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Convicted: overpowered, baffled.
Convive: to feast.

Cope: to encounter, to engage.
Cope: covering.

Copped: rising to a cop, or head.
Copy: theme.

Coragio: an exclamation of en-
couragement.
Corinthian: a wencher.
Corky: dry, withered, husky.
Corners: bye-places.
Corollary: surplus.

Coronet: a crown.
Corrigible: corrected.
Costard: the head.

Coster-monger: meanly mercenary.
Cote: to overtake.

Coted: quoted, observed, or regarded.

Crow: to exult over.
|| Crow-keeper: a scare-crow.
Crown: to conclude.
Crowned: dignified, adorned.
Crownet: last purpose.
Cry: a troop or pack.
Cue: in stage cant, the last words
of the preceding speech.
Cuisses: armour for the thighs.
Cullion: a despicable fellow.
Cunning: sagacity, knowledge.
Curb: to bend or truckle.
Curiosity: finical delicacy, scru-
pulousness or captiousness.
Curious: scrupulous.

Curled: ostentatiously dressed.
Currents: occurrences.
Cursed: under the influence of a
malediction.

Curst: : petulant, crabbed, shrewd-
or mischievous, severe,
harsh, vehemently angry.

ish

Curtail: a cur of little value.

Cotsale: Cotswood in Gloucester- Curstness: ill-humour. shire. Count: to make account, to reckon Curtal: a docked horse.

upon.

Count Confect: a specious noble

man.

Countenance: false appearance, hypocrisy.

Counterfeit: a likeness, a portrait.
Counterpoints: counterpanes.
County: count, earl.
Covered: hollow.

Cower: to sink by bending the hams.

Cowl-staff: a staff for carrying a large tub.

Coy: to soothe or stroke.
Coyed: condescended unwillingly.
Coystril: a coward cock, a mean
or drunken fellow.
Cozier: a tailor or botcher.
Crab: : a wild apple.

Crack: dissolution.

Curtle-ax or cutlace, a broadsword.

Custard-coffin: the crust of a custard or pie.

Customer: a common woman.
Cut a horse.

Cyprus: a transparent stuff.

D.

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Defy: to refuse, to disdain.
Degrees: steps.
Delay: to let slip.
Demerits: merits.
Demise: to grant.
Demurely: solemnly.
Denay: denial.

Denied: disbelieved or contemned.
Denier: the twelfth part of a
French sous.

Denotements: indications or discoveries.

Deny: to refuse.
Depart: to part.
Departing: separation.
Depend: to be in service.
to disinherit.
Deprive:
Deracinate: to force up by the
roots.

Derogate: degraded, blasted.
Descant: a term in music.
Desert: merit.
Deserved: deserving.
Design: to mark out.
Despatched: bereft.

Desperate: bold, adventurous.
Detected: charged or guilty.
Determined: ended.

Dibble: an instrument used by gardeners.

Dich: dit or do it.

Dickon: familiarly for Richard.
Die: gaming.

Daff or doff: to do off, to put Diet: regimen.

aside.

Dally: to play or trifle.

Damn: condemn.

Danger: reach or controul.
Dank: wet, rotten.
Danskers: natives of Denmark.
Dare: to challenge or incite.
Dark-house: a house made gloomy
by discontent.

Crack: a boy or child, a boy-child. || Darkling: in the dark.

Cranks: windings.

Crants: chants.

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Crone: an old worn-out woman.

Darraign: to arrange, put in order.

Daub: to disguise.
Daubery: falsehood and imposition.
Day-bed: a couch.
Day-light: broad day.
Day-woman: dairy-maid.
Dearn: lonely, solitary.
Death-tokens: spots appearing on
those infected by the plague.
Deboshed: debauched.

Decay misfortunes.

Deceivable: deceptious.

Diet: to oblige to fast.

Diffused: extravagant, irregular. Digress

to deviate from the

right.
Digression: transgression.
Dint: impression.

Disable: to undervalue.
Direction: judgment, skill.
Disappointed: unprepared.
Disclose to hatch.
Discontenting: discontented.
Discontents: malcontents.
Discourse: reason.
Disdained: disdainful.

Disease: uneasiness, discontent.
Diseases: sayings.
Disgrace: hardship, injury.
Dislimns: unpaints, obliterates.
Dispark: to destroy a park.
Disponge: discharge as a sponge.
Dispose: to make terms, to settle

matters.

