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 * proches, had-I-wist comes too late.  Qui bien se cognoit peu se prise, qui peu se prise   Dieu l'avise: Prov. Looke Priser.   Vn fol avise bien vn sage: Pro. Looke Sage.  Avision nocturne. A nightly dreame, or vision.

Avitaillé. as Avictuaillé. Avitin. Biens avitins. Goods that come by inheritance, and whereunto the eldest succeedeth; heire-loomes.

Avivé: m. ée: f. Quickned, reuiued, made liuing, whereinto breath is put; whereunto spirit is giuen.

Aviver. To quicken, make liuing, put breath into, giue spirit vnto.

Avives. The Vives; a disease in horses.

Avivre vn corps. as Aviver. Aul. vn aul; as ail; Garlicke; Seeke, Aulx. Aulbain. Looke Aubain. Aulbereau. as Albereau. A kind of hard white stone, fit for building.

Aulberge. as Auberge. Aulbespin: m. The white thorne, or hawthorne.

Aulbin: m. An alien, stranger, forreiner; as Aubain. Aulbinage: m. as Aubenage. Aulmosne. Seeke Aumosne. Aulmosné. as Aumosné. Aulnage: m. Ell-measure, the measuring with an ell; also, measure.

Aulnaye. An Alder-groue, or place to plant Alders in.

Aulne: m. An Aller, or Alder tree.

Aulne: f. An Ell; the measure so called; (The most common one in France is three foot, seuen ynches, and eight lines in length.)  Aulne de Bourdeaux. is foure foot, and (very neere) a halfe, long.  Aulne de Dijon. is but two foot, and a halfe.  Aulne des marchans de draps de soye; is halfe an ynch shorter then the common, or ordinarie, Ell.   Aulne de Paris. is three foot, & two thirds of an ynch, and about the fiftieth part of a foot, long; (this is the iust length of it at this day; heretofore, as appeares by some Customes, it hath bin 3 foot, 8 ynches, and 4 lines long.)  Aulne de Provins; as Aulne de Dijon; two foot, and a halfe.   L'Aulne du Roy. is (as th' ordinarie one) three foot, seuen ynches, and eight lines.  Au bout de l'aulne faut le drap. There is but iust measure, or, no more then needs.  Il a vn'aulne de boyaux vuides pour festoyer ses parens. He is a hungrie, or greedie starueling.  Il mesuroit le peril à l'aulne de la peur. His feare made the danger seeme the greater.  Il prenoit la mesure de leurs habits d'une dure aulne. He cudgelled them soundly; or, dealt extreamly with thē; (we say, when one hath lamd another, he hath taken the measure of his shoulders with a good cudgel.)  Il sçait combien en vaut l'aulne. He knowes well ynough whereof they are made, what worth they are of, what stuffe there is in them.  Tout au long de l'aulne. Fully, wholly, soundly, throughly; whence;  Ie vous en bailleray tout le long, ou, tout du long de l'aulne. I will pay you home; (euer spoken angrily, and in euill part.)

Aulné: m. ée: f. Measured by the Ell.

Aulnée: f. Helicampane, Scabwort, Horseheale.  Aulnée champestre. Wild, or field, Helicampane.

Aulner. To measure by the Ell.

Aulneur: m. A measurer by the Ell.

Aulnoye: f. An Alder groue. Aulonnes: f. Ouldernes, Medrinacks, Pouledauies; the canuas whereof sayles for ships are made.

Aulonnier: m. A certaine shrub that beares a fruit like vnto, but somewhat bigger then, a Raspis, or Strawberrie; and therefore I thinke it may safely be called, the Strawberrie tree.

Aulvent. as Auvent. Aulx: m. Garlicke; Looke Ail. Herbe aux aulx. Sauce alone, or, Iacke of the hedge.  Le mortier sent tousiours les aulx: Pro. Th' ill impressions made by nature, or bad habit got by custome, are seldome, or neuer, worne out.

Aulx; as Autres; others. ¶Gasc. Aulx-oignon. Great garlick; or, great mountain garlick.

Aumaille: f. Great cattell; or any kind of Neat, as Oxen, Kine, &c.

Aumelette d'œufs. An Omelet; or pancake made of egs.  Vireurs d'aumelettes. Idle fellowes, vaine companions, or, cotqueanes; people that busie themselues, or loue to be medling, in base, or vnworthie imployments.

Aumoire: m. A cupboord; ambrie; almes-tub.

Aumonner. as Aumosner. Aumosne: f. An almes; a deuotion; a gift bestowed, with a charitable respect, on the poore.  Pure aumosne. That which in our Law is called Frankalmoine. Esprit tousiours à l'aumosne, & à l'hospital. A most beggarly, and lame wit.

Aumosné. Giuen in almes, bestowed to charitable vses.

Aumosner. To bestow in almes, or free gift; to giue a charitable almes, or vnto charitable vses.

Aumosnerie: f. An Almes-house.

Aumosnier: m. An Almner, or Amner; also, an almes-giuer; in old time a Legatarie was called so.

Aumosnier: m. ere: f. Charitable, almes-giuing, good or liberall to the poore.

Aumosniere: f. An almes-purse; or little purse wherein we carrie small money for the poore.

Aumuce: m. An ornament of furre worne by Canons.

Aumusse. as Aumuce. Aumussé. Wearing an Aumuce. Aunaye: f. An Alder groue, or thicket of Alders.

Aune: m. An Aller, or Alder tree.  Herbe de l'aune. Helicampane, Scabwort, Horseheale.

Aunée: f. as Herbe de l'Aune. Auner. To make one, or, to ioyne in one; (an old word.)

Aunir. To close, or shut vp.

Aunon. A Keeling (fish.)

Aunoye: f. as Aulnaye; an Alder groue. Avoie: f. A sloe-worme, or blind-worme.

Avoier. as Advoué.

Avoine: f. Oats. Avoine folle. Wild oats, barren oats, bauer, oat grasse. Avoine sauvage. Barren oats, wild oats. Avoine sterile. Red darnell, wall barley, way Bennet. Poures avoines. as Avoine folle. Bailler de l'avoine pour du foing. To returne a good turne with vsurie; or, to be better then his word. Fais luy bien gaigner son avoine. Put him to it roundly, make him come off lustily, take your full penniworths out of him. Elles ne hennissoient apres autre avoine. That only was their desire, they longed for nothing more, their minds ran vpon nothing else. Manger son avoine en son sac. To snudge it; or churlishly to eat all his meat all alone; (from Moyles, who haue bags of prouender hung so close to their noses, that none but themselues can come at it.)