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serues both to defend, and to curbe, a citie.

Citadin: m. A Citizen, Burgesse, Burguer, freeman in a citie.

Citation: f. A Citation, Summons, warning to appeare; also, a citing, adiourning, summoning.

Cité: f. A Citie; a walled, and incorporate Towne, being the seat, and sea, of a Bishop, and hauing a Cathedrall Church within it.

Cité: m. ée: f. Cited, summoned, adiourned, warned, to appeare; also, alledged, or cited as a Text.

Citer. To cite, summon, adiourne, warne, serue with a writ, to appeare; also, to cite, or alledge, as a Text.

Citouart. as Zedoare; a certaine root verie like to Ginger. Citoyen: m. A Citizen, Burgeur, Burgesse, freeman of a Citie.

Citoyennerie: f. A Citizenship, the freedome of a Citie.

Citre. The worst kind of Pompion; blacke of colour, and continued in gardens, onely for the seed, which is medicinable; the rest is throwne vnto hogs.

Citrin: m. ine: f. Of a Citron, Citron-like, pale-yellow, as a Citron. Concombre citrin. A Citrull, or Citrull Cowcumber. Couleur citrine. A Citron colour, pale Orange colour; pale-yellow. Myrobalan citrin. The yellow, or Citron, Myrobalan.

Citrinité: f. Pale-yellownesse; or, a pale yellow.

Citron: m. A Citron, Pome-Citron.

Citronne: f. Baulme, sweet Baulme (an hearbe.)

Citronnelle: f. A kind of small Baulme, of a faire greene colour, and verie good in a Sallet.

Citronnier: m. A Citron tree.

Citronnier: m. ere: f. Citron-like; of a Citron. Basilic citronnier. Citron Basill, middle Basill.

Citrouille: f. A Citrull; a Citrull Cowcumber, or Turkish gourd; a kind of great Melon, in colour, and forme resembling a Citron.

Citrulle. The same.

Civade: f. The Shrimpe, or beard-fish; also, Oats, or Prouender for horses.

Civadier: m. The fourth part of a Quarteron. ¶Langued. Civadiere: f. The sprit-sayle of a ship.

Civé: m. A kind of blacke sauce for a Hare. Looke Sivé. Cive: f. A Scallion; or vnset Leeke.

Civelle: f. A Lamprill; the small, or fresh-water Lamprey. ¶Lyonnois. Civets. des c. Slices of bread toasted, then soaked an houre or two in water and wine; then strained, and spice put to them; an excellent sauce; we may call them, sippets.

Civette: f. Ciuet; also, (the beast that breeds it) a Ciuet cat; also, a Chiue, little Scallion, or Chiboll.

Civettien: m. enne: f. Perfumed with, or smelling of, Ciuet.

Civiere: f. A hand-barrow; (to carrie mucke, &c, on) also, a Beere (to carrie a dead corps on.)
  Civiere à col. A necke-barrow, or Beere-like shrine, whereon Images, and Relickes, are carried in Processions, &c.
  En cent ans civiere en cent ans banniere: Prov. See Banniere.

Civil: m. ile: f. Ciuill, courteous, gentle, mannerlie, well-*behaued; also, temperat, mild, quiet; also, towne-bred, or, burguerlike; also, politicke, lay, secular, ciuill.
  Caule civile. A priuat cause; or, such a one, as is nei-*

  • ther Ecclesiasticall, criminall, nor capitall; but concerns a mans estate. Fruicts civils. Are such as are gathered, or taken by the course of right, and without any helpe of nature; as hire for houses, wages for offices, arrerages of rent, &c. Iour civil. The ciuill day; continues from Sunne-rising to Sunne-set. Looke Iour. Lieutenant civil. See Lieutenant. Nuict civile. Begins when the day ends, from Sunne-set vnto Sunne-rising. Partie civile. A priuat man; one that is lyable to any action; also, an ordinarie Suitor, or Client. Partie civile & formée, ou interessée. He that followes a criminall action, only in respect of, or to get some amends for, a wrong done to himselfe. Requeste civile. Seeke Requeste. Civilement. Ciuilly, gently, courteously; in a good fashion, decent order, comelie manner; also, mildly, quietly, temperately; also, according to Order, Iustice, and Law.


Civilisé: m. ée: f. Ciuilized; made ciuile; framed, or trained vp, to ciuilitie.

Civiliser. Looke Civilizer. Civilité: f. Ciuilitie, gentlenesse, humanitie, courtesie; also, modestie, mildnes; quietnes of disposition, and fashion.

Civilizer. To ciuilize, bring to ciuilitie, make ciuill; to tame, quiet, reclaime. Civilizer vn criminel. To change his Indictment into an action; to turne a criminall, into a ciuill, cause.

Civois: m. A bed of Scallions; or of vnset Leekes.

Civot: m. A Scallion; or vnset Leeke.

Cizaillé: m. ée: f. Clipped, or cut, with sizzars.

Cizailler. To clip, or cut with sizzars, or sheeres.

Cizailles: f. as Cisailles. Cizelé: m. ée: f. Carued, or grauen with chizels.

Cizeler. To fashion, carue, or graue with a chizell; also, to cut, or clip with sizzars.

Cizellage: m. as Cisellage. Cizelleure: f. Chizell-worke; caruing, or ingrauerie with the Chizell.

Clabaud: m. A name for a hound; also, the barke, or barking, of a bawling curre.

Clabauder. To barke; bawle, raile at; spightfully to accuse, or speake against.

Clabauderie: f. A barking, bawling, rayling; an enuious accusing, a spightfull reproching.

Clabosser. To hoyse, or tosse vp and down; also, to bedash, or beray, with durt.

Clac: m. A clicket, or clapper; any thing that makes a clacking, or clattering noise; hence (most properly) the clacket that frights away birds from fruit-trees, &c.

Clache: f. A certaine Engine wherewith (small) birds are caught.

Claguet: m. The name of a faire, sappie, & sauorie apple.

Claigner. Looke Cligner. Claim: m. A publicke demaund, or claime; a pretence of title vnto land, &c; also, a Declaration, or Bill of Complaint put, or preferred, into a Court.

Clain: m. as Claim; also, an Arrest, or seisure of a debtors goods, vpon an Execution; also, a fine of xx d, or of three solz Tourn. due vnto Iustice for the seisure of beasts damage-fesant; also, a penaltie (in some places, of xx d. Tourn. in others, of xxx d. Parisis) inflicted on the partie that yeelds by confession in Court before the suit come to contestation. Clair: m. as Clarté; or, a cleere thing; whence; Clair de la Lune. Moone-light, or Moone-shine. Clair d'un oeuf. The white of an egge.

Clair: m. ire: f. Cleere, light, shining, bright. as Cler.