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 Oiseau: m. A bird, a fowle; and (particularly) a Hawke; also, a Hodd; the Tray wherein Masons, &c, carrie their Mortar.  Oiseau de bec. A hungrie, or greedie Parasite; one in whom there is nothing but words.  Oiseau dunette. A Thrush.  Oiseau de S. Martin. A Ring-tayle, or Hen-harme.  Oiseau de meurte, ou de nerte. A Mirtle Thrush.  Oiseau de Paradis. Looke Paradis. Oiseau de proye. A Hawke, or Kite.  Langue d'oiseau. Ashen keyes.  Pain d'oiseau. Stone-crop, Stone-hore, Mouse-tayle, wild Prick-madame, Jacke of the Buttrie.  Parler comme vn oiseau en cage. To babble, tattle, chatter, talke much to little purpose.  Oiseau debonnaire de luy mesme se fait: Pro. The gentle Hawke (halfe) makes, or mannes, her selfe; a well-bred person is of a vertuous disposition, needes not much tutoring, will of himselfe be good.  L'oiseau gazouille selon qu'il est embecqué: Pro. A man vsually speakes as his humor moues, gaine leads, or passion vrges him; or (like a good bird) he vtters onely that which he was bid, or taught, to say.  À tous oiseaux leurs nids sont beaux: Pro. To euerie bird her neast seemes faire; most men like houses of their owne contriuing.  D'oiseaux, de chiens, d'armes, & d'amours, pour vn plaisir mille douleurs: Pro. Looke Amour, or Armes. Tel oiseau tel nid: Pro. Like ayerie like Hawke; such as the bird such is her neast.  Vieil oiseau ne se prend à reths: Pro. The old (in experience) are not subiect to surprisalls.  Nid tissu oiseau envolé : Prov. Tis a signe that the birds are flowen when Spiders build ouer the neast.  Qui veut prendre vn oiseau qu'il ne l'effarouche: Pro. Deale gently with the bird thou mean'st to catch; be not too harsh to those thou faine wouldst win.  Trop tard crie l'oiseau quand il est pris: Pro. When mischiefes are befallen complaints auaile not.

Oisel. as Oiseau. Oiseler. To fall a birding, or flye out at birds, like a giddie, or ill-made Hawke.  Oiseler vn faulcon sur la grue. To flesh or fly her vpon, to make or lureher vnto, the Crane.

Oiselerie: f. Fowling, bird-hunting, bird-catching; a flying at, or preying on, birds.

Oiselet: m. A little bird.

Oiseleur: m. A Fowler, or Bird-catcher.

Oiseleur: m. eure: f. Of, or belonging to, a bird.

Oiselier. as Oiseleur; also, a keeper (or one that hath the charge) of birds, or of fowle.

Oiseliere: f. as Oiselerie; also, a cage for birds, a coope for fowle.

Oiseux: m. euse: f. Lither, sloathfull, sluggish, full of idlenesse; whence;  Fille oiseuse rarement vertuëuse: Prov. Oisif: m. iue: f. Lither, lazie, sloathfull, idle, negligent, retchleße; languishing; that hath but little to doe, or if he had much, would doe but little.  Fille oisive à mal pensive: Pro. Looke Fille. Oisillon: m. A young bird, or small bird.  Il bat le buisson sans prendre l'oisillon. He beats the bush, and gets not a bird; much fruitleße paines he takes.

Oisivement. Litherly, lazily, sloathfully, idly.

Oisiveté: f. Sloath, idleneße, litherneße, lazineße; negligence, retchlesnesse; also, rest, vacancie; a languishing, or hurtfull ease. Oison: m. A greene-Goose, or young Goose; a Gosling.  Oison bridé. A sot, asse, gull, ninnie, noddie.  La mort aux oisons. Henbane; also, Hemlocks.  Pied d'oison. Goose-foot, wild Orache.  Fourni d'entendement comme vn oison de creste. As wise as Waltams Calfe.  Oison verd bon, grison gueres bon: Prov. See Grison. L'oison n'est pas digne de monstrer les pasquis à l'oye: Prov. (A checke for young men that presume to teach their elders.)  Les oisons menent paistre les oyes: Prov. (Said when subiects gouerne their Princes, children their parents, meane men the Magistrates, and seruants or schollers their maisters; and is a note as well of weakenesse in the Geese, as of sawcineße in the Goslings.)  L'oye meine l'oison paistre: Prov. The Goose leads out the Gosling to the field; (contrarie to the former, and an argument of a well-proportioned gouernment.)

Oistre. as Huistre. Oistriere. Looke Huistriere. Oleagineux: m. euse: f. Oylie, full of oyle; also, of an Oliue, or Oliue tree.

Oleaginité: f. Oylinesse, or an oylie substance.

Oleandre. The Rose tree, Rose Bay, Rose Lawrell, Rose Bay tree.

Oleastre: m. A wild Oliue tree.

Olecrane: m. The end, or tip of the elbow; also, the elbow it selfe.

Olëeux: m. euse: f. Oylie, full of oyle.

Oliban: m. Olibanum; Frankincense in drops; (ignorant Apothecaries tearme a kind of Rosen, great Jncens, or Thus; and the right Incens, Olibanum; whereas Olibanum (in Greeke Libanos) and Thus be but one, and the same thing.)

Oliette: f. Poppie, Cheßbolls, or Cheese-bowles. ¶Wallon. Oligarchie: f. An Oligarchie; or, the absolute gouernment of a few principall men.

Oligophore. Vin ol. Weake, or small Wine; such as can beare but little water.

Olimpiade. as Olympiade. Olivaire: com. Of an Oliue; like an Oliue.  Cautere olivaire. See Cautere. Olivastre: m. A wild Oliue tree.

Olive: f. An Oliue; also, as Canepetiere. Olivete: f. A ground, or groue of Oliue trees.

Olivette: f. A little Oliue; also, a little Oliue-bitt for a horse.

Olivier: m. An Oliue tree.  Olivier domestic. The manured Oliue tree.  Olivier Ethyopic. The wild Oliue tree of Ethyopia.  Il a tous ses oliviers courans. He hath his full swindge or libertie, he doth what he list.

Olivot: m. A great Oliue.

Olle: f. A seething pot.

Ollonnes. as Aulonnes. Olmeau: m. A young, or little Elme.

Olometre. An Instrument wherewith all kind of dimēsions are, or all a thing may be, measured.

Olonne: f. Canuas for the sayle of a ship; (as in Aulonnes;) and sometimes also the sayle it selfe.

Olphe. The Matt-rush, or Matt-weed. ¶Provençal.

Olybrius: m. The name of a swaggering Worthie, mentioned in some of the Romans (or old, and fabulous Poesies, or Histories) of France.