ness. Meed: reward. Mortified: ascetic, religious. Nurture: education. Nuthook: a thief. Motion: a kind of puppet-show. Meiny: people, domestics. Motion: divinitory agitation. Memories : memorials, remem- Motion: desires. 0. brances. Motions: indignation. Obligations: bonds. Memorized: made memorable. Motive: assistant or mover, that Obseroed: paid respective atterMemory: memorial. which contributes to motion. tion to. Mephistophilus : the name of a Mould: earth. Observing: religiously attentive spirit or familiar. Mouse: to mammock, to tear to Obsequious : serious, as at funeral Mercatanté: a merchant. pieces. obsequies, careful of. Obstacle: obstinate. Occupation: men occupied in busiMetal: temper. Moy: a piece of money or a meaMetaphysical: supernatural. sure of corn. Occurrents : incidents. Mete-yard: measuring-yard. Much: strange, wonderful. Oe: a circle. Mewed: confined. Muck-water: drain of a dung-hill. | Oeiliad: a cast or glance of the Micher: a truant, a lurking thief. Muffler: a kind of dress for the Miching: playing truant, skulk eye. See Eyliads. lower part of the face. O’erdied: died too much. ing about. Muliters: muleteers. O'erlooked: slighted. Mien: countenance. Mulled: softened and dispirited. Mince: to walk with affected de- Multiplied: multitudinous. O'er-parted: having too consider able a part. licacy. Multiplying: inultiplied. Minding: calling to remembrance, Mundane: worldly. O'er-raught: over-reached. reminding. O'er-wrested: wrested beyond the Mure: a wall. truth. Mineral: a mine. Murky: dark. Minnow: a small river-fish, a term Of: through. Offering: the assailant. Office: service. Offices : culinary or servants' Miscreate: ill-begotten, illegiti- || Mutines: mutineers. apartinents. mate. Old: frequent, more than escugh. Misdoubt: to suspect. Old age: ages past. Miser: a miserable creature. N. Once: sometiine. Misery: avarice. Oneyers: accountants, bankers . Napkin: handkerchief. Misprised: mistaken. Opal: a precious stone of almost all colours. Misprising: despising or under- Napless: threadbare. Native: formed by nature. valuing. Open: publicly. Operant: active. Nay-word: a watch-word or bye- | Opinion: obstinacy, conceita che word. Mistempered: angry: racter. Misthink: to think ill. Neat: finical. Opposite: adverse, hostile, adrerMistress: the jack in bowling. Neb, or nib: the mouth. sary. Opposition: combat. Or: before. descendant. Model: image, representative, copy. on the ground. Modern: trite, common, meanly, Nether-stocks: stockings. Orchard: a garden Order: measures. Ordinance: rank. Orgulous: proud, disdainful. Moe, or mowe: to make mouths. Nice: silly, trifling. Osprey: a kind of eagle. Moiety: a portion. Nick: reckoning or count. Ostent: show, ostentation. Mollification : pacification, soften- Nick: to set a inark of folly on. Ostentation: shew, appearance. ing. Night: made dark as night. Overblow: to drive away, to keep Mome: a dull stupid blockhead. Night-rule: frolic of the night. off. Nine men's morris : a game. Momentany: momentary. Overture: opening or discovery, Month's mind: a popish anniver- Nobility: distinction, eminence. Ounce: a small tiger, or tiger-cat . Nobless: nobleness. sary. Ouph: fairy, goblin. Ousel-cock: the cock black-bird. Out: be gone. Moon-calf: an inanimate shapeless Nonce: on purpose, for the turn. Out: full, complete. Nook-shotten: that which shoots Outlook : to face down. Moonish: variable. Outdied: a term at the game of Mope: to appear stupid. Northern man: vir borealis, a gleek. Moral: secret meaning. clown. Outward: not in the secret of Morisco: Moor or Moorish, or Note: notice, information, remark. affairs. morris. Novice: a youth. Owe: to own, possess, govern Morris-pike: Moorish pike. Novum: some game at dice. O.x-lip: the great cowslip. Mortal-staring: that which stares Nourish: to nurse. fatally Nowl: a head. mass, into capes. crown. ses. P Port: external pomp, figure. Port : a gate. Pack: to bargain with. Pedascule: a pedant. Portable: bearable. Pack: combined, an accomplice. Peer: to come out, to appear. Portance: