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cHf. 1, 4. TC. 3, 3. Cy. 4, 2. H. 2, 2. Fr. rêver, lows. reven, kin to the lat. rabies, and

to Rail, to enclose with rails; to rail at, to in- to Rave, to rant, rage, be mad, delirious. veigh, rate (MV. 1, 8.) scold, chide, fret. MV. 4, 1. AL.3, 2. TS. 2, 1. TĆ. 2, 1. Ó. 4, 1. MA. 2, 3. He. 2, 2. The same as to revile. fr. railler. Raiment, dress, array, wh. s. Co. 5, 3. TA. 3, 5.

to Raise the waters. S. water.

to Rake, to scrape, gather with a rake. He. 2, 4. Hh. 3, 2. KL. 4, 6. Kin to rack, wh. s., gr. rhazō, rhaiō, rhessō (s. rag), germ. rechen, harken, fr. racler.

Ramp, she that ramps, jumps, a wanton lass, strumpet. Cy. 1, 7. Kin to the gr. rhembō, to ramble, rhymbonaō, whence no doubt also Rampallian, one who associates with ramps, ьна. 2, 1.

to Rampire, to fortify with ramparts. TA. 5, 6.

Random, anciently randon, chance, hazard. aHf. 5, 8. From run (gr. rhein, germ. rinnen) down, scott. randoun, swift downward moving; hence what is abandoned to the stream and flow of things and events.

rage.

to Ravel, to entangle, involve, perplex, con-
found. TG. 3, 2. M. 2, 2; to unknit, unweave,
antie. H. 3, 4. Rb. 4, 1.

Raught, old preterite of to reach. LL. 4, 2.
AC. 4, 9. bHf. 2, 3. cHf. 1, 4. He. 4, 6.
to Ravine, raven, to devour, swallow up, to
prey. M. 2, 4. MM. 1, 8. AW. 3, 2. Cy. 1, 7.
Sax. reafian, rapere, germ. raffen, rauben,
to rob, gr. metathetically harpein, harpazein.
Ravine, ravenous. AW. 3, 2.

to Ravish, to take away by force. KL. 3, 7;
to commit a rape upon a female. Co. 4, 5. Cy.
3, 5; to transport. MA. 2, 3.

nor

Raw, crude, neither boiled, roasted, baked, undigested, not wrought. MV. 3, 4; unskilled, unripe, ignorant. AL. 3, 2. Raw and red, said of weeping eyes TL. 228. of cicatrices. H. 4, 3. Kin to rough, rug, lat. rudis, crudus.

to Raw. H. 5, 2. to make crude.

to Range, to ramble. To range on, to dispose Rawly, hastily, without preparation. He. 4, 1. of. JC. 2, 1.

Ranger, forester. Cy. 2. 3.

Rank, fruitful, that shoots in many branches, luxurious. S. Malone at KJ. 5, 4. Al. 5, 8. where either the true reading is spring, or rank, although the folio has rang, Steevens corrects ring time, the aptest season for marriage, Voss omits pretty. Kin to ranch, germ. recken, richten, ranken, engl. wrench, wring, gr. rhodanos, rhadinos.

to Rankle, to fester, make purulent, sanious, to inflame. Rb. 1, 3. From rancidus, fr. rancir, to rot.

Rankness, fruitfulness, luxuriousness; abounding, excess, overflowing, swelling. KJ. 5, 4. where our rankness and irregular course. AL. 1, 1. Hh. 4, 1.

Rawness, haste. M. 4, 3.

to Ray, to streak, stripe, braid in lines. H. 3, 2; according to Pope's conjecture for rac'd of the folio, to mark with lashes. TS. 3, 2; to strike, beset with a dirty seam, to defile. TS. 4, 1. Partly from the fr. rayer, partly, like to beray, from the gr. rheō, rhyō, oruō, urō, rhaō, rhaiō, rhainō, germ. regnen, to wet, chiefly with ordure, piss etc.

Raze (of ginger) a bale, package. aHd. 2, 1, The same as race, from radix, wh. s. Reach, circuit, compass. Rb. 2, 1; fetch, trick, wickedness, subtle malice. H. 2, 1. Kin to the gr. oregein, germ. regen, reichen, erreichen, to reach by understanding, to comprehend, apprehend.

