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 Pour bien tirer il faut prendre visée: Prov. Take ayme with thy sight if thou meane to shoot right; ere thou thy arrow doe let fly, let th' hand be guided by thy eye; he that will preuayle must proceed by aduise.

Viseneschal. as Vibailli; or, an vnder steward.

Viser. To ayme, or leuell at with the eye; also, to regard, or heed.  Qui vise loing, iamais ne rend son coup heureux: Pro. as vnder Coup. Tousiours ne frappe l'on pas ce à quoy l'on vise: Pro. One alwayes gets not that he aspires vnto.

Viseur: m. An aymer, or leueller.

Visible: com. Visible, discernable, euident, apparant.

Visiblement. Visibly, discernably, euidently.

Visiere: f. The viser, or sight of an helmet.  Visiere meurtriere. A Port-hole for a murthering Peece in the forecastle of a ship.

Vision: f. A vision, sight, apparition, fantasie; also, a viewing, or perusing.

Visitation: f. A visitation, visiting; view, suruey, ouer-*seeing.  La visitation de nostre Dame. The feast of the Visitation of our Ladie, celebrated, among the Papists, on the second of July.

Visité: f. as Visitation. Visiter. To visit, or goe to see; to view, suruey, ouerlooke, ouersee.

Visiteur: m. A visitor, searcher, ouerseer.  Le grand visiteur de France. The great Visitor of France; is no Officer of the Crowne, nor (how great souer his Title be) more then a bare minister of Justice; being subiect vnto the ordinarie Judge of the place wherein he visits, and of himselfe determining nothing: In old time he was called Le Roy des Merciers, which Title the last King changed into this, Anno 1597.

Visme: m. A Willow, or Wicker twig.

Visqueux: m. euse: f. Viscous, clammie, cleauing, birdlyme-like.  Esprit visqueux. A captious wit.

Viste: com. Swift, quicke, flightie, speedie, nimble, suddaine, hastie.  Viste en besongne. Readie, or quicke, at worke; fit, or apt for a suddaine dispatch; also, craftie, subtill, sly, warie.  Plus viste que le mot. Jn lesse time done then spoken of; done before one could haue said, this.

Viste-courant. Swift, or light of foot; that seemes to fly as he runnes.

Vistement. Quickly, speedily, readily, swiftly, nimbly; hastily, suddainely, immediately, incontinently.

Vistempenard: m. A Duster made of a Fox-taile fastened vnto a staffe.

Vistempenardé: m. ée: f. Dusted, or flapped with a Fox-tayle; also, raggedly, vilely, or basely attired.

Vistesse: f. Swiftneße, quicknesse, lightnesse, nimbleneße, speed, hast, suddainesse.

Visual: m. ale: f. Visuall, of or belonging to the sight; also, carried by the sight, or extending as farre as the eye can carrie it.

Visuel: m. elle: f. Giuing, or causing sight; also, as Visual (in the later sence.)

Visum visu. ¶Rab. as Vis à vis. Visure: f. The side betweene the vpper leather, and the sole of a corked shooe; the rand of a shooe.

Vit: m. A mans yard; a beasts pizle. Vit de caille. A Rayle. Vit de chien. as Vit de prestre. Vit de coq. A Woodcocke. Vits de gouvernail. The Pintles, or yron hooks whereby the sterne of a ship doth hang.  Vit de mer. An ouglie creature, or excrescence, like to the end of a mans yard.  Vit de prestre. Priests-Pintle, hearbe Aaron, Cuckoe-Pintle, Wake-Robin, Rampe.  Vit volant. as Pennache de mer. Vitailler. To handle, dallie, or play with, a P.

Vital: m. ale: f. Vitall, liuelie, likelie to liue; also, bringing, breeding, maintaining, or preseruing, life.

Vitault: m. A great toole, or, one that hath a good toole; also, a flattering word for a young boy, like our, my prettie pillicocke; whence, Mon vitault. Vite: f. A womans &c.

Vitellin: m. ine: f. Of or belonging to the yolke of an egge.  Cholere vitelline. A kind of choller bred by a rotten or vnnaturall heat, and resembling, both in colour and consistence, the yolkes of egges.  Saulx vitelline. Looke Saulx. Vitette: f. A verie little pricke, bable, member.

Vitez. The shrub Agnus castus, Abrahams Balme, Chast-tree, Hemp-tree. ¶Rab. Vitier. Looke Vicier. Vitieux. as Vicieux. Vitrage: m. Glasse, Glasse-worke, or Glasing worke.

Vitre: f. Glasse, or a Glaße-window.  Vitres. The squares, or mashes of a racket; (from the resemblance they haue with quarries of Glasse.)

Vitré: m. ée: f. Glased; couered or done ouer with glasse; also, glazed, or varnished as the inside of an earthen veßell.

Vitreau: m. A Glasse-window.

Vitrée: f. The bird called a Whittayle.

Vitreole: f. Small Withywind, Hedgebells, Bindweed; also, the blacke purging Bindweed.

Vitrer. To glase; to stop, couer, or doe ouer, with glasse; also, to varnish the inside of a vessell of earth, &c.

Vitrerie: f. A glasing, or Glasse-making.

Vitreux: m. euse: f. Glassie, of Glasse, full of Glasse; cleere, transparent, or brittle as Glasse.  Humeur vitreuse. The glassie humor in the (hinder part of) the eye.

Vitrice: m. A stepfather, or father in law. ¶Rab. Vitrier: m. A Glasier, or worker in Glasse.

Vitrification: f. Glassinesse, or the making of Glasse.

Vitrifier. To turne, or make into Glasse.

Vitriol: m. Vitrioll, Copperose; also, Pellitorie of the wall.  Vitriol d'Allemagne. German Vitrioll; worse then the Roman, as hauing somewhat of yron in it.  Vitriol d'Hongrie. Hungarie Vitrioll; naturall (and thereby the best) Copperose.  Vitriol Romain. Roman Vitrioll; Copperose; made of such like stuffe as glasse is.

Vitriole. as Vitreole. Vitriolique: com. Like Vitrioll, of Copperose.

Vitte: f. A womans &c.

Vitulos. The last word of a Latine Psalme of Mercie, which beginning with the word Miserere, hath bred the phrase, Tu auras du miserere iusques à vitulos, for one thats to be whipped extreamely, or a long time.

Vituperable: com. Vituperable.

Vituperation: f. A vituperation, or dispraising.

Vitupere: m. Dispraise, discommendation; disparagement; reprehension, blame.

Vituperé: m. ée: f. Vituperated; dispraised; blamed.