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Meed: reward.

Meed: merit, desert, excellence.
Meet: a match.

Meiny: people, domestics.

Memories: memorials, remembrances.

Memorized: made memorable.
Memory: memorial.

Mephistophilus: the name of a
spirit or familiar.
Mercatanté: a merchant.
Mere: exact, entire, absolute.

Mered: mere.
Mermaid: syren.
Metal: temper.

Metaphysical: supernatural.
Mete-yard: measuring-yard.
Mewed: confined.

Micher: a truant, a lurking thief. Miching: playing truant, skulking about.

Mien: countenance.

Mince: to walk with affected delicacy.

Minding: calling to remembrance, reminding.

Mineral: a mine.

Minnow: a small river-fish, a term of contempt.

Minstrelsy: office of minstrel. Misconceived: misconceivers. Miscreate: ill-begotten, illegiti

mate.

Misdoubt: to suspect.

Miser: a miserable creature.

Misery: avarice.

Misprised: mistaken.

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Misprising: despising or under- Napless: threadbare.

valuing.

Missives: messengers.

Mistaken: misrepresented.

Mistempered: angry.
Misthink: to think ill.
Mistress: the jack in bowling.
Mobled, or mabled: veiled, grossly
covered.

Mode: the form or state of things.
Model: image, representative, copy.
Modern: trite, common, meanly,
pretty.

Modesty: moderation.
Module: model, pattern.

Moe, or mowe: to make mouths.
Moiety: a portion.
Mollification: pacification, soften-
ing.

Mome: a dull stupid blockhead.
Momentany: momentary.
Month's mind: a popish anniver-

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Native: formed by nature. Nature: natural parent.

obsequies, careful of.

Obsequiously: funereally.
Obstacle: obstinate.

Occupation: men occupied in busi

ness.

Occurrents: incidents.
Oe: a circle.

Oeiliad: a cast or glance of the
eye. See Eyliads.
O'erdied: died too much.
O'erlooked: slighted.
O'er-parted: having too consider-
able a part.

O'er raught: over-reached.
O'er-wrested: wrested beyond the
truth.
Of: through.

Offering: the assailant.
Office: service.

Offices: culinary or servants' apartments.

Old: frequent, more than enough.
Old age: ages past.
Once: sometime.

Oneyers: accountants, bankers.
Opal: a precious stone of almost

all colours.

Open: publicly.

Operant: active.

Nay-word: a watch-word or bye- Opinion: obstinacy, conceit, chr

word.

Neat: finical.

Neb, or nib: the mouth. Neeld: needle.

Neif: fist.

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Nephew: a grandson or any lineal Orbs: circles made by the fairies

descendant.

Nether-stocks:
3: stockings.
Newness: innovation.
Newt: the eft.

Next: nearest.
Nice: silly, trifling.
Nick: reckoning or count.
Nick: to set a mark of folly on.
Night: made dark as night.
Night-rule: frolic of the night.
Nine men's morris: a game.
Nobility: distinction, eminence.

Nobless: nobleness.

Noddy: fool, a game at cards.
Noise: music.

Nook-shotten: that which shoots
Nonce: on purpose, for the turn.

into capes. Northern man: clown.

vir borealis, a

Note: notice, information, remark.
Novice: a youth.
Novum: some game at dice.
Nourish: to nurse.
Nowl: a head.

on the ground. Orchard: a garden. Order: measures. Ordinance: rank.

Orgulous: proud, disdainful. Osprey: a kind of eagle. Ostent: show, ostentation. Ostentation: shew, appearance. Overblow: to drive away, to keep

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Pack: to bargain with.
Pack: combined, an accomplice.
Packing: plotting, underhand con-
trivance.

Paddock: toad.

Pagan: a loose vicious person.
Paid: punished.
Pain: penalty.
Pains: labour, toil.
Palabras: words.

Pale: to empale, encircle with a

crown.

Pall: to wrap, to invest.

