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Cedriac. A kind of Pome-citron, called so in Prouence. Cedride: f. The fruit, or berrie of the low Cedar.

Cedrie: f. The rozen, or pitch that issues from the great Cedar.

Cedrin: m. The siskin; a little yellowish bird that resembles the Canarie bird; but sings more, and more sweetly, than she.

Cedule: f. A cedule; a scrowle, hand-writing, or priuat instrument in writing; a bill, obligation, acquitance, &c, signed onely with his hand that passeth it; also, an addition, or scrowle annexed vnto a Testament, or other deed.

Ceguë: f. Hemlocks.

Ceinct: m. A girdle; a band, or string to hold a thing in with.

Ceinct: m. cte: f. Girt, begirt, beset about; enuironed, incompassed, inclosed, held, or hemd, in on all sides.

Ceinctes: f. The bends, or wales of a ship; the thicke ledges that compasse th' outsides thereof.

Ceincture: f. A girdle; also, the wastband of a hose, or doublet. Ceincture ardente. The fierie Zone, seated between the two Tropickes, and ordinarily called, Torrida Zona. Ceincture à bourse. A large, and double belt, &c, vsed in old time, both as a purse, and a girdle. Ceincture à crouppiere. A belt, arming girdle, or sword girdle of the old fashion. Ceincture dorée. A golden girdle; (in former times worne onely by such as went for honest women; for noted whoores were forbidden it; yet, Bonne renommée vaut mieux que ceincture dorée: Prov. A good report excells all ornaments. Ceincture de dueil. See Dueil. La ceincture de la Royne. A certaine pecuniarie right, or taxe due vnto the Queene of France; Looke Royne. Abandonner sa ceincture. A woman to giue ouer the administration, or disposition of her deceased and indebted husbands goods; (a phrase appliable also vnto any Administrator; See Quiter la ceincture; apres.) Iecter sa ceincture à terre. Looke Iecter. Les mains pendues à leur ceincture: Ils pensent qui leurs femmes tiennent les mains, &c. They thinke their wiues liue peakingly at home, and pull strawes, plucke daisies, picke rushes, or blow their fingers; generally the phrase imports, an idle, and lazie fashion, or posture. Parler dessous la ceincture. A certaine tricke in prisons; Looke Parler. Large de bouche, & estroict de ceincture. Open mouthed, but close handed. Il a perdu sa ceincture. He hath neither money, nor meanes left him; all is gone. Les pouces à la ceincture. Idly, sloathfully, carelesly; or, as Les mains penduës à leur ceincture. Quiter la ceincture. To breake, to fall bankrupt, to giue ouer his trade, to shut vp his shop windowes; (In old time when men wore their gownes close girt about them (as the Romanes did, and of latter dayes our countrey-men) bankrupts were forbidden wearing of girdles, that the decay of their estate being made notorious, their deceitfull fetches might be preuented; And euen in these times, if a man want a girdle, some will merily demaund, if he be not bankrupt.)

Ceincturé: m. ée: f. Girt.

Ceincturer. as Ceindre; To gird, or put on a girdle. Ceincturette. A little girdle.

Ceincturon. Looke Ceinturon. Ceindre. To gird, begird; enuiron, incompasse, hold, or hem, in on all sides.

Ceint: m. te: f. Looke Ceinct. Ceinture. Looke Ceincture. Ceinturier: m. A girdle-maker.

Ceinturon: m. A short, or small girdle; also the strap, or side-peece of a paire of hangers.

Ceisan. A vassall, or subiect vnto a Lord: ¶Bearnois. Cela. (A Pronowne demonstratiue of the second, and third person) that, euen that; also, the act you wot of.

Celade: f. A Sallate, or headpeece.

Cele. A kind of preserue. Celé: m. ée: f. Hidden, concealed, kept secret; couered, dissembled.

Celebration: f. A celebration, solemnizing, celebrating; also, a renowning; a making famous, or glorious.

Celebre: com. Famous, renowmed, glorious, honourable.

Celebré: m. ée: f. Celebrated, or solemnized with great assemblies; also, magnified, renowmed, exceedingly honoured.

Celebrer. To celebrate, or solemnize, with great assemblies of people; also, to magnifie, make renowmed, spread abroad the reputation, or fame of.

Celebrité: f. Celebritie; glorie, honour, renowme, famousnesse, a good name, a great report in the world.

Celément. Secretly, couertly, hiddenly, priuily, by stealth.

Celer. To hide, conceale, keepe secret, couer, cloake, dissemble.

Celerier: m. The Yeoman of a sellar.

Celerin: m. A little, yellow-headed, and white-bodied fish, liuing in the sea (and in some lakes) and resembling the Sardinos so neere, that many take it to bee the same.

Celerité: f. Celeritie, speedinesse, hast, swiftnesse, lightnesse, nimblenesse.

Celeste: com. Celestiall, heauenly, diuine. Paön celeste. A wild Peacocke.

Celestiel: m. elle: f. Celestiall, heauenlie.

Celeume. The showt, or noyse that Mariners make when they weigh anker, or do any other office in the ship with ioyned strength; an encouraging sound.

Celiac: m. aque: f. Whence; Le flux celiac. A continuall thinne flux caused by the weakenesse of the stomacke, and accompanied with fretting, or paine in the belly. Maladie celiaque. An extreame weakenesse, and disabilitie of disgestion, in the stomacke, accompanied with a most thinne, or waterie flux.

Celiaque: com. Troubled with belly-ache, or fretting, and a continuall flux proceeding from the weakenesse of the stomacke.

Celibat: m. Single-life; the condition, or estate of an vnmaried person.

Celibe: com. Vnmaried, single; solitarie, alone.

Celidoine: f. The hearbe Celandine, Tetterwort, Swallowort; Looke Chelidoine.

Celier: m. A sellar, or (more properly) a roome, aboue ground, to lay wine in; for your vault vnder-ground, is better expressed by, Cave.

Celique. as Celeste.

Celivage: com. Heauen-faire; heauen-affecting; wen-*