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Mobled, or Mabled, viii. 126. veiled.
Modern, common, ordinary, vulgar.
A Mold-warp, a mole.

A Mome, iii. 175. a dull stupid blockhead, a stock, a post. This owes its original to the French word Momon, which fignifies the gaming at dice in masquerade; the custom and rule of which is, that a strict filence is to be obferved: whatsoever fum one stakes, another covers, but not a word is to be spoken; from hence alfo comes our word Mum! for filence.

A Mooncalf, an idiot.

Mull'd, vi. 373. foftened and difpirited, as wine is when burnt and fweetened. Lat. Mollitus.

▲ Mummer, vi. 324. a masker. Mummcrie, masquerading. Fr. Momerie.

A Mure, a wall.

Murk, darkness.

Lat. Murus.

Murry, dark.

A Musket, a male hawk of a fmall kind, the female of which is the fparrow-hawk; fo that Eyas muket, i. 218. is a young unfledg'd Fr. Mouchet.

male hawk of that kind.

A Mufs, vii. 132. a scramble.

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Nayward," to th' nayward," iii. 222. to the side of denial, towards the faying Nay.

A Nay-word, iii. 106. the fame as by-word; a word of contempt : alfo a word fecretly agreed upon, as among foldiers, for the distinguifhing friends from foes.

A Neafe, or Neife, or Neive, a fist.

A Neb, iii. 211. the bill or beak of a bird.

Nick, "out of all nick," i. 164. out of all count; i. e. extravagantly. A phrafe taken from accounts when calculations were made by nicking on numbers upon a stick.

Nine-mens morris, a kind of rural chefs.

A Nole, i. 89. a noddle.

Qeillades, glances. Fr. Oeillades.

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An Opal, iii. 109. a precious stone reflecting almost all colours.
Fr. Opale. Lat. Opalus.

Orgillous, vii. (Prol. to Tr. and Cres.), proud. Fr. Orgueilleux.
Orts, fcraps, fragments, leavings.

fprey, vi. 379. the fea-eagle; of which it is reported, that when he hovers in the air, all the fish in the water underneath turn up their bellies, and lie ftill for him to feize which he pleases. One of the names of this bird is Offifraga, from which by corruption is deduced Ofprey. See Gefner, and William Turner. The name in Pliny is Haliaetos.

An Offent, a fhew, an outward appearance. Lat Oftentus.

To Overween, to reach beyond the truth of any thing in thought, efpecially in the opinion of a man's felf.

Ouphe,

Cuphe, the fame as Elfe, from which it is a corruption, a fairy, a hobgoblin.

Ouphen, elfish, of fairy-kind.

An Ouzie, a blackbird.

Owches, iv. 189. boffes or buttons of gold fet with diamonds.

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ward is mentioned in an old ftatute of Henry VIII. made against excess in apparel; it is also used by Chaucer and Spencer. To Owe, is very frequently used for poffefs; to be the owner of; efpecially where the author would imply an absolute right or property in the thing possessed.

A Paddock, a toad, or frog. Palabras, ii. 43. o' my word. ii. 289. few words.

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Span. Do Palabra. Pocas Palabras,

Pale-clipt, i. 45. inclofed or fenced with pales.

A Pallament, vi. 169. a robe. Ital. Parliament.

A Pantaloon, ii. 246. a man's garment anciently worn, in which the breeches and stockings were all of a piece. Fr. Pantalon.

A Pantler, the officer in a great family who keeps the bread. Fr. Panetier.

To Pantler, vii. 145. to run after one like a footman.

To Paragon, to compare. Fr. Paragonner; alfo to equal, viii. 213. A Paragon, a complete model or pattern.

A Parator, the fame as apparator or apparitor; an officer belonging to the fpiritual courts, who carries fummons, and ferves proceffes. To Parget, to daub or plaister over.

Partleo, iii. 230. a name given to a hen; the original fignification being a ruff, or band, or covering for the neck.

A Pafk, iii. 210. a kifs. Span. Paz. La paz de Judas, is a phrase with the Spaniards, by which they exprefs treachery.

To Paf, to dash.

Patens, ii. 134. a round plate of gold borne in heraldry; the cover of the facramental cup.

A Pelt, a fkin or hide. Lat. Pellis.

