GLOSSARY. ABATE, to depress, sink, subdue. Approof, proof, approbation ABC-book, a catechism. Abjects, servile persons. Able, to qualify or uphold. Abortive, issuing before its time. Absolute, highly accomplished, Abused, deceived. Aby, to pay dear for. Abysm, abyss. Accuse, accusation. Achieve, to obtain. Acquittance, requital. [perfect. Approve, to justify, to make good, to establish, to recommend to approbation. Approved, felt, experienced, con victed by proof Approvers, persons who try Aqua-vitæ, strong waters [galleons Action, direction by mute signs, Argosies, ships of great burthen, charge or accusation. Action-taking, litigious. Additions, titles or descriptions. Address, to make ready. Addressed, or addrest, ready. Advance, to prefer, to raise to ho Adversity, contrariety. Advertisement, admonition. [nour. Advertising, attentive. Advice, consideration, discretion, thought. Advise, to consider, recollect. Argument, subject for conversation, evidence, proof Arm, to take up in the arms Aroint, avaunt, begone (another Articulate, to enter into articles Aspect, countenance Advised, not precipitant, cool, Aspersion, sprinkling Afeard, afraid. Affect, love. [cautious. Assay, test Assinego, a he-ass Affection, affectation, imagina- Assurance, conveyance or deed tion, disposition, quality. Affectioned, affected. Affections, passions, inordinate de Affeered, confirmed. Affied, betrothed. Affined, joined by affinity. [sires. Affy, to betroth in marriage. Aglet-baby, a diminutive being. Agnize, ackowledge, confess. A-good, in good earnest. Aiery, the nest of an f an eagle or hawk Aim, guess, encouragement, sus picion Assured, affianced cites bloodshed Atomies, minute particles discernible in a stream of sunshine that breaks into a dark ened room, atoms Atone, to reconcile Base, a rustic game, called pri- knights on horseback Basilisks, a species of cannon Basta, Spanish, 'tis enough Bastard, raisin wine Bat, a club or staff Bate, strife, contention Bate, to flutter as a hawk washers of clothes Batten, to grow fat Battle, army Bavin, brush wood Bawcock, a jolly cock Bay, the space between the main Bay-window, bow window, one Beat, in falconry, to flutter Attasked, reprehended, corrected Becomed, becoming Attended, waited for Attent, attentive Attorney, deputation Alder-liefest, beloved above all Attorneyship, the discretional Ale, a merry meeting Allowance, approbation [things agency of another Attornied, supplied by substitution of embassies [or gives Attributive, that which attributes Amaze, to perplex or confuse Blank, the white mark at which Bush, the sign of a public-house [an arrow is shot, Busky, woody. See Bosky Blast, burst Blear, to deceive Blent, blended, mixed Blind-worm, the slow-worm Blood-boltered, daubed with blood Blows, swells Blunt, stupid, insensible Board, to accost, to address Bobb, to trick, to make a fool of Bodged, boggled, made bungling [work Bold, confident, to embolden Bolted, sifted, refined But, only, unless, except Ceremonies, honorary ornaments, Ceremonious, superstitious [command Cess, measure Buxom, obedient, under good C [don Chace, a term at tennis Caddis, a narrow worsted gal- Changeling, a child changed Cade, a barrel. Cage, a prison [loon Cain-coloured, yellow [scoundrel Bolting hutch, the receptacle in Callet, a lewd woman which the meal is bolted Bombard, or bumbard, a barrel Bombast, the stuffing of clothes Bona-robas, strumpets Bond, bounden duty [looking Bony, or bonny, handsome, good- Boot, profit, advantage, some thing over and above Bore, demeaned Calling, appellation Calm, qualm Canary, a sprightly nimble dance Canker, the dog-rose. Cantel, or Cantle, a corner or piece Cantons, cantos Bore, the caliber of a gun, the ca- Canvas-climber, pacity of the barrel Bores, stabs or wounds Bosky, woody Bosom, wish, heart's desire Bots, worms in the stomach of a Brace, armour for the arm, state Braid, crafty or deceitful Brake, a thicket, furze-bush Brave, to make fine or splendid Breach, of the sea, breaking Bravery, showy dress Brawl, a kind of dance of the Breast, voice, surface [sea [practice [of any thing a sailor who climbs to adjust the sails Cap, the top, the principal [cap Capitulate, to make head Captious, capacious or recipient Carbonadoed, scotched like meat Card, perhaps a sea-chart [care Careires, the motion of a horse Breathed, inured by constant Breeched, sheathed [punishment Brief, a short account, letter, or enumeration Carper, a critic Carpet-consideration, on a carpe, Cart, a chariot [outside-garb Case, contemptuously for skin, Cassock, a horseman's great-coat Channel, a kennel [writing Charitable, dear, endearing Charneco, a sort of sweet wine Chiding, sound Chiding, noisy Child, a female infant Childing, unseasonably pregnant [ment Chrystals, eyes Ciial, recital [human Cite, to incite, to show, to prove Clear, pure, blameless, innocent, Clearest, purest, freest from evil Cast, cast up, reckoned Cobloaf, a crusty, uneven loaf Cockle, a weed Cockled, inshelled like a cockle [apple Codling, anciently an immature Coigne, corner Cold, naked [tion Control, to confute inter course, conduct, behaviour Convey, to perform rm slight of Conveyance, theft, fraud [convict Collect, to assemble by observa- Convicted, overpowered, baffled Collection, corollary, consequence ⚫highest reproach Colour, pretence Colourable, specious Colours, appearances, deceits Colt, to fool, to trick Co-mart, a joint bargain Combine, to bind Combined, bound by agreement Comforting, aiding Commence, to give a beginning Commended, Commended, committed Commission, authority, power Commodity, interest, profit Commonty, a comedy Convive, to feast Cope, to encounter, to engage Copped, rising to a cop, or head Corky, dry, withered, husky Corners, by-places Costard, the head Coster-monger, meanly, Cote, to overtake. merce- Dank, wet, rotten [garded Danskers, natives of Denmark [nary Danger, reach or control Coted, quoted, observed, or re- Dare, to challenge or incite Cotsale, Cotswood in Gloucester- Dark-house, a house made gloomy Count, to make account, to rec- Darkling, in the dark Covered, hollow [shire by discontent Compact, made up of Companion, fellow kon upon [man Darraign, to arrange, put in or Company, companion [der [risons hypocrisy [trait Day-bed, a couch [tion Day-light, broad-day Count Confect, a specious noble- Daub, to disguise Comparative, a dealer in compa- Countenance, false appearance, Daubery, falsehood and imposi Compare, comparison Compassed, round Counterfeit, a likeness, a por Compassionate, plaintive [ciates Counterpoints, counterpanes Competitors, confederates or asso- County, count, earl Complements, accomplishments Cower, to sink by bending the Complexion, humour Comply, to compliment [tion hams [large tub Cowl-staff, a staff for carrying a Compose, to come to a composi- Day-woman, dairy-maid those infected by the plague: Deceivable, deceptious Deem, opinion, surmise Concent, connected harmony in Crack, a boy or child, a boy-child Defeat, destruction Coney-catched, deceived, cheated Coney-catcher, a cheat, or sharper Confession, profession Conject, conjecture Conjecture, suspicion [to consume Consent, to agree Consent, conspiracy, will, assent, Consort, to keep company with Contemptible, contemptuous Contrarious, different contract Craven, a degenerate, dispirited [cowardly Craven, mean, cowardly, to make Credent, creditable, credible dulity [beacon Credit, a great light set upon a Cressive, increasing Crestless, those who have no right to arms [bent, hollow Crisp, curling, winding, curled, Critic, cynic Crone, an old worn-out woman [cross Crowned, dignified, adorned of the preceding speech Cuisses, armour for the thighs Contrive, to spend and wear out Curb, to bend or truckle [to last Diffused, extravagant, irregular Digress, to deviate from the right Digression, transgression Direction, judgment, skill Discontenting, discontented Disdained, disdainful Disease, uneasiness, discontent Diseases, sayings Disgrace, hardship, injury Dislimns, unpaints, obliterates Dispark, to destroy a park Disponge, discharge as a sponge Dispose, to make terms, to settle matters Drab, whoring