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 Cassaudes: f. Daisies; or, Bruizewort.

Casse: f. The drug, or spice tearmed Cassia; or as;  Casse aromatique. The aromaticall wood, barke, or bastard Cinnamon, tearmed Cassia. Casse de bois. The same.  Casse des iardins. A sweet hearbe; which is held to be Lauender spike.  Casse laxative. Cassia fistula, Pudding pipe.  Casse nigre. as Casse laxative. Casse: f. A box, case, or, chest, to carrie, or keepe wares in; also, a Marchants cash, or counter; also, any chest, casket, or cabinet; also, a coffin, or shrine; also, a dripping-pan; also, an open mouthed pan, or vessell of earth, &c, fit to boyle things, or set plants, in; also, the hollow part of the sole of a horse-foot.  Casse pointuë. A fashion of a small boyling panne, which hath a narrow, or pointed bottome.

Cassé: m. ée: f. Broken, burst, quasht in peeces; also, cassed, casseered; cancelled; also, decayed, worne, or broken with age.  Voix cassée. A weake, hoarse, or whizzing voyce.  Aujourd'uy caissier demain cassé: Prov. To day in request, to morrow cassed.

Casse-loix. Lawes-infringing, disorderlie, exorbitant, outragious.

Casse-moeurs. Manners-breaking, rude, sauage, vnciuile.

Casse-mussaux. Cheese-cakes; or, a kind of thick, and three-cornered, or horned cakes, made of butter, egges, and cheese.

Casse-noix: m. A cracke-nut, or nut-cracker; also, a kind of little mountaine Daw, speckled, as an old Starling, all ouer with white.

Casse-pot: m. A sport wherein (the gamesters standing in rowes) one tosseth an earthen pot at another, who if he catcheth it not, falling it breakes, and hee forfeyteth.

Casser. To breake, burst, crash in peeces, quash asunder; also, to casse, casseere, discharge, turne out of seruice, depriue of entertainment; also, to infringe, annull, cancell, abrogate.  Casser la noisille. To cracke the nut; also, to cogge a Dye.  La langue humaine n'a point d'os, & casse poictrine & dos. A Prouerbe expressing the force of a malicious, enraged, or infected tongue.  Qui a des noix il en casse, & qui n'en a il s'en passe: Prov. Many, when they haue super fluities, can vse them, and when they haue none, can want them.

Casserie: f. A breaking, or quashing; a discharging; an infringing, or cancelling.

Casserins: m. Tills, drawers, or boxes in a presse, or cabinet.

Casseron: m. The Sleeue, or Calamarie; a fish, thats somewhat longer than the Cuttle, or Sea-cut, but otherwise resembles her; also, a vessell somewhat like a posnet, but without feet.

Cassetin: m. A little chest, casket, or cabinet; small forcer, cash, or counter; box, till, or drawer.

Cassette: f. A little shallow box, case, or vessell made of boords to put flowers, or branches of small trees in; also, a small casket, chest, cabinet, or forcer; also, a box, till, drawer; also, a small coffin, or shrine; also, a little trough for birds meat; also, a little frying pan.

Casseur: m. A breaker, burster, quasher; casser; canceller.

Casseure: f. The battering, or cracking of a vessell; any breaking, or bursting in peeces; also, a cassing, dis-* charging, cancelling.

Cassidonie: f. A Cassidonie; a base, and brittle stone, of small value, though it shine like fire; also, a kind of excellent marble.

Cassier. The tree that beares the fruit Cassia. Cassignon: m. A pump, or thin-soled shooe.

Cassine: f. A banketing house; a graunge, out-house, or Summer-house in the fields; also, a little ware-house; also, a little Terrace-garden, or garden before a window.

Cassoire: f. A whip: ¶Pic. Cassole: f. A coffin, box, or casket for perfumes; &c; also, as Casole. Cassolette. A little chest, coffin, box, or casket to put sweet, or precious things in; also, a kind of smal put with a narrow mouth, resembling a perfuming pot; also, a little pipkin, or posnet.

Cassolle. as Casole; or Cassole. Casson: m. A great chest, binne, hutch, or standard.

Cassonade: f. Powder Sugar; especially, such as comes from Brasile. Cassure. as Casseure. Castadour: m. A Pioner.

Castagnettes: f. Finger-knackers, wherewith Players, &c, make a prettie noyse in some kind of daunces.

Castagneux: m. The little water-fowle, called a Dob-*chicke; or Dydopper.

Castagnole: f. A big finned, and chestnut-coloured sea-*fish, in season about the Spring time, but then withall so common, that the better sort of people care not for it: ¶Marseillois. Castagnon. A certaine fish that maketh a nest in the water; See Roquau. Castaign: m. aigne. Chestnut-coloured; of, or like a chestnut.

Castaigne: f. A scallop-like peece of yron in the midst, or mouth, of an old fashioned bit.

Castaloigne. A Spanish couerlet, or rug.

Caste. Looke Chaste. Castillan: m. A Spanish waight proportionable vnto thePeso'', which in gold comes to viij. s. sterling, in siluer to iiij. s. or thereabouts.''

Castillaniser. To imitate or affect Spanish fashions, or humors; to play the Spaniard; (hence) also, to speake big, stand on proud tearmes, take verie much vpon him.

Castille: f. Castile (the noblest part of Spaine;) also, contention, debate, brabling, altercation; whence, Ils sont en Castille''. There is a iarre betwixt them; and;''  Prendre la castille pour autruy. To vndertake another mans quarrell.  Pierre de castille. Lime-stone.

Castillier: m. The wild Gooseberrie shrub.

Caston: m. The beazill, collet, or head of a ring, &c; wherein the stone is enchaced.

Castor: m. The beast called a Beuer.

Castorée: m. as Castoreum. Castoreum. The stinking oyle of Beuers stones; or rather an oylie liquor, contained in two pouches which cleaue vnto either side of the Greine of both male, and female, Beuers; (each of those pouches being as big as a large henne egge, whereas the stones of the male are no bigger than a cocks stones, and one fastened vnto his backbone.)

Castrametation. The pitching, or measuring out, of a campe.

Castromantie. Read Gastromantie: ¶Rab.