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 Greffier: m. A Register, Pregnotarie, or principall clerke to a Court; a Secondarie in an Office, or Court; a clerke of Assise, or of Jnrollments.

Greffiere: f. A Notaresse, Registresse; a she Clerke, a Registers, or Clerkes, wife.

Greffiers: m. A kind of white hounds; as Bauds. Gregeois: m. oise: f. Grecian, Greekish, of Greece.  Feu gregeois. Looke Feu. Gregual: m. A Northeast wind.

Gregues: f. Wide Slops, Gregs, Gallogascoines, Venitians; great Gascon, or Spanish, hose.

Greguesque. as Gregeois. Greguesques: f. Slops, Gregs, Gallogascoines, Venitians.

Greigneur. Great; also, greater, larger, bigger; elder.

Greinselle: f. A Gooseberrie.

Grelace: f. Great Hayle.

Grelle. as Gresle. Hayle.

Grelot. Trembler le grelot. as Grelotter. Grelotter. To shake, tremble, didder, quake for cold; to say an Apes Pater-noster.

Grelurette. as Gurluret. Gremeaux de sang. Clots of congealed bloud.

Gremeler. as Grommeler. Gremil: m. The hearb Gromill, Grummell, or Graymill, Peare-plant, Lichewall.

Grenade: f. A Pomegranet; also, a ball of wild-fire, made like a Pomegranet.

Grenadier: m. A Pomegranet tree.

Grenadille: f. A Pomegranet blossome; also, a little Pomegranet.

Grenage: m. Graine, corne, seed; or the growth, or increase thereof.

Grenaille: f. Graine, or seed; also, the gold, siluer, &c, taken out of water, whereinto it had beene throwne red hot out of the Crurible; so tearmed, because it is commonly in graines.  Grenaille de bronze. The skalie dust, or substance lying on brasse, &c, after it hath beene melted; and falling from it of it selfe, or with a little blowing.

Grenat: m. The precious stone called a Granat, or Garnet; also, a Carbuncle of a Pomegranet colour.  Grenat rouge. A kind of botch, or pockie sore.

Grenatier: m. The little border ingrauen about a seale; so tearmed, because tis like a row of Pomegranet kernels.

Grenatine: f. A small Granat, or Garnet; also, marble spotted red, whether naturally or artificially.

Grene: f. as Graine. Grené: m. ée: f. Seeded; eared.  Marbre grené. Sparkled, or spotted marble.

Grenée. Pouldre de grosse grenée. Great graine powder fit for the Canon.

Grener. To seed, as hearbes; to eare, as corne.

Greneterie: f. The place, or Office, wherein the Controllers of the Kings Garners reside.

Grenetiers: m. Ouerseers, Keepers, or Controllers, of the Kings salt-Garners.

Grenie. Garder vne fille à grenie. See Graine.

Grenier: m. A Garner; a Corne-loft; a roome to keepe salt, or corne, in. Grenier à coups de poing. A knaue; one that often deserues to be pommelled. Grenier à morpions. A filthie lowsie fellow, or one thats full of Crab-lice. Monter au grenier sans chandelle. To light in a turd. Grenil. as Gremil. Hearbe Grummell, &c.

Grenouillant. Swilling, quaffing; bibbing, sipping; also, croaking, like a Frog.

Grenouille: f. A Frog, a Paddocke.  Grenouille pescheresse. The sea-Frog, sea-diuell, sea-toad.

Grenouiller. Continually to bib, tiple, sip, swill in drinke; to spend his whole time in potting; also, to croake, or cry like a Frog.

Grenouillere: f. A froggie place; as Grenouilliere. Grenouillette: f. A little Frog.

Grenouillette: f. Crowfoot, Kings Kob, gold Cups, gold Knops, butter Flower.  Grenouillette aquatique. Water Crowfoot, marsh Crowfoot.  Grenouillette de bois. Wood Crowfoot, sweet Crowfoot.  Grenouillette dorée. Gold-Crap, golden Crowfoot, gold-haire Crowfoot, yellow Craw.  Grenouillette herissonnée. White Crowfoot, or Vrchin Crowfoot.  Grenouillette petite. White Crowfoot; or, as Grenouillette de bois. Grenouilliere: f. A froggie place.

Grenouillon: m. A little Frog.

Grenu: m. uë: f. Grained; full of graine, of seed, of graines.

Gres. as Grez. Gresil: m. Hayle, drizling; also, reeme, or the white frost that hangs on trees.

Gresillé. Drizled on; couered, or hoare, with reeme.

Gresiller. To hayle, drizle, sleet; reeme to fall; also, as Greziller. Gresillon: m. A Cricket.

Gresillonné. Whitish, or hoarie, as grasse with frost, &c.

Gresillonner. To creake, or chirpe like a Cricket.

Gresle: f. Hayle.

Gresle: com. Thin, small, slender; lanke; little, pretie; diminished; also, shrill, or squeaking.

Greslé: m. ée: f. Hayled on; also, pockie, or that hath the pocks.

Greslement. Thinly, smally, slenderly; lankely; prettily; also, shrilly, or squeakingly.

Gresler. To hayle.  Gresler sur le persil. To dominiere ouer a weake aduersarie; to shew himselfe bold, and stout against one thats not able to resist him.

Greslet: m. ette: f. Little, prettie, deft, smallish.

Gresleté: f. Smallnesse, littlenesse, exilitie, slendernesse, thinnesse.

Gresleux: m. euse: f. Haylie, full of hayle, subiect vnto hayle; stormie.

Greslier: m. ere: f. Haylie; of, or belonging to, hayle.  Chapeau greslier. A hat for the hayle, or to be worne while it hayles.

Gresse. as Graisse; Fat; grease. Gresser. as Graisser. Gressier: m. A lisper, one that lispeth.

Gressier: m. ere: f. Fattie, greasie.

Gretiller. To crackle; See Greziller. Grettes de lin: f. The hards, or towe of flax.

Grevable: com. Grieuous, painefull; also, likelie to burst.

Grevance: f. A grieuance, or aggrieuance.

Grevant. Grieuing, aggrieuing, vexing, oppressing.

Grevanté: m. ée: f. Grieued, aggrieued, vexed, oppressed.

Grevanter. To grieue, aggrieue, molest, vex, oppresse.