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The Fortunes of Nigel

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2017
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COCK-A-LEEKIE, COCK-A-LEEKY, leek soup in which a cock has been boiled.

COIF, linen covering for the head.

COMPLOTS, plots, intrigues.

COMPT, list, account, particulars.

COMPTING-ROOM, counting-house.

COSHERING, being familiar and intimate.

COUP, barter.

COUP THE CRANS, go to wreck and ruin.

COUPIT, tumbled.

CRAIG, rock; also neck.

CRAP, creep.

CRAW’D SAE CROUSE, crowed so proudly.

CULLY, one easily deceived, a dupe.

CURN, grain.

CUSSER, stallion.

CUTTY-QUEAN, a loose woman.

DAFT, silly, mad.

DAIKERING, jogging or toiling along.

DANG, driven, knocked.

DEIL, devil.

DEUTEROSCOPY, a meaning beyond the original sense.

DIDNA, did not.

DIKE-LOUPER, a debauchee.

DIRDUM, uproar, tumult. DIRKED, stabbed with a dirk.

DONNERIT, stupefied.

DOOMS, very, absolutely.

DOUCE, quiet, respectable, sober.

DOVER, neither asleep nor awake.

DOWCOT, dove-cote.

DRAB, illicit sexual intercourse.

DRAFF, drains given to cows; also the wash given to pigs.

DRAFF-POKE, bag of grains.

DREDGING-BOX, a box with holes for sprinkling flour in cookery.

DROUTHY, thirsty.

DUD, rag.

DUKE OF EXETER’S DAUGHTER, a species of rack in the Tower of London.

DULE-WEEDS, mourning.

DUMMALAFONG, a common prey to all comers.

DUNTS, blows.

EARD, earth.

EEN, eyes.

ELRITCH, hideous.

ENOW, just now.

ENSAMPLE, example.

EVITED, avoided.

EXIES, hysterics.

FALCHION, a short broadsword with a slightly curved point.

FALSET, falsehood.

FAUSE, false.

FASH, trouble.
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