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Haut: m. haute: f. High, tall; hautie, loftie; great, noble, honorable; chiefe, eminent, excellent; sumptuous, magnificent, most glorious; also, deepe, secret, profound; weightie, of importance; also, lewd. Haut costé. A Surloine. Haut cour. The Court of a King, or great Lord. Hautes erres. Limier d'hautes erres. A fleet hound. Haute fustaye. Bois d'h: f. Looke Fustaye. Haute heure. Late, or farre on the day (from morning to noone.) Haute game. See Game. Haut homme. A great, eminent, most noble, right honourable personage. Haute Iustice. High iurisdiction, Looke Iustice. Haute lice. as in Haute-lice. Haute l*uicte. de h. l. Violently, forcibly, with extremitie, by maine strength. La Haute main. (Sometimes) the vpper hand. Haut mal. The falling sicknesse. Le haut mal de la corde. Hanging. Haute mer. en h. m. In the wide, or deepe seas, farre in the sea. Haut nez. Chien d'h. n. A well-sented, or cold-nosed dog. Haut parage. Looke Haut-parage. Haut passage. An imposition of seuen pence in the pound, vpon woolls, clothes, linnens, canuasses, &c. La haute piece. A Poldron; or the vpper part therof. Chambre haute. A dining chamber. Iour haut. High adayes, late, farre on the day. Matiere haute. Weightie, important, mysticall, excellent stuffe. Haut d'aureilles. Deafe, or thicke of hearing. Haut à la main. Proud, surlie, statelie; a striker, one with whom there is but a word and a blow. Tenir la bride haute à. To awe, restraine, keepe short, hold in.

Haut. (Adverb.) Highly, aboue, aloft, on high; also, lowdly, or alowd. Haut & bas la cheminée. The crie of Chimney-sweepers. Haut le pied. s'en aller h. le p. To runne away apace, or, as fast as his feet can carrie him. Faire haut le bois. (Pikemen) to make a stand; also, to quaffe, tipple, carouse for the heauens. Faulcon trop haut assis. Whose staulkes, or legs are too long. Taillables haut & bas. Taxable at the will and pleasure of the Lord. Qui plus haut monte qu'il ne doit de plus haut chet qu'il ne vouldroit: Prov. He that climbes higher then he should, falls lower then he would.

Hautaignes: f. Vines which (as hops) embrace, & creep vp on, long poles.

Hautain. Seeke Haultain. Hautainement; &, Hautaineté. as Haultainement; &, Haultaineté. Haut-bert. A high, or chiefe Lord.

Haut-costé. A Surloyne.

Haut-d'-ais. A cloth of Estate.

Haute: m. A Docke to mend, or build ships in.

Haute. vn'h. de manche. The wing of a sleeue.

Haute-contre: com. The Countertenor part, in singing, &c; also (a Countertenor, or) he which bears that part.

Haute-lice. Tapisserie de haute-lice, ou hautes lisses. Tapistrie of rich stuffe, or high price; the best, and largest kind of Tapistrie.

Haute-lissier: m. A maker of (rich, and large) Tapistrie.

Hautement. Highly, tally; hautily, loftily; greatly; nobly, honourably, eminently, excellently; sumptuously, magnificently; deeply, profoundly; weightily, importantly.

Hautesse: f. Looke Haultesse. Hauteur: f. Height, length, tallnesse; eminence, altitude, eleuation; also, depth, or deepnesse.

Haut-gourdier: m. A desperate bankrupt; one that hauing but little to loose, cares for himselfe but a little.

Hautin: m. The Sea-pike, or Spit-fish. Hautins. as Autins. Haut-licier: m. as Hautelissier. Haut-mal: m. The falling sicknesse.

Haut-parage. The highest Peeredome; a title, or tenure whereby the Peeres, & Princes of the bloud, of France, hold their land; or (more generally) a tenure in Capite; for (as that tenure) it moues wholly, and directly of the Crowne.

Haut-passage. Looke Haut. Hauvens: m. Penthouses of cloth hung before shop-windowes.

Hay: m. Haye: f. Hated, &c; as Haï. Hay. An Interiection of forwarding, or of incouragement; Looke Hai. Fol est qui est esperonné & à cheval dit hay: Prov. The asse hauing spurres on, cries On to his horse; or he is an asse, who furnished with sound meanes, makes vse of sleight ones.

Haye: f. A hedge; a fence of shrubs, thornes, &c. Haye vive. A quick-set hedge. Anguille de haye. The blackest hedge or dunghill Adder; not verie venomous. Mords à haye. A Scatche. Combatre, ou marcher en haye. s. By files. Pendre entre la haye, & le bled: &, entre la haye, & le fossé. To surprise, take vnawares, or set vpon on a sudden. Qui fait haye souvent dit haye: Prov. Looke Haye Interiect.

Hayé: m. ée: f. Hedged; inclosed with a hedge.

Haye. (An Interiection of complayning, or crying out for paine) Oh, alas, out alas. Qui fait haye souvent dit haye: Prov. He that makes hedges often prickes his fingers.

Hayer. To hedge; also, to hate.

Hayeson: f. Hedge-making; also, hedging time, or, the season to make hedges in.

Hayeur: m. A hater, loather, detester.

Hayneux. as Haineux. Hayon. as Tente. Hayreux: m. euse: f. Leane, scraggie; poore; miserable, wretched, forlorne; also, as Haireux. Hayt. de bon hayt. Willingly, freely, heartily, cheerfully.

Hazard; &, Hazarder. Looke Hasard; &, Hasarder. Haze. as Hase. Pomme d'Haze. The name of a certaine long yellow apple.

Hé. An Interiection of calling. Vien ça hé. Come hither hoe.

Heaulme: m. An helmet; the headpeece of a man of Armes; also, the Helmet cherrie, Heart-cherrie, French cherrie; Looke Heaume.
  Heaulme doré, & ouvert. A gilt, and open helmet; which on the top of a coat of Armes denotes, that the bearer is either a Vicount, Baron, or Chattelain; (Look for more touching this in Ouvert.)

Heaulmerie: f. An Armorers shop, or warehouse; also, the name of a street in Paris, wherein many Armorers dwell.