coving-tree, II, 193, H 4: meeting-tree. “A large tree in the front of an old Scottish mansion-house, where the laird met his visitors.” Similar to trysting-tree. Jamieson. In Roxburghshire, covin; in the north of England, covan, coban, and even capon. Denham Tracts, II, 226 ff.
cow, twig. See broom-cow, heather-cow, kow.
cow, coll (locks), II, 423, 4, 7: clip, (brume), III, 9, H 8: browse. (Norwegian kolla (Aasen), dock, take off the top.)
cowing, eating.
cowper. See couper.
cowte, colt. See cout.
coxcomb, III, 35, 19: pate.
crabby (crabbed), III, 488, 23: provoking.
crack, crak, II, 271, 18; 488, 6, 10; III, 161, 28; IV, 261, 3; V, [106], E 3: talk. III, [487], 6, 14, 16: brag. crackd (the Border-side), IV, 146, 4: defied, challenged. (In Scott’s printed copy, bragged, defied.)
crack, crak, a moment of time. in a crack, within a crack, IV, 314, 16; 315, 13; 317, E 6; V, [271], 13: instantly.