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LIBERAL, licentious, frank.
LIGHTLY, usually.
LIMB-MEAL, limb by limb.
LIMBECK, alembic.

LIMBO, borders of hell; hell.
LINE, draw, paint.

LINE-GROVE, linden, lime.

LIST, boundary; v. listen; please.
LISTS, enclosed space where tournaments
were held, or the surrounding barricades.
LITHER, soft, pliable.

LIVELIHOOD, liveliness, vigour.

LIVERY, "delivery, or grant of possession." LOACH, small fish.

LOCKRAM, cheap sort of linen.

LODE-STAR, pole-star.
LODGE, lay flat.

LOFFE, laugh.

LOGGATS, small logs: the game consisted of throwing loggats at a stake fixed in the ground.

LONG STAFF SIXPENNY STRIKERS, "fellows that infest the road with long staffs and knock men down for sixpence" (J.). LONGLY, longingly.

LOOFED, luffed, brought close to the wind.
LOON, LOWN, a stupid rascal.
LOUTED, flouted, mocked.
LOVE-IN-IDLENESS, pansy.
LUCE, pike.

LUNES, fits of frenzy.

LURCH, lurk, rob.

LUXURIOUS, unchaste.

LYM, sporting-dog.

MACULATE, Spotted, stained.

MAGOT-PIE, magpie.

MAINED, maimed.

MAKELESS, mateless.

MALKIN, diminutive of Mary.

MALT-HORSE, heavy dray horse; used as

a term of reproach.

MALT-WORM, lover of ale.

MAMMERING, hesitating, muttering.
MAMMET, puppet.

MAMMOCK, rend in pieces.

MANAGE, management, administration ; training (horse); career, course. MANDRAGORA, MANDRAKE,

supposed when torn from the ground to utter groans; a powerful narcotic. MANKIND, masculine, mannish.

MANNER, "" taken with the," caught in the

act.

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Mor, grimace.

MORAL, meaning.

MORALIZE, interpret, expound.

MORISCO, inorris-dancer.

MORRIS-PIKE, moorish pike.

MORT O' THE DEER, certain set of notes blown by the huntsmen at the death of the deer.

MORTAL, fatal, deadly.

MORTIFIED, lifeless, inert, insensible; "the mortified man "ascetic (D.).

MOSE IN THE CHINE, disease of horses.
MOTION, puppet-show, puppet.
MOTIVE, moving agent; cause.

MOTLEY, parti-coloured dress worn by fools.

MOUSE, to tear in pieces, devour (as a cat a mouse) (D.), "mousing the flesh of

men.

Mow, grimace.

Moy, piece of money. MUM-BUDGET,

silence.

MURE, wall.

a cant

word implying

MUSCADEL, a rich wine.

MUSE, wonder.

Muss, scramble after things that are

thrown down.

MUTINES, mutineers.

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SEASON, temper;

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seasons him his enemy," my blessing season this in thee," confirm (D.); mature (S.). SECT, sex; section, cutting.

SECURE, SECURELY, SECURITY, rashly confident, etc.

SEEL, close the eyes; the eyes of hawks
were seeled by passing a fine thread or
small feather through the eyelids.
SEEN, skilled; "well seen in music."
SEIZED, possessed (legal term).
SELDOM-WHEN, rarely.

SELF, same, self-same; "that self hand."
SEMBLABLE, likeness.
SEMBLATIVE,

seeming (S.).

resembling;

appearing,

SENNET, set of notes, or flourish, on the trumpet.

SENSELESS, without feeling, perception. SENSIBLE, having feeling, sensation, perception.

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SERE, catch in a gunlock; "tickle of the sere, a gun which explodes on the least touch on the sere. (See Wright, quoted by S.)

SERPIGO, eruption.

SESSA, "probably a cry exciting to swift running" (S.).

SEVERAL, private, "inclosed pasture, as opposed to common land."

SEWER, the attendant who set on and removed dishes. SHALE, shell.

SHARD, hard wing-case, "shard-borne," "sharded"; fragment of broken pottery.

SHARKED, "collected in a banditti-like

manner.

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SHROWD, shelter.

SIB, akin.

SIEGE, seat; rank.

SIGHTLESS, invisible; unsightly.
SILLY, simple, rustic, harmless.
SIMPLICITY, foolishness.
SIMULAR, Counterfeited.

SINK-A-PACE. See Cinque-pace.
SIR-REVERENCE, save-reverence.
SITH, SITHENCE, since.

SIZES, portions, allowances.

SKAINS-MATES, Sword-mates (S.); skain = scapegrace" (Staunton); "swaggering. companions" (Nares).

SKILL, matter, "it skills not."
SKIRR, SCOUT.

SLAB, moist and glutinous.

