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Passioning, displaying emotion, 28
Pass not, regard not, 368

Pass on, pass upon, to sentence, 51, 495
Passy-measure's pavin, a dance, 214

Pastry, the room where paste was made, 455
Patch, fool or jester, 9, 70, 125, 133, 517
Patchery, roguery, villany, 570

Patience perforce, an adage, 58

Patient, to make patient, 674

Precepts, warrants, 310
Pregnancy, ready wit, 295
Pregnant, supple, ready, 548
Prenominate, forenamed, 579

Preposterous, misplaced, inversely, 36, 121, 171
Presence, presence-chamber, 457
Presently, immediately, 358, 410, 723
Pressed, ready, bound, urged, 129
Pretence, design, device, 22, 223, 345

Pauca, pauca verba, paucas pallabris, few words, Pretend, to intend, 21, 345, 720

Pavin, a dance, 214

31, 104, 163, 317

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Peevish, childish, simple, headstrong, 351, 467, 647

Peise, to weigh down, 416

Peised, balanced, weighted, 136, 242

Pelting, paltry, despicable, 117, 145, 490

Penitent, doing penance, 68

Pretend, to portend, 345

Pretty, petty, little, 724

Prevent, to anticipate, 295, 637, 647,

Prick-song, music pricked, or noted down, 446
Prime, the spring, 739

Primero, an old game at cards, 45, 435
Principality, a celestial, 20

Princox, a coxcomb, 444

Print, in, precisely, to the letter, 19
Prize, privilege, 378

Pensioners, a band of gentlemen in immediate at- Probal, probable, 468

tendance on the sovereign, 35, 117

Perdurable, enduring, 328, 463

Perdy, corruption of par Dieu, 75

Periapts, amulets, 349

Perjure, a perjurer, 104

Person, old form of parson, 103

Perspectives, to be viewed obliquely, 214

Peruse, to examine, 67

Pervert, to avert, 593

Pestered, impeded, encumbered, 580

Pew-fellow, companion, sharer, 411

Pheere, companion, husband or wife, 683

Pheeze, to tickle, 163

Philip, a name for the sparrow, 238

Physical, medicinal, 638

Pick, to pitch, 433

Pickt-hatch, the manor of, 35

Pied ninny, a jester, a fool, 9

Pight, fixed, 488, 584

Pilcher, pilch, an outer garment of leather, 449

Pin, to cleave the, to split the wooden pin in a tar-
get, 29

Pin and web, the cataract in the eye, 218, 494
Pink eyne, small eyes, 659

Pioners, or pioneers, degraded soldiers, 471

Pitch or pith, eminence, 547

Pittikins, 'ods, God me pity, 601

Piace, seat of authority, 141, 663

Places, dignities, honours, 220, 663

Placket, a petticoat, 101, 228, 231, 493, 569

Planched, planked, made of boards, 59

Plantage, the moon's influence over plants, 573
Plants, the soles of the feet, 658

Plates, silver coin, 671

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Proceeding, advancement, 639
Process, citation, 650

Prodigious, monstrous, portentous, 243, 636
Proface, welcome, 311

Prognostication, almanac, 232

Project, to shape, 671

Projection, forecast, preparation, 319

Prolixious, coy, delaying, 55

Prompture, suggestion, 55

Prone, ardent, 50, 721

Proof, armour, 504

Proper-false, handsome-false, 204

Propertied, circumscribed, appropriated, 3, 212

Properties, a theatrical term, 45, 116

Proposing, discoursing, 86

Prorogue, to deaden or benumb, 654

Provincial, of the ecclesiastical province, 65

Provincial, from Provins, celebrated for roses, 549

Prune, to plume, 273, 604

Pruning, trimming up, adorning, 105
Pugging, prigging, 226

Puke-stocking, puce-stocking, 279
Pun, to pound, 567

Punk, a prostitute, 36, 47, 64
Purchase, profit, advantage, 690
Purchase, booty, plunder, 277, 309

Putter out, an adventurer of money, 10

Puttock, a buzzard, 586

Puzzel, a foul drab, 338

QUAIL, to slacken, 149

Quaint, dainty, clever, nimble, 176
Quaintly, clever, adroit, 18, 22
Qualification, temperament, 466

Quarry, a pile of slaughtered game, 610

man-Quart d'écu, or cardecue, a coin, the fourth part of a
French gold crown, 195, 196
Quat, a pimple or scab, 478
Quell, murder, 507
Question, to converse, 717
Question, motives, reason, 642
Queubus, equinoctial of, 204

Point-device, precise, with great nicety, 107, 155, 206
Point of war, a strain of military music, 304

