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 Droict du meilleur cattel. A Heriot: the best beast a Tenant hath, at the time of his death, due vnto his Landlord.

Cavailler. as Cavallier. Cavain: m. A hole, caue, hollownes, hollow place, hollow way.

Cavalcade: f. A riding, or, a road of horse; whence;  Faire la cavalcade. To course, or raunge vp & downe on horsebacke.

Cavalcador. A Horseman, a Rider.

Cavale: f. A mare.

Cavaler. To staulke, to dog; See Cavaller. Cavalet: m. A long hollow sticke, through which they vse, in some places, to blow the fire, in stead of bellowes.

Cavalier: m. A horseman, or man of armes; a caualeere; also, a gallant; a noble, or worthie, fellow.

Cavalin: m. A little horse.

Cavalle: f. A mare.

Cavallé: m. ée. f. Ridden; trauelled on; toyled; also, staulked, or dogged.

Cavaller. To ride; also, to trauell, toyle, vse like, or as, a horse; also, to staulke, or dog.

Cavallerie: f. Horsemanship; also horsemen.

Cavallet des planches. The highest, or most-raised, part of garden-beds.

Cavallette. A kind of Locust.

Cavallier: m. A high platforme in a fortresse, to plant great peeces on; also, as Cavalier. Cavallin. as Cavalin. Cavalot. A certein coyne worth about iij. s. also, a nag, or little horse.

Caubare: m. A sandie coulored and verie venomous serpent, of a cubits length.

Caucheaux. Taxes payed vnto Lords in Henault towards the maintaining of common bankes, or causeyes.

Cauchemare. The disease called the Night-mare.

Cauche-poulet, or Cauche-vieille, as Cauchemare. Caucher. To hatch, or sit on; to broode, or sit ouer; as hennes do their chickens; or, as Cauquer; to tread a henne.

Cauciage. as, Caucheaux. Caudataire: com. A traine-bearer; one that beares vp the traine of a great person.

Caudelée: f. A cawdell; (in la Beausse.) Cauderet: m. A hot bath; called so in the countrey of Bearn, where Chaude is pronounced, Caude. Caudice: m. The stocke, stumpe, or bodie of a tree, or shrub.

Cave: f. A caue, cellar, vault, or hollow place in the ground.  Eau beniste de cave Wine; strong drinke.   Marier la cave & le puis. To mingle wine and water together.

Cauë: f. A Chough, or Iacke-daw: ¶Pic. Cavé. Hollowed, made hollow; digged into.

Caveau m. A little caue, or sellar.

Cavechure: f. A haulter; or, thing to haulter with: ¶Pic. Caveçon: m. A cauechin, or cauesson, for a horses nose.

Cavedal: m. The principall summe lent out to vse.

Cavelade: f. A kind of ray-fish of a verie hard substance, (and therefore none of the daintiest.)

Cavelot: m. A prop, stay, or tressle: ¶Pic.

Cavement: m. A hollowing, or making hollow; an ex-* *cauation; a digging into.

Cavenne de bergier: f. a Shepheards cote; little cottage, or cabine made of turues, straw, boughes, or leaues.

Caver. To hollow, or make hollow; to dig into.

Cavereau: m. A little caue, or sellar.

Caverne: f. A denne, cauerne, grot; hollow place; lurking hole, priuie corner.

Caverneau: m. A little caue, or cauerne.

Caverneux: m. euse: f. Hollow, full of dennes, caues, holes; also, dwelling in caues, abiding in dennes, lurking in holes.

Cavesanne: f. A cauesan, false-raine, or head-straine (commonly of silke) to lead, or hold, a horse by.

Cavesche: f. The head (barbarously.)

Cavesne. Frowardly. (v.m.) Cavesot: m. A Pole-head, or Bull-head; the little black vermine whereof toads, and frogs do come.

Cavessane. as Cavesanne. Cavessine: f. A martingale for a horse.

Cavesson. as Caveçon. Cavette: f. A little sellar; also, a little caue, denne, vault, hole, vnder ground.

Caüette: f. A Chough, or Jack-daw: ¶Pic. Caveure: f. A hole, a hollow; a hollowing.

Cauhare. See Caubare. Cavier. Seigneur c. A Landlord, or Lord of the soyle, who hath low iurisdiction ouer his tenants.

Cavillateur: m. A wrangler, cauiller, contentious fellow.

Cavillation. A cauill; a wrangling proposition, ouer-*thwart reason; also, a cauilling.

Cavillatoire. Wrangling, cauilling.

Caviller. To cauill, wrangle, reason crossely, speake ouer-*thwartly.

Cavillon. A kind of little Mallet.

Cavin: m. A hollow way, or dry brooke.

Cavine: f. The bottome of the mouth wherein the root of the tongue is.

Cavité: f. A cauitie, hollownesse; hollow way; or hollow place.

Caule: m. The stalke, or stemme of an hearbe; also, the hearbe Colewort.

Caulebasse: f. A gourd; or, a bottle made of the rind thereof.

Caulodis: m. Cabbidges.

Cault. as Chaud; Hot: ¶Pic. also, as Caut; craftie.

Caumas. Hot: ¶Gasc. Cauné. The name of a kind of vine.

Caune. A certaine fish, not much vnlike vnto a Pearch.

Cauny. as Peneux (at Tours.) Cauque: f. A tent (for a wound;) and hence;   Quand la fille pese vn auque on luy peut mettre la cauque: Prov. Cauqué: m. ée: f. Trodden, as a henne; tented, as a wound.

Cauquemare. as Cauchemare: ¶Pic. Cauquer. To tread a henne, as a cocke doth: ¶Norm. also, to tend a wound: ¶Gasc. Cauquier. as Cauquer: ¶Pic. Causaïan: m. A wrangler, brangler, brabling or litigious person.

Causateur: m. A Suiter, a partie contending; a partie in a suit, or in law.

Causativement. Litigiously; also, causatiuely, or, for a cause.

Cause: f. A cause, reason, or occasion; also, a case, matter, businesse, or suit in law.