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Rh CRE-UP-MOUSE, or CRAPE-MOUSE.—A game played with little children, tickling them to make them laugh.

CRIB BITER.—A horse given to the vice of biting away his manger; almost universal term.

CRICK—A sharp noise. I have heard this term used of the noise made in the knee joint when one is kneeling down. A "crick in the neck" is a temporary stiffness in the neck, or inability to move the head freely.

CRIMMANY.—An exclamation (good-humoured) of surprise.

CRINKLE—To crease; to rumple.

CRINKLY.—With marks as having been crumpled.

CRINKS.—See.

CRISP.—Pork crackling. See also.

CRITTENS.—The crittens are small pieces of lean meat strained from lard when it is melted; these are chopped fine and mixed together with sugar and spice, then flour is added and the whole made into a pudding.

CROAK.—To give out the worst view of things; one who does this is called "a croaker."

CROCK.—An earthenware pot as distinguished from an iron one.

CROOK, or CRUCK.—To bend. "Crook yer back zo's I med get on top and be carr'd awver the bruck."

CROWNER.—Coroner.

CRUMBLES.—Crumbs.

CRUMMY.—Short and fat, or squatty; also a term applied to one who has money saved up.

CRUNCH.—To break between the teeth, also to press to pieces with a breaking noise, thus one would say of a snail

"Crunch 'un wi' thee boot"

CRUSTY.—Surly, snappish.

CUBBY HAWLE.—A cave or recess of any kind wherein children may creep to hide when at play.

CUCKOO VLOWER.—The wild Lychnis flosculi, so called because it blooms at the time the cuckoo comes.

CUCKOO'S MAAYTE.—Cuckoo's mate. The male cuckoo.