Cruzado, a portuguese coin, worth 2 s. 3d,| if a crusade of exchange, 2 s. 83d, if a new crusade; so named from a cross it bears on one side, the arms of Portugal being on the other. 0. 3, 6. S. Douce's Ill. of Sh. II, 269. Crystals, eyes. He. 2, 3. RJ. 4, 2.

Cry you mercy, I beg your pardon. aHd.

4.2.

Cub, young bear. TN. 5, 1. From the gr. kyō.
Cubdrawn, sucked by a bear. KL. 3, 1.
Cuckold, cuckowed, served as the cuckoo
serves other birds. Horne Tooke Div. of P.
II, 21.

Cuckoo bud, fr. braies de cocu, flos cuculi
cardamini; germ. Schlüsselblume. LL. s. end.
Cuckooflower, the same. KL. 1, 4. 4, 4.
Cue, nayword, watchword. MW.3, 2. 3, 3. MA.
2, 2. MD. 3, 1. 4, 1. 5, 1. Rc. 3, 4. H. 2, 2.
hence part, occasion, humour. O. 1, 2. From
the old fr. cowe, coue, queue, lat. cauda.
Cuisses, armour for the thighs. aHd. 4, 1.
to Cull, to choose out, to severe, single. KJ.
2, 1. JC. I, 1. TC. 2, 3. LL. 4, 3. KJ. 5, 2.
H. 3 ch. TAn. 4, 1. RJ. 4, 3. 5, 1. From the

gr. helō, whence thelō, germ. wählen. Perhaps

also maimed for colligere.

Cullion, base fellow, term of great contempt. bHf. 1, 3. TS. 4, 2. From the ital. coglione, kin to the fr. couillon, the lat. gallus, eunuch, engl. gilt, gr. kelōn, stallion, germ. Beschäler. Cullionly, base, blockheaded. KL. 2, 2. Culverin, a kind of ordnance. aHd. 2, 3. From the lat. coluber, colubra, fr. couleuvre, couleuvrine. Douce's Ill. of Sh. II, 424

to Cumber, to torment, vex, hinder, trouble, afflict. JC. 3, 1. TA. 3, 6. Kin to the lat. humerus, shoulder; pers, kumar, gravamen capitis; gr. ampreuō, to drag a burden; combri with Dufresne cut branches and trees for hindering or obstructing the way; whence fr. encombrer, it. ingombrare, germ. bekumbern, to aggravate.

Cunning, skilful, knowing. aHd. 2, 4. S. to

con.

to Curb. H. 3, 4. S, to courb. TS. 4, 1. Rb. 1, 1. AW. 2, 4.

its tail cut short (taillé court), partly as a mark,
and partly from a notion, that the tail of a dog
is necessary to him in running. Hence a dog
that missed his game. MW. 2, 1. Douce's Ill.
of Sh. I, 60. 320. The same is
Curtal, but more usually applied to a horse,
a docked horse. AW. 2, 3. Sometimes written
curtole. Gifford's Ben Jons. II, 341.
Curtain, banner, colour, He. 4, 2.
Curtleax, courtlax, curtlax, cutlace, curt-
lass, cutless, curtaxe, cutlash, a short crooked
sword. AL. 1, 3. He. 4, 2. Fr. coutelas, lat.
cultellus, culter.

Customer, strumpet, whore. AW.5, 3. 0.4, 1.
Cuts. Cloth of gold and c. laced with silver.
MA. 3, 4. seems to be fashionable form.
Cut, a familiar appellation for a common or
labouring horse, either from having the tail
cut short; or from being cut as a gelding.
a Hd. 2, 1. Call me cut, call me horse. aHd.
2, 4. TN. 2, 3.
Cut and long tail,
kinds, curtail curs,
others. MI. 3, 4.

meaning to include all sporting dogs, and all

Cutpurse, pickpocket. bHd. 2, 4. The purses
were then hanging at the girdle, to draw Cuts,
to draw lots, being papers cut of unequal
lengths, of which the longest was usually the
prize. CE. 5. end.

