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 Ventre de velours, robbe de bureau: Prov. A veluet belly clads the backe in rug.

Bureau: Adiect. Browne russet; or, darke browne, as the cloth, Bureau. Burellé d'argent & d'azur; (We blaze it thus) he bears so many clossets argent, and azur.

Buret: m. The purple-fish: ¶Langued. Burette: f. A little cruet, violl, or bottle for oyle, or vinegar.

Buretté: m. ée: f. (In stead of Beluté) boulted.

Burez: m. as Buret. Burgan: m. A welke, winkle, periwinkle; or, a generall tearme for most of those snaile-like shell-fishes.

Burgrave: m. The Captaine, or Gouernour of a fortresse.

Burguespine. as Bourguespine. Burin: m. A grauing sticke, or yron.

Buriné: m. ée: f. Carued, ingrauen, intailed; also, pierced.

Buriner. To carue, graue, intayle; also, to pierce.

Burineur: m. A caruer, grauer, intailer.

Buriot: m. A yong duckling newly crept out of the shel: ¶Norm. Burler. as Hurler; Also, to ieast with; or flout at: ¶Rab. Burlesque: com. Jeasting, or in ieast, not serious; also, mocking, flouting.

Burne: f. The solitarie place, or corner, wherein an Owle sits in the day time.

Burnie. main-burnie. Ward, gard, custodie. (v.m.) Buron: m. A poore cottage.

Burre. as Beurre. Butter.

Burré. Buttered.

Burrer. To butter.

Burrier: m. A seller of butter; also, a great eater of butter; a butter-box.

Burriere: f. A butter-wife; a wench that sels, or eats, much butter.

Bursauli: m. Cane-withie, with the yellowish barke.

Busard: m. A Buzzard.

Busc: m. A buske; or, as Buc; Seeke also for Busq; and, Buste''. Buschailles: f. Small twigs, or sprigs.

Busche: f. A log, a backe stocke; a great billet.  Droict de busche. Looke Droict. C'estoit vne busche en son oeil. That was a beame in his eye, a blocke in his way; a great impeachment to his plots; a hinderance to his proceedings.  Tortue busche faict droit feu: Prov. A crooked log makes a straight fire.  Tout bois vaut busches: Brov. Any wood is as good as a log.   Verde busche faict chaud feu: Prov. A greene log makes a hot fire.

Buscheron. as Bucheron. Buscheter. To gather stickes for the fire.

Buschettes: f. Small stickes, or sprigs.

Buschilles: f. Little sticks, twigs, or sprigs.

Buschoier. To gather stickes; get wood.

Buse: f. A hole; also, a Buzzard.

Busine: f. The pipe of a Cesterne, or conduit; (See Buisine;) also, a bagpipe; or as Buzine. Busq. as Buc. Au vieux busq. After the old cut.

Busque: f. Fortune, chance, lucke; or, as th' Italian Busca; a shifting, filching, prowling, catching by hooke or crooke; also, a buske; or buste.

Busquer. To shift, filtch; prowle, catch by hooke or crook. Busquer fortune. To go seeke his fortune.

Bussart: m. The vessell called, otherwise, Poinson; Looke Poinson. Busse de raisins. A drie-fat, or great (and hogs-head-like) vessell wherein Raisins bee put, or transported.

Bust. as Busc; or, as Buste (in the first sence.)

Bustarin: A great lubber, thicke druggell; cowardly luske, dastardly slaberdegullion.

Buste: m. as Buc; Or, a bust; the long, small, (or sharp-pointed) and hard-quilted belly of a doublet; also, the whole bulke, or bodie of a man from his face to his middle; also, a tombe, or sepulchre.

Bustofer: m. vngros b. A luske, loggerhead, lowt, slowch.

Bustuaire: com. Burnt, as a dead bodie; or, crauing, expecting, affecting, the sacrifice of mens bodies: ¶Rab. But: m. A but, or marke; (and particularly, the pricke thats in the middest of the Carreau in a bowling alley) also, a scope, reach; purpose, end.  But à but. Of equall estate, on like tearmes, at euen hands, without any oddes at all.  Mais là ne faut faire but, & borne. But there wee must not pause; thats no place to stop at, or settle in.

Buté: m. ée: f. Touched at, or by, th' end of.  I'ay buté à vne pierre. I haue knockt, hit, struck my foot against a stone.

Buter. To touch at th' one end; to abut, or ioyne vnto, by th' end; also, to put, or thrust, away.

Buteux. Of, or belonging to, a but; full of buts.

Butin: m. A bootie, prey; or spoile, taken.

Butinant. Bootehaling, preying, making spoyle of.

Butinement: m. A boote-haling, preying on, making spoyle of.

Butiner. To prey, get bootie, make spoyle of, to bootehale it, to liue, or gaine by pillage.

Butineur. A bootehaler, preyer, pillager; one that liues of the spoile.

Butineux. Full of prey, spoyle, bootie;, or as Butinant. Butoesne: f. Hearbe Bettonie.

Butor: m. A Bittor.

Butte: f. A but, or marke, to shoot at; also, a place appointed in open market for the sale of goods in execution.  Mettre haut le blanc à la butte. To demaund of one the resolution of a matter which is aboue his capacitie; also, to set a high price on a thing that would be sold.

Buttet: m. as Hotte; Sauing that it is made of a courser Ozier, called du Plomb, or Plion; and th' Hotte of a finer Wicker close wrought.

Buvable: com. Drinkable; fit to be drunke of.

Buvage: m. as Bruvage. Buveau: m. A kind of Squire, or Squire-like Instrument, hauing moouable, and compasse, branches; or, th' one branch compasse, and th' other straight; some call it a Beuell.

Buvereau: m. A bibber, supper, or sipper; one that drinks little, and often.

Buverie: f. A drinking; bibbing, sipping, bowsing.

Buveter. To bib, sip, sup; drinke but a little and often; or, but a little at once; or, by little and little.

Buvetier: m. A certaine Officer, that gathers money for the Iudges Collations.

Buvette: f. Small houshold wine.