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 (now a greater woe that the misse of way cannot befall him that hath cause to make hast.)

Cheminé: m. ée: f. Walked, went, gone, trauelled, iourneyed.

Cheminée: f. A chimney; also, a chimney-peece of Tapistrie; or of Masons worke.  Haut & bas la cheminée. Chimney-sweepe; the crie of chimney-sweepers.  Licentié sous la cheminée. An vnlearned Graduate; one that does his acts in tenebris, or steales a degree.  En petite cheminée fait on bien grand feu: Prov. In little chimneyes good big fires are made.

Cheminer. To walke, wend, go; trudge, iourney, trauell.  Cheminer en pas d'Abbé. Looke Abbé. Autant chemine vn homme en vn iour comme vn Limaçon en cent ans: Prov. A man goes as far in a day as a snaile in an age; some men can dispatch more businesse in one day than others in many.

Chemineux: m. euse: f. That walkes much; also, belonging to a way; or to a chimney; or full of chimneyes.

Cheminier: m. ere: f. Of, or belonging to, a Chimney.

Chemise: f. A shirt, or smocke.  Chemise de cloche. The mould wherein a bell is cast.  Chemise de drap. A wastcoat.  Chemise de necessité. An inchaunted shirt which (as some superstitious people imagine) preserues men from all hurt in battailes, and eases women in their trauell.  Avoir sa chemise. A woman to haue her flowers (for tachée de sang is vnderstood.)  Il leur porta vne chemise blanche. He brought them a cleane shirt; viz. hee raised them with a mischiefe, roused them with a vengeance; he gaue them a sound camisadoe.  Il m'en souvient autant que de ma premiere chemise. I remember it as well as the houre I was borne in.  Torcher à autruy le cul de sa chemise. To giue one a pig of his owne sow; to affoord him helpe out of hisowne meanes; (we vnderstand by the action expressed in this phrase, the doing of a good, and a bad turne together; because though one thing be wiped another is berayed.)  Il faut discerner la peau de la chemise: Prov. Wee must distinguish things which bee neere, from those which be further off, vs.  Plus pres est la chair que la chemise: Prov. Looke Chair. Chemisette: f. A little shirt, or smocke; also, a wastcoat; also, a couering for a booke.

Chemissant. Whimpering.

Chenal: m. A channel, or gutter.

Chenant: fleur de chenant. A certaine flower wheron Camels vse to feed.

Chenarde: f. Wild Saffron.

Chene. as Chaine. A chaine; also, a Corbell of stone-*worke.

Chenets: m. Andirons.

Chenevel: m. The name of a certaine fresh-water fish.

Chenevi: m. Hempseed.

Cheneviere: f. A hempe-yard, or hempen-close; also, a hempen staulke; also, a hempe countrey, or place wherein much hempe growes. Chenevilles: f. The broken staulkes, or stemmes of hempe.

Chenovette: f. A hempen staulke, or stemme.

Chenil: m. A dog-kennell.

Chenillaux: m. Yong Caterpillers.

Chenille: f. A Caterpiller.  Chenille de mer. A sea Caterpiller; (of two kinds, th'one a verie great fish, th'other, a small, and footlesse Insect.)  Chenille de pins. A little, reddish, and hairie worme,that breeds in the tops of Pine branches.  Chenilles veluës. Certaine great, hairie, and darke-red wormes, or caterpillers, that feed altogether vpon the roots of corne, and hearbes.  Chenille de vigne. The little hairie, and many-footed worme, called the Vine-fretter.

Chenillé: m. ée: f. Of, or belonging to, Caterpillers; also, Caterpiller-like; also, full of, or wrought with, Caterpillers; and hence;  Taffetas chenillé. A kind of stript, or waued, Taffata.

Chenillier: m. An instrument wherwith Gardners pull downe Caterpillers.

Chenin: m. as Chenil; A dog-kennel. Chenin: m. ine: f. Dog-like; of, or belonging to, a dog.  Raisins chenins. A kind of great red grapes, fitter for medicines than for meat.  Taisson chenin. A kind of Badger, that is footed, and snowted like a dog, and willingly feeds on flesh, and carrion, as a dog.

Chenu: m. uë: f. Gray, hoarie, white-headed, old.  Vin chenu. Mustie wine.

Cheoir. To fall; to tumble downe; also, to happen, chance, or fall vnto, as an inheritance, or escheat.  C'est tout vn de cheoir, & de trebucher: Pro. A man had as good fall outright as stumble.  Qui n'y va n'y chet: Prov. He that climbes not fals not; he that ventures not failes not.  Qui plus haut monte qu'il ne doit de plus haut chet qu'il ne voudroit: Prov. He that climbes higher than he should falls lower than he would.  Qui rien ne porte rien ne luy chet: Prov. He that carries nothing looses nothing; or, nought falls from him that hath nought.

Chepage: m. A Goaler; or, Goalership.

Chepier: m. A Goaler.

Cher: m. ere: f. Deare, leefe, well-beloued, best-affected, much esteemed, verie acceptable, or precious vnto; also, deare, costlie, of a great rate, or price, for which much is paied.  I'aimerois aussi cher. I had as leue, I would as soone, I could be as willing; plus cher; rather, sooner, with a better will.  Fille trop veuë, robbe trop vestuë, n'est pas chere tenue: Prov. A maid oft seene, and a garment oft worne are meanely alike esteemed of.

Chercée: f. A kind of earth-Alpicke.

Cherchage. A seeking, or searching for; an inquirie after.  Cens à cherchage. Looke Cens. Cherche ralongée. Looke Cerche. Chercher. Looke Cercher. Chercuictier. Looke Chaircuictier. Chere: f. The face, visage, countenance, fauour, looke, aspect of a man; also, cheere; victualls, intertainment for the teeth.

Chere lie. Seeke Lie.