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An
On-line Shakespearean Glossary
Use this glossary to look up unusual words used in Shakespeare's
plays. As this is a general glossary, you will want to make sure that the definition
fits the context of the line in which the word is used.
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~ A ~
ABATE: to
shorten; to cast down; to blunt
ABATEMENT: diminution
ABHOR: protest; disgust
ABIDE: to sojourn to expiate
ABLE: to uphold
ABRIDGEMENT: a short play
ABROAD: away, apart
ABROOK: to brook, abide
ABSEY-BOOK: a primer
ABSOLUTE: positive, certain Complete
ABUSE: to deceive; deception
ABY: to expiate a fault
ABYSM: abyss
ACCITE: to cite, summon
ACCUSE: accusation
ACHIEVE: to obtain
ACKNOWN: 'to be acknown' is to acknowledge
ACQUITTANCE: a receipt or discharge
ACTION-TAKING: litigious
ACTURE: action
ADDITION: title, attribute
ADDRESS: to prepare oneself
ADDRESSED: prepared
ADVANCE: to prefer, promote to honour
ADVERTISEMENT: admonition
ADVERTISING: attentive
ADVICE: consideration, discretion
ADVISE: sometimes neuter, sometimes reflective, to consider,
reflect
ADVISED: considerate
ADVOCATION: pleading, advocacy
AFEARED: afraid
AFFECT: to love
AFFY: to affiance To trust
AFRONT: in front
AGAZED: looking in amazement
AGLET-BABY: the small figure engraved on a jewel
AGNISE: to acknowledge, confess
A-GOOD: a good deal, plenteously
A-HOLD: a sea-term
AIERIE: the nest of a bird of prey
AIM: a guess
ALDER-LIEFEST: most loved of all
ALE: alehouse
ALLOW: to approve
ALLOWANCE: approval
AMES-ACE: two aces, the lowest throw of the dice
AMORT: dead, dejected
AN: if
ANCHOR: an anchorite, hermit
ANCIENT: an ensign-bearer
ANGEL: a coin, so called because it bore the image of an angel
ANIGHT: by night
ANSWER: retaliation
ANTHROPOPHAGINIAN: a cannibal |
ANTICK:
the fool in the old plays
ANTRE: a cave
APPARENT: heir-apparent
APPEAL: to accuse; accusation
APPEARED: made apparent
APPLE-JOHN: a kind of apple
APPOINTMENT: preparation
APPREHENSION: opinion
APPREHENSIVE: apt to apprehend or understand
APPROBATION: probation
APPROOF: approbation, proof
APPROVE: to prove; to justify, make good
APPROVER: one who proves or tries
ARCH: chief
ARGAL: a ridiculous word intended for the Latin ergo
ARGENTINE: silver
ARGIER: Algiers
ARGOSY: originally a vessel of Ragusa or Ragosa, a Ragosine; hence
any ship of burden
ARGUMENT: subject
ARMIGERO: a mistake for Armiger, the Latin for Esquire
AROINT: found only in the imperative mood, get thee gone
A-ROW: in a row
ARTICULATE: to enter into articles of agreement to exhibit in
articles
ASK: to require
ASPECT: regard, looks
ASPERSION: sprinkling; hence blessing, because before the
Reformation benediction was generally accompanied by the sprinkling of holy water
ASSAY: to attempt, test, make proof of
ASSINEGO: an ass
ASSUBJUGATE: to subjugate
ASSURANCE: deed of assurance
ASSURED: betrothed
ATOMY: an atom Used in contempt of a small person
ATONE: to put people at one, to reconcile to agree
ATTACH: to seize, lay hold on
ATTASKED: taken to task, reprehended
ATTEND: to listen to
ATTENT: attentive
ATTORNEY: an agent; to employ as an agent; To perform by an agent
AUDACIOUS: spirited, daring, but without any note of blame attached
to it
AUGUR: augury
AUTHENTIC: clothed with authority
AVAUNT: int. be gone, a word of abhorrence
AVE: the Latin for hail; hence acclamation
AVE-MARY: the angelic salutation addressed to the Blessed Virgin
Mary
AVERRING: confirming
 AVOID:
get rid of
AWFUL: worshipful
AWKWARD: contrary |
~ B ~
BACCARE:
keep back
BACKWARD: the hinder part; hence, when applied to time, the past
BAFFLE: embarrass
BALKED: heaped, as on a ridge
BALLOW: a cudgel
BALM: the oil of consecration
BAN: to curse
