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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
Arbitrate, to determine
Arch, chief
Argentine, silver
Argier, Algiers

[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
A-rom, successively, one after
Art, practice as distinguished
from theory, theory

Articulate, to enter into articles
Articulated, exhibited in articles
Artificial, ingenious, artful
As, as if

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.
Affront, to meet or face.

[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
Astringer, a falconer
Ates, instigation from Ate, the
mischievous goddess that in

cites bloodshed

Atomies, minute particles discernible in a stream of sunshine that breaks into a dark

ened room, atoms

Atone, to reconcile

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Base, a rustic game, called pri-
Bases, a kind of dress used by

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
Batlet, an instrument used by

washers of clothes

Batten, to grow fat

Battle, army

Bavin, brush wood

Bawcock, a jolly cock

Bay, the space between the main
beams of a roof

Bay-window, bow window, one
in a recess
[sprit
Beak, the forecastle, or the bolt.
Beard, to oppose in a hostile
manner, to set at defiance.
Bearing, carriage, demeanour
Bearing-cloth, a mantle used at
christenings

Beat, in falconry, to flutter
Beating, ham hammering, dwelling
Beaver, helmet in general [upon
Beck, a salutation made with the
[head

Attasked, reprehended, corrected Becomed, becoming

Attended, waited for Attent, attentive

Attorney, deputation

Alder-liefest, beloved above all Attorneyship, the discretional

Ale, a merry meeting
Allow, to approve

Allowance, approbation

[things

agency of another

Attornied, supplied by substitution of embassies

[or gives

Attributive, that which attributes

Amaze, to perplex or confuse
Ames-ace, the lowest chance of Avaunt, contemptuous dismission

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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
Blench, to start off

Blent, blended, mixed

Blind-worm, the slow-worm
Blistered, puffed out like blisters
Blood, ancestry, high spirits, true
metal, passions, natural propen-
sities

Blood-boltered, daubed with blood
Blown, puffed or swollen

Blows, swells

Blunt, stupid, insensible

Board, to accost, to address

Bobb, to trick, to make a fool of

Bodged, boggled, made bungling
Bodkin, a small dagger

[work

Bold, confident, to embolden
Boldness, confidence

Bolted, sifted, refined

But, only, unless, except
Butt-shaft, an arrow to shoot at
butts with

Ceremonies, honorary ornaments,
tokens of respect

Ceremonious, superstitious
Certes, certainty, in truth

[command Cess, measure

Buxom, obedient, under good
By, according to, by means of
By'rlakin, by our ladykin or little
lady

C

[don

Chace, a term at tennis
Chair, throne
Chamber, ancient name for Lon-
Chamber, a species of great gun
Chamberers, men of intrigue
Champain, an open country
Chance, fortune

Caddis, a narrow worsted gal- Changeling, a child changed

Cade, a barrel.
Cadent, falling

Cage, a prison

[loon

Cain-coloured, yellow [scoundrel
Caitiff, a prisoner, a slave, a
Calculate, to foretell or prophesy
Caliver, a species of musket
Call, to visit

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-
Book, paper of conditions

Boot, profit, advantage, some

thing over and above

Bore, demeaned

Calling, appellation

Calm, qualm

Canary, a sprightly nimble dance
Candle-waisters, those who sit up
all night to drink.

Canker, the dog-rose.
Canstick, candlestick

Cantel, or Cantle, a corner or piece

Cantons, cantos
Canvas, to sift

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
Bourn, boundary, rivulet [horse
Bow, yoke
[of defence

Brace, armour for the arm, state
Brach, a species of hound

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

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[practice

[of any thing

a sailor who

climbs to adjust the sails

Cap, the top, the principal [cap
Cap, to salute by taking off the
Capable, perceptible, intelligent,
quick of apprehension, ample,
capacious

Capitulate, to make head
Capon, metaphor for a letter
Capricious, lascivious

Captious, capacious or recipient
Carack, a ship of great bulk

Carbonadoed, scotched like meat
for the gridiron

Card, perhaps a sea-chart
Care, to make make provision, to take
Care, inclination

[care

Careires, the motion of a horse
Carkanet, necklace or chain
Carl, clown or husbandman

Breathed, inured by constant
Breathing, complimentary. Carlot, peasant

Breeched, sheathed [punishment
Breeching, liable to school-boy
Bridal, the nuptial feast

Brief, a short account, letter, or

enumeration

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Carper, a critic

Carpet-consideration, on a carpe,
Carriage, import [a festivity
Carried, conducted or managed
Carry, to prevail over

Cart, a chariot

[outside-garb

Case, contemptuously for skin,
Case, to strip naked
Casques, helmets

Cassock, a horseman's great-coat
Cast, to empty as a pond, to dis-
miss or reject

Channel, a kennel [writing
Character, description, hand-
Character, to write, to infix
strongly [letters are made
Charactery, the matter with which
Chares, task-work
Charge, to put to expense
Charge, commission, employment
Charge-house, the free-school
Chariest, most cautious
Chariness, caution

