† cestonn.
Obsolete.
= cestus n.1
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1583 T. Watson Poems (1870) 119 Venus..Posthaste to haue God Vulcan's ayde, Solde him her Gemmes, and Ceston therewithall.
1584 G. Peele Araygnem. Paris iii. vi. sig. Djv Mer. Venus, gyue me your pledge. Venus. My Cestone, or my fan, or both.
?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads xiv. 181.
1648 R. Herrick Hesperides sig. N8v Citherea's Ceston, which All with temptation doth bewitch.
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n.1583- chyle-fed
- chyle-ferment
- chyle-forming
- chyle-receptacle
- chyle-space
- chyle-stomach
- chyle-vessel
- chyleclot
- chylecorpuscle
- chylefed
- chyleferment
- chyleforming
- chylereceptacle
- chyles
- chylespace
- chylestomach
- chylevessel
- chylifacient
- chylifaction
- chylifactive
- chylifactory
- chylifactous
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