CADDIS
worsted galloon, so called because it resembles; the caddis-worm
CADE
a cask or barrel
CAGE
a prison
CAIN-COLOURED
red (applied to hair)
CAITIFF
a captive, a slave; hence, a witch
CALCULATE
prophesy
CALIVER
a hand-gun
CALLET
a trull
CALLING
appellation
CALM
qualm
CAN
to know, be skillful in
CANAKIN
a little can
CANARY
a wine brought from the Canary Islands
CANDLE-WASTERS
persons who sit up all night to drink
CANKER
a caterpillar; The dog-rose
CANSTICK
a candlestick
CANTLE
a slice, corner
CANTON
a canto
CANVAS
to sift: hence, metaphorically, to prove
CAPABLE
subject to; Intelligent; Capable of inheriting; Ample, capacious
CAPITULATE
make a combined force
CAPOCCHIA
a simpleton
CAPRICIO
caprice
CAPRICIOUS
lascivious
CAPTIOUS
capacious
CARACK
a large ship of burden
CARBONADO
meat scotched for broiling; to scotch for broiling
CARD
the taper on which the points of the compass; are marked under the mariner's needle
CAREIRE
the curvetting of a horse
CARKANET
a necklace
CARL
a churl
CARLOT
a churl
CASTILIAN
a native of Castile; used as a cant term
CASTILIANO VULGO
a cant term, meaning, apparently, to use discreet; language
CATAIAN
a native of Cathay, a cant word
CATLING
cat-gut
CAUTEL
deceit
CAUTELOUS
insidious
CAVALERO
a cavalier, gentleman
CAVIARE
the roe of sturgeon pickled; metaph. a delicacy; not appreciated by the vulgar
CEASE
decease; put off, made to cease
CENSURE
judgment; to judge, criticise
CENTURY
a hundred of anything, whether men, prayers, or; anything else
CEREMONY
a ceremonial vestment, religious rite, or; anything ceremonial
CERTES
certainly
CESS
rate, reckoning
CHACE
a term at tennis
CHAMBER
a species of great gun
CHAMBERER
an effeminate man
CHANSON
a song
CHARACT
affected quality
CHARACTER
a letter, handwriting; to carve or engrave
CHARACTERY
handwriting; That which is written
CHARE
a turn of work
CHARGE-HOUSE
a free-school
CHARLES' WAIN
the constellation called also Ursa Major, or; the Great Bear
CHARNECO
a species of sweet wine
CHAUDRON
entrails
CHEATER
for escheator, an officer who collected the fines to be paid into the Exchequer; A decoy
a technical term in falconry; when a falcon; flies at a bird which is not her proper game she; is said to cheque at it
CHEQUES
perhaps intended for ethics
CHEER
fortune, countenance
CHERRY-PIT
a game played with cherrystones
CHEVERIL
kid leather
CHEWIT
cough
CHILDING
pregnant
CH'ILL
vulgar for 'I will.'
CHIRURGEONLY
in a manner becoming a surgeon
CHOPIN
a high shoe or clog
CHRISTENDOM
the state of being a Christian
CHRISTOM
clothed with a chrisom, the white garment; which used to be put on newly-baptized children
CHUCK
chicken, a term of endearment
CHUFF
a coarse blunt clown
CINQUE PACE
a kind of dance
CIPHER
to decipher
CIRCUMSTANCE
an argument
CITAL
recital
CITE
to incite
CITTERN
a guitar
CLACK-DISH
a beggar's dish
CLAP I' THE CLOUT
to shoot an arrow into the bull's eye of the target
CLAW
to flatter
CLEPE
to call
CLIFF
clef, the key in music
CLING
to starve
CLINQUANT
glittering
CLIP
to embrace, enclose
CLOUT
the mark in the middle of a target
COAST
to advance
COBLOAF
a big loaf
COCK
a cockboat; a euphemism for God; vulgar term for phallus
COCK-AND-PIE
an oath
COCKLE
tares or darnel
COCKNEY
a cook
COCK-SHUT-TIME
the twilight, when cocks and hens go to roost
COG
to cheat, dissemble
COGNIZANCE
badge, token
COIGN
projecting corner stone
COIL
tumult, turmoil
COLLECTION
drawing a conclusion
COLLIED
blackened. Othello;
COLOUR
pretence
COLOURABLE
specious
COLT
to defraud, befool
CO-MART
a joint bargain
COMBINATE
betrothed
COMBINE
to bind
COMMODITY
interest, profit
COMMONTY
used ludicrously for comedy
COMPACT
compacted, composed
COMPARATIVE
drawing comparisons; a rival
COMPARE
comparison
COMPASSIONATE
moving comparison
COMPETITOR
one who seeks the same thing, an associate in; any object
COMPLEMENT
accomplishment
COMPLEXION
passion
COMPOSE
to agree
COMPOSTION
composition
COMPTIBLE
tractable
CON
to learn by heart; To acknowledge
CONCEIT
conception, opinion, fancy
CONCUPY
concubine
CONDITION
temper, quality
CONDOLEMENT
grief
CONDUCT
escort
CONFECT
to make up into sweetmeats
CONFOUND
to consume, destroy; Coriolanus;
CONJECT
conjecture
CONSIGN
to sign a common bond, to confederate
CONSORT
company; to accompany
CONSTANCY
consistency
CONSTANT
settled, determined
CONSTANTLY
firmly
CONSTER
to construe
CONTEMPTIBLE
contemptuous
CONTINENT
that which contains anything; That which is contained
CONTINUATE
uninterrupted
CONTRACTION
the marriage contract
CONTRARY
to oppose
CONTRIVE
to conspire; to wear away
CONTROL
to confute
CONVENT
to convene, summon; to be convenient
CONVERT
to change
CONVERTITE
a convert
CONVEY
to manage; To filch
CONVEYANCE
theft, fraud
CONVICT
convicted
CONVICTED
overpowered, vanquished; A doubtful word
CONVINCE
to conquer, subdue
CONVIVE
to feast together
CONVOY
escort
CONY-CATCH
to cheat
CONY-CATCHING
poaching, pilfering
COOLING CARD
used metaphorically for an insurmountable obstacle
COPATAIN HAT
a high-crowned hat
COPE
to reward, to give in return
COPY
theme
CORAGIO
courage!
CORAM
an ignorant mistake for Quorum
CORANTO
lively dance
CORINTH
a cant term for a brothel
CORINTHIAN
a wencher
CORKY
dry like cork
CORNUTO
a cuckold
COROLLARY
a surplus
CORPORAL
corporeal, bodily
CORPORAL OF THE FIELD
an aide-de-camp