GLOSSARY

ABATE

to shorten

To cast down

To blunt

ABATEMENT

diminution

ABHOR

protest; disgust

ABIDE

to sojourn

to expiate

to uphold

a short play

away, apart

to brook, abide

a primer

positive, certain

Complete

to deceive

deception

to expiate a fault

abyss

to cite, summon

accusation

to obtain

'to be acknown' is to acknowledge

ACQUITTANCE

a receipt or discharge

litigious

action

title, attribute

to prepare oneself

prepared

to prefer, promote to honour

admonition

ADVERTISING

attentive

ADVICE

consideration, discretion

ADVISE

sometimes neuter, sometimes reflective, to

consider, reflect

considerate

pleading, advocacy

afraid

to love

to affiance

To trust

AFRONT

in front

AGAZED

looking in amazement

AGLET-BABY

the small figure engraved on a jewel

AGNISE

to acknowledge, confess

A-GOOD

a good deal, plenteously

A-HOLD

a sea-term

AIERIE

the nest of a bird of prey

a guess

most loved of all

alehouse

to approve

approval

two aces, the lowest throw of the dice

dead, dejected

an anchorite, hermit

an ensign-bearer

a coin, so called because it bore the image of

an angel

by night

retaliation

a cannibal

the fool in the old plays

a cave

heir-apparent

accusation

to accuse

made apparent

a kind of apple

preparation

opinion

apt to apprehend or understand

APPROBATION

probation

APPROOF

approbation, proof

APPROVE

to prove

To justify, make good

APPROVER

one who proves or tries

ARCH

chief

ARGAL

a ridiculous word intended for the Latin ergo

ARGENTINE

silver

ARGIER A

lgiers

ARGOSY

originally a vessel of Ragusa or Ragosa, a

Ragosine; hence any ship of burden

ARGUMENT

subject

ARMIGERO

a mistake for Armiger, the Latin for Esquire

AROINT

found only in the imperative mood, get thee

gone

A-ROW

in a row

ARTICULATE

to enter into articles of agreement

to exhibit in articles

ASK

to require

ASPECT

regard, looks

ASPERSION

sprinkling; hence blessing, because before the

Reformation benediction was generally accompanied

by the sprinkling of holy water

ASSAY

attempt

ASSAY

to attempt, test, make proof of

an ass

to subjugate

deed of assurance

betrothed

an atom

Used in contempt of a small person

ATONE

to put people at one, to reconcile

to agree

ATTACH

to seize, lay hold on

ATTASKED

taken to task, reprehended

to listen to

attentive

an agent

to employ as an agent

To perform by an agent

AUDACIOUS

spirited, daring, but without any note of blame

attached to it

AUGUR

augury

AUTHENTIC

clothed with authority

AVAUNT

int. be gone, a word of abhorrence

AVE

the Latin for hail; hence acclamation

AVE-MARY

the angelic salutation addressed to the Blessed

Virgin Mary

confirming

get rid of

worshipful

contrary

keep back

the hinder part; hence, when applied to time,

the past

BAFFLE

embarrass

BALKED

heaped, as on a ridge

BALLOW

a cudgel

BALM

the oil of consecration

to curse

to sail by the banks

yeast

a child

a shellfish, supposed to produce the sea-bird

of the same name

BASE

a game, sometimes called Prisoners' base

BASES

an embroidered mantle worn by knights on

horseback, and reaching from the middle to

below the knees

a kind of ordnance

enough

raisin wine

to flutter, as a hawk

BATE

to except

To abate

BAT-FOWLING

catching birds with a clap-net by night

BATLET

a small bat, used for beating clothes

BATTLE

army

BAVIN

used as an a piece of waste wood, applied

contemptuously to anything worthless

BAWCOCK

a fine fellow

BAWD

procurer

BAY

the space between the main timbers of the roof

BEADSMAN

one who bids bedes, that is, prays prayers

for another

BEARING-CLOTH

a rich cloth in which children were wrapt at

their christening

BEAT

to flutter as a falcon, to meditate, consider

earnestly

BEAVER

the lower part of a helmet

a mallet

dwelling

since, inasmuch as

to measure

daubed with dirt

stooping under a weight

(Italian), welcome

a rustic dance

evil befal

distraught, distracted

to pour out

happened

a beggarly fellow

abiding-place

a night-cap

the whortleberry

a sword, from Bilboa, a town in Spain where

they were made

BILBOES

fetters or stocks

BILL

a bill-hook, a weapon

BIN

been, are

BIRD-BOLT

a bolt to be shot from a crossbow at birds

BIRDING

part. hawking at partridges

BISSON

blind

BLANK

the white mark in the middle of a target;

hence, metaphorically, that which is aimed at

BLENCH

to start aside, flinch

blended

smeared with blood

to inflate

to make advances to; accost

BOB

a blow, metaph. a sarcasm

BOB

to strike, metaph. to ridicule, or to obtain

by raillery

BODGE

to botch, bungle

BODIKIN

a corrupt word used as an oath. 'Od's Bodikin,'

God's little Body

green box

to embolden

swollen

sifted, refined

a sieve

a hutch in which meal was sifted

a barrel, a drunkard

padding

a harlot

that to which one is bound

BOOK

a paper of conditions

BOOT

help, use

BOOT

to help, to avail

BOOTLESS

without boot or advantage, useless

BOOTS

bots, a kind of worm

BORE

calibre of a gun; hence, metaph. size, weight,

importance

BOSKY

covered with underwood

BOSOM

wish, heart's desire

BOTS

worms which infest horses

BOURN

a boundary

A brook

BRACE

armour for the arm, state of defence

BRACH

a hound bitch

BRAID

deceitful

BRAVE

handsome, well-dressed

BRAVE

boast

BRAVERY

finery

Boastfulness

a kind of dance

voice

to exercise

exercising

liable to be whipt

a breeder of debate, a fomenter of quarrels

BREESE

the gadfly

BRIBE-BUCK

a buck given away in presents

BRING

to attend one on a journey

BROCK

a badger, a term of contempt

BROKE

to act as a procurer

BROKEN

having lost some teeth by age

BROKEN MUSIC

the music of stringed instruments

BROKER

an agent

BROTHERHOOD

trading company

BROWNIST

a sectary, a follower of Brown, the founder

of the Independents

BRUIT

noise, report, rumour

BRUIT

to noise abroad

BRUSH

rude assault

BUCK

suds or lye for washing clothes in

BUCK-BASKET

the basket in which clothes are carried to the

wash

washing

washing in lye

a bugbear, a spectre

a bragging cheater

a kind of helmet

to break

bushy

a light arrow for shooting at a target

BUXOM

obedient

'RLAKIN by our little Lady: an oath

CADDIS

worsted galloon, so called because it resembles

the caddis-worm

CADE

a cask or barrel

CAGE

a prison

CAIN-COLOURED

red (applied to hair)

