Il faut acheter maison faitte, & femme à faire: Pro. Buy a house made, and a wife vnmand. A trop acheter n'y a que revendre: Pro. Wares ouerbought are sildome returned without losse; nor doe many things (on the getting wherof we haue bestowed much time or toile) gotten, quit the cost wee were at about them. Il faut acheter vigne deserte; Pro. Buy ground that lies vntilled. Qui bon l'achete bon le boit; Pro. He that wil pay, or take pains, for good things, enioies good things. Trop achete le miel que sur espines le leche; Pro. He that lickes honnie of thornes paies too deere for it.
Acheteresse: f. A woman that buies, or purchases.
Acheteur: m. A buier, a purchaser.
Achetiver; as Chetiver. Also, to inthrall, or captiuat.
Achevé. m. ée: f. Atchieued, ended, effected, finished, concluded, consummated, compassed, accomplished. Son honneur est achevé de perdre; His honour is wholy, his reputation fully, lost.
Achevement: m. An atchieuement, or atchieuing; a perfecting, or bringing to perfection; a full ending, effecting, or finishing; a consummating, or accomplishment.
Achever. To atchieue; to end, finish, conclude (fully;) to dispatch, effect, performe (throughly;) to perfect, consummat, accomplish, go through-stitch, with. Cela servira pour l'achever de peindre; There wants but that to fill vp the measure of his ill fortune; that being once done, he is vndone.
Achilles: m. (The well-knowne name of a most valiant Greeke; vsed sometimes, by the French, to signifie) a defender, protector, supporter, propugnator, warrant, assurance; buckler, fortification.
Achoise: f. An occasion, an oportunitie.
Achoison: f. The same; also, election, or choise; also, an accusation. à petite achoison le Loup prend le Mouton; Pro. The Woolfe takes any small occasion to seize on the Sheepe.
Achoisonner. To accuse, to picke a quarrell against.
Achommer. To rest, or make Holyday; also, to stay, or attend.
Achon. A kind of long Axe. ¶Bourbonnois. Achopé: m. ée: f. Stumbled at, or on.
Achopement. A stumbling; offence giuen, or taken.
Achoper. To stumble at, or on.
Acide: com. Sower[*sour], eager, tart, sharpe.
Acidité. Eagrenesse, sharpenesse, sourenesse, tartnesse.
Acier: m. Steele.
Acierer. Seeke Acerer. Aclamper; as Acclamper. Acné. A witlesse, and gracelesse, fellow.
Acoint; Acointer; Seeke Accoint. Acollé; as Accollé. Acolyte, as Accolite. Hee that ministers to the Priest whyle he sacrifices or sayes Masse.
Aconduire; Seeke Acconduire. Aconit: m. Aconitum, a most venemous hearbe; of two principall kindes, viz. Libbards-bane, and Wolfe-bane.
Aconsuyvre; as Acconsuyvre. Acope: m. A medecine compounded of heating, & mollifying Simples.
Acoquiner; as Accoquiner. Acore: m. Calamus aromaticus, the sweet Cane. Acorné: m. ée: f. Horned; hauing hornes. Vache acornée; (in Blazon) Armed.
Acort; as Accort.
Acoster. Looke Accoster. Acoter. Seeke Accoter. Acoucher. as Accoucher. Acouhardir. To accowardize, effeminate, make faint-hearted.
Acoup. Quickly, shortly, speedily, suddainly, in a trice, in a minute, in a moment.
A-coup-venant. The name of a faire ruddie Apple.
Acouter. as Accouter; or as Escouter. Acquerement: m. A purchasing, obtaining, getting, procuring; or, as Acquest. Acquereur: m. A purchaser, getter, gainer; one that increases his substance by buying; also, a challenger, or claimer of, one that pretends a title vnto, land.
Acquerir. To acquire; to get, obtaine, procure a thing sought for; to purchase, or gaine by purchasing; also, to claime, challenge, or pretend title vnto, land.
Acquest: m. A purchace, a thing procured, got, or bought; also, a getting, procuring, purchasing; also, profit, gain, commoditie, gettings, increase of substance.
Acquests. Purchases made, or things bought, by the vnmaried; or by, or for, only one. (Therein different from Conquests.) Nouveaux acquests. Purchases of inheritances feodal, allodial, and censuel, &c, made by Churchmen, Corporations, Fraternities, &c, after they haue procured letters of Mortmaine (for other things;) whereof the King informing himselfe by Commission or otherwise, they are summoned to void out of the lands, &c, so purchased, within a yeare; by the end whereof if they haue not paid the fine, whatsoeuer, imposed on them by his Officers, the lands are immediatly, and without recouerie, seized into his hands. Droict de nouvel acquest. A Priuiledge of fining, at certaine times, the ignoble Tenant that possesses, or purchases, a noble Tenement, or inheritance; Looke Droict. Il n'y a point d'acquest en luy. He is but a drie fellow, there is nought to be got by dealing with him. En grand fardeau n'est pas l'acquest; Prov. The greatest burthens are not the gainfullest; or, The goodnesse of a thing rests not in the greatnesse of it.
Acquesté: m. ée: f. Purchased, acquired; gotten, gained; procured, obtained.
Acquester. To purchase, get, gaine, acquire, procure, obtaine.
Acquesteresse: f. A woman that purchaseth.
Acquesteur: m. A purchaser, getter, gainer; a thriuing fellow; one that encreaseth his substance by buying.
Acquests. Looke Acquest. Acquiescement: m. Quietnesse; also, an agreement; a yeelding, or comming to agreement before iudgment; also, an approuing of, or a submitting himselfe vnto, a iudgement passed against him. Lettres d'acquiescement. A letter of Atturney, whereby a Client giues his Counsellor, Atturney, or Solicitor, authoritie to agree with his Aduersarie.
Acquiescer. To yeeld, or agree vnto; come to an agreement, be at quiet, striue, or stir, no more. Acquiescer a la sentence dont est appel. To approue, or submit himselfe vnto, a sentence, though against him; to pursue no further appeale.
Acquis: m. ise: f. Got, purchased, obtained, acquired, bought with money.
Acquisiteur: m. A purchaser.
Acquisition. An acquisition, a purchasing, a purchase.
Acquit: m. A discharge, acquittance, Quietus est, a deliuerie, dispatch, riddance, from a trouble, or charge.