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GLOSSARY.

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Acquittance, requital.

charge or accusation.

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Approof, proof, approbation
Approve, to justify, to make good,
to establish, to recommend to
approbation.

Approved, felt, experienced, con-
victed by proof
Approvers, persons who try
Aqua-vite, strong waters
Arbitrate, to determine
Arch, chief

Argentine, silver

Argier, Algiers

[galleons

Action, direction by mute signs, Argosies, ships of great burthen,

Action-taking, litigious.

Argument, subject for conversa-
tion, evidence, proof
Arm, to take up in the arms
Aroint, avaunt, begone [another
A-rom, successively, one after
ho-Art, practice as distinguished
[nour. from theory, theory
Articulate, to enter into articles
Articulated, exhibited in articles
Artificial, ingenious, artful
As, as if

Additions, titles or descriptions.
Address, to make ready.
Addressed, or addrest, ready.
Advance, to prefer, to raise to
Adversity, contrariety.
Advertisement, admonition.
Advertising, attentive.
Advice, consideration, discretion,
thought.

Advise, to consider, recollect.
Advised, not precipitant, cool,
Afeard, afraid."
Affect, love.

[cautious.

Affection, affectation, imagina-
tion, disposition, quality.
Affectioned, affected."
Affections, passions, inordinate de-
Affeered, confirmed.
Affied, betrothed.

[sires.

Affined, joined by affinity.
Affront, to meet or face.
Affy, to betroth in marriage.
Aglet-baby, a diminutive being.
Agnize, ackowledge, confess.
A-good, in good earnest.
Aiery, the nest of an eagle or hawk
Aim, guess, encouragement, sus-
picion

Alder-liefest, beloved above all
Ale, a merry meeting
Allow, to approve

[things

Allowance, approbation
Amaze, to perplex or confuse

Aspect, countenance
Aspersion, sprinkling
Assay, test
Assinego, a he-ass
Assurance, conveyance or deed
Assured, affianced
Astringer, a falconer
Ates, instigation from Ate, the
mischievous goddess that in-

cites bloodshed

Banning, cursing

Banquet, a slight refection, a do-
Bans, curses
Bar, barrier

[sert
[manner
Barbed, caparisoned in a warlike
Barful, full of impediments
Barm, yeast

Barn, or bairn, a child

Barnacle, a kind of shell-fish

Base, dishonoured

[son-base
Base, a rustic game, called pri-
Bases, a kind of dress used by
knights on horseback
Basilisks, a species of cannon
Basta, Spanish, 'tis enough
Bastard, raisin wine
Bat, a club or staff
Bate, strife, contention
Bate, to flutter as a hawk
Batlet, an instrument used by
washers of clothes
Batten, to grow fat
Battle, army

Bavin, brushwood
Bawcock, a jolly cock

Bay, the space between the main
beams of a roof

Bay-window, bow window, one
in a recess
[sprit
Beak, the forecastle, or the bolt.
Beard, to oppose in a hostile
manner, to set at defiance.
Bearing, carriage, demeanour
Bearing-cloth, a mantle used at
christenings

Beat, in falconry, to flutter
Beating, hammering, dwelling
Beaver, helmet in general [upon
Beck, a salutation made with the
corrected Becomed, becoming
[head
Beetle, to hang over the base
Being, abode

Atomies, minute particles dis-
cernible in a stream of sun-
shine that breaks into a dark-
ened room, atoms
Atone, to reconcile
Attasked, reprehended,
Attended, waited for
Attent, attentive
Attorney, deputation
Attorneyship,

the discretional

agency of another
Attornied, supplied by substitu-
tion of embassies [or gives
Attributive, that which attributes

Ames-ace, the lowest chance of Avaunt, contemptuous dismission

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Belongings, endowments
Be-mete, be-measure
Be-moiled, be-draggled, be-mired
Bending, unequal to the weight
Benefit, beneficiary
[passion
Bent, the utmost degree of any
Benumbed, inflexible, immoveable
Beshren, ill befall
Best, bravest

