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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
Crack, a manikin, v. 108

Cracked coin, v. 499

Crants, crowns, garlands, v. 480

Crare, a small vessel of burden, iv. 410

Credent, credible, plausible, iv. 238, v. 205
Credit, information, iii. 281

Crescive, increasing, growing, iii. 5
Crewel, worsted, v. 35

Crispian, feast of, iii. 82

Critic, a cynic, v. 366, vi. 478
Critical, cynical, censorious, vi. 372
Crooked, bowed or crouched, v. 545

Cross, a coin stamped with a cross, i. 78, iii.
108, iv. 14

Cross, to pass across the path of a spectre, v.

395

Crow-keeper, a scarecrow, or a rustic em-
ployed to frighten crows, v. 94
Crush a cup of wine, an invitation to a carouse,
i. 222

Cruzado, crusado, a gold coin so called, vi. 341
Cry, a pack, a troop or company, v. 155, 445
Cry aim, to encourage, i. 56, 406, ii. 378
Cry Havoc a signal for indiscriminate
slaughter, i. 410, v. 145, 551

Cry in the top of question, to crow over or
challenge, v. 427

Cry on, to announce, to assert, iii. 283, iv. 165,
vi. 322

Cue, a stage term for the last words of a
speech, i. 500

Cuisses, armour for the thighs, ii. 226

Cullion, a paltry fellow, i. 358

Dare larks, to, iv. 310
Darius's casket, iii. 373
Darkling, in the dark, i. 496
Darraign, boldly prepared, iii. 485
Daubery, juggling, ii. 395

Day-woman, dairy-woman, i. 80

Dealt on lieutenantry, fought by proxy, vi.

126

Dear, choice, rare, momentous, extreme, i. 81,
ii. 85, iii. 101, v. 339, 495, vi. 209, 260,
265, 450

Death at the ebb of tide, a popular opinion,
iii. 79

Death rock me asleep, beginning of a ballad,
ii. 335

Death's fool, iv. 254

Death's-man, executioner, vi. 413
Death-tokens,

plague-spots forewarning
death, v. 381, vi. 125′′
Debitor-and-creditor, the title of some old
treatises on book-keeping, vi. 251
Deceptious, deceiving, v. 366
Decked, sprinkled, iv. 456

Deck of cards, a pack of cards, iii. 523
Defeat, to disfigure the countenance, vi. 267
Defeatures, ill-looks, defacement, i. 165, 198
Defence, knowledge of sword play, i. 299, v.473
Defend, to forbid, ii. 229, 431, 464, vi. 265
Deftly, smartly, featly, vi. 42
Defunctive, mortuary, vi. 518
Defy, to contemn or spurn, vi. 510
Defy, to renounce, ii. 184
Delighted, delighting, vi. 266

Demerits, good or ill deserts, v. 105, vi. 256
Demit, to depress or cast down, iv. 40
Demi-wolves, a species of dog, vi. 30

Cunning, knowing, skilful, i. 323, iii. 195, iv. Denay, to deny, iii. 391

60, 232

Curb, to bow or truckle, ▼. 455
Curiosity, finical refinement, iv. 47

Curious, scrupulous, over punctilious, i. 366,
vi. 114, 421

Curious-good, fastidiously precise, vi. 421
Curious-knotted, abounding 272 intricate
figures, i. 76, ii. 126

Curled, an epithet of gentility, vi. 257, 413
Cursed, under the influence of a malediction,
v. 370

Curst, cross-grained, sour, intractable, ma-
licious, i. 94, 510, iii. 265, v. 27, 238, vi.
376

Curtail-dog, a halting dog, ii. 364
Curtle-ax, a cutlass, iii. 52, 103
Custard, leaping into, at civic feasts, ii. 561
Customer, a loose woman, ii. 556, vi. 308
Cut and long tail, good and bad, ii. 385
Cyprus, or Cypress, a stuff like crape, iii. 263

DAFF, or doff, to put off, i. 235, ii. 468
Dagonet, Sir, in Arthur's show, ii. 336
Damn, to condemn, v. 559, vi. 77

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
Denunciation, annunciation, iv. 192
Depart, to part with, i. 85, 415
Depart, to separate, iv. 10

Deprive, to disinherit, to depose, v. 11, 410,

vi. 432

Deracinate, to root up, iii. 70, v. 307
Derne, earnest, eager, iii. 191

Descant, variation in music, i. 10, vi. 417
Design, to point out, to designate, ii. 87
Desire you of, desire of you, i. 502. iii. 149
Despatched, bereft, v. 413

Destractions, detachments, vi. 123
Detect, to exhibit, to display, iii. 487
Determine, to end, to melt away, ii. 314, vi.