carriage, behaviour. Packing: plotting, underhand con- Peedish: foolish. Possess; to inform, to make to trivance. Peize : to balance, to keep in sus- understand. Paddock: toad. pense, to weigh down. Possessed: acquainted with, fully Pagan: a loose vicious person. informed. Pelting: paltry, petty, inconsiderPaid: punished. able. Possessed: afflicted with madness. Pain: penalty Pennors: small flags. Potch: to push violently. Pains: labour, toil. Penthesilia: Amazon. Potents: potentates. Palabras : words. Perch: a measure of five yards Pouncet-box: a small box for perPale: to empale, encircle with a and a half. fumes. Perdurable: Jasting. Power: forces, an army. Pall: to wrap, to invest. Perdy: par Dieu, a French oath. Practice: unlawful or insidious Palled: vapid. Perfect: certain, well informed. stratagem. Palmers: holy pilgrims. Perfections: liver, brain, and heart. | Practise: to employ unwarrantPalmy: victorious. Perjure: a perjured person. able arts, Palter: to juggle or shuffle. Periapts: charms sewed up and Practisants : confederates in straPaper: to write down, or appoint worn about the neck. tagems. by writing. Perspectives: certain optical glas- Prank: to adorn, to dress ostenPaper: written securities. tatiously, to pluine. Parcel-gilt: gilt only on certain | Pervert: to avert. Precedent: original draft. parts. Pew-fellow : a companion. Precept: a justice's warrant. Parish-top: a large top formerly Pheere. See Feere. Precisian: a great pretender to kept in every village to be Pheeze: to teaze or beat, to comb sanctity. whipped for exercise. or curry. Prefer : to recommend, to advance. Paritor: an apparitor, an officer Pia mater: the membrane cover- Pregnancy: readiness. of the bishop's court. ing the substance of the brain. Pregnant: ready, plain, evident, Parle: parley. Pick: to pitch. apposite. Parlous: perilous. Picked: nicely dressed, foppish. Pregnant enemy: the enemy of Parlous: keen, shrewd. Pickers: the hands. mankind. Part: to depart. Picking: piddling, insignificant. Premised: sent before the time. Partake: to participate. Pickt-hatch: a place noted for Prenominate: already named. Partaker: accomplice, confederate. brothels. Pre-ordinanee: ordinance already Parted: shared. Piece: a word of contempt for a established. Parted: endowed with parts. Presence: the presence-chamber, Participate: participant, partici- Pield: shaven. a public room. pating. Pight: pitched, fixed. Presence: dignity of mien, form, Partizan: a pike. Pilcher: a pilche, the scabbard. figure. Prest: ready, Pin and web: disorders of the eye. Pretence: design, intention. Pash: to strike with violence. Pinnace: a small ship of burthen. Pretend: to intend, design. Pashed: bruised, crushed. Pix: a small chest in which the Pretended: purposed or intended. Pass: to decide, to assure consecrated host was kept. Prevent: to anticipate. convey. Placket: a petticoat. Prick: the point on the dial. Pass: to exceed, to go beyond Plague: to punish. Pricks : prickles, skewers. common bounds. Plain song: the chaunt, in plano Pride: haughty power. Passed: excelling, passed all ex cantu. Prig: to filch. pression or bounds. Plainly: openly. Prime: youth, the vigour of life. Passes: what has passed. Plaited: complicated, involved. Prime: prompt. Planched: made of brands. Primer: more urgent, more imPassing: eminent, egregious. Plant: the foot. portant. Passion: suffering. Pa Primero: a game at cards. onate: a prey to mournful Platforms: plans, schemes. Plauside: gracious, pleasing, po- Principality: the first or princisensations. pular. pal of women. Passioning: being in a passion. Pleached: folded together. Principals: rafters of a building. Passy-measure: a dance. Plot: piece or portion. Princóx: a coxcomb, or spoiled Pastry: the room where pastry | Point: a metal hook fastened to child. was made. the hose or breeches. Probal: probable. Patch: a term of reproach. Point: the utmost height. Process: suminons. Patched: in a particoloured coat. | Point-de-vice: with the utmost Procure: to bring. Path: to walk. possible