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Bestowed, left, stowed, or lodged
Bestraught, distraught or distract-
[permit or suffer
Beteem, to give, to pour out, to
Bewray, betray, discover
Bezonian, a term of reproach
Bid, to invite, to pray
Biding, place, abiding
Bigging, a kind of cap
Bilberry, the whortleberry
Bilbo, a Spanish blade of peculiar
excellence

Bilboes, a species of fetters
Bill, a weapon carried by watch-
men, a label, or advertisement,
articles of accusation
Bird-bolt, a species of arrow
Bisson, blind

Blank, the white mark at which
Blast, burst [an arrow is shot

Blear, to deceive
Blench, to start off
Blent, blended, mixed
Blind-worm, the slow-worm
Blistered, puffed out like blisters
Blood, ancestry, high spirits, true
metal, passions, natural propen-
sities

Blood-boltered, daubed with blood
Blown, puffed or swollen
Blows, swells

Blunt, stupid, insensible
Board, to accost, to address
Bobb, to trick, to make a fool of
Bodged, boggled, made bungling
Bodkin, a small dagger
Bold, confident, to embolden
Boldness, confidence
Boited, sifted, refined

[work

Bolting hutch, the receptacle

in

[looking

which the meal is bolted Bombard, or bumbard, a barrel Bombast, the stuffing of clothes Bona-robas, strumpets Bond, bounden duty Bony, or bonny, handsome, goodBook, paper of conditions Boot, profit, advantage, something over and above

Bore, demeaned

Bush, the sign of a public-house Busky, woody. See Bosky But, only, unless, except Butt-shaft, an arrow to shoot at butts with [command Burom, obedient, under good By, according to, by means of By'rlakin, by our ladykin or little lady

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Ceremonies, honorary ornaments,
tokens of respect
Ceremonious, superstitious
Certes, certainty, in truth
Cess, measure
Chace, a term at tennis
Chair, throne

[don

Chamber, ancient name for Lon-
Chamber, a species of great gun
Chamberers, men of intrigue
Champain, an open country
Chance, fortune

Caddis, a narrow worsted gal-Changeling, a child changed
Cade, a barrel.
Cadent, falling
Cage, a prison

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Cain-coloured, yellow [scoundrel
Caitiff, a prisoner, a slave,
Calculate, to foretell or prophesy
Caliver, a species of musket
Call, to visit

Callet, a lewd woman
Calling, appellation
Calm, qualm

Canary, a sprightly nimble dance
Candle-waisters, those who sit up
all night to drink
Canker, the dog-rose
Canstick, candlestick
Cantel, or Cantle, a corner or piece
Cantons, cantos [of any thing
Canvas, to sift

Bore, the caliber of a gun, the ca- Canvas-climber,

pacity of the barrel

Bores, stabs or wounds

Bosky, woody

Bosom, wish, heart's desire
Bots, worms in the stomach of a
Bourn, boundary, rivulet [horse
Bow, yoke
[of defence
Brace, armour for the arm, state
Brach, a species of hound
Braid, crafty or deceitful
Brake, a thicket, furze-bush
Brave, to make fine or splendid
Bravery, showy dress
Brawl, a kind of dance

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a sailor who climbs to adjust the sails Cap, the top, the principal [cap Cap, to salute by taking off the Capable, perceptible, intelligent, quick of apprehension, ample, capacious

Capitulate, to make head
Capon, metaphor for a letter
Capricious, lascivious
Captious, capacious or recipient
Carack, a ship of great bulk
Carbonadoed, scotched like meat
for the gridiron

Card, perhaps a sea-chart
Care, to make provision, to take
Care, inclination
[care
Careires, the motion of a horse
Carkanet, necklace or chain
Carl, clown or husbandman
Carlot, peasant
Carper, a critic
Carpet-consideration, on a carpe,
Carriage, import [a festivity
Carried, conducted or managed
Carry, to prevail over
Cart, a chariot
[outside-garb
Case, contemptuously for skin,
Case, to strip naked
Casques, helmets

