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 Distraire. To distract, or distraught; to rend into seuerall peeces, or hale into seuerall wayes; to draw into sundrie parts, or driue into sundrie passions; violently, and diuersly to withdraw, dismember, or dissolue.

Distrait. as Distraict. Distrayant: m. ante: f. Distracting; drawing into seuerall parts, driuing into sundrie passions; violently, and diuersly withdrawing, or dismembring.

Distribué: m. ée: f. Distributed, diuided, parted; dealt,bestowed; deliuered, allotted, appointed.  Procez distribué. Looke Distribuer les procez. Distribuer. To distribute; to distinguish, diuide, sort; to deale, bestow, giue in sundrie parts; to allot, or appoint vnto euerie one his portion.  Distribuer les procez. To referre th' examination of causes vnto some iudicious Conseillier, that may report vnto the Court the true state thereof; also, to appoint causes their seuerall dayes of hearing.

Distributeur: m. A distributor, dealer, diuider; hee that appoints vnto others their seuerall portions in a thing bestowed.

Distributif: iue: f. Distributiue; dealing, diuiding, distributing.

Distribution. A distribution, dealing, parting, diuision; a sorting, or seuering; a doale; an allotting or appointing out vnto each his portion.  Distribution des procez. The sorting of causes vnto their seuerall dayes of hearing, and Courts to be heard in; or as in Distribuer les procez. District: m. A district; the liberties, or precincts of a place; the territorie, or circuit of countrey, within which a Lord, or his Officers may iudge, compell, or call in question, the inhabitants.

Distroict. as District. Distroict de moulin. as Banlieuë de moulin. Dit: m. A saying, speech, tearme, word.  Il ne faut pas enquerir d'ou soit le dit, mais qu'il soit bon: Prov. Inquire not whence a speech came so it be good.

Dit: m. ite: f. as Dict. Ditateur: m. An inricher.

Dite: f. à sa dite. At his becke, at his nod; after his will and pleasure.

Ditellet: m. A little worke, a Pamphlet, a small Treatise.

Divague: com. Straying, raunging, roguing about, roaming abroad, wandering vp and downe, whose shooes are made of running leather.

Divagué. Strayed, raunged, roamed; wandered about.

Divaguer. To stray, raunge, rogue about, roame abroad, runne vnsteadily from place to place, wander inconstantly vp and downe.

Divers: m. erse: f. Diuers, differing, vnlike, sundrie, repugnant; also, froward, vnquiet, waspish, diuerous, waiward, hard to please.

Diversement. Diuersly, seuerally, asunder, apart by it selfe; differently, in seuerall fashions, in sundrie manner.

Diversifié: m. ée: f. Diuersified, varied; made of diuers formes, fashions, colours.

Diversifier. To varie, diuersifie; decke with sundrie colours, worke in diuers fashions; interlace, or mingle sundrie formes together; to change, or alter often.

Diversité: f. A diuersitie; seueraltie; varietie; a difference, or vnlikenesse.

Diverti: m. ie: f. Diuerted, turned, altered, withdrawne, dissuaded, averted, kept, or driuen from.

Divertir. To diuert, auert, alter, withdraw, dissuade, keepe, or driue from.

Divin: m. ine: f. Diuine, godlie, heauenlie, most holie; participating of the Godhead; belonging to, or comming from, God.  Huile divin. Oyle extracted by distillation from tiles, or brickes which haue bene some time steeped in verie old oyle.

Divinance: f. A diuining, presaging, foretelling, ghessing, prophecying.

Divination: f. A diuination, presage, or coniecturall iudgement of things to come.

Divinement. Diuinely, godlily, heauenly, most holily.

Diviner. To diuine, presage, foretell; See Deviner. Divinité: f. Diuinitie, Godhead.

Divis. as Divisé; Or, deuised; passed, or graunted by deuise.  Dot, & mariage divis. The dowrie, or portion giuen, or appointed out for, a daughter by her father, or mother.  Doüaire divis. The ioynture, or dower accorded, assigned, and laid out at the time of the contract.

Divisé. Diuided, parted, seperated, disioyned, sundered, distinguished.  Doüaire divisé. as Doüaire devis. Divisément. Diuidedly, or diuisiuely; seperately, distinctly, seuerally.

Diviser. To diuide, part, sunder, distinguish, disioyne, seperate; sort into seuerall parcells, cut out into equall portions.

Divisible: com. Diuisible, diuidable.

Division: f. A diuision, partition, seperation, distribution, disposing of a thing into sundrie members, parcells, or portions.

Divorce: m. A diuorce; a seperation, sundering, parting of man and wife; the dissolution of mariage; also, trouble, crosses, ouerthwarting.

Diuretique: com. Which hath the power, or propertie to make one pisse.

Diurne: com. Diurnall, dailie, done by day, belonging to the day.

Diuturne: com. Long-lasting, of long continuance.

Divulgateur. A divulger, publisher, proclaimer.

Divulgué: m. ée: f. Divulged, published, proclaimed, talked, or knowne all the world ouer. Divulguer. To divulge, publish, make common, spread abroad in the world.

Divulsion: f. A divulsion, or pulling vp; also, a cutting, section, or diuision.

Dix. Tenne.

Dixain. See Dizain. Dixaine: f. A Ward in a Citie, comprehending ten parishes, constableships, or Tribes; also, a halfe-thraue of corne consisting of ten sheaues.

Dixenier. An Officer, or Ouerseer, next in authoritie vnto the Quartenier, in a Dixaine, or Ward; & some-*what resembling our Aldermans Deputie; but that euery Quartenier hath diuers of these vnder him.

Dixhuict. Eighteene; also, a Lapwing, or Blacke-Plouer; (so tearmed because her ordinarie crie sounds not vnlike this word.)

Dixhuitiesme. The eighteenth.

Dixiesme. The tenth. Droict de dixiesme denier. The tenth penie, or pennie-worth of all Mines, Mineralls, Mettalls, and