CAPILOME, 8. The circumstance of one set of reapers being so far in advance of the other as to be out of sight by the intervention of a hill or rise. North. CAPIROTADE, 8. Stewed mince meat. CAPITAINE, 8. (4.-N.) A captain. CAPITLE, 8. (Lat) A chapter or summary. CAPLE, 8. A horse. See Capul. CAPLING, 8. The cap of a flail. CAP-MONEY, 8. Money gathered for the huntsman at the death of the fox. CAPOCCHIA, 8. (Ital.) A fool; an innocent. CAPON, 8. (1) A letter. Shak. (2) A red-herring. Kent. CAPON-BELL, 8. The passing-bell. CAPONET, 8. A small capon. CAPON'S-FEATHER, 8. The colum bine. CAPOUCH, CAPOOCH, 8. (4.-N.) A hood. CAPPADOCHIO, 8. A cant term for a prison. CAP-PAPER, 8. A coarse sort of brownish paper. CAPPE, 8. A cope. Pr. Parv. CAPPEL, v. To mend or top shoes. Craven. CAPPER, (1) v. To chop the hands. East. (2) v. To coagulate; to wrinkle. (3) s. A cap-maker. CAPPY-HOLE, 8. A kind of game. CAPRIFOLE, 8. The honeysuckle. CAPRIOLE, 8. A lady's head-dress. CAPRICK, 8. A sort of wine. CAPS, 8. (1) All sorts of fungi. East. (2) Hoodsheaves of corn-shocks. North. CAP-SCREED, s. The rim of a cap. North. CAPSIZE, v. To turn over. CAPTAIN, adj. Chief; more excellent. Shak. CAPUCCIO, S. A hood. Spenser. CAPUL, 8. A domestic hen. CAR, (1) 8. (4.-S.) A rock. (2) s. A wood or grove on a moist soil, generally of alders. (3) 8. Any hollow place or marsh. (4) v. To carry. South. (5) 8. A bottle or keg of one or two gallons. Leic. (6) 8. A gutter. Linc. CARABINS, 8. A sort of light cavalry, in the 16th cent., armed with carabines. CARACOL, 8. The half turn which a horseman makes on either side. CARACTES, 8. (A.-N.) CharacCARECTIS, ters; figures; applied especially to characters for magical purposes. CARAGE, 8. (4.-N.) quality. CARAING, CAREYNE, CAROING, CARAVEL, CARVEL, Measure; 8. (A.-N.) A carcase. Caronyes, carcases. Rob. Glouc. 8. (Fr. caravelle.) A light round ship, with CARVEIL, a square poop, rigged and fitted out like a galley. CARAWAYES, 8. Comfits made with caraway seeds. CARBERRY, 8. A gooseberry. North. CARCANET. See Carkanet. (3) s. The mariner's compass. We're all like sea cards, All our endeavours and our motions, As they do to the north, still point at beauty. B. & F., Chances, i, 11. And these; for that by themselves they will not utter, to mingle and to card with the apostles' doctrines, &c., that at the least yet he may so vent them. Sermon at St. Giles, 1592. You card your beer, if you see your guests begin to be drunk, half small, half strong. Greene's Quip for an Upst. Courtier, 1620. (5) To speak by the card, to speak with great exactness. CARDER, S. (1) A card player. (2) A jackdaw. Suffolk. CARDEW, S. An alderkar. CARDIACLE, S. (Gr.) A disease affecting the heart. CARDICUE, 8. (corrupted from Fr. quart d'écu.) The fourth part of a French crown, about fifteenpence. The other is the spelling of the time. Did I not yester-morning Bring you in a cardecu there from the peasant, Whose ass I'd driven aside? B. & Fl., Bloody Brother, iv, 2. CARDINAL, (1) s. A liquor drunk in the University, made like bishop, except that claret is substituted for port wine. (2) s. A kind of cloak, in fashion about 1760. CARDINAL-TRILOST, S. A Cornish fish, the three-tailed ray. Borlase. CARE, 8. (1) Grief; vexation. (2) The mountain-ash. Devon. CARE-AWAYES, 8. Caraways. Yet, if a storme should rise (by night or day), Of sugar-snowes, and haile of care-a-wayes. Davies, Scourge of Folly, 1611. CARE-CAKE, 8. A pancake. North. CARE-CLOTH, s. A square cloth formerly held over the head of a bride by four men. CARECRIN, adv. Cheerfully. Northumb. CAREFUL, adj. (A.