Cassock, a horseman's great-coat Cast, to empty as a pond, to dis miss or reject

Cast, cast up, reckoned
Castilian, an opprobrious term
Castiliano vulgo, a cant term of
contempt

Cataian, some kind of sharper Catling, a small lute-string made of catgut

Cavaleroes, airy, gay fellows
Caviare, a delicacy made of the
roe of sturgeon
Cautelous, insidious, cautious
Cease, decease, die, to stop
Censure, judgment, opinion
Censure, to judge
Censured, sentenced, estimated
Centuries, companies of an hun-
dred men each o

Channel, a kennel [writing Character, description, handCharacter, to write, to infix strongly [letters are made

Charactery, the matter with which Chares, task-work

Charge, to put to expense

Charge, commission, employment
Charge-house, the free-school
Chariest, most cautious
Chariness, caution

Charitable, dear, endearing Charles's-wain, the constellation called the Bear

Charneco, a sort of sweet wine
Charter, a privilege
Chaudron, entrails
Cheater, escheator, an officer in
the exchequer; a gamester
Check, command, control
Check, to object to, to rebuke
Checks, probably for ethics
Cheer, countenance [stones
Cherry-pit, a play with cherry.
Cheveril, soft or kid leather
Chew, to ruminate, consider
Chewet, a noisy chattering bird
Chide, to resound, to echo, te
scold, to be clamorous
Chiding, sound
Chiding, noisy

Child, a female infant
Childing, unseasonably pregnant
Chopin, a high shoe or clog
Chough, a bird of the daw kind
Christom, the white cloth put on
a new baptized child
Chrystals, eyes

[ment

Chuck, chicken, a term of endear
Chuff, rich, avaricious
Cicatrice, the scar of a wound
Circumstance, detail of an argu
ment, a circumlocution
Cilal, recital

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Cite, to incite, to show, to prove
Civil, grave or solemn [human
Civil, human creature, any thing
Clack-dish, a beggar's-dish
Claw, to flatter
Clear, pure, blameless, innocent,
quite, fully, perfectly
Clearest, purest, freest from evil
Clear-story, a species of windows
in a church

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Cleave, to unite with closely
Clerkly, like a scholar
Cliff, a key in music
Cling, to shrink or shrivel up
Clinquant, glittering, shining
Clip, to embrace, to infold
Closely, secretly, privately
Clout, the white mark at which
archers take aim
(milies
Clown, a licensed jester in fa
Clubs, a popular cry on a street
Clutched, grasped
{quarrel
Coach-fellom, one who draws with
a confederate

Coasting, conciliatory, inviting

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Collect, to assemble by observa-
Collection, corollary, consequence
Collied, black, smutted with coal
Collier, formerly a term of the
⚫highest reproach
Colour, pretence
Colourable, specious

Colours, appearances, deceits
Colt, to fool, to trick
Co-mart, a joint bargain
Combinate, betrothed
Combine, to bind

Combined, bound by agreement
Comforting, aiding

Commence, to give a beginning
Commended, committed

Commission, authority, power

Commodity, interest, profit

Commonty, a comedy
Compact, made up of

Companion, fellow
Company, companion

Comparative, a dealer in compa-
Compare, comparison [risons
Compassed, round
Compassionate, plaintive [ciates
Competitors, confederates or asso-
Complements, accomplishments
Complexion, humour
Comply, to compliment
Compose, to come to a composi-
Composition, contract or bargain,
consistency, concordancy
Composture, composition, com-
Comptible, submissive
Con, to know

[tion

Control, to confute
Convent, to serve or agree
Convented, cited, summoned
Conversation, familiar inter-
course, conduct, behaviour
Converse, interchange
Conversion, change of condition
Convertite, convert
Convey, to perform slight of
hand, to manage artfully
Conveyance, theft, fraud [convict
Convince, to overpower, subdue,
Convicted, overpowered, baffled
Convive, to feast

Cope, to encounter, to engage
Cope, covering

Copped, rising to a cop, or head
Copy, theme
[couragement

Coragio, an exclamation of en-
Corinthian, a wencher

Corky, dry, withered, husky
Corners, by-places

Corollary, surplus

Coronet, a crown

Corrigible, corrected

Costard, the head

Cote, to overtake.

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[nary Danger, reach or control

Coster-monger, meanly, merce- Dank, wet, rotten

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[garded Danskers, natives of Denmark Coted, quoted, observed, or re- Dare, to challenge or incite Cotsale, Cotswood in Gloucester- Dark-house, a house made gloomy Covered, hollow [shire by discontent

Count, to make account, to rec- Darkling, in the dark

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[man Darraign, to arrange, put in or Count Confect, a specious noble- Daub, to disguise Countenance, false appearance, Daubery, falsehood and imposi [trait Day-bed, a couch Counterfeit, a likeness, a por- Day-light, broad-day Counterpoints, counterpanes County, count, earl Cower, to sink by bending the hams [large tub Cowl-staff, a staff for carrying a Coy, to soothe or stroke Coyed, condescended unwillingly Coystril, a coward cock, a mean or drunken fellow

[post Cozier, a tailor or botcher [thought Crab, a wild apple

Conceit, fanciful conception, Crack, dissolution

Day-woman, dairy-maid
Dear, best, important, dire
Dearn, lonely, solitary
Death-tokens, spots appearing on
those infected by the plague
D boshed, debauched
Decay, misfortunes
Deceivable, deceptious
Deck, to cover, a pack
Decline, to run through from first
Declined, the fallen [to last
Deem, opinion, surmise

Concent, connected harmony in Crack, a boy or child, a boy-child Defeat, destruction

[lution Cranks, windings
Crants, chants

general
Conclusion, determination, reso-
Conclusions, experiments
Concupy, concupiscence.
Condition, temper, character,
qualities, vocations or inclina-
Condolement, sorrow
[tions
Conduct, conductor
Coney-catched, deceived, cheated
Coney-catcher, a cheat, or sharper
Confession, profession
Conject, conjecture
Conjecture, suspicion [to consume
Confound, to destroy, to expend,
Confounded, worn or wasted
Consent, to agree
Consent, conspiracy, will, assent,
Consigned, sealed [united voice
Consist, to stand upon
Consort, company

Consort, to keep company with
Constancy, consistency, stability
Constant, firm, determined
Constantly, certainly, without
fluctuation

Contemptible, contemptuous
Continent, the thing which con-
Continents, banks of rivers [tains
Continuate, uninterrupted
Contraction, marriage contract
Contrarious, different

Contrive, to spend and wear out

Crare, a small trading vessel
Craven, a degenerate, dispirited
cock
[cowardly
Craven, mean, cowardly, to make
Create, compounded, or made up
Credent, creditable, credible
Credit, account, information, cre-
dulity
[beacon
Credit, a great light set upon a
Cressive, increasing
Crest, the top, the height
Crestless, those who have no right
[bent, hollow
Crisp, curling, winding, curled,
Critic, cynic
Critical, censorious
Crone, an old worn-out woman
Crosses, money stamped with a
Crom, to exult over
Crow-keeper, a scare-crow
Crown, to conclude
Crowned, dignified, adorned
Crownet, last purpose
Cry, a troop or pack

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Cue, in stage cant, the last words
of the preceding speech
Cuisses, armour for the thighs
Cullion, a despicable fellow
Cunning, sagacity, knowledge
Curb, to bend or truckle

[roots

Deracinate, to force up by the
Derogate, degraded, blasted
Descant, a term in music
Desert, merit
Deserved, deserving
Design, to mark out

Despatched, bereft

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Easy, slight, inconsiderable Eche, to eke out

