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 Viburne: m. as Viorne; or, onely the wayfaring tree.

Vicaire: m. A Vicar, or Vicegerent; also, the Tenant, or Jncumbent, who in the right of a Corporation, or Church, is to pay duties, or doe seruices, vnto the Lord of the land.  Grand vicaire. A Vicar generall; or an officer whom a Bishop imployes for the disposition of such Benefices as be in his gift.

Vicairie: f. A Vicaredge; or, as Vicariat. Vicariant. Gadding, raunging, roaming, trotting vp and downe the countrey.

Vicariat: m. A Vicarship, the place of a Vicar; also, a Vicegerencie.

Vicarier. To raunge, roame, gad, or trot vp and downe a countrey.

Vice: m. A vice, fault, sinne, offence, villanie, roguerie, lewdnesse, naughtinesse, corruption, blemish, defect, imperfection, default.  Au vis le vice: Prov. Mans face often tells what vice in him dwells.  Nul vice sans son supplice: Pro. All vices haue their plagues attending on them.  Tel vice tel supplice: Pro. Such as the crime such the correction.

Vice-admiral: m. A Viceadmirall.

Vice-chancelier: m. A Vicechancelor.

Vice-conte: m. A Vicount; Looke Vicomte. Vice-conte: f. A Vicountie, a Vicountship; Looke Vicomté. Vice-gerent: m. A Vicegerent; a Deputie, or Lieutenant.

Vice-roy: m. A Viceroy, or Deputie vnto a King; he that in his absence representeth his person, and gouerneth his kingdome.

Vicié: m. ée: f. Viciated, mard, corrupted, infected, defiled; blemished, imperfect, vnsound.

Vicier. To viciate, marre, corrupt, infect, spoyle, blemish, defile.

Vicieusement. Viciously, lewdly, corruptly, faultily.

Vicieux: m. euse: f. Vicious, lewd, bad, wicked, sinfull, naughtie, roguish, villanous; filthie, corrupt; erronious, imperfect, vnsound.

Vicinité: f. Vicinitie, neighborhood, nighnesse, proximitie, neereneße.

Vicomte: m. A Vicount; was at the first the Deputie, or Lieutenant, of an Earle, in some towne wherein he could not reside himselfe; or by the King made gardian of a Countie, vntill he had furnished it with an Earle: These Vicounts had but la moyenne Iustice, la haute being reserued by, or for, the Earles themselues (and therefore in most of the customes of la Gaule Belgique that Jurisdiction is hitherunto stiled, Vicomtiere;) howsoeuer, they were at first but Officers; and, euen at this day, the Prevosts, or Iuges of Normand villages are tearmed Vicomtes''. Now it is to be presumed, that when the Earles of Prouinces, &c, vsurped a proprietie in their charges, the Vicounts, not to be behind them, did the like in those townes, and villages which they gouerned. There be at this day three or foure sorts of them; first those that, holding immediately of the Crowne (as the Vicomte de Turenne, and but a few others) are to be ranked among great, or high Lords, and before any Barons: then those that, holding of the King as of Counties reunited to the Crowne; or holding of Counties lately created, or not yet reunited (and being thereby in the qualitie of Arrierevassaux de la Couronne) are no better then meane Lords, and precede onely those Barons that either but equall, or be in-*'' *ferior vnto, them in Tenure: Lastly, those (in Picardie Flanders, and elsewhere) that hauing not hitherunto beene able to compasse more then a meane Jurisdiction, and therefore not meriting the place, or esteeme, of absolute Lords, are not qualified Vicomtes, but barely, and in difference from the rest, Seigneurs Vicomtiers.

Vicomté: f. A Vicountie; the dignitie, territorie, or estate of a Vicount; also, meane Jurisdiction.

Vicomtier: m. ere: f. Of a Vicount, Vicountlike; also, enioying, or belonging to, meane Jurisdiction.  Chemin Vicomtier. Looke Chemin. Vicon. Mon petit vicon. My little pricke, or pilli-*cocke.

Victimaire: m. One that sold a beast for sacrifice; or, one that assisted the sacrificer in the killing, and dressing thereof.

Victoire: f. Victorie, conquest, a subduing, or vanquishing, the vpper hand of an enemie.

Victorial: m. ale: f. Victoriall, of or belonging to victorie.

Victoriat: m. The fourteenth part of an ounce.

Victorien: m. A conqueror, vanquisher, subduer, ouer-*commer.

Victorienne: f. A victoresse, a victorious or vanquishing woman.

Victorieux: m. euse: f. Victorious, triumphant, conquering, vanquishing.

Victuailles: f. Victualls, food, commons, dyet, prouision for the bellie.

Vicugne. A hornelesse wild beast in Peru, of whose wooll the Indians make excellent Couerlets.

Vidame: m. A Vidame; was originally the Judge of a Bishops temporall Iurisdiction, or such an Officer to him as the Vicomte was to the Comte: but in processe of time, of an Officer he became a Lord, by altering his office into a fief, held of the Bishopricke he belonged vnto: So that, euen to this day, the estate of all Vidames dependeth of some Bishopricke, or is annexed vnto the Temporalities thereof; and therefore they be no better then Seigneurs mediocres, although the first of that ranke; and in all other priuiledges and rights equall to Vicounts, with some aduantage of credit in respect of High Iurisdiction, which those haue vsurped, by degrees, vpon their Earles, and these had, at the first, by the gift of their Bishops.

Vidimé: m. ée: f. Confirmed, approued, ratified; the goodnesse whereof is, after examination, warranted.

Vidimer. To confirme, approue, or warrant the goodneße of a thing, after an examination thereof.

Vidimus de lettre. An examination of a Copie by the originall, signed by a Secretarie, Register, Notarie, or Clarke.

Viduité: f. Widowhood, the estate of a widow.

Vie: f. A life, or liuing; whole age, or time; also, the direct way into a hauen, or barre. Arbre de vie. The sweet tree, called also by vs, the tree of life. Huile de vie. The (most excellent) oyle of Vitrioll. La vie de dix. As much as would serue tenne. C'est toute ma vie. Tis all I haue to liue on. De l'une & l'autre vie. Liuing both on land, and in the water. Il est François pour la vie. He is French to the death. Iour de ta vie. Neuer, not as long as thou liuest. Vie n'est pas seur heritage: Prov. Life is no sure (no true) inheritance.