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Cappé: m. ée: f. Hooded; or, that hath a short, and capuched, cloake on. Pigeons cappez. Ruffed Pigeons; the top of whose neckes is enuironned with a ruffe, or border, of feathers.

Cappéer. A ship to lye a-try; also, to goe very neere the wind.

Cappet. noirs cappets. Looke Chapeaux noirs. Cappette: f. A little hood; or cloake, hauing a capuche in stead of a cape.

Cappiettement. for Capietrement. ¶Rab. Cappot: m. A countrey cloake, or course, and scantie cloake; also, as Capot. Cappres. des cap. The fruit Capers. Cappres d'Alexandrie. Egyptian Capers; the best Capers; brought from Alexandria.

Capprier. m. A plot set with Caper shrubs; or, as Caprier. Capres: f. (The fruit) Capers.

Caprice: f. A humor, caprichio, giddie thought, fantasticall conceit; a suddaine will, desire, or purpose to doe a thing, for which one hath no (apparent) reason.

Capricieux: m. euse: f. Capricious, humorous, fantasticall, conceited, giddie-headed.

Capricorne: m. Capricorne; one of the twelue Signes, (containing twentie starres.)

Caprier: m. A Caper shrub, or Caper plant.

Capriere: f. A Caper plot, bed, or ground.

Caprifice: m. A wild Figge-tree.

Caprimulge: m. A Goat-milker; an vnluckie, and Gull-resembling Night-bird, that suckes Goats, and mortifies their vdders.

Caprin. le caprin. Goats; the kind, or nature, of Goats; also, Goats flesh.

Caprin: m. ine: f. Goatie; of a Goat; like a Goat.

Capriole: f. A caper in dauncing; also, the Capriole, sault, or Goats leape (done by a horse;) also, the hearbe Manna-grasse, or Deaw-grasse; also, as Pied de Corneille. Capriot: m. A caper in dauncing.

Caprioter. To caper, to cut a caper.

Capse: f. A coffer, chest; box; case.

Capsetin: m. A little coffer, or chest; a casket, or box.

Capsoos: m. The rights, and royalties belonging to the Lord of a Place. ¶Bearnois. Capsule: f. A little chest, or coffer; a casket, box, or forsett. La capsule du cœur. The skin Pericardium; wherein the heart lyes; and hence; Le cœur me tremble dans sa capsule. I am afraid at the very heart.

Captieusement. Captiously, cauillingly; ouer-curiously; also, craftily, deceitfully, cautelously.

Captieux: m. euse: f. Captious, cauilling; too curious; also, deceitfull, craftie, fraudulent, cautelous.

Captif: m. iue: f. Captiue; taken in, imprisoned by, warre; also, seruile, subiect, that hath lost his libertie.

Captiuer. To captiuate; take in, imprison by, warre; also, to restraine of libertie, bring into seruitude, make a slaue of.

Captivité: f. Captiuitie, thraldome; imprisonment; losse of libertie.

Capture: f. A capture, or taking; an arrest, or seisure; an arresting, or seising; also, a bootie, or prey; also, little or small gaine.

Capuchon: m. A Capuche; a Monks Cowle, or Hood; also, the hood of a cloake; also, one of the six muscles whereby the shoulder-blades are moued.

Capucin: m. A Capucine Frier (of S. Frances Order) weares neither shirt, nor breeches.

Capucinage: m. The Profession, Order, Estate, or life of a Capucine.

Capulaire: m. A coffin for a corse.

Caputions: m. Monkes; or, Capucine Friers.

Caque: m. A Cag; or, the fourth part of a Muid; (a barrell, or vessell, wherein saults-meats, pitch, rosen, &c, are vsually carried, or kept.)

Caqueduc: m. A niggard, micher, miser, scrape-good, pinch-pennie, penny-father; a couetous, and greedie wretch.

Caquerel. A sprat, or pickled herring; or as Cagarel. Caqueroles: f. The shels of Snayles, Periwincles, and such like. ¶Rab. Caquerolierie: f. A shore full of little shels. ¶Rab. Caquerotier: m. A catcher, eater, or owner, of shell-*fish.

Caquesangue: f. The bloudie flix.

Caquet: m. Pratling, tatling, babling, tittle tattle, much talking.

Caquetard: m. A pratler, babler, tatler, long-tongue.


Caqueté. Tatled, pratled, babled, chattered.

Caqueter. To tatle, bable, pratle, chatter, prate, vse many words.

Caquetereau: m. A pratle-basket, a tatling iacke.

Caqueteur. as Caquetard. Caqueteuse: f. A pratling huswife.

Caquetiere: f. The same.

Caquetoire: m. A place wherein women meet, and pratle together; as a myll, an ouen, a gossips feast, &c; also, the seat whereon they vse to sit at such a meeting.

Caquettement: m. A tatling, cackling, babling, pratling.

Ca-queue: f. The hearbe Horse-tayle, Shaue-grasse, Pewter-wort.

Caquots: m. White Leapers, infected inwardly; (for their faces are very cleere, and faire.)

Car: m. A Carre, Cart, or Waine. ¶Picard. Car. For, because; (also) insomuch as, considering that, seeing it is as it is.

Carabasse: f. as Callabasse; a Gourd; or a bottle made thereof; (also, a Grit, Grampell, Pungar-fish. ¶Marseillois.) Carabassé: m. ée: f. Much vsed, or carried vp and downe, as a Gourd-bottle is.

Carabe: f. A Corracle, or little round Skiffe, made of Ozier twigs wouen together, and couered with raw hides; also, yellow Amber.

Carabin: m. A Carbine, or Curbeene; an Arguebuzier armed with a morrian, and breast-plate, and seruing on horsebacke.

Carabinage: m. An assault made, or action performed, by Carbines.

Carabiner. To shoot, hit, or knocke, with a Petronell, or horsemans Peece.

Caracol: m. A Snayle; (whence;) Faire le caracol. (Souldiors) to cast themselues into a Round, or Ring.

Caractere: m. A Caracter; letter, figure, or forme of writing; also, a marke, token, signe, seale, impression, or print in a thing.

Caracteré: m. ée: f. Caractered, or caracterized; im-*