[ness

Dickon, familiarly for Richard Die, gaming

Diet, regimen

Diet, to oblige to fast

Diffused, extravagant, irregular

Digress, to deviate from the right
Digression, transgression
Dint, impression

Direction, judgment, skill
Disable, to undervalue
Disappointed, unprepared
Disclose, to hatch

Discontenting, discontented
Discontents, malcontents
Discourse, reason
Disdained, disdainful

Disease, uneasiness, discontent
Diseases, sayings

Disgrace, hardship, injury
Dislimns, unpaints, obliterates
Dispark, to destroy a park
Disponge, discharge as a sponge
Dispose, to make terms, to settle
mattérs

Disposition, frame
Disputable, disputatious
Dispute, to talk over
Dissemble, to gloss over
Dissembling, putting dissimilar
things together.
Distaste, to corrupt, to change
to a worse state
Distemper, intoxication
Distemperature, perturbation
Distempered, ruffled, out of hu-
[rate bodies
Distractions, detachments, sepa.
Distraught, distracted
Diverted, turned out of the course
Dividable, divided [of nature
Division, the pauses or parts of
musical composition
Divulged, spoken of
Doctrine, skill

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Doff, see Daff

Dole, lot, allowance

Dolphin, the Dauphin of France Don, to do on, to put on

Done, expended, consumed

Dotant, dotard

Double, full of duplicity

Doubt, to fear

Dout, to do out, extinguish.
Domle, a feather

Down-gyved, hanging down like
what confines the fetters round
the ancles
Drab, whoring
Draught, the jakes
Drawn, embowelled, exonerated
Dread, epithet applied to kings
Drew, assembled

Ecstasy, alienation of mind, mad-
Effects, affects, or affections, ac-
tions, deeds effected
Eftest, deftest, readiest
Egypt, a gipsy

Eld, old time, or persons Element, initiation, previous practice

Embossed, inclosed, swollen, puffy
Embowelled, exhausted
Embraced, indulged in
Eminence, high honours
Empery, dominion, sovereign
command
[contention
Emulation, rivalry, envy, factious
Emulous, jealous of higher autho-
Encave, to hide
[rity

Enfeoff, to invest with possession
Engine, instrument of war, mili-
tary machine, the rack
Engross, to fatten, to pamper
Engrossments, accumulations
Enkindle, to stimulate
Enmen, to coop up

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Faced, turned up with facings
Facinorous, wicked
Fact, guilt
Factious, active

Faculties, medicinal virtues, of-
fice, exercise of power
Fadge, to suit or fit

Fading, the burthen of a song
Fain, fond

Fair, beauty, complexion, fairness
Fair-betrothed, fairly contracted,
honourably affianced
Faith, fidelity

Faithful, not an infidel
Faithfully, fervently
Faitors, traitors, Yascals
Fall, to let fall, to drop
Fall, an ebb

False, to make false

Ensconce, to protect as with a fort Falsely, dishonestly, treacherous

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Falsing, falsifying

Familiar, a demon

Fancy, love

[power of love

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Enseamed, greasy
Enshield, shielded
Entertain, to retain in service
Entertainment, the pay of
army, admission to office
Entreatments, the objects of
Envy, hatred or malice [treaty
Ephesian, a cant term for a toper
Equipage, stolen goods
Eremhile, just now
Erring, wandering
Escoted, paid

Esil, a river so called, or vinegar
Esperance, the motto of the Percy
Espials, spies
[family

