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 Couper la queuë au jeu. To giue ouer a winner.  Escorcher les anguilles par la queuë. To doe things disorderedly, aukwardly, the wrong way.  Faire la queuë. To play the coward, come or drag behind, march in the rere.  Frizer la queuë. To lecher.  Prendre vn rat par la queuë. To cut a purse.  Regarder de la queuë de l'oeil. To leere, gleeke, or looke askew; to cast a side-glaunce, at.  Revenu de queuë. Whose taile is new grown, or come againe: Appliable to an old Cokes, or Callet, growne wanton on a sudden; or, to one, that after a great weakenesse hath recouered his owne, or pickt vp his crummes againe.  Tenir la queuë de la paelle. Seeke Paelle. Trainer longue queuë. To be long in doing, or to continue long; to haue a farre reach, bee of great consequence, carrie or traile many things along with it.  La queuë est pire à escorcher: Pro. The last is hardest to be done.  À la queuë gist le venin: Prov. Appliable to such as reserue the discouerie, or executiō, of their villanous proiects vnto the conclusion of a businesse.  À mauvais chien la queuë luy vient: Pro. Rake-*hells thriue better, battle faster, come forward sooner (after a losse) then honester men.  À qui est l'asne si le tienne par la queuë: Pro. Let him that owes th' Asse hold him by the tayle; he that hath a suit to follow, or a thing to keepe, may thinke no Solicitor so good, no watchman so fit, as himselfe.  Le regnard cache sa queuë: Prov. The cunning knaue conceales what would discouer him.  Qui parle du loup on en voit la queuë: Prov. See Loup. Qui ne retire de sa vache que la queuë ne perd pas tout: Prov. Tis good, when all is going, to saue any little; something, though meane, hath sauor, nothing none.  Qui tient la paesle par la queuë, il la tourne là ou il veut: Pro. Those that commaund, or manage, lawes, expound them how they list.  Vache ne sçait que vaut sa queuë iusques à ce qu'elle l'ait perduë: Prov. We know not the worth of things till we haue lost them.

Queüé: m. ée: f. Tailed, that hath a taile.

Queuëtte: f. A little taile, staulke, or steale; the tip of a thing.

Queus: m. A whetstone.

Queuse: f. A rude lumpe, or masse; as of yron, &c, comming from the furnace, or before it bee wrought into barres.

Queusser. Que ton car ne se queusse. To keepe thy cart from being ouerthrowne.

Queut: f. as Queus. Queute: f. Small drinke; small beere: ¶Pic. Queux: m. A Cooke.  Le grand queux de France. The Maister Cooke, the Kings chiefe Cooke, or chiefe of the Cookes, at Court.

Queux: f. A whetstone.

Queymander. To beg from doore to doore.

Qui. (A Relatiue of all Genders, Numbers, and persons;) Who, which, that, that which, whom, whose, what, any bodie, some bodie. Qui ça, qui là. One here another there, this man here that there; here and there; asunder, in seuerall parts or places. Qui que ce soit. Whosoeuer, or whatsoeuer hee bee; what name soeuer he beareth; what ranke soeuer hee hath, what worth soeuer he is of.  Ils se feront mal qui ne les departira. They will mischieue one another if they be not parted.

Quia. Il est à quia. He is almost at a nonplus.

Quiconque. Whosoeuer, or whatsoeuer.

Quictance: f. An acquittance, release, discharge.

Quicter. See Quiter. Quid pro quo. A palpable mistaking, a grosse errour, one for another.

Quidam. vn q. An odde, or certaine, fellow.

Quidditatif: m. iue: f. Quidditatiue, doubtfull, obscure, full of quirkes, fraught with quiddities; also, contentious, wrangling, litigious.

Quideau: m. A Wicker Engine whereby fish is caught.

Quierchier: m. The name of a small bird.

Quietin. as Theatin. Quietude: f. Rest, calmenesse, tranquilitie, peaceablenesse.

Quignet: m. A little corner.

Quignon: m. A cantill, gobbet, lumpe, luncheon, good big peece of.  Quignon de pain. A corner of a crustie peece of bread; or, the crustie heele of a loafe.

Quillard: m. as Billart. Quillat: m. The refining, or touch of gold; or, as Carat. Quille: f. The keele of a ship; also, a keyle; a big peg, or pinne of wood, vsed at Nine-pinnes, or Keyles, &c.  À la quille, & au quillard. At cat and trap.  On luy a donné son sac, & ses quilles. Looke Sac. Trousser leurs quilles. To packe vp, or prepare, for their departure.

Quillebandier: m. One that playeth much at Nine-pinnes.

Quillela. A kind of play like vnto Cat and trap.

Quilles. Keyles, or Nine-pinnes.

Quillevilles: f. Skirrit roots.

Quillons de la garde d'un'espée. The crosse barres of the hilt of a sword.

Quinaire: m. An auncient Roman coyne worth about 3 d. ob. sterl. Quinaud: m. An Ape, or Monkie; and hence, a deformed, or euill-fauoured creature.  Ie l'ay rendu quinaud. I haue blankt, or graueld him, I haue put him to a nonplus, or to the wall (in disputation.)

Quinaude: f. A she Ape, or Monkie; also, an ouglie wench, a Madame Ouglie.

Quinconcé. vergier quin. The trees whereof be ranked in equall distance asunder, and directly one ouer against th' other.

Quine. Faire la quine à. To mock, or make a mouth at; to point at with the finger.

Quines. Two cinks, or fiues, on the Dice.

Quinette: f. A crutch; the staffe, or supporter of a cripple; also, a Snite, or Snipe.

Quinquaille: f. Chinkes, coyne.

Quinquailles: f. Old yron; also, small yron ware; or pedling ware of yron, copper, &c.

Quinquailler: m. as Quinqualier, or Quinquallier. Quinqualier: m. A paultrie Pedler; also, one that sells, or cries, old yron.

Quinquallerie: f. as Quinquailles; or, all kind of (small) yron-worke, as Padlockes, Snuffers, Gimmers, or Hindges for doores, &c; sold by Ironmongers.

Quinquallieur: m. An Ironmonger; or one that sells all kind of (small) Iron-ware.

Quinquaneleur: m. A bankrupt; one that procures, or