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 bones; to leaue essentiall, for most idle, things.  À bon chien bon os: Prov. Looke Chien. À vn bon chien n'escheut onques vn bon os: Pro. The honester a man is the lesse is his preferment; the worse his lucke.  Deux chiens ne s'accordent point à vn os: Prov. Two dogs, and a bone, agree not in one.  Qui a mangé le lard ronge l'os: Prov. Let him that hath eaten the best feed on the worst; or, he that hath fondly wasted his best flesh, will be faine, at length, to picke the bones.  Souvent à mauvais chien tombe vn bon os en gueule: Prov. The veriest knaue hath oftentimes best lucke.

Osche, & Oscher. Looke Oche, & Ocher. Oscines: com. Singing birds; those especially which presage ought by their singing: ¶Rab. Oscitation: f. A gaping, yawning, sloath, idlenesse; negligence, retchlesnesse.

Osé: m. ée: f. Dared; presumed; aduentured.

Oser. To dare, presume, aduenture; haue the heart, or be so bold as, to doe a thing.

Oseraye: f. A groue, or ground of Oziers.

Osereux: m. euse: f. Full of; made with, Oziers.

Oseur: m. A hater; loather, detester.

Osier: m. The Ozier, red Withie, water Willow tree; also, Wicker; also, a basket of Wicker; also, a rod or twig of Ozier, or of any other such pliant wood.  Franc Osier. The small Withie, twig Withie, Ozier Withie, Spert.

Osiereux: m. euse: f. as Osereux. Osmonde: m. Osmund, Osmund the water man, Osmund Royall, water Fearne, S. Christophers hearbe.  Osmonde royal. The same.

Ossailler. To set, or worke, with bone.

Ossaillerie: f. Bone-worke; bone-stuffe; also, a working with bone.

Ossas: m. A great thicke bone.

Ossé: m. ée: f. Bonie, made of bone.

Ossec. as Lossec. Osselet: m. A little bone.  Osselets. The game tearmed Cockall, or Huckle-bones.  Batre le tambour à coups d'osselets. To play at dice, or huckle-bones on a drummes head.

Ossemens: m. Bones; also, the stones of Apricocks, Peaches, Dates, &c.

Osset. as Osselet. Ossu: m. uë: f. Bonie, big-boned, full of bones.

Ost: m. An Hoast, or Armie.  Ost banni. as Ban & Arriereban. Aide de l'ost. Th' assistance a vassall is bound to yeeld vnto his Lord, either by prouiding him of men, or furnishing him with money, when he goes to the warres.  Seruice de l'ost. Is (especially) the vassalls personall attendance on his Lord vnto the warres.  Les Vivres suivent l'ost: Prov. Looke Vivres. Ostade: f. The stuffe Worsted, or Woosted.  À demy ostade. Cut in panes, &c, like a Spanish leather Jerkin; (a Gascon phrase.)

Ostadine: f. Sattin of Cypres.

Ostage: m. An hostage, or pledge; a suretie, or gage; Looke Hostage. Ostager: m. One thats deliuered in hostage.

Ostager: m. To take in pledge, or for a pledge; to receiue as an hostage.

Ostarde: f. A Bustard.

Osté: m. ée: f. Taken or carried away, remoued, withdrawne. Ostel. as Hostel. Ostement: m. A remouing, or taking away.

Ostenseur: m. Th' index, or hand of an Astrolabe.

Ostension: f. A shewing.

Ostentateur: m. An ostentator, boaster, bragger, vaunter.

Ostentation: f. Ostentation, bragging, boasting, vaunting, cracking.

Ostentatrice: f. An ostentatrix, braggardesse, boasting woman.

Oster. To remoue, withdraw; pull, take, or carrie away; to put off; bereaue, or depriue of; to lay, or get aside; to discharge, or deliuer; driue, or expell, from.  Ostez vous de là. Beware of that, no more of that if you loue me; also, get you hence, lets see your backe.

Oste-vent: m. A Porch or Portall contriued, a peece of cloth hung, or set vp, before a doore, to keepe off the wind, &c; also, a penthouse.

Ostiere: f. A Spittle, or Hospitall; whence;  Vn gueux de l'ostiere. A rogue, vagabond, or Spittle begger.

Ostize. A rent henne, &c, paid, or deliuered, in lieu of a dwelling house.

Ostracisme: m. Ten years banishment, wherewith the Athenian State allayed th' immoderate power of their great men.

Ostruce: f. An Ostridge.

Otarde: f. A Bustard.

Otardeau: m. A young Bustard.

Otruche: f. Maisterwort, false Pellitorie of Spaine.

Ottelles. Ottells, or Oates (in Blazon.)

Ottroy. Looke Octroy. Où. (accented, an Aduerb) Where, whither, in what place; also, whereas.  D'où. Whence; of or from what place; also, whereof; as in this Prouerbe.  Non d'où tu es, mais d'où tu pais. Respect not whence thou commest, but whereof thou liuest.

Ou. (without accent, a Disiunctiue) Or, or else, either.

Ou. in some old Authors is vsed in stead of Au. Oüaille: f. A sheepe.

Oüaine: f. A sheath: ¶Pic. Oüaire: m. A great leather bottle, or budget like a bottle, for oyle, or drinke, to be kept, or carried in; (tis commonly made of a Goats skin, and the hairie side some-*times turned inward.)

Oval: m. ale: f. Ovall, shaped like an egge.

Ovale: f. An Ovall; an egge-like shape, or forme; a peece of worke fashioned like an egge.

Oüan: m. A gloue: ¶Pic. Oüan. The last yeare; (an old word.)

Oüarir. as Guarir: ¶Pic. Ovation: f. A small triumph granted to a Commaunder, that had gotten a bloudlesse victorie.

Oüazon. as Glazon: ¶Pic. Oubier: m. The sap, white, or softest part of wood, subiect to worme-eating.

Oublayerie: f. The making of Wafers.

Oublayeur: m. A Wafer-maker.

Oubli: m. Obliuion, forgetfulnesse.

Oubliages. Certaine annuall rents due vnto some particular Canons of Nostre Dame de Gracay en Berri. Oubliance: f. Obliuion, forgetfulnesse.

Oubliant. Obliuious, forgetfull; also, forgetting.

Oublie: f. A Wafer cake; such a one especially as is sweetened onely with honie; also, the thinne past that serues for the bottomes of Tartes, and March-panes.