133

Devil, roaring, iii. 82
Devils, aerial, i. 464

Dewberry, a sort of blackberry, i. 502
Dich, do it, iv. 12

Diet, to take, to be under regimen, i. 14
Difference, distinction, ii. 422

Diffuse, to disguise, v. 16

Diffused, wild, irregular, ii. 397

Dilations, delations, accusations, distillations,
vi. 290

Dildos and fadings, obscene burdens of old
ballads, v. 249

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

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Dispute, to reason,

i. 260, v. 254

Dispute on, to debate a cause, vi. 335
Disseat, depose, vi. 57

Distain, to cloud, to cast into the shade, iii.
207

Distempered, disordered, v. 446, vi. 253
Distinctly, separately, iv. 457
Distractions, detachments, vi. 123
Distraught, distracted, i. 277, iv. 124
Division, variation in music, i. 265

Do, do, an expression of contempt, v. 315
Doff, to do off, to put off, i. 235, ii. 468
Dole, distribution, ii. 262

Do me right, accept my challenge, ii. 469
Do me right, pledge me in a bumper, ii. 325
Don, to put on, v. 465

Done, destroyed, vi. 373

Double-cracks, double-thunder-claps, vi. 5
Double-dealer, one unfaithful in love or wed-
lock, ii. 479, iii. 282

Double-pictures, pictures that showed two
faces by turning, vi. 105

Double set, twice round, vi. 279
Dout, to extinguish, iii. 52

Dower, gift, vi. 308

Dowle, a feather, down, iv. 487
Down-gyved, hanging down loose, v. 418
Dowzabel, i. 182

Drachma, a Greek coin, v. 556, 563
Draught-house, forica, drain, sewer, &c. iv.
207, v. 362

Draw dry foot, to track by the scent of the
foot, i. 204

Drawer, a waiter, ii. 215, 278, 370
Drawn fox, ii. 221

Dreams, John-a-, a sleepy, muddle-headed
fellow, v. 432

Dress, to address, to prepare, iii. 45, v. 308
Drinking habits of Englishmen, vi. 338
Drinking in the morning fasting, ii. 413
Drive, to rush pell-mell, vi. 196
Drollery, a puppet-show, iv. 486
Drugs, drudges, iv. 46

Drum, John, his entertainment, ii. 562
Ducats of Venice, ii. 74

Dudgeon, the wooden handle of a dagger, vi.
20

Due, to endue, iii. 348

Dullard, a dull observer, iv. 433
Dumbed, silenced, rendered mute, vi. 90
Dumps, heavy, mournful tunes, i. 281, vi. 417
Dun out of the mire, i. 297

Dun's the mouse, a proverbial saying, i. 297
Dupp, to lift up, to open, v. 465
Durance, a buff leather garment usually worn
by sergeants, i. 203
Durance, robe of, cant term for imprisonment,
i. 203

VOL. VI.

Dwell, to abide, to continue, ii. 15
Dyeing the hair, custom of, ii. 482

EAGER, aigre, sour, v. 413, vi. 481
Eagle's power of gazing on the sun, iii. 530
Ear, to plough, ii. 120, 499, vi. 81, 88, 353
Ecstasy, aberration of mind, i. 188, v. 455,
vi. 497

Eftest, quickest, readiest, ii. 465
Egal, equal, vi. 223

Eggs for money, will you take, a proverbial
phrase, v. 206

Egyptian thief at point of death, iii. 300
Eisel, wormwood, vinegar, v. 481, vi. 478
Eld, old, old age, v. 319