CAITIFF

a captive, a slave; hence, a witch

prophesy

a hand-gun

a trull

appellation

qualm

to know, be skillful in

CANAKIN

a little can

CANARY

a wine brought from the Canary Islands

CANDLE-WASTERS

persons who sit up all night to drink

CANKER

a caterpillar

The dog-rose

a candlestick

a slice, corner

a canto

to sift: hence, metaphorically, to prove

CAPABLE

subject to

Intelligent

Capable of inheriting

Ample, capacious

CAPITULATE

make a combined force

a simpleton

caprice

lascivious

capacious

a large ship of burden

CARBONADO

meat scotched for broiling

CARBONADO

to scotch for broiling

CARD

the taper on which the points of the compass

are marked under the mariner's needle

CAREIRE

the curvetting of a horse

a necklace

a churl

a churl

a native of Castile; used as a cant term

CASTILIANO VULGO

a cant term, meaning, apparently, to use discreet

language

CATAIAN

a native of Cathay, a cant word

cat-gut

deceit

insidious

a cavalier, gentleman

CAVIARE

the roe of sturgeon pickled; metaph. a delicacy

not appreciated by the vulgar

CEASE

decease

CEASE

put off, made to cease

CENSURE

judgment

CENSURE

to judge, criticise

CENTURY

a hundred of anything, whether men, prayers, or

anything else

CEREMONY

a ceremonial vestment, religious rite, or

anything ceremonial

certainly

rate, reckoning

a term at tennis

a species of great gun

an effeminate man

a song

affected quality

a letter, handwriting

CHARACTER

to carve or engrave

CHARACTERY

handwriting

That which is written

CHARE

a turn of work

CHARGE-HOUSE

a free-school

CHARLES

' WAIN the constellation called also Ursa Major, or

the Great Bear

CHARNECO

a species of sweet wine

CHAUDRON

entrails

CHEATER

for escheator, an officer who collected the

fines to be paid into the Exchequer

A decoy

CHEQUE

a technical term in falconry; when a falcon

flies at a bird which is not her proper game she

is said to cheque at it

CHEQUES

perhaps intended for ethics

CHEER

fortune, countenance

CHERRY-PIT

a game played with cherrystones

CHEVERIL

kid leather

CHEWIT

cough

CHILDING

pregnant

'ILL vulgar for 'I will.'

CHIRURGEONLY

in a manner becoming a surgeon

CHOPIN

a high shoe or clog

CHRISTENDOM

the state of being a Christian

CHRISTOM

clothed with a chrisom, the white garment

which used to be put on newly-baptized children

CHUCK

chicken, a term of endearment

a coarse blunt clown

a kind of dance

to decipher

an argument

recital

to incite

a guitar

a beggar's dish

' THE CLOUT to shoot an arrow into the bull's eye of the target

CLAW

to flatter

CLEPE

to call

CLIFF

clef, the key in music

to starve

glittering

to embrace, enclose

the mark in the middle of a target

to advance

a big loaf

a cockboat

a euphemism for God

an oath

tares or darnel

a cook

the twilight, when cocks and hens go to roost

COG

to cheat, dissemble

COGNIZANCE

badge, token

COIGN

projecting corner stone

tumult, turmoil

drawing a conclusion

blackened. Othello;

pretence

specious

to defraud, befool

a joint bargain

betrothed

to bind

interest, profit

used ludicrously for comedy

compacted, composed

drawing comparisons

rival

comparison

moving comparison

one who seeks the same thing, an associate in

any object

accomplishment

passion

to agree

composition

tractable

to learn by heart

To acknowledge

CONCEIT

conception, opinion, fancy

concubine

temper, quality

grief

escort

to make up into sweetmeats

CONFOUND

to consume, destroy

Coriolanus;

CONJECT

conjecture

CONSIGN

to sign a common bond, to confederate

company

to accompany

consistency

settled, determined

firmly

to construe

contemptuous

that which contains anything

That which is contained

CONTINUATE

uninterrupted

CONTRACTION

the marriage contract

CONTRARY

to oppose

CONTRIVE

to conspire

to wear away

CONTROL

to confute

CONVENT

to convene, summon

to be convenient

CONVERT

to change

CONVERTITE

a convert

CONVEY

to manage

To filch

CONVEYANCE

theft, fraud

CONVICT

convicted

CONVICTED

overpowered, vanquished

A doubtful word

to conquer, subdue

to feast together

escort

to cheat

poaching, pilfering

used metaphorically for an insurmountable obstacle

COPATAIN HAT

a high-crowned hat

COPE

to reward, to give in return

COPY

theme

CORAGIO

courage!

CORAM

an ignorant mistake for Quorum

CORANTO

lively dance

CORINTH

a cant term for a brothel

a wencher

dry like cork

a cuckold

a surplus

corporeal, bodily

an aide-de-camp

rival

the head

peddling, mercenary

a cottage

to quote, instance

to come alongside, overtake

COT-QUEAN

an effeminate man, molly-coddle

COUCHINGS

crouchings

COUNT CONFECT

a nobleman composed of affectation

COUNTENANCE

fair shew

COUNTERFEIT

portrait

A piece of base coin

COUNTERPOINT

a counterpane

COUNTERVAIL

to counterpoise, outweigh

COUNTRY

belonging to one's country

count, earl

union

flattery

a convent

to lay the table for dinner

COWISH

cowardly

COWL-STAFF

the staff on which a vessel is supported

between two men

COX MY PASSION

an oath, a euphemism for 'God's Passion.'

COY

to stroke, fondle

to condescend with difficulty

COYSTRIL

a kestrel, a cowardly kind of hawk

to cheat

cheating

a cheater

a tailor

to boast

a loud noise, clap

A forward boy

boaster

a gallows-bird

a winding passage

winding

garlands. A doubtful word

a ship of burden

a dunghill cock

formed, compounded

creditable

Credible

Credulous

CREDIT

report

CRESCIVE

increasing

CRESTLESS

not entitled to bear arms, lowborn

CRISP

curled, winding

CROSS

a piece of money, so called because the coin

was formerly stamped with a cross

one who scares crows

a coroner

a coronet

the yelping of hounds

A pack of hounds

A company, use contemptuously

CRY AIM

to encourage

CUE

the last words of an actor's speech, which

is the signal for the next actor to begin

CUISSES

pieces of armour to cover the thighs

a base fellow

skill

skilful

to bend, truckle

occurrences

shrewishness

a cur

a docked horse

a cutlass

a ludicrous mistake for Custos Rotulorum

CUSTARD-COFFIN

the crust of a custard-pudding

CUSTOMER

a common woman

CUT

a cheat

'To draw cuts' is to draw lots

CYPRESS

a kind of crape

DAFF

to befool

To put off; this seems to be a corruption of 'doff.'

