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 presumption; iust occasion, sure token.

Arguties: f. Sharpe quirkes, or subtilities, subtill words, wittie sayings.

Argyrite. Looke Argerite. Ari: m. ie: f. Dryed vp, full soaked, wholly drained; withered; without sap, or humor; whose naturall moysture is spent, or consumed.

Aride: com. As Ari. Dry, withered, without sap.

Aridelle: f. A leane, or carrian tit; an ill fauoured fleshlesse iade; also, an Anotamie, or bodie whereon there is nought left but skin, and bone.

Aridité: f. Drinesse; witherednesse; want of humour, lacke of moisture.

Arietant. Ramming, iurring, leacherous; euer fighting, or leaping; as a Ramme, at rut.

Arignée. Seeke Araignée. Arigot. as Argot; also, a (musicall) Recorder. Aristocratie: f. An Aristocratie; the gouernment of Nobles; or of some few of the greatest men in a State.

Aristocratique. Aristocraticall, ruled by Nobles, gouerned by some few great men.

Aristocratiquement. Lordly, Aristocratically.

Aristolochie: f. Hartwort, Birthwort.  Aristolochie clematite. Climing Birthwort.  Aristolochie longue. Long Birthwort, or male Birthwort.  Aristolochie ronde. Round, or female Birthwort.

Arithmeticien: m. An Arithmetician.

Arithmetique: f. Arithmeticke; the art of numbers, or of numbering.

Armaire: com. A Cupboord, Ambrie, little presse; any hole, or box contriued in, or against, a wall; any small hollow roome, or place, wherein things may be set, laid vp, and kept; Looke Armoire. Armaison: f. cecy est plus d'armaison que cela. This is more strong, better armed, fitter for fight, or to endure a fight, than that.

Armateur: m. An Armer, a prouider of armes, or weapons for; whence;  Armateurs de navires. Such as vndertake to furnish shipping with powder, bullets, nayles, chaine-shot, wild-fire, &c.

Arme: f. A weapon; Looke Armes; also, as Ame; (in Languedoc.) Armé: m. ée: f. Armed, harnessed; furnished with arms,prouided of weapons; fortified, fenced.   Poisson armé. A shell-fish.

Armée: f. An armie, or hoast.

Armelin: m. The (hate-spot) Ermelin, or Ermin.

Armement: m. An arming; also, warlike prouision, as powder, bullets, chaine-shot, wild-fire, &c, for shipping.

Armer. To arme, or harnesse; to put on, or clad in, armour; to furnish with armes, or weapons; to strengthen, fortifie, fence; to prouide for, or against warre.  Cheval qui s'arme. That armes, or defends himselfe, (by clapping his bit vnto his breast, whereby the curbe hath little or no power ouer him.)  Contre la nuict s'arment les Limaçons: Prov. viz. Put forth their hornes.

Armeries. as Armoires.

Armes: f. Harnesse, armour; weapons; armes offensiue, and defensiue; also, Armes; Cognisances, or Scutcheons of armes; also, the two great tuskes, or tushes of a wild Boare. Armes d'ast. Any weapons, that are vsually hurled, or cast at an enemie; or, as; Armes d'hante, ou d'haste; (most properly) such weapons as haue long heads, and handles; as darts, iavelins; pikes, or speares, &c.  Cotte d'armes. A Coat-armour; also, a Heraulds coat.  Espée d'armes. Looke Espée. Faicts d'armes. Acts, or feats of Chiualrie; deeds of prowesse; warlike, or valourous atchieuements.  Homme d'armes. A man of armes; one that serues in compleat armour, on a great horse.  Faire armes. To fight; also, to fight most valiantly.  Il en parla comme vn escolier d'armes. Hee spake of it ignorantly, improperly, impertinently, or he knew not what.  D'oiseaux, de chiens, d'armes, & d'amours, pour vn plaisir mille douleurs: Prov. Who fall in loue, or follow Hawkes, hounds, armes, for one delight sustain a thousand harmes.

Armet: m. An Helmet, or (horsemans) head-peece.

Armeurerie: f. Armorie; armor; armes.

Armeures. as Armures. Armilles: f. Th' yron rings, or braces, wherein the gudgeons of a (wheeles) spindle turne; also, certaine little round members in pillars, &c.

Arminette: f. as Erminette. Armoire: com. as Armaire; An ambrie; cupboord; box; little booke-presse; &c; (and hence) also, the Pix wherein the Sacrament is kept.  Armoire tournant. The round, and turning box (contriued in a Nunnerie wall) whereby the sisters receiue (vnseene) either gifts, or necessaries.

Armoires: f. The flowers called Sweet-Iohns, or Sweet-Williams, Tolmeyners, and London tufts.

Armoirie: f. An armorie, or store-house for armes.

Armoiries. Armes, Cognisances, Scutcheons, coats of armes; also, as Armoires. Armoirié: m. ée: f. Grauen, or charged with armes; set thicke with Scutcheons of Armes; bearing armes.

Armoise: f. The hearbe called Mugwort, or Mothewort.  Armoise mince-fueilles, ou à petites fueilles; thin-leaued Mugwort.   Petite armoise. The same, and a third, or lesse kind thereof.

Armoisin: m. Taffata.

Armoisin: m. ine: f. Of Taffata; silken.

Armoisine: f. as Armoisin: m. Armoniac. Armoniacum; a Gumme issuing from the Cyrenian Ferula, or Fennell-giant.

Armoniac. Of, or seasoned with, Armoniacum.  Sel Armoniac. Looke Sel. Armonie: f. Seeke Harmonie. Armorial: m. ale: f. Belonging vnto armor; or expressing, or setting out ones armes.

Armorier: m. An Armorer, or Harnesse-maker.

Armories. as Armoires. Armottes: f. A broth, or pap, made of meale steeped in liquor, and sodden vntill it be thicke.

Armoux. choux armoux. A kind of greene Coleworts whose leaues are of an ouall forme.

Armoyer. To tip, or decke the haft of a knife, or handle of a sword, with any worke: (vieil mot.)

Armoyse. Mugwort; Looke Armoise.

Armoysine. as Armoisine.

Armure: f. Harnesse, or Armour for the bodie. L'armure d'un poisson. The shell, or scales of a fish. Armures. (As vsuall as in the Singular number) arms, harnesse, armour for the bodie.