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Hermodacte. Hermodactill, Dogs bane, wild Bulbe, Meade or Medow Saffron, the sonne before the father.

Hermole: f. Burstwort, Rupturewort.

Herné: m. ée: f. Burst; hauing a rupture about the Priuities.

Herniaire: f. as Hermole. Hernie. Bursting; or, a rupture within the cods.

Heroë: m. A Worthie; a Demygod; one whom his valor hath deified, or immortalized.

Heroïne: f. A Ladie of admirable beautie, or of most excellent parts; a most worthie Ladie.

Heroïque: com. Heroicall; most worthie, noble, gallant, high-minded, or valiant.

Heron: m. A Heron. Looke Hairon. Herouët. (The name of) a certaine great, yellow, and soft apple.

Herpail: m. A troope, heard, flocke, a crue, a rowt.

Herpaille: f. A knot, or crue of beggarlie, and roguish vagabonds, that liue by pilfering, or vpon the spoile.

Herpailleur: m. A seller of old trinkets of Iron, &c.

Herpé: m. ée: f. Grasped, snatched, caught at greedily; griped, hooked, violently seised; also, Harpe-like, shaped or fashioned like a Harpe; out-breasted, and well voided or lanke in the Groine, like a well-made Greyhound.

Herpelu. A Stiuer, or French shilling. ¶Barrag. Herper. To graspe, snatch, catch, clinch greedily; to gripe, hooke, seize violently, lay violent hands on. Herper contre terre. To creepe, or crawle.

Herpes: f. The Shingles, Running worme, or wild fire.

Herr. Maister, or Sir. ¶Aleman. Vous faictes du herr. (A rusticall taxation of a sawcie yong man, or seruant;) you are verie cockit, or lustie; you take too much vpon you.

Herre: m. A rogue, beggar, vagabond.

Herry: m. The fundament, or arse-gut.

Hers. (An Interiection of calling) hoe, here ho.

Herse: f. A harrow; also, a kind of Portcullis; Looke Herce. Herselé. Seeke Harcelé. Hersement: m. A harrowing.

Herser. To harrow; also, to vex, turmoyle, disquiet, hurrie, torment.

Herseur: m. A harrower; also, a vexer, or tormentor of.

Hersoir. Yesternight.

Herte. Estre à l'herte. Looke Erte. Hertringue. I drinke to you (in Dutch.) ¶Rab. Herupé: m. ée: f. Whose haire stares, or stands on end; also, bristlie, prickled, rough, horride; also, towsed, discheuelled, disordered.

Heruper. To discheuell, towse, or disorder the haire; to make it stare, or stand illfauoredly. S'Heruper. To set vp the bristles, as one that growes into choller; also, his haire to stare; or, as Se Herisser. Heruppé. as Herupé. Hesitation: f. Hesitation, doubtfulnesse, vncertainetie; stammering, staggering.

Hesité. Doubted, stucke at; stammered, staggered (in opinion.)

Hesiter. To doubt, feare, sticke, stammer, stagger (in opinion.)

Hespalier: m. A Sayler, or Marriner.

Hesperie. The West Tower. ¶Rab.

Hestoudeau. A Cockerell, or great Cocke chicke; also, a Caponet; and in some few places (wherein any sort of yong, big, or well-grown pullein is termed thus) a Pullet.

Hestre: m. A Beech tree.

Hestreau: m. A yong, or little, Beech tree.

Hetaudeau. as Hestoudeau. Heteroclite: com. Irregular, extraordinarie, not declined as other Nownes. Resolu comme Pihourt en ses heteroclites. Looke Resolu. Hetique: com. as Hectique. Heù: m. A (Dutch) Hoy; also, a Lighter.

Heu hasch. Fained words for a Cough. ¶Rab. Heudri: m. ie: f. Mustie, corrupted, putrified; stained, or spotted, as vn-ayred linnen.

Heudrir. To must, corrupt, putrifie; to spoyle, or marre by ill keeping, or want of ayring.

Heulet: m. A Hoult, or little Isle cut out of the land of purpose to be ouerflowed euerie tyde by the sea; that of the froth thereof (then left behind, and gathered after) salt may be made.

Heullant. Yelling, howling.

Heur: m. Hap, lucke, fortune, chaunce. Le bon heur tost se passe qui n'en a soing: Prov. Good fortune quickly slips from such as heed it not.

Heure: f. An houre; also, time, season, space; also, the clocke. Heures. A Prayer booke for certaine houres; Looke after Heurelival. L'heure de complie. Compline-time; Euening-song tide, the edge of the euening. Heures equinoctiales. The 24 equal parts, or houres, whereof a naturall day consists. Heures d'horologes. The same; or, equall, or euen houres (such as clockes make) one iust as long as the other; ordinarie houres. Heures inesgales. The 12 vnequall parts of the artificers day; which lasts (all the yeare long) from the rising to the setting, of the Sunne. Heures des Planettes. as Heures inesgales; Vnequall houres; such as are sometimes longer, sometimes shorter then, and sometimes like vnto, the ordinarie houres. Haute heure. Farre on the day; (the season from about eight in the morning vntill noone.) À l'heure. At that houre, at that instant, than, in the time of. À l'heure que. Whan, whilest that. À la bonne heure. Happily, luckily, fortunately, in good time, in a good houre. De bonne heure. In good time; also, early, betimes. Pour l'heure. Than, at that instant, for that present. Sur l'heure. as Pour l'heure. Tout à cette heure. Now, euen now, incontinently, forthwith, presently, at this verie instant, by and by. L'heure a sonné. It hath strucke eleuen; (a Lawyers phrase.) Toutes heures ne sont pas meures: Prov. All times are not in season for all things. Il n'est qu'une mauvaise heure au jour: Pro. There is but one ill (or vnluckie) houre in the day.

Heuré: m. ée: f. Set, or appointed an houre; limitted, stinted, or tasked by the houre. Bien heuré. as Heureux. Heurelival. The name of a soure apple, fit to make Cyder.

Heures: f. A Latine booke of prayers, appropriated vnto certaine houres in the morning, and then said of dutie by Shauelings, and in deuotion by others.

Heureté: f. Happinesse, blessednesse, blissefullnesse,