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 posteritie; It was made by king Clodion the hairie; continued vnto King Pepins time, and then disannulled.

Chevelue: f. A sucker; a small imp of a plant springing from the root thereof, or of itselfe rooted.

Chevelure: f. A hairie bush, or locke; hairinesse, long haire; also, the fibers or hairie threeds that hang at the roots of plants.

Chevesche: f. An Owle; as Cheveche. Chevesne: m. The Cheuin, or Pollard-fish.

Chevestre: m. A rope, halter, coller for the head; a head-stall, or head-straine (especially for a cow, calfe, &c; for Licol is more proper to horses, moyles, &c, and more vsed.)

Chevestreux. licol chevetreux. Binding, or strayning the head.

Chevet: m. A boulster (for the head.)  Hausser le chevet de &c. To raise the price of a thing; to bid more for it, or value it higher, than before.

Chevetain: m. A Captaine, Commaunder, Leader; a Chiefetaine.

Chevetain: m. ine: f. Chiefe, commaunding ouer; aboue, or ouer others: ¶Norm. Chevetier. Looke Chevecier. Cheveul: m. The haire of a mans, or womans head; also, a locke, bush, or tuft of haire.  Cheveux de Venus. Venus haire, our Ladies haire, true maidens haire, blacke maiden haire; (an hearbe.)  Faire les cheveux à. To powle, barbe, trimme; cut the haire.  Vouloir prendre vn homme ras par les cheveux. To hope for more from a man than hee hath meanes to get, or th' other to giue.

Cheuf. as Chetif; An old word. Chevi: m. ie: f. Compassed, preuailed with, shifted withall, done goood vpon; tamed, reclaimed, subdued, brought in or vnder; also, compounded, or agreed withall.

Chevillage: m. A pegging, or pinning; peggage, pinnage.

Cheville: f. A peg, or pinne of wood; also, a botch in a verse.  Cheville du pied. Th' ankle-bone.  Compter des chevilles. To attend long in hope of a good turne, or preferment promised; See Compter. Pendre son manteau à foible cheville. To aske aduice of a foole, almes of a begger; or, to trust in, or depend on, vaine hopes, weake helps.  À chasque trou vne cheville: Pro. For euerie fault an excuse, for each obiection an answer; for any mischiefe a remedie, helpe, euasion.  À tel pertuis telle cheville: Prov. Said of any thing thats fitted, or suited in it kind.

Chevillé: m. ée: f. Pegged, pinned; fastened with pegs, ioyned with pinnes.  La teste d'un cerf bien chevillée. A Stags head, wel furnished, set, pinned.

Cheviller. To peg, to pin; to fasten, ioyne, or close with pegs, or pinnes.

Chevilleur: m. A pegger; also, a sorcerer, that holding his finger in a hole, and muttering certaine superstitious words, will hinder a man from pissing, vntill his finger be remoued.

Chevilleure: f. A pegging; a fastening with pegs.  Chevilleures. The broches of a Deeres head; all the pegs aboue the two lowest.

Chevillures. as Chevilleures. Cheviniau: m. A Cheuin.

Chevir. To compasse, preuaile with, shift withall, doe good vpon; also, to tame, reclaime, ouerrule, bring in or vnder; also, to compound, make an end, come to an agreement, with.  I'en cheviray bien. I will bring him to reason, to my bent, vnto my will; I shall do well ynough with him. Ils ne pouvoyent tous chevir en la maison. They could not all be lodged, or there was not roome ynough for them all, in the house.

Chevissance: f. An agreement, or composition made; an end or order set downe, betweene a creditor, and debtor.

Chevolée: f. A sprig, twig, or small imp of a plant; also, a fiber, or haire-like thread growing vnto the root of a plant.

Chevoler. To sprig; to put forth sprigs, or haire-like fibers, as the roots of plants do.

Chevre: f. A she-goat; also, a bag-pipe; also, the engine called by Architects, &c, a Fearne.  Barbe de chevre. Meadeswort, meadesweet, Queene of the medowes (an hearbe.)  L'herbe aux chevres. Shrub-trefoyle, milke trefoile, Citisus bush, tree trifolie. Laictues de chevre. A kind of wild lettuce, called Lambes-lettuce, and corne-sallade. Oeil de chevre. An eye full of white spots; or, one that hath too much white, or a pearle in it; a wall eye.  Pied de chevre. The end of a gaffle of a crossebow; also, the stay, or prop of a ladder, whereby tis both held steadie, and kept from leaning too hard on what tis set against; also, a leauer pointed like the foot of a goat.  Verd de chevre. A kind of sand whereof Painters make their greenes.  À la chevre morte. With heeles, or bellie, vpwards.  À pied de chevre. Aslope, or bias.  Cheuaucher la chevre en la vallée. To vndertake a dangerous taske, or enter into a businesse which he is verie like to faile in; (for he that rides downe a hill on a goat (a beast that stoops, and hath short legs before) can hardly come, without tumbling, to the bottome of it.)  Il luy a mis les chevres en sa court. He hath put him in a terrible feare.  Prendre le chevre. To take pepper in the nose; to take a thing in dudgeon, or in snuffe.  Reprenons nostre chevre à la barbe. Let vs returne vnto our former discourse, worke, matter, businesse.  À la chandelle la chevre semble belle: Prov. Hee that chuses a wife by candle-light, or by other eyes than his owne, may perhaps be fouly deceiued. Ou la chevre est liée faut qu'elle broute: Prov. The goat must brouze where she is bound; where a man is setled he is to seeke meanes to liue.  Tant gratte la chevre que mal gist: Prov. He keeps such a stur, he makes so much ado, to be well, that he is the worse for it: In old time a certain goat painfully scraping the earth to get her selfe an easefull couch, turned vp a knife, wherewith presently after her throat was cut in a sacrifice; (This prouerbe is fittest applied vnto such, as ruine, or incommodate thēselues by being too busie, or too curious, in what kind soeuer.)

Chevreau. A Kid, or yong Goat. Chevreaux. Certaine starres which rise about the eight and twentieth of September, and get them gone againe towards the euening of the nine and twentieth. Chevreau sauvage. A Roe.