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 Cepride: m. Baulme.

Ceramite. Potters earth: ¶Rab. also, a pretious stone of the colour of a tyle.

Ceranvienne: f. A certaine pretious stone thats alwaies verie moist, and seemes to sweat.

Ceraste. A most venomous serpent, called otherwise (and the more properly in French) Serpent cornu; See Cornu. Cerat: m. A Plaister made of Waxe, Gummes, &c, and certaine oyles; wee also, call it, a Cerot, or Seare-*cloth.  Cerat sandlin. The purple clout wherewith Cookes dye their Gellie; or, a Searecloth made of Saunders.

Ceraunobule. Thundering with Bulls; as the Pope.

Cerceau: m. A circle, ring; hoope; a round, or a round compasse; also, the Sercell, or Sarcell (feather) of a hawkes wing.  Cerceau craquetant. The ierting circle which a Peacocke makes with his taile, or a Turkie-cocke with his wings.

Cercelé: m. ée: f. Hooped; incircled; compassed with a round or cirle; streaked, or scored round as a circle.

Cerceler. To hoope, incircle; compasse with a round, or circle; streake, or score, round as a circle.

Cercelle: f. (The water-fowle called) a Teale.

Cerceiler. as Cerceler. Cercerelle: f. A rattle, clicket, or clapper; also, a kastrell, suckwind, steingall; also, a Teale.

Cercereulle. as Cercerelle (in the last sence.) (v.m.) Cerche: f. A search, inquisition, inquirie, seeking after. Cerche ralongée. Th' instrument wherewith Masons round, and fashion, pillars.

Cerché: m. ée: f. Searched, sought; hunted, inquired after; felt, groped, sounded; traced.

Cerchefi. Looke Sercifi. Cerchement: m. A searching, seeking, hunting, inquiring after; also, an inquisition, or examination.

Cercher. To seeke, search, hunt, looke, or inquire after; to trace, feele, grope, sound. Cercher le broust. To hunt after feasts, to play the parasite, or smell-feast. Cercher chappe cheute. Looke Chappe. Cercher midi ou il n'est qu'onze heures. To looke for a thing which is not, or, before it is, to bee had; also, to make faults of trifles; also, to seeke after his owne hurt, or to purchase his owne harme. Cercher en vn mouton cinq pieds. Curiously to looke for more at a mans hands than hee is able to performe. Cercher noises pour noisettes. To pick a quarell out of trifling occasions. Qui m'aura perdu ne m'aille cercher en ce païs là. (A phrase, whereby one signifies his vtter mislike of a countrey.) Chacun cerche son semblable: Prov. Euerie person seekes his Peere. Il cerche trop bas la charité qui fouille prez des fesses: Prov. The charitie is too base that stoopes so low as the buttockes; or, hee lookes too low for charitie that gropes about the buttocks. Le fol cerche son malheur: Prov. The foole indeuors to make himselfe vnhappie; or, the foole studies his owne mishap. Qui a affaire de feu le doit cercher; &; qui a besoing de feu le cerche avec le doigt: Prov. We say, (with some little difference) Let them that bee a cold blow at the cole.

Cercheur: m. A seeker, searcher; inquirer, tracer, hunter, looker after; a feeler, groper, sounder.

Cercle: m. A circle; a compasse, a round; also, a hoope for caske; Looke Cicle. Cercle finissant. Th' Orizon; a circle that diuideth the visible part of heauen from that which to vs is invisible.  Cercle vertical. Seeke Vertical. Il y quarre le cercle. His squaring is there out of square.  On ne cognoist point le vin aux cercles: Pro. The goodnes of wine is not known by the fashion, or strength of the hoops that begird it.

Cerclé: m. ée: f. incircled, compassed; begirt; bound, or hooped about.

Cerclet: m. A little circle; round, compasse; hoope; also, a small wreath of Ozier twigs, to set vnder a dish on a table.  Cerclet à feu. A wreath, or circlet of wild-fire; a fire-worke made like a wreath, or circlet.

Cerclouëre: f. A paire of weeding tongues.

Cercot: m. A sauegard.

Cercueil: m. A coffin; also (but not so properly) a beere; also, a tombe, graue, sepulchre.

Cerebelle, for Cervelle: f. The hinder part of the head wherein the memorie is lodged.

Cerebrin: m. ine: f. Headie, rash, giddie, according to his owne braine, after his owne fancie, or humor.

Cerelle: f. A kind of pleasant perrie, made of the peare Carisi. Ceremonial: m. ale: f. Ceremoniall; of, or belonging to, ceremonies.

Ceremonie: f. A ceremonie; a rite, custome, or fashion in, or about, religion.

Ceremonieusement. Looke Cerimonieusement. Ceremonieux. Ceremonious; full of ceremonies.

Cerf: m. A stag, a red deere; a hart.  Cerf ramé. A raine deere.  Cerf volant. The great horned beetle, or bull-flie.  Corne de cerf. Hartshorne, Sandwort, Bucke-*horne plantaine, Crowfoot plantaine, hearbe Ivie, or Eve.  L'herbe au cerf. Harts-fodder; supposed to bee a kind of wild Parsenip.  Langue de cerf. The hearbe Harts tongue, or stone Harts-tongue; ordinarily mistaken for, and made all one with, Scolopendria. Oeil de cerf. A kind of wild Parsenip, that beares a red flower, and is not ill to be eaten.  Poil de cerf. The dunne, sandie, or deere, colour of some horses &c.  Ronce de cerf. Rough Bindweed.  Faire le cerf de. To passe a thing sleightly ouer, to make no conscience, nor account, of it.  Au cerf la biere, au sanglier le barbier: Prov. (So dangerous a beast is an enraged stag.)

Cerfouëtte. Looke Serfouëtte. Cerfouïr. To dig the ground about the roots of trees; or as Sarfouïr. Cerfueil: m. The hearbe Charuell, or Cheruill.

Cerf volant. The great horned beetle, or bull-flie.

Cerille: f. A small tittle, or addition to the foot of a