Elements of the body, principles of life, vi. 114
Else, in other words, v. 335

Emanuel, a prefix to letters, iii. 459
Emballing, the bestowal of royal dignity by
the emblem of the ball, iv. 290
Embarquements, impediments, v. 120
Embossed, a term of the chase, signifying ex-

hausted and outrun, i. 315, ii. 531, vi. 145
Emmew, a term in falconry, to paralyse, iv.216
Empery, empire, sovereignty, iii. 12, ív. 131,
368

Engaged, detained as a hostage, ii. 231
Engross, to fatten, iv. 129

Ensconce, to hide, to shelter, i. 167. ii. 368,
381, 511, vi. 426

Ensear, to make sterile, iv. 44
Ensign, a standard bearer, v. 573.
Entertainment, re-instatement, vi. 294
Entitled, ennobled, vi. 450

Entrance, trance, reverie, iii. 185
Entreat, to entertain, v. 360

Envy, hatred, malice, ii. 50, iii. 347, iv. 283.
v. 534

Ephesian, a slang term, ii. 278, 399
Epitaphs upon tombs, ii. 484
Equinoctial of Queubus, iii. 250
Erring, erratic, v. 396
Escoted, paid, v. 428
Esperance, hope, v. 366
Espousals, modes of, iii. 300
Essay, to assay, v. 12
Estate, affairs, v. 254

Esteem, the sum of what is held estimable,
ii. 549

Estimation, supposition, conjecture, ii. 186
Estridges, ii. 226, vi. 134

Eterne, eternal, vi. 33

Even, to strike a balance with, to equate, ii.
498, 509, v. 533

Even Christian, fellow-christian, v. 476
Ever among so merrily, the burden of a bal-
lad, i. 70

Evident, inevitable, v. 180

Evil mixture, malignant conjecture, v. 379
Evils, forica, iv. 207
Exactly, duly, ii. 85

| Except, to stay, ii. 83

Excrement, hair, the beard, ii. 38, v. 261
Executors, executioners, iii. 11.
Exempt, separated, parted, i. 170
Exhale, iii. 17

Exhibition, pension, allowance, 1. 13, iv. 368,
v. 12

Exigent, end, exigency, iii, 328, v. 570, vi. 147

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Expect, to anticipate, i. 367

Expect, to attend, pay attention, i. 367
Expedience, expedition, vi. 82

Expedient, expeditious, i. 402, ii. 97, iii. 118,
iv. 81

Expiate, to terminate, vi. 444

Fico, a term of contempt, ii., 357, iii. 38
Fifteen, an impost, iii. 438, 539

Fights, waste cloths round a ship in a fight,
ii. 370

Figo for thy friendship, a fig for, &c. iii. 38
Filed, defiled, vi. 29

Exsufflicate, exsufflaté, puffed out, exaggerated, Filed, marched in equal pace, iv. 307

vi. 292

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Eyry, an aiery, a nest or brood of hawks, v. 427

FACE, to bully, to brave, i. 382, v. 569
Faced, turned over with facings, i. 363
Facinorous, wicked, ii. 512

Fact, crime, deed, v. 231, vi. 397
Fadge, to fit, to suit, to agree with, i. 114
Fair, beauty, i. 93, 165, 482, iii. 120, vi. 382,
397, 442, 443

Fairy, an enchantress, vi. 141
Faitor, a rascal, a traitor, ii. 284
Falcon, the female hawk, v. 333

False hair, fashion of wearing, ii. 74
Familiar, a demon, i. 81, iii. 440
Fancies, lyrical pieces, ii. 298
Fancies, the humour of forty, i. 348

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Filed, polished, i. 111, vi. 468, 514
Fills, thills, the shafts of a waggon, v. 333
Find, to detect, v. 438

Fine, to embellish, to refine, iii. 8
Fine, the conclusion, ii. 425, 545, iii. 400
Fineless, endless, unnumbered, vi. 292
Fire, a dissyllable, i. 8

Fire-drake, a meteor or firework, iv. 335
Fire-new, brand new, freshly coined, i. 74
Fit, a song, division of a song, strain of kar-
mony, v. 329