SLEAVE, soft floss silk used for weaving.

SLEEVELESS, useless, fruitless.

SLEIDED, raw, untwisted, "sleided silk."

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SOILED, high fed.

SOLIDARE, small coin.

SONTIES, supposed corruption of saints, or sanctity.

SOOTH, truth; sweetness.

SOOTH, SOOTHER, flatter, smooth over; flatterer.

SOP O' THE MOONSHINE, "old dish of eggs in moonshine: i. e. broken and boiled in salad-oil till the yolks become hard, and eaten with slices of onion" (Douce). SORE, buck of the fourth year. SOREL, buck of the third year.

SORT, company; v. choose; suit, fit; contrive (S.).

SOUSED, pickled.

SowL, pull by the ears.

SOWTER, Cobbler, name of a hound. SPAN-COUNTER, a player throws a coin, or counter, to try and hit another, or come within a span of it; sometimes played with marbles.

SPAVIN, disease of horses.

SPECULATION, power of vision, "speculators, observers" (S.).

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SPECULATIVE, visual (D.); speculative instruments."

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SPERR, make fast. SPILL, destroy (D.). SPILTH, spilling.

SPIRIT OF SENSE, "utmost refinement of sensation"; "sense or sensibility itself" (S.). SPLEEN, caprice, humour; impetuous haste; "hate; any uncontrollable impulse, fit; fire, eagerness" (S.).

SPLEENY, ill-tempered, peevish (D.); eager, headstrong (S.). SPLINTER, put into splints.

SPRAG, sprack, alert.

SPRIGHTED, haunted.

SPRINGHALT, a kind of lameness in horses. SQUARE, quarrel.

SQUASH, unripe peas pod.

SQUINY, Squint.

SQUIRE, Square, or measure.

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STAIN, disgrace; "stain to all nymphs that sullies by contrast (D.); v. taint, dim, disfigure.

STALE, decoy; stalking-horse. STALKING-HORSE, a real or artificial horse, behind which the shooter hid himself from the game.

STANIEL, an inferior kind of hawk.

STARRED, fated by the stars.

START-UP, up-start.

STATE, chair of state.

STATION, mode of standing; state of rest,
as opposed to motion.
STATUTE-CAPS, woollen caps, worn, as de-
creed by statute, by all but the nobility,
after a certain age, on Sundays and
holidays.

STELLED, "quenched the stelled fires,"
starry; fixed (S.).
STERNAGE, steerage.
STICKLER, umpire.

STIGMATIC, one who has been stigmatised, branded; stigmatised with deformity. STIGMATICAL, marked with a stigma of deformity.

STINT, Stop.
STITHY, Smithy.

STOCCADO, a thrust in fencing.
STOCK. See Stoccado.

STOMACH, arrogance, anger; stubborn courage; inclination; v. resent (D.). STOUT, bold; unbending, obstinate (D.); overbearing (S.).

STRAIGHT-PIGHT, straight-pitched, straight. built, upright (D.).

STRAIN, lineage; disposition.
STRAIT, close-fitted.
STRAITED, puzzled.
STRANGE, foreign; shy.

STRANGELY, wonderfully; distantly, like a stranger.

STRANGENESS, coyness, shyness. STRAPPADO, a torture which broke and dislocated the arms and joints. STRATAGEM, calamity, dire event. STRICTURE, strictness.

STRIKE, blast by secret influence, "then no planets strike."

STROND, strand.

STROSSERS, trossers, trousers.
SUBSCRIBE, yield, submit.

SUBTILTIES, "when a dish appeared un. like what it really was, they called it a subtilty" (Steevens).

SUCCESS, succession; result, consequence.
SUGGEST, prompt, tempt.

SUMPTER, horse or mule to carry baggage.
SUPER-SERVICEABLE, over-officious.
SUPPLIANCE, supply, gratification, pastime
(S.); "suppliance of a minute.'
SUR-REINED, over-worked.
SWEETING, a kind of apple.
SWINGE-BUCKLER, a roisterer.
SWINGED, whipped.

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TERMLESS, beyond the power of words" (D.).

TESTER, a coin worth sixpence.
TETCHY, touchy.

THARBOROUGH, corruption of Thirdbor ough; constable, or constable's assistant. THRASONICAL, boastful.

THREAD AND THRUM, "the thread is the substance of the warp, the thrum the small tuft beyond, where it is tied." THREE-MAN BEETLE, implement for pile. driving.

THROSTLE, thrush.

THRUM. See Thread.

THRUMMED, made of thrums, or of very coarse cloth.

THUNDER-STONE, thunder-bolt.

TICK-TACK, sort of backgammon (D.)
TICKLE, ticklish, precarious(ly).
TIKE, common sort of dog.
TILTH, tilled land; tillage.
TIMELESS, untimely.

