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 *shard, or the peece of a broken pot; also, the hard shell of a Crab, Tortoise, &c.

Testu: m. The Pollard, or Cheuin; also, the Cod-fish.  Le testu d'un masson. A Masons hammer.

Testu: m. uë: f. Testie, headie, headstrong, wilfull, obstinate; also, headed, or hauing many heads.  Chardon testu. The hundred-headed thistle, field Eringus, Leuant sea Holme, champion sea Hollie.  Femme testuë. A domineering, or maisterfull house-*wife; one that (at least) would be her husbands maister; one that hath too much head.

Tetard. Grand tetard. A great sucker, a child that sucketh much.

Tetasse: f. A long, swagging, flaggie, withered, and filthie dug; whence, Avallé en tetasse de vieille. Hanging downe like the wrinckled, and ouglie breast of an old hag.

Tetassier: m. ere: f. Duggie, hauing great or long dugs.

Tete: f. A teat, pap, dug.

Teté: m. ée: f. Sucked as a dug; Looke Tetté. Teter. To sucke a dug.

Tethe. as Tette. Tethine: f. A little teat, pap, or dug.

Tethye: f. A certaine deformed excrescence (being neither fish, nor plant) of the sea.

Tetin: m. The nibble, or nipple of a dug.  Du tetin en hors. From his infancie.

Tetine: f. as Tette; also, an instrument of glasse, wherewith new-deliuered women get out their beest, or first grosse milke out of their breasts.

Tetineux: m. euse: f. Duggie, or hauing great dugs.

Tetons. Little teats, or dugs.

Tetrade: f. A quaternitie, or messe; the proportion, or number of foure.

Tetradique: com. Of, or belonging to, foure.  Degrez tetradiques. Which haue betweene euerie foure steps one broad one, called by our workmen the landing place.

Tetragnathe. A white, rough-legd, and most venomous spider.

Tetragnatic. as Tetragnathe. Tetragone: com. Quadrangle, or of foure corners.

Tetrahil, ou Tetrahit. The Judaicall hearbe, called otherwise, Glidewort.

Tetrasyllabe: com. Of foure syllables.

Tetrique: com. Rude, harsh, vnpleasant, rough, sowre, crabbed, froward, crosse, hard to away with.

Tette: f. A teat, pap, dug, breast.

Tetté: m. ée: f. Sucked; drawne, or milked by a young one.  Il a tetté de bon laict. He hath beene well bred; there is much worth, or much good stuffe, in him.

Tettée: f. One sucking, a childs meale, as much as it will sucke at once.

Tetter. To sucke a dug.

Tetthe, & Tetther. as Tette, & Tetter. Tetthons. Looke Tetons. Tevot: m. A cowardlie braggadochio; one that will say much more then he dare doe.

Teur: m. A lattise-like couer of horse-tayle haire, in many doubles, vpon the narrow boord, whereon Clothworkers doe sheere their clothes.

Texte: m. A Text; the originall words, or subiect of a booke, &c, whereon Comments, or Discourses, are sometimes made.

Textuel: m. elle: f. Of, or in, a text. Iuges qui sont bons textuels. Learned, text-readie, good booke-men, such as can readily cite all the bookes which are in a Case.

Texture: f. A texture, contexture, web, or weauing; composition, worke, frame.

Tez. Le tez de la teste. The scaulpe, or scull of the head.

Tezez. ¶Rab. Shauen, or bald fellowes; or, as Niais, younglings, fops, fondlings.

Thacor. A scab, or pile in the fundament. ¶Rab. Thagadie. Looke Rhagade. Thairir. as Tarir. To wither.

Thalasié: m. ée: f. Sea-sicke.

Thalasse. The sea. ¶Rab. Thale: f. A Greene; or, as Talle. Thalent. Looke Talent. Thaller. Corne to bud, shoot out their tops, or begin to eare.

Thalmud: m. The Jewish Thalmud; a superstitious and blasphemous Booke, or Law, deuised by their Rabbies, and of great authoritie among them.

Thalmudiste: m. A Thalmudist; a student, or professor of the superstitions contained in the Thalmud. Thamarinde. as Tamarinde. Thapsie: f. The stinking, or deadlie Carrot.

Tharir. Looke Tarir. Thassot: m. A Newte, or Aske.

That: m. A Salamander.

Thaumaste. ¶Rab. The Will.

Theatins: m. The Theatins; a sect of Priests, in credit about Pope Clement the seuenths time, and of more antiquitie, by some few yeares, then the Iesuits.

Theatral: m. ale: f. Theatrall; of, belonging to, or done in, a Theater.

Theatre: m. A Theater; a publike Play-house; an halfe-*round house wherein people sit to behold publike Playes, or Games.

Theïe: f. An Aunt. ¶Pic. Theïon: m. An Vncle.

Thelemite: m. A Libertine; one that does what he list.

Theme: m. A theame; also, the Bill put into a Court by a plaintife.

Theologal: m. ale: f. Theologall; belonging to Diuinitie, or Diuines.  Vin Theologal. Notable good, and strong Wine; or, the best Wine, of what kind soeuer.

Theologalement. Theologically, diuinely.

Theologastre: m. A small or simple Diuine; a smatterer in Diuinitie.

Theologie: f. Theologie, Diuinitie; the profession, or studie of holie things.

Theologien: m. A Theologian, Diuine, profeßor of Diuinitie.

Theomaches: m. Warriors against the gods, as the old gyants are fained to haue beene.

Theophaine. The Epiphanie, or Twelfth day in Christmas.

Theophile: com. Louing God.

Theorie: f. Theorie, contemplation, deepe studie; a sight, or beholding, speculation.

Theorique: f. The same; and, the knowledge of an Art without practise.

Therapeutique: com. Curing, healing; whence;  Medecine therapeutique. That Phisicke, or part of Phisicke, which prescribeth remedies for the curing of diseases, and recouerie of health.

Theraputrice. The same. ¶Rab.

Therbenthine. as Terebinthe.

Theriacal: m. ale: f. Treaclie, of Treacle.