Palled: vapid.

Palmers: holy pilgrims.
Palmy: victorious.

Palter: to juggle or shuffle. Paper: to write down, or appoint by writing.

Paper: written securities.
Parcel-gilt: gilt only on certain

parts. Parish-top: a large top formerly kept in every village to be whipped for exercise. Paritor: an apparitor, an officer of the bishop's court.

Parle: parley.
Parlous: perilous.
Parlous: keen, shrewd.
Part: to depart.

Partake: to participate.

Partaker: accomplice, confederate.
Parted: shared.

Parted: endowed with parts.
Participate: participant, partici-
pating.
Partizan: a pike.
Parts: party.
Pash: a head.

Pash: to strike with violence.
Pashed: bruised, crushed.
Pass: to decide, to assure
convey.

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Pass: to exceed, to go beyond common bounds.

Passed: excelling, passed all ex-
pression or bounds.
Passes: what has passed.
Passing: eminent, egregious.
Passion: suffering.

Passionate: a prey to mournful

sensations.

Passioning: being in a passion.
Passy-measure: a dance.
Pastry: the room where pastry
was made.

Patch: a term of reproach.
Patched: in a particoloured coat.
Path: to walk.

Pathetical: deeply affecting. Patient: to make patient, to compose.

Patine: a dish used with the chalice, in the administration of the Eucharist.

Pattern: instance, example.
Pavin: a dance.

Paucas: few.

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Port: external pomp, figure.
Port: a gate.

Portable: bearable.

Portance: carriage, behaviour. Possess: to inform, to make to understand.

Possessed: acquainted with, fully informed.

Possessed: afflicted with madness.
Potch: to push violently.
Potents: potentates.

Perch: a measure of five yards Pouncet-box: a small box for per

and a half. Perdurable: lasting.

Perdy: par Dieu, a French oath. Perfect: certain, well informed. Perfections: liver, brain, and heart. Perjure: a perjured person. Periapts: charms sewed up and worn about the neck. Perspectives: certain optical glasPervert: to avert.

ses.

Pew-fellow: a companion.
Pheere. See Feere.
Pheeze: to teaze or beat, to comb

or curry.

Pia mater: the membrane covering the substance of the brain. Pick: to pitch.

Picked: nicely dressed, foppish.
Pickers: the hands.

Picking: piddling, insignificant. Pickt-hatch: a place noted for brothels.

Piece: a word of contempt for a

woman.

Pield: shaven.
Pight: pitched, fixed.
Pilcher: a pilche, the scabbard.
Pilled: pillaged.

Pin and web: disorders of the eye.
Pinnace: a small ship of burthen.
Pix: a small chest in which the
consecrated host was kept.

Placket: a petticoat.

Plague: to punish.

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Practise: to employ unwarrantable arts.

Practisants: confederates in stra-
tagems.

Prank: to adorn, to dress osten-
tatiously, to plume.
Precedent: original draft.
Precept: a justice's warrant.
Precisian: a great pretender to
sanctity.

Prefer to recommend, to advance.
Pregnancy: readiness.
Pregnant: ready, plain, evident,
apposite.

Pregnant enemy: the enemy of
mankind.

Premised: sent before the time.
Prenominate: already named.
Pre-ordinanee: ordinance already
established.

Presence: the presence-chamber,
a public room.
Presence: dignity of mien, form,
figure.
Prest: ready.

Pretence: design, intention.
Pretend: to intend, design.
Pretended: purposed or intended.
Prevent: to anticipate.
Prick: the point on the dial.
Pricks: prickles, skewers.

Plain song: the chaunt, in plano Pride: haughty power.

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Pleached: folded together.
Plot: piece or portion
Point: a metal hook fastened to

the hose or breeches. Point: the utmost height. || Point-de-vice: with the utmost possible exactness. Points: tags to the laces. Poize: weight or moment. Polled: bared, cleared. Pomander: a ball made of perfumes.