TIRE, head-dress; v. pull, tear,
eagerly, as birds of prey their food.
TOD, twenty-eight pounds of wool.
TOGE, gown.

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TOKEN'D, shewing plague tokens, spots. TOM O' BEDLAM, the Bedlam beggars were men who had recovered sufficiently to be let out of Bedlam, and were licensed to go begging; many impostors were about who had never seen the inside of a madhouse.

TOPLESS, not to be topped, surpassed.
TORTIVE, tortuous.

TOUCH, test by the touchstone.
TOUSE, drag, tear, pluck.

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Toys, "there's toys abroad"="rumours, idle reports," "tricks, devices," in the world" (S.). TOZE. See Touse.

TRADE, traffic; in the "

gap and trade", "practised method, general course" (J.). TRAIN, artifice, stratagem. TRAMMEL, confine, tie up.

TRANECT, probably from Italian traghetto ferry (S.).

TRASH, trash for overtopping," lop, crop (S.); Nares decided that it was some kind of strap, or implement to hold back a hound; according to Madden (quoted by S.) "when the hound was running, the long strap, dragged along the ground, handicapped the overtopping hound.' TRAY-DRIP, a game played with cards and dice; success in it depended upon throwing a trois (treys). TREACHER, traitor.

TRENCH, cut, carve.

TRIBULATION, probably name of a puritanical society; or applied to the whole sect of Puritans (S.).

TRICKING, dress, ornament.

TRICKSY, clever, adroit (D.); full of tricks and devices (S.).

TRIGON, astrological term, signifying the meeting of the three upper planets, which were then called the "fery Trigon."

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TROJAN, cant term for thief; "a familiar name for any equal or inferior (Nares). TROLL-MY-DAMES, TROLL-MADAM, TROUMADAM, a game known in England as pigeon-holes, small balls being bowled into these from the farther end of the board.

TROPICALLY, figuratively.

TRUNDLE-TAIL, dog with a curly tail.
TUCKET, flourish, certain set of notes on
the trumpet.
TUN-DISH, funnel.

TURK, "turn Turk," undergo a complete
change (S. adds "for the worse").
TURLYGOOD, TURLYGOD, apparently a
name for a "bedlam-beggar.'
TWIGGEN, Covered with wicker-work.
TYPE, symbol.

UNANELED, not having received extreme unction.

UNAVOIDED, unavoidable.

UNBARBED, unbarbered, unshorn.
UNBATED, not blunted, as foils are.
UNBOLTED, unsifted.

UNBRAIDED not counterfeit, or, blunder for embroidered (? S.).

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UNCAPE, probably "uncouple" (S.); it has been interpreted as unearth"; 66 turn fox out of bag." UNCLEW, UNCLUE, unwind.

UNCOINED, "not counterfeit "; real, unrefined, unadorned; having received no previous impression; without the current stamp, i. e. insinuating words, etc." (S.).

UNCONFIRMED, without experience.
UNCOUTH, unknown, strange.
UNDERLEAR, undergo, bear.

UNDERSKINKER, undertapster.

UNEARED, untilled.

UNEATH, hardly, scarcely.

UNEXPERIENT, inexperienced.

UNEXPRESSIVE, inexpressible.

UNHAPPY, UNHAPPILY, waggish(ly); mischievous(ly), evilly (S.).

UNHAPPINESS, mischief, "dreamed of unhappiness," wanton or mischievous tricks (S.). UNHOUSELED,

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VENGEANCE, harm.

VENTAGE, hole or stop in a flute.
VERBAL, verbose, or plain-spoken.

VICE, a personage in the old moralities,
sometimes dressed as a buffoon; armed
at times with a wooden dagger,
"Vice's
dagger."

VIE, wager, contend in rivalry.
VIEWLESS, invisible.

VILLIAGO (VILLIACO), villain.

VINEWEDST, most mouldy.

VIOL-DE-GAMBOYS, a viol held between the legs, bass-viol, violoncello.

VIRGINALLING, playing with the fingers as on a virginal.

VULGAR, common, general, "the vulgar air;" of common report, vulgar.'

VULGARLY, publicly.

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WAFT, beckon; turn, "wafting his eyes.' WAFTAGE, passage by water.

WAKE, to keep night revel.

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WANION, WANNION, "with a wanion," apparently equivalent to "with a vengeance.

WAPPENED, worn.

WARD, posture of defence.

WARDEN, hard pear used for baking, "warden-pie."

WARDER, kind of truncheon.

WASSAIL, festivity, drinking-bout.

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WATCH, I'll watch him tame; hawks were kept awake to tame them.

WATER-WORK, water-colour painting.
WAX, grow, increase.

WEAL, welfare; commonwealth.

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