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GLOSSARIAL INDEX.

ABATE, to blunt, 418

Abated, subdued, depressed, 623

Advised, assured, aware, persuaded, 33, 90, 242, 294
Affect, to love, 98

Abhominable, antiquated spelling of abominable, Affect the letter, to use alliteration, 103

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Accost, approach, 200

Account of, to value, to appreciate, 18

Affection, affectation, imagination, 107, 217
Affectioned, affected, 204

Affeer, to assess, or confirm, 515

Affined, bound, 459, 467

Affray, to frighten, 452

Affront, to confront, to encounter, 546
Affy, betroth, 396

Affy, to confide, 674

Against the hair, against the grain, 563
Agate-ring, 279..

Aglet-baby, a diminutive figure carved on a jewel,

167, 296

Agnize, to acknowledge, 463

Agood, in good earnest, 28

Aim, to guess, to surinise, 22, 461

Aim! cry aim! to encourage, 29
Aim, to give, to direct, 29, 71

Ache (a noun), pronounced ache, and forming a Ajax, a jakes, 111

riddle with the letter H, 88, 666

Aches (a noun), pronounced akes, 4

Acknown, known, 471

Acquaintance, amity, 738

Across, to break, a tilt-yard technical, 92, 184

Acture, action, 746

Adamant, loadstone, 117

Adam, old, a serjeant, 74
Addiction, inclination, 466

Additions, qualities, titles, characteristics, 186, 540,
563

Address, to prepare, to make ready, 42, 99, 125, 135,

162, 307

Admittance, vogue, fashion, 36

Advice, consideration, representation, 143, 318

Albany, an ancient name for Scotland, 482
Alder-liefest, all-dearest, dearest of all, 289
A'life, as life, 228

All at once, a trite phrase, 390

Allons! let us go, 106, 107

Allow, to approve, 491

Allowed, licensed, 110

Allowing, allowed, lawful, 217
All-thing, every way, 510

Alms-drink, a portion of liquor drunk to relieve a
companion, 658

Althea's dream, 298

Amazing, confounding, appalling, 47, 256
Ames-ace, both aces, 186
Amiss, a fault, 744

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Ari-gaunt, 653

Aroint begone! avaunt! 505

A-row, one after another, successively, 76

Arrive, to arrive at, 634

Articulate, to enter into articles, 614

Articulated, circumstantially drawn out, 289
Artificial, ingenious, 121

Artist, a scholar, 565

Aspersion, sprinkling, II

Assinego, an ass, 567

Assured, affianced, 72, 242

Astonished, thunderstruck, 738

At friend, on terms of friendship, 234

Atomies, mites, 443

Atomies, atoms, 156, 319

Atone, to reconcile, 255, 587

Attasked, taxed, charged, 487

Attorney, advocate, pleader, 709

Aunts, wenches, 226

Awful, authorised, lawful, 305

Awful men, men of worth and authority, 25
Awkward, distorted, contrary, 319, 364

BACCARE, stand back, 169

Baffled, treated with ignominy, 255
Baldrick, a belt, 80

Balked, ridged, heaped up, 273.

Balk logic, to dispute, to wrangle, 165
Ballow, a pole or staff, 500

Ban, to curse, 709

Banbury cheese, a thin cheese, 31
Band, a bond, 74

Ban-dog, perhaps a dog chained or banded, 357

Banquet, a dessert, 179

Barbason, a fiend, 37, 300

Barbed, caparisoned, 394

Bare the beard, to shave the beard, 61
Barm, yeast, 116

Barns, bairns, 88

Base-court, lower court, 265

Bases, an embroidered mantle, hanging from the
waist to the knee, worn by knights on horse-
back; also the housings of a horse; also the
hose, 694

