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Proufitable: com. Profitable, gainefull, commodious, aduantageous.

Proufitablement. Profitably, gainefully, commodiously, aduantageously.

Proufitant. Gaining, profiting, thriuing by.

Proufité. Profited, gained, thriuen by.

Proufiter. To profit; get, gaine, or grow rich, by; to doe good vpon; also, to thriue, chieue, increase, grow.

Proufiterolle. as Profiterolle. Provide: com. Prouident, heedfull, circumspect, foreseeing, forecasting, warie, carefull, considerate.

Providemment. Prouidently, considerately, heedfully, with good forecast.

Providence: f. Prouidence, foresight, forecast.  Proujecter. Looke Projecter. Provignable. Propagable.

Provignage. as Provignement. Provigné: m. ée: f. Set, or planted for breed, nourished for increase; propagated, multiplied, renewed, increased.

Provignement: m. A planting, or setting of a stocke, staulke, slip, or sucker for increase; a propagating, multiplying, increasing.

Provigner. To plant, or set a stocke, staulke, slip, or sucker, for increase; or (more properly) to couch them downe, or set them double, with both ends appearing aboue the ground; whereby being, within a while, rooted in the middle, they come to yeeld a manifold, or double increase; hence also, to propagate, multiply, get, raise, or breed, many of one; or to renew things out of an old store.  Provigner des procez. To breed suit vpon suit, raise one suit out of another; to make worke for Lawyers.

Provigneur: m. A planter, or setter (as in Provigner) a propagater, breeder, increaser.

Provin: m. A stocke, staulke, plant, shute, slip, or sucker planted, or fit to be planted (as in Provigner) for increase.

Province: f. A Prouince, Region, Countrey, Shire; properly such a one, as hauing beene subdued by force of Armes, is gouerned by a Viceroy, Deputie, or Lieutenant.

Proviseur: m. A Purueyor, or prouider.

Provision: f. A prouision, purueying, or prouiding for; also, prouision, store, furniture.  Lettres de provision. Letters Patents whereby an office, or dignitie is graunted.  Iuger par provision. For a time onely, vntill further order be taken, or prouision made.  Par maniere de provision. Jn the meane time, the whilst, or in the meane while.

Provisional: m. ale: f. Prouisionall; onely for a season, continuing but for a time; whence;  Sentence provisionale. A Sentence implying a limitation, or of force no longer then vntill further order may be taken.

Provisoire: com. Prouisorie, conditionall, implying a limitation, including a prouiso; or, as Provisional. Proumeu. as Promeu. Proumouvoir. Looke Promouvoir. Provocation: f. A prouocation, prouoking, egging, vrging, incensing, stirring, inciting.

Provocatoire: m. A Prouocatorie; a writing, &c, whereby one is prouoked; a challenge.

Provoqué: m. ée: f. Prouoked, vrged, incited, incensed; also, challenged, or defied.

Provoquement: m. A prouoking. Provoquer. To prouoke, egge, vrge, moue, stirre, incite, incense; defie, challenge.

Provoqueur: m. A prouoker; a challenger.

Prouvé: m. ée: f. Proued, tryed; assured, verified; iustified, made good.

Prouver. To proue, try, essay; verifie, approue, assure, confirme, iustifie, make good.

Prouveu: m. Looke Pourveu. Prouveu: m. euë: f. Prouided or purueyed of, stored or furnished with; also, foreseene, forecast, considered beforehand.

Prouvoir. To puruey or prouide for, to furnish or store with; also, to foresee, forecast, beware, take heed, looke to, shift for, consider beforehand.

Prouvoyance: f. Purueyance, prouision; foresight, forecast, heed, caution, regard, consideration.

Prouvoyant. Prouiding, purueying for; heeding, regarding, looking vnto.

Proxenete: m. A Broker, or Huckster; a meane dealer betweene partie and partie.

Proximité: f. Proximitie, neerenesse, nighnesse, neighborhood; the next degree of linage, or kindred.

Proye: f. A prey, bootie; spoyle.  Cela n'est pas proye pour ses levriers; That is no Lettuce for his lips.   Qui a le vilain il a sa proye: Pro. He that can seize a churle, commaunds all that he hath.  Regnard qui beaucoup tarde attend la proye: Pro. The fox thats long away, for purchase waiteth.

Proyer. as Preyer. Prudemment. Prudently, wisely, discreetly, aduisedly, cunningly.

Prudence: f. Prudence, discretion, circumspection, aduisednesse, warinesse; cunning, skilfullneße, knowledge.

Prudent: m. ente: f. Prudent, warie, sage, discreet, circumspect, aduised; slye, cunning, skilfull, expert, experienced in many matters.  Femme prudente, & sage, est l'ornement de son mesnage: Prov. A woman wise, and prouident, doth beautifie her tenement.

Prune: f. A Plumme.  Prune blanche. The wheat, or white Plumme.  Prune de cheval. A Horse Plumme.  Prune de Damas. A Damson, or Damask Plumme.  Prune sauvage. A wild Plumme; a Bullace; (as also) a Sloe, or Snag.  Il en pelera la prune. He will deerely aby it, he will haue much trouble about it, he wil surely pay, or smart, for it.  Il ne fait pas bon manger des prunes avec son Seigneur: Pro. Looke Manger. Pruneau: m. A Prune; or a little Plumme.

Prunelat: m. The name of a Vine, or Grape, whereof there be two sorts, the one white the other red.

Prunelette: f. A little Plumme.

Prunelier: m. The blacke thorne, or Sloe tree.

Prunelle: f. A Sloe, or Snag ; also, the hearbe called Prunell, or Brunell, Hookeheale, Sicklewort, Carpenters hearbe; also, the ball, or apple of the eye.

Prunier: m. A Plumme tree.  Prunier sauvage. The Bullace tree.

Prunier: m. ere: f. Bearing, or abounding with, Plummes; of, or belonging to, Plummes; louing Plummes.

Prurir. To itch, to tickle; to desire lustfully.

Prurit: m. An itching, or tickling; a lustfull desire of, or affection vnto.

Pruyer. as Preyer.