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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• GEANT (m.) a Giant, a man of an huge stature or size.
• Geantin, Giant-like, or huge bodied
• GEAY (m.) sorte d'Oiseau, a Jay.
• Crier comme le Geay, to chat∣ter, as doth a Jay.
• GEHENNE. V. Gène.
• GELEE (f.) frost.
• Gelée blanche, hoar-frost.
• Gelée de viande, jelly, jelly of meat.
• Gelée de framboises, de raisins de corinthe, a jelly of rasberry's, a jelly of currants.
• Gelée de prunes, a quiddeny of plums.
• Geler, fairegeler, to congeal, or make to freeze.
• Le froid gele l'eau, cold weather congeales the water, or makes it to freeze.
• Geler, se geler, to freeze.
• Gele-t-il? doth it freeze?
• Il gele si fort que l'eau se glace en tombant, it freezes so very hard that the water congeals it self as its falls.
• Gelé, congealed, or frozen.
• Tout est gelé, all is frozen.
• Gelement (m.) a freezing.
• † GELINE (f.) poule, a hen.
• Gelinote (f.) femelle de Fai∣san, a pheasant hen.
• Gelinote d'eau, a water-hen.
• GEMEAUX, Signe Celeste, Gemini, one of the XII. Celesti∣all Signes.
• GEMIR, to groan, sigh, sob, or lament.
• Il gemit son malheur, he laments his misfortune.
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• Gemissement (m.) a groaning, sighing, sobbing, or lamen∣ting.
• GENCIVE (f.) the gum, the gum wherein the teeth be set.
• GENDARME (m.) homme de Guerre, a Souldier, a man of Arms.
• Gendarme, homme d'ordon∣nance, homme de cheval, armé de toutes pieces, an Horseman ar∣med at all points, one that serves in compleat armour and on a great horse.
• Se Gendarmer, se mettre en humeur de se batre, to prepare himself for a scuffling.
• Gendarmerie (f.) Cavalerie de Gendarmes, a Body of great Horse, of compleat Horsemen, or men of Arms.
• GENDRE (m.) a Son in Law, (by the marriage of a Daugh∣ter.)
• GENE, marc de raisins pre∣ssurez, the husks (or skins) of grapes after the last pres∣sing.
• Prendre la gêne, to cure a di∣sease with husks or skins of grapes.
• Gêne, torture de Criminel, rack, or torture.
• Appliquer un Criminel à la gê∣ne, lui donner la gêne, to put a malefactor to the rack.
• Mettre son esprit à la gêne, to torture his mind, to vex (or trouble) himself.
• Etre dans une gêne continuel∣le, to be in continuall tor∣ment.
• Gêner, tourmenter, fâcher quêcun, to vex, trouble, perplex, or torment one.
• Cette chose me gêne fort, this thing vexes me much.
• Cet homme là me gêne fort, sa compagnie est gênante, that mans company is troublesom (or is a burden) to me.
• Il me gêne, je ne suis pas en li∣berté, lors que je suis avec lui, I am not my own man, I have not my freedom, when I am in his com∣pany.
• Gêné, tourmenté, vexed, trou∣bled, perplexed, or tormen∣ted.
• GENEALOGIE (f.) a genea∣logy, or pedigree.
• Faire sa genealogie, to make a description of his pedigree.
• Faiseur de genealogie, one that professeth skill in Genealo∣gies.
• Genealogique, of (or belonging to) a genealogy, or pedi∣gree.
• Arbre genealogique, the stock and branches of a family.
• *Gêner, & Gêné. V. Gê∣ne.
• GENERAL, universel, gene∣rall, common, or universal.
• En general, generalement, gene∣rally, or in general.
• Un General, un General d'Ar∣mée, a General, or Chief Comman∣der of an Army.
• General de la Cavalerie, the Ge∣nerall of the Cavalry.
• General de l'Infanterie, Generall of the Infantry.
• General des Finances, a Generall of the Finances, one of those great Officers who receive the Kings Re∣venues, each of them within his limits.
• General d'une Religion, a Gene∣rall of an Order of Friars.
• La Place de General, the Place of a General.
• Generalité (f.) generality, or universality.
• Generalité des Tresoriers de France, a Generality, or Place of generall Receipt of the Finan∣ces.
