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 Vernissé: m. ée: f. Varnished; sleeked, or glazed ouer, with Varnish.

Vernisser. To varnish, to sleeke, or glaze ouer, with Varnish.

Verny. as Vernis. Verole: f. The small Pockes.  La grosse verole. The Neapolitane disease, called by vs the French Pockes, though not verie iustly, the Spaniards hauing first brought it out of the Indies into Christendome, and bestowed it among the French, their enemies, at the siege of Naples, in the yeare 1528.

Veroleux: m. euse: f. Pockie, full of the Pockes.

Verolique: com. Pockie, of or belonging to the Pockes.

Veron: m. The little fish called a Menow.  Il faut perdre vn veron pour pescher vn Saulmon: Prov. A man must loose a feather to win a Goose; a small, to come by a great, matter.

Veron. whence; Oeil veron; Looke vnder Oeil. Veronique: f. The hearbe Fluellin, Speed-well, Pauls Betonie, Ground-heele; also, a representation, image, picture, counterfeit, likenesse of; also, a sheet which, many beleeue, a woman of that name brought to wipe Christ withall when he did sweat; which sheet is yet shewed, as a Relique, at Rome.  Veronique femelle. Fluellin the female; or Speed-well bearing a yellowish flower.  Veronique masle. The male Speed-well, or Paules Betonie (the Author of the Theatre d'Agriculture, sayes it beares a reddish, or purple flower; Gerard hath six kinds thereof; and the first, which he calls Veronica vera, & major, comes neerest vnto the Frenchmans description.)

Verrat: m. A tame Boare; also, a Mackerell.  Paillard comme vn verrat. (Said of an extreame lecher.)

Verrate: f. A Sow.

Verre: m. Glasse; a drinking glasse.  Droict de verre. Looke vnder Droict. À grand homme grand verre: Prov. A great man cannot vse a little glaße; men should be fitted in things of much vse.

Verrerie: f. A Glasse-house.

Verretre: m. A mans yard: ¶Rab. Verreux: m. euse: f. as Vermineux; also, worme-eaten, corrupted, putrified; also, hot, cholericke, hastie; light-headed, odde-humored, hare-braind.  Faire le pois verreux. To play the hypocrite; to seeme seeme more honest then he is; (as many worme-eaten Pease doe seeme a great deale sounder then they be.)

Verri: m. ie: f. Shining, or transparent, like glasse.  Parchemin verri. Cleere Parchment, virgine Parchment.

Verrier: m. A Glazier; also, a Glasse-maker; also, a frame to set glaßes in.

Verriere: f. A glasse-window; and, a peece of glasse wherewith a thing is incompassed, or couered; also, a Glasse-house; and the furnace wherein glasse is melted.

Verrin: m. ine: f. Glassie, or of glasse; whence, Medicament verrin; a blackish medecine, or salue, made of burnt glasses, and good against the stone.

Verrine: f. as Verriere. Verrouil: m. A boult for a doore, &c.

Verrouiller. To boult a doore.

Verrucaire: f. The hearbe Wartwort, or Turnesole; some also call Gumme succorie so, because the seeds thereof, in powder, take away warts.

Verruë: f. A wart.

Verrüeux: m. euse: f. Wartie, full of warts. Cichorée verrüeuse. Yellow Gumme Succorie.

Verruque: f. as Verruë; also, a hillocke, or knap of a hill.

Verry: m. A mouldie cheese when it is greene; or any liquid thing which gathers a greene mouldineße.

Vers: m. A verse.

Vers. Towards, vnto, neere to or by; at, with; before, or in presence of; also, against.

Versal. whence; Lettres versales; Text letters; or great letters; such as Rex in a Patent, &c.

Versane: f. A diuision, or part of a plowed ground, amounting to some 200 paces in length.

Versatil: m. ile: f. Quickly turning, easily turned, or powred out.

Verse: m. ée: f. powred, or turned, out; spilt, or shed forth; ouerturned, ouerthrowne.

Verseau. Aquarius; one of the twelue Signes of the Zodiacke.

Verselet: m. A little, or short verse.

Versement: m. A powring out, or vpon; a spilling, or shedding.

Verser. To powre, turne, put, out, or vpon; to shed, or spill; also, to conuerse with.  Verser à boire à. To fill drinke for.  Verser vn chariot. To wault, ouerturne, or ouerthrow a chariot; whence the Prouerbe; Il n'est si bon chartier qui ne verse; The best that driues, will sometimes wault, a cart.  Verser de l'huile sur le feu. Looke Feu. Verser par terre. A horse to throw his rider.

Verset: m. A versicle, or short verse.

Verseur: m. A powrer; shedder, spiller; ouerturner, ouerthrower.

Versificateur: m. A versificator, versifier, maker of verses.

Versifier. To versifie, to make verses.

Versure: f. The taking vp of money to pay debts with; whence; Faire versure; To make shift; or to trouble one for the satisfying of another; or (as we say) to borrow of Peter to pay Paule.  Versures. The remainder, or leauings of draughts powred out of late-drunke-in cups, or glasses, into some vessell standing vnder the cupboord, &c, for that purpose.

Vert: m. as Verd: m. also, the apple called a Greening.

Vert: m. verte: f. Greene; Looke Verd. Vertaper. To stop with a bung: ¶Orlean. Vertau: m. A stopple, or bung; also, as Vertoil. Vert-de-gris: m. Verdigrease.

Vertebre: f. A turning ioynt, or ioynt wherein the bones meet so as they may turne; as in the huckle-bone, &c.

Vertement. as Verdement. Vertemoulte. Droict de vert. Looke vnder Droict. Vertevelles: f. The great hindges of a gate.

Vertical: m. ale: f. Verticall; wauering, inconstant, apt to change or turne; also, standing right ouer the head.  Cercle vertical. The Verticall circle; a circle of the Azimuth which comes from the Zenith to the Horizon.  Poinct vertical. The Zenith, or point of the firmamēt which is directly ouer ones head.

Vertige: f. A dizzineße, giddinesse, or swimming in the head; a disease wherein the patient thinkes that all things turne round.

Vertigieux: m. euse: f. Giddie, dizzie, turning round; or troubled with the swimming of the braine.

Vertigineux. as Vertigieux.

Vertiginosité: f. A giddineße, dizzineße, or swimming of the head or braine.