Pelting, (a pelting village, a pelting farm), has the fame fenfe as beggarly. There is a rot among fheep, particularly called the Pelt-rot; which is, when the fheep from proverty and ill keeping firft lofe their wool, and then die. This word comes from Pelt, a fkin; the poor being generally clothed in leather. Perdy, vi. 40. an oath. Fr. Par Dieu.

Periapts, iv. 396. amulets; charms worn as prefervatives against difeafes or mischief. Gr. giá, Pro amuleto appendo. Steph. A Pet, a lamb taken into the house, and brought up by hand; a cade-lamb.

A Petar, viii. 153. a kind of little cannon filled with powder, and ufed for the breaking down the gates of a town, and for countermining. Fr. Petard.

Picked, fharp, fmart. Fr. Pique.

Pight, pitched, placed, fixed.

A Pike, vi. 300. a fork.

A Pilcher, a furr'd gown or cafe, any thing lined with furr; a cloak or coat of skins.

Pin, vi. 55. a horny induration of the membranes of the eye.

Pink, i. 205. a veffel of the small craft, employed as a carrier (and fo called) for merchants.

A Pix, iv. 286. a little cheft or box wherein the confecrated hoft is kept in Roman Catholic countries. Lat. Pixis.

Plage, vi. 12. place, country, or boundary. Lat. Plaga.
Planched gate, i. 303. a gate of boards.

To Plah, to reduce into order the largest and most riotous plants in a hedge, by cutting deep into their bodies, to make then bend down, and then interweaving them with the lower parts of the hedge. The original and true word is to Pleach, by vulgar ufe pronounced Plah.

To Pleach, to twilt together, to interweave.

Point-device, ii. 257. exact to the greatest nicety. Fr. A points devies. The expreffion is ufed by Chaucer.

Poll'd, vi. 373. fhaven.

Pomander, iii. 269. a little round ball of perfumes. Fr. Pomme d'ambre.

Pomwater, ii. 269. a very large apple.

A Precifian, i. 196. one who profefies great fanctity, a ghoftly father, a fpiritual guide.

Prime, viii. 244. prompt; from the Celtique or British Prin.
Primero, a game at cards. Span. Primera.

A Prizer, ii. 253. a prize-fighter.

To Profter, vii. 160. to plead by an advocate.

Preface, iv. 238. much good may do you! Ital. Profaccia.

To Propend, vii. 294. to lean more, to incline more favourably, Lat. Propendeo.

Properties, a term much used at the playhouses for the habits and implements neceflary for the reprefentation; and they who furnish them, are called Property-men. This feems to have arisen from that fenfe of the word Property, which fignifies a blind, a tool, a ftalking-horfe.

To Purfle, to overlay with tinfel, gold thread, &c.
A Puttock, a kite.

Fr. Fourfiler.

A Quab, a gudgeon, (Gobio capitatus. Skin.); and a gudgeon is of ten ufed in a figurative fenfe for a foft eafy fool, ready to fwallow any bait laid for him.

To Quail, to droop, to languish, to faint.

A Quarrel, v. 302. a large arrow fo called.
Quatch, iii. 25, fquat or flat.

Queafy, vi. 29. fckish, nauseating.

A Quell, vi. 247. a murtherous conqueft. In the common acceptation, to quell, fignifies to fubdue any way; but it comes from a Saxon word, which fignifics to kill.

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A Quern, a churn; alfo a mill.

A Quet, vi. 7c. a lamentation, a complaint. Lat. Questus. A Queftant or Quefter, one who goes in queft of any thing. Quill, ("deliver our fupplications in quill," v. 13.); this may be fuppofed to have been a phrafe formerly in ufe, and the fame with the French en quille, which is faid of a man when he stands upright upon his feet, without ftirring from the place. The proper fenfe of Quille in French is a nine-pin; and in fome parts of England nine-pins are ftill called Carls; which word is ufed in the fatute 33. Henry VIII. cap. 9. Qille in the old British language alfo fignifies any piece of wood fet upright.

Qilets, quibbles, querks, fubtilties; law-chicane, a fálse charge, or an evafive answer.

Quips, i. 162. gibes, flouts.

A Quintain, ii. 228. a butt, a post, or the figure of a man set up in wood for the purpofe of military exercifes, throwing darts, breaking laces, or running a tilt against it. Fr. Quintaine.

