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 Devant: m. (Substantiuely) as;  vn devant de robbe; a kirtle; or, apron.  Le devant d'un pourpoint &c. The forebodie.  Gaigner le devant par derriere. To outstrip, or outgoe by wrong, priuate, or by-wayes; to crosse, or preuent a mans proiects by courses different from th' ordinarie, or his.

Devant. (of the verbe Devoir;) laquelle chose devant estre. Which thing since it must be.

Devant. Before, formerly. Par ci devant. Heretofore, in former times. S'en (or Sens) devant derriere. The wrong end forward; the inside outward; the cart before the horses; cleane kamme. Tout devant. Right against, ouer against. Aller au devant. To goe meet. Aller au devant par derriere. To goe the wrong way to worke.

Devant. (Interject.) Vsed, as our, Auaunt, in the driuing away of a dog.

Devanteau: m. An apron.

Devantel: &, Devantier. The same.

Devants: m. Stands; or places wherein men stand with bowes, dogs, or otherwise, to shoot, hound, or looke, at a Deere, as he passes along.

Deuës à vetando. Priuiledges of forbidding (others to fish, or gather stickes, in his waters, or woods.)

Deveiner. as Desveiner. Developpé: m. ée: f. Disinueloped, vnwrapped, vnfoulded.

Developper. To vnwrap, vnfould, display.

Deüement. Duely, rightly, fitly, as it should be.

Devely. Changed, or altered, so that a man cannot know him.

Devenir. To wax, to grow, to become.  Que deviendra cest argent? ''What will become of, what shall be done with, this money? how shall it be bestowed, how must it be disposed of?''  Que deviendray je? ''What will befall me, what shall betide mee? how shall I shift, what shall I doe?''

Devenu: m. uē: f. Become, waxen, or growne.

Devergondé: m. ée: f. Shamelesse; (a rusticall word.)

Deverrouillé: m. ée: f. Vnboulted, vnsparred.

Deverrouiller. To vnboult, or vnsparre a doore.

Devers. Towards.  Devers Orient. Towards the East; also, of the Easterne coast, or countries; as, je suis fille d'un Roy devers Orient; I am the daughter of an Easterne King.  Ie viens de devers la riviere. From, or fromwards the riuer come I.

Devertaper. To open, or vnbung: ¶Orleannois.

Devest. A disaduesture; or as Dessaisine.

Devestir. To put himselfe out of possession of; Looke Desvestir.

Devestu: m. uë: f. Disseised, put out of possession of.

Devexité: f. Deuexitie; a hollownesse, bowing, bending, hanging double, or downewards.

Devidé: m. ée: f. Wound from blades (or yarnewindles) into bottomes; also, reeled.

Devideau: m. A little paire of blades, or of yarnewindles.

Devider. To wind (as yarne &c) from blades &c into bottomes; also, to reele; whence;  Pour devider la fusée il faut trouver le bout du fil: Prov. To conceiue, dispose, or discourse of things rightly one must find out their beginnings.

Devideresse: f. A woman that winds yarne &c from the blades &c into bottomes; or from the spindle on a reele.

Devider. as Devideau.

Devidoir: m. A paire of blades, or of yarne windles.

Devidoire: f. as Devidoir.

Devier. See Desvier.

Devin: m. A Diuiner, Soothsayer, Fortune-teller, ghesser at, foreteller of, things to come.  Renvoyer quelqu'un au devin. cecy nous renvoit au devin. We not know what this is, what it was, what to make, or thinke of it.

Devinailles: f. Diuinations, predictions, coniectures, ghesses.

Devinaises: f. as Devinailles.

Devinance. as Devinement.

Deviné: m. ée: f. Diuined, foretold, ghessed, coniectured.

Devinement: m. A diuining, soothsaying, foredeeming, coniecturing, ghessing, supposing, surmising what will follow.

Deviner. To Diuine, presage, soothsay it; to coniecture, ghesse, foredeeme, suppose, surmise, presume, what will follow.  Il nous a mis à deviner. He hath put vs to our plunges, or dumps; he hath driuen vs to our wits end, or to search euerie corner of our wits.

Devineresse: f. A Diuineresse, or Prophetesse; a woman that ghesses at, or foretells of, things to come.

Devineur. A Soothsayer; &c; as Devin.

Devis: m. Speech, talke, discourse, a conference, or communication; deuising, conferring, or talking together; also, a deuice, inuention; disposition, or appointment of.

Devisagé: m. ée: f. as Desvisagé.

Devisager. as Desvisager.

Devise: f. A deuice, posie; Embleme; conceit, coat, or Cognizance borne, or giuen for some priuat respect; an inuention; also, a diuision; bound, meere, or marke diuiding land.  Quelle devise y avoit il en cela? What reason, or sence was there in that?

Devisé: m. ée: f. Discoursed, talked; inuented, deuised; ordered, disgested, disposed of.

Deviser. To commune, talke, discourse, conferre, deuise, chat, conuerse with; also, to deuise, or inuent; also, to order, disgest, or dispose of.

Deument. as Deüement.

Devoir: m. See Debvoir.

Devolu: m. A lapse; a thing deuolued, letten fall, or fallen into lapse; or as Devolut.

Devolu: m. uë: f. Deuolued; in lapse, fallen into lapse; or fallen from one to another; also, letten fall; and hence;  Proces devolu. An action, or suit surceased, nonsuited, abandonned, giuen ouer.

Devolut: m. as Devolutaire; also, a grant of, or presentment vnto, a Benefice, by lapse; also, as Devolu.

Devolutaire: m. A deuolutarie; one that obtaines the grant of a Benefice by a complaint, or pretence of insufficiencie, or intrusion in him that possesses it; also, hee whom the superior presents to one, fallen into lapse, for want of due presentment by the Patron, or Ordinarie.

Devolutif: m. iue: f. Deuolutiue; readie, or like, to deuolue.

Devolution: f. A deuolution, or falling into lapse.

Devoré: m. ée: f. Deuoured, rauined.

Devorer. To rauine, deuoure, inglut; eat greedily, swal-*