Essential, existent, real
Estimate, price

Estimation, conjecture
Eterne, eternal

[equal, fellow

[spirits

Even, calm, equitable, temperate, Even, to act up to Examined, questioned, doubted Excrement, the beard Excrements, the hair, nails, feathers of birds, &c. Execute, to employ, to put to use Execution, employment or exerExecutors, executioners [cise Exempt, excluded [confession Exercise, exhortation, lecture, or Exhale, hale or lug out Exhibition, allowance Exigent, end Exorcist, a person who can raise Dribbling, a term of contempt Expect, expectation Drive, to fly with impetuosity Expedient, expeditious Drollery, a show performed by Expiate, fully completed Drugs, drudges [puppets Expostulate, to inquire or discuss Drumble, to act lazily and stupidly Exposture, exposure Dry, thirsty [to me Express, to reveal Ducdame, duc ad me, bring him Expulsed, expelled Dudgeon, the handle of a dagger Exsufflicate, contemptible, abo. Due, to endue, to deck, to grace Extend, to seize [minable Dull, melancholy, gentle, sooth-Extent, in law, violence in general ing [ble Extern, outward Dull, to render callous, insensi- Extirped, rooted out Dullard, a person stupidly uncon- Extracting, that which draws cerned away from every thing but its own object Extravagant, wandering

Dump, a mournful elegy

Dup, to do up, to lift up

Fancy-free, exempt from the
Fang, to seize or gripe
Fanged, possessed of fangs
Fans, ancient

Fantastical, creatures of fancy
Fap, drunk

Far, extensively
Farced, stuffed

Fashions, farcens or farcy
Fast, determined, fixed
Fat, dull
[fate
Fate, an action predetermined by
Favour, countenance, features,
indulgence, pardon, appearance
Fear, the object of fear, danger
Fear, to intimidate
Feared, frightened
Fearful, timorous, formidable
Feat, ready, dexterous
Feat, an exploit

Feated, formed, made neat
Feature, beauty in general, cast
and make of the face
Federary, a confederate
Fee-grief, a peculiar sorrow
Feeder, an eater, a servant
Feere, or Pheere, a companion, a
Feet, footing
Thusband
Fell, skin
Fell-feats, savage practices
Fellow, companion
[fence
Fence, the art of, or skill in de
Feodary, an accomplice, a con
Fester, to corrupt
[federate
Festinately, hastily

Festival terms, splendid phrases
Fet, fetched
[logy

Few, in short, in few words
Fico, a fig

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First, noblest, most eminent Fit, a division of a song Fitchen, a polecat

Filly, exactly

Fives, a distemper in horses Flap-dragon, a small inflammable substance, which topers swallow in a glass of wine Flap-jacks, pan-cakes Flask, a soldier's powder-horn Flatness, lowness, depth. Flaw, sudden violent gust of wind Flayed, stripped Flecked, spotted, dappled, streakFleet, to float Fleeting, inconstant Fleshment, first act of military service [of a hound Flered, having the flews or chaps Flickering, fluttering like the motion of a flame Flight, a sort of shooting Flourish, ornament Flote, wave Flush, mature, ripe

Foeman, an enemy in war.

Foin, to thrust in fencing
Foizon, plenty

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Folly, depravity of mind
Fond, foolish, or prized by folly
Fonder, more weak or foolish
Fondly, foolishly [head of a fool
Focls zanies, baubles with the
Foot-cloth, a housing covering the
body of the horse, and almost
reaching to the ground
For, for that, since, because
Forbid, under interdiction
Force, power

Force, to enforce, to urge
Force, to stuff

Forced, false

Fordid, destroyed
Fordo, to undo, to destroy
Foredone, overcome

Forfended, prohibited, forbidden
Foreign, employed in foreign em-
Forepast, already had [bassies
Fore-slow, to be dilatory, to loiter
Forestall, to prevent by anticipa-
tion

Forgetive, inventive, imaginative
Forked, horned
Formal, not out of form, regular,
sensible, in form, in shape
Former, foremost

Forspent, wasted, exhausted
Forspoke, contradicted, spoken
Forthcoming, in custody [against
Forwearied, worn out
Foul, homely, not fair
Fox, a cant word for a sword
Forship, mean, cunning
Frampold, peevish, fretful, or
Frank, a sty
[cross
Franklin, a little gentleman or
t freeholder
[nerous
Free, artless, free from art, ge-
Pret, the stop of a musical in-
strument, which regulates the
vibration of the string