Disposition: frame.

Decline: to run through from first Disputable: disputatious.

to last.

Declined: the fallen. Deem: opinion, surmise.

Defeat: destruction.

Dispute: to talk over.

Dissemble: to gloss over.

Dissembling: putting dissimilar things together.

Defeatures: features, change of Distaste: to corrupt, to change to

features for the worse.

Defence: art of fencing.

Defend: to forbid.

of defence.

a worse state.

Distemper: intoxication. Distemperature: perturbation.

Crosses: money stamped with a Defensible: furnishing the means Distempered: ruffled, qut of hu

cross.

mour.

Distractions: detachments, sepa- | Emulous: jealous of higher au- || Eyases: young nestlings. rate bodies.

Distraught: distracted.

thority. Encave: to hide.

Diverted: turned out of the course Enfeoff: to invest with possession.

of nature. Dividable: divided.

Engine: instrument of war, ini-
litary machine, the rack.

Division: the pauses or parts of Engross: to fatten, to pamper.

musical composition.

Divulged: spoken of.
Doctrine: skill.

Doff, see Daff.

Dole: lot, allowance.

Dolphin: the Dauphin of France.
Don: to do on, to put on.
Done: expended, consumed.
Dotant: dotard.

Double: full of duplicity.
Doubt: to fear.

Dout: to do out, extinguish.
Dowle: a feather.

Down-gyved: hanging down like
what confines the fetters round
the ancles.
Drab whoring.
Draught: the jakes.
Drawn: embowelled, exenterated.
Dread: epithet applied to kings.
Drew: assembled.

Dribbling: a term of contempt.
Drive: to fly with impetuosity.
Drollery: a show performed by
puppets.
Drugs: drudges.

Drumble: to act lazily and stupidly.

Dry: thirsty.

Engrossments: accumulations.
Enkindle: to stimulate.
Enmew: to coop up.

Ensconce: to protect as with a

fort.

Enseamed: greasy.
Enshield: shielded.

Entertain: to retain in service. Entertainment: the pay of an army, admission to office.

Eyas-musket: infant lilliputian.
Eye: a small shade of colour.
Eyliads: glances, looks. See On-
liads.
Eyne: eyes.

F.

Face: to carry a foolish appear

ance.

Faced: turned up with facings,
Facinorous: wicked.
Fact: guilt.
Factious: active.

Faculties: medicinal virtues, of
fice, exercise of power.

Entreatments: the objects of en- Fadge: to suit or fit.

treaty.

Envy: hatred or malice.

Fading: the burthen of a song. Fain: fond.

Fair-betrothed: fairly contracted.

Ephesian: a cant term for a toper. Fair: beauty, complexion, fairness
Equipage: stolen goods.
Erewhile: just now.
Erring: wandering.
Escoted: paid.

honourably affianced.

Faith: fidelity.

Faithful: not an infidel.

Esperance: the motto of the Percy Faithfully: fervently.

family.
Espials: spics.

Essential: existent, real.
Estimate: price.
Estimation: conjecture.
Eterne: eternal.

Even: calm, equable, temperate,
equal, fellow.

Even: to act up to.
Examined: questioned, doubted.

Ducdame: duc ad me, bring him Excrement: the beard.

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Faitors: traitors, rascals.
Fall: to let fall, to drop.
Fall: an ebb.

False: to make false.
Falsely: dishonestly, treacherously
Familiar: a dæmon.
Falsing: falsifying.
Fancy: love.
Fancy-free

exempt from the

power of love.

Fang: to seize or gripe.
Fanged: possessed of fangs.
Fantastical: creatures of fancy.
Fap: drunk.

Far: extensively.
Farced: stuffed.
Fashions: farcens or farcy.
Fast: determined, fixed.
Fat: dull.

Fate: an action predetermined by

fate.

Favour: countenance, features,

indulgence, pardon, appearance.

Exorcist: a person who can raise Fear: the object of fear, danger.

spirits.

Expect: expectation.
Expedient: expeditious.
Expiate: fully completed.
Expostulate: to enquire or discuss.
Exposture: exposure.
Express: to reveal.
Expulsed: expelled.
Exsufflicate: contemptible,

minable.

Extend: to seize.

Fear: to intimidate.