Basilisks, huge pieces of ordnance, 278

Basta, enough, 166

Bastard, a sweet wine, 279

Bat, staff or club, 745

Bate, to blunt, 96

Batlet, a bat to beat linen with, 150

Batten, to feed, 551

Battle, an army, 324, 459, 487

Bavin, a faggot of brushwood, 284

Bawcock, beau coq, fine fellow, 209, 217

Bay-window, bow-window, 212

Becoming, self-restrained, 225
Bed-fellow, intimate friend, 317
Beetles, overhangs, 540

Beg a fool, to ask in wardship, 68
Begetter, one who gets or procures, 729
Beguiled, masked, disguised, 727
Behave, to control, 528

Belike, to favour, to approve, 516

Be-mete, to beat with a yard measure, 176
Bemoiled, bedraggled, 173.

Be naught a while, a mischief on you! 145
Bench hole, forica, 666

Benefit, a beneficiary, 352
Benumbed, stiff, inflexible, 569

Bergomask, a dance, 127

Bermoothes, the Bermudas, 3

Beshrew, to curse, to imprecate sorrow or evil on a

person, 108, 134

Besmirch, to soil, to befoul, 328, 539

Bessy, o'er the bourn, 494

Best, best one, an epithet of endearment, 652
Bestowed, secreted, stowed, 68
Bestraught, distracted, 164

Beteem, to allow, to suffer, 115, 538

Better penny, a proverbial phrase, 30
Bevel, crooked, 741

Bewray, to betray, to discover, 346, 375

Bezonian, a term of contempt, 312

Bias, a swelling out, 578

Bid, to invite, 133

Bid forth, invited out, 133

Biggin, a coif, 308

Bilberry, the whortleberry, 47

Bilbo, 31, 42

Bilboes, instruments of torture, fetters, 559
Bills, halberds, battle-axes, 87, 499

Bisson, blind, 546

Biting the thumb, a contemptuous action, 440
Blacks, mourning habiliments, 217

Blank, a mark in gunnery, 220

Blench, to flinch, to start off, 61, 218, 562
Blend, blended, 746

Bless the mark, 28, 132, 459
Blind-worm, slow-worm, 118, 513
Block, a hat-mould, 79

Blood in, with the blood up, 103

Blood-boltered, clotted with blood, 514

Blow, to swell, 666

Blue caps, the Scotch, 281
Blunt, dull, insensible, 391
Board, to accost, 200

Bob, to rap, to hit, 116, 151, 417
Bobbed, tricked, 478

Bodged, bungled, 377

Bodkin, a stiletto, a dagger, 547

Bodykins, God's, an oath, 546
Bolds, emboldens, 501
Bolted, sifted, 229
Boltered, clotted, 514
Bolters, sieves, 285

Bolting-hutch, the bin into which meal is boulted,
281

Bombard, or bumbard, a barrel, a capacious vessel,
sometimes of leather, for holding drink, 281,
458

Bombast, a sort of wadding used to fill out dresses,

113

Bona-robas, women of pleasure, 302

Bone-ache, the Neapolitan, 569, 572

Boot, help, advantage, 255, 348
Bordered, restrained, 496

Borne in hand, encouraged by delusive promises, gro
Borrowed, assumed, 747

Bead's-man, one whose duty is to offer up prayers Bosky, woody, 288
for another, 15, 353.

Bear a brain, to remember well, 442

Bear hard, to rein in from mistrust or fear, 635, 641
Bearing-cloth, an infant's mantle in which it is
carried to the font, 225

Bear in hand, to encourage, to buoy up, 91, 174,

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Bosom multiplied, many-stomached, 172
Bots, worms in the stomach of a horse, 173, 276
Bottled, bloated, 398

Bottom, to wind round, or upon, 23
Bought and sold, entrapped, betrayed, made a
victim, 347, 567
Bourn, boundary, 498, 547
Bow, yeke, 155
Bowed, bent, 426
Brach, a hound bitch, 163

