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Donner dedans les. To breake in vpon, rush among the thickest of, them. Donner à dos à. To assaile, or set vpon, behind; Looke Dos. Donner dronos. Looke Dronos. Donner le flanc à tout propos. To yeeld vnto, or bee woon by, euerie word. Donner fond. To cast anker. Donner es gauffriers. To leacher. Donner iour à. To grace, beautifie, decorate, giue light, or luster vnto. Donner jour à sa despence. So to spend as the world may take most notice of his expences; Looke Iour. Donner main-levée de. To restore, giue backe, yeeld vp, things taken, or seised. Donner mal de teste à. To make iealous. Donner en mandement. To commaund, bid, giue in charge; to will and commaund (the phrase of Princes in their Letters Patents.) Donner la mitre, & la crosse à. To countenance, or authorize by the specious pretext of religious Ornaments. Donner la muse à. To put into a dumpe; to make to studie, or pause about a matter. Donner des oeufs de Pasques à toutes restes: Look Pasque. Donner ombrage à. To make iealous, fill with suspition; giue an inkling of. Donner parole à. Looke Parole. Donner pente à. In wrastling, to offer play, or an aduantage, vnto his aduersarie. Donner pied à. To set afoot, send abroad into the world; giue beginning to. Donner pied ferme à. To ground, settle, assure the seat of, giue sure footing vnto. Donner du pied à. To scorne, contemne, spurne. Donner le plein & le rond à. To accomplish, or perfect. Donner à poinct nommé. To hit point-blanke; to strike the marke he shoots at. Donner du rosmarin. To giue a wooer his answer; or, a flat deniall. Donner vn mauvais sault. To do a man a mischiefe; giue him a vild push; make him catch great harme. Donner vne lourde strette. To ierke shrewdly, pinch extreamely; See Strette. Donner de la teste. To butt, or iurre; to runne his head against. Il ne sçait ou donner de la teste. Hee knowes not what to do, nor whither to betake him. Donner entre deux vertes vne meure. To season matters, or iumble good and bad together. Donner d'vne. To tell a lie; to giue a gudgeon, a lurch, a gleeke; a drie list; to gull, or make a foole of. Donner vogue à. To authorize; to giue sway, or scope vnto. Donner voile à tous vents. To saile with all winds; weakely, to be persuaded by euerie one that speakes to him; inconstantly, to be swayed by euerie seuerall humor that moues him. Se donner du doigt dans l'oeil. qui se pensant signer le donnent du doigt &c. Who (with their fingers) meaning to blesse, are like to blind, themselues: (appliable to Ninny-hammers.) Se donner de garde. To beware, take heed, be circumspect, looke well about him. Se donner de bon temps. To make much of himselfe, to liue merrily, or at ease; to passe away his time delightfully.  Ie te le donne gaigné. I grant it, I yeeld vnto thee, I giue thee place, I leaue thee the victorie.  Ce qu'on donne luit, ce qu'on mange puit: Prov. (a true difference betweene bountie and sensualitie.)  Entre promettre, & donner doit on la fille marier: Prov. Betweene promising, and giuing the maid ought to be maried; (or as vnder Promettre.)  Fille qui donne s'abandonne. Pro. Looke Fille. Promettre sans donner est fol recomforter: Prov. Faire words make fooles faine.  Qui tost donne deux fois donne: Prov. ''Hee that giues quickly giues twice: viz. Doubles th' estimate of his gift.  Qui tout me donne, tout me nie: Prov. Hee that giues me all denies me all: viz. He that offers me all, meanes to giue me nothing.''  Tout est perdu ce qu'on donne à fol: Prov. Whatsoeuer is giuen to fooles is lost: for either they are simple and cannot, or vngratefull and will not, requite it.

Donneur: m. A donor; a giuer, a bestower.

Donq. Then, therefore.

Donques. The same.

Dont. Whence, whereby, whereof, whereupon; and (in the beginning of questions) how comes it to passe.

Dontable: com. Tameable; reclaimeable, which may be ruled.

Donté: m. ée: f. Tamed, broken, reclaimed, ruled; daunted, subdued, ouercome, brought vnder.

Dontement: m. A taming, reclaiming, breaking; ouercomming, subduing.

Donte-mer. Sea-taming, waues-breaking, surges-calming.

Donte-orgueil. Pride-taming, stoutnesse-daunting, hautinesse-downe-pulling.

Donter. To tame, reclaime, breake; daunt; vanquish, ouercome, subdue, bring vnder.

Donteresse: f. She that tameth, or subdueth.

Donteur. A tamer, reclaimer, breaker, ruler; daunter, subduer, ouercommer.

Donzelle: f. An Eele-powt.

Dorade: f. The fish Guilthead, or Goldenie; also, as Dorée. Dorcade. A Roe-Bucke.

Doré: m. ée: f. Gilt ouer; also, of gold; also, faire, beautifull, brightly shining.  Brandon doré. The Sunne.  Il eschappa par la porte dorée. viz. By mouey.. Dorée: f. The Dorce, or Saint Peters fish; also (though not so properly) the Goldfish, or Goldenie; also, a kind of delicate yellow Summer peare; the gold peare.

Dorelle: f. The pulse Orobus, bitter Vetch, or bitter Fitch.

Dorelot: m. A darling, dilling, sweet heart; wanton, fedle; also, as Dorlot. Doreloté. as Dorlotté. Doreloteur. A cockerer, dandler, bugger; fawner, soother, flatterer of.

Dorelotter. as Dorletter. Dorer. To gild, or doe ouer with gold.

Dorerie: f. Gilt worke; also, a gilding.

Dores-en-avant. Henceforth, from hence forward; hereafter.

Doreur. A gilder.  Doreur de la nuict. A Gold-finder, a Jakes-farmer.

Doreure: f. A gilding; also, a Billement, or Jewell of two peeces.