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 Double vaisseau. A cauldron, or kettle full of hot water; or, as Bain de Marie. Qui veut tirer quelque chose de ce vaisseau il luy faut donner du vent. He that will get ought from this cokes, must commend, or collogue with, him.  En vaisseau mal lavé ne peut on vin garder: Prov. Jn vncleane Caske wine will not keepe.  Vn meschant vaisseau iamais ne tombe de la main: Pro. That oft proues best which we loue least; a course glaße neuer falls vnto the ground.

Vaisselle: f. Vessell (of any sort;) also, Plate.

Val: m. A vale, valley, dale.  Du mont à val. From the top to the bottome.  Par monts, & par vaux. Euerie where, in all places whatsoeuer.  Promettre monts, & vaux. To promise Gods Cope, mountaines of gold, impossibilities.

Valable: com. Valuable, in force, of value.

Valdimonie. A day of apparance; or a promise of, or bond for, apparance at a certaine day.

Valée: f. A valley; a vale, or dale; See Vallée. Valence: f. as Vaillant: m. Valentianes. Par val. By fits, by turnes; but slowly forward. ¶Rab. Valeriane: f. Garden Valerian, Capons-tayle, Setwall.  Valeriane moyenne. Great wild Valerian.  Valeriane petite. Small wild Valerian.  Grande Valeriane. Garden Valerian; also, great wild Valerian.

Valerienne: f. as Valeriane.

Valet: m. (Quasi va-lez son maistre;) a groome, yeo-*man, or household seruant of the meaner sort: Jn old time it was a more honorable title; for all young gentlemen, vntill they came to be eighteene yeres of age, were (as at this day Batchelers in Britaine are) tearmed so; besides, those that waited in the K. Chamber (and who were, for the most part, Gentlemen) had no other title then of Valets de chambre, vntill that Francis the first, perceiuing such as attended him to be no better then Roturiers, brought in, aboue them, another sort, and caused them to be stiled, Gentilshommes de sa chambre: presently after which the Title of Valet grew into disesteeme, and is, at the length, become opposite vnto that of Gentilhomme; Looke Varlet. Valet d'Aoust. A hind, or hireling, onely for Haruest-*time. Valet à bras. A groome, hind, or seruant in a mechanicall office; a Labourer. Valet de chambre. A chamberlaine; a groome of, or waiter in, the bed-chamber; See Valet. Valet de Constantinople. (Jn the Historie of Ville-*hardouin) autant que Prince. Valet de cuisine. An vnder-Cooke; a scullion, or kitchin drudge. Valet du diable (qui fait plus que l'on luy commande;) an ouer-officious seruant; one thats more busie then he is bidden to be. Valet d'Escolier. A Subsisor, or Seruant (in ordinarie) vnto a Scholler. Valets de la feste. A kind of Morrisdauncers, attired like fooles, and hauing, as ours, their legs gartered with bells. Valet d'huis. A log, blocke, or peise of mettall, &c, hanging by a rope on one side of a doore, and seruing to shut it too presently after such as goe in, or out, at it. Valet de Iustice. A Sergeant, Officer, Catchpole. Valet de Picques. The knaue of Spades. Valet trenchant. A Caruer. Vin des valets. Looke Vin. Ce que maistre donne, & valet pleure ce sont larmes perdues: Pro. Why should a groome grudge at his maisters bountie?  Cheval faict, & valet à faire: Pro. Chuse a horse made, a seruant to be made.  Contre disner appert valet: Pro. Wer't not for meat I should not see my man (sayes the ill-serued maister.)  De grand maistre hardi valet: Prov. A maisters greatnesse breedes him hardie seruants; the might of Lords addes mettall to their men.  En pont, en planche, & en riviere valet devant, maistre derriere: Pro. Looke vnder Maistre. Valetaille: f. A rascallie crue of campe-following boyes, or drudges; also, a companie of groomes, or meaner seruants.

Valeter. Basely to obserue, attend or wait on, play the drudge or groome; to stoope, crouch, deiect, or submit himselfe too much.

Valeton: m. A boy-seruant, a young or little groome.

Valetté: m. ée: f. Made verie common, or so common, that meane seruants haue it vp; groome-ridden, prostituted vnto the vse of groomes.

Valetudinaire: com. Sicklie, queasie, crasie, subiect vnto infirmities.

Valeur: f. Value, worth, worthinesse; rate, price.

Valeure: f. The valure, value, rate, or price, of.

Valeureusement. Valorously, valiantly, couragiously.

Valeureux: m. euse: f. Valorous, valiant, hardie, couragious.

Validation: f. A strengthening, inforcement, confirming; an establishing, a ratifying.

Valide: com. Valide, strong, weightie, forcible, of worth, or value, that can doe much.

Validé: m. ée: f. Strengthened, inforced, confirmed; made worthie, or of worth; established, authorized, ratified.

Valider. To strengthen, confirme, inforce, make good; ratifie, establish, giue weight, or authoritie vnto.

Vali-dire: m. Vn Val. A footman, or seruant, onely for errands.

Validité: f. Validitie, weight, strength, force.

Valier. The name of a Saint; whence, Peur S. Valier; More feare then harme; or, a falling, by ouermuch feare, into the mischiefe, or danger feared; as when a man, thats threatned a hanging, dyes before he be turned off the ladder; for so, as the report goes, this Saint did.

Valise: f. A Male, Clokebag, Budget; Wallet.

Valitude: f. Health, strength, good liking, welfare.

Vallant: m. as Vaillant: m. Vallée: f. A valley, vale, bottome, dale.   Chevaucher la chevre en la vallée. Looke Chevre. Apres grande vallée rude montée: Pro. After great rest much toyle; after much ease great paine.  Apres grande montée grande vallée: Prov. They that the highest climbe the lowest fall.

Vallet: m. A groome, &c; Looke Valet. Vallet à bras. A labourer; a labouring seruant; a groome, hind, or seruant in a mechanicall office.

Valletaille, & Valleter. See Valetaile, & Valeter. Valleton: m. as Valeton; also (in some auncient Authors) a bastard.

Vallidation, & Vallider. as Validation, & Valider. Vallois: m. A kind of Net, wherewith fish is (forbidden to be) caught.

Vallon: m. A little valley; a dale.