Become, to adapt, to render fit, to adorn, 26, 154, Braid, false, deceitful, 193

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Braved, bedizened, ornamented, 152, 176
Bravery, finery, ostentation, 50, 152, 647
Braving, blustering, hectoring, 677
Break up, to carve, 102, 133

Break with him, to open the subject to him, 17, 637
Breast, voice, 204

Breath, a breathing, a combat for exercise, 578
Breathe in watering, to take breath while drinking,
279

Breeched, sheathed, mired, 509

Breed-bate, an exciter of quarrels, 33
Brewer's horse, 285

Brew good ale, a proverb, 24
Bribe-buck, 47

Brize, the gad, or horsefly, 565, 662

Broken music, the music of stringed instruments,
147, 571

Broker, a pander, a procuress, a cheat, 242,

745

Brooched, adorned, decorated, 669

Brooded, watchful, 245

Broom-groves, II

Brown-bastard, a sweet wine, 279

Brown-bill, a battle-axe, 499

Brownist, a follower of Brown, a sectary, 208
Bruit, report, 340, 390, 519, 538, 584
Buckle, to bend, 294

Buff, the dress of a sergeant, 73

Bug, a bugbear, a goblin, 551, 559, 603
Bulk, the breast, 542

Bully-rook, a jolly dog, 32

Bung, a cutpurse, 300

Burgonet, a helmet, 653

Burst, broken, 173, 304

Busky, bosky, woody, 288

Buxom, lusty, sprightly, buoyant, 323

Buz, buz!-an interjection of impatience, 545
Buzzard, a beetle, 170

By day and night, at all times, 353, 420.

By these ten bones, a common adjuration, 357

By 'rlakin, by our ladykin, or little lady, 10, 119

CADDIS, worsted galloon, 228, 279

Cade, a barrel, 357

Cadent, falling, 487

Cake is dough, hopes are frustrated, 165, 179

Cality, construe me, 328

Caliver, a hand-gun, 304

Call, a bird-call, 246

Callet, a strumpet, 222, 356, 476

Calm, a mispronunciation of qualm, 299

Canary, a dance with castanets, 328

Candle-wasters, Bacchanals, revellers, 91

Canker, the dog-rose, 82, 734

Canstick, a candlestick, 283

Cantle, a slice, a corner, 283, 662

Cantons, cantos, 203

Canvas, to toss, 337

Can you hit it?-a song, or dance, 102

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Charming, magical, fascinating, 587, 676
Charneco, a sort of wine, 360
Chases, a term of tennis, 316
Chaudron, entrails, 530

'Cheater, an Escheater, 32, 744

Cheater, a gamester, a cozener, 299
Check, to fly from, or shy at, 556
Cheer, fare, 549

Cheer, visage, aspect, 121, 138, 718
Cherry-pit, a game, 209

Cheveril, a soft leather, 426, 447

Chewet, a noisy chattering bird, 289

Chide, to rebuke, to re-sound, 320

Chide with, to quarrel with, 476, 603, 740

Child, a female infant, 228

Childing, teeming, 117

Children that have no names, illegitimate children,

651

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Circumstance, circumlocution, 129

'Cite, to incite, 154, 378

Cittern, a musical instrument, 112

Civil, sour, bitter, 83, 209

Clack-dish, a beggar's dish, 58
Clamour, to refrain or silence, 228
Claw, to flatter, 81

Capable-impressible, susceptible, 4, 156, 242, 243, Clean, utterly, completely, 263