Feared: frightened.
Fearful: timorous, formidable.
Feat: ready, dexterous.
Feat: an exploit.
Feated: formed, made neat.
Feature: beauty in general, cast
and make of the face.
abo-Federary: a confederate.
Fee-grief: a peculiar sorrow,

Feeder: : an eater, a servant. Extent: in law, violence in ge- Feere or Pheere: a companion, a

neral.

Extern: outward. Extirped: rooted out. Extracting: that which draws away from every thing but its own object. Extravagant: wandering.

husband. Feet: footing. Fell: skin.

Fell-feats: savage practices.
Fellow: companion.

Fence: the art of or skill in defence.

Extremes: extravagance of con- Feodary: an accomplice, a conduct, extremities. federate.

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Fielded: in the field of battle.

Forefended: prohibited, forbidden. Foreign: employed in foreign embassies.

Forepast: already had.
Fore-slow: to be dilatory, to loiter.

Fierce: proud, hasty, vehement, Forestall: to prevent by antici

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Filed: gone an equal pace with.
Fills: the shafts.

Filths: common sewers.
Fine: the conclusion.
Fine: full of finesse, artful.
Fine: to make showy, or specious.
Fineless: boundless, endless.
Firago: for Virago.
Fire-drake: will-o'the-wisp, or a
fire-work.

Fire-new: bren-new, new from
the forge.
Firk: to chastise.

First: noblest, most eminent.
Fitchew: a polecat.
Fitly: exactly.

Fives: a distemper in horses.
Flap-dragon: a small inflammable
substance, which topers swal-
low in a glass of wine.
Flap-jacks: pan-cakes.
Flask: a soldier's powder-horn.
Flatness: lowness, depth.

Flaw: a sudden violent gust of wind.

Flayed: stripped.

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Free: artless, free from art, generous.

Fret: the stop of a musical instrument, which regulates the vibration of the string.

Friend: a lover, a term applicable
to both sexes, a paramour.
Friend: friendship.
Friend: to befriend.

Frippery

a shop where old
clothes were sold.
Frize: a cloth made in Wales.
From: in opposition to.
Fronted: opposed.

Flecked: spotted, dappled, streaked. Frontier: forehead.
Fleet: to float.

Fleeting: inconstant.
Fleshment: first act of military

service.

Flewed: having the flews or chaps of a hound.

Flickering: fluttering like the
motion of a flame.
Flight: a sort of shooting.
Flourish: ornament.

Flote: wave.

Flush: mature, ripe.

Foeman: an enemy in war.

Foin: to thrust in fencing.
Foizon: plenty.
Folly: depravity of mind.
Fond: foolish, or prized by folly.
Fonder: more weak or foolish.
Fandly: foolishly.
Foot-cloth: a housing covering the
body of the horse, and almost
reaching to the ground.
For: for that, since, because.
Forbid: under interdiction.
Force: power.

Force: to enforce, to urge.
Force: to stuff.
Forced: false.

Frontlet: a forehead cloth.
Froth: a trick played with beer.
Frush: to break or bruise.

Frustrate: frustrated.

Fulfilling: filling till there be no

room for more. Full: complete. Fullams: loaded dice. Fullest: most complete and perfect. Fumiter: fumitory. Furnished: dressed.

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Gaping: shouting, or roaring.
Garboils: commotion, stir.
Garish: gaudy, showy.
Garner: to treasure up.
Gasted: frightened.
Gaudy: a festival day.
Gawds: baubles, toys.
Gaze: attention.

Gear: a general word for things

or matters.

Geek: a fool.
General: generality.
General: compendious.
Generation: children.
Generosity: high birth.
Generous: most noble.

Gentility: urbanity.

Gentle: noble, high-minded, be-
longing to gentry.
Gentry: complaisance.
German: a-kin.

Germins: seeds begun to sprout.
Gest: a stage or journey.
Gib: a cat.

Gifts: endowments.
Giglot: a wanton wench.
Gilder: a coin valued at 1s. 6d.
or 28.

Gilt: gilding, golden money.
Gimmal: a ring or engine.
Ging: a gang.

Gird: a sarcasm or gibe, emotion.
Gleek: to joke or scoff, to beguile.
Glimmering: faintly illuminated
by the stars.

Gloze: te expound, to comment

upon.