Read, counsel. H. 1, 3.

to Rant, to rave in a violent and high sound-to Read, to peruse a written thing; to consider. ing language without dignity, to brag. H. 5, 1. Kin to the gr. rheō, rhainō, the engl. run. to Rap, to knock. TS. 1, 2. KL. 2, 4. Kin to the gr. rhipto, and the lat. rapio, whence it is also to strike with extasy, to transport with astonishment and Rapt ravished in extasy. TA. 1, 1. M. 1, 3.

Rape, ravishing, carrying away of a female. TC. 2,2. From rapere.

Rascal, lean beast, a deer not fit to hunt or
kill. aHf. 4, 2. bHd. 5, 4; mean fellow, rogue.
Kin to rack, rakehell, fr. racaille.
Rascally, thievish. aHd. 1, 2.

to Rash, to strike by a glancing blow, to strike obliquely with violence, as wild boar does with his tusk. Rc. 3, 2. Gifford's Ben Jons. If, 158. Allied to rhassō, rhessō, to rack. Rash, sudden, hasty, violent. TC. 4, 2. bhd. 4, 4. Kin to the hebr. ruz, camb. rheden, to run, lat. rheda, oldgerm. reit. carriage, wain, Rad, wheel; rade, sax. hrathe, swift, ready, hurtig, rasch, of course to the gr. rheō.

Rate, quality, condition, rank, order. MD. 3, 1. MV. 1, 1.

Rats rhymed to death, a proverb in Ireland, | arisen probably from some metrical charm or incantation used there for that purpose. AL. 3, 3. Ratsbane, poison for rats. bHd. 1, 2.

He. 2, 4. M. 1, 3. aHd. 4, 1. Kin to the gr. rheein, ereein, phrazein, phradein, phrazesthai, phrade. Mentioned only here in respect of TA. 5, 4. Some beast read this! i. e. a beast, a blockhead, as it were the devil, may read it. Theobald, Warburton, Malone, Ritson and Steevens by an acuteness turned in bluntness, as it happens, emended or rather depravated and corrupted the passage misunderstood in rear'd. A beast mend so! Reading, learning, erudition. He. 1, 2. Rear, hind part of an army. TC. 3, 3. H. 1, 3. Fr. arrière.

Rear mouse, reremouse, bat. MD. 2, 3. Sax.

rheremus, from rheran, to agitate, flutter, of course equivalent to flitter mouse. Rearward, the rear, latter end of any thing. RJ. 3, 2. MA. 4, 1.

to Reason, to discourse, talk. MV. 2, 8; to examine, consider. JC. 5, 1.

to Rebate, to make blunt, or obtuse. MM.1, 5. Fr. rebattre.

Rebeck, an instrument of music, having catgut strings and played with a bow; originally with only two strings, then with three, at last with four. RJ. 4, 5. Ital. ribecca, oldfr. rebebe, oldengl. ribibe, rilible, arab. rebab, rebaba. 8. Dufresne.

to Rebuse. TS. 1, 2. Is there any man has rebus'd your worship? Tyrwhitt conjectured

bHf. 3, 1.

Relicks, curiosities, memorials and the things
of fame, that do renown. TN. 3, 3.
to Relieve, to assist, or supply a sentry. aHf.
2, 1.

abused, others rebuk'd. It seems however a to Rejourn, to adjourn, to put off to another verb formed by Sh. from rebus a sort of riddle, day. Co. 2, 1. twisted out of emblems, or words designedly to Relent, to grow mild, softened, touched. perverted and confounded, wherefore the derivation of Menage from de rebus quae geruntur, seems a dull one, and the analogy of the gr. skolion leads rather to rhaibos, rhebos, rhembos, crooked, crookshanked. To rebuse, or rebus therefore would be properly to confound by a rebus, to scorn, to abuse, scoff. Receipt, money received. Rb. 1, 1. to Receive TN. 2, 2. may be to take, obtain, or to conceive, understand, construe. At least receiving in the same play 3, 1. is ready apprehension.

Recheat, recal, retreat, a certain set of notes,
sounded on the horn, to call the dogs off.
MA. 1, 1. From receptus, fr. recept, recet.
to Reck, to heed, care, calculate. AL. 2, 4.
H. 1, 3. Sax. reccan, goth. rahnan, to number,
rathjan, oldg. raiten, to reckon.
Reckless, careless, heedless, indifferent. M.
3, 1. TG. 5, 2.

