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_Kelly._
CARYBALD, _s._
_Maitland Poems._
Perhaps from Fr. _charaveau_, a beetle.
CARKINING, _s._ A collar.
V. ~Carcat~.
_Houlate._
CARL, CAIRLE, CARLE, CARLL, _s._
1. A man, S. B.
A. S. _carl_, Isl. _karl_, O. Teut. _kaerla_, masculus.
2. Man, as distinguished from a boy.
_Wyntown._
3. A clown, a boor, S. A. Bor.
_Wyntown._
A. S. _ceorl_, Isl. _karl_, Belg. _kaerle_, rusticus.
4. One who has the manners of a boor.
_Kelly._
5. A strong man.
_Wallace._
Germ. _kerl_, fortis, corpore robusto praeditus.
6. An old man, S. A. Bor.
_Wyntown._
Su. G. Isl. _karl_, id.
~Carl-crab~, _s._ The male of the black-clawed crab, Cancer pagurus, Linn. S.
_Sibbald._
_Carl-hemp_, _s._
1. The largest stalk of hemp, S. A. Bor.
2. Used metaph. to denote firmness of mind.
_Burns._
~Carl-again~, _To play carl-again_, to return a blow, to give as much as one receives, Ang.
~Carl~ _and_ ~Cavel~,
V. ~Kavel~.
~Carl-doddie~, _s._ A stalk of rib-gra.s.s, S. Plantago lanceolata, Linn.
_Doddie_, bald.
~Carlie~, _s._ A little man, a dimin. from _carl_, S.
_Cleland._
~Carlish~, ~Carlitch~, _adj._
1. Coa.r.s.e, vulgar.
A. S. _ceorlic_, vulgaris.
_Dunbar._
2. Rude, harsh in manners.
_Popul. Ball._
~Carlin~, _s._
1. An old woman, S.
_Philotus._
2. A contemptuous term for a woman, although not far advanced in life, S.
_Douglas._
3. A witch, Loth. Twedd.
_Pennecuik._