BANK: to sail by the banks
BARM: yeast
BARN: a child
BARNACLE: a shellfish, supposed to produce the sea-bird of the same
name
BASE: a game, sometimes called Prisoners' base
BASES: an embroidered mantle worn by knights on horseback, and
reaching from the middle to below the knees
BASILISK: a kind of ordnance
BASTA: enough
BASTARD: raisin wine
BATE: to flutter, as a hawk
BATE: to except; To abate
BAT-FOWLING: catching birds with a clap-net by night
BATLET: a small bat, used for beating clothes
BATTLE: army
BAVIN: used as a piece of waste wood, applied contemptuously to
anything worthless
BAWCOCK: a fine fellow
BAWD: procurer
BAY: the space between the main timbers of the roof
BEADSMAN: one who bids bedes, that is, prays prayers for another
BEARING-CLOTH: a rich cloth in which children were wrapt at their
christening
BEAT: to flutter as a falcon, to meditate, consider earnestly
BEAVER: the lower part of a helmet
BEETLE: a mallet
BEING: dwelling
BEING: since, inasmuch as
BE-METE: to measure
BE-MOILED: daubed with dirt
BENDING: stooping under a weight
BENVENUTO (Italian): welcome
BERGOMASK: a rustic dance
BESHREW: evil befal
BESTRAUGHT: distraught, distracted
BETEEM: to pour out
BETID: happened
BEZONIAN: a beggarly fellow
BIDING: abiding-place
BIGGEN: a night-cap
BILBERRY: the whortleberry
BILBO: a sword, from Bilboa, a town in Spain where they were made
BILBOES: fetters or stocks
BILL: a bill-hook, a weapon
BIN: been, are
BIRD-BOLT: a bolt to be shot from a crossbow at birds
BIRDING: part. hawking at partridges
BISSON: blind
BLANK: the white mark in the middle of a target; hence,
metaphorically, that which is aimed at
BLENCH: to start aside, flinch
BLENT: blended
BLOOD-BOLTERED: smeared with blood
BLOW: to inflate |
BOARD: to
make advances to; accost
BOB: a blow, metaph. a sarcasm
BOB: to strike, metaph. to ridicule, or to obtain by raillery
BODGE: to botch, bungle
BODIKIN: a corrupt word used as an oath. 'Od's Bodikin,' God's
little Body
BOITIER VERT: green box
BOLD: to embolden
BOLLEN: swollen
BOLTED: sifted, refined
BOLTER: a sieve
BOLTING-HUTCH: a hutch in which meal was sifted
BOMBARD: a barrel, a drunkard
BOMBAST: padding
BONA-ROBA: a harlot
BOND: that to which one is bound
BOOK: a paper of conditions
BOOT: help, use
BOOT: to help, to avail
BOOTLESS: without boot or advantage, useless
BOOTS: bots, a kind of worm
BORE: calibre of a gun; hence, metaph. size, weight, importance
BOSKY: covered with underwood
BOSOM: wish, heart's desire
BOTS: worms which infest horses
BOURN: a boundary; A brook
BRACE: armour for the arm, state of defence
BRACH: a hound bitch
BRAID: deceitful
BRAVE: handsome, well-dressed
BRAVE: boast
BRAVERY: finery; Boastfulness
BRAWL: a kind of dance
BREAST: voice
BREATHE: to exercise
BREATHING: exercising
BREECHING: liable to be whipt
BREED-BATE: a breeder of debate, a fomenter of quarrels
BREESE: the gadfly
BRIBE-BUCK: a buck given away in presents
BRING: to attend one on a journey
BROCK: a badger, a term of contempt
BROKE: to act as a procurer
BROKEN: having lost some teeth by age
BROKEN MUSIC: the music of stringed instruments
BROKER: an agent
BROTHERHOOD: trading company
BROWNIST: a sectary, a follower of Brown, the founder of the
Independents
BRUIT: noise, report, rumour
BRUIT: to noise abroad
BRUSH: rude assault
BUCK: suds or lye for washing clothes in
BUCK-BASKET: the basket in which clothes are carried to the wash
BUCKING: washing
BUCK-WASHING: washing in lye
BUG: a bugbear, a spectre
BULLY-ROOK: a bragging cheater
BURGONET: a kind of helmet
BURST: to break
BUSKY: bushy
BUTT-SHAFT:
a light arrow for shooting at a target
BUXOM: obedient
BY'RLAKIN: by our little Lady: an oath |
~ C ~
CADDIS:
worsted galloon, so called because it resembles the caddis-worm