-S.) Sorrowful. CAREIRE, S. (Fr.) The short turnings of a nimble horse; the movements of a drunken man. CARER, 8. A sieve. Derbysh. CARIEN, v. (A.-S.) To carry. ship. Let me see, says madam, where's my cornet? Pray carine this, favourite. Ladies' Dictionary, 1694. CARK, (1) 8. (4.-S.) Care; anxiety. (2) v. To be careful and diligent. (3) adj. Stiff. Leic. (4) s. Forty tod of wool. CARKANET, CARCANET, CARQUENET, 8. (Fr.) A necklace. As rings, and stones, and carkenettes, Turberville's Tragicall Tales, 1587. About thy neck a carkanet is bound CARL, S. (4.-S.) A churl; a bondman; a clown. CARL-CAT, S. A tom-cat. North. CARLINE, S. A term applied to an old woman. North. CARLING, S. A penguin. CARLINGS, 8. Grey peas, steeped all night in water, and fried the next day with butter, eaten on Palm Sunday, formerly called Carling Sunday. North. CARLISH, adj. Churlish. North. CARLOT, 8. A rustic, or churl. CARMES, S. (4.-N.) Carmelite friars. CARNADINE, Y. The carnation. CARNARY-CHAPEL, S. A charnelhouse. CARNEL, 8. (1) (A.-N.) A bat tlement. (2) A dish in cookery. Carnel of pork. Take the brawnn of CARNEY, v. To coax. Var. d. 1556. Kernel. Heywood, CARNOSITY, 8. (Lat.) Fleshiness. 66 Carnositye or anye thynge that is fleashye." Huloet. CAROCH, S. (Fr.) A large coach. Have with them for the great caroch, six horses, And the two coachmen, with my ambler bare, And my three women. B. Jons., Dev. is an Ass, iv, 2. CAROIGNE, 8. See Caraing. CAROL, (1) 8. (A.-N.) A dance. (2) v. To dance. (3) s. A closet or small study. Carol-window, a bow-window. CAROUSE, 8. A bumper. Next he devoured up a loyne of veale, Upon foure capons then his teeth did deale, And sent them downe into his pudding house, So tooke the cup, and drinking a carowse, Fell to his rabets, and dispatching foure. Rowlands, Knave of Sp. and D., 1613. CARP, 8. (1) (4.-N.) Speech; conversation. (2) Noise; tumult. CARPE, v. (4.-N.) To talk. CARPET-KNIGHTS, 8. Knights dubbed at court by favour, instead of for distinguished military services. Hence, an effeminate person. But as for you, your cloaths are rich and rare, Of purple hues, embroidered all most faire, Signes of your lazie mindes; and your delights In wanton dancings are, fond carpetknights: In jackets short, with sleeves most delicate, And hairelace, bongrace, most effeminate. Virgil, by Vicars, 1632. CARPETS, 8. Covers for tables or sideboards. CARPET-SHIELD, S. An effeminate person. Can I not touch some upstart carpet-shield Of Lolio's sonne, that never saw the field? Hall's Sat., iv, 4. CARPET-SQUIRE, 8. An effeminate person. For that the valiant will defend her fame, When carpet squires will hide their heads with shame. Turberville's Tragicall Tales, 1587. CARPET-STANDING, S. A small piece of rich carpet, for royal and noble personages. CARPET-WAY, s. A green sward. East. CARPMEALS, 8. A coarse sort of cloth made in the North of England in the reign of James I. CARPNEL, 8. A kind of white cotton cloth. CARR, S. A sort of black fibrous material washed up by the sea in heavy gales, and used for fuel. East. CARRACK, 8. A Spanish galeon; any vessel of great value and size. At an earlier period the name was given to smaller vessels. CARRANS, S. Buskins or covering for the feet and legs, cut out of the raw hide. I. Man. CARRECT, 8. A carat of gold. CARREFOUR, 8. (Fr.) A place where four ways meet. CARREL, 8. Fustian cloth. CARRIAGE, 8. (1) A drain. Wilts. (2) A belt to carry a whetstone behind the mower. CARSEY, 8. Kersey. CARSICK, 8. The kennel or gutter. North. CART, 8. (4.