_Crowdie time_,
breakfast
time.
Robert Burns
_Crank_, the noise of an ungreased wheel--metaphorically inharmonious
verse.
_Crankous_, fretful, captious.
_Cranreuch_, the hoar-frost, called in Nithsdale "frost-rhyme. "
_Crap_, a crop, to crop.
_Craw_, a crow of a cock, a rook.
_Creel_, a basket, to have one's wits in a creel, to be crazed, to be
fascinated.
_Creshie_, greasy.
_Crood_, or _Croud_, to coo as a dove.
_Croon_, a hollow and continued moan; to make a noise like the low roar
of a bull; to hum a tune.
_Crooning_, humming.
_Crouchie_, crook-backed.
_Crouse_, cheerful, courageous.
_Crously_, cheerfully, courageously.
_Crowdie_, a composition of oatmeal, boiled water and butter; sometimes
made from the broth of beef, mutton, &c. &c.
_Crowdie time_, breakfast time.
_Crowlin_, crawling, a deformed creeping thing.
_Crummie's nicks_, marks on the horns of a cow.
_Crummock_, _Crummet_, a cow with crooked horns.
_Crummock driddle_, walk slowly, leaning on a staff with a crooked head.
_Crump-crumpin_, hard and brittle, spoken of bread; frozen snow yielding
to the foot.
_Crunt_, a blow on the head with a cudgel.
_Cuddle_, to clasp and caress.
_Cummock_, a short staff, with a crooked head.
_Curch_, a covering for the head, a kerchief.
_Curchie_, a curtesy, female obeisance.
_Curler_, a player at a game on the ice, practised in Scotland, called
curling.
_Curlie_, curled, whose hair falls naturally in ringlets.
_Curling_, a well-known game on the ice.
_Curmurring_, murmuring, a slight rumbling noise.
_Curpin_, the crupper, the rump.
