Arc à gelet; ou, à jallet. A stone-bow. L'arc du jour. The whole day, from Sunne rising to the setting thereof. Arc Turquois. The Turkish long bow. Il a plusieurs cordes à son arc. He hath many strings to his bow (viz. many trades, meanes, helpes, dependancies, or assurances, to rely on.) Passer par l'arc S. Bernard. To be beshitten; to beray himselfe. Desbander l'arc ne guerist pas la playe: Prov. The bows vnbending healeth not the wound (it hath made;) the withdrawing of forces is no amends for the wrongs or harmes, which they haue done.
Arcade: f. An arch, or halfe circle. Mettre les mains en arcade sur les costes. To set his hands a kenbow.
Arc-agelet. Looke arc. Arcanne: f. Rudle, red chaulke, red oaker.
Arcasse: f. The Counter (in the Poope) of a Ship, Arc-boutant. Looke in Arc. Arceau: m. A little bow; bought; arch; also, a Sadle-bow; also, a Carpenters yard, or workehouse.
Arceler. Seeke Harceler. Arcenal: m. An Arcenall; an Armorie; a storehouse of Armour; Artillerie; Shipping, or Ships.
Archade. as Arcade. Archail. as Archal. Archal &; fil d'archal. Yellow laten wire; or copper wire.
Archant: &; Archat; as Archal. Arche: f. A cofer, chest; hutch, binne; also, an Arke; whence, l'arche de Noë; also, the arch of a bridge, &c; also, the well of the Pumpe of a Ship.
Archecapelein de toute Flanders. The Arch-chaplaine (or as some thinke) the Chauncellour of Flanders. Archediaconé: m. An Archdeaconrie.
Archediacre: m. An Archdeacon. Crotté en Archediacre. Dagd vp to the hard heeles; (for so were the Archdeacons in old time euer woont to be, by reason of their frequent, and toylesome, Visitations.)
Archeé: f. A bow-shoot; or, the reach of a bow; as far as a bow will carrie.
Archelette: f. A little arch, or arke; also, a womans eare-wire.
Archenocher: m. A chiefe Mariner; the Pilot, or Master of a ship.
Archeprestre: m. An Arch-priest, High-priest, head-priest, chiefe-priest.
Archer: m. An Archer, or Bowman; also, a Yeoman of the (Kings) Gard; also, one of the Prouost Marshalls attendants, or gard; also, a Warder in a Towne, or fortresse; (whose ordinarie weapon, at this day a Halberd, was in old time a bow, and arrowes;) also, a horseman, who in seruice euer accompanies the Gendarme des Ordonnances; to whom though he be somewhat inferiour, and though he haue but halfe as much pay (about twentie pounds sterl. a yeare) yet is he to be a Gentleman of birth and breeding; or such a one as hath been Captaine, Lieutenant, Ensigne, or Sergeant Maior, of a foot companie six yeares together: and whosoeuer will be a Gendarme must formerly haue beene an Archer of at the least a yeares continuance (if the ordinances be duely obserued.)
Archers du guet. The ordinarie watchmen of the towne of Paris; (who are not Burguers, but a kind
of Souldiours; both appointed, and payed by the King.) Franc archer. Looke Franc. Archerie: m. A match of shooting; also, a field, or ground, to shoot in.
Archerot: m. A little Archer, a young Bow-man.
Archet: m. The bow of a Viol, &c.
Archetype: m. A principall type, figure, forme; the chiefe patterne, mould, modell, example, or sample, whereby a thing is framed; an authenticke, or originall draught.
Archiatre: m. A principall Physitian.
Archidiacre. An Archdeacon.
Archiduc. An Archduke.
Archier: m. as Archer. Archifs: m. The Rolls (for the Crowne) or, a place wherein all the Records, Charters, and Euidences that concerne the King, or belong vnto the Crowne, are kept in chests, and boxes.
Archimandrite: m. An Abbot; a Generall, or Gouernour of Hermits; a Superintendent, or Ouerseer, of such as reside in desart caues, and dennes.
Archimarmitonerastique: m. An Abbey-lubber, or Arch-frequenter of the Cloyster beefe-pot, or beefe-boyler.
Archimbaud. A proper name for a man. C'est la famille d'Archimbaud, plus y en a & pis vaut: Prov. (Said of a slate, or family, thats pestered with rakehels.) Architecte: m. An Architect; a Gouernour, Ouerseer, director; a chiefe deuiser, contriuer, or framer, of buildings; a worke-master, or master workman, in points of Architecture.
Architecté: m. ée: f. Built, contriued, framed, fashioned; set, or made vp, as a house, &c.
Architecter. To gouerne, ouersee, direct, a building; also, to contriue, deuise, frame, fashion; make, or set vp, artificially, a building, &c.
Architectonique: com. Architectiue; belonging to an Architect, or Architecture.
Architecture: f. Architecture; the Art, or Science of building; the framing, or building of a house, &c; also, the frame of a house, or building; an edifice, or building.
Architrave: m. The Architraue (of pillars, or stone-*worke;) the reason peece, or master beame (in buildings of timber.)
Archives. as Archifs. Archool. Dust; (of Alchool, an Arabian word.)
Archure: f. A mill-hoope, or mill-case; the open chest that holds the mill-stones.
Arçoir. as hier au soir. Yesternight; (a rusticall word.)
Arçon: m. The arson, or bow of a sadle. Faire vuider les arçons. To cast off horsebacke, or out of the sadle.
Arçon: f. A burning, or setting on fire.
Arçonné: m. ée: f. Set on horsebacke, or betweene the sadle bowes; setled, or set fast, in a sadle.
Arçonner. To fasten, setle, or set sure; as, the breech betweene the bowes of a sadle. Arçonner vne vigne. To vnderprop a vine both before and behind.
Arçonneux: m. euse: f. Of, or belonging to, a sadle bow; also, fit to hang, or to be carried at, a sadle bow; whence; Malette arçonneuse. A capcase; male, budget, &c.
Arçonnier: m. ere: f. as Arçonneux.
