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Desmesler. To loosse, open, cleere, vnpester, disintricate, resolue, disintangle; also, to handle, manage; dispatch; and hence; Se desmesler de. To determine, finish, dispatch; or, to rid his hands, get cleere of, vnwind himselfe out of. Vne chose à desmesler. A matter to deale in, a course to meddle with, a thing to scuffle for.

Desmesnager. as Desmenager. Desmesuré: m. ée: f. Huge, vnmeasurable, immense, infinite, exceeding great; enormous, excessiue, outragious, vnsatiable, vnreasonable; most vnrulie, vnbridled, lauish, disordered, immoderate.

Desmesurément: m. A hugenesse, immensenesse, vnmeasurablenesse, exceeding greatnesse; also, outragiousnesse, enormitie, vnsatiablenesse, vnreasonablenesse, extreame disorder, excessiue vnrulinesse.

Desmesuremént. Hugely, immensly, vnmeasurably, exceeding greatly; outragiously, vnsatiably, excessiuely, most vnreasonably; the most out of square, out of rule, out of order that may be.

Desmettre. To displace, or put out of his right place, as a member out of ioynt; also, to dismisse, let goe, lay down; also, to depose. Se desmettre du bien qu'on nous a fait. To return, send, or giue backe the good turne one hath done vs. Se desmettre d'un'entreprise. To abandon, leaue off, desist from, an enterprise. Se desmettre d'un'office. To resigne, surrender, giue ouer, an office.

Desmeu: m. euë: f. Remoued, altered, put off; desisting from.

Desmeublé: m. ée: f. Disfurnished, or depriued of moueables.

Desmeubler. To vnfurnish, or depriue of moueables; to take away the houshold-stuffe from a place.

Desmis: m. ise: f. Displaced, deposed; misplaced, put out of due place; also, dismissed, resigned, let goe, left off, giuen ouer; also, submitted, humbled, submissiue.

Desmission: f. A demission, deposition; a displacing, misplacing; a resignation; dismissing, forgoing. Desmission de foy. An acknowledgement of tenure made by the tenant vnto his Land-lord; a submission, or humbling of himselfe.

Desmoelé: m. ée: f. Emptied, or depriued of marrow; weakened.

Desmoeler. To emptie, or depriue of marrow; hence, also, to weaken.

Desmonté: m. ée: f. Dismounted; taken, or lift off; cast, or throwne downe.

Desmonter. To dismount; to take, or cast, or lift, off; also, to discend, or goe downeward. Desmonter vn canon. To dismount, or throw downe a Canon with counter-batterie; also, to take it off the carriages. Desmonter vn'espee. To take it out of the hilts. Desmonter vn homme. To vnhorse a man. Desmonter vne navire. To disarme a ship, to despoile her of all her munition, and furniture.

Desmorché. Without powder in his touch-hole: ¶Rab. Desmordre. To distast; to part from; to forgoe, giue ouer, loose, let go his hold.

Desmouvoir. To remoue, displace, driue backe, put from. Se desmouvoir de. To decline, swarue, change, bee carried from.

Desmuni: m. ie: f. Vnfurnished, disgarnished, vnprouided, left bare of.

Desmunir. To vnfurnish, disgarnish, leaue bare, or vnprouided of.

Desnaturé: m. ée: f. Vnnaturall, churlish, vnkind, without naturall affection; also, weakened through the lessening, or losse of nature; also, vnnaturalized vpon his owne petition, or by renouncing publickly, and to that end, his naturall Prince, and countrey.

Desnaturer. To make vnnaturall; to weaken in nature; to renounce his naturall Prince, or Countrey, to th' end he may liue where, and vnder whom, he list.

Desnervé: m. ée: f. Bereaued of sinewes, or of strength.

Desnerver. To bereaue of sinewes, or strength; to weaken, enfeeble, debilitate.

Desni: m. A nay, denyall, denying.

Desniaisé: m. ée: f. That hath beene extreamely cheated, or gulled; also, purged of the foole, that hath seene the Lyons; make wise, taught wit, by costlie experience, or by many tricks put vpon him.

Desniaiser. To cousen, cheat, gull of; also, to purge of the foole; to make wise, or teach wit by often deceiuing, or putting many tricks vpon. Se Desniaiser; or Desniaiser (without se.) To put off childishnesse, learne wit, gaine experience, by hauing beene often cheated, or much gulled.

Desniaseur: m. A cousener, guller, cheater, connycatcher; or, one that makes th' ignorant grow cunning by cousening them.

Desniché: m. ée: f. Vnneasted, or vnneastled; driuen, chased, or plucked out of a neast, hole, or hold.

Desnicher. To vnneastle; to driue, chase, or plucke out of a neast, hole, or hold.

Desnigration: f. A defaming, slaundering, discrediting; a blemishing, or blotting the good name of.

Desnigré: m. ée: f. Defamed, traduced, reproached, discredited, whose good name is foulely stained, or blemished.

Desnigrement: m. as Desnigration. Desnigrer. To defame, traduce, reproach, discredit, blemish, or blot the good name of.

Desnoüé: m. ée: f. Loossed; dissolued, vnknit, vnbound; vnfolded, resolued; out of ioynt.

Desnouëment: m. An vntying, vnknitting, vnbinding (of knots;) a putting out of ioynt.

Desnouër. To vnknit, vnbind, vnty; dissolue, resolue; to explicate, manifest, vnfould. Se Desnouër quelque membre. To loosse the bone thereof, or put it out of ioynt.

Desnoüeure: f. as Desnouëment; also, a part, or member of the bodie, thats out of ioynt. Desnué: m. ée: f. Bared, stripped; bereaued, depriued; voided, or deuoid of; cleane without. Vn enfant desnué. Bared of flesh, that hath nought but skin and bone left on it.

Desnuër. To bare, strip, turne naked, bereaue, depriue, or void of.

Desobeïr. To disobey, resist authoritie; be stubborne, restie, vnrulie.

Desobeïssance: f. Disobedience, stubbornnesse, headinesse, wilfulnesse, restinesse, vnrulinesse.

Desobeïssant. Disobedient; stubborne, vnrulie, restie, self-willed; sullen; hard, stif, vnpliant.

Desobligé: m. ée: f. Disobliged; discharged, from all obligation, or behouldingnesse.

Desobliger. To disoblige; to release, or discharge of a bond, to acquit of an obligation.

Desolation: f. Desolation, deuastation, extreame solitarinesse, or lonelinesse; vtter ruine, or destruction.