CHEADLE-DOCK, 8. The Senecio

Jacobæa.

CHEANCE, 8. (A.-N.) Chance; turn;

fall.

CHEAP, (1) 8. (A-S. ceap.) A purchase; a bargain; a sale. Good cheap, a good bargain. See Chepe.

(2) Cheapside, in London. (3) v. To ask the price of anything. Cheapen is still used in this sense in Shropshire. CHEAPS, 8. Number. Weber. CHEAR. See Chere.

CHEASIL, S. Bran.

CHEAT, 8. (1) The second sort of wheaten bread, ranking next to manchet.

(2) A linen collar, and shirtfront appended, to cheat the spectator into a belief of the presence of a clean shirt. CHEATER, 8. An escheator. CHEATERS, S. False dice. Dekker. CHEATRY, 8. Fraud. North. CHECK, (1) v. To reproach. East. (2) v. When a hawk forsakes her proper game, and flies at crows, pies, or the like, she was said to check.

(3) When a hound loses scent and stops, he is said to check.

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(4) 'Boccheggiáre, to play or checke with the mouth as some ill horses doe." Florio.

(5) adv. On the same footing. CHECKED, adj. Chapped. Suffolk. CHECKER, S. (4.-N.) A chessboard.

CHECKLATON. See Ciclatoun. CHECKROLL, S. A roll of the names

of the servants in a large mansion. To put out of checkroll, to dismiss.

CHECKSTONE, s. A game played

by children with round pebbles. CHEE, 8. A hen-roost. South. CHEEK, (1) v. To accuse. Linc. (2) v. To face a person; to have courage. Leic.

(3) s. Courage; impudence. CHEEK-BALLS, s. The round parts of the cheeks. North.

CHEEKS, 8. Door posts; side posts in general. "The cheekes or side postes of a crane or windbeame." Nomenclator. The iron plates inside a grate to reduce its size are also called cheeks.

CHEEKS AND EARS. A kind of head-dress, in fashion early in the 17th cent.

Fr. O then thou can'st tell how to help me to cheeks and ears.

L. Yes, mistress, very well.

Fl. S. Cheeks and ears! why, mistress
Frances, want you cheeks and ears?
methinks you have very fair ones.
Fr. Thou art a fool indeed. Tom, thou
knowest what I mean.

Civ. Ay, ay, Kester; 'tis such as they wear a' their heads. London Prod., iv, 3. CHEEK-TOOTH, S. A grinder. North. CHEEN, adj. Sprouted. Devon. CHEEP, v. To chirp. North. CHEER, v. To feast or welcome friends. North.

CHEERING, 8. A merry-making. CHEERLY, (1) adj. Pleasant; welllooking.

(2) adv. Courageously.

Cheerely, prince Otho, ther's such a war. like sight

That would stirre up a leaden heart to fight. Tragedy of Hoffman, 1631. CHEESE, S. A bag of pommace from

CHEESE-FATT, s. A vessel in which the whey is passed from the curd in cheese making. CHEESE-FORD, s. The mould in which cheese is made. CHEESE-LATE, s. A loft or floor to dry cheese on.

CHEESELOPE, s. Rennet. North. CHEESER, S. The yellowhammer. Northampt.

CHEESE-RUNNING, S. Lady's-bedstraw. South.

CHEESES, 8. (1) The seeds of the mallow.

(2) Making cheeses, a game among girls, turning round several times, and suddenly curtseying low, when their clothes spread in a large circle round them. CHEESTE, S. See Cheste. CHEEVING-BOLT, s. A linch-pin. CHEFE, (1) v. See Cheve. (2) s. A sheaf.

CHEFFERY, S. A rent due to the
lord of a district.
CHEFTANCE, S. (A.-N.) Chieftains.
CHEFTS, S. Chops of meat. North.
CHEG, v. To gnaw. Northumb.
CHEGE, 8. A frolic. Kent.

CHEGGLE, ". To chew or gnaw.

North.

CHEHO, v. To sneeze.
CHEISEL, S. (4.-N.) A sort of stuff.

Of v. thinges he bitauzt hem werk,
As to hem wald bifalle,

Of flex, of silk, of cheisel,
Of porpre and of palle.

Legend of Joachim & Anne, p. 152. CHEITIF, 8. (A.-N.) A caitiff. CHEK, S. Ill fortune. CHEKE, (1) part. p. Choked. (2) Checked, in chess; and hence used metaphorically.

