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  Estre en cerveau. To be in his right wits; to be stayed, well-aduised, and out of aduise, resolute, or secure; to be prouided against all chances, armed for all esayes, readie for whatsoeuer shall befall.

Ceruelat: m. An excellent kind of dry saucidge that resembles our blacke pudding, but that is somewhat thicker, and shorter; and is eaten could in slices.

Ceruelet: m. The hinder part of the braine, next to the nape of the necke; makes but a tenth of the whole, and is diuided from the rest by Dura, & pia, Mater. Ceruelin: m. ine: f. Brainlesse, headdie, wilfull, giddie, fantasticall, harebraind.

Ceruelle: f. The braine; or, hinder part of the head wherein the memorie is lodged; the seate of the memorie. Ceruelle à double rebras. A dunce, blockhead, iobernoll, ioulthead, thicke-skinne, dull fellow; one that is obstinately sottish; one into whom no wit can be beaten, no vnderstanding driuen. Gens de cervelle, ou (qui sont) bien en cervelle. Wise, or stayed people; such as haue sound braines, or good heads. Tenir en cervelle. To keepe in awe, or in play; to arme with heed by often allarums; to barrie, hould buisied or in breath.

Cervelliere: f. A scull, or sallet, of iron.

Cervical: m. ale: f. Belonging to the nape, or hinder part, of the necke. Artere ceruicale. Seeke, Artere. Veine cervicale. A branch of the Sousclauiere, which passing along by the transuerse processes of the neck-ioynts, goes vnto the membrane called, Dura mater, and ends in it.

Cervier. Loup Cervier. See Loup-cervier. Cervinespine. The shrub way thorne, buckthorne, laxatiue ram.

Cervoise. Beere: f. Ceruse: f. Ceruse, or, white lead, wherewith women paint; differs from Lithargie (called also, white lead) for this is made of the grossest lead, as it is in the mine; that, of lead refined, out of the mine.

Ceruseux: m. euse: f. Full of Ceruse; beplaistered all ouer with fard.

Ces: m. A stay, cessing, leauing, forbearing; also, a putting to silence, or forbidding to proceed.

Ces (The plurall of Ce:) Theis.

Cesarien: m. enne: f. Cesar-like; of, or belonging to Cesar. Enfantement Cesarien. The birth of a child, by cutting him out of his mothers womb, without the death of eyther. Section Cesarienne. Such a cutting.

Cesarine. Tondu à la Cesarine. Cut or powled round with, or like a dish; (an old fashion yet in vse with some old men.)

Cesolfié: m. eé: f. Sad, pensiue; troubled, perplexed, vexed in mind; ¶Rab. Cessation: f. A cessation, ceasing, stay, pause, intermission, discontinuance, resting, or leauing off for a time; a vacation; also, lingering, slacknesse, loitering, sloath.

Cesse: f. The same. Sans cesse. Vncessantly, without stint or ceasing, perpetually, continually; also, excessiuely, immoderately, out of all cesse and crie.

Cessé: m. ée: f. Ceased, surceased, left off, dis-*

*continued, intermitted, forborne, stayed, held backe, or giuen ouer for a time; also, lingered, slackened, loitered.

Cessement: m. Looke Cessation. Cesser. To cease, forbeare; stop, stay, pawse, leaue off, giue ouer; to surcease, discontinue, intermit, rest a while, hold baske for a time; also, to linger, loyter, slacken, play the sluggard.

Cessible: com. Yeeldable, resignable, abandonnable.

Cession: f. Yeelding vp, or giuing ouer; an abandonment of, or departure from; and particularly, a giuing of place. Cession des biens. An abandonment of his owne goods, or a renouncement of his title to another mans, thereby to bee but out of the reach, or danger, of creditors; This must bee done (especially in the first case) by the debtor himselfe (vngirt, and bare headed) in the presence of a full Court: After which hee is not constraynable to pay his creditours more than can bee raysed by the sale of his goods.

Cessionnaire: com. A cessionarie; one that abandons, or giues vp his goods as aforesayde (in Cession de biens) who though hee looseth his credit thereby, yet is hee not held so base as a bankrupt.

Cessiouner. To eat betweene meales; to take an afternoones repast: ¶Norm. Cest: m. ceste: f. as Cet. Ceston: m. A studded girdle, which (in old time) the Bridegroome put about his Bride as soone as they were maried, and tooke off when they went to bed, together.

Cestrin. A kind of yellow stone whereof beads are made.

Cestuy. (A Pronowne Demonstratiue) this man; also, hee.

Cestuycy. (With addition of that locall Aduerbe) this man here; this verie man, this same man.

Cesue: f. The sap of trees; Looke Seve. Cesure: f. A cutting, section, diuision.

Cet: m. cette: f. This; that; it; as Ce; but with this difference; that whereas Ce is put before words that begin with a consonant, or H pronounced (as in naturall French it is) Cet precedes those which begin with a vowell, or with H vnpronounced (as in words deriued from the Latine.)

Cetacé. poisson cetacée. Of the kind of Whales.

Cete. as Cette; The feminine of Cet. Ceterach: m. The hearbe Scale-fearne, Stone-fearne, Finger-fearne, Miltewast.

Cethin. A kind of wood that corrupts not.

Cetier de bled. A quarter of corne; or as Septier. Ceton: m. A rowell for a bruised, or impostumed horse.

Cetuy. Looke Cestuy. Cevadere: f. The sprit saile of a ship.

Ceucheter. To whisper in the eare.

Ceve: f. A whetstone.

Ceves: f. Chiues, chibols.

Cevotes. The same.

Chaas. (Monosillab.) Is the space, and length betweene beame and beame, wall and wall, in building; or a bay of building; also, the lust of kine after the bull; also Weauers starch.

Chabins: m. The sheepe of Berry (whose wooll is verie thicke, and as long as goats haire.)