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

CUMERLACH, CUMBERLACH, s. A servant attached to a religious foundation.
Cumerb, id.
Chart. MS.

Gael. comhairleach, an adviser; com-harba, a partner in church lands, a vicar, pron. coarb.

CUMLIN, s. Any animal that attaches itself to a person or place of its own accord, S.

E. comeling, one newly come.

CUMMAR, s. Vexation, entanglement, E. cumber.
Abp. Hamiltoun.

Belg. kommer, id.

CUMMER, KIMMER, s.
1. A gossip, S.
Kelly.

Fr. commere, a she-gossip.

2. A young girl, Ang.

Cummerlyke, adj. Like cummers or gossips, Dunbar.