The Prisoner of Zenda (32 page)

consorts
NOUN
concerts
The King, who delighted in music, had frequent consorts at Court
(
Gulliver's Travels
by Jonathan Swift)

conversible
ADJ
conversible meant easy to talk to, companionable
He can be a conversible companion
(
Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen)

copper
NOUN
a copper is a large pot that can be heated directly over a fire
He gazed in stupefied
astonishment on the small rebel for some seconds, and then clung for support to the copper
(
Oliver Twist
by Charles Dickens)

copper-stick
NOUN
a copper-stick is the long piece of wood used to stir washing in the copper (or boiler) which was usually the biggest cooking pot in the house
It was Christmas Eve, and I had to stir the pudding for next day, with a copper-stick, from seven to eight by the Dutch clock
(
Great Expectations
by Charles Dickens)

counting-house
NOUN
a counting house is a place where accountants work
Once upon a time–of all the good days in the year, on Christmas Eve–old Scrooge sat busy in his countinghouse
(
A Christmas Carol
by Charles Dickens)

courtier
NOUN
a courtier is someone who attends the king or queen–a member of the court
next the ten courtiers;
(
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
by Lewis Carroll)

covies
NOUN
covies were flocks of partridges
and will save all of the best covies for you
(
Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen)

cowed
VERB
cowed means frightened or intimidated
it cowed me more than the pain
(
Treasure Island
by Robert Louis Stevenson)

cozened
VERB
cozened means tricked or deceived
Do you remember, sir, how you cozened me
(
Doctor Faustus 4.7
by Christopher Marlowe)

cravats
NOUN
a cravat is a folded cloth that a man wears wrapped around his neck as a decorative item of clothing
we'd'a' slept in our cravats to-night
(
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain)

crock and dirt
PHRASE
crock and dirt is an old expression meaning soot and dirt
and the mare catching cold at the door, and the boy grimed with crock and dirt
(
Great Expectations
by Charles Dickens)

crockery
NOUN
here crockery means pottery
By one of the parrots was a cat made of crockery
(
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain)