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 Valoir: m. Value, worth; rate, price.  Non valoir d'estat. Looke Estat. Valoir. To be worth; as much worth, or as worthie, as; to counteruaile, counterpeise, or answer in value; to be of equall esteeme, or goodnesse with; also, to profit, serue, be good for; and to merit, or deserue.  Cela vaut faict, ou la chose vaut faicte. The matter is neere an end, or as good as done.  Couste & vaille. Fall it out how it will, whatsoeuer come of it; as what rate, or hazard soeuer; also, no matter what it cost so as it be good.  I'en vaus bien vn autre. I am as fit for it, or worthie of it, as another.  Se mettre en rang d'oignon, & ne valoir vn'eschalotte. Seeke Oignon. C'est argent qu'argent vaut: Pro. As good haue money-worth as money; that which is worth coyne is as good as coyne.  Les choses valent autant qu'on les fait valoir: Pro. Things are as they are esteemed of; or, are esteemed of as they are set forth; The like is;  Rien ne vaut la chose sinon qu'on la fait valoir: Prov. A thing is worth no more then it's set out for; things without shew, out-setting, praise, or vse, are nothing worth.  Vn homme ne vaut sinon qu'il se fait valoir: Pro. As thou of thine owne selfe doest deeme, so other men will thee esteeme.  Les cousteaux de Iean Colot, l'un vaut l'autre: Pro. See Colot. Tant vaut l'homme tant vaut sa terre: Prov. A good, or bad man makes good, or bad, the things belonging to him.  Tout bois vaut busches: Pro. The worst wood's good ynough to make logs of; or, the worst wood yeeldeth fuell for the fire.

Valois. as Vallois. Valvasseur. See Vavasseur. Valve: f. A foulding, or two-leafed doore, or window.

Valuë: f. Value, worth, goodnesse.

Valvule: f. A flap in the inside of the mouth of a vessell, which keepeth the liquor it containes from running, ierting, or gushing, out.  Valvules du coeur. Eleuen small open gates, or entries in the heart, whereby passage is giuen to the bloud and spirits that come vnto it from the veines, and arteries.

Van: m. A Vanne, or winnowing Siue; (made of Ozier, and rather like a Scallop shell then our Siue.)

Vandanger. Looke Vendanger. Vandoise: f. The Dace, or Dare-fish; also, a Witch, or Hag.

Vanereau: m. A young Lapwing.

Vaner, & Vaneur. as Vanner, & Vanneur. Vanger. Looke Venger. Vangeron: m. A little red-finned fish in the Lake of Geneua.

Vanier. as Vannier. Vanité: f. Vanitie, trifling, lightnesse, inconstancie, fondnesse; also, emptinesse.

Vanné: m. ée: f. Vanned, or winnowed; also, coursed, schooled, canuassed; also, scoffed, mocked, flowted, played vpon, ridden, derided.

Vanneau: m. A Lapwing.

Vanner. To vanne, or winnow (not much in our manner, letting the corne fall from the siue to the ground; but, more commonly, shogging it with both hands against the thigh, to make the chaffe come aloft of the corne, and then sweeping so much of it off with a wing, &c, as the wind hath not carried away;) also, to course, chide, canuaße, bayt, schoole; or, to mocke, flowt, ride, play vpon; or to rake vp, scoffingly, the faults or imperfections of others.  Vanner sa farine au vent. To spend his meanes, or substance on toyes.  Vanner sa plume au vent. To play the foole, or loose his time.

Vannerie: f. as Venerie; a hunting, &c.

Vannet: m. A Lapwing; also, as Coquille (in Blason.)

Vanneur: m. A vanner, or winnower of corne; also, a chider, schooler, bayter.

Vanneure: f. A winnowing; also, a chiding, bayting, schooling; and, a scoffing, mocking, deriding.

Vannier: m. A Siue-maker; a Basket-maker.

Vannures: f. Winnowings, or siftings of corne.

Vanoyer. To vanish, disappeare, come to nought; also, to be vaine, or play vaine parts.

Vantance: f. A vaunt, brag, boast; or, as Vanterie. Se Vanter. To vaunt, brag, boast, glorie, cracke.  Tel a necessité qui ne s'en vante pas: Prov. Necessitie doth pinch them most, who of their wants doe shame to boast.

Vanterie: f. A vaunting, bragging, boasting, ostentation, cracking, glorying.

Vanterolles. as Venterolles. Vanteur: m. A vaunter, bragger, cracker, boaster.  De grands vanteurs petis faiseurs: Prov. Great boasters small roasters; the fairest chimneyes yeeld out the least smoake.

Vanteux: m. euse: f. Vaunting, cracking, bragging, boasting, full of ostentation.

Vapeur: f. A vapor, fume, exhalation, hot breath, steaming, reeking.

Vapide: com. Waftie, or wafted; that sends vp an ill fume, that yeelds a stinking vapor.

Vaquane: f. The vacancie of a Benefice.

Vaquant. as Vacant. Vaquer. To be at leisure, cease from labour, desist from working; also, to attend, apply, bestow time on, giue the mind, or bend his studie, vnto; also, to be vacant, emptie, void, without.

Var. as Bar. Varandé: m. ée: f. Well dryed, and seasoned, as a Herring thats readie to be barrelled.

Varander. To dry, and season Herrings for the barrell.

Varangues: f. The ribs, or floore-timbers, of a ship.

Varaville: f. The name of a greene sweet apple, which is fashioned like an egge.

Varech: m. A sea-wracke, or wrecke; all that is cast a-*land by chaunce, or tempest; or that comes so neere the land, that a man on horsebacke may reach it with his launce.

Varene: f. A flat valley; or, a plaine betweene two hills.

Varengues. as Varangues. Varenne: f. A reddish earth, whereof the moulds of Founders, and ouens of Potters be ordinarily made; and hence;  Varennes. Leane, and dry grounds, fit onely to beare Oats, and Rye.

Varenneux: m. euse: f. Sterill, dry, leane.

Varesque. as Varech. Variable: com. Variable, changeable, mutable, wauering, fickle, inconstant, flitting.

Variation: f. A variation, change, mutation, differing from that it hath beene.