DAMN

to condemn

DANGER

reach, control, power

a Dane

to challenge

in the dark

to set in array

to disguise

imposition

a dairy-maid

dire

That which has to do with the affections

Piteous

Important

DEARN

lonely

DEBOSHED

debauched, drunken

DECK

to bedew. This is probably a form of the verb

'to dag,' now a provincial word

DECK

a pack of cards

DECLINE

to enumerate, as in going through the cases of

a noun

fallen

doom, judgment

to undo, destroy

destruction

disfigurement

art of fencing

to forbid

having the power to defend

dexterously

renounce

a step

to let slip by delaying

merit, desert

solemnly

denial

the 12th part of a French sol coin

DENOTEMENT

marking

Note or manifestation

to refuse

departure

to part

parting, separation

to be in service

born, descended

degraded

a variation upon a melody, hence,

metaphorically, a comment on a given theme

to draw up articles

to deprive, bereave

determined, bold

to charge, blame

to conclude

optative mood, perhaps contracted for 'do it.'

DIET

food regulated by the rules of medicine

DIET

to have one's food regulated by the rules of

medicine

DIFFUSED

confused

DIGRESSING

transgressing, going out of the right way

DIGRESSION

transgression

DIG-YOU-GOOD-DEN

give you good evening

DILDO

the chorus or burden of a song

stroke

judgment, skill

to disparage

unprepared

to undress

a malcontent

power of reasoning

disdainful

to disfigure, transform

DISME

a tenth or tithe

DISPARK

to destroy a park

DISPONGE

to squeeze out as from a sponge

disposal

to conspire

maintenance

disputatious

to argue, examine

used ridiculously for assembly

DISTASTE

to corrupt

DISTEMPERED

discontented

DISTRACTION

a detached troop or company of soldiers

DISTRAUGHT

distracted, mad

DIVERTED

turned from the natural course

DIVISION

a phrase or passage in a melody

DIVULGED

published, spoken of

DOFF

to do off, strip

To put off with an excuse

DOLT

a small Dutch coin

DOLE

portion dealt

Grief, lamentation

DON

to do on, put on

DONE

'done to death,' put to death

DOTANT

one who dotes, a dotard

DOUT

to do out, quench

DOWLAS

a kind of coarse sacking

DOWLE

the swirl of a feather

DOWN-GYVED

hanging down like gyves or fetters

a harlot

whoring

a privy

having his sword drawn

DRAWN

drunk, having taken a good draught

weak

to rush impetuously

a puppet-show

to dawdle

thirsty

perhaps the Latin duc-ad-me, bring him to me

a dagger

soothing

a dull person

complaint

to do up, Lift up

sour

Harsh

Biting

a yeanling, a lamb

to plough

to eke out

ready, convenient

vinegar

old age

swollen into protuberances

Covered with foam

EMBOWELLED

disembowelled, emptied

embrace

exalted station

empire

jealousy, mutiny

jealous

to place oneself in a cave

END

'Still an end,' continually for ever

ENFEOFF

to place in possession in fee simple

a machine of war

to swallow speedily

to make gross or fat

immoderate acquisition

ENKINDLE

to make keen

ENMEW

to shut up, as a hawk is shut up in a mew

ENSCONCE

to cover as with a fort

ENSEAMED

fat, rank

ENSHIELD

hidden

ENTERTAIN

encounter

Experience

ENTERTAINMENT

treatment

A disposition to entertain a proposal

Service

interviews

a toper, a cant term

attendance

a short time since

to pay a man's reckoning, to maintain

ESPERANCE

hope, used as a war-cry

a scout or spy

conjecture

ostridge

eternal

coequal

to equal

to question

that which grows outwardly from the body

and has no sensation like the hair or nails

Any outward show

an executioner

excluded

a religious service

to hale or draw out

to draw the sword

EXHIBITION

allowance, pension

EXIGENT

death, ending

EXION

ridiculously used for 'action.'

EXPECT

expectation

EXPEDIENCE

expedition, undertaking

Haste

expeditious, swift

completed

to expound, discuss

exposure

to reveal

to expel

that which has been hissed off, contemptible

to seize

a seizure

outward

to extirpate

distracting

part. extracted, descended

EXTRAVAGANT

foreign, wandering

EXTREMES

extravagance of conduct

Extremities

EYAS

a nestling hawk

EYAS-MUSKET

a nestling of the musket or merlin, the smallest

species of British hawk

EYE

a glance, oeillad

EYE

a shade of colour, as in shot silk

eyes

wicked

guilt

instant, importunate

essential virtue or power

FADGE

to suit

FADING

a kind of ending to a song

glad

gladly

beauty

a traitor

ll to let fall

fawn-coloured

falsehood

deceptive

a familiar spirit

untouched by love

to seize in the teeth

a fantastical person

drunk

farther

stuffed

a burden

used ridiculously for ' virtuous.'

FAST

assuredly, unalterably

FAT

dull

FAVOUR

countenance

Complexion

Quality

FEAR

the object of fear

FEAR

to affright

FEARFUL

subject to fear, timorous

FEAT

dexterous

FEAT

to make fine

FEATER

comp. degree. more neatly

nimbly, daintily

beauty

confederate

agent, servant

a grief held, as it were, in fee-simple, or the

peculiar property of him who possesses it

FEERE

a companion, husband

FEHEMENTLY

used ridiculously for 'vehemently.'

FELL

the hide

FENCE

art or skill in defence

FEODARY

one who holds an estate by suit or service to

a superior lord; hence one who acts under the

direction of another

FESTER

to rankle, grow virulent

quickly

fetched

a fig

in the field of battle

FIG

to insult

FIGHTS

clothes hung round a ship to conceal the men

from the enemy

FILE

a list or catalogue

FILE

to defile

To smooth or polish

To make even

shaft-horse

the shafts

a whore

end

to make fine or specious

FINELESS

endless

FIRAGO

ridiculously used for 'Virago.'

FIRE-DRAKE W

ill o' the Wisp

FIRE-NEW

with the glitter of novelty on, like newly-

forged metal

FIRK

to chastise

FIT

a canto or division of a song

A trick or habit

FITCHEW

a polecat

FIVES

a disease incident to horses

FLAP-DRAGON

raisins in burning brandy

a pan-cake

certain

lowness, depth

a gust of wind

sudden emotion, or the cause of it

FLAW

to make a flaw in, to break

FLECKED

spotted, streaked

FLEET

to float

To pass away

to pass the time

FLEETING

inconstant

FLESHMENT

the act of fleshing the sword, hence the

first feat of arms

FLEWED

furnished with hanging lips, as hounds are

FLIGHT

a particular mode of practising archery

a light woman

wave, sea

an ornament

to ornament, disguise with ornament

FLUSH

fresh, full of vigour

defeat, disadvantage

to fence, fight

plenty

foolish, foolishly affectionate

FOOT-CLOTH

a saddle-cloth hanging down to the ground

for that, because

accursed, outlawed

forbidden

to stuff, for 'farce.'

