The dictionary of syr Thomas Eliot knyght

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• CRabro, onis, a great waspe, callyd a hornette.
• Cranaus, a kynge of Athenes.
• Craneum, a place of exercyse atte Co∣rynthe.
• Cranium, the foremooste parte of the schulle.
• Crantor, oris, the name of a philosopher.
• Crapula, an inflamation and heed ache, whi¦che commeth of excesse of drynkynge. It is also taken for drunkennes.
• Cras, to morowe, in tyme commynge.
• Crastino, is the same.
• * 1.1Crassamentum, thyckenesse.
• Crassa Minerua, a grosse witte, which doth nothynge exactely.
• Crascesco, cessi, cessere, to make fatte, or ful of fleshe, or thycke.
• Crassiore Musa, with a more playne or in∣telligible senes.
• Crassus, a, um, fatte, fleshy, thycke, grosse, poysye.
• Crassities, & crassitudo, fatnesse; thicknes, grossenes.
• Crastino, aui, are, to deferre frome daye to daye.
• Crastinus, na, num, pertaynynge to to mo∣rowe, or tyme to come.
• Cratera, uel crater, teris, a greatte cuppe. Also a greatte hoole on the toppe of the meruaylouse hylle of Ethna in Sycyle, out of the whiche issueth flames of fyre.
• Craterus, the propre name of a manne, of whom Persius speaketh in his .iii. Saty.
• Crates, grates of yron or wodde. Also the name of a phylosopher, whyche to the in∣tente he moughte the more quietely stu∣dye phylosophye, he beyng ryche, threwe all his goodes into the see, saying, Hens with a myschiefe ye vngracyous appety∣tes, I hadde leauer drowne you, thanne ye shoulde drowne me. Supposynge, that he moughte not haue vertue and rychesse togyther.
• Crathis, the name of two ryuers, the one in Grece, the other in Calaber.
• Craticula, a gredyron, whereon meate is broyled.
• Cratinas, a ryuer in Affrike.
• Cratinus, a poete whiche wrate comedies.
• Cratylus, the name of a philosopher, to whom Plato wrate a boke.
• Cratio, iui, ire, to couer with grates.
• Cratippus, the name of a philosopher.
• Cratos, power, or dominion.
• Creo, aui, are, to make of nothynge. Also to gette chyldren.
• Creatura, a creature or thinge made of nothynge.
• Creber, bra, brū, frequent, or accustomed.
• Crebró, often.
• Crebresco, crebrui, crebrescere, to be wont, to be commune.
• Credibile, that whiche may be byleued.
• Creditor, oris, he vnto whom a man oweth any thynge.
• Creditum, that thinge that is owed.
• Credo, didi, dere, to beleue, to truste, to cō∣mytte, or delyuer a thynge to be saufelye kepte, to publyshe.
• Credulus, he that beleueth lyghtly.
• Credulitas, tatis, lyght beleue.
• Crementum, increase.
• Cremera, a ryuer.
• Cremium, fried meate burned to the pāne.
• Cremor, oris, the iuyce of barly steapyd in water, beaten and pressed,
• Crenae, the dentis about the leaf of an herbe or tree lyke to a sawe. Also it is the scores,

