Chastrable: com. Geldable; fit to bee gelt, speyed, or splayed.
Chastré: m. ée: f. Gelt, speyed, cut, lib'd, splayed. Vn arrest chastré. Part whereof is reuoked by way of interpretation, or declaration of the Court that made it. Porc chastré. A hog, or barrow hog.
Chastrement: m. A gelding, libbing, speying, splaying.
Chastrer. To geld, lib, cut, spey, splay. Chastrer les arbres. To pierce them at the foot, therby to make them void th' ill humors which are in their stocke, and branches; also, to discharge them of noysome, and superfluous branches, or buds. Chastrer les mousches à miel. To driue a hiue (of Bees.) Chastrer le parc. To cull th' oldest sheepe out of a flocke, and furnish it with as many yong ones.
Chastreur: m. A gelder, libber, speyer.
Chastrure: f. as Chastrement: Also, the art, or manner of gelding. La chastrure d'un saulx. The superfluous buds, or twigs which haue beene cut, or pulled, from it.
Chasuble: f. A chasuble, a fashion of cope thats open onely in the sides; and is worne at Masse both by the Priest (who hath it round) and his assistant Deacon, and Subdeacon, who haue it square, in the bottome.
Chat: m. A cat, a pusse.
Chat fourré. A Pettifogger, or paultrie Laywer.
Chat garanier. Looke Chat-garanier.
Chat huant. An Owle, or Madge-howlet; Looke Chat-huant.
Chat de mer. The smallest (kind of) Dog-fish.
Herbe au chat, ou, de chat: Nep, or Nip, cats Mint.
Herbe aux chats. The same; also, as Ortie puante.
Oeil de chat. Calues-snowt, Snapdragon (an hearbe;) also, a certaine white gemme; (Looke Oeil;) also, a cats-eye; or sight that is as good by night as in the day; also, a great, and out-strouting eye.
Patte de chat. Ground ivie, cats-foot, alehoofe, tune-*hoofe, Gill creepe by the ground.
Pied de chat. A kind of port, or vpset of a bit, made like a Cats foot.
Poil de chat. A whitlow in the finger; also, the festering sore, tearmed a cats-tayle.
Poire chat. The name of a wholesome, sweet-smelling, and sharpe-tasting peare.
Sault du chat. The cat-leape; a certaine tricke done by Tumblers, and vaulters vpon a table set aslope against a wall.
Acheter chat en poche, ou en sac. We say, to buy a pig in a poke.
Aller du pied comme vn chat maigre. To be light, or swift of foot; also, to tread lightly, nicely, softly, gingerly, as if he went on egs.
Avoir vn oeil à la poisle l'autre au chat. To heed as well what will decrease, as what doth encrease, his gaine.
Donner à manger au chien, & au chat. To keepe a plentifull house.
Entendre le chat sans dire minon. To haue a good conceit, quicke apprehension, readie vnderstanding; to know without telling what is to be done.
Esveiller le chat qui dort. To incense an angrie bodie when he is at quiet; to set th' ill minded on mischiefe; to rub a hidden sore; to remember a forgotten fault.
Plus esveillé qu'un chat qu'on fouette. More quick, or nimble, than a whipped cat.
Iecter le chat aux iambes à. To cast an imputation,
to lay the whole blame, and shame of an offence, on. Mettre la campane au chat. To begin a quarell, to raise a brabble, make a iarre, set at oddes, or together by the eares; we say also, in the same sence, to hang the bell about the cats necke. On ne prend pas tels chats sans mouffles. (Sayed of a strong towne, or stout person;) they will not bee forced, or fetched in easily; they will scratch those that offer to catch them, and therefore go prouided for them. Vous l'eussiez fait passer par le trou du chat. You had made him doe wonderfull matters; or any thing. (ironically.) Chat eschaudé craint l'eau froide: Prov. The scaulded cat feares water though't be cold. Le chat a faim quand il ronge du pain: Pro. The cat is hungrie when a crust contents her. Au chat cendreux iamais ne tombe rien en gueule: Prov. An idle house-doue neuer gets preferment. Au chat lescheur bat on souvent la gueule: Prov. The lickorous cat hath many a rap. À bon rat bon chat: Prov. Two knaues well met, or matched. Celuy a bon gage du chat qui en tient la peau: Prov. Hee's sure of a cat that hath her skin. C'est belle bataille des chiens, & des chats, chacun a des ongles: Prov. Looke Bataille. Les rats se promenent à l'aise là ou il n'y a point de chats: Prov. Where cats are wanting rats in freedome walke. Occasion trouve qui son chat bat: Prov. Wee say (with some difference) a man may easily find a staffe to beat his dog. Tant dort le chat qu'il se resveille: Prov. See Resveiller. Trop tard se repend le rat entre les pattes du chat: Prov. When punishment's inflicted repentance comes too late.
Chat-chastel, ou chateil. A defensiue engine of warre, somewhat resembling the Roman Testudo, and grown (as it) altogether out of vse.
Chate: f. A she-cat, or doe-cat; also, a certaine Engine, wherewith fish is (forbidden to be) caught.
Chatel: m. A chattell, or mouable: ¶Norm. Chatemite. An hypocrite; a counterfeiter of holinesse, religion, deuotion.
Chatemiterie: f. Hypocrisie; a faining of zeale, a counterfeiting of holinesse, religion, or deuotion.
Chatemitiquement. Hypocritically.
Chatemitte. Looke Chatemite. Chatepeleuse: f. A corne-deuouring mite, or weeuell.
Chat-fourré: m. A Lawyer; or Pettifogger (who commonly weares a gowne furred with wild cat: ¶Rab. Chat-garanier: m. A Polecat; or, a kind of wild Cat that haunts warrens.
Chat-huant: m. The great (rough-legd) Owle; also, the Horne-coot, or Horne-owle. Chat-huant plombé. A small, and leaden-coloured Owle, very common in Lorraine. Petit chat-huant. An Owlet, or the little (rough-legd) Owle.
Chatillons: m. Small fresh-water Lampreyes; called so at Tholouse. Chaton: m. The Beazill, Collet, head, or broadest part of a ring, &c, wherein the stone is set; also, the paulme, or flower of a willow; Looke Chatton. Chaton de l'oeil; as Orbite. Chatonner. To kittle, or bring forth yong cats.
Chatonnie: f. A waggish tricke, a knauish or vnhappie
