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Name Term description
Name C A Term description

Chartered accountant
Name C of M Term description

Contract of marriage
Name Cabinetmaker Term description

One who makes fine furniture
Name Cachexy Term description

Weight loss, wasting of muscle, loss of appetite, and general debility occuring during a chronic disease
Name Cacogastric Term description

Suffering from poor digestion.
Name Cacospysy Term description

Irregular pulse
Name Caddie Term description

A person who runs errands, a messenger
Name Cadgear Term description

Travelling dealer, carrier
Name Cadger Term description

Travelling dealer, carrier
Name Cadie Term description

Cadet
Name Cairter Term description

One who makes or drives carts
Name Calenderer Term description

Passed cloth through heavy rollers to give a smooth, pressed finish to the woven fabric
Name Calico printer Term description

One who prints patterns on a type of cloth
Name Calsay-maker Term description

Road-maker
Name Cambric weaver Term description

One who uses a loom to make cloth from yarn
Name Cambric-weaver Term description

One who uses a loom to make a type of cloth
Name Candilmaker Term description

One who makes candles
Name Candlemaker Term description

One who makes candles
Name Cannoner Term description

Gunner
Name Canon Term description

Ordained minister of pre-Reformation or Episcopal church, attached to a cathedral
Name Canongate breeks Term description

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

One who makes soft headgear
Name Captain Term description

Third level of commissioned army officer, or man in charge of boat or ship
Name Captain-lieutenant Term description

Second level of commissioned army officer, lieutenant
Name Captain-tailor Term description

Possibly senior regimental tailor, responsible for purchase of regimental cloth and kilt and trew making for ordinary soldiers