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Paragoned, peerless, without Perdy, a corruption of the French

comparison.

Parcell-bawd, half-bawd.

To parcell, sometimes to reckon.
Parcell-gilt, partly gilt.
Paritors, apparitors, officers of
the spiritual court.
Parle, dispute by words.
Parlous, perilous, keen, shrewd.
Partizan, a pike.

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.
Pavin, a kind of dance.

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.
Pheere, a mate, or companion.
Pheese, to plague, or teaze.
I'll pheese you, I'll comb your
head.

Pia Mater, the membrane that protects the substance of the brain.

Pick, sometimes for to pitch.
Pickers, hands.

Pick-thank, an officious parasite. -
Piece, sometimes used as an

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.

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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.
Quaint, fantastically dressed.
MER. WIV.

Quaked, thrown into trepidation.
Quarry, the game after it is killed.
Quart d'ecu, fourth part of a
French crown.

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.
Rated sinew, a strength reckoned

upon.

Ravin, to devour voraciously. Raught, reached.

Rawly, without preparation, sud- Respect, caution, regard to con

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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.
Reports, reporters. ANT. & CLE.
Reproof, confutation. HEN. IV.
1st Part.
Repugn, to resist.

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.
Rid, to destroy. TEMP.
Rift, to split.
Riggish, wanton.
Rigol, a circle.

Rim, probably a cant word for
money. HEN. V.
Ringed, encircled.

Rivage, the bank or shore.
Rivality, equal rank.

Rivals, equals. HAM.
Rive, to discharge or burst.
Romage, tumultuous hurry.
Ronyon, a scab, a despicable per-

son.

Rood, the cross.

Rooky, abounding with rooks.
Ropetricks, roguish tricks, or abu-
sive language.
Ropery, roguery.
Roundel, a circular dance.

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.
Ruffling, bustling, or rustling.

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.
Sandied, of a sandy colour, the
colour of the true blood-hound.
Sans, without, from the French.

TEMP. AS YOU LIKE.
Saw, discourse. LOVE'S LAB.
Say, old word for silk. Fr.
Scale, to disperse, to spread.
Scaling, weighing.

Scall, a word of reproach, scab.
Scamble, to scramble.
Scanned, examined nicely.

Scandling, measure or proportion. Scarfed, decorated with flags. Scath, destruction, harm.

Sconce, the head, or a kind of

fortification.

Scotch, to bruise or crush.
Scrimers, fencers. Fr.

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-
ly.
Serc, dry, withered.
Serpigo, a kind of tetter.
Sessa, from cesser, be quiet.
Set of wit, a term from tennis.
Sets

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.

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