To Quote, to understand, to interpret, to rate, to eflimate, to reckon.

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The Rack, vii. 147. & viii. 126. the courfe or driving of the clouds; the veftige of an embodied cloud, which hath been broken and diffipated by the wind.

Raied, blotted, ftained, fouled: the fame as Beraied, which is the term more known of late days. Fr. Rayé.

Feh, iv. 223. dry.

To Rate, ii. 45. to rail or revile.

Fought, the fame as reached.

To Ravin, to snatch or devour greedily.

A Raze of ginger, iv. 96. this is the Indian word for a bale, and must be diftinguished from Race, which fignifies a single root of ginger.

Rear-nice or Rere-mice, bats.

Rebato, ii. 40. an ornament for the neck, a collar-band or kind of ruff. Fr. Rabat. Menage faith it comes from Kabattre, to put back; because it was at firft nothing but the collar of the fhirt or fhift turned back towards the fhoulders.

A Peckeate, i. 7. a particular lefion upon the horn to call dogs back from the feent; from the old French word Recet, which was used in the fame fenfe as Retraite.

Rechlefs or Reckless, regardless, negligent.

To Keck, to regard, to care, to be anxious about, to regret the lofs of. Reedy or Recky, fmoaky, or foiled with fmoak, or a dark yellow; thence alfo fweaty or filthy with fweat.

Reed, Jefon, doctrine, counfel.

Reer, vi. 38. flow, backward, unwilling to fhew itself.

Feguerdon, iv. 370. recompence.

To Ren, to curb, to reftrain.

To Releve, i. 64. to heighten, to add to. Fr. Relever.

To Renge, vi. 34. to renounce.

Span. Renegár.

Rlaud,

Ribaud, debauched, abandoned, prostituted, a luxurious fquandererFr. Ribaud.

Ribi, iv. 107. drink away! Italian. The imperative mood of Ri bére, which is the fame as Ribevere, to drink again.

Riggish, wanton.

Rigol, iv. 226. a circle; from the Italian Rigole, which fignifies a little round wheel or trundle.

Roifting, vii. 295. bluftering, fwaggering.

A Rood, a cross.

A Rowfe, viii. 94. the fame as a carowse.
Roynifh, mangy, fcabby. Fr. Rogneux.
A Ruddock, vii. 232. a robin-red-breaft.

Rudeby, iii. 136. rude companion, rude fellow !

A Runnion or Ronyon, a scabby or mangy man or woman.

neux and Rogneufe.

Ruth, pity, compaffion.

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Sacring-bell, v. 226. the little bell which is rung in the proceffion of the hoft, to give notice of its approach, or to call to fome holy office. From the French word Sacrer, to confecrate or dedicate to the fervice of God.

Sad, is frequently ufed for grave, fober, ferious.

To Sagg, is (properly) to fink on one fide, as weights do when they are not balanced by equal weights on the other.

Sallet or Salade, v. 77. a helmet. Corrupted from Calata, a helmet, (fays Skinner), quia galea calata fuerunt. Span. Celadu. Fr. Salade.

Saltier, iii. 261. a term in heraldry; one of the ordinaries in forma of St. Andrew's crofs.

Sanded, i. 104. of a fandy colour, which is one of the colours Lelonging to a true blood-hound.

San Domingo, iv. 239, St. Dominick.
Sans, without. A French word.
A Saw, a wife faying, a proverb.
Say, vi. 91. effay. Fr. Efai.

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To Scan, to convafs, to examine, to weigh and confider well any bufinefs.

Scerfed, ii. 95. pierced or joined close together; a term used by the fhipbuilders.

Scarbe, harm, hurt, mifchief, damage. Scatheful, mischievous. A Scence, a fort, a fortrefs; alfo a man's head.

A Score, i. 56. account; not the number twenty.

To Scotch, to hack, or cut, to bruife, to crufh. Ital. Schiacciare. Scryoles, iii. 310, the difcafe called the king's-evil. Fr. Efcrouelles ; here given as a name of contempt and abufe to the men of Angiers; as we fometimes fcurrilously call men fcabs.

To Scutch, iv. 208. to switch, to whip, to fcourge. Ital. Scuticare. Seam, vii. 300. tallow, fat.

A Sea-mall, a kind of gull, a bird haunting the fea-coasts.

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