Paragoned, peerless, without Perdy, a corruption of the French comparison. Parcell-bawd, half-bawd. To parcell, sometimes to reckon. Pash, head. To pash, to butt, or strike with violence. Passed, sometimes for surpassed all expression. MER. WIV. Passy-measure, a kind of dance. Patch, a fool. MER. OF VEN. &c. Path, to walk. Patines, round broad plates. Paucas palabris, few words, cor rupted from the Sp. pocas palabras. oath par Dieu. Perfect, sometimes used for cer- . tain, or well assured. Periapts, charms worn about the neck. Pew-fellow, a companion. Pia Mater, the membrane that protects the substance of the brain. Pick, sometimes for to pitch. Pick-thank, an officious parasite. - epithet of contempt. Pieled, shaved. Pight, pitched, fixed. Pilcher, leathern sheath. Piled, that which has lost the hair. Peat, pet, or darling a spoiled Piled-esteemed, probably for vile child. esteemed. Pilled, pillaged. Pinfold, a pound. Pink eyne, red eyes. Pomewater, a species of apple. Poor John, hake, dried and salted. Popinjay, a parrot. Pinnace, anciently signified a ship Port, show or appearance TAM. Prolixious, coy, distant. Prompture, suggestion, instiga tion. Prone, humble or prompt. MEA. FOR MEA. Properties, the necessaries of a theatre. Provand, provender. Prune, sometimes for to plume. Pugging, cant word for coveting, as a thief or sharper. Puke, colour between russet and black. Pun, to pound. TROIL. AND CRESS. Pussel, a low wench. Putter-out, one who puts out his money on interest, or other advantage. TEMP. Puttock, a mean species of hawk. Q. Quail, to sink, to faint. Quaked, thrown into trepidation. Quat, a scab, an angry blockhead. Queasy, suspicious, unsettled. Quell, sometimes, to murder. Queller, a murderer. Quests, reports. MEA. FOR MEA. Quest, pursuit. LEAR. Question, sometimes conversation. Questrist, one who goes in search of another. Quiddets, subtleties. Quill, in the quill, written. HEN. VI. 2d Part. Quillets, evasions, chicanery. Quintain, a post, or butt set up. Quips, hasty, passionate reproaches and scoffs. Quired, played in concert. Quit, sometimes, to requite. Quittance, return of injuries or favours. Quiver, nimble, active. Quote, sometimes, to observe, or regard. R. Rabato, an ornament for the neck. Rabbet-sucker, a young rabbit. Race of heaven, something descended from heaven, heavenly. Race, a single root. Rack, the last fleeting vestige of the highest clouds. To rack, to harass by exactions. Ram, for rain. ANT. & CLEO. Rampallian, a ramping, low crea ture.. Rupt, rapturously affected. upon. Ravin, to devour voraciously. Raught, reached. Rawly, without preparation, sud- Respect, caution, regard to con Recheat, a horn, a tune to call the Respectively, respectfully. dogs back. Reck, to care for. Reckless, careless. Recorders, a kind of flute. Red-lattice phrases, alehouse conversation, from the form of the doors and windows. Red plague, the erysipelas, St. Anthony's fire. Reechy, discoloured by smoke. Reels, probably for wheels. ANT. & CLEO. Refel, to confute. Regreet, exchange of salutation. Reguerdon, recompense, return. Remorse, sometimes used for pity. Remotion, removal from place to place, shifting. Remues, journeys, stages. Render, sometimes to describe. Renege, to renounce. Repair, generally signifies to re novate. Repeals, recalls. OTH. Reserve, to guard, to preserve carefully. PER. Resolve, sometimes for dissolve. Rest, what I am resolved on. HEN. V. Retort, to refer back. MEA. FOR MEA. Reverbs, reverberates. Revolt of mein, change of complexion. Revolts, revolters. Rheumatic, for capricious, hu moursome. Rib, to inclose. Ribald, lewd fellow. Rim, probably a cant word for Rivage, the bank or shore. Rivals, equals. HAM. son. Rood, the cross. Rooky, abounding with rooks. Roundure, a circle. Rouse, a draught of jollity, carousal. Royal, or real, a coin of the value of ten shillings. Royally attorneyed, nobly supplied by substitution of embassies. Roynish, mangy, scurvy. Ruddock, the red-breast. Ruffle, to be noisy, disorderly. Rule, method of life. TwElf. NIGHT. Rump-fed, fed with offals. Rush, for rush-ring. Ruth, pity, compassion. S. Sacarson, the name of a bear. Sacring-bell, the bell which gives notice of the host approaching. Sad ostent, grave appearance. Sagg, to sink down. Sallet, a helmet. Salliers, satyrs. Samingo, San Domingo. TEMP. AS YOU LIKE. Scall, a word of reproach, scab. Scandling, measure or proportion. Scarfed, decorated with flags. Scath, destruction, harm. Sconce, the head, or a kind of fortification. Scotch, to bruise or crush. Scroyles, scabby fellows. Scrubbed, stunted, shrub-like, or short and dirty. Sculls, shoals of fish. Seam, lard. Seumels, a bird. Seamy side without, inside out. Sear, dry. Sear, to close up. Seel, to sew up. Seeling, blinding. Seld for seldom. Semblably, in resemblance, alike. Seniory, seniority. Stnuet, a flourish on cornets. Sense, sometimes for reason and natural affection. Septentrion, the North. Sequence, of degree, methodical- up his rest, a term from the military exercise. Setobos, a kind of god or devil. Several, or Severell, a field sepa rated from others to bear corn and grass. |