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 counting-house (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)

crooked sixpence PHRASE it was considered unlucky to have a bent sixpence You’ve got the beauty, you see, and I’ve got the luck, so you must keep me by you for your crooked sixpence (Silas Marner by George Eliot)

croquet NOUN croquet is a traditional English summer game in which players try to hit wooden balls through hoops and once she remembered trying to box her own ears for having cheated herself in a game of croquet (Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll)

cross PREP across The two great streets, which run cross and divide it into four quarters (Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift)