cess /sɛs/noun 6verb 2forms 3 noun6 •(UK, Ireland) An assessed tax, duty, or levy; billeting.‘For what cess or tallage comes these bandogs to Fitz Peascod Castle?’ — 1936 •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. •(UK, informal) 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. — 1852 •(no longer used) Bound; measure.The poor jade is wrung in the withers out of all cess. — 1597 •(dialect, no longer used) A bog, in particular a peat bog. •(dialect, no longer used) A piece of peat, or a turf, particularly when dried for use as fuel. verb2 •(UK, Ireland) To levy a cess....according to the quantity thereof, we may cess the said rent and allowance issuing thereout. — 1596 •(no longer used) 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... — 1827 formscessed · cessing · cesses
