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 two seuerall Courts, or Sessions; an ordinarie one, and the Assises.

Bailliager: m. ere: f. Attending on, or, belonging to, a Bailife, or Bailywike.

Baillie: f. Seigneurie, gouernment, authoritie, rule ouer, protection of; also, a Bailiwike, or country Iusticeship; the place, function, charge of a Bailife, or countrey Iustice; administration of iustice; and (as Bailliage) the Shire, Prouince, precinct, and compasse of countrey wherein he gouernes.  Lettres de baillie. Are (according to the stile of Normandie) letters, writs, or obligations, authorizing him to whom they are directed, to proceed to execution vpon the goods, or possessions, of another.

Baillif: m. A Bailife; or, as Bailli. Baillisseur. A Guardian, Tutor, Gouernor of a Ward; he that hath the Wardship of a Gentleman.

Baillistre: m. as Baillisseur; especially, one that is a collaterall kinsman to the Ward; or his mother, or grandmother againe maried. Baillistrerie: f. The wardship, tuition, or gouernment of an heire within age.

Bailliveau. as Baliveau. Baillon: m. A gag.

Baillonner. To gag; and sometimes as Baailler; to yawne.

Baillot: m. A trough.

Bailly. as Bailli. Baimaux. (En l'ordonnance du Roy Charles 5, de l'an 1376; faicte pour le reiglement des forests) False printed for, Balliueaux; Standers; trees left standing in forests for increase.

Bain: m. A bath.  Bain de Marie. Maries bath; a Cauldron, or Kettle full of boyling water, or, a distilling by the heat therof.  Chevalier des bains. Looke Chevalier. Baïocque: m. A small Italian coyne worth two (Italian) pence.

Baïoque. as Baïocque. Bair. as Vair; A kind of furre; or, that which in Blason is called Verrie. Bairer. as Baiser. Baisé: m. ée: f. Kissed, smouched; smacked.

Baise-main: m. A kissing of the hand, in courtesie, or signe of submission; also, a fine, or (in lieu thereof) a peece of money (greater, or lesse, as the custome is) paid vnto a Lord, at the sealing, or making, of a lease; also, the spirituall reuenue of the Church, as offerings, &c.

Baisement. A kissing.

Baise-nue. High, tall, cloud-kissing, reaching to the clouds.

Baiser: m. A kisse.

Baiser. To kisse, to smoutch, to smacke.  Baiser le babouïn. Basely to submit himselfe, doe reuerence, or yeeld respect, vnto an vnworthy thing.  Baiser la porte, ou la serrure, ou le verrouil de l'huis du fief. A vassall to kisse the gate, &c, of the principall Mannor house of his absent Lord, in lieu of the homage he should otherwise haue done him, had he bin present.

Baiseret: m. A little kisse, or prettie smacke.

Baiseur: m. A kisser, smoutcher, smacker.

Baisler. as Baailler. Baisotté: m. ée: f. Often kissed.

Baisotter. To kisse often.

Baissant. Humbling, stooping, inclining, bowing or bending downewards. Baissant la teste. Holding downe his head; also, pre-*
 * paring himselfe vnto, or being readie for, the combat.

Baisse de marest. A low bottome which the water hath turned vnto a marish; a bog, or quagmire.

Baissé: m. ée: f. Stooping, inclining, declined, bowed downe, humbled; deiected, abased, brought low; let fall.  À teste baissée. Desperatly, headlong, without care what may betide him, or whether hee sinke, or swim; also, resolutely, or with prepared force.

Baissement: m. A bowing downe, laying downe, bringing low, letting fall; an humbling, stooping, inclining, declining.

Baisser: m. An humbling, &c; as Baissement. Baisser. To bow downe, lay downe, bring low, let fall, humble, deiect, abate, abase.  Se baisser. To stoope, to bow downe, decline, bend, or incline downewards.  Baisser bois. Ils baisserent bois. They put their launces in their rests.  Baisser ses cornes. To humble himselfe, to let fall his crest; or, as Baisser la teste. Baisser le front. To hold, or bow downe, the head, in signe of humblenesse, or of submission.  Baisser la teste. The same; also, to settle, or prepare himselfe vnto an exploit, or combat; (from the custome of horned beasts, that bow downe their heads, when they are to meet an enemie) hence, also;  Tu ne doibs ia baisser la teste. Thou shouldest not be so resolute, so hardie, so forward for the matter.  À la hausse qui baisse. Looke Hausse. Le iour se baisse. The day growes old; it waxes late, or farre on the day.

Baissieres: f. The grounds, or lees of wine; also, any drinke when it drawes low; the dregges of any such liquor.

Bal: m. A daunce; a dauncing; Reuels, or, a Reuelling.

Balade. A ballet.

Baladin: m. A common dauncer of galliards, and other stirring, or liuely Ayres.

Balaffre: &c; as Balafre; &c. Balafre: f. A slash ouer the face; a king Harry cut; a gash, or wipe, ouer the snowt.

Balafré. Slashed, or cut ouer the face.

Balafrer. To slash, or cut ouer the face.

Balafreux. A cutter, swaggerer, swashbuckler.

Balafrure: f. A slashing; or, as Balafre. Balaine: f. A Whale, or, the Whirlpoole, (a kind of Whall.)

Balan: m. As the latine Balanus; any kind of Acorne; or, any thing made like an Acorne.  Balan myrepsique. Th' aromaticall, and oyly nut, or Acorne, called, Ben. Balance: f. A ballance; a paire of weights, or ballances; also, one of the twelue signes in the Zodiacke.  Estre en balance. To doubt, wauer, totter in opinion; be vncertaine, or in suspence, what to say, or thinke, what way to hold, what course to take.  Peser en seuere balance. To examine very strictly.

Balancé: m. ée: f. Ballanced, weighed, peised, pondered; also, shaken, or tottered.

Balancer. To ballance, weigh, peise; ponder; also, to stagger, or wauer betweene two opinions; (any way) to shake, or totter.  Le cerf balance. So say French Hunters, when a Stag runs first one way, and then another, without any certain, or outright course in his flight; we say, he beats vp and downe, or flies round.

Balanceur. A balancer; a weigher of things in a balance.