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  Le regnard cache sa queuë: Pro. The craftie knaue bides that which would bewray him. Le regnard est devenu hermite: Prov. The Fox an Hermit is become, (beware your Geese good huswiues) appliable also, when a craftie or naughtie fellow reformes himselfe, and growes truely religious. Le regnard est pris, lasche les poules: Prov. Vsed when any dangerous knaue is intrapped , or clapt vp; vsed also, in mockerie of a common wooer, which hauing deceiued many widowes and maids in his time, is at the length ouertaken, and caught by one thats worse then any of them. À regnard regnard & demi: Pro. Let craft meet, or be matcht, with cunning. À regnard endormi rien ne chet en la gueule: Prov. Nothing is got by drowsinesse; preferment must be watched, sought, and sued for; it falls not into idle hands, or sleeping mouthes. À la fin le regnard sera Moine: Prov. Looke Moine. En fin les regnards (viz. their skinnes) se trouvent chez le pelletier: Prov. The craftie are at length surprised. Il n'y a route que de vieux regnards: Prov. There is no chase like that of the old Fox; or, no tract so certaine as of aged craft; no path well beaten but by old experience.

Regnardaille: f. The generatiō, kind, or brood of Foxes; also, a knot, or crue of subtill knaues.

Regnarde: f. A bitch Fox.

Regnardeau: m. A Fox cub, a young Fox; a little Fox.

Regnarder. To play the Fox; to steale, slip, or slinke, aside, vpō a guiltie conscience, or feare to be taken in the maner; also, to peruert a truth with shifts, trickes, or subtilties.

Regnarderie: f. Slinesse, craftinesse, wilinesse; also, a stealing, slipping, or slinking aside, vpon approach of danger, or guilt of conscience; also, a peruerting of the truth with shifts, or craftie lyes.

Regnardesque: com. Craftie, wilie, false, Fox-like, full of sleights.

Regnardiere: f. A Fox-furred gowne, or garment.

Regnardise: f. Fox-like subtiltie, slinesse, wilinesse, craftinesse, falsenesse.

Regnateur: m. A raigner, gouernor, absolute ruler.

Regnatrice: f. A Queene, a Soueraigne Gouernesse, an absolute Mistresse.

Regnaut: m. The language, or barking, of Foxes. Parler regnaut. To speake through the nose.

Regne: m. A Realme, or Kingdome; also, a Soueraigne rule; Dominion, Gouernement; also, (the continuance, or manner of that Gouernement) a Raigne. Cheval de Regne. A courser of Naples.

Regné. Raigned, ruled, gouerned.

Regner. To raigne, rule, gouerne, sway, seigniorize, domineere; to be a King, wield a Scepter, haue Soueraigne authoritie ouer. La Terrace regne tout à l'entour du logis. The terrace lyes, goes, or is contriued, round about the house.

Regnicoles: com. Th' actuall inhabitants, or inhabiters of a Kingdome.

Regnure. Looke Renure. Regobillonné: m. ée: f. Frolick, merrie, iocond, blithe, in a pleasant humor, in a merrie mood.

Regodronner. as Regoldronner.

Regoldronné: m. ée: f. New pitched, or tallowed, as

a ship; also, new set, or starched, as a ruffe.

Regoldronner. To pitch, or tallow, to make tight, a ship; also, to set a ruffe band, againe.

Regorge: f. An ouer-full gorge; also, a vomiting, or picking vp thereof. Ie leur en bailleray à regorge. I will ouerglut them with all; I wil feed them, or cramme it into them, vntill they spue againe.

Regorgé: m. ée: f. Ouer-glutted, too full gorged, whose stomacke is ouer-charged; also, vomited, cast, or spued vp, as an ouer-full gorge.

Regorgement: m. An ouer-glutting, or ouer-charging of the stomacke; any superfluitie, ouerflowing, excesse.

Regorger. To ouerglut, or ouercharge the stomacke; to ouerrunne, or ouerflow the bankes; also, to spue, vomit, cast, an ouer-full gorge.

Regoubillonner. To make a reare supper, steale an after supper; banquet late anights; also, to be frolicke, blithe, iocond, in a merrie mood.

Regourmer. To curbe againe.

Regouster. To tast better, often, or againe.

Regrabellement: m. A curious, and reiterated sifting of, or search into.

Regracié: m. Thanked, or thankefully acknowledged.

Regraciement: m. A thankefulneße, or thankefull acknowledgement.

Regracier. To thanke, acknowledge thankefully, yeeld thankes vnto.

Regraing. as Regain. Regraisser. To grease ouer againe.

Regraté: m. ée: f. Dressed, furbished, scowred, or tricked vp.

Regratement: m. A dressing, scowring, furbishing, mending, or tricking vp of old things for sale; hucksterie.

Regrater. To dresse, mend, scowre, furbish, trimme or tricke vp, an old thing for sale.

Regrateur: m. An huckster; mender, dresser, scowrer, trimmer vp of old things for sale.

Regratier: m. as Regrateur; whence; Regratier de sel, de vivres, &c. A Regrater, or Ingrosser of salt, &c.

Regratier. as Regracier; To thanke.

Regratiere: f. An Hucksteresse; also, a Regrateresse.

Regraver. To graue anew.

Regravir. To climbe, or creepe vp, againe.

Regredillé: m. ée: f. Frizzled, crisped, curled, intrammelled.

Regrediller. To frizzle, or curle the haire, &c, with a hot yron.

Regredillonné, & Regredillonner. as Regredillé, & Regrediller. Regrés: m. A resignation of a Benefice, vpon condition, that if during the Resignors life it become voyd by the resignation or death of the Resignee, it shall returne, without further induction, or institution, vnto him; (But this Conditionall Resignation, heretofore in vse, is not at this day allowed of, in France.)

Regret: m. Desire, will, affection, stomacke, or humor vnto; also, griefe, sorrow; repentance, forthinking. À regret. Loathly, vnwillingly, with an ill stomacke, hardly, mauger his head, full sore against his will.

Regretable: com. Deplorable, bemonable, bewailable; fit to be repented, or lamented.