À petit chien petit lien: Prov. Weake passions need but weake restraints.
À rude chien dur lien: Prov. Violent humors must be stopped by hard curbs; churlish people awed with curst vsage.
Vn vieil chien iamais ne jappe en vain: Prov. The old dog neuer barketh (aged experience neuer aduiseth,) in vaine.
Il n'est chasse que de vieux chiens: Prov. There is no hunting to the old dogs; or, no dog hunts like the old one.
Charruë de chien ne vaut rien: Prov. Looke Charruë.
En lict de chien n'y a point d'oingture: Prov. Looke not for ciuet in a dogs kennell.
À chair de loup sauce de chien: Prov. The best sauce for course meat is hunger (or) the fittest intertainment for a knaue, a cugdell.
C'est belle bataille de chiens & des chats; chacun a des ongles: Prov. Looke Bataille.
D'oyseaux, de chiens, d'armes, & d'amours, pour vn plaisir mille douleurs: Prov. The pleasure got by hawkes, hounds, loue, and armes, are deerely bought with millions of harmes.
Eau, & pain est la viande du chien: Pro. Bread and water is meat good ynough for a dog (though not for a man.)
En fin les loups tuent le chien qui tue les loups: Prov. At length the busie bodie comes vnto his bane.
Nature fait chien tracer: Prov. Looke Tracer.
Pendant que les chiens s'entregrondent le loup devore la brebis: Prov. While Churchmen brabble, Satan feeds on soules.
Quand vn chien se noye chascun luy offre à boire: Prov. When a dog's a drowning euerie one offers him drinke.
Qui a le loup pour compagnon porte le chien sous l'hocqueton: Prov. Let him thats matcht with a knaue go well prouided for him.
Qui aime Bertrand aime son chien: Prov. Loue me loue my dog; (say we.)
Qui se couche avec les chiens, se leue avec des puces: Prov. They that lye downe with dogs rise vp with fleas; In filthie companie what can one gaine but filth?
Qui veut avoir bon chien il faut qu'il le nourisse bien: Prov. He that will haue a good dog must feed him well; he that desires a good seruant must vse him well.
Qui veut batre son chien trouve assez de bastons: Prov. It is an easie matter to find a staffe wherewith to beat a dog.
Qui veut tuer son chien luy met la rage sus: Prov. When a bad Prince would be rid of a good subiect, or seruant, the tricke is, to lay treason to his charge.
Sous ombre d'asne entre le chien au moulin: Pro. (So gets the knaue admittance where otherwise hee should be excluded.)
Tandis que le chien chie le loup s'en va: Prov. While the dog scummers the wolfe scuds away.
Tandis que le chien crie le loup s'enfuit: Prov. While the dog bawles the wolfe escapes; (thus by delaying and tatling an enemie oreslips him, and many aduantages others.)
Tel le chien nourrit qui puis mange la courroye de son soulier: Prov. Some breeds vp those that proue their bane.
Tel seigneur tel chien: Pro. Like master like man.
Chien-cerf. A hart-hound.
Chien-dent. Couch-grasse, Quich-grasse, Dogs-grasse; also, a noble stinker; a loose, dissolute, or idle good fellow. Chien-dents. as Dents de chien; The tushes. Chienesse: f. Dogs; a brood, or number; the kind, or nature, of dogs.
Chien-lict. A shiteabed; a shitten fellow, beastlie companion, filthie scoundrell, stinking iacke, scuruie mate.
Chienne: f. A bitch.
Chiennée: f. The hearbe Dogs-bane, or, medow Saffron; also, a litter of whelpes.
Chienner. To whelpe.
Chiennerie: f. A dog-house, or dog-kennell.
Chiennesse: f. Dogs; a brood, litter, or number; the kind or nature, of dogs.
Chiennet: m. A little dog.
Chienneté. Whelped.
Chienneter. as Chienner. To whelpe.
Chienneterie: f. Doggishnesse; the kind, or nature of dogs.
Chiennetier: m. A dogge-keeper; yeoman fewterer, Groome of the Hunt, one that lookes vnto hounds.
Chiennette: f. A yong, or little, bitch.
Chien-rage. The hearbe Dogges-bane; or medow Saffron.
Chier. To shite, cacke, scummer, vntrusse the points, goe to the stoole, doe that which no bodie can doe for him. Chier dans le panier, pour le mettre sur la teste. To disgrace a thing, of purpose, to obtaine it the easier; to intertaine on neere tearmes that whereof one hath formerly giuen most vile tearmes. Autant chie vn boeuf que mille moucherons: Pro. As much dungs one oxe as a thousand flies; one rich man may spend more than many poore ones. Tandis que le chien chie le loup s'en va: Prov. While the dog scummers the wolfe escapes.
Chietins. as Theatins; An order of Priests, in credit about Pope Clement the seuenths time; and of more antiquitie, by some few yeares, than the Iesuites. Chifetier: m. A seller of old stuffe, clothes, clouts; or, one that cries vp and downe such trumperie to bee sold: ¶Norm. Chiffe: f. A clout, old rag, ouer-worne, or off-cast, peece of stuffe.
Chifflant. Whizzing; hissing; whistling.
Chifflement.: m. A whizzing; whistling; hissing.
Chiffler. To whistle; hisse, or whizze.
Chiffon: m. A little clout, rag, or peece, of ouer-worne stuffe.
Chiffre. as Chifre; Also, an engine to catch fish with (forbidden.)
Chiffrer. Looke Chifrer. Chifre: m. A Cypher; a figure, or number; the figures of 1, 2, 3, 4, &c.; also, a strange caracter, figure, or forme of writing, not (easily) vnderstood by any but him that inuented it, and such as he hath acquainted with it. Le Chifre d'un Prince. The list, or catalogue of a Princes Cyphers, deliuered (and expounded) vnto such as he would haue to vnderstand him.
Chifré: m. ée: Cyphered; written in cyphers, or in strange and vnknowne caracters; also, calculated, or examined, as an accompt, by cyphering.
Chifrer. To cypher; to write in cyphers; to expresse his meaning in strange, and vnknowne caracters;