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Clean kam, rigmarole, 621

Cleave the pin, to split the wooden pin in a target,

29, 102

Clerkly, scholarly, 18, 45

Cling, to shrivel, to shrink, 518

Clip, to embrace, 234

Close, to wheedle, to fawn, to flatter, 65
Close, wanton, 531

Cloth-of-gold of tissue, cloth of gold on a ground of
tissue, 655

Cloud in the face, a dark spot in the forehead of a
horse, 660

Clout, the white mark in a target, 102

Clouted brogues, nailed shoes, 600
Coast, to advance, 713

Coat, coat of arms, 746

Cock and pye, a popular adjuration, 294
Cockle-hat, a pilgrim's hat, 554

Cockney, a spooney, a cook, 490

Cock-shut, twilight, 416

Coffin, the crust of a raised pie, 176, 688

Cog, to load dice, to cheat, to defraud, 324

Cognizance, a badge, 341

Coil, trouble, turmoil, 17, 122

Colbrand the giant, 238

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Colours, artifices, 340

Colt, to gull, 277

Combinate, contracted, 57

Combination, contract, 215

Come off, to pay, 44

Comforting, encouraging, abetting, 222

Courts, a term in tennis, 316
Cousin, a kinsman, 443
Covent, a convent, 62

Cover, to prepare the table, 151
Cower, to bend or sink, 700

Cowl-staff, a pole used to carry a bucket, 40
Coystril, a mean groom, or peasant, 200
Cozier, a botcher of clothes or shoes, 204

Commend, to commit, to submit, to resign, 197, 222, Crack, a manikin, 611

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Compliments, point-de-vice manners, 97, 318
Comply, to fraternise, to play the courtier, 545, 560
Compose, accord, agree, 655

Composure, composture, composition, 533, 570.652
Compt, in, in trust, to be accounted for, 507
Comptible, susceptible, sensitive, 202

Con, to know, to allow, to award, 194, 202
Conceit, imagination, 448

Conceited, conceptive, apprehensive, 725
Conclusions, experiments, 552, 588
Concolinel, 100

Condition, nature, disposition, 131, 147, 194, 638
Conduct, a conductor, a guide, 210, 449, 718
Coney-catch, to cheat, 178

Coney-catcher, a sharper, a trickster, 31
Confess and be hanged, a cant phrase, 474
Conger and fennel, 300

Consent, agreement, unison, 310
Consigned, sealed, 517

Consort, fellowship, fraternity, 25, 68

Consort, a band of musicians, 39

Conspectuity, vision, perception, 615
Constancy, consistency, 125, 640
Contain, to hold, to retain, 144

Contemptible, mocking, contemptuous, 84
Content, acquiescence, 707

Content, continent, self-restrained, 645
Continent, capacious, 554
Continuate, uninterrupted, 473
Contraction, marriage-contract, 552

Convent, to agree, to be convenient, 215
Convent, to summon, to cite, 64, 435
Convert, to turn, 529

Convertite, a penitent, a convert, 250
Convicted, vanquished, 245

Convince, to conquer, 112, 507, 516, 587
Convive, to feast together, 579
Cooling-card, 350

Copatain-hat, a high-crowned hat, 178
Cope, to encounter, 142
Copy, theme, 76

Coranto, a dance, 186

Corinth, a cant name for a bordello, 524
Corinthian, a wencher, 285

Cornuto, a cuckold, 41

Corollary, an overplus, 11

Corporal of the field, an aide-de-camp, 101
Costard, the head, 98

Coted, came alongside, 544
Cot-quean, a molly-coddle, 455
Couching, crouching, 641

Counsel, in counsel, secret, in secret, 21, 31, 191
Countenance, to receive, to entertain, 145, 174
Counter-caster, a disparaging term for merchant,

459

Counterfeit, a portrait, 137

Counterfeit, a false piece of money, 569
Counterpoints, counterpanes, 171

Countervail, to make equal or equivalent, 172
Couplement, III

Courage, mettle, spirit, 379

Courser's hair, 552

Court-cupboard, a cabinet, 443

Court holy-water, glozing speeches, 492

Crants, crowns, garlands, 558

Crare, a small vessel of burden, 600
Credent, credible, plausible, 62, 217
Credit, information, 212

