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 the name of this dignitie, and ranked betweene an Earledome, and Vicountie; (Looke in the later end of the word Prince.)

Principe: m. A Principle, Maxime, ground of Art; also, a beginning, or a beginner.

Principesque: com. Princelie, royall, soueraigne.

Principié: m. ée: f. Begun, or in breeding.

Principion: m. A pettie Prince.

Prinfief. Le Seigneur de p. The Lord Paramount, or immediat Lord, of an inheritance charged with rent.

Pringalle: f. A fashion of warlike Engine vsed in old time.

Pringert: m. A kind of small bird.

Prins: m. inse: f. Taken; seised, &c; Looke Pris. Prinsault. De pr. Presently, immediatly, suddainely, at an instant, at the first chop, effort, or iumpe; out of hand.

Prinsautier: m. A starter, a nimble iumper.

Prinsautier: m. ere: f. Suddaine, quicke, nimble, readie, instant, (quickly) present, at hand.

Prinse: f. A taking, seizing; a catching, or laying hold on; Looke Prise. Printaner. To spring, or flourish as the Spring.

Printanier: m. ere: f. Earlie, of the Spring.

Printemps: m. The Spring, or Spring time.

Priorité: f. Prioritie, senioritie, precedencie, auncientnesse, eldership; a being, or going, before others.

Pris: m. The price, rate; value; accompt, respect, estimation; worth, of things; also, the prize, reward, or honour got by, kept for, or due vnto, the best deseruer in a Justs, &c.  À pris d'argent. For money.  Au pris que. Euer as.   À quelque pris qu'est le bled. Whatsoeuer it cost me, how deerely soeuer I pay for it.  Toute chose se vend au pris de l'oeil: Pro. All things are sold at the price th' eye sets on them.

Pris: m. ise: f. Taken; seized, caught, apprehended, receiued, accepted of; imbraced, vndertaken; also, put, or put on.  Corne prise. Growne statelie, proud, intollerable.  Eau prise, & vin pris. Turned, or curdled; growne thicke, and dead withall.  Homme bien pris. Well set, well vnderlayed.  Pris à coup perdu. Gotten more by good hap then any great cunning.  Pris à per & à couche. Surprised, ouerraught, in danger, met with, euerie way.  Pris comme le More. Looke More. Pris du nez. That hath the Murre, whose nose is stuffed, or stopped with cold.  Cela a desia pris coup. Hath alreadie gotten a speeding, or deadlie blow; is brought to that state, that it cannot long subsist.  Elle a pris sa teste. She is resolued to doe but what she list.  Il luy a pris vne verruë. The giddie worme bites him, the toy hath taken him in the head.  Les plus rouges y sont pris. Looke Rouge. Les plus rusez sont les premiers pris: Prov. The craftiest are the soonest caught.  Trop tard crie l'oiseau quand il est pris: Pro. Mischiefes being in, complaints are out of, date.

Prisage: m. A prisage, prising, praising, rating, valuing.

Prise: f. as Prisage; also, a taking, seizing; an arrest, or seisure; a catching, a laying hold, or hands on; also, a locke, or hold in wrastling; any aduantage; also, a pike, or quarrell; also, a bootie, or prize; also, the death, or fall of a hunted beast.  Prise de marres. A kind of penaltie for the non-payment of Cens at the day whereon they are due.  Prise de paupieres. The agglutination of the eye-lids; when they cleaue either together, or to the hornie, or coniunctiue membrane, by meanes of some vlcer which hath beene ill cured.  De belle prise. Faire, well liking, worth the taking, acceptable or gracious to the eye.  De bonne prise. Good, or lawfull prize; also, full ripe, in season, fit to be cropped, gathered, or gotten.  Corner prise. Cela cornoit prise. That finished the chase, that made an end of the matter.  Estre aux prises. To be closed, locked, or grapled together; to tug one another, to wrastle, or striue with one another.  C'est vne bonne prise que d'un ieune loup: Prov. A young Wolfe is a game worth catching.

Prisé: m. ée: f. Prised, rated, valued, esteemed.

Prisée: f. A prisall, rate, valuation; a prising, rating, valuing.

Priser. To prise; esteeme, respect, reckon, accompt of; also, to tax, rate, value, set a price on.  À l'hostel priser, & au marché vendre: Prov. Rate thy commodities at home, but sell them abroad.  Qui bien se cognoit peu se prise, qui peu se prise Dieu l'avise: Pro. He that himselfe knowes well, himselfe despises, the selfe-despiser God heeds, and aduises.

Priserie: f. A prising, or praising; a rating, or valuing.

Priseur: m. A priser, praiser, price-setter; a rater, valuer, taxer.

Prisme. Looke Prime. Prison: f. A Prison, Jayle, or Gaole.  Oncques n'y eut laides amours, ny belle prison: Pro. There neuer was faire prison, nor foule loue.

Prisonnier: m. A prisoner.  Tous les prisonniers s'en sont fuys de sa bourse. All manner of pence are flowne out of his purse.

Priste. A kind of Whall, or huge fish, whose snowt is verie long, and notched like a Saw.

Pristine: com. Former; old, auncient; wonted, accustomed; also, late, or but little past.

Privaise: f. Lieu ou l'on fait les privez; or a Pipe, or Funnell, for the voiding of the ill aire of a Priuie. Privation: f. A priuation, depriuing, bereauing, with-*drawing of; a want, or wanting; a lacking, or being without.

Privativement. Exclusiuely, by way of exclusion, or to the putting out of others.  Cela luy appartient privativement à tous autres. Belongeth onely to him, no other hath ought to doe withall.

Privauté: f. Priuacie, priuate familiaritie or friendship, inward conuersation or acquaintance.

Privé: m. A Priuie, Iakes, house of Office.  En son privé. Priuately, secretly, closely, retiredly,within his owne doores, without gadding, or medling, abroad; at his owne home.

Privé: m. ée: f. Depriued, reaued, bereft of; also, priuie, close, or secret; also, priuat, familiar, inward, bold with, neere vnto, as one of his owne; tame, gentle, tractable, domesticall; also, ordinarie; homelie; without charge, office, or authoritie in the Commonwealth. D'un larron privé on ne se peut garder: Prov. No creature can auoid the priuie theefe.