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Gasted, frighted.

Gaunt, meagre.

Gandy, a festival.

Gawd, a bauble.
Gaze, attention.

Gear, things or matters.
Geck, a fool.
General, generality.
Generosity, high birth.
Generous, nobly born.
Gennets, Spanish horses.
Gentle, noble, high-born.
Gentry, complaisance.
German, akin.

Germins, seeds begun to sprout.

Gest, a stage or journey.
Gib, a cat.

Giglot, a wanton.

Gilder, a coin, value 2s.
Gilt, gold money.
Gimmal, a ring or engine.
Ging, a gang.
Gird, a sarcasm.
Glaire, a sword.

Gleek, to joke.

Glib, to geld.

Glooming, gloomy.

Gloze, to expound.
Glut, to swallow.
Gnarled, knotty.

God 'ield you, God yield you.
Gongarian, Hungarian,
Good-deed, indeed.

Good-den, good evening.

Good-jer, the venereal disease.
Gorbellied, corpulent.

Gospelled, puritanic.

Goss, furze.

Gouts, drops.

Go your gait, go away.
Grained, furrowed, like the grain
of wood; also, died ingrain.
Gramercy, great thanks.
Grange, a lone farm-house.
Gratillity, gratuity.
Grats, pleases.
Gratulate, to be rejoiced in.
Grave, to entomb.

Grave-man, a man in his grave.
Graves or Greaves, leg-armour.
Greasily, grossly.
Greek, a bawd.
Greenly, unskilfully.
Green-sleeves, an old song,
Grise or Grize, a step.
Grossly, palpably.
Groundlings, those who sat or
stood on the ground in the old
theatres; the common people.
Guard, to fringe.
Guarded, ornamented.
Guerdon, a reward.
Gules, (in heraldry) red.
Gulf, the swallow, the throat.
Guiled, treacherous.
Guinea-hen, a prostitute.
Gun-stones, cannon balls.
Gurnet, a fish.

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Hack, to become cheap.
Haggard, wild; also, wild hawk.
Hair, complexion, or character.
Hall! make room.
Happily, accidentally.
Happy, accomplished.
Hardiment, bravery.
Harlocks, wild mustard.
Harlot, a male cheat.
Harness, armour.
Harrows, subdues.
Harry, to harrass.
Having, possessions.
Haviour, behaviour.
Haught, haughty.
Haughty, elevated.
Halcyon, a bird.

Hallidon, doom at judgment-day.
Handsaw, bernshaw, (a hawk.)
Hangers, that which suspends the
sword.

Harlotry, vulgar, filthy.
Hatch, to engrave.
Haunt, company.
Hay, a fencing term.
Heat, heated."
Hebenon, henbane.
Hefted, heaved, agitated.
Hell, a dungeon in a prison.
Helmed, steered through.
Hence, henceforward.
Henchman, a page of honour.
Hent, to seize.
Herb of grace, rue.
Hermits, beadsmen.
Hest, command.
Hight, called.
Hilding, a poltroon.
Hiren, a harlot.
His, often used for its.
Hoar, hoary, mouldy.

Gossamer, atoms that float in the Hob-nob, as it may happen,

sun-beams.

Gourds, dice.

Hoist, hoisted.

Hold, to esteem.

Hold-taking, bear-handling.
Holla! a term of the manege.
Holy, faithful.

Hoodman-blind, blindman's buf
Horologe, clock.
Hot-house, a baguio.
Hox, to ham-string.
Huggermagger, secretly.
Hull, to float without guidance.
Humming, o'erwhelming.
Humorous, humid.
Hungry, unprolific.

Hunt-counter, worthless dag.

Hunts-up, a hunting tase.
Hurly, noise.

Hurtle, to dash against.
Hurtling, boisterous merrinat
Husbandry, thriftiness.
Huswife, a jilt.
Hyen, byæna.

I.

Icebrook, temper.
Idle, barren.
Ifecks, in faith.

Ignomy, ignominy.
Ill-inhabited, ill-lodged.
Illustrious, without lastre.
Images, children, representatres
Imbare, to expose.
Immanity, barbarity.
Immediacy, close counexim.
Imp, progeny.

