Brewer's: Renarder

(French). To vomit, especially after too freely indulging intoxicating drinks. Our word fox means also to be tipsy.

Il luy visite la machoire, Quand l'autre luy renarde aux yeux. Le baume qu'ils venoient de boire Pour se le rendre a qui mieux mieux.

Sicur de St. Amant: Chambre de Desbauche.

Renata Renée, daughter of Louis XII. and Anne of Bretagne, married Hercules, second son of Lucretia Borgia and Alphonso.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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