1. A small pebble, S.

Teut. _keyken_, a small flint; if not from the circ.u.mstance of such stones being swallowed by domestic fowls.

2. A game, used by girls, in tossing up, and catching pebbles as they fall, is called the _Chuckie-stanes_.

CHUF, _s._ Clown.

_Maitland Poems._

Evidently the same with _Cufe_, q. v.

CHUK, _s._ Asellus marinus.

_Sibbald._

CHUKIS, _s. pl._ Apparently, a swelling of the jaws.

_Gl. Complaynt._

A. S. _ceacena swyle_, faucium tumor.

CHUM, _s._ Food, provision for the belly, Clydes. _Scaff_, synon.

CIETEZOUR, _s._ A citizen.

_b.e.l.l.e.n.den._

CYGONIE, _s._ The stork.

_Burel._

Fr. _cicogne_, id.

CYNDIRE, _s._ A term denoting ten swine.

_Forrest Lawe._

_To_ CIRc.u.mJACK, _v. n._ To correspond with, W. Loth.

CYSTEWS, _s. pl._ Cistertian monks; Fr. _Cistaws_.

_Wyntown._

CITHARIST, _s._ The harp.

_Houlate._

CITHOLIS, _s._ A musical instrument.

_Houlate._

L. B. _citola_, Fr. _citole_, an instrument with cords.

CLAAICK, CLAWICK, _s._ The autumnal feast, or harvest-home, Aberd.; synon. _Maiden_. When the harvest is early finished, it is called the _Maiden Claaick_; when late, the _Carlin Claaick_.

CLACHAN, CLAUCHANNE, _s._ A small village, bordering on the Highlands, in which there is a parish-church, S. Elsewhere, it is called the _kirk-town_.

_Acts Ja. VI._

From Gael. _clachan_, "a circle of stones;" as churches were erected in the same places, which, in times of heathenism, had been consecrated to Druidical worship.

CLACK, _s._ The clapper of a mill, S.

Teut. _klack_, sonora percussio.

CLAES, _pl._ Clothes.

V. ~Claith~.

CLAG, CLAGG, _s._

1. An inc.u.mbrance, a burden lying on property; a forensic term, S.

_Dallas._

2. Charge, impeachment of character; fault, or imputation of one, S.

_Ritson._

Teut. _klaghe_, accusatio; Dan. _klage_, a complaint, a grievance.

Or perhaps rather from the same origin with E. _clog_; q. what lies as a _clog_ on an estate.