Impair, unsuitable, unequal.
Impartial, partial.
Impawned, wagered.
Imperious, imperial.
Impetticos, to impetticaal,
impocket.

Importance, importunity.
Important, importunate

Impose, injunction.
Impositions, commands.
Impossible, incredible.

Imp out, to supply the deficien
Impress, a device or motto.
Incapable, unintelligent.
Incarnadine, to dye red.
Incensed, incited.
Inclip, to embrace.
Include, to conclude.
Inclusive, enclosed.
Incompt, subject to account.
Incony or Kony, delicate, pretty
Incorrect, ill-regulated.
Indent, to sign an indenture.
Index, something preparatory.
Indifferent, impartial.
Indigest, shapeless.
Indite, to convict.

Induction, preface, prelude.
Indurance, delay.

Informal, deranged.

Infinite, extent or power.
Ingaged, unengaged.
Ingraft, rooted.

Inhabitable, not habitable.
Inherit, to possess.
Inhibit, to forbid, decline.
In his eye, in his presence.
Inhooped, inclosed.

Ink-horn mate, a book-mate.
Inkle, worsted tape.

Initiate, young.
Inland, civilized.

Innocent, a fool.

In place, present.

Insane, that which makes insane
Insanie, insanity.

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Kam, awry.

K.

Keech, a lump of tallow.

Keel, to cool.

Keisar, Cæsar.

Kernes, light-armed soldiers.
Key-cold, cold as iron.
Kicksy-wicksy, term of endear-
ment for a wife.

Kindly, natural.
Kinged, ruled.

Kirtle, a woman's garment.
Knap, to break short.

Knave, servant.

Knots, figures planted in box.

Know, to acknowledge.

Know of, to consider.

Labras, lips.

L.

Laced mutton, a prostitute.

Lackeying, moving like a lackey.

Lag, the rabble.

Lakin, ladykin, or little lady.
Lances, lance-men.

Lands, landing-places.

Land-rakers, wanderers on foot.

Large, licentious.

Lated, benighted.
Latten, thin as a lath.
Launch, lance.
Laund, lawn.
Laundering, wetting.
Lavoltas, a kind of dances.
Lay, a wager.
Leaguer, a camp.
Leasing, falsehood.
Leather-coats, apples.
Leavened, matured.
Leech, a physician.
Leer, feature, complexion.
Leet, petty court of justice.
Leg, obeisance.
Legerity, nimbleness.
Leges, alleges.
Leiger, resident.

Leman, a lover or mistress
Leno, a pander.

Lenten, spare.

Let, to hinder.
Lethe, death.

L'Envoy, end of a poem.
Lewd, idle.

Libbard, or Lubbar, a leopard.
Liberal, licentious in speech.
Liberty, libertinism.
License, licentiousness.
Liefest, dearest.

Lieger, an ambassador.
Lifter, a thief.

Light o'love, a dance tune.
Lightly, commonly.
Like, to compare.
Liking, condition of body.
Likelihood, similitude.
Likeness, speciousness.
Limbeck, a vessel used in distilling
Limbo, a place supposed near hell
Lime, bird-lime; to cement.
Limited, appointed.
Limits, estimates.
Lined, delineated.

Linstock, the staff to which the
match is fixed when ordnance
is fired.

List, limit.

Lither, flexible.
Little, miniature.

Livelihood, appearance of life.
Livery, a law-phrase.
Living, estate, property.
Living, speaking, manifest.
Loach, a small prolific fish.
Lob, a dullard, a looby.
Lockram, a kind of linen.
Lode-star, the polar star.
Loffe, to laugh.
Loggats, a game.
Long purples, a flower.
Longing, belonging.
Longly, longingly.

Loofed, brought close to the wind

Loon, a base fellow.
Looped, full of apertures.
Lop, the branches.
Lordling, a little lord.
Lot, a prize.

Lottery, allotment.

Love in idleness, a flower.
Lover, sometimes for mistress.
Lowt, a clown.

Lowted, treated with contempt.
Lozel, a worthless fellow.

Lass-lorn, forsaken by his mis- Lubbar, a leopard.

tress.

Latch, to lay hold of.

Lullaby, cradle.

Lunes, lunacy.

Latched or Letched, licked over.

Lurch, to win, to purloin.

