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 Aloine. as Alvine. Alonge: m. as Alongement. des alonges. Haukes Lunes.

Alongé: m. ée: f. Lengthened; extended, wire-drawn; prolonged, delayed, driuen off.

Alongeail: m. as Alongement. Alongement: m. A lengthning, drawing out in length, extension, prolonging, delaying, driuing off.

Alonger. To lengthen, draw out in length, extend, wire-*draw, prolong, proroge, deferre, delay, driue off.  Alonger la courroye. To lengthen out a matter, to prolong a suit.  Alonger les estriers. Looke Estrier. Alonger les ss To play false in accompts; as, to set downe an f (which stands for a franc) in stead of an s, which stands but for a sol.

Alongissement. as Alongement. Alopecie. The foxes euill; a disease causing the haire of the head, or beard to fall of.

Alors. adverb. Then; at that time.

Alose: f. A Shad (fish).

Aloser. To colour, or cloake a matter.

Aloud. franc al. as Aleu. ¶Bourgongnois. Alouër. as Allouër; Also to let out to hire; also, to appoint, or set downe a proportion for expence, or for any other imployment.

Alouette. A Larke.  Alouette de la gorge. The flap that couers the top of the wind-pipe.  Alouette huppée. as Cocheuis. Alouette de mer. The little sea foule called, a Purre.  Alouette de pré. The chit, or small meddow-larke.  Petite alouëtte. as Alouette de pré. Pied d'alouette. The hearbe, larks spurre, larks claw, larks heele, larks toes, Monks hood.  Donner la bourde de l'alouette. To misse-lead, or traine along from the place he would find; (from the larke, which euer flies fromward her neast, when shee sees any bodie eyes her.)  Il pense que les alouettes luy tomberont en la bouche toutes rosties; He vainely thinkes, that good fortune will come a wooing to him.

Alourdi: m. ie: f. Dulled; besotted, made blockish.

Alourdir. To dull, besot, make blockish.

s'Alouser. To praise, or commend himselfe; to brag, or boast, of himselfe.

Aloy: m. Th' allay of gold, or siluer, coyne; the (mixed) matter, or mettall whereof it is made; also, fine bell-*mettall; also, a kind of larke; also, as Aleu. Aloyau de bœuf. A short rib of beefe, or the fleshie end of the rib, diuided from the rest, and rosted; a little piece of (rosted) beefe hauing a bone in it.

Aloyne. as Alvine. Alozer. as Alouser; (An old word.)

Alpes. The Alpes; the mountaines which are betweene France, and Italie.

Alpestre: com. Mountainous, craggie, wild, hillie.

Alphe: m. A morphue, or stayning of the skin.

Alphitomantie. Diuination by barley meale.

Alphonsin. ''A coyne of gold, worth about seuen shillings. Sterl.''

Alquemie. Alchumie, Alcumistrie.  Faire l'alquemie des dentes, ou, auec les dents. To fast.

Alquequanges. The hearbe Night-shade, Alkakengie, Winter-cherries.

Alte. as Halte.

Alteratif: m. iue: f. Thirst-breeding, thirst-increasing. Alteration: f. An alteration, change, or changing; also, thirst, or drouth.

Altercateur. A brabler, brawler, brangler, wrangler, contentious, or litigious person.

Altercation: f. Altercation; brabling, brawling, wrangling, brangling; strife, debate, contention in wordes; contentious proceeding, litigious pleading of one against another.

Altere: m. A poise of lead, which dauncers on ropes hold in their hands for a counterpeise; also, a piece of lead to lift vp, for exercise.

Alteré: m. The spotted, and small-headed Viper Dipsas, whose biting causeth an extreame, and vnquenchable thirst.

Alteré: m. ée: f. Altered, changed, varied, different from what it was; falsified, sophisticated; also, drie, athirst, almost dried vp; also, extreamely passionat, exceedingly angred, or moued; in a chafe, in a fime.

Alterer. To alter, change, varie, turne from what it was; also, to adulterate, falsifie, sophisticate; also, to breed, or increase thirst, or drouth; to make drie, or adrie; to drie vp.  s'alterer. To grow drie, or athirst; also, to fall in a chafe, or grow into choler.

Alteres: f. Vehement passions of the mind; strange, and doubtfull conceits floating in the thoughts; also, diuine furie; or, inspirations from aboue, rauishing, and transporting the spirit out of her proper seat; extasies, transportations of spirit.

Alternatif: m. iue: f. Alternatiue, interchangeable, succeeding in course, done by turnes, or immediatly one after another.

Alternation: f. An alternation; a succession by turne; an interchange; a variation of one immediately after another.

Alternativement. Interchangeably; by course, or turns, one presently after another; one in the necke of another; one for another.

Alterner. To interchange, to doe by course, or turnes.

Alterquer. To brabble, wrangle, brawle, chide, brangle, contend in words; to plead one against another.

Altesse: f. Highnesse; (the title of a Soueraigne, Duke, or Prince.)

Altier: m. ere: f. Proud, loftie, stately, disdainefull, haughtie.

Altitonant. Thundering from high, or from aboue.

Alveole. The pit, or hollow part of the iaw, whereinto a tooth is fastened.

Aluette. The Vuula; a little piece of flesh in the roofe of the mouth, like a cockes spurre; See Gargatte. Alueux; ou Aluex. as Aleu. Alvine: f. Wormewood; Looke Absynthe for the seuerall kinds thereof.

Alvineux: m. euse: f. Bitter as Wormewood; of Wormwood; full of, or fraught with, Wormewood.

Alumelle: f. The blade of a sword, or knife.

Alumette. Seeke Allumette. Alumineux: m. euse: f. Full of Allum; belonging vnto Allum.  Eau allumineuse. Allum water.

Alun: m. Allum. Alun d'escaille. A kind of Allum thats made of the transparent stone called, Miroir d'Asne. Alun de glace. Roche Allum; See Glace. Alun de plume. A hard, and white Allum, full of streakes, or flakes; we call it, stone Allum, or itching pouder; Looke Plume. Alun saccharin. That is as white as sugar; or, as