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Casuel: m. elle: f. Casuall, accidentall; vncertaine, transitorie; happening by chance.  Parties casuelles. The sale of Offices, or the reuenue which the king makes thereof; Seeke Partie. Casuellement. Accidentally, casually, by hap, or hab-*nab; vncertainly; transitorily.

Casuiste: m. A casuist; one that writes of the cases of conscience.

Catachrese: f. The abuse, or necessarie vse of one word for lacke of another more proper.

Catachrestique. Abusiue; or vsed, though improper, for want of that which would be more proper.

Catadoupes. as Catadupes. Catadupes. The falls of Nilus; or, certaine high places where that riuer violently falling, makes a roaring, or horrible noise.

Cataglottiser. To kisse with the tongue.

Cataglottisme. A kisse, or kissing with the tongue.

Catagmatique: com. Of, or belonging to broken bones, or the breaking of bones; also, healing, or closing such breaches.

Catalepsie: f. A disease comming of the braine, distempered with drinesse, and cold.

Catalogue: m. A Catalogue, list, rowle, Register, Kalender, enumeration, recension, recitall of names, matters, &c.

Catalongne: f. A (white) Spanish rug; or, a course couerlet of Catologna. Cataminy. Womens flowers.

Cataplasme: m. A cataplasme, or poultis; a (soft, or moist) plaister.  Cataplasme de chair de vautour avec les vifs. Wee say, a plaister of warme guts (wherein leacherie is meant.)

Catapuce grande. The hearbe Kicke, or Ticke, Recinus, Palma Christi. Catapuce petite. Garden Spurge.

Catapulte: f. A sling, or warlike engine, whereout great arrowes, or darts were shot.

Cataracte: f A violent fall of waters from a high and steepe place; also, a strong yron-bound chest, open in the top, and set with pikes in the bottome, thereby to sticke fast, and steadily where it is to stand; (vsed especially in water-workes;) also, a Cataract, or web in the eye.

Catarré. See Catarrhé. Catarrhe: m. A rhewme, or catarre.

Catarrhé: m. ée: f. Troubled with rhewme.

Catarrheux: m. euse: f. Rhewmaticke, full of catarres, or of the rhewme.

Catastre. as Cadastre. Catastrophe. A Catastrophe, conclusion, last act, or part of a play; the shutting vp of a matter; also, th' vtter ruine, subuersion, destruction, fatall, or finall, end of.

Cateclisme. A deluge, illuvion, or inundation: ¶Rab. Catefique: com. Sad, heauie, sorrowfull, in melancholie, full of pensiuenesse, and hanging downe the head withall; (vsed in my Author (by one that would haue spoken learnedly) for short winded, or troubled with the Tisicke.)

Catagide. An ayrie inflamation: ¶Rab. Categorique: com. Cathegoricall; plaine, authenticall, alreadie resolued on.

Categoriquement. Cathegorically, plainely, roundly, without wrangling, to the purpose.

Catel. A chattell; or, a thing, which (though of it selfe it be immouable) is diuided, deuised, and held, as a moua-*

*ble; or as Cateud. Catelongne: f. as Catelonne. Catelonne: f. A white Spanish rug; or, a course, and rough couerlet of Catalogna (in Spaine.)

Catepleure: f. A crosse sayle; (such as is vsed in Carauels, Gallies, Hoyes, &c;) a smacke, or mizzen sayle.

Caterolle: f. A rabbets nest; or, the hole wherin a (Doe) conie keeps, and feeds her yong ones.

Caterve: f. A rout, crue, band, troupe, vncertaine number, confused multitude.

Cateud. A chattell; or, not onely a mouable (which may follow a bodie, and be remoued from place to place) but also, any immouable, that is no inheritance.

Cateul. as Catel. Cathartique. A purgatiue, or euacuatiue; a purging medicine.

Cathechiser. To catechise.

Cathedral: m. ale: f. Cathedrall; of, or belonging to, a Cathedrall church; and hence;  Esglise cathedrale. A Minster, or Cathedrall church.

Cathedrant: m. ante: f. Sitting as Iudge, or moderator.

Cathedratique. A certaine fee, or duetie, belonging to a Bishop when he is first inuested into his sea.

Cathegorie: f. A predicament.

Cathelane. The name of an excellent plum; whereof there are three kinds, the greene, white one, and violet one.

Cathene: f. A chaine; whence; Mat de cathene. A furious, or enraged foole.

Catheretique: com. Eating, or gnawing away superfluous, and ouer-eminent flesh, or skin.

Catherinaire. The hearbe Tobacco.

Catherine. The bramble berrie, blacke-berrie; dew-*berrie; the berrie of the haire bramble, or heath bramble.

Catherinettes: f. Certaine prettie flowers (lesse than pinkes) growing in clusters, or many together on one stalke.

Cathet: m. Cathete: f. Perpendicular, plumpe downe.

Catheux. A kind of mouables, although they adhere to the soyle, or be fastened to a house.

Catholicon. A certaine composition in Physicke, so tearmed, because it purges all kind of humors.

Catholique: com. Catholicke, vniuersall, generall.

Catholisation: f. The being, or becomming a Catholicke.

Catholizer. To catholikize it, play the Catholicke, become a Catholicke.

Cati: m. ie: f. Clapped close vnto, thrust hard together; hard, or close wouen; (for it is a weauers tearme.)

Catilinisme. Catilinisme, conspiracie.

Catinimi. In corners, vnder-hand, in hugger mugger.

Catir. To close, to settle, to thrust hard together, in weauing; (for it is a weauers tearme.)

Catoblepe: f. A kind of Basiliske, or venomous worme, which with her sight kils a mile off.

Catoire. A bee-hiue.

Catonien: m. enne: f. Graue, seuere; grim, austere; censuring euery bodie.

Catons. des ca. Catkins, cattails, aglets, or aglet-like blowings of nut-trees, &c.

Catopromantie: f. Diuination by a looking glasse.

Catouiller. as Chatouiller; To tickle: ¶Pic.

Cattel. A chattell, or mouable: ¶Wallon.