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 bearing, or pulling downe.  Ravallement de courage. Faintnesse, or a fainting; faintheartednesse, discouragement, abashment.

Ravaller. To pull, cast, bring, or beare, downe; to debase, depreße, deiect; leßen, diminish, abate; bring low, take lower; also, to swallow, or swill downe againe.  Se ravaller. To humble himselfe, to stoope, yeeld, condiscend, or vayle bonnet vnto; also, to fall in price.  Il se ravalla dedans son lict. He sunke downe, or layed him downe, againe into his bed.

Ravanel: m. The Raddish root.

Ravanille: f. A little Raddish.

Ravasser. To raue, to talke idly.  Ravasser en dormant. To sleepe vnquietly, or talke in sleeping.

Ravauder. To patch, or botch.

Ravauderesse: f. A woman botcher.

Ravauderie: f. Botcherie, or botched stuffe.

Ravaudeur: m. A Botcher; also, an idle, or ignorant speaker; one that either confounds, or vnderstands not, what he sayes; or one that neither does, nor sayes, ought rightly.

Ravaudeuse: f. as Ravauderesse. Ravayde: f. A coyle, or stirre; or, as Ravage. ¶Orleannois. Rauder. as Roder; also, to laugh, ieast, be merrie, reuell, riot it.

Rave: f. A Rape, or Turnep; the Raddish is also called so in some parts of France, but especially about Paris.  Rave douce. The Raddish root.  Rave forte. The same; or, as Raifort. Rave de Limosin. A Turnep.  Rave longue. The long Rape, or Turnep.  Rave ronde. The ordinarie Rape; also, the round Raddish.  Rave de Savoye. The Sauoyan Rape, the greatest kind of Turnep.  Rave sauvage. The water, and wild, Raddish; also, the wild Rape, or Turnep; some also call Speedwell (or Elatine) so.  Ce mot sent sa rave. This word is clownish, or sauors of the clowne.

Raveforte. as Raifort. Ravel. Bogue ravel. A little sea-fish, that hath great eyes, a siluer-coloured bellie, a reddish backe and tayle, and all other parts not much vnlike the Cackarells.

Ravelin: m. A Rauelin (in fortification.)  Il y a bien de ravelin en son faict. All is not well with him, he is much out of square.

Ravenet: m. The Raddish root.

Raverdir. To wax greene; or to canker, as a brasen vessell thats either not vsed, or ill kept.

Ravestissement: m. A readuesting, reinuesture.

Ravet: m. The Raddish root.

Ravette: f. A little Rape, or Turnep.  La petite ravette. The garden Rampion, or wild Rape.

Raveul: m. A Dormouse.

Ravi: m. ie: f. Rauished, suddainely or forcibly carried away.  Belle chose est tost ravie: Prov. Faire things are quickly snatched vp.

Raviere: f. A plot, or bed, of Turneps.

Ravigoré: m. ée: f. Recouered, restored vnto vigor; cheered vp againe. Ravigorer. To recouer, to restore vnto vigor; to hearten, strengthen, reuiue, cheere vp againe.

Ravigotter. To reuiue; or, a halfe-dead man to returne vnto life. ¶Pic. Ravine d'eau. A great floud; a rauine, or inundation of water, which ouerwhelmeth all things that come in it way.

Ravineux: m. euse: f. Rauenous, violent, impetuous, like a forcible streame, or inundation of waters.

Ravir. To rauish, to snatch away hastily, pull away violently, take away forcibly, beare away suddainely.

Ravisé: m. ée: f. Readuised, well bethought of in himselfe, thought better, or otherwise, of.

Se Raviser. as Radviser. Ravissant: m. ante: f. Rauishing, rauenous, violent, greedie, swift.

Ravissement: m. A rauishing, a rauishment.

Ravisseur: m. A rauisher; a violent, or forcible taker; a rauenous, or greedie companion.

Ravivé: m. ée: f. Reuiued.

Raviver. To reuiue; to returne, or to restore, vnto life.

Raulet. The name of a certaine great Peare.

Ravoir. To recouer, to haue againe.  Se ravoir. To reuiue, recouer, come againe vnto himselfe.

Ravoire: f. as Ravage. Ravoirer. (Sometimes vsed) as Ravoir. Ravolé: m. ée: f. Fled backe.

Ravoler. To fly backe, to returne flying.

Rauque: com. Hoarse; harsh, or vnpleasant of sound.

Rause: f. Sedge, Gladen, Glader, Swordgrasse, Sheeregrasse.

Ray: m. A ray, or beame of the Sunne; also, a spoke of a wheele.   Ray de miel. A honey-combe.

Rayant: m. ante: f. Radiant, glittering, shining, blazing, leaming.

Rayaux: m. Barres; or long, and narrow peeces of mettall.

Raye: f. Ray, Skate, Thornebacke.  Raye au bec pointu. The sharpe-snowted (or daintiest kind of) Ray.  Raye bouclée. The Rocke-Ray; the Ray whose backe is set thicke with little knurles, not vnlike vnto buckles.   Raye cendrée. A kind of smooth Ray; or, as Coliart. Raye estelée. The starrie Skate, the rugged Ray.  Raye lize. The smooth Ray, whose finnes are powdered with little specks like Looking-glasses.  Raye au long bec. The spotted, long-snowted, or sharp-snowted Ray.  Raye polie. The smooth Ray.

Raye: f. A ray, line, stroake, row; furrow; also, the spoke, or staffe, of a wheele.  La raye des arbres. The graine of Timber, or of Trees.  La raye du cul. The nock, fould, or dint betweene the buttocks.  Tant d'arpents à la raye. So much arrable land which is to be sowed that yeare.   Ils sont au bout de la raye. They haue done as much as they can; they are gone as farre as they are able; they haue no more to doe, or to say.

Rayé: m. ée: f. Rased, scraped, crossed, or cleane put out; also, rayed, rewed, streaked, or skored all ouer; also, blazed, or glittered.

Rayement: m. A rasing, scraping, crossing, blotting, or putting out; also, a glittering, blazing, flaring, bright