Coystril, a mean groom. or peasant, iii. 212, | Danskers, Danes, v. 416 238 Cozenage, sorcery, witchcraft, i. 202 Cozier, a botcher of clothes or shoes, iii. 252 Cracked coin, v. 499 Crants, crowns, garlands, v. 480 Crare, a small vessel of burden, iv. 410 Credent, credible, plausible, iv. 238, v. 205 Crescive, increasing, growing, iii. 5 Crispian, feast of, iii. 82 Critic, a cynic, v. 366, vi. 478 Cross, a coin stamped with a cross, i. 78, iii. Cross, to pass across the path of a spectre, v. 395 Crow-keeper, a scarecrow, or a rustic em- Cruzado, crusado, a gold coin so called, vi. 341 Cry in the top of question, to crow over or Cry on, to announce, to assert, iii. 283, iv. 165, Cue, a stage term for the last words of a Cuisses, armour for the thighs, ii. 226 Cullion, a paltry fellow, i. 358 Dare larks, to, iv. 310 Day-woman, dairy-woman, i. 80 Dealt on lieutenantry, fought by proxy, vi. 126 Dear, choice, rare, momentous, extreme, i. 81, Death at the ebb of tide, a popular opinion, Death rock me asleep, beginning of a ballad, Death's fool, iv. 254 Death's-man, executioner, vi. 413 plague-spots forewarning Deck of cards, a pack of cards, iii. 523 Demerits, good or ill deserts, v. 105, vi. 256 Cunning, knowing, skilful, i. 323, iii. 195, iv. Denay, to deny, iii. 391 60, 232 Curb, to bow or truckle, ▼. 455 Curious, scrupulous, over punctilious, i. 366, Curious-good, fastidiously precise, vi. 421 Curled, an epithet of gentility, vi. 257, 413 Curst, cross-grained, sour, intractable, ma- Curtail-dog, a halting dog, ii. 364 DAFF, or doff, to put off, i. 235, ii. 468 Damnable, damnably, v. 233 Dancing Horse, Bankes's, i. 140 Dancing sword, ii. 560 Danger, power, ii. 54, vi. 370 Denier, a French coin, iv. 82 Deprive, to disinherit, to depose, v. 11, 410, vi. 432 Deracinate, to root up, iii. 70, v. 307 Descant, variation in music, i. 10, vi. 417 Destractions, detachments, vi. 123 133 Devil, roaring, iii. 82 Dewberry, a sort of blackberry, i. 502 Diet, to take, to be under regimen, i. 14 Diffuse, to disguise, v. 16 Diffused, wild, irregular, ii. 397 Dilations, delations, accusations, distillations, Dildos and fadings, obscene burdens of old Dangerous, biting, mischievous, i. 73, v. 221, Direct, explicitly, without ambiguity, v. 516 530 Dank, wet, rotten, i. 239 496, ii. 187 Disability, disparagement, i. 21 | Disabled, disparaged, impugned, iii. 150, 360 Dispute, to reason, i. 260, v. 254 Dispute on, to debate a cause, vi. 335 Distain, to cloud, to cast into the shade, iii. Distempered, disordered, v. 446, vi. 253 Do, do, an expression of contempt, v. 315 Do me right, accept my challenge, ii. 469 Done, destroyed, vi. 373 Double-cracks, double-thunder-claps, vi. 5 Double-pictures, pictures that showed two Double set, twice round, vi. 279 Dower, gift, vi. 308 Dowle, a feather, down, iv. 487 Drachma, a Greek coin, v. 556, 563 Draw dry foot, to track by the scent of the Drawer, a waiter, ii. 215, 278, 370 Dreams, John-a-, a sleepy, muddle-headed Dress, to address, to prepare, iii. 45, v. 308 Drum, John, his entertainment, ii. 562 Dudgeon, the wooden handle of a dagger, vi. Due, to endue, iii. 348 Dullard, a dull observer, iv. 433 Dun's the mouse, a proverbial saying, i. 297 VOL. VI. Dwell, to abide, to continue, ii. 15 EAGER, aigre, sour, v. 413, vi. 481 Eftest, quickest, readiest, ii. 465 Eggs for money, will you take, a proverbial Egyptian thief at point of death, iii. 300 Elements of the body, principles of life, vi. 114 Emanuel, a prefix to letters, iii. 459 hausted and outrun, i. 315, ii. 531, vi. 145 Engaged, detained as a hostage, ii. 231 Ensconce, to hide, to shelter, i. 167. ii. 368, Ensear, to make sterile, iv. 44 Entrance, trance, reverie, iii. 185 Envy, hatred, malice, ii. 50, iii. 347, iv. 283. Ephesian, a slang term, ii. 278, 399 Esteem, the sum of what is held estimable, Estimation, supposition, conjecture, ii. 186 Eterne, eternal, vi. 33 Even, to strike a balance with, to equate, ii. Even Christian, fellow-christian, v. 476 Evident, inevitable, v. 180 Evil mixture, malignant conjecture, v. 379 | Except, to stay, ii. 83 Excrement, hair, the beard, ii. 38, v. 261 Exhibition, pension, allowance, 1. 