and ending where the circumuolution of the guts begins.
Douzil: m. A spigot.
Douziesme. The twelfth; also, an imposition of 12.d in the pound vpon all wares sold; first raised by King Charls the fift. Droict de douziesme. An yearelie rent of 12.d due by euerie affranchised inhabitant of Haynault, vnto the Earle thereof, in acknowledgement of his former thraldome, & as a recompence of his now-got freedom.
Doyen: m. A Deane; the head of a Colledge, or Cathedrall Church.
Doyenné: m. A Deanerie; or Deaneship.
Doygé: m. ée: f. as Dougé. Doze de Venise. The Duke of Venice.
Drache: f. The little staulke whereby a grape cleaues to the bunch.
Drachme. as Drame; A dram; the eighth part of an ounce.
Dragacanth. as Dragagant. Dragagant: m. Gumme Dragagant, a gummie liquor which distills from the root of the Candian shrub, called Goats-beard.
Dragée: f. A kind of disgestiue powder, vsually prescribed vnto weake stomackes after meat; and hence, any ionkets, comfets, or sweet meats, serued in at the last course, (or otherwise) for stomacke-closers; also small haile-shot, of lead, &c. Dragée aux chevaux. Prouender of diuers sorts of pulse mingled together; or, as Farrage; also, the course graine called Bolymong, French-wheat, Blocke-wheat, or Bucke-wheat.
Drageoir. A comfet box, of siluer; also, the fat, or vessell that receiues new wine, falling by a narrow passage, from the presse.
Drageon: m. A vine branch, twig, or sprig. Drageon fourcheran. A sprig that spurteth out betweene two branches, as from the middle of a forke. Drageon fruictier. The branch that beareth the grape. Drageon pampier. A vine branch, or twig that beareth no fruit, but onely leaues.
Drageries: f. Comfets, ionkets, sweet meats.
Dragme: m. A dramme; the eighth part of an ounce, or three scruples; also, a handfull of. Dragme sarmentine. A cup of wine; See Pilure. Dragoir. Looke Drageoir. Dragon: m. A Dragon; also, the hearbe Dragonwort, or Dragons. Dragon marin. The Viuer, or Quauiuer; a monstrous, and venomous fish. Sang de dragon. Dragons-bloud; is not (as ignorant people imagine) the bloud of a Dragon crusht to death by an Elephant, but the Gumme of the Dragon tree opened, or bruised in the dog-daies; also, Bloudwort, red Patience, bloudie Patience, (an hearbe.)
Dragonceau: m. A yong, or little Dragon.
Dragoncelle: f. as Dragontée. Dragonné: m. ée: f. Dragonie; whose hinder parts resemble a Dragon: (a word of Blazon.)
Dragonneau: m. A yong, or little Dragon; also, the ouerfulnesse of any great veine being bent, or stretched out.
Dragontée: f. The hearbe Dragons, or Dragonwort. Dragontée mineur. Small Dragonwort.
Draguinage. So do they at Lyons tearme a kind of Gi-*bridge, whereby prisoners vse to fetch drinking money from new-come guests.
Dramant. Miching, pinching, drawing out things scantly, vsing them so scarcely as if he were affraid, or loath, to touch them.
Drame: m. as Dragme; A dramme.
Dramé: m. ée: f. Miched, pinched, miserably vsed, scantly disposed of, strictly measured, or deliuered, out.
Dramer. To miche, pinch, dodge; to vse, dispose of, or deliuer out, things by a precise weight, or strict measure; or so scantly, so scarcely, as if the measurer were afraid to touch them, or loath to haue them touched.
Drap: m. Cloth; woollen cloth; broad cloth. Drap mortuaire. A Hearse-cloth. Demy drap. Cloth-rash. Estre des draps de. To be towards; to be an attendant, or seruant of, to belong, or be a retainer, vnto. Le drap, & les ciseaux luy sont delivrez. The matter is wholly referred vnto him; he hath the law in his owne hands. Le drap des deux est d'une mesme piece. They are both of one kind of stuffe, mettall, humor; there went but a paire of sheeres betweene them. À ce drap cousturiers. To it whoresons; or, let vs go roundly to worke; also, there was old cutting, snipping, shredding, laying about them. Au bout de l'aulne faut le drap. There is but iust measure, no more then will serue the turne; more were too much, lesse too little. Il veut avoir drap, & argent ensemble. He is an extreame, or vniust dealer; he would haue mens ware without paying for it; or, he would haue both stuffe, and money; one thing contents him not, he would haue both. Dieu donne le froid selon le drap: Prov. Looke Froid. Drapé. as Drappé. Drapeau: m. A (linnen) cloth, or clowt; also, an Ensigne, Standard, Banner, Colours. Drapeau d'un fusil. Tinder. Drapeau de la Meleze. A white, and leatherlike filme, or skinne (found neere to the pith of the bodies of old Larch trees) wherewith countrey people close wounds, and staunch bloud. Vieux drapeaux. Old rags, clowts, clothes past wearing; trash, trumperie, odde ends; outcast friperie. Chevalier au drapeau quarré. A Knight Banneret; so called, because his Colours in the field are to be of a square forme; as also, his Armes may be painted in a square field. Il est tout pasle, & mort comme vn drapeau. Hee lookes like death; or as pale as a clowt.
Drapelet. A little linnen cloth, clowt; or Ensigne.
Draper. To make, or worke cloth; to dresse, or full cloth; to beat, or thicken, as cloth, in the fulling; also, to seise, or take another mans goods, &c, vnder a faire pretext; also, to mock, flowt, deride, ieast at; also, to eat, or champ apace.
Draperie: f. Draperie; cloath-selling, cloth-working; also, a flourishing with leaues, and flowers in wood, or stone, vsed especially on the heads of pillers, & tearmed by our workemen Draperie, or Cilerie.
Drapier: m. A Draper. Drapier drappant. A Clothworker.
Drappant. Working, dressing, or fulling of cloth; thickning, or beating cloth in the fulling; also, mocking, flowting, deriding, ieasting at.
Drappé: m. ée: f. Dressed, wrought, fulled (as cloth;) beaten, or, thickned (by beating) as cloth is in the
