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 82. XAST CORNWALL QLOSSART. Corrat, pert; impadent; saucy; sharp in lejoinder. **Afl eorrai as Cromer's mare." B. 0. proyerb* Corwich, the crab, Maia squinado^ Ck>w-flop, the herb, cow parsnip^ Heracleum Sph(mdylium. Cowshern, cow-dung. OowBhemy, adj, applied to the sea when it assumes an olive green, turbid appearance, as if coloured with cow-dung. This appearance is probablT owing to the presence of animalcules, such as entomos- trac88, medusee, £c. Crabbit, crabbed ; sharp and contradictory. Creem, to squeesse. It is metaphorically used to describe that sensa- tion of rigor or creeping of the flesh, known as goose fleeh, cutx$ atuerina. ** I felt a creem go over me." *' (deemed wi' the cold.'' Green, to wail, or moan. " The cheeld beet been ereening all day." Crib, a crust of bread. Cribbage-fiEU)ed, small and pinched in face. Cricket, or Oreoket, a low stool Qy. A.S. criCf a crutch, or prop. Crickle, to break down through feebleness. Crim, a morsel ; a small quantity of anything. Allied to the word crumb. Often appUed to time. JS.g* *' After a mm," in a very short time. Crowdy, to fiddle. Crowd, a fiddle. Orowder,.a fiddler. *'8o long as you*U crowdy they'll dance." E. C. proverb. Orowdero had his name from this word, said to be Keltic. Crtffth is Welsh for a fiddle. O sweet consent between a crowd and a Jew's harp. John Lilly, Campaspe, IL L Crow-aheaf, the terminal sheaf on the gable of a mow. Gmddle, v. to curdle« See how thy blood cruddles at this. BsAXTlCOKT AKD Flbtokbr, A King and no King, L i. Gmel, in common use to qualify almost any noun, and has nothing of the meaning usually conveyed. Cruel slow^ very slow ; cruel hard, very hard (Qy. slang). Cmmpling, a stunted apple. Cry out, travail ; parturition. Shakspere makes King Henry YIII. (Y. i.) say to Lovell concerning his discarded Queen Oatherine : — What sav'st thou P ha I To pray for her P What is she crying out f LovM, So said her woman ; and mat her sufferance made Almost each pang a death. CuoUe-dOck, the herb burdock; Arctium majus.