliok-handed, Click-pawed^ left-handed. Cornish, dom-gliken: dorriy hand ; glikeuy left. Cliders, the herb, rough bed-straw, Galium aparine, Clidgey, (xdj. descriptive of a gelatinous, sticky consistence in bread confectionery, &c. dome, earthenware, distinct from the more pellucid china-ware. dop, to limp. Cornish- do/^ lame ; Mqppik^ a cripple. deut, a napkin for infants. When clothes axe taken from a chest of sweets To swaddle infknts, whose young breath Scarce knows the way ; Those chuis axe little winding-sheets Which do consign and send them unto death. Hesbert, Chwch McrHficcMon, dnok, to crouch ; stoop. E. g. '^ Clucky down. duoky the sitting cettrum in hens. dum, benumbed. My hands are dum with the cold." dunk, to swallow. That action by which food passes from the tongue into the pharynx. dnnker, the uvula. duah, to lie close on the ground.. dusty, a close, heavy consistence in bread, potatoes, &c. Cookabell, Cocklebell, icicle. OoUybraiid, smut in com. Com^osants, the meteor Castor and Pollux, known to sailors as ominous of storm. Qy. Spanish cuerpo aanto, Condiddle, to take away clandestinely ; to filch. Conger doust or Conger douoe, 1 sweet conger. The fish. Conger vtdgartB, was within the memory of our oldest, and for reasons which might well be inquired into, immensely more abundant than now. Upto the beginnmg of the present centunr, a large trade existed between Oomwall and OathoUc countries in Uonger-dc^. For further information as to the mode of its preparation, see Couch's Fuke$ voL iv. p. 345. * Coomb, a narrow valley. o