Glut: to englut or swallow up. Gnarled: knotted.

Good-deed: indeed, in very deed. Good-den: good evening.

Good-life: of a moral or jovial

turn.

Good-jer: gougere, morbus gallicus.

Gorbellied: fat and corpulent. Gossips: tattling women who attend lyings-in.

Gossomer: the white cobweb-like exhalations that fly about in hot sunny weather. Government: evenness of temper,

decency of manners. Gourds: a species of dice. Gouts: drops.

Grace: acceptableness, favour. Grace: to bless, to make happy. Gracious: graceful, lovely. Grained: furrowed, like the grain of wood, died in grain or indented. Gramercy: grand mercy, great thanks.

Grange: the farm-house of a monastery.

Gratillity: gratuity.

Gratulate: gratifying, acceptable.

Grave: to entomb.

Graves, or greaves: armour for the legs. Greasily: grossly.

Greek: a bawd, or pander.

Green: unripe, not fully formed.
Greenly awkwardly, unskilfully.
Greets: pleases.

Grief: pain, grievances.
Griefs: grievances, wrongs.

High-fantastical: fantastical to the height.

High-repented: repented to the

utmost.

Hight: called.

Grievances: sorrows, sorrowful af- Hilding: a paltry cowardly fellow.

fections.

Grieve: to lament for.

Grise: a step.

Grossly: palpably.

Hint: suggestion, circumstance. Hiren: a harlot.

His: often used for its.

Hit: to agree.

Groundlings: the frequenters of Hoist: hoisted.

the pit in the playhouse.
Growing: accruing.
Guard: defence.

Guard: to fringe or lace.
Guarded: ornamented.
Guards: badges of dignity.
Guerdon: reward.
Guerdoned: rewarded.
Guiled: treacherous.
Guinea-hen: a prostitute.
Gules: red, a term in heraldry.
Gulf: the swallow, the throat.
Gun-stones: cannon-balls.

Gurnet: a fish resembling a piper.
Gust: taste, rashness.
Gyve: to catch, to shackle.
Gyves: shackles.

H.

Hack: to become cheap and vul

gar.

Haggard: a species of hawk.
Haggard: wild.

Hair: complexion or character.
Happily: accidentally, fortunately.
Happy: accomplished.

Hardiment: bravery, stoutness.
Harlocks: wild mustard.
Harlot: a cheat.

Harp: to touch on a passion.
Harrow: to conquer, to subdue.

Harry: to use roughly, to harrass.

Hold: to esteem.

Holla: a terin of the manege.

Holy: faithful.

Impugn: to oppose, to controvert.
Incapable: unintelligent.
Incarnardine: to stain of a red
colour.

Incensed: incited, suggested.
Inclining: compliant.
Inclip: to embrace.

Include: to shut up, to conclude.
Inclusive: inclosed.

Incony, or kony: fine, delicate.
Incorrect: ill-regulated.
Increase: produce.

Indent: to bargain and article.
Index: something preparatory.

Home: completely, in full extent. Indifferent: different, impartial.

Honest: chaste.

Honesty: liberality.

Honey-stalks: clover flowers.
Honour: acquired reputation.
Hoop: a measure.
Hope: to expect.
Horologe: clock.
Hox: to ham-string.
Hull: to drive to and fro upon
the water, without sails or
rudder.

Indite: to convict.

Induction: entrance, beginning, preparations.

Indurance: delay, procrastination.
Infinite: extent or power.
Ingaged: for uningaged.
Ingraft: rooted, settled.
Inhabitable: not habitable.
Inherit: to possess.
Inhibit: to forbid.

Inhooped: inclosed, confined.

Humorous: chargeable, humid,|| Inkhorn-mate: a book-mate.

moist.

Hungry: sterile, unprolific.
Hunt-counter: base tyke, worth-
less dog.
Hurtling: merry with impetuosity.
Hurly: noise.
Husbandry: thrift, frugality.
Huswife: a jilt.

I.

Inkle: a kind of tape, crewell or worsted.

Inland: civilized, not rustic.
Insane: that which makes insane.
Insculped: engraven.
Insconce: to fortify.
Inseparate: inseparable.
Instance: example, proof.
Instances: motives.

Insuit: solicitation.

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Images: children, representatives. Having estate or fortune, pro-Imaginary: produced by the power

motion, allowance of expence.

