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 Rossignols de marais. So doe they in some places tearme, and cry vp and downe the streets, flayed Frogs.  Rossignol de muraille. A Starke, a Red-tayle.  Rossignol de riviere. The riuer Nightingale; or, a kind of Kings-fisher that sings verie sweetly.

Rossignoler. To record, or sing, like a Nightingale.

Rossignolesque: com. Nightingale-like, harmonious, melodious; dolefull, mournefull.

Rossignolet: m. A young, or little, Nightingale.

Rost: m. Roste, rost-meat.  Rost de tisserand. as Roul; also, rosted Apples.  Qui a mangé le rost ronge l'os. When as the rost-meat is cleane gone, a man must fast or gnaw the bone.

Rostedom: m. One that requires, or takes, backe the gift which he had bestowed.

Rosti: m. Rost-meat; Looke Rosty. Rosti sanglant. Is made by dredging with Hares bloud dryed vnto powder. Rosti: m. ie: f. Rosted; tosted; broyled.  Oeil rosti. A vehement inflamation of the eye, a Carbuncle in the eye.

Rostie: f. A toast.

Rostir. To rost; also, to broyle; also, to toast.

Rostisserie: f. Rost, rost-meat; also, a kitchin, cookerie, or Cookes shop, wherein meat is vsually rosted.

Rostisseur: m. A roster of meat; also, a Cooke that sells, or dresses, none but rost-meat.

Rostissiere: f. A rosting Cookes wife.

Rosty: m. Rost, rost-meat.  S'endormir sur le rosty. Looke vnder Endormir. Rot: m. A belch.

Rotateurs: m. Two muscles, a greater and a lesse, which turne about the eye.

Rote: f. A great high way in a Forrest; also, a tree growing therein.

Roteur: m. A Pond to water Flax, or Hempe, in.

Rotine. Par rotine. By rote.

Rotisserie: f. as Rostisserie. Rotisseur. as Rostisseur. Rotissoir: m. A Cobiron, or little Racke.

Rotondité: f. Rotunditie, roundneße.

Rotte: f. A With, or the band of a Faggot, &c (about Blois.)

Rotte de cire. Fiue pound (weight or quantitie) of Wax.

Rottée de bois. as Corde de bois; or as much wood as will be contained therein.

Rottement: m. A belching, or breaking of wind.

Rotter. To belch, or breake wind vpwards.

Rotteur: m. An Officer that measures les Rottées de bois indifferently for the buyer and seller.

Rottier: m. as Routier. Rottine: f. An vsuall course, beaten path, ordinarie way.

Rotule du genouil. The ball, or whirlebone of the knee.

Roture: f. Yeomanrie; the estate, condition, or calling of such as are not of gentle bloud; also, socage, or such an ignoble tenure; also, the land thats held thereby.  Harnas de roture. The Plough.  Heritages en roture. Land held in socage; or by Cens, rent, or other ignoble seruices.

Roturier: m. A Yeoman, or Plebeyan; a Plough-*man, a Husbandman; any lay man that is no Gentleman.

Roturier: m. ere: f. Yeomanlie, Plebeyan, ignoble, vnnoble, base, meane. Fief roturier. Which is held by rent, or Cens, or other ignoble seruice.  Rente roturiere. A bare rent charge, or rent secke; also, such a rent as issues out of an inheritance which is no fief. Roturierement. Basely, meanely, ignobly, clownishly, Plebeyan-like.

Roüable. as Rable; also, an Engine wherewith fish is (forbidden to be) caught.

Roüage: m. Wheelage, wheeles, wheeleworke; the furniture of wheeles; prouision of wheeles.  Roüage d'artillerie. The carriage of Artillerie.  Droict de roüage. Wheelage; Looke Droict. Roüaille. A deuise, or engine wherewith fish is caught.

Roüaisons: m. Rogations, Gang-dayes.

Roüant: m. ante: f. Wheeling, turning round about; also, light, flitting, vnsteadie; soone passing away.

Roüart: m. A Marshall, or Prouost Marshall; an officer that breakes, or sees broken, malefactors on the Wheele; also, the great and strong-boned fish Rota, or the Wheele fish.

Rouce. as Ronce. Rouche: f. A rush.

Roucherole: f. The riuer Nightingale; or a kind of Kings-fisher that sings verie sweetly.

Rouchet. as Rougette. Roucin. as Roussin. Roucoler. To croo like a Doue, or Queest.

Roucoulement: m. The crooing of Doues.

Roucouler. To croo.

Rouctement: m. A belching.

Rouë: f. A wheele; also, the breaking of all the ioints on a wheele.  Rouë de compte. A Notch-wheele in a Clocke.  Rouë de mer. The sea-wheele; a huge, round, and monstrous sea-fish.  Rouë de rencontre. A Flea-wheele, or the balance-wheele of a Clocke.  Faire la rouë. To wheele, goe compasse, turne round, swing or twirle about; (A Peacocke fait la rouë, when in the height of his pride he couers himselfe all ouer with his tayle.)  La maistresse rouë qui tourne le moulin. That which does all in all.  Marcher à quatre rouës. Cela marche &c. That businesse goes roundly, or fast, on.  Mettre le foin en rouë; viz. in wind-baulkes, or wind-rowes. Pousser à la rouë. To set forward by all the meanes he can, to assist with might and maine.  La pire rouë du chariot est celle qui crie le plus fort: Prov. No man's in companie so lowd as he that can doe least.

Roüé: m. ée: f. Broken, or executed, vpon the Wheele; also, wheeled, whurled, or swung, about; also, dapled as a horse.

Rouëlle: f. A little flat ring, or wheele of plate, or yron, in horses Bitts; also, a round plate of armour for defence of the arme-hole when the arme is lift vp; and generally, any small hoope, circle, ring, or round thing, thats moueable in the place which it holds.  Rouëlle du genouil. The ball, or whirlebone of the knee.  Rouëlle d'oignon. A shiue of an Onyon.  Rouëlle de veau. The broad end of a leg of Veale cut round, and diuided from the knuckle.

Rouëment: m. A wheeling, or turning round.

Rouën. Cheval rouën. A roane horse.