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 Raffinement: m. A refining, a purifying.

Raffiner. To refine; clarifie, purifie; sprucifie.

Raffineur: m. A refiner, purifier, clarifier.

Rafflade: f. A gripe, graspe, or violent seisure.  Par vne rafflade. At once, all at a clap.  Faire vne rafflade. To gripe, catch, or snatch at, seise hastily, graspe violently; also, to scrape, or scratch; also, to rifle.

Rafflater. To flatter againe.

Raffle: f. A game at three dice, wherin he that throwes all three alike, winnes whatsoeuer is set; also, a rifling; also, the staulke of a bunch of grapes.  Faire vne raffle. To rifle, rauage, make hauock, sweep all away before them.  Iecter vne raffle. To throw three dice alike, as three aces, &c, to win all; also, to snatch, catch, or scratch.

Raffler. To scrape, or scratch; to catch, or seise on, violently; also, to rifle; to rauage, make hauocke, or cleane worke; to sweepe all away.

Raffoler. To hurt, or fell againe; also, to bring into a new fooles Paradice, to besot againe.

Raffusté: m. ée: f. New stocked; fitted with a new staffe, or stocke; frame, or carriage.

Raffuster. To fit, or furnish with a new stocke; staffe, carriage, frame.

Rafle, & Rafler. as Raffle, & Raffler. Rafreschi: m. ie: f. Refreshed, cheered, reuiued, put into heart; also, renewed.

Rafreschir. To refresh, reuiue, cheere, comfort, put into heart; also, to renew.

Rafreschissement: m. A refreshing, or a refreshment; a comforting, reuiuing, cheering vp; a renewing.

se Ragaillardir. To be blithe, to wax merrie.

Ragalice: m. Lickorice.

Ragats d'eau: m. A great floud, inundation, rauage of waters.

Rage: f. Rage, furie, madnesse, woodnesse, fierceneße, terriblenesse, outragiousnesse.  C'est rage. Tis a wonder.  Faire rage. To be verie briefe, or verie busie; to doe great matters, worke many wonders, keep a great coile, hurrie, sturre.  Ils firent rage de promettre. They promised mountaines, or wonderfull matters.   Qui veut tuer son chien luy met la rage sus: Prov. He that will hang his dog pretends he's mad.

Ragement: m. Toying, dalliance, wantonnesse, lasciuiousnesse.

Ragencé: m. ée: f. Readapted, readiusted, reaccommodated.

Ragencer. To readapt, readiust, reaccommodate, order anew.

Rager. Lasciuiously to toy, dallie, or wantonnize it.

Rageux: m. euse: f. Wanton, lasciuious, lustfull.

Raggrandir. To greaten, augment, increase, inlarge.

Ragot: m. The name of a cunning French begger; who made a booke of all his owne subtilties, and died verie rich (some say worth 3000 l.) ¶Rab. Raguiser. To sparpen anew, or againe.

Rai: m. Looke Ray. Raïe, & Raïer. as Raye, & Rayer. Raïere: f. A wrinkle in the face; Looke Rayere. Rajeuni: m. ïe: f. Growne young againe.

Rajeunir. To grow young againe.

Raifort: m. The Raddish, or the Rabone, root (or hearb.) Raifort des champs. Mountaine Raddish, horse Raddish, great Raddish. Raifort d'eau. Water Raddish; (a kind of wild Raddish.) Raifort sauvage. The wild Raddish; also, the water Raddish; (Ruellius affirms, that Elatine, or female Fluellin, is in some parts of France tearmed, Raifort sauvage.)  Grand raifort. Great Raddish, horse Raddish, mountaine Raddish.  Fracture faicte en raifort. A simple fracture (of bones) without any shiuering.

Raillant. Jeasting; scoffing at.

Raillard: m. arde: f. Jeasting, boording, pleasant, merrie, with; also, flowting, gibing, scoffing, mocking.

Railler. To ieast, boord, sport, be merrie, or pleasant, with; to deride, mocke, flowt, scoffe, gibe at.

Raillerie: f. Jeasting, boording, sport, merriment; also, a flowt, or scoffe; a flowting, or scoffing.

Railleur: m. A ieaster, boorder; mocker, scoffer.

Raillon: m. A fashion of three-edged, or treble-bladed dagger, which opens and shuts with a vice.  Fer de fleche à raillon. A Shoot-head; a forked, or barbed head.

Raim: m. A bough, or branch of a tree.  Par raim de baston; &, par raim & baston. A deliuerie, or quitting of possession of land, by the deliuerie of a bough, rod, or sticke that growes thereon.

Raimceau: m. A little branch, or bough.

Rain: m. as Raim; A bough.  Rain de forests. The purlues, or skirts, of forrests; the places that be next, or neere adioyning, vnto them.

Raine: f. A Frog.  Raine de buisson. The hedge Toad.  Raine verte. The little venomous green Frog, or Toad.

Rainette: f. A little Frog; also, a Pawne at Chests.

Rainseau: m. A little branch, or bough.

Rainselet: m. The same.

Raïolé. as Riolé. Raïon. as Rayon. Raïonné: m. ée: f. Furrowed; set, or sowne in, furrows; digested into seuerall rankes, rowes, or furrowes.

Raipaire. Looke Repaire. Raiponce: f. Rampions, garden Rāpions, the wild Rape.  Petite raiponce. Small or little Rampions, wild Rampions.

Raire. To shaue.  Apres raire n'y a que tondre: Prov. Sheeres after shauing find no worke to doe.  À barbe de fol on apprend à raire: Prov. By trimming fooles about the gill, a Barbers prentise learns his skill; or, by doing a thing ill one learns to doe much better; vnseemelie presidents are warnings to the wise.  Vn barbier rait l'autre: Prov. One great man, rich man, cunning man, serues anothers turne.

Rais: m. The Sunne-beames.

Rais: m. aise: f. as Rasé. Raise: f. A path, or furrow, betweene beds in a Garden, or in a tilled ground.

Raisin: m. A Grape; also, a Raisin; also, the kernell of a Grape; also, a bunch, or cluster of Grapes. Raisins de cabas. Alligants, or fraile Raisins. Raisins chenins. A kind of great red Grapes, fitter to make medecines, then meat, of. Raisins confiz. as Raisins de cabas. Raisins de Corinthe. Currans, or small Raisins. Raisins de Damas. The best, and greatest kind of Raisins of the Sunne. Vn raisin entier. A bunch, or cluster of Grapes. Raisins de lierre. Ivie berries. Raisin de mer. Sea Grape, sea Raisin, sea Cluster; an hearbe, or little shrub, growing on drie banks neere vnto the sea.