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 Gasteau: m. A (great) Cake.  Le gasteau ne cuict pas pour luy. The cake's not baked for him; his part is like to be least in it; he is not like to licke his lips after it; (applyable vnto any thing thats in hand for another then him that lookes for it.)  Il a sa part au gasteau. He hath a hand in the practise; a part in the fruit, or punishment, thereof.  Partir le gasteau. To assigne vnto euerie conspirator the part he is to act, or share he is to haue, in a Practise.  Trouver la febve au gasteau. To meet with the thing he lookes for, to light on that which will serue his turne.  Gasteau, & mauvaise coustume se doivent rompre: Prov. A (good) cake, and an ill custome should be broken.

Gaste-bois: m. An vnskilfull Carpenter.

Gastelet: m. A little cake; also (the name of) an excellent Cyder-apple.

Gastelier: m. A seller, or maker of cakes.

Gastement: m. A marring, spoyling, spilling; a wasting, consuming, corrupting; a soyling, defiling, distaining; a ruining, defacing, destroying.

Gaste-museau: m. A little round lumpe, or bunne, made of fine meale, oyle, and raisins; a Lenten loafe.

Gaste-pavé: m. A gadder, wanderer, earth-planet, pauement-beater, street-wearer, way-wearier; one that does nought but trot vp and downe the towne.

Gaster: m. The bellie. ¶Rab. Gaster. A woman to cast her child.

Gaster. To wast, marre, spill, spoyle; viciate, corrupt, inuert, peruert, seduce, depraue; infect; violate; soyle, defile, distaine; consume, ruine, vndoe, deface, destroy, turne vpside-downe.  Vous ne sçauriez rien gaster. You can do no harme; (a Bowlers phrase.)

Gasteresse: f. A woman that marreth; wasteth; destroyeth.

Gaste-santé. Vnholesome, infectiue, health-spoyling.

Gasteur: m. A marrer, spoyler; waster, consumer; soyler, defiler; seducer, peruerter; defacer, destroyer.

Gastier. An Officer appointed by Justice, at the nomination, and request of the inhabitants of a place, to gard and watch the fruits of their Grounds, & Vineyards, and to keepe them from being imbezeled, or spoyled by men, or beasts.

Gastine: f. A Wast, a Desart; a Rocke, or sandie Ground; also, a Close, or Pasture inclosed, and enioyed in common; a Commons belonging to particular men, and the particular Commons of a Towneship, or Parish; also, a kind of earth found in Mynes of Iron, and helping to melt it; also, the name of a Crosse in Paris, planted where once the house of one who bore that name (and was burnt for Religion) stood.

Gastis: m. Wast, spoyle, or a trespasse done in grounds by (a strangers) beasts.

Gastrepiploïque. Veine gas. The third branch of the trunke of the Porte veine, issuing side-wayes out of the right side thereof, and spreading abroad in the bottome of the ventricle.

Gastrimythe: m. A belly-god.

Gastrique. The second branch of the trunke of the Port-veine.

Gastrolatre. A belly-god; one that makes a god of his bellie. ¶Rab. Gastromantie: f. Diuination by the bellie.

Gastroraphie: f. The stitching vp of a rent, or diuided, bellie. Gastrotomie: f. The section, or cutting vp of the bellie.

Gate. as Iatte; A bowle, or mazer. ¶Pic. Gathe: f. A little Shad-fish. ¶Bourdel. Gatte: f. The top of the maine Mast. ¶Norm. Gattouiller. as Chatouiller; To tickle. Gau. as Geau. Gavache: m. A countrey clowne, or clusterfist; and hence, any scowndrell, or base companion.

Gavache: com. Lennow, flaggie, limber; also, licentious, dissolute, sensuall, gluttonish; also, clownish.

Gavar: m. arre: f. Shaling, splay-footed, or baker-legd; (at Tours.) Gaubison. as Gobisson. Gauché: m. A blow with the left hand.

Gauche: com. Left, left-handed; being on the left hand; belonging to the left side; wrong, sinister, awry.  Pied gauche. A splay foot.  Planté sur le pied gauche. Looke Planté. Gauché: m. ée: f. Wrong, wryed, crooked, awry.

Gaucher. as Gauchier; and, as Gauche. Gauchi: m. ie: f. Wryed; bent, or turned awry, or from the right side; also, auoided by turning awry.

Gauchier: m. ere: f. Left-handed, key-fisted.

Gauchir. To wry; to turne, bend, wrythe from the right, or any way aside; also, to shun, or auoid by turning awry; and hence;  Gauchir au coup. To eschew a blow by winding, turning, bending, or wrinching of the bodie.  Gauchir le coup. To giue a winding blow, to thrust, or strike indirectly; to ayme at one place, and strike another.

Gaudé. See Gaudez. Gaude: f. The stalke of a certaine plant, wherewith Dyers make their clothes yellow, and afterwards (adding Wood) greene; we may call it, Dyers weed, or greening weed; also, a small shower of raine.

Gaudebillaux: m. The fat tripes of stall-fed Oxen.

Gaudées: f. Babling prayers; or, as Gaudez. Gaudence. An Estate in an Inheritance, let from nine to nine yeares, and so forward for euer.

Gauderon. as Goderon. Gauderonné. as Goderonné. Gauderonner. To trimme, decke, or pranke vp a thing; See Goderonner. Gaudez: m. Prayers (whereof the Papists haue diuers) beginning with a Gaudete. Gaudi: m. ie: f. Scoffed, flowted, played on, ieasted at.

Gaudine: f. A pleasant lasse, a gamesome wench.

Gaudinette. The diminutiue of Gaudine. Gaudipise: f. A codpeece. ¶Rab. Gaudipisé: m. ée: f. Codpeeced; or, wearing a codpeece.

Gaudir. To be frolicke, liuelie, iollie, pleasant, merrie; gybe, ieast; play the good fellow, make good cheere.  Se gaudir de. To flowt, scoffe, ieast at, be pleasant with.

Gaudissant. Flowting, gybing; ieasting, being merrie with.

Gaudisserie: f. A ieasting, flowting; merriment.

Gaudisseur: m. A ieaster, flowter, gyber; a pleasant-headed fellow; also, a glutton, pot-hunter, Ale-house-haunter, (drunken) good fellow.

Gave: f. The gorge, or craw of a bird, whereinto her meat is at first receiued, after shee hath swallowed it.

Gaveau: m. A Hole, Stue, or little Pit to keepe fish in.