Fit, to start, iii. 180, vi. 481
Fitchew, a polecat, vi. 309

Fives, a disease in horses called the vives,
i. 348

Flamen, a priest, iv. 44, v. 125
Flap-dragon, a drinking sport, ii. 335
Flap-jack, a pancake, iii. 180

Flask, a soldier's powder-horn, i. 130
Flaw, a gust of wind, iii. 416, vi. 365
Flecked, spotted, dappled, flaked, i. 239
Fleet, float, vi. 134

Fleshed, eager from the taste of flesh, ii. 261,
iii. 32, iv. 141

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
Fap, cant term for drunk, ii. 353
Farced, stuffed, tumid, iii. 50
Fardel, a pack, a burden, v. 261, 436
Farewell dear heart, iii. 295
Fashions, a disease in horses, i. 348
Fast and loose, a game, i. 81, vi. 145
Fat, o'ercloying, sickening, iii. 284
Fault, misfortune, ii. 351, 384, iii. 204
Favour, countenance, features, good graces,
i. 483, ii. 132, 217, iii. 254

Fear, to frighten, i. 374, ii. 507, 525, v. 535,
569, vi. 105, 382

Fearful, causing fear, ii. 15

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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
Fee grief, peculiar sorrow, vi. 53

Fell, skin, coat of an animal, iii. 119, v. 80
Fell of hair, any part covered with hair, vi. 59
Fellow, a companion, iv. 481

Fennel, for flattery and lust, v. 504
Feodary, a vassal, a federate, iv. 212, 386, v.
217

Fere, feer, or phere, companion, husband or
wife, vi. 215

Fern-seed, its imaginary property of confer-
ring invisibility, &c., ii. 249

Fet, fetched, iii. 29, 407
Fettle, to prepare, i. 269

Few, in, in brief, i. 329, ii. 261, iv. 456

Foot-cloth, housing for horses, iii. 429, 459,
iv. 123

For, because, iv. 198, 398

For, for fear of, i. 11, vi. 455

For, 'fore, iii. 36, vi. 110, 131, 143
For all waters, plays any character, iii. 279
For and, and eke, v. 477

| For the Heavens, by Heaven! i. 564, iì. 430
For the Lord's sake, a form of supplication,
iv. 255

For why, because, for this reason, i. 178, 350,
vi. 209, 508, 511

Forage, to range abroad, i. 447
Forbid, forespoken, bewitched, vi. 7
Force, to care, to regard, to value, i. 126, vI.

414

Force, physical vigour, v. 344
Force, to strengthen, vi. 59
Forced, stuffed, v. 362

Fordo, to destroy, v. 86, 87, 480
Foreslow, to delay, to loiter, iii. 489
Forespoke, prejudiced, forbidden, vi. 121
Forfeits, mulets imposed by barbers, iv. 247,
255

Forfend, to forbid, iii. 365, 418, iv. 434, vi.
325, 329

Forgetive, inventive, ii. 309
Forked, horned, v. 207, vi. 295
Forlorn, fore-lost, iii. 309

Form, the place where a hare sits, vi. 371
Formal, reasonable, sober-minded, i. 193, vi.

102

Former, fore, foremost, v. 571

Forth, out, ii. 7, iv. 246, v. 557
Forthright, a straight path, v. 340

Fortune my Foe, ii. 414

Geck, a person derided, iii. 289, iv. 424
General, the generality, the multitude, iv. 210,
v. 499, 530

Generous, noble, nobly born, iv. 239, v. 104
Gentle, gentle-one, an epithet of endearment,
v. 245

Gentry, courtesy, v. 420
German, akin, v. 486

German clocks, their introduction into Eng-
land, i. 143

Germens, seeds, iv. 559, vi. 42

Gest, scroll containing the route of a progress,
&c., v. 202

Gests, exploits, vi. 141

Ghostly, spiritual, i. 238

Gib, a cat, contraction of Gilbert, fi. 175, v. 466
Giddy, inconstant, ii. 479

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
Frame, order, limit, ii. 459
Frampold, cantankerous, ii. 369
Frank, a sty, ii. 278, iv. 90