FORCED

falsely attributed

FORDO

to kill, destroy

To weary

FOREIGN

obliged to live abroad

former

to delay

to forbid

inventive

horned

regular, retaining its proper and essential

characteristic

FORSPEAK

to speak against

FORSPENT

exhausted, weary

FORTHRIGHT

a straight path; forthrights and meanders,

straight paths and crooked ones

FORWEARY

to weary, exhaust

FOSSET-SELLER

one who sells the pipes inserted into a vessel

to give vent to the liquor, and stopped by a

spigot

FOX

a sword; a cant word

FOX-SHIP

the cunning of the fox

FRAMPOLD

peevish, unquiet

FRANK

the feeding place of swine

FRANKED

confined

FRANKLIN

a freeholder, a small squire

FRAUGHT

freighted

FRAUGHTAGE

freight

FRAUGHTING

to fraught. loading or constituting the

cargo of a ship

FRESH

a spring of fresh water

FRET

the stop of a guitar

FRET

to wear away

To variegate

to befriend

an old-clothes shop

prep. contrary to

to affront, oppose

opposition

that which is worn on the forehead

to break or bruise

frustrated

to put off

to fill full

complete

a loaded die

lustful

equipped

furnitory, an herb

a loose outer coat, or smock frock

GAD

a pointed instrument, a goad

Upon the gad, with impetuous haste, upon the spur

of the moment

misgiving

going, steps

a kind of dance

a kind of ship

a ridiculous medley

to scare

the irregular infantry of Ireland, and the

Highlands of Scotland

GAMESTER

a frolicsome person

A loose woman

GARBOIL

disorder, uproar

GARISH

gaudy, staring

GARNER

to lay by, as corn in a barn

frightened

festive

an object of wonder

matter of business of any kind

GECK

a fool

GENERAL

the generality, common people

children

noble birth

noble

good manners

gentlefolk

noble

to ennoble

complaisance, conduct becoming gentlefolk

GERMAN

akin

Appropriate

seed, embryo

period

a he-cat

talents, endowment

a wanton girl

a coin of the value of 1s. 6d. or 2s

GILT

money

State of wealth

double

contrivance

gang

to gibe

a sarcasm or gibe

to scoff

a scoff

to comment; hence, to be garrulous

to swallow

to snarl

indeed

good-evening, contracted from 'Good-even.'

GOOD-YEAR

or GOOD-JER a corruption of the French goujere; the

venereal disease

GORBELLIED

corpulent

GOURD

a species of game of chance

GOUT

a drop

GOVERNMENT

discretion

GRACIOUS

abounding in grace Divine

GRAINED

engrained

GRAMERCY

int. grand mercy, much thanks

GRANGE

the farmstead attached to a monastery, a

solitary farm-house

GRATILLITY

used ridiculously for 'gratuity.'

to congratulate

to bury

grossly

a bawd

immature, fresh, unused

foolishly

to weep

a step

palpably

one who sits in the pit of a theatre

accruing

decoration

to decorate

guardianship

the pintado, a cant term

GULES

red, a term in heraldry

the throat

a cannon ball

taste, relish

to fetter

to become common

a wild or unreclaimed hawk

HAG-SEED

seed or offspring of a hag

HAIR

course, order, grain

HALIDOM

holiness, sanctification, Christian fellowship;

used as an oath, and analogous to 'By my faith.'

HALL

an open space to dance in

ll Hallows' Day

chance, fortune

accidentally

perhaps a corruption of Heronshaw; a hern

HARDIMENT

defiance, brave deeds

HARLOCK

charlock, wild mustard

to annoy, harass

haughty

company

property, fortune

behavior

a term in fencing

violent, headlong

of 'to heat,' heated

henbane

a heaving

furnished with a handle: hence,

metaphorically, finished off, delicately formed

to steer, manage

henceforward

a page or attendant

to seize, take

a beadsman, one bound to pray for another

HEST

command

HIGH

used in composition with adjectives to heighten

or emphasize their signification, as, high-

fantastical

called

held

a paltry fellow

suggestion

a prostitute. with a pun on the word 'iron.'

HIT

to agree

HOISE

to hoist, heave up on high

hoisted

to help; helped

to the utmost

chaste

chastity

the red clover

the game now called blindman's-buff

HORN-MAD

probably, 'harn-mad,' that is, brain-mad

a clock

a brothel

to hamstring

secresy

to drift on the sea like a wrecked ship

HUMOROUS

fitful, or, perhaps, hurried

HUNT-COUNTER

to follow the scent the wrong way

HUNTS-UP

a holla used in hunting when the game was on

foot

noise, confusion

to clash

noise, confusion

frugality

Management

HUSWIFE

a jilt

ICE-BROOK

an icy-cold brook I'FECKS int. in faith, a euphemism

ignominy

representation

to bare, lay open

close connexion

unimportant

to graft. to splice a falcon's broken feathers

IMP

a scion, a child

IMPAWN

to stake, compromise

IMPEACH

to bring into question

IMPEACH

impeachment

IMPEACHMENT

cause of censure, hindrance

duff of perception

to pocket

importunity

importunate

significant

imposition, meaning command or task imposed

upon any one

IMPOSITIONS

command

IMPRESE

a device with a motto

to compel to serve

unconscious

to dye red

incited, egged on

by inch-meal, by portions of inches

compliant

inclination

to embrace

conclude

fine, delicate

ill-regulated

ndia

to compound or bargain

a preface

ordinary

disordered

to invite

To convict

INDUCTION

introduction, beginning

INDURANCE

delay

INFINITE

infinite power

INGRAFT

to engraff, engrafted

uninhabitable

to possess

penned up in hoops

a contemptuous term for an ecclesiastic, or man

of learning

INKLE

a kind of narrow fillet or tape

INLAND

civilized, well-educated

inward

inwardly

enquiry

that which causes insanity

INSCONCE

to arm, fortify

INSTANCE

example

Information

Reason, proof

to pretend

regarding

intention

attentively

allied

pause, delay

not capable of being cut

intricate

intricate

imagination

an intimate friend

intimate

intimacy

lawless, licentious

reiteration

a mean fellow

a puppet thrown at in Lent

JACK GUARDANT

a jack in office

JADE

to whip, to treat with contempt

JAR

the ticking of a clock

JAR

to tick as a clock

JAUNCE

to prance

JESS

a strap of leather attached to the talons of a

hawk, by which it is held on the fist

JEST

to tilt in a tournament

to strut

daily

appertaining to Jove

critical

to agree

to hazard

hazard

exactly, nicely

a judge, magistrate

to encroach

a projection

to jut out beyond

youth, young man

crooked

hemlock

a lump of tallow

to skin

to restrain

Caesar, Emperor

the rude foot soldiers of the Irish

KIBE

a chilblain

KICKSHAW

a made dish

KICKSY WICKSY

a wife, used in disdain

KILN-HOLE

the ash-hole under a kiln

KIND

nature

KINDLE

to bring forth young; used only of beasts

unnatural

natural

a gown

to snap, crack

a boy

A serving-man

KNOT

a figure in garden beds

to acknowledge

lips

a courtesan

the lowest of the people

LAG

late, behindhand

LAKIN

ladykin, little lady, an endearing term applied

to the Virgin Mary in the oath, 'By our lakin.'

