Faire le chien couchant. To play the coward, or base fellow; to humble, or deiect himselfe too much in the presence of another.
Chien courant. A great hound, bucke-hound, harrier; any hound.
Chien de damoiselle. A pupsie, little dogge, fisting curre.
Chien dogue. A mastiffe.
Chiens greffiers. as Bauds.
Chien de S. Hubert. A kind of strong, short-legd, & deepe-mouthed hound, vsed most for the hunting of the Fox, Badger, Otter, &c.
Chien de mer. The Sea-hound, or Dog-fish that (somewhat) resembles a Lamprey.
Chien de metairie. A bandog, or countrey curre.
Chiens muts. The hart hounds Bauds, tearmed so, because being crossed by a change, they neuer open till they light on their first game.
Chiens d'oiseaux. Spaniels.
Chiens publiques. So were in the old time those called, who had the letting, and setting of the subsidies granted, and taxes due, vnto the king.
Chien terrier. as Basset; A Terrier.
Appetit de chien. A most vnsaciate appetite; a stomacke which, though it lay in vnto vomiting, still would haue more.
Chose de chien. A paultrie thing; a matter of no value, or consequence; a trifle; trash, trumperie.
Chou de chien. Dogs Cole, wild Mercurie, dogs Mercurie.
Couillon de chien. See Couillon.
Dent au chien. Harts-horne Plantaine, Crowfoot Plantaine; also, (and the more properly) Cooch-grasse, Quitch-grasse, Dog-grasse; Looke Dent.
Dent de chien. Cooch-grasse, Quitch-grasse, Dogs-grasse; also, the hearbe Dandelion, Priests crowne, Pisseabed; also, grudge, repinning, ill meaning.
Dents de chien. A mans tuskes, or tushes; on either side two, next vnto the foure fore-teeth.
Disner de chien. A meale made onely of bread, & water; or wherein there is nothing drunke but water.
Esguillettes de chien. Course leather points, made of a dogs skin.
Herbe à chien. Dogs-grasse, Cooch-grasse, Quitch-grasse; or, (as some interpret it) the hearbe Dogs-tongue, or Hounds-tongue.
Langue de chien. The hearbe Dogs-tongue, Hounds-tongue, Hounds-pisse.
Mort aux chiens. Medow Saffron; also, the hearbe Dogs-bane.
Mouche à chien. A ticke, or tike.
Oignon de chien. A bastard kind of the starrie Jacinth, called, Dogs-leeke; also, as;
Porreau de chien. Leeke of the vine, wild Leekes, French Leeke, dogs Leekes.
Ris de chien. A disloyall, or treacherous, ieering; a laughing on him whose throat he wishes cut.
Ronce de chien. The Hep-tree; Looke Ronce.
Teste de chien. Calues-snowt, Snapdragon; also, Fleawort.
Testicule de chien. The hearbe Dogs-stones, Dogs-cullions, Dogs-testicles, Standle-wort, Stander-grasse, bastard Satyrion.
Entre chien & loup. In twilights, or cock-shoot time, (when a man can hardly discerne a dog from a wolfe.)
À vn autre chien avec cet os. Make that offer to, bestow that kindnesse on, some other.
Aussi tost prest qu'un chien auroit sauté vn escha-*
- lier. As soone as dog would haue leaped ouer a doore-*sill; or, as in Eschalier.
Batre le chien devant le lion. To punish a meane man in presence of, and for an example vnto, the mightie.
Donner à manger au chien & au chat. To keepe a bountifull house.
Dormer en chien. To sleepe fasting in the Sun when it is at the highest; or to sleepe immediately before dinner, or supper.
Iecter son lard aux chiens. To spend his fortunes idly, vnworthily, wastfully; to bestow much on hungrie, base, and scuruie, people; to lauish it vnreasonably, to squander all away.
Il veut beaux chiens à peu de pain. Hee would bee well attended on for little wages.
Oster les chiens pour venir à bout du troupeau. Looke Troupeau.
Personne ne luy demanda, es tu chien es tu loup. No man saluted, eyed, respected, him; no man asked him what, nor whither, he would; no man spoke to him, no one tooke notice of him.
Tirer du foin aux chiens. To vomit, spue, cast, sell oakes, pull hay for dogs.
Tout d'une venue comme la iambe d'un chien. We say, All of a bignesse, like a post; or a churne.
Chien enragé ne peut longuement vivre: Prov. A madde dog cannot long time liue.
Chien escaudé craint l'eau froide: Pro. The scaulded dog feares euen cold water; (somewhat like our, A burnt child dreads the fire.)
Chien hargneux a trousiours les oreilles deschirées: Prov. A common brabler comes by many a knock; quarelsome lads are seldome without blacke eyes, broken pates, or scratcht faces.
Chien qui abbaye ne mord pas: Prov. The dogge that barkes much bites little; a great prater, a weake performer.
Chien sur son fumier est hardi: Prov. A dog (we say, a cocke) is valiant on his owne dung-hill.
À bon chien bon os: Prov. A good dog deserues a good bone; a good seruant good intertainment; but;
À vn bon chien n'escheut oncques bon os: Pro. A good dog neuer lights on a good bone; or, the worst bones euer fall to the best dogs share; the honest man hath still the worst lucke.
De toute taille bon chien: Pro. There are some able men of all sorts, and sizes.
Deux chiens ne s'accordent point à vn os: Prov. Two dogs neuer agree about one bone; churles will not part, nor part with, any thing.
Mauvais chien iamais ne veut compagnon en cuisine: Prov. Greedie, or ill-natured people cannot indure competitors, or companions.
Mauvais chien ne trouve ou mordre: Prov. No place affoords a liuing to a curre; the slothfull knaue, or bungler, thriues no where.
À mauvais chien ne peut on monstrer le loup: Prov. An ill dog hates to looke on a wolfe.
À mauvais chien la queuë luy vient: Prov. An ill weed growes apace.
Souvent à mauvais chien tombe vn bos en gueule: Prov. An vnworthie fellow oft lights on worthie fortunes; or, the verier knaue the better lucke.
À meschant chien court lien: Prov. A froward curre must be tied short; a currish fellow well fettered; (so will they doe least hurt.)