CADE: a cask or barrel
CAGE: a prison
CAIN-COLOURED: red (applied to hair)
CAITIFF: a captive, a slave; hence, a witch
CALCULATE: prophesy
CALIVER: a hand-gun
CALLET: a trull
CALLING: appellation
CALM: qualm
CAN: to know, be skillful in
CANAKIN: a little can
CANARY: a wine brought from the Canary Islands
CANDLE-WASTERS: persons who sit up all night to drink
CANKER: a caterpillar; The dog-rose
CANSTICK: a candlestick
CANTLE: a slice, corner
CANTON: a canto
CANVAS: to sift: hence, metaphorically, to prove
CAPABLE: subject to Intelligent; Capable of inheriting Ample,
capacious
CAPITULATE: make a combined force
CAPOCCHIA: a simpleton
CAPRICIO: caprice
CAPRICIOUS: lascivious
CAPTIOUS: capacious
CARACK: a large ship of burden
CARBONADO: meat scotched for broiling; to scotch for broiling
CARD: the taper on which the points of the compass are marked under
the mariner's needle
CAREIRE: the curvetting of a horse
CARKANET: a necklace
CARL: a churl
CARLOT: a churl
CASTILIAN: a native of Castile; used as a cant term
CASTILIANO VULGO: a cant term, meaning, apparently, to use discreet
language
CATAIAN: a native of Cathay, a cant word
CATLING: cat-gut
CAUTEL: deceit
CAUTELOUS: insidious
CAVALERO: a cavalier, gentleman
CAVIARE: the roe of sturgeon pickled; metaph. a delicacy not
appreciated by the vulgar
CEASE: decease; put off, made to cease
CENSURE: judgment; to judge, criticise
CENTURY: a hundred of anything, whether men, prayers, or anything
else
CEREMONY: a ceremonial vestment, religious rite, or anything
ceremonial
CERTES: certainly
CESS: rate, reckoning
CHACE: a term at tennis
CHAMBER: a species of great gun
CHAMBERER: an effeminate man
CHANSON: a song
CHARACT: affected quality
CHARACTER: a letter, handwriting; to carve or engrave
CHARACTERY: handwriting; That which is written
CHARE: a turn of work
CHARGE-HOUSE: a free-school
CHARLES' WAIN: the constellation called also Ursa Major, or the
Great Bear
CHARNECO: a species of sweet wine
CHAUDRON: entrails
CHEATER: for escheator, an officer who collected the fines to be
paid into the Exchequer; A decoy
CHEQUE: a technical term in falconry; when a falcon flies at a bird
which is not her proper game she is said to cheque at it
CHEQUES: perhaps intended for ethics
CHEER: fortune, countenance
CHERRY-PIT: a game played with cherrystones
CHEVERIL: kid leather
CHEWIT: cough
CHILDING: pregnant
CH'ILL: vulgar for 'I will'
CHIRURGEONLY: in a manner becoming a surgeon
CHOPIN: a high shoe or clog
CHRISTENDOM: the state of being a Christian
CHRISTOM: clothed with a chrisom, the white garment which used to
be put on newly-baptized children
CHUCK: chicken, a term of endearment
CHUFF: a coarse blunt clown
CINQUE PACE: a kind of dance
CIPHER: to decipher
CIRCUMSTANCE: an argument
CITAL: recital
CITE: to incite
CITTERN: a guitar
CLACK-DISH: a beggar's dish
CLAP I' THE CLOUT: to shoot an arrow into the bull's eye of the
target
CLAW: to flatter
CLEPE: to call
CLIFF: clef, the key in music
CLING: to starve
CLINQUANT: glittering
CLIP: to embrace, enclose
CLOUT: the mark in the middle of a target
COAST: to advance
COBLOAF: a big loaf
COCK: a cockboat
COCK: a euphemism for God
COCK-AND-PIE: an oath
COCKLE: tares or darnel
COCKNEY: a cook
COCK-SHUT-TIME: the twilight, when cocks and hens go to roost
COG: to cheat, dissemble
COGNIZANCE: badge, token
COIGN: projecting corner stone
COIL: tumult, turmoil
COLLECTION: drawing a conclusion
COLLIED: blackened
COLOUR: pretence
COLOURABLE: specious
COLT: to defraud, befool
CO-MART: a joint bargain
COMBINATE: betrothed
COMBINE: to bind
COMMODITY: interest, profit
COMMONTY: used ludicrously for comedy
COMPACT: compacted, composed
COMPARATIVE: drawing comparisons
