- ten, or oaten, straw.
Chalemie: f. as Chalemelle. Chalenée: f. A boat-full, or barge-full of.
Chalenger. as Chalanger. Chaleur: f. Heat, warmth, hotnesse; boyling; vehement passion; fierie affection. Faire venir en chaleur. To make a bitch proud, or sault.
Chaleureux: m. euse: f. Hot, fierie, scalding, burning; feruent; full of heat; full of hotnesse.
Chalibé: m. ée: f. Steeled; done ouer with steele; wherein steele is quenched; belonging vnto steele.
Chalict. Looke Chaslit. Chaline: f. A little thunder, in a morning; ¶Poict: also, drynesse, drought, or drie weather. (v.m.) Chalissier: m. A maker of Bedsteads.
Challer. A hare to be bagd, or breed young; also, to shale, or vnshell, Nuts, &c.
Chaloir. se cha. de; to passe, care, take thought for Ne te chaille. Care not, be of good cheere man, take no thought for the matter. Qui peut il chaloir quant a la dispute? What of that, what skils it, what matter makes it, of what consequence, or importance can it be, in the disputation?
Chalon: m. as Chalan; also, a kind of fish-net. Chaloppes: f. The huskes, parings, or shalings, of a nut, or nut-kernell.
Chaloupe: f. A Shallop, or small boat.
Chaluc. A kind of Mullet which delighteth much in her owne tayle. ¶Lang. Chalumeau: m. A small reed, or cane; also, the stemme of an hearbe; also, a wheaten, or oaten straw; or, a pipe made thereof.
Chalumeux: m. euse: f. Knottie, or full of knots, as a reed, or the staulke of some hearbes.
Chamade: f. The sounding of Trumpets; a call, or summon by the sound of Trumpets; and hence; Sonner la chamade. To sound a parley; also, to summon, challenge, call on.
Chamæcisse: f. Spurge time.
Chamaeleon blanc. The Carline, or Carline thistle. Chamaeleon noir. The blacke Chameleon thistle.
Chamailler. To strike, hacke, hew, slash with swords, or other weapons vpon armour, or armed men.
Chamailleur: m. A slasher, hackster, swash-buckler.
Chamaillis: m. The resounding of stroakes, or blowes, or the clashing sound of blowes, in a battell, or skirmish of armed men; also, such a battell, fight, bickering, skirmish.
Chamaras: m. The hearb Scordium, water Germaunder, Garlicke Germaunder.
Chamarier: m. A certaine Officer, at Lyons. Chamarre: m. A loose, and light, Gowne (and, lesse properly, a cloake) that may be worne aswash, or skarfe-*wise; also, a studded garment.
Chamarré: m. ée: f. Laced thicke, all ouer; aslope, orecrosse, or billet-wise; also, studded, or set thicke with studs.
Chamarrer. To lace thicke, all ouer; aslope, orecrosse, or billet-wise.
Chamarreure: f. A thicke lacing aslope, ouercrosse, or billet-wise; also, a studding, or setting thicke with studs.
Chamarrier. as Chamarier.
Chambellage: m. An Income; a dutie, or fine payed, of course, vnto a Landlord vpon euery change of tenant; also, a fee thats due vnto the chiefe vsher of the Chamber of Accompts, vpon euery homage made by one of the
Kings tenants.
Chambellan: m. A Chamberlaine; also, a Gentleman, Groome, or Vsher of the Chamber (especially the first; for the other two are more properly tearmed, Valets de Chambre.) Chambellenage. as Chambellage. ¶Breton. Chambre: m. Hempe.
Chambre: f. A Chamber; Lodging, Roome, in a house; also, a Law-Court, or Court of Iustice; or the Roome wherein tis vsually kept; also, the box of the naue, or stocke, of a wheele.
Chambre aisée. A Priuie, Iakes, house of Office; a Cabinet, or little corner to set a close stoole in.
Chambre ardente. A chamber, or court (in euery Parliament one) wherein those of the Religion haue bin censured, and adiudged vnto the fire.
Chambre des Aydes. The roome wherein the Court of Aydes is kept (In Paris there be two of them.)
Chambre basse. as Chambre aisée.
Chambre des Comptes. The court of Accompts, or of the Exchequer; In euery towne of Parliament there is one of them; and in that of Paris, two roomes, and a double Bureau: In old time there was but one in France (at Paris) and then certaine Lords, Officers of the Crowne, and of the priuie Councell, (two whereof, a Clarke, and a lay Lord, sate as Presidents) were appointed to looke vnto the Accompts: Afterwards it was made (as now it is) an ordinarie, and soueraigne Court, consisting of Presidents, and their Assistants, Maistres des Comptes (in other Courts tearmed Counsellors) and other Officers, peculiar to it selfe: Montpellier was the next towne of Parliament that got one; and after it the rest, at sundrie times, got theirs.
Chambre du Conseil. A soueraigne and extraordinarie Court, consisting of two Presidents, and eight or tenne Counsellors (halfe whereof belong to the Court of Parliament, and the other halfe to the chamber of Accompts) who heare, and determine finally such complaints as are made by suitors against the arrests, and decrees of that chamber; and otherwise take order, that the proceedings thereof be not, without great cause, hindered, or oppugned.
Les Chambres de la Cour. are as well, all the inferior Officers, Counsellors, or Commissioners that belong to a Court, as the roomes wherein it is vsually kept.
Chambre aux deniers. as Chambres des monnoyes.
Chambre du Domaine. A Court whereto Appeales are made from la Chambre du Thresor.
La Chambre dorée. The principall Chamber, or Court, of the Parliament, wherein the chiefe Presidents heare and determine the weightiest causes; tearmed so, because the vpper seeling thereof is gilt.
Chambre de l'Edict. as Chambre mipartie; called so from an Edict (of the yeare 1594) whereby it was established.
Les Chambres des Enquestes. The Chambers, or Courts of Enquests; whereof there be diuers in the Parliament of Paris, for the examination, and triall of ciuill causes, and appeales, by witnesses, and other euidences.
Chambre de femmes. A Nurserie, or priuat roome onely for women.
Chambre haute. A dining chamber.
La Chambre mipartie. A Court of Iustice established in diuers good townes of France, in fauour, and for the righting, of them of the Religion, whereof the