Crescive, increasing, growing, 314
Crewel, worsted, 501
Critic, a cynic, 581

Critical, cynical, censorious, 740
Crooked, bowed or crouched, 640

Cross, a coin stamped with a cross, 98, 150, 523
Cross, to pass across the path of a spectre, 537
Crush a cup of wine, an invitation to a carouse, 441
Cry, a pack, a troop or company, 549, 623
Cry aim, to encourage, 240

Cry Havoc a signal for indiscriminate slaughter,
241, 621

Cry in the top of question, to crow over or chal-
lenge, 545

Cry on, to announce, to assert, 213, 417, 478
Crystal-button, 279

Cue, a stage term for the last words of a speech, 119
Cuisses, armour for the thighs, 287

Cunning, knowing, skilful, 60, 166, 535
Curb, to bow or truckle, 552

Curiosity, finical refiement, 532

Curious, scrupulous, over punctilious, 177, 659
Curious-good, fastidiously precise, 725

Curious-knotted, abounding in intricate figures, 9

Curled, an epithet of gentility, 461

Cursed, under the influence of a malediction, 582
Curst, cross-grained, sour, intractable, malicious,
102, 122, 208, 225, 488
Curtall-dog, a halting-dog, 34
Curtle-ax, a cutlass, 149, 327

Customer, a loose woman, 198, 474

Cut and long tail, good and bad, 41

Cyprus, or Cypress, a stuff like crape, 208

DAFF, or doff, to put off, 92, 445

Damn, to condemn, 644, 650
Damnable, damnably, 224

Danger, power, 141

Dangerous, biting, mischievous, 96, 221, 637

Dank, wet, rotten, 118, 276

Danskers, Danes, 542

Dare larks, to, 431

Darkling, in the dark, 118

Darraign, boldly prepared, 380

Daubery, juggling, 43

Day-woman, dairy-woman, 98

Dealt on lieutenantry, fought by proxy, 663

Dear, choice, rare, momentous, extreme, 99, 148,
255, 462, 463, 573, 681

Death's-man, executioner, 723

Death-tokens, plague-spots forewarning death, 662
Debitor-and-creditor, the title of some old treatises
on book-keeping, 669

Deceptious, deceiving, 581

Decked, sprinkled, 2

Deck of cards, a pack of cards, 390

Defeat, to disfigure the countenance, 463

Defeatures, ill-looks, defacement, 69, 77

Defend, to forbid, 81, 91, 288, 463

Deftly, smartly, featly, 514
Defunctive, mortuary, 750
Defy, to contemn or spurn, 748
Defy, to renounce, 276
Delighted, delighting, 463

Demerits, good or ill deserts, 461, 610
Demit, to depress or cast down, 530
Demi-wolves, a species of dog, 511
Denay, to deny, 356

Denier, a French coin, 397

Denunciation, annunciation, 50

Depart, to part with, 99, 242

Depart, to separate, 522

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Dismount thy tuck, draw thy rapier, 210

Dispark, to destroy the enclosures of a park, 263
Dispute, to reason, 229, 45I

Disseat, depose, 518

Distain, to cloud, to cast into the shade, 701

Distempered, disordered, 460, 550

Distinctly, separately, 3

Distractions, detachinents, 662

Distraught, distracted, 407, 455
Division, variation in music, 452

Do, do, an expression of contempt, 567
Doff, to do off, to put off, 92, 445

Dole, distribution, 294

Do me right, accept iny challenge, 92
Don, to put on, 554

Done, destroyed, 713

Double-cracks, double-thunder-claps, 504

Double-dealer, one unfaithful in love or wedlock,

95, 213, 504

Double-pictures, pictures that showed two faces by

turning, 657

Double-set, twice round, 466

Dout, to extinguish, 326

Dower, gift, 474

Dowle, a feather, down, ro

Down-gyved, hanging down loose, 542

Dowzabel, 73

Drachma, a Greek coin, 643, 645

Draught-house, forica, drain, sewer, &c., 54, 580

Drawer, a waiter, 36, 279, 298

Drawn fox, 285

Embarquements, impediments, 614

Embossed, a term of the chase, signifying exhausted
and outrun, 163, 191

Emmew, a term in falconry, to paralyse, 56
Empery, empire, sovereignty, 316, 408
Engaged, detained as a hostage, 288
Engross, to fatten, 125