13, iv. 368, Exigent, end, exigency, iii, 328, v. 570, vi. 147 M M Expect, to anticipate, i. 367 Expect, to attend, pay attention, i. 367 Expedient, expeditious, i. 402, ii. 97, iii. 118, Expiate, to terminate, vi. 444 Fico, a term of contempt, ii., 357, iii. 38 Fights, waste cloths round a ship in a fight, Figo for thy friendship, a fig for, &c. iii. 38 Exsufflicate, exsufflaté, puffed out, exaggerated, Filed, marched in equal pace, iv. 307 vi. 292 Eyry, an aiery, a nest or brood of hawks, v. 427 FACE, to bully, to brave, i. 382, v. 569 Fact, crime, deed, v. 231, vi. 397 Fairy, an enchantress, vi. 141 False hair, fashion of wearing, ii. 74 | Filed, polished, i. 111, vi. 468, 514 Fine, to embellish, to refine, iii. 8 Fire-drake, a meteor or firework, iv. 335 Fit, to start, iii. 180, vi. 481 Fives, a disease in horses called the vives, Flamen, a priest, iv. 44, v. 125 Flask, a soldier's powder-horn, i. 130 Fleshed, eager from the taste of flesh, ii. 261, Fancy, affection, love, i. 482, 518, v. 256, vi. Fleshed, made to taste flesh, initiated, ii. 243, 393 Fangled world, iv. 425 Fantastical, visionary, vi. 8 Fantasticoes, affected persons, i. 242 Fear, to frighten, i. 374, ii. 507, 525, v. 535, Fearful, causing fear, ii. 15 Folly, wantonness, vi. 328, 402 Fond, foolish, ii. 44, iii. 324. v. 12, 156 Feat, neat, dexterous, nicely, iv. 429, 474, vi. Fools, the begging of, i. 147, 163 496 Feated, moulded, fashioned, iv. 352 Feature, comeliness of person, i. 21 Fecks, i', in faith, v. 204 Feeders, nickname for servants, vi. 132 Fell, skin, coat of an animal, iii. 119, v. 80 Fennel, for flattery and lust, v. 504 Fere, feer, or phere, companion, husband or Fern-seed, its imaginary property of confer- Fet, fetched, iii. 29, 407 Few, in, in brief, i. 329, ii. 261, iv. 456 Foot-cloth, housing for horses, iii. 429, 459, For, because, iv. 198, 398 For, for fear of, i. 11, vi. 455 For, 'fore, iii. 36, vi. 110, 131, 143 | For the Heavens, by Heaven! i. 564, iì. 430 For why, because, for this reason, i. 178, 350, Forage, to range abroad, i. 447 414 Force, physical vigour, v. 344 Fordo, to destroy, v. 86, 87, 480 Forfend, to forbid, iii. 365, 418, iv. 434, vi. Forgetive, inventive, ii. 309 Form, the place where a hare sits, vi. 371 102 Former, fore, foremost, v. 571 Forth, out, ii. 7, iv. 246, v. 557 Fortune my Foe, ii. 414 Geck, a person derided, iii. 289, iv. 424 Generous, noble, nobly born, iv. 239, v. 104 Gentry, courtesy, v. 420 German clocks, their introduction into Eng- Germens, seeds, iv. 559, vi. 42 Gest, scroll containing the route of a progress, Gests, exploits, vi. 141 Ghostly, spiritual, i. 238 Gib, a cat, contraction of Gilbert, fi. 175, v. 466 Forty, a word expressing an indefinite num- Giglot, a wanton, iii. 355 ber, i. 204, iii. 315, iv. 309 Foul, plain, homely, iii. 128 Four, colloquialism for some, v. 423 Fox, a cant term for a sword, iii. 57 Fraughting, constituting the fraught Frayed, alarmed, frightened, v. 332 Gillian of Brentford, ii. 415 Gimmal-bit, a bit in two parts, iii. 53 Gird, a sarcasm, a taunt, i. 375 Give aim, to direct, i. 56 or Give out, to surrender, to relinquish, iii. 441 Fret, a key, and also a stop-point, of a stringed Friend, a lover, ii. 431, v. 542 Give the bucklers, to yield oneself