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 Balanceux: m. euse: f. Belonging to a ballance; also, full of ballances.

Balancier: m. A ballance maker; also, the ballance of a clocke.

Balancier: m. ere: f. Of, or belonging to, a ballance.

Balancieur: m. as Balanceur; Or th' Officer that weighes money as soone as it is coyned. Balancines: f. The lifts; two small cords belonging to the sprit saile of a ship.

Balane: f. Any kind of Acorne; or thing made like an Acorne; as the top of a mansyard, &c; See Balan. Balauste. The blossome, or flower of the wild Pomegranet tree.

Balay: m. A broome, or beesome; also, a Balleis Rubie.  Donner trois tours de balay par la cheminée. Look Baley. Nettoyer au balay. To make cleane worke, to sweepe all away.

Balayer. To sweepe, or make cleane, with a broome.

Balayeures: f. as Balieures. Balayeuse: f. A drudge, or sweeping wench.

Balbucie: f. A stutting, or stammering.

Balchon: m. A Balcone; a little Terrace on the top of a house, ouer a gate, or before a window.

Balcon. as Balchon. Baldachin: m. The Canopie thats caried ouer a prince; or, a cloath of estate.

Baldaquin. The same.

Baldaquin: m. An yron, and open cresset, full of pitched wreathes.

Bale: f. A bullet; also, a ball; also, a packe, as of marchandise; also, the chaffe of wheat, or other corne; hence;  Pain de bale. Chaffe bread, vnraunged bread, the coursest kind of bread.

Baleine: f. A whall.

Balenchoüeres. The childish game called, titter totter.

Balenes: f. Whall bones; Whall-bone bodies; French bodies.

Baler. To daunce.

Balestrier: m. ere: f. Crossebow-like, of a crossebow.

Balet: m. A beesome, or broome.  Four balet. A maulkin.

Balevolter. as Baleuoter. Balevoter. To wag, wauer, flicker, as a streamer in the wind.

Baleustres: m. Looke Balustres. Baley. as Balet; A broome beesome. Donner trois tours de baley par la cheminée. To swing a broome three times about a chimney (a ceremonie vsed by witches a little before they go vnto their diuellish assemblies.)

Balié: m. ée: f. Swept, or made cleane, with a broome.

Balier. To sweepe; or make cleane, with a broome.

Balieure: f. A sweeping, or making cleane, with a broome.  Balieures. Sweepings; the filth, or dust thats swept out of a roome; (hence) also, any trash, outcast trifles, or things of no value.

Balievres: f. The chaps (of a man, or beast.)

Baligaut: m. An vnweldie lubber, great lobcocke, huge luske, mishapen lowt, ill fauoured flabergullion.

Balise. as Balisse; Or, a certaine marke set vp, for the direction of saylers in a nauigable riuer. Balisse. A Beacon.

Baliste: f. An ancient engine, or kind or ordnance, wherout stones, were throwne. Balivaginer. To prattle, or babble; to vse too many words.

Baliveaux. Standers; trees left in a wood for th' increase, and preseruation thereof.

Baliverne: f. A lye, fib, gull: (bailleur de balivernes. Looke Bailleur) also, a babling, or idle discourse.

Baliverner. To cog, foist, lye, talke idle, vainely, or to no purpose.

Balladin. A dauncer; as Baladin. Balladiner. To daunce high, or liuelily.

Balladinerie: f. High, or liuely dauncing, as, of galliards, Corantoes, or Jigges.

Ballay. A balleys Rubie.

Balle. as Bale. Balles. Twelue times twelue dozen; or twelue grosse.

Ballet: m. A cape of a cloake; also, as Appentis; also, a dauncing.

Balletrou: m. A sweepe-hole; Membre viril: ¶Rab. Ballié: m. ée: f. Swept, cleansed, made cleane.

Ballier. To sweepe; to make cleane (with a broome, &c.)

Ballieur: m. A sweeper.

Ballieures. Looke Balieures. Balliveaux: m. Standers, or trees left standing after a wood sale.

Balliverne. as Baliverne. Ballizer vne Riviere. To rake, scowre, or cleanse a riuer.

Ballocher. To totter; as one that goes on a rope, or narrow bridge.

Ballon: m. A fardle, or small packe.

Ballot: m. A little packe.

Ballotage. A rifling, or lotterie; ia casting of lots; a chusing by lots.

Ballote. as Balotte; Also, blacke Horehound, stinking horehound. Ballottement: m. A casting of lots; a triall of matters by lotterie.

Ballotter. To cast lots; to chuse officers, and magistrats; to passe, or dash lawes propounded; to condemne, or absolue th' accused, by lots, or lotterie.

Ballouëtter. To tosse, as a ball; to turne, or tumble a thing often, and into sundrie places.

Balluque: f. Gold ore, or gold vnfined; also, a vessell whereinto gold is powred.

Ballustres: m. as Balustres. Balme. Looke Baulme. Balme: f. A caue, denne, hole, grot.

Baloffe: f. A course bed, or mattresse filled onely with chaffe, straw, and such like; or, as Balouffe. Baloïé: m. ée: f. Swept; or, made cleane, with a broome.

Balon: m. A little ball; or packe; also, a football, or baloone.

Balong. (Sub. & Adiec.) See Barlong. Balongue: f. A trough, or vessell, ground, plot, or figure, which is much more long than broad.  Balongue cornue. Is of vnequall forme, and vnlike both in the length of the sides, and breadth of the ends.  Balongue droicte. Is more long than broad, but of equall proportion both in length and breadth.

Balorde: com. as Balourde. Balorderie: f. Sottishnesse, blockishnesse, dull folly, ignorant fopperie.

Balot: m. A little packe, or fardle.

Balotade: f. A bounding, or bounsing; as, of a football, or high-going horse.

Baloté: m. ée: f. Bounded, or bounsed high from the