exactness. Prodigious: portentous, ominous. Pathetical: deeply affecting. Points: tags to the laces. Proface: much good may it do you. Patient: to make patient, to com- Poize: weight or moment. Profane: love of talk, gross of pose. Polled: bared, cleared. language. Patine: a dish used with the cha-Pomander: a ball made of per- Profession: end and purpose of lice, in the administration of the fumes. coming. Eucharist. Pomewater: a species of apple. Progress : a royal journey of state. Pattern: instance, example. Poor john: hake dried and salted. Project: to shape or form. Pavin: a dance. Popinjay: a parrot. Prompture: suggestion, temptation. Paucas : few. Popularity; plebeian intercourse. Prone: perhaps humble. woman. or ness. 1 cause. Prone: forward. Quire: to play in concert. Remorse: pity, tenderness of heart Proof: confirmed state of man- | Quit: quitted. Remotion: removal or remotedhood. Quit: to requite or answer. Propagate: to advance or improve. Quittance: return of obligations. Removed: remote, sequestered. Propagation: getting. Quider: nimble, active. Render: to describe. Proper: well-looking, handsome. Quote: to observe. Render: a confession, an account. Proper-false : proper or fair, and Renege: to renounce. false or deceitful. R. Repair: to renovate. Propertied: taken possession of. Repeal: to recall. Properties : incidental necessaries | Rabato: an ornament for the neck.Reports: reporters. to a theatre. Rabbet-sucker: a sucking rabbit. Reproof: confutation. Property: due performance. Race: original disposition, inborn Repugn: to resist. Property: a thing quite at disposal. qualities, a smack or flavour. Reputing: boasting of. Propose: to image, to inagine. Rack: to exaggerate. Requiem: a mass for the soul of Proposing: conversing. Rack: to harass by exactions. a person deceased. Propriety: regular and proper Rack: the fleeting away of the Resolve: to be firmly persuaded, state. clouds. satisfied. Prorogue: to lengthen or prolong. Racking: in rapid motion. Resolde: to dissolve. Provand: provender. Rag: an opprobrious epithet. Respect: consideration, cautioa. Provincial: belonging to one's Ragged: rugged. Respective: respectable, respectprovince. Rake: to cover. ful, formal. Provost: sheriff or gaoler. Rank: rate or pace. Respective : cool, considerate. Prune: to plume. Rank: grown up to a great height Respectively: respectfully. Puck: or hobgoblin in fairy my- and strength. Retailed: handed down. thology. Rapt: rapturously affected. Retire: to draw back. Rederb: to reverberate. Rarely: curiously, happily. Revolts: revolters. 1 Purchased: acquired by unjust Rash: heady, thoughtless, quick, Rid: to destroy. methods. violent. Rift: split. Pursuivants: heralds. Rash remonstrance : premature Riggish: wanton. Put to know: compelled to ac- discovery. Right: just, even. knowledge. Rated: chided. Right-drawn: drawn in a right Putter-on: one who instigates. Ravin: to devour eagerly. Putter-out: one who places out Ravin: ravenous. Rigol: a circle. money at interest. Ravined: glutted with prey. Ringed: environed, encircled. Putting-on: spur, incitement. Raught: reached. Ripe : come to the height. Puttock: a degenerate species of Raw: ignorant, unripe, unskilful. Rivage: the bank or shore. hawk. Rawly: young and helpless. Rivality: equal rank. Rivals : partners. Ride: to burst, to fire. Road: the haven where ships ride Quail: to faint, languish. Reason: to talk, to argue for. at anchor. Quaint-mazes : a game running the Rebeck: an old musical instruinent. | Rogues: vagrants. figure of eight. Receiving: ready apprehension. Romage: rummage. Quaked: thrown into trepidation. Receipt: receptacle. Ronyon: a scurvy woman. Qualify: to lessen, moderate. Recheate: a sound by which the Rood: the cross. Quality: confederates. dogs are called back. Rook: to squat down. Quality: profession, condition of Reck: to care for, to mind, to! Ropery: roguery. life. attend to. Rope-tricks: abusive language. Quarrel: a quarreller, the cause Reckless : careless, heedless. Round: a diadem. of a quarrel. Recollected: studied or