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 *terwards put into the vessell. Vin de commeres. Palate wine, sweet and pleasant wine. Vin cuict. Wine boyled on the fire to a certaine thicknesse, and then put into veßells, and reserued for sweet sawces. Vin de despense. Small, household, ordinarie, or seruants, wine. Vins François. The wines which grow, or are made, below the bridge of Sens. Vin de Lion. Strong, and headie wine; or, such wine as makes the drinker a swaggerer. Vin du marché. The charge which contractors are at with the witneßes, or confirmers of their bargaine. Vin miellé. Honied wine, bastard, Metheglin, sweet wine; any drinke thats made of honey, and wine. Vin muscat. Muscadell, or Muscadin. Vin noir. Looke Noir. Vin papier. White wine called so by some Switzers. Vin de porceau. Which makes the drunkard to sleepe, vomit, and tumble him in his vomit. Vin de pressoirage. Looke Pressoirage. Vin de regnard. The wine that sharpens, or sets an edge on, the drunkards spirit, making him more subtill, or cunning, then he is, at any time, sober. Vin de singe. Wine which makes the drinker (or drunkard) pleasant, wanton, or toyish. Vin des valets. Spending pence, extraordinarie vayles or gifts; odde money bestowed on a mans ordinarie seruants, ouer and aboue the summe due, or agreed on. Droict de vin, ou de vins, &c. Looke Droict. Entrée de vin és villes closes. Looke Entrée. Pot au vin. A mans head. Pot de vin. A summe of money; a reward, or gift; also, the dowrie giuen with a maid in marriage. Souppe en vin. The hearbe Meddicke fodder, Snayle-Clauer. Avoir son vin. À cett' heure il aura son vin. He will now be tickled, or haue his full payment; he neuer metwith his match till now: Elles ont eu leur vin. Those wenches haue had it to a haire; viz. a full tast of the sap which they hold most sauorie; (for the bestowing of wine being a principall courtesie in intertainments betweene man and man, is fittest to expresse the other liquor which in courtesie a man giueth a woman.) Couper le vin. See Couper. Entrer en vin. To enter into a drunken match, to fall a drinking. Estre sur le vin. To tast, also, to loue, wine verie well. Faire iambes de vin. To take in store of liquor before the vndertaking of a iourney; to supple his legs, by soaking his head, in wine. Mettre de l'eau dedans leur vin. Looke vnder Mettre. Reposer son vin. To sleepe after a carousing, to disgest his wine by sleeping. Vin de grain est plus doux que n'est pas vin de presse: Pro. Willing seruice, though but small, is more acceptable, then much extorted dutie. Le vin n'a point de chaussure; &, le vin va sans chausses: Prov. Wine wanteth, or goeth without, breeches; viz. bewrayeth a mans infirmities, or worst parts; layeth open his shame, or layeth him open to shame. Vin pour saveur, drap pour couleur: Pro. Let wine good sauor, cloth fresh colour, haue; so wine be sauorie, no matter how it looke. Vin sur laict c'est souhait, laict sur vin c'est venin: Prov. Looke Souhait. Vin trouble ne brise dents: Prov. Wine though it be thicke yet breakes it no mans teeth.  Bon vin bon vinaigre: Pro. Good wine is made good vinegar; good things transform'd retaine part of their worth.  Bon vin mauvaise teste: Pro. Good wine breeds many a brable.  Boy vin en Roy; viz. temperately: Pro. Apres bon vin bon cheval: Prov. After a man hath drunke hard he dare any thing.  Qui vin ne boit apres salade est en danger d'estre malade: Pro. He that wine drinkes not after a (cold) sallate, his health indangers (and does wrong to his pallate.)  Qui bon vin boit il se repose: Prov. Looke Reposer. Apres la poire le vin, ou le prestre: Prov. After a (cold) Peare either drinke wine to concoct it, or send for the Priest to confesse you.  En vaisseau mal lavé ne peut on vin garder: Prov. Wine in ill-washed Caske will not be kept.  Femme, argent, & vin, ont leur bien, & leur venin: Prov. Wine, money, and the female brood haue properties both bad, and good; are (as th' are vsed) bad, or good.  Homme mutin, brusque roussin, flascon de vin, prennent tost fin: Pro. The person turbulent, a liuelie steed, and cup of wine, come to an end with speed.  Il ne faut pas enquerir d'ou soit le vin, mais qu'il soit bon: Pro. No matter whence wine came so it be good.  Il ne sçait que c'est de vendre vin qui n'attend de May la fin: Prov. Against good husbandrie he hath offended, that sells his wines before May be full ended.  Le boeuf salé fait trouver le vin sans chandelle: Prov. The salt-beefe eater needs no candle to light his drinke the way to his mouth.  On ne cognoist pas le vin aux cercles: Prov. Looke Cercle. On ne doit point mentir en vin: Prov. Somewhat like the Latine, In vino veritas; or an aduise to make it good; and then may be rendered thus; when men are drunke they should not lye, because in wine is veritie.  Pain tant qu'il dure, vin à mesure: Prov. Eat bread at pleasure, drinke wine by measure: A Precept which the French obserue in the first (howsoeuer in the second) part; for no people eat more bread, nor haue better bread to eat, then they.  Semelles & du vin passent chemin: Pro. Looke Semelle. Vinade: f. The vse, and worke of two yoake of Oxen, or of a Cart, all the time of Vintage.

Vinage: m. A Phisicall wine, or a decoction of hearbes in wine, to be drunke for the curing of vlcers, and wounds.  Droict de vinage. Looke Droict. Vinaigre: m. Vineger.  À nez frotté de vinaigre. Of a sharpe conceit, or fore-*sight, of a quicke apprehension; a metaphor from Hunts-*men, who to make their dogs quick-sented, rub their noses with vineger.  Ie le feray chier vinaigre. J will make him starke mad.

Vinaigrette: f. Sorrell sawce. Vinaigrettes. Sallets, or sawces, which be seasoned with much vineger; any hearbs, or fruits in pickle.