Charitable, dear, endearing
Charles's-wain, the constellation
called the Bear

Charneco, a sort of sweet wine
Charter, a privilege
Chaudron, entrails
Cheater, escheator, an officer in
the exchequer; a gamester
Check, command, control
Check, to object to, to rebuke
Checks, probably for ethics
Cheer, countenance
[stones
Cherry-pit, a play with cherry.
Cheveril, soft or kid leather
Chew, to ruminate, consider
Chemet, a noisy chattering bird
Chide, to resound, to echo, te
scold, to be clamorous

Chiding, sound

Chiding, noisy

Child, a female infant

Childing, unseasonably pregnant
Chopin, a high shoe or clog
Chough, a bird of the daw kind
Christom, the white cloth put on
a new baptized child

[ment

Chrystals, eyes
Chuck, chicken, a term of endear
Chuff, rich, avaricious
Cicatrice, the scar of a wound
Circumstance, detail of an argu
ment, a circumlocution

Ciial, recital

[human

Cite, to incite, to show, to prove
Civil, grave or solemn
Civil, human creature, any thing
Clack-dish, a beggar's-dish
Claw, to flatter

Clear, pure, blameless, innocent,
quite, fully, perfectly

Clearest, purest, freest from evil
Clear-story, a species of windows
in a church

Cast, cast up, reckoned
Castilian, an opprobrious term
Castiliano vulgo, a cant term of Cleave, to unite with closely

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Cobloaf, a crusty, uneven loaf
Cock, cock-boat

Cockle, a weed

Cockled, inshelled like a cockle
Cock-shut-time, twilight

[apple

Codling, anciently an immature
Coffin, the cavity of a raised pie
Cog, to falsify, to lie, to defraud
Cognizance, the badge or token

Coigne, corner
Coil, bustle, stir

Cold, naked

[tion

Control, to confute
Convent, to serve or agree
Convented, cited, summoned
Conversation, familiar

inter

course, conduct, behaviour
Converse, interchange
Conversion, change of condition
Convertite, convert

Convey, to perform rm slight of
hand, to manage artfully

Conveyance, theft, fraud [convict
Convince, to overpower, subdue,

Collect, to assemble by observa- Convicted, overpowered, baffled

Collection, corollary, consequence
Collied, black, smutted with coal
Collier, formerly a term of the

⚫highest reproach

Colour, pretence

Colourable, specious

Colours, appearances, deceits

Colt, to fool, to trick

Co-mart, a joint bargain
Combinate, betrothed

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
Cope, covering

Copped, rising to a cop, or head
Copy, theme
[couragement
Coragio, an exclamation of en-
Corinthian, a wencher

Corky, dry, withered, husky

Corners, by-places
Corollary, surplus
Coronet, a crown
Corrigible, corrected

Costard, the head

Coster-monger, meanly,

Cote, to overtake.

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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
Coy, to soothe or stroke
Coyed, condescended unwillingly
Coystril, a coward cock, a mean
or drunken fellow

Compose, to come to a composi-
Composition, contract or bargain,
consistency, concordancy
Composture, composition, com-
Comptible, submissive [post Cozier, a tailor or botcher

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Day-woman, dairy-maid
Dear, best, important, dire
Dearn, lonely, solitary
Death-tokens, spots appearing on

those infected by the plague:
D boshed, debauched
Decay, misfortunes

Deceivable, deceptious
Deck, to cover, a pack
Decline, to run through from first
Declined, the fallen

Deem, opinion, surmise

Concent, connected harmony in Crack, a boy or child, a boy-child Defeat, destruction

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Coney-catched, deceived, cheated

Coney-catcher, a cheat, or sharper

Confession, profession

Conject, conjecture

Conjecture, suspicion [to consume
Confound, to destroy, to expend,
Confounded, worn or wasted

Consent, to agree

Consent, conspiracy, will, assent,
Consigned, sealed [united voice
Consist, to stand upon
Consort, company

Consort, to keep company with
Constancy, consistency, stability
Constant, firm, determined
Constantly, certainly, without
fluctuation

Contemptible, contemptuous
Continent, the thing which con-
Continents, banks of rivers [tains
Continuate, uninterrupted
Contraction, marriage com

Contrarious, different

contract

Craven, a degenerate, dispirited

[cowardly

Craven, mean, cowardly, to make
Create, compounded, or made up

Credent, creditable, credible
Credit, account, information, cre-

dulity

[beacon

Credit, a great light set upon a

Cressive, increasing
Crest, the top, the height

Crestless, those who have no right

to arms

[bent, hollow

Crisp, curling, winding, curled,

Critic, cynic
Critical, censorious

Crone, an old worn-out woman
Crosses, money stamped with a
Crom, to exult over
Crow-keeper, a scare-crow
Crown, to conclude