Relish, taste, quality, disposition. Co. 2, 1.
Kin to lick.

to Relume, to light again. 0.5, 1. True read-
ing of the first folio!

Remediate, able to give remedy. KL. 4, 4.
Remembrance, rosemary. (wh. s.) H. 4, 5.
Remorse, pity, tenderness. T. 5. M. 1, 5.
bHf. 4, 1. MM. 2, 2. MV. 4, 1.; point of con-
science. 0. 3, 3.

Remorseful, compassionate. TG. 4, 3.
Remove, journey, poststage, rest. AW. 5, 3.
Render, confession, account, giving up. Cy.
4, 4. T. 5, S.

to Render, to confess, declare, give up. Cy. 5, 5; to describe, state, give. AL. 4, 3. Reckonings. MA. 5, 4. are persons, to whom Rendezvous He. 2, 1. in a sense misconstrued, is to be given thank, or deprecation, to whom the result.

2, 2.

one owes thank, or deprecation. A term occa- to Renege, to deny, renounce, AC. 1, 1. KL. sioned by For this I owe you. Reclusive, shut up, secret. MA. 4, 1. From reclusus catachrestically used.

to Recoil, to rebound, jump back. bHf. 3, 2
0.3, 3. IVT. 1, 2. From the fr. reculer..
to Record, to sing, applied particularly to birds.
TG. 5, S.

Recorder, a flute, or pipe, flageolet, birdpipe.
MD. 5, 3. H. 3, 2. Douce's Ill. of Sh. II, 249.
Record, document, original writing. bHƒ.
4,7; memorandum. Rc. 5, 4. Upon record,
according to the mention of history. 4C. 4, 9.
Recountment, relation, report, recital. AL.
4. 3.

Recourse, frequent course, repetition. TC. 5, 3.
Rector, priest, parish. AL. 4, 3.

to Recure, to cure again, to recover, or simply

to cure. Rc. 3, 7.

Redbreast, motacilla rubecula L. alld. 3, 1.
TG. 2, 1.

Repaire, place of resort, appointment. MM.
4, 1. WT. 5, 1.

to Repair, to make up, to give force, to
to Repeal, to recall. Rb. 2, 2. O. 2, 3.
strengthen. bHf. 5, 3.
to Repine, to grumble, murmur, mutter against,
to be angry with. Co. 3, 1. TC. 1, 3; to rue.
alif. 5, 2.

to Reprieve, to absolve. AW. 3, 4. Properly
to write down anew, or recant, retract. From
the germ. Brief, kin to the gr. graphō, middle-
lat. breve, oldfranc. priafo, priafan, gebriafan,
germ. verbriefen, to strengthen, confirm by
writ, document.

Reprisal, retaliation, boot, prey, alld. 4, 1.
Repriefe, respite. MM. 2, 4.
Middlelat. reprensaliae, repreysalliae, reprae
saliae, it ripresaglia, fr. représailles, from
reprehendere, to seize again, to recover. Kin
to praeda.

Redlattice, a lattice window painted red; the customary distinction of an alehouse, in Sh's time. bHd. 2, 1. Hence redlattice phrases ale-Reproof, confutation. alld. 1, 2. house language. MW. 2, 2. to Repugn, to resist, fight against. allf. 4, 1. Lat. repugnare.

Red plague, red pestilence. T. 1, 2. Co. 4, 1. Rede, reade, reed, advice, knowledge, learning. H. 1, 3.

From

to Reduce, to bring back. Rc. 5, 3.
Reechy, reeky, smoky, black with smoke,
greasy, MA. 3, 3. Co. 2, 1. H. 3, 4.
to reek, kin to the hebr. ruach, wind, riach,
to smell, germ. riechen.
Reek, vapour, smoke. Co. 3, 3.

to Refer, to offer, propose. Cy. 1, 1.
Reft, from to reave, to take away. CE. 1, 1.
MA. 4, 1. Cy. 3, 3.

Regiment, government, sovereign sway. AC.
3, 6.

Regreet, salutation, greeting again. MV. 2, 9.
KJ. 3, 1.

to Regreet, to greet again, to salute. Rb. 1, 3.
to Reguerdon, to reward. aHf. 3, 4.
Reguerdon, reward, recompense, return. alf.
3, 1. S. guerdon.