often re- Round: rough, unceremonious. Rounded: whispered. Rounding: whispering. . Quat: a pimple. let. Roundure: circle. Queasy : squeamish, delicate, un- Recure: to recover. Rouse: a draught of jollity. settled. Red-lattice: the sign of an ale-Royal: due to a king. Royalize: to make royal. Royalty: nobleness, supreme exQuern: a hand-mill. Reechy: discoloured by smoke, cellence. Quest: inquest or jury, search, smoky, greasy. Roynisk : mangy or scabby. Ruddock: the redbreast. Ruff: the folding of the tops of Questrist: one who goes in search || Regard: look. boots. of another. Regiment: government, authority. Ruffle: to riot, to create disturb Quests: reports. Regreet: exchange of salutation. Relative : nearly related or con- Ruin: displeasure producing raiz. nected. Rule: a method of life. Quillets: law chicane. Remembered: remeinbering. Ruth: pity, compassion. Quips: reproaches and scoffs. Remembrance: admonition. ance. Remorse: piti stions. Remoted: mata Render: to describe Renege: to reduce : to rent : to recei Deck. Reporta: repeater or. a person course. Say: silk. ful . S. Sense: reason, natural affection, | Slider: to cut a piece or slice. feeling, sensual passion. Slops: loose breeches, or trowsers, tawdry dress. Slough: the skin which the serpent annually throws off. Sere, or sear: dry. Slower : inore serious. Sergeant: a bailiff or sheriff's of- Slubber: to do any thing care- ficer. lessly, imperfectly, to obscure. Smilingly: with signs of pleasure. Smirched: soiled or obscured. Smoothed: to stroke, to caress, to fondle. Savageness : wildness. Several : separated, appropriated. buke. Sewer: an officer who placed the Sneaping: nipping: Saw: anciently, not a proverb, but dishes on the table. Sneck-up: a cant phrase, “go hang satisfied. Shame: to disgrace. yourself.” Resolve: 10 dicere Shame: modesty. Snuff: hasty anger. Shard-borne: born by shards or Snuffs: dislikes. scaly wings. Soil: spot, turpitude, reproach. Solely: alone. Shards : broken pots or tiles. Solicit : courtship. collects his prey. Soliciting : information. Sheer: pellucid, transparent. Sometimes: formerly. Shent: scolded, rebuked, shamed, Sooth: truth. Sooth: sweetness. Shent : to reprove harshly. Sorriest: worthless, vile. Scant: to be deficient in, to con- at the door of that officer for Sort: to choose out. affixing proclamations, &c. Sort: a company, a pack, ranks and degrees of men. Sort: to happen, to agree. Sort: the lot. Shoughs: shocks, a species of dog. Sort and suit: figure and rank. a shrew. Sound: to declare or publish. Sound: soundly. fession. Sowter: perhaps the name of a hound. Spanned: measured. Specialty: particular right. Speed: event. Sperr: to shut up, defend by bars, &c. Spleen : humour, caprice, spirit, resentment. Spleen: violent hurry, tumultuous speed. Spleens : inclination to spiteful of duplicity or guile. mirth. Spot: stain or disgrace. Sprag: : or spackt, apt to learn. Spread: to stand separately. Sprighted: haunted. Sprights : spirits. Sizes : allowances of victuals. Springhalt: a disease incident to horses. Skirr: to scour, to ride hastily. Springing: blooming, in the spring of life. Sleave: the ravelled knotty part Sprightly: ghostly, of the silk. Spurs: the longest and largest roots of trees. Slips: a contrivance of leather, to square: regular, equitable, just, Right-drger: din cause. Ripe: cone to the best ul. Rirage: the best in Ritality: equal tout Rise: to barst, at anchor. - Rogues: ragrantes Romage: suonar Rook: to stat Ropery: roguery Rope-iricks: abisit cellence boots. VI. ance. Ruffle: to rise to s or COW. on feet. racens. Square: compass, comprehension, || Stuff: baggage. Tallow-keech: the fat of an a or complement. Stuff: substance or essence. Tame snake: a contemptible fel : low. Squiny: to look asquint. Subscribe: to yield, to surrender. Squire: a square or rule. Subscription: obedience. Tamed: flat, spiritless. Staggers: delirious perturbation. Submerged: whelmed under water. Tarre: to 'stimulate, to excite, Stale: a bait or decoy to catch Subtilty: deception. provoke. . birds. Subtle: