still to doubt what side he shall follow.
Chancellerie. as Chancelerie. Chanceux: m. euse: f. Fortunate, hapfull; successiue.
Chanci: m. ie: f. Mustie, fustie, stinking, or vnsauourie with age, or ill-keeping.
Chancisseure. Looke Chansisseure. Fustinesse. Chancre: m. A Canker; a painefull, hard, ouglie, and vneuen swelling which blackens, and inflames, the veines that are about it. Herbe au chancre. Turnesole, Wartworte, Heliotropium.
Chancreux: m. euse: f. Cankarie, cankared; full of Cankers. Bosse chancreuse. A cankered byle; pockie sore, Winchester goose.
Chandeleur. La feste de la Chandeleur. Candlemas day; the Purification of the blessed Virgin.
Chandeleuse. la Chan. The same.
Chandeleux: m. euse: f. Full of candles, of a candle, belonging to a candle.
Chandelier: m. A Candlesticke; also, a Chaundler, or Candle-maker, or Candle-seller; also, Candlemas day. Mis au chandelier. Intertained, receiued, accepted of; vsed, imployed, set on worke. Il en tuera dix de la chandelle, & vingt du chandelier. Looke Chandelle. Aujourd'huy Febvrier demain Chandelier: Prov. (For Candlemas day is euer the second of Februarie.)
Chandelier: m. ere: f. Belonging to a Chaundler, Candle, or Candlesticke.
L'herbe chandeliere. The Colewort is called so by some; by others (perhaps more properly) the hearbe Mullein; Seeke Herbe.
Chandelle: f. A candle, a fize; a light, or taper.
Chandelles de Buchs. Rosen candles, vsed by the poorer sort of people neere vnto Bourdeaux.
À la chandelle; By candle-light; in extremitie, or at the point of death, when a man is readie to giue vp the ghost (for then the Romanists light candles, vpon a conceit that euill spirits are driuen away thereby.)
À la chandelle allumée. The same; or, before all be gone; while there is time, or any life in it; whilest it is in handling, or may be had.
À la chandelle esteincte. Too late; when a thing is past recouerie; after all is gone, or the businesse done; (This Phrase, and the former, seeme deriued from Out-*ropes; wherein after the first offers made, a candle is lighted at the bidding of more; after which, that being put out, another is also lighted, when a third part more is bidden; and when twice as much, another; which once put out, the thing is instantly deliuered ouer.)
Brusler la chandelle. par les deux bouts. To wast, or spend, things disorderedly; to squander hee cares not how, nor what; also (but lesse properly) to play the micher, nigardize it, goe very neerely to worke.
Se brusler à la chandelle. Sayd of one that giues so much for a farme &c. of the Kings (which is let by Out-*crie, who will giue most, while three pound of Wax candles last lighted) that he looses verie much by it; This Phrase is also taken otherwise, as in that which followes.
Il se vient brusler à la chandelle. The light he hath receiued, ruines him; or, that which might haue directed, comes to ruine, him; also, he hath disclosed his own knauerie, he hath bewrayed himselfe.
Emporter à la chandelle. To carrie a thing cleere away by offering the most for it. (Looke in À la chandelle esteincte.) Gaster vne chandelle pur trouver vn petit mouchon. To spoyle much in search after a little. Il en tuera dix de la chandelle, & vingt du chandelier. Hee will doe wonders, hee will cut them into many peeces, hee will make minced meat for Crowes of their carkasses; no man will be able to stand before him, hee is growne so fell, fierce, or furious; (Ironically.) Le jeu ne vaut pas la chandelle. It will not quit cost; there will be nothing got by him that toyles, or deales, in it. Il y avoit à chaque Sainct sa chandelle. There was for euery Saint his candle; euerie one had somewhat, more or lesse, bestowed on him. Monter au grenier sans chandelle. To light in a turd. À la chandelle la Chevre semble Damoiselle: Pro. By candle-light a shee Goat seemes a Gentlewoman; (where, by the candle, is meant a mans owne affection, or the opinion of another; either of which followed wholly in the choice of a wife, hath often proued erronious.) Au plus debile la chandelle en la main: Prov. (We say) he that worst may holds the candle. Il n'y a si petit Sainct qui ne desire sa chandelle: Prov. There is no man in authoritie, how small soeuer, but lookes for the respect thats due vnto him.
Chanes. le grand chanes. May-weed, wild Camomill, stinking Maithes.
Chanfrain de Cheval d'armes. The front-stall, head-*peece, or forhead-piece, of a barbed horse.
Chanfrain (creux.) A chanfering; or, a channell, furrow, hollow gutter, or streake, in stone-worke, &c.
Chanfron: m. The name of an Italian coyne, worth about xx d.
Change: m. Sumacke, leather Sumacke, or Curriers Sumacke. (a shrub.)
Change: m. A change, transformation, metamorphosis; exchange; alteration, innouation; conuersion; also, a Banke of Exchange, or Place wherein money is exchanged, and commodities bartered for; also, a wrong Deere (in hunting,) or the heard whereinto a pursued Deere is gotten. Aller ou change: Il va au ch. is said of a married man, or fornicator, that leaues his owne wife, or wench, and frequents the companie of other women. Garder le change. Hounds to pursue onely the game they began with; hounds to sticke to their owne, or old game; to run, or hunt, their owne. Prendre le change. Hounds to riot, or to run riot; to flye out at a wrong Deere, and leaue that which was first rowsed.
Changé: m. ée: f. Changed; transformed, metamorphosed, altered, varied; conuerted; innouated; also, exchanged, interchanged, chopped, bartered, scoorsed.
Changeant. Changing, transforming; altering, varying, exchanging, interchanging.
Changement: m. A changing, transforming, altering, varying; conuerting; innouating; also, an exchanging, interchanging, chopping, scoorsing, bartering; also, a kind of shadowing; Looke Nuage.
Changer. To change, transforme, alter, varie; innouate, conuert; also, to exchange, interchange, trucke, scoorse, barter, chop with.
Changer de main. To shift a thing out of one hand
