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 kind of Abrecocke.

Avant-pied. The part of the foot thats next to the toes, and consisteth of fiue bones.

Avant-poignet. So much of the hand as is between the wrist and the knuckles.

Avant-portail: m. A foreporch; an outward portall; a porch at the vtter doore of a house.

Avant-propos: m. A Prologue.

Avant-proumenoir: m. An open lodge, or close walke for suitors, &c, before the doore of a great house.

Avant-toict. An house-eaue, or easing; as Severonde. Avanture. Avanturer. Avantureux. Avanturier. Seeke Adventure, &c. Avare: com. Auaricious, greedie, couetous, vnreasonably desirous of, vnsatiably thirsting after, money, &c.

Avarement. Auariciously, greedily, couetously.

Avarice: f. Auarice, couetousnesse; an vnreasonable desire of, an insatiate thirst after, money, &c.  Avarice fait petit monceau: Prov. Small is the heap that auarice affoords (when wealth comes either to be displayed, or distributed.)  Avarice rompt le sac: Prov. Looke Sac. Quand tous pechés sont vieux avarice est encores ieune: Prov. The loue of wealth continues yong when all sinnes else grow old.

Avaris: m. Decay of wares, or marchandise; leckage of Wines; also, the charges of the cariage, or measuring thereof; also, the fees, or veiles of a Cooke, &c.

Avaritieusement. Auariciously, couetously, greedily.

Avaritieux: m. euse: f. Auaricious, full of auarice.

Avau l'eau. Downe the water.

Aubades. Morning Musicke; such as fidlers play vnder chamber windowes.  Les vieilles gens qui font gambades, à la mort sonnent des aubades: Prov. Looke Vieil. Aubain: m. An alien, stranger, forreiner; properly such a one as is borne in a countrey so neere ours, as notice may conueniently be taken of his originall, and name; therein differing from Espaue, who comes one knowes not whence.

Aubain: m. ine: f. Strange, forreine, of another countrey; also, casuall; due, comming, or falling by escheat.

Aubaine: f. Escheatage; also, an Escheat; land, or substance falling to the King, or Lord, by the death of strangers, or illigitimation of bastards; any such casualtie; (but especially, the first) also, forreinnesse, strangenesse; the estate, or condition of a forreiner, or straunger; (Anciennement aucuns ont prins le mot d'aubaine pour desherance: ¶Ragueau.)  Droict d'aubaine. Escheatage; the right of succession in the estate of all strangers dying in France, without naturalization, and French-borne issue: (This right is, or should be onely the Kings; yet diuers Lords incroach vpon it; and some, who haue high iurisdiction, challenge thereby the goods of all, though naturall Frenchmen, which haue dwelt within their libertie as forreiners, or not free thereof.

Aubaineté: f. Escheatage.

Aubanité. The same.

Aubans: m. The shrowds, of a ship.

Aubarede: f. A groue, small copse, or small wood.

Aube: f. The dawning, or breake of day; Seeke Aubes. L'aube d'un bast. Is, the same in a packsadle, that Arçon is in a great sadle. L'aube d'un prestre. A Priests Albe. À l'aube des mousches. Some two or three houres after Sunne-rise; or, when the Sunne beginnes to bee hot. En mes aubes. In my infancie, or swathing clothes; when I was in my cradle.

Aubeau: m. The white Poplar, or Peplar tree.

Aubec: m. The pith, sap, or heart of wood, and timber; ¶Bourdelois. Aubeine. as Aubaine; Also, a kind of grape. Aubel. as Aubeau. Aubeliere: f. A huffler, a nifle, a whimwhau.

Aubenable: com. Subiect vnto Escheatage; or vnto Droict d'Aubaine. Aubenage: m. Escheatage; as Aubaine. Droict d'aubenage. as Droict d'aubaine; Or a kind thereof; and is, in some parts of Fraunce, a new purse, and iiij. d. in it; in others a pound of wax due vnto the Lord Iusticer of the Bailiwike, Libertie, or Mannor wherein a stranger, or forreiner dyes: In some places this duetie is leuied foure and twentie houres after the stranger is buried; in others, before he be carried vnto buriall. Auber. To flit, stirre, shift, remoue from place to place; (a rusticall word.)

Aubere: m. A Dapple-gray horse; also, a hobbie.

Aubereau: m. The hawke tearmed a Hobbie; also, a kind of Eagle.

Auberet. as Aubereau: ¶Savoyard. Aubergade. as Queste. Auberge: f. A kind of small Peach also, a lodging house, or dwelling place; also an Inne.

Aubergé: m. ée: f. Lodged, housed, harboured, inned.

Aubergeon. as Haubergeon. Auberger: m. Th' Auberge Peach tree. Aubert: m. Money, coyne, siluer, chinkes: ¶Barrag; also, as Haubert.

Aubes: f. The short boordes which are set into th' outside of a water-mills wheele; we call them, ladles, or aue-*boords.

Aubespin: m. The White-thorne, or Hawthorne.

Aubicon: m. A kind of great fig; which, being sooner ripe, is more esteemed, than any other.

Aubier: The pith, sap, or whitest and softest part of timber, subiect vnto worme-eating.

Aubifoin: m. A Turkish stone; also the weed Blew-bottle, Blew-blaw, Corne-flower, Hurtsickle.  Grand aubifoin. The great Blew-bottle.  Petit aubifoin. The common Blew-blaw, or Blew-bottle.

Aubin. as Aubier; Also, the white, or gleare, of an egge. Aubinage. as Aubaine; or Aubenage. Aubour. as Aubier. Aubourt: m. A kind of tree tearmed in Latine, Alburnus; (it beares long yellow blossomes, which no Bee wil touch.)

Aubun d'eeuf. The white of an egge.

Aucaigne. as Ocaigne; Dogs leather well dressed. Auche: f. A round haspe of yron, or cleit of wood, wherin the barrell of a windles turneth.

Aucteur. Seeke Autheur. Auctorisation. Looke Authorisation. Auctorisé. Authorised; established, set in authoritie.

Auctoriser. as Authoriser. Aucun. Some bodie, some one; any, any one.

Aucunement. Somewhat; after a sort, in a manner; so, so.

Aucunesfois. Sometimes; now and then; otherwhiles; at one time or other.

Audace: f. Audacitie, boldnesse, hardinesse, courage, mettall, stomacke; also, rashnesse; presumption, sau-*