Points, long tagged laces to fasten dresses, 112, 201,

228

Polacks, Polanders, 536

Politician, a schemer for his own advantage, 557
Pomander, a ball of perfume, 231
Pomewater, a kind of apple, 103

Poor John, hake, a fish, 440

Popinjay, a parrot, a trifling fop, 275

Porpentine, porcupine, 71, 567

Port, a gate, 652

Port, show, state, appearance, 129, 166

Portable, bearable, supportable, 495, 515

Portage, portholes, 320

Portance, carriage, mien, bearing, 462

Potents, potentates, 241

Poulter, a poulterer, 281

Powder, to salt, 291

Poynt, no, non point, roo

Quick, alive, quickening, quick-witted, 395, 652, 671
Quick recreation, lively pastime, 97
Quilt, a flock bed, 287

Quips, sudden, angry gibes, scoffs, 65

Quit, to requite, 66, 664

Quittance, requital, to make requital, 293, 337, 522

Quiver, smart, nimble, 304

Quote to look into, to scan, 542, 682

RABATO, or rebato, an ornament for the neck, a
kind of ruff, 88

Rabbit-sucker, a sucking rabbit, 281

Rag, a term of contempt, 532

Ragged, rough, rugged, base, 151, 294, 303
Ragged, beggared, 722

Rake up, to cover up, 500

Rampallian, a low, creeping, mean wretch, 297

Practice, conspiracy, machination, collusion, 63, Rank, chorus, rhyme, 153

318, 481, 490

'Praise, to appraise, 202

Prank, to adorn, to dress ostentatiously, 205, 227
Precedent, a sign, an indicator, 707

Rank, brimming, full, 707, 741

Raps, transports, 589
Rapture, a fit, 616

Rascal, a lean deer, 155, 347, 610

Rates, counts for, is equivalent to, 663

SABLES, the wearing of, 549

Rather, hasty, quick, for

Raught, reft, reached, grasped, 359, 377
Ravined, ravenous, 513

Rayed, chafed, excoriated, 173

Razed, slashed, opened, 549

Razes, roots, 276

Read, to tread, 286, 439

Rearmice, bats, 118

Reason, to discourse, 135

Reasonable swiftness, speed of thought, 316

Sackerson, the name of a bear, 32

Sacred, devoted, dedicated, 637, 677

Sacring-bell, the bell rung on the elevation of the
host, 431

Safe, sound, 498

Saffron, the colour of Judas' hair, the dissembling
colour, 195

Sag, to droop, to flag, 517

Sagittary, officers' residence at the arsenal of Venice,

460

Rebato, a kind of ruff, an ornament for the neck, 88 Said, done, 151, 224

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Record, to chant, 29, 699

Sallet, a helmet, 371

Sallets, or salte, Atticism, piquancy, 545

Salt, salt-cellar, 24

Saltiers, corruption of satyrs, 229

Salute, to move, to exhilarate, 426

Recover the wind of me, a hunting expression, 550 Samingo, San Domingo, an old burden to drinking
Recure, to recover, 408

Rede, counsel, advice, 539

Red-lattice, the denotement of an ale-house, 300

Refelled, refuted, 63.

Reechy, discoloured by smoke, 92

Regard, reflection, observation, 471, 726

Regiment, directorship, rule, 661

Remarkable, profoundly striking, 669

Reguerdon, recompence, 343.

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Remember thy courtesy, discontinue ceremony, 107 Scornát with the heels, a manner of scornful rejec
Remembered, reminded, 741

Remembrance, memorial, 471

Remonstrance, exhibition, manifestation, 65

tion, 83, 131

Scotch, to wound, to notch, 512

Scrimers, fencers, 556

Remorse, pity, tenderness of feeling, 26, 63, 250, 471 Scroyles, scabby rogues, 241

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Repeal, to recall from exile, to bring back, 23, 186, Secret, separated, devoted, 637

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Reserve, preserve, 732, 738

Resolve, be assured, 336

Respect, self-command, prudence, 568, 713
Rest, a term in music, 724
'Rest, arrest, 74

Resty, immobile, dull, uneasy, 598, 739
Retire, to withdraw, 260

Retiring, returning, 723

Retort, to refer back, 64

Reverb, to reverberate, 482

Reverso, a term in fencing, 37
Reword, to echo, 745

Rich coat, a full charged escutcheon, 746
Rid, to destroy, 4, 392

Rides the wild mare, plays at see-saw, 300
Riggish, wanton, 655

Rigol, a circle, 308, 728

Rim, a part of the intestines, 329

Rivage, the shore or bank, 320

Rivality, participation, copartnership, 660
Rivals, associates, partners, 536

Rivo, a drinking exclamation, 279
Rolled, coiled, 677

Romage, commotion, turmoil, 537
Rondure, a round or belt, 731

Ronyon, a scurvy old woman, a witch, 44, 505
Rook, to squat down, to roost, 393

Ropery, rope tricks, ribaldry, 107, 447
Rother, red cattle, 530

Round, plain spoken, 69, 547

Round, roundel, roundelay, a dance, 547
Rounded, insinuated, 242

Rounding, whispering, insinuating, 217
Roundure, a circle, 240

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Secure, careless, to make over-confident, 35, 37, 38,