Cutler's poetry. MV. 5, 1.
Cuttle, for cutter, cantterm for knive of cut-
purses. bHd. 2, 4.

Cyprus, cipres, cypress, a thin transparent
(TN. 3, 1.) stuff, now crape, black or white,
the black for mourning. WT. 4, 3. S. Gifford's
Ben Jons. I, 25. VI, 379. Douce's Ill. of Sh.
I, 88.

D.

to Dabble, to taint, besmear. Rc. 1, 4. Related
to dab, daub, wh. s.

Dace, groundling. bHd. 3. end.
Dud, childish term for father. KJ. 2, 2. cHf.
1, 4. Kin to the gr. tetan, to suck, tethe,
teat, ind. dhad, slav. tata.

Cure. Past cure is still past care. A proverb.
LL. 5, 2. S. 147.
Curfew, curfeu, curfue, evening bell, rung to
at eight in the evening. RJ. 4, 3. as important
to ghosts, as to living men, their signal for
walking. T. 5, 1. KL. 3, 4. In Fr. carrefeu,
cerrefeu, couvrefeu, that seem to be etymo-
logies and interpretations; from the germ.
scharren, to rake, scrape together, or the fr.
serrer, or couvrir.

Curiosity, scrupulousness, minute or affected
niceness in dress, or otherwise. KL. 1, 2. 1, l.
TA. 4, 3.

Curious, sorupulous, affected. TS. 4, 4; fine,
exquisite. cHf. 2, 5.

Currish, doggish, gross. MV. 4, 1. cHf. 5, 5.
to Curry, to dress leather; to tickle, fawn,
flatter. bHd. 5, 1. Kin to the gr. gerrhon, lat.
corium, fr. corroie, germ. kuranzen. S. Douce's
Ill. of Sh. I, 478.
Curst, ill tempered, given to scolding and
mischief, shrewish, for cursed. TS. 1, 1. 1, 2.
Rc. 1, 2. WT. 3, 3; petulant, crabbed.
TN. 3, 2. where curst and brief alludes
to the proverb 'A curst cur must be tied short.'
Curtail, originally the dog of an unqualified
person, which by the forest laws must have!

Daff, doff, to do off, to put away. MA. 2, 3. 5, 1. aHd. 4, 1. TC. 5, 3. M. 4, 8. 0. 4, 2. AC. 4, 4.

Daffodil, narcissus pseudonarcissus. WT.
4, 3. From the gr. asphodelos.
Dagger, short sword, poignard, for some
time by fashion worn so as to hang quite be-
hind, or at the back; whereto alludes RJ.
5. 3. Dagger of tath, aHd. 2, 4. bHd. 3, 2.
He. 4, 1. TN. 4, 2. was the weapon of the Vice
against the devil in the old Moralities. — Kin
to dudgeon, the ital. daga, germ. Degen, gr.
daō, daiō, to cut, hew, whence thano, to
kill.

Dagonet, was said to be the attendant fool
of king Arthur. bHd. 3, 2.
Dainty, anciently daint, as subst. and adj.
delicious, nice. h. 1, 4. TC. 1, 3. To make
dainty, to hold out, or refuse, affecting to
be delicate, or dainty; to scruple. RJ. 1, 5.
Daisy, daizy, with Chaucer day's eye, bellis
perennis L., germ. Maslieb, Tausendschön-
chen. H. 4, 5. LL. 5. end. was the flower of
the levity and credulity of deceived maids.
Daizy'd Cy. 4, 2.

Dalliance, gallantry, love intrigue, amorous Dear, dire, sad, odious. LL. 5, end. T. 2, 1. toying He. 2. ch, aHd. 5, 2. T. 4, 1; jest, joke. CE. 4, 1. hence to jest and dally aHd. 5,3. Kin to tell, talk, and the provincial germ. dalen. Dam, mother of animals. WT. 2, 3. Co. 3, 1. Kin to the gr. damaō, to domineer, whence damar, wife, consort.

