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 Debatre. To debate, argue, discusse, examine, dispute of; to wrangle, cauill, iarre, brable; to striue, contend, bicker, differ about; in law to demurre vpon.  Nous debatons de la chappe à l'Abbé. ''We striue for that whereto neyther of vs hath right; or that we shall both go without; for that which belongs, or is due to another; or, we brable about had I wist; castles in the aire; mooneshine in the water. (The lesse properly.)''  Se Debatre, & demener. To bestirre himselfe hard, or apace.  Par trop debatre la verité se perd: Prov. By too much arguing truth is lost.

Debattement des flancs. A panting in the flancke.

Debatu: m. uë: f. Debated, argued; disputed on; brabled about.  Au temps que cela n'estoit debatu aux ieunes hommes; When that was not refused, or denyed yong men; when there was no difficultie made of admitting yong men vnto it.

Debauchement. Looke, Desbauchement. Debaucher. Looke Baucher. Debellé: m. ée: f. Conquered, vanquished, subdued, ouercome in warre.

Debeller. To subdue, vanquish, ouercome by warre.

Debendade: f. A suddaine disbanding of a companie one from another; an vnbending; a violent loosing, or letting go, as of an arrow out of a bow.  À la debendade. Confusedly; without order, or array; also, violently, or furiously.

Debexiller. To crush, or breake asunder, to beate vnto peeces.

Debiffé. Razed, or scraped out; also, ragged, tattered; rent in peeces, torne asunder; also, out of order, much out of tune; looking sorrily as one that is not well; also, farre spent, sore decayed, shrewdly shaken, as one that is but newly recouerd of a great sicknes of whom, compared to that he hath bin may be sayd, he is as a letter almost scraped out, which hardly shews what it was.

Debiffer. To raze, or scrape out, as a letter; also, to rend, or teare in peeces.  Se Debiffer. To split, or fly asunder; as boords that riue, or cleaue in a ship, or other building, for want of due seasoning, or close ioyning together.

Debile: com. Debile, weake, feeble, faint, infirme.  Au plus debile la chandelle en la main: ¶Pro. He that worst may the candle holdeth; or, let him that is the weakest hold the candle.

Debilitation. A Debilitation, weakening, enfeebling, faintnesse; infirmitie, feeblenesse.  Debilitation de veuë. Shortnesse of sight, weaknes of the eyes.

Debilité: f. Debilitie, weakenesse, faintnesse, feeblenesse, infirmitie, imbecilitie, decay of strength.

Debilité. Debilitated, weakened, enfeebled.

Debiliter. To debilitate, weaken, enfeeble.

Debiller. To vnloose the rope of a boate fastened vnto the peece of wood which runs orecrosse the hammes of boate-haling horses.

Debit: m. as Debite. Debitage: m. Retaylage.

Debite: f. A distribution, or sale of any thing by parcels; vtterance of commodities, in retaile, & vpon trust, or otherwise.  Ces bleds n'ont aucune debite. This corn is not saleable, will take no mony, yeelds no commodious returne.

Debité: m. ée: f. Distributed, vttered, retayled, passed away by parcels, vpon trust. Terres debitées. Lands giuen by the Lord vnto a te-*
 * nant to be held of him by rents, or seruices, or both.

Debitement: m. A distributing; a selling, vttering, passing away by retayle, or in parcels, and (most properly,) vpon trust.

Debiter. To distribute, or doe away things, one by one; to sell, or vtter by parcels, to passe away by retayle (and most properly, vpon trust;) also, to rid much worke, dispatch businesse a pace.  Debiter vn arbre qui est abatu. To peecemeale it, to cut it into manie seuerall peeces, or parcels.

Debiteur. A distributer; or seller by retayle; a retayler, vpon trust; also, as Debteur. Debitis. Lettres, ou mandement de debitis. A generall, and peremptorie writ, graunted out of the Chauncerie, or by some of the chiefe Iustices, to compell a debtor, by the seisure, and sale of this goods, and imprisonment of his person (if he be bound, or subiect thereto) to satisfie his creditor, that procured it.

Debitoribus. il est tout deb. tourné à gauche; he is cleane spoyled, ouerthrowne horse and foot, vtterly vndone; or he dares not loooke his creditor in the face.

Deblée. as Desblée. Debleure: f. Corne standing; or hanging by the roots.

Deboire: m. An after taste, ill smacke, or twang, which an vnsauorie thing leaues behind in the mouth.

Deboité. Looke Desboité. Debonnaire: com. Debonnaire, courteous, affable; gentle, mild; of a sweet, or friendlie conuersation.  Debonnaire Mire fait playe puante: Prov. a tender-harted Surgeon makes a wound to stinke.  Oiseau debonnaire de luy mesme se fait: Pro. The gentle hauke (halfe) mannes herselfe.

Debonnairement. Debonnairely, courteously, affably; gently, mildly.

Debonnaireté: f. Debonnairitie, or debonnairnesse; courtesie, friendlines], affabilitie, gentlenesse, mildnesse, faire or sweet behauiour.  Grand'debonnaireté a maintes hommes grevé: Prov. Much courtesie hath ruined many.

Debosquer. To rush, or issue out of a wood; to rush, or arise from an Ambuscadoe (in a wood.)

Deboucler. as Desboucler. Debourrer. See Desbourrer. Debout. Vp, standing, vpright, boult-vpright.  Bois debout. The branch of a vine, that (when all the rest are cut off as superfluous) is left growing for the next yeares increase.

Debouté: m. ée: f. Debouted; put, or thrust from; driuen fro; depriued, or turned out, of; deposed; expelled, excluded; also, repulsed, reiected, vtterly refused; also, denyed, or dismissed with a sharpe, and short answer.

Deboutement: m. A deposing, putting or thrusting, from; a depriuing, or turning out, of; an expelling, or excluding; a repulse; an absolute refusall, or peremptorie denyall, of; a short and sharpe dismission; also weakenesse, imbecillitie, infirmitie.

Debouter. To deboute; to put, thrust, or driue from; to depose, depriue, or turne out, of; to expell, repulse, exclude, reiect; refuse absolutely, or peremptorily; also, to dismisse with a short, and sharpe answer; to send away with a flea in the eare.

Deboutonne: m. ée: f. Vnbuttoned; vnbraced,  Manger à ventre deboutonné. To eat while his skin will hold; or, till his bellie cracke againe.

Deboutonner. To vnbutton, to vndoe a button, to loose, or let slip, a button.

Debradé: m. ée: f. Vnarmed, or whose arme is burst a-*