568

Secure, to assure, 525

Securely, carelessly, over-confidently, 260, 578
Security, carelessness, ver-confidence, 263, 513,
640

Seel, in falconry, to sew up the eyes, 511, 664
Seen, versed, practised, skilled, 167

Seldom comes the better, a proverbial saying, 403
Sense, to the, to the quick, 477
Septentrion, the north, 378

Sequester, a separation, 472

Sere, tickled o' the, easily moved to mirth, 545
Serpigo, leprosy, 56

Sessa, be quiet, 163, 537

Set, a term in music, 17

Set a match, to plan a robbery, 274

Shale, a case, a shell, 327

Shards, scaly wings of a beetle, 511, 659

Shaven Hercules, the, 87

Shent, undone, ruined, reproved, 33, 629

Ship-tire, a fanciful head-dress for ladies, 39
Shive, a slice, 677

Shog, to jog off, 317, 319

Shotten, spawned, projected, 172, 322

Shoughs, shaggy dogs, 511

Shoulder-clapper, a bailiff, 73

Shovel-boards, broad shillings used in the game of

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Sinug, spruce, smart, 115, 283

Sneap, a sarcasm, a set-down, 297

Sneap, to nip or check, 216, 471

Sneck-up, go hang! 204

Snipe, a fool, a blockhead, 464

Snuff, take it in-to take it in dudgeon, 108, 127
Snuffs, tiffs, 492

So like you he is the worse, a proverb, 222
Solidares, a coin, 526

Something-nothing, neither here nor there, 470
Sometimes, formerly, 129

Sonties, corruption of sanctities, 132
Soon at, about, 67

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Sowle, to lug, to drag, 626

Sort, gang, crew, company, 268, 358

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Talents, riches, 589

Speak by the card, to speak precisely, or accord- Tallow-keech, a round lump of tallow for the chand-

ing to the book of manners, 558

Speak to, to aspire or lay claim to, 461

Speculation, view, espial, 574

Sped, done, settled, 449

Sped, promised, 180

Speed, fortune, 224

Sperr, to shut up, 562

Spleen, flash, 115, 241

Sprag. quick, ready, sprightly, 42

Sprited, haunted, 592

Square, equitable, 535

Square, a quarrel, to quarrel, 116, 654, 663

Square, a stomacher, 228

Squire, a rule, 111, 277

Staggers, perplexities, incertitudes, 187, 417

Stale, insipid, out of date, 69

ler, 281

Tame-cheater, a petty rogue, 300
Tarre, to incite, 247, 567

Tartar, Tartarus, 318

Tawdry-lace, a neck ornament, 228

Taxation, sarcasm, satire, 147

Teen, grief, sorrow, 1, 442
Temperance, temperature, 5
Tender hefted, 491

Tents, hangings, 171

Tercel, the male hawk, 572

Tharborough, a constable, 97
Theorick, theory, 194, 314, 459
Thick, rapidly, 594

Thills, the shafts of a wagon, 572
Thought, melancholy, 666

Stand on, stands me upon, it is incumbent on me, Thrasonical, bragging, boastful, 107, 160

Stannyel, a kind of hawk, 206

262, 446, 654

Starve, to perish, 588

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Stood upon, plumed or presumed upon, 678

Stops, a technical term in music, 548, 550

Three-man beetle, an implement for driving piles,

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Tickled o' the sere, easily moved to mirth, 545
Tightly, briskly, promptly, 32

Tike, clown, clodpole, 45

Tilly-fally, a ludicrous interjection, 204, 299

Time of life, duration of life, 647

Strain courtesy, to, to avoid the post of honour in Tire, to peck like a bird, to tear, 376, 528, 707

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Suggesting, enticing, tempting, seducing, 7, 21, 22, Toward, in preparation, 537

372

Towards, aproaching, near at hand, 444

Toys, idle rumours, tricks, 238
Tranect, a ferry, 139

Trash, to clog, to impede, 1, 466
Tray-trip, a game so called, 207
Treachers, traitors, 484

Tribunal plebs, tribunis plebis, 685
Trick, peculiarity, 181, 237
Trifle, a phantom, 13
Tropically, figuratively, 549
Trundle tail, a species of dog, 495
Tucket, a flourish on a trumpet, 144