Fraughting, constituting the fraught
freight, iv. 452

Frayed, alarmed, frightened, v. 332
French brawl, a dance, i. 142

Gillian of Brentford, ii. 415
Gillivors, gillyflowers, v. 246

Gimmal-bit, a bit in two parts, iii. 53
Ging, a gang, ii. 293

Gird, a sarcasm, a taunt, i. 375
Gis, by, by Jesus, v. 465

Give aim, to direct, i. 56

or Give out, to surrender, to relinquish, iii. 441
Give the boots, to sell a bargain, i. 59

Fret, a key, and also a stop-point, of a stringed
musical instrument, i. 338, v. 448

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
Gleek, to flout or scorn, to jest, i. 281, 501
Glib, to geld, v. 219

Frippery, a shop for second-hand apparel, iv. | Glorious, ambitious, ostentatious, iv. 365

495

From the teeth, in pretence, vi. 117
Front, beginning, vi. 474

Frontier, the forehead, ii. 179

Frontlet, a forehead cloth worn by ladies at
night, v. 90

Froth and lime, a cant phrase for a tapster,
ii. 357

Frush, to bruise, to break, v. 374
Fulfilled, filled to repletion, vi. 420
Fullam, false dice, ii. 358

Funeral entertainments, v. 495
Fustian riddles, vi. 307

GABERDINE, a large loose cloak, ii. 71, iv. 476
Gad, a sharp-pointed instrument, vi. 215
Gadshill infested by robbers, ii. 247
Gain-giving, misgiving, v. 487

Gait, step, progress, ii. 359, iv. 491, v. 398
Galliard, a dance, i. 146, iii. 12
Gallias, a huge galley, i. 343
Gallimaufry, a medley, v. 252

Gallow, to affright, v. 45

Gloves in the cap, custom of wearing, v. 93
Gloze, to wheedle, ii. 98, vi. 223

God bless the mark, ii. 18, vi. 251
God buy you, God be with you, iii. 53
God, dig you den, God, give you good even, i.
94, 269

God 'ild you, God reward you, iii. 149
God save the mark, ii. 180
God warn us, iii. 135

Gondola, description of the, ii. 73
Gongarian, ii. 357

Good cheap, à bon marché, ii. 219

Good even and twenty, a popular salutation.
ii. 366

Good goose bite not, a proverbial saying, i. 243
Good leave, i. 399

Good life, iii. 250

Good man, a man of substance, ii. 11, v. 99
Good manners, book of, iii. 159

Good wine needs no bush, iii. 160
Gorbellied, pot-bellied, swag-bellied, ii. 191
Go to the world, a matrimonial saying, ii. 436,
499, iii. 147

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
Garden of Belmont, ii. 76

Garish, gaudy, blazing, i. 255, ii. 399
Gascoigne, Chief Justice, ii. 332
Gasted, dismayed, v. 27
Gaudy, festival, vi. 134

Gaunt, fierce, eager, vi. 90

Gouts, drops, vi. 20

Government, moderation, forbearance, self-
control, iii. 477, vi. 423

Gracious, loving, comely, gentle, i. 429, ii. 38,
459, vi. 459

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
Green Sleeves, a tune, ii. 364, 412

Griefs, grievances, ii. 230, v. 561
Grise a step, iii. 264

Gross, palpable, ii. 502
Groundlings, v. 439

Growing, accruing, i. 180

Grow to a point, come to business, i. 485
Grudges, murmurs of discontent, vi. 182
Grype, the gryphon, or griffin, a vulture, vi. 402
Guard, to ornament with a border, i. 435, ii. 53
Guidon, a standard, iii. 53

Gules, in heraldry, red, iv. 41, v. 430
Gulf, the throat, the swallow, vi. 41
Gull, a young unfeathered bird, ii. 266
Gun-stones, black roundles, stone-shot
cannon, iii. 78

Gust, taste, iii. 238, v. 208

Guts, a lack-brain, a shallow pate, v. 502
Gyve, a shackle, a fetter, vi. 273

HACKET, Marian of Wincot, i. 318

Hefts, heavings, v. 216

Hell, a vile dungeon in a prison, i. 201
Helpless, giving no help, i. 163, vi. 369
Hem, boys, hem! the burden of an old song,
ii. 336

