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Envi. as Envy; With an ill will. Envictailler. To victuall; to furnish with, or prouide of, victualls. Envictuailler. The same.

Envié: m. The spot, or marke which a child hath on some part of his bodie, representing the thing his mother longed for, or was afrighted with, when hee was in her bellie.

Envie: f. Enuie, spight, grudge, repining; griefe, displeasure at the prosperitie, or good parts of another; a malicious emulation; also, a desire, or lust vnto, a longing after; whence; Vous auriez bien envie de me faire peur. Belike you would faine make me afraid. Envieux meurent, mais envie ne mourra iamais: Prov. Th' enuious die, but enuie liueth alwaies. Il n'est envie que de moine: Prov. Looke Moine. Envié: m. ée: f. Enuied, spighted, maligned; repined at.

Envieillir. To wax old, grow in yeares; become stale; beginne to decay; to quaile, faile, draw towards his end.

Envieillissement: m. A waxing decrepite, a growing into age, a stepping into yeares; a quailing, failing, decaying, becomming old, or stale.

Envier. To enuie; to maligne, spight, grudge, repine at the worth, or good fortune of others; also, to desire earnestly, to long for. Envier (au ieu.) To vie.

Envieusement. Enuiously, spightfully, maliciously.

Envieux: m. A Slow-worme, or Blind-worme.

Envieux: m. euse: f. Enuious, malignant, repining, despightfull, spighting at another mans worth, or fortune. Femme envieuse. A woman that longeth. Envieux meurent, mais envie ne mourra iamais: Prov. Though enuious people die, yet enuie shall liue euer.

Envinaigré: m. ée: f. Seasoned with vinegar.

Envinaigrer. To season, or sharpen, with vinegar.

Enviné: m. ée: f. Stored, furnished, or seasoned, with wine.

Envirollé. Whose top, end, or tip is bound about with a ring, or hoope of yron, &c.

Environ: m. les environs d'vne ville. The compasse of ground, or circuit of countrey, next about it. Environ. About; thereabouts; nigh vnto. Et mon homme environ. And my marchant to worke, sell close to it, went roundly about it. Tout à l'environ. All thereabouts, round about, on each side, on euerie part. I'ay assez à faire environ les mains. I haue my hands full of businesse; I haue as much to doe as I can turne me to.

Environné. Jnuironed, compassed, begirt, inclosed, hedged, or hemd in on euerie side. Environnement: m. An incompassing, inuironing, inclosing round about.

Environner. To inuiron, incompasse, begird, inclose, hedge or hemme in, on all sides.

Envis. bien envis. Vnwillingly, loathly; repiningly. Toutesfois est faict ce qu'envis ont fait. Looke Faict. Envisagé: m. ée: f. Set with the visage or face towards, opposite in the forepart vnto.

Envisager. To set the face or visage towards, to looke towards or against; the forepart of a thing to be in opposition with another.

Envitaillement: A victualling; a prouiding of, or fur-*

*nishing with, victualls.

Envitailler. as Envictailler. Envis. Vics at play: ¶Rab. Enule-campane. The hearbe called Helicampanie, Scabwort, and Horse-heale.

Enumeration: f. An enumeration, reckoning, numbring, rehearsall.

Enunciation. An enunciation, signification, declaration; a denouncing; also, a maxime, or proposition.

Envoisiné: m. ée: f. Beneighboured; compassed with, neere vnto, hard by, neighbours.

Envolé: m. ée: f. Fled away, passed hastily or swiftly, gone suddenly; escaped, got packing, departed.

s'Envoler. To flie away; to escape, depart, get packing; hie away speedily, hast away quickly, paße away suddenly.

Envoulté. qui a l'esguillette nouée. Charmed in his chiefe member.

Envouté: m. ée: f. Vaulted, arched; bowed, or bending, downwards like a vault.

Envoutement. as Desgoustement; A distasting. (v.m.) Envoy. A message, or sending; also, th' Enuoy, or conclusion of a Ballet, or Sonnet; in a short stanzo by it selfe, and seruing, oftentimes, as a dedication of the whole.

Envoyé: m. A speciall messenger sent by a Prince vnto his Embassador in a forreine countrey. Le sainct Envoyé. The holie Apostle.

Envoye: f. Looke Ennoye. Envoyé: m. ée: f. Sent; delegated; addressed or directed, vnto; also, cast or thrust, out.

Envoyer. To send; to delegate; addresse or direct, vnto; also, to cast or thrust, out. Envoyer au grat. To send agrazing; a Maister to put away his man; (and, perhaps from this phrase came our contemptuous, Goe scrape.) Ie le vous envoyeray par le borgne. I will send it you by Iohn Long the Carrier. Qui envoye chetif à la mer il n'en rapporte ne poisson ne sel: Prov. See Poisson. Qui fol envoye fol attend: Prov. He that sends a foole, staies (either) for (or as) a foole. Envoyriner. To glase a window.

Envoyseure: f. Mockerie; an old word. Envy. Vnwillingly, repiningly, grudgingly, loathly, against the will, much against the humor of. A l'envy l'vn de l'autre. One to despight the other; or in emulation one of the other.

Enyvré: m. ée: f. Drunke, drunken; made, or become drunke; in drinke, mellow, tipled, foxed, ouerseene.

Enyvrer. To make drunke; to fox. s'Enyvrer. To be drunke, or in drinke; to be mellow, tipled, flusht, ouerseene. Il s'enyvre de sa propre bouteille. Hee is drunke by his owne bottle; (said of one thats too farre in loue with a good part of his owne, or abuses it vnto his ruine.) Le Tavernier s'enyvre de sa Taverne: Prov. Of the same, or like, sence. Eolipyles: f. Hollow brasen bowles, (or balls) which being filled with water, and set by the fire vntill they bee throughly heated, yeeld forth of the narrow holes (whereof they haue many) strong puffes of wind, and continue them vntill all the water be euaporated.

Epacte. An addition; (in Almanacks) the Epact.

Epaigneul. as Espaigneul.