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 Amour de garçe & saut de chien ne dure si l'on ne dit, tien: Pro. Looke Amour. Garchote: f. A water fowle, somewhat lesse then, but otherwise resembling, a Mallard.

Garçon. A boy, lad; youth, stripling; See Garson. Folie aux garçons. Leacherie, whoredome, incontinencie, lasciuiousnesse.  C'est vn mauvais garçon. He is a shrewd (or tall) fellow; one that will throughly both lay, and looke, about him.

Garçonné: m. ée: f. Leachered withall; swyued, ridden by boyes.

Garçonner. To play the boy; also, to leacher; to defile a woman, deflowre a maid; play the lasciuious boy with.

Garçonniere: f. A leacherous, or lasciuious queane.

Gardant. Garding, warding, keeping, preseruing, reseruing for himselfe, or others.

Garde: m. A Guardian, Warden, Keeper; any Officer vnto whose keeping a thing is entrusted; hence; Garde de bois. The Warden of, or a Keeper in, a Wood, or Forrest. Garde des Coffres. The (keeper of the) Priuie Purse; or, as Thresorier des menus. Garde general de l'Artillerie. ''The Warden generall, or chiefe Warden, of the Artillerie; keepes a reckoning of all the peeces of Ordnance that be within the realme; to which end he takes particular Inuentories from all Commaunders of Fortresses, &c, containing the number, size, and qualitie thereof, and informes himselfe by them of all their store, and wants: He also visites the places themselues, to see whether the Peeces bee well kept, and safely bestowed: After all which, he deliuers ouer the said Inuentories vnto the Controller generall, who hauing registred, redeliuers, them. This Officer hath a Deputie resident in euerie one of the tenne generall Gouernments of France.'' Garde de Iustice. A royall Prouost, or Iudge, that keepes either the Kings (inferior) Courts, or the Courts of a Lord Iusticer; and is inferior, in all respects, vnto a Bailli. Garde des Livres de la Chambre des Comptes. The keeper of all the Records of that Court. Garde d'un Malade. A Keeper; one that lookes to a sicke bodie. Garde des Monnoyes. The Warden of the Mint; an Officer, who is to be present at all finings, allayings, and prouings of Mettall; and ouersees both the deliuerie thereof to the workemen, and them in their working; to which end he weighes, and viewes euerie peece, and forces them, at their owne charge, to new-make the light, and mishapen ones, or censures them otherwise as he thinkes good: The Money being full made, he deliuers in vnto the Maisters; to whō though in place he be inferior, yet may he at any time call them to an accoūt, for as much as they haue receiued from him. Gardes des Portes. Wardens of the out-Ports; Officers, that looke there be no prohibited commodities transported, or imported; They also receiue of Marchants the Bills that containe all the parcels they haue bought, and the acquittances of duties payed, within land; and onely they, and the Searchers, may arrest the bodies, or goods of such, as, to deceiue the King of his custome, or to transport forbidden commodities, would slip out of the Realme by oblique Passages, odd Creekes, decayed Ports, or any by-wayes. Garde de la Prevosté. A rurall Prouost; or, as Garde de Iustice. Garde des Salines. The Warden of the (Kings) Salt-*pits; an Officer that deliuers out the salt vnto Marchants, and, together with the Clarke thereof, keepes a Register of the quantitie deliuered, of their names to whom it is deliuered, and of the places whereunto it is carried.  Garde des seaux. The keeper of the Seale; one in euerie Chancerie established in the seuen (inferior) Parliamentall, and in the Presidiall, townes; whither when any of the Maisters of Requests are come in circuit, he is bound to bring, and deliuer vp vnto them the Seale, whereof at all other times he hath the absolute charge, and keeping.  Garde du seel Royal. The Commissioner, who in the sicknesse, absence, or suspension of the Lord Chancelour is appointed to seale, and passe Letters Patents, &c; or he, that hath the keeping of the ordinarie (royall) seale of contracts, or of iudiciall dispatches: For the vse of which Seale there is no fee taken of the Secretaries, nor of the Lord high Chamberlaine of France (who keepes the Kings Priuie Signet while he attends) nor of some other Officers of the Crowne.

Garde: f. Gard, ward, custodie; safe, or long keeping; the reseruing, or preseruing of a thing for priuate vse; also, the Guard of a Prince; (and hence) the charge of, or looking vnto, a thing; and, heed, care, obseruation, vigilancie, aduisement; also, defence, maintenance, protection, safetie; also, the Wardship of an infant, or heire; (wherein Garde is most commonly meant of direct, Bail of collaterall, kinsmen; or of an againe-married mother, or grandmother.) Les gardes d'un canon. The branches of a Canon-*bit. La garde d'un'espée. The hilt of a sword. Les gardes d'un sanglier. The deaw-clawes, or hinder-clawes of a wild Bore. Garde faicte. Js, when beasts that are kept in other mens grounds make spoyle, or doe hurt by the craft, or fault of their keepers. Garde gardienne. A Priuiledge of the Schollers and Officers of Vniuersities, and of the Priests, Prelats, and Possessors of some Churches, Abbeyes, Colledges, Hospitals, &c; and of the Officers of the Crowne, and Kings house, not to be impleaded before other then their peculiar Iudges. Garde liges. Seeke Lige. Denier de garde. A certaine summe, or small piece of money, payable, by old Leases, in stead of Rent, those yeares wherein the ground lay fallow, and could not be eared. Droict de garde noble. See Droict. Poire de garde. A Warden, or a winter Peare. Prevost de garde; ou, en garde. An vnder Iudge to a Bailli; or, the Deputie of a Prouost, or vnder-Prouost. Il n'a garde de s'y laisser aller. He hath no mind, list, maw, stomacke, humor, to goe thither. Il n'a garde de s'en vanter. I beleeue he will not brag thereof in hast; or, he is not verie hastie, forward, willing, to brag thereof. Se donner de garde. as Prendre Garde. Estre de garde. To keepe, or continue long, vntainted; to beare age verie well. Faire la garde. To make fast; (a phrase vsed by reelers, or winders of yarne.) Prendre garde. To heed; looke well, haue an eye, vnto; beware, take heed; preuent by fore-sight, prouide that a thing doe not happen.