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Velu: m. uë: f. Hairie, shag, nappie, or of a high nap, full of haire, rough with haire. Couverture veluë. An Irish Rug, Mantle, Cadow. Herbe veluë. Cudwort, Cudweed, Cottōweed, Chaffe-*weed.

Veluate. as Veluoté. Veluette: f. Pilosella, Mouse-eare.

Veluoté: m. Speed-well, female Fluellin.

Veluté. as Velouté. Venaison: f. Venison; the flesh of (edible) beasts of chace; as the Deere, wild Boare, &c; also, the fat of their flesh; whence; Le sanglier a chargé sa venaison. The Boare is very fat: and, Il a trois doigts de venaison; He is three inches fat. Toute chair n'est pas venaison: Prov. All dishes are not dainties; or as vnder Chair. Venal: m. ale: f. Vendible, sale, salable, set or let vnto sale, that may be hired or had for money; that will doe any thing for money.

Venalement. Vendibly, salably, sellably.

Venalité: f. Venalitie, vendiblenesse; a being salable; a letting or setting vnto sale.

Venant. Comming, arriuing; happening; growing.

Vendable: com. as Vendible. Vendange; (or better) Vendenge: f. Vintage, vine-haruest, grape-haruest, grape-gathering, wine-making; and the season wherein it is made; (In all which sences this word is, for the most part, vsed plurally;) also, grapes, or the fruit of vintage. Cuideur de vendenge. as vnder Cuideur. Adieu paniers vendenges sont faittes. Farewell good fellowes, we haue no further need of you, or vse for you; our turne's alreadie serued; our busineße done.

Vendengé: m. ée: f. Cut, gathered, and made into wine, as grapes.

Vendengeoire: m. The basket, scuttle, or pannier whereinto grapes are gathered.

Vendenger. To cut and gather grapes for wine, to make wine of grapes; to performe, or finish his vintage, (wherof this word comprehends all the parts.)

Vendengeret: m. ette: f. Belonging to, or seruing for, vintage.

Vendengeur: m. A Vintager, or vine-reaper; a cutter or gatherer of grapes, in vintage.

Vendengeuse: f. A woman thats hired, &c, in vintage time, to cut, or gather grapes.

Venderesse: f. A woman that selleth.

Vendeur: m. A seller.

Vendeuse: f. as Venderesse. Vendible: com. Vendible, sellable, sale, alienable.

Vendiquer. To vendicate; to claime, or challenge.

Vendition: f. A sale or selling. Droict de venditions. Looke vnder Droict. Vendoise: f. A Dace, or Dare-fish.

Vendre. To sell, make sale of, set to sale; to alien or passe away for money, &c: (Vendre en beaucoup des anciennes ordonnances signifie, Bailler à ferme. ¶l'Oiseau.)
  À l'hostel priser, & au marché vendre: Prov. Set prices on thy things at home, but passe them away abroad.
  Fille qui prend elle se vend: Prov. A maid by taking sels her libertie; or, the maid that wooers proffered gifts doth take, a wanton bargaine will be drawne to make.
  Ou pain faut tout est à vendre: Prov. A man will sell all rather then be starued.
  Pour laver ses mains on n'en vend pas sa terre:

Prov. It is no great cost to be cleanelie. Toute chose se vend au pris de l'oeil de l'homme: Prov. Mans eye doth rule the price of euerie thing. Vn quartier fait l'autre vendre: Prov. One peece doth helpe to passe away th' other.

Vendredi: m. Friday. Vendredi oré; Sainct; &, le grand vendredi. Good Friday.

Vendu: m. uë: f. Sold, made sale of, set to sale; aliened, or paßed away, for money, &c. Chose qui plaist est à demi venduë: Prov. Ware that is pleasing to th' eye is paßed away by and by. Marchandise offerte est à demi venduë: Pro. Ware that is offered yeelds but halfe a price; we say, proffered ware stinkes.

Venduë: f. as Vente. Vené. as Veiné. Venefique: com. Venomous, poisonous, contagious.

Venelle du lict: f. The space betweene a bed, and the wall; and (when there is such a space) the beds side next vnto the wall. Il est bien apparenté, mais c'est costé de la venelle. He is of a good house, but yet he came in at the window.

Venenosité: f. Venomedneße, venomousnesse.

Vener. To hunt.

Venerable: com. Venerable, reuerend, honourable.

Veneration: f. Veneration, reuerence, awe, worship, honour.

Venerie: f. A hunt, or hunting; also, a hound-house, or kennell for hounds.

Venerien: m. enne: f. Belonging to Venus; also, addicted, or giuen to venerie; lecherous, lasciuious.

Veneur: m. A Hunter, or Huntsman; also, a kind of Spider, tearmed thus because he is euer in chase of one prey or other. Grand Veneur de France. The great Huntsman of France; an Officer of the Crowne, whose Jurisdiction extends onely to the ruling of courses, and iudging of causes, that concerne hunting in forests; but in old time (when hee was called, le grand forestier de France) he had also as much authoritie as the Great Faulconer, and the Maistre des eaux & forrests, enioy at this day. C'est vne chasse ou le veneur est prins. Looke Chasse. Vengé. Auenged, wreaked, reuenged.

Vengeance: f. Vengeance, reuengement; punishment.

Venger. To wreake, reuenge, auenge, take vengeance of. Se venger en vn fief, ou heritage. A purchaser of rent issuing generally out of land in diuers Mannors, or fiefs, to auow, & declare, that he will haue it onely out of one of them: Car lors le Seigneur d'iceluy fief en a les ventes, ou bien peut vser de puissance de fief: ¶Ragueau. Tel pense venger sa honte qui l'accroist: Prov. Some that doe thinke to couer their shame, discouer it; some weening to redeeme their shame, increase it.

Vengeresse: f. A reuengeresse, an auengeresse.

Vengeron: m. A Dace, or Dare-fish.

Vengeur: m. A reuenger, auenger, punisher of wrongs.

Venim: m. Venome; any thing that impoisoneth, or infecteth outwardly by touching. À la queuë gist le venim: Pro. The last, is commonly the worst, part of a practise, &c.

Venimeux: m. euse: f. Venomus, full of venome.

Venir. To come; arriue, approach, draw neere vnto; to proceed, issue, be deriued, from; to spring, proue, grow;