Haviour: behaviour.

Haught: haughty.

Haughty: high, elevated.

Haunt: company.

Hay: a term in the fencing-school. Head: the source, the fountain. Head: body of forces.

of imagination.

Imbare: to lay open or display

to view.

Immanity: barbarity, savageness.
Immediacy: close connection.
Imp: to supply.
Imp: progeny.
Impair: unsuitable.

Heart: the most valuable or pre- Impartial: for partial.

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Intendment: intention or disposition.

Intenible: incapable of retaining. Intention: eagerness of desire.

Intentively: with full attention.

Interessed: interested. Intergatories: interrogatories. Intermission: pause, intervening

time.

Intrenchant: that which cannot be cut.

Intrinse intrinsicate.
Invention: imagination.
Inwardness: intimacy, confidence.
Iron: clad in armour.
Irregulous: lawless, licentious.
Issues: consequences, conclusion.
Iteration: citation, or recitation.

J.

Impeticos: to impetticoat or im- Jack: a term of contempt.

pocket.

Importance: importunacy.
Importance: the thing imported.
Importing: implying, denoting.
Impose: injunction, command.
Impositions: commands.
Impossible: incredible or incon-
ceivable.

Impress: to compel to serve.
Impress: a device or motto.

Jack-a-lent: a puppet thrown at in Lent.

Jack guardant: a jack in office. Jaded: treated with contemp worthless.

Jar: the noise made by the pendulum of a clock. Jauncing: jaunting.

Jesses: straps of leather by which the hawk is held on the fist.

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Latch: to lay hold of.
Latched, or letched: licked over.
Late: lately.

Lated: belated, benighted.
Latten: thin as a lath.
Lavoltas: a kind of dances.
Laund: lawn.

Lay: a wager.
Leaguer: the camp.
Leasing: lying.

Leather-coats: a species of apple.
Leave: to part with, to give away.
Leech: a physician.
Leer: feature, complexion.

Lightly: : commonly, in ordinary

course.

Lightness: levity.
Like: to compare.
Likelihood: similitude.

Likeness: specious or seeming

virtue.

Liking: condition of body. Limbeck: a vessel used in distilling.

Lime: bird-lime.

Lime: a trick played with sack.

Lime: to cement.

Limed: entangled or caught, as
with bird-lime.
Limit: appointed time.
Limited: appointed, regular, or-
derly.
Limits: estimates, calculations.
Line: genealogy.
Lined: delineated.

Link: a torch of pitch.
Linstock: the staff to which the
match is fixed when ordnance

is fired.

List: the bound or limit.
Lither: flexible, yielding.
Little: miniature.
Livelihood: appearance of life.
Livery: a law phrase belonging

to the feudal tenures.
Living: estate, property.
Living: speaking, manifest, actual.
Loach: a small fish.

Lob: looby, a term of contempt. Lockram: some kind of cheap linen.

Lode-star: the leading or guiding

star.

Lodged: laid by the wind.
Loffe: to laugh.

Longing: longed for.
Longly: longingly.

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Lozel: worthless, dishonest.

Lubbar. See Libbard.

Lunes: lunacy, frenzy.

Lurch: to win.

Lure: a thing stuffed to tempt the hawk.

Lush: rank, luscious.
Lust: inclination, will.
Lustic: lusty, chearful, pleasant.
Lusty: saucy.

Luxurious: lascivious.
Luxuriously: wantonly.
Lym: a species of dog.
Luxury: lust.

M.

Mace: a sceptre.

Mad: wild, inconstant.

Made: enriched.

Magnificent: glorying, boasting. Magnifico: a chief man or grandee at Venice.

Mailed: wrapped up, covered with.

Main-top: top of the mainmast.
Make: to bar, to shut.
Makest: dost.

Malkin:

wench.

a scullion, a

coarse

Mall: Mrs., alias Mary Frith, or
Moll Cutpurse.
Mallecho: mischief.
Mammering: hesitating.
Mammets: puppets.
Mammock: to cut in pieces.
Man: to tame a hawk.
Manacle: a handcuff.

Manage: conduct, administration.
Mandrake: a root supposed to
have the shape of a man.
Mankind: masculine.

Marches: the borders, limits, or

confines.

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Loof: to bring a vessel close to Meddle: to mix with.

the wind.

Medicine: a she-physician.

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