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 Vilainement. Villanously, vilely, basely, niggardly, churlishly, scuruily, filthily.

Vilainer. as Vilener. Vilané. as Vilené. Vilbrequin: m. A Wimble.

Vilein: m. eine: f. Seruile, base, vile, drudging, villein-*like, held by villenage; also, as Vilain. Vilenaille: f. A pack of scowndrels, rascals, base abiects, scuruie fellowes; the dregs, riffraffe, offscum, of the people.

Vilené: m. ée: f. Defiled, soyled, besmeared, begrymed; also, disgraced, dishonored, blemished in reputation; also, berated, reuiled, rayled on.  Ils m'eussent vilenez s'ils m'eussent peu ioindre. They had done me some roguerie or other, if they could haue raught me.

Vilener. To soyle, defile, besmeare, begryme, beray; baffle, abuse, disgrace, blemish the reputation of; also, to berate, reuile, rayle on.

Vilenie: f. Villanie, vilenesse, roguerie, knauerie, lewdneße; filth, nastinesse, ordure, impuritie, scuruinesse; miching, baseneße, niggardlinesse, couetousnesse, churlishnesse.  Laide vilenie. Slaunderous, reproachfull, disgracefull, defamatorie tearmes; words which will beare an Action.

Vilenot: m. A little villeine; or one that is somewhat churlish; also, a clowne, peasant, boore, hob, or hinde of the countrey.

Vileté: f. Vilenesse, basenesse, worthlesnesse, paultring, scuruinesse; also, cheapenesse.

Vilette. as Villette. Vilipender. To vilipend, set little by, contemne, despise, disable, dsesteeme; also, to defame, slaunder, traduce, giue an ill report of.

Village: m. A village; a countrey towne, consisting of many houses ioyned together; therein to differ from Hameau (a hamlet) which consists but of a few, and those either scattered, or not verie neere together.  Mais suis-ie pas de mon village? But am not I a clowne, or a sillie fellow?

Villageois: m. A countreyman, husbandman, plough-*man, farmer, clowne, hob, hinde, swaine, boore.

Villain. See Vilain. Villanelle: f. A countrey daunce, round, or song.

Villanie. as Vilenie. Villaquerie: f. Villanie, roguerie, rascalitie, skowndrellisme.

Villatique: com. Countrey-like; of, or belonging to, the countrey.

Ville: f. A Towne; an incorporate, or inclosed Towne; a Citie; also, the long oagar tearmed by our Coopers, a Turrell. Villes de paix. Looke Paix. Ville aux Roix. The citie of Blois; tearmed so, because the French Kings doe oftentimes soiourne, and their children be commonly brought vp, within it. Ville & taille. The territorie, or precincts of a towne. La ville est gaignée. (Prouerbially) the victorie is gotten, our suit obtained, our cause woon. Avoir vn oeil au bois l'autre à la ville. To haue an eye on all sides of him, to looke verie warily about him. Elle a tousiours quelque commission par la ville. Sayed ieastingly, or in disgrace, of a gadding housewife. Qui sent sa bonne ville. A courteous, and ciuill person, or part. Robbe qui sent sa petite ville. A neat, spruce, cleane-brushed gowne, or garment.  À l'entrée de la ville est le commencement des maisons: Pro. Looke Maison. Il ne sçait rien qui ne va par villes: Prov. He that goes not abroad knowes nothing.  Le sainct de la ville n'est point oré: Prov. The townes peculiar Saint is not prayed to; for helpe that may be had at home we care not.  Selon la ville les bourgeois: Prov. Like to the towne the townesmen are.  Tant de villes tant de guises: Pro. As many seuerall customes as countrie townes.

Villebrequin: m. A Wimble.

Villein. as Villain. Villenage: m. Villenage; or any base, and seruile tenure; hence also, Socage tenure; or, as Censive. Villenaille. as Vilenaille. Villenot: m. A little villaine, clowne, or swayne; or, as Vilenot.

Villes de la Vigne: f. The tendrells, or twyning sprigs, of a Vine.

Villette: f. A little Towne, or Citie; also, a little Turrell, or Coopers oagar.

Villiere: f. as Veillere. Villon: m. A cousener, conycatcher, cunning, or wittie rogue; a nimble knaue; a pleasant theefe; (for such a one was Francois Villon, whose death a halter suited to his life;) also, a kind of weed wherewith bands to tye Vines are made.

Villonner. To cousen, cheat, conycatch, play the cunning or wittie rogue; the nimble knaue, the pleasant theefe.

Villonnerie: f. A cousening, or conycatching; wittie or cunning roguerie; nimble knauerie; pleasant or merrie theeuerie.

Villote: f. A cocke of hay.

Villoter. To runne, trot, rogue, roame, raunge; gad, or gossip it from one towne to another.

Villoteur. as Villotier. Villotier: m. A vagabond, land-loper, earth-planet, continuall gadder from towne to towne.

Villotier: m. ere: f. Towne-bred, home-borne; of, or belonging to, the towne onely.

Villotiere: f. A gadding houswife, wandering fisgig, raunging flirt; one that does nothing but runne a gossipping from one towne to another; also, a Bawd.

Vilonage. as Villenage. Vimaires: f. Stormes, tempests, any boisterous, and hurtfull weather; inundations, and breaking out, of waters; ruines of buildings; mischieues done by earthquakes, or thunderclaps; any such fearefull, or dommageous accidents, which no reason can foresee, no foresight preuent; Lawyers tearme them Vis maior. Vimeres. as Vimaires. Viminal: m. ale: f. Apt to wind, or bind, as twigs or oziers; also, belonging thereto.  Saulx viminale. Looke Saulx. Vimpilon: m. A holie-water sprinkle.

Vin: m. Wine. Vin ardant. Aquauite. Vins de Bourgongne. All wines which grow aboue the bridge of Sens, in Auxerrois, Beaune, and other countries, whose commodities are sent downe by the riuer Yonne. Vin des clers. Fees for expedition; somewhat, aboue ordinarie fees, for the Clarks to drinke. Vin de coipeau. New wine quickly made fit to be drunke, by Beechen chips first boyled then dryed, and af-*