Césti, foiles, wasters or cudgels vsed in fence-schooles.
Cesticíllo, a wispe, a wad, a wase, or wreath of straw or cloutes that women vse on their heads to carry things vpon.
Cestíno, a measure of dry things.
Césto, a mariage girdle full of studs much spoken off by Poets, which the husband gaue his wife, and girded her with the first day, and at night tooke it from her againe. Also a kinde of heauie flaile. Also a basket or pannier. Also a shrub or bush. Also was anciently vsed among the Grecians and wrestlers for a kind of iron club or sledge, vnto which were tied with leather straps or dried sinewes certaine balles or bullets of leade, which in their Olimpicke games and exercises they were wont to hurle, pitche, throw or cast.
CET Cestonáto, fortified with gabbions.
Cestóne, a gabbion, a great basket.
Cestopilótto, a close-basket.
Cestótta, a great basket or gabbion.
Cẻstra, a battle-axe or pole-axe.
Cestrẻo, a kinde of fish that hath this propertie, to feed vpon no other fish but of her owne kind, and can be taken with no baite but hir owne, fishers hang out one of the male kinde, wherof the females are so greedie, that they will come in whole skoales about him, he hides himselfe in the mud, and hauing hidden his head, he thinks that all his bodie is vnseene, the Latins call this fish Mugil or else Mugilis. Looke Mugíle.