Draught, the jakes Drawn, embowelled, exonerated Dread, epithet applied to kings Dribbling, a term of contempt Drollery, a show performed by Drugs, drudges Ecstasy, alienation of mind, mad- Eftest, deftest, readiest Eld, old time, or persons practice previous Embossed, inclosed, swollen, puffy Embowelled, exhausted Embraced, indulged in Eminence, high honours Empery, dominion, sovereign Fading, the burthen of a song command [contention Fain, fond Emulation, rivalry, envy, factious Fair, beauty, complexion, fairness Encave, to hide [rity honourably affianced Enfeoff, to invest with possession tary machine, the rack Engross, to fatten, to pamper Enmen, to coop up Faith, fidelity Faithful, not an infidel False, to make false Ensconce, to protect as with a fort Falsely, dishonestly, treacherous Enseamed, greasy Entertain, to retain in service army, admission to office Entreatments, the objects of en Equipage, stolen goods Esperance, the motto of the Percy Espials, spies Essential, existent, real Estimation, conjecture [family [equal, fellow Even, calm, equitable, temperate, Even, to act up to Examined, questioned, doubted Excrements, the hair, nails, fea. [confession Exhale, hale or lug out FL Expect, expectation Expiate, fully completed [spirits Fell-feats, savage practices Fester, to corrupemplice federate [puppets Expostulate, to inquire or discuss Festinately, hastily [of a hound Flewed, having the flews or chaps Flush, mature, ripe Folly, depravity of mind Fond, foolish, or prized by folly Fonder, more weak or foolish Fondly, foolishly [head of a fool Focls zanies, baubles with the Foot-cloth, a housing covering the body of the horse, and almost reaching to the ground For, for that, since, because Force, power Force, to enforce, to urge Forced, false Fordid, destroyed Fordo, to undo, to destroy Forfended, prohibited, forbidden employed in foreign em Forepast, already had [bassies Fore-slow, to be dilatory, to loiter Forestall, to prevent by anticipa tion Forgetive, inventive, imaginative Forked, horned Formal, not out of form, regular, sensible, in form, in shape Former, foremost Forspent, wasted, exhausted Forspoke, contradicted, spoken Forthesming, in custody [against Forwearied, worn out Foul, homely, not fair [fect Green, unripe, not fully formed [dict [a wanton Gainsay, to unsay, deny, contra. Gait, way or steps Galliard, an ancient dance Galliasses, a species of galleys Gallowglasses, heavy armed foot Gallow, to scare or frighten Gallymamfry, a medley Game, sport, jest Gamester, a frolicksome person, Gaping, shouting or roaring Garboils, commotion, stir Garish, gaudy, showy Garner, to treasure up Gasted, frightened Gandy, a festival day Gands, baubles, toys Gaze, attention [or matters Gear, a general word for things Greenly, awkwardly, unskilfully. Greets, pleases Grief, pain, grievances Grief's, grievances, wrongs Grievances, sorrows, sorrowful af Grieve, to lament for Grise, a step [fections Grossly, palpably Growing, accruing Guards, badges of dignity Guinea-hen, a prostitute Gules, red, a term in heraldry Gulf, the swallow, the the throat Gun-stones, cannon-balls Gurnet, a fish resembling a piper Gust, taste, rashness Gyve, to catch, to Gyves, shackles H shackle Gentle, noble, high-minded, be- Hair, complexion or character longing to gentry Gentry, complaisance German, akin Germins, seeds begun to sprout Gest, a stage or journey Gifts, endowments Gird, a sarcasm or gibe, emotion [upon Gloze, to expound, to comment Good-deed, indeed, in very deed Good-life, of a moral or jovial turn For, a cant word for a sword Forship, mean, cunning Frampold, peevish, fretful, or Frank, a sty Franklin, a little gentleman or [nerous freeholder Free, artless, free from art, gePret, the stop of a musical instrument, which regulates the vibration of the string tend lyings-in Gossomer, the the white cobweb-like exhalations that fly about in hot sunny weather Government, evenness of temper, decency of manners Happily, accidentally, fortunately Happy, accomplished Hardiment, bravery, stoutness Harlot, a cheat |