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 Faire bonne chere à. To intertaine kindly, vse friendly, welcome heartily, make good cheere vnto.  Faire grande, ou ioyeuse chere. To be passing merie; to liue most pleasantly, and plentifully; to make great cheere.  Faire mauvaise chere. To frowne, powt, lowre, sell sowse, hold downe the head; also, to liue barely, feed meanely; make put poore, or course cheere.  Belle chere, & coeur arriere: Prov. A willing looke, and vnwilling heart.  Belle chere vault bien vn mets: Prov. A heartie welcome is worth halfe a feast.  La belle chere amende beaucoup l'hostel: Prov. The ill-fauoured house is much amended by the well-fauoured owner.  Aujourd'huy en chere demain en biere: Prov. To day glad, to morrow dead.  Il n'est vie que de faire bonne chere, mais la fin n'en vaut rien: Prov. The life spent in good cheere hath a faire beginning but a foule end.

Cherer. To cheere, to cherish, &c; Looke Cherir. Chereté. as Cherté. Cherfueil: m. The wood-bind, or honie-suckle.

Cherissable: com. Cherishable, fit to be cherished.

Chermaye: f. A wood of scarlet oakes; also, as Charmoye. Cherme. The scarlet oake, or scarlet holme oake; also, as Charme. Chermes. The scarlet-berrie, or scarlet graine.

Chermisin. as Chermes. Chermine: f. The fruit, or berrie, of the scarlet oake.

Cherpi: m. A rag, or clout of linnen; or as Charpie. Cherquemmage. as Cherquemanage. Cherrée: f. Buck-ashes; or, as Charrée. Chersydre. An Adder; or (more especially) the land Adder.

Cherté: f. Deerenesse, dearth, scarcitie, want of.

Cherubin: m. A Cherubin.  Rouge comme vn cherubin. Red-faced, Cherubin-faced, hauing a fierie facies like a Cherubin.

Chervis: m. The root Skirret, or Skirwicke.  Chervis grand. A Parsnip.  Chervis sauvage. The wild Parsnip; or wild Skirret.  Petit chervis. The ordinarie Skirret root.

Chesaux: m. The rubbish of decayed houses; or, (the Plurall of Chesal) mansions, houses.

Chesmer. To decrease, wane, lessen, abate, grow to want; pine, languish; decay, fall away.

Chēsnaye: f. A wood, groue, or thicket of oakes.

Chesne: m. An oake; also, as Chaine. Chesne forchu. The standing on the head: ¶Rab. Chesne vert. The barren scarlet oake, holme oake, or French oake; a tree thats euer greene.  Petit chesne. The hearbe Germaunder, English Treacle.  Petit homme abat grand chesne: Prov. A little man fells a great oake; (so may a meane person ruine a mightie prince.)

Chesneau: m. A kind of water-snake, mortall enemie to oakes; also, a yong oake.

Chesneteau: m. A little yong oake.

Chesnette: f. as Petit chesne; Germaunder; also, a little chaine. Chesneux: m. euse: f. Of oake; or, full of oakes.

Chesnon: m. The chine.

Chestif. Looke Chetif. Chestivement. Wretchedly, miserably, vnfortunately; poorely, needily, basely, beggerly; also, scarcely, scantly; with much paultring, or pinching; also, knauishly, curstly, shrewdly; badly, naughtily, lewdly; caytiue-*like.

Chestiveté: f. Miserie, wretchednesse, vnfortunatenesse, or, a forlorne estate; poorenesse, beggerie, barenesse, needinesse; also, want, scarcitie, pinching, scantinesse; also, curstnesse, knauerie, shrewdnesse; badnesse, lewdnesse, naughtinesse.

Chestreux: m. euse: f. Poore, miserable, in ill array.

Chestron. as Chetron. Chet-doux. Gently-falling.

Chete: f. The height, or depth of a ship from the vpper decke to the keele; Hence; Le navire a tant de pieds de chete. The ship is so many foot deepe in hold.

Chetif: m. iue: f. Caitiue, wretched, miserable, vnfortunate, forlorne, poore, needie, bare, beggerlie; also, scarce, little, paultrie, scantie, small; also, knauish, curst, shrewd; naughtie, bad, lewd; and hence;  Qui envoye chetif à la mer, il n'en rapporte poisson ne sel: Prov. He that sends a bad seruant to sea, hath small returne of his venture.

Chetivement. Poorely, barely; wretchedly, miserably, as one that is forlorne; also, badly, lewdly, naughtily; also, curstly, shrewdly; also, scantly, scarcely, with much pinching.

Chetiver. To pine, make wretched, bring to want; lay miserie, inflict pouertie, on.

Chetiveté: f. Looke Chestiveté. Chetivoison: f. Wretchednesse, miserie, pouertie.

Chetron: m. The till of a coffer, or chest.

Cheu: m. Cheuë: f. Fallen, tumbled downe; in the lapse; also, happened, chanced, fallen vnto; also, shrunk, diminished; growne lesse.

Chevage. An yearely duetie, fine, or fee of 12. d. Parisis paied to the kings vse, within the iurisdiction of Vermandois, and elsewhere, by euerie bastard, stranger, forreiner, and affranchised person, whether he be, or haue beene, maried.

Cheval: m. A horse. Cheval aquatique. A certaine beast that liues in the riuer Nilus (in his backe, mane, and voice, resembling a horse, and therefore so tearmed.) Cheuaux de couble. Paires, or couples of horses; Coach-horses, &c. Cheval courant. A running horse; whence; Cheval courant est vn sepulchre ouvert: Prov. (So much danger is his necke in that rides him.) Cheval fondu. A kind of play like our trusse. Cheval Hongre, ou chastré. A gelding. Cheval de haras. A Stallion. Cheval de louäge. A hackney. Cheval marin, ou de mer. The Sea-horse (a great and long-footed fish; also, a kind of small sea Insect, or fish, whose foreparts are somewhat like a horses. Cheval de paille. That feeds on straw in stead of hay; whence;  Cheval de paille cheval de bataille: Prov. For such horses are commonly the hardest, and hardiest.  Cheval qui porte derriere. A double horse, or double gelding.  Cheval de poste. A Post-horse; also, a dunce, lobcock, or loggerhead.  Cheval aux quatre pieds blancs. A horse that hath foure white feet; A marke which diuers vtterly mislike; and hence;  C'est le cheval aux quatre pieds blancs. He promi-*