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Umber, a dusky, yellow-colour- Unsmirched, clean, not defiled.

ed earth.

Umbered, discoloured.
Unaneled,
unction.
Unavoided, unavoidable. Rich.
II.

without extreme

Unbarbed, bare, uncovered, beardless.

Unbated, i. e. sword not blunted as foils are. Ham. Unbitted, unbridled. Unbonnetted, without any addition from dignities. Öth. Unbreathed, unexercised, unpractised.

Uncape, a term in hunting, to stop every hole before the fox is uncaped or turned out of the bag. Uncharged, unattacked. Tim. Ath.

Unclew, to unwind, to ruin. Uncoined, unrefined, unadorned. Hen. V. Unconfirmed, unpractised in the ways of the world, not hardened.

Undercraft, a phrase from heraldry, to wear beneath the crest.

Uneffectual, i. e. fire, shining

without heat. Ham. Unexpressive, inexpressible. As

you.

Ungenitured, not having genitals.

Unhaired, unbearded, youthful. Unhappy, sometimes for mischievously waggish, unlucky. Unhoused, free from domestic

cares.

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Unsquared, as stones, unadapted
to their purposes.
Unstanched, incontinent.
Untempering, not softening.
Untented, not probed, virulent.
Untraded, singular, not in com-

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Waft, to beckon.
Ham.
Wage, sometimes, to hire or re-
ward, to fight.

Wan'd, probably for waned, decayed, or in the wane. Ant. and Cleo.

Wanned, pale, made wan. Wanton, sometimes for a man feeble and effeminate. Wappened, probably decayed or diseased.

Ward, defence, a phrase in the
art of defence.
Warder, a guard or sentinel.
Warden, a species of large pear.
Warn, sometimes, to summons.
Warp, to change from the na-

tural state. As you. Wassel, a kind of drink, or intemperate drinking. Wassel candle, candle used at feasts.

Waren, to increase.

Waren, soft, yielding, easily obliterated.

Web and the pin, diseases of the eye. Lear. Wee, very little.

Ween, to think or imagine. Weigh, sometimes, to value or

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Westward-hoe, the name of a
play acted in Shakspeare's
time. Twel. Night.
Wether, used for ram.
Whelked, varied with protube-
rances; from whelks, protube-
rances, a small shell-fish.
Whe'r, often for whether.
Where, sometimes for whereas.
Whiffler, an officer who walked
in processions.

Whiles, until. Twel. Night.
Whipstock, the carter's whip.
Whirring, hurrying away.
Whist, being silent. Temp.
Whiting time, bleaching time.
Whitsters, bleachers of linen.
Whittle, a pocket clasp knife.
Whooping, measure and reckon-
ing. As you.
Wimpled, hooded, or veiled;
from wimple, a hood.
Winchester goose, a strumpet;
the stews were formerly
licensed by the bishop of
Winchester.
Winking-gates, gates hastily
closed from fear of danger.
Winnowed, sifted, examined.
Wis, to know.

Wish,sometimes, to recommend
or desire.

Wits, sometimes for senses. Wittol-cuckold, one who knows himself a cuckold, and is contented.

Woe, to be sorry.
Wondered, able to perform won-
ders. Temp.

Wood, crazy. Two Gent. Mid.
Night. Hen. VI. 1st Part.
Woolvish, giving an idea of a
wolf in sheep's clothing.
Cor.
Woolward, clothed in wool, or
rather naked. Love's Lab.
Worts, the ancient name of all
kinds of cabbage.
Wot, to know.
Wreck, resentment.
Wrest, an instrument for draw-
ing up the strings of a harp;
a help. Troil, and Cres.
Wrested pomp, pomp obtained
by violence.
Writhled, wrinkled.
Wrought, worked, agitated.
Wrying, deviating.

Yare, handy, nimble.
Yearn, to grieve or vex.
Yerk, to kick.

Yesty, foaming, frothy.

Zany, a buffoon, a merry An-
drew.
Zealous, pious, influenced by
religion. K. John.

Zed, a term of contempt. The
letter Z is not in any word
originally Teutonic. Lear.

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