CADDIS worsted galloon, so called because it resembles the caddis-worm

CADE a cask or barrel

CAGE a prison

CAIN-COLOURED red (applied to hair)

CAITIFF a captive, a slave; hence, a witch

CALCULATE prophesy

CALIVER a hand-gun

CALLET a trull

CALLING appellation

CALM qualm

CAN to know, be skillful in

CANAKIN a little can

CANARY a wine brought from the Canary Islands

CANDLE-WASTERS persons who sit up all night to drink

CANKER a caterpillar The dog-rose

CANSTICK a candlestick

CANTLE a slice, corner

CANTON a canto

CANVAS to sift: hence, metaphorically, to prove

CAPABLE subject to Intelligent Capable of inheriting Ample, capacious

CAPITULATE make a combined force

CAPOCCHIA a simpleton

CAPRICIO caprice

CAPRICIOUS lascivious

CAPTIOUS capacious

CARACK a large ship of burden

CARBONADO meat scotched for broiling

CARBONADO to scotch for broiling

CARD the taper on which the points of the compass are marked under the mariner's needle

CAREIRE the curvetting of a horse

CARKANET a necklace

CARL a churl

CARLOT a churl

CASTILIAN a native of Castile; used as a cant term

CASTILIANO VULGO a cant term, meaning, apparently, to use discreet language

CATAIAN a native of Cathay, a cant word

CATLING cat-gut

CAUTEL deceit

CAUTELOUS insidious

CAVALERO a cavalier, gentleman

CAVIARE the roe of sturgeon pickled; metaph. a delicacy not appreciated by the vulgar

CEASE decease

CEASE put off, made to cease

CENSURE judgment

CENSURE to judge, criticise

CENTURY a hundred of anything, whether men, prayers, or anything else

CEREMONY a ceremonial vestment, religious rite, or anything ceremonial

CERTES certainly

CESS rate, reckoning

CHACE a term at tennis

CHAMBER a species of great gun

CHAMBERER an effeminate man

CHANSON a song

CHARACT affected quality

CHARACTER a letter, handwriting

CHARACTER to carve or engrave

CHARACTERY handwriting That which is written

CHARE a turn of work

CHARGE-HOUSE a free-school

CHARLES' WAIN the constellation called also Ursa Major, or the Great Bear

CHARNECO a species of sweet wine

CHAUDRON entrails

CHEATER for escheator, an officer who collected the fines to be paid into the Exchequer A decoy

CHEQUE a technical term in falconry; when a falcon flies at a bird which is not her proper game she is said to cheque at it

CHEQUES perhaps intended for ethics

CHEER fortune, countenance

CHERRY-PIT a game played with cherrystones

CHEVERIL kid leather

CHEWIT cough

CHILDING pregnant

CH'ILL vulgar for 'I will.'

CHIRURGEONLY in a manner becoming a surgeon

CHOPIN a high shoe or clog

CHRISTENDOM the state of being a Christian

CHRISTOM clothed with a chrisom, the white garment which used to be put on newly-baptized children

CHUCK chicken, a term of endearment

CHUFF a coarse blunt clown

CINQUE PACE a kind of dance

CIPHER to decipher

CIRCUMSTANCE an argument

CITAL recital

CITE to incite

CITTERN a guitar

CLACK-DISH a beggar's dish

CLAP I' THE CLOUT to shoot an arrow into the bull's eye of the target

CLAW to flatter

CLEPE to call

CLIFF clef, the key in music

CLING to starve

CLINQUANT glittering

CLIP to embrace, enclose

CLOUT the mark in the middle of a target

COAST to advance

COBLOAF a big loaf

COCK a cockboat

COCK a euphemism for God

COCK-AND-PIE an oath

COCKLE tares or darnel

COCKNEY a cook

COCK-SHUT-TIME the twilight, when cocks and hens go to roost

COG to cheat, dissemble

COGNIZANCE badge, token

COIGN projecting corner stone

COIL tumult, turmoil

COLLECTION drawing a conclusion

COLLIED blackened. Othello;

