GLOSSARY.
A.
- Act'lly, actually.
- Air, are.
- Airth, earth.
- Airy, area.
- Aree, area.
- Arter, after.
- Ax, ask.
B.
- Beller, bellow.
- Bellowses, lunge.
- Ben, been.
- Bile, boil.
- Bimeby, by and by.
- Blurt out, to speak bluntly.
- Bust, burst.
- Buster, a roistering blade;
- used also as a general superlative.
C.
- Caird, carried.
- Cairn, carrying.
- Caleb, a turncoat.
- Cal'late, calculate.
- Cass, a person with two lives.
- Close, clothes.
- Cockerel, a young cock.
- Cocktail, a kind of drink;
- also, an ornament peculiar to soldiers.
- Convention, a place where people are imposed on;
- a juggler's show.
- Coons, a cant term for a now defunct party;
- derived, perhaps, from the fact of their being commonly up a tree.
- Cornwallis, a sort of muster in masquerade;
- supposed to have had its origin soon after the Revolution, and to commemorate the surrender of Lord Cornwallis. It took the place of the old Guy Fawkes procession.
- Crooked stick, a perverse, froward person.
- Cunnle, a colonel.
- Cus, a curse;
- also, a pitiful fellow.
D.