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Caddis
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worsted galloon, so called because it resembles
the caddis-worm -
Cade
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a cask or barrel
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Cage
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a prison
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Cain-coloured
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red (applied to hair)
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Caitiff
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a captive, a slave; hence, a witch
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Calculate
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prophesy
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Caliver
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a hand-gun
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Callet
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a trull
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Calling
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appellation
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Calm
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qualm
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Can
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to know, be skillful in
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Canakin
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a little can
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Canary
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a wine brought from the Canary Islands
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Candle-wasters
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persons who sit up all night to drink
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Canker
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a caterpillar
The dog-rose -
Canstick
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a candlestick
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Cantle
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a slice, corner
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Canton
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a canto
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Canvas
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to sift: hence, metaphorically, to prove
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Capable
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subject to
Intelligent
Capable of inheriting
Ample, capacious -
Capitulate
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make a combined force
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Capocchia
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a simpleton
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Capricio
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caprice
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Capricious
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lascivious
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Captious
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capacious
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Carack
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a large ship of burden
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Carbonado
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meat scotched for broiling
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Carbonado
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to scotch for broiling
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Card
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the taper on which the points of the compass
are marked under the mariner's needle -
Careire
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the curvetting of a horse
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Carkanet
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a necklace
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Carl
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a churl
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Carlot
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a churl
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Castilian
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a native of Castile; used as a cant term
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Castiliano
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Vulgo a cant term, meaning, apparently, to use discreet
language -
Cataian
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a native of Cathay, a cant word
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Catling
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cat-gut
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Cautel
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deceit
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Cautelous
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insidious
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Cavalero
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a cavalier, gentleman
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Caviare
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the roe of sturgeon pickled; metaph. a delicacy
not appreciated by the vulgar -
Cease
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decease
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Cease
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put off, made to cease
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Censure
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judgment
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Censure
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to judge, criticise
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Century
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a hundred of anything, whether men, prayers, or
anything else -
Ceremony
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a ceremonial vestment, religious rite, or
anything ceremonial -
Certes
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certainly
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Cess
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rate, reckoning
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Chace
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a term at tennis
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Chamber
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a species of great gun
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Chamberer
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an effeminate man
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Chanson
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a song
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Charact
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affected quality
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Character
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a letter, handwriting
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Character
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to carve or engrave
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Charactery
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handwriting
That which is written -
Chare
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a turn of work
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Charge-house
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a free-school
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Charles'
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Wain the constellation called also Ursa Major, or
the Great Bear -
Charneco
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a species of sweet wine
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Chaudron
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entrails
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Cheater
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for escheator, an officer who collected the
fines to be paid into the Exchequer
A decoy -
Cheque
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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
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perhaps intended for ethics
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Cheer
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fortune, countenance
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Cherry-pit
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a game played with cherrystones
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Cheveril
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kid leather
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Chewit
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cough
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Childing
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pregnant
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Ch'ill
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vulgar for 'I will.'
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Chirurgeonly
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in a manner becoming a surgeon
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Chopin
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a high shoe or clog
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Christendom
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the state of being a Christian
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Christom
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clothed with a chrisom, the white garment
which used to be put on newly-baptized children -
Chuck
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chicken, a term of endearment
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Chuff
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a coarse blunt clown
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Cinque
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Pace a kind of dance
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Cipher
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to decipher
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Circumstance
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an argument
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Cital
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recital
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Cite
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to incite
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Cittern
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a guitar
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Clack-dish
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a beggar's dish
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Clap
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I' The Clout to shoot an arrow into the bull's eye of the target
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Claw
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to flatter
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Clepe
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to call
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Cliff
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clef, the key in music
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Cling
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to starve
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Clinquant
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glittering
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Clip
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to embrace, enclose
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Clout
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the mark in the middle of a target
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Coast
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to advance
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Cobloaf
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a big loaf
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Cock
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a cockboat
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Cock
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a euphemism for God
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Cock-and-pie
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an oath
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Cockle
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tares or darnel
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Cockney
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a cook
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Cock-shut-time
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the twilight, when cocks and hens go to roost
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Cog
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to cheat, dissemble
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Cognizance
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badge, token
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Coign
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projecting corner stone
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Coil
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tumult, turmoil
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Collection
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drawing a conclusion
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Collied
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blackened. Othello;
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Colour
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pretence
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Colourable
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specious
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Colt
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to defraud, befool
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Co-mart
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a joint bargain
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Combinate
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betrothed
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Combine
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to bind
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Commodity
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interest, profit
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Commonty
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used ludicrously for comedy
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Compact
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compacted, composed
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Comparative
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drawing comparisons
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Comparative
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rival
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Compare
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comparison
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Compassionate
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moving comparison
