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  Coffin à roupies. A womans Maske.

Roupieux: m. euse: f. Snottie, sniuellie, whose nose is euer dropping. Il fut bien roupieux. He was mightily ashamed, or much deceiued.

Roupille: f. A Caßocke.

Rouppeau. as Roupeau. Roupt: m. pte: f. Broken, burst in peeces.

Roupte: f. Looke Route. Rovre: m. The most hard, most strong, and most branchie kind of Oke; also, the great Gall-tree; (a kind thereof.)

Rous: m. Rousse: f. Looke Roux. Rouseau: m. A flower which flyes away with the wind like the downe of a thistle; also, the hearbe Water-torch, Cats-taile, red Mace, March Pestill, Douch downe. Poire de rouseau. A verie tender and delicate Peare good to make Perrie of.

Rousée: f. as Rosée. Rousoyer. To bedew; to wet gently.

Roussable: m. The close roome wherein Herrings are smoaked vntill they be red; Looke Saurir. Roussastre: com. Reddish, or betweene red and yellow.

Roussau: m. The name of a Fig.

Rousse: f. A red-haired, or freckled, woman.

Rousseau: m. A freckled, and red-haired, man; also, the Bittor; or a fowle thats lesse then a Heron, but otherwise resembles her; also, the Crabfish tearmed a Pungar; (Normand.) also, a verie tender, and delicate Peare.

Rousselet: m. The name of a delicate small Peare.

Rousselet: m. ette: f. Reddish, ruddie, somewhat red.

Rousser. To groane, or complaine, like a grunting woman, or ouerworne Iade.

Rousserole: f. The Riuer Nightingale; a kind of Kings-fisher.

Rousset: m. A little ruddie Dog-fish; also, red wheat, Duck-bill wheat, Normandie wheat.

Rousset: m. ette: f. Russet, browne, ruddie, inclining to a darke red. Pain rousset. Cheat or booted bread; household bread, made of Wheat and Rye mingled.

Roussette: f. A russetin Apple; also, a little Dog-fish, whose ruddie skinne is powdered all ouer with blacke spots; also, a certaine ruddie, or dunne-red bird, no bigger then a Titmouse.

Rousseurs. Little, red, wan, or blackish pimples or spots in the face, &c; freckles, or a kind thereof.

Roussin: m. A Curtall, or strong German horse. Roussin de service. A horse of Armes, or for the warre; a good strong horse fit to serue on, due to a Lo. feodal from euerie vaßall (that holds tenne pounds a yeare, or vpwards) once during his life; or in lieu thereof (if there be no certaine rate vsed, or agreed on) the fift part of a yeares Reuenue: The rate of this Roussin is 60 solz Tourn. Homme mutin, brusque roussin, flascon de vin, prennent tost fin: Pro. Looke Homme. Qui a florin, Latin, & roussin, par tout il trouve le chemin: Prov. He thats well lyned, well spoken, and well mounted, shall neuer be out of his way.

Roussiner. To whinnie after Mares, like a rammish, or lecherous Jade; also, to leape a Mare.

Roussir. To wax red.

Roussoyer. To wax ruddie, grow reddish.

Rouste de bois. A With; or, as Riorte.

Route: f. A belch, or belching; also, a rowt, ouerthrow, defeature, discomfiture; the breaking of a troope, or squadron, of men; also, a rutt, way, path, street, course, paßage; trace, tract, or footing; also, a rowt, heard, flocke, troope, companie, multitude of men, or beasts; also, a glade in a wood; or, as Rote. Routes. The footing of rauenous, or biting beasts, such as the Wolfe, Bore, Fox, Otter, &c. La route d'une branche. The broken peece of a bough; the truncheon of a broken bough. Chascun sa route. Euerie one in his course, place, order, when his turne or time comes. Frapper à la route. To roose a Deere with a lyme hound. Il n'y a route que de vieux regnards: Prov. Looke Regnard. Router. To belch, or breake wind vpwards.

Routier: m. A Ruttier; a directorie for the knowledge, or finding out of courses, whither by sea or land; also, an old traueller, one that by much trotting vp and downe is growne acquainted with most wayes; and hence, an old beaten souldior; one whom a long practise hath made of great experience in, or absolute maister of, his profession; and (in euill part) an old craftie Fox, notable beguiler, ordinarie deceiuer, subtill knaue; also, a Purse-taker, or a Robber by the high way side.

Routine. Looke Rotine, or Rottine. Routte: f. as Route; also, a kind of tumbling or vaulting tricke.

Routtier. as Routier. Routure. Looke Roture. Routures d'eauës. Bracks, breaches, pathes, wayes made, or worne out, in rocks by a continuall running, or beating of waters.

Rouveau. Pomme de rou. The Ruddocke, Redding, Summer Goulding.

Rouvieres. The name of a kind of Oliues.

Rouvraye: f. A Forrest, Wood, Groue, or tuft, of strong Okes, or great Gall-trees.

Rouvre. as Rovre. Rouvroy. as Rouvraye. Roux: m. Rousse: f. Reddish, ruddie, red-Deere colour, a ruddie or sad yellow, Lyon tawnie. Bestes rousses. All kind of Deere, or harmelesse game.

Rouy: m. ye: f. Ouersodden, and wanting liquor in see-*thing; also, steeped or soked in water, as Hempe.

Roy: m. A King; also, the chiefe, or head man in a companie.
  Les Roys. The Epiphanie, or Twelfth day in Christmas.
  Roy d'armes. A principall Herald, a King of Armes.
  Roy de la Basoche. Looke Basoche.
  Le Roy Bertault. A Wrenne.
  Roy de cailles. A Rayle; or the captaine, and leader of Quayles.
  Roy des merciers. An officer deputed heretofore by the Lord high Chamberlaine of France to view, or looke vnto, the wares, weights, and measures of those Pedlers, or Shop-keepers that followed the Court: but now the King himselfe appoints him, yet by the title of Visiteur, hauing suppressed this, by Edict in the yeare 1597.
  Roy des oyseaux. The Wrenne.
  Roy des ribaulds. Looke Ribauld.
  L'Aulne du roy. The Kings Ell; containes three foot, seuen ynches, and eight lines.
  Couleur de roy. A title in old time due onely vnto