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 by their father ennobled, and by their mother infranchised; but this is not alwayes so.

Ventrée: f. A bellie-full; or, more particularly, the burthen or load of a womans bellie; the child wherewith she goes; also, the cholicke, bellie-ache, or griping of the bellie (especially in horses.)  Succeder par ventrées. To succeed by venters; or land to be diuided among the ißue a man hath by diuers wiues, or venters.

Ventrelet: m. A little bellie.

Ventresque: f. Is, generally, th' offalls, intralls, inwards, guts, or paunch of an (edible) creature; as a calues pluck, a hogs haslet, a sheeps gather, &c; but particularly, the bellie (which is the daintiest) part of a Tunnie.

Ventricule: m. The ventricle; the place wherein the meat sent from the stomacke is disgested; some call so the stomacke it selfe; others expresse by it th' Epigastre. Ventricules du coeur. The ventricles of the heart; two large holes, one on the right, th' other on the left, side thereof; that, the greater, and closed within a slender flesh, containes the naturall bloud, this, of a harder substance, containes the bloud wherewith our Arteries be nourished; and thereupon that is called, the bloudie, this the spirituall, ventricle.  Ventricule posterieur du cerveau. The hinder ventricle, or tunnell of the braine; the seat of the memorie.

Ventriere: f. A bellie-band for a draught horse.

Ventripotent. Ventripotent, big-paunch, bellie-able, huge-guts: ¶Rab. se Ventrouiller. as Se veautrer. Ventru: m. uë: f. Paunchie, great bellied, gorbellied, full-bellied, all-guts, all-bellie.

Venture. as Adventure. Venu. Come, arriued, approached, or drawne neere vnto; proceeded, ißued, or deriued from; sprung, prouen, growne; happened, chanced, betided.  Le dernier venu est le mieux aimé. Le dernier venu ferme la porte. &, Les derniers venus sont les maistres: Prov. Looke Dernier. Venuë: f. A comming, arriuall, approach; a paßage, accesse; increase, groweth, growing or comming on; also, a vennie in fencing; also, a turne, tricke, iert, or ierke.  La venuë des arondelles. The comming in of Swallowes, about the 22 of March.  Attendre la venuë du boiteux. Looke Attendre. Tout d'une venuë. Without any diuision, all of one peece; all of one shape, size, making; also, at once, at a clap, at the same time, by the same meanes; while his hand is in, or while he is at it.

Venus: f. Venus; one of the seuen Planets, the day or morning starre; also, the Goddesse of lust; or lust, venerie, wantonnesse, vnchastneße, lecherie; also (among Alchymists) the mettall Copper.  Cheveux de Venus. Venus haire, our Ladies haire, blacke maiden-haire, true maidens haire (an hearbe).  Pour Venus advienne Barbet le chien. Losse, or ill lucke, betide him: an imprecation, or spightfull wish, relating to the play at huckle-bones, wherein he that turns vp Venus (figured on one side of the bone) doth winne; whereas he that turnes vp the dog, doth loose.

Veoir. To view, see, looke, perceiue, behold, ouersee, suruey; prie, spie; marke, note, heed, obserue, regard; examine, search into, consider of, deuise, or find some meanes for. Voici, ou, vous voyez la reste. Looke Reste. Voila qui est bon. Why this is good, well, braue. À le veoir. To see to, or be seemed. Ne voici pas vne brave response? Is not this a good-* *lie answer thinke you?  Il m'est à veoir, que. Me thinkes, or it seemes vnto me, that.   Il n'a rien que veoir en, ou sur, cela. He hath nought to doe with that, it concernes him not, he is not to meddle withall.  Qui voit enfant, il voit neant: Prov. He that an infant seeth, nothing seeth.  Qui voit la maison de son Seigneur, il n'y a profit ny honneur: Prov. Looke Seigneur. Tout voir, tout ouïr, & rien dire, merite en tout temps qu'on l'admire: Prov. To heare, and see, and nought to say, deserues to beare the bell away.  Il est bien povre qui ne voit goutte: Prov. He that wants eyes may well be tearmed poore.  Quand les yeux voyent ce que ne veirent oncques, le coeur pense ce qu'il ne pensa oncques: Pro. New obiects in the eyes, new thoughts in the heart.  Tels sont huy qui demain ne verront pas: Pro. To day a man, to morrow none.

Ver: m. A worme.  Ver coquin. A certaine worme bred in a mans head, and making him cholericke, humorous, and fantasticall when it biteth; also, the Vine-fretter, or Diuells Goldring.  Vers courts. Arse-wormes; little round wormes which breed in the ends of our guts.  Ver volant. A Ringworme, or Tetter.  Mal de ver. The Farcie in a horse.   Mort aux vers. Wormeseed, or Wormeseedwort.  Nud comme vn ver. We say, bare as a birds arse; poore as Job.   Tirer les vers du nez à. as vnder Tirer; or, to creep into a mans most inward conceits; to fetch out of him the verie secrets of his heart.  Tout estat est viande aux vers: Pro. All States are wormes acates.

Ver. Menu ver. Looke vnder Vair. Veracée: f. The fulnesse, or full measure of, a certaine vessell (somewhat like a Porrenger) wherein Caillebotes are vsually put.

Veraire: m. The hearbe called Hellebore (especially the blacke one.)  Veraire blanc. White Hellebore, Lingwort, Neesewort; of whose root Neesing powder is made.  Veraire noir. Blacke Hellebore, Christs wort, Christs root.

Verangenes. Mad apples, raging apples.

Verart, & Veratre: m. as Veraire. Verbal: m. ale: f. Verball, of words, onely in words, according to the word.  Appellation verbale. Se plaide verbalement, & se peut juger sur le champ en l'audience; à la difference du procez par escript, qui se distribuë, & juge en la chambre sur les enquestes, & productions des parties. Procés verbal. A verball answer made by a partie before a Iudge; or, more generally, a verball report (made by Judge, or partie) of all the parts, and pleadings of a suit; also, the Returne, or answer of a Sergeant vpon an Execution, &c.

Verbalement. Verbally, by word of mouth.

Verbasce: m. Mullein, Higtaper, Torches, Haresbread, Woolblade, Longwort, Bullocks Longwort.

Verbe: m. A (Grammaticall) Verbe.

Verbe: com. Stout, hautie, stomackfull.

Verbenique: f. Veruine, Pigeons grasse, Holy-hearbe, Junoes teares, Mercuries moist-bloud; Look Verveine.