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iobbernoll, doddipole; also, a baulke vntilled betweene two lands, or furrowes. Veau de disme. A notable sot, or blockhead, a notorious lobcock. Veau marin, ou de mer. The Seale, or sea Calfe. Fievre de veau. Trembling vpon fullneße; or, an indisposition vpon surfeting. Pied de veau. Calues-foot, Ramp, Aaron, Wake-Robin, Starch-wort, Priests Pint. Teste de veau. Calues-snowt, Snap-dragon, Lions-snap. Faire, ou trousser le pied de veau. To make an vntowardlie, or clownish leg; or, clownishly to lift vp the leg in dauncing, &c. C'est vne vache de Barbarie qui ne recognoist que son propre veau. Looke Vache. Cette queuë n'est pas de ce veau. This effect proceeds not from that cause; or, this is no part of, or dependant on, that thing. Il luy a fait manger des pois verds au veau. He hath cheated him finely, he hath so fetched him ouer that he cannot perceiue it. Tu n'as non plus d'arrest qu'un jeune veau. Thou art as wanton, giddie, or vnstayed, as a milch calfe. Veau mal cuict, & poulets cruds font les cimitieres bossus: Prov. Young meat raw-drest makes church-*yards grow hulch-backt. Aussi tost meurt vache comme veau: Prov. As soone the young, as old, goes to the pot. Il est bien veau qui veau taille: Prov. See Tailler. Le loup emporte le veau du povre: Pro. The Wolfe makes his feast of the poore mans beast.

Veaurre: f. The fleece of a Ramme.

Veautrant. Wallowing.

Veautrement: m. A wallowing, tumbling, rowling vp and downe in the mire.

se Veautrer en la bouë. To wallow, tumble, rowle, turne (lying) vp and downe in the mire. L'esprit se veautre. The mind reuolues, casts about, or is diligently imployed.

Veautreur: m. A wallower, or tumbler in the mire.

Veautroir: m. A puddle, or slough wherin hogs doe vse to wallow.

Vedat: m. Bois vedat. Looke Bedat. Vedeau: m. A Beadle; such a one as vshers with his Mace, the Vicechancellor, or principall Officer, of an Vniuersitie.

Vedel: m. ¶Gasc. A Calfe, a Veale; whence; Teste de vedel. A calfe, blockhead, or sillie fellow.

Vedelle: f. A sucking calfe, a calfe thats fed with milke.

Vedet: m. A lubber, hoydon, lobcocke, lozell, ioulthead, iobbernoll, doddipole.

Vedette: f. A Sentrie, or Court of gard, placed without a fort, or campe; and more generally, any high place from which one may see afarre off. La vedette d'une gallere. The top of the mast; or the part of a Galley from whence the furthest discouerie may be made.

Vedille: f. The nauell string of a new-borne infant.

Vée: f. Labour, toyle, paines, trauell; (an old word.)

Veé: m. ée: f. Forbidden; whence; Chose veée est plus desirée: Prov. We couet most what we are most forbidden.

Véeurs: m. Witneßes, or assistants in a view, or suruey of land: ¶Norm. Vef: m. A widower.

Vef: m. vefve: f. Widow, widow-like, of or belonging to a widow.

Vefvage: m. Widowhood, the state of a widow.

Vefve: f. A widow; Looke Veufve. Vefve d'honneur. A woman that hath lost her good name.

Vegade: f. A draught; a turne, or bowt; whence; Vne vagade. Once, or one time.

Vege: m. A kind of water tree, or shrub.

Vegetable: com. Vegetable, fit or able to liue; hauing, or likelie to haue, such life, or increase in groweth, as plants, &c.

Vegetal: m. ale: f. Vegetall; hauing or giuing a (plant-*like) life, increase, budding, or growing.

Vegetatif: m. iue: f. Vegetatiue; liuelie, quicke, fresh, growing, or giuing life, quicknesse, groweth, increase.

Vegetation: f. Agiuing of life, increase, or growth vnto; a quickening; refreshing, or comforting; a making strong.

Vegeter. To quicken, refresh, giue life, groweth, or increase vnto; also, to grow, bud, or put forth, as plants.

Vegettes: f. Vegetatiue, or growing parts.

Veguade. as Vegade. Vegué. as Beguer: ¶Bearnois. Vehemence: f. Vehemence, eagarnesse, earnestnesse, violence, force, fierceneße.

Vehement: m. ente: f. Vehement, eagar, earnest, fierce, violent, sharpe, vrgent; maine, forcible, strong.

Vehementement. Vehemently.

Veher. Iuge veher. A Judge of meane, or base Jurisdiction.

Veherie: f. Meane, or base Jurisdiction.

Vehicule: m. A carriage; a cart, waine, charriot, wagon; any such instrument, or engine of carriage.

Vejete: com. Liuelie, iollie, fresh, frolicke, full of spirit, of mettall, of life.

Vejetter. as Vegeter. Veillant: m. ante: f. Waking, watching, wakefull, or watchfull, vigilant, heedfull, circumspect, carefull.

Veille: f. A Vigile, or Wake; the Eue of a holy-day.

Veillement: m. A waking, or watching; an heedfull, or carefull attending.

Veiller. To wake, watch, lie awake, abstaine from sleepe; to be vigilant, heedfull, diligent, carefull; studiously to attend. Assez veille qui bien fait: Prov. He that does well, watches ynough. Vn ami veille pour l'autre: Prov A friend is watchfull, aud doth arme himselfe to keepe his friend from harme.

Veillere: f. Withiwind, Bindweed, Hedge-bells.

Veillottes: f. The best, and sweetest kind of Acornes, or mast, growing on the small Oke Esculus.

Veine: f. A veine in the bodie, a pulse; (yet euerie veine is not a pulse, though euerie pulse bee a veine;) also, a veine of the earth, or of mettall, &c, in the earth; also, a veine or stile of writing; a veine or conceit in versifying, &c.
  Veines adipeuses. Two veines, a right (sometimes a branch of the right kidney veine) and a left, one (euer a branch of the descendant trunke of the hollow veine) which particularly nourish the fat, and skinne thats about the kidney, and generally breed fat in those parts which they runne by.
  Veine aiscellaire. as Veine axillaire.
  Veine Arterieuse. One of the foure principall veines of mans bodie, issuing from the right ventricle of the heart, the bloud whereof it carries vnto the lungs for their nourishment.
  Veine auriculaire. The eare veine; Seeke Auriculaire.