vanquished, ii. 485 Give the nod, to ridicule by gesture, v. 302 Frippery, a shop for second-hand apparel, iv. | Glorious, ambitious, ostentatious, iv. 365 495 From the teeth, in pretence, vi. 117 Frontier, the forehead, ii. 179 Frontlet, a forehead cloth worn by ladies at Froth and lime, a cant phrase for a tapster, Frush, to bruise, to break, v. 374 Funeral entertainments, v. 495 GABERDINE, a large loose cloak, ii. 71, iv. 476 Gait, step, progress, ii. 359, iv. 491, v. 398 Gallow, to affright, v. 45 Gloves in the cap, custom of wearing, v. 93 God bless the mark, ii. 18, vi. 251 God 'ild you, God reward you, iii. 149 Gondola, description of the, ii. 73 Good cheap, à bon marché, ii. 219 Good even and twenty, a popular salutation. Good goose bite not, a proverbial saying, i. 243 Good life, iii. 250 Good man, a man of substance, ii. 11, v. 99 Good wine needs no bush, iii. 160 Gallowglasses, Irish foot soldiers, iii. 460, vi. 5 Gourds, false dice, ii. 358 Gambling in Shakespeare's time, i. 139 Gap, a parenthesis, v. 249 Gape, to yell, to roar, iv. 334, v. 403 Gaping pigs, ii. 75 Garagantua the giant, iii. 157, 294 Garboils, turmoils, commotions, vi. 85 Garish, gaudy, blazing, i. 255, ii. 399 Gaunt, fierce, eager, vi. 90 Gouts, drops, vi. 20 Government, moderation, forbearance, self- Gracious, loving, comely, gentle, i. 429, ii. 38, Grange, a solitary farm or lone house, vi. 253 Grave, pernicious, fatal, vi. 145 Graves, armour for the legs, ii. 299 Greenly, immaturely, unwisely, v. 465 Griefs, grievances, ii. 230, v. 561 Gross, palpable, ii. 502 Growing, accruing, i. 180 Grow to a point, come to business, i. 485 Gules, in heraldry, red, iv. 41, v. 430 Gust, taste, iii. 238, v. 208 Guts, a lack-brain, a shallow pate, v. 502 HACKET, Marian of Wincot, i. 318 Hefts, heavings, v. 216 Hell, a vile dungeon in a prison, i. 201 Hence, henceforward, ii. 329 Henry the Fifth's early life, ii. 165 for Hercules and his load, v. 498 Here be with me, mocking me with appro- Hereby, as it may happen, i. 80 Herne's oak, ii. 417 Hero and Leander, iii. 158 Haggard, a wild unreclaimed hawk, ii. 445, Herod, a tyrant of the Miracle-plays, v. 500 vi. 294 Hang by the walls, to be hung up as useless, Hangings for theatres, iii. 371 Hangings of walls in chambers of old castles, Hangman, rogue, rascal, a name given to Happy, accomplished, iv. 395 Happy man be his dole, a trite phrase, i. 324, Happy the son whose father goes to the devil, Hard, to bear, to mistrust, to doubt, to fear, Harlocks, wild mustard, v. 65- Harlotry, a term of reproach, i. 275, ii. 212, Harlots, base companions, villains, i. 196 Harrow, to subdue, to overcome, v. 393 Has the mends in his own hands, must make the best of it, v. 296 Hat at meals, wearing the, ii. 105 Haunt, company, v. 458 Have an eye of, to see through, v. 426 Havoc, cry, a signal for indiscriminate Hay, the, a fencing term, i. 300 Heaven to earth, an asseveration, ii. 270 Hest, command, iv. 460, 480, 490 Hey non nonny, old ballad burden, v. 468 High-men, false dice, ii. 358 Hight, called, named, i. 74, 524, iii. 199 Hilding, degenerate, ii. 259 Hillo, ho, boy! Falconers' encouragement to Hiren, ii. 284 His, used for the impersonal its, ii. 134, 497, Hit it, can you, a song or dance, i. 96, vi. 193 Ho! ho! ho! a fiendish or supernatural Hoar, to make white with leprosy, iv. 44 Hobby-horse, a by-word for an abandoned Hold or cut bow-strings, a term in archery, Holla! a term of the manège, iii. 123 Holland, price of in Shakespeare's time, ii. 252 iv. 25, v. 224, 437 Hood, in falconry, to cover the hawk's eyes Hoodman, Hoodman blind, Blind-man's-buf, Hope, to expect, vi. 92, 270 Hot-house, a house of ill fame, iv. 199 Hox, to hough, to hamstring, v. 208 |