• Generalement, en general, ge∣nerally, or in general.
• GENERATION (f.) action d'engendrer, a generating, in∣gendring, begetting, or bree∣ding.
• Generation, extraction, a Gene∣ration.
• Y eut il jamais aucune genera∣tion d hommes plus importune que cette sorte de gens? was there ever a generation of men more troublesom than that sort of people?
• Generateur (m.) a progenitor, a begetter, or father.
• Generatif, Genital, generative, of an ingendring faculty, or bree∣ding power.
• Genitif, Cas Genitif, Genitive, or the Genitive Case.
• Genitoires (m.) the genitals, or genitories, the stones, the privy parts, or instruments of generati∣on.
• Geniture, the same as Genera∣tion.
• GENEREUX, liberal, ga∣lant, generous, liberall, noble.
• Genereux, vaillant, generous, stout, or valiant.
• Generosité, liberalité, genero∣sity, liberality, nobleness.
• Generosité, valeur, generosity, stoutness, courage, or valour.
• Genereusement, galamment, generously, liberally, nobly, or gal∣lantly.
• Genereusement, vaillamment, generously, stoutly, valiantly, or valorously.
• GENET (m.) sorte de plan∣te, Broom, but especially that kind thereof which is called bastard Spanish Broom.
• Genet, ou Cheval d'Espagne, a Genet, or Spanish horse.
• GENEVRE (m.) Juniper.
• Grain (ou fruit) de genevre, Juniper-berry.
• Genevrier, ou Genevre, l'ar∣bre, the Juniper tree.
• GENIE, Ange, a Genius, or An∣gel.
• Bon Genie, & mauvais Genie, a good and evil Angel (that the Hea∣thens thought to be appointed to each man to guide and defend, or to punish him.)
• Genie, ou Inclination d'une personne à quêque chose, ones genius, or inclination to some∣thing.
• Genie, ou esprit, genius, or wit.
• Il a un fort bon genie, he hath a very good genius, he hath a great deal of wit.
• GENISSE (f.) petite vache, an heifer.
• *Genital, Genitif, Genitoire, & Geniture. V. under Genera∣tion.
• GENNE. V. Gêne.
• GENOU, ou GENOUIL (m.) the knee.
• Plier un genoû, to bend a knee.
• Se mettre à genoux, to fall upon his knees.
• Se jetter aux genoux de quê∣cun, to fall upon his knees before one.
• Etre à genoux, to be upon his knees.
• Les genoux me faillent, me manquent, my knees fail me.
• Quand il se sentit defaillir, il s'assit sur ses genoux, when he felt himself fainting, he fell upon his knees.
• Un genou à tèrre, one knee upon the ground.
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• Genouillere (f.) Genouillere de Gendarme, pully-pieces, an Ar∣mour for the knees.
• Genouilleres de botes, the tops of a pair of boots.
• Genouillé, qui a des neuds, knotty, kneed, full of joynts as the stalk of some herbs.
• Genouillée (f) sorte d'herbe, kneed grass.
• GENRE (m.) gender.
• Le Genre masculin & feminin, the masculine and feminine Gen∣der.
• Un Genre de Vie, a course of life.
• Choisir un genre de vie, to fix upon a certain course of life.
• GENT (f.) Nation, a People, or a Nation.
• Gens, personnes, men, people, or folk.
• Quelles gens sont cela? what men are these?
• Ce sont de mauvaises gens, they are an ill sort of people.
• Gens de pié & de cheval, the footmen and the horse of an Ar∣my.
• Gens d'Eglise, Church-men, Clergy men.
• Gens de Justice, Gens tenans la Cour du Parlement, the Coun∣sellors (or Judges) of a Court of Ju∣dicature.
• Les Gens du Roi, the Kings Counsel learned, his Atturney and Sollicitor.
• Gens de métier, tradesmen, ar∣tificers, or handicrafts-men.
• Ges gens de bien, good people.
• Gens, domestiques, the ordinary Attendants (or followers) of a great person.
• Il commanda à un de ses gens de les appeler, he commanded one of his Servants to call them.
• Lastly, Note that Gens is not to be used with a number set before it. Whereupon see the word Hom∣me.