LAND-DAMN

perhaps to extirpate; Hanmer thinks it means

to kill by stopping the urine

taken, apprehended

licentious, free

a present

deserted by a mistress

LATCH

to smear

To catch

belated

made of brass

lawn

a dance

wager

besieging army

lying

a kind of apple

a physician

countenance, complexion

a manor court

to allege

lightness

an ambassador resident abroad

LEMAN

a lover or mistress

LENTEN

meagre

That which may be eaten in Lent L'ENVOY the farewell or moral at the end of a tale or

poem

LET

to hinder

to binder

hindrance

death

to aim

that which is aimed at

ignorant, foolish

wickedly

a lewd person

a leopard

licentious

libertinism

licentiousness

dear

a thief

' LOVE a tune so called

LIGHTLY

easily, generally

to please

to liken, compare

likely

promise, appearance

condition

an alembick, a still

or Limbo patrum, the place where good men under

the Old Testament were believed to be imprisoned till

released by Christ after his crucifixion

LIME

bird-lime

LIME

to entangle as with bird-lime

To smear with bird-lime

To mix lime with beer or other liquor

LIMN

to draw

LINE

to cover on the inside

To strengthen by inner works

LINSTOCK

a staff with a match at the end of it used by

gunners in firing cannon

LIST

a margin, hence a bound or enclosure

lazy

miniature

appearance of life

a law phrase, signifying the act of delivering

a freehold into the possession of the heir or

purchaser

lively, convincing

a fish so called

a looby

a sort of coarse linen

LODE-STAR

the leading-star, pole-star

LOFFE

to laugh

LOGGATS

the game called nine-pins

LONGLY

longingly

LOOF

to lull, bring a vessel up to the wind

LOON

a low contemptible fellow

LOT

a prize in a lottery

LOTTERY

that which falls to a man by lot

LOWT

a clown

LOWT

to treat one as a lowt, with contempt

LOZEL

a spendthrift

LUBBER

a leopard

LUCE

n. the pike or jack, a fresh-water fish

duff, dejected

fits of lunacy

to defeat, to win

to shift, to play tricks

LURE

a thing stuffed to resemble a bird with which

the falconer allures a hawk

juicy, luxuriant

lusty, cheerful

lascivious

lust

a limer or slow hound

MADE

having his fortune made

MAGNIFICO

the chief magistrate at Venice

MAGOT-PIE

a magpie, a pie which feeds on magots

MAIL

covered as with a coat of mail

MAIN-COURSE

a sea-term

MAKE

to do up, bar

To do

MALKIN

a familiar name for Mary; hence a servant

wench

MALLECHO

mischief

MAMMERING

hesitating

MAMMETS

a woman's breasts

A doll

to break, tear

to tame a hawk

management

or Mandrake a plant of soporiferous quality,

supposed to resemble a man

MANKIND

having a masculine nature

MARCHES

frontiers, borders

MARCHPANE

a kind of sweet biscuit

MARGENT

margin

MARRY TRAP

an oath

MARTLEMAS

the Feast of St. Martin, which occurs on the

11th of Nov. when the fine weather generally ends;

hence applied to an old man

an appointment

to confound, dismay

tame, cowardly

mingled

instrument used to promote an end

MEAN

the tenor part in a harmony

MEAN

opportunity, power

MEASURE

reach

A stately dance

MEAZEL

a leper, spoken in contempt of a mean person

MEDAL

a portrait in a locket

MEDICINE

a physician

MEED

reward, hire

Merit

by Hercules

retinue

to mix, to meddle

to cause to be remembered

MEPHISTOPHILUS

the name of a familiar spirit

a foreign trader

simply, absolutely

a company of four

supernatural

measuring-wand

to confine

a truant

much

a milled sixpence

to do any thing affectedly

affected

illegitimate

to suspect

avarice

to despise

To mistake

mistake

messenger

angry

to think ill of

the jack in bowling

muffled

commonplace

a model, image

and more. Of frequent occurrence

a portion

a stupid person

momentary

a monthly commemoration of the dead, but used

ludicrously to mean a great mind or strong desire

MOOD

anger

MOON-CALF

a nick-name applied to Caliban

inconstant

nod

a Moor

Moorish-pike

death, applied to animals of the chase

MORT-DU-VINAIGRE

a ridiculous oath

MORTAL

fatal, deadly

Murderous

MORTIFIED

ascetic

MOSE

a doubtful word, applied to some disease

in a horse

MOTION

solicitation

Emotion

MOTION

a puppet

MOTIVE

one who moves

That which moves

MOTLEY

or the many-coloured coat of a fool, or

a fool

foolish

a weasel

to make grimaces

a coin, probably a moidore

MUCH

int. significant of contempt

used ironically

a wall

a scramble

to mutiny

a mutineer

a handkerchief

an idiot

towards denial

a catch-word, by-word

the beak

a needle

hand

a grandson

stockings

nearest

foolish

score or reckoning

to brand with folly

black as night

nightly solemnity

'S MORRIS a place set apart for a Moorish dance by

nine men

a fool, jester

nobleness

a coin, worth 6s. 8d

a dolt

for the nonce, corrupted from 'for then once,'

for the occasion

NOOK-SHOTTEN

indented with bays and creeks

a nurse

a game at dice

head

a hook for pulling down nuts, hence a thief

O a circle

OAR

to row as with oars

OBSEQUIOUS

behaving as becomes one who attends funeral

obsequies

OBSEQUIOUSLY

funereally

OBSTACLE

ridiculously used for 'obstinate.'

OCCUPATION

persons occupied in business

OCCURENT

an incident

'S BODY | 'Od's in these

'S HEARTLINGS | and all similar

| exclamations is

'S PITTIKINS | a euphemism

'S PLESSED WILL | for 'God's.'

