Aguement. Sharply, keenely; smartly; wittily, piercingly.
Aguerriment. Martiall order, warlike discipline; also, a making, or becomming warlike; a training vp in warfare.
Aguerrir. To make warlike, or fit for the wars; to traine vp in martiall discipline.
Aguerrissant. Making warlike, training vp in warfare.
Aguet: m. An ambush, or lying in wait for. Aller d'aguet en ses affaires. To go warily to worke; to proceed leasurely, to take him leasure in his businesse.
Aguetté. Dogged; watched, waited; lien for.
Aguetter. To watch, dog, lye in wait, or ambush for.
Aguigner. To leuell, or ayme at; to leere, winke, or looke with one eye at.
Aguillade. A long, ash-coloured, great eyed, big-bellied Dog-fish, that hath two sharpe and strong prickles, on her back; and thereof may be tearmed, (as she is by the Germanes) a Thorne-hound.
Aguillan-neuf. An old word compounded of 4 words; au-guy-l'an-neuf. Seeke Auguillanneuf. Aguillat. A kind of Dog-fish; as Aguillade. Aguille: f. A needle; also a long small fish, called a Hornebacke, or Horne-fish; Looke Aiguille. Aguillette. A point; Seeke Esguillette. Aguilletter. To tye points.
Aguillier: m. A needle case.
Aguillon. A pricke, a goade, a sting; Looke Esguillon. Aguillonnement: m. A pricking, or stinging; an instigation, mouing, prouoking, inciting, or setting forward.
Aguillonner. To pricke, sting; prouoke, moue, incense, instigate, incite, egge, vrge forward.
Aguillonneur: m. A pricker, or prouoker forward.
Aguiner. as Aguigner. Aguisé: m. ée: f. Whetted, sharpened.
Aguisement: m. A whetting, sharpening, or setting an edge on.
Aguiser. To whet, sharpen, grind, or set an edge on. Pierre à aguiser. as Pierre Aguisoire. Aguisoire. pierre ag. A whetstone; a grindstone.
Aguyon: m. A gentle, pleasant, or calme wind; called so among Brittish, and Normand Mariners.
Agyos. Looke Agios. Ahan: m. The lowd sighing, and paine-expressing time, which wood-cleauers, heauie-loden porters, &c, keepe, with their voices, vnto the blowes they giue, or steps they make; hence, extreame labour, great trauell, exceeding toile of body, much anguish, vexation, affliction of mind; or any loud, painfull, & short expression therof.
Ahané. Extreamly toiled, trauelled, payned, vexed, perplexed; also, ploughed.
Ahaner. To sigh out; to keepe time with lowd sighes vnto his toylesome strokes, or painfull steps; also to labor, toyle, trauell exceeding hard; also, to plough, or breake vp a stiffe peece of ground.
Ahannable. terre ahannable. Rich, & tough earable; land that yeelds great encrease, but requires much labor, or puts the laborer to much toile, in the tilling of it.
Ahannant. Toyling extreamly, sighing often through the great paine his worke puts him to.
Ahanner. as Ahaner. Ahanneux: m. euse: f. Toylesome, painefull, most laboursome, verie troublesome; full of affliction, vexation, trauell, anguish.
Ahen. as Ahan; also, a plough.
Ahennage: m. A ploughing, or breaking vp of (a stiffe peece of) ground.
Ahenner. as Ahaner. Aherdre. To snatch, or plucke; to catch, gripe, or take by violence.
Aheurté: m. ée: f. Stiffe, wilfull, obstinate, that wil forward how deere so euer it costs him.
Aheurtement: m. Obstinacie, wilfulnesse, or selfewill; stiffenesse in opinion, stubbornnesse, headinesse.
s'Aheurter. To be wilfull, obstinate, headie, selfewilly, stiffe, in a bad matter.
Ahocquer. as Accrocher: ¶Pic. Ahonti: m. ié: f. Abashed, dasht out of countenance; made ashamed.
Ahontir. To make ashamed; to abash; to dash out of countenance.
Ahurir. To affright, scare; appall, astonish, amaze, dismay exceedingly; to make ones haire stand annend, or bring him to his wits end, by frighting, or amazing of him.
Ahurté. as Aheurté. Ahy. Out alas (an Interiection of feare.)
Aj. Oh; ay me; (an Interiection expressing sense of pain, or of smart;) or as Ahy. Aidant: m. ante: f. Aiding, helping, succouring, assisting, releeuing, furthering, forwarding. Dieu aidant. By the helpe of God, if God prosper my proceedings, or spare me life and health; and God wil, if God say amen.
Aide: m. An aidant, helper, second, assistant; Looke Aides. Vn Aide à Masson. A Masons boy, or seruant, that reaches him stone, and morter as he workes.
Aide: com. Aide, helpe, assistance; reliefe, succour; support; furtherance, a forwarding; (also, a subsidie, lone, custome, taxe; a prestation due from subiects to their Soueraigns, and from tenants to their land-lords; generally, any money thats leuied by either (ouer and aboue their ordinarie reuenue) for the warres, or other extraordinarie imployments.
Aides (as in Aide) All kind of Subsidies, lones, taxes, tithes, pecuniarie subuentions; and particularly, the ordinarie imposition of twelue pence in the pound Tour. vpon all sorts of fruites, prouision, and marchandise, sold in any part of France (if they belong not to such persons as are priuiledged by custome, or charter from the King;) also, light-armed souldiours imployed for seconds; and the forces or troupes which one friend, or colleague, sends to the ayde of another.
Aides chevels. Three pecuniarie, and casuall aydes, or dueties, yeelded in Normandie, by euery tenant in fee vnto his Land-lord (if he be noble) the first when his eldest sonne is knighted; and thus is tearmed, Aide de chevalerie; the second, towards the mariage of his eldest daughter, called Aide de mariage; the third, to helpe to pay his ransome, when he is prisoner in a warre, wherein he serued the king by reason of his owne tenure; and this they call, Aide de raçnon: By the customes of Amiens, and in some other places, onely the two first (and those but once during a tenants life) are yeelded: within Ponthieu (and in many other parts of Fraunce) the two first whensoeuer they accrue, the last (most commonly) but once during a lords time. The most common proportion is, ten pounds Parisis for euery fee held in Peeredome, and for euery whole Knights fee, 60. s'. and so ratably, when they are to be apportioned.
Aides coustumiers. The same; and called so in the auntient customes of Normandie.
