Cess

Quick meaning: Cess is a noun meaning (British, Ireland, India) An assessed tax, duty, or levy; billeting.

Meaning

(British, Ireland, India) An assessed tax, duty, or levy; billeting.

More Meanings

1. (British, Ireland, informal) Usually preceded by good or (more commonly) bad: luck or success.
2. (British, Ireland) To levy a cess.
3. (rail transport) 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.
4. (obsolete) Bound; measure.
5. (obsolete, dialect) A bog, in particular a peat bog.
6. (obsolete, dialect) A piece of peat, or a turf, particularly when dried for use as fuel.
7. (obsolete, law) To cease; to neglect.

Example Sentences

Bad cess to it, b'ys! Where's the blessed ting, at all, at all? Bad cess to it!

It is good cess to feel the warmth and sincerity of this couple who fill the role of the Queen's representative in Canada.

Midland has had good cess with using minute commercials eight television stations, cited as one example of modernizing its advertising.

"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.

Word Forms

• cesses
• cessing
• cessed

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