Darnel, lolium, a genus, which contains ray-Deboshed, for debauched T. 3, 2. AW. 5, 3. grass and lolium perenne. He. 5, 2. KL. 4, 4. Darraign, to arraign, range for battle. allf. 2,2.

to Daunt, anciently dant, to affright, discou-Deem, opinion, judgment. TC. 4, 4. Kin to doom, rage, dishearten, put out of countenance. TAn. 1, 2. TS. 1, 2. Kin to daub, daw, (S. Gifford's Ben. Jons. V, 117.) by the gr. thao, thauo, thauma, thepō.

Defiance, challenge. aHd. 5,2; refusal, rejec- Dich, do it, may it do. TA. 1, 2.
tion MM. 3, 1.
Deft, neat, dexterous, elegant, adroit, clever, Ro. 5, 3.
handy; corrupted in eftest by Dogberry MA. 4, Die, S. Tie.
2. S. Gifford's Ben Jons. II, 514. VI, 276. From
the Sax. dueft, fit, whence hamborough. deff
tig, excellent; kin to doughty, germ. tüchtig.
Deftly, neatly, dexterously. M. 4, 1.
Deject, dejected, in a low state. H. 3, 1.
Delighted, delightful, causing delight, de- to
lighted in. O. 1, 3. Cy. 5, 4. MM. 3, 1.

Diccon, familiar form of the name Richard.

to Delve, to dig, rake up. Cy. 1, 1. H. 3, 4. S.
60; to fathom, sift, sound.

to Demean, to behave, conduct one's self, CE.
4, 3. whence demeanour, carriage, behaviour.
JC. 5, 2. bhd. 4, 4. Ital. dimenare.
Demerit, merit, deserving. Co. 1, 1. 0. 1, 2.
Demesne, land estate, countryseat, manour.
Cy. 3, 3. RJ. 1, 1. 3, 5. From demanium for
dominium.

Demure, decent, modest. bHd. 4, 8. Hh. 1, 2.
to Demure, to look demurely, solemnly. AC.
4, 9. 4, 13. Kin to the lat. demorari, perhaps
to mos, mores.

Den, cave, cavern, pit. KJ. 2, 1. MA. 3, 2.; corrupted for e'en, evening in the phrase God give you good den. TAR. 4, 4. RJ. 2, 4. in LL. 4, 1. god dig you good den. Originally it was God give you good even. S. Douce's III. of Sh. I, 226.

to Denay, to deny. bHf. 1, 3.
Denay, denial. TN. 2, 4.

Depart, departure. TG. 5, 2. cHf. 2, 1.
Departing, parting, separation. cHf. 2, 6.
to Depart with, to part with, to give up. KJ.
2, 2. S. Gifford's Ben Jons. II, 159.

to Depose, to examine, interrogate. Rb. 1, 3.
to Deracinate, to root up. He. 5, 2. TC. 1, 8.
to Derive, to confer, bestow, MV. 2,9.; to come
from, to own its origin; to be originary posses-
sion. AW. 1, 1. From derivare, rivus.
Derogate, derogated, degraded. KL. 1, 4.
Derogately, with derogation. AC. 2, 2.
Descant, variation in music, musical paraphrase.

Metaphorically a discourse formed on a certain theme, like variations on a musical air. Re. 3, 7. to Descant, to make division, or variation on any particular subject, to debate, discuss. Rc. 1, 1.

to Descry, to spy out, to discover. aHf. 1, 2.
RJ, 5, 3. O. 2, 1. TS. 1, 2. AC. 3, 7.
Desk, inclining table for writers or readers. H.
2, 2. The germ. Tisch.

Determinate, concluded, determined, ended.
S. 87. TN. 2, 1.

to Determinate, to end, bring to a conclusion.
Rb. 1, 3.

The Devil rides on a fiddlestick, proverbial expression apparently meant to express any thing new, unexpected and strange. aHd. 2, 4. Dewberries, raspberries, gooseberries. MD. 3, 1. Dewlap, the soft part of the skin, that covers the paunch or belly, or throat. MD. 2, 1. Hence dewlapt MD. 4, 1.

Dial, sundial, plate marked with lines, where a shadow shews the hour; watch. AL. 2,7. AW. 2, 5. aHd. 1. 2. cHf. 2, 5. RJ, 2, 4. From the gr. deielos.