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Miser, a miserable being.

Newt, the eft.

Next, nearest.

Misery, avarice.
Misprised, mistaken.
Misprising, despising.
Missives, messengers.
Mistempered, angry.
Mistful, ready to weep.
Misthink, to think ill.
Mistress, the jack in bowling.
Mo, more.

Mobled, veiled, muffled.
Model, mould.

Modern, new-fangled.
Modesty, moderation.
Module, model.

Moe, to make mouths.
Moiety, a portion.
Moist star, the moon.
Mollification, softening.
Mome, a blockhead.
Momentany, momentary.
Monster, to make monstrous.
Month's mind, a popish anniver-

sary

Mood, anger, manner.
Moody, melancholy.
Moonish, variable.

Mops and Moes, ludicrous anticks.

Moral, secret meaning.
Morisco, Moorish.
Morris-pike, Moorish pike.
Mort of the deer, a tune on the
death of the deer.
Mortal, murderous, fatal.
Mortal, abounding.
Mortal-staring, killing by a look.
Mortified, ascetic.
Most, greatest.
Mot, a motto.

Mother, the hysteric passion.

Motion, divinatory agitation.
Motion, desires.

Motion, a puppet

Motions, indignation.

Motive, a mover

Mouldwarp, the mole

Mouse, to tear to pieces.

Mouse, a term of endearment.
Mouse-hunt, a weasel.

Moy, a piece of money; also, a

measure of corn. Much, strange, wonderful. Muck-water, drain of a dunghill. Muffler, a wrapper for the lower part of the face. Muleters, muleteers. Mulled, softened.

Multiplied, multitudinous.
Multiplying, multiplied.

Multitudinous, full of multitudes.
Mure, a wall.
Murky, dark.
Must, a scramble.

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Of, through.

Offering, the assailant.
Office, service,

Offices, culinary apartments.
Of all loves, by all means.
Old, frequent.
Old age, ages past.
Once, sometime.
Oneyers, bankers.
Opal, a precious stone.
Operant, active

Opinion, obstinacy, conceit.
Opposite, adverse.
Opposition, combat.
Or e'er, before.
Orbs, fairy circles.
Orchard, a garden
Ordinance, rank.
Order, measures.
Orgulous, haughty.
Osprey, an eagle.

Ostent, ostentation, appearance.
Ostentation, appearance.
Overblow, to drive away.
Overscutched, whipped at a cart's
tail.

Overture, opening, discovery.
Ounce, a tiger-cat.

Ouph, fairy.

Ousel-cock, the cock blackbird. Out, full, complete.

Oatvied, defeated, a term at the

game of gleek. Outward, not in the secret. Owe, to possess, to own. Oxlip, the great cowslip.

Pang, to afflict.

Paper, to commit to writing.
Parcel, part, to reckon up.
Parcel-bawd, balf-bawd.
Parcel-gilt, partially gilt.
Parish-top, a large top, formerl
kept in every village, to be
whipped for exercise.
Parle, parler.
Parlous, perilous, shrewd.
Part, to depart.
Parted, endowed, shared.
Particular, private.
Partizan, a pike.
Parts, party.

Pash, to strike; a bead.
Pashed, crushed.

Pass, to decide, assure, conver
Pass on, to decide.
Passed, eminent.

Passing, surpassing.

Passion, suffering.

Passionate, grieving.

Passioning, being in a passion.
Passy Measure, a dance.
Paritor, an apparitor, or officer i
the bishop's court.

Pastry, the pastry room.
Patch, a fool.

Patched, in a fool's coat.
Path, to walk.

Pathetical, promise-breaker.

Patient, to soothe.

Patine, a dish used with the cha lice in administering the E charist.

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Piece, a contemptuous term for a Propagate, to advance, to improve.

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Proper, handsome.
Proper-false, deceitful.
Propertied, possessed.
Properties, incidental necessaries

to a theatre.
Property, due performance.
Propose, to imagine, to converse.
Proposing, conversing.
Provand, provender,
Provost, sheriff or gaoler.
Prune, to plume.
Pugging, thievish.

Puke, a sort of russet colour.
Purchase, stolen goods.
Purchased, unjustly acquired.
Purl, to curl.
Purlieu, border.
Pursuivants, heralds.
Pussel, a low wench.