OEILLIAD

an amorous glance

O'ERPARTED

having too important a part to act

O'ER-RAUGHT

overreached

overtasked

OFFERING

challenging

OFFICE

benefit, kindness

use, function

OLD

a cant term for great, as we say fine, or pretty

ONCE

some time

ONEYER

a banker. A doubtful word

OPE

open

OPE

to open

OPEN

plain

Public

OPEN

to give tongue as a hound

OPERANT

active

OPINIONED

used ridiculously for pinioned

OPPOSITE

adversary

OPPOSITION

combat

before

measures

rank, order

proud

leaving, refuse

show, appearance

show, appearance

a beast of prey of the tiger kind

a fairy

the blackbird

all out, fully

to face down

not in the secret of affairs

OUTWARD

outside

OWE

to own

PACK

to practise unlawful confederacy

PACK

a number of people confederated

PADDOCK

a toad

PAID

punished

PALABRAS

words, a cant term, from the Spanish

PALE

to enclose

PALL

to wrap as with a pall

PALLED

impaired

PALMER

one who bears a palm-branch, in token of having

made a pilgrimage to Palestine

PALMY

victorious

PARCELLED

belonging to individuals

the leopard

an apparitor

talk

perilous

keen, shrewd

endowed, gifted

a pike

the face

to strike violently, to bruise, crush

PASS

to practise

To surpass expectation

PASSANT

a term of heraldry, applied to animals

represented on the shield as passing by at a trot

PASSING

surpassingly, exceedingly

to have feelings

to suffer

a kind of dance

the room where pastry was made

a mean fellow

dressed in motley

trickery

to walk

affected, hypocritical

PATIENT

to make patient, to compose

PATINE

the metal disc on which the bread is placed in

the administration of the Eucharist

PATTERN

to give an example of

Afford a pattern for

few words

few, a cant word

a dance

a small image of Christ

PAY

to despatch

PEAT

a term of endearment for a child

PEDASCULE

a pedant, schoolmaster

PEER

to peep out

PEIZE

to balance, weigh down

paltry

lost

durable

a euphemism for Par Dieu

PERFECT

certain

PERFECT

to inform perfectly

PERIAPTS

charms worn round the neck

PERJURE

a perjured person

PERSEVER

to persevere

PERSPECTIVE

a telescope, or some sort of optical glass

PEW-FELLOW

a comrade

PHEEZE

to comb, fleece, curry

PIA-MATER

the membrane covering the brain, the brain

itself

PICK

to pitch, throw

PICKED

chosen, selected

PICKERS

(and stealers), the fingers, used ridiculously

PICKING

insignificant

PICKT-HATCH

a place noted for brothels. Merry Wives

of Windsor

PIED

motley-coated, wearing the motley coat of a

jester

shaven

pitched

a scabbard

to pillage

a malady of the eye

The centre of a target

PINFOLD

a pound, a place to confine lost cattle

digged

a petticoat-front

a simple air

intricate

made of boards

colonizing, planting a colony

PLAUSIVE

plausible

PLEACHED

interwoven

POINT

a lace furnished with a tag by which the

breeches were held up

POINT-DE-VICE

faultless

POISE

balance

Doubt

bare

a perfumed ball

a kind of apple

a herring

a parrot

pomp, state

a gate

bearable

conduct, behavior

to inform

to push violently

a potentate

a box for holding perfumes

forces, army

wicked stratagem

a confederate

to dress up

a justice's summons

in business of great importance

PREGNANCY

fertility of invention

PREGNANT

fertile of invention

Ready

Obvious

PRENOMINATE

to name beforehand, to prophesy

PRE-ORDINANCE

old-established law

PRESENCE

the presence-chamber

High bearing

PREST

ready

PRETENCE

design

PRETEND

to portend

To intend

PREVENT

to anticipate

PRICK

the mark denoting the hour on a dial

PRICK

to incite

To choose by pricking a hole with a pin opposite the

name

PRICK-SONG

music sung in parts by note

a stag of two years

heat

to steal

rank, lecherous

more-important

a game at cards

that which holds the highest place

a coxcomb

a prize-fighter

to bring

interj. much good may it do you

PROFANE

outspoken

PROGRESS

a royal ceremonial journey

to shape or contrive

suggestion

ready, willing

strength of manhood

to advance, to forward

PROPAGATION

obtaining

PROPER-FALSE

natural falsehood

PROPERTIED

endowed with the properties of

PROPERTIES

scenes, dresses, &c. used in a theatre

PROPERTY

to take possession of

PROPOSE

to suppose, for the sake of argument

To converse

conversation

to defer

provender

forecast

a virgin, the name given to Joan of Arc

modesty

thieving

to pound

to acquire, win

gain, winnings

to compel

an instigator

one who lends money at interest

PUTTING-ON

instigation

PUTTOCK

a kite

QUAIL

to faint, be languid, be afraid

to cause to quail

QUAINT

curiously beautiful

QUAKE

to cause to quake or tremble

QUALIFY

to moderate

QUALITY

those of the same nature

Rank or condition

a suit, cause

game, a heap of game

'ECU a quarter crown

the post allotted to a soldier

QUAT

a pimple; used in contempt of a person

squeamish, unsettled

murder

to grow cool

a hand-mill

enquiry, search, inquest, jury

QUESTRIST

one who goes in search of another

QUICK

so far gone in pregnancy that the child is

alive

to come to life

| a subtle question

quidebet, a subtle case in law

QUINTAIN

a post for tilting at

sharp jest, a taunt

to sing in concert

to requite, respond

past tense of the verb to quit, quitted

requital

active

to note

a ruff

a weasel

breed; inherited nature

RACK

wreck

RACK

to enhance the price of anything

To drive as clouds

RAG

a term of contempt applied to persons

RAKE

to cover

RAPT

transported with emotion

a fit

a lean deer

quick, violent

opinion, judgment

to assign, to value

To scold

RATOLORUM

a ludicrous mistake for Rotulorum

past tense of reach

ravenous

to devour

inadequately

unprovided state

arrayed, served

slashed

the bat

to deprive of keenness

REBECK

a three-stringed fiddle

RECEIPT

money received

RECEIVING

capacity

RECHEAT

a point of the chase to call back the hounds

to sing

a flute

to cure, recover

suitable to an ale-house, because ale-houses

had commonly red lattices

erysipelas

to bring back

smoky, dirty

to refute

to reserve to

government

a salutation

to salute

requital

applicable

to remind

pity

full of pity, compassionate

removal

sequestered, remote

to describe you

account

to renounce, to deny

to renovate, comfort

to reverse the sentence of exile. Two

Gentlemen of Verona

REPROOF

confutation

REPUGN

to resist

REQUIEM

mass for the dead, so called because it begins

with the words, Requiem eternam dona eis, Domine

RESOLVE

to satisfy

To dissolve

RESPECT

consideration

RESPECTIVE

respectful, thoughtful

corresponding

respectfully

handed down

retreat

to draw back

to echo

a rebel

to enclose as within ribs

to destroy

to split

a split

wanton

a circle

drunk

the shore

a partner

equal rank

to fire

the high road, applied to a common woman

ROISTING

roistering, violent

ROMAGE

unusual stir

RONVON

a term of contempt applied to a woman

the crucifix

a cheater

roguery

tricks such as are played by a rope-dancer

ROUND

to whisper

To become great with child

to finish off

a diadem

unceremonious

a dance or song

an enclosure

carousal

mangy

ruddy

the redbreast

to push

rustling

reverent, as words used in religious worship

SACRING-BELL

the little bell rung at mass to give notice

that the elements are consecrated

serious

seriously

seriousness

to make safe

to hang down

lascivious

taste

marked with yellow spots

without

lascivious

a moral saying

silken

assay, taste, relish

the gallery of a theatre

SCALD

scurvy, scabby

SCALE

to weigh in scales

SCALL

a scab, a word of reproach

SCAMBLE

to scramble

SCAMEL

probably a misprint for sea-mel, sea-mew

SCAN

to examine subtly

SCANT

to cut short, to spare

SCANT

scanty, short

scarcely

a small portion

to escape

a sally

injury

to injure

destructive

the head

to bruise or cut slightly

a fencer

a scabby fellow

a shoal of fish

scabby; metaph. mean

to set one's seal to a deed; hence, to confirm

SEAM

fat

SEAMY

showing the seam or sewing

SEAR

scorched, withered

SEAR

to stigmatise

to probe; hence, to apply a healing remedy

SEATED

fixed, confirmed

SECT

a slip or scion

A political party

inconsiderately

to close

closing, blinding

seemly, becomingly

outward manner and appearance

versed, instructed

seldom

native goodness

alike

seniority

a flourish of trumpets

to bury

separation

dry

a bailiff

a cutaneous disease

'serviceable vows,' vows that you will do

her service, or be her servant

SETEBOS

the name of a fiend

SETTER

one who watches travellers to give information

to thieves

SEVERAL

land which is not common but appropriated

SHAME

to be ashamed

SHAME

modesty

SHARDS

shreds, broken fragments of pottery

SHARDS

the wing cases of beetles; hence 'sharded,'

and 'shard-borne,'

SHARKED

snatched up, as a shark does his prey

SHEEN

brilliancy

SHEER

pure

Unmixed

SHENT

rebuked, blamed

Hurt

SHERIFF

'S-POST a post at the door of a sheriff, to which royal

proclamations were fixed

SHIVE

slice

SHOT

the reckoning at an ale-house

SHOUGHS

shaggy dogs

SHOULDERED

plunged

SHOVEL-BOARD

game played by sliding metal pieces along

a board at a mark

SHREWD

mischievous

SHRIFT

confession

Absolution

SHRIVE

to confess

SHRIVING-TIME

time for confession

SHROUD

to enshroud oneself, cover oneself up

SIDE-SLEEVES

loose hanging sleeves

SIEGE

seat

Stool

Rank

SIGHT

an aperture in a helmet

SIGHTLESS

invisible

Unsightly

to give an omen

simple, rustic

counterfeit, feigned

feeble

a title applied to a bachelor of arts at the

Universities

since

since

allowances

scapegraces

to be of importance

ignorant

rambling, disjointed

a drawer of liquor

to scour

slacken

to turn to slavish uses

SLEAVE

floss-silk

SLEDDED

sledged

SLEIDED

untwisted, raw, applied to silk

(Gower)

SLEIGHTS

artifices

SLIPPER

slippery

SLIPS

a kind of noose, or leash

A piece of base money

to slice

a slice

loose breeches

to slur over

smeared, soiled

to flatter

flattered, fawned upon

taunt, sarcasm

pinched

go hang!

anger

'To take in snuff' is to take offence

gently

spot, taint

solicitation

a small coin

solution

formerly

truth

Conciliation

SOOTH

true

SOREL

a buck of the third year

SORRIEST

most sorrowful

SORRY

sorrowful, dismal

SORT

a company

Rank, condition

Lot

'In a sort,' in a manner

SORT

to choose

to suit

To consort

fool

soul-terrifying

to lug, drag

name of a dog

a special contract

settled, done for

fortune

to bolt, fasten

spy

to destroy

spilling

violent haste

Used of the lightning flash

SPRAG

quick

SPRING

shoot, bud

Beginning

SPRINGHALT

stringhalt, a disease of horses

haunted

roots of trees

scattered

to quarrel

the front part of a woman's dress, stomacher

equitable

quarreller

an unripe peascod

a square or rule

to squint

a disease in horses, attended with giddiness:

hence any bewildering distress

STAIN

to disfigure

STALE

a decoy

A gull

A prostitute

STALE

to make stale, deprive anything of its

freshness

STAND UPON

to be incumbent on

STANIEL

an inferior kind of hawk

stiff

stiffly

a canopied chair

attitude

Act of standing

a statesman

a statue

image, picture

security, obligation

woollen caps worn by citizens

a cheque

to profit

set or fixed

steerage, course

an arbitrator in combats

a deformed person

deformed

constant

constantly

softly

to stop

a smith's forge

to forge

a stoccata, or thrust in fencing

STOCK

a stocking

STOMACH

courage, stubbornness

Appetite, inclination

STONE-BOW

a cross-bow for throwing stones

a cup

strong, healthy

fodder

word of doubtful meaning

STRAIGHT

immediately

STRAIN

lineage

Disposition

STRAITED

straitened

STRANGE

foreign

Coy, reserved

Marvellous

coyness, reserve

foreigner

a kind of punishment

strictness

trowsers

a thrust of a sword

corruption of stoccata

STUFF

baggage

Material, substance

STUFFED

filled, stored

STY

to lodge as in a sty

to yield

to succumb

SUCCESS

issue, consequence

Succession

succeeding

in succession

hasty, rash

hastily

suffering

to tempt, entice

temptation, enticement

SUITED

dressed

SULLEN

doleful, melancholy

SUMPTER

a horse that carries provisions on a journey

a trick, imposition

counterfeit

to cease

cessation, end

to capture by surprise

over-worked

suspicion

to breathe

a sweeper of the deck of a ship

SWARTH

black

SWARTH

quantity of grass cut down by one sweep of the

scythe

swaggerer

dashing, smashing

he same as 'swarth.'

