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Emploicter. To traffique, trade; bargaine, chaffer for; bestow, or imploy money in.

Emploite. as Emploicte. Emplomber. To lead; couer with lead; set in lead.

Emplotonné: m. ée: f. Wound vpon a clue, made into a bottome, conglomerated.

Emplotonner. To wind vpon clues, to make into bottomes, or, to make bottomes of; to conglomerate.

Employ: m. Imployment, vse, dailie occupation of, necessarie businesse for, a thing.

Employé: m. ée: f. Imployed, applied, vsed, busied, occupied; bestowed, conferred, dispended, layed out.

Employement: m. An imploying, applying, vsing, occupying; a bestowing, dispending, distribution, laying out.

Employer. To imploy, applie; vse, occupie, busie; confer, bestow, dispend, distribute, lay out. s'Employer. To indeuor, labour, be earnest vpon, to set himselfe about; to giue, applie, or addict himselfe vnto.

Emplumassé: m. ée: f. Beplumed; decked, adorned, garnished, set out with, stucke full of, plumes, or plums of feathers.

Emplumé: m. ée: f. Feathered, befeathered; set, stuck, adorned, garnished with feathers. Regnard qui dort la Matinée n'a pas la langue emplumée: Prov. The sleepie Fox hath seldome feathered breakefasts.

Emplumer. To feather; befeather; sticke, set, garnish, or dresse with feathers.

Emply. as Employ. Empoché: m. ée: f. Impoaked, impouched.

Empocher. To impouch, to put into a pouch, or budget; to bag, poake, or pocket vp.

Empoigné: m. ée: f. Seised, griped, caught, got into the fist, layed hold of.

Empoigner. To seise, gripe, catch, lay hands on, attach, take, lay hold of.

Empoignure: f. A handle; or the part whereof hold is taken.

Empoinctant. Pointing on; making a point for, giuing a point vnto.

Empoincter. as Empointer. Empoint. bien empoint de faire &c. About, readie, or likelie, to doe &c. Mal-empoint. Vnhandsome, vntrimmed, foule, sluttish, in ill plight, out of array.

Empointer. To point on; make a point for, giue or set, a point vnto. Empointer les doigts sur le luth. To finger a Lute; also, handsomely to set, couch, or place, the fingers ends thereon.

Empois: m. Starch.

Empoisonné: m. ée: f. Poisoned, impoisoned; venomed.

Empoisonnement: m. A poisoning, impoisoning; venoming.

Empoisonner. To poison, impoison; venome.

Empoisonneresse: f. A poisonneresse, a woman that impoisons.

Empoisonneur: m. A poisoner, impoisoner.

Empoisonneuse: f. as Empoisonneresse. Empoissé: m. ée: f. Pitched, bepitched; couered, or dreßed with pitch; also, starched.

Empoisser. To bepitch; to dresse, or couer with pitch; also, to starch.

Empoissonné: m. ée: f. Filled, serued, furnished, with fish.

Empoissonnement. A storing of a pond, &c, with fish.

Empoissoner. To furnish or fill, to serue or store, with fish.

Empor: m. A Mart towne; a place wherein an vniuersall Faire is kept.

Emporté: m. ée: f. Carried, borne, taken, conueyed away; also, woon, gained, gone away with. Il a emporté à la chandelle. He hath (out-sit all commers) out-bid all customers; he hath gotten it, by bidding the most for it.

Emportement: m. A carrying, bearing, taking, or conueying away.

Emporte-piece. See Cautere. Emporter. To carrie, beare, conuey, or take away; to win, gaine, get, or goe away with; also, as Importer; also, to bring, or beare vnto. Emporter la balance, ou le poids. To beare downe the ballance; to ouerweigh, or weigh more then. Autant en emporte le vent. So much breath is lost; (vsed, when one, hauing spoken to such as heare, or heed, him not, will signifie, that he hath lost his labour.) Il se laisse emporter du vent. Hee runnes on freely without stopping; also, he is inconstant, flitting, variable, vnsteadie, light; or suffers himselfe to be swayed altogether by his owne giddie humors. Le ventre emporte la teste: Prov. Said of Apostataes, who in hope of ease and preferment abandon a knowne truth; said also of those, who aboue all things respect their bellies; or by an excessiue diet ruine, or dull, their vnderstandings.

Empoudré: m. ée: f. Bedusted, or powdered; filled, or defiled, with dust.

Empouldrer. To bedust; to fill, or defile, with dust.

Empoule: f. A little wheale, blister, pish, water-powk; a rising of the skin, such as comes after netling, &c; also, a small bubble on the water.

Empoulé: m. ée: f. Blistered, pimpled, or vneuenly puft vp in many places, as the skin after netling; bubblie; or raised, or rising, in bubbles, as water in a great showre of raine.

Empoulément. Swellingly, bubblingly, puffe-like, or push-like.

Empoulure: f. A blistered part of the bodie; a place full of wheales, powkes, pushes.

Empouppant. Being, or blowing, as wind in the poope of a ship.

Empouppé. Hit in the poope; driuen, or blown forward by a wind in the poope.

Empoupper. To hit the poope; to be, or blow, as wind in the poope of a ship; to driue, set, or beare forward, as a full wind doth a ship. Vn vent empouppe mon navire. My ship goes with a full, or fore, wind.

Empourpré Impurpled; clothed, or decked with purple. Vn traict empourpré de sang. Died, distained, imbrued with bloud.

Empourprer. To cloth, adorne, or enrich with purple.

Empraignant. Printing, imprinting, pressing in.

Emprainte: f. as Empreinte. Empré. Medowie, turned into a medow, growne a medow, and fit to beare hay.

Empréer. To make a medow of; to turne pasture, or corne-grounds, into medowes; to turne medow.

Empreignée. With child, conceiued; bagd.

Empreinct. The Palsie, wherein anyone of the sides looseth both sence, and motion.

Empreinct. as Empreint.

Empreincte: f. A stampe, a print; as Empreinte.