Diaper, napkin, towel. TS. 1, ind. 1. From the middlelat. diasprus, checquered, variegated. Dibble, a gardener's setting stick, usually made of part of the handle of a spade, cut to a point. WT. 4, 3. S. Gifford's Ben Jons. IV, 414.

Diddedst, for didst. Cy. 3. 4. H. 4, 7.
Diet, food; strict way of living, eating and drink-
ing. To take diet, to be under a regimen for
a disease, which anciently was cured by severe
discipline of that kind. TG. 2, 1. Gr. diaita.
Diet, to feed, to give to eat. Co. 1, 9. 5, 1;
0.2, 1. to physick, to prescribe rules of diet.
bHd. 4, 1; to appoint, assign. AW. 4, 3. to distri-
bute, impart, grant.Cy. 3, 4; to loath, make
loath, to nauseate. AW. 5, 3.

Dieter, tender, keeper of a sick. Cy. 4, 2.
Difference, distinction, propriety. H. 4, 5.
you may wear your rue with a difference says
Ophelia to the queen with pregnancy, meaning
partly with a mark of distinction, partly with
contrition she ought to feel for her incestuous
marriage, a feeling different from that of Ophe-
lia, the sorrow for the loss of her father and
her lover; distinguishing quality, excellency.
H. 5, 2. Courtcant! S. article.
Diffused, wild, discordant, irregular, con-
fused. MW. 4, 4. He. 5, 2. cf. KL. 1, 4.
to Digest, to concoct, figuratively to put up,
to suffer patiently. Hh. 3, 2. LL. 5, 2; to set
in order, to arraign. Rc. 3, 1. AC. 2, 2. H.
2, 2; to divide, share in equal parts, of course
to accept, agree. KL. 1, 1; to refine, heighten,
increase, augment. AW. 5, 3. From the lat.
digerere, properly to lay asunder, to divide,
put in order, to concoct.

to Digress, to deviate, differ. RJ. 3, 3. In Lat.
digredi.

Digression, deviation, transgression. LL. 1, 2.
TL. 29.

Diminutives, very small pieces of money.
AC. 4, 10.

Dimple, small cavity or depression in the cheek
or chin. Whence dimpled. AC. 2, 2. TA. 4, 3.
Kin to dimble, dingle, den, gr. danos, dēnos,
tanos, from tanyō, teinō, to extend; ital.
tana, cavern.

Din, noise, clang, sound. Cy. 5, 4. Co. 3, 2. TS. 1, 3. T. 2, 1. AC. 4, 8. From the Sax. dyn, celt. and oldgerm. don, Ton, icel. duna, thunder, dinder in westernengl.

Dint, blow; impression, force, driving force, impulse. JC. 3, 2. By dint of sword. bHd. 4, 1.

Dirge, office or mass for a dead. RJ. 4, 5. cf. death. Anciently dirige; from a hymn beginning dirige gressus meos.

to Disable, to undervalue, disparage, disgrace
by bad report, or censure. AL. 4, 1. aHf. 5, 4.
to Discandy, to melt away from the state of
being candied, like sugar. AC. 4, 10. proposed
also ib. 3, 11. instead of the quite unintel-
ligible discandering. From candy.
Discharge, balance of account, audit, acquit-
tance. bHf. 1, 8.

to Disclose, to hatch. H. 5, 1.
Discontent, malcontent. aHd. 5, 1.
Discourse, reason. TN. 4, 3. H. 4, 3.
Disease, uneasiness, trouble, discontent. aHƒ.
2,5.

Disedged, deprived of the keenness of appe-
tite, satiated. Cy. 3, 4.

to Dishabit, to remove from its habitation. KJ. 2, 1.

