CAPPIT, vb. pret. strove.  Douglas, II, 154, 21.  O.N. kapp,
    contest, zeal, deila kappi vieth, strive with.  Norse kapp
    id. kappa, reflexive, to race.  Dan. kamp, O.E. camp,
    cempam.  The Sco. word exhibits W. Scand. assimilation of
    mp to pp, the form kapp, however, also existed in O. Sw.
    and exists in N.Dan.  In Cu. a capper is one who excels.  This
    is probably the same word.  See, however, E.D.

CAREING (k[-e]r), pr. p. driving, from care, caire, to drive. 
    Douglas, III, 166, 10; Wallace, IX, 1240.  O.N. koeyra, O. Ic.
    keyra, Norse koyra, to drive, ride, O. Ic. keyrsla,
    a driving, Norse kjorsel, id.  Cp.  Shetland care, id. 
    Monophthongation in O. Sw. koera, Dan. koere.

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.
    kaerlingh, O. Sw. kaerling, Norse kjaering, Dan. kiaerling
    (pronounced kaelling), 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 kjaeft, vulgar name for the mouth. 
    O. Sw. kiaepter, M. Sw. kaeft, Dan. kjaeft, M.E. chaft.

CHAFT-BLADE, CHAFF-BLADE, sb. jaw.  Mansie Wauch, 41, 20; 76, 23;
    147, 28.  Cp.  Norse kjaefte-blad, id.  See chaft.

CHOWK, sb. jawbone.  Dalr., VIII, 112, 14; Isaiah, L, 6.  O.N.
    kjalki, the jawbone, Norse kj[-a]ke.

CHYNGIEL, sb. gravel.  Douglas, III, 302, 30.  Norse singl, see
    Skeat, and Wall.

CLED, pp. clad, clothed.  Wallace, I, 382.  O.N. klaeddr, dressed,
    from klaeetha.  O.E. claeethan, from which N. Eng. clothe, was
    borrowed from the Scand. in late O.E.  See Kluge P.G.(2)I,
    932.