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 Droict d'acquit. Looke Droict. Par forme d'acquit seulement. Sleightly, carelesly, onely for a fashion; more of necessitie, or for feare, then from the heart, or in any good will.

Acquité: m. ée: f. Acquitted, discharged, freed, cleered, rid of, deliuered from; also, performed, acted, effected, dispatched.

Acquiter. To quit, acquite, free, cleere, discharge, rid of, deliuer from.  Acquiter marchandise. To custome, or pay custome for, merchandise.  Acquiter vne terre. To quit, or quiet a peece of land; to rid it from suits, trouble, and controuersie, by recouering, or deliuering, it from such as vsurped it; to cleere the title thereof.  S'acquiter de son deuoir. To doe his dutie, to play an honest mans part.  S'acquiter de sa promesse, ou serment. To performe his promise, to fulfill his oath.  Qui s'acquite s'enrichit: Prov. He that gets out of debt growes rich; or, Hee that keepes touch enriches himselfe.

Acquoiser; as Accoiser. To pacifie.

Acravanter. Looke Accravanter. Acre. An aker of land; ¶Norm. (It is most commonly larger than the Arpent.)

Acre. Azur d'acre. Looke Asur. Acre: com. Eager, sharpe, tart, sower[*sour], vnripe; also, earnest, vehement.

Acredité: m. ée: f. put, or got, into credit.

Acrediter. to put, or get, into credit.

Acresté. Crested, copped; also, cocket, lustie, proud, stately, highminded, crest-risen.

Acreu; as Accreu. Acrimonie. Eagernesse, sharpenesse, tartnesse, sowernes[*sourness].

Acroamatie: f. Melodie harmonie; a pleasing discourse; a plausible action.

Acroamatique. Musicall, harmonious, delightsome, pleasing, plausible, to the eare.

Acroc: m. A hooke, a claspe, a stay; anything to hang another thing on.

Acromion. The shoulder pitch, or point, wherewith the hinder, and fore, parts of the necke are ioyned together.

Acrotaires; as Acroteres. Acroteres: m. Promontories, hilles, or Elbowes of high ground, lying out into the sea, and seene afar off at sea; also, the extreame parts of the bodie; also, Pillasters, or Pedistalles for Statues in the forefront of Buildings.

Acroupi: m. ie: f. Whose hinder parts are drawne vp, or gathered together.

s'Acroupir. A Horse to knit, or draw vp, or gather togither, his hinder parts; and withall, to beare himselfe vpon them.

Acroupissure: f. A Horses strong knitting, drawing vp, or gathering, together of his hinder parts; any such action, motion, or posture of his.

Acte: m. An act, fact, exploit, or deed; also, an Act; an authenticall writing, or Instrument, entered, or set downe as a Record, or President, in Court; a Testimoniall, or, (short) order of Court; also, an Act, or Pause in a Comedie, or Tragedie; also, a quantitie, or measure, of ground, containing 120 feet.  Les derniers exploicts, & actes de possession. Are (in an Assise of Nouel disseisin) the Plaintifs averment, and proofe, that he had quiet possession a whole yeare before the Disseisin.

Actif: m. iue: f. Actiue, quicke, stirring, busie, diligent, laborious, euer doing, neuer idle. Debtes actiues. Debts that be owing, or due, vnto vs.  Vasselage actif. The right of fealtie, due by euery Vassall vnto his Lord.

Actifs. An Order of Friers, that weare tawnie Habits, and feed on naught but roots.

Action: f. An action, deed, exploit, enterprise; also, an action in Law; a plea, or right to plead.  Action de graces. Thanksgiuing.

Actionné. Indited, impleaded, sued; also, acted, effected.

Actionner. To sue, indict, implead; also, to worke, acte, effect.

Activité. Actiuitie, quicknesse, nimblenesse; readinesse.

Actourné: m. An Atturnie; ¶Norm. Actournée: f. A Warrant, or letter of Atturnie; ¶ Norm. Actuel. Readie, speedie, present, dispatching, effectuall.  Caurere actuel. ''An actuall Cauter. See'' Cautere. Actuellement. Presently, quickly, speedily, out of hand, without delay, or attendance for.

Acuité: f. Acuitie, sharpenesse, keenenesse; piercing, subtiltie.

Acuré. Oiseau acuré; That hath had casting giuen hir.

Acutelle. The hearb Camocks, Rest-harrow, Pettie whin, Ground fierres.

Adage: m. An adage, prouerbe, ould-sayd-saw; wittie saying.

Adagial: m. ale: f. Prouerbiall, or full of adages.

Adam. Adam (the first man that euer was;) also, the Adampeare (whereof excellent Perrie is made.)  Baston d'Adam. The weapon wherewith Adam vsed to fight with Eue.  Morceau d'Adam. The head of the windpipe, or throat, composed of three little gristles, or peeces of flesh.  Pomme d'Adam. Adams apple; a certaine yellow fruit that resembles a small Cowcumber; also, the Assyrian apple, or Assyrian Citron, (round, and twice as big, as a big Orange.)

Adanté. Lying on his face, groueling; leaning on his teeth: Looke Adenté. Adaptation. An adapting, fitting, or suiting of one thing to another.

Adarce: f. A salt foame that cleaues vnto reeds, & other marsh hearbs, in drougth, and drie weather.

Adayé. Prouoked, vrged, incensed, egged, moued vnto wrath: ¶Pic. Adayement. An vrging, incensing, prouoking, egging, mouing vnto wrath: ¶Pic. Adayer. To prouoke, incense, vrge, egge, stir vp, moue vnto wrath: ¶Pic. Adayeur: m. A prouoker, a quarreller, a contentious person: ¶Pic. Adcense: f. A Lease, or estate in farme.

Adcensement. A leasing, or letting out to farme.

Adcensivement. A fee farme.

Addenté. Looke Adenté. Additament: m. An addition, increase, eeking, augmentation, aduantage.  Additaments mammillaires. The part of the braine that lies toward the forehead, and next vnto the nose, as whence our smelling is deriued; also the two processes of the Temple-bones.

Addition. An addition, appendix, increase, eeking, augmentation, aduantage, accesse of more. Addition beccue. The bone of the elbow (so tearmed by some Anatomists.) Addition mammillaires; as Addittaments mammillaires.

Addomestiqué: m. ée: f. tamed, reclaimed, made gentle,