Rein, haughtiness. TC. 1, 3. Metaphor taken
from a horse, that bridles.
Rejointure, reunion. TC. 4, 4.

Request, reputation, credit, honour. Co. 4, 3.
to Requite, to reward, retaliate. O. 4, 2.
to Rescue, to save, deliver. KJ. 2, 2. TG.
5, 4.

Resembleth. TG, 1, 3. used as quadrisyllable,
as if it were written resembeleth. A liberty
chiefly with words, in which or r is subjoined
to another consonant, as country, remembrance,
angry, Henry, monstrous, assembly, Douglas,
humbler, nobler, England.

to Resolve, to dissolve. H. 1, 2.
to be Resolved, to be convinced, satisfied,
informed. JC. 3, 1. S. Gifford's Ben Jons. I,
84. V, 68. VI, 899.

Of high Resolve alf. 5, 5. of high mood,
highminded, hightempered.

Resort, recourse, concourse. TG. 3, 1.
Respect, prudence, circumspection, caution.
TC. 2, 2. KL. 1, 1. Of good respect, of honest
mind, faithful. JC. 5, 5.

Respective, respectable. TG. 1, 3; respectful.
KJ. 1, 1; careful. MV. 5, 1. RJ. 3, 1.

Respite, forbearance, delay, pause. Rc. 5, 1. to Rid, to dispatch, get rid of. cHf. 5, 8; to Hh. 2, 4. destroy. ib. 5, 5. Sax. hreddan, gr. rhyesthai, Rest. To set up one's rest, a metaphor from germ. reissen, retten. the game of primero, meaning to stand upon the cards you have in your hand, in hopes they may prove better, than those of your adversary. Hence to make up your mind, to be determined. RJ. 4, 5. CE. 4, 3.

to Restem, to retain. O. 1, 3. Restful, peaceful. Rb. 4, 1.

Resty, restive, restiff, froward, stubborn. In Cy. 3, 6. however we propose reasty, or reasy, which as synonymous Coles translates by the lat. reses, deses; reasiness, pigritia.

to Retail, to sell by parcels, as pedlars do. LL. 5, 2; to distribute, dispense, hand; down. Rc. 3, 1.

Retchless. S. reckless. Confounded, or corrupted also wreakless. MM. 4, 2. cHf. 5, 6. Co. 3, 1.

Retention, tablebook, memorandum. S. 122; constancy, perseverance, firmness. TN. 2, 4. Retinue, train of attendants. bHd. 4, 3. KL. 1, 4.

Retire, retreat in war. aHd. 2, 3. TC. 5, 4.
Revel, nightsport. MD. 1, 1. Revels were also
dances of a more free and general nature, not
immediately connected with the story of a piece
under representation. In these many of the
nobility of both sexes took part, who had been
previously spectators. Usually they were com-
posed of galliards and corantos. Gifford's Ben
Jons. VII, 294. It belongs to ramble, rumble,
reel, germ. Rummel.

Revengement, revenge. aĦd. 3, 2.
Revenue, escheat, Rc. 3, 7; metaphorically
revenues of a bed, rights of matrimony. S. 142.
to Reverb, to reverberate. KL. 1, 1.
Reverberate, reverberating, echoing. TN.
1, 5.

Reverence, dignity, awfulness. bHd. 4, 2.
Reversion, survivorship, returning of a pos-
session to the former owner, or his heirs.
a Hd. 4, 1. Rb. 1, 4.

to Revile, to rail, wh. s. Hh. 1, 11. From

vilis.

Revokement, revocation, repealing. Hh. 1, 2. Revolt of mine, or mien, change of countenance. MW. 1, 3.

to Revolve, to weigh, consider. TN. 2,3 TC. 2, 3. Cy. 3, 3.

Rheumatic, choleric, splenetic, whimsical, capricious, quarrelsome. bHd. 2, 4. He. 2, 3. Rhodope, a famous strumpet of Thrace, who acquired great riches by her trade. The least, but most finished of the egyptian pyramids was build by her, says Pliny H. N. 36, 12. Herodo. 2, 185 denies it, although there is a different reading. Steevens in aHf. 1, 6. corrects than Rhodope's of Memphis.

to Rib, to inclose, as ribs do inclose the viscera. MV. 2, 7.

to Ride, to lye at anchor. WT. 4, 3.
to Rifle, to rob, steal, plunder. TG. 4, 1. Cy.
endsong. Kin to ruffle, the germ. Riffel,
Raffel, raffen, rauben.