Hence, henceforward, ii. 329
Henchman, a page, i. 490

Henry the Fifth's early life, ii. 165
Hent, to take, v. 243
Hent, a purpose, v. 451
Herb-grace, rue, v. 468

for Hercules and his load, v. 498

Here be with me, mocking me with appro-
brious gestures, v. 207

Hereby, as it may happen, i. 80
Hermits, beadsmen, vi. 16

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

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Hang by the walls, to be hung up as useless,
iv. 443

Hangings for theatres, iii. 371

Hangings of walls in chambers of old castles,
ii. 153

Hangman, rogue, rascal, a name given to
Cupid, ii. 447

Happy, accomplished, iv. 395

Happy man be his dole, a trite phrase, i. 324,
ii. 191, 386

Happy the son whose father goes to the devil,
a proverb, iii. 536

Hard, to bear, to mistrust, to doubt, to fear,
v. 525, 535, 547

Harlocks, wild mustard, v. 65-

Harlotry, a term of reproach, i. 275, ii. 212,
vi. 318

Harlots, base companions, villains, i. 196
Harmony of the soul, ii. 108
Harness, armour, vi. 141

Harrow, to subdue, to overcome, v. 393
Harry, to harass, vi. 116

Has the mends in his own hands, must make

the best of it, v. 296

Hat at meals, wearing the, ii. 105
Haughty, high, iii. 330

Haunt, company, v. 458

Have an eye of, to see through, v. 426
Having, fortune, revenue, possession, ii. 379,
vi. 501

Havoc, cry, a signal for indiscriminate
slaughter, i. 410, v. 145, 551
Hay, a dance, i. 114

Hay, the, a fencing term, i. 300
Hazard, a term in tennis, iii. 13
Headborough, a constable, i. 314

Heaven to earth, an asseveration, ii. 270
Heavy night, a thick cloudy night, vi. 322

Hest, command, iv. 460, 480, 490

Hey non nonny, old ballad burden, v. 468
Hey Robin, jolly Robin, a song, iii. 299
Hide fox and all after, the game of hide-and-
seek, v. 460

High-men, false dice, ii. 358

Hight, called, named, i. 74, 524, iii. 199
High-tides, high-days, i. 418
Hild, held, vi. 420

Hilding, degenerate, ii. 259

Hillo, ho, boy! Falconers' encouragement to
hawks, v. 414

Hiren, ii. 284

His, used for the impersonal its, ii. 134, 497,
v. 31, vi. 128, 180, 255, 363

Hit it, can you, a song or dance, i. 96, vi. 193
Ho! stop! v. 490

Ho! ho! ho! a fiendish or supernatural
laugh, i. 513, 540

Hoar, to make white with leprosy, iv. 44
Hobby-horse, a pasteboard horse in May
games, i. 143

Hobby-horse, a by-word for an abandoned
woman, i. 88, v. 209, vi. 309
Hob nob, hit or miss, iii. 272

Hold or cut bow-strings, a term in archery,
i. 536

Holla! a term of the manège, iii. 123

Holland, price of in Shakespeare's time, ii. 252
Honesty, chastity, liberality, ii. 528, iii. 95,

iv. 25, v. 224, 437

Hood, in falconry, to cover the hawk's eyes
with a hood, i. 303, iii. 42

Hoodman, Hoodman blind, Blind-man's-buf,
ii. 562

Hope, to expect, vi. 92, 270
Horologe, a clock, vi. 279

Hot-house, a house of ill fame, iv. 199
Houses in fencing, i. 300
Houses in heraldry, i. 300
Housewife, a hussy or harlot, vi. 151
However, anyway, i. 5

Hox, to hough, to hamstring, v. 208
Hugger-mugger, secretly, by stealth, v. 465
Hull, to toss to and fro like a ship, iv. 297
Humorous, perverse, capricious, ííí. 99
Humorous-man, the actor who personated
fantastic characters, v. 427
Humour of forty fancies, i. 348
Humour of mispunctuation, i. 541

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