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Affecting like a canker. "Canrerous shackles." Thomson. Misdeem it not a cankerous change. Wordsworth.

moving the cap. [Slang. Eng.] Tom . . . capped the proctor with the profoundest of bows. Thackeray.

A floating perforated box for living fish. [U. S.] Car coupling, or Car coupler, a shackle or other device for connecting the cars in a railway train. [U. S.] -- Dummy car (Railroad), a car containing its own steam power or locomotive. -- Freight car (Railrood), a car for the transportation of merchandise or other goo…

To cut or hack, as in fighting. [Obs.] I'll so carbonado your shanks. Shak.

card of invitation; pl. a game played with cards. Our first cards were to Carabas House. Thackeray.

in ironical or bantering language; to quiz. Morgan saw that his master was chaffing him. Thackeray. A dozen honest fellows . . . chaffed each other about their sweethearts. C. Kingsley.

inks of a chain. When perfect, the calicles show twelve septa. -- Chain coupling. (a) A shackle for uniting lengths of chain, or connecting a chain with an object. (b) (Railroad) Supplementary coupling together of cars with a chain. -- Chain gang, a gang of convicts chained together. -- Chain hook (Naut.), a hook, u…

Apartments in a lodging house. "A bachelor's life in chambers." Thackeray.

chaunt) horses, to sing their praise; to overpraise; to cheat in selling. See Chaunter. Thackeray.

oman's dress when she stoops after extending the skirts by a rapid gyration. De Quincey. Thackeray. Cheese cake, a cake made of or filled with, a composition of soft curds, sugar, and butter. Prior. -- Cheese fly (Zoöl.), a black dipterous insect (Piophila casei) of which the larvæ or maggots, called ckippers or hoppe…

genus Tamias, sometimes called the striped squirrel, chipping squirrel, ground squirrel, hackee. The common species of the United States is the Tamias striatus. [Written also chipmonk, chipmuck, and chipmuk.]

chit; also, a young, small, or insignificant person or animal. A little chit of a woman. Thackeray.

click. We heard Mr.Hodson's whip clacking on the ahoulders of the poor little wretches. Thackeray.

To tread heavily or clumsily; to clump. The policeman with clamping feet. Thackeray.

t. & North of Eng.] Emmy found herself entirely at a loss in the midst of their clavers. Thackeray.

To more with the sound of a click. She clicked back the bolt which held the window sash. Thackeray.

en a cork is forcibly drawn from a bottle. "The cloop of a cork wrenched from a bottle." Thackeray.

ou bloody prison . . . Within the guilty closure of thy walls Richard the Second here was hacked to death. Shak.

ake or mend coarsely; to patch; to botch; as, to cobble shoes. Shak. "A cobbled saddle." Thackeray.

The region or home of cockneys; cockneys, collectively. Thackeray.