GLOSSARY

TO THE

DRAMATIC WORKS

OF

William Shakspeare.

1

GLOSSARY.

Bottled spider, a large, bloated,
glossy spider.

Boulled, sifted, or refined.
Bourn, boundary, or rivulet di-
viding land.
Bow, yoke.
Bower, chamber.
Bowlins, or bowlines, ropes by
which the sails of a ship are
governed when the wind is
unfavourable.
Bowling, or the smoothness of
a bowling-green.
Bowstrings, i. e. hold or cut,
at all events.
Brace, the armour for the arm:
warlike brace, state of de-
fence.

Brach, a kind of hound; or,
ased as a term of contempt.
Brack, to salt.
Braid, crafty or deceitful
Brain's flow, tears
Brake, an instrument of ter-
re, or a thicket or furze-
bush.
Brands, a part of the andirons,
on which the wood for the
fire was supported.
Brasier, a manufacturer in
brass, or a reservoir for char-
coal.

Brave, to make fine; bravery
was the old term for elegance
of dress.

Bravely, splendidly, or gal-
lantly.
Bravery, finery
Brawl, a kind of dance.
Braying, an epithet applied to
the soum! of the trumpet,
harsh, grating.
Break, to begin.
Break up, to earve.

Brooched, adorned.
Brought, attended.

Carlot, a peasant or eltur};
from cart.

Brow, i. e. of youth, the height Carnal, sanguinary.
of youth.

Carowses, drinks.

Brown bill, a kind of battle-axe Carpet knight, a term of reed in time of peace, and on a carpet, on some festive occasion.

battle-axeproach, spoken of one knight

Browniet, a follower of Brown,

a sectarian.

Bruising irons, an allusion to
the ancient mace.
Bruit, noise, or report.
Brush, i. e. of time, decay by

time.

Buckle, to bend, or yield to
pressure.
Bug, bugbear.

Bugle, hunting-horm
Bulk, body.

Carriage, import.
Case, skin, outside.
Case of lives, a set of lives, or
pair of any thing.

Cased lion, a lion irritated by
confinement.
Casques, helmets.

Cassock, a horseman's loose
coat.

Bumbard, a large vessel for Cast, to empty, to throw or re

holding drink.
Bung, a cut-purse.
Bunting, the name of a bird.
Burgonet, a helmet.
Burst, to break, or broken
Busky, woody.
Butt-shaft, an arrow to shoot
at butts with.
Burom, under good command,
obedient.
Caddis-garter, a kind of wor-
sted garter.
Caddises, worsted lace.
Cade, a barrel.
Cadent, falling.
Cage, a prison.
Cain-coloured, yellow; Cain
was represented of that co-
lour in old pictures.
Caitiff, a prisoner, slave, or
scoundrel.

Calculate, to foretell or pro-
phesy.

Calver, a light kind of musket.
Callet, a bad woman, or witch.

Break with, to break the mat- Calling, appellation.

ter to.

Breast, voice.
Breath, speech, K. John. Ti
mon. Exercise, Troilus and
Cres. A slight exercise of
arnis, ibid.
Breathing-courtsy, verbal com-
pliment.
Breeched, foully sheathed, or
mired.
Breeching, liable to school dis
cipline.
Bribe-buck, a bock sent for a
bribe.

Bridal, a nuptial feast; a word
yet used in the North.
Brief, a short account, a con-
traet hastily performed.
Now-born brief, is the breve
originale of the feudal times.
Bring, attend or accompany.
Bring out, bring forth.
Brize, the gad, or horse-fly.
Broach, to put on the spit, to
transfix.
Brock, the badger.
Brogues, a kind of shoes.
Broken, communicated.
Broken mouth, a month that
has lost part of its teeth.
Broken tears, tears which are
interrupted

Broker, a matchmaker, a pro

curess.

Broker, deals as a broker. Brooch, a trinket with a pin fixed to it.

Camelot, a place where King
Arthur is supposed to have
kept his court.
Canaries, the name of a brisk,
light dance.
Canker, the canker-rose, dog-
rose, or hip.
Canstick, candlestick.
Cantle, a corner, or piece of any
thing.

Cantons, used for cantos.
Canvas-climber,one who climbs
the mast to furl the canvas, a
ship-boy.

Capped, saluted by taking off
the cap.
Capable impressure, hollow
mark.

Capocchia, a sot, or dull, heavy
gull, from the Italian capoc-
chio.

Capricious, lascivious.
Captious, for capacious.
Carack, a vessel of great bulk.
Caracts, characters.
Carbonado, a piece of meat cut
erossways for the gridiron.
Card, sea-chart.
Carded, mixed.
Carieres, i. e. to pass the ca-
rieres, a military phrase.
Means that the
bounds of good behaviour
were overpassed.
Carkanet, a kind of necklace or
chain

common

Carl, clown, husbandman.

ject.
Cast lips, left-off lips.

Cast the water, to find ont dis
orders by inspecting the urine.
Cataian, a liar; the first adven
turers who visited Cataia, or
China, were notorions liars,
as Paulo and Mandeville.
Calling, a small lute-string
made of catgal.
Cavalero-justice, a cant term.
Cavalero, an airy sprightly,
irregular fellow.

Caviare, too good for, or foreign

to.

Caviare, a luxurious Russian
dish made of the roe of the
sturgeon.