(3) s. A person, or fellow. Linc. CHEKELATOUN. See Ciclatoun. CHEKENE, v. To choke. CHEKERE, S. (1) The exchequer. (2) The game of chess. CHEKKEFULLE, 8. Quite full.

Morte Arthure.

CHELD, adj. (A.-S.) Cold. CHELDEZ, 8. Shields of a boar. CHELE, 8. (4.-S.) Cold; chill. CHELINGE, S. The cod-fish. Pr. P. CHELP, v. To chirp. Northampt. CHELTERED, adj. Clotted; coagulated. North.

CHEM, S. A team of horses. West. CHEMISE, 8. A wall which lines a

work of sandy or loose earth. CHENE, 8. A chain. CHENILE, S. (A.-N.) The henbane. CHEORL, S. (A.-S.) A churl. CHEP, 8. The part of a plough on which the share is placed. CHEPE, (1) v. (A.-S. ceapian.) To buy; to cheapen; to trade. (2) s. A market.

(3) s. Cheapness.

(4) 8. A bargain. See Cheap.

But the sack that thou hast drunk me

would have bought me lights as good cheap, at the dearest chandler's in Europe. Shakesp., 1 Hen. IV, iii, 3. Perhaps thou may'st agree better cheap Anon. Play of Hen. V.

now.

CHEPER, 8. A seller. CHEPING, 8. (4.-S.) Market; sale: a market place.

CHEPSTER, S. A starling. North. CHEQUER-TREE, S.

The service

tree. The fruit is called chequers.
Sussex.

CHEQUIN, S. See Cecchin.
CHERALLY, S. A sort of liquor.

By your leave, sir, I'll tend my master,
and instantly be with you for a cup of
cherally this hot weather.

B. & F., Fair M. of Inn, ii, 2. CHERCHER, 8. A kerchef. CHERCOCK, S. The mistletoe thrush. Yorksh.

CHERE, (1) s. (A.-N.) Countenance; behaviour; entertainment. (2) s. A chair. (3) adj. (4.-N.) Dear.

CHEREL, 8. A churl; a peasant.
CHERETÉ,8. (4.-N.) Dearness;
CHERTE, affection.

CHERICE, v. (A.-N.) To cherish.
Cherisance, comfort.
CHERKE, v. To creak. Pr. P.
CHERKY, adj. Rich and dry, ap-

plied to cheese. Northampt. CHERLICH, adv. (A.-N.) Richly. CHERLISH, adj. (A.-S.) Illiberal. CHERLYS-TRYACLE, s. Garlic. CHERRILET, S. A little cherry. CHERRY, adj. Ruddy. Devon. CHERRY-COBS, 8.

West.

Cherry-stones.

Beast

CHERRY-CURD-MILK, 8. lings. Oxford. CHERRY-CURDS, s. A custard made of beastlings and milk boiled together and sweetened. Northampt. CHERRY-FAIR, 8. Cherry fairs, often referred to in the early writers, especially as typical of the transitoriness of human life, are still held in Worcestershire and some other parts, on Sunday evenings, in the cherry orchards. Thys worlde hyt ys fulle fekylle and frele, Alle day be day hyt wylle enpayre; And so sone thys worldys weele, Hyt faryth but as a chery feyre.

MS. Cantab., 15th cent.

CHERRY-FEAST, 8. A cherry fair.

Sumtyme I drawe into memoyre
How sorow may not ever laste,
And so cometh hope in at laste,
Whan I non other foode knowe;
And that endureth but a throwe,
Ryzt as it were a chery-feste.

Gower, MS. Soc. Antiq., f. 182 b.

CHERRY-PIT, 8. A child's game, consisting of pitching cherrystones or nuts into a small hole.

I have loved a witch ever since I play'd
cherry-pit.
Witch of Edmonton.

His ill favoured visage was almost eaten
through with pock-holes, so that halfe
a parish of children might easily have
played at cherry-pit in his face.
Fenner's Compteri Com. W. in Cens.
Lit., x, 301.

CHESLE-MONEY, 8. The name given by the country people to Roman brass coins found in some places in Gloucestershire. CHESLIP, 8. A woodlouse. CHESOUN, 8. Reason. See Achesoun, which is the correct form of the word.

