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voyces; all, or verie many, at once; trouping, or crowding together.

Tourbiginaux: m. Wreathes of old ropes, dipped in grease and pitch, and to be burnt in Creßets.

Tourbillon. les tourbillons d'une fleuve. Th'eddie, whirling, round turning, of a streame. Tourbillons de teste. The turning, or swimming of the braine; or a giddinesse comming thereof. Tourbillon de vent. A whirlewind; also, a gust, flaw, berrie, sudden blast, or boisterous tempest, of wind.

Tourbillonner. To whurle about like a whirlewind; to deale boisterously, or sweepe all away before it.

Tourbillonneux: m. euse: f. Full of whirlewinds, like a whirlewind, whurling about as a whirlewind; boisterous, raging, outragious.

Tourchon: m. as Torchon; or as Torche, in the second sence.

Tourd: m. A Thrush; or a generall name for the Thrush, Throstle, and Fieldifare. Tourd de mer. The sea Thrush; a certaine rock-fish not much vnlike a Pearch, or Tench; of sundrie kinds, and each of diuers and sundrie colours.

Tourdelle: f. The great Thrush, or Fieldifare.

Tourdion: m. A turning, or winding about; also, a tricke, or pranke; also, the daunce tearmed a Round.

Tourdre: m. as Tourd; a Thrush.

Touré: m. ée: f. Towred, full of, graced or furnished with, Towers.

Tourelle: f. A Turret, a small Tower. Tourelle à cul le lampe. A small out-iuttying garret, or Tower like a garret, on the top of a wall.

Touret: m. A Throstle, or Mauis; also, a Drill, the Instrument wherewith holes are made into mettall, &c; also, the chaine which is at the end of the cheeke of a Bit; also, the annelet, or little ring whereby a Hawkes Lune is fastened vnto the Jesses. Touret de nez. A Muffler.

Tourette: f. A Turret, or small Tower.

Tourier: m. The keeper of a Tower; a watchman in a Tower; also, a Goaler.

Touriere. Looke Tourriere. Tourillon: m. An inner Verrill; the round plate of yron whereby a peece of wood, often turned on, is preserued from wearing, and burning. Tourillon du bras. The head, or top of the arme where it is ioyned with the shoulder blade.

Tourment: m. Torment, or torture. Assez parens, assez tourmens: Prov. Many kinsmen much trouble; we say (with some difference) many kinsmen few friends.

Tourmente. Looke Tormente. Tourmentine: f. Turpentine.

Tournaille: f. A crooked turning, or winding in and out.

Tournay: m. A Tourney.

Tournayer. Looke Tournoyer.

Tourné: m. ée: f. Turned; rounded; changed, altered, conuerted; also, translated; also, bending or inclining towards; also, giuen in exchange, or to boot; also, returned; (also, amazed, or astonished: ¶Breton.)
  Croissans tournez. In-creßants; Cressants turned inwards.
  Nez tourné à la friandise. Looke vnder Nez.
  Il à tourné en mes flancs. It was I that bore him; sayed by a mother of her child; either because, as Physitians report, the child hauing beene eight monethes in the wombe, shifts from the one side thereof to the other;

or because at his comming out he turnes (of himselfe, or by the Midwiues helpe) his heeles vpwards.

Tourne-bouler. To turne round.

Tourne-bride. A returne, or turning backe.

Tourne-dos: m. A turne-backe, run-away, coward.

Tournée: f. whence; Par tournées; Euerie one in his turne or course, ranke or place.

Tourne-fol: m. A turning stile.

Tourne-lict: m. as Tour de lict, vnder Tour. Tournelle: f. A Turret, or little Tower; (See Tourrion;) also, a Parliamentall Court for criminall causes, whereon the Judges of the other Courts doe sit by seuerall turnes.

Tourne-main: m. The turning of the hand; whence; Dans vn tourne-main; In a trice, on a sudden, before you can say, this.

Tournement: m. A turning; rounding; reuolution; a conuerting, changing; exchanging; translating; a bending, or inclining towards. Tournement de teste. The turne-about sicknesse; a giddinesse, or dizzinesse, a swimming of the head.

Tourneployer. To turne, wind, bend, or bow which way soeuer one will haue it.

Tourner. To turne; conuert, alter, change; exchange, giue in exchange, or to boot; also, to translate; also, to round or make round; also, to make sowre; also, to returne; also, to bow, bend, or incline. Tourner la charruë contre les boeufs. To set the cart before the horse (we say;) to doe a thing preposterously; also, to alter ones talke, or answer from the purpose, thereby to stop, or suppreße, an argument handled before. Tourner court. See Court. Tourner fueillet. To change a custome, alter a wont; or, (as we say) turne ouer a new leafe. Tourner sa jaquette. To turne his coat; viz. Breake his faith and oath; or quit his religion, opiniō, or Prince, and follow another, or a contrarie one, for what respect soeuer. Tourner les truyes au foing. To answer from the matter, or as if hee knew not what demaund was made. C'est la Maistresse rouë qui tourne le moulin. See Moulin. Il nous reste quelqu'autre moulin à tourner. There's yet a further matter to be handled, looked vnto, done. Bon charron tourne en petit lieu: Prov. A skillfull Coachman turnes in a small roome; Looke Charron. Tournerie: f. A turning; also, Turners worke, or turners ware.

Tournerot: m. A turne-roast, or turne-spit.

Tournes en eschange, or partage de biens. as Soulte. Tourne-soleil: m. Torne-sole, Heliotropium.

Tournet: m. A small turning rundle, or ring, in the mouth of a Bit, &c.

Tournette: f. A Rice, or Yarwingle to wind yarne on.

Tourne-vent: m. A fashion of penthouse, or portall set before a doore, for the keeping of wind out of a roome; also, a Horse, or mouable Louer, of mettall, on the top of a chimney, or house.

Tournevirer. To whirle, or whurre about.

Tourneure: f. A turning; also, any thing that turnes, or makes a thing sowre; as leauen doth bread, runnet milke, &c.

Tourniquet: m. The pinne of a Vielle; that which the Vielleur turnes with his hand as he playes.