- rous prankes; also, trash, nifles, trifles, toyes.
Bizarre: com. Fantasticall, toyish, odde, humorous, giddie headed, selfe conceited, haire braind; also, diuers, or diuersified in fashion, or in colour; and hence; Habillement bizarre. A garment of motley, or of sundrie colours, distinguished by seuerall peeces.
Bizarrément. Odly, fantastically; of sundrie fashions, of diuers colours.
Bizarrerie: f. Fantasticalnesse, toyishnesse, humorousnesse; also, a conceited toy, an odde pranke, a fantasticall tricke.
Bizarreure: f. Diuersitie of colours, or fashion in one subiect.
Bizarr. as Bizarre. Bize. as Bise; The North wind; also, a kind of small Tunnie, or fish like a Tunnie. Bizeau d'une pinse de fer. The sloping point, end, or tongue of an yron leauer; Looke Biseau. Bizet: m. A kind of small Stockedoue, or Queest, resembling a Partridge, but much worse meat.
Bladier: m. A Marchant, or Ingrosser of corne.
Bladier: m. ere: f. Of, or belonging to, corne.
Blaffard: m. arde: f. Pale, wanne, lew, bleake of colour, of a decayed hue. Oeil blaffard. Looke Oeil. Blaffastre: com. Somewhat pale, wanne, or decayed in colour.
Blaier. Seigneur blaier. The Land-lord that may amerce all such forreiners, as turne their cattell into the wast grounds, or vaines pastures, belonging vnto his Lordship; which without his permission (payed for) they ought not to haue done.
Blaime: com. Pale, wanne, bleake, whitish, dead coloured.
Blaimeur: f. Palenesse, wannesse, bleakenesse; a dead, or whitish colour.
Blaimir. To wax pale, bleake, wanne, white.
Blaireau: m. A Badger, Gray, Boason, Brocke.
Blairie. Droict de blairie. A Lords power to fine any forreiners, that turne their cattell into the vaines pastures of his Manor, without his leaue, and permission; or as in Blayrie. Païs de blairie. A corne countrey; a countrey abounding in corne, or that hath great store of corne growing in it.
Blanc: m. A blanke, white, whitenesse, or white thing; the white, or marke of a paire of buts; a blanke of paper; a blanke in a lotterie; also, whitelime, or whiting for walls, &c; also, the halfe of a Sol, a peece of money which we call also, a blanke; also, the whiter side of a skinne of parchment; or, that side which cloue to the flesh.
Blanc de chapon, perdris &c. The brawne of a Capon, &c.
Blanc d'eau. The white water Lillie, water Rose, white Nenuphar.
Blanc d'Espaigne. Ceruse, or white Lead, wherewith women paint.
Blanc de plomb. The same.
Blanc de Pouille. The same.
Grand blanc. Is worth a Sol, or two ordinarie ones.
Allayé au blanc. Or allayé au blanc. Gold allayed with siluer.
Armer à blanc. To arme with white, and compleat armor.
Ou à bis, ou à blanc. By hooke or by crooke, by right or by wrong, one way or another.
Celuy qui n'a point de blanc en l'oeil. The Diuell;
also, a cleane Gentleman; one that hath neuer a crosse to blesse him with. Mettre à blanc. To strip into his shirt; to rifle of, or turne out of, all. Mettre haut le blanc à la butte. To hold a vendible thing at a high rate; also, to propound vnto one a matter, which is aboue his reach, or capacitie. Toucher au blanc. To strike the white; to hit the naile on the head.
Blanc: m. Blanche: f. White; also, hoarie. Blanc bois. Box, Poplar, Aspe, Alder, and other such trees, whose wood is no timber. Bois blanc. Priuet, Pimprint: ¶Lionnois. Blancs yeux. gens aux blancs yeux. Cowards, dastards, faint-hearted, white-liuered, meale-mouthed fellowes. Carte blanche. A blanke. See Carte. Dimanche de blanches. Palmes-Sunday. Espée blanche. A naked, or vnsheathed (also, a bloudlesse, or peaceable, sword;) whence; Cela ne se fait point à l'espée blanche. That thing's not done without sound bobs, or bloudwipes. Fievres blanches. The Agues wherewith maidens, that haue the greene sickenesse, be troubled. Fleurs blanches. The Whites (a feminine disease.) Iournée blanche. A Holy-day, or play-day. Ligne blanche. The lower part of the bellie where the muscles thereof doe end (a tearme of Anotomie.) Menton blanc. (Whence) la vertu ne fut iamais à menton blanc. Neuer had white, or hoarie chin, viz. neuer decayed, or grew old. Monnoye blanche. White money; coyne of brasse, or copper, siluered ouer. Nihil blanc. Seeke Nihil. Oeuvre blanche. The making of all kind of yron tooles, as wedges, hedging bils, hatchets, &c, wherwith wood is cut. Pieds blancs. Il a les pieds blancs. He passes euery where freely, or without paying ought, (from a custome they haue in France, to take no toll for such horses as haue foure white feet.) C'est le cheval aux quatre pieds blancs. May from the same reason beare the same signification; yet is it most vsed to expresse, a Companion that promises much, and performes nought; or such a one as fails his friend at a pinch; (Looke Cheval.) Pomme blanche. A pale apple. Solz, ou livres blancs. As before, in Monnoye blanche. Siluer Sous, or two shilling peeces of siluer. Tunique blanche. One of th' eyes principall tunicles; comes from th' inner skinne of th' eye lids, imbraces all the eye, and bindes it vnto the parts that bee about it.
Blanc-doux. A white sweeting; (an apple whereof excellent cyder is made.)
Blance: f. White wheat, square eared wheat.
Blanchards: m. An order of Friers, who goe ordinarily in white sheets, and weare neither hats nor shooes.
Blanchastre: com. Whitely, whitish; pale, wan, somewhat white, inclining to white.
Blanche: f. as Blance; Also, the Queene Dowager, so called of the people of France, because she euer mourned in white; a fashion altered at the funerall of Henrie the second by the late Queene Mother; also, whiting, or whiteliming. Des blanches. A kind of the fish, called Bleaks. Blanche d'aigneaux. White lamme, or white budge.
Blancheastre. as Blanchastre.
Blanche-puce. The Sea ground-Pine (a whitish hearb.)
