A new dictionary French and English with another English and French according to the present use and modern orthography of the French inrich'd with new words, choice phrases, and apposite proverbs : digested into a most accurate method : and contrived for the use both of English and foreiners / Guy Miege ...

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• DRACHME (f.) a dram, the eight part of an ounce.
• DRAGEE (f.) dragée de su∣cre, sugar plum.
• Dragées de plomb, small shot.
• Dragée aux chevaux, sorte d'herbe, a provender for beasts, made of divers kinds of herbs or pulse sown together.
• Drageoir (m.) a comfet-box.
• DRAGMATIQUE, Poësie dragmatique, qui travaille pour le Theatre, that kind of Poëtry which is used in Playes.
• DRAGON, (m.) serpent vo∣lant, a dragon.
• Dragon volant, sorte de meteo∣re ignée ressemblant à un Dra∣gon qui vole, a Draco-Volans, or flying Dragon.
• Dragon, sorte d'herbe, the herb Dragon-wort, or dragons.
• Dragon, Mousquetaire à Che∣val, a Dragoon, or Musqueteer on horseback.
• Dragonné (en termes de Bla∣zon) Dragony (a word of Blazon) whose hinder parts resemble a Dragon.
• DRAP (m.) cloth, woollen cloth, broad cloth.
• Du drap fin, fine cloth.
• Du drap grossier, course cloth.
• Faire du drap, to make cloth.
• Draps, linceuls, sheets.
• Donnez moi des draps blancs, let me have clean sheets.
• Ces draps sont sales, these sheets are fowl.
• Drapeau (m.) morceau de drap usé, a rag, an old rag.
• Vêtu de vieux drapeaux, all rag∣ged.
• Drapeau, enseigne de Guerre, the Ensign, or Colours of a Com∣pany of Souldiers.
• Draper, couvrir de drap, to cover with cloth.
• Draper, Drapeler un Carosse, to cover a Coach with cloth.
• Draper une peinture, en faire la draperie, to make the drapery of a picture.
• Draper, gausser quêcun, le ra∣iller, to laugh at one, to jeer him out of countenance.
• Drapier (m.) Marchand Dra∣pier, a Draper.
• Draperie (f.) drap, drapery, cloth.
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• Travailler en draperie, to work (or to make) cloth.
• Ouvrier en draperie, a Cloth-worker.
• Draperie, peinture d'habits en un tableau, drapery, or the draw∣ing of an habit in a picture.
• Faire la draperie d'une pein∣ture, la draper, to make the dra∣pery of a picture.
• * Dresser, Dressoir. V. Droit.
• DRILLE (m.) Soldat mal vêtu, mais qui a la mine de se bien batre, a ragged Souldier that hath a stout look with him.
• DROGUE (f.) a drug.
• Droguiste (m.) a Druggist, or Drug-seller.
• DROGUET (m.) étoffe tis∣sue de filet & de laine, ou de filet & de soie, drugget, a kind of stuff.
• DROIT, qui n'est pas courbe, straight.
• Voiez s'il est droit, see if it be straight.
• Tiré à droit fil, drawn in a strait line.
• De droit fil, en droite ligne, in a strait line.
• Droit, debout, up, standing.
• Etre droit, se tenir debout, to stand up.
• Tenez vous d••oit, stand you up.
• Droit (a masc. subst.) Loi, the Law.
• Le Droit Civil, the Civil Law.
• Le Droit Canon, the Canon Law.
• Le Droit Coûtumier, the Com∣mon Law.
• Le Droit écrit, the written Law.
• Le Corps du Droit, Volumes qui composent ce Corps, the Law-Books, or Volumes contain∣ing the whole Body of the written Law.
• Le Droit des Gens, the Law of Nations.
• La rigueur du droit, the rigour of the Law.
• Savant en Droit, an able Law∣yer.
• Donner son avis sur une diffi∣culté du Droit à ceux qui nous le demandent, to give his counsel (or advice) upon a diffi∣cult case in Law to those who de∣sire it of us.
• Droit, raison, equité, right, rea∣son, equity.
• J'ai le bon droit de mon côté, I have the right on my side.
• Bon droit a besoin d'aide, good right hath need of favour. Such ••s the Iniquity and Injustice of our Times.
