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Name Term description
NameCodicil Term description

A writing by which a person bequeathes legacies out of his moveable estate and which does not contain the nomination of an executor; usually executed in reference to a previous testament, or it may be a writing which alters the terms of a settlement to take account of circumstances which have changed since the original deed was drawn up.

NameCognition and sasine Term description

The process by which an heir is accepted into property in a burgh.

NameCommissariot Term description

The office, jurisdiction or court of a commissar(y); the district included in such jurisdiction.

NameCompear Term description

Present oneself or appear, usually before a court.

NameCompt Term description

Account

NameConjunctlie and severally Term description

An obligation or empowerment to two or more people to do something, either acting singly or in consort.

NameCurator Term description

A person who is appointed to act for someone else who cannot manage his own affairs, usually someone who administers the estate of a minor.

NameCurn/curne Term description

Literally, a single grain of corn, but usually appearing as 'the third curn' or with another number, indicating a proportion of the crop; small number of quantity, a few.

NameChopin Term description

A unit of liquid of liquid measure. A chopin was the equivalent of 2 mutchkins or half a Scots pint. For more information, see our guide to <a href="/guides/weights-and-measures">weights and measures</a>.

NameChain Term description

A unit of distance. A chain was the equivalent of 4 falls. Scots measurements of distance were slightly larger than the analogous Imperial measurements. For more information, see our guide to <a href="/guides/weights-and-measures">weights and measures</a>.

NameCorn/corne Term description

A cereal crop

NameChincough Term description

Whooping cough; pertussis. A bacterial infection of the lungs and airways that causes a distinctive-sounding cough.

NameCachexy Term description

Weight loss, wasting of muscle, loss of appetite, and general debility&nbsp;occuring during a chronic disease

NameCacogastric Term description

Suffering from poor digestion.

NameCacospysy Term description

Irregular pulse

NameCanongate breeks Term description

A colloquial term for venereal disease, named after a former burgh and street in Edinburgh with an unsalubrious reputation.

NameCast Term description

Vomit

NameCastback Term description

Relapse or setback

NameChappit Term description

Skin split by the cold

NameChokis Term description

<font size="3">Quinsy; suppurative tonsilitis</font>

NameClapper o' the hess Term description

The uvula

NameCloch Term description

A cough

NameClocher Term description

Mucus, phlegm

NameClorach Term description

Clearing of the throat.

NameClosing Term description

Croup; inflamed larynx (e.g. in diptheria)