Put to know, forced to acknowledge.

Putter-out, one who lends money
on interest.
Putting-on, incitement.
Puttock, a hawk.

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Rapture, a fit. Rarely, curiously. Rascal, lean deer.

Rash remonstrance, premature
discovery.
Raught, reached.
Ravin, to devour eagerly.
Ravined, glutted with prey.
Rawly, suddenly.
Rayed, betrayed.
Razed, slashed.
Raze, a bale.

Rear-mouse, a bat.
Reason, discourse.

Rebeck, a musical instrument. Recheat, a horn, a tune to call the dogs back.

Receipt, receptacle.
Receiving, ready apprehension.
Receate, a hunting term.
Reck, to care for.
Reckless, careless.
Record, to sing.

Recorders, a kind of flute.
Recure, to recover.

Red-lattice phrases, alehouse talk.
Red-plague, the St. Antony's fire.
Reechy, discoloured with smoke.
Reels, wheels.

Refel, to confute.

Quail, to sink, to faint, to be van- Refer, to reserve to.

Regard, look.

Quaint, fantastical, also graceful.Regiment, government.

quished.

Quaintly, skilfully.

Quaint-mazes, a game.
Quaked, terrified.

Quality, confederates; condition.
Quarrel, a quarreller.

Quarry, the game after it is killed. Quart d'écu, the fourth of a French

crown.

Quat, a scab.

Queasy, squeamish.

Quell, to murder.

Quench, to grow cool.

Quern, a hand-mill.

Portance, behaviour.

Quest, pursuit.

Portable, bearable.

Possess, to inform.

Potch, to push.

Potents, potentates.
Poulter, poulterer.

Pouncet-box, a perfume-box.
Power, an army.
Practise, stratagems.
Prank, to adorn.

Precept, a justice's warrant.

Precisian, a puritan.

Preeches, flogged.

Prenominate, fore-named.

Prefer, to offer.

Pregnant, ready.

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Question, conversation.

Questrist, one who seeks another.

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Regreet, exchange of salutation.
Reguerdon, recompense.
Rheumatic, capricious.
Relume, to relight.
Remorse, pity.
Remotion, removal.
Removes, journies.
Render, to describe.
Renege, to renounce.
Reports, reporters.
Reproof, confutation.
Repugn, to resist.
Reputing, boasting.
Reserve, to preserve.
Resolve, to be assured.
Resolve, to dissolve,
Respective, respectful.
Respectively, respectfully.
Resty, mouldy.

Retailed, handed down.

Quintain, a post set up for various Retort, to refer back.

exercises.

Quips, scoffs.

Quire, to play in concert. Quiver, nimble, active. Quote, to observe.

R, dog's letter.

R.

Rabato, a neck ornament.

Reverb, to reverberate.

Revolt of mien, change of com

plexion.

Revolts, rebels.

Rib, to enclose.

Ribald, a lewd fellow.

Rid, to destroy.

Rift, split.

Riggish, wanton.

Race, original disposition, also Rigol, a circle.

flavour.

Rack, wreck.

Rack, to exaggerate.

Rack, to harass by exactions.

Rack, the fleeting away of the clouds. Racking, in rapid motion.

Rim, money.

Ringed, encircled.

Rivage, the bank or shore.

Rivality, equal rank.

Rivals, partners.

Rive, to burst, to fire.

Romage, rummage, bustle.

Ronyon, a drab.
Rood, the cross.

Rook, to squat.
Ropery, roguery.

Rope-tricks, abusiveness.
Round, a diadem.
Round, rough.
Rounded, whispered.
Roundel, a country dance.
Rounding, whispering,
Roundure, a circle.

Rouse, carousal.

Roynish, mangy.

Royal, a coin.

Ruddock, red-breast.

Septentrion, the north.
Sequestration, separation.
Sere, or sear, dry.
Serpigo, a tetter.
Serve, to fulfil.
Setebos, a demon.

Set of wit, a term at tennis.
Sessa, be quiet.
Several, separated.

Several, or severell, a field set
apart for corn and grass.
Sewer, the placer of the dishes.
Shame, modesty.

