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 Cul de lampe. See Lampe. Cul noüé. The name of a certaine short-tailed Apple.  Cul de poule. A certaine hard, and eminent swelling on the Orifice, or edge of a Fistula; also, a bringing, or setting all the tops of the fingers close together.  Cul sur pointe. Topsie turuie, arsie-varsie, vpside-downe.  Cul rouge. The bird called a Specht, or Speght.  Cul sur teste. as Cul sur pointe. Au cul du sac. At length; in th' end, or bottome; when all is done and gone.  De cul & de teste. Furiously, fiercely, on all hands, on euerie side, euerie way.  Assis entre deux selles le cul à terre. Betweene two stooles the breech goes to the ground.  Grattant le cul au soleil. Idlely, sloathfully, slouenly; as one that lies clawing his breech, or bleaking himselfe, in the Sunne.  Il leur fit leuer le cul à Dreux. He raisd their siege, or made them rise, from before Dreux. Iouër à pique en cul. To thrust out the harlot, or driue out one naile with another.  Vn Mangeur de culs de poules. A nickname for a souldior.  Mettre de cul. To set on his arse; to ouercome, confound, ouerturne, ouerthrow.  Torcher à autruy le cul de sa chemise. To doe a man a pleasure, but (which he could haue done himselfe) only by his owne meanes; Looke Chemise. A cul de foirard tousiours abonde merde: Prov. A shitten taile hath euer store of ordure; a shitten fellow is stored with filthie humours, or scuruie followers.  Il est mal caché à qui le cul paroist: Prov. Hee's but ill hid that shewes his taile; he is but a shallow dissembler that suffers the world to take notice of his worst humors.

Culace: f. as Culasse. Culaçon. The breech of a peece of Ordnance.

Culant. Setting on his taile, giuing an arse-posse vnto.

Culasse: f. The Counter (in the Poope) of a Ship; also, the breech of a Gunne; also, a foule-great, or full-grown arse, or breech; also, a lumpe of gold or siluer melted in a crurible, &c, and still retaining the forme of the bottome thereof.  Qui ne chastie culot, ne chastie culasse: Prov. He that corrects not youth, controuls not age; he that nips not vice in the bud, suffers it, a branch.

Culassé: m. eé: f. Foyled, ouerthrowne, set on the taile; that hath receiued an arse-posse, or fall on the arse.

Culasseur: m. One that foyles, or sets another on his taile.

Culbute: f. A tumbling; a turning, or tossing vpside downe; See Culebute. Faire la culbute. To play the tumbler; or, to turne as a tumbler, top ouer taile.

Culbuté: m. ée: f. Tumbled, throwne topsie turuie; ouerturned, turned top ouer taile.

Culbuter. To tumble, throw topsie turuie, turne vpside downe; also, to ouerturne, set on the taile; tumble one vpon another.

Culebute. bidet de culebute. The sinewie instrument of mankind.

Culeron: m. The hinder part of the buttockes of a horse.

Culetage: m. Buttocke-stirring, taile-wagging, leacherie. Culeter. To wag, or stirre the buttockes vp and downe; to moue the taile in a wanton time, or with the taile keep time vnto a wanton musicke.

Culetis: m. as Culetage. Culette: f. as Culaçon. Culier: m. ere: f. Of, or belonging to the taile, arse, or fundament.  Boyau culier. The arse-gut; See Boyau. Culiere: f. A crupper for a horse.

Culinaire: com. Of, or belonging to, a kitchin.

Cul-leve. Iouër à cul-leve. To play at leuell-coyle.

Cullot. as Culot; Also, a cushion (made) to ride post on. Cullottes. as Culottes. Culot: m. A little arse, a small taile; (and by metaphor, a lad, or yong bodie;) also, as Qulocul;and, the lag, or last of a companie; also, as Cullot. Culot de bronze. A hollow barre, or wedge of brasse.  Culot de fondeur. The mould wherein a Bell-founder, &c, casts his mettall.  Marcher comme culots. To come behind, or, in the rereward of the rest.  Qui ne chastie culot ne chastie culasse: Prov. Hee that corrects not small faults, will not controll great ones; or, he that corrects not a knaue while hee is young, will not bee able to controll him when hee is old.

Culottes: f. Armour for the hinder parts, or taile peece, of a horse; also, (a fashion of) close breeches.

Culpe d'un artichaud. (Perhaps mistaken for Pulpe;) The pulp, pith, or substance of an Artichocke.

Cul-pelé: m. ée: f. Bauld-arst, bare-taild, pild-breecht.

Culrage. as Curage. Culte: m. Respect, worship, honour giuen, seruice done one.

Cultellaire: com. Of a knife, or knife-like.  Cautere cultellaire. See Cautere. Cultivage: m. Tillage.

Cultivant. Tilling, husbanding, dressing, labouring.

Cultivation: f. A tilling, or tillage.

Cultivé: m. ée: f. Tilled, wrought, laboured, husbanded; improued by plowing, bettered by tillage.

Cultivement: m. A tilling, husbanding, labouring, plowing; culture, or improuing by culture.

Cultiver. To labour, till, plow; improue by culture, better by plowing.

Cultiveur: m. A husbandman; a labourer, or tiller of land.

Culture: f. Culture, tillage, husbandrie.

Cumané. Of the Sybill Cumana: ¶Rab. Cume de pressouër. (Belike mistaken for Cuve;) the vat, or trough which receiues the liquor expressed.

Cumin: m. The hearbe, or seed, Cummin.  Cumin sauvage. Wild Cummin; whereof there are three kinds; the ordinarie, the codded, and the horned one.

Cumulativement. Largely, abundantly, by heaps.

Cumulé: m. ée: f. Heaped, accumulated, filled vp; gathered by heaps.

Cumuler. To heape, accumulate, fill vp; to augment, or gather together, by heaps.

Cunctation: f. Cunctation, tarriance, delay, abiding, lingering, prolonging of the time.

Cuneiforme. Wedge-resembling, wedge-like, of the fashion of a wedge. Os cuneiforme. Seeke Os.

Cuniculeux: m. euse: f. Full of inward holes, or by-*corners.