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 Ouvertement. Ouertly, openly; euidently, apparently, cleerely, plainely; publickly.

Ouverture: f. An ouerture, or opening; an entrance, hole, beginning made, path begun or beaten vnto; a motion made; also, an opening, manifestation, discouerie, vncouering.  L'ouverture des Estats. Th' assemblie of Parliament men; the beginning of their conference; the first Session.  Ouverture de fief. The change of Lord, or of Tenant.  Ouverture de rachapt. A fine due (in certaine cases) to the Lord feudal from a new possessor (Lord, or tenant) of an inferiour fief. Ouverture de Regale. The vacancie of a benefice thats subiect vnto Droict de Regale. Ouvertures de vendanges. A beginning of Grape-haruest, appointed or permitted by the Judge of the place.

Ouvrage: m. A worke; also, worke; also, workmanship.  Ouvrage de Marqueterie. Checker-worke, or Inlaid worke, of sundrie colours.  Ouvrage Moresque. Moreske worke; Looke Moresque. Ouvrage de commun ouvrage de nul: Prov. Euerie bodies worke is no bodies worke; that which euerie one can doe is not worth doing; or, as good doe nothing as worke for a multitude.  Tel ouvrier tel ouvrage: Prov. Such as the workeman such his worke.

Ouvragé: m. ée: f. Wrought with a needle, sowed.

Ouvrager. To worke needle-worke, to sow.

Ouvrant: m. ante: f. Opening; also, working.

Ouvré: m. ée: f. Wrought, laboured, trauelled.

Ouvrée: f. The eighth part of a Bourgonian Iournau; Looke Iournau. Ouvrer. To worke; to labour, trauell, doe, act; indeuor.  Il ouvre sagement en cet affaire. He carries himselfe discreetly in this businesse.  Le temps ouvre: Prov. Time workes (or weares) out euerie thing.

Ouvreur: m. An opener.

Ouvrier: m. A workeman; an Artificer, or handicraftsman; his crafts-maister; & generally, any worker, actor, framer, inuenter, contriuer, deuiser; also, an vndertaker. Chaud ouvrier. (as we say) A hot chapman. De main d'ouvrier. Done workmanly, framed excellently, in all perfection. Ouvrier gaillard cele son Art: Prov. Th' industrious workeman shewes his skill to few. Ouvrier mediocre à cheval; ouvrier gentil à l'hospital: Prov. The meane workman labours hard, & by much light gaine comes to a heauie purse; the skilfull one is (commonly) proud, vnthriftie, or sloathfull; and dies a wretched, or diseased begger. Meschant ouvrier ne trouvera ja bons outils: Pro. Nere will the bungler fit him with good tooles. Tel ouvrier tel ouvrage: Prov. A workman like his worke; or, like workeman like worke. À l'oeuvre on cognoist l'ouvrier: Prov. The worke bewrayes the man that did it. À l'hospital les bons ouvriers, en dignité les gros asniers: Prov. Bunglers grow rich, good workemen wretched; the cogging sot gets honour while the cunning workman starues. Il est plus d'ouvriers que de maistres: Prov. There be more workemen then worke-maisters.  Il n'est oeuvre que d'ouvriers: Prov. No worke is rightly done but what a workeman does.

Ouvrier: m. ere: f. Working, labouring, trauelling; also, prompt, expert, of good dexteritie in a thing; whence;  Le gerfaut est ouvrier de prendre les oiseaux de riviere. The Gerfaulcon is apt, able, or accustomed, to prey on riuer fowle.  Iour ouvrier. A workie-day, a weeke-day (which is no holy-day.)  De main ouvriere. as De main d'ouvrier. Ouvriere: f. A workewoman.

Ouvrir. To open; to set open; to disclose, discouer, bewray.  s'Ouvrir. To gape, chap, cleaue, riue; to part, burst, or goe asunder, of it selfe.  Ouvrir les Estats. To call, assemble, or begin a Parliament.

Ouvroir: m. A worke-house, or shop to worke in.

Ouy: m. ouïe: f. Heard, hearkened, listened vnto.

Ouy. Yes, yea.

Ouye: f. Eare, attention, hearing; also, an eare; also, the hearbe called great Sengreene, or great Housleeke.  Les ouyes de poissons. The gills of ordinarie fishes; but of huge ones (as Whalls, &c,) the holes wherout they spout water.  Les ouyes d'vne Violle. The sound-holes of a Violl.  Ie n'en ay rien que l'ouye. I haue it no otherwise then by report, I came to it onely by hearesay.

Ouystres: f. Oysters.

Oxicrat. Looke Oxycrat. Oxidercique: com. Sharpening, or cleering the sight.

Oxigone. A sharpe-pointed angle.

Oximel: m. Syrop of vineger (made of honie, water, and vineger.)  Oximel squillitique. Hath the iuyce of the Sea-onion added vnto it.

Oxirrhodin: m. A liquid medecine of vineger and Rose-water; applied to the heads of the franticke.

Oxisacre. Syrop made of vineger and sugar.

Oxugoine: com. Sharpe-angled, sharpe-cornered.

Oxycedre. Cedar Juniper, the crimson or pricklie Cedar.

Oxycrat: m. A potion, or drinke, made of vineger mingled with water.

Oxymel. as Oximel. Oya. ''(An Interiection of wondering) is it possible! &c.''

Oyard: m. A Gander.

Oye: f. A Goose. Oye de mer. A Porpose, (because nosed like a Goose.) Oye nonnette. A Brigander. Bec d'oye. Wild Tansie, Siluer weed; also, the Porpose, or Sea-hog. Col d'oye. The Port, or Vpset of some Bits, made round, and bowing like the necke of a Goose. Merde oye. Goose-turd greene. Patte d'oye. Looke Patte. La petite oye. The giblets of a Goose; also, the bellie, and inwards or intralls, of other edible creatures. Pied d'oye. Goose-foot, wild Orache; an hearb which is also called Swines-bane, because it kills the swine that eat of it. Verd d'oye. A yellowish, or Goose-turd greene. Ferrer les oyes. To spend both time, and labour verie vainely.