COLOUR pretence

COLOURABLE specious

COLT to defraud, befool

CO-MART a joint bargain

COMBINATE betrothed

COMBINE to bind

COMMODITY interest, profit

COMMONTY used ludicrously for comedy

COMPACT compacted, composed

COMPARATIVE drawing comparisons

COMPARATIVE rival

COMPARE comparison

COMPASSIONATE moving comparison

COMPETITOR one who seeks the same thing, an associate in any object

COMPLEMENT accomplishment

COMPLEXION passion

COMPOSE to agree

COMPOSTION composition

COMPTIBLE tractable

CON to learn by heart To acknowledge

CONCEIT conception, opinion, fancy

CONCUPY concubine

CONDITION temper, quality

CONDOLEMENT grief

CONDUCT escort

CONFECT to make up into sweetmeats

CONFOUND to consume, destroy Coriolanus;

CONJECT conjecture

CONSIGN to sign a common bond, to confederate

CONSORT company

CONSORT to accompany

CONSTANCY consistency

CONSTANT settled, determined

CONSTANTLY firmly

CONSTER to construe

CONTEMPTIBLE contemptuous

CONTINENT that which contains anything That which is contained

CONTINUATE uninterrupted

CONTRACTION the marriage contract

CONTRARY to oppose

CONTRIVE to conspire to wear away

CONTROL to confute

CONVENT to convene, summon to be convenient

CONVERT to change

CONVERTITE a convert

CONVEY to manage To filch

CONVEYANCE theft, fraud

CONVICT convicted

CONVICTED overpowered, vanquished A doubtful word

CONVINCE to conquer, subdue

CONVIVE to feast together

CONVOY escort

CONY-CATCH to cheat

CONY-CATCHING poaching, pilfering

COOLING CARD used metaphorically for an insurmountable obstacle

COPATAIN HAT a high-crowned hat

COPE to reward, to give in return

COPY theme

CORAGIO courage!

CORAM an ignorant mistake for Quorum

CORANTO lively dance

CORINTH a cant term for a brothel

CORINTHIAN a wencher

CORKY dry like cork

CORNUTO a cuckold

COROLLARY a surplus

CORPORAL corporeal, bodily

CORPORAL OF THE FIELD an aide-de-camp

CORRIVAL rival

COSTARD the head

COSTER-MONGER peddling, mercenary

COTE a cottage

COTE to quote, instance

COTE to come alongside, overtake

COT-QUEAN an effeminate man, molly-coddle

COUCHINGS crouchings

COUNT CONFECT a nobleman composed of affectation

COUNTENANCE fair shew

COUNTERFEIT portrait A piece of base coin

COUNTERPOINT a counterpane

COUNTERVAIL to counterpoise, outweigh

COUNTRY belonging to one's country

COUNTY count, earl

COUPLEMENT union

COURT HOLY-WATER flattery

COVENT a convent

COVER to lay the table for dinner

COWISH cowardly

COWL-STAFF the staff on which a vessel is supported between two men

COX MY PASSION an oath, a euphemism for 'God's Passion.'

COY to stroke, fondle to condescend with difficulty

COYSTRIL a kestrel, a cowardly kind of hawk

COZEN to cheat

COZENAGE cheating

COZENER a cheater

COZIER a tailor

CRACK to boast

CRACK a loud noise, clap A forward boy

CRACKER boaster

CRACK-HEMP a gallows-bird

CRANK a winding passage

CRANKING winding

CRANTS garlands. A doubtful word

CRARE a ship of burden

CRAVEN a dunghill cock

CREATE formed, compounded

CREDENT creditable Credible Credulous

CREDIT report

CRESCIVE increasing

CRESTLESS not entitled to bear arms, lowborn

CRISP curled, winding

CROSS a piece of money, so called because the coin was formerly stamped with a cross

CROW-KEEPER one who scares crows

CROWNER a coroner

CROWNET a coronet

CRY the yelping of hounds A pack of hounds A company, use contemptuously

CRY AIM to encourage

CUE the last words of an actor's speech, which is the signal for the next actor to begin

CUISSES pieces of armour to cover the thighs

CULLION a base fellow

CUNNING skill

CUNNING skilful

CURB to bend, truckle

CURRENTS occurrences

CURST

CURSTNESS shrewishness

CURTAIL a cur

CURTAL a docked horse

CURTAL-AXE a cutlass

CUSTALORUM a ludicrous mistake for Custos Rotulorum

CUSTARD-COFFIN the crust of a custard-pudding

CUSTOMER a common woman

CUT a cheat 'To draw cuts' is to draw lots

CYPRESS a kind of crape