but PREP except for (this) but this, all pleasures fancies be (The Good-Morrow by John Donne)

by hand PHRASE by hand was a common expression of the time meaning that baby had been fed either using a spoon or a bottle rather than by breast-feeding My sister, Mrs. Joe Gargery, was more than twenty years older than I, and had established a great reputation with herself … because she had bought me up “by hand” (Great Expectations by Charles Dickens)

bye-spots NOUN bye-spots are lonely places and bye-spots of tales rich with indigenous produce (The Prelude by William Wordsworth)

calico NOUN calico is plain white fabric made from cotton There was two old dirty calico dresses (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain)

camp-fever NOUN camp-fever was another word for the disease typhus during a severe camp-fever (Emma by Jane Austen)

cant NOUN cant is insincere or empty talk “Man,” said the Ghost, “if man you be in heart, not adamant, forbear that wicked cant until you have discovered What the surplus is, and Where it is.” (A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens)

canty ADJ canty means lively, full of life My mother lived til eighty, a canty dame to the last (Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë)

canvas VERB to canvas is to discuss We think so very differently on this point Mr Knightley, that there can be no use in canvassing it (Emma by Jane Austen)

capital ADJ capital means excellent or extremely good for it’s capital, so shady, light, and big (Little Women by Louisa May Alcott)

capstan NOUN a capstan is a device used on a ship to lift sails and anchors capstans going, ships going out to sea, and unintelligible sea creatures roaring curses over the bulwarks at respondent lightermen (Great Expectations by Charles Dickens)

case-bottle NOUN a square bottle designed to fit with others into a case The spirit being set before him in a huge case-bottle, which had originally come out of some ship’s locker (The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens)

casement NOUN casement is a word meaning window. The teacher in Nicholas Nickleby misspells window showing what a bad teacher he is W-i-n, win, d-e-r, der, winder, a casement. (Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens)

cataleptic ADJ a cataleptic fit is one in which the victim goes into a trancelike state and remains still for a long time It was at this point in their history that Silas’s cataleptic fit occurred during the prayer-meeting (Silas Marner by George Eliot)

cauldron NOUN a cauldron is a large cooking pot made of metal stirring a large cauldron which seemed to be full of soup (Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll)

cephalic ADJ cephalic means to do with the head with ink composed of a cephalic tincture (Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift)