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Cadelé: m. ée: f. Cockered, pampered, fedled, cherished; much made of. Lettres cadelées. Great, capitall, or text letters.

Cadeler. To cocker, pamper, fedle, cherish, make much of; also, to write a Text hand; or, make a capitall letter, or great letters.

Cadenat: m. A Padlocke.

Cadence: f. A cadence; a iust falling, round going, of words; a proportionable time, or euen measure, in any action, or sound. A chacune cadence. At euery turne, euer and anon.

Cadene: f. An yron chayne.

Cadet: m. A younger brother (among Gentlemen.) ¶Poict. Cadmie: f. Cadmia; is either minerall, or artificiall; the first, of two kinds; the one, a stone, participates of no mettall (though it be needfull to the parting of some mettals) the other hath some affinitie with copper, or with siluer. The artificiall one comes of the smoake, or sparkles, that arise from furnaces wherein copper is melted, and made; and hereof there bee diuers kinds.

Cadran. as Quadran. Caducité: f. Frailtie, weakenesse, aged feeblenesse.

Caduque: com. Fraile, caduke, feeble, ruinous, readie to fall, vnable to support it selfe. Eaux caduques. Water that runs ouer a Poole; or, out of the wast pipes, or spouts of Conduit heads.

Cæsarien: m. enne: f. Looke Cesarien. Cafard: m. An hypocrite; a counter feiter of, or dissembler in, religion, deuotion, pietie; one that seemes, but is not, holy; especially, a Preacher, or preaching Frier; who in his teaching respects his owne, or his Orders, profit, more then his auditors; also, as Caffard. Cafard: m. arde: f. Hypocriticall, dissembling, seeming holy, pious outwardly, deuout onely in shew.

Cafarde. à la cafarde. Hypocritically.

Cafarder. To pretend deuotion, play the hypocrite, seeme godly, counterfeit holinesse; looke demurely, precisely, religiously, and speake piously, but meane impiously; to preach often, but more to profit himselfe, or his Order, then his auditors.

Cafardie: f. Hypocrisie, outward holinesse, pretence of zeale, shew of conscience, counterfeiting of deuotion; often preaching for priuat respects.

Cafardise: f. The same.

Cafas. A kind of course Taffata.

Cafetin. succre cafetin. Refined Sugar.

Cafezate. A certaine little, reddish, most venomous, and malignant serpent, that lurkes (most commonly) among the leaues of trees, and thence flies at any man, or beast, that passes vnder them.

Caffard. A moath, or beetle that flyes by night; also, as Cafard. Caffardise. as Cafardie. Hypocrisie.

Cagade: f. A vaine, and effectlesse flourish; a scuruie, shitten, idle boast, or boasting.

Cagarel, ou Cagaret. A Cackerell (fish.) Looke Iuscle. Cagarole de mer. A Periwincle. ¶Langued. Cagasangue. as Cacasangue. Cage: f. A Cage. Cage d'osier. A wicker cage; also, a Lattice window of wicker. Mieux vault estre oiseau de bois que de cage: Pro. (The difference betweene libertie, and thraldome.)

Cageois: m. A countrey clowne, hynd, boore; a cottager, or one that dwels in a rusticall cote.

Cageoler. To prattle, or iangle, like a Iay (in a cage;) to

bable, or prate much, to little purpose.

Cageoleur: m. A great, and idle, pratler; one that (like a lay in a cage) iangles much to no purpose.

Cagerotte: f. A Chesforde, or Cheesfatt (of wicker.)

Cagnard, Carnardier, &c. See Caignard, &c.

Cagnasse: f. A great bitch.

Cagne: f. A bitch.

Cagnesque, Parler cagn. To speake doggerie.

Cagnole: f. The rauenous, and ougly dog fish, called (of the fashion of her head) the Mallet-fish.

Cagnot. A little dog; and particularly, a kind of little dog-fish, that hates men extreamely. ¶Lang. Cagnot blau. Another, of a light blew colour; other-*wise much resembling the former; the blew dog-fish.

Cagot: m. An hypocrite, or dissembler; also, a white leaper.

Cagoterie. Hypocrisie; also, white leprosie.

Cagouille: f. A deaw-snayle.

Cagoulle: f. A Monks hood, or Cowle. ¶Norm. Caguemaille: m. A filthie snudge, greedie wretch, miserable scrape-good, couetous bylding.

Cagueraffe: m. A base micher, scuruie hagler, lowsie dodger; or, a cruell extortioner, greedie catch-good, rauenous oppressor.

Cahin cahau. as Qu-'a-hu qu-'a-ha. Cahier. as Cayer. ¶Rab. Cahot: m. The iumpe, hop, or iog of a coach, &c, in a rugged, or vneuen, way.

Cahoter. To iumpe, iog, or hop, as a coach in vneuen way.

Cahuaille. A companie of Owles; an Owlish companie. ¶Rab. Cahuët. as Cahot; also, the backe point, or flap, of a friers Cowle.

Cahuette: f. A little cottage; also, as Luette. Cahuot. as Cahot. Cahute: f. A little house, cote, or cottage.

Cahutelle: f. The same; (or a diminutiue thereof.)

Caiche: m. As the Italian, Catzo; membre viril. ¶Rab. Caignard: m. A lazie vagabond, lowsie hedgecreeper, slothfull scowndrell; tottered, or beggarly, rogue.

Caignarder. To play the idle rogue; or (like a nastie and slothfull beggar) lye, and lowse himselfe, vnder a hedge, or in the Sunne.

Caignardier: m. as Caignard. Caignardiere: f. A hedge-whore, lazie queane, lowsie trull, filthie curtall, Doxie, Morte.

Caignart: m. as Caignard; also, a nastie, and filthie place, or corner, wherein beggars lye in the Sunne, or lowse themselues; the haunt of idle vagabonds; and hence, are some bridges about Paris (vnder which such rogues are wont to lurke) so called.

Caigne: f. A bitch.

Caigne (an Interiection of wonder) tush! Gods me! Gogs my wounds! is it possible?

Caignon: m. The chyne, or hinder part of the necke; (an old word.)

Caignot. as Cagnot; also, a little dog, a fysting curre.

Cailhete: m. A cockney.

Caillat. as Caillé. Caillé: m. Curds; curded milke, or, the curds of milke.

Caille: f. A Quayle; also, a round bead &c; as in Cailles (next after Cailler.)
  Caille coiffée. A woman.
  Herbe aux cailles. Plantaine, Weybred.
  Mere des cailles. A Rayle.