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128 Cam or Cand. Flour spar. Camels. Chamomile flowers. Canker. The Celtic Cornish name for a crab-fish. It also means the rust in corn. (Kankar. Borlase.) Cannis. To toss about carelessly. c. Cant. A fall. Polwhele. "A cant of a way," i.e., a long way. W.N. Capel or Cockle. Shorl. Caper-longer. The razor shell fish. Tonkin, The shell &sh. pinna ingens. c. Cappen, or Capp'n. Captain, or head man of a mine, claywork, &c. Grass-capp'n is the term used for one who is manager "at grass," i.e., on the surface. Caperhouse, or CaprOUSe. Uproar, row, con- fusion; a "kick up," a "jolly row." Carbona^ or Carbonas. An accumulation of rich ore in a mine, a "house" of ore. Care. The mountain ash. Pyrus aucuparia, c. Carn or Cairn. A heap of stones. A sepulchral mound of stones. A rock. Carn is Celtic Cornish. Carney. To wheedle, to keep caressing, and calling another cam, (dear). Brewer, Carrots. Nickname for a person with red hair. CasabuUy. Winter cress. Polwhele. Casling. Prematurely born, a castling. Cat-lap. Derisive term for insipid fluid drink.