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Tire to fasten, to fix the ta- || Type: distinguishing mark, show || Unbated: not blunted.

lons on.

Tire: to be idly employed on.
Tired: adorned with ribands.
To: in addition to.

Tod: to yield or produce a tod,

or twenty-eight pounds. Tokened: spotted as in the plague. Toll: to enter on the toll-book. Tolling: taking toll. Tomboy: a masculine, forward girl.

Topless: that which has nothing
above it; supreme.
Topple: to tumble.

Touch: sensation, sense or feeling.
Touch: exploit or stroke.
Touch: a spice or particle.
Touch: touchstone.
Touches: features.
Touched: tried.
Toward: in a state of readiness.
Toys: rumours, idle reports, fan-
cies, freaks of imagination.
Toze: to pull or pluck.
Trace: to follow.

Trade: a custom, an established

habit.

Tradition: traditional practices. Traditional: adherent to old customs.

Trail: the scent left by the pas

sage of the game.

Traitress: a term of endearment.
Tranect: a ferry.
Translate: to transfer, to explain.
Travel: to stroll.

Traverse: a term in military exercise.

Traversed: across.

Tray-trip: some kind of game.
Treachers: treacherous persons.
Trenched: cut, carved.
Trick: trick of the times.
Trick:

or emblem.

Tything: a division of a place, a district.

V.

Vail: to condescend to look, to
let down, to bow, to sink.
Vailing lowering.
Vain: vanity.

Vain: light of tongue, not veracious.

Valance: fringed with a beard.
Validity: value.
Vanity: illusion.

Unbolt: to open, explain.
Unbolted: coarse.
Unbookish: ignorant.
Unbreathed: unexercised, unprac-
tised.

Uncape: to dig out, a term in fox-hunting.

Uncharged: unattacked.
Unclew to draw out, to exhaust.
Uncoined: real, unrefined, un-
adorned.

Unconfirmed: unpractised in the ways of the world.

Under generation: the antipodes. Undergo: to be subject to.

Vantage: convenience, opportu- Under skinker: a tapster, an un

nity, advantage.

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Vie: to contend in rivalry.
Vied: bragged.
Viewless: unseen, invisible.
Virginalling: playing on the vir-
ginal, a spinnet.

peculiarity of voice, Virtue: the most efficacious part,

face, &c.

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valour.

Virtuous: salutiferous.

der-drawer.

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Unquestionable: unwilling to be

conversed with. Unready: undressed.

Virtuous belonging to good-|| Unrespective: inattentive to con

breeding.

Visaments: advisements.

Vixen: or fixen, a female fox.
Voluntary: voluntarily.
Votarist: supplicant.
Voucher:
: a law phrase.
Vouchsafed: vouchsafing.
Vor: tone or voice.
Vulgar: common.

Vulgarly publicly.

U.

Umbers a dusky yellow coloured

earth.

Turlygood, or turlupin: a species Umbered: discoloured by the

of gypsy.

Turn: to become acescent.
Turquoise: a precious stone.
Twangling: an expression of con-
tempt.

Twigging: wickered.
Tyed: limited, circumscribed.

gleam of fire.

Unaccustomed: unseemly, inde

cent.

Unaneled: without extreme unc

tion.

Unavoided: unavoidable.

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Unbarbed untrimmed, unshaven. | Usance: usury.

Use: practice, long countenanced || Whelked: varied with protuber- || Words: dispute, contention.

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Waft: to beckon.
Wage: to fight, to combat, to
prescribe to.
Waist: the part between the quar-

ter-deck and the forecastle. Waist: the middle.

Walk: a district in a forest.
Wannion: vengeance.
Ward: posture of defence.
Warden: a species of pears.
Warder: guard, centinel.
Warn: to summon.

Wassels: meetings of rustic mirth.
Watch: a watch-light.
Water-work: water-colours.
Wax: to grow.
Waxen: increase.

Wealth: advantage, happiness.
Wear: the fashion.

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Wilderness: wildness.
Will: wilfulness.
Wimple: a hood or veil.
Winter-ground: to protect against
the inclemency of winter.
Wis: to know.

Wish to recommend.
Wit: to know.

Witch: to charm, to bewitch.
Wits: senses.

Wittol: knowing, conscious of.
Witty: judicious, cunning.
Woe: to be sorry.
Woman: to affect suddenly and
deeply.

Woman-tired: hen-pecked. Wondered: able to perform wonders.

Wood: crazy, frantic.

Woodman: an attendant on the forester.

Woolward: a (unexplained) phrase appropriated to pilgrims and penitentiaries.

Work: a term of fortification. Workings: labours of thought. World, to go to the: to be married.

Worm: a serpent.

Worship: dignity, authority.
Worth: wealth or fortune, the
value, full quota or proportion.
Wot: to know.
Worts: cabbage.

Wound: twisted about.

Wreak: resentment.
Wreak: to revenge.
Wrest: an instrument for tuning
the harp.

Wrested: obtained by violence.
Writ: writing, composition.
Writhled: wrinkled.
Wrongs: the persons who wrong.
Wrongs: injurious practices.
Wroth: misfortune.
Wrought: worked, agitated.
Wrung: pressed, strained.

Y.

Yarely: readily, nimbly.
Yearns: grieves or vexes.
Yeasty, or yesty: foaming or
frothy.

Yeild: to inform of, condescend to.
Yeild: to reward.
Yellowness: jealousy.
Yeoman: a bailiff's follower.
Yesty. See Yeasty.

Z.

Zany: a buffoon, a merry Andrew.

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