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 gulper, swiller, or swallower, downe of.  Avalleur de biens. A prodigall glutton; one that consumes his owne, or other mens estate, by immoderat eating, and drinking.  Avalleur de frimats. An idle fellow; a man of small worth, or capacitie; a carelesse companion.  Avalleurs de pois gris. Looke Pois. Avalloire. A hole, trap-doore, window, &c, to let a thing downe by into a lower roome.

Avalloüere. as Avalloire. Avalluation: f. A valuation, or valuing; a rate, price, or value set downe.

Avalluer. To value, rate, prise; to set a price on; to hold at a rate.

Avaluement: m. as Avalluation. Avance: d'avance. In hand, giuen before hand, or in part of a greater summe.  Faire avance. To further, to forward; to get, or set, forward.

Avancé: m. ée: f. Forwarded, forward, in good forwardnesse, got, or put, forward; furthered, aduanced, accelerated, hastened, shortened by hast; also, giuen in hand, or before hand; also, thriven in, or profited by.

Avanceant. Forwarding, furthering, setting forward, putting out, or on; aduancing, hastening, accelerating; giuing in hand, or before hand.

Avancement: m. A forwarding, setting forward, putting on, or out; a giuing in hand, or before hand; a hastening, or accelerating; also, an aduancing, a getting, or going forward, a proceeding, progression, passing on; also, aduancement, preferment, promotion.

Avancer. To forward, set forward, further, put on; also, to hasten; and, to shorten, or cut off by hast; also, to aduance, prefer, promote.  s'Avancer. To proceed, go on, get forward; also, to thriue, increase, preuaile in, profit by.  Avancer argent. To giue money in hand, or aforehand.  Avancer le doigt. To put forth, or stretch out, a finger beyond his fellowes.  Avancer vn terme de loüage. To pay before the day, or giue before hand.  Le iour s'avance. The day approaches, or breakes.

Avanceur: m. A forwarder, aduancer; hastener, accelerater; also, a foregoer.

Avanchaye: f. A groue of Oziers, or of such like trees.

Avanger. To satisfie, suffice, serue the turne; to furnish throughly, to beare the whole charge of.  Vous n'avanger rien. You goe no whit forward.  Nous avons tant de vin que nous ne pouvons avanger à boire. We haue more wine than we are able, or know how, to drinke.

Avant: m. The time of Aduent; which is about a moneth before Christmas.

Avant. Is some times an Aduerbe of time; and then signifies, before, or ere, and forward; and sometimes of place, (then commonly following, bien) and signifies; forth, forward, inward, deepely in, farre in. Avant la main. In hand, or before-hand. Avant que proceder. A prolonging, or deferring of sentence, or of proceeding when the suit is readie for sentence. Estre bien avant de feste. To liue merily, or in iollitie. Mettre en avant. To aduance, put forward, preferre; also, to propound, open, declare, what he hath to say. Venir en avant. To come, aduance, or step forth; to grow, increase, thriue, preuaile, proceed, come forward in the world.  Pour vn petit n'[not—F1] avant n' arriere: Prov. A little breakes no square; no matter for a little.

Avantage: m. An aduantage, oddes; ouerplus; addition, eeking; a benefit, furtherance, or forwarding; also, a mounting-blocke; a blocke to get on horsebacke by.  À l'avantage. Excellently, or exceeding well.  D'avantage. Moreouer, further, furthermore, else, besides, ouer and besides, aboue and besides, with odds, more than measure.

Avantagé: m. ée: f. Aduantaged, hauing the aduantage of; also, benefited, priuiledged; aduanced, furthered.  Bien avantagé en nez. Nosed with aduantage, well nose-growne, hauing a Gnomicall, or goodly long, Nose.

Avantager. To aduantage, giue aduantage vnto, further, set forward; aduance, benefit, doe good vnto.

Avantageusement. Aduantageously, with great aduantage; easefully, profitably, well for a man.

Avantageux: m. euse: f. Aduantageous, easefull, commodious, behouefull; also, verie forward, full of forwardnesse.

Avant-bras. A vambrace; armour for an arme; also, the part of the arme that extends from the elbow to the wrist; also, the vnderbone of that part.

Avant-chien. The lesser dog-star, which appears when dog-dayes begin.

Avant-conceu: m. euë: f. Fore-conceiued, formerly deuised.

Avant-cour. An outward, or little, Court before the portall, or gate, of a great house.

Avant-courement. A forerunning; preceding, foregoing.

Avant-coureur: m. A forerunner, Auantcurror.

Avant-coureux: m. as Avant-coureur. Avant-coureux: m. euse: f. Forerunning, precedent.

Avant-garde. The Forward, or vauntgard, of an armie.

Avant-hier. The day before yesterday; two dayes agoe.

Avant-jeu: m. An assay, triall, or proofe before a game begin.

Avantin: m. The arme, or braunch of a vine, climing, or brought along, from tree to tree.

Avantjoüeur. A Prologue, he that beginneth, or playeth before, the game, Enterlude, or Commedie.

Avant-iugé. as Preiugé. Avant-logis: m. A roome, or lodging in the forepart of a house, standing alone; an outward gate with lodgings in it; also, a Court-yard, or comming in; and, a Court, Porch, or Portall, before a house.

Avant-main. The forepart of the hand; or, that part which is betweene the wrist, and the knuckles.

Avant-mur: m. An auantmure; fore-wall, out-wall, or outward-wall.

Avant-parleur: m. A fore-speaker; or one that is too forward to speake.

Avant-pas: m. The start, or an aduantage, in a race, or Course.

Avant-penser. To premeditate, or bethinke himselfe before-hand of.

Avant-perse. The greatest kind of Abrecocke; or as;

Avant-pesche. Th' Auant-peach, or hastie peach; russet on one side, and red to the Sunne-ward, yet bigger than th' ordinarie red Peach; it comes timely, and eats delicately; and therefore some call so, the greatest