CHESS, v. (1) To crack. Linc. (2) To pile up. Yorksh. Three ches chamber, three chambers over each other. Towneley Myst., p. 27. CHESSIL, 8. (4.-S.) Gravel or pehbles on the shore; a bank of sand. CHESSNER, 8. A chess-player. CHESSOM, 8. A kind of sandy and clayey earth.

CHEST, (1) 8. (Lat.) A coffin.

(2) v. To place a corpse in a coffin.
"Chest a dead corps with spyce
and swete oyntmentes in a close
coffyn. Pollincio," Huloet.
(3) The game of chess. "The
game at draughts or dames: some
take it for the playe at chests."
Nomencl.

(4) part. p. Chased; pursued.
(5) adj. Chaste.

CHESTE, 8. (4.-S. ceast.) Strife;
debate.
CHESTEINE,

CHESTAYNE,

8. (A.-N.) The chesnut.

CHESTER, S. One who embalms or places corpses in coffins. CHEST-TRAP, S. A sort of trap for taking pole-cats, &c. CHET, 8. A kitten. South. CHETE, v. (1) To cut.

(2) To escheat. Pr. Parv. CHEURE, V. To work or char. Wilts.

CHEVACHIE, S. (A.-N.) An expe-
dition with cavalry.
CHEVE, v. (A.-N. chevir.) To suc-
ceed; to compass a thing; to
thrive; to obtain, adopt. Cheving,
success, completion.

Howsomever that it cheve,
The knyght takis his leve.
Sir Degrevant, Lincoln MS.

Scripture saith heritage holdyn wrongfully
Schal never cheve, ne with the thred heyr
remayne.
MS. 15th cent.

CHEVELURE, 8. (Fr.) A peruke.
CHEVEN, S. A blockhead. North.
CHEVENTEYN, 8. (A.-N.) A chief-

tain.

CHEVER, S. (A.-N.) "Cheville. The

pin of the trukle: the chever, or axe." Nomencl. CHEVERE, v. To shiver or shake. CHEVERIL, S. (Fr.) (1) A kid.

A sentence in but a cheveril glove to a good wit; how quickly the wrong side may be turned outward!

Shakesp., Twel. N., iii, 1.

(2) Kid's leather, which being of a very yielding nature, a flexible conscience was often called a cheveril conscience.

CHEVERON, S. (Fr.) A kind of lace. CHEVESAILE, 8. (A.-N.) A necklace.

CHEVICE, v. (4.-N.) To bear up.
CHEVISANCE, 8. (A.-N.) Treaty ;
agreement; a bargain.
CHEVISH, V. (4.-N.) To bargain;
to provide.

CHEVORELL, s. The herb chervil.
CHEWEN, v. To eschew.

CHEWER, S. A narrow passage or
road between two houses.
"Go
and sweep that chewer." West.
CHEWET, 8. A sort of pie.

Chewetes on flesshe day. Take the lire of pork, and kerve it al to pecys, and hennes therewith; and do it in a panne, and frye it, and make a coffyn as to a pye, smale, and do thereinne, and do thereuppon 3olkes of ayren, harde, powdor of gynger, and salt. Cover it, and frye it in grece, other bake it wel, and serve it forth. Forme of Cury, p. 32.

CHEWRE, s. (a corrupt form of chare.) A task, or business. It is still used in Devon.

Here's two chewres chewr'd; when wisdom is employed

'Tis ever thus. B. & Fl., Love's Cure, iii, 2. CHEWREE-RING, v. To assist servants. Wilts.

CHEYLE, S. Cold. For chele.

For many a way y have y-goo, In hungur, thurste, cheyle, and woo. MS. Cantab., Ff. ii, 38. CHEZ, v. To choose. North. CHIBBALS, 8. (4.-N.) Small onions. CHIBBLE, V. To chip, or break off in small pieces. Northampt. CHIBE, S. A kind of onion. North. CHICE, S. A small portion. Essex. CHICHE, (1) adj. (A.-N.) Niggardly;

sparing. Chiche-faced, lean faced. (2) s. (4.-N.) A dwarf pea or vetch. "Pease chiches, or chichpeason." Nomenclat. CHICHELINGS, s. Vetches. North. CHICK, (1) v. To germinate. (2) v. To crack.

(3) s. A crack, or flaw. East. CHICKELL,S. The wheatear. Devon. CHICKENCHOW, s. A swing. North. CHICKEN'S-MEAT, s. A name applied to chick-weed, to the endive, and to dross corn. CHICKERING, s. The cry of the cricket.

