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 Beaucoup offrir à vn qui peu demande, c'est luy nier tout à plat sa demande: Pro. An offer of more then is required, imports a flat denyall.  Ceux qui nous doibvent nous demandent: Prov. Looke Debvoir. Il est bien fol qui à fol sens demande: Prov. He is a verie foole that lookes for wit from a foole.  Il n'aura ia bon marché qui ne le demande: Pro. Let no man thinke to haue, that asks not, things good cheape.

Demanderesse: f. A demaunderesse; a woman that is a Plaintife; or Petitioner.

Demandeur. A demaunder; asker, begger, requester; questioner; also, a demaundant, plaintife, complainant, petitioner.  À bon demandeur bon refuseur: Prov. Wee say, shamefull crauing must haue a shamefull nay.

Demange-chair. Flesh-tickling, setting an itch on the flesh.

Demangement: m. An itching, or itch.

Se Demanger. To itch.

Demangerie. An itch, an itching.

Demangéson: f. An itch, or itching.  Demangéson de dents. The painefull itch thats felt by children while their teeth are in breeding.

Demangeure: f. as Demangéson. Demantelé: m. ée: f. Dismanteled.

Demanteler vne ville. To dismantle, or deface the wals of a towne.

Demantellement: m. A dismantelling.

Demantibulé: m. ée: f. Vniawed, or, whose iawes are dasht in peeces. ¶Rab. Demaquer. as Demacquer. Demarche: f. A gate, pace, going; the setting of one foot before the other; or (most properly) behind another; the trauersing of ground; also, ward, fence, or, the lying of the bodie in fencing; and generally, the setting, posture, or carriage of the bodie in any kind whatsoeuer.  Demarche de bourse. Looke Bourse. Demaré: m. ée: f. Vnmoored, as a ship.

Demarer. To vnmoore; to loosen a ship thats moored, or ankored, and put out to sea.

Demarrier: To vnmarrie, diuorce, vnwed.

Demence: f. Madnesse.

Demené: m. A practise; or, as Demenée. Demené: m. ée: f. Stirred, wagged, iogged, mooued to and fro, remooued often; tumbled, tossed, canuassed vp and downe; much handled, managed, or dealt in.  Demené parmi tous les communs proverbes. A common by-word; the subiect of common prouerbes; a subiect throughly, or ordinarily, played on.  Le procés s'est ainsi demené iusques à icy. The suit hath so bene carried, or followed, hetherto.

Demenée: f. A stirre, iog, wag, vnquiet motion, frequent remoue; a tumble, tosse, canuasse; or, as Demenement; also, a practise, plot, secret enterprise, or deuice.

Demenement: m. A stirring, iogging, wagging, moouing to and fro, remouing often; a tumbling, tossing, or canuassing vp and downe; a frequent handling, or serious following of.

Demener, &, se Demener. To stirre much, mooue to and fro, remoue often; to wag or iog, tumble, or tosse, vp and downe; to sit fidging as if the itch were in his taile. Demener le dueil de. To lament, or mourne for. Demener ioye. To reioyce, make merrie, be glad. Demener marchandise. To trade, or traffique; to turne ouer, or paße away, commodities.  Demener vn procés. To follow, pursue, or deale in, a suit.

Se Dementer. To complaine, make mone, bewayle himselfe.  Se Dementer de. To meddle with; to busie, or intangle, himselfe in.

Dementi. as Desmenti. Dementir. Looke Desmentir. Se Dementir. To fayle; proue nought or false; to bely, or derogate from, himselfe; to dissemble, or force, his owne nature, or humor.

Demerite: m. Desert, merite, deseruing; also (the contrarie) a disseruice, demerite, misdeed, ill carriage, ill deseruing; (In which sence it is most commonly vsed at this day.)

Demesler. See Desmesler; To disintangle. Demesler vn fuseau avec. To haue to doe with in a matter; to performe a businesse iointly with.

Demettre. To dismisse, or let goe; See Desmettre. Demeurance: m. A tarrying, staying, remaining, abiding, continuing, dwelling.

Demeurant: m. A residue, remnant, remainder, arrerage, relicke; the rest of.  Au demeurant. Moreouer; as touching, or for, the rest; also, in other matters.  Tenez chaud le pied, & la teste, au demeurant vivez en beste: Pro. The foot and head kept warme, no matter for the rest.

Demeurant. (particip.) Abiding, staying, tarrying, remaining, continuing, dwelling.

Demeure: f. An abode, stay, tarriance; delay; continuance; also, a seat, mansion, habitation, house, dwelling, lodging, place of abiding.  Longue demeure faict changer amy: Prov. Long absence changes loue; looses friends; alters affection.

Demeuré: m. ée: f. Left, remaining; behind; stayed, or continuing, behind.  Il est demeuré entre deux selles à terre. Betweene two stooles his tayle is come to ground.

Demeurer. To abide, remaine, tarrie, stay; linger, stand long on, continue, perseuere; to dwell, soiourne, inhabite, seat, settle, or plant himselfe in a place; Looke Demourer. Demeurer court. To be graueld, plunged, put to silence, or to a Nonplus.  Demeurer entre deux & as. Looke As. Il ne demeure pas trop qui vient: Prov. He tarries not too long that comes at length.  De ce que fol pense souvent en demeure: Prov. A foole comes often short of his intentions.

Demi: m. Demie: f. Halfe, demy.

Demi-arpent: m. The halfe Arpent; the French halfe aker; containes 50 Perches, and euery Perch 20 foot.

Demi-boisseau: m. A halfe Bushell.

Demi-bosse. as Basse-taille. Demi-ceinct: m. A halfe-girdle; or, a fashion of womans girdle, whose forepart is of gold or siluer, and hinder of silke, &c.

Demi-ceinctier. A maker of such halfe-girdles.

Demicinct, & Demicinctier. as Demiceinct, &c. Demi-crochuë: f. A semyquauer, in Musicke.

Demi-dieu: m. A demy god; one that is partly God, and partly man.

Demi-espineux. Muscle dem. One of the two muscles that extend the flanke.

Demi-veuë. en dem. That one can see but halfe therof.

Demi-frere: m. A half-brother; a brother of one side only.