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 Cela cuide avenir à. That had like to haue happened at.

Cuidereau: m. A Braggadochio; a pretie hardie fellow; one that thinks well of himselfe; one that is bold or so.

Cuideur: m. A thinker, weener, deemer, supposer; imaginer; presumer.  Cuideur de vendenge. One that is deceiued in that he thinketh; and, more particularly, one that farts in syrrope; or, meaning but to fart, mars all.  Cuideurs sont en vendenge: Prov. Vpon a merrie Haruest many ground fond hopes.

Cuidrelles. See Cuydrelles. Cuigner. To wedge, or hold open with wedges.

Cuignet: m. A little corner; also, a little wedge.

Cuilier: f. A spoone; See Cuillier. Cuiliere: f. A ladle.

Cuill omitted]erée: f. A spoone-full of.

Cuillier: f. A spoone.  Cuillier de mer. The Sea-spoone; a kind of long Cockle.  Herbe aux cuilliers. Spoonewort, Scuruie-grasse.  De vieilles maisons bruslées il sçait tirer des cuilliers neufues. (Said of a skilfull, & thriftie house-keeper;) he can extract new spoones from old burnt houses.  Entre la bouche & le cuillier souvent advient grand destourbier: Pro. Disturbance oft steps in twixt cup, and lip.

Cuillier. boyau cuil. The arse-gut; See Boyau. Cuin: m. A wedge.

Cuir: m. The skin; also, a skin, fell, hide; also, leather.  Coupeur de cuir. A cut-purse.  Le cuir luy tient. He is clungd, or hide-bound.  Faire d'autruy cuir large courroye. To spend freely on another mans purse; to cut a large thong out of another mans leather.  Il se iette sur tout cuir. He deales with euery thing; all is fish that comes to his net, all good prise that comes in his way; hee greedily falls aboord on any trash, or trull.  On s'est ioué de son cuir. His skin hath beene plaid with, to his paine; (said of one that hath been throughly whipped.)  Tremblant entre cuir & chair. Trembling inwardly, extreamely, throughly, or (as wee say) at the the verie heart.  Qui cuir voit tailler courroye en demande: Prov. Hee that sees Leather cut requires a thong of it.

Cuirace. as Cuirasse. Cuirain: m. Leatherne stuffe; prouision, or marchandise, of leather.

Cuirasse: f. A Cuirats; armour for the breast, and backe.

Cuirassé: m. ée: f. Armed with a Cuirats.  Lievres cuirassez, ou morionnez. Sillie, or cowardlie Artificers watching in armor; the ordinarie watchmen of good townes.

Cuirasseux: m. euse: f. Leatherie, of a hide; or, thicke and stiffe, as a hide.

Cuirassier: m. ere: f. Of, or belonging to, seruing for, a Cuirats.

Cuirassine: f. A sleight Cuirats for a light Horseman.

Cuire. To seeth, boyle; bake; disgest; make ripe, or readie; also, to itch, or smart. Cela me cuict. That vexeth, fretteth, stingeth, or grieueth me.  Trop grater cuict, trop parler nuit: Prov. Too much scratching paines, too much talking plagues.

Cuirie: f. A leatherne Jerkin; (an old word.)

Cuissant: m. ante: f. Smarting, itching, netling, stinging.

Cuisinal: m. ale: f. Of, or belonging to, a Kitchin.  Livrecuisinal. A booke of Cookerie.

Cuisine: f. A Kitchin; (and sometimes) also, meat; whence;  Leur cuisine ordinaire. Their ordinarie diet, or proportion of victualls.  Harpye de cuisine. A rauenous, or most greedie deuourer; a beastlie feeder; one that eats extreamly much, and spoyles the rest which he cannot eat.  Latin de cuisine. Grosse Latine.  Faire la cuisine. To play the Cooke, to dresse meat.  Se ruer tresbien en cuisine. To fall eagarly to his victualls, to be a verie good trencher-man.  Grasse cuisine maigre testament: Prov. Great house-keepers leaue poore executors; The like is;  De grasse cuisine povreté s'avoisine: Prov. Mauvais chien ne veut iamais compagnon en cuisine: Prov. A churle cannot endure a companion in his gainfull imploiments.

Cuisinement: m. A dressing of meat, a cooking, or playing of the Cooke.

Cuisiner. To cooke, play the Cooke, dresse meat as a Cooke.

Cuisineux: m. euse: f. Fit for Cookerie, belonging to the Kitchin.

Cuisinier: m. A Cooke.

Cuisiniere: f. A woman Cooke.

Cuissal; or, Cuissaux. Cuisses; Armour for the thighes.

Cuisse: f. The thigh.  Vne cuisse d'ail. A cloue of Garlicke.

Cuissedame: f. The name of a kind of peare.

Cuisselette: f. A litttle thigh.

Cuisse-né. Thigh-borne; (an Epithete of Bacchus.)

Cuissette: f. as Cuisselette. Cuissier. Of, or belonging to, the thigh.  Muscle cuissier. One of the foure principall muscles whereby the thigh is bent, or stretched out.

Cuissin: m. A cushion.

Cuissinet: m. A little cushion.

Cuissineux: m. euse: f. Soft as a cushion; fit for a cushion; holding of the cushion; full of cushions.

Cuisson: f. A seething; also, a smarting; a stinging, as of Nettles.

Cuissots: m. Tasses; armour for the thighes.

Cuit. as Cuict. Cuite: f. A seething; baking, batch; also, digestion.

Cuivre: m. Copper.

Cuivreux: m. euse: f. Full of Copper.

Cul: m. An arse, bumme, tayle, nockandroe, fundament. Cul d'asne. as Cubaseau. The small Sea-nettle. Cul blanc. The bird called a Whittaile. Cul de cheval. A small, and ouglie fish, or excrescence of the Sea, resembling a mans bung-hole, and called, the red Nettle. Le Cul d'un'esguille. The eye of a needle. Cul d'un'espingle. The head of a pin. Cul de fosse. A dungeon. Cul de four. The bottome of an ouen.