An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language Part 162

An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language Part 162

1. A small pebble, S.


Teut. _keyken_, a small flint; if not from the circ.u.mstance of such stones being swallowed by domestic fowls.


2. A game, used by girls, in tossing up, and catching pebbles as they fall, is called the _Chuckie-stanes_.


CHUF, _s._ Clown.


_Maitland Poems._


Evidently the same with _Cufe_, q. v.


CHUK, _s._ Asellus marinus.


_Sibbald._


CHUKIS, _s. pl._ Apparently, a swelling of the jaws.


_Gl. Complaynt._


A. S. _ceacena swyle_, faucium tumor.


CHUM, _s._ Food, provision for the belly, Clydes. _Scaff_, synon.


CIETEZOUR, _s._ A citizen.


_b.e.l.l.e.n.den._


CYGONIE, _s._ The stork.


_Burel._


Fr. _cicogne_, id.


CYNDIRE, _s._ A term denoting ten swine.


_Forrest Lawe._


_To_ CIRc.u.mJACK, _v. n._ To correspond with, W. Loth.


CYSTEWS, _s. pl._ Cistertian monks; Fr. _Cistaws_.


_Wyntown._


CITHARIST, _s._ The harp.


_Houlate._


CITHOLIS, _s._ A musical instrument.


_Houlate._


L. B. _citola_, Fr. _citole_, an instrument with cords.


CLAAICK, CLAWICK, _s._ The autumnal feast, or harvest-home, Aberd.; synon. _Maiden_. When the harvest is early finished, it is called the _Maiden Claaick_; when late, the _Carlin Claaick_.


CLACHAN, CLAUCHANNE, _s._ A small village, bordering on the Highlands, in which there is a parish-church, S. Elsewhere, it is called the _kirk-town_.


_Acts Ja. VI._


From Gael. _clachan_, "a circle of stones;" as churches were erected in the same places, which, in times of heathenism, had been consecrated to Druidical worship.


CLACK, _s._ The clapper of a mill, S.


Teut. _klack_, sonora percussio.


CLAES, _pl._ Clothes.


V. ~Claith~.


CLAG, CLAGG, _s._


1. An inc.u.mbrance, a burden lying on property; a forensic term, S.


_Dallas._


2. Charge, impeachment of character; fault, or imputation of one, S.


_Ritson._


Teut. _klaghe_, accusatio; Dan. _klage_, a complaint, a grievance.


Or perhaps rather from the same origin with E. _clog_; q. what lies as a _clog_ on an estate.