An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language / in which the words are explained in their different senses, authorized by the names of the writers by whom they are used, or the titles of the works in which they occur, and deduced from their originals

by John Jamieson

Cairtaris, s. pl. Players at cards.
Knox.

CAIR-WEEDS, s. pl. Mourning weeds, q. "weeds of care."
Dunbar.

To CAIT, v. n.
V. [Cate].

CAITCHE, CAICHE, s. A kind of game.
Lyndsay.

Teut. ketsc, ictus pilae, kaets-en, ludere pila.

CALCHEN, s. (gutt.) A square frame of wood, with ribs across it, in the form of a gridiron, on which candle-fir is dried in the chimney, S. B.

Isl. kialke, a sledge, sperru-kialki, rafters.

CALD, CAULD, adj.
1. Cold, S.
Popular Ball.
2. Cool, deliberate, not rash in judgment.
Douglas.

Moes. G. kalds, A. S. ceald, Alem. chalt, Isl. kalt, frigidus.

Cald, Cauld, s.
1. Cold, the privation of heat, S.
Wyntown.
2. The disease caused by cold, S.