COMPARATIVE: rival |
COMPARE:
comparison
COMPASSIONATE: moving comparison
COMPETITOR: one who seeks the same thing, an associate in any
object
COMPLEMENT: accomplishment
COMPLEXION : passion
COMPOSE: to agree
COMPOSTION: composition
COMPTIBLE: tractable
CON: to learn by heart; To acknowledge
CONCEIT: conception, opinion, fancy
CONCUPY: concubine
CONDITION: temper, quality
CONDOLEMENT: grief
CONDUCT: escort
CONFECT: to make up into sweetmeats
CONFOUND: to consume, destroy
CONJECT: conjecture
CONSIGN: to sign a common bond, to confederate
CONSORT: company; to accompany
CONSTANCY: consistency
CONSTANT: settled, determined
CONSTANTLY: firmly
CONSTER: to construe
CONTEMPTIBLE: contemptuous
CONTINENT: that which contains anything; That which is contained
CONTINUATE: uninterrupted
CONTRACTION: the marriage contract
CONTRARY: to oppose
CONTRIVE: to conspire; to wear away
CONTROL: to confute
CONVENT: to convene, summon to be convenient
CONVERT: to change
CONVERTITE: a convert
CONVEY: to manage; To filch
CONVEYANCE: theft, fraud
CONVICT: convicted
CONVICTED: overpowered, vanquished; A doubtful word
CONVINCE: to conquer, subdue
CONVIVE: to feast together
CONVOY: escort
CONY-CATCH: to cheat
CONY-CATCHING: poaching, pilfering
COOLING CARD: used metaphorically for an insurmountable obstacle
COPATAIN HAT: a high-crowned hat
COPE: to reward, to give in return
COPY: theme
CORAGIO: courage
CORAM: an ignorant mistake for Quorum
CORANTO: lively dance
CORINTH: a cant term for a brothel
CORINTHIAN: a wencher
CORKY: dry like cork
CORNUTO: a cuckold
COROLLARY: a surplus
CORPORAL: corporeal, bodily
CORPORAL OF THE FIELD: an aide-de-camp
CORRIVAL: rival
COSTARD: the head
COSTER-MONGER: peddling, mercenary
COTE: a cottage
COTE: to quote, instance
COTE: to come alongside, overtake
COT-QUEAN: an effeminate man, molly-coddle
COUCHINGS: crouchings
COUNT CONFECT: a nobleman composed of affectation
COUNTENANCE: fair shew
COUNTERFEIT: portrait; A piece of base coin
COUNTERPOINT: a counterpane
COUNTERVAIL: to counterpoise, outweigh
COUNTRY: belonging to one's country
COUNTY: count, earl
COUPLEMENT: union
COURT HOLY-WATER: flattery
COVENT: a convent
COVER: to lay the table for dinner
COWISH: cowardly
COWL-STAFF: the staff on which a vessel is supported between two
men
COX MY PASSION: an oath, a euphemism for 'God's Passion'
COY: to stroke, fondle to condescend with difficulty
COYSTRIL: a kestrel, a cowardly kind of hawk
COZEN: to cheat
COZENAGE: cheating
COZENER: a cheater
COZIER: a tailor
CRACK: to boast
CRACK: a loud noise, clap; A forward boy
CRACKER: boaster
CRACK-HEMP: a gallows-bird
CRANK: a winding passage
CRANKING: winding
CRANTS: garlands
CRARE: a ship of burden
CRAVEN: a dunghill cock
CREATE: formed, compounded
CREDENT: creditable; Credible; Credulous
CREDIT: report
CRESCIVE: increasing
CRESTLESS: not entitled to bear arms, lowborn
CRISP: curled, winding
CROSS: a piece of money, so called because the coin was formerly
stamped with a cross
CROW-KEEPER: one who scares crows
CROWNER: a coroner
CROWNET: a coronet
CRY: the yelping of hounds; A pack of hounds; A company, use
contemptuously
CRY AIM: to encourage
CUE: the last words of an actor's speech, which is the signal for
the next actor to begin
CUISSES: pieces of armour to cover the thighs
CULLION: a base fellow
CUNNING: skill; skilful
CURB: to bend, truckle
CURRENTS: occurrences
CURST CURSTNESS: shrewishness
CURTAIL: a cur
CURTAL: a docked horse
CURTAL-AXE: a cutlass
CUSTALORUM: a ludicrous mistake for Custos Rotulorum
CUSTARD-COFFIN: the crust of a custard-pudding
CUSTOMER:
a common woman
CUT: a cheat; 'To draw cuts' is to draw lots
CYPRESS: a kind of crape |
~ D ~
DAFF:
to befool; to put off; this seems to be a corruption of 'doff.'