Shard-borne, borne on scaly wings
Shards, beetle's wings.

Ruff, the folding of the tops of Shards, broken pots or tiles.

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Shark up, to pick up.

Shaven Hercules, Samson.

Sheen, shining, gay.

Sheer, transparent.
Shent, to scold, rebuke.
Sherris, sherry.
Shive, a slice.
Shog, to go off.
Shotten, projected.
Shotten-herring, a herring that
has spawned.
Shoulder-clapper, a bailiff.
Shoughs, shocks, a species of dog.
Shove-groat, a game.
Shovel-boards, shillings used at
the game of shovel board.
Shrewd, shrewish.

Shrift, auricular confession.
Shrive, to call to confession.
Side, purpose.
Side-sleeves, long sleeves.
Siege, a stool.

Sieve, a common voider.
Sightless, unsightly.

Snuffs, dislikes.

Soil, spot, turpitude, reprend
Solicit, courtship.
Solicit, to excite.
Soliciting, information.
Solidares, a coin.
Sometimes, formerly.
Sooth, truth.
Sooth, sweetness.

Sorel, a deer during his third ver
Sorry, sorrowful.

Sort, to happen, to agree.
Sort, the lot.

Sort and suit, figure and rak
Sot, a fool.
Soud, sweet.

Soul-fearing, soul appalling,
Sound, to publish.

Soused gurnet, a gudgeon.

Sowl, to pull by the ears.
Sowle, to drag down.

Sowter, the name of a bound.
Spanielled, dogged.
Specialty, particular rights.
Speculation, sight.
Speculative, seeing.
Sped, the fate decided.
Speed, event.

Sperr, to shut up, defend by bas
Spill, to destroy.
Spotted, wicked.
Sprag, apt to learn, alert.
Sprighted, haunted.
Sprights, spirits.

Springhalt, a disease of bones.
Sprightly, ghostly.

Spurs, the greater roots of tress.
Square, to quarrel.
Squarer, a quarreller.

Squash, an iminature peascod.

Sights, the perforated parts of a Squiney, to look asquint.

helmet.

Silly, simple truth. Sinew, strength.

Single, weak.

Sink-a-pace, cinque pace, a dance.
Sir, the title of a parson.
Sister, to imitate or re-echo.
Sith, since.
Sithence, thence.

Sizes, allowances of victuals.
Skain's-mates, kin's-mates.
Skill, reason.

Skills not, is of no importance.
Skinker, a tapster.
Skirr, to scour.
Slave, to treat with indiguity.
Sleave, the knotty part of silk.
Sledded, carried on a sledge.
Sleided, untwisted.
Slights, tricks.

Slip, counterfeit coin.

Seal, to strengthen, or complete. Slips, a contrivance in leather, to

Seam, lard.

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Sliver, to slice.

Slops, loose breeches.

Slough, the skin which the serpent annually throws off.

Slower, more serious.

Squire, a rule or square. Stage, to place conspicuously, Stale, a decoy for birds.

Stanny el, a hawk, or stallion. Star, a scar.

Stark, stiff.

Starred, destined.
Statists, statesmen.
Statua, statue.
Statue, a portrait.

Stay, a hinderer, a supporter.
Sternage, the hinder part.
Sticking-place, the stop in a
chine.

Sticklers, arbitrators, judges,partisans, umpires.

Stigmatic, marked with deformity branded.

Stigmatical, stigmatised.
Stilly, gladly, lowly.
Stinted, stopped.
Stint, to stop.

Stith, an anvil.

Stitbied, forged at the furusce. Stithy, a smith's shop. Stoccata, a stab.

Stock, a stocking.

Stomach, pride.

Slubber, to do carelessly, to ob- Stoup, a flaggon.

scure.

Stone-bow, a cross bow.

Stover, thatch.

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Seeming, seemly.

Seld, seldom.

Semblably, resemblingly.

Seniory, seniority.

Sennet, a flourish on cornets. Sense, sensual desires.

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Sneap, rebuke.

Sneaping, nipping.

Sneck-up, go hang yourself. Snipe, a poltroon.

Snuff, anger.

Strait, narrow, avaricious.
Strange, shy.

Stratagem, great or dreadful event
Strawy, straying.

Striker, a borrower.

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