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 * cinesse, audaciousnesse.

Audacieusement. Boldly, aduenturously, couragiously, hazardously, daringly; audaciously; rashly, presumptuously, saucily.

Audacieux: m. euse: f. Bold, stout, hardie, aduenturous, hazardous, couragious, full of mettall, stomacke, valour; also, audacious, daring, saucie, malapert, presumptuous; rash.

Audience: f. An audience, or hearing; a report, or examination of letters patents, &c, in Chancerie; also, the reuenue of the Chancerie seale.  Tenir l'audience. To examine, or heare read, letters patents, &c, before they bee sealed, or absolutely passed.

Audiencé: m. ée: f. At a hearing, come to a hearing; also, examined, or heard read, as a letters patents, &c, before th' insealing, or absolute passing thereof.

Audiencier: m. A hearer, or giuer of audience; also, an Officer in the Chancerie, that examines, or heares read, all letters patents, &c, before they passe the seale, and deliuers them out, being sealed; he also receiues the fees of the seale, and thereout payes all wages, and stipends assigned vnto the Offices, and defrayes all the ordinarie charges, of that Court; (an Vsher, or Cryer is also, in some Courts, tearmed Audiencier, but with the addition of Huissier.)  Le grand audiencier de France. The chiefe Audiencier of France, and chiefe paimaster of all Chancerie Officers; for vnto him the inferiour Audiencer (in each Parliamentall Chancerie one) payes ouer, euerie halfe yeare, that which he hath receiued.

Auditeur: m. An Auditor, hearer, hearkener, listener; also, an Auditor, or Examiner of Accompts, in th' Exchequer; (of whom looke Auditeur des Comptes;) Also, a Magistrat, or Officer, before whom all contracts of sale, or assignation of rents, are (in some places) acknowledged, passed, and authorised.  Auditeurs du Chastelet de Paris. Certaine pettie Iudges, who determine finally, and without opposition, or appeale, of such personall causes as are brought before them, and exceed not the value of xx.l. Parisis, besides costs of suit.  Auditeurs des Comptes. Are sixteene in the Exchequer, or Chamber of Accompts established at Paris''; and fewer in the rest of the Parliamentall Exchequers: These must take no manner of gift of any Accomptant; nor, without expresse order from the court, examine, or make report of, two accompts for one thing. The Court being set, they must not goe forth (nor at any time out of the towne) without leaue, vnlesse it be when a kinsman, or ally of theirs giues his accompt, for then they must arise, and be gone without bidding: The Court being risen, they are the last that stay, and are not to leaue any bodie in the chambers thereof behind them.''

Auditif: m. iue: f. Auditiue; of a hearing propertie, or facultie.

Audition: f. A hearing.  Audition, & closture des comptes. Th' examination, and allowance, of Accompts by an Auditor.

Auditoire: m. An audience, auditorie; assembly, or companie of hearers; also, a Court, or hall of audience; a Sessions house, or Shire hall.  Auditoire des maistres des Requestes. The Court of Requests; or, the Court wherein the titles of Offices are determined.

Audroict. With, or towards; also, straight by, directly vpon, or all along through. Ave. as Have; Dry, leane, witherrd. Avec. With, withall, together with.  Avec le temps. At length, in time, in th' end.  D'avec. From.

Aveille: f. The hiue-Bee, or hony-Bee.

Aveindre. Seeke Avaindre. Aveine. as Avoine; Oats. Pain d'aveine. Iannocks; or, oaten bread; also, the name of a certaine Bourrough in Normandie. Avelaignier: m. A Filbeard tree.

Avelaine: f. A Filbeard.  Avelaine des Indes. The drunken date; a medicinable fruit; called by th' Arabians (and in some shops) Faufel. Avelaine rouge. The red-skinned Filbeard; the right Ponticke Filbeard.

Avelane. as Avelaine: ¶Langued. Avellaine. as Avelaine. Aven. as Avoir. Wealth, substance, goods, riches.

Avenage: m. Certaine quarters, or a quantitie, of oats paied vnto a Lord, or Land-lord in lieu, or acknowledgment, of some other dutie; Also as Aubenage. Bourgeoisie d'avenage. Looke Bourgeoisie. Avenages. Oats, prouender.

Avenaire: com. An alien, stranger, forreiner.

Avenant. Seeke Advenant. Avenat: m. Oat-meale; or, oat-meale flower.

Avene. as Avoine; Oats. Avenement. as Advenement. Aveneray. as Aveneron. Aveneri: m. Oaten straw, or stubble.

Aveneron. Wild oats, barren oats, hauer, or oat grasse.

Aveneux. Strangers, forreiners; (an old word.)

Avenger. Seeke Avanger. Avenier: m. ere: f. Oatie, belonging to oats; feeding on oats.

Avenir. as Advenir. Aventure. as Adventure; à l'avent: cela n'est point. I doubt, or, tis a question, whether that be; or, perhaps that is not.

Avenue. as Advenue. Averé: m. ée: f. Auerred, aduouched, affirmed, verified; witnessed; also, searched, or sifted out.

Averément: m. A iust estimation of things; also, an averring, auouching, verifying; also, a searching, or sifting out.

Averer. To auerre, auouch, verifie, witnesse; also, to search, or sift out.

Averlan: m. A good fellow, a mad companion, merie Greeke, sound drunkard.

Avernal: m. ale: f. Hellish, of hell pit.

Averne: f. Hell; or, (as we say) the pit of hell.

Averon. as Aveneron. Averroncation: f. A purging, or weeding; a turning, putting, or taking away, of euill things; a diuerting of mischiefes; also, an appeasing.

Averronquer. To purge, or weed; to turne, put, or take, away euill; to diuert mischiefes; also, to appease.

Avertin: m. Frenzie, lunacie; giddinesse, dizzinesse; a turning round about, or a lunacie, in beasts, manifested by their often turning; also, stubbornnesse, obstinacie, sullennesse, wilfulnesse, disobedience.

s'Avertiner. To become giddie; franticke, lunaticke; sullen, selfe-willy, stubborne.

Avertineux. Dizzie, giddie; franticke, lunaticke, fantasticall; also, moodie, humorous; wilfull, obstinate, stubborne, sullen.

Avesprement: m. A drawing towards euening; the