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 *fits, or fruits of an inheritance; (In which sence the Normand, and Piccard, Lawyers vse it much.)

Approfondir. To deepen; or, to make more deepe, and hollow; to dig further into.

Appropriance: f. An appropriation, or appropriating; a taking, or conuerting a thing vnto his owne vse.

Approprié: m. ée: f. Appropriated, conuerted vnto his owne vse; also, fitted, apted, applied, matched, conformed, accommodated.

Appropriement: m. A fitting, conforming, accommodating; also, as Appropriance. Approprier. To fit, match, conforme, approper, accommodate; also, to appropriate, or conuert vnto his owne vse.

Approsse. de grosse approsse. Violently, vehemently, with great strength.

s'Approvisionner. To furnish himselfe with, to prouide himselfe of, necessaries.

Approuvé: m. ée: f. Approued, allowed, auowed; soothed, confirmed, found good, consented vnto.

Approuvement: m. An approuing, allowing, auowing; a soothing; a confirming, a consenting vnto.

Approuver. To approue, allow, auow, find good, like well of, confirme, sooth, consent vnto.

Appui-pot: m. Any thing that stayes, or sustaines, a pot on the fire.

Appuré: m. ée: f. Cleered, cleansed, purged, clarified, purified; also, discharged, at a debt; passed, or fully made, as an account.

Appurement: m. A cleering, purging, clarifying, purifying; also, the discharging of a debt; the passing, or full-cleering of an account.

Appurer. To cleanse, purge, clarifie, purifie.  Appurer vn compte. To cleere an account, to passe a reckoning, to procure a Quietus est. Appurer vne debte. To discharge a debt.  Appurer vn emende. To rate, assesse, or tax, an Amerciament.

Appuy: m. A stay, buttresse, prop, rest, or thing to leane on; also, as Appuye. Appuy d'amis. Support, store, or strength of friends.  Appuy de la bouche, ou de la bride. (In horsemanship) the rest vpon the hand; and hence;  Cheval de bon appuy. A horse of a temperate, and sweet rest vpon the hand.

Appuyal: m. A leaning stocke.

Appuye: f. An open, and outstanding terrace, or gallery, set on th' outside with railes to leane vpon.

Appuyé: m. ée: f. Stayed, propped, supported, sustained, held vp; also, rested, or leaned, on; built, or depended vpon.

Appuyer. To stay, prop, support, sustaine, vnderprop, hold, or beare vp.  s'Appuyer. To rest, or leane on; to build, or depend vpon.

Aprelle. Seeke Asprelle. Apres. After; following; next vnto.  En apres. Afterwards, hereafter; moreouer furthermore; consequently; so then.  Il estoit tousiours apres le Roy, de. Hee daily solicited the King; he was euer in hand, or earnest with him, to.

Appresdisnées: f. The fees, dueties, or profit accruing vnto Presidents, or Iudges, and their assistants, by giuing of afternoone Orders; or the afternoone sittings, or hearings, wherein they are giuen by them. Apres-germain. vn cousin apres-germain. A cousin germaine remoued.

Apresté. as Appresté. Aprique: com. Sunnie, or that lyeth open to the Sunne.

Aprisonner. To imprison, or take prisoner.

Apron. Seeke Aspron. Apte: com. Apt, fit, sutable, agreeable, well fitting; meet, conuenient.

Aptitude: f. Aptitude; abilitie; also, aptnesse, meetnesse, fitnesse, conueniencie, sutablenesse.

Apvril: m. Aprill; Seeke Avril. Aquatil: m. ile: f. Aquatile, waterie, lying in the water.

Aquatique: com. Waterish; of, or belonging to, the water; liuing in water.

Aqueduct: m. An Aqueduct, or conduit of water.

Aqueux: m. euse: f. Waterie, waterish, full of water.  Argent aqueux. Quick-siluer.  Humeur aqueux. A humour in the forepart of the eye, of consistence almost like the white of an egge, and set there, to bridle the impetuositie of colours descending vpon the eye, and somewhat to stay the first violent incounters of obiects.

Aquiescer. as Acquiescer. Aquilin: m. ine: f. Of an Eagle, like an Eagle; as, nez Aquilin; a Hawke nose; a nose like an Eagle.  Pierre aquiline. The Eagle stone; a certaine stone, (found in an Eagles nest) which applied vnto the thigh of a woman that is in labour, is held to giue her much ease.

Aquilon: m. The Northerne wind.

Aquilonal: m. ale: f. Cold, Northerly, subiect vnto the North.

Aquilonien: m. enne: f. Of the North; belonging to the North.

Aquoest. This; or (altogether as rudely) thilke: ¶Gasc. Aquosité: f. Aquositie, waterishnesse.

Ar. Deux & ar. Deuse ace: ¶Rab. Arabe: m. An Arabian.

Arabesque: f. Rebeske worke; a small, and curious flourishing.

Arabesque: com. Arabian-like.

Arabic: m. ique: f. Arabian, of Arabia. Gomme Arabic. Gumme Arabicke; issues from the shrub Acacia, th' Egyptian thorne.

Arable: com. Earable, ploughable, tillable.

Aracte. The greene, most venimous, and bloud-sucking Serpent, Cenchris. Aragnoïde. A small, thinne, and splendant membrane of the eye (not much vnlike a Spinners web) which serues to vnite, and retaine (as the leaden foyle of a looking glasse) the formes receiued.

Aragon. An oyntment made of Brionie roots, wild Cowcumber roots, and other things; good against Crampes and Convulsions.

Araigne: f. A Spider; a Spinner. Araigne de mer. as Maie; The greatest kind of crab; also, as Viue. Le pertuis de l'araigne. A certaine hole in an Astrolabe, that represents the Pole of the world, and with a nayle in the middle thereof, ioynes together all the tables belonging to the Astrolabe. La toile de l'araigne. A cobweb. Les araignes ont fait leurs toiles sur nos dents. Our idle teeth by long fasting, are growne full of cobwebs.