CESSES

noun

1. An assessed tax, duty, or levy.
2. Usually preceded by good or (more commonly) bad: luck or success.
3. Bound; measure.

verb

1. To levy a cess.

noun

1. 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.
2. A bog, in particular a peat bog.
3. A piece of peat, or a turf, particularly when dried for use as fuel.