• J'ai les mêmes droits que les autres, I have as good a right as others.
• J'ai eu droit de m'en saisir, I had right to take possession of it.
• Qui est ce qui pretend d'étre en droit de vous disputer cela? who is it that pretends a right to dispute it with you?
• Je suis en droit de le faire, I have right to do it.
• A bon droit, not without a cause, justly, deservedly.
• C'est à bon droit que je me plain, it is not without a cause that I complain.
• A droit ou à tort, by hook or by crook, by right or by wrong, one way or other.
• Contre tout droit & raison, a∣gainst all right and reason.
• Droit, ce qui appartient à quê∣cun, ones own right, or every one his own.
• Ceder son droit, to give (or yield) up his right.
• Mon droit est meilleur que le vòtre, I have better right (or better title) than you.
• Il ne veut rien dêmordre de son droit, he will not part with one jot of his right.
• Poursuivre, ou defendre son droit, to prosecute, or defend his right.
• Perdre son droit, to lose his right.
• Droit d'Ainesse, birth-right.
• Droits, qu'on exige & qu'on paie sur les marchandises, Cu∣stom, Imposition.
• Droits, menus droits, fees, or vails.
• Droit (an Adverb) directly, right, or straight.
• Ce Chemin mene droit à la Ville, this way leads directly into the Town.
• Il y est allé tout droit, he went directly thither.
• Allez tout droit, go straight on.
• Il va droit au point, he go's di∣rectly to the mark.
• Il ne va pas droit à cette af∣faire, he do's not go roundly in that business.
• A droit & à gauche, on the right hand and on the left.
• Droit au milieu de cette Place il y a une Pyramide, just in the middle (or, in the very mid∣dle) of that Piazza there is a Pyramid.
• Droit au dessus du Balcon étoit un Echafaut, right over the Bal∣cony there was a Scaffold.
• Droitement, de droit. fil, di∣rectly, straight.
• Droitement, justement, justly, uprightly, rightfully.
• † Droiture (f.) equité, upright∣ness, or justice.
• Dresser, rendre droit, to straighten, or make straight.
• Dresser une chose courbée, to make a crooked thing straight, to straighten it.
• Dresser, eriger, to erect, raise, or set up.
• Dresser une Statue à quêcun, to erect a Statue to one.
• Dresser une Boutique, to fit up a shop.
• Dresser les Canons, to level the great guns.
• Dresser une Baterie, to raise a Battery.
• Dresser un Chemin, to make a Passage.
• Dresser un Lit, to make a Bed.
• Dresser la Table, to furnish the Table with Victuals.
• Dresser les Viandes pour les mettre sur Table, to dress meat for the Table.
• Dresser une Armée, to raise an Army.
• Dresser des embuches à quê∣cun, to lay snares for one.
• Dresser un Procez à quêcun, to bring an action against one.
• Il dresse les oreilles, he pricks up his ears.
• Les cheveux lui dressent, his hair stares, or stands an end.
• Dresser un Cheval, to break a horse.
• Dresser le Cerf, trouver & prendre les routes de la Bête, the Dogs to find out a Deer.
• Dresser ses routes (en termes de Venerie) to take his particu∣lar cours•• in hunting.
• Dressoir (m.) buffet, a Cup∣boord, a Court-cupboord (with∣out box or drawe••) only to set plate on.
• DROLE, gaillard, de belle humeur, j••cund, cheerful, plea∣sant, merry, good company.
• Il est fort drole, he is good com∣pany.
• ... Un Drole, un bon Compa∣gnon, toûjours pret à passer le

• tems, a good fellow, a boon com∣panion, one that cares not which end go's forward, or how the World go's with him.
• Un plaisant drole, a wag, a droll, a merry grig.
• O le plaisant drole que c'est! oh! what a pleasant droll he is!
• C'est un fin drole, he is a cun∣ning fellow.
• Drolerie (f.) action d'un Dro∣le, waggery, merry pranks, or ro∣guery.
• DROMEDAIRE (m.) sor∣te de Chameau, a Dromeda∣ry, or great beast of burden like a Camel, very swift and hardy, and of little charge to him that u∣seth him.
• DRU, épais, thick, close to∣gether.
• La neige tombe dru & menu, the snow falls thick, but in little flakes.