DAMN: to condemn
DANGER: reach, control, power
DANSKER: a Dane
DARE: to challenge
DARKLING: in the dark
DARRAIGN: to set in array
DAUB: to disguise
DAUBERY: imposition
DAY-WOMAN: a dairy-maid
DEAR: dire; that which has to do with the affections; piteous;
important
DEARN: lonely
DEBOSHED: debauched; drunken
DECK: to bedew (this is probably a form of the verb 'to dag,' now a
provincial word); a pack of cards
DECLINE: to enumerate, as in going through the cases of a noun
DECLINED: fallen
DEEM: doom; judgment
DEFEAT: to undo, destroy; destruction
DEFEATURE: disfigurement
DEFENCE: art of fencing
DEFEND: to forbid
DEFENSIBLE: having the power to defend
DEFTLY: dexterously
DEFY: renounce
DEGREES: a step
DELAY: to let slip by delaying
DEMERIT: merit, desert
DEMURELY: solemnly
DENAY: denial
DENIER: the 12th part of a French sol coin
DENOTEMENT: marking; note or manifestation
DENY: to refuse
DEPART: departure; to part
DEPARTING: parting, separation
DEPEND: to be in service
DERIVED: born, descended
DEROGATE: degraded
DESCANT: a variation upon a melody, hence, metaphorically, a
comment on a given theme
DESIGN: to draw up articles
DESPATCH: to deprive, bereave
DESPERATE: determined, bold
DETECT: to charge, blame
DETERMINE: to conclude
DICH: optative mood, perhaps contracted for 'do it.'
DIET: food regulated by the rules of medicine; to have one's food
regulated by the rules of medicine
DIFFUSED: confused
DIGRESSING: transgressing, going out of the right way
DIGRESSION: transgression |
DIG-YOU-GOOD-DEN:
give you good evening
DILDO: the chorus or burden of a song
DINT: stroke
DIRECTION: judgment, skill
DISABLE: to disparage
DISAPPOINTED: unprepared
DISCASE: to undress
DISCONTENT: a malcontent
DISCOURSE: power of reasoning
DISDAINED: disdainful
DISLIMN: to disfigure, transform
DISME: a tenth or tithe
DISPARK: to destroy a park
DISPONGE: to squeeze out as from a sponge
DISPOSE: disposal; to conspire
DISPOSITION: maintenance
DISPUTABLE: disputatious
DISPUTE: to argue, examine
DISSEMBLY: used ridiculously for assembly
DISTASTE: to corrupt
DISTEMPERED: discontented
DISTRACTION: a detached troop or company of soldiers
DISTRAUGHT: distracted, mad
DIVERTED: turned from the natural course
DIVISION: a phrase or passage in a melody
DIVULGED: published, spoken of
DOFF: to do off, strip; to put off with an excuse
DOLT: a small Dutch coin
DOLE: portion dealt Grief, lamentation
DON: to do on, put on
DONE: 'done to death,' put to death
DOTANT: one who dotes, a dotard
DOUT: to do out, quench
DOWLAS: a kind of coarse sacking
DOWLE: the swirl of a feather
DOWN-GYVED: hanging down like gyves or fetters
DRAB: a harlot
DRABBING: whoring
DRAUGHT: a privy
DRAWN: having his sword drawn; drunk, having taken a good draught
DRIBBLING: weak
DRIVE: to rush impetuously
DROLLERY: a puppet-show
DRUMBLE: to dawdle
DRY: thirsty
DUC-DAME: perhaps the Latin duc-ad-me, bring him to me
DUDGEON: a dagger
DULL: soothing
DULLARD:
a dull person
DUMP: complaint
DUP: to do up; lift up |
~ E ~
EAGER:
sour; harsh; biting
EANLING: a yeanling, a lamb
EAR: to plough
ECHE: to eke out
EFT: ready, convenient
EISEL: vinegar
ELD: old age
EMBOSSED: swollen into protuberances; covered with foam
EMBOWELLED: disembowelled, emptied
EMBRASURE: embrace
EMINENCE: exalted station
EMPERY: empire
EMULATION: jealousy, mutiny
EMULOUS: jealous
ENCAVE: to place oneself in a cave