Turk, to turn, proverbially, to apostatize, 549
Turk Gregory, Pope Gregory the Seventh, 290
Twiggen-bottle, wicker bottle, 467

UMBERED, shadowed, 324

Unaneled, without receiving extreme unction, 541
Unavoided, unavoidable, 274, 347

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Uneared, unploughed, 729

Uneath, hardly, painfully, 360

Unexpressive, inexpressible, 153

Unhappy, waggish, mischievous, 196, 423

Unhouseled, without receiving the eucharist, 541
Unimproved, unreproved, ungovernable, 537
Union, an orient pearl, 561

Unkind, unnatural, 211, 346, 484
Unowed, unowned, 250

Unpregnant, inapt, unable, 62

Unproper, common, 474

Unqualitied, deprived of faculties or qualities, 663

Unquestionable, averse to discourse, 155
Unready, undressed, 339

Unrolled, struck off the roll, 227
Unsmirched, unsullied, pure, 555
Untempering, unsoftening, 333
Untented, unsearchable, 487
Untraded, unused, uncommon, 579
Unvalued, invaluable, 399
Upland down, exactly, 19.
Usances, usury, 130
Use, interest, 48, 83, 432
Use, in, possession, 652
Utis, old, rare fun, 299

Utterance, to extremity, 510, 594
Uttered, expelled, or put away, 94

Vantbrace, armour for the arm, 566
Varlet, a servant, a footman, 562

Varlet, a male harlot, 580

Vaunt, the foregoing, the van, 562

Venew, or Veney, a touch or hit in fencing, 32

Ventages, holes of a flageolet or flute, 550

Vice, to screw, 217

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Waters, for all, plays any character, 212
Waterwork, distemper, 298

Wax, waxen tablets, 520

Waxen, or Yexen, to hiccough, 117

Way of life, periphrasis for life, 517
Wealth, weal, advantage, 144

Web and pin, the cataract in the eye, 494
Wee, diminutive, 33.

Weening, thinking, imagining, 341
Weep a good, to cry in good earnest, 28
Weet, to wit, to know, 650

Weigh out, outweigh, 429

Well, an expression applied to the dead, 233
Well appeared, rendered apparent, 624
Well-liking, in good bodily condition, 324
Well said, well done, 151, 304, 357, 685
Well seen, well versed, 167

What, for what? why? 674

What the good year! an exclamation, 80
Wheel, refrain, burden of a ballad, 555
Whelked, having protuberances, 498

When an exclamation of impatience, 255, 636
When can you tell? à proverbial query, 71, 277
of Whenas, when, 75

Wherein, in that, 147

Whiles, until, 213

Whipping-cheer, flogging, 312
Whist, silent, at peace, hushed, 4
White, to hit thee, in archery, 180
Whiting-time, bleaching time, 40
Whittle, a clasped knife, 535
Whoobub, hubbub, 231

Whoop, do me no harm, a tune or burden, 228
Wicked, baneful, 3

Widow-hood, a dower, 169

Wilderness, wildness, 56

Wild mare, the game of see-saw, 300

Will you take eggs for money? proverbial for will
you suffer yourself to be cajoled? 217

Wimpled, hooded, veiled, for

Winchester goose, a venereal pustule, 337
Window-bars, lattice-work across the bosom of a
woman's dress, 531

Windows, eye-lids, 416, 591, 710
Winking-gates, gates closed, 240

Winter-ground, a technical term for protecting a
plant from frost, 600

Wis, I, certainly, truly, 135

Wish, to commend, 165, 652

Wisp of straw, a punishment for a scold, 380
Wistly, wistfully, 271

Wit, knowledge, wisdom, 84, 131, 341

Wit, whither wilt? a proverbial saying, 158
Wit-cracker, a joker, 95,

Wit-snapper, one who affects repartee, 139
With himself, not beside himself, 675

With the manner, in the fact, 97
Without, beyond, 14, 124, 187
Witnessed, evidenced, 516
Wits, five, the five senses, 79

Vice, a character or buffoon of the Moralities, 281, Wittol, a contented cuckold, 37

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Yeoman, a sheriff's officer, 296

Yes; keep you warm, 170
Yexen, or waxen, to hiccough, 116
Yield, reward, 161

Yield, to report, 656

You may, you may, you have full liberty to divert
yourself, 571

Youngest wren of nine, 208
Younker, a youngling, 134

ZANY, a fool or gull, 110, 201
Zealous, pious, 408

Yerk, to jerk, to thrust with a quick motion, 329, 460 Zed, an unnecessary letter, 223

THE END.

JOHN CHILDS AND SON, PRINTERS.

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