Ribaud, & Ribaude. as Ribauld, & Ribaulde. Ribaudaille: f. A ruffianlie crue, a roguish companie.
Ribaudequin: m. A fashion of huge crossebow (some fourteene or fifteene foot in length) that shot a long arrow feathered with horne, or thinne wood, & is at this day out of vse.
Ribauderin. The same.
Ribaudine: f. as Ribaulde; or, a rascallie queane.
Ribauld: m. A rogue, ruffian, rascall, scoundrell, varlet, filthie fellow; also, a ribauld, fornicator, whore-*munger, bawdie-house haunter; also, a base fellow, or labouring man, of a big bodie, strong limmes, and hard constitution, a tough whoresonne. Le ribauld d'une grappe. The staulke of a cluster of grapes. Roy des ribaulds. An Officer which, in old time, looked to the vagabonds, & idle persons that haunted the Court; and searched any that came in, to see they had no Armes, or hidden weapons about them; and towards night visited all the chambers in the house, to preuent secret massacres; and thrust out at doores at meale, and bed-time, such as had not their diet, and lodging allowed them; and punished all disorders committed, by the followers of the Court, without the Court gate: This Officer had a gard of Archers attending on him, and a Lieutenant, called Prevost des ribauds: In Charles the sixts time the name (too neere a King) was suppressed, and, as some thinke, altered into Prevost de l'hostel, of late yeares become, le grand Prevost de France, & de l'hostel du Roy; which title Charles the ninth added for more authoritie vnto the Office.
Ribaulde: f. A whore, queane, punke, gill, flirt, common hackney, doxie, mort.
Ribaulder. To play the ribauld, ruffian, rogue.
Ribauldise: f. Ribauldrie, roguerie, ruffianisme, whoring, whore-hunting.
Ribault. as Ribauld. Ribe: f. A coast, &c; as Rive: ¶Langued. Ribe taillade. See Taillade. Ribes: f. Red Gooseberries, beyond-sea Gooseberries, garden Currans, bastard Currans. Rob de ribes. Looke Rob. Ribettes. as Ribes. Ribier: m. The red Gooseberrie plant; also, a kind of vine.
Riblant. Roauing, ietting, raking, swaggering abroad with weapons to the spoyle, or despoyling, of euerie one he meets.
Ribler. To roue, roame, rake, or iet abroad weaponed, and wronging euerie one; to boot-hale, rob, ransacke, prey vpon passengers, or poore countrey people.
Riblerie: f. A rouing, ietting, roaming, swaggering; a gadding abroad in armour, to the wronging, ransacking, robbing of passengers, or poore countrey people; a boot-haling; also, a violent course or incursion vpon an enemie.
Riblette: f. A collop, or slice of bacon. Des oeufs à la riblette. Egges and collops; or, an Omelet or Pancake of egges, and slices of bacon mingled, and fried together.
Ribleur: m. A disorderlie roauer, ietter, swaggerer, outragious reakes-player; a robber, ransacker, boot-haler, preyer vpon passengers, &c.
Ribon ribaine. By hooke or crooke, will ye nill ye, whether you will or no.
Ric à ric. Quite, wholly, throughly; extreamely; exactly,
precisely, in euerie point.
Ricalde: f. A gill, flirt, callet; scould; a long-tongued and short-heeled, a light and tatling, huswife.
Ricanant. Tighying, sporting, dallying, wantonizing it.
Ricaner. To giggle, tighie, dallie, wantonize it.
Ricaneux: m. euse: f. Tighying, giggling, euer sporting, dallying, or playing the wanton.
Ricasser. To giggle, fleere, laugh with a tighie, play the wanton egregiously.
Richard: m. Richard; also, the bird called a Jay. Fer de richard. A kind of great yron wire.
Riche: com. Rich, wealthie, opulent, well lined, of great meanes, that hath much to take to. Riche comme vn ladre. As rich as a Lazer (who is tearmed rich, either because he gets few children; or because few come to eat on him.) À riche homme n'en chaut qui ami luy soit: Pro. A rich carle no mans loue respects; or doth not care though no man loue him. Homme chiche iamais riche: Prov. The niggard's nere (in his opinion) rich. Il est riche que Dieu aime: Prov. Rich is the man whom God affects. Le plus riche n'emporte qu'un linceul: Pro. Seeke Linceul. La vache du riche velle souvent, celle du povre avorte: Prov. The rich mans cow is fruitfull, fat, and strong, the poore mans (leane, and ill kept) casts her young. Pour devenir bien tost riche il faut tourner le dos à Dieu: Prov. He that will soone grow rich must God renounce. Qui bien gaigne, & bien espargne devient tantost riche: Pro. He that gets, and spares much, will quickly be rich.
Richement. Richly, wealthily, opulently, abundantly. Richement mentir. To lie for the whetstone, or with the best of them.
Richereau: m. A wealthie chuffe, rich lobcocke, well lined boore; one that hath more wealth then wit, more substance then ciuilitie.
Richesse: f. Riches, wealth, great substance, meenes, possessions, treasure, fortunes. Enfans sont richesses de povres gens. Store of children is all the wealth poore men can brag of; (yet is that brag but idle if they be idle; Seeke Enfant.) Ou richesse est peché est: Prov. Where riches are sinne is.
Ricochet. The sport of skimming a thinne stone on the water, called a Ducke and a Drake. C'est la chanson du ricochet. Tis an idle, or endlesse tale, or song; a subiect whereof one part contradicts, marres, or ouerthrowes, another.
Ricote: f. A kind of milke-meat; or as; Ricottes: f. Curds made of whey.
Ridde: f. A Flemmish coyne worth about 5 s. sterl. Ridde de Gueldres. Is worth about 3 s. sterl. Ridé: m. ée: f. Wrinkled, wrimpled, crumpled, frumpled, in furrowes like an angrie brow; also, stiffened, or stretched out vnto a stiffenesse.
Rideau: m. A curtaine, or cloth-skreene.
Ridelle: f. The rayle of a Cart or waine; and more particularly, the vppermost of the three; the middle one being tearmed fausse ridelle; and the lowest, Gisant.
Ridement: m. A wrinkling, wrimpling, crumpling; also, a stiffening, or stretching out.
