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 Amorceure: f. A bait; a baiting.

Amorcher. To put pouder into the touch-hole of a peece.

Amorti: m. ie: f. Deaded, quenched, quayled, extinguished, ceased, abolished; also, redeemed, or bought out, as a rent charge, &c; also, graunted, or passed away in Mortmaine; also, exchanged by agreement, as, one seruice for another; also, disappearing, dead, gone, or lost, as the part of a piller thats closed within a wall; or, the piece of timber that is, by mortaise, ioyned vnto another piece.  Censives amorties. Which are not held by homage, and fealtie.  Heritages amorties. Which owe neither homage, fealtie, rent, nor seruice; or, which are held of the church, or by Mortmaine; or, passed away in Mortmaine.

Amortir. To dead, quench, quayle; abolish, dissolue; also, to extinguish; redeeme, or buy out, as a rent charge, &c; also, to graunt, alien, or passe away, in Mortmaine; also, to exchange by agreement, as, one seruice for another; also, as Admortir; to mortaise, or ioyn by mortaise.  s'amortir. as s'Admortir; also, to disappeare. Amortissable: com. Quenchable, stintable, dissolueable, abolishable, extinguishable; redeemeable.

Amortissement. Mortmaine; also, a licence of, or passing in Mortmaine; also, a deadding, quenching, dissolution, extinguishment, vtter ceasing of; also, a disappearing, or loosing it selfe within another; also, a mortaising, or ioyning by mortaise.  Amortissement de foy, &c; de Rente. Looke Admortissement. Lettres d'amortissement. A licence of alienation, or of purchase, in Mortmaine, graunted vnto churchmen, corporations, guilds, fraternities, &c; and must be procured by them vpon euery new purchase (generall letters not being sufficient) otherwise th' Imposition de nouveaux Acquests is layd on them, once in euery kings time: And this is good onely from the king, of whomsoeuer the land be held; and for this, a third part of the value is to be allowed him.

Amour: com. Loue, kindnesse, charitie; good will, good liking, affection; also, the name of a certaine Italian sport; for which looke, Iouër. Amours. The spermaticke vessels of beasts; called so by those that vse to lib, or geld, them. Estre en amour. (Said of birds that bill, tread, or breed.) Ie le feray pour l'amour de vous: viz. For your sake, or for the respect I beare you. Amour de garse, & saut de chien ne dure si l'on ne dit, tien: Prov. Whores and dogs fawne on a man no longer then he feeds them; or, a whores loue, and a dogs leaping continue but while they are fed. Amour de muge: Pro. ''Faithfull loue of a wife to her husband; (The female Mullet will rather be caught by fishermen then abandon her Make.) Amour de putain feu d'estoupe: Pro. (Th' exposition followes) qui luit fort, & dure peu. Amour de seigneur est ombre de buisson: Prov. The loue of a great man is of small continuance, and dangerous consequence. Amour, & seigneurie ne se tindrent iamais compagnie: Prov. Loue, and lordlinesse neuer held companie together; a friend, and a lord are incompatible. Amour apprend les asnes à danser: Prov. Looke Danser. Amour fait beaucoup, mais argent fait tout: Prov. Loue does much, but money does all. L'amour, la tousse, & la galle ne se peuvent celer: Pro. We say, Loue, and the Cough cannot be hidden.  Amour vainc tout fors que coeur felon: Pro. Loue ouercomes any thing but a froward, or spightfull, heart.  En amour est folie, & sens: Prov. In loue there is both dotage, and discretion.  Argent faict rage, & amour mariage: Pro. Money breeds rage, loue mariage.  Au batre faut l'amour: Pro. By beating (the beloued) loue decayes.  D'oiseaux, de chiens, d'armes, & d'amours pour vn plaisir mille douleurs: Prov. Who follow haukes, hounds, armes, or are in loue, for one delight a thousand sorrowes proue.  En cent livres de plaid n'y a pas vn maille d'amour: Pro. In a hundred pound of law there's not a halfepenny weight of loue.  Fy d'avoir qui n'a ioye & d'amours sans monnoye: Pro. Looke Fy. Il n'est que les premieres amours: Prov. The first loue is the fastest; there is no loue to the first.  Oncques n'y eut laides amours ny belle prison: Pro. Neuer seemd mistresse foule, nor prison faire.  Veilles amours, & vieux tisons s'allument en toutes saisons: Pro. Looke Allumer. Amoureau: m. A little loue; also, the little god of loue.

Amourescher. To woe (an old word.)

Amourettes: f. Loue-tricks; wanton loue-toyes, ticking, ticklings, daliances; also, the grasse tearmed, Quakers, and Shakers, or quaking grasse.  Aussi bien sont amourettes soubs bureau, que soubs brunettes: Pro. Loue bides in cottages, as well as in Courts.

Amoureusement. Amorously; louingly, affectionately, kindly; gently, courteously.

Amoureux: m. A louer, one that is in loue; a woer.  Amoureux de Quaresme. A Lenten louer; a bashfull, modest, or maidenly, woer.  Amoureux de triqueniques. A paltry louer, a fond woer, a trifling paramour.

Amoureux: m. euse: f. Amorous, in loue, affecting, affectionate, full of loue.  Muscles amoureus. Two museles (a great one, and a lesse) belonging to the eye, the which they turne round.

Amoustillé: m. ée: f. Seasoned, sweetened, furnished; intertained, or made drunke, with new sweet wine.

Amoustiller. To sweeten, season, or furnish (also, to intertaine guests, or welcome friends) with Must, or new sweet wine.

Amparlier. as Emparlier; a Pleader. Ampes: f. Raspises.

Ampeser. To starch.

Amphibie: com. Liuing both in water, and on the land.

Amphiblistroïde. The fift thin membrane of th' eye, bringing inward light vnto the Christaline humour.

Amphibole: com. Ambiguous, vncertaine, doubtfull, subiect to controuersie, of a double sence, or meaning, which may be taken sundry wayes.

Amphibolie. as Amphibologie; (and the better word.)

Amphibologie: f. A doubtfull, or double, meaning in one, or many words.

Amphisbeine: f. Th' Amphisbæna; a small, spotted, and worme-like Serpent, that hath a head at both ends, and biteth, and goeth, both wayes: yet Mathiolus and Greuin hold, that she hath but one head; onely she seemes to haue two, because her tayle resembles her head: the more probable opinion; for no serpent (saith Gesner) hath, naturally, more heads then one.

Amphitrite: f. The Sea.