Pomewater: a species of apple.
Poor-john: hake dried and salted.
Popinjay: a parrot.
Popularity; plebeian intercourse. ||

pal of women.

Principals: rafters of a building.
Princox: a coxcomb, or spoiled
child.
Probal: probable.
Process: suminons.
Procure: to bring.

Prodigious: portentous, ominous.
Proface: much good may it do you.
Profane: love of talk, gross of
language.
Profession: end and.)
.purpose of
coming.
Progress: a royal journey of state.
Project: to shape or form.
Prompture: suggestion, temptation.
Prone: perhaps humble.

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Prorogue: to lengthen or prolong.
Provand: provender.
Provincial: belonging to one's
province.

Provost: sheriff or gaoler.
Prune: to plume.

Puck: or hobgoblin in fairy mythology.

Pugging: thievish.

Pun: to pound.

Purchase: stolen goods.

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Racking: in rapid motion.
Rag: an opprobrious epithet.
Ragged: rugged.
Rake: to cover.
Rank: rate or pace.

Rank: grown up to a great height
and strength.
Rapt: rapturously affected.
Rapture: a fit.

Rarely: curiously, happily.
Rascal: applied to lean deer.

Purchased: acquired by unjust Rash: heady, thoughtless, quick,

methods.

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violent.

Rash remonstrance: premature discovery.

Rated: chided.

Ravin: to devour eagerly.
Ravin: ravenous.
Ravined: glutted with prey.
Raught: reached.
Raw: ignorant, unripe, unskilful.
Rawly young and helpless.
Rayed: bewrayed.
Rear-mouse: a bat.
Reason: discourse.
Reason: to talk, to argue for.
Rebeck: an old musical instrument.
Receiving: ready apprehension.
Receipt: receptacle.
Recheate: a sound by which the
dogs are called back.
Reck: to care for, to mind, to
attend to.

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Reckless: careless, heedless.
Recollected: studied or often re- Round: rough, unceremonious.
peated.

Record: to sing.

Rounded: whispered. Rounding: whispering.

Recorder: a kind of flute or flage- Roundel: a country-dance. let.

Recure: to recover.

Roundure: circle.

Rouse: a draught of jollity.

Red-lattice: the sign of an ale- Royal: due to a king.

house.

Reduce: to bring back.

Reechy: discoloured by smoke, smoky, greasy.

Refell: to refute.
Refer to reserve to.

Questrist: one who goes in search Regard: look.

of another.

Quests: reports.

Quick: lively, spritely, living.
Quicken: to animate.
Quiddits: subtilties.
Quillets: law chicane.
Quips: reproaches and scoffs.

Regiment: government, authority.
Regreet: exchange of salutation.
Reguerdon: recompense, return.
Relative: nearly related or con-
nected.

Remembered: remembering.
Remembrance: admonition.

Royalize: to make royal. Royalty: nobleness, supreme excellence.

Roynish: mangy or scabby.
Ruddock: the redbreast.
Ruff: the folding of the tops of

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Scald: a word of contempt, poor, filthy.

Scale: to disperse, to put to flight.

Scaled: over-reached.
Scaling: weighing.

Scall: an old word of reproach.
Scamble: to scramble.
Scan: to examine nicely.
Scant: to be deficient in, to con-
tract.

Scantling: measure, proportion. Scapes of wit: sallies, irregularities.

Scared: frightened.

Scarfed: decorated with flags.
Scath: destruction, harm.
Scath: to do an injury.
Scathful: mischievous, destructive.
Scone: a petty fortification.
Sconce: the head.
Scotched: cut slightly.
Scrimens: fencers.

Scrip: a writing, a list.
Scroyles: scabby fellows.
Sculls: great numbers of fishes,
swimming together.
Scutched: whipt, carted."
Seal: to strengthen or complete.

Seam: lard.

Sear: to stigmatize, to close. See Sere.

Season: to temper, to infix, to
impress.
Seasoned: established or settled
by time.
Seat: throne.

