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Alun succrin. [*it's the end of the previous def-F1]
  Alun succrin. An Allum compounded of Rose water, whites of egges, and roche Allum; Italian women vse it much in their cleansing, or whitening, imployments.

Aluté: m. ée: f. Bedaubed, beplaistered, bemyred, or besmeared all ouer with clay, durt, or loame.

Aluyne: f. Wormewood. Aluyne Pontique; & Romaine; as Absynthe Pontique, & Romaine. Petite aluyne. Sea Wormewood; especially the white one; and that which is called Sothernwood Wormewood.

Alys. Smooth, sleeke, polished; an old word.

Alysson. The hearbe Madwort, Moonewort, healedog.

Alzan. as Alezan. Alzatin. ¶Rab. The fat cawle, or kell, wherein the bowels are lapt.

Amadées: m. A certaine Order of Cordeliers, or gray friers.

Amadis. Pinsegreneur d'Amadis. A neat, spruce, affecting speaker.

Amadizé: m. ée: f. Quaint, spruce, affected, prankt with fine words, full of gay tearmes.

Amadoüé. Flattered, smoothed; woon, or inueagled by pleasing tearmes; pacified, or appeased with good, or faire, words.

Amadoüement: m. A flattering, smoothing, inueagling, tickling, or lulling asleepe the mind and affection with pleasing tearmes; a pacifying, appeasing, or sweetning of an angrie, or harsh spirit, with good words.

Amadoüer. To flatter, to smooth, to gloze with; to allure, intice, inueagle, win, with flattering speeches; to tickle, delight, or lull asleepe the mind, and affection with pleasing tearmes; also, to sweeten, or appease a harsh, or angrie spirit with faire words.

Amadoüeur: m. A flatterer, smoother, glozer, faire speaker.

Amafrose. Blindnesse caused by the obturation of the Opticke sinew.

Amaigri: m. ie: f. Macerated; made, or growne leane, meagre, thinne, slender; shrunke, fallen away.

Amaigrir. To macerate, make leane, meagre, thin. s'amaigrir. To grow leane, wax meagre, shrinke, or fall in flesh, fall away.

Amainer. To strike sayle; (a sea tearme.)

s'Amaisonner. To lodge, house, or harbour himselfe.

s'Amalader. To fall sicke.

Amalgame. A mixture, or incorporation of quick siluer with other mettals.

Amalgamer. To mix, or incorporate, &c; a Chimicall tearme.

Amanché. as Emmanché. Amande: f. An Almond; also, the kernell of a plum-stone, cherry-stone, &c.

Amandé: m. ée: f. Of Almonds; mingled, or seasoned with Almonds.

Amandier. An Almond tree.

Amandin. A kind of reddish marble.

Amanite. The name of a wholesome toadstoole.

Amanoté: m. ée: f. Manacled; also, furnished with a handle.

Amanoter. To manacle; to handfast, or bind the hands fast, with manacles.

Amantelé: m. ée: f. Cloaked; couered with a cloake, or mantle; Seeke Emmentelé.

Amaphrose. as, Amafrose.

Amaranthe: f. The flower gentle, Floreamour, Flower

valure, purple veluet flower.

Amareur: f. as Amaritude. Amaritude: f. Bitternesse; also, extreame harshnesse; extreame anguish.

Amarrage: m. The great cordage, or tackle of a ship.

Amarré. Moored; fastened, bound, or tied fast with great ropes.

Amarrer. To tye, bind, fasten, or make fast with cables, or great ropes; to moore.

Amarres: f. Great anchor-cables; or, ground Tackle.

Amarri: m. The wombe, or matrix of a woman.

Amas: m. A heape, or pile; a great number, sort, crue, rout; also, a Moone-calfe, or Tympanie in a womans wombe; as Mole. Amase. A messuage, or tenement. ¶Wallon. Amasé: m. ée: f. Housed, or hauing a tenement on it.

Amasement: m. A messuage, tenement, building.

Amassé: m. ée: f. Piled, heaped, gathered together; also, taken vp, or, stooped for.

Amassement: m. A collection; a heaping, or gathering together; a piling one vpon another; also, a taking, or gathering vp.

Amasse-miel. Honnie-getting, sweets-gathering.

Amasser. To pile, heape; gather, collect together; also, to take vp; also to stoope for. s'amasser. To assemble, meet, or swarme, together in troupes. Amasser la disme de l'ail. To be well and soundly cudgelled; or, to doe that for which he is sure of a cudgelling; (a Poicteuin phrase.) On ne sçait pour qui on amasse: Pro. Men know not who shall spend their gettings; or, God onely knowes who shall enioy those heapes.

Amasseresse: f. A woman that piles, heapes, gathers; takes vp, or stoopes for.

Amasseur: m. A piler, heaper, gatherer; a taker vp of, or stooper for, things. à pere amasseur fils gaspilleur: Prov. See Pere. Mieux vaut bon gardeur que bon amasseur: Pro. A warie keeper is better than a carefull getter.

Amastiné: m. ée: f. Made, or become dogged, surly, churlish, currish.

s'Amastiner. To become dogged, surly, currish, churlish.

Amateur. A louer, affecter; wooer; an amorous companion.

Amathyste. The precious stone called an Amatist.

Amati: m. ie: f. Mated, amated, quayled, abated, allayed; decayed; mortified; faded, vpon withering; also, enured, accustomed, trained vp vnto.

Amatir. To enure, accustome, traine vp vnto; or, as Emmatir; to mate, amate, &c.

Amatrice: f. An Amatrix, a she louer.

Amaurote. A Moore, or one of Mauritania.

Amazé. as Amasé. Ambages, or Ambageois. Ambages; circuits, compasses, or circumstances in wordes; a going about the bush.

Ambagieux: m. euse: f. Full of ambages, or friuolous circumstances.

Ambagoye. Aller en ambagoye; Seeke Aller. Amballage: m. Package; Looke Emballage. Ambarvales: m. Rogation, or Gang, weekes; religious feasts, or walkes, wherein the fruits of the earth are prayed for.

Ambassade: f. An Embassage, an Embassie, an Embassadorship; also, a troupe, or companie of ioint Embassadors sent together from a Prince.