kindnesse, humanitie, courtesie; indulgencie, mercie, clemencie.
Douceur de chant. The melodie, or harmonie of tuneable singing. Il faut avoir mauvaise beste par douceur: Pro. (Some-what like to our, the rough Net is not the best catcher of Birds;) Shreud beasts would be caught by sweet baites.
Doucin. as Doussin. Doucine. as Doulcine. Dove: f. A castle, ditch, or Towne ditch (with water in it.)
Doüé: m. ée: f. Endued; endowed.
Douëlle: f. A Pipe-staffe; also, the strickle vsed in the measuring of Corne.
Douen d'antan. Hence ouer a yeare: ¶Norm. Douër. To indue, endow, or giue a dowrie vnto.
Douës: f. as Douves. Douët: m. A brooke, or spring.
Douëtte. à longues douëttes. In long rowes, files, ranks: ¶Bret. Dougé: m. ée: f. Small, fine; little, slender, thinne.
Douger. To trip; as a horse that stumbleth not outright, (an old word.)
Douille: f. The socket of the head of a pike, iauelin, &c; also, the socket of a candlesticke; any socket; also, the barrel of an harguebuze, or pistoll.
Douillet: m. ette: f. Daintie, tender, delicate, soft, effeminate; a milke-sop; one that cannot beare a feather without breathing; also, quaint, curious, as nice as a Nunnes henne.
Douillettement. Daintily, tenderly, delicately, effeminately; also, quaintly, nicely, curiously.
Douït: m. as Douët: a brooke. Doulcin: m. The fish cald, the sea Vrchin: ¶Marseillois. Doulcin rascaz. A greater, and white, kind thereof; Looke Doussin. Doulcine; as Cymaise, or Cymace. Douleur: f. as Doleur. Douloüere. A planing ax, a coopers addis.
Douloureusement, Douloureux. as Doloureusement, & Doloureux. Se Doulousant. Pittifully complaining, in a lamentable taking, waimenting, most woe-begon.
Se Doulouser. To lament, wayle, complaine, wayment.
Doulx: m. Doulce: f. Looke, Doux. Dour: m. A hands breadth; or the breadth of foure fingers; the fourth part of a Geometricall foot, in measuring.
Dourdé: m. ée: f. Knocked, mawled, thumped, rapped, beaten.
Dourder. To knocke, mawle, beat, thump, rap.
Dourdier: m. A luske, lowt, slouch.
Dousil: m. A spigot.
Doussaine: f. A certein musicall instrument.
Doussé: m. ée: f. Indorsed.
Dousser. To indorse, a paper, &c.
Dousseresse. as Dosserasse. Doussier: m. An indorsement.
Doussin. The sea Vrchin; a fish thats eatable, though vnsauorie enough. Doussin rascas. The greatest, and whitest kind thereof; not to be eaten.
Doutance: f. Looke Doubtance.
Douve: f. A castle-ditch (hauing water in it) also, a certeine hearbe, that kils the sheepe which eat of it.
Douves. A mortall disease bred in sheeps pluckes, or intrails, by th' eating of the hearbe aforesaid.
Douves d'un tonneau, &c. The head-peeces of a Tunne, &c.
Douvelle: f. A Cinter, or Centrie; the frame of wood whereby a vault, or arch is both in the making, and for a while after, held vp.
Doux: m. douce: f. Sweet; delicious, delightsome, daintie, pleasing; soft, pliant; smooth, tractable; gentle, mild, meeke; louelie; kind, courteous, louing. Doux de sel. Fresh, vnsauorie, not throughly seasoned; also, of small standing, or experience. Doux à taster. Smooth, soft, without any roughnesse; also, sweet, or without any manner of harshnesse. Eau douce. Fresh water. Medecin d'eau douce. A yong, or vnexperienced Physition. Estain doux. The best kind of Tinne; gotten in our Cornewall. Pierre douce. A certaine white stone, called, the Honie stone. Taille douce. Sweet cutting; small ingrauerie, such as prints in copper are cut with. Tout doux. Husht; quietly, stilly, calmely, without noise, or dinne. Faire les doux yeux. To counterfeit ciuilitie, or modestie; to seeme coy; also, to make as though he slept, and saw nothing; or to be betweene sleeping and waking; also, to winke, or smile prettily with the eyes. Faire les doux yeux à. To play at boe-peepe with; to winke lasciuiously, or wantonly at; also, to frame, or set th' eyes to looke alluringly, flatteringly, or pitifully at one, thereby to get somewhat of him. Filer doux. To flatter, or speake faire. Douce parole n'escorche langue: Prov. Wee say, good words breake no bones. Douce parole rompt grand'ire: Prov. Gentle words appease the irefull. Douces promesses obligent les fols: Prov. Faire promises oblige fools; or (as our) faire words make fools faine. De doux arbre douces pommes: Prov. Such as the tree such is the fruit; sweet th' one, sauorie th' other; (yet we say, that many a good cow hath but an euell calfe.)
Doux-amer. Bitter-sweet.
Doux-auvesque. The name of a sweet, and tender apple, as big as a middle Orange.
Doux-balon. A certaine round, great, greene, soft, and sweet apple.
Doux-belheur. A certaine great, sweet, round, and hard-skinned apple.
Doux-glissant. Glib, gently-gliding.
Douxgrave. viz. Doucement grave. Doux de la Lande. The name of a white sweet apple, that yeelds most excellent cyder.
Doux-*Martin. A certaine white, long, and drie apple.
Doux-veret. The name of a white, long, and tender apple.
Douzain: m. A Sous, or French shilling; (whereof ten make but one of sterling money.)
Douzaine: f. A dozen. Il est bien au compte de la douzaine. He is a sorrie fellow, a sillie companion; one thats neither able ynough to doe hurt, nor wise ynough to doe good; (for things that are sold by the dozen, (because not curiously heeded) are often sleightly made.)
Douze. Twelue; a dozen.
Au denier douze. Looke Denier.
Douze-doigtier. A small gut, or entrall, seated on the right side, & descēding oblikely towards the back-bone
