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  Il se plaind de saine teste. He complaines without cause, or, he is troubled with too much ease. Assez demande qui se plaind: Prov. Ynough demaunds he who of want complaines. Chascune vieille son dueil plaind: Pro. Each bel-*dame of her priuate griefe complaines. Femme se plaind, femme se deult, femme est malade, quand elle veut: Prov. Looke Femme. Tel est plein qui se plaind: Prov. Some how full soeuer they be are neuer contented. Tel se plaind qui n'a point de mal: Prov. Some complaine that feele no paine; or, some, though they feele no hurt, vnquiet are.

Plaine: f. A plaine; a spacious peece of (leuell) ground, without either tree, or house, vpon it.

Plaineure: f. The superficies; the plaine, leuell, or flat ground of.

Plaint: m. te: f. Plained, bewailed, bemoaned, complained of, found fault with, repined at.

Plainte: m. A plaintife, complainant, accuser.

Plainte: f. A plaint, complaint, moane, lamentation; accusation, expostulation.

Plaintif: m. A plaintife, complainant; appeacher, accuser.

Plaintif: m. iue: f. Lamenting, moanefull, dolefull, sorrowfull.

Plaire. To please, delight; satisfie, content; like, allow, or thinke well, of; seeme good vnto. À Dieu ne plaise, que. God forbid, that. S'il plaist à Dieu. If God will, if God say amen. Ils en ont d'un pleust à Dieu. They haue not all they would haue, they haue not their full desire. Marchandise qui plaist est à moitié venduë: Prov. Ware that doth please, or that's in request, is alreadie halfe sold.

Plaisamment. Pleasantly, merrily, sportfully, ioyfully, delightsomely.

Plaisance: f. Mirth, sport, pleasure, delight, game, iollitie, blithenesse, festiuitie, reioycing.

Plaisant: m. ante: f. Pleasant, merrie, iocond, blithe, ioyfull, buxome, delightfull, gamesome, recreatiue, sportfull; also, ieasting, bourding, scoffing, flowting. Plaisant homme. (Vsed verie often Ironically, or in euill part) A goodlie fellow sure.

Plaisanter. To gibe, ieast, flowt, scoffe, quip merrily, be pleasant with; to play the Jeaster.

Plaisanterie: f. Jeasting, merriment, flowting, scoffing, scurrilitie; wittie (but knauish) conceits.

Plaisanteur: m. A Jeaster, Buffoone, Parasite, pleasant fellow.

Plaisir: m. Pleasure, delight, mirth, ioy, glee; pastime, game, sport, recreation; comfort, solace; delectation, contentment, sensualitie; also, a pleasure, fauour, kindneße, good turne, friendlie office done; also, the will, appetite, lust; or a full satisfaction of them all.
  À mon plaisir. At my will, becke, or commaund; as I list my selfe.
  Pour mon plaisir. For my minds sake; to please, or satisfie my humor withall.
  De court plaisir long repentir: Prov. For a short pleasure long repentance.
  Fy de plaisirs, d'estats, & d'or, qui de vertu n'a le thresor: Prov. Looke Fy.
  Qui plaisir fait plaisir requiert: Prov. He that doth fauours lookes to be fauoured; one good turne requires another.

Plait: m. Suit, controuersie, altercation, debate; also, a plea, or pleading. Faire du plait. To babble, prattle, tattle, keepe a filthie coyle, make a scuruie adoe. Il me tient plait. He holds me tacke, or with a tale; he finds me chat ynough.

Plameuse: f. A cuffe, box, or whirret with the fist.

Plan: m. as Plane; masc. also, the ground-plat of a building.

Plan. Adverb. as Pleinement: ¶Gasc. Planare. A Plane tree.

Planchage: m. A planking, or boording; also, a floore of plankes; or any thing made of plankes.

Planchayé: m. ée: f. Planked, boorded; floored.

Planchayer. To planke, boord; floore.

Planche: f. A planke, or thicke boord; especially one thats layed ouer a ditch, brooke, or moat, &c, in stead of a bridge; also, a bed, or border, in a garden; also, a pitfall; also, the Till of a Printers Preße, or the shelfe that compasseth the Hose; and generally, any shelfe. C'est la premiere planche pour parvenir à vn grand lieu. This is the first step, readiest course, neerest way, vnto great preferment. Faire planche à. To make way for; to beginne, or breake th' ice, vnto; to lay a ground for, or foundation vnto; also, to forward, further, helpe, assist. En pont, en planche, & en Riviere, vallet devant, maistre derriere: Prov. Looke Maistre. Planché: m. ée: f. Planked, boorded; floored with plankes; closed, or seeled, with boords; also, grounded, fixed, setled, or set fast.

Planchéer. To planke; to floore with plankes; to seele, or close, with boords.

Plancher: m. A (boorded) floore; also, a seeling of boords; and sometimes (though somewhat improperly) a floore, or bed, of plaister. Plancher de vaches. The ground, the earth.

Plancher. To planke; to floore with plankes; to seele, or close, with boords.

Plancheter. as Plancher. Planchette: f. A womans stirrup; also, the plate, or bottome of a stirrup whereon the foot resteth; also, a buske.

Plancheyé: m. ée: f. Planked; as Planchayé. Plancheyer. as Planchayer. Planchier. as Plancher. Plançon. as Planson; or Planton. Plane: m. The great Maple; ordinarily (but erroniously) called, the Sicamor tree.

Plane: f. A (Joyners) Plane; (also, a Plaice, or Flooke: ¶Langued.)

Planer. To plane; to make smooth, or euen, with a Plane; also, to rase, deface, blot, or put out; also, to plane, as a bird that flies, or houers, without mouing her wings.

Planetaire: com. Planetarie, of, or belonging to, the Planets. Heures planetaires. Twelue houres for the day, and as many for the night.

Planette: f. A Planet; whereof there bee seuen, bearing the name of seuen seuerall Dieties, because they haue some power ouer earthlie bodies; they bee also called, Wandering starres, because they neuer keepe one certaine place, or station in the firmament.

Plani: m. ie: f. Planed, plained, or made plaine; smoothed, leuelled, euened.

Planier: m. ere: f. as Plain; whence;