Rift, chink. AC. 3, 4. T. 1, 2.

to Rift, to split, to cleave. WT. 5, 1. T. 5, 1. From rumpere, rupi, ruptus.

to Rig, to fit with tackling. AC. 2, 6. TA. 5, 1. Kin to ridge; germ. Streich, Strich, Strick, Strang; gr. thrix; lat. striga.

Riggish, having the inclinations of a bad woman, wanton, immodest, lustful, rammish, goatish. AC. 2, 2.

Right, to do, to pledge a person in a toast.
ьна. 5, 3.

Rigol, circle. bHd. 4, 4. TL. 248. Oldital.
rigolo, germ. Ringel, kin to Kreis, circulus,
gr. kirkos, germ. Kringel, Krengel.
Rim, peritonaeum, or membrane inclosing the
intestines. He. 4, 4. Rym is but variety, and
the word kin to room, whence Horne Tooke
'Div. of P. II, 261. the utmost breadth of any
thing, frame.

Rings mutually interchanged in marriages.
TN. 5, 1.

Ring, crack'd in, or within the, flawed in
such a manner at the circumference, as to di-
minish, or destroy its value; applied to money
and to ordnance. H. 2, 2.

to Rinse, to wash, cleanse by washing. Hh.

1, 1. Fr. rincer, icel. hreinsa, goth. hraina, gr. rhainein, germ. reinigen, kin to rheō; prov. rench.

to Rip, to unsew, tear, lacerate. Cy. 3, 5. KL. 4, 6. Originally allied to rib it seems to mean to disrib, to tear out of the ribs, to which correspond the quoted passages, and RJ. 5, 2. However it may also be allied to rob, rifle, fr. rober, ravir, harper, gr. harpazein, lat. rapere, germ. rauben, raffen, rupfen, raufen, reyfen, greifen, goth. raupgan.

Ripe, grown to perfection; grown to the top, extreme, urgent. MV. 1, 3. (ripe wants). Joined to participles, in a state ready for any particular act, being about, standing upon; as reeling ripe in a state of intoxication, fit for reeling T. 5, 1; crying ripe, ready to burst into cry; weeping ripe, ready to burst into tears. LL. 5,2. cHƒ. 1,4.

to Ripe, to ripen. AL. 2, 7. KJ. 2, 2. Kin to
the engl. rife, germ. reif, lowsax. ryve, from
raffen; engl. reap; properly what may be rafft
grasped together.

Rivage, shore, border. He. 3. ch.
Rival, associate, one who partakes the same
office. H. 1, 1. From rivalis, kin to the hebr.
rib, quarrel.

Rivality, equality. AC. 3, 5.

to Rive, to split, cleave. Co. 5, 3. JC. 1, 3. 4, 3. TC. 1,1. KL. 3, 2. AC. 4, 11; to spring, to blow up, to direct, bend. allf. 4, 2. Kin to rub, germ. reiben, gr. tero, tribō, teryō, tryō, tryphō, to drive.

Ribaudred, ribaudrous, obscene, filthy. AC. 3, 8. Steevens proposed ribald rid; needlessly. For ribaud is but variety of ribald, ribault, from the fr. ribaud, ital. ribaldo, middlelat. ribaldus, kin to the gr. rhypax, germ. Riepel, to Rivel, to contract into wrinkles, to cause may be the germ. Raufbold, from raufen, or rib, quarrel, and bald, bold. The verb and participle thence formed cannot seem strange in Shk. Dufresne explains it by milites, qui prima proelia tentabant, inter vilissimos homines habiti, quorum vita nullius erat momenti.

wrinkles, to fold, make wither. TC. 5, 1. Kin to rheō, germ. rinnen, riefen, streifen, lat.

rivus.

Rivet, riveted nail; armour. He.4.prol. as in Lily's Euph. 234. perhaps habergeon. For the middlelat. rivetus is, as Dufresne says, margo vesti

mentis assutus ornamenti gratia, ab Hispanico Rosemary was considered as a symbol of remem

rivete.

to Rivet, to clinch, fasten with rivets. MV. 5, 1. AC. 4, 4; to fasten, fix. H. 3, 2. Fr. river, ital. ribadire, kin to battere, gr. patassein, petein, ptaiein.