smooth, level. Tartar: Tartarus, the fabled place Stale: a pretence. Success: succession. of future punishment. Stale: to allure. Successive: belonging to the suc Task: to keep busied with scruStand: to withstand, to resist. cession. ples. Standing bowls: bowls elevated | Successively, by order of suc- Tasked: taxed. cession. Taurus : sides and heart in me Stannyal: the common stonehawk. Sudden: violent. dical astrology Star: a scar of that appearance. Sufficiency: abilities. Tawdry: a kind of necklaces Stark: stiff. Suggest: to tempt, to prompt, to worn by country girls. Starkly: stiffly. instigate. Taxation: censure or satire. Starred: destined. Suggestions hint. Teen: sorrow, grief. State: a chair with a canopy Suggestions: temptations. Temper: to mould like war. over it. Suited: dressed. Temper : temperament, constita State: standing. Sullen: obstinately troublesome. tion. State: official state, dignity. Summer - swelling that which Temperance: temperature. States : persons of high rank. swells or expands in summer. Tempered: rendered pliable. Station: the act of standing. Summoners : summoning officers. Tend: to attend upon, to wai ir . Statist: statesman. Sumpter: a horse that carries | Tender: to regard with affectea Statue: a portrait. necessaries on a journey. Tend'ring: watching with a Staves: the wood of the lances. Superfluous: over-clothed. derness. Stead: to assist, or help. Superstitious : serving with super- Tent: to take up residence. Sticking-place: the stop in a ma- stitious attention. Tercel : the male hawk. chine. Supposed: counterfeited, imagined. Termagant: the god of the StSticklers : arbitrators, judges, Sure: safe, out of danger, surely. sidesinen, Sur-reined: over-worked, or rid- | Termagant: furious. Stigmatical: marked or stigma den. Tested: brought to the test. tized. Suspire: to breathe. Testern: to gratify with a tester, or sixpence. has set a mark of deformity. fellow. Tetchy: touchy, peevish, fretful Still: constant or continual. Swart, or swarth: black, or dark Tharborough: thirdborough, o Stilly: gently, lowly. brown. Stint: to stop, to retard. Swarth, or swath: as much grass Theme: a subject. Stith: an anvil. or corn as a mower cuts down Theoric: theory. Stoccata: a thrust or stab with at one stroke of his scythe. Thewes : muscular strength a rapier. Swashing: noisy, bullying. Stock: a term in fencing. Thick : in quick succession. Swath: the dress of a new-born Thick-pleached : thickly ipisStock: stocking. child. Stomach: passion, pride, stubborn Sway: the whole weight, moresolution, constancy, resolution. Thill: the shafts of a cart. mentum. Stoop: a measure somewhat more Thirdborough. See Tharborg than half a gallon. Sweeting: a species of apple. Thought: melancholy. Swift: ready. Slover: a kind of thatch. Thrasonical: boastful, bragging. Swinge-bueklers: rakes, rioters. Stoup: a kind of flaggon. Thread: fibre or part. Strachy: probably some kind of Secoop: the descent of a bird of Thread: to pass througi. domestic office. prey. Three-man-beetle : an imples Straight: immediately. used for driving piles. Strain: descent, lineage. T. Three-pile: rich velvet. Strain: difficulty, doubt. Thrift: a state of prosperity . Strait: narrow, avaricious. Table: the palm of the hand ex- Throes : emits as in partaritime Straited: put to difficulties. tended. Thrum: the extremity of a Wet Strange: odd, different from. Table: a picture. ver's warp. Strange: alien, becoming a stran Tables : table-books, memoran- Thrummed: made of coarse weet dums. ger, a stranger. len cloth. Tib: a strumpet. Tickle-brain: some strong liquer . Stranger: an alien. Take: to strike with a disease, Tight: handy, adroit. Strangle: to suppress. to blast. Tightly: cleverly, adroitly. Stratagem : great or dreadful Take in: to conquer, to get the Tilly-valley: an interjection of event. better of. contempt. Strict: hard. Take up: to contradict, to call to Tüth: tillage. Stride : to contend. an account. Timeless : untimely. Tinct: tincture. Tire: head-dress. peace officer. woven. |