_Court-promises_, fair Speeches, or empty Promises without performances. Much the same with Court-holy-water. _Court-card_, a gay fluttering Fellow. _Court-tricks_, State-Policy. _Course_, or rather _Coarse_, homely, ord’nary, oppos’d to fine; as _Coarse treatment_, rough or rude Dealing; _Coarse fare_, homely Food; _a Coarse Dish_, a mean one; _Coarse or Hard-Favor’d_, oppos’d to Fair or Handsom. _Of Course_ of Custom; _out of Course_, extraordinary, or out of the way; _a Horse-Course_ a Race, also the place where the Race is Run. _A Water-course_, a Drain. _Course of Law_, the proceedings, at Law, _The Law must have its Course_, or run freely. _I’ll take a Course with you_, I’ll hamper ye, or stick close on your Skirts. _A Course of Physick_, an Order or set Constitution of Physick, for a continuance or course of time. _Course of the Sun_, _Yearly or Daily_, a Yearly or Daily Revolution, _Course of the Moon_, the Circle of a Month. _Court-holy-water_, Court Promises. _Cow-hearted_, fearful or Hen-hearted. _Cows-thumb_, when a thing is done exactly, nicely, or to a Hair. _Cows-baby_, a Calf. _Coxcomb_, a Fool; _a silly Coxcomb_, a very foolish Fellow. _Crabbed_, sower, churls. _Crab-lice_, { Cock, Male. } Vermin breeding in Moist and Hairy Parts { Hen, Female. } of the Body. _Crack_, c. a Whore. _Cracker_, c. an Arse; also Crust. _Crackish_, c. Whorish. _Cracking_, Boasting, Vaporing. _Crackt credit_, Lost, Gone. Broken. _Crackt-title_, Unsound _Crackt-brains_, lost Wits. _Crackmans_, c. Hedges. _Cramped_, a weight with a string tied to one’s Toe, when a Sleep, much used by School-boies, one to another; also obstructed or hampered in any Business whatever. _Crag_, a Neck; also a Rock. _Cramp-rings_, c. Bolts or Shackles. _Cramp-words_, difficult or uncommon. _Crank_, brisk, pert. _Cranksided-ship_, that does not bear Sail well. _Cranked-shells_ or _Stones_, wrinkled or wreathed. _Crap_, c. Money. _Nim the Crap_, c. to Steal the Money. _Wheedle for Crap_, c. to coakse Money out of any Body. _Crash_, c. to Kill. _Crash the Cull_, c. Kill the Fellow. _Crashing-cheats_, c. Teeth. _Craz’d_, Mad. _Crazy_, infirm or distemper’d. _Creatures_, Men raised by others, and their _Tools_ ever after. _Creeme_, to slip or slide any thing into another’s Hand. _Crew_, the Coxon and Rowers in the Barge, or Pinnace, are called the _Boats-crew_, in distinction from the Complement of Men on Board the Ship, who are term’d the _Ships-company_, not _Crew_; also an ill Knot or Gang, as a _Crew of Rogues_. _Crimp_, one that undertakes for, or agrees to unlade a whole Ship of Coals. _To play Crimp_, to lay or bet on one side, and (by foul play) to let t’other win, having a share of it. _Run a Crimp_, to run a Race or Horse-match fouly or knavishly. _He Crimps it_, he plays booty. _A Crimping Fellow_, a sneaking Cur. _Crinkums_, the French Pox. _Crispin_, a Shoe-maker, from the St. of that Name, their Patron.