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 318 Burden^ Over-burden, or Top-burden. The rubble or dead ground which overlies a stratum. of tin-ore, &c. In china clay works it is the top ground, from the surface to the bed of clay which lies below. Cakka-man-ah, or Akka-mannaa. Human foeces. Perhaps from the Celtic Cornish cac, ordure. (Wil- liams, Corn. Didy., gives for it in ''Welsh, cdch. Armoric, cdcL Irish, cac. Gaelic, cac, Manx, cuch. Sanscrit, cakan. Greek, kakM. Dutch, kak Spanish and Portuguese, caca!^) Latin, caco. V. Cappenin, or Capp'nin. Overbearing or domi- neering. " Don't come capp'nin over me." Casier. A. sieve. In Celtic Cornish, kazer. Gaunter lode. See Lodes. Commercin. Conversing, chattering. "Whatever is all the c6mmercin about ? " ''Looks commercing with the skies." Milton. Comreesing. Fleeting, sliding away. Poliohele. From the Celtic Cornish rees, to fleet, or slide away. Costean or Costeaning pits. ^^ Shallow pits to trace or find tin." Pryce. In Celtic Cornish cothas, to find, ( Borlase) stean, tin. Crawn. A dried sheep's skin. Davy, Zeiinor. In Celtic Cornish croin, a skin.