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  Roy des cailles. The same. Chaud comme vne caille. (Of a very hot complexion) as hot as a Quayle.

Caillé: m. ée: f. Curded, curdled; coagulated, congealed, thickened. Enfant caillé. A fat pursie fellow.

Caillebotes: f. Curds; the curds of milke.

Cailleboteux: m. euse: f. Full of curds. Lieux cailleboteux. Craggie, stonie, rockie, or flintie places; places made vneuen, or vneasie, by manie stones.

Caillement: m. A curding, curdling, coagulating, congealing, thickening.

Cailler. To curd, or curdle; to coagulate; congeale as, turne into, curds.

Cailles. Round beads, wherewith Frenchmen play at Trou-madame; and whereof the Trou-madame is tearmed Passe-caille. Cailleteau: m. A chackestone, or little flint stone.

Caillette: m. A foole, ninnie, noddie, naturall.

Caillette: f. A Rammes cod; also, the outward skin of the cods; also, a small bead; as in Cailles; or the diminutiue of Caille. Cailloëux. as Cailloteux. Caillon: m. A dot, clutter, clot, or congealed lumpe of flegme, bloud, &c.

Caillorosat: m. A Lording apple; also, a certain greene, and great peare of a pleasant tast.

Cailloté: m. ée: f. Curded, curdled; clotted, congealed, thickened, turned.

Cailloter. To curd, or curdle; to congeale, thicken, or turne; as milke, &c.

Cailloteux: m. euse: f. Flintie; full of hard, and sharpe little stones.

Caillou: m. A flint stone.

Caillouët. The name of a very sweet peare.

Caillouëux: m. euse: f. Flintie; full of small, hard, and sharpe stones.

Caimand: m. A beggar; one that goes a begging, or craues almes, from dore to dore.

Caimander. To beg; to go a begging, to beg from dore to dore.

Caimanderie: f. Extreame pouertie, beggarlinesse, beggarie, the state of a beggar; the art, action, or vse, of begging.

Caimandise. as Caimanderie. Caioler. as Cageoler. Cajollerie: f. A iangling, prating, babling, chattering.

Caïon. A young, or little hog. ¶Lyonnois. Caire: f. The visage, countenance, looke, aspect, representation of the face.

Cairin: m. A Turkie Carpet; such a one as is brought from Caire in Ægypt. Caisne: f. A bitch.

Caisne. as Caigne. Caissans. The side-teeth, called, the Grinders. ¶Langued. Caisse. as Casse; also, a drumme; also, the pit, or trench, wherein stones gathered of corne-lands are buried; See Quaisse. Caissier: m. A chest-maker; also, a chest-keeper, or treasurer; whence; Aujourd'huy caissier demain cassé: Prov. To day in cash, to morrow caßiered.

Cal: m. A thicke, and vnsensible skin, or brawnie hardnesse of skin, comming on the much-vsed parts of the hands, or feet.
  Le cal de la conscience. Hardnesse of heart, an ob-*

*durate spirit, a seared conscience.

Calabace: f. as Calebasse. Calage: m. The caulking of a ship; also, Ockam, or the towe, wherewith it is caulked.

Calamar: m. A Pennar; also, the Calamarie, or sleeue-*fish.

Calame: m. A cane, reed; wheaten, or oaten straw; pipe, flute; &c. as the Latine Calamus. Calame aromat. The sweet Arabian reed, or cane, tearmed, Calamus odoratus, or the Aromaticall reed.

Calament: m. The hearbe Calamint. Calament aquatic. Water Calamint; (hath a larger stalke, greater branches, and longer leaues, but lesse vertue, then the other kinds.) Calament d'eau; ou, de marais. The same. Calament de montagne. Mountaine Calamint, bush Calamint, hoarie Calamint. Calament sauvage. Wild Calamint, corne Calamint, wild Penniryāll, wild Pollie.

Calamenthe: f. as Calament. Calaminaire. pierre Calaminaire. A yellowish minerall, or stone, whereby copper is turned into brasse; or, as Calamine. Calamine: f. A certaine yellow minerall substance, which fire consumes, but melts not; mixed with copper, it changes it into a fine brasse, that lookes like gold; also, the heauier foyle of brasse, or copper; which comes of the sparkles, and smoake that arise from the furnace, and cleaue to the roofe, and vpper sides, of the house, wherein it is melted; also, a kind of apple.

Calamistrer. To frizle, curle, or crispe the haire.

Calamite: m. The Adamant, Loadstone, or Magnes-*stone; also, a kind of Cadmia, or the stuffe that cleaues vnto the yron rods wherewith melting copper is stirred.

Calamité: f. Calamitie, miserie, wretchednesse, great trouble, much woe; misfortune, aduersitie; mischiefe, extreame hurt, or damage.

Calamite. Of, or belonging to, reeds; or kept in reeds; whence; Storax calamite. The best kind of Storax, brought from Aleppo, and kept in canes, or in the leaues of reeds.

Calamiteusement. Wretchedly, miserably, mischieuously, to his great trouble, much woe, extreame hurt.

Calamiteux: m. A wretch, poore snake, miserable person, most vnfortunate fellow.

Calamiteux: m. euse: f. Wretched, miserable, wofull; mischieuous; most vnfortunate, fraught with troubles, full of calamitie.

Calande. A Weuell, or Mite, among corne.

Calandre. as Calendre. Calandré: m. ée: f. as Calendré. Calangement: m. An accusing, an appeaching; a challenging for, a charging with, faults.

Calanger. as Chalanger, or Calenger. Calar. as Caler; also, to be silent, leaue talking, desist from babling. ¶Gascon. Calate: f. A gentle, or easie descent in ground; also, a peece, or plot of ground so descending, so declining.

Calathe: m. A basket, pannier, or hamper of oziers; also, a vessell to bring milke, or cheese to market in; also, a cup for sacrifice.

Calcante: m. Vitrioll.

Calcination: f. A calcination, or calcinating; a reducing of mettals vnto pouder by the fire; a purifying of mettals, or minerals, by fire.