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Opiniastre: com. Opinionate, opiniatiue, obstinate, wilfull, selfe-willie, wedded to his owne humors, conceited of his owne iudgement, frowardly standing in a wrong, or ill opinion. Opiniastre comme vne mule. As wilfull, or moodie, as a Mule.

Opiniastrement. Opiniatiuely, obstinately, wilfully, or as one thats wedded vnto his owne peruerted will.

s'Opiniastrer. To be opinionate, wilfull, obstinate; stiffly to maintaine, headily to stand in, or adhere vnto (an ill opinion.) Les fievres s'opiniastrerent sur moy. Very much increased vpon me, or bent or setled themselues to afflict me.

Opiniastreté: f. Opiniatiuenesse, wilfullnesse, obstinacie, headineße; a headstrong maintaining of, or persistance in, (an ill opinion.)

Opiniastrie, & Opiniastrise. as Opiniastreté. Opinion: f. Opinion; thought, conceit, imagination; surmise, coniecture, supposall, gueße, weening; also, an opinion, aduise, or saw; and, a censure, sentence, doome, iudgement; also, the prettie game which we call Purposes. Autant de testes autant d'opinions. As many men so many minds; as many humors as heads.

Opion: m. Opium; the hardened iuyce of garden Poppie heads. Opistographes: f. Papers written vpon on both sides. ¶Rab. Opobalsame: m. Opobalsamum; the gumme, or liquor which issueth from the wounded Balsame tree; Looke Basme. Opobasme. as Opobalsame. Opocalpase: f. A kind of poyson wherewith Mirrhe is (too often) sophisticated.

Oportet. (A Latin Impersonall) it ought, it must; whence; Quand oportet vient en place il n'est rien qui ne se face: Pro. That which must be will be; absolute authoritie. or vrgent necessitie, are excellent workmen.

Oppilatif: m. Oppilatiue, obstructiue, stopping.

Oppilation: f. An oppilation, or obstruction.

Oppilé: m. ée: f. Obstructed, stopped, shut vp.

Oppiler. To stop, obstruct, shut vp.

Opportun: m. une: f. Timelie, seasonable, fit, right, conuenient; commodious.

Opportunément. Opportunely, timely, seasonably; fitly, conueniently; in good time, right in the nicke, iust when it should be.

Opportunité: f. Opportunitie; seasonableneße; fitneße of time, conueniencie of place; a good occasion.

Opposant: m. An Opposant, or Opponent; a resister, withstander; contradictor.

Opposé: m. ée: f. Opposed, resisted, withstood; obiected vnto, protested against.

s'Opposer. To oppose himselfe; to resist, withstand; gaine-*say; to obiect, except, or protest, against.

Opposite: com. Opposite, aduerse, in opposition with, oueragainst; placed, put, set, or obiected, against.

Opposition: f. Opposition; resistance, withstanding; a crossing, or gainsaying; an obiection, exception, or protestation, against.

Oppresse: f. as Oppression. Oppressé: m. ée: f. Oppressed; ouercharged, ouerlayed, weighed downe.

Oppresser. To oppresse; ouercharge, quayle, ouerlay, weigh downe, make sinke vnder the burthen of.

Oppresseur: m. An oppreßor; ouercharger, ouerlayer; extreame dealer; one that sinkes poore people with

exactions, or taxations.

Oppression: f. Oppression; ouercharging, ouerlaying; an vnreasonable surcharge; a grieuous burthen, taxation, exaction; or the imposing of any of them.

Opprimer. as Oppresser. Opprobre: m. A reproach; a defamatorie taunt, rebuke, checke; a disgracefull twit, vpbraiding, reuiling; despightfull rayling.

Opprobrier. To reproach; to taunt, rebuke, checke despightfully; disgracefully to vpbraid, cast in the dish, twit in the teeth.

Oppugnateur. An oppugnator; assaulter, batterer, besieger; resister; wrong-doer.

Oppugnation: f. An oppugnation; assault, batterie; siege; open resistance.

Oppugné: m. ée: f. Oppugned; assaulted, battered, besieged; fought, or contended with; openly resisted.

Oppugner. To oppugne; batter, assault, besiege; resist, or withstand openly; fight hard, reason eagerly, labor earnestly, against.

Opter. To chuse, optate, elect; also, to wish, couet, desire.

Opthalmie. as Ophthalmie. Option: f. Option, election, choice; also, a wish, or desire.

Optique: f. An Art whereby the reason of sight is knowne.

Optique: com. Of, or belonging to, the eye-sight. Nerfs optiques. The sinewes from which the eyes receiue their sight.

Opulemment. Wealthily, richly, abundantly.

Opulence: f. Opulencie, wealth, riches; plentie, store, or abundance of meanes.

Opulent: m. ente: f. Opulent, wealthie, rich, well lyned, abundant in meanes.

Opulentement. as Opulemment. Opuscule: m. A little Worke; small Booke, short Treatise.

Or: m. Gold.
  Or d'Allemaigne. A kind of base Gold, the fift part whereof is Siluer.
  Or blanc. as Or d'Allemaigne.
  Or de Clitie. The Marigold.
  Or en paille, ou de paillole. Spangle-Gold, or Gold beaten thinne for Spangles; Looke Paillole.
  Or de pepin. Round, or massie graines of Gold.
  Or ras. Smooth Gold, Venice stuffe.
  Or Tholosain. A dismall, or vnluckie possession; (for euerie one that had it perished.)
  Or traict. Gold wyre.
  Il est de bas or, il craind la touche. He is a counterfeit, he feares to be tryed.
  Or est qui or vaut: Pro. Tis Gold thats worth Gold.
  À l'or le feu fort, au fort bras la luicte: Pro. Looke Bras.
  Nul or sans escume. No Gold without some droße.
  Dans vne gaine d'or vn cousteau de plomb: Prov. A base heart vnder a rich habit.
  Fy de plaisirs, d'estats, & d'or, qui de vertu n'a le thresor: Pro. Looke Fy.

Or. (Adverb.) Now; but; on, goe to, well now.
  Or avant. On forward, on afore there.
  Or bien. Well now, well then, therefore.
  Or ça. Now then, or goe to; Or by equiuocation (as in the hastie demaunds of Grippeminaud;) Gold here, cast Gold hether.
  Or donques. Seeing then.
  Or primes. Now at the length, not before now, but euen now, onely at this time, at this verie instant.
  Or si. Jf then, since, or seeing that.