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Competitor
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one who seeks the same thing, an associate in
any object -
Complement
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accomplishment
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Complexion
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passion
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Compose
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to agree
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Compostion
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composition
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Comptible
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tractable
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Con
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to learn by heart
To acknowledge -
Conceit
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conception, opinion, fancy
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Concupy
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concubine
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Condition
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temper, quality
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Condolement
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grief
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Conduct
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escort
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Confect
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to make up into sweetmeats
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Confound
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to consume, destroy
Coriolanus; -
Conject
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conjecture
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Consign
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to sign a common bond, to confederate
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Consort
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company
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Consort
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to accompany
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Constancy
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consistency
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Constant
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settled, determined
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Constantly
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firmly
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Conster
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to construe
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Contemptible
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contemptuous
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Continent
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that which contains anything
That which is contained -
Continuate
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uninterrupted
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Contraction
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the marriage contract
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Contrary
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to oppose
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Contrive
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to conspire
to wear away -
Control
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to confute
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Convent
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to convene, summon
to be convenient -
Convert
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to change
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Convertite
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a convert
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Convey
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to manage
To filch -
Conveyance
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theft, fraud
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Convict
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convicted
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Convicted
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overpowered, vanquished
A doubtful word -
Convince
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to conquer, subdue
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Convive
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to feast together
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Convoy
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escort
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Cony-catch
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to cheat
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Cony-catching
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poaching, pilfering
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Cooling
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Card used metaphorically for an insurmountable obstacle
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Copatain
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Hat a high-crowned hat
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Cope
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to reward, to give in return
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Copy
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theme
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Coragio
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courage!
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Coram
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an ignorant mistake for Quorum
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Coranto
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lively dance
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Corinth
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a cant term for a brothel
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Corinthian
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a wencher
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Corky
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dry like cork
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Cornuto
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a cuckold
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Corollary
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a surplus
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Corporal
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corporeal, bodily
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Corporal
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Corporal
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Of
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The Field an aide-de-camp
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Corrival
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rival
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Costard
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the head
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Coster-monger
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peddling, mercenary
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Cote
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a cottage
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Cote
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to quote, instance
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Cote
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to come alongside, overtake
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Cot-quean
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an effeminate man, molly-coddle
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Couchings
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crouchings
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Count
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Confect a nobleman composed of affectation
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Countenance
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fair shew
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Counterfeit
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portrait
A piece of base coin -
Counterpoint
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a counterpane
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Countervail
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to counterpoise, outweigh
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Country
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belonging to one's country
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County
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count, earl
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Couplement
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union
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Court
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Holy-water flattery
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Covent
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a convent
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Cover
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to lay the table for dinner
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Cowish
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cowardly
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Cowl-staff
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the staff on which a vessel is supported
between two men -
Cox
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My Passion an oath, a euphemism for 'God's Passion.'
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Coy
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to stroke, fondle
to condescend with difficulty -
Coystril
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a kestrel, a cowardly kind of hawk
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Cozen
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to cheat
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Cozenage
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cheating
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Cozener
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a cheater
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Cozier
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a tailor
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Crack
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to boast
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Crack
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a loud noise, clap
A forward boy -
Cracker
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boaster
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Crack-hemp
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a gallows-bird
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Crank
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a winding passage
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Cranking
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winding
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Crants
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garlands. A doubtful word
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Crare
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a ship of burden
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Craven
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a dunghill cock
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Create
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formed, compounded
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Credent
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creditable
Credible
Credulous -
Credit
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report
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Crescive
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increasing
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Crestless
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not entitled to bear arms, lowborn
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Crisp
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curled, winding
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Cross
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a piece of money, so called because the coin
was formerly stamped with a cross -
Crow-keeper
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one who scares crows
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Crowner
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a coroner
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Crownet
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a coronet
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Cry
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the yelping of hounds
A pack of hounds
A company, use contemptuously -
Cry
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Aim to encourage
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Cue
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the last words of an actor's speech, which
is the signal for the next actor to begin -
Cuisses
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pieces of armour to cover the thighs
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Cullion
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a base fellow
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Cunning
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skill
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Cunning
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skilful
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Curb
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to bend, truckle
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Currents
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occurrences
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Curst
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Curstness
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shrewishness
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Curtail
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a cur
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Curtal
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a docked horse
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Curtal-axe
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a cutlass
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Custalorum
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a ludicrous mistake for Custos Rotulorum
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Custard-coffin
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the crust of a custard-pudding
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Customer
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a common woman
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Cut
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a cheat
'To draw cuts' is to draw lots -
Cypress
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a kind of crape
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