Cautel, subtlety, or deceit.
Cautelous, artful, or insicions.
Cauterizing, burning, or blis
tering.

Cearment, the wrapping of a
embalmed body.
Cease, decease, die.
Censer, brasiere.
Certes, certainly.
Cess, measure, tax, or subsidy.
Chaliced, i. e. flowers, with
enps, from calix.
Challenge, law-term, the right
of refusing a juryman.
Chamber, London was ancient-
ly called the king's chamber.
Chamber, a piece of ordnance.
Chamberers, men of intrigue.
Changeling, a child substituted
for one stolen.
Channel, kennel.
Chantry, little chapel in a ca-
thedral.

Character, hand-writing.
Characts, characters.
Charactery, the matter of which
characters are made.
Chares, task-work.
Charge-house, free-school.
Chariest, from chary, the most
cautious.
Chariness, caution.
Charles-wain, vulgar name for
the constellation called the
Bear.

Charneco, a kind of sweet wine.
Chases, a term in tennis.
Chaudron, entrails.
Cheater, for escheatour, an of
fice in the Exchequer.
Check, command, control.
Cheer, countenance.
Cherry-pit, pitching cherry.
stones into a little hole.
Cheveril, kid-skin, soft leather.

knights and heroes. Childing, pregnant.

Choppine, a high shoe or clog. Chopping, jabbering, talking glibly.

Chough, a bird of the jackdaw
kind.

Christom, or chrisom, a chris-
tened child.
Chrystals, eyes.
Chuck, chicken, a term of en-

dearment.

Chuffs, rich, avaricious people.
Circummured, walled round.
Circumstance, circumlocution.
Circumstanced, treated accord-
ing to circumstances.
Cital, recital.
Clack-dish, a beggar's dish.
Clamour, when bells are at the
height, in order to cease them
the repetition of the strokes
becomes much quicker than
before, which is called cla-
mouring them.
Clap in, fall to.

C'oncupy, a cant word from
concupiscence.
Conduci, conductor.

ed.

Conject, conjecture.
Consent, used sometimes for
will.

Credent, creditable, probable.
Cressets, a light set upon a bea-

con, from croissette.
Crisp, curling, winding; or for
crypt, vaulted.

Crone, old worn-out woman. Cross-gartered, an article of puritanical dress.

Coney-catched, deceived, cheat Crow-keeper, a scare-crow.
Crownet, last purpose.
Cruel, worsted. Lear, applied
to garters.
Crush, to drink.
Crusado, a Portuguese coin.
Cry, a pack or troop.
Cub-drawn, alluding to a bear
whose dugs are dry.
Cuisses, armour for the thighs,
cuisses, Fr.

Continent, that which contains

or encloses.

Contraction, marriage, con

tract.

Control, confute.

Convents, agrees, is convenient.
Convented, summoned.
Convertite, a convent.
Convey,steal,conveyance, theft.
Conveyers, thieves.
Conveyed himself, derived his
title.

Convicted, overpowered, baf-
fled, destroyed.
Convive, to feast.
Copatain hat, a hat with a co-
nical crown.

Copped, rising to a top or head.

Clapped i the clout, hit the Coragio, an exclamation of en

white mark.

Claw, to flatter.

Clean kam, awry.

Clearest, purest.

Clepe, to call.

Clerkly, like a scholar.
Cling, to dry or shrink up.
Clinquant, glittering, shining.
Clipi, twined around,embraced.
Clout, the white mark at which
archers took their aim.
Clouted, strengthened
clout or hobnails.
Clutch, to clasp, or grasp..
Coasting,conciliating, inviting.
Cob-loaf, a crusty, uneven, gib-
bous loaf.

with

couragement.
Corky, dry, or withered.
Corollary, surplus, one more
than enough.
Corporal, corporeal.
Corrigible, corrected.
Costard, a head.
Coster-monger, a dealer in cos
ters, or costards, a kind of
apples.

Cut and long tail, a phrase from
dogs, poor or rich.
Cuttle, a knife used by sharpers.
Daff, or Doff, to put off.
Damn, condemn.
Dank, wet, rotten.
Darkling, in the dark.
Darraign, range, put in order.
Dauberry, counterfeit, disguise

Cole, to overtake.
Couch, to lie with.
Counter-caster, one who reck-Day-bed, a couch.
ons by counters.
Counterchec, an old term in
the game of chess.
Counterfeit, sometimes used for
a portrait.

Counterpoints, counterpanes.
County, ancient term for a no-
bleman.
Courser's-hair, alluding to the
notion that the hair of a horse
dropt into a corrupted water,
will turn to an animal.
Courses, the mainsail and fore-
sail.

Court-cupboard, sideboard.
Cowed, restrained, or made
cowardly.

Cower, to sink by bending the
hams.

[ly.

Cowlstaff, a staff for carrying a
large tub or basket with two
handles.
Coyed, condescended reluctant-
Coystril, a coward cock, a al-
try fellow.
Cozier, a tailor, from cousu;
or a cobbler, or sowter.
Crack, a child. [nature.
Crack of doom, dissolution of
Cranking, crankling, applied
to the rush of a river.
Cranks, windings.
Crare, a small trading vessel.
Crash, to be merry over.
Craven, a degenerate, dispirit-
ed cock. Cowardly, to make
cowardly.