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 Aisler. Seeke Ailer. Aisleron. Looke Aileron. Aisné. Eldest, first-borne.  Charge, debte, rente &c, aisnée. The most auntient, formost, or first in date. ¶Normand. Aisneage: m. Eldership.  Droict d'aisneage. as Droict d'aisnesse. Aisnesse: f. Eldership, eldestship, the being eldest, or first borne.  Droict d'aisnesse. The right, and prerogatiue of the eldest child; the portion due, by prime birth, vnto him; which is, the principall house, and garden, with the inclosure thereof; and if there be no garden, the Arpent of ground lying next vnto the house, or, as farre as a Capon can flye from it; In the rest he hath but an equall share with the younger: This is his due in many parts, and places of France; in some others they deale otherwise, and seuerally, according to their seuerall customes.

Aissade: f. An instrument wherewith Gardeners open, or breake vp, the ground.

Aisseau. as Aisseul; Also, the verie middle, or centre of a pillar from the top to the bottome thereof.

Aisseliere. The veine which passeth along the arme-hole.

Aissellaire. as Aisseliere. Aisselle: f. An arme-hole; also, a little planke, boord, or shingle of wood.

Aisseul: m. An axletree; also, one of the poles whereon (some say) the world is turned.

Aissi. as Aissil. Aissieu: m. ''An axletree, &c. as'' Aisseul. Aissil: m. A single, or shingle of wood, such as houses are, in some places, couered withall.

Aistres. as Agiers. Aitiologie: f. A yeelding, or shewing, of a reason, or cause.

Ajusté: m. ée: f. Adiusted; Looke Adjusté. Ajuster. To adiust; Looke Adjuster. Alabandique. pierre Alabandique. A kind of black stone, mingled with purple.

Alachi: m. ie: f. Slackened; hung flagging; fallen downe by weakenesse out of it right place; decayed, quailed, faded, failed, growne feeble, or loose.

Alachir. To slacken; to hang flagging downeward; to slip, or fall downe, by weakenesse, out of it place; to quaile, fade, fayle, decay in strength; growe loose, feeble, weake.

Alachissement: m. A slackening; a loosenesse, or slacknesse; a quailing, a growing loose, or feeble; a flagging, or falling downe, through feeblenesse; a decaying, a fading, or fayling in vigor, strength, force.

Alaigre: com. Cheerefull, blithe, iolly, merie, ioyfull, glad, buxome, iocond; also, nimble, actiue, lustie.  Alaigre comme vn papillon. As merie as a cricket (say we.)

Alaigrement. Cheerefully, iocondly, blithely, gladly, ioyfully; also, lustily, nimbly, actiuely.

Alaigresse: f. Alacritie, cheerefulnesse, mirth, or merinesse, iocondnesse, or ioyfulnesse of heart; lustinesse, nimblenesse,

Alaigreté. as Alaigresse; also, nimblenesse, actiuitie, readinesse, promptnesse.

Alaine. as Haleine; Breath, or breathing.  De son alaine. Of his faction, or side; that is of his owne humour, or applies himselfe to it; a bird of his owne feather.

Alainer la langue. To hold out the tongue, as a bird, or*
 * beast, that in extremitie of heat breathes for ayre.

Alaire. Seeke Allaire. Alaitté. as Allaicté. Alambic. as Alembic; A Limbeck, or stillitorie.

Alambiqué. Extracted, distilled, drawne out; also, worne, wasted, consumed.

Alambiquer. To extract, distill, draw out.  s'Alambiquer. To consume, wast, pine, weare away.

Alampers. A kind of Peach.

Alan. Seeke Allan. Alandäal. trocisque al. A Trociske made of Coloquintida.

Alangouri: m. ie: f. Languishing, fainting, feeble; wearie; lazie, sluggish, lither; also, languished, fainted, infeebled; wearied.

s'Alangourir. To languish, faint, grow feeble, or wearie, faile in strength, decay in vigour; also, to grow lazie, sluggish, lither, idle.

Alantir. as Allentir. Alarme: m. An Alarum.

Alaterne: m. Fruitlesse, or barren Priuet.

Albacore. A certaine fish in the Indian sea, which is verie good meat.

Albanois. An Albanian, an inhabitant of Albania; also, a light horseman wearing a high-crowned hat; or (more particularly) the Albanian light horse, imployed by Popes in their ordinarie garrisons.

Albanois: m. oise: f. Albanian; of Albania; belonging, or like, vnto an Albanian; and hence;  Chapeau fait à l'Albanoise. An hat with a crowne like a sugarlofe; an high-crowned hat.

Albassan: m. A kind of white and hard stone, whereof lime may be made.

Albastre. Alleblaster.

Albastrin. White as Alleblaster; like Alleblaster; of Alleblaster.

Albazzan. as Albassan. Albe. as Able. Albereau: m. A verie hard white free-stone, that resembles th' Albassan.

Albergame. The amorous apple, apple of loue, golden apple.

Albergation. A kind of alienation in fee farme, and for a fine, or income.

Alberge. A kind of small Peach.

Alberger: m. A kind of small Peach tree.

Alberger. To alien in fee farme; (as before in Albergation. Albette. as Ablette. ¶Rab.  Albrenner. To hunt the yong wild Ducke, or the old one when she mootes; to go a ducking.

Albrent: m. A young wild Ducke; also, (a mooter, or moulter,) the old one when shee mootes, or hath cast her feathers; also, a Pochard; or, as Sarcelle. Albugine: f. An extraordinarie, or vicious whitenesse in the eye; a whitish filme in, or ouer, an eye.

Albugineux: m. euse: f. Whitish, or resembling the white of an egge.

Alcali. Sel Alcali. Looke Sel. Alcange. The hearbe Alcakengie, or Winter Cherrie.

Alcharacte. A Scorpion. ¶Rab. Alchechange, or Alchequange. Alkakengie, red Nightshade, Winter Cherries.

Alchermes. A graine wherewith Crimzons are dyed; or, as Alkermes. Alchimille: f. Lions foot, Ladies mantle, great Sanicle (an hearbe.)

Alcibienne: f. Vipers hearbe, Vipers Buglasse, Snakes*