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Germandrée: f. Germaunder, English treacle (an (hearbe.) Germandrée aquatique, ou d'eau. Water Germander, Scordion, Garlicke Germander. Germandrée bastarde. Bastard, or wild Germander.

Germe des arbres, herbes, &c: m. A yong shute, sprout, bud, sprig, or twig of trees, &c. Germe des aulx, oignons, &c. The middle staulkes which are betweene the blades, and roots of Garlicke, Onions, &c. Germe d'vn oeuf. The sperme of an egge; the little string which is on either side of the yolke of a raw, or a reare, egge. Fauls germe. A Moonecalfe; a hard swelling, or shapelesse peece of flesh in the wombe, which makes women beleeue they are with child when they are not.

Germe. A fashion of open boat, or barke without hatches, vsed in the Leuant Seas for the transportation of marchandise, and passengers.

Germé: m. ée: f. Budded, burgeonned, sprouted, sprung out, put forth.

Germement: m. A sprouting, budding, burgeonning, putting forth, shuting out, of trees, &c.

Germer. To sprout, bud, burgeon, spring, put forth, shute out, yong sprigs, buds, tenderells, &c.

Germeux: m. euse: f. Sprouting, budding, burgeonning; also, full of yong sprigs, or buds; also, full of seed.

Germination: f. A sprouting, &c; as Germinement. Geron. Looke Giron. Gerre: f. The small, or white Cackerell fish; or as Picarel. Gerse: f. A Woodlouse; or Ladicow.

Gersé: m. ée: f. Looke Gercé. Gersure: f. A cleft, rift, chinke, chap, chawne; also, the neb of a pinne.

Gesante. vne ges. A woman that lieth in.

Gesier. as Iesier. The guiserne of a bird.

Gesine: f. A lying in child-bed; a lying in. Bras à la poictrine, jambe en gesine: Prov. Keepe a sore arme to thy bosome, a sore leg in thy bed.

Gesir. To lie; to lie downe, along, or long by it; to lie in child-bed, or in the straw, as a woman; also, to consist, or rest in; also, to remaine, or abide. Gesir aupres. To lie neere vnto, to bound, abutt, or border vpon. Nous sçavons ou gist le lievre. Seeke Lievre. Ma vie eust ieu en cela. My life had lien therein, or depended thereon. Tant gratte la cheure que mal gist: Prov. One often speeds the worse for being too curious, or desirous of speeding well; Looke Cheure. Tout ce que gist en peril n'est pas perdu: Prov. All is not lost that is in danger.

Gesne. as Gehenne; Racking, torture. Gesse: f. A common sinke, or sewer; a gutter for the voiding of ordure: ¶Bretton. Gesses. A kind of pease; as Geisses. Gestation: f. A bearing, or carrying.

Geste: m. Gesture, fashion, behauiour, carriage, demeanor; also, a making of signes, or coutenances; a motion, or stirring of any part of the bodie.

Gestion: f. An action; or, an acting, doing, exploiting.

Gesver. as Guesver.

Get: m. A casting, or throwing out; also, a set of counters; also (the blacke hard earth, or minerall, called) Jet.

Getisse. terre getisse. Such as is throwne out of a house, &c.

Gets. Looke Gects. Gettéen: m. enne: f. Of Jet; blacke as Jet.

Getter. as Iecter; To cast, &c.

Gettonner. To bud, sprout, or shute out.

Gettons: m. Counters.

Gettons des arbres. Buds; Looke Iectons. Geve: f. A cage, coope, or open basket, to keepe chickens, &c, in.

Geural: m. A Certificate, Passeport, or Safeconduct for a traueller.

Geure. as Giure. Ghirlande. A garland.

Giaret: m. A small bright-coloured sea-fish, not much vnlike to, but that it is somewhat lesse (and yet bigger scaled) then, the Cackarell: ¶Marseillois. Gibbar. A kind of slender, and long-nosed Whale, that hath a hulch backe, and a pipe on his forhead, out of which he spouts water with great violence.

Gibbasse: f. A pouch, or budget; also, a great bunch, or hulch-like swelling.

Gibbe: f. A bunch, or swelling; a hulch; any thing that stands poking out.

Gibbecier: m. A pouch-maker.

Gibbeciere: f. A pouch, bag, poake, budget.


Gibbet: m. A gibbet, gallow-tree, paire of gallowes; (In France all Gentlemen that haue Haute Iustice, haue also (or may haue) gibbets (for th' executing of malefactors) within their territories, though (ordinarily) with some difference in making, or fashion, according to their difference in estate, or dignitie; for the gibbet of the (simple) high Iusticier hath but two pillers; the Lord Chattelaines, three; the Barons, foure; the Earls, six; and the Dukes, eight; And yet these differences are more precise then generall; for all customes agree not in them.) Que gibbet veut dire cecy? What a mischiefe meane you by this? Il est plus malheureux que le bois dont on fait le gibbet. He is a most vnfortunate man. Au gibbet le repentir vient trop tard: Prov. Too late he repents that repents at the gallowes. Les beaux hommes au gibbet: Pro. Faire men come often to foule ends; the properer the men the worse their lucke.

Gibbeux: m. euse: f. Hulch, bunched, much swelling, imbossed.

Gibbeyer. as Gibboyer. Gibbier: m. Game (of any kind thats hunted, or hawked at; but most properly, the later) fowle; whence; Gaule de gibbier. A hawking powle. Cecy n'est pas de vostre gibbier. This is not your trade, not your profession; this is no subiect for you to speake, no course for you to deale, in; you are here out of your proper element. Chacun à son gibbier. Euerie one to that hee is fit for, to that he hath skill in. Estre en beau gibbier. To be faire and fat; to like exceeding well.

Gibbosité: f. The being hulch-backt; swelling, bunchinesse.

Gibboyer. To hawke; hunt; fowle, or shoot at fowle.

Gibboyeur: m. A Fowler, or Gunner; one that ordinarily shoots at fowle.

Gibet. as Gibbet.

Gibets. Little packets of grapes wrapt vp in fig leaues, whereby they are preserued fresh two yeres together.