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 Qui ueut entretenir son ami n'ait nuls affaires auec luy: Prov. Let him that will hold a friend, haue little to doe with him.

Affairé: m. ée: f. Full of businesse, much employed; busie, euer doing of somewhat.

Affaireusement. Very busily, as one thats full of imployments.

Affaireux. as Affairé. Affaisement. Looke, Affaissement. Affaissé: m. ée: f. Shrunke, sunke, weighed down, ouerladen, pressed downe, as low as it can goe, as flat as it can be; setled in the bottome of.

Affaissement: m. A quelling; a sinking, shrinking, or yeelding vnder a great burthen; a weighing downe; a setling in the bottome of; hence, also, the grounds, or dregs in the bottome of liquor, &c.

Affaisser. To bow, presse, or weigh downe.  s'Affaisser. To be ouerladen; to quell, sinke, shrinke, or yeeld vnder a great burthen; also, to settle, as a heauie thing in the bottome of.

Affaitté. as Affeté. Affaitter. as Affaicter. Affaitterie. Looke Affaicterie. Affaitteur de cuirs. A Skinner, or Leather-dresser.

Affamé: m. ée: f. Famished, starued, very hungry, hunger-starued.  Intestin affamé. The second small-gut of the Ventricle; alwaies emptie (by reason of the many midriffe veines which passe from it vnto the Liuer) and therefore tearmed, the Hungrie gut.  Ventre affamé n'a point d'orielles: Pro. The hunger-starued belly wanteth eares.  Vilain affamé demy enrage: Pro. A hungry Boore is halfe a bedlam.

Affamement: m. A famishing, staruing, hunger-staruing.

Affamer. To famish, to starue, to hunger-starue.

Affan: m. Extreame toyle, or griefe: as Ahan: ¶Lang. Affassonner. To forme, or fashion; to bring into good proportion; to make handsome, fit, and readie for the purpose.

Affaytement: m. Oiseau de doux affaytement. A hauke thats gentle, and easie to be made, or manned; a well natured hauke.

Affayter. as Affaicter. Affeager. To create a tenure in fee simple; to passe, alien, or graunt in fee, or, a fief. Affeblir. as Affoiblir. To weaken.

Affectateur: m. An affector; one that (curiously) imitates a fashion, or takes on him a habit, which either becomes, or befits, him not.

Affectation: f. Affectation; ouer-curious imitation; a foolish desire, or following of, what one hath not, or is not, by nature; also, a publicke or legall assignement, or appointing of a thing vnto; a fastening or tying it on; a binding it for, the maintenance, or assurance of another.

Affecté: m. ée: f. Affected, fancied, desired, coueted; aspired vnto, sought after; also, affectioned, bearing good will, or wishing well, vnto; also, affectiue; or, as Affeté; also, especiall, or of purpose; also, affected; fastened or tyed on, destinate for, assigned or appointed vnto.

Affecter. To affect, fancie; desire, couet; seeke after; aspire vnto; also, to wish well, or beare good will to; also, to affect; fasten, or tye on; destinate (or bind) for; assigne, or appoint vnto.

Affecterie: f. as Affeterie; also, affectation; or, a cu-* *rious imitation of.

Affection: f. An affection, liking, loue, good will vnto; a desire of, or longing after; also, a passion, perturbation, or trouble of mind; (and hence) also a sicknesse, disease, or imperfection (of mind, or bodie.)

Affectionné: m. ée: f. Affectionate, or affectionated; hauing an affection, bearing a good will, to; giuen, addicted; excited, animated, vnto; also, beloued, esteemed, affected.

Affectionnément. Affectionately, with great affection.

Affectionner. To affectionate; beget a liking, breed an affection; excite, incite, or animate, vnto.  s'Affectionner à. To affect, to loue; to addict, or deuote himselfe; to giue his mind, vnto.

Affectueusement. Most affectionatly; desirously, heartily; greedily, couetously.

Affectueux: m. euse: f. Most affectionate; heartie; desirous of; full of affects, or of affection; full of good will; also, bearing a great affection, or much good will, vnto.

Affené: m. ée: f. Fed, or inseamed, with hay; stall-fed.

Affener. To feed or inseame with hay; to stall-feed.

Afferant. (The Participle of the Impersonall Affiert) beseeming, or becomming; also, concerning, or belonging to.

Affermable: com. Affirmable, auoucheable; also, farmeable, leaseable, lettable.

Afferme: f. A farming; leasing, letting out.

Affermé: m. ée: f. Farmed; let or leased out; also, as Affirmé. Affermement: m. as Afferme; also, an affirming. Affermer. To farme; lease; or let out vnto farme; also, to affirme, &c; as in Affirmer. Affermi: m. ie: f. Strengthened, confirmed, fortified; assured; compacted, consolidated, setled, hardened, stiffened, closed, fastened; made firme.  Pain affermi. Stale bread.

Affermir. To strengthen, fortifie, confirme; assure; compact, consolidate, settle, harden, stiffen, close, fasten; make firme.

Affermissement: m. A strengthning; compacting, consolidating, closing, setling, stiffening, hardening.

Affermisseur: m. A strengthner; compactor, closer, setler, fastener, stiffener, hardner.

Afferrer. as Enferrer. Affertilé: m. ée: f. Fertilized, made fertile.

Affertiler. To fertilize; to make fertile, or fruitfull.

Affessé. as Affaissé. s'Affessir. To grow wearie; to wax lumpish, or heauie.

Affesté: m. ée: f. Set, setled, or pearched on the top of.

s'Affester. To pearch, to set, or settle it selfe, on the top of.

Affetardi: m. ie: f. Made, or become slouthfull, drowsie, negligent; slow, dull; faint-hearted; ouglie to the sight.

Affetardir. To make slouthfull, drowsie, lazie; dull, slow, cowardly, faint-hearted; also, to make loathsome, or ouglie to the sight.

Affeté; ou, Affetté: m. ée: f. Craftie, subtile, slye, wylie, dissembling; also, nice, curious, daintie, quaint, precise.

Affeter. as Affaicter.

Affeterie, ou, Affetterie. Craft, subtiltie, slynesse, wylinesse, dissimulation, guilefulnesse; also, nicenesse, daintinesse, curiositie, precisenesse, quaintnesse.