• GENTIANE (f.) sorte d'herbe, the gentian, bitter-wort, or se••••-wort.
• GENTIL, joli, pretty, quaint, gracious, or having a pretty way with him.
• C'est un enfant fort gentil, he is a very pretty child.
• Faucon gentil, faulcon gen∣tle.
• Gentillesse (f.) pretty carriage, or good grace.
• Gentillesses, choses curieuses, pretty conceits, devices, knacks, feats, or tricks.
• Gentiment, prettily, quaintly, neatly, handsomly.
• GENTIL-HOMME (m.) a Gentleman, a Gentleman born.
• Gentilhomme de la Chambre du Roi, a Gentleman of the Kings Bed-chamber.
• Gentilhomme Servant, a Wai∣ter (or Attendant) on the King at meal-times.
• †Les GENTILS, ou Paiens, the Gentiles, or the Heathens.
• GEOGRAPHIE (f.) descri∣ption de la Terre, Geography, or the Description of the Earth.
• L'Etude de la Geographie est une étude aisée, tres utile, & divertissante, the Study of Geo∣graphy is an easy, useful, and plea∣sant study.
• Geographe (m) a Geogra∣pher.
• Geographique, Geographi∣call.
• † GEOLE, ou Prison, a Jail, or Prison.
• Geolier (m.) a Jailor, or Keep∣er of a Prison.
• Geolage (m.) the fee that's due to a Jailor at the entry and departure of a Prisoner.
• GEOMETRIE (f.) Geometry, the measuring (or proportioning) of figures.
• Geometre (m.) a Geometri∣cian, one that professeth (or that hath skill in) Geometry.
• Geometrique, Geometrical, of (or belonging to) Geometry.
• Pié Geometrique, the geometri∣cal foot, which is the breadth of four hands, or sixteen fingers.
• GERBE (f.) gerbe de blé, a sheaf of corn.
• Faire des gerbes, to make up sheaves, or bind up into sheaves.
• Gerbier (m) an heap of sheaves, or a stack of corn.
• GERFAU (m.) a Gerfaulcon, the greatest of hawks.
• * Germain. V. Germe.
• GERMANDREE (f.) sorte d'herbe, Germander, English treacle (an herb.)
• GERME (m.) germe d'ar∣bres ou d'herbes, young buds, shoots, or sprigs.
• Germe d'ail, ou d'oignon, the middle stalks which are between the blades and roots of garlick or onions.
• Germe d'oeuf, the sperm of an egg, the little string which is on either side of the yolk of a raw egg.
• Un oeuf sans germe, an addle egg.
• Faux-germe de femme, a Moon-calf, an hard swelling or shape∣less piece of flesh in a womans womb, causing her to seem with child.
• Germer, to bud, or to put forth.
• Un Arbre qui commence à germer, a tree that begins to bud.
• La terre ensemencée de cer∣taines graines germe dans trois jours, some seeds will come up in three dayes time.
• Achever de germer, to spring (or to bud) out.
• Germement (m.) producti∣on de germe, a budding, or put∣ting forth.
• Germain, germane, come of the same stock, or bred of the same kind.
• Cousin germain, a Cosin ger∣mane.
• Cousine germaine, a (she) Cosin germane.
• GERONDIF (m.) a Ge∣rund.
• GERSE (f.) ver qui ronge les livres & les habits, a moth, a kind of worm that eats books and garments.
• Gerser, to cleave (rive, or cut) in many places, and by small clefts.
• Gersure (f.) a small cleft, rift, or chink.
• GESIER (m.) gesier d'oiseau, mulette d'estomac, gisard, the gisard of a bird.
• GESNE. V. Gêne.
• GESSE (f.) sorte de legume, chichlings, a sort of pease.
• GESTE (m.) action de celui qui parle, gesture, action, or motion of the body when one speaks.
• Un beau geste, a fine way of de∣livery.
• Un mauvais geste, an odd way of delivery.
• Un geste compassé, a regular (or exact) gesture.
• Un geste dégagé, a free gesture, or a free way of delivery.
• Faire trop de gestes, to be too full of action, to bestir himself too much.
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• Il parle plus par gestes qu'a∣vec la langue, he speaks more with his hands than with his tongue.
• Gestes, faits remarquables, deeds, or exploits of War.