An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language Part 185

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An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language



An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language Part 185


CORKY, _adj._ Airy, brisk.


_Sir J. Sinclair._


CORMUNDUM. _To cry Cormundum_, to confess a fault.


_Kennedy._


In allusion to one of the Penitential Psalms.


CORNCRAIK, _s._ The Crake or land rail, Rallus crex, Linn.


V. ~Craik~.


_Houlate._


Probably denominated from its cry.


CORNE PIPE, _s._ A reed or whistle with a horn fixed to it by the smaller end.


CORNYKLE, _s._ A chronicle.


_Wallace._


CORP, _s._ A corpse, a dead body.


~Corps-Present~, _s._ A funeral gift to the church, for supplying any deficiency on the part of the deceased.


_Knox._


Fr. _corps_ and _present-er_, q. to present the body for interment; or Fr. _present_, a gift.


CORRACH, CORRACK, _s._ A pannier, _Ang_.


Su. G. _korg_, a pannier or basket.


CORRIE, _s._ A hollow between hills, or rather in a hill, Gael. also _corehead_, S.


_Statist. Acc._


CORS, CORSE, _s._ Market place, S.; from the _cross_ being formerly erected there.


Sw. _kors_, id.


CORS, CORSS, _s._ An animated body.


Fr. _corps_.


_Douglas._


CORSBOLLIS, _pl._ Crossbows.


_Complaynt S._


CORSES, _s. pl._ Money, from its bearing the firm of the cross.


_Dunbar._


CORSSY, _adj._ Bigbodied, corpulent.


_Douglas._


CORSYBELLY, _s._ A shirt for a child, open before, S. B.


_Ross._


Q. A shirt that is folded _across the belly_.


CORTER, _s._


1. A quarter, corr. from _quarter_, Aberd.


2. A cake, because quartered, ibid.


_Journal Lond._


CORUIE, _s._ A crooked iron for pulling down buildings.


_Hudson._


Fr. _corbeau_, "a certaine warlike instrument;" Cotgr.


CORUYN, _s._ A kind of leather.







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