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Vituperer. To vituperate, dispraise, discommend; reproach, disparage, dishonour, blame, reprehend, find fault with.

Vitupereur: m. A dispraiser, discommender; disparager, disgracer; blamer, fault-finder.

Vitus. whence, Mal S. Vitus. Looke Mal. Vivace: com. Liuelie, lustie, strong, vigorous; nimble, actiue, quicke; full of life, mettall, spirit; also, of long life.

Vivacité: f. Viuacitie, liuelinesse, lustineße, vigor, strength; spirit, mettall; actiuitie, quickneße, nimblenesse; iollitie, gaynesse of humor. Vivacité d'esprit. Wittinesse, quicknesse of apprehension, sharpnesse of conceit.

Vivandier: m. A Victualler, Suttler, Prouaunt-men.

Vivant: m. whence, De son vivant. Jn his life-time, while he liued.

Vivant: m. ante: f. Liuing, breathing, aliue, in life. Homme vivant mourant. Looke Homme. Vive: f. The Quauiuer, or sea-Dragon.

Vivelle: f. A huge kind of Whall in the Indian seas.

Vivelote, ou Vivelotte; whence, Droict de v. The dower which is due to the widow of a Cottier, or tenant of Mainferme. Vivement. Liuelily, quickly, lightly, sprightfully, vigorously.

Vivenote, ou Vivenotte. as Vivelote, &c. Vivifiant: m. ante: f. Quickning, life-giuing.

Vivifier. To quicken, or giue life vnto.

Vivifique: com. Which quickeneth, or giueth life.

Vivoter. To liue poorely, barely, needily, or but from hand to mouth; to make hard shift for a liuing; to keepe the wolfe from the dore.

Vivre: m. A liuing, meanes, maintenance; meat, food, sustenance; any thing whereon we feed, or liue. Vivres. Victualls; acates. Quint de vivre naturel. See Quint. Les vivres suivent l'host: Prov. Victualls follow the Campe; where store of companie is victualls will be.

Vivré: m. ée: f. (in Blason;) Il fortoit d'or à la bande vivrée d'argent. A bend Viurie.

Vivre. To liue, haue life, be aliue; to lead, or spend a life; to breath.
  Vivre en beste. (In the Prouerbe, Tenez chaud le pied & la teste, au reste vivez en beste;) to eat moderately, or no more then will serue the turne.
  Vivre à la Carlonne. To vse a homelie, rude, or plaine course of proceeding; to liue grossely or plainly, to deale open-heartedly.
  Vivre à discretion. To liue at what rate they list, to pay for their dyet what they list.
  Vivre par estapes. Looke Estape.
  Vivre à ses heures. To liue regularly, to keepe a temperate, or set dyet; to prescribe to himselfe a certaine forme of, or time for, his ordinarie feeding.
  Se vivre. In stead of, se paistre. To feed, or victuall, himselfe.
  Assez ieune qui povrement vit: Pro. Enough he fasts that barely feeds.
  Celuy sçait assez qui vit bien: Prov. He that liues well enough hath skill enough.
  Il est bien fol qui cuide tousiours vivre: Prov. He that thinkes to liue euer is an Asse.
  L'un meurt dont l'autre vit: Prov. That which preserues one man poysons another.
  Qui vit à compte, il vit à honte: Pro. See Compte.
  Qui a honte de manger a honte de vivre: Prov. Shame to eat, and cease to liue; A taxation of vnseaso-*

*nable bashfullnesse, and not much vnlike our, Spare to speake and spare to speed. Qui bien veut mourir bien vive: Prov. He that desires to dye, let him liue, well. Qui plus vit plus a à souffrir: Pro. The longer life the greater griefe.

Viz: f. as Vis. Vlceraire: f. Crowfoot; also, Horehound; (hearbes.)

Vlceratif: m. iue: f. Vlceratiue, vlcerating, vlcer-*breeding.

Vlceration: f. An vlceration; a making or growing vlcerous, a drawing to an vlcer.

Vlcere: m. An vlcer; a raw scab; a running, or mattarie sore. Vlcere ambulatif. Seeke Ambulatif. Vlcerer. To vlcerate, exulcerate; exasperate; raise a blister; make a raw scab, draw to a running sore.

Vligineux: m. euse: f. Wet, plashie, sobbie, full of water; full soaked, or growne soft, by a long abode in water.

Vlmeau: m. A young Elme.

Vlne: f. An Ell, or fadome; also, a cubit.

Vlophone. A venomous glue, or clammie substance, made of Misseltoe berries; some call so the blacke Cameleon thistle, whose root is also venomous.

Vlpic: m. Great, or wild Garlick.

Vltime: com. Last, lag, finall, extreame; the furthest, or furthermost.

Vltion: f. A reuenging, auenging, taking vengeance of; a punishing.

Vlulement: m. A howling, or yelling.

Vmbelle de fenouil. The vmble, or the round tuft, or head wherein the seed thereof growes.

Vmbilic: m. The nauell, or middle, of.

Vmbilical: m. ale: f. Vmbilicall, belonging to the nauell; whence, Veine vmbilicale. Seeke Veine. Vmble: m. The Geneua Trout, or Salmon; found in the Lakes of Sauoy. Vmble chevalier. A kind of fresh-water Trout, or Salmon, bigger then the ordinarie Vmble. Vmbragé, & Vmbrager. Looke Ombragé, & Ombrager. Vmbre: f. as Ombre; also, an Omber, or Grayling; a fish (not much vnlike the Maigre.) Vmbre de riviere. A big-bellied, sharp-nosed, toothlesse, delicate, and wholesome Trout, found in the lakes, and riuers of Auvergne, and Savoy. Vmbrette: f. A little Omber, or Grayling fish.

Vmbrine: f. A great-eyed, round-tongued, small-toothed, and holesome sea-fish, which hath certaine barres ouer-*crosse her backe, and growing often to the bignesse of a Maigre, is sometimes taken for it.

Vmbroyer. To be in the shadow; also, to cast, or yeeld a shadow.

Vn: m. vne: f. One, a; In the plurall sometimes vsed for some; whence, Les vns; some of them; and, vnes verges; some rodds.
  Deux pour vn. The Snyte-knaue; tearmed so, because two of them are worth but one good Snyte.
  En avoir d'une. To be gulled, or to swallow a gudgeon.
  Donner d'une. To tell a lye; to giue a lurch, or dry lift; to gull, or make a foole of.
  L'un portant l'autre. One with, or for another; good and bad together.
  Commun n'est pas vn: Pro. See Commun.
  Qui n'en a qu'un, n'en a point: Prov. (Meant of Cocks, Bulls, &c, and sometimes alledged by lasciuious women) as good haue none as haue no more but one.