aerling_, Norse _kjaering_, Dan. _kiaerling_
(pronounced _kaelling_), id. Dan. dial. _kerling_. Cp. Gael.
_cailliach_. Does not seem to exist in Eng. diall. south of
the border.
CARP, KARP, _vb._ to talk, converse. Wyntoun, VI, 18, 313. O.N.
_karpa_. See Skeat Et.D.
CASTINGS, _sb. pl._ cast off clothes. Dunbar's Complaynt, 43. Deriv.
from _cast_. O.N. _kasta_.
CHAFT, _sb._ the jaw, also used vulgarly for the mouth. O.N.
_kjaptr_, the jaw. Norse _kjaeft_, vulgar name for the mouth.
O. Sw. _kiaepter_, M. Sw. _kaeft_, Dan. _kjaeft_, M.E. _chaft_.
CHAFT-BLADE, CHAFF-BLADE, _sb._ jaw. Mansie Wauch, 41, 20; 76, 23;
147, 28. Cp. Norse _kjaefte-blad_, id. See _chaft_.
CHOWK, _sb._ jawbone. Dalr., VIII, 112, 14; Isaiah, L, 6. O.N.
_kjalki_, the jawbone, Norse _kj[-a]ke_.
CHYNGIEL, _sb._ gravel. Douglas, III, 302, 30. Norse _singl_, see
Skeat, and Wall.
CLED, _pp._ clad, clothed. Wallace, I, 382. O.N. _klaeddr_, dressed,
from _klaeetha_. O.E. _claeethan_, from which N. Eng. _clothe_, was
borrowed from the Scand. in late O.E. See Kluge P.G.(2)I,
932.
CLAG, _sb._ a stain, a flaw. Dalr., VIII, 97, 17. The vowel in O.N.
_kleggi_ does not correspond. It is rather Dan. _klag_, see
_claggit_.
CLAGGIT, _adj._ clagged, literally adhering, sticking, vb. _clag_,
to stick. Lindsay, LXXXVII, 2667. Dan. _klaeg_, mud, sticky
clay, as adj. sticky, cp. Cu. _claggy_, adhesive, _clog_, to
stick to, O.E. _claeg_, from which N. Eng. _clay_. Possibly
from an unpalatalized O. Nhb. _claeg_.
Cleading, _sb._ dress, clothing, A.P.B. 110 cp. Norse _klaedning_,
Sco. formation, same as clothing in Eng. The Sco. vb. is
_cleed_.
CLECKIN, _sb._ brood of chickens. Burns, 99, 4. Cp. O.N. _klekking_,
chicken, but probably Sco. formation from _cleck_, to hatch,
q.v.
CLEG, _sb._ the gadfly, horsefly. Burns, 88, I. O.N. _kleggi_,
horsefly, Dan. _kleg_. See Wall.
CLEK, _vb._ to hatch. Dunbar, 105; Douglas,
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