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Guernette: f. A Prawne: ¶Parisien. Guernier. See Grenier. Guerpi: m. ie: f. Left, quit, forsaken, abandoned, relinquished, giuen ouer; also, crept, crawled, gone forward by little and little.

Guerpie: f. as Guerpine; Also, a creeping, crawling, mouing forward by little and little. La guerpie. (In some ancient customes doth signifie) a widow.

Guerpine: f. A quitting, leauing, abandoning, relinquishing, forgoing, forsaking.

Guerpir. To quit, leaue, abandon, relinquish, forgoe, forsake; yeeld, or giue ouer; also (in a contrarie sence) to seise, get, lay hold on, take possession of; also, to creepe, crawle, moue, or goe forward by little and little.

Guerpison: f. as Guerpine. Guerre: f. Warre; warfare; discord, strife, contention, debate.   Guerre guerroyable. Open, or mortall, warre.  Bonne guerre. Faire play; or, the keeping of Quarter; a taking, and ransoming, of prisoners in warre.  Droict de guerre. See Droict. Fer de guerre. The sharpe head of a horsemans staffe.  Tour de vieille guerre. A notable sleight, plot, shift; an excellent stratagem.  Sentir la vieille guerre. To be of the old stampe, cut, fashion, or humor.  La guerre est la feste des morts: Prov. Warre is deathes holy-day.  Argent faict guerre: Prov. Money makes warre: viz: incites men to vndertake, and enables them to vndergoe, it.  Homme mort ne fait guerre: Prov. A dead man deales no blowes.  Mieux vaut en paix vn oeuf qu'en guerre vn boeuf: &, Mieux vaut servitude en paix que seigneurie en guerre: Prov. Looke Paix. Nulle terre sans guerre: Prov. No land without warre; he that hath land is seldome out of law; The like is;  Qui a terre, si, a guerre: Prov. He that hath soyle hath suits.  Tousjours ne dure orage ne guerre: Prov. Nor storme, nor sturre, continues euer.

Guerrier: m. A Warrier, a Martiall man.

Guerrier: m. ere: f. Warlike, Martiall, valiant, or forward in warre; also, contentious, brabling, litigious.

Guerrier. To warre, make warre vpon, fight, or contend against.

Guerrite. A kind of defence in a rampier; See Guerite. Guerroyable: com. Warrable; fit to be warred on; See Guerre. Guerroyant. Warring, fighting, contentious.

Guerroyé: m. ée: f. Warred or contended against, brabled or brawled with.

Guerroyement: m. Warre, warfare, or warfaring.

Guerroyer. To warre; fight, or contend against; brabble with; make warre vpon.

Guerroyeur: m. A Martialist, or Warrior; also, a fray-*maker, swaggerer, contentious person.

Guery: m. ye: f. Healed, cured.

Guesde: f. Woad, or Wade; both hearbe, and stuffe thats made of the leaues thereof; Many of the French Dyers call the courser sort of the stuffe Guesde, and the finer Pastel; most writers confound them; we call the hearbe Garden or tame Woad, therein to make it differ from; Guesde sauvage. Wild Woad; which growes of it selfe in grounds wherein th' other hath beene sowne; and differs not much from it but in staulke, wherein this is the tenderer, browner, and smaller of the two.

Guesdé: m. ée: f. Woaded; died with Woad.

Guespe: f. A Waspe.

Guespée: f. A neast, or swarme of Waspes.

Guespier: m. A Woodwall, Wood-pecker, Eat-bee (a little bird;) also, a kind of Spider that somewhat resembles a Waspe.

Guespiere: f. A Waspes neast.

Guespilleur: m. as Gaspilleur; A squanderer. Guespillonné: m. ée: f. Besprinkled, bedewed with a sprinkle.

Guespillonner. To besprinkle, or bedew, as with a holy-water sprinkle.

Guespine: f. A waspish dame; or (as our Cockney of London) a nickname for a woman of Orleans. Guest. harang guest. A shotten, or leane herring.

Guestré: m. ée: f. Hauing startups on.

Guestres: f. Startups; high shooes, or gamashes, for countrey folkes.

Guesvé: m. ée: f. Waiued; refused, abandoned, giuen ouer.

Guesve. Seigneur guesve. A Landlord vnto whom surrender is made of the ground held of him.  Choses guesves. Waifes, strayes, or things left, quitted, abandoned.

Guesvement: m. A wayving, a refusing; also, a resignation, or surrender of land.

Guesver. To waiue, refuse, abandon, giue ouer; also, to surrender, giue backe, resigne, redeliuer.

Guesveux: m. euse: f. Plashie, flashie; also, beplashed.

Guet: m. Watch, ward, watch and ward; also, heed, obseruation, carefull spying, diligent looking about; also, the Watch, or companie appointed to watch. Guet à pens; ou, à pensé; ou, appens; ou, appensé. An ambush prepared, or laid with a purpose to intrap, deceiue, or despoyle the partie watched for; also, the act done, or offence committed, by the meanes of such an ambush; and hence; De guet à pensée. Wittingly, willingly, aduisedly, deliberately, of set purpose; and, with a malicious intent, or a resolution to doe mischiefe. Archers du guet. Looke Archer. Chevalier du guet. The Captaine of the ordinarie watch of Paris. Droict du guet. A Prerogatiue some Lords (inhabitants of the borders of the sea coast) haue ouer their tenants, euerie one of whom they may compell to watch the coast one day in a moneth (whether there be occasion or no) or to pay for each default 5 s. Tourn. which are often changed into a certaine quantitie of corne, hennes, &c, according to the custome of the place, or the composition made with them; also, Castle-gard, or Castle-ward; See Droict. Accoustré pour aller au guet. Throughly tipled, soundly whitled, that hath seene the diuell. Aller de guet à ses affaires. To goe slowly, lazily, drousily, sleepily about his businesse. Estre du guet. as Avoir la cassade; me voila bien du guet. I am now plainely cousened, beguiled, ouer-*raught; I am come to a faire passe, I am finely drest indeed. Faire le guet à Montfaucon. To be hanged (we may say at Tiburne; Montfaucon being a hill (neere Paris) whereon the common Gibbet stands.) Faire le guet au temps. To obserue narrowly the