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 by, lying close vnto, neere adioyning to.

Circonvolution: f. A circumuolution; a wrapping, or foulding; also, a rowling, or tumbling, about.

Circuir. To circuit; enuiron, incompasse, or goe about; also, to inwrap, infould, inclose.

Circuit: m. A circuit, compasse, going about; a round course, or race.

Circuit: m. ite: f. Enuironed, incompassed; gone about; also, inwrapped, infoulded, inclosed.

Circuition: f. A circuition; a circular course, or motion.  Circuition de paroles. A circumlocution, paraphrase, great circumstance of words; a going about the bush.

Circulaire: com. Round, circular, orbicular, compassing about, in a ring; belonging to a circle, round, ring.  Cautere Circulaire. See Cautere. Circulairement. Roundly, orbicularly, circularly, with a compasse, in a circle.

Circularité: f. Circularitie, roundnesse, orbicularnesse.

Circulateur: m. A Ieaster, Iugler, Imposter; one that delights, or deceiues with fables, tricks, and sleights, the people gathered about him.

Circulation: f. A circulation; a subliming, or extracting of water, or oyle by a Lembicke &c; tearmed so, because the vapour, before it be resolued into either, seemes to goe round, or circle-wise.

Circulatoire: com. Circulatorie; circulating; subliming; extracting, or seruing for extraction; whence;  Vaisseau circulatoire. A Lembicke, Stillitorie, &c.

Circulé: m. ée: f. Circulated; sublimed, extracted; (exactly) distilled.

Circuler. To circulate; sublime, extract, or distill (exactly.)  Ou se circulent les humeurs. Wherein the humors make many a circle, before they produce, or be resolued into, any water &c.

Cire: f. Wax; also, a combe of wax in the hiue.  Cire d'Espaigne. Hard-wax; or, as Lacre. Cire gommée. Wax mingled with Rosin and Turpentine.  Cire jaulne. Yellow wax; is vsed onely in the Chaunceries of France.  Cire minerale. Pissasphalte[*] is called so in some places.  Cire verde. Greene wax; wherewith the writs, and other dispatches of inferiour Courts; as also, all Charters, Perpetuities, and generall Pardons graunted by the King, are sealed.  Droict de cire. is eighteene pence Tourn. in euerie pound aboue twentie, giuen, or agreed vpon, for a wood-*sale; due vnto the King in regard of the lights which are (said to be) spent while the bargaine is in making.  À yeux de cire. Tender; easily melting, or quickly shedding teares.  Chauffer la cire. To attend long for a promised good turne.  Faire vn nez de cire à. To plie, or applie a thing at pleasure; to giue it any forme that is for his turne, or serues his purposes.

Ciré: m. ée: f. Waxed; seared; dressed, couered, closed, or mingled with wax.

Cirement: m. A waxing; a searing; a dressing, closing, couering, or mingling, with wax. Cirer. To wax; to seare; to dresse, couer, close, or mingle with wax.

Cirette. The name of a certaine Peare, that yeelds most excellent Perrie.

Cireux: m. euse: f. Waxie; of wax; full of wax.

Cirier: m. A Wax-chandler.

Cirier: m. ere: f. Waxie, of wax.

Cirine: f. as Gyrine. Ciroesne. A Seare-cloth; or any plaister, or ointment whereof Wax, Rosin, or Gummes, and Wine are the principall Ingredients.

Ciron: m. A Hand-worme.  Mais dont me vient ce ciron icy entre ces deux doigts? ''But whence comes this worme betweene these two fingers? (A knauish question from as knauish an action; to put the forefinger of one hand betweene the first, and second finger of the other; vnder pretence, that a worme makes the place itch, but with a purpose to make hornes at the partie of whom the question is asked.)''

Cironnier. Main cironniere. A hand that is full of, or troubled with, wormes.

Cirop: m. Sirrup.

Cirque. A place in Rome, wherein the people sate to behold Playes, Games, and publicke Exercises.

Cirre: m. A tuft, or locke of curled haire; also, the featherie tuffe, crest, or cop on the heads of some birds; also, the small staulke of some hearbs (as Withywind, &c;) intangled like a bush of haire; also, the hairie substance cleauing vnto oysters.

Cirsotomie: f. The cutting, or opening of the corrupt veines, called Varices. Cisaille: f. The clipping of coyne presently after the stampe.

Cisaillé: m. ée: f. Clipped, or cut with sheeres, or sizars; also, whose flesh is nipped off with hot pincers.

Cisailler. To clip, or cut with sizars, or sheeres; also, to nip, or pull off the flesh with hot pincers.

Cisailles: f. Garden sheeres; a Gardeners clipping sheeres; any great sheeres.

Cisé: m. ée: f. Carued; wrought with a chisell, or grauing yron.

Ciseau: m. A Surgeons Launce, Launcet, or Instrument of Incision; also, a chisell, or grauing yron.

Ciseaux: m. Sizars, or (little) sheeres.  Le drap, & les ciseaux luy sont delivrez: Prov. The whole matter is put vnto him; all is at his owne disposition, or in his owne hand; he may now be his owne caruer; he may now both part and chuse.

Ciselé: m. ée: f. Carued, or grauen with a chisell; also, clipped, or cut with sizars.

Ciseler. To carue, or graue with a chisell; also, to clip, or cut with sizars.

Ciselet: m. A little sizar, or chisell.

Ciseleure: f. Chisell-worke; or as Cizelleure. Cisellage: m. A clipping with sheeres, or sizars.

Ciste: m. The plant called Cistus, and Hollie Rose.

Cisteaux: m. An Order of white Friers (instituted in the yeare 1090) who vnder their (vpmost) white habit weare a blacke one, and red shoes.

Cisterne: f. A Cesterne.

Cisternin: m. ine: f. Of, or belonging to, a Cesterne.

Cisternon: m. A little Cesterue.

Cistophore: m. An auncient coyne worth about two pence farthing.

Cistre: m. A kind of brazen timbrell.

Cisure. Looke Scissure.

Citadelle: f. A Citadell; a strong Fort, or Castle, that