CARL, _sb._ a man, an old man, very frequently with an idea of disrespect. C.S., 144. O.N. _karl_, Norse _kar_, a man, fellow, but _kall_, an old man, with assimilation of _rl_ to _ll_. W.Norse _kadl_ exhibits the change of _ll_ to _dl_. In Dan. and in Sw. dial _karl_. Cu. _carl_ means a coarse fellow. Dunbar has the word _wifcarl_, man. CARLAGE, _adj._ oldish, decrepit. Irving, 172. O.N. _karl_ + _leikr_. CARLING, KARLING, CARLINE, _sb._ an old woman, a slatternly woman. O.N. _kerling_, an old woman, _karlinna_, a woman. O. Dan. _kærlingh_, O. Sw. _kärling_, Norse _kjæring_, Dan. _kiærling_ (pronounced _kælling_), id. Dan. dial. _kerling_. Cp. Gael. _cailliach_. Does not seem to exist in Eng. diall. south of the border. CARP, KARP, _vb._ to talk, converse. Wyntoun, VI, 18, 313. O.N. _karpa_. See Skeat Et.D. CASTINGS, _sb. pl._ cast off clothes. Dunbar's Complaynt, 43. Deriv. from _cast_. O.N. _kasta_. CHAFT, _sb._ the jaw, also used vulgarly for the mouth. O.N. _kjaptr_, the jaw. Norse _kjæft_, vulgar name for the mouth. O. Sw. _kiäpter_, M. Sw. _käft_, Dan. _kjæft_, M.E. _chaft_. CHAFT-BLADE, CHAFF-BLADE, _sb._ jaw. Mansie Wauch, 41, 20; 76, 23; 147, 28. Cp. Norse _kjæfte-blad_, id. See _chaft_. CHOWK, _sb._ jawbone. Dalr., VIII, 112, 14; Isaiah, L, 6. O.N. _kjálki_, the jawbone, Norse _kjāke_. CHYNGIEL, _sb._ gravel. Douglas, III, 302, 30. Norse _singl_, see Skeat, and Wall. CLED, _pp._ clad, clothed. Wallace, I, 382. O.N. _klæddr_, dressed, from _klæða_. O.E. _clæðan_, from which N. Eng. _clothe_, was borrowed from the Scand. in late O.E. See Kluge P.G.(2)I, 932. CLAG, _sb._ a stain, a flaw. Dalr., VIII, 97, 17. The vowel in O.N. _kleggi_ does not correspond. It is rather Dan. _klag_, see _claggit_. CLAGGIT, _adj._ clagged, literally adhering, sticking, vb. _clag_, to stick. Lindsay, LXXXVII, 2667. Dan. _klæg_, mud, sticky clay, as adj. sticky, cp. Cu. _claggy_, adhesive, _clog_, to stick to, O.E. _clæg_, from which N. Eng. _clay_. Possibly from an unpalatalized O. Nhb. _clæg_. Cleading, _sb._ dress, clothing, A.P.B. 110 cp. Norse _klædning_, Sco. formation, same as clothing in Eng. The Sco. vb. is _cleed_. CLECKIN, _sb._ brood of chickens. Burns, 99, 4. Cp. O.N. _klekking_, chicken, but probably Sco. formation from _cleck_, to hatch, q.v. CLEG, _sb._ the gadfly, horsefly. Burns, 88, I. O.N. _kleggi_, horsefly, Dan. _kleg_. See Wall. CLEK, _vb._ to hatch. Dunbar, 105; Douglas, II, 198, 3. O.N. _klekja_, O. Sw. _kläkkia_, Norse _klökkja_, _klöttja_, Dan. _klække_, Sw. _kläcka_, id. CLOFF, _sb._ fork, fissure. Montg. F., 60. O.N. _klof_, bifurcation, O. Dan. _klov_, a rift in a tree, O. Sw. _klovi_, id. Norse _klov_, a cleft opening. Cp. Sco. _long-cloved_ and Ic. _klof-langr_.