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  Souffler les choux en dormant. To puffe in sleeping. Quand le chou passe le cep le vigneron meurt de soif: Prov. Looke Passer. Chou. An Interiection expressing a sence of a suddaine and extreame heat, or cold; also, a voice wherewith we driue away Pulleine.

Choüan: m. A Pollard, or Cheuin fish. (Angevin.) Choüans: m. as Chauäns. Choüart. Winsing, kicking, fluissing, flying out; and hence; Maistre Iehan Choüart. A mans yard.

Chouca. A Chough, or Iacke Daw.

Chouchette: f. The Chough, Cadesse, Daw.

Choüé: m. ée: f. Disappointed, frustrated, deceiued.

Chouëtte: f. An Owlet; or, the little Horne-Owle; (a theeuish night-bird;) also, a Chough, Cadesse, Daw, Iack-Daw. Chouëtte rouge. The Cornish Chough; the red-legd Chough.

Choul: m. as Chou. Cole.

Chouquet: m. A blocke.

Chouquette: f. A Chough, Cadesse, Iacke Daw.

Chou-rave. The rape Colewort.

Chourme: f. Looke Chorme, or Chiorme. Chouzer. To swyue; (a countrey word.)

Choyer. To spare, forbeare, saue, not to vse; to refraine, abstaine, withhold himselfe from; to preserue, cherish, haue a great care of.

Chraies: f. Wild Peares, choake Peares.

Chran: m. A small kind of the fish Glaucus, couered with little shining skales of a golden blew colour. ¶Marseillois. Chras. as Chraies. Chresme. See Cresme. Chresmer. To annoint with holie oyle.

Chrestien: m. A Christian. Poire de bon Chrestien. A great Winter Peare, called by some, the Eusebian Peare. Looke Poire. Parlez Chrestien. Speake plainely, or so as wee may conceiue you; deliuer your mind in some language which we vnderstand.

Chrestien: m. enne: f. Christian; of a Christian, professing Christianitie.

Chrestienné: m. ée: f. Christened, baptised.

Chrestiennemént: m. A christening, or baptising.

Chrestiennément. Christianly, Christianlike.

Chrestienner. To christen, or baptise.

Chrestienté: f. Christendome, or Christianitie.

Chrisocolle. as Chrysocolle. Christ. Christ, Sauiour: Baume de Iesus Christ. Looke Baume. Herbe de Christ. Blacke Hellebore, Christs wort, Christs hearbe. Paulme de Christ. The hearbe Kicke, Ricinus, Palma Christi. Christe-marine. Sampire, rocke Sampire, Crestmarine.

Christianisme: m. Christianitie.

Christianizé. Christianized, christened, made a Christian.

Christodin: m. A new Christian, poore Christian, simple Christian.

Chronique: com. Temporall, or, returning at a certaine time.

Chroniques: f. Chronicles, Annales; generall, or yearelie relations of the chiefe matters acted, or hap-*

  • pening, in a countrey.


Chroniqueur: m. A Chronicler, Annalist, Historiographer.

Chroniste. as Chronicleur. Chronographie: f. A description of the times.

Chronologie: f. A Chronologie; a description, or numbring, of time.

Chronologiste: m. A Chronologist, or Chronicler; a describer of times.

Chrysocolle: f. Gold-solder; Borax, greene earth, (whether artificiall, or minerall) as Borrais. Chrysocome. Gold flower, Gods flower, Goldylockes, golden Stechados (an hearbe.)

Chrysogone: com. Gold producing.

Chrysolaine: f. Orage, Orache, golden hearbe.

Chrysolite: m. A Chrysolite; a kind of Iasper of a golden lustre or colour.

Chrysopase: f. A Chrysopase; a greene precious stone that yeelds a golden lustre.

Chrysopatie. The same.

Chuat: m. A whelpe.

Chucas. as Chouca; a Chough. Chucas rouge. A Cornish Chough.

Chucheté: m. ée: f. Whispered.

Chucheter. To whisper in the eare.

Chuchoté. Looke Chucheté. Chue: f. A Chough, Daw, Cadesse. (Savoyard.) Chupper. To sup, or sucke, vp.

Churle: f. The white field Onyon, or Starre of Bethelem.

Churquette: f. A mouse-trap. ¶Pic. Chut. as Cheu. Chyle: m. The Chylus, or white iuice of disgested meat; the matter whereof our bloud is made: (The word originally signifies, a iuice concocted by heat vnto a consistence that holdes both of moisture, and drynesse.)

Chylose: f. An expression, confection, or disgestion of sap, or iuice; also, a thicke, or creamie sap, expressed.

Chymerique: com. Fond, vaine, imaginarie, onely in conceit, Chymericall, Chymera-like.

Chymie: f. The second part of Alchymie; melting; Extraction; (much vsed for Alchymie it selfe.)

Chymique: com. A Chymist, or Alchymist; a Melter; or an Extractor, of Quintessences.

Chymique: com. Chymicall; melting; extractiue, quintessentiall; whence; Sel chymique. Salt made of the quintessence, or finest substance, of anything.

Chymistique: com. Chymisticall, quintessentiall.

Chyst. as Kyst. Ci. Here, in this place, in this matter. Ci pris ci mis. Done speedily, presently, incontinently, quickly, out of hand; as soone done as spoken, no sooner said but done.

Ciané: m. ée: f. Azure, bright-blue of colour.

Ciathe: m. A small cup, or measure, among the auncient Romans, containing foure spoonefuls: about the weight of it Authors disagree; some saying it was twelue drammes; others, that it was but tenne; and others, (the most probably) that it was two Carrats, and fifteen graines (of our weight) more then tenne.

Ciboile. as Ciboire. Ciboire: m. A Pix; the box, or cup wherein the Sacrament is put, and kept in Popish churches.

Ciboule: f. A Chiboll, or hollow Lecke.

Cicatrice: f. A Cicatrice, a skarre; a skin bred vpon