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debate it; I leaue the decision, (or disposall) therof to them. Brouiller les cartes. Looke Brouiller. Le premier en carte. Th'eldest, or, the first thats dealt vnto, at cards.

Cartée: f. A (letter of) defiance, or challenge, for a (single) combat.

Cartel: m. as Cartée. Carteranche: f. A certaine measure for salt.

Carthame. m. Bastard Saffron, wild Saffron, mocke Saffron, Saffron dort. Carthame sauvage, ou syluestre. Wild bastard Saffron.

Carthellages. Square peeces of free stone.

Cartibe. A square table of stone, but somewhat more long than broad. Cartibes d'vn moulinet. The ferrels, or bands of yron whereby the ends of a windlesse are strengthened.

Cartilage: m. A gristle, or tendrell of the eare, or nose; or such a skin as is betweene the toes of geese, duckes, &c.

Cartilagineux. m. euse: f. Gristly; full of tendrels, or gristles.

Cartisannier: m. A maker of (playing) cards.

Cartoche. as Cartouche; also, a Cartridge, or roll (in Architecture.)

Carton: m. The thicke paper whereon Painters draw sometimes; and that whereof some fannes are made; also, a square peece thereof, or of pastboord; (also, a Carter, or carre-man: ¶Pic.) Cartons d'une Selle. The skirts of a saddle. Cartophilaces. Law-bookes, auncient Records, authenticall writings; also, the roome, chest, or presse, wherein such writings be kept.

Cartouche: f. The cornet of paper whereinto Apothecaries, and Grocers put the parcels they retaile; also, a Cartouch, or full charge, for a pistoll, put vp within a little paper, to be the readier for vse; also, a peece of pastboord, or thicke paper, stuffed (in a round, or puddinglike forme) with bullets, &c, and to be shot out of a great peece: also, as Cartoche. Cartoufle. (The name of) a shrub, that beares a Mushrome-like fruit; also, the fruit it selfe.

Cartuche. as Cartouche. Cartulaire. A great paper-booke; or, as Chartulaire; also, as Resve. Cartulaire: com. Cartular; of, or in, paper; proper vnto paper, or paper-bookes. Iuges cartulaires. Iudges that giue their sentences in writing.

Carvi: m. Carowayes, or Caroway seed. Carvi sauvage. Wild Cheruill, or wild Carowayes.

Caruncule: f. A little peece of flesh.

Carymari carymara. Fained words expressing a great coyle, stirre, hurlyburly, or the confused muttering of a rude companie.

Caryote: f. A Date.

Cas: m. A case, cause, matter, thing; also, a crime, offence; fact; also, esteeme, account, reckoning of; also, the priuities (of man, or woman.)
  Cas fortuit. A hap, or chance.
  Cas previlegiez. as Cas royaux.
  Cas royaux. Royall cases; causes wherein the king is interessed for the preseruation of his rights, or the maintenance of his authoritie; such as bee Treasons of all sorts against (humane) Maiestie; the violation of pasports, or of protections, granted by himselfe, or by the Of-*

*ficers of the Crowne; disturbance offered vnto any of his Officers, in the execution of their charges, or vnto any that goe vp and downe about his businesse; Violence vsed, riots committed, or armes borne, in vnlawfull assemblies; all causes that concerne his rights, reuenue, finances, coyning, officers, ordinarie seruants; Churches Cathedrall, or others of royall foundation, or therwise priuiledged; the execution of letters patents, & of Commissions, or Iniunctions vnder the great seale; and generally, all causes that depend on les droicts royaux; for which, looke Droict. Avoir son cas. A woman to be in her flowers. Ce sera bien vostre cas. This will fit you well, or bee for your turne. Cas sur cas n'a point de lieu. (A ground in law) if a thing be seised by one, it cannot bee reseised by another, vntill the former haue tried his title vnto it.

Cas: m. casse: f. Hollow,or broken sounded; hoarse like a bell that hath got a craze, or the voyce of one that hath got a cold.

Casal: m. A huge, or great house; a Mannor house; also, a village, or hamlet.

Casanier: m. A house-doue, or home-bred sluggard; one that neuer stirres out of his owne doores.

Casaque: f. A cassocke, mandilian, long coat.

Casard: m. arde: f. Home-bred, house-louing, euer keeping within doores; also, tame, or kept about a house.

Cascaret: m. A furious, and boyling tide, or sea, that sometimes comes in (betweene Bourdeaux and Rochel) surging, and roaring, and ouerturning the barkes which be in the way thereof.

Cascavelle: f. A roundelay, or countrey song.

Case: f. (Is properly) a poore house, tenement, or cottage; (and sometimes) any house, or dwelling place. Doublet en case. A corner point taken with two men at Tables. La Case monstre le Messer: Prov. as, La Maison fait cognoistre le Maistre. Caseiforme: com. Made (round, and flat) like a cheese.

Casemate: f. A case-mate; a loope, or loope-hole, in a fortified wall.

Caseret: m. A cheese-fat, or chesford, to make a cheese in.

Casette: f. A little house; a cote, or small cottage.

Casier. as Caseret. Casine: f. A cote, a little cottage, or country house.

Casois: m. A country clowne, boore, clunch, hinde; a home-bred hoydon; a rusticall house-doue, an ignorant, or idle clusterfist.

Casole: f. A posnet; also, a kind of narrow-mouthed pot, somewhat like a perfuming pot.

Casque: f. The head-peece tearmed a caske, or casket.

Casquet: m. The same; or, a little one.

Cassable: com. Fraile, brittle, easie to be broken.

Cassade: f. A gudgeon, frumpe, mocke, flout, gull, cousening part, cheating pranke, deceitfull tricke; whence; Avoir la cassade. To be gulled; or, to swallow a gudgeon.

Cassant: m. ante: f. Frayle, brittle, easie to be broken; also, quashing, cassing, breaking, infringing. Estoffe cassant. Rending stuffe.

Cassard: m. A chest-like couer, a case-like receptacle; also, a Buzzard.

Cassation: f. A cassation; a quashing, cassing, breaking; abrogating, annulling, infringing.