Rivo, exclamation used in bacchanalian revelry. a Hd. 2, 4.

Road, anciently rode, inroad, expedition. He. 1, 2. Co. 3, 1. Roadway, highway. bHd. 2, 2. Fr. route, kin to the germ. Reut, Gereut, a spot made arable by rooting out, Rehde, Reede, Räde; to the hebr. ruz, to leap, germ. reisen, reiten, engl. ride, raise. S. Horne Tooke Div. of P. II, 98.

to Roam, to rove, range, ramble. KJ. 2, 2. aHf. 3, 1. Sax. rumian, belonging to rum, germ. Raum, engl. room, gr. rhyme, goth. rumis, rums.

Roan, pied horse, pieball. aHd. 2, 4. French rouen, kin to the lat. robeus, rubens, ital. rovente, lat. rufus, ruber.

Robed, in dress or raiment of state. KL. 3, 6.
From robe. S. Dufresne roba.
Kobin Hood captain of a band of robbers. S.
Adam Bell, Maid Marian, and Robinhood, a
collection of all the ancient poems, songs and
ballads now extant, relative to that celebrated
english outlaw etc. Lond. 1820. TG. 4, 1.
AL. 1, 1.
to Rock, to shake. MD. 4, 1; to lull a-sleep by
moving gently. bHd. 2, 4. O. 2, 3. Kin to the gr.
oregein, to reach, riggle, germ. rücken, rucken.
Roe, eggs of fish. TC 5, 1. RJ. 2, 4. Icel. hrogn,
germ. Rogen, kin to fry, breed, fr. frai, fretin,
engl. roan.

Rogue, wanderer, vagabond, vagrant, cheat,
rascal, knave. MW. 2, 1. TS. ind. 1. WT. 4, 2.
4, 3. TC. 5, 4. Gifford's Ben Jons. V, 222.
Kin to the hebr. ra, ill, roa, malice
letter Ain pronounced as g, or gh, and to
Tove, rob.

the

to Roist, to bully, riot. TC. 2, 2. Belonging
to the gr. rhoizeō, rhoizō, germ. rauschen,
rhazō, rhothō, rhothyō, rhothiazō, rhoch-
theo, rhochthizō, and to the engl. riot.
Roll. Master of the rolls, keeper of the rolls,
acts, documents in chancery. Hh. 5, 1., Roll
is from rotulus, kin to the germ. trollen, dril-
len, drehen, trillern, gr. terō, treō, draō,
dramō, trechō, ital. trillo.
Romage, rummage, tumultuous
H. 1, 1. From room.
Romish, roman. Cy. 1, 7.
Rondure, roundure, roundness, circumference.
KJ. 2, 1. S. 21.

movement.

Ronyon, runnion, mangy, scabby animal. MW.
4, 2. M. 1, 3. Fr. carogne, ital. carogna.
Rood, cross, crucifix. Rc. 3, 2.
Roof, cover, top. AC. 3, 6; palate. MV. 3, 2.

Sax. hrof, from hraefian, sustinere. Horne
Tooke Div. of P. II, 350., icel. riafr, kin to
the germ. Traufe, from rheo, hebr. raaf, to drop.
to Rook, ruck, to squat, lodge. cHf. 5, 3. allf.
5, 8. Kin to the germ. Ruck, Rücken, to
crouch, scott. rouk, rowk, icel. hrucka, gr.
rhiknusthai, germ. krumpen, schrumpfen.
to Root, Roots itself is the true reading for rots
H. 1, 5. of the folio.

Ropery, roguery, treachery, imposture; well
deserving a rope. RJ. 2, 4.

Rope tricks, tricks that may lead to a rope.
TS. 1, 2. Douce's Ill. of Sh. II, 187.

brance, love and faith. H. 4, 5. used at weddings and funerals, and believed to strengthen the memory. WT. 4, 4. It made sometimes a garnish for the meats; was carried at funerals, probably for its odour, and as a token of remembrance of the deceased, whence it is called deadman's nosegay in Decker's Untr. Hawkins Orig. III, 96.

