Call; custom in business: Our new shopkeeper is getting great call, i.e. his customers are numerous. (South.)
Cam or caum; a metal vessel for melting resin to make _sluts_ or long torches; also used to melt metal for coining. (Simmons: Armagh.) Called a _grisset_ in Munster. Usually of a curved shape: Irish _cam_, curved.
Candle. 'Jack Brien is a good scholar, but he couldn't hold a candle to Tom Murphy': i.e. he { 231} is very inferior to him. The person that holds a candle for a workman is a mere attendant and quite an inferior.
Cannags; the stray ears left after the corn has been reaped and gathered. (Morris: Mon.) Called _liscauns_ in Munster.
Caper: oat-cake and butter. (Simmons: Armagh.)
Caravat and Shanavest; the names of two hostile factions in Kilkenny and all round about there, of the early part of last century. Like Three-year-old and Four-year-old. Irish _Caravat_, a cravat; and _Shanavest_, old vest: which names were adopted, but no one can tell why.
Card-cutter; a fortune-teller by card tricks. Card-cutters were pretty common in Limerick in my early days: but it was regarded as disreputable to have any dealings with them.
Cardia; friendship, a friendly welcome, additional time granted for paying a debt. (All over Ireland.) Ir. _cáirde_, same meanings.
Carleycue; a very small coin of some kind. Used like _keenoge_ and _cross_. (Very general.)
Carn; a heap of anything; a monumental pile of stones heaped up over a dead person. Irish _carn_, same meanings.
Caroline or 'Caroline hat'; a tall hat. ('Knocknagow': all over Munster.)
Caroogh, an expert or professional card-player. (Munster.) Irish _cearrbhach_, same sound and meaning.
Carra, Carrie; a weir on a river. (Derry.) Irish _carra_, same meaning.
Carry; to lead or drive: 'James, carry down those cows to the river' (i.e. drive): 'carry the horse to the forge' (lead). 'I will carry my family this year to Youghal for the salt water.' (Kinahan: South, West, and North-west.) See Bring.
Case: the Irish _cás_, and applied in the same way: 'It is a poor case that I have to pay for your extravagance.' _Nách dubhach bocht un cás bheith ag tuitim le ghrádh_: 'isn't it a poor case to be failing through love.'--Old Irish Song. Our dialectical Irish _case_, as above, is taken straight from the Irish _cás_; but this and the standard English _case_ are both borrowed from Latin.