Gouts, drops

Friend, a lover, a term applica-1 Gourds, a species of dice
ble to both sexes, a paramour
Friend, friendship
Friend, to befriend
Frippery, a shop where old

clothes were sold
Frize, a cloth made in Wales
From, in opposition to
Fronted, opposed
Frontier, forehead
Frontlet, a forehead cloth
Frush, to break or bruise
Frustrate, frustrated
Fulfilling, filling till there be no
Full, complete [room for more
Fullams, loaded dice
Fullest, most complete and per-
Fumiter, fumitory
Furnished, dressed

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Gear, a general word for things
Geck, a fool
General, generality
[or matters
General, compendious
Generation, children
Generosity, high birth
Generous, most noble
Gentility, urbanity

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Grace, acceptableness, favour Grace, to bless, to make happy Gracious, graceful, lovely Grained, furrowed, like the grain of wood, died in grain or indented [thanks Gramercy, grand mercy, great Grange, the farm-house of a monastery; a lone house Gratillity, gratuity

Gratulate, gratifying, acceptable Grave, to entomb

Graves, or greaves, armour for
Greasily, grossly [the legs

Greek, a bawd, or pander
Green, unripe, not fully formed
Greenly, awkwardly, unskilfully
Greets, pleases

Grief, pain, grievances
Griefs, grievances, wrongs

[fections

Grievances, sorrows, sorrowful af-
Grieve, to lament for
Grise, a step
Grossly, palpably

Groundlings, the frequenters of
the pit in the playhouse
Growing, accruing
Guard, defence

Guard, to fringe or 1 ce
Guarded, ornamented
Guards, badges of dignity
Guerdon, reward
Guerdoned, rewarded
Guiled, treacherous
Guinea-hen, a prostitute

Gules, red, a term in heraldry
Gulf, the swallow, the throat
Gun-stones, cannon-balls

Gurnet, a fish resembling a piper
Gust, taste, rashness

Gyve, to catch, to shackle
Gyves, shackles

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Hack, to become cheap and vul
Haggard, a species of hawk (gar
Haggard, wild

Gentle, noble, high-minded, be- Hair, complexion or character

longing to gentry

Gentry, complaisance

German, akin

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Germins, seeds begun to sprout
Gest, a stage or journey
Gib, a cat
Gifts, endowments
Giglot, a wanton wench
Gilder, a coin valued at 1s. 6d.
Gilt, gilding, golden inoney
Gimmall, a ring or engine
Ging, a gang

Gird, a sarcasm or gibe, emotion
Gleek, to joke or scoff, to beguile
Glimmering, faintly illuminated
by the stars
[upon
Gloze, to expound, to comment
Glut, to englut or swallow up
Gnarled, knotted
Good-deed, indeed, in very deed
Good-den, good evening
Good-life, of a moral or jovial turn
Good jer, gougere, morbus galli-
Gorbellied, fat and corpulent [cus
Gossips, tattling women who at-
tend lyings-in
Gossomer, the white cobweb-like
exhalations that fly about in
hot sunny weather
Government, evenness of temper,
decency of manners

Happily, accidentally, fortunately
Happy, accomplished

Hardiment, bravery, stoutness
Harlocks, wild mustard
Harlot, a cheat

Harp, to touch on a passion
Harrow, to conquer, to subdue
Harry, to use roughly, to harass,
Having, estate or fortune, pro-
motion, allowance of expense
Haviour, behaviour
Haught, haughty
Haughty, high, elevated
Haunt, company
[school
Hay, a term in the fencing-
Head, the source, the fountain
Head, body of forces
Heart, the most valuable or pre-
Heat, heated
[cious part
Heat, violence of resentment
Heavy, slow
Hebenon, henbane
Hefted, heaved
Hefts, heavings
[prison
Hell, an obscure dungeon in a
Helmed, steered through
Hence, henceforward
Henchman, a page of honour
Hent, seized or taken possession
Hereby, as it may happen
Hermits, beadsmen

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