• whiche men vnlerned do make on styckes for their remembrance. Also Crena, is the nocke of a bowe or arowe.
• Creontes, the name of a king, whose daugh¦ter Iason maried, whā he had left Medea.
• Creophilus, the name of a poete.
• Crepetus, a, um, doubtfull, ambiguous.
• Crepida, & crepis, pidis, a shoe with lachet∣tes, some take it for a corked shoe or slyp∣per, bycause of the noyse, which it maketh whan a man goeth.
• Crepidatius, ••ii, he that maketh showes or slyppers.
• Crepido, inis, a creeke on the waters side, wheron the water beateth. Also the mouth of a well, & the extreme part of any place.
• Crepitaculum, a tymbrell, or other instru∣ment, which being touched with the hand, maketh a sownde.
• Crepito, taui, are, to make a noyse or boun∣synge.
• Crepitulum, an ornament of the beed, whi∣che with me••ynge of the heed yeldethe a sowne.
• Crepitus, a bounse or great dynne or noyse.
• * 1.2Crepo, pui, pere, to make a greatte noyse or sowne. Crepere, to be broken.
• Crepundia, tryfles or smal gyftes gyuen to lyttell chyldren, as napkyns, lyttell belles, tymbrelles, and suche lyke toyes. Also the fyrst apparayle of chyldren, as swathels, wastcotes, and such lyke. And by transla∣tion they say, A crepundijs erat uirtuti dedi∣tus. From his chyldhode he was euer gi∣uen to vertue.
• Crepusculum, the breake or fyrste sprynge of the daye, called the twie lyght.
• Cresco, creui, crescere, to grow or increase.
• Craeuit haereditatem, He is increased in his lyu••l••de, or he hath taken possession.
• Creta, an Ile called nowe Candy: also a stone called Chalke.
• Cretatus, ta tum, layde with chalke.
• Cretaeus, & Cretensis, a manne of Crete or Candye.
• Creterra, a buckette to drawe vp water.
• * 1.3Cretizare cum Cretensibus, a prouerbe vsed where a crafty man wyll deceyue hym that is crafty: a theefe steale from a thefe, or a lyer lye before them, whiche vse to make leasynges.
• Creticus, ca, um, of Crete or Candy. Also a foote in metre, whiche hath the fyrst and thyrde syllable longe.
• Cretosus, a, um, full of chalke.
• Cribro, aui, are, to syfte or sarce.
• Cribrum, a sieue or a sarce.
• Crimen, minis, a faulte, an offence, blame, matter layd agaynst one by action or suite. sometyme a false suspicion.
• Criminale, criminalle, wherin is an offence or faulte.
• Criminor, aris, ari, to blame, to rebuke, to lay to ones charge, to accuse.
• Criminosus, a, um, rebukeful, worthy blame
• Crimissus, a ryuer of Grece.
• Crines, heare of the heed.
• Crinire, to laye forth the heare.
• Crinitus, he that hath moch or long heare.
• Crinita stella, a comete or blasynge sterre.
• Crinon, a redde lylye.
• Crisa, the name of a towne builded by Cri∣sus, Phocus sonne.
• Criticus, he that iudgeth the actes or war∣kes that men do write.
• Critici dies, the dayes wherin physytions gyue iudgement of the contynuance of the syckenesse.
• Crito, a philosophers name of Athenes.
• Critabulus, was a phisition, of whom Pli∣nie speaketh lib .vii.
• Crobylon, a cawle to weare on ones heed.
• Croco, crocito, to make a noyse like a rauē.
• Crocinum et croceum, colored like saffron.
• Crocodilus, a beaste in Aegypte, lyuynge somtyme in water, somtyme on lande: and is facioned in the body lyke a dragon, sa∣uinge that he lacketh wynges.
• Crocotir••um, cakebreade.
• Crocotulae, garmētis of the color of saffron.
• Crocotularius, a dyar.
• Crocus, saffron, a spice.
• Crocuta, a beaste in Ethiope, whiche with his tethe breaketh all thynges in pieces, & deuoureth it, be it wodde or mettall.
• Cronia, feastes dedicate to Saturne.
• Crotalum, an instrument, whiche the Egi∣ptians vsed in sacrifice made of .ii. plates▪ whiche beaten togither, made an harmony.
• Crotalus, he that hath a sownynge voyce, and a shyll.
• Crudaria, a vayne of syluer.
• Crudelis, le, cruell.
• Crudesco, crudui, crudescere, to be rawe.
• Crudus, da, um, rawe, fresh, or newe made, not type. Crudus homo, whose stomacke can not digest well.
• Cruditas, tatis, rawnes, or lack of digestion.
• Cruento, aui, are, to make blody.
• Cruentus, a, um, blody, cruell.
• Crumena, a purse.
• Cruor, bloudde whiche commethe out of a wounde.
• Crus, cruris, the parte of the legge, why∣che is from the knee down vnto the ancle called the shanke.
• Crusta, the vtter parte of euery thyng that is not eaten. Also the scurfe of a scabbe or

• wounde, also playster of a walle.
• Crusto, taui, are, to lay playster, or pargette.
• Crustata, wheron is layde playster, or thyn shardes of stone.
• Crustarius, a pargettour.
• Crustulata, a meate made of crustes of bred.
• Crustulum, crustum, a crowst of bread, of a pasty, or of rosted, broyled, or fryed meate
• Crustumina pira, peares redde on the one syde.
• Crustuminum, a towne in Italy.
• Crux, crucis, a crosse, galowhowse, or o∣ther lyke.
• Cruciatus, tus, tourment.
• Crypta, a secrete place within the erthe.
• Crypticus, ca, cum, secrete or hydde vnder the erthe.
• Cryptoporticus, a place vnder grounde, with wyndowes lyke to a parler, where men do dyne in the sommer tyme for heare.
• Crystallus et chrystallū, a stone callyd cristal.
• Cristallina, vessell & cuppes of cristal stone.

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