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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



... in need of a blessing which will give it courage to attack sin of all kinds and degrees. We need men who will rip the mask off the putrid face of corruption and pronounce God's sentence upon it; who will lift up the trap-door of the cess-pools of men's hearts and bid them look within at their own slime and filth; who will "cry aloud and spare not," though the infuriated cohorts of ...
— The Heart-Cry of Jesus • Byron J. Rees
... the building, all desperately wounded. They had been there a week. There were two leather water-buckets, two tin basins, and about every third man had saved his tin-cup or canteen; but no other vessel of any sort, size or description on the premises—no sink or cess-pool or drain. The nurses were not to be found; the men were growing reckless and despairing, but seemed to catch hope as I began to thread my way among them and talk. No other memory of life is more sacred than that of the candor with which they took me into their confidence, as ...
— Half a Century • Jane Grey Cannon Swisshelm
... spells an' spendthrifts wid their 'baccy, an' skinflints wid their own, an'—an'—just common, downright aggravatin', lovable men, darlin'—There now! Yer smilin' again like me old Aileen, an' bad cess to the wan that draws another tear from your swate Irish eyes." She kissed ...
— Flamsted quarries • Mary E. Waller
... "Bad cess to you for a walkin' bonfire, an' go home," replied the Dandy; "I'm not a match for you wid the ...
— Fardorougha, The Miser - The Works of William Carleton, Volume One • William Carleton
... "Red Slavin, bad cess to him!" and her eyes regarded her questioner with renewed anxiety. "But sure now, Bob, ye mustn't think of playin' yit awhoile. Yer narves are in no fit shape, an' won't be fer ...
— Bob Hampton of Placer • Randall Parrish


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