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Calcinatoire: com. Calcinatorie, calcinating; or, which calcinateth.

Calciné: m. ée: f. Calcinated, burnt vnto dust, reduced by fire, vnto pouder.

Calcinement: m. as Calcination. Calciner. To calcinate; burne to dust, reduce vnto pouder, by fire, any mettall, or minerall.

Calcioler. To beat, or stand much on a matter; to repeat, or vrge a thing often, thereby to make it the better vnderstood, or remembred.

Calcite. as Chalcite. Calcitrer. To kicke, spurne, wince, fling, let flye, yerke out behind, or with the heeles; also, to be stubborne, disobedient, obstinate, or, obstinate in disobedience.

Calçons: m. Short, and close linnen breeches, drawers, vnder-slops.

Calcul: m. A calculatiom, computation, reckoning; an accompt, or casting of accompts; also, the Stone in the bladder, or (more properly) in the reines.

Calculateur: m. A reckoner, calculator, caster of accompts.

Calculatoire: com. Calculatorie, calculating.

Calculement: m. A calculating, reckoning, accompting.

Calculer. To calculate, reckon, accompt; number, make a computation.

Calderon. A kind of long, and round Whall.

Cale: f. A Bay, or Creeke of the sea, entring, or eating, into the land; also, a kind of little cap; also, a little peece of wood put vnder a log, or peece of timber, thereby to make it lye the better.

Calebasse: f. A bottle made of an emptied gourd; or, as Callabasse. Calemar. as Calamar. Le calemar d'un retraict. The funnell of a priuie.

Calendes: f. Calends; the first day of euery moneth.

Calendre: f. The corne-deuouring Mite, or Weeuill; also, the Calander, or greatest kind of Larke; in Paris the great Thrush is (erroniously) called so.

Calendré: m. ée: f. Gnawne, or deuoured, as corne by Weeuils; also, sleeked, or smoothed ouer, as linnen cloth, &c.

Calendrer. To sleeke, smooth, plane, or polish (linnen cloth, &c.)

Calendreure: f. A sleeking, smoothing; planing, polishing.

Calendrier: m. An Almanacke, or Calender.

Calendrine. pierre calendrine. A Sleeke-stone.

Calenge. A claime; a challenging of, or making title vnto; also, a challenge; also, a complaint, accusation, or vrging of an offence against; also, an arrest, or apprehension of a man by a Sergeant; also, a seisure of, or complaint against, beasts that are found Damage fesant.

Calengé: m. ée: f. Claymed; challenged; accused, appeached, complained of, charged with an offence, or trespasse; also, arrested, apprehended; seised.

Calenger. To clayme, challenge, demaund, make title vnto; also, to challenge; accuse, appeach, complaine, charge with, call in question for, an offence, crime, or trespasse; also, to arrest, apprehend; seise, attach.

Calengié. as Calengé. ¶Wallon. Calepinages: m. Dictionaries.

Calepiner. To interprete, or translate, exactly, or word by word.

Calepinerie: f. A true, iust, and precise interpretation, or translation of euery single word.

Caler. To loosen, or let downe, a hard, or high-stretched

thing; and hence; Caler les voiles. To strike sayle; and (metaphorically) to yeeld, submit, or accommodate himselfe vnto the season.

Calessons. as Calçons. Calfactif: m. iue: f. Heating, or warming; of propertie, or power to heat, or to warme.

Calfat: m. An officer in a Galley that lookes to the caulking thereof.

Calfater. as Calfeutrer. Calfaterie: f. The caulking of a ship; the stopping of the holes and chinkes thereof with Ockam, or Towe; or a stopping in of Ockam, or Towe betweene each boord, or planke, on the outside thereof.

Calfateur. as Calfat; or, the caulker of a ship.

Calfatin: m. The seruant of a Calfat, or caulker of a galley.

Calfeutrage: m. The caulking of a ship; or as Calage. Calfeutré: m. ée: f. Caulked; whose chinkes are stopped, or the distances of whose plankes are filled, with Ockam, or Towe.

Calfeutrer. To caulke a ship; to stop, or fill the rifts, or chinkes thereof with Ockam; or to stop in Ockam &c. betweene each planke thereof.

Calfeutreur de Navires. A caulker of ships.

Calfourchons. à cal. as, à cheuauchons. Astraddle, or, bestriding.

Calfreter. as Calfeutrer. ¶Rab. Calibistris. The priuie parts, or members.

Calibre: f. A qualitie, state, or degree; or, as Qualibre. Calibrer, se calibrer à. To equall, compare, set himselfe in the ranke of, peize himselfe in balance with; esteeme himselfe as good, value himselfe as much, rate himselfe as high as.

Calice: m. A Challice, or drinking cup. Le Calice d'une rose. The Calix, or cup of a rose; whereby the yellow part, and leaues of the flower are contained, and held in together.

Calicules. Little cups, or goblets; also, the rough shells of Chestnuts; also, the parings of a Corne, or Kernell; also, little skins vpon the eye, liuer, or any other tender part of the bodie.

Calidité: f. Heat, warmth, hotnesse.

Caliges: f. Stockings, or netherstockes; also, greaues, leg-*harnesse, or armour for the legs; forefold startups, being full of nayles in the bottome; also, breeches, or slops; and hence; Faire caliges, ou caligas. To beray his hose; or to lay somewhat in them that should not be there.

Caligineux: m. euse: f. Dimme, obscure, mistie, almost darke.

Caliginosité: f. Obscuritie, dimnesse, blindnesse, darkenesse.

Calimini. à cal. Secretly, closely, priuily, in hugger-*mugger.

Calin: m. A beggarly rogue, or lazie vagabond, that counterfeits one disease, or other, in hope that men will pitie him, and giue him somewhat.

Calinaire. A loue, leyman, or sweet heart. ¶Provenç. Caliot. The name of a certaine Peare.

Callabasse: f. A great gourd; also, a bottle made thereof.

Callafater. as Calfeutrer. ¶Rab.

Calland. A customer vnto a shop. ¶Pic.

Callate: f. A descending, or declining plot; a sideling, or sloping peece of ground; the side (in the descent) of a hill.