Roses worn in the ears, a knot of ribbands, as
token of a mistress or her favour. RJ. 1, 1.
with Steevens and Gifford's Ben Jons. II, 70.
By Rote, by heart, or memory. RJ. 2, 2. MD.
5, 2. He. 3, 6. JC. 4, 8. Allied to the fr, rou-
tine, gr. rhetos, rhēsis.

to Rote, to repeat by memory. Co. 3, 2.
to Rough hew, to give the first form, or
appearance. H. 5, 2.

ear,

Round, rundle, step of a ladder. JC. 2, 1.
to Round, rown in the to whisper. KJ.
2, 2. WT. 1, 2; to grow round, big with child.
WT. 2, 1. In the first meaning it is the sax.
runian, kin to the hebr. ranan, to sing, ron,
Roundel, rondill, roundelay, any thing round,
sung, gr. rhythmos, rhyme.
as a round space of ground; a catch, song
beginning or ending with the same sentence.
MD. 2, 3.
Rounder, roundure, rondure, circumference,
inclosure. KJ. 2, 1. S. 21.

Rouse, drinking bout, carousal, H.1, 4. Germ.
Rausch, surfeit in drinking; kin to riot, roist,
wh. s.

to Rout, to put to the rout, to defeat an army.
AC. 3, 1. Allied to the words quoted under
road.

Row, range, file. H. 2, 2. Rb. 3, 4.
Rowel, small wheel, usually the wheelshaped
points of a spur. bld. 1, 1. a fashion for to
sound, rattle, and tinkle; whence in the church-
es a spurmoney was levied by the catchpolls.
Gifford's Ben Jons. II, 49.
Royal and rial, or fifteen shillings with three
and four pence deducted, make a pun. Rb. 5, 5.
bild. 1, 2.

Roynish, mangy, scabbed. AL. 2, 2. Fr.

rogneux.

Rub, obstacle, hinderance. He. 2, 2.5, 2. where
rub and impediment. Co. 3, 1. Rb. 3, 4. H.
3, 1.
Rubbish, rubbage, rubbidge, sweepings, filth.
Rb. 5, 2.

Rubious, red. TN. 1, 4. Lat. rubeus.
Ruddock, the bird called robin redbreast, Cy.
4, 2.

Ruddy, red. JC. 2, 1.

Rudesby, rude person. TS. 3, 2. TN. 4, 1. Rue, called herb of grace, conjectured to be so called, because used in exorcisms against evil spirits. Rb. 3, 4. H. 4, 5. A common subject of puns, from being the same word which signified sorrow, or pity. Rb. 3, 4. Lat. ruta, gr. rhyta, sax. rude, germ. Raute, kin to ruth. Ruff, a female neck ornament, made of plaited lawn, or other material; used also by effeminate men, born however both by divines and lawyers, till it was supplanted by the laced or cutband. bHd. 2, 4. Gifford's Ben Jons. II, 155. VIII, 218. Kin to rivel, wh. s. Ruffle of a boot, the turned down top, hanging in a loose manner, like the ruffle of a shirt. AW. 3, 2.

to Ruffle, to be turbulent and boisterous. TAn. 1, 2, to rob, plunder. KL. 3, 7; to hurry, stir up. JC. 3, 2.

Ruffling, plaited. TS. 4, 3.

to Ruinate, to reduce to ruin. cHƒ. 5, 1. TAn. 5, 3.

Ruinate, ruinous. CE. 3, 2.

Rule, behaviour, conduct. TN. 2, 8; measure, square. JC. 1, 1; sway, command, government. KL. 1, 1.

to Rumble, to roar, rush. KL. 3, 2. Rumpfed, fat bottomed, fed, fattened. M. 1, 3. From romp, holl. Rompe, provinc. Ramp, Rampe, gr. kormos, lump, aeol. korpos, lat. corpus.

Running banquet, a banket, where one eats going about. Hh. 1, 4.

Rushrings. Marrying with a rushring was probably a jocular mode. However an evil use was occasionally made of in seducing young women. AW. 2, 2.

Rushes strewed in rooms were common, before the luxury of carpets was introduced. Cy. 2, 2. alld. 3, 1. also in processions. bHd. 5, 5. TS. 4, 1. Rb. 1, 3. KJ. 1, 4.

to Rustle, to rattle, rash. TS. 4, 3. Cy. 3, 3. Germ. rasseln, rascheln.

Ruth, pity, compassion, mercy. Co. 1, 1. Rb. 3, 4. Ruthless, pityless. aHf. 5, 5. bHf. 2, 4. cllf. 1, 4. 5, 4. Rc. 4, 8. Tán. 2, 1. 4, 1. Rut time, time of copulation of the deer. MW. 5, 5. Kin to the germ. rossen, the engl. red. Ruttish, wanton, libidinous. AW. 4, 3.

