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 * The first letter of all Alphabets,  is (as it is a letter) a   substantiue: whence;
 * Il est marqué à l'A: he is  a right honest man: or, one   in whom there is as much   vertue, as great worth, as   can be in any man: (From   the monie of France; euery   sort whereof hath stamped   on it a particular letter, denoting the place wherein it   was made; now, that which is coined in Paris hath   on it an A, and is, commonly, of the best mettall.)
 * Il est marqué à l'A: he is  a right honest man: or, one   in whom there is as much   vertue, as great worth, as   can be in any man: (From   the monie of France; euery   sort whereof hath stamped   on it a particular letter, denoting the place wherein it   was made; now, that which is coined in Paris hath   on it an A, and is, commonly, of the best mettall.)


 * A.
 * The third person singuler of the verbe Avoir, signifies  (of it selfe) hath, holdeth, possesseth, enioieth; as,
 * Assez a qui bon credit a:
 * also (when it hath the local  Adverb y before it) is; as, Assez y a si trop n'y a:   But when it precedes a Participle in the preterperfect   Tense of another verbe, it is restrained unto the first   signification, hath; as, il a gaigne ce qu'il a peu: In  all which (and otherwise, onely as it is a letter) it is   written without Accent.


 * À.
 * an Article, set before a proper name, or Nowme, signifies,  in matters of possession, of; as, La maison à   Pierre, La femme à Robert: But where the verbe   Estre goes before, it signifies To, or, Vnto; as, La maison   est à Pierre, belongs to Peter: So doth it also   when it followes verbes that require a Datiue case;   as, Ie l'ay donné à toy; cela appartient à moy; or   that signifie motion to a place; as, Ie m'en iray à   Londres, à ma metairie.


 * À.
 * an article, or Preposition; signifieth sometimes, As, or  For; Il est tenu à perdu; à sot; à fable: sometimes   only, For; à cette cause: sometimes, At; as, Tu me   trouveras à Paris; à loisir; à vostre commandement:   also In, or, At; as, à temps, & lieu: sometimes   In, or, Before; as, à cœur, à droit; à tort: &   (as in old Authors) à dieu le veu, in stead of par dieu   ie le veux: sometimes On, or Vpon; as, à lundi; il   monte à cheval: sometimes To; as, à propos; à   point: also Agreeable, or, According to; as, à l'ordonnance   des Arbitres: also, Like vnto; After the   manner, or fashion of; as, vestu à l'Italienne; vne   espée à l'Espagnole: sometimes, With; as, à peu de   perte; à[*accent not legible] banniere desployée; vne chaire à accoudoirs;   & (in Blazon) Il porte de Synople à trois   Lyons d'argent; also, With, or Among; as, à nous   **tel fait est bien vilain; Il est à nous grande vinée.   À la mienne volunte, If I might haue my will: or, I   would to God.
 * Dont il est à grande ioye,
 * Whereof he is very glad;  which makes him very merrie.
 * Ils se faisonient tenir à douze;
 * They made themselues  be held by twelue: or, were so fierce that twelue were   faine to hold them.


 * À.
 * precedeing the Infinitiue mood of a verbe, signifies, to, serving to, for to, of purpose for; as, S'il a chose à  dire; vn clou à pendre des sacs. Sometimes it either   gives the verb a participiall sence, as, It est à dormir, he is sleeping, or new, or neere asleepe; or, the verb being present, it denotes the future, as, I'ay cela à faire, I am to doe that hereafter.


 * À.
 * before an Adiective, sometimes makes it admit of an  Aduervbiall interpretation; as, à droict, à tort;   rightfully, wrongfully.


 * À,
 * is sometimes not expressed, but vnderstood, as, Si  Dieu plaist, for, s'il plaist à Dieu.


 * Aachée&#58; f.
 * a dolefull crie, lamentation, Ay-mee.


 * Aage&#58; m.
 * age, yeares, dayes; also, an age; time,  season.


 * De grand aage;
 * very old, a grandsire, a gray-beard, whose tone foot is alreadie in the graue.


 * De petit aage;
 * very young, a child, an infant, an innocent,  an vnderling.


 * Avoir de l'aage,
 * to be strong and lustie: also, to be well  in yeares, or well stricken in yeares.


 * Aagé&#58; m. aagée: f.
 * aged, old; of age, of years; of full  age, of great yeares.


 * Abaissé; & Abaissement;
 * as Abbaisse; & Abbaissement.


 * Abaisser; & Abaisseurs;
 * as Abbaisser; & Abbaisseur.


 * Abandon&#58; m.
 * bandon, free licence, full libertie for others  to vse a thing; The quitting, abandonment, or   prostitution of a thing vnto other; whence;
 * Mettre sa forest en abandon;
 * to lay it open, or  make it common for all men that will gather wood, or   graze their cattell, in it.


 * Abandon fait larron; Prov.
 * Things carelesly left, layd  vp, or looked vnto, make them theeues that otherwise   would be honest: we say, fast bind fast find.
 * Qui faict nopçes, & maison, il met le sien en abandon&#58; Prov.
 * The building of houses and making  of feasts, are vnlimitted wasters of a mans substance.


 * Abandonné&#58; m. neé&#58; f.
 * abandonned, forsaken, forgone, quitted, giuen ouer, cast off; layd open, left at  randome; prostituted vnto, made commonn for all, any   man; also proscribed, outlawed.
 * Cheval abandonné sur la bride.
 * hanging upon  the hand.
 * Chose trop abandonnée.
 * thats vnrecouerable, or  in very desperate tearms.

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