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581. centinodie n.

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Knotgrass (Polygonum aviculare). …

582. cepǒus adj.

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Resembling tallow in color, consistency, or appearance. …

583. cercelle n.

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A teal duck. …

584. ceroferarī n.

Additional spellings: cero-ferari
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A candle-bearer, acolyte. …

585. ceterak n.

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A fern, prob. scale fern (Ceterach officinarum). …

586. champartīe n.

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Law The practice of aiding a litigant for a share of the matter in dispute, champerty. …

587. chapele n.

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(a) A place of Christian worship other than a parish church or cathedral; an oratory; (b) a chapel subordinate to a mother-church; (c) fre chapele, a chapel founded by the king or by his authority……

588. chapelein n.

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A priest officiating in a chapel (whether public or private); kinges chapelein, chapelein of houshold, chaplain of the royal household; chapelein confessor. …

589. chapelerī n.

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A scapular. …

590. charitātī̆ve adj.

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Benevolent, beneficent. …

591. charnel n.(1)

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(a) A mortuary chapel, charnel house; charnel hous; charnel dore; (b) a mass grave. …

592. chaunderīe n.

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The department in charge of candles and lights in a king's or noble's household. …

593. chervel n.

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Chervil Anthriscus cerefolium, used as a pot-herb and in medicaments. …

594. ches n.

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(a) A set for playing chess, consisting of the chessmen and the board; -- usu. with article, occas. in pl. (as usually in ML); (b) the game of chess; game of the ches; (c) pleien at (the) ches [OF……

595. chīle n.(1)

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Chyle. …

596. chilindre n.

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A portable sun dial in the shape of an upright cylinder with a conical top [see L. Thorndike in Isis 13.51-2]. …

597. chille n.

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A herb, prob. the fleawort (Plantago psyllium). …

598. chilōsāt(ed ppl.

Additional spellings: chilosated
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Converted into chyle. …

599. chīme n.

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Physiol. A 'humor'; the 'humors' collectively; god chime metes, foods producing good 'humors'; ivel chime bodi, a body suffering from bad 'humors'. …

600. chist(e n.

Additional spellings: chiste
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(a) A sac or bladder; (b) a morbid vesicle, cyst. …

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