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  Axionomantie: f. Diuination by a hatchet, and leat burnt. ¶Rab.

Axonne: f. as Axunge. Axunge: f. Tallow, fat, seame, grease (properly of swine;) also, oyntment (thereof.)

Ayant. (The Participle of Auoir) hauing; holding; enioying.

Ayde. as Aide; helpe, aid, assistance. Ayeul: m. A grandfather.

Ayeule: f. A grandmother.

Aygue: f. Water. ¶Langued. Ayguier: m. A gutter, sinke, or sewer. ¶Langued. Ayguiere: f. An Ewer, or Lauer.

Aymant; as, Aimant; an Adamant, or Loadstone. Aymer; as, Aimer; To loue, &c.

Aynets: m. Little rods, or twigs, wherein herrings are threaded, and layed on hurdles to be redded.

Ayré: m. ée: f. Ayred.

Aysement: m. A lakes, or Priuie.

Aysle: f. as, Aile; a wing. Az. An ace at cards, or dice.  Demeurer entre deux & az. Looke, As. Respondre entre deux & az. To frame such a cunning answer betwixt yea and no, that a man cannot tel what to make of it; a Metaphor taken from a dye that stands edgeling, so as tis doubtfull what chance it will yeeld.

Azagaye. as Zagaye. Azarole: m. A small Medlar tree, called, the three-graind Medlar, or Neapolitane Medlar tree.

Azaron. An hearbe; as, Cabaret. Azez, gayes: in stead of, Azagayes. ¶Rab. Azile. as Asyle. A Sanctuarie.

Azime: com. Sweet, vnleauened, without leauen; sincere.

Azimuth. An Azimuth, or Verticle circle, which discends from the Zenith. Azur. Seeke Asur. Azuré. A certaine blewish, and long-legd spider, full of poyson, and very dangerous.

Azuré: m. ée: f. Azured, of azure, painted or coloured with Azure.

Azurer. To make Azure; to paint, or colour with Azure.

Azurin: m. ine: f. Azurie, blonket, skie-coloured, Azure-like.

B

B The letter, B. In Musicke, the Note, or Cliffe, called Befabecmie; whence;  De b carre en b mol: Prov. In discourse, to shift often, idly, and on a suddaine, from one subiect vnto another.

Baaillant. Gaping, yawning.

Baaillement: m. A gaping, or yawning; wide opening, or going asunder.

Baailler. To gape, to yawne; to open, or spread wide.

Baaillon: m. A gag.

Baaillonner. To gag.

Ba-bat: m. A panting, or often beating.

Babaye: f. Faire la babaye. To gape, or make a mouth at.

Babbiner. See Babiner. Babeurre: m. Whig, or butter-milke.

Babil: m. Bable, tatle, pratle, chat; babling, iangling, chattering, ouer-much talking.

Babillard: m. A babler, tatler, prater, pratler, chatterer, iangler, word-monger; talkatiue companion; one whose tongue neuer lyes (and yet he often lyes.)

Babillard: m. de: f. Babling, tatling, talkatiue.

Babillarde: f. A title-tatle; a pratling gossip; a babling houswife; a chatting, or chattering Minx.

Babiller. To bable, pratle, tatle, chatter, iangle, talk ouer-*much, vse too many words.

Babillerie: f. as Babil. Babillons: m. The players that hang to the port of a bitt.

Babine: f. The lip of a beast, as of a dog, beare, horse, cow, &c.

Babiner. To play with the lips; to pratle, or talke hard.

Babiole: f. A trifle, whimwham, guigaw, or small toy, for a child to play withall.  Babioles. Trifles, nifles, trinkets, toyes; also, faire (but deceitfull) tearmes.

Babion: m. A Babion, or Baboone.

Baboin: m. as Babion; also, a trifling, busie, or craftie knaue; a crackrope, waghalter, vnhappie rogue, retchlesse villaine. Baboiner. as Babouïnner. Baboles. as Babioles. Babort. The Larboord of a ship.

Babote: f. A certaine little blacke Caterpiller, which in drie seasons breeds on the hearbe Saint-foin. Babou. Faire la babou. To bob, or, to make a mow at.

Babouïn. as Baboin; also, a frozen place, whereon boyes vse to slide; a sliding place. Baiser le babouïn. See Baiser. Babouinner. To baboonize it; to play the Monkey; to vse apish or foolish tricks, waggish or knauish prankes; also, to deceiue, cosen, gull.

Babouïnnerie: f. Apishnesse, fopperie, foolerie, childish trifling, baboonizing; also, an vnhappie tricke, waggish part, knauish, wilie, or busie pranke; also, a deceit, cosenage, gullerie.

Babouleur: m. A babler; a reporter of trifles, a teller of lyes.

Baboye: f. A fib, or fable; a foolish tale ill-fauoredly told.

Baboyer. To blabber with the lips; to famble, to falter; also, to fib, fable, tell foolish tales.

Bac: m. A great ferry-boat, or horse-boat; also, an open vessell of Copper, and full of water, for wine-pots to stand in at meale times.  Droict de bac. Ferriage; the money thats due at a ferrie vnto the Lord, or Owner, of the boat.

Bacbuc. A bottle. ¶Rab. Baccal: m. A Weesill.

Baccar. Th' hearbe Haslewort, Folefoot, Asarabacca. Bacces: f. Berries.

Bacchanaleries: f. Bacchanals, Bacchus feasts, shrouing, wakes, feasts.

Bacchanales. as Bacchanaleries. Bacchanaliser. To rage, play mad pranks, fare like mad men; (as the priests of Bacchus were wont to do when they celebrated his feasts.)

Bacchanisante: f. An enraged, or furious, woman.

Bacchante. as Bacchanisante. Bacche. A kind of wild Peare.

Bacchique: com. Belonging vnto Bacchus. Bacclé: m. ée: f. Barred, or boulted on the inside (with a short woodden boult.)

Baccler. To barre, boult, or shut close, on th' insid (with a short boult of wood.)

Baccolant. Playing at titter totter; riding the wild Mare; tottering, swinging, often lifting vp and downe.

Baccoler. To play at titter totter, or at totter-arse; to ride