CLOUR, _vb._ to beat, strike; always used with reference to personal encounters. O.N. _klóra_, to scratch, Norse _klōra_ id., _klōr_ sb. used with reference to the scratch one gets as the result of a blow. In Sco. _clour_ may also mean the blow itself. CLOUR, CLOWRE, _sb._ a scratch or swelling after a blow. Fergusson, 120; Philotus, 153; Douglas, I, 6, 4. O.N. _klór_, a scratching. Norse _klōr._ Probably Sco. formation. CLUBBIT, _adj._ clubfooted, clumsy. Montg. S., XXVIII; M.P., 13, 30. O.N. _klubba_ and _klumba_, Norse _klubba_, Dan., Norse _klump_. Cp. Eng. _clump_. Söderwall gives _klubba, klobba_, probably M. Sw. Cp. N.Dan. _klubbe_. Exhibits assimilation of _mb_ to _bb_ which is general in W. Scand. Also appears to some extent later in E. Scand. Eng. _club_ is Scand. See Skeat. CLUNK, _vb._ to emit a hollow and uninterrupted sound. Jamieson, Ayr. O.N. _klunka_, Norse _klunka_, to emit a gurgling sound. O. Sw. _klunka_, Eng. _clink_ shows umlaut. CLYFFT, _sb._ a cleft, a fissure. Wallace, VII, 859. Norse _klyft_, _kluft_, Ic. _kluft_, Sw. _klyfta_, Dan. _kloft_. See also Skeat under _cleft_, and B.S. _cluft_. The Sco. word like the M.E. exhibits the umlaut which has taken place in some places in Norway and Sweden. COG, KOG, COGGIE, _sb._ a keg, a wooden vessel of any kind. Ferguson, 13; Burns, 195, 51, 2; 195, 50, 6. O.N. _kaggi_, Norse _kagge_, Dan. Sw. _kagge_, a cask, a barrel. Skeat cites the form _cag_ for Eng. diall. The Sco. word preserves more closely the Norse sound, which is not _o_, but _a_. On L.G. cognates see Skeat Et.D. COSTLYK, _adj._ costly, magnificent. Wyntoun, VIII, 28, 76; IX, 18, 66, costlike. O.N. _kostligr_, costly, choice, desirable. O. Sw. _kosteliker_, O. Dan. _kostælic_, N. Dan. _kostelig_, Norse _kosteleg_, costly, magnificent. Deriv. _costlykly_. Wyntoun, VII, 5, 96. COUR, _vb._ to bow, to croutch. O.N. _kúra_, O. Dan. _kuræ_, O. Sw. _kura_, Norse _kura_, _kurra_, bend down, become quiet, go to rest. Norse _kurr_, adj. silent, _kurrende still_, perfectly quiet, cowered to silence. The fundamental idea in the O.N. word was probably that of "lying quiet." Cp. Shetland _to cur_, to sit down. Isaiah, LVIII, 5: "His head till cower like a seggan flouir." COW, _vb._ to overcome, surpass, "beat." O.N. _kúga_, to compel to something, to tyrannize over. Dan _kue_, _underkue_, suppress, oppress, Norse _kua_, press down, also put into subjection. The more general meaning in the modern diall. is "to beat." "To cow a'," in Barrie, to beat everything; _cow'd_, Fergusson 117, terrified. CRAIK, _sb._ crow. Burns, 226, 119, 3, and 121, 1. O.N. _kráka_, Norse _kraake_, _krauka_, Dan. _krage_, Shetland _kraga_, crow. See also Wall.