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 Arcotic: m. ique: f. Benumming, stupifying.

Arcou: m. A kind of laten, or copper, whereof kettles are made.

Arctique: com. Northerne, or Northerly.  Cercle Arctique. A Circle in our Hemispheare, called, the Pole Articke.

Arcture: m. The starre Boötes (which followeth Charls waine.)  Arcuer. To arch; bow, bend; grow compasse, or crooked, like an arch.

Arcure: f. An arching, bought, or bow; compasse, or bowing.

Ardamment. Ardently, hotly, feruently; earnestly, eagrely, vehemently; with great heat; passion, or desire.

Ardans: m. S. Hermes fires; the flittering, or going fiers, flashes, or flames, which be seen by night, and neere vnto waters.

Ardant: m. ante: f. Ardent, hoat, burning; feruent; eagre, earnest, greedie, vehement, most affectionate.  Chambre ardante. Looke Chambre. Eau ardant. Aqua, or Aquauitæ.  Feu ardant. White Vine, white Bryonie, wild Nep, Tetterberrie; The Wallons, sayes Gerard, call Garden Nightshade, feu ardant. Vin ardant. Aquauitæ.

Ardent. as Ardant. Ardentement. as Ardamment. Ardeur: f. Ardour; heat, burning; feruencie; eagrenesse, earnestnesse, vehemencie; greedinesse; exceeding affection, extreame passion.

Ardid. as Ardit. Ardille: f. Clay, loame, tough mold.

Ardillé: m. ée: f. Dawbed, or done ouer, with clay.

Ardiller. To clay; to dawbe, or doe ouer, with clay.

Ardillier: m. ere: f. Clay, clay-like; of clay.  Terre ardilliere. Tough earth, or clay, whereof brick, and tyle may be made.

Ardillon: m. The toung of a buckle.

Ardit: m. as Liard; A coyne thats worth iij. d. Tourn. ¶Gascon. Ardoir. To burne, or be on fire; to be inflamed, or kindled; (hence) also, to be verie earnest; or hot, in a matter; to loue exceedingly; desire feruently, couet vehemently, long for verie much; also, to inflame, or set on fire; as in the Prouerbe,   L'argent ard gent. Ardoise: f. A slate.

Ardoisé: m. ée: f. Slated, couered with slates; also, slatie, or of slates.

Ardoiseux: m. euse: f. full of, or, filled with, slates.

Ardoisiere: f. A slate-pit, slate quarrey, ground full of slates.

Ardoisin: m. ine: f. Slatie, or, of slate.

Ardoüe: f. A little brooke, or reyne, that gently runnes along a field.

Ardre. as Ardoir. Ardu: m. uë: f. Hard; painefull, difficult; great, ample, high, steepe, daungerous; hard to get on, or come to.

Ardy. as Ardit. Arechal. fil d'arechal. as Archal. Areille. as Oreille: ¶Norm. Arene: f. Sand; grauell.

Aréne. A Theatre for Fencers; a place to iust in, strowed with grauell; and hence was that stately Amphitheatre of Nismes, called, des Arenes. Areneux: m. euse: f. Sandie, grauelly; full of sand, or of grauell.

Arenger. Seeke Arranger. Areniere: f. A sand-pit, or grauell-pit; a plot whereout sand, or grauell is digged.

Arentelles: f. Gossymere; the long, white, and cobweb-like exhalation, that flyes on the ayre in Sunnie, and Summer, dayes.

Arenuleux: m. euse: f. Full of small grauell, or sand.

Arer. To plough, till, eare, the ground.

Arere: f. A plough.

Ares-metys. Presently, euen now, by and by: ¶Gasc. ¶Rab. Areste: f. The small bone of a fish; also, the eyle, awne, or beard of an eare of corne; also, the edge, or outstanding ridge of a stone, or stone-wall.  Areste du dos. The backe-bone; or, the ridge of the backe.  Areste d'un espee &c. The Crest, of a sword, &c; a sharpe rising in the middle thereof.

Aresteux: m. euse: f. Full of small bones, as a Fish.

Areteuse: f. The Hearbe Sorrell.

Arez. Now, presently, by and by: ¶Gasc. ¶Rab. Arfie: f. A Hornefish, Hornebeake, Snacotfish, Ganefish, Piperfish.

Argalice: f. A Raddish root.

Argalie: f. A (Chirurgions) squirt, or siringe; or the instrument wherewith he searcheth the passages of the vrine, or bladder.

Arganete. A Wire-drawers bench.

Argatile. A kind of titling, or titmouse.

Arge. A lightning, which blasteth, and maketh black.

Argenocher. as Arche-nocher; Or, one of the Argonauts, who sayled with Jason for the Golden Fleece.

Argent: m. Siluer; also, money, coyne, chinkes, gilt; also, A gent, in Blason. Argent aqueux. Quick-siluer. Argent de cendrée. Fine, or purified siluer, of xj. d. eighteene grams finenesse; this the finors make at first into wedges, and marke them with their puncheons, thereby vndertaking for the goodnesse, and value thereof. Argent comptant. Readie money; whence; Argent comptant porte medicine: Prov. Readie money is a readie medicine; or, procures any medicine. Argent de Cour. Siluer of xj. d. allay (twelue grains baser than Argent le Roy) heretofore the proportion for all kind of Goldsmithes worke. Argent mignon. as Argent comptant. Argent le Roy. The Kings siluer; the siluer thats vsed, now adayes, for coyne, and Goldsmithes worke; six graines in the pennie weight baser than Argent de Cendrée; (it comes to 47. s. 6. d. Tournois the ounce.) Faire de l'argent avec les dents. To grow rich by faring hard; by staruing the bellie to stuffe the purse. À beau ieu bel argent. Roundly, in good earnest, without faining, dalliance, or delay; also, as good as is brought, one for another. Du temps qu'on se cacha. pour prester de l'argent. In good old times when men were loath to publish their owne goodnesse, or the necessities of others. I'en puis parler pour mon argent. I knowe it to