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 * ding, or bending, towards heauen.

Celle: f. The house, or mansion of, and a communitie of goods among, villeines, or persons of a seruile condition; their children also, being at schoole, or in seruice, by their parents appointment, are said to be, en la Celle. Celle. The feminine of Celuy; she.

Cellerage. Sellerage; a duetie payed for the laying of wine into sellars.

Cellerier: m. A Butler, Drawer; Yeoman of the Sellar.

Celoce. A kind of swift Brigantine, or Pinace, deuised, at first, by the Rhodians: ¶Rab. Celsitude: f. Celsitude, highnesse, excellencie; (tearmes conferred on Princes.)

Celuy: m. celle: f. The same.

Celuy-là. That same (man, &c.)

Cement: m. Cement; a strong, and cleauing morter, made (for the most part) of tyles, potshards, glasse, flint, the drosse of yron, &c, beaten to dust, and incorporated with lime, oyle, grease, rozen, and water; Looke Ciment. Cemetiere: m. A churchyard.  De nouveau medecin cemetiere bossu: Prov. An vnexperienced Physitian fattens the churchyard.  Veau mal cuict, & poules creuds font les cemetieres bossus: Prov. Raw veale, and chickens make fat churchyards.

Cemiterre. A Scimitar, or Turkish sword.

Cenacle. Looke Senacle. Cencer. To recken, esteeme, account among his reuenue; to number, tell, muster; also, to rate, assesse, taxe, value, prize.

Cenchre: m. A greenish Serpent, or Snake, whose bodie is couered all ouer with skales, and spots resembling Millet seeds; (those that be stung by him fall into a Letargie, and sleeping, die;) or as; Cenchrite. A greene, and swift-gliding Serpent, big about the head, verie small towards the tayle, and full of Mill-resembling spots (onely) on the bellie; or as Cenchre. Cenchryne. as Cenchrite. Cencive. as Cens; Also an inheritance held by, or subiect vnto, Cens; also, the title of, or a Tenure by, Cens. Cendre: f. Ashes; cynders; imbers.  Cendre gravelée. Ashes made of the burnt lees, or dregs of wine.  Cendre des Orfevres. as Cendrées des Orfevres. Le jour des Cendres. Ashwednesday.  Quittons les cendres. Lets quit our vnworthie stay, or sluggish life, at home.

Cendré: m. ée: f. Ashie, ash-like; of ashes; also, ash-coloured.

Cendrée: f. A melting, or purifying of siluer, &c, in ashes; also, a wedge, barre, lumpe, or ball of siluer, &c, so melted; also, an ash-heape; and, a place, or thing, burnt vnto ashes. Cendrées, & laveures des Orfevres. The ashie mammockes, or bits of mettall, and drosse found, after a melting, in a Goldsmithes furnace, and among the sweepings of his shop; These the Finor puts into a vessell, and hauing washed them, pickes out that which is worth ought from among them. Argent de cendrée. Fine, or purified siluer (of xj.d. eighteene grains finesse) which the finors make at first into wedges, and marke them with their puncheons, thereby vndertaking for the goodnesse, and value thereof.  Cendrée sauvage. Wild Marierome, groue Marierome, Organ, Origanie.

Cendreux: m. euse: f. Ashie, full of ashes; also, pale, wanne, lew, of a dead, colour or complexion; also, lither, sluggish, idle; whose nose is euer hanging ouer the fire; and hence;  Au Chat cendreux jamais ne tombe rien en gueule: Prov. The idle house-doue neuer getteth ought.

Cendrier: A maker, or seller of ashes; also, a place to keepe, or corner to throw, ashes in; also, a sluggard, slowbacke, idlesbie; house-doue; one that sits lurking in the chimney corner.

Cendroyé: m. ée: f. Burnt vnto, or turned into, ashes.

Cendroyer. To burne vnto, or turne into, ashes.

Cene: f. A supper; (a word not much vsed but by those of the Religion, who thereby meane, the Lords Supper.)

Cenglade: f. A yerke, lash, or stripe with a girth.

Cengle: f. A girth (for a horse;) Looke Sangle. Il en avoit tout le long des cengles. Hee was coursed, cudgelled, or chidden soundly; also, hee had taken in his full lading of liquor.

Cenglé: m. ée: f. girt, girded.

Cengler. To gird, or girth.

Cenotaphe: m. A monument, hearse, or emptie tombe erected in memorie, or to the honour, of a great Person.

Cens: m. Rent of Assise, Quit rent, old rent, chiefe rent; the first pecuniarie charge thats layed on conquered, or vnrented land, as a signe, or in acknowledgement, of the direct Seignorie of him that grants it: This charge had it originall from the first conquest of Gallia by the French; whose Princes giuing whole territories vnto their Captaines, they made a diuision thereof among their souldiours, and the naturall inhabitants of the countrey, on condition, that those should assist, and attend them in the warres (which condition, being a trust, they intitled, Fief) and that these should till their land, and pay vnto them for it such yearely rents, or tributes, as they had formerly yeelded the Romanes (by whome those rents, &c, were tearmed Census;) and thus this charge imposed at first as a resemblance of former seruitude, continues to this day a marke of a base, or seruile, Tenure. Cens capital. A chiefe, or capitall Cens; chiefe rent. Cens à cherchage. Which must bee demaunded by Lord Censuel, or his deputie, of the Tenant, or detayner of the inheritance, that yeelds it; therein different from that Cens which is payable at a place, and day, certaine. Cens à cher pris. A racked Cens, which verie neere counteruailes the yearely reuenue of the land, and which being extraordinarie, and chargeable to the tenant he is thereby discharged of the Ventes, and Relevoisons, which the ordinarie Cens carries with it. Cens à iour nommé. Looke Nommé. Cens mort. A Cens seck, or dead Cens; a Quit rent; which, besides it selfe, yeelds the Lord no manner of profit, or aduantage, at the death, or change of the tenant; (This Cens is no signe of direct Seignorie.)