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 verie couragious.

Passer. To passe, wend, goe, walke on afore; to proceed, or hold on a course; also, to flit, remoue, depart from; also, to surpasse, ouergoe, ouerrun, ouerreach, ouertop, ouergrow, surmount, exceed, excell; also, to passe, let goe, suffer, giue way vnto; and, to forget, omit, ouerslip; run sleightly ouer; also, to transport, conuey, or carrie ouer; also, to straine through; also, to decay, fade, wither; decease; vanish away. Se passer. Whence; Il se passe à peu de chose. He is contented, he maketh shift, he doth well ynough, he can well ynough away, with a little: &; De cela ie ne puis passer. I can by no meanes want it, I cannot be without it; &, Il a des biens pour se passer. He hath goods enow to rub on, or to serue his turne, with. Passer par l'arc S. Bernard. To be berayed, or to beray himselfe. Passer la capriole. To cut a caper. Passer sa cholere. To digest his choler, to coole himselfe. Passer vne coche. To driue a coach. Passer condemnation. See Condemnation. Passer son droict. To alien, paße, part with, forgoe, giue ouer, his right. Passer son envie. To satisfie his longing. Passer l'esponge sur. To deface, rase, or blot out. Passer par le fil de l'espée. To kill, slay, slaughter, murther, massacre. Passer fortune. To escape, or auoid, a misfortune. Passer par la fenestre. S'ils ne veulent passer par là qu'ils passent par la fenestre. If they refuse, or will none of that, let them take worse and spare not. Passer plusieurs choses par vn Fidelium. Hastily to shuffle, or huddle vp many things together; to slubber, or sleightly run ouer, a businesse. Passe sans flux. Not a pinne matter; let goe seeing it will be no better. Passer par là. Seeke Là; or, Passer par la fenestre. Passer en ligne de compte. To reckon, make account, or giue allowance, of. Passer oultre. To tipe vp the heeles, to die. Passer tout oultre. To passe, or proceed on; to goe through; also, to surpasse, ouerpasse, ouergoe. Passer le pas. To goe the way of all flesh, to die. Passer le pied sur la gorge à. To tread vnder his feet contemptuously, or conqueror-like. Passer par les piques. Looke Pique. Passer la plume par le bec à. To pull a boyes penne through his lips; and thence, to abuse, or vse like a child; also, to amuse, delay, driue off, by trifling pretences, or fond and ouer-familiar trickes. Passer procuration. To grant, yeeld, agree, or giue consent, vnto; also, to appoint an Atturney, or make a letter of Atturney vnto. Passer le Rubicon. To vndertake a great, or hazardous exploit. Passer le temps. To spend his time pleasantly, merrily, contentedly; to passe his dayes in all fulnesse of sensuall contentments; to take his full ease, to studie, or follow nothing but his delights. Vous l'eussiez fait passer pur le trou du chat. You might haue made him crept through the Cat-hole. Tout passe par ses tripes comme par le cul du singe. Nothing is too hot, or too cold for him; nothing doth come amisse vnto him. Assez fait qui fortune passe, & plus encor qui putain chasse: Prov. Looke Fortune. Le bon heur tost se passe qui n'en a soing: Prov. Good lucke vnheeded quickly slips away.  Quand le chou passe le cep le vigneron meurt de soif: Prov. When the Cabbidge growes faster then the Vine, there will be a great dearth of Wine.  Qui passe vn iour d'hyver, il passe vn de ses ennemis mortels: Pro. A mortall foe he scapes who scapes a Winters day.  Qui a des noix il en casse, & qui n'en a il s'en passe: Prov. (Appliable to such indifferent things as we can both spend, and spare.)  Semelles, & vin passent chemin: Prov. viz. Rid way apace.

Passerage. Dittander, Dittanie, Pepperwort.  Passerage sauvage. Cuckoe-flowers, Ladies-smockes, the lesse water Creße.

Passerat: m. A Sparrow.

Passereau: m. A Sparrow; (especially the cock; whence the Prouerbe;)  Passereaux, & moineaux sont de faux oiseaux. Cocke Sparrowes and (young) Monkes are (much of a disposition) shrewd lechers.

Passerelles. as Passerilles. Passerille. Raisins passerillez. Dried, and made Raisins of the Sunne.

Passerilles: f. Raisins of the Sunne.

Passerin: m. ine: f. Sparrow-like, of, or belonging to, a Sparrow.  Langue passerine. The fruit of the Ash, called Ashen keyes, or Kite keyes.

Passe-rose: f. The Passe-rose, or Pash-rose; (a great flower.)

Passeteau: m. A little Sparrow.

Passetemps: m. Pastime, sport, game, recreation, solace, delight.

Passe-velours: m. Flower gentle, Veluet flower, Flower-amour, Flower valure; (whereof there bee diuers kinds.)  Passe-velours branchu. The branched Flower gentle; which yeelds a white seed, whereas all other kinds haue a blacke one.  Passe-velours jaulne. The Gold flower, Gods flower, yellow or golden Steccados, the golden Flore-amour; also, a kind of Marigold thats as big as a Rose, but without any manner of sent.

Passe-vent. (An Epithite for a horse) swifter then the wind.

Passevolant: m. Th'Artillerie called a Base; also, a hireling whom a Captaine, on Muster dayes, foisteth into his companie; and generally, any such skipiacke, or base nimblesbie.

Passeur: m. A Ferrieman, or professed transporter of things ouer a riuer.

Passibilité: f. Passibilitie, suffering.

Passif: m. iue: f. Passiue, suffering; also, causing passion, or perturbation.  Debtes passives. Debts owed, or due by vs, vnto others.

Passion: f. Passion, perturbation, trouble, or affliction; also, a motion, disposition, inclination, or affection, of the mind; also, an accident, or symtome concurring with some disease to th'offence, or distemperature, of the bodie; whence;  Illiaque passion. Looke Illiaque. Nephretique passion. A paine in the reines, proceeding from a stone, or grauell residing therein.  Nulle maison sans passion: Pro. No house without some humour.

Passionné: m. ée: f. Passioned, passionate, perturbed,