Ensconce, to hide, to shelter, 35, 39, 69, 186
Ensear, to make sterile, 537

Ensign, a standard-bearer, 574
Entertainment, re-instatement, 471
Entitled, ennobled, 733.
Entrance, trance, reverie, 695
Entreat, to entertain, 579

Envy, hatred, malice, 140, 346, 424, 637
Ephesian, a slang term, 45, 298
Equinoctial of Queubus, 204
Erring, erratic, 537
Escoted, paid, 545
Esperance, hope, 581
Essay, to assay, 484
Estate, affairs, 229

Esteem, the sum of what is held estimable, 197
Estimation, supposition, conjecture, 276

Estridges, 287

Eterne, eternal, 511

Even, to strike a balance with, to equate, 182, 185,

637

Even Christian, fellow-christian, 557

Evident, inevitable, 419

Evils, forica, 53

Exactly, duly, 395

Except, to stay, 395

Excrement, hair, the beard, 137, 232

Executors, executioners, 316

Exempt, separated, parted, 70
Exhale, 317

Exhibition, pension, allowance, 17, 590
Exigent, end, exigency, 341, 647, 668
Expect, to anticipate, 177

Expect, to attend, pay attention, 177
Expedience, expedition, 439

Expedient, expeditious, 152, 239, 396
Expiate, to terminate, 731

Exsufflicate, exsufflate, puffed out, exaggerated, 475
Extended, seized, 651
Extern, external, 460
Extraught, extracted, 380

Extravagant, wandering, 460, 537,

Eyases, nestlings, unfledged hawks, 544

Eyas musket, a young male sparrow-hawk, 39

Eyry, an aiery, a nest or brood of hawks, 545

FACE, to bully, to brave, 647

Faced, turned over with facings, 176
Facinorous, wicked, 186

Fact, crime, deed, 223

Fadge, to fit, to suit, to agree with, 107

Dreams, John-a-, a sleepy, muddle-headed fellow, Fair, beauty, 69, 102, 114

546

Dress, to address, to prepare, 325, 566

Drive, to rush pell-mell, 678

Drollery, a puppet-show, io

Drugs, drudges, 532

Dudgeon, the wooden handle of a dagger, 508

Due, to endue, 347

Dullard, a dull observer, 416

Dumbed, silenced, rendered mute, 653

Dumps, heavy, mournful tunes, 456

Dupp, to lift up, to open, 554

Dwell, to abide, to continue, 131

EAGER, aigre, sour, 541

Ear, to plough, 182, 192, 651, 652

Ecstasy, aberration of mind, 75, 552

Eftest, quickest, readiest, 91

Egal, equal, 685

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Familiar, a demon, 98, 370

Fancies, lyrical pieces, 304

Fancies, the humour of forty, 172

Fancy, affection, love, 115, 124, 718
Fantastical, visionary, 505
Fap, cant term for drunk, 31
Farced, stuffed, tumid, 326
Fardel, a pack, a burden, 232, 547
Fashions, a disease in horses, 172
Fast and loose, a game, 98, 667
Fat, o'ercloying, sickening, 213
Fault, misfortune, 31, 40

Favour, countenance, features, good graces, 115,
205, 267, 284

Fear, to frighten, 178, 386, 391, 638, 647, 657, 715

Eggs for money, will you take, a proverbial phrase, Fearful, causing fear, 263

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Emballing, the bestowal of royal dignity by the Fee grief, peculiar sorrow, 516

Fell, skin, coat of an animal, 153, 501

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