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 chascun l'abbaye; Pro. He that serues a Communaltie  is controlled by euery one, rewarded by none.

Abbayeur: m. a barker, a rayler.

Abbé: m. an Abbot.  Face d'abbé. a iollie, fat, and red face; a fierie facies.  Pas d'Abbé. a leasurely walking, slow gate, Aldermans  pace.   Table d'Abbé. a plentifull, or well furnished, table.  Il iure comme un Abbé. ''he sweares like an Abbot,  viz. extreamly.''  Abbé, & Convent ce n'est qu'un, mais la bourse   est en divers lieux: Pro. Though an Abbot, and Convent  haue but one bodie, yet have they seuerall means   (and minds.)   Homme ne connoit mieus la malice que l'Abbé   qui a esté Moine: Pro. No man can play the knaue  better than an Abbot that hath bene a Monke.

Abbec: m. a bait, for fish.

Abbeché. fed, as a yong bird by the old; also, instructed;  or, inueigled, as a nouice.

Abbechement: m. a beakefull of; also, a feeding, or  putting into the mouth of; also, an instructing; or, inueagling.

Abbecher. to feed, as birds doe their yoong, or faulkeners  their hawkes; to put into the mouth of: hence, to   instruct a yoong one; and, to inueagle, allure, intice, a   nouice.

Abbée: f. a hole, or ouverture, for the passage of some  part of a streame thats held in by a damme, sluice, &c.

Abbeille: f. a Bee; the little hiue-bee, or honnie-bee;  Looke, Abeille. Abbesse: f. an Abbesse.

Abbois: m. barking, bayings.  Abbois de l'estomac. the gnawing of the stomach,  in extreame hunger.   Aux derniers abbois, at his last gaspe, or, breathing   his last; also, put to his last shifts, driuen to vse his last   helpes: A metaphor from hunting; wherein a Stag is   sayd, Rendre les abbois, when wearies of running   he turns upon the hounds, and holds them at, or puts   them to, a bay.

Abbonnement. as Abbonnement. Abbordé; Abbordée; & Abborder: as Abordé;  Abordée; and Aborder. Abbougri: m. ie: f. growne crooked, or withered in the  top, as an ill-thriuing tree.

Abbougrir. to hinder from growing, to keep from rising,  to let from thriuing; also, to grow crooked, or wither   in the top, like an ill-thriuing tree.

Abbougry. as Abbougri. Abboyé: m. ée: f. barked at, bayed at.

Abbras. the name of a terrible Gyant in the old Romants;  whence,   Ce fier Abbras: this kill-cow, skar-crow, bugbeare,   swashbuckler, horrible hackster.

Abbregé: m. an Abridgement, Abstract, Epitome,  Summarie, Compendium, short course, or discourse.

Abbregé: m. ée: f. shortened, abridged, curtalled, abbreuiated,  epitomised; also, briefe, short, compendious.

Abbregemént. m. a shortning, abridging, epitomising,  abbreuiating; also, an abridgement.

Abbregément. Shortly, breefly, succintly, compendiously, by abridgement.

Abbreger. to shorten, abridge, abstract, abbreuiat, epitomise,  curtall, cut short.

Abbreuiateur: m. an abbreuiator; a maker of breefs;  or of Writs. Abbreuiature: f. a Breuiat; Abbreuiation, Abbreuiature;  a short note.

Abbreuvé: m. ée: f. watered, steeped, soked, seasoned  in, throughly wet, or moistned with, liquor; also shrunk,   as cloth, in water.   Abbreuvé d'une opinion. whose thoughtes are  wholly possest with, or fully persuaded in, an opinion.

Abbreuver. to water, as a horse, &c.; throughly to wet,  or moisten with water; steepe, soke, or season, in liquor:   also, to shrinke, as Fullers do their cloth, by water.   Abbreuver de quelque opinion. to imbue, possesse  wholly, with an opinion; to imprint, or fix it in the   mind; to breed in the thoughts an assured persuasion,   or full beleefe, thereof.

Abbreuvoir: m. a watering place for horses.  vn abbreuvoir à mousches. an open wound, or  hurt; (whereat flies, if they may quietly, drinke their   fill.)

Abbruti: m. ie: f. beastly, brutish; or, made beastly, become  brutish.

Abbruver. as Abbreuver. Abderois. of Abdera; the ancient name of a towne in  Thrace: & of another, now called Almeria, in Spaine;   and of a certaine island neete vnto Samothrace.   Rire Abderois: Prov. A continuall or vncessant  laughter; such as the Philosopher Democritus (who   was of the first Abdera) is sayd to haue vsed.

Abdiquer. to abdicate; to refuse, reiect, forsake; resigne,  giue ouer; cast off, expell, put out of fauour; also,   to abrogate, or disanull; also, to prohibit the vse of.

Abducteur. a leader out, or away; a withdrawer, or  puller away.

Abecé: m. an Abcee, the Crosse-row, an Alphabet, or orderly  list, of all the letters.

Abecedaire: com. in his Abcee: that but beginnes to  learne his Abcee: hence also, childish, yoong, simple,   ignorant.

Abechement. as Abbechement. Abecher. as Abbecher. Abequeter. to pecke at.

Abedissimon. a serpent of the kind of dragons.

Abeillanne. the white muscadine grape.

Abeillaud: m. a Dorre, or Drone-bee; ¶Langued. Abeille: f. a Bee; the little hiue, or honnie-bee.  Les abeilles ne deuiennent point frelons; Prov. Good, or well-bred, spirits neuer degenerat.

Abeillon: m. a neast, or swarme, of Bees.

Abequer. as Abbecher. Abesté: m. ée: f. mounted on horsebacke; or, that hath  an horse to ride on.

Abesti: m. ie: f. made, or become beastly; full of, or besotted  with, beastly humors.

Abestin. perpetually burning. ¶Rab. Abestir. to make a beast, or beastly; to bring into beastly  courses; to besot with beastly humors; to fill with sauage,   or brutish, conditions.

Abhorrant: m. an abhorrer, detester, loather; Or, as  Abhorrent: and hence;   Ie ne suis trop abhorrant de cette opinion; I differ   not much from, I am not altogither against, this opinion.

Abhorré: m. ée: f. detested, abhorred, loathed.

Abhorrent. abhorring, detesting, loathing; abhorrent  from, vtterly disagreeing in nature, and humor; also,   vnusuall, vnaccustomed, out of course.

Abhorrer. to abhor, detest, loath extreamly, haue in  abhomination: vttery disagree from; wholly shunne,