-S.) A chariot, or car. CART-BREAD, 8. Bought bread. Elyot. CARTED, adj. Not considered; equivalent to "put on the shelf." CARTER, 8. (4.-S.) A charioteer. CARTHAGINES, 8. A cant term for cart-horses. CARTLE, V. To clip, or cut round. CART-LOOSE, s. A cart-rut. North. CARTLY, adv. Rough; unmannerly. North. CART-RAKE, s. A cart-track. Essex. CART-SADEL, S. The saddle placed on the horse in the shafts. CARVE, (1) 8. A plough land. (2) v. To grow sour, or curdle. North. (3) v. To cut; to slice. CARVEL, 8. (1) A small ship, or caravel. (2) A prostitute. All the foul i' the fair, I mean all the dirt in Smithfield,-that's one of Master Littlewit's carwhichets now,-will be thrown at our banner to day, if the matter does not please the people. B. Jons, Barth. Fair, v. 1. Sir John had always his budget full of CARY, 8. A sort of coarse cloth. CARYSTYE, 8. (Lat.) Scarcity. (2) A case. CASARDLY, adv. Unlucky. North. CASBALD, 8. A term of contempt. CASCADE, v. To vomit. CASE, (1) v. To skin an animal; to strip. (2) s. A kind of fish, somewhat like a char, but not so much esteemed. Nicolson and Burn's West. and Cumb., i, 185. CASELINGS, 8. The skins of beasts that die by accident. Chesh. CASELTY, adj. Uncertain; casual. West. CASEMUND, 8. A casement. Heywood, 1556. CASE-WORM, s. The caddis. East. Devon. Broad wide sleeves. CASINGS, 8. Dried cow-dung used for fuel. North. Chance; opportunity. (6) v. To bring forth prematurely, said of beasts. Shropsh. (7) v. To vomit. (8) v. To empty. (9) part. p. feated. Shropsh. Thwarted; de (10) part. p. Warped. North. (11) v. To choke one's self with eating too fast. North. (12) v. To yield; to produce. Norf. (13) v. To add up a sum; to reckon. (14) v. To think; to cogitate. Baret. (15) s. A second swarm of bees from one hive. (16) s. A brace or couple. (17) part. p. Cast off; thrown aside. (18) part. p. Plotted; devised. (19) s. (A.-S.) A stratagem; a contrivance. (20) 8. A flight of hawks. (21) v. To set a hawk on a perch. (22) v. To purge a hawk. (23) When hounds check, and the huntsman tries to recover the scent by taking the hounds round about the spot, he is said to cast them. (24) v. To rectify or correct a (25) v. To arrange or dispose. (29) v. To condemn. (30) s. A small portion of bread. CASTELET, 8. (A.-N.) A turret. CASTELLE, 8. (4.-N.) A large cis tern. CASTER, S. (1) A cloak. Dekker. (2) A cow that casts her calf. (3) To come the caster, futuere. Abating that expression, I should have sworn that thou and I should have come the caster with her by turns. Howard, Man of Newmarket, 1678. CASTES, 8. An instrument for punishing schoolboys with a blow on the palm of the hand. Cornw. CASTING-BOTTLE, 8. A bottle for casting, or sprinkling, perfumes; a fashionable luxury in the days of Elizabeth. Sometimes called a casting-glass. Pray Jove the perfumed courtiers keep their casting-bottles, pick-tootas, and shittlecocks from you. B. Jons., Cynthia's Rev., i, 1. Faith, ay: his civet and his casting-glass Have helpt him to a place among the rest. B. Jon., Ev. M. out of H., iv, 4. |