with, I lost both money, and my friend. Qui veut entretenir son ami n'ait nuls affaires avec luy: Prov. Looke, Affaire. Tenir ne faut pour bon voisin vn ami de Table, & de vin: Pro. (For when you haue need of him, or when your Table growes needie, he will be sure to giue you the slip.) Viande d'ami est bien tost preste: Pro. A friends meat is soone readie; (for giuing it willingly, he prouides it quickly; or, one thinkes it not, or must not seeme to thinke it, long in comming.)
Amiable: com. Amiable, louely; friendly; comely, gracious, exceeding handsome.
Amiablement. Amiably, friendly, louingly, gently, graciously; gracefully.
Amiableté: f. Friendlinesse, louingnesse, amiablenesse.
Amict: m. An Amict, or Amice; part of a massing priests habit.
Amidon. as Amydon. Amidonner. To starch.
Amie: f. A loue, a lemman, a shee friend, a sweet-heart; also, a certaine skalesse fish, like the Bonito, which hauing swallowed a hooke, sheeres the line asunder with her teeth, and so escapes. Nous verrons au Ieu qui aura belle amie: viz. Who shall get the victorie; a Metaphor, from such as fight for their mistresses. Ia couard n'aura belle amie: Pro. We say, faint heart neuer woon faire ladie.
Amieller. To sweeten; intice, allure, inueagle with honied words; to delight, win, or toll on, by honie, or any sweet meanes.
Amielleure: f. A liniment, or oyntment, of the thicknesse, and colour, of honie.
Amiette: f. A little loue; young mistresse, lemman, or sweet-heart.
Amigdale: f. An Almond; Looke, Amygdales. Amignarder. To pranke, trim; or, to cocker, feddle, make a wanton of; make much of.
Amignotant. Pampering, cockering, pranking; also, stroaking, flattering, fawning on, making much of.
Amignotement: m. A pampering, cockering, pranking; also, a stroaking, flattering, fawning, making much of.
Amignoter. as Amignarder; also, to stroake; flatter, fawne on. Amiot. A little friend; also a kind of Peare whereof most excellent perrie is made.
Amiral. Seeke Admiral. Amission: f. A losse, leesing, or loosing.
Amitié: f. Amitie, friendship, loue, kindnesse, good will; concord, correspondencie. Bonne amitié seconde parenté: Pro. Sound friendship a second affinitie.
Ammaires. as Ammares, or Amarres. Amman: m. A Maire, or Bourgomaister (among the Swizzers.)
Ammares: f. Great, or strong ropes; anker-cables; also, haspes of yron, or cleytes of wood, &c, as in Auche. Ammenteller. as, Emmenteler. Ammeubler. To make moueable; also, as Emmeubler. Ammi. as Ameos. s'Ammignonner. To wax prettie, fine, feat, minion; to pranke, tricke vp, set out, himselfe.
Ammitonné. Lapt in furre like a cat.
Ammodite. A creeping vermine like a viper, but of a sandie colour, and full of blacke spots.
Ammoniac: m. Ammoniacum (in shops) the iuice, or gumme of th' African hearbe, Agasillis; or of the Cyrenian ferula, or fennell-gyant. Sel ammoniac. Looke, Sel. Amnestie: f. Forgetfulnesse of things past.
Amnie. as Aguelette. Amobilié. Moueable, remoueable, to be remoued.
Amobilier. To remoue, to make moueable.
Amoderer. To moderate, assuage, temper, qualifie; measure; also, to slope, cut slope, take downe.
Amodiateur. A farmer.
Amodiation. A farming, a letting to hire, or to halues; Looke, Admodiation. Amodier. as Amoderer; also, as Admodier. Amoindri: m. ie: f. Diminished, lessened, extenuated, impaired, appaired; abated; allayed.
Amoindrir. To lessen, diminish, appaire, extenuate, impaire; abate; allay.
Amoindrissant. Lessening, abating, diminishing.
Amoindrissement. A lessening, diminishing, impairing, extenuating; abating; allaying.
Amoitir. To moisten.
Amolir. To remoue, or put away hardly, with paine, or much adoe; also, to depart, or goe away.
Amolli: m. ie: f. Softened, mollified; pacified, appeased; effeminated.
Amollir. To soften, mollifie; make tender, gentle, pliant; also, to pacifie, appease, quiet; also, to effeminate.
Amollissable: com. Fit, or apt to be softened, mollified, made tender.
Amollissant. Softning, mollifying; effeminating; quieting.
Amollissement: m. A softning, mollifying, making tender; or quiet.
Amome: m. A small, and thicke aromaticall shrub, whose blossomes resembled white violets, and leaues those of the wild Vine: This true Amomum of th' Ancients, is not found, or not discerned, at this day: Plinie cals thus, tree Nightshade; others (erroniously) call so the Rose of Ierusalem, or, our Ladies Rose; and some, as wisely, hearbe Robert; but the most, Vita longa, or, Ethyopian pepper, which (though it be not the right) is now the most currant, Amomum. Amomite. Encens Amomite. A whitish kind of incense, which, in handling, becomes soft as Masticke.
Amomon. as Amome. Amoncelé: m. ée: f. Heaped, piled, compacted; packed, or trussed vp in a heape.
Amoncelement: m. A heaping, piling, compacting, packing; a gathering together into a heape.
Amonceler. To heape, accumulate, pile, compact; gather, packe, make vp into a heape; to lay on a heape, to lay heape to heape.
Amonestement. as Admonestement. Amont. Vpwards. Païs d'amont, is, among people which dwell neere to riuers, the country that lyes neerer then theirs vnto the heads, or Source, thereof. Vent d'Amont. The East wind.
Amoraye. A coyne vsed at Ferara, and worth twelue Quadrins.
Amorce: f. A bayt; also, the touch-hole of a peece; or pouder for the touch-hole; also, as Esmorche. Amorcé: m. ée: f. Bayted; allured, inticed, drawn on. Vne beste amorcée. A mankind beast.
Amorcement: m. A baiting; alluring, inticement.
Amorcer. To bayt; also, to allure, beguile, inueagle, intice.