Chapitreur de foin: m. A skarre-crow, bugbeare; one that threatens much, and does but a little.
Chapler. as Chapeler; to chip bread; or, as Chappler. Chaplis. as Chapplis; also, bread-chippings; also, the small peeces that flye from stones in the hewing; we call them rags. Chapon: m. A Capon; also, as Chappon. Chapon de mer. The Rochet; or, a kind of red Gurnard. Vol d'un chapon. is the Aker, or Arpent (or such a like proportion) of land, that lyes next vnto a Mannor house, or capitall Messuage, and fals euer (if there bee not a competent garden &c.) together with it, vnto the share of the eldest sonne. Looke Cheze; & Vol. Coucher en chapon. To goe verie soone to bed anights; or, to get him to bed as soone as he hath supped. À qui chapon mange chapon luy vient: Pro. He that eates good meat shall haue good meat. Iamais putain n'ayma preud hom, ny grasse geline chapon: Pro. Neuer did whore loue honest man, nor wanton wife her weake man. Iamais tigneux n'ayma le pigne, ny chapon crester geline: Prov. See Crester. Si tu te trouves sans chapon sois content de pain & d'oignon: Prov. If thou hast not a Capon, feed on an Onyon.
Chaponné. Guelt, made a Capon; cut, as a Capon.
Chaponneau: m. A Caponet, or young Capon.
Chaponner. To cut Capons; to gueld.
Chapoté: m. ée: f. Hacked, or whitled; also, hagled, or dodged about the price of; busied in manie things to small purpose.
Chapoter. To hacke, or whitle; also, to hagle, paulter, trifle, or dodge, about the price of; also, to piddle, meddle, or busie himselfe in many things, and doe nothing well.
Chappe: f. A (Churchmans) Cope; also, a Iudges Hood; also, the helme (or head) of a Limbecke; also, the chape, or locket of a scabberd; also, the top, or crowne, on the top, of a Bell; also, a Mill-hoope, or Mill-case; the open chest wherein the stones do run. Cercher chappe cheute. To picke, or be desirous of, a quarrell; to looke, or spie, what fault he may find. Debatre de la chappe à l'Evesque. To contend, or brable about trifles; or for things which belong vnto others. Looke Debatre. Chappel: m. A Hat; a Garland. ¶Auvergnois. Chappel d'argent; as, Garlande d'Argent. Chappelainie: f. A Chaplaineship; the estate, or place of a Chaplaine, or of the Curate of a Chappell.
Chappelet. Looke Chapelet. Chappelier: m. A maker of Hats; or, of Garlands.
Chappelier: m. ere: f. Looke Chapelier. Chappeliere: f. A woman that makes Hats; or Garlands.
Chappelet: m. Looke Chapelet. Chapperon. as Chaperon. Chapperonniere: f. A chambermaid, spinster, kitchin-*maid, meane wench, homelie huswife.
Chappier: m. A Cope-maker.
Chappins: m. Choppines; a kind of high slippers for low women.
Chapplé: m. ée: f. Hacked, hewed, slashed; also, chipped; as bread.
Chappler. To hacke, hew, slash vpon, or in pieces; also, to chip; as bread.
Chapplis: m. The hacking, hewing, and slashing thats
among armed men when they incounter; also, bread-*chippings; and, the chipping of bread.
Chappon: m. A slip, small twig, or shoot of a plant, or tree. ¶Bourg. also, as Chapon. Chappoté: m. ée: f. Dodged, paultered, hagled; also, hacked, or whitled.
Chappron. as Chaperon. A hood.
Chappronner. as Chaperonner. Chappronniet. Faulcon bon chappronnier. That takes the hood gently, or will easily be hooded.
Chappuis. Looke Chapuis. Chapron. as Chaperon; and (in Rabelais) a hooded foole. Chaptel. A lease of a beast, and of the whole increase thereof, made for a certaine time, and price; or, a beast let out to the halues.
Chaptels deniers. The principall summe, and charges a purchaser hath payed, and beene at, for land which the next of kinne offers to redeeme.
Chapuis: m. A Carpenter; one that deales with tymber, or with tymber-worke. ¶Dauph. & Lionnois. Chapuiser. To play the Carpenter; to worke Carpenters worke; to deale with tymber.
Char: m. A Carre, Waggon, Wayne, or Chariot.
Characie. Garden Spurge.
Charactere. A Caracter; Figure; &c; See Caractere. Charadrien. A certaine bird, which earnestly beholding one that is sicke of the Iaundice, or beheld by him, heales him.
Charanson. as Charanton. Charansonné: m. ée: f. Gnawed, eaten into, or eaten vp, by Weeuils.
Charanton: m. A Mite, or Weeuill.
Charaveau: m. A Beetle.
Charbon: m. A coale; also, a Carbuncle, or Plague-sore. Le charbon. The first lines, or lineaments of a picture; (tearmed so, belike, because most Painters draw them with a peece of Charcoale.) Charbon blanc. A kind of coale made of the wood of the Crimson, or pricklie, Cedar. Charbon de terre. Sea-coale, or Pit-coale. Faire charbon de tout bois. To imploy, or make vse of, euerie thing. D'un sac à charbon ne peut sortir que de la poussiere noire: Prov. A coale-sacke yeeldeth nothing but blacke dust; Blacke thoughts can none but balefull acts produce.
Charbonné: m. ée: f. Painted, marked, written, with a coale; collowed, smeered, blacked with coales; (hence) also, darkened.
Charbonnée: f. A Carbonado, or collop of, &c. A vilain charbonnée d'asné. Looke Asne. Charbonner. To paint, marke, write, or smeare, with a coale; to collowe; to bleach, or make black, with a coale. Si vous ne le voulez croire charbonnez-le. See Croire. Charbonnerie: f. A Coale-pit, or, Coale-mine; also, a Coale-house.
Charbonnesque: com. Coalie, of Coales.
Charbonneux: m. euse: f. Coalie, full of coales, all to be collowed; also, full of Carbuncles, or Plague-sores.
Charbonnier: m. A Collier. Ce sont sacs de charbonniers qui se noircissent l'un l'autre: Pro. These fellowes corrupt, by accompanying, one another.
Charbonniere: f. as Charbonnerie; also, a Colliers wife, or wench.
Charbot: m. A Beetle.
