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1. A small pebble, S.
Teut. _keyken_, a small flint; if not from the circ.u.mstance of such stones being swallowed by domestic fowls.
2. A game, used by girls, in tossing up, and catching pebbles as they fall, is called the _Chuckie-stanes_.
CHUF, _s._ Clown.
_Maitland Poems._
Evidently the same with _Cufe_, q. v.
CHUK, _s._ Asellus marinus.
_Sibbald._
CHUKIS, _s. pl._ Apparently, a swelling of the jaws.
_Gl. Complaynt._
A. S. _ceacena swyle_, faucium tumor.
CHUM, _s._ Food, provision for the belly, Clydes. _Scaff_, synon.
CIETEZOUR, _s._ A citizen.
_b.e.l.l.e.n.den._
CYGONIE, _s._ The stork.
_Burel._
Fr. _cicogne_, id.
CYNDIRE, _s._ A term denoting ten swine.
_Forrest Lawe._
_To_ CIRc.u.mJACK, _v. n._ To correspond with, W. Loth.
CYSTEWS, _s. pl._ Cistertian monks; Fr. _Cistaws_.
_Wyntown._
CITHARIST, _s._ The harp.
_Houlate._
CITHOLIS, _s._ A musical instrument.
_Houlate._
L. B. _citola_, Fr. _citole_, an instrument with cords.
CLAAICK, CLAWICK, _s._ The autumnal feast, or harvest-home, Aberd.; synon. _Maiden_. When the harvest is early finished, it is called the _Maiden Claaick_; when late, the _Carlin Claaick_.
CLACHAN, CLAUCHANNE, _s._ A small village, bordering on the Highlands, in which there is a parish-church, S. Elsewhere, it is called the _kirk-town_.
_Acts Ja. VI._
From Gael. _clachan_, "a circle of stones;" as churches were erected in the same places, which, in times of heathenism, had been consecrated to Druidical wors.h.i.+p.
CLACK, _s._ The clapper of a mill, S.
Teut. _klack_, sonora percussio.
CLAES, _pl._ Clothes.
V. ~Claith~.
CLAG, CLAGG, _s._
1. An inc.u.mbrance, a burden lying on property; a forensic term, S.
_Dallas._
2. Charge, impeachment of character; fault, or imputation of one, S.
_Ritson._
Teut. _klaghe_, accusatio; Dan. _klage_, a complaint, a grievance.
Or perhaps rather from the same origin with E. _clog_; q. what lies as a _clog_ on an estate.
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