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Homonceau: m. A pettie, or paultrie, fellow.

Homonyme: f. An equiuocation, or word of diuers significations.

Homonyme: com. Equiuocall.

Homonymie: f. An equiuocation; or, a double, or different sence in one word.

Homs. as Homme; a man. (vieil mot.) Hon hon. (An Interiection expressing wonder, or a fearefull apprehension of approaching mischiefe;) aha, aha. Faire hon de la teste. To seeme loath; Seeke Faire: Hondelée de foing. A load of Hay.

Hondrespondre: m. A drunken, or swaggering Dutchman. ¶Rab. Hongner. as Hoigner. Hongre: m. An Hungarian; also, a guelded man, or horse; an Eunuch, a Guelding.

Honneste: com. Honest, good, vertuous; iust, vpright, sincere; also, gentle, ciuill, courteous; also, worthie, noble, honorable, of good reputation; also, comelie, seemelie, handsome, well befitting.

Honnestement. Honestly, vertuously, sincerely, vprightly; gently, ciuilly, courteously; worthily, nobly, with good credit; handsomely, decently, in a good fashion.

Honnesteté: f. Honestie, vertue, goodnesse, integritie, truth, sinceritie; iustnesse, vprightnesse; humanitie, courtesie, ciuilitie, gentlenesse; worth, or worthinesse; freedome of nature, open-heartednesse, a noble disposition; decencie, a Decorum.

Honneur: f. Honour; renowme, reputation, credit, praise, glorie, fame, great account, high reckoning, much estimation; worship, reuerence; dignitie, promotion; also, an Honour; or, an honourable estate, inheritance, or title, bestowed by a Prince, or great Lord. Honneurs funebres. Funerall solemnities, rites, or rights. Le morceau d'honneur. The last bit of a dish of meat; Looke Morceau. Vesve d'honneur. Honours widow; a woman that had a good report, but now hath lost it. Ventes, & honneurs. Looke Vente. Pressé de son honneur. Hard set, sore layed to, that must needs goe to it, that must of necessitie purge, or vntruße; (a mannerlie phrase.) À tous seigneurs tous honneurs: Pro. Giue to all Lords all th'honours due vnto them. Qui d'honneur n'a cure honte est sa droicture: Prov. Shame falls on him that cares not for (true) honour; or, he that his credit doth not weigh, reproch attends him, sham's his pay. Qui n'a honte il n'aura ja honneur: Prov. Hee that wants shame shall neuer much credit winne.

Honni: m. ie: f. Reproached, shamed, disgraced, dishonoured, defamed; cursed, reuiled, outraged, in words; (also, spotted, blemished, fouled, polluted, defiled. ¶Pic.)

Honnir. To reproach, disgrace, dishonour, defame, shame; reuile, curse, or outrage, in words; (also, to spot, blemish, pollute, foule, file, defile. ¶Pic.)

Honnorance. as Honoraire.

Honorable: com. Honourable, noble; worthie, famous, renowmed; reuerend, worshipfull; great, high, statelie, magnificent, sumptuous.
  Amende honorable. Seeke Amende.

Honorablement. Honorably, nobly; worthily, famously,

renowmedly; reuerently, worshipfully; stately, magnificently, sumptuously; in a high degree, after a gallant manner.

Honoraire: m. An honourable Present giuen to a Prince, Embassador, or great Officer at his first entrie; also, a fee due, by custome, or for aduice giuen, paines taken, or seruice done; hence, also, a Donatiue bestowed on Souldiors.

Honoraire: com. Honourable; or worthie or honour. Chevaliers honoraires. Such as are Knights by the priuiledge of their birth, and not in the right of any Order; (as all Noblemen, from the Duke to the Chattelain, are.)

Honorance: m. as Honoraire; (especially in the last sence.) Honoré: m. ée: f. Honoured; reuerenced, renowmed, praised, prised; much respected, greatly esteemed, highly accompted of.

Honorer. To honour; renowme; reuerence; praise exceedingly, prise highly, respect verie much.

Honorifique: com. Honourable, honour-breeding, noble, worthie, worshipfull.

Honouars: m. Looke Henouars. Honte: f. Shame; shamefullnesse, or shamefastnesse; also, discredit, infamie, ignominie, imputation, disgrace. À leur courte honte. With much disgrace vnto them, to their exceeding shame. Dire honte. To infame, defame, reuile, reproach, dishonour, cry shame on, or out vpon. Femme qui perd sa honte est sans estime, & conte: Prov. Looke Femme. Il ne va pas du tout à honte qui de demie voye retourne: Prov. He that turnes backe (hauing beene halfe way) goes not at all for shame. Qui a honte de manger a honte de vivre: Prov. He that's ashamed to eat's ashamed to liue. Qui n'a honte il n'aura ja honneur: Prov. Looke Honneur. Qui d'honneur n'a cure honte est sa droicture: Prov. His meed is shame that weighes not his good name. Qui vit à compte vit à honte: Prov. He basely liues that reckons all hee spends; (yet is there small difference betweene him that knowes not what he spends, and him that spends he knowes not what.) Tel cuide vanger sa honte qui l'accroist: Prov. Some thinking to reuenge, renue, their shame. Vieil peché fait nouvelle honte: Prov. Old sinne inflicts new shame.

Honteux: m. euse: f. Shamefast, bashfull, helo, modest, backward, fearefull; also, shamefull, infamous, ignominious, dishonourable, reproachfull, dishonest; also, belonging, or seated neere, to the priuie parts; whence; Artere, or veine honteuse. Looke Artere, & Veine. La partie honteuse. The groine, or part whereon the Pubes groweth. Honteux comme vne truye qui emporte vn levain. As shamefast as a Sow that slaps vp a Sillibub.

se Hontir. as, se Hontoyer. se Hontoyer. To be ashamed of; to blush, or be bashfull, at; to hang downe the head for shame.

Hopelande: f. as Houpelande. Hopperie: f. A whooping, or showting.

Hoquet: m. The hickocke, or yexing.