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 Plenté: f. Plentie, store, abundance, fulnesse, ynough.

Pleonasmique: com. Superfluous, redundant.

Plessé: m. ée: f. Plashed, as young boughes.

Plesser. To plash; to bow, fould, or plait young branches one within another; also, to thicken a hedge, or couer a walke, by plashing.

Plessis: m. The plashing of trees; the plaiting, or foulding of their tender branches, one within the other; alsa, a hedge, or walke of plashed trees, &c.

Plet. as Plaid; or, as Plect. Plethore: f. Fullneße, or abundance of good humors in the bodie; also, head-ache by the superfluitie there-*of.

Plethorique: com. Fat, grosse, corpulent, ouer-full of good humors.

Plevi: m. ie: f. Warranted, assured, whose goodnesse, or sufficiencie is vndertaken for.  Fille plevie. Promised in mariage; affianced.

Plevine. as Pleuvine. Pleviner. To pleuine, warrant, be suretie, giue pledges, vndertake, or promise, for.

Plevir. The same; &, Plevir l'emende; as Pleger l'emende. Pleur: m. A teare; a trickle; also, weeping, or lamentation.

Pleurable: com. Lamentable; fit to be wept, or wailed for.

Pleurant: m. ante: f. Weeping, whining, crying, shedding teares; wailing, lamenting.  Verre pleurant. Which being ouer-full runnes ouer.

Pleurard: m. A weeper, crier, whiner, wailer.

Pleúre: f. A thinne, and smooth skinne wherewith th' inside of the ribs is couered.

Pleuré: m. ée: f. Wept; whined, cried for; deplored, bewailed, bemoaned.

Pleurement: m. A weeping; a crying, whining, shedding of teares; a lamenting, wailing, howling.

Pleure-pain: m. A niggardlie wretch; a puling micher or miser; a miserable house-keeper; one whom it grieues to bestow any meat on himselfe, or but a mite on others.

Pleurer. To weepe, crie, whine, shed teares; to moane, lament, waile, howle.  Assez peut pleurer qui n'a nul qui l'appaise: Prov. He may weepe his eyes out that hath none to appease him.  Autant pleure mal batu que bien batu. As much the ill, as the well, beaten crieth; (whence;)  Mal batu longuement pleure: Prov. À coeur dolent l'oeil pleure: Prov. A weeping eye, a wofull heart.  Bien courroucé de peu pleure: Prov. He thats angred agood can hardly weepe.  Femme rit quand elle peut, & pleure quand elle veut: Prov. Looke Femme. La mere du timide ne sçait que c'est de pleurer: Prov. The dame whose sonne's a coward seldome weepes.  Les belles robbes pleurent sur des espaules indignes: Prov. Faire garments weepe vpon vnworthie shoulders.  Tel au matin rit qui au soir pleure: Prov. No glad man knowes how soone he may be sorie.

Pleuresie: f. A Pleurisie.

Pleuretique: com. Sicke of, or subiect vnto, a Pleurisie. Membrane pleuretique. as Pleúre. Pleureur: m. A weeper, a crier.

Pleureux: m. euse: f. Euer weeping, full of teares. Pleust à Dieu. I would to God; Looke Plaire. Pleuvi: m. ie: f. as Plevi; also, quit, absolued, released.

Pleuvine: f. A warrant, warrantie, assurance, vndertaking for, the goodneße, or sufficiencie of.

Pleuviner. as Pleviner; also, as Plouviner. Pleuvir. To warrant, assure, vndertake, paße his promise, giue his word, for.  Pleuvir vne fille. To affiance a maiden, to promise her in mariage: ¶Pic. Pleuvoir. To raine; Seeke Plouvoir. Pli: m. A plait, fould, lay; bought; wrinkle, crumple; also, a habit, or impression.  Pli du mitan. The closing of the middle of a Canon-*bit.  Il a prins son pli. (Said of an obdurate, and incorrigible disposition; or of one in whom a humor, whatso-*euer, is turned to a habit;) he will neuer be other then he is.  Les Parlemens prindrent divers plis sous tels, & tels Rois; viz. Tooke diuers formes vnder, got sundrie courses of proceeding from, such and such Kings.

Pliable: com. Pliable; fit, or easie, to be foulded, bowed, bent.

Pliage: m. A foulding, plying, plaiting, bending, bowing.

Pliaison: f. as Pliement. Plicature: f. A foulding, plaiting, bowing, bending.

Plie: f. A Plaice (fish, especially, a great one.)

Plié: m. ée: f. Foulded, plaited; plied; wried, bent, bowed; wrapped, or put vp; also, wrinkled, or crumpled.

Pliement: m. A foulding, plaiting; plying, bending, bowing; turning, wrying.

Plier. To fould, plait; plie, bend, bow; turne, wrie; wrap vp; also, to wrinkle.  Plier ses cartes. To put vp his cards.  Plier le coude. To keepe his elbow in continuall action; to lift the pot often to his head; See Coude. Plier le gantelet. To yeeld, or submit himselfe.  Mieux vaut plier que rompre: Prov. Better bow then breake; viz. Better to yeeld vnto good aduice, or the violent sway of the time, then by following his own opinion, or humor, to draw on himselfe a certaine destruction: And of an obstinate, and incorrigible creature they say, Il rompera plustost qu'il ne pliera; and yet sometimes it is applied vnto a constant looser, or hazardor, of his life, in defence of a religious, and knowne, truth.

Plieur: m. A foulder, plaiter; plier, bender, bower; also, a wrapper, foulder, or putter, vp of.

Plieur. (Adiectiuely) Foulding, plaiting; plying, bowing, bending; whence;  Muscles plieurs. Two muskles (a great, and a little one) whereby the toes are bowed.

Plieure. as Pliement. Plieuse: f. A woman that foulds, plaits; bends, bowes.

Plinthe: f. A Plinth, or Slipper; a flat, and square peece of Masonrie, &c, placed sometimes aboue, sometimes below, the footstall (but euer the first of the Basis) of a piller, &c.

Plion: m. A kind of stiffe Ozier; See Buttet. Plionner. To wrinkle, crumple, frumple, ruffle, disorder, mumble.

Plis. as Pelis; also, the Plurall vnto Pli. Plissé: m. ée: f. Plaited, foulded, lapped vp; also, plashed, as a tree, &c.

Plisser. To plait, fould, lap vp, or one within ano-*