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 Vache de Beard. A base coyne worth about vj d Tourn. Vache de Foix. The name of an auncient coyne, which bore on it the stampe of a Cow, the armes of the old Earles of Foix. Vache de mer. A kind of daintie Thornbacke, hauing a pointed beake.  Il a mangé de la vache enragée. He hath drunke of many waters, paßed many pikes, tryed many experiments; he hath beene well practised in, or beaten vnto, the course of the world; also, as vnder Manger. Le Diable sera bien aux vaches. There will be an old stirre, hurrying, hurlyburly.  Vache de Barbarie qui ne recognoist que ses propres veaux: Pro. Applyable to one that either simply knowes not, or churlishly cares not for, more thē her own.  Vache de loing a laict assez: Pro. Things farre-fetcht are held most sufficient; the further a thing is brought, the better we thinke of it.  Vne vache prend bien vn lievre: Prov. A Cow may catch a Hare (as vnder Lievre.)  La vache du riche velle souvent, celle du povre avorte: Prov. The rich mans Cow (well-fed) does often calfe, the poore mans casts hers, & thriues worse by halfe.  Vache ne sçait que vaut sa queuë iusques à ce qu'elle l'ait perduë: Prov. The want, more then the vse, indeares the worth of good things; we know our friends best when we want them most.  Aussi tost meurt vache comme veau: Pro. The skipping Calfe, and wanton Lambe, are often kill'd before their damme.  Qui se mesle d'autruy mestier il trait sa vache en vn panier: Pro. He that with other mens trades will be medling, doth most-an-end loose the fruit of his pedling.  Qui ne retire de sa vache que la queuë ne perd pas tout: Prov. He looses not his whole auayle, that of his Cow saues but the tayle.

Vachelette: f. A verie little Cow.

Vacherie: f. A heard of kyne; also, a Cow-house, or stable for kyne.

Vachette: f. A little Cow; also, as Vache de Foix. Vachier: m. A Cow-heard, or Cow-keeper.  Hier vachier huy chevalier: Pro. One thats raised, on a suddaine, from a base, to an honorable, calling.

Vaciet: m. The blue or purple Jacinth, or Hiacinth, tearmed by some, Crow-toes.

Vacilé, & Vacilement. as Vacillé, & Vacillation. Vaciler. See Vaciller. Vacillation: f. A reeling, staggering, wagging, stirring, wauering, an inconstant mouing.

Vacillé. Reeled, staggered, wagged, wauered.

Vaciller. To reele, totter, stagger, wag, shake, wauer, be loose, vnsure, vnconstant, moue or stirre inconstantly.

Vacuité: f. Vacuitie, voidnesse, emptinesse, hollowneße.

Vade. Passe (at Primero, &c.)

Vagabond: m. A vagabond, roamer, faitour, earth-planet, wandering idlesbie, ranging or gadding rogue.

Vagabonder. To gad, wander, stray, roame, raunge, vagarie, vagabond it; to flit hither and thither, goe from coast to coast, loyter vp and downe.

Vageux. Looke Vagueux. Vagine: f. A sheath, scabberd, case, couering; also, the hose, or cod of corne.

Vagir. To cry like a little child.

Vague: f. A waue, sourge, or billow of water.

Vague: com. Void, emptie; wast, idle; also, faire, beautifull, cleere, bright; also, wandering, flitting, raunging, oft remouing; whence; Fievre vague. The fits whereof doe hold an vncertaine course.

Vaguer. To wander, vagarie, gad, raunge, roame, flit, remoue often from place to place.

Vagueur. Flitting, floating, or full of waues, as the sea, &c.

Vagueux: m. euse: f. The same; or wauie, full of waues.

Vaillamment. Valiantly, valorously, couragiously.

Vaillance: f. Valiancie, valor, courage.

Vaillant: m. A mans whole estate, or worth; all his substance, meanes, fortunes.  Qui plus qu'il n'a vaillant despend, il fait la corde à quoy se pend: Pro. He that feares not to spend more then he hath, sets, at the least, one foot in th' hangmans path.

Vaillant: m. ante: f. Valiant, hardie, couragious; also, right honest, of much worth.  Rien ne vaut l'assaillant s'il n'est fort, & vaillant: Pro. Jn vaine men goe t'aßayle, when force, or courage fayle.

Vaillantise: f. Valiantnesse, couragiousnesse, hardinesse.

Vain: m. aine: f. Vaine; emptie, void; frustrate; friuolous, idle, trifling, fond, without purpose; also, faint, weake, feeble, forceleße.  Vaine pasture. Looke Pasture. Terre vaine. A wast ground; or, a ground which hath neither seed in, nor fruit vpon, it.  Terre vaine, & place vuide. Which hath neither building on it, nor garden in it.  Vsagiers vain pasturiers. Looke Pasturier. Vain. (Aduerbially;) whence, En vain. In vaine, idly, to no purpose.  Vain pasturer. To turne cattell into, or let them runne among, such grounds as be held Vaine pasture. Vaincre. To vanquish, ouercome, subdue, foyle, ouermaister, surmount; also, to conuince, or put downe by reason, or in reasoning.

Vaincu: m. uë: f. Vanquished, ouercome, subdued, foyled, ouer-maistered, surmounted; also, conuinced, or put downe by reason, or in reasoning.

Vainement. Vainely, friuolously, to no purpose, idly, fondly, foolishly; also, faintly, weakely, feebly.

Vaineté: f. as Vanité. Vainqueresse: f. A vanquishing or victorious woman, a conqueresse.

Vainqueur: m. A vanquisher, ouercommer, conqueror, victor, subduer.

Vair: m. A rich furre of Ermines powdered thicke with blue haires; also, the grayish colour of some eyes; also, that which our Blasonners call Verry.  Menu Vair. Mineuer; the furre of Ermines mixed, or spotted, with the furre of the Weesell called Gris. Vairé: m. ée: f. Verry; diuersified with argent and azure.

Vairie. as Vayrie.

Vairole. as Verole.

Vaisseau: m. A veßell (of what kind soeuer.) Vaisseau circulatoire. A Limbecke, or Stillitorie. Vaisseau contenant, ou corpulent. The lower part of a Limbecke, that which holds the stuffe which is to be distilled. Vaisseau long. A Galley, Foist, or Brigantine, called so to make a difference betweene them, and a Ship, which is Vaisseau rond. Vaisseau d'un navire. The bulke, bellie, or bodie of a ship. Vaisseau d'une riviere. The channell of a riuer.