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 into another; and (in matters of inheritance) to haue a new Lord, or owner.  Changer de note. Looke Note. Changer de poil. To mend his manners, to alter his former disposition, to become a new man.  Tel change qui ne gaigne pas: Pro. Many change for the worse.

Changeur: m. A changer, exchanger, banker; also, a tole-*taker, or gatherer of tribute.  Changeur du Thresor. The Kings Receiuer generall, called so in old time; at this day, Thresorier du Domaine. Chanoine: m. A Canon in a Cathedrall Church.

Chanoinerie: f. as Chanoinie. Chanoinie: f. A Canonship; the place of a Canon.

Chansi: m. ie: f. Mustie, fustie; almost rotten, putrified; vnsauourie through age, or long keeping; also, mouldie, hoarie, vinewed.

Chansisseure: f. Mustinesse, fustinesse; putrefaction; also, hoarinesse, mouldinesse, vinewednesse.

Chanson: f. A Song; Ayre; Ballade; Lay, Roundelay, Virelay; also, a Poeme, or Discourse, in Meeter.  Chanson de Ricochet. A Song, Play, Tale, or Discourse, thats endlesse, and hangs ill together; or, whereof one part confutes, or contradicts, another.  Chanson de Robin. A merrie, and extemporall song, or fashion of singing, whereto one is euer adding somewhat, or may at pleasure adde what he list; hence, also, any tedious, or endlesse discourse, &c.  Ces chansons procedent de la mesme cornemuse. All these matters haue but one head, all these businesses but one originall.  On luy demanda la chanson. (Spoken ieastingly of one thats but newly come out of prison, where hauing been (as a bird in a Cage) inclosed, he may perhaps haue learnt to sing.)  En vne chanson n'y a qu'un bon mot: Prov. And thats the last (in the opinion of harsh, and barbarous, people.)

Chansonet: m. A Canarie bird; or as Sansonet. Chansonnette: f. A little song, a prettie aire; a sleight, or light note, or tune.

Chansonneur: m. A great singer of songs.

Chansonnier: m. ere: f. Alwaies singing, full of songs.

Chansons. Colombine flowers.

Chanstié: m. as Chantier; a Gauntrie, or Stilling. Chant: m. A Song, Ayre; Caroll, Ballade; Lay, Roundelay, Virelay; also, a Poeme, or Discourse, in Ryme.  Chant Royal. A kind of ancient Poeme dedicated to the honour of Jesus Christ, or of his Mother; and concluding with some fiue or six verses, commending, or directed vnto, one Prince or other, not formerly mentioned.

Chanté: m. ée: f. Sung, chaunted; warbled; crowed; resounded; commended, or described in Meeter, or in Verse. I'ay chanté à son han. I haue spoken with him. ¶Barrag.

Chanteau: m. A corner-peece, or peece broken off from the corner, or edge of a thing; (and hence) also, a gobbet, lumpe, crust, or cantell of bread, &c; also, a quarter, or the quarter-peece, of a garment. Le Chanteau part le vilain: Pro. See Vilain.

Chantel. as Chanteau. ¶Lang.

Chantellage: m. A certaine fee due vnto some Lords for the Gauntries whereon wine that is sold hath stood. Chantelle. Les quattre deniers de chantelle. Foure pence payed euery yeare, within Bourbonnois, by certaine villains vnto their Lords, in acknowledgement of their seruile Tenures.

Chantement: m. A singing, resounding, chaunting; warbling; crowing.

Chantepleure: f. A garden Pot, or Gardeners watering Pot; also, the cocke of a cesterne; also, a certaine deuice, or Engine, for the emptying of a water-vessell; made of two Lattin pipes (of equall bignes, and length) ioyned together at the one end, and thence diuiding themselues, into the forme of a forke.

Chantepoulet: m. The lesser Centorie, Earth-gall, Feauerworte; (Iunius.) Chantepoulets. as Armoires; Sweet Williams, Toll-*meyners, London Tufts. (Mathiolus.) Chanter: m. A singing, or chaunting; whence;   Beau chanter souuent ennuye: Prov. Euen choice delights are often tedious.

Chanter. To sing; resound; chaunt it; warble, as a bird; crow as a cocke, &c; also, to describe, or commend, in verse.  Chanter en faulset. To faine; also, to sing louder and louder, or higher and higher; to rise from note to note, in singing.  Chanter deuant la feste. To triumph before a victorie.  Chanter l'hymne du Cigne. To sing, speake, or vtter, his last.  Chanter pouilles. To scold, reproch, reuile, raile on.  Chantez à l'asne, il vous fera des pets: Prov. Sing you to an Asse, and he will fart vnto you; bestow any good thing on a churle, and if he do requite it, it shall be in one filthie manner or other.  Asseurement chante qui n'a que perdre: Prov. ''He boldly chaunts it that hath naught to loose; wee say; and who doth sing so merrie a note as he that cannot change a groat? (This Prouerbe will also affoord worthier expositions.)''  On se lasse de bien chanter: Pro. Seeke Lasser. Tel chante qui n'a ioye: Pro. Many a one sings that is full sorrie; (Those that, against their wils, ride vp Holborne, oft verifie this Prouerbe.)

Chanterelle: f. The treble, in singing; also, a treble string, or bell; also, a small bell for a chyme.

Chantereme: f. A greene frog, land toad, hedge toad.

Chanteresse: f. A Chaunteresse; a woman that sings, or sings much.

Chanterie: f. Chaunting, singing; Musicke; also, a Chaunterie; the place, degree, or office, of a Chaunter.

Chanterre: m. An ordinarie Poet, rymer, or versifier, so tearmed in old time.

Chanteur: m. A singer, a Chaunter; also, a small, white-breasted, and red-bellied forrest-bird that sings very much.

Chantier: m. A Wood-mongers, or Tymber-sellers, yard; also, a Staulder, or Wood-pile; also, a Vine-supporting pole, or stake (whether it stand vpright, or lye, as a crosse barre, ouerthwart; and (hence) also, as Treillis, or a rayle for the same purpose; also, a Stoope, or Pile, vnderpropping the banke of a riuer; also, a Gauntrie, or Stilling, for Hogs-heads, &c, to stand on; also, a Tresle to saw Tymber on. Chantier de bois. A staulder, woodstacke, pile of wood.  Leurs Navires estoyent en chantier. Their ships were on the stockes, or in the docke.