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 * printed, stamped with a (peculiar) marke, figure, letter.

Characterer. To caracter, or caracterize; to make, or print, characters, letters, figures; also, to imprint, stampe, set, fix a marke, or signe on.

Caraffe: f. A certaine summe of money, payed as a Passage Toll, or dutie, vnto th' Arabian boot-halers, by such as trauell, without a strong Caravan, towards the Holy land, &c.

Caramot: m. A Prawne; or, as;

Caramote: f. The greatest kind of Prawne; somewhat resembling, and little lesse then, our Creuice. ¶Marseillois. Carance: f. Want, or lacke of.  Carance de biens. A Note, or Testimoniall (vnder diuers hands) signifying, that such a one hath no goods nor chattels in such a place.

Caraque. See Carraque. Carasse: f. A huge, or great face.

Carat: m. A Carrat; among Goldsmiths, and Mintmen, is the third part of an ounce; among Iewellers, or Stone-cutters, but the 19 part; for eight of them make but one Sterlin, and a Sterlin is the 24 part of an ounce.  Fol à 25 carats (dont les 24 font le tout.) An egregious foole, a foole beyond all proportion; (the finest gold being but of 24 Carrats.)

Carathement. A charming of a mans child-getter.

Caravane: f. A Carauan, or Conuoy of Souldiours, for the safetie of Marchants that trauell by land.

Caravelle: f. A Caruell; (the little shippe so called.)  Clou à Caravelle. See Clou. Caravellon: m. A small Caruell.

Caravene: f. A little Boat, or Skiffe, made like a Trough, and (most commonly) of one piece.

Caravirée: f. A wry-mouthed, or wry-faced wench; or one that often makes wry mouthes, or ill fauoured wry faces.

Carbassat: m. Wet sucket, made of the vpper part of the long white Pompion, cut in slices.

Carbasse: f. The Crab-fish tearmed, a Pungar.

Carbau: m. The Cabot fish.

Carbonade: f. A Carbonadoe, a rasher on the coales; also, a slash ouer the face, which fetcheth the flesh with it.

Carboucle. A Carbuncle.

Carcaillon: f. A corne-deuouring Mite, or Weeuill.

Carcamousse: f. The battering Engine, called a Ramme.

Carcan: m. ''A Carkanct, or collar of gold, &c. worne about the necke; also, an yron chaine, or collar, wherein an offendor is tyed by the necke to a post, and (in that posture) exposed vnto publicke view.''

Carcant. The same.

Carchiophe: m. An Artichoke.

Carcinome. A canker; See Cancre.

Carcois: m. as Carquois; also, the head, or vpper part of a Mast, where the cords that hold the sayle vnto the yard, passe through certaine Pullies.

Cardaire. A kind of Thornebacke, full of small prickles. ¶Langued.

Cardamome: m. Cardamomum; Graines, or Graine of Paradise; also, Ethyopian Pepper. Cardamome moindre. The least kind of Graines. Cardanalizé. See Cardinalisé. Carde. A thistle Finch; also, the white thistle, whereof some kinds of Cardoons are made; also, the Cardoon it selfe.

Cardes. Cards for wooll, &c; working cards.  Carde de montagne. The white Carline thistle.  Bois de carde. See Bois. Cardé: m. ée: f. Carded (as wooll, &c.)

Carder la laine. To card wooll.

Cardeur de laine. A wooll-carder.

Cardiaque: com. Heartie, heart-easing, cordiall, comforting the heart; also, pained in the stomacke, wrung at the heart; also, in a consumption, and continuall sweat, by the indisposition of the heart, and parts about it.

Cardier: m. A Card-maker.

Cardinal: m. A Cardinall, of the Church of Rome.  Cardinal en Greve. One thats beheaded in the Greue at Paris. Elle a son Cardinal. She hath her flowers.  Il a esté fait Cardinal sans s'en aller à Rome. He hath got a red cap without a Cardinallship; viz. hee hath lost his head.

Cardinal: m. ale: f. Chiefe, principall, of the first ranke.  Artillerie cardinale. Ordnance of the widest bore; or, as Cardinale. Vent cardinal. One of the foure principall winds; as East, West, North, or South.  Vertus cardinales. Cardinall vertues; viz. Wisdome, Iustice, Fortitude, and Temperance.

Cardinalat: m. A Cardinallship.

Cardinale: f. A kind of Artillerie for shipping, lesse then the Culuerine, and deuised at first by the Cardinall of Lorraine.

Cardinalin: m. A little, or young Cardinall.

Cardinalisé: m. ée: f. Red, redded, made of a red or skarlet hue; in a red or skarlet habit, such as Cardinals weare.

Cardons: m. Cardoones; the stalkes of Artichokes, or of the white thistle, buried in the ground, or otherwise vsed, to get them a whitenesse; (excellent meat.)

Caré: m. as Ableret. Care: m. A certaine disease that benummes the head, and makes the whole bodie more sencelesse then an Apoplexie; or, a deepe sleepe, or sleepinesse, ioyned with weaknesse of the braine, sences, and motion.

Care: f. The face, visage, countenance, looke, aspect.

Carence: f. Want, lacke of; See Carance. Carene: f. The Keele of a ship.

Caresme: m. Lent.  Caresme entrant. Shroue-tuesday.  Caresme prenant. Shrouetide; Fastnes; or Shroue-tuesday.  Plaidoyé de caresme prenant. A wanton, baudie, lasciuious plea, or argument.  Amoureux de caresme. A Lenton louer; a bashfull, modest, or maidenly woer; one thats afraid to touch his mistresse.  Figue de caresme. A drie figge, Frayle figge, Lenten figge.  Sainct de caresme. Looke Sainct. Violette de caresme. The ordinarie blew, or March Violet.  I'y ay presché sept ans pour vn caresme. I know the place well, and am full well knowne there.

Caresme-entrant, &, Caresme-prenant. See Caresme.