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noun
Cess  n.  
1.
A rate or tax. (Obs. or Prof. Eng. & Scot.)
2.
Bound; measure. (Obs.) "The poor jade is wrung in the withers out of all cess."


verb
Cess  v. t.  (past & past part. cessed; pres. part. cessing)  To rate; to tax; to assess.


Cess  v. i.  To cease; to neglect. (Obs.)





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"Cess" Quotes from Famous Books



... mode of using the coffee as a disinfectant is to dry the raw bean, pound it in a mortar, and then roast the powder on a moderately heated iron plate, until it assumes a dark brown tint, when it is fit for use. Then sprinkle it in sinks or cess-pools, or lay it on a plate in the room which you wish to have purified. Coffee acid or coffee oil acts more readily ...
— Enquire Within Upon Everything - The Great Victorian Domestic Standby • Anonymous
... "Bad cess to her foolishness, she does be afther wanting to come round; I 'll not make it too aisy for her," said Mrs. Dunleavy, seizing a piece of sewing and forbearing to look up. "I don't know who Ann Bogan is, annyway; perhaps ...
— The Queen's Twin and Other Stories • Sarah Orne Jewett
... I handed her a ten-spot which she looked at suspiciously and said, "If ever I get that ould potato pounder over in New York it's exercise I'll give him! Sure, I'll run him from th' Bat'hry to Harlem widout a shtop for meals, bad cess ...
— Back to the Woods • Hugh McHugh
... to sooth you'll fail—the wrongs he lays your door at It won't redress to pay his cess and nearly all his poor rate: 'Tis useless quite to calm his spite by show'ring blessings o'er him, While still he lacks the O's and Macs ...
— Lyra Frivola • A. D. Godley
... to "avert the evil, with which this "Country was threatned by a "deliberate plan of Tyranny, "should be crowned with the suc "cess that is wished—The praise "is due to the Grand Architect "of the Universe; who did not see "fit to suffer his superstructures "and justice, to be subjected to the "Ambition of the Princes ...
— Washington's Masonic Correspondence - As Found among the Washington Papers in the Library of Congress • Julius F. Sachse


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