Le canal de colomnes. A hollow creuise, or strake, grauen in pillars; a chamfring, or channell, in pillars.
Canaliere: f. A delicate Italian peare thats ripe in the beginning of Iune.
Canard: m. A Drake. Pied de canard. The hearbe Goosefoot, or wild Orache. Vendeur de canards à moitié. A cousener, guller, cogger, foister, lyer.
Canarin: m. A Canarie bird.
Canart. as Canard. Grace de S. Canart: Prov. A gift of that which the giuer cannot keepe.
Cancame: m. as Lacque; an Armenian gumme vsed by Dyers. Cancelaresque: com. Chancerie-like; of, or belonging to, the Chancerie.
Cancelation: f. A cancellation, or cancelling; a defacing, effacing, rasing, blotting, or crossing out of (a thing written;) also, a forgetting.
Cancelé: m. ée: f. Cancelled, razed; effaced, crossed, or blotted out.
Canceler. To cancell, crosse, raze; deface, efface, blot or put out.
Cancelle: m. as Branchue. Canceller. as Canceler. Cancre: m. A crab-fish; also, the signe in the Zodiacke, tearmed Cancer; also, a canker; or, a hard, and vneuen swelling, of an ougly, blackish, or blewish colour; also, an ancient engine of batterie, whose strong and yron head was made like a crab. Cancre de Barbarie. The greatest kind of crab, round, and very rough-shelled, short-legd, slow a land, very swift in the water; and by old authors tearmed Mæa, or Maia. Cancre squinade. Looke Squinade. Cancre! (an Interiection of denying, or forbidding) fie; warre that; what a pox meane you; &c.
Candelabre: m. A candlesticke.
Candelette. A Suppositarie. ¶Langued. Candeur: f. A bright, or shining whitenesse; also, courtesie, gentlenesse, integritie, sinceritie, faire dealing, vprightnesse.
Candidat. A flatterer, soother, smoother; one that euer makes it faire weather.
Candide: com. White, faire; bright, orient; also, prosperous, happie, fortunate; also, gentle, courteous, faire conditioned; also, vpright, sincere, innocent.
Candidement. Whitely, fairely, in white; fauourably, gently, mildly; faithfully, vprightly, sincerely, without fraud, malice, or enuie.
Se Candir. To candie, or grow candide, as sugar after boyling.
Cane: f. A ducke; also, a measure for cloth, being a yard, or thereabouts; also, a canne, or such like measure for wine; also, a measure of fiue foot and tenne ynches, for land.
Cane de bois à brusler. A certaine quantitie of, or scantling for, firewood.
Cane d'une campane. The lowest part of a bell, whereon commonly there is a wreath, border, or line made.
Cane d'Inde. is bigger then our ordinarie ducke, and differs from it in colour, and figure (the drake somewhat resembling a Turkie cocke, especially in the head) as also from all other fowle, in being dumbe.
Cane de mer. A sea-fowle that resembles a young, or small, goose; and hauing a white ring about her necke,
is also tearmed, Cane au colier blanc. La petite cane. The wild duck, lesse then the tame one. Bec de cane. See Bec; also, a little instrument vsed in grafting en escusson. Estonnez comme canes. Skared like a companie of duckes. Faire la cane. To ducke, like a coward, when a blow is in comming; to play least in sight when blowes are a dealing; to hide, or absent himselfe, from a bickering, or battell, wherein he is much interessed.
Canebasse. as Calebasse; a bottle made of a gourd. Canelé: m. ée: f. Channelled, fluted, furrowed, straked.
Caneler. To flute, strake, furrow, channell; to cut hollow rewes, or gutters into (stone, or timber.)
Caneleure: f. A fluting, channelling, straking, furrowing; gutter-worke (in stone, or timber.)
Caneliere: f. A reed-plot; a ground thats full, or set full, of reeds.
Canelle: f. (Our moderne Cannell, or Cinnamon; (Looke Cinnamome) also, the faucet, or quill of a wine vessel; also, the cocke, or spout of a conduit.
Canellé: m. lée: f. Of Cinnamon, of a Cinnamon colour; also, made of, or seasoned with, Cinnamon.
Canelline: f. A little cannell, pipe, or hollow rod.
Canelure: f. A channelling, or furrowing in stone, or in timber; a fluting.
Canepetiere: f. A certaine daintie land-fowle, that resembles a Bustard, or the Partridge called Arbenne; onely shee is not so big as that, nor rough-footed as this. Il fait de la canepetiere. He (cowardly) hides himselfe in euerie hole; or ducks at the appearance of euery danger.
Canepin: m. The thinne inner rind of the barke of the Linden, and th' outward of the coat of a Birch, tree, written on in old time in stead of paper; also, th' outward thinne, and white pilling, of a dressed sheepes skin.
Canepineuse. The barke, or inner part of a sugar cane.
Caner. To squirt.
Canet. A yong ducke; or, a wild ducke.
Caneter. To waddle, or goe, like a ducke; also, to breed yong duckes.
Canetier: m. ere: f. Of a ducke, like a ducke; catching duckes; feeding, or preying, on duckes.
Canetille: f. (Gold, or siluer) Purle; also, a small purle of needle-worke; or, a small edging (bone) lace; also, a freckle, or, the frecklednesse of a face.
Canetillé: m. ée: f. Set, wrought, or inriched, with purle; also, edged with a small (needle-worke) purle, or bone lace; also, freckled.
Caneton: m. A duckling; yong ducke, or drake.
Canette: f. A little ducke; yong ducke; wilde ducke; also, a little canne, or cruse; also, the quill of a spinning wheele. Canette d'estang. A kind of small wild ducke, that haunts meares, and great standing waters.
Canevas; ou, Canevers: m. Canuas.
Canjar. as Caniard. Caniard: m. A Sea-cob, or Sea-gull.
Canichon. A little ducke, or drake; a duckling.
Caniculaires. (les jours cá.) The dog-dayes.
Canidé. A certaine bird, whose backe and taile is blew, necke and belly yellow.
Canif: m. A pen-knife.
Canin: m. ine: f. Dogged, doggie, of dogs, dog-like.
Convulsion canine. The crampe of the mouth; or, a forced, and painfull wrying of the mouth.