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 Duisible. as Duisable. Duisson: f. An accustoming, vsing, enuring; fashioning, training, framing, making fit, or apt for.

Duit: m. duite: f. Accustomed, vsed, enured; framed, fashioned, trained vp vnto; also, fitting, auaileable, helpefull, conuenient, good for, to the purpose.

Duiter. To frame vnto vse, to make fit for his purpose.

Dumetté: m. ée: f. Downie; of downe; soft as, full of, stuffed with, downe.

Dun. An old French word, signifying a hill, or rocke; (and therefore the townes whose names end in it haue, commonly, a rockie accesse, or seat.)

Dune: f. A waue, or surge of the sea; also, a Downe; a sandie banke, or hill neere the sea; called so, (at first by the Flemmings) because it resists the violence of those waues; and vsed, most commonly, in the plurall number, Dunes. Duner. To plaine, as a horse, that neither halteth outright,nor setteth his foot hard on the ground.

Dunes. Looke Dune. Dunette: f. A Thrush; also, a little downe, or sandie hill.

Dunne: f. as Dune. Duodene: m. as Douze-doigtier. Dupe: f. A whoope, or hooper; a bird that hath on her head a great crest, or tuft of feathers, and loues ordure so well, that she euer nestles in it.

Duplication: f. as Duplique. Duplique: f. A reioynder; or, the second answer of a defendant.

Duppe. as Dupe. Dupliquer. To double; also, to reioyne, or answere the second time.

Duquel. Of whom, from whom, whereof.

Dur: m. dure: f. Hard; stiffe, solide; also, rough, harsh, rude; also, sturdie, fierce, cruell, difficile, rigorous, inflexible, vnmercifull; also, dull, grosse, heauie, sottish, or slow of apprehension; and hence;  Dur à l'esperon. Dull, sluggish, heauie-mettled, that will not be moued, nor stirred vp by any instigation.  Dure mere de la teste. The outward skinne of the braines.  Dure taye. as Dure mere. Ouïr dur. To be thicke of hearing.  Tunique dure. One of the thin skins of the eye, the which it enuirons; it comes from the dure mere, and couers also the Opticke sinew.

Durable: com. Durable, lasting, of long continuance.

Duracines. The Peaches, Plummes, Cherries, &c, whose pulpe cleaues fast vnto their stones; also, such as are of a hard, or firme pulpe, and thereby long-lasting.

Duraines. as Duracines. Durant. (Particip.) During, lasting, continuing; induring, brooking, suffering.

Durant (Conjunct.) ces iours-là. During that age, in those dayes.  Durant que. Whiles that, whilome that, vntill that.   Trois mois durant. Three moneths together.

Durci: m. ie: f. Hardened, stiffened.

Durcir. To harden, stiffen; wax hard, become stiffe, grow solide.

Dure: f. Coucher sur la dure (terre, is vnderstood) to ly on the bare earth.

Duré. Dured, indured, lasted, continued, remained; brooked, suffered, sustained. Durée: f. A during, a lasting, a continuance.  Longue durée. Euerlastingnesse, perpetualnesse, long lasting.

Dureines. as Duracines. Durement. Hardly; streightly, stiffely; harshly, roughly, rudely; cruelly, fiercely, rigorously; also, greatly, mainly, extreamely, exceeding much; as, Il est durement haï des Seigneurs. Durer. To dure, last, continue, indure, abide, remaine, persist; also, to sustaine, brooke, suffer.  Homme à qui on ne peut durer. A froward, way-*ward, sullen, harsh, rude, soure, vnsociable fellow.  Ils ont bien besoing que ie leur dure. My liues continuance imports them verie much; it stands thē much vpon to haue me long among them.   Endurer faut pour durer: Pro. To dure we must indure.  Tousiours ne dure orage ne guerre: Pro. Extremities last not alwayes.

Duresse: f. Hardnesse, soliditie, stiffenesse.

Duret: m. ette: f. Somewhat hard; stiffe, solide; rough, harsh; difficile, inflexible; sturdie, rude, fierce.

Dureté: f. as Duresse; also, roughnesse, harshnesse, rudenesse; asperitie, rigor.

Dure-teste: f. A kind of spotted, and hard-headed Spider.

Durillon: m. A hard knot, or knurre in a peece of timber, or stone, which dulls the workemans tooles; also, a corne, or hard skin in the feet, or hands; also, a hard sparkle, or graine in some Saphires, &c, hindering the cutting thereof.

Duvet: m. Downe, soft feathers.  Duvet du linge. Lint.

Duvetté: m. ée: f. Downie, soft as downe; full of, or filled with, downe.

Duyere: f. A Conny-hole.

Dy, ay, & hory ho. The Cry of Carters.

Dyafané, & Dyaphané. Transparent; See Diafané. Dynandrie. as Dinanderie brasenware, &c.

Dynarchie. The ioynt rule of two princes.

Dyscole: com. Wayward, froward, hard to rule, ill to intreat; out of all order.

Dyscrasié. Looke Discrasié. Dysenterie: f. The bloudie flix.

Dysenterique: com. Troubled with, or sicke of, the bloudie flix.

Dysopie. Vicious, or excessiue shamefastnesse.

Dysurie: f. Difficultie of voiding vrine, and paine withall when it voides, by the sharpenesse thereof, and the inflammation, or exulceration of the necke of the Bladder.

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Eage: m. Age; Seeke Aage. Eagé. Old, aged, of such an age, of so manie yeares.

Eale. A blackish (Ethyopian) beast, that hath cheekes like a Boare, a tayle like an Elephant, and two long hornes, which he extends, or drawes inward, at pleasure. ¶Rab. Eard: m. The blacke Poplar tree.

Eau: f. Water; also, the Element of water; also, the yellowish sweat which euaporeth continually from