Touche de bois. A hoult; a little thicke groue or tuft of high trees, especially such a one as is neere a house, and serues to beautifie it, or as a marke for it. Bois de touche. The same. Il est de bas or, il craint la touche. His cause, or conscience, naught, makes him auoid all triall.
Touché: m. ée: f. Touched, felt, handled; also, stricken, blasted; bit; inspired; also, driuen, as a beast; also, brought, as money, vnto. Nous avons touché sur les articles. We haue onely mentioned, or spoken lightly of, the Articles.
Touchement: m. A touching, feeling, handling; also, a striking, blasting; hitting; inspiring; also, a driuing of beasts, &c; a bringing of money vnto.
Toucher. To touch, feele, handle; to approach, concerne, or come neere vnto; also, to strike, hit; blast; inspire; also, to driue beasts, &c; or bring money vnto. Il toucha la main entre leurs mains. He layed his hand betweene theirs; or, he gaue them his hand, and promise, that he would be theirs. Il leur toucha à tous la main. He tooke euerie one of them by the hand; &, Il leur toucha en la main; He tooke them by the hands, as desiring to be better acquainted with them. Des yeux il touche iusques au cerveau. It reacheth, or goeth from the eyes to the braine. On touche tousiours sur le cheval qui tire: Prov. The forward horse is alwayes most put on.
Toucheur: m. A toucher, feeler, handler. Toucheur d'asnes. An Asse-driuer.
Touchon: m. A little touch-stone.
Toudi. as Tousiours: ¶Pic. Touë: f. A little, long, shallow, and flat-bottomed boat.
Touër. To tow a ship; to bring her along tied vnto boats, or at the sterne of another ship.
Touffe de bois. A hoult; a tuft of trees growing neere a house, and seruing for a marke, or grace, vnto the seat thereof. Touffe de cheveux. A tuf**t, or locke of curled haire. Bois de touffe. as Touffe de bois. Touffeau: m. as Touffe; or a little tuft.
Touffillon: m. A small tuft, or locke; hoult, or groue.
Touffu: m. uë: f. Tuffie, thicke growing, thick of boughs, growing close together.
Touillaut: m. A scuruie troublesome fellow; or as Touilleur. Touillé: m. ée: f. Filthily mingled, pestered, or shuffled together; also, durtied, besmeared, berayed, smeeched, begrimed; whence; Avoine touillée croist comme enragée: Prov. In mirie ground Oats grow as if they were mad.
Touillement: m. A filthie mingling, beastlie confounding, ill-fauoured shuffling together; also, a durtying, beraying, besmearing, begriming.
Touiller. Filthily to mix, or mingle; confound, or shuffle together; to intangle, trouble, or pester by scuruie medling; also, to bedurt, begrime, besmeare, smeech, beray.
Touilleur: m. A Polipragmon, filthie medler, shuffling or troublesome fellow; one that marres things by a beastlie mingling of them.
Touillon: m. A Scullion; or a filthie, greasie, nastie, or slouenlie fellow; also, a clowt to wipe shooes, or make cleane vessell, withall.
Toulieu: m. Toll of Markets, and Faires.
Toulte: f. An exacting, or extorting of Subsidies.
Tounine: f. as Thonnine; or Tonnine.
Toupeau: m. A tuft, or tassell of silke, &c; a flocke,
or locke of wooll.
Toupet: m. A tuft, or topping; a womans haire layed out on her forhead, or temples, and called her goldilockes; also, a horses foretop; also, a tuft, or tassell of silke, &c.
Toupiant: m. ante: f. Whirling about like a gig.
Toupie: f. A gig, or casting-top; also, the shell-fish called a Welke, or Winkle.
Toupier. To turne, or cast a top; also, to whirle about like a top.
Toupil: m. as Toupie. Toupillon: m. A little gig, or casting top.
Toupillonnet: m. A verie small top; or stopple.
Toupin: m. A stopple for a bottle, &c.
Toupon: m. A stopple.
Tour: m. A turne, round, circle, compasse, wheeling, revolution, circumuolution, vicissitude, interchangeable course of things; also, a turne, bout, or walke, as (we say) in Powles; also, the turne, course, ranke, place, or order, wherein a man is or stands; also, a deed, act, worke, part, good or bad Office, good or ill turne; also, a feat, pranke, tricke, sleight, shift, deuise; also, a spinning wheele; also, a Turne, or Turners wheele; or as Tournoir; also, a Turnepike, or Turning-stile; and the open turning box in the wall of a Nunnerie, wherby the sisters vnseeing, and vnseene, receiue in, and deliuer out, commodities; also, the Rooke at Chests; also, the breadth of fiue fingers in measure; also, a fashion of killing Deere, &c, by riding gently neere them, and hauing en croupe some Bowman, who may with aduantage, and on a sudden shoot at them. Tour de Basche, ou de Basque. Nimble knauerie. Le tour de baston. The fees, or vailes comming in to an Officer, ouer and besides his ordinarie wages. Il sçait bien le tour de baston. He is a craftie, subtile, or cunning fellow; hee knowes well ynough the trickes, and sleights of the world. Tour de bec. A kisse. Tour de bras. À tour de bras. With maine strength, or, with confident authoritie. Tour de guerre, ou de vieille guerre. Seeke vnder Guerre. Tour du Labyrinthe. Il fait le tour du Labyrinthe. He treads a Maze; he is runne into an endlesse Laborinth; or, he toyles extreamely, and yet is neuer the neerer; also, he falls againe, after many digressions, or much adoe, into his former argument. Tour le lict. A close, or whole curtaine, incompassing a fashion of bed, that (commonly) wanteth a testerne. Tour de mulet. A iadish tricke. Tour de pescheur. A daungerous aduenturing for great matters. Tour du roule: &, à tour de roule. Seeke Roule. Ie ne leur donneray ny, tour ny attainte. I will not touch, or handle them; I will not approach, or come neere them. Faites vn tour iusques icy. Make a step hither. Chascun a son tour: Prov. Euerie one hath his time, or turne. Chascun à son tour: Prov. Euerie one in his time, ranke, or turne.
Tour: f. A Tower.
Touraille: f. A Kill, or Kilne to drie mault, &c, on.
Tourban. as Turban.
Tourbe: f. A troupe, rout, crue, rabble; prease, crowd, thrust, throng, clutterment of; also, trouble, stirre, busisinesse, debate, ruffling.
En tourbe. By flockes or multitudes; with confused
