CHAR, a particular business or task; that char is char'd, that job is done; I have a little char for you. Hence char-woman and going out charing. N. Pronounced in Wilts, a cheure.

CHARE, to stop; as, chare the cow; i. e. stop, or

turn the cow. Also, to counterfeit; as, to chare laughter, to counterfeit a laugh. N.

CHARE, a narrow lane or alley. Northumb.
CHARGER, a platter, or large dish. N.
CHARK, a crack. N.

CHARK, small beer. York, West Riding.
CHARN, a churn. N.

CHARN-CURDLE, a churn-staff. N.

CHARY, careful, or painful; sparing: he is chary of his labour. N.

CHAT, a small twig. Derb.

CHATS, keys of trees; as ash-chats, sycamorechats, &c. N.

CHATTOCKS, refuse-wood, left in making faggots. Glouc.

CHAUNDLER, a candlestick; from chandelier. Sheffield.

CHAUNGELING, an ideot; one whom the faries have changed. Exm.

CHAUNGES. See CHANGES. Exm.

CHAVEL'D, chewed. York.

CHAVISH, a chattering or prattling noise of many persons speaking together. Suss,

CHEE, a hen-roost; to go to chee, to go to roost.

CHEFTS, or CHAFTS, chops; as mutton chafts, &c. Northumb.

CHELL, I shall. Somers. and Devon.

CHEURE. See CHAR.

CHIBDER, children. Derb.

CHILDER, children. North.

CHILDERMAS DAY. Innocents-day. North.
CHILDING-WOMAN, a breeding woman. North.
CHILLERY, chilly.

CHILVER, mutton of a maiden sheep. Glouc. CHIEVE, to succeed in or accomplish any business; from the French word ACHEVER, to accomplish. It chieves nought with him. N.

CHIP, to break or crack; an egg is said to chip when the young bird cracks the shell. N. CHIZZLE, OR CHIZZELL, bran. Kent.

CHOATY, fat, chubby; a choaty boy, a fat, clubby, or broad-faced boy. Kent; commonly applied to infants.

CHOLER, SOot. CHOLER'E, blackened. North.

CHOVEE, a species of beetle, brown with a green head. Norf. and Suff.

CHOCK, to choak. Suss.

CHOCKLING, hectoring, scolding. Exm.

CHOMP, to chew; also to crush, or cut things small. N.

CHOUNTING, quarrelling. Exm.

CHUCK! CHUCK! a word commonly used in calling swine. Hamps.

CHUCK, a great chip. Suss. In other counties called a chunk, or junk. So a CHUNK of beef.

CHURCH-CLERK, the parish clerk. Essex.
CHURCH-LITTEN, the church-yard. Suss. and N.

CHURCHWARDEN, a shag, or cormorant. Suss. CHURN-DASH, the staff belonging to a churn. North. CHURN-GOTTING, a nightly feast after the corn is out. N.

CHUSE-BUT, avoid. Northumb.

CHUSHEREL, a whoremaster, a debauched fellow. S. CIDDLE, OF KITTLE, to tickle; kittle weather, ticklish, changeable, or uncertain weather. S.

CLAGS, sticks. N.

CLAG, the verb, to stick. Northumb.

CLAITY, dirty. Cumb.

CLAM'D, or CLEM'D, starved; I am welly clem'd, I am almost starved. N.

CLAM'D, in Gloucestershire, means to be choaked up; as the mill is clam'd, i. e. over-loaded. CLAMMAS, to climb; also a great noise. N.

CLAMPS, andirons, creepers, or dogs. Northumb. CLAPSE, a clasp. S.

CLAP-BREAD, thin hard oat-cakes. Lanc.

CLATCH of poultry, a brood. North. Analogous to a BATCH of bread.

CLAVER, clover-grass, by corruption of pronunciation.

CLART, to spread or smear; clarty, smeared, sticky. CLATHING, clothes. Exm.

CLAUT; to claut, to scratch or claw.

CLAVEY, OF CLAVEL, a mantle-piece. Glou. and Som. CLEAM, to glue together, or fasten a thing with glue. Linc.

CLEAN, quite, entirely. North.

CLEM, thirsty. York.

CLETCH, a brood; rather CLATCH. See above.
CLECKINGS, a shuttlecock. Cumb.

CLEDGY, stiff; cledgy ground, stiff land. Kent.
CLEEK, to catch at a thing hastily. N.
CLEGNING, the after-birth of a cow. N.

CLEPPS, a wooden instrument for pulling weeds out of corn. Cumb,

CLEVEL, a grain of corn. Kent.

CLEVER, neat, smooth, cleanly wrought, dexterous. S.

CLEVER; to clever, or claver, the endeavour of a child to climb up any thing; also to catch hold of any thing. N.

CLEWKIN, a sort of strong twine. N.

CLETCH, OF CLUTCH, a brood; a cletch of chickens.
CLINKERS, deep impressions of a horse's feet.
Glouc.

CLICK, to catch or snatch away. Cumb. and N.
CLICK, to tick as a clock.

CLITE, or CLAYT, clay or mire. Kent.

CLIT; I would sow grass seeds, but the ground will be clit. Hamp.

CLITTERY, OF CLUTTERY weather, changeable weather, inclinable to be stormy. Hamp.

CLOAM, Coarse earthen ware. Exm.

CLOCK, a dor or beetle. N.

CLOCKING, or CLUCKING hen, a hen desirous of sitting to hatch her eggs. N.

CLOGGS, Wooden shoes, such as are worn in Cumberland. Cumb.

CLOTHIS, clothes. Berks.

CLOTS, CLOUTS, or CLUTS, burdock. N.

CLOUGH, a valley between two hills, Northumb. Hence Clem of the Clough, one of Robin Hood's men.

CLOUGHY, a woman dressed in a tawdry manner. Northumb.

CLOUT, to piece or mend with cloth or iron; also to beat. N.

CLOUT, a pole, or staff. Lincolnsh.

CLOZZONS, talons, clutches, possession. N.

CLUCKISH, said of a hen w hen inclined to sit. Kent. CLUME, crockery. Devon. Also CLOME. A clomeshop.

CLUNCH, a species of chalk with which walls are built in Cambridgeshire.

CLUNTER, a clod of earth. North.

CLUSSUM, clumsy. Chesh.

CLUME-BUZZA, an earthen pan. Corn.

CLUMPS, CLUMPST, i. e. Clumsy, idle, lazy, unhandy. Linc. My hands are clumpst with cold, my hands are benumbed.

CLUNG, closed up, or stopped; spoken of hens that do not lay, and commonly used for any thing that is shrivelled or shrunk; from CLING. N. In Norfolk it means soft, flabby, relaxed. CLUSSUNT, Swoln with cold. N.

CLUT, to strike a blow. N.

CLUTTERT, in heaps. N.

CLUVES, hoofs of horses or cows. Cumb.
COAD, unhealthy. Exmoor.