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 Effectueux. Effectuall; to the purpose; also, effecting, working, doing, causing, procuring, dispatching.

Effemination: f. An effemination, or effeminacie; a womanizing, weakning, wantonizing; a making womanish, weake, wanton.

Effeminé: m. ée: f. Effeminate, womanish, womanlike, heartlesse, weake, tender, delicate; that hath no hardinesse, that can endure no hardnesse.  Homme effeminé. A weakling, milksop, sensuall and refined goose, puling or faint-hearted cokes.

Effeminement. Effeminately, womanishly; weakely, tenderly, delicately.

Effeminer. To effeminate, weaken, make daintie, tender, nice, quaint, womanish.

Efferé. Wild, skittish, giddie, wood; also, proud.

Effiancé: m. ée: f. Affianced, betrothed.

Efficace: f. Efficacie, force, effectualnesse, vertue, strength, ablenesse.

Efficacement. Forcibly, effectually, strongly, throughly, pithily, with efficacie, to purpose.

Efficacieusement. Most effectually, very forcibly, with much strength, to great purpose.

Efficacieux: m. euse: f. Most effectuall, forcible, strong, of much power, of great efficacie.

Efficient. Efficient, causing, effecting, accomplishing, making, wholly procuring, onely finishing.

Effigial: m. ale: f. Representing, resembling; also, belonging to an image, or shape.

Effigie: f. An image, picture, figure, counterfeit, resemblance, representation of a shape, or feature.  Pendu en effigie. Hangd in picture; if an offendor, whose fault deserues hanging, escape, yet is he, by the Customes of France, adiudged to the gallowes, and his picture hanged thereon; A signe, that whensoeuer he is taken, he shall be trussed vp in person.

Effigié: m. ée: f. Drawne, figured, pourtrayed, counterfeited, resembled, represented.

Effigier. To figure, draw, picture, pourtray, counterfeit, expresse the forme, represent the shape, make a true resemblance of, (by painting, caruing, or otherwise.)

Effilé: m. ée: f. Rauelled, vnwound, loossened; also, weakened, or loose-hangled.

Effiler. To rauell, vnwind, loosse; loosen; also, to weaken, or loosen the ioynts.

Efflanché. (Cheval efflanché.) Swayed in the backe.

Efflanqué: m. ée: f. as Esflanqué. Effleurant. Deflowring; also, skimming ouer, grazing along vpon.

Effleuré: m. ée: f. Deflowred, or depriued of flowers; also, skummed, gone lightly ouer, grazed along on; also, razed a little; whose beautie, or best peeces are gone.

Effleurer. To deflowre; or, depriue of flowers; also, to skum, or take onely the top off; to graze along, as a bullet on the side of a wall; to goe lightly ouer, as a stone on the water; also, to picke out sleightly the best, and most gracefull peeces of a thing.

Efflorescence: f. The outward face, or superficies, the vpmost rinde, pilling, or skinne, of any thing; whence;  Efflorescence du cuir. The superficiall, and outmost thin skin of the bodie; that which riseth in blisters after a burning, & the skalie substance pilled from scab-dryed hands, &c.

Effoncé: m. ée: f. Whose bottome is beaten out.

Effoncer. To driue, or beat out the head, or bottome of a vessell, &c; to bulge.

Effondément. Profusely, extreamely, exceedingly, without measure.

Effondré: m. ée: f. Paunched, bowelled, or drawne; burst open; strucke through; also, as Enfondré. Chemin effondré. A way full of holes, or myrie sloughes; a verie deepe, and durtie way.

Effondrer. To bowell, paunch, draw the guts, or garbage out of.  Effondrer vn cheval. To strike, or thrust a horse through the bellie.  Effondrer vn huis, ou vn vaisseau. To burst open a dore, to knocke, or beat, out the bottome of a vessell.

Effondrille. The groūd, bottome, lees, or dregs of liquor.

Efforcé: m. ée: f. Indeuored, labored, trauelled in with vtmost force, striuen in with might and maine.

Efforcemént: m. Indeuor, &c; as Effort. (v. mot.) Efforcément. Earnestly, vehemētly, with all his might, with great indeuour, with tooth and nayle.

S'Efforcer. To indeuor, labor, inforce himselfe; to striue with might and maine; to vse his vtmost strength, apply all his vigour, imploy his whole power.

Efforcillons. A certaine disease, or distemperature, in a Haukes tongue.

Effort: m. An effort; indeuor; labour, trauell, paines-*taking; a striuing for a matter with whole force, power, meanes.  Effort de gens de guerre. A violent assault, a furious onset, or attempt.  Faire effort à. To offer violence, or do opē wrong vnto.  Ils font leur effort. They doe what lyes in them; they doe their best, or worst; they do performe their vtmost; or, they are at their height of strength.

Effray. as Effroy. Effrayable: com. Fearefull, dreadfull, terrible, hideous, horrible.

Effrayablement. Jn a fearefull, and terrible manner.

Effrayant: m. ante: f. Hideous, fearefull, horride, gastlie, frighting, horrible; also, affrighting, skaring, fraying.

Effraye: f. A Scricheowle, or Lychefowle; an vnluckie night-bird, which in shape, colour, and bignes resembles a Cuckoe.

Effrayé: m. ée: f. Affrighted, frayed, skared, feared; amazed, appalled, daunted, dismayed.

Effrayement. Dreadfully, terribly, after a fearefull sort, in a horrible manner.

Effrayer. To affright, fray, skare, feare; also, to daunt, appall, amaze, dismay.

Effreinte: f. A default of hounds.

Effrenation: f. Vnrulinesse, vnbridled headinesse, immoderate libertie, headlong rashnesse.

Effrené: m. ée: f. Vnbridled, rash, headie, dissolute, vnrulie, disordered, without gouernment.

Effrenément. Rashly, headily, dissolutely, disorderedly.

Effrener. To vnbridle; set at large, turn loose, giue head vnto, leaue wholly to his owne swindge, direction, or gouernment.

Effrité: m. ée: f. Frighted, agast, afraid.

Effriter. To affright, skare, affray.

Effroidi: m. ie: f. Cooled.

Effroidir. To coole.

Effrondille. The lees, dregs, or grounds of wine, &c.

Effronté: m. ée: f. Shamelesse, impudent, ouer-bold, brasen-faced, whō nothing can dash out of coūtenance; also, one that hath a great, and large forhead.  Effronté en putain. as impudent as a whore.

Effrontemént: m. Impudencie, malapertnesse, vnshamefastnesse, shamelesnesse.

Effrontément. Impudently, shamelessely, vnshamefastly, without blushing, with a brasen face.