Challes, _s. pl._ jaws, 75/3. _Chall_ = _jowl_; see _jowl_ in my Etym. Dict. Champyon, _s._ flat, open, said of country, 66/15. (The same as _champaign_.) See Tusser’s Husbandry. Chapmannes, _s. gen._ merchants, purchasers, 118/4. Chapyter, _s._ chapter, 141/13; _pl._ chapyters, 141/3. Charte, _s._ cart, 19/5. Cheape, _adj._ cheap; _better cheape_, cheaper (where _cheap_ was orig. a sb.), 5/13. Chekyns, _s. pl._ chickens, 146/89. Chepeth, _pr. s._ bargains for, 157/27. Cheryes, _s. pl._ cherries, 136/3, 140/1. Chesse, _s._ chess, _prol._ 15. Chesses, _s. pl._ rows, _note_ to 125/4. A _chase_ is “a row”; see Old Country Words, ed. Britten, p. 59. Chowe, _v._ chew, 23/11; chowynge, _pr. pt._ 79/7. Chrisostome, St. Chrysostom, 155/16; Crysostome, 156/30. Churle hempe, _s._ male hemp (so called), 146/58. Chylturne, _s._ the name of a kind of soil, 2/5. See note. We find _Ciltern_ as a place-name in the A. S. Chron. an. 1009. And see Old Country Words, ed. Britten, p. 11. Chyne, _s._ the chine, back, 87/1, 119/4. Chynynge, _s._ cracking, 138/30. A. S. _cínan_, to crack. Cf. E. _chine_, _chink_. Clarkes, _s. pl._ clerks, scholars, 7/15. Clayenge, _s._ putting on the clay, 138/33. Cleauynge, _s._ cleft, 138/29. Cleese, _s. pl._ claws, 64/2; clese, 47/3, 9. (Properly _clees_.) Clerkes, _s. pl._ scholars, 166/39. Cley, _s._ clay, 2/4. Close, _s._ an inclosure, 66/17; closes, _pl._ 123/2. Clothes, _s. pl._ cloths, 146/79. Clothe-makers, _s. pl._ cloth-makers, 146/81. Clot, _s._ clod, 15/47; clottes, _pl._ 15/14. Clotty, _adj._ lumpy, full of clods, 15/45. Clouen, _pp._ cloven, divided, 136/20. Clouen-footed, _adj._ cloven-footed, 146/27. Clout, _pp._ clouted, strengthened with nails or pieces of iron, 5/18. Cloute, _s._ rag, 64/9. Cockole, _s._ corn-cockle, 20/13. Cocledrake, _an error for_ cocle, drake, _two distinct words_; cocle = corn-cockle, 20/3. _See_ Drake; and see above. Codde, _s._ cod, 57/5; a pod, 29/11 (where _coddes_, pl. would be better); coddes, _pl._ pods, 20/11. Codde, _v._ bear fruit (said of peas), 12/38. Cf. _peascod_ = pea-pod; see above. Coffyns, _s. pl._ baskets, 166/21. Cogges, _s. pl._ cogs, 134/9. “But the _cogge-whele_ in a corne-mylne is a great helper, if it be well pycked [clean cut], well _cogged_, and well ronged; sixe ronges and xlviii. _cogges_ are best for a great ryuer;” On Surveying, c. 39. Thus the _rungs_ are the divisions of the smaller, and the _cogs_ of the larger wheel, at the circumference. Coke, _s._ another name for the plough-ear, 3/5. Perhaps connected with _Cokers_, iron rims round clogs, and _calkins_, _cawkins_, the parts of a horse-shoe turned up and sharpened to prevent slipping (Wright; Gloss.)