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 Oeilladier: m. ere: f. Belonging to the eye, or looke; also, eying often, affectionately, or wantonly.

Oeillage de Vin. The filling vp of leakie Wine vessels.

Oeillarder. as Oeillader. Oeillé: m. ée: f. Full of eyes, decked or set thicke with eyes, like a Peacocks tayle; also, filled vp, as a leaking Wine vessell.

Oeiller les Vins. To fill vp Wine veßels which haue leaked.

Oeilleres. Bride à oeilleres. A bridle with eye-flaps for a fore-horse.

Oeillet: m. A little eye; also, an oylet-hole; also, the young bud of a tree, &c; also, a Gilliflower; also, a Pinke.  Oeillet Dieu. Rose-Campion (a flower.)  Oeillet d'Inde. The Turkie, or Affrican Marigold, or Gilliflower; also, the French Marigold, or Gingioline flower (which is the single kind of the Affrican.)  Oeillets de Paris. as Catherinettes. Oeillet de Provence. The ordinarie great, red, and double Cloue-Gilliflower.  Oeillet de rosette. A lesse kind of the red Cloue-Gilliflower.  Oeillet sauvage. A Pinke; also, the sweet William, &c.  Oeillet de Turquie. as Oeillet d'Inde. Bois ont oreilles, & champs oeillets: Prov. Woods haue their eares, and fields their eyes; euerie thing hath some instrument of, or helpe for, discouerie.

Oeilleté: m. ée: f. Full of eyes (like ill-prest cheese, or light-wrought bread;) also, full of oylet holes.

Oeilleton: m. A Pinke, or small Gilliflower; also, a little bud.

Oeillier: m. ere: f. Of, or belonging to, an eye.  Veine oeilliere. Seeke Veine. Oeillieres: f. The eye-teeth, or tushes.

Oesipe: m. The filth, and sweatie greasinesse of wooll growing on the flanke, and shoulders of a Sheepe.

Oeson: m. The weason, or throat-pipe.

Oesophage: m. The mouth of the stomack; also, the pipe that reaches from the mouth to the stomacke.

Oest: m. The East wind, or coast.

Oestre Iunonique. A gad-bee, horse-flye, dun-flye, brim-*sey, brizze. ¶Rab.

Oeuf: m. An egge. Oeufs brouillez. Looke Brouillé. Oeufs de Pasques. Past, or Pasch-egges, egges giuen at Easter; whence; Ils s'y attendoient comme à leurs oeufs de Pasques. They expected it certainely, they looked assuredly, or greedily, for it. Donner des oeufs de Pasques à toutes restes. To bethwacke, belamme, belabor soundly; to lay about him lustily. Oeuf des Philosophes. The vessell wherein Alchymists put the stuffe which they hope will yeeld the Philosophers stone. Oeufs des poissons. The spawne of fishes; whence; Harenc aux oeufs. A full-rowed, or hard-rowed Herring. Oeufs à la riblette. Egges and Collops. Couver vn mauvais oeuf. To hatch an ill egge; to breed an vngracious child; to nourish an vnluckie, or mischieuous designe. Faire de ses oeufs poules. To count his chickens before they be hatched. Il n'y fera rien, non plus que le coq sur les oeufs. He cannot be drawne to attend, or meddle in it. Quitter vn bœuf pour prendre vn oeuf. To quit a great, for the gaine of a small, thing; to change for the worse.  Tondre sur vn oeuf. To quarrell without cause, or find a fault where there is none; also, to pick a gaine out of a most bare, or barren commoditie.  Vn oeuf n'est rien; deux font grand bien; trois c'est assez; quatre c'est tort; cinq c'est la mort: Pro. One egge is none, two somewhat, three enow; foure be too much, fiue giue a deadlie blow.  De mauvais corbeau mauvais oeuf: Pro. An ill bird layes a naughtie egge; lewd creatures breed lewd creatures; as the damme or sire, such is the race.  Mieux vaut en paix vn oeuf qu'en guerre vn bœuf: Pro. Better is an egge in peace, then an Ox in warre.  Noire geline pond blanc oeuf: Pro. Looke Noir. Tel cuide avoir des oeufs au feu qui n'a que les escailles: Pro. Looke Escaille. Vne belle chose est vn oeuf: Pro. An egg's a beautifull, or goodlie thing.

Oeuf-molette. Seeke Omelette. Oeuvance. as Oeuve; (at Blois.) Oeuve: f. The rowe, or spawne of a fish.

Oeuvé: m. ée: f. Layed, or set on, as an egge; also, spawned.

Oeuvre: f. A worke; deed; businesse; labour, trauaile, toyle; also, worke, or workmanship; also, a place, or part of a Parish Church, wherein the Church-wardens, &c, sit together on feastiuall dayes.  Oeuvre blanche; &, faiseur d'oeuvre blanche. Looke Blanc. Oeuvres fainctes. Jmagerie, or imboßed worke, set on, or appearing but halfe without, a wall.  Oeuvre de loy. An actuall dispossession, or transport of aliened Jnheritances, Rents, Seruices, &c, suffered, or passed before the Landlord thereof, or his steward; or before other officers of the iurisdiction of the place.  Oeuvre de singe. An idle, foolish, lewd, or impure act.  Bois d'oeuvre. Great Timber squared, cut out, or fitted for vse.  Chef d'oeuvre. A Maister-peece.  Dedans, ou dehors oeuvre. Within, or without the walls of a house, &c; (a workmanlie tearme.)  Maistre des oeuvres. The Surueyor, or Ouerseer of the Kings workes.  Maistre des basses oeuvres. A Jakes-feyer.  Maistre des hautes oeuvres. A Hangman.  Mortes oeuvres. The outside of a Ship from the wales vpward.  Mettre toutes pierres en oeuvre. Looke Mettre. À l'oeure on cognoist l'ouvrier: Pro. One may discerne a workman by his worke.  À bon iour bon oeuvre: Prov. A goodlie act on a godlie day; or, as we say, the better day the better work; (tis also taken Jronically, and in a contrarie sence) he hath honoured so good a day with a goodlie act indeed; (of one that on a holy day commits a haynous deed.)  Il n'est oeuvre que d'ouvriers: Pro. There's no work, but by workmen, rightly done.  Le cœur fait l'oeuvre non pas les grands iours: Pro. Tis not long dayes, but willing hearts, that soon dispatch a businesse.  Tel autheur tel oeuvre: Prov. Like Author like worke; such as the writer such his booke.

Of. (An Interiection expressing a suddaine feare; astonishment, sence of paine, or of disdaine;) Oh, Ah, alas; out, fy, farre be it.