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 Voirie: f. Jurisdiction, &c; as Iustice; whence;  Grande voirie. Meane Iurisdiction; or as, La moyenne Iustice; &, simple voirie. Base, or low Jurisdiction.

Voirie: f. A way, path, road, or street; also, the laystall of a towne; the place whereon all the dung, and filth of a towne is layed, or vnloaden; (Jn which sence it is much vsed plurally.)  Gens de voirie. Scauingers, dung-farmers, gold-*finers.

Voiriefier. Allez voiriefier. A Parisien equiuocation vpon Allez vous y fier; trust to it if you list; and vsed in detestation of a filthie, or dunghillike thing.

Voirre: m. Glasse.  Voirre dormant. Looke vnder Dormant. Voirré: m. ée: f. Glassie, of glasse.

Voirrier: m. A Glasier.

Voirriere: f. A glasse-window; glasse-worke.

Voirrin: m. ine: f. Glassie, of glasse; also, transparent.

Voirrine: f. as Voirriere. Voirrinier: m. A Glasier; a Glaße-maker; a worker in glaße.

Voise, voisent. Qu'il s'en voise; qu'ils s'en voisent. Let him, or them, goe.

Voisin: m. A neighbor.  Bien a en sa maison qui de ses voisins est aimé: Pro. He that hath neighbors loue liues well at home.  Bon advocat mauvais voisin: Pro. The best Lawyer is the worst neighbor; those that know most are worst to dwell by.  Qui a bon voisin a bon matin: Pro. He that hath a good neighbor gets good words.  Tenir ne faut pour bon voisin vn ami de table, & de vin: Pro. Trencher friends are seldome good neighbors; they will feast it, but not fast it with you; or when your prouision fayles them, their companie fayles you.

Voisin: m. ine: f. Neighbouring, or neere vnto; hard by, not farre off; also, verie like vnto.

Voisinage: m. Neighbourhood; nighneße, neerenesse.  En mauvais voisinage se loge on: Prov. The poorest swad affoords a pad: ill neighbours may be lodg'd among.

Voisinal: m. ale: f. Neighbouring, or neighbourlie.  Chemin voisinal. as vnder Chemin. Tesmoings voisinaux. Which dwell neere the land, &c, in controuersie.

Voisinance: f. Neereneße, neighborhood.

Voisiné: m. Ceux du voisiné. The neighbors, or those that dwell thereabouts.

Voisine: f. A she neighbour; whence the Prouerb; Pour grasse que soit la geline, elle a besoing de sa voisine; The fattest henne within the coope, without good neighbours will soone droope.

Voisiner. To be neighbour, nigh, neere, or adioyning, vnto; also, to gossip it, or goe to visit neighbours.

Voistrer. Looke Veautrer. Voiture: f. Carriage, portage, fraight, loading; also, a load, Carre-full, or Cart-full.

Voituré: m. ée: f. Carried by Cart, &c.

Voiturer. To carrie by Cart, Waine, Wagon, &c.  Bien voiturer sa viande. Throughly to disgest, (or, as we say, to shake downe) his meat by trauell, or exercise.

Voiturier: m. A Carrier (especially by Waine, or Wagon) a Waine-man, or Wagon-man.

Voix: f. A voyce; a sound, noise, tune, word, crie; a repercussion of th' aire; talke, bruit, report. Avoir voix en chapitre. To be heard attentiuely and with respect; to be of authoritie, or beare some sway, in a publike assemblie.  Ie n'en ay eu vent, ny voix. J neuer heard the least word of it.

Vol: m. A flight, or flying; a quicke running, speedie passage, hastie course; also, a robbing, or stripping by the high-way side; also, a Lure, in Blason.  Le vol du chapon. Is by the customes of Clermont, Orleans, Berri, le Perche, Blois, Romorantin, Leuroux, & Trembleui, an Arpent; by those of Chasteau-*neuf, an Arpent and a halfe; by those of S. Aignan, Chabris, & Auvergne, a sesterée; and by those of Anjou, and le Maine 320 single paces, of the ground lying next vnto, or about, a Gentlemans Mannor house, or principall messuage; with which (in default of a competent garden) it euer falls vnto the share of the eldest heire. Volage: com. Light, giddie, shittle-headed; inconstant, fickle, humorous; flitting; shallow-braind, inconsiderate, rash.  Appel volage. Looke Appel. Rente volage. A rent raised of, or purchased for, money.

Volagement. Lightly, giddily, inconstantly, fickly; humorously; rashly.

Volageté: f. Lightnesse, giddinesse; humorousnesse, inconstancie, ficklenesse; inconsideration, rashnesse.

Volant: m. The sea-Bat, or Reremouse of the sea; a flying fish; also, the sayle of a Windmill; (also, a cloke; and a Capon, or other peece of Pullein; in the language of Rogues; also, a Shittlecocke.)

Volant: m. ante: f. Flying, swiftly-passing, fast running; momentarie, flitting; subiect to remoue often, or to frequent remoues.  Camp volant. A flying campe, a campe of light-horsemen for ordinarie roades.  Pont volant. The ladder of a ship.  Rente volant, ou volante. A Rent-seck, rent-charge; or, any rent thats raised of, or bought for, money.

Volante: f. A loose Ierkin, or Cassock, a Mandilion.

Volatil: m. ile: f. Flying; fleeting, or flitting.

Volatiliser. To fly, flicker, flit, wauer.

Vole: f. The palme, or hollownesse of an halfe-open hand; the ioint, or muscle vnder the thumbe.

Volé: m. ée: f. Fled; also, robbed, pilled, spoyled.

Volée: f. A flight, or flying; also, a whole flight, flocke, or companie of birds; and, a brood of fowle of one season.  À la volée. Rashly, vnaduisedly, inconsiderately; at randome, at rouers, at all aduentures, euen as it chaunces, falls out, happens.  Perdre la volée pour le bond. To loose, or let slip, an oportunitie, in hope that it will returne.  Que de bond que de volée. More by meere hap then any good cunning; or, by one course or another, what by one meanes and another.  Meschante parole iectée va par tout à la volée: Pro. See Parole. Volement: m. A flying; fleeting, flitting; speedie running, swift passing.

Le Voler. A certaine tricke vsed in prisons for the drawing of drinking mony from new-come guests.

Voler. To flye; take a flight, be on wing; runne swiftly, passe away quickly; fleet, or flit speedily; also, to rob, rifle, strip, despoyle of all. Voler à faulte. A hawke to loose, or misse her flight. Voler de haute aile; & voler sans ailes. Looke Aile.