( 113 ) to Dislimn, to unpaint, obliterate, to raze out, to whip, blot, strike out. AC. 4, 12. Kin to limn, lat. limus, germ. schlämmen. Dismay, affright, fear, apprehension, anxious-Dolour, grief, pain, lamentation. Rb. 1, 3. T.

ness. MV. 1, 8. H. 4, 1. Kin to the span. desmayar, ital. smagare, smago, gr. mathō, mētis, germ. Muth, Gemüth, anglos. mod, mode, alem. muat, goth. miton, to think. Disme, a tenth; the number ten. TC. 3, 2. Disnatured, spoiled of natural affection. KL 1, 4.

to Disparage, to slight, speak ill of, to treat
with contempt. MA. 3, 2. MD. 3, 2. From the
Ital. dispregiare, disprezzare, sprezzare.
Disport, sport. O. 1, 3. Compare the ital.
diportare, the engl. divert, lat. disportare.
Dispose, disposal. KJ. 1, 1; disposition. O.
1, 3; arrangement. TC. 2, 3.
Disposed, inclined to mirth and jesting. TN.
2, 8.

to Disproperty, to prejudice. Co. 2, 1.
to Dispunge, to sprinkle, as with water squeez-
ed from a spunge. AC. 4, 9.

to Disseat, to unseat, remove from a seat.
M. 5, 8.

Distaff, rock, stick to spin with. WT. 1, 2.
TN. 1, 3. Rb. 3, 2. KL. 4, 2. Kin to the germ.
Stab, Schaft, gr. skēpōn, skēptron.

to Distaste, to give dislike, dissatisfaction, to
offend. TC. 2, 2. S. Gifford's Ben Jons. V, 82.
Distemperature, disorder, sickness. CE.
5, 1.

Distract, distracted. KL. 4, 6.
Distractions, detachments, parts taken from
the main body. AC. 3, 7.

Distraught, distracted. RJ. 4, 3. Rċ. 3, 5.
to Divert, to deviate. He. 2. ch. AL. 2, 3.
Dives (a latin word) the rich leacher or riotous
glutton in the gospel. aHd. 3, 3.

to Divest, to undress. O. 2, 3.
Dividable, divided, distant. TC. 1, 3.
Dividant, divisible. TA. 4, 3.

Division, in musical sense for shake, quavering, trill. RJ. 3, 5.

to Dizzy, to make giddy. H. 5, 2. to toss, turn about. TC. 5, 2. It implies the notion of weariness, slackness after a great exercise. Kin to dazzle, the gr. thaō, thoazō, thoassō, engl. to toss. Hence are to be explained dizzyeyed. aHf. 4, 7. dizzyyoung. MM. 4, 3.

to Do, to have carnally to do with a woman. MV. 3, 4. MM. 1, 2. H. 4, 5. S. Gifford's Ben Jons. III, 471. VI, 163.

to Do one right, to pledge a person in drink-
ing. bHd. 5, 3.

to Do out, to extinguish, obliterate. H. 1, 4.
to Do to death, or to die, to kill. cHf. 2, 1.
to Dodge, to use tricks, craft, or low shifts,
to palter. AC. 3, 9. Kin to the gr. tōthazō.
Doe, shamoy, goat. AL. 2, 7. TɅn. 2, 1. 2, 2.
to Doff, to do off, to put off. AC. 4, 4, to
remove, get rid of. M. 4, 8; to subject to
delay, to put off. O. 4, 2. S. to daff.

to Dog, to spy. MD. 1, 2; to follow greedily.
TN. 3, 2. @Hf. 3, 2. bHf 3, 1. Co. 5, 3. TC.
1, 8.

Dole, share or lot in any thing distributed; distribution. Hence the phrase happy man be his dole, let his share or lot be the title Happy man. It was a general wish for good success, for happy he who succeeds best. MW.3, 4. T'S. 1, 1. WT. 1, 2. aHd. 2, 2. Gifford's Ben Jons. IV, 14.-; grief, lamentation. H. 1, 1. MD.

5, 1. AL. 1, 2. bild. 1, 1. Horne Tooke Div. of P. II, 258. Kin to deal, and the lat. dolor.

2, 1. TG. 3, 1. WT. 5, 2. M. 4, 3. Rb. 1, 8. TC. 5, 3. KL. 2, 4. Dolour and dollar occasionally make a pun. T. 2, 1. KL. 2, 4. MM. 1, 2.

