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 Tenir au vent. To beare hard with, or sayle verie neere to, a wind.  L'aureille au vent. Listeningly, attentiuely.  Tout d'un vent. At one breath, all at once.  Vie foüet, & au vent. Auant &c; as vnder Foüet. I'ay veu d'autres vents venter. I haue seene better, or other dayes; I haue knowne when the time, or state of things, hath beene other then it is.  On a veu d'aussi grand vent venter (sans abbatre les maisons.) We haue heard of as many brags made, or threats vsed, and yet nothing, or no hurt, done.   Qui veut tirer quelque chose de ce vaisseau il luy faut donner du vent. He that will draw ought out of his Peece, must giue him vent; viz. must collaude, or collogue with, him.  Le vent, la tēpeste for "em"? P2], & l'orage monstrent du nocher la courage: Pro. Crosses are the touchstones of courage.  Vent au visage rend l'homme sage: Prov. Aduersities teach a man wit.  Nul vent ne fait pour celuy qui n'a point de port destiné: Prov. No wind can blow him to good whom Destinie will not harbour.  Les mal-vestus devers le vent: Pro. He that worst may the candle holdeth; or as vnder Mal-vestu. Qui est sur la mer ne fait pas des vents ce qu'il veut: Pro. The Mariner can make no winds; or, the Sayler cannot haue what winds he will.

Ventail: m. A childish toy of a card cut acrosse, like the sayles of a wind-mill, and put with a pinne vnto th' end of a sticke, and so held into the wind, which makes it to twirle verie fast about.

Ventaille: f. The breathing part of a helmet; the sight of the beauer.  Ventailles du ciel. The windowes, or floud-gates, of heauen.

Ventau: m. as Ventail; also, a Fanne. Vente: f. A sale, or selling; an alienation, or passing away for money, &c.  Vente extraordinaire de bois. A sale of timber, or of great and high trees: Vente ordinaire de bois; a sale of copse-wood, vnderwood, or small wood.  Ventes. A fine for alienation: viz. (for the most part) 20 d. in the pound, or the twelfth part of the price of land sold, due sometimes vnto the Lord feodal, but more commonly to Lords Censuel, of whom it is held; and paied, in some places, by the purchaser, in others, by the seller, and in others, betweene them both: The French Lawes, and customes, doe often ioyne with this another dutie, called Lods, which comes to as much more.  Ventes, & gants; ventes, & honneurs; ventes, & issuës. Looke vnder Droict. Si boute tel feur telle vente. The thing is sold euen as it was bought, it goes away as it came; or, no matter, tis well-ynough, let it be how it will be.

Venté. Blowne, puffed.

Venteler. To breath, or blow a soft gale; also, to waue, houer, wauer; also, to ayre, in the wind; also, to vanne or winnow corne; and to tosse or canuasse to and fro; to turne out of one hand into another.

Ventelet: m. A little wind; a small puffe, gentle gale, coole blast, of wind.

Ventelle. as Ventaille.

Venter. The wind to blow, or puffe. I'ay veu d'autres vents venter. Looke vnder Vent. On a veu d'aussi grand vent venter. We haue knowne as great a wind as this without any house blowne downe; (In answer to one that speakes big words, but is valiant in nothing but words.) Tant vente qu'il pleut: &, Tant tonne, & vente que pluye descend: Prov. This wind will haue raine; bloud-wipes often follow big words.

Venter. se Venter. To brag; Looke se Vanter. Venteroles; or Venterolles. Droict de vent. A certaine fine due to a Landlord frō the purchaser that vndertakes to discharge his selling tenant of all fines; Looke Droict. Venteux: m. euse: f. as Vanteux; also, windie, full of wind; as light, or as swift, as the wind.

Ventier. whence, Marchand ventier; Asçavoir, de ventes de bois. Ventilation: f. A ventilation, breathing or gentle blowing; also, a wauing, or houering in the ayre; a winnowing, or airing in the wind; also, an estimation, valuation, prizing.

Ventiler. To gather wind, &c; as Venteler; also, to estimate, prize, value.

Ventoir: m. as Ventail. Ventelin: m. A verie small wind.

Ventose: f. A cupping glasse.

Ventoser. To cup, or applie cupping glasses.

Ventosité: f. Ventositie, windinesse.

Ventouse. as Ventose; also, a vent in caske.

Ventousé: m. ée: f. Cupped with a cupping glasse; also, vented.

Ventre: m. The bellie, paunch; wombe. Ventre de bureau. One that feeds grossely, or eates none but course meats. Ventre goy. (Corruptly, or clownishly) for Ventre Dieu. Ventre inferieur. The bellie from the bulke to the priuities. Ventre moyen. The bulke, breast, or stomacke; all that part which the ribs inclose. Ventre à la poulaine. A gulch, big-bellie, gorbellie, swag-paunch, bundle of guts. Ventre superficiel. as Epigastre. Ventre superieur. The head, so called by Anatomists. Haut ventre. The stomacke. Mal de ventre. The wormes; or bellie-ache; a fretting, wringing, or griping in the bellie. Sur le ventre. Groueling. Estre en la paille iusques au ventre. To be fully accommodated, easefully lodged, plentifully furnished, both for vse, and delight. Faire bon ventre. To looßē the bellie, to make soluble. Mettre le coeur au ventre. Cela luy mit le coeur au ventre. That heartened, cheered, or comforted him; that made him take heart at grasse. Saulter à deux pied sur le ventre à. Looke Saulter. C'est le ventre ma mere. I will come no more there, I will doe no more so. Il y demeura le ventre au soleil. He left his guts there, he was there knockt in the head. Ventre affamé n'a point d'oreilles: Prov. Hunger no eare to reason yeeldeth. Ventre de velours robbe de bureau: Prov. Looke Velours. Le ventre emporte la teste: Prov. Th' appetite often ouerrules the wit; or, as vnder Emporter. En petit ventre grand coeur: Pro. A great stomack oft lodges in a little one. Il n'est horologe plus iuste que le ventre: Prov. No clocke more iust, or true, then the bellie; or, the bellie is best dyall, to giue all things their triall. La verge ennoblist, & le ventre affranchist. (A Proverbe, or Principle in the French Lawes) Children are