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  • cherigmanmis:—one whose duty it was to inspect and fix the boundaries of a manor.
  • cherisetum, chersettum:—church scot.
  • cheruca:— a vane, a weathercock.
  • cheva:—a shive, the bung in which the vent peg is inserted.
  • chevacia selionum:—the heads of the furrows.
  • chevagium:—poll money paid by villeins to their lord, "ne vocentur per capita" or on their marriage or for licence to leave his land; or to a man of power for his protection; also used for payment by the king at shrines.
  • chevalchia:—cavalry; a cavalry expedition; military service as cavalry.
  • chevantia:—a loan of money.
  • cheverillus:—a cockerel; a roe-buck.
  • cheveringus, chevero:— a rafter; a joist; a chevron.
  • chevicia:—a loan.
  • chevescia, cheviscce, chevitiat:—heads of ploughed land, headrigs.
  • chevisare:—to obtain by agreement.
  • cheviserum:—a headstall.
  • chimenea:—a chimney; a fire-place.
  • chimera:—a riding cloak; a cope.
  • chiminachium, chiminagium. See cheminagium.
  • chiminus. See cheminus.
  • chintura:—a strip of land.
  • chirographare:— to grant by indenture.
  • chirographarius:—a chirographer, writer of chirographs.
  • chirographum:—a chirograph, a public instrument of conveyance, attested by witnesses; an indenture.
  • chirographics:— an officer of the Common Pleas who engrosses fines.
  • chirotheca:—a glove, a gauntlet.
  • chivagium:—payment by nativi to their lord for liberty to leave his lordship. See chevagium.
  • choercere:—for cocrcere.
  • chorepiscopus:—a suffragan bishop.
  • chorista:—a chorister.
  • chorus:— the choir of a church; a crowth or crowd, a musical instrument of Wales and Scotland, played with a bow.
  • chrisma: —consecrated oil; any ceremony at which it is used, as extreme unction.
  • chrismale:—the cloth laid over a child's head at baptism.
  • chrismaiorium:—a chrismatory, a vessel to contain consecrated oil.
  • Christicola, Christianicola:—a Christian.
  • chrotta:—a crowd, a fiddle.
  • chursetum:—church scot.
  • chymera:— for camera.
  • ciborium:—a canopy or ceiler over the altar; a metal vessel to contain the sacramental bread.