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 Varice: m. A crooked veine swelling with corrupt bloud in the temples, bellie, or legs.

Varicqueux: m. euse: f. The veines of whose temples, &c, be swollen with corrupt bloud; also, stradling, striding, going wide asunder.

Varier. To varie, change, alter, disguise; to square, differ, disagree, write, or speake diuersly; to diuersifie; to make of seuerall fashions or colours.  Varier en la teste. To wag, or waggle with the head; to haue a giddie head.  Il varie. He holds not steadily; his hand shakes, quauers, or wauers.

Varieté: f. Varietie, change, choice, diuersitie; ficklenesse, inconstancie, mutabilitie.

Varig: m. Flag, Sword-grasse, Corne-flag.

Varin: m. A woodden Engine consisting of two vices, and a skrue, and seruing to lift vp great peeces of timber, or of Artillerie.

Varinet: m. A little Varin. Varioles: f. The small Pockes.

Variqueux. as Varicqueux. Varlet: m. A Groome, &c; as Valet; also, a younker, stripling, youth; as in the Prouerb;  Autant se prise beau varlet que belle fille: Prov. The smirking youth as much himselfe esteemes, as doth the Nimph who beautie fairest seemes.

Varletaille. as Valetaille. Varleter; &, Varleton. as Valeter; &, Valeton. Varre. A certaine long Jtalian measure.

Vasche. Looke Vache. Vase: m. A vessell.

Vase: f. as Vaze; mud, or owze.

Vasois: m. A shore, or place oft ouerflowed with water, and thereby full of owze, or mud.

Vasquine: f. A Kirtle, or Petticoat; also, a Spanish vardingale.

Vasquinier: m. A maker of Kirtles, Petticoats; or Spanish vardingales.

Vassal: m. A vassall, subiect, tenant; properly such a one as holds his land of another by Knights seruice, or by homage and fealtie; and is thereby tied to attend his Lord in person to the warre, or to send one with him in his stead, or to allow him money for the hiring of one; all at his owne charge: (And therefore in the auncient Romanes, Vassal is taken for the contrarie to Souldoyer; (who receiued pay) as also for any Gentleman whatsoeuer;) Also, a slaue, or bondman.   Vn Seigneur de beurre (de feurre; ou de paille) combat (vainc, ou mange) bien vn vassal d'acier. A Prouerbe expressing the great aduantage a Lord hath of his subiect, or tenant.  Tant que le vassal dort le Seigneur veille. A Lord hauing entred into his vassalls land for want of homage, or due seruices, may lawfully enioy it, and the whole fruits of it, vntill he haue receiued his due.  Tant que le Seigneur dort, le vassal veille. Looke Seigneur. Vassaudie: f. as Vasselage. Vassausie: f. The right which a Soueraigne, or Landlord pretendeth to haue ouer his vassall, or tenant.

Vasselage: m. Vassellage, or subiection; the duetie, or estate of a vassall: (In th' auncient Romans tis vsed for valour, and a valiant or worthie deed.)

Vasselage actif. Fealtie.

Vasseur: m. as Vassal; or a villein.

Vastadour: m. A Pioner, or digger; also, a mender of highwayes.

Vastation: m. A wasting, spoyling, ransacking, destroying. Vaste: com. Vast, huge, wide, broad, large, burlie, spacious; also, desolate, desert, vninhabited, wild.  Muscle vaste. One of the foure muskles whereby the thigh is bent.

Vastibousier: m. A luske, lubber, loggerhead, lozell, hoidon, lobcocke.

Vastines: f. Wast grounds, as deserts, rockes, sands, &c; (an old word.)

Vaticinateur: m. A Prophet, Soothsayer, Diuiner, foreteller of things to come.

Vaticination: f. A prophecying, diuining, foretelling, soothsaying.

Vaticiner. To prophesie, diuine, soothsay it, coniecture at, foretell of, things to come.

Vatton: m. The latch of a doore; also, a leauer.

Vau: m. A vale, or valley; See Val. Vavasseur: m. A Valuasor, or Vauasour; a Lord that held of some Duke, Marquesse, or Earle; and (at least among vs) was in degree inferior to a Baron; a Mesne, or Mesne Lord; or as Arrierevassal; also, a villeine.

Vavassorie: f. A Valuasserie; th' estate, land, or territorie of a Vauassor, Mesne Lord, Arrierevassal; or villeine.

Vavassourie: f. The same.

Vauche. The hearbe called Periwincle.

Vaucrer. To raunge, roame, vagarie, wander, idle it vp and downe.  Vaucrer. A ship to float, or waue vp and downe, to hold an vncertaine course at sea, to sayle whither wind and tide will carrie it.

Vauderoute. s'en fuïr à vaud. To flie amaine; or to run headlong along.  Mettre à vauderoute. To put wholly, or vtterly to flight.

Vaudeville: f. A countrey ballade, or song; a Roundelay, or Virelay; so tearmed of Vaudevire, a Norman towne, wherin Olivier Bassel, the first inuēter of them, liued; also, a vulgar prouerbe; a countrey or common saying.

Vaudre. A kind of vessell for Rhenish wine.

Vauldeville. See Vaudeville. Vauldrée: f. A maulkin.

Vaulneant: m. A good for-nought; a rakehell, raskall, scoundrell, retchlesse or idle companion.

Vaultour: m. A Vulture, Geire, Gripe, or Grap; (a rauenous bird.)  Cataplasme de chair de vaultour avec les vifs. A plaister of warme guts.

Vaultrait: m. as Vaultre. Vaultre: m. A mungrell betweene a hound, and a mastife; or of a size betweene the Allan and great countrey curre; fit for the chase, or hunting of wild Beares, and Boares.

Vaultrer. To hunt with a Vaultre. Vaultrey: m. A kennell, or hunt of Vaultres. Vaultroy: m. A wild Boare; or more properly, as Vaultre; or, a Lime-hound for the wild Boare.

Vautour. as Vaultour. Vayer: m. &, Vayrie. as Voyer; &, Voyerie. Vaze: m. A vessell.

Vaze: f. Owze, mud, soft durt in the bottome of water.

Vbiquité: f. An vbiquitie; a being in euerie place, or euerie where.

Vbir. To reare; to make thriue, or grow, by good vsage, or good fare.

Vce: f. as Sourcil. Veau: m. A Calfe, or Veale; also, a lozell, hoydon, dunce,