CHICK-PEAS, s. Chiches.

CHIDDLENS, 8. Chitterlings. Wilts. CHIDE, v. (1) (4.-S.) To wrangle; to quarrel.

(2) To make an incessant noise. CHIDERESSE, s. A female scold.

CHIDESTER,

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CHIDHAM-WHITE, S. A species of
corn much cultivated in Sussex.
CHID-LAMB, S. A female lamb.
CHIEL, 8. A young fellow. North.
CHIERTEE, S. See Chereté.
CHIEVE, (1) v. See Cheve.

(2) "Apex, stamen, the chieve or
litle threds of flowers, as in gillo-
fers, lillies." Nomencl.

CHIFE, S. A fragment. Suffolk.
CHIG, (1) v. To chew. North.
(2) s. A quid of tobacco.
CHIKE, S. (4.-S.) A chicken.
CHILBLADDER, S. A chilblain.
South.

CHILD, 8. (1) (4.-S.)

A youth trained to arms; a knight.

(2) A girl. Devon. So Shakesp., Winter's Tale, iii, 3, "A boy or a child, I wonder."

CHILDAGE, 8. Childhood. East. CHILDE, v. (4.-S.) To be delivered of a child.

CHILDERMAS, s. Innocents' day.
CHILD-GERED, adj. (A.-S.)

childish manners.

Of

CHILDING, (1) s. Bringing forth a child. Childing-woman, a breeding woman.

(2) adj. Productive.

CHILDLY, adj. Childish. CHILDNESS, s. Childishness. Shak. CHILD-OF-THE-PEOPLE, 8. A bas

tard.

CHILDRE, plur. of child. (A.-S.) Children.

CHILD'S-PART, s. A child's portion. Not so sick, sir, but I hope to have a child's part by your last will and testament. Hist. of Thomas Stukely, 1605. CHILDWIT, S. A fine paid to the Saxon lord when his bondwoman was unlawfully got with child. CHILE, 8. A blade of grass. Leic. CHILL, (1) s. A cold. Dorset. A cold shaking fit. East.

(2) v. To take the chill off liquor. CHILLERY, adj. Chilly. Kent. CHILVER, 8. (1) An ewe-sheep. West.

(2) The mutton of a maiden sheep. Glouc.

CHIMBE, S. (4.-S.) The prominent part of the staves beyond the head of a barrel.

CHIMBLE, V. To gnaw. Chimblings,
bits gnawed off. Bucks.
CHIMER, V. (4.-S.) To shiver.
CHIMICKE, 8. A chemist. Florio.

CHIMING, S. A kind of light we perceive when we wake in the night or rise suddenly. CHIMINGNESS, S. Melodiousness. CHIMLEY, 8. A chimney. CHIMNEY, S. (4.-N.) A fire-place. CHIMNEY-SWEEPS, 8. The black heads of the plantago lanceolata. Northampt.

CHIMP, S. A young shoot. Dorset. CHIMPINGS, s. Grits. North. CHIMY, 8. (from Fr. chemise.) A shift.

CHIN-BAND, 8. A lace to fasten the hat or cap under the chin. CHINBOWDASH, S. The tie of the cravat. Dorset.

CHINCHE, (1) adj. (A.-N.) Miserly. (2) s. A miser. Chyncherde.

Skelton.

CHINCHEL, 8. A small hammer. Craven.

CHINCHERIE, s. Niggardness. CHINCHONE, S. The herb groundsel. CHIN-CLOUT, s. A sort of muffler. CHIN-COUGH, s. The hoopingcough.

CHINE, (1) s. A chink or cleft. (2) s. A kind of salmon.

(3) s. Same as chimbe. Chinehoop, the extreme hoop which keeps the ends of the staves together. CHINED,part.p. Broken in the back. CHINGLE, S. Gravel; shingle. East. CHINK, (1) 8. A chaffinch. West.

(2) s. Money.

(3) v. To cut into small pieces. (4) v. To loosen or separate earth for planting.

(5) s. A sprain on the back. East. CHIOPPINE. See Choppine. CHIP, (1) v. To break, or crack, as an egg, when the young bird cracks the shell. North. (2) v. To cut bread into slices. Chippings, fragments of bread; chipping-knife, a knife to cut bread with; chipper, the person who cuts bread.

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