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neere vnto, met at, the end.

Aboutir. To wax ripe, or draw to a head, as an impostume; also, to end; to approach, or grow, towards an end; to meet at their end; also to touch, affront, abut vpon, confine, or be neere, vnto in the head, foot, front, bottome, top, or end of; also, to approach, or make towards. Aboutir en pointe. To end sharpe, or pointed; to grow smaller, and smaller towards the toppe, head, or end.

Aboutissans d'une maison. Th' vtmost ends or parts of a house, at the front and backeside thereof. Aboutissans d'une heritage. The vtmost bounds, or limits of an inheritance, at both ends thereof.

Aboutissant. Drawing, or comming, vnto a head, or end; also affronting, abutting, confining vnto at the top or bottome, head or foot, or at either end; also, making, or approaching, towards.

Aboutissement. A drawing to a head, a growing towards an end: a meeting at their end, a touching, affronting, abutting vpon, a confining, or neerenesse, at either end. Aboutissement d'os. as, Epiphyse. Aboutisement de terres. The vtmost boundes, marches, limits, or ends of lands.

Abouvier. To vnyoke Oxen; ¶Norm. Ab radant. Paring, shauing, scraping, rasing; wearing away.

Abregé: m. An Abridgement, &c; as Abbregé. Abregé. Abridged, abbreuiated, shortened, curtalled.

Abregement. as Abbregement. Abri: m. A couert, shrowd, shelter, or shadie place; a lee-shore, shead, seat, or corner, whereto neither wet, nor wind, can come: Hence, a sanctuary, place of suretie, or of safe retreit, in aduersitie. Vn port de bon abri pour les nauires. A safe harbor for shipping, in all weathers.

Abricot: m. The Abricot, or Apricocke plum.

Abricotier. An Apricocktree.

Abrier d'Arbeleste: m. The tree of a Croßebow.

Abrier. To couer, shrowd, shelter, shadow.

Abrogation: f. An abrogation, abolishment; repealing, disanulling.

Abrogé: m. ée: f. Abrogated, abolished, disanulled, repealed.

Abroger. To abrogate, abolish, disanull, repeale.

Abroton: m. The hearbe Sothernwood.

Abruption: f. An abruption; a breaking off, a bursting asunder. Abruption d'os. An entire seperation of some part of a bone from the rest, which thereby suffers a manifest want.

Abruti: m. ie: f. Made beastly; growne brutish.

Abrutir. To make beastly, or brutish.

Abruvé: m. ée: f. Watered, wet throughly; seasoned, steeped, or shrunk in; filled, furnished, or stored with, water, &c.

Abruver. as Abbreuver. Abruvoir. as Abbruvoir, A watering place for horses.

Abry: m. Looke Abri. Abscez: m. An impostume, botch, or swelling ful of mattar; a course of ill humours running out of their veins and naturall places, into the emptie spaces betweene muscles.

Abscis: m. ise: f. Cut off, diuided, seperated from.

Absconse: com. Hidden, obscure, darke, secret, couert, lurking, concealed.

Absconsé: m. ée: f. Hidden, obscured, concealed, kept close. Absconsement: m. A hiding, obscuring, concealing.

Absconser. To hide, conceale, obscure, keepe close, or secret.

Abscynte: m. Woormewood; Looke Absynthe. Abscyntien: m. enne: f. Belonging to Wormwood, bitter as Wormewood, tasting of Wormwood.

Absence: f. Absence.

Absent. Absent, missing, wanting, out of the way.

Absenté: m. ée: f. Absented; sent, had, or kept, got, flit, or fled, out of the way.

Absenter. To absent, to send, keepe, get, or haue out of the way. S'absenter. to flit, be gone, flie his countrie, play least in sight, keepe out of the way. (Vsed most commoqly in the worst sence.)

Absince. as Absinte. Absinte: m. Wormwood; Looke, Absynthe. Absinthe. as Absinte. Absolte: f. An absolute pardon, a generall absolution, forgiuenesse, remitment of offences.

Absolut: m. ute: f. Absolute. Whence; Ieudy absolut. Maundie-Thursday, Sheere-Thursday.

Absolution: f. An absolution; a forgiuenesse or forgiuing; a discharge of, or deliuerie from; an abolition of debts, wrongs, offences.

Absolutoire: com. Absoluatorie, pardoning, forgiuing. Lettre absolutoire; A Pardon signed.

Absorbé: m. ée: f. Supped, or drunke wholy vp; deuoured, swallowed.

Absorber. To sup, or drinke vp all: to deuour, swallow, consume.

Absoudre. as Absouldre. Absouldre, To absolue, to forgiue absolutely, pardon wholy; to remit offences vnto, to discharge, deliuer, quit from all danger.

Absouls; as Absous. Absoulte; as Absolte. Absous: m. oute: f. Absolued, pardoned, forgiuen, quit, cleerely discharged of, or deliuered from, the danger of iudgement.

Absoute: f. as Absolte; or, A generall absolution, pardon, forgiuenesse, remitment of offences.

Abstenir. To abstaine, forbeare, temper himselfe, refraine, withhold from medling with. Soustenir, & abstenir. To temporise it; to bear with, or apply himselfe vnto the time.

Abstersif: m. iue: f. Abstersiue, cleansing, or wiping away.

Abstinence. Abstinence, refraining, forbearance. Abstinence de guerre. A truce, or surceasing from warre.

Abstraction. An abstraction, a drawing out, or away.

Abstraict: m. A seperation, disunition, disiunction.

Abstraindre. To bind fast, to knit hard, to wrap in bands.

Abstrus: m. use: f. Close, hidden, shut vp, darke, secret, wrapped vp in obscuritie, hard to be knowne, or vnderstood.

Absurde: com. An absurditie; a grosse, vnlikely, or vnreasonable matter.

Absurde: com. Absurd, sottish, grosse, foolish, vnlike, abrupt, without reason, out of order.

Absurdement. Absurdly, grosly, vnorderly, abruptly.

Absurdité: f. An absurditie, grossenesse, foolishnesse, an abrupt, or sottish part, an vnlikely thing, vnreasonable dealing.

Absynce; & Absynte; as Absynthe.