swaddling

to move on

to adjure

to out-swear

ready, quick

a bully

a tablet, note-book

note-book

the game of backgammon

A note-book

TABOUR

a small side-drum

TABOURER

a player on the tabour

tambourine, drum

the rabble

tainted

defilement

to infect, blast, bewitch

TAKE IN

to conquer

TAKE OUT

to copy

TAKE UP

to borrow money, or buy on credit

To make up a quarrel

TAKING

infection, malignant influence

buying on credit

counting, reckoning

strong, valiant

a lump of tallow

twang, sound

to sound

anything tanned by the sun

to excite, urge on

delay

artarus

to tax

Challenge

challenging

to try

a rustic necklace

satire, sarcasm

satire

grief

to count

to mix

temperature

mixed

to attend to

to hold, to esteem

To have consideration for

TENT

to probe as a wound

TENT

a probe for searching a wound

TERCEL

the male of the goshawk

TERMAGANT

a ranting character in old plays

TESTED

pure, assayed

TESTERN

to reward with a tester, or six-pence

a constable

theory

sinews, muscles

rapidly

thickly intertwined

a constable

anxiety, grief

So 'to take thought' is to give way to grief

THRASONICAL

boastful

THREE-MAN BEETLE

a wooden mallet worked by three men

THREE-MAN-SONG-MEN

singers of glees in three parts

three-piled velvet

lament

thread, fibre

to put in agonies

the tufted end of a thread in weaving

THRUMMED

made od coarse ends or tufts

ticklish

nimble, active

briskly, promptly

a cur

int. an exclamation of contempt

tillage

untimely

stain, dye

attire, head-dress

to tear as a bird of prey

Hence, metaphorically, to feed

TIRE

to attire, dress

TANG

twang, sound

TOD

to yield a tod of wool

TOKENED

marked with plague spots

TOKENS

plague spots

TOLL

to exact toll

To pay toll

TOO TOO

excessively

TOPLESS

supreme, without superior

TOUCH

touchstone for testing gold

Trait

An acute feeling

pricked

to pull, drag

nearly ready

nearly ready

trifles, foolish tricks

beaten path

a ferry

transformed

to cheque, as a huntsman his hounds

TRAVAIL

labour, toil

TRAY-TRIP

an old game played with dice

traitors

entreaties

carved

technically, a copy of a coat of arms; hence,

any peculiarity which distinguishes voice or

feature

to dress up

blazoned

ornament

elegantly quaint

third

a cant word for a thief

TROL-MY-DAMES

the name of a game; also called

pigeon-holes

betrothed

to trust, think

honest

a long-tailed dog

a flourish on the trumpet

TUNDISH

a funnel

TURLYGOOD

a name adopted by bedlam-beggars

TURN

to modulate

TWANGLING

twanging

TWIGGEN

made of twigs, wicker

TWILLED R

etained by woven branches

TWINK

a twinkling

TWIRE

to peep, twinkle

UMBERED

stained, dark, as with umber

UNANELED

without extreme unction

unavoidable

untrimmed

unblunted

to disclose

unsifted, unrefined

unpractised

to throw off the hounds

UNCHARGED

undefended, applied to the gates of a city

to unravel, undo

unalloyed, unfeigned

to undertake

one who takes up another's quarrel

undermined

hardly

inexpressible

to deprive of beauty

censoriously

mischievous

undisclosed

without receiving the sacrament

unreproved

a pearl

dishonest

unnatural

bereft of life

untamed, applied to a hawk

unowned

stupid

common to all

not inquisitive

undressed

inconsiderate

unresting

incontinent

unsoftening

unsearchable

unused, uncommon

spoiled of grace or ornament

untruth

invaluable

a boisterous dance

the hedge-hog

usury

interest

riotous merriment, which accompanied the eighth

day of a festival

to expel, put forth

extremity

to fade

to lower

lowering

vanity

adorned with a valence or fringe; applied

to the beard

VALIDITY

value

VANTAGE

advantage

VANTBRACE

armour for the front of the arm

VARLET

a servant, valet

VAST

properly a waste-place, metaphorically, the dead

of night

A gulf

immensity

like a waste

vast, waste

the van, that which precedes

VAUNT-COURIERS

forerunners

VAWARD

the van, vanguard, advanced guard of an army

Hence, metaphorically, the first of anything

VEGETIVES

herbs

VELURE

velvet

VELVET-GUARDS

literally, velvet trimmings; applied

metaphorically to the citizens who wore them

VENEW

a bout in fencing, metaphorically applied to

repartee and sallies of wit

VENEY

a bout at fencing

VENGE

to avenge

VENTAGES

holes in a flute or flageolet

wordy

true, real

int. off with you!

to screw

the buffoon in the old morality plays

VIE

to challenge; a term at cards

To play as for a wager

invisible

a lowborn man

mouldy

a bass viol

playing as on the virginals, a kind of a

spinet

VIRTUE

the essential excellence

valour

VIRTUOUS

excellent

Endowed with virtues

advisement

fickle

volunteer

votary, one who has taken a vow

the common people

common

publicly

to wave, beckon

To turn

WAFTAGE

passage

WAFTURE

waving, beckoning

WAGE

to reward as with wages

lamentable

the middle of a ship

'with a vengeance.'

withered, overworn

guard

Prison

WARDEN

a large pear used for baking

WARDER

truncheon

WARN

to summon

WASSAIL

a drinking bout

Festivity

WAT

a familiar word for a hare

WATCH

a watch light

WATCH

to tame by keeping constantly awake

WATER-GALL

a secondary rainbow

WATER-RUG

a kind of dog

WATER-WORK

painting in distemper

to grow

perhaps, to hiccough

weal, advantage

fashion

to defend from the weather

WEB AND PIN

the cataract in the eye

small, tiny

to think

garment

to wit, know

to outweigh

the sky

sky-blue

in good condition

int. well done!

to go

the wind-pipe

a weal

marked with whelks or protuberances

WHEN

an exclamation of impatience

when

whereas

a place

an officer who clears the way in processions

a little while ago

until

handle of a whip

hushed, silent

the centre of an archery butt

WHITELY

pale-faced. A doubtful word

bleaching time

bleacher

a clasp knife

hubbub

to cry out with astonishment

WICKED

noisome, baneful

WIDOW

to give a jointure to

widow's jointure

person

weald

wildness

veiled, hooded

lattice-work across a woman's stomacher

WINDRING

winding

WINTER-GROUND

to protect (a plant) from frost

WIS

in the compound 'I wis,' certainly

to commend

wistfully

knowledge, wisdom

beyond

five, the five senses

a contented cuckold

intelligent

hen-pecked

marvellously gifted

mad

a simpleton

a forester, huntsman

A cant term for a wencher

WOOLWARD

shirtless

WORD

to flatter or put off with words

To repeat the words of a song

WORLD

'To go to the world' is to get married

So 'a woman of the world' is a married woman

a serpent

worse

to honour

wealth, fortune

cabbages

to know

twisted about

vengeance

to avenge

revengeful, avenging

an instrument used for tuning a harp

gospel, truth

shrivelled

calamity, misfortune

twisted, strained

to swerve

Socrate's scolding wife

YARE

ready, being understood

readily

out of control

clad

called, named

to grieve, vex

jealousy

a disease of horses

a sheriff's officer

to reward

To report

YOND

and yonder

YOUNKER

tyro

ZANY

a clown, gull .