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Cunilage. Sauorie, Winter Sauorie; also, wild, or bastard Marierome; (some also call Fleabane, Cunilago.)

Cunoet. A Kennet (apple.)

Cupide: com. Couetous, greedie, desirous of, lusting after.

Cupidique. Embloquer à la Cupidique; autant que, besongner.

Cupidité: f. Cupiditie; lust; couetousnesse; wanton affection, dishonest loue; vniust, or ill-seasoned, desiring.

Cupule: f. The little cup, or shell, of an Acorne.

Curage: f. The hearbe Water-pepper, Arse-smart, Kill-*ridge, or Culerage. Curage rouge. Water Dragon, or Marsh Dragon.

Curailles de maison: f. The dust, filth, sweepings, or cleansing, of houses.

Curatelle: f. Wardship; the office of a Gardian, or Tutor; a surueying, an ouerseeing.

Curateur: m. A Gardian in Socage; a Tutor, an ouerseer; a Surueyor, &c.

Curation: f. A cure; curing, healing.

Curé: m. The Curate, or Parson of a Church; he that hath the spirituall charge of a Parish. Bourse de curé. The hearb Toywort, Pickepurse, Coose-*weed, Shepheards-pouch, or purse, poore-mans Parmacetie.

Cure: f. Care, heed, respect, regard; carke, thought, pensiuenesse; also, a Cure, or charge of Souls; a Parsonage, or Vicarage; also, a cure, healing, restoring to health; also, a Hawkes casting. Il est tout presché qui n'a cure de bien faire: Pro. He that will not be saued needs no preaching; aduice preuailes not with such as are carelesse of their owne good.

Curé: m. eé: f. Cleansed, purged, purified, cleered, voided of ordure; picked, pruned; also, healed, cured, recouered.

Cure-dent: m. A tooth-picke.

Curée: f. A (dogs) reward; the hounds fees of, or part in, the game they haue killed. La curée d'un fossé. The cleansing, or scowring of a ditch; the mud, slime, or durt thats taken out of it.

Cure-oreille. An eare-picker.

Curer. To cleanse, cleere, purifie, purge, void of ordure; picke, prune; also, to heale, recouer, cure; also, to cast, as a Hawke doth.

Curestable: m. A stable-cleanser; an Ostler, Horsekeeper, or Groome of a Stable.

Curette: f. A Chirurgions Proofe, or Probe; an instrument wherewith he sounds the bladder, & gathers together such grauell, congealed bloud, or other filth, as remaines in it, after a stone taken out; also, an eare-picker; also, a Plough-staffe, or Aker-staffe (wherwith the Culter is cleansed.)

Cureures de maison. as Curailles. Curial: m. ale: f. Of the Court, belonging to a Court. Amende curiale. Seeke Amende. Curialiste: m. A Courtier.

Curialité: f. Formalitie, courtesie, or courtship.

Curie: f. A Tribe, or ward in a Citie.

Curieusement. Curiously, precisely, nicely, quaintly, daintily; doubtfully, scrupulously; carefully, heedfully, busily, too too diligently.

Curieux: m. euse: f. Curious; quaint, nice, daintie, precise; doubtfull, scrupulous, heedfull, busie; too too diligent; more carefull than needs.

Curin: m. A thinne, or small skin.

Curiosité: f. Curiositie, curiousnesse; daintinesse, nice-*

  • nesse; affectation.


Curoir: m. as Curette (in the first sence.)

Curtille: f. A little many-legd vermine, that gnawes a-*sunder the roots of plants.

Curtin: m. (The name of) a verie sweet, and long-lasting Apple.

Cuscoamy. as Cuscouil: ¶Rab. Cuscouil. Well hanged, well stoned.

Cuscute. A kind of worme; also, the weed Dodder.

Cusins: m. Whurtle-berries, or Winberries.

Cussonné: m. ée: f. Worme-eaten.

Custode: m. A Gardian, Warden, keeper, ouerseer. Custode (de lict.) A Curtaine (for a bed.)

Cutané: m. ée: f. Skinnie, or, of the skin.

Cuticulaire; peau cuticulaire. Full of Pores, or of holes, for sweat to come out at.

Cuve: f. An open tub; a fat, or vat. À fonds de cuve. Largely, throughly, fully. Fossé fait à fonds de cuve. Hauing a bottome like a fat, or, flat-bottomed, and downe-right sided. Goutte à goutte on emplit la cuve: Prov. By drop after drop the the fat is filled; See Goutte. Cuvé: m. ée: f. Put into, or seasoned in, a great vat, or tub.

Cuveau: m. A little fat, or tub.

Cuvée: f. A tub-full of. Cecy est d'un'autre cuvée. This is of another vessell, of another edition; of another sort, of another fashion.

Cuvelier: m. A vat-maker, or tub-maker.

Cuver. To tunne, or put into a fat, or tub; to season, let worke, or stand in, a vat, or tub. Cuver son vin. To disgest his liquor; to euacuate, or passe ouer, the fumes thereof by a good nap, or any other helpe.

Cuvette: f. A little fat, or tub. Cuvette de Venus. The Teazell, or Fullers Thistle.

Cuviel: m. A bathing tub.

Cuvier. as Cuviel; Also, a Dying fat, or lead. Cuviere: f. An open vessell, or cesterne to wash, or coole drinking pots in Summer; or as Cuvier. Cuyderolles. as Cuydrelles. Cuydrelles: f. Crow-flowers, wild Williams, marsh Gilliflowers, Cuckoe Gilliflowers.

Cuyrassine. See Cuirassine. Cuyvre: m. Copper.

Cuyvreux: m. euse: f. Full of copper.

Cy: f. The name of a Saint; whence; Pain benist de la S. Cy. Wine, good liquor, Nippitatie.

Cy. Here, in this place, hither, in this matter; Looke Ci. Cy devant. Heretofore.

Cyané: m. ée: f. Azure, bright, blew of colour.

Cyathe: m. A small cup, or measure among th' auncient Romanes, containing about foure spoonefulls; and in weight an ounce, halfe a quarter, two charats, and fifteene graines of our weight; Looke Ciathe. Cyboïde. os Cyb. A certaine bone in the instup.

Cyclamine. The hearbe Hogs-bread, Sowes-bread, Swines-bread; also, the wild vine, blacke Brionie, our Ladies Seale; also, Wood-Nightshade, Bittersweet.

Cycle. A round, or circle.

Cyclopique. Monstrous; one-eyed, halfe-blind; cruell, furious.

Cycogne. A Storke; Looke Cicogne. Cycogneau: m. A yong Storke.

Cyerce. The Northerne wind: ¶Rab.