cess

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim An assessed tax, duty, or levy; billeting.

   “The act provides for a levy of a cess on all coal and coke despatched from collieries in India, at such rate, not less than twenty-five paise and not more than fifty paise per ton, as may be fixed by the Central Government.”

2. isim Usually preceded by good or (more commonly) bad: luck or success.

   “"Bad cess may attend you, where are you scampering to, you rambunctious"—but she could go no farther; the tears burst from her, and she gave way, without farther resistance, to an explosion of grief.”

3. isim Bound; measure.

   “The poor jade is wrung in the withers out of all cess.”

4. fiil To levy a cess.

   “...according to the quantity thereof, we may cess the said rent and allowance issuing thereout.”

5. isim The area along either side of a railroad track which is kept at a lower level than the sleeper bottom, in order to provide drainage.
6. isim A bog, in particular a peat bog.
7. isim A piece of peat, or a turf, particularly when dried for use as fuel.
8. fiil To cease; to neglect.

   “And therefore, if there be lord, mesne, and tenant, and the tenant doth cess, and the mesne takes a wife and dies, his wife shall not have dower of the tenancy...”