S.

Sable, black. LL. 1, 1. H. 1, 2; mustela zibellina. H. 3, 2. Fr. la zibeline, ital. zibellino, boh. sebol.

Sack, a spanish wine of the dry, or rough kind, called also seck, now Sherry, from Xeres in Corduba. alid. 2, 4. bHd. 4, 3. Falstaff drank it with sugar. Douce's Ill. of Sh. I, 418. because the Sherry was rough. Sack was the general name for white wines, vino secco, in which however assonates also sack, because the sweet wines were sold in sacks. The method of inciding the stalks of grapes and letting them dry could very well be applied even in bad sorts of wine, perhaps in order to amend it. The etymology therefore is no ways endangered.

Sackbut, a bass trumpet. Co. 5, 4. Corrupted from sambuca, buccina, span. sacabuche, oldfr. sacquebute, ital. zampogna, sampogna, metathetically, bassoon, Basune, Posaune. Sackerson, a bear of great notoriety at the beargarden, called Parisgarden. MW. 1, 1. Sacring bell, a bell which rung for processions and other holy ceremonies. Hh. 3, 2. Sad, serious. WT: 4, 3. MA. 1, 3. 2, 1. Sadly, seriously. MA. 2, 3. Sadness, seriousness. RJ. 1, 1. Douce's Ill. II, 28.

ordinaries, to be a pretty wise fellow; thou didst make tolerable vent of thy travel, it might pass; yet the scarfs and the bannerets about thee did manifoldly dissuade me from believing thee a vessel of too great a burden; and again why dost thou garter up thy arms o' this fashion? dost make hose of thy sleeves? do other servants so? aud 4, 4.

to Sag, sagg, to sink, hang down as oppressed with weight, to swag. M. 5, 3. Kin to sack, as in germ. sich sacken is to bloat, and to lower like a sack. To swag has the same meaning, but it is kin to wag, swagger, quick, germ. wunken, schwanken, wackeln, to waggle, swab, waft, mere varieties by labial and guttural consonants.

Sagittary, an imaginary monster, introduced into the armies of the Trojans by Guido de Colonna; a terrible archer, half man and half beast (a Centaur) who neighs like a horse, whose eyes sparkle like fire, and strike dead, like lightning. TC. 5, 5.

Sain, obsolete form for said. LL. 3, 1. Salad, sallet, dish of raw herbs dressed with vinegar, salt and oil. H. 2, 2. Metaphorically salad days AC. 1, 5. are the days or time of unexperience, unskilfulness, whence there follows: when I was green in judgment. Salework, work for sale, carelessly wrought, AL. 3, 5.

Sallet, salet, salade, celade, a sort of helmet, or headpiece, of light cask, without a crest, sometimes having a visor, sometimes being without. blf. 4, 10. Kin undoubtedly to the gr. skylon, skylos, germ. Hülle, Schale, Schild, Schadel, engl. shield, scull, scale, shale, shell. S. Douce's Ill. of Sh. 11, 25.

Sallow, pale, bleak. RJ. 2, 3. Lowsax. saal, kin to the gr. tholos, att. olos, black, whence the fr. sale, the lat. squalidus, and to helos, thalassa, hals, helike, helix, lat. salix, ital. salcio, fr. saule, whence it is also willow, Sally, rushing, eruption of soldiers. allf. 4, 4. which is a variety of the same word. TC. 5, 3.

to

Sally, to assail, to issue out (allf. 4, 2.) AW. 4, 1. From salire, fr. saillir, gr. hallo

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Sanctuary man, who takes refuge to a church. Rc. 3, 1.

Sandblind, purblind, when one believes to see wee black spots, like sand. MV. 2, 2.

to Safe, to secure, make safe. AC. 1, 3. 4, 6. From salvus, oldfr. sulf, now sauf. Saffron, yellow starch for bands and ruffs. Metaphorically AW. 4, 5. villainous saffron is the roguish, preposterous and patched cha-Sans, without; pure French, spelt also saunce, racter and kind of Parolles. cf. 2, 3, where the same Lafeu says: I did think thee, for two!

by the elder poets, even in the noble AL. 2, 7. LL. 5, 2. CE. 4, 4.

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