Vesteure: f. A vesture; or, as Vestement. Vestiaire: m. The Vestrie in a Church.
Vestige: m. A step, footstep, tracke, trace, marke, signe, or token of a footing.
Vestir. To clothe, array, apparrell, attire, decke, enrobe, suit with, put on a suit of clothes; also, to vest, inuest, inseisin, giue possession of, make liuerie and seisin vnto.
Vests, for Va; goe thou. ¶Pic. ¶Rab. Vestu: m. uë: f. Clad, clothed, yclad, arrayed, apparrelled, attired, suited, enrobed, couered; vested, inuested, inseisined, put into possession of. Long vestu. An auncient peece of coyne, worth about ij s vj d sterling.
Vesture: f. A clothing, arraying, apparrelling, attiring, enrobing, suiting, couering; also, a vesting, inuesting, or putting into possession of; also, as Vestement. Vetade: f. The filletted Cockle; smooth, broad, and exceeding hard, shelled.
Veterinaire: m. An old beaten souldior; one that hath serued long in a place, or office.
Vetiller. To tickle, &c, as Fretiller; also, to trifle.
Vetilles: f. Tarriers to play with; also, nifles, trifles, things of no value.
Vettoine: f. The hearbe Betonie.
Veu: m. A vow; a solemne promise, or protestation; also, a request, prayer, desire.
Veu: m. euë: f. Viewed, seene, perceiued, beheld, ouer-*looked, surueyed; marked, heeded, obserued, regarded; examined, searched into, considered of. Boule veuë; &, Iouër à boule veuë. See Boule. Ronfle veuë. Vous me remettez à point en ronfle veuë. You haue me at a vantage, hold me at a bay, put me to my shifts, force me to quit, or abandon all. Avoir veu boire. A ieasting speech whereby they signifie that a man is drunken. Il a veu le loup. His voice is growne hoarse, or he hath lost his voice, on a suddaine; See Loup. Il est veu du Roy. The King doth grace, or fauour him.
Veu. (Adv.) Considering, seeing, in respect of; whence, Veu la facilite qu'est en luy, veu son impudence; &, veu qu'il ne vient point, &c. Veuë: f. The sence, act, or instrument of seeing; the eyes, or their function; the glaunce, or the reach thereof; a view, looke, sight, aspect, regard; a prospect; also, the suruey of a house, or peece of ground; also, the viser of a Helmet; also, a light, or ouerture for light; whence; Veuës mortes. Close, or vncasemated windowes. Droict de veuë. Power to get light vnto a house by a window, or ouerture, made into a neighbors. Droict de veuës. The same; as also, to damme vp those of his that offend me; or to compell him to remoue, or take away that which impeaches mine. Veuë à veuë. Face to face, right oueragainst. À veuë de païs. At randon, roaming, at rouers, at large; without exact examination, or certaine proofe. Discours à perte de veuë. Vast, extrauagant, or wandering discourses; tales without order or end. Aller à la veuë. To goe harbour a Stag, or lodge a Bucke.
Veuf: f. A widow; Looke Vef. Veufvage: m. Widowhood.
Veufve: f. A widow.
Droict de veufve. A widowes due, or part in moueables (ouer and besides her iointure, or dower) viz. her best gowne, her marriage ring and iewels, her bed
fully furnished, and certaine other household-stuffe: By the customes of Lalleuë in Artois, the suruiuor (man or woman) takes by this priuiledge, onely the best peece of euerie kind of household-stuffe.
Veuilles: f. The clasping tendrels, or small twyning sprigs of a Vine.
Veule: com. Weake, faint, infirme, vnsound, ouertoyled with heat and labour; also, hollow, loose, or light about a thing.
Vexateur: m. A vexer, afflicter, tormentor.
Vexation: f. Vexation, torment, extreame griefe, trouble, or disquiet.
Vexé: m. ée: f. Vexed, afflicted, tormented, turmoyled, extreamely grieued, or disquieted.
Vexer. To vex, afflict, or torment; extreamely to grieue, trouble, disquiet.
Vezarde: f. A great feare, dread, horror. ¶Rab. Vezé. C'est vn gros vezé. A gulch, gorbellie, fat guts.
Veze: f. A Bag-pipe. ¶Poictevin. Iouër de la veze. To play on the Bagpipe; also, to fizle.
Vezées. Bille vezées. Looke Bille-vezées. Vezeur: m. A Bagpiper. ¶Poictevin. Vezie: f. A Carbuncle, or blaine-sore.
Vezon: m. The arse, tayle, breech. ¶Norm. Vgne. The name of a Vine.
Vi: m. Wine (so tearmed about Montpellier.)
Viable: com. Liueable, likelie to liue.
Viage: m. as Vsufruict; also, a liuing. À viage. For life.
Viager: m. A tenant for life.
Viager: m. ere: f. For life, during life. Quint viager. See Quint. Rente, ou pension viagere. A rent-charge, or annuitie bought for money; called so, because it may also be redeemed, or extinguished, by money. Reparations viageres. Ce sont menuës reparations, pour l'entretenement de l'heritage, hors les quatre gros murs, poultres, & entieres couvertures, & voultes. Viager. To enioy during life, to haue an estate for life in.
Viagerement. During life, onely for life.
Viagier. as Viager; or, as Vsufruictier. Viaige: m. A tenant for life.
Viaire: m. The face, looke, aspect, visage, countenance; also, an annuitie, or yearelie pension, for life.
Viande: f. Meat, food, sustenance, victuals, viands, acates (especially of flesh.) La viande creuse. Wenches, trulls, two-legd beasts. Viande d'ami est bien tost preste: Prov. Meat in a friends house is (or is thought) soone readie; Looke Ami. La viande semond les gens: Pro. Well-cooked meats inuite the stomacke. De mauvaise viande on ne sçait faire vn bon potage: Pro. No man can make of ill acates good cale. Tout estat est viande aux vers: Prov. Wormes prey, by times, on all Estates.
Viander. (A word peculiar to red Deere) to feed; also, as Fianter. Viandier: m. ere: f. Of, or belonging to, meat.
Viandy: m. The pasture, or ground wherein a Deere feeds; also, the meat which he feeds on.
Viateur: m. A traueller, passenger, wayfaring man.
Vibailli: m. A Vice-Baylife, or vnder-Steward; an officer that (in some Prouinces) examines, and punishes malefactors.
Vibrequin: m. A Wimble.