*Prendre les perdris au tomberel; viz. by tunnelling. Tomberelée: f. A tumbrell full, the load of a tumbrell.
Tombier: m. A Tombe-maker.
Tombir. To make a noise with stamping, or trampling; to rustle, or hurrie, like the feet of many gallopping horses.
Tombissement: m. A stamping, or trampling noise; the rustling, or hurrie of running horses feet.
Tome: m. A Tome, or Volume; part of a Booke, or Worke, in one volume.
Tome: f. A traine with a lame and disarmed Heron, for the making of a young Faulcon.
Tomin: m. Six-pennie weight, or the weight of a Spanish Reall.
Ton: m. A tune, or sound; also, the Tunnie fish.
Ton: m. ta: f. Thy, belonging to thee.
Tondailles: f. A sheepe-sheering, or the feast made thereat.
Tondelet: m. (A fashion of) Bases for a horseman, or one that rides.
Tonderesse: f. A woman that sheereth, or shaueth.
Tondeur: m. A sheerer, clipper, powler, shauer; barber; vermine-snipper. Tondeur de draps. A Shearman, or Clothworker. Tondeur de nappes. as Escornifleur. Tondeuse: f. The wife of a Clothworker, or Barber; also, a woman which liues by sheering of cloth, or cutting of haire.
Tondoison. as Tonsure. Tondre. To sheere, clip, cut, powle, nott, pare round; sweepe cleane, or cleere away. Tondre sur vn oeuf. To accuse truth of falsehood, charge vertue with vice, find a fault where there is none; also, to make a commoditie of any thing, how bare soeuer it be; whence, Ils trouveront à tondre sur vn oeuf. Si ie ne fais cela qu'on me tonde. Let me be baffled if J doe not that. Aprez raire n'y a que tondre: Prov. Sheeres vpon shauen places doe no good; nought's to be got where all's alreadie gone.
Tondu: m. Shorne, clipped, powled, notted, cut, pared round. La fesse tonduë. One that is bare-breecht, or hath not a rag to couer his tayle withall; also, a notable wencher; or, as Fesse-tonduë. Il a esté tondu de son entreprise, ou de sa brigue. He hath failed of his purpose, or lost his suit. Il ne craint ny les rez ny les tondus. Looke Rez. Toutesfois fut le pré tondu. Yet was the meddow mowen; the busineße ended.
Tondu-ras. Close-shauen, leuelled, or layed euen with.
Tondure: f. as Tonsure. Tonlieu: m. Toll due vnto the Lord of a Faire or Market, for the sale, or standing of cattell, and other commodities in it.
Tonne: f. as Tonneau; also, an arbor.
Tonneau: m. A Tunne; or (generally) any great veßell, or peece of Caske for Wine, &c; as a Tunne, Pipe, Hogs-*head, &c; also, a Tunnell for Partridges. C'est d'un autre tonneau. This is of another straine, or pitch of conceit.
Tonneler, & Tonneleur. Seeke Tonneller, & Tonnelleur. Tonnelet: m. A little Tunne, or small peece of Caske.
Tonnelier: m. A Cooper.
Tonnelieu. as Tonlieu.
Tonnelle: f. A Tunnell, or staulking horse for Partridges; also, a round Arbor, or an Alley couered round with the interlaced branches of a Vine, &c; from; Tonnelles. The tender branches of trees plashed, or interlaced together as they grow.
Tonneller. To take Partridges with a Tunnell, or staulking horse.
Tonnelleur: m. A Tunneller; a Taker of Partridges with a Tunnell.
Tonner. To thunder. On n'orroit pas Dieu tonner. The noise, or dinne they made was most extreame; a thunderclap could not haue beene heard among them. Quand il tonne en Mars nous pouvons dire helas: Prov. We say that, Winters thunder is Summers wonder. Tant tonne qu'il pleut; &, Tant tonne, & vente, que pluye descend: Pro. So much it thunders that at length raine falls; Looke Plouvoir. Tout ce que tonne ne nous estonne point: Pro. All that does thunder makes vs not to wonder.
Tonnerre: m. Thunder. Apres gros tonnerre force eau sur la terre: Prov. After a furious thunder much raine the earth doth blunder.
Tonnereux: m. euse: f. Full of thunder, thunder-like, thundering.
Tonnine: f. A meat made of Tunnie; or, as Thonnine. Tonnoirre: m. Thunder.
Tonsilles: f. Certaine kernells at the root of the tongue, subiect vnto inflamations, and swellings, occasioned by the falling downe of humors from the head.
Tonsture. as Tonsure. Tonsure: f. A sheering, clipping, powling, notting, cutting, or paring round; also, the shauing, or shauen crowne of a Priest; whence, Tonsure clericale; &; À simple tonsure. Such Clergie men as are but meerely Clarkes, not hauing taken Orders, nor vndertaken the charge of soules; of which ranke are Prebends, Canons, Deacons, &c. Alleguer sa tonsure. A Priest, challenging the priuiledge of his Orders, to appeale from the ciuill Iudge vnto his Ordinarie.
Tonsuré: m. ée: f. Sheered, clipped, powled; also, shauen; whence; Clercs tonsurez. Shauelings, full Priests.
Tonsurer. To clip, sheere, powle, nott; also, to shaue.
Tonture: f. as Tonsure. Topase: f. A topase, stone.
Topiaire: f. The making of Jmages in, or Arbors of, Plants.
Topiquer. Se top. To be titchie, or apt to take offence at; also to oppose, contest with, bandie against.
Topiques: m. Topicks; bookes, or places of Logicall inuention; also, remedies (as plaisters, &c) applyed vnto vnsound parts of the bodie.
Topiqueur: m. An acute arguer, or disputer; or, an inuentor of Logicall, and probable arguments.
Topographe: m. A describer of places.
Topographie: f. The description of a place.
Toppe. Terre estant en toppe. Wast (because vnhusbanded, or vntilled) ground.
Toque: f. A (fashion of) bonnet, or cap (somewhat like our old Courtiers veluet cap) worne ordinarily by schollers, and some old men.
Toque d'or, ou d'argent. Plated cloth of gold, or siluer; a kind of tinsell, or stuffe that is striped with gold, or siluer.