[cross

Crowned, dignified, adorned
Crownet, last purpose
Cry, a troop or pack
Cue, in stage cant, the last words

of the preceding speech

Cuisses, armour for the thighs
Cullion, a despicable fellow
Cunning, sagacity, knowledge

Contrive, to spend and wear out Curb, to bend or truckle

[to last

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Diffused, extravagant, irregular

Digress, to deviate from the right

Digression, transgression
Dint, impression

Direction, judgment, skill
Disable, to undervalue
Disappointed, unprepared
Disclose, to hatch

Discontenting, discontented
Discontents, malcontents
Discourse, reason

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

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Drab, whoring

Draught, the jakes

Drawn, embowelled, exonerated

Dread, epithet applied to kings
Drew, assembled

Dribbling, a term of contempt
Drive, to fly with impetuosity

Drollery, a show performed by

Drugs, drudges

Ecstasy, alienation of mind, mad-
Effects, affects, or affections, ac-
tions, deeds effected

Eftest, deftest, readiest
Egypt, a gipsy

Eld, old time, or persons
Element, initiation,

practice

previous

Embossed, inclosed, swollen, puffy

Embowelled, exhausted

Embraced, indulged in

Eminence, high honours

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Empery, dominion, sovereign Fading, the burthen of a song

command

[contention Fain, fond

Emulation, rivalry, envy, factious Fair, beauty, complexion, fairness
Emulous, jealous of higher autho- Fair-betrothed, fairly contracted,

Encave, to hide

[rity honourably affianced

Enfeoff, to invest with possession
Engine, instrument of war, mili-

tary machine, the rack

Engross, to fatten, to pamper
Engrossments, accumulations
Enkindle, to stimulate

Enmen, to coop up

Faith, fidelity

Faithful, not an infidel
Faithfully, fervently
Faitors, traitors, rascals
Fall, to let fall, to drop
Fall, an ebb

False, to make false

Ensconce, to protect as with a fort Falsely, dishonestly, treacherous

Enseamed, greasy
Enshield, shielded

Entertain, to retain in service
Entertainment, the pay of an

army, admission to office

Entreatments, the objects of en
Envy, hatred or malice [treaty
Ephesian, a cant term for a toper

Equipage, stolen goods
Erewhile, just now
Erring, wandering
Escoted, paid
Esil, a river so called, or vinegar

Esperance, the motto of the Percy

Espials, spies

Essential, existent, real
Estimate, price

Estimation, conjecture
Eterne, eternal

[family

[equal, fellow

Even, calm, equitable, temperate,

Even, to act up to

Examined, questioned, doubted
Excrement, the beard

Excrements, the hair, nails, fea.
thers of birds, &c.
Execute, to employ, to put to use
Execution, employment or exer-
Executors, executioners [cise
Exempt, excluded
Exercise, exhortation, lecture, or

[confession

Exhale, hale or lug out
Exhibition, allowance
Exigent, end
Exorcist, a person who can raise

FL

Expect, expectation
Expedient, expeditious

Expiate, fully completed

[spirits

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Fell-feats, savage practices
Fellow, companion
Fence, the art of, or skill in de
Feodary, an

Fester, to corrupemplice federate

[puppets Expostulate, to inquire or discuss Festinately, hastily

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[of a hound

Flewed, having the flews or chaps
Flickering, fluttering like the
motion of a flame
Flight, a sort of shooting
Flourish, ornament
Flote, wave

Flush, mature, ripe
Foeman, an enemy in war
Foin, to thrust in fencing
Foizon, plenty

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
Forbid, under interdiction

Force, power

Force, to enforce, to urge
Force, to stuff

Forced, false

Fordid, destroyed

Fordo, to undo, to destroy
Foredone, overcome

Forfended, prohibited, forbidden
Foreign,

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
Geck, a fool
General, generality
General, compendious
Generation, children
Generosity, high birth
Generous, most noble
Gentility, urbanity

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
Groundlings, the frequenters of
the pit in the playhouse

Growing, accruing
Guard, defence
Guard, to fringe or 1 ce
Guarded, ornamented

Guards, badges of dignity
Guerdon, reward
Guerdoned, rewarded
Guiled, treacherous

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

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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
Gib, a cat

Gifts, endowments
Giglot, a wanton wench [or 28.
Gilder, a coin valued at Is. 6d.
Gilt, gilding, golden inoney
Gimmall, a ring or engine
Ging, a gang

Gird, a sarcasm or gibe, emotion
Gleek, to joke or scoff, to beguile
Glimmering, faintly illuminated
by the stars

[upon

Gloze, to expound, to comment
Glut, to englut or swallow up
Gnarled, knotted

Good-deed, indeed, in very deed
Good-den, good evening

Good-life, of a moral or jovial turn
Good jer, gougere, morbus galli-
Gorbellied, fat and corpulent [cus
[cross Gossips, tattling women who at-

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
Harlocks, wild mustard

Harlot, a cheat

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