The history and antiquities of Boston, and the villages of Skirbeck, Fishtoft, Freiston, Butterwick, Benington, Leverton, Leake, and Wrangle; comprising the hundred of Skirbeck, in the county of Lincoln. Including also a history of the East, West, and Wildmore fens, and copious notices of the Holland or Haut-Huntre fen ... sketches of the geology, natural history, botany, and agriculture of the district; a very extensive collection of archaisms and provincial words, local dialect, phrases, proverbs, omens, superstitions, etc. By Pishey Thompson. Illustrated with one hundred engravings.

PROVINCIALISMS. 703
Crads.-To set crads is to stimulate by feats of agility or skill.
Crack.-To boast unduly. Used by SHAKESPEARE.
Crackling.-The outside skin and fat of roasted pork.
Cramble. —" A crambling old man;" moving stiffly.
Cranch, or crunch.-A sound as if crisp snow was trodden upon.
Cranky.-Feeble and weak in the joints.
Cratch.-A wooden frame used by butchers to skin sheep upon. A sort of
hand-barrow.
Crease.-A mark made in paper by being folded, or in a garment by being sate
upon.
Cree.-To boil gently and seethe over the fire.
Creed-wheat. —mWheat hulled and boiled soft, to make frumenty of.-RAY, 1674.
Crew-yard.-An inclosure bedded with straw for cattle in the winter.
Crewels or Crules.-Worsteds of various colours for fancy needle-work. The
word was used in 1572, and is found in BEAUMONT and FLETCHER, DODSLEY'S Old Plays, 4c.
Crib. —The manger. DANISH, krybbe.
Cris Cros Row.-Christ's Cross Row. The alphabet arranged in the shape of
a cross, as it was in the old horn-books and primers.
Crisled-up.-Chilled; cold. The skin in the state called " Goose-skin," which see.
Croke.-The core of an apple or pear.
Croodle.-To lie close and snug for warmth.
Cross-grained.-Peevish; ill-tempered.
Crow over.-To exult over another person.
Cruddle.-To curdle. CRmDS, Curds.
Crysom. —" A poor crysom;" a weak feeble person. The word is never used
now in its original sense.
Cuckoo-spit.-White froth found on plants, produced by the Cicada spumaria,
and which surrounds its larva. See Brock.
Culamite. —A methodist of the New Connexion; said to have been originally
Kilhamite; from Mr. Alexander Kilham, one of the founders of that sect.'
Culls, Cullings.-Inferior articles of any kind, remaining after the best have
been withdrawn.
"' Cush-cow."-The dairy-maids' call to the cows. Used by SHAKESrPEARE
Cut (to).-To neglect, shun, avoid.
Cute.-Quick; sharp; acute.
Cuttle-headed.-Weak; stupid; foolish.
D.
Dab.-A child's pinafore or tidy.
Dab (a) at anything.-Clever at any game, work, &c. An adept. c" IHe's sulch
a dab at it!"
Dacious.-Audacious. "He's such a dacious boy."
Daffy-down-dilly.-The daffodil. Narcissus pseudo. - Shepherd's Calenda'r,
April.
Daft.-" As daft as a goose;" dull of apprehension; stupid; foolish; weak;
timid.-RAY, 1674.
Dacker. —'" He dackers:" to weary of an undertaking.
Dal you.-" Dal you, lass;" a term of endearment.
Damage. —The amount of expense. "What's the damage?"
Dang him. —An imprecation softened in expression.
We are told, however, that the term Culamite Dissenters in general, long before Mr. KILHAM's
was in use, and applied as a term of reproach to time; being derived from a person named CuI~JFy