passing away the time. En se ioüant. In sport, game, ieast, boording, merrily.
Ioüarre: m. An old rimer, ballade-maker; or maker of Enterludes for children, and countrey folke to act.
Ioüart: m. A Windgall in the leg of a horse.
Ioubarbe: f. Houseleeke, Sengreene, Aygreene, Bullocks eye, Iupiters beard. Ioubarbe arborée. Tree Housleeke. Ioubarbe femelle. as Ioubarbe à petites fueilles. Ioubarbe à petites fueilles. The female small Sengreene (with the pale-white flower) called wild Prickmadame, great Stone-crop, and Worme-grasse. Ioubarbe marine. Sea Housleek, Sea Aygreen, hearb Aloes. Ioubarbe masle. Prickmadame, or Sengreene the lesser, with the yellow flower. Ioubarbe sauvage. Mouse-grasse, wild Prickmadame. Ioubarbe des vignes. Orpine, Liblong, Liuelong. Grande Ioubarbe. Great Sengreen, great Housleek, Iupiters beard. Petite Ioubarbe. The male Prickmadame, or Sengreene the lesser; also, Mousetaile, Pricket, Stone-*hore, little Stonecrop, Wall-pepper, Countrey-pepper, Iacke of the Butterie.
Iouc: m. as Iuc; A henne-roost.
Ioucher. as Ioncher; To cog, to foist, &c; also, as Iucher; to roost, or pearch; whence; Qui avec mal plaisant se couche, souvent sur luy le vent se iouche: Prov. Ioudarde: f. A Sea-coot.
Iouë: f. The cheeke, the iowle. Bailler par les iouës de. Looke Bailler. Il luy en bailla parmy les iouës. He gaue him a sound box on th' eare. S'en batre les iouës. To repent throughly, or afflict himselfe extreamely for. Il s'en est donné par les iouës. He pulled, or snatched it violently vnto him. Mal iouë qui fiert la iouë: Prov. He ieasts but ill that hurts him whom he ieasts with.
Ioue: m. ée: f. Played; gamed, sported, dallied. On s'est ioué de son cuir. Hee hath beene soundly whipped.
Iouée: f. The whole cheeke extending from the eye-*brow to the chinne; also, a box, cuffe, whirrit, buffet on the cheeke, or eare.
Ioueigneur: m. A younger brother: ¶Breton. Iouëlle: f. A yoake. Iouëlles. Arched, or yoaked vines; vines so vnder-*propped, or fashioned that one may goe vnder the middle of them.
Iouër. To play, game, sport; dallie, ieast; recreate, or solace himselfe, passe away the time; also, to act, represent, or counterfeit (as a Comedian) the gestures of another.
Iouër à l'amour. One to hold vp his fingers, and another, turned from him, to ghesse how many he holds vp.
Iouër à bander & à racler contre. To deale in all extremitie against.
Iouër à boule veuë. Looke Boule.
Iouër à boutehors. To thrust out the harlot; (a game in some vse among Courtiers, and Competitors.)
Iouër des cousteaux. To fight; also, to eat hard, or bestirre himselfe apace, at a table.
Iouër des cymbales & manequins. To lecher: ¶Rab.
Iouër d'espée. To fence, or play at fence. En Iouër de l'espée à deux mains. To doe what he list withall; also, to haue his hands full of; or to imploy both hands in. Iouër le gros ieu. To play great game, to be at the fairest; to throw away all at a cast, to venture a whole rest at once. Iouër ses ieux. To doe his feats, or play his prankes; also, to play reakes, or keepe a terrible coile. Iouër son jeu. Il ne iouë pas aujourd'huy son jeu. He is cleane out of play. Iouëz vostre jeu. Play an aime cast (at bowles.) Iouër de la navette. To play fast and looße; or, a wench to enter a man into her Tables. Iouër des Orgues. autant que paillarder. Iouër au rabat. To make an abatement. Iouër du rebec. Stubbornely to resist, withstand, or contradict. Iouër à la ronfle. To snore; See Ronfle. Iouër son roolle, ou roule. To play his part throughly, to lay about him lustily. Iouër le roule, ou roulet de. To act, or counterfeit the gestures of. Iouër au Roy despouillé. To leape ouer where the hedge is lowest; to pull a fleece from a declining state; to helpe him forward thats readie to fall. Iouër du serrecropiere. To leacher: ¶Rab. Iouër vne trousse. To giue a gudgeon; or, to serue a slie, or slipperie tricke. Iouër de la veze. To play on the bagpipe; also, to fizzle. Il iouë de moy à la pelotte. He handles me at his own pleasure; he tosses, or vses me he cares not how. Se iouër a. To mocke, deride, frumpe, ieast with. Il veut se iouër à elle. He would be doing with her, he would faine haue a flirt at her. Ne te iouë pas à luy; ne t'y iouë pas. (Said, by way of admonition, vnto one that intends to quarrell with a man of greater strength, or meanes then himselfe) meddle not with him. Il ne se faut pas iouër au boeuf: Pro. An Oxe is not to be dallied with. Mal iouë qui fiert la iouë: Prov. He that will ieast must doe it gently.
Iouëresse: f. A woman-gamester, player, sporter.
Iouët. A shittlecocke. Iouëts. Toyes; little sports, apish plaies, prettie or childish pastimes.
Iouëté: f. for Ieunesse; (an old word.)
Iouëur: m. A player, gamester; dallier, sporter. Iouëur d'espée. A Fencer. Iouëur de farces. A Comedian, Stage-player, or common Player. Iouëur de Moralitez. An Enterlude-player; also, a Buffoone, or professed Ieaster. Iouëur de passe passe. A Iugler. Il n'est ieu qu'à iouëurs: Prov. There is no playing with any that cannot play.
Ioufflu: m. uë: f. Chuffie, fat cheeked, swolne, or puft vp in the face.
Ioug: m. A yoake; also, the head of a Lute, Violl, &c; also, the croße-beame of a balance; also, as Iouc; a hen-*roost. Faire ioug. To yeeld, obey, submit himselfe. Faire faire ioug. To tame, subdue, bring vnder, to reduce vnto obedience.
Iougal. l'os iougal. Th' end, or outward part of the cheeke bone towards the eare.