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Vertigné: m. ée: f. Worme-eaten.

Vertiller. To swell, or increase, as womens breasts doe when the matricall veins are stretched by the menstruall bloud.

Vertillons: m. The whirling, round turning, or eddie of a water.

Vertir en quelque lieu. To haunt, frequent, or be conuersant in, a place. Il n'y sçauroit vertir. He cannot fadge with, he cannot abide, or frame himselfe to.

Vertjus. as Verjus. Vertoeil: m. A kind of greenish braße, whereof great Ordnance is made.

Vertoil: m. The wherue, or whirle of lead belonging to a spindle.

Vertu: f. Vertue, goodnesse, honestie, sinceritie, integritie; worth, perfection, desert, merit; also, valour, proweße, manhood; also, energie, efficacie, force, power, might; also, a good part or propertie, a commendable qualitie. Les vertus surmontent les signes: Pro. Look Signe. Contre peché est vertu medecine: Prov. Vertuous must he be who of sinne cur'd will be; or, let him, that of sinne would recouer, to vertue recourse.

Vertuëusement. Vertuously, honestly, manfully, worthily.

Vertuëux: m. ëuse: f. Vertuous, honest, sincere; manfull, valiant; worthie; thats furnished with good parts, and qualities.

Vertugadin: m. A little Vardingale.

Vertugalle: f. A Vardingale.

Vertugoy. for Vertu dieu. Vertumal: m. ale: f. Changeable at pleasure, to be altered at will, or when one list.

Vervaine. as Verveine. Veruë: f. A brawling, frapling, iangling, iarring; also, an odd humor in a man; a worme in the head, or brizze in the taile; whence; Il luy a pris vne verruë. He is growne verie fantasticall, humorous, giddie-braind; the worme pricks him, the toy hath taken him, in the head.

Verveil: m. A Sweepe-net, or Drag-net.

Verveine: f. Verueine, Holie hearbe, Junoes teares, Pigeons grasse, Mercuries Moist-bloud. Verveine basse. Holie Verueine, creeping Verueine; or as Verveine femelle. Verveine femelle. Female Verueine, base or flat Verueine, creeping Verueine, holie Verueine. Verveine masle. Male Verueine, straight or vpright Verueine, common Verueine.

Verueleux: m. euse: f. Moodie, humorous, fantasticall, giddie headed, hare-braind.

Vervelles: f. Varuells for a Hawke; also, as Vertevelles. Verveul. as Verveil. Ver-volant: m. A Ringworme, or Tettar.

Vesce: f. The pulse called Fitch, or Vetch. Vesce noire. The Tare, or bitter Fitch. Vesce sauvage. Strangle-tare, Tine, wild Fitch; or the small wild Vetch, or Fitchling.

Vesceron: m. Strangle-tare, Tine, the wild Fitch.

Vescu. Liued.

Vesé. Looke Vezé. Vesialere. Fermance vesialere. A kind of Officer, or Magistrate, within the Jurisdiction of la Solle. Vesicaire: f. Red Nightshade, Alkakengie, Winter Cherries.

Vesicatif: m. iue: f. Blistering, blister-raising.

Vesicatoire: m. A vesicatorie; a cupping glasse, or any sharpe ointment, cataplasme, or plaister, which hath power to draw humors outward, exulcerating the skinne, and raising little blisters on it.

Vesler. To calfe; See Veller. Vesner. To fizzle.

Vesperies: f. Euening exercises, or disputations, among the Sorbonists.

Vesperisé: m. ée: f. Chidden, checked, taunted, schooled, reuiled, railed on; also, mocked, flowted, ieasted at, ridden, derided.

Vesperiser. To checke, taunt, schoole, chide, reuile; also, to mocke, flowt, ieast at, ride, or deride.

Vespertin: m. ine: f. Of the euening, done in an euening.

Vespre: m. The euening. Il n'est si grand iour que ne vienne vespre: Prov. The longest day is ended by an euening.

Vesprée: f. The euening tide, or season.

Vespres: f. Euen-song, or Euening prayer. Vespres Siciliennes: Prov. The Sicilian Euensong; mischiefes done, or death inflicted, in a place, and time, of imagined securitie; (from a generall massacre of the French, made on a sudden, and throughout Sicilie (whereof they were ouer-insolent Maisters) by the incensed Islanders, on Easter day (Anno 1282) and about fiue of the clocke in the afternoone.)

Vessaille: f. A fysting; or a crue of fysting slouens, or sluts.

Vesse: f. A fyste; also, as Vesce. Vesse de loup. The dustie or smoakie Toadstole, called a Fusse-ball, Pucke-fuße, Bull fyste, Puffyst, Wolues fyste. Panier à vesses. C'est le cul. Vesseron: m. as Vesceron. Vesseur: m. A fyster, a stinking fellow.

Vesseuse: f. A fysting housewife.

Vessie: f. A bladder; also, a blane, or blister; also, a kind of brasen Stillitorie, the pipe wherof is cōueyed through a vessell of water, and afterwards yeelds the distilled liquor into the Recipient. Vessies d'orme. Certaine blisters, or little bladders (full of a slimie, or clammie, liquor) in some Elme leaues. Croire que vessies sont lanternes. To beleeue that the Moone is made of a greene cheese.

Vessié: m. ée: f. Beblistered, or full of blisters.

Vessier: m. A fyster.

Vessier. To blister.

Vessiere: f. as Vesseuse. Vessiette: f. A little bladder, or blister.

Vessifiant: m. ante: f. Causing one to fyste.

Vessifier. To breed a fyste, to make breakewind, or let a fyste.

Vessigons: m. Windgalls in a horses legs.

Vessir. To fyste, to let a fyste.

Vest: m. A Liuerie and seisin made vnto a purchaser, in some places by the seller, but in most by the Lord Foncier or Censier of whom the land is held. Droict de vest. Looke vnder Droict. Vestales: f. The Vestall virgines, the Nunnes of the Heathenish Romans.

Vestement: m. A vestment, vesture, weed, garment, habit, array, attire, apparell, cloathing, sute of cloathes.
  On croit d'un fol bien souvent qu'il soit clerc pour ses vestemens: Prov. Discreet cloathes often passe a foole for a wise man.