Seated: fixed, firmly placed.
Sect: â cutting in gardening.
Securely with too great confi-
dence.

Seel: to close up.
Seeling: blinding.

Seeming: specious, hypocritical.
Seeming: seemly.
Seen: versed, practised.
Seld: seldom.

Self-bounty: inherent generosity.
Semblably: in resemblance, alike.
Seniory: seniority.

Sennet: a flourish or sounding.

Sense: reason, natural affection, || Sliver: to cut a piece or slice. feeling, sensual passion.

Sensible: having sensation. Septentrion: the north.

Sequestration: separation. Sere, or sear: dry.

Slops: loose breeches, or trowsers,

tawdry dress.

Slough: the skin which the serpent

annually throws off.

Slower: more serious.

Sergeant: a bailiff or sheriff's of Slubber: to do any thing care

'ficer.

Serpigo: a kind of tetter.
Serve: to fulfil.

Serve: to accompany.
Set: seated.

Setebos: a species of devil.

Several: separated, appropriated. Sewer: an officer who placed the

dishes on the table. Shame: to disgrace. Shame: modesty. Shard-borne: born by shards or scaly wings. Shards: the wings of a beetle. Shards: broken pots or tiles. Sharked: picked up as a shark collects his prey.

Sheen: shining, splendour, lustre. Sheer: pellucid, transparent. Shent: scolded, rebuked, shamed, disgraced.

Shent: to reprove harshly.
Sheriff's post: a large post set up
at the door of that officer for
affixing proclamations, &c.
Shive: a slice.
Shot: shooter.

Shovel-board: a game.
Shoughs: shocks, a species of dog.
Shouldered: rudely thrust into.
Shrewd: having the qualities of

a shrew.

Shrift: confession.

Shrive: to confess, to call to confession.

Shut-up: to conclude.
Side-sleeves: long sleeves.
Siege: stool, seat, rank.

lessly, imperfectly, to obscure. Smilingly: with signs of pleasure.

Smirched: soiled or obscured. Smoothed: to stroke, to caress, to fondle.

Sneap: to check or rebuke, a rebuke.

Sneaping: nipping.

Sneck-up: a cant phrase, “go hang yourself."

Snuff: hasty anger.
Snuffs: dislikes.
Soil: spot, turpitude, reproach.
Solely: alone.
Solicit: courtship.
Solicit: to excite.
Soliciting information.
Solidares: an unknown coin.
Sometimes: formerly.
Sooth: truth.

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Sooth: sweetness.
Sorriest: worthless, vile.
Sorry: sorrowful or dismal.
Sort: to choose out.
Sort: a company, a pack, ranks
and degrees of men.
Sort: to happen, to agree.
Sort: the lot.

Sort and suit: figure and rank.
Sot: a fool.

Soul-fearing: soul-appalling.
Sound: to declare or publish.
Sound: soundly.

Sowl: to pull by the ears.
Sowter: perhaps the name of a
hound.

Spanned: measured.

Specialty: particular right.

Sight: the perforated part of a Sped: the fate decided.

helmet.

Sightless: unsightly.
Sign: to show, to denote.
Silly: simple or rustic.
Silly: sooth, plain, simple truth.
Sincere: honest.
Sinew: strength.

Single: weak, debile, small, void
of duplicity or guile.
Sink-a-pace: cinque-pace, a dance.
Sir: the designation of a parson.
Sir-reverence: a corruption of

save-reverence. Sith: since. Sithence: thence.

Sizes: allowances of victuals. Skains-mates: loose companions. Skirr: to scour, to ride hastily. Slack: to neglect.

Slave: to treat as a slave.

Sleave: the ravelled knotty part

of the silk.

Sledded: riding in a sled or sledge. Slights: arts, subtle practices. Slips: a contrivance of leather, to start two dogs at the same time.

Speed: event.

Sperr: to shut up, defend by bars, &c.