Dolphin, a sportive, lively, lusty fish. AW. 2, 3. AC. 5, 2. In KL. 3, 4. Dolphin my boy, my boy is the part of an old song.

to Don, to do on, to put on. AC. 2, 1. TɅn.
1, 2. H. 4, 5.

Dotage, fondness of fancy. AC. 1, 1. MA. 2, 3.
MD. 4, 1. TA.3, 5. KL. 1, 4. From to dote,
kin to doze, dazzle. S. Horne Tooke Div. of
P. II, 216.

Dotard, old fool, that becomes fond and
childish. MA. 5, 1. TS. 5, 1. WT. 2, 3. Cy.
1, 1.

to Dote, to rave. CE. 5, 1; to be fond of in love, to be foolishly enamoured, with on and upon. MW. 2, 2. MA. 2, 3. MD. 1, 1. KL. 1, 4.

Doublet, an old garment worn publicly only by
boys. MIV. 3, 3. or young men. TN. 2, 4. Cy.
3, 4. It was also a sign of indigence. błƒ.4, 7.
Dove. A sucking dove. MD. 1, 2. is abbreviat-
ed for sucking lamb or harmless dove. bf.
3, 1. The word itself is, like the germ. Taube
kin to dive, anglos. deaphian. S. Horne Tooke
Div. of P. II, 156. as columba is from the gr.
kolymbaō, and peleia from pleo.

Doughty, brave, gallant, valiant. AC. 4, 8.
S. deft. Gifford's Ben Jons. III, 102.

to Dout, to do out, to extinguish. He. 4, 2.
H. 1, 4. Hence neither doubt, nor daunt are
acceptable conjectures.

Dowdy, a little thick woman. RJ. 2, 4.
Dowle, the fibres of down in a feather or any

similar substance. T. 3, 3. Horne Tooke Div.
of P. II, 259. judges dal, dael, dole, doule,
dowle, deal, dell to be but one word different-
ly pronounced and written, and to mean merely
a part, piece, portion, without any other
designation. Notwithstanding it seems an
other form of down, kin to Dune, from the
old dunen, to raise one's self, perhaps also
to the gr. teinō, germ. dehnen.
Dowlas, sackcloth, coarse linen cloth, to make
sacks of. aHd. 3, 3. Las is for lace.
Dory, lass, mistress. WT. 4, 2. Cant!
Drab, loose woman, strumpet. MM. 2, 1. M.
4, 1. aHf. 5, 5. bHf. 2, 1. TC. 5, 1. H. 2, 2.
Kin to draff, icel. draf, germ, Träber, Tre-
ster, gr. drepō, derō, terō, tribō, deros.
Horne Tooke Div. of P. If, 154. derives it
from the Sax. dreiban, eiicere, expellere.
to Drab, to follow loose women. H. 2, 1.
Draff, hogwash, or any such coarse liquor.
a Hd. 4, 2.

to Drag, to draw, drain. RJ. 3, 5. aHf. 1, s.
bHƒ. 3, 2. WT. 1, 2. Draw, drag, draggle,
drain, drawl, gr. terō, germ. drehen, lat.
stringo, germ. Strang, streng, Strähn, are
but varying forms of traho.
Drake. Francis, whose ship, in which he sail-
ed round the world, was by order of Queen
Elizabeth laid up at Deptford, on board of
which she dined, is supplied aHf. 1, 1. by
Pope. Voss proposes northern drake, mean-
ing the star of the arctic pole twisting itself

around the two bears, and Fr. Dr. in the same time.

Dram, drink, potion, decoction. Cy. 5, 5. Draught, jakes, cloaca. TA. 5, 2. TC. 5, 1; frame, structure. TN. 5, 1.

to Draw, to trace the steps of the game. To draw dry foot, to trace or pursue rightly in one way the marks of the dry foot, without the scent. CE. 4, 2. A drawn fox aHd. 3, 3. to is a hunted fox, whose tricks and artifices were supposed to be extraordinary. Drayman, cartdrawer. Rb. 1, 4. Drift, shower. KJ. 2, 2. aim, purpose,

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