An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language Part 152

Fr. _cenchrite_, Lat. _cenchrus_, id.

CEST, CESSIT, _pret._ Seized.

_Wallace._

CH.

Words, of Goth. origin, whether S or E., beginning with _ch_, sounded hard, are to be traced to those in the Germ. or Northern languages that have _k_, and in A. S. _c_, which has the same power with _k_.

_To_ CHACK, _v. n._ To clack, to make a clinking noise, S.

_Cleland._

_To_ CHACK, _v. a._ To cut or bruise any part of the body by a sudden stroke; as when the sash of a window falls on the fingers, S.

E. _check_. Teut. _kack-en_, _kek-en_, increpare; synon. S. B.

_Chat_, q. v.

CHACK, CHATT, _s._ A slight repast, taken hastily, S.

Q. a _check_ for hunger.

CHACK, CHECK, _s._ The Wheat-ear, a bird, Orkn. Motacilla oenanthe, Linn.

V. ~Stane-Chacker~.

_Barry._

Nearly the same with the last part of its Germ. name, _stein schwaker_.

CHACKARALLY, _s._ Apparently some kind of checkered or variegated cloth.

_Watson's Coll._

CHACKE-BLYND-MAN, _s._ Blind man's buff.

_Bp. Forbes._

_Jockie-blind-man_, Angus, id.

CHACKLOWRIE, _s._ Mashed cabbage, mixed amongst barley-broth, Aberd.

CHAD, _s._ Gravel, such small stones as form the bed of a river, S. B.

Teut. _kade_, litus, ora.

~Chaddy~, _adj._ Gravelly; as, _chaddy ground_, that which chiefly consists of gravel, S.

_To_ CHAFF, _v. n._ To chatter, to be loquacious, Loth.

Teut. _keff-en_, gannire, latrare.

CHAFTIS, CHAFTS, _s. pl._ Chops, S. A. Bor. _chafts_.

_Peblis to the Play._

Su. G. _kiaeft_, _kaeft_, Isl. _kiaft-ur_, the jaw-bone. A. Bor.

_chafts_, _chefts_, id. Hence also E. _chops_.

~Chaft-Blade~, _s._ The jaw-bone, S.

~Chaft-Talk~, _s._ Talking, prattling, Aberd. from _chaft_ and _talk_.

_Poems Buchan Dial._

_To_ CHAIPE, _v. n._ To escape.

_Wallace._

Fr. _eschapp-er_, Ital. _scapp-are_, id.

CHAIPES, CHAPIS, _s. pl._ Price, rate, established value of goods.

_Acts Ja. I._

A. S. _ceap_, price; from _ceap-an_, to buy.

_To_ CHAISTIFIE, _v. a._ To chastise.

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

_To_ CHAK, _v. a._ To check.