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 Tel a bonne cause qui est condemné: Pro. A good cause often speeds but badly; or right sometimes is condemned as wrong.

Causer. To cause; bring, or be the occasion of; also, to contend, wrangle, brawle, striue together in words; also, to prattle, babble, talke idly, reason foolishly, vse much speech to little purpose.

Causeresse: f. A scowld, a brabling woman; also, a tatling huswife, pratling gossip.

Causerie: f. A pratling, talking, babling; idle speech, vaine talke, tedious discoursing.

Causeur. as Causaïan; also, a babler, pratler, tatler, iangler, idle talker; one whose tongue neuer rests; also, in old law-bookes) as Causateur; a partie in a suit, or in law.

Causeuse: f. as Causeusse. Causse d'vn Aysement. The bottome of a iakes; the roome, or place wherein th' ordure lyes.

Caustique: com. Causticke; burning, scaulding, scorching the skinne; also, smacking of salt, or, of a sharpe tast.

Caut: m. caute: f. Craftie, subtile, wilie, sly; warie, aduised, cunning, circumspect.

Cauteleusement. Cautelously, subtily, cunningly, slily, craftily, deceitfully, ouerreachingly.

Cauteleux: m. euse: f. Cautelous, deceitfull, guilefull, craftie, cousening; full of sleights, wiles, fetches, reaches.

Cautelle: f. A wile, cautell, sleight; a craftie reach, or fetch, guilefull deuice or endeuor; also, craft, subtiltie, trumperie, deceit, cousenage.

Cauteller. To deceiue, beguile, cousen, ouerreach.

Cautement. Slily, craftily, cunningly, subtily, warily, circumspectly, aduisedly.

Cautere: m. A cauter; a searing hot yron; or, (more generally) any thing thats applied to burne, and is burning, or boyling, hot. Cautere actuel. An actuall cauter; such a one as burnes actually, and incontinently; as, scaulding oyle, red-hot mettall; wood through-burnt, &c. Cautere à bouton. The button cauter; smooth, and headed like a button; fit to cauterize a part, whereof the skinne is onely to be opened for an issue. Cautere circulaire. The circular cauter; is made of fiue pointed buttons, set round, or in a ring, thereby to worke the more effectually. Cautere claval. A certain cauter that goes little deeper than the skinne. Cautere cultellaire. The knife cauter; is like a knife with a thicke back, which holding the heat long makes it in working the more effectuall. Cautere dactilaire. The date cauter; so called, because fashioned like a date stone. Cautere dorsal. The backe cauter; or, that kind of knife-like cauter which cuts but on th' one side. Cautere emporte-piece. The wimble-cauter; round, hollow, and cutting; and fit to cauterize, with least flux of bloud, the skinne of the head when tis to be opened by a Trepane. Cautere ensal. The sword-cauter; made like the point of a two-edged sword. Cautere olivaire. The oliue cauter; tearmed so, because made like an oliue stone. Cautere à platine. The plate cauter; a kind of flat cauter, wherewith members cut off are seared, to preuent corruption, and Gangrenes. Cautere potentiel. A potentiall cauter; is any causticke, or burning medicine, salue, or compound, and is tearmed otherwise Ruptoire, and Vesicatoire. Cautere punctual. The punctuall, or pointed cauter; is almost square, and altogether sharpe pointed, and fit to open impostumes.

Cauterisation: f. A cauterisation, or cauterizing.

Cauterizé: m. ée: f. Cauterized; burned, seared, or closed vp with fire, or fierie medicines.

Cauterizer. To cauterize; to seare, burne, or close vp with fire, or fire-hot instruments, yrons, oyntments, medicines, &c.

Cautesse: f. as Cautelle. Caution: f. A caution; a suertie, pledge, or bayle for; also, bailing, suertiship, securitie.  Caution bourgeoise. Looke Bourgeois. O la bonne caution: ¶Iron. He is an honest man sure; I would not take his word for a button.

Cautionnage. as Caution; Bailing, suertiship. Cautionné: m. ée: f. Bayled, bound with suertie, that hath put in suerties.

Cautionner. To be bound, become suertie, enter into baile.

Cautionneur: m. A suertie, pledge, baile.

Cauvette. A Chough, or Jacke-daw: ¶Pic. Cay. as Quay; Also, a Semy-colon; vsed in the end of an imperfect period, and marked thus ; . Cayer: m. A quire of written paper; a peece of a written booke diuided into equall parts.

Caymander. as Caimander. Caymanderie. as Caimanderie. Caymant: m. A certaine great Lizard, or Crocodile that liues in hot riuers.

Cayreux: m. euse: f. Worme-eaten, or moath-eaten.

Caysseron. A little chest, or coffer of wood: ¶Langued. Caysson: m. A wooden chest, or coffer: ¶Langued. Cazole. as Casole. Cazot: m. A cote, or small house.

Ce. (A Pronowne demonstratiue) this; also, that; also, it; and, (going before any (plurall) termination of the Verbe Estre) these, or those: Put after that Verbe, in a question, tis as the Latine Interrogatiue Ne; as, est ce ma femme? sera ce demain qu'il viendra?'' Is this my wife or no? or, Is not this my wife? What? will he come to morrow? or, Will he not come to morrow? Looke'' Cet. Ceans. Here within; in this place; in this house.

Cebo: m. A little hulch-backt, mishapen, or ill-fauoured starueling.

Ceci. as Cecy. Ceciliane: f. The water chaine of a bit.

Cecilie: f. The blindworme, or sloworme.

Cecine: f. Beefe growne drie, & red with long hanging by the fire; Martlemas beefe.

Cecité: f. Blindnesse, darkenesse; vncertaintie.

Cecy. (A Pronowne demonstratiue) this, this here, euen this, this very thing.

Ceder. To yeeld, grant, or giue place to; to giue, grant, or make ouer vnto; To leaue, or part with.

Cedre: m. The Cedar tree.  Cedre aigu. The crimzon, or pricklie Cedar.  Cedre Lycien. The rough Cedar of Lycia. Cedre Phoenicien. as Cedre aigu. Cedre sapin. The Cedar of Libanus; the great cone-bearing Cedar.  Grand Cedre. The same.  Petit Cedre. The little, or low Cedar; the crimzon, or pricklie Cedar.

Cedrelate: m. The great Cedar.