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¶ A DICTIONARIE OF THE
French and English Tongues.

The first letter of all Alphabets, is (as it is a letter) a substantiue: whence;

Il est marqué à l'A

he is a right honest man: or, one in whom there is as much vertue, as great worth, as can be in any man: (From the monie of France; euery sort whereof hath stamped on it a particular letter, denoting the place wherein it was made; now, that which is coined in Paris hath on it an A, and is, commonly, of the best mettall.)

A.

The third person singuler of the verbe Avoir, signifies (of it selfe) hath, holdeth, possesseth, enioieth; as,

Assez a qui bon credit a

also (when it hath the local Adverb y before it) is; as, Assez y a si trop n'y a: But when it precedes a Participle in the preterperfect Tense of another verbe, it is restrained unto the first signification, hath; as, il a gaigne ce qu'il a peu: In all which (and otherwise, onely as it is a letter) it is written without Accent.

À.

an Article, set before a proper name, or Nowme, signifies, in matters of possession, of; as, La maison à Pierre, La femme à Robert: But where the verbe Estre goes before, it signifies To, or, Vnto; as, La maison est à Pierre, belongs to Peter: So doth it also when it followes verbes that require a Datiue case; as, Ie l'ay donné à toy; cela appartient à moy; or that signifie motion to a place; as, Ie m'en iray à Londres, à ma metairie.

À.

an article, or Preposition; signifieth sometimes, As, or For; Il est tenu à perdu; à sot; à fable: sometimes only, For; à cette cause: sometimes, At; as, Tu me trouveras à Paris; à loisir; à vostre commandement: also In, or, At; as, à temps, & lieu: sometimes In, or, Before; as, à cœur, à droit; à tort: & (as in old Authors) à dieu le veu, in stead of par dieu ie le veux: sometimes On, or Vpon; as, à lundi; il monte à cheval: sometimes To; as, à propos; à point: also Agreeable, or, According to; as, à l'ordonnance des Arbitres: also, Like vnto; After the manner, or fashion of; as, vestu à l'Italienne; vne espée à l'Espagnole: sometimes, With; as, à peu de perte; à[*accent not legible] banniere desployée; vne chaire à accoudoirs; & (in Blazon) Il porte de Synople à trois Lyons d'argent; also, With, or Among; as, à nous **tel fait est bien vilain; Il est à nous grande vinée. À la mienne volunte, If I might haue my will: or, I would to God.

Dont il est à grande ioye,

Whereof he is very glad; which makes him very merrie.

Ils se faisonient tenir à douze;

They made themselues be held by twelue: or, were so fierce that twelue were faine to hold them.

À.

precedeing the Infinitiue mood of a verbe, signifies, to, serving to, for to, of purpose for; as, S'il a chose à dire; vn clou à pendre des sacs. Sometimes it either gives the verb a participiall sence, as, It est à dormir, he is sleeping, or new, or neere asleepe; or, the verb being present, it denotes the future, as, I'ay cela à faire, I am to doe that hereafter.

À.

before an Adiective, sometimes makes it admit of an Aduervbiall interpretation; as, à droict, à tort; rightfully, wrongfully.

À,

is sometimes not expressed, but vnderstood, as, Si Dieu plaist, for, s'il plaist à Dieu.

Aachée: f.

a dolefull crie, lamentation, Ay-mee.

Aage: m.

age, yeares, dayes; also, an age; time, season.

De grand aage;

very old, a grandsire, a gray-beard, whose tone foot is alreadie in the graue.

De petit aage;

very young, a child, an infant, an innocent, an vnderling.

Avoir de l'aage,

to be strong and lustie: also, to be well in yeares, or well stricken in yeares.

Aagé: m. aagée

f.

aged, old; of age, of years; of full age, of great yeares.

Abaissé; & Abaissement;

as Abbaisse; & Abbaissement.

Abaisser; & Abaisseurs;

as Abbaisser; & Abbaisseur.

Abandon: m.

bandon, free licence, full libertie for others to vse a thing; The quitting, abandonment, or prostitution of a thing vnto other; whence;

Mettre sa forest en abandon;

to lay it open, or make it common for all men that will gather wood, or graze their cattell, in it.

Abandon fait larron; Prov.

Things carelesly left, layd vp, or looked vnto, make them theeues that otherwise would be honest: we say, fast bind fast find.

Qui faict nopçes, & maison, il met le sien en abandon: Prov.

The building of houses and making of feasts, are vnlimitted wasters of a mans substance.

Abandonné: m. neé: f.

abandonned, forsaken, forgone, quitted, giuen ouer, cast off; layd open, left at randome; prostituted vnto, made commonn for all, any man; also proscribed, outlawed.

Cheval abandonné sur la bride.

hanging upon the hand.

Chose trop abandonnée.

thats vnrecouerable, or in very desperate tearms.

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