Spleen: humour, caprice, spirit,

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Squarer: a quarrelsome fellow.
Squash: an immature peasecod.
Squiny: to look asquint.
Squire: a square or rule.
Staggers: delirious perturbation.
Stale: a bait or decoy to catch
birds.

Stale: a pretence.
Stale: to allure.

Stand: to withstand, to resist. Standing bowls: bowls elevated on feet.

Stannyal: the common stonehawk. Star: a scar of that appearance. Stark: stiff.

Starkly: stiffly.

Starred: destined.

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Stuff: substance or essence.
Stuffed: plenty, more than enough.
Subscribe: to agree to.
Subscribe: to yield, to surrender.
Subscription: obedience.
Submerged: whelmed under water.
Subtilty: deception.
Subtle: smooth, level.
Success: succession.
Successive: belonging to the suc-

cession.

Successively by order of suc

cession.

Sudden: violent.
Sufficiency: abilities.

Suggest: to tempt, to prompt, to
instigate.
Suggestion: hint.

State: a chair with a canopy Suggestions: temptations.

over it.

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Stock: a term in fencing.
Stock: stocking.

Stomach: passion, pride, stubborn
resolution, constancy, resolution.
Stoop: a measure somewhat more
than half a gallon.
Stover: a kind of thatch.
Stoup: a kind of flaggon.

Suited: dressed.

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Sweeting: a species of apple.
Swift: ready.

Swinge-bucklers: rakes, rioters.

Strachy: probably some kind of Swoop: the descent of a bird of

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Strange: alien, becoming a stranger, a stranger.

Strangely wonderfully.

prey.

T.

Table: the palm of the hand extended.

Table: a picture.

Tallow-keech: the fat of an ex

or cow.

Tame: ineffectual.

Tame snake: a contemptible fel- . low.

Tamed: flat, spiritless. Tarre: to stimulate, to excite, provoke.

Tartar: Tartarus, the fabled place of future punishment. Task: to keep busied with scruples.

Tasked: taxed.

Taurus: sides and heart in me-
dical astrology.
Tawdry: a kind of necklaces
worn by country girls.
Taxation: censure or satire.
Teen: sorrow, grief.
Temper: to mould like wax
Temper: temperament, consita-

tion.

Temperance: temperature. Tempered: rendered pliable. Tend: to attend upon, to war fr. Tender: to regard with affectio Tend'ring: watching with te derness.

Tent: to take up residence. Tercel: the male hawk. Termagant: the god of the Sa

racens.

Termagant: furious.
Tested: brought to the test.
Testern: to gratify with a tester,
or sixpence.

Tetchy: touchy, peevish, fretful
Tharborough: thirdborough, i
Theme: a subject.
peace officer.
Theoric: : theory.
Thewes: muscular strength
Thick: in quick succession.
Thick-pleached: thickly i

woven.

Thill: the shafts of a cart.
Thirdborough. See Tharborough
Thought: melancholy.
Thrasonical: boastful, bragging.
Thread: fibre or part.

Thread: to pass through.
Three-man-beetle: an implement
used for driving piles.
Three-pile: rich velvet.
Thrift: a state of prosperity.
Throes: emits as in parturition
Thrum: the extremity of a wea
ver's warp.

Tables: table-books, memoran- Thrummed: made of coarse weal

dums.

Tabourine: a small drum.

Strangeness: shyness, distant be- Tag: the lowest of the populace.

haviour.

Stranger: an alien.

Strangle: to suppress.

Taint: to throw a slur upon. Take: to strike with a disease, to blast.

Stratagem: great or dreadful Take in: to conquer, to get the

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Tib: a strumpet.
Tickle: ticklish.

Tickle-brain: some strong liquor.
Tight: handy, adroit.
Tightly: cleverly, adroitly.
Tilly-valley: an interjection of

contempt.
Tilth: tillage.
Timeless: untimely.
Tinct: tincture.
Tire: head-dress.

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