_Crank_, the noise of an
ungreased
wheel--metaphorically inharmonious
verse.
verse.
Robert Burns
_Cowe_, to terrify, to keep under, to lop.
_Cowp_, to barter, to tumble over.
_Cowp the cran_, to tumble a full bucket or basket.
_Cowpit_, tumbled.
_Cowrin_, cowering.
_Cowte_, a colt.
_Cosie_, snug.
_Crabbit_, crabbed, fretful.
_Creuks_, a disease of horses.
_Crack_, conversation, to converse, to boast.
_Crackin'_, cracked, conversing, conversed.
_Craft_, or _croft_, a field near a house, in old husbandry.
_Craig_, _craigie_, neck.
_Craiks_, cries or calls incessantly, a bird, the corn-rail.
_Crambo-clink_, or _crambo-jingle_, rhymes, doggerel verses.
_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.