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 Relancer. To fling, dart, hurle backe, or againe.  Relancer vn cerf. To imprime a Stag.  Relancer vn lievre. To recouer her, or put her off the squat.

Relant: m. Mustinesse, fustinesse, ranknesse, dankishnesse.

Relant: m. ante: f. Mustie, fustie, restie, reasie, dankish, vnsauorie.

Relanteur: f. as Relant: m. Relantir. To smell mustie, grow fustie, wax restie.

Relaps: m. se: f. Relapsed; fallen into an errour which he had recanted, or sicknesse of which he had recouered.

Relasche: f. A relaxation; ease, rest, repose, refreshment, recreation, (after labour;) truce, respit, a cessation, intermission, vacation; also, a slackning, loossing, relenting, letting goe.  Relasche de pendu. A gracelesse rakehell, or crack-*rope; one for whom the Hangman waits, the Gallowes grones.

Relaschement: m. A reposing, resting, refreshing; a leauing of worke, a making vacation; also, a releasing, loossing, inlarging; also, a relenting, or slackening.

Relascher. To slacken, loosse, inlarge, let out; ease, refresh; remit, release; also, to giue backe, forgoe, let goe.

Relasser. To wearie extreamely, or againe.

Relater. To relate, report, vtter, deliuer; to recite, recount, rehearse; also, to new-lath a building.

Relateur: m. A relator, a reporter, a rehearser.

Relation: f. A relation, report, recitall; also, the Returne of a Writ; the report made, or account giuen, by an Officer, of the seruing or execution thereof.

Relaver. To wash againe, or often ouer; also, to wash (with colours.)

Relaxation: f. A relaxation; discharge, inlargement; releasing, acquiting; relenting.

se Relayans l'un l'autre. Refreshing, or easing one another by turnes.

Relayer. To succeed in the place of the wearie; to refresh, releeue, or ease another by an vndertaking of his taske.  Relayer coche, & chevaux. To take new, or fresh horses and coach.

Relecher. To licke ouer againe.

Relegation: f. A relegation, or exilement, a packing or sending away into banishment.

Relegué: m. ée: f. Relegated, banished, exiled.

Releguer. To relegate, banish, exile.

Releu: m. euë: f. Red ouer againe.

Relevailles d'une femme. Th' vprising, or vpsitting, also, the Churching, of a woman.

Relevé: m. ée: f. Raised, lift, or set vp, againe; releeued, reuiued, fully restored; also, discharged, freed, or quit of; also, that hath payed his Reliefe. Appel relevé. Sued out; and whereby a suit is remoued, by Writ, from one Court vnto another. Cheval bien relevé. Well raised, or high before. Femme relevée. Churched, or got out of the straw. Mineur relevé. C'est quand le Mineur de 25 ans, qui a esté deceu ou circonvenu, est restitué en entier par lettres Royaux interinées en Iustice. Mineur relevé de bail. C'est quand le baillistre releve le fief de son Mineur, du Seigneur dont il est tenu. Vne Saincte relevée. Whose Reliques, or bones are inclosed and shewed aloft, in a shrine.  Relevé du fumier. A dunghill Gentleman.  Il a esté bien relevé. He hath beene well chidden, or (as we say) taken vp for haulting.

Relevée: f. Th' afternoone, or all the time betweene dinner and th' euening; also, a womans Churching; also, a full recouerie of, or vprising after, a sicknesse.

Relevement: m. A raising, lifting vp; releeuing, reuiuing, restoring; also, a womans Churching.

Relever. To raise or lift vp, to set on foot or afoot, againe; also, to releeue, assist, reuiue, restore.  Relever vn appel. To sue or take out, an Appeale; to bring the cause before the Judge appealed vnto.  Relever droicture. To pay the Reliefe, and rights due by a tenant vpon his first entrie.  Relever vn esteuf. Looke Esteuf. Relever vn fief. To pay a Reliefe; and doe homage for an inheritance; or, to auow, and acknowledge a Landlord vpon any change of Lord, or of tenant.  Ce fief releve d'un tel. Is held of such a one.   Ce fief releve selon  la coustume de Touraine. The Reliefe, right, and dueties thereof are done, payed, and performed, according to the custome of Touraine. Relever les vieux fossez. To cleanse, or scowre them.  Relever du serment. To acquit, or discharge of, an oath.  Fort est qui abbat, & plus fort qui se releve: Prov. He that, being felled, gets vp of himselfe, does more then he that feld him.

Releveur: m. A raiser, or lifter vp; a setter on foot, or afloat againe; also, a releeuer, assister; also, a reuiuor, a renewer.

Relevoison. Droict de rel. A yeares rent payed vnto Lords, vpon euerie change of tenants, Censiers, or for any estate (in the land they hold) procured by themselues: This is most commonly tearmed, Relevoison à plaisir. Relevoison du denier six. Six pence for each penie of their yerelie Cens, payed vpon euerie change as well as the former.  Ventes & relevoisons. C'est quand le nouveau vassal releve de son seigneur feodal, & luy paye certaine somme taxée par la Coustume: ¶Ragueau. Reliage: m. A binding, or hooping of caske, &c.

Relicher. To licke often, or ouer againe.

Relié: m. ée: f. Bound, hooped; handsomely packed, or compacted together.

Relief: m. Reliefe; or a releeuing; the raising of a person, or of a thing, fallen; and (particularly) the remedie granted by the Letters Patents of a Soueraigne Prince vnto a subiect incommodated, or fallen into an inconuenience, by the sentence of a Judge, or ill dealing of others; and hence, Relief d'appel ; &, Relief pour minorité: Also, a Reliefe; a fine due, or profit accruing, to a Landlord vpon certaine changes of his hereditarie tenants; (Looke Droict de relief, vnder Droict;) also, a place, or thing, raised; & (particularly) raised, or imbossed work; & that which Imbroderers tearme, leeuing; also, rubbidge, or the ruines of ouerthrowne houses; also, the remnant, or offals, of meat left at a meale.  Relief d'appel. An Appeale sued out by Commission from the Chancerie, and from the superior Court appealed vnto, & directed vnto the Judge, or Lord Justicer of the court appealed from, therby to intimate the suit, and proceeding thereof vnto the partie, in respect of whose late recouerie th' Appeale is brought.

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