END: 'Still an end,' continually for ever
ENFEOFF: to place in possession in fee simple
ENGINE: a machine of war
ENGLUT: to swallow speedily
ENGROSS: to make gross or fat
ENGROSSMENT: immoderate acquisition
ENKINDLE: to make keen
ENMEW: to shut up, as a hawk is shut up in a mew
ENSCONCE: to cover as with a fort
ENSEAMED: fat, rank
ENSHIELD: hidden
ENTERTAIN: encounter; experience
ENTERTAINMENT: treatment; a disposition to entertain a
proposal; service
ENTREATMENTS: interviews
EPHESIAN: a toper, a cant term
EQUIPAGE: attendance
EREWHILE: a short time since
ESCOT: to pay a man's reckoning, to maintain
ESPERANCE: hope, used as a war-cry
ESPIAL: a scout or spy
ESTIMATION: conjecture |
ESTRIDGE:
ostridge
ETERNE: eternal
EVEN: coequal; to equal
EXAMINE: to question
EXCREMENT: that which grows outwardly from the body and has
no sensation like the hair or nails; any outward show
EXECUTOR: an executioner
EXEMPT: excluded
EXERCISE: a religious service
EXHALE: to hale or draw out to draw the sword
EXHIBITION: allowance, pension
EXIGENT: death, ending
EXION: ridiculously used for 'action'
EXPECT: expectation
EXPEDIENCE: expedition, undertaking; haste
EXPEDIENT: expeditious, swift
EXPIATE: completed
EXPOSTULATE: to expound, discuss
EXPOSTURE: exposure
EXPRESS: to reveal
EXPULSE: to expel
EXSUFFICATE: that which has been hissed off, contemptible
EXTEND: to seize
EXTENT: a seizure
EXTERN: outward
EXTIRP: to extirpate
EXTRACTING: distracting
EXTRAUGHT: part. extracted, descended
EXTRAVAGANT: foreign, wandering
EXTREMES: extravagance of conduct; extremities
EYAS: a nestling hawk
EYAS-MUSKET: a nestling of the musket or merlin; the
smallest species of British hawk
EYE:
a glance; oeillad; a shade of colour, as in shot silk
EYNE: eyes |
~ F ~
FACINOROUS: wicked
FACT: guilt
FACTIOUS: instant, importunate
FACULTY: essential virtue or power
FADGE: to suit
FADING: a kind of ending to a song
FAIN: glad; gladly
FAIR: beauty
FAITOR: a traitor
FALL: to let fall
FALLOW: fawn-coloured
FALSE: falsehood
FALSING: deceptive
FAMILIAR: a familiar spirit
FANCY FANCY-FREE: untouched by love
FANG: to seize in the teeth
FANTASTIC: a fantastical person
FAP: drunk
FAR: farther
FARCED: stuffed
FARDEL: a burden
FARTUOUS: used ridiculously for ' virtuous.'
FAST: assuredly,
unalterably
FAT: dull
FAVOUR: countenance; complexion; quality
FEAR: the object of fear; to
affright
FEARFUL: subject to fear, timorous
FEAT: dexterous; to make fine
FEATER: comp.
degree. more neatly
FEATLY: nimbly, daintily
FEATURE: beauty
FEDERARY: confederate
FEEDER: agent, servant
FEE-GRIEF: a grief held, as it were, in fee-simple, or the peculiar property
of him who possesses it
FEERE: a companion, husband
FEHEMENTLY: used ridiculously for
'vehemently.'
FELL: the hide
FENCE: art or skill in defence
FEODARY: one who holds an estate
by suit or service to a superior lord; hence one who acts under the direction of another
FESTER: to rankle, grow virulent
FESTINATELY: quickly
FET: fetched
FICO: a fig
FIELDED: in the
field of battle
FIG: to insult
FIGHTS: clothes hung round a ship to conceal the men from the
enemy
FILE: a list or catalogue; to defile To smooth or polish To make even
FILL-HORSE: shaft-horse
FILLS: the shafts
FILTH: a whore
FINE: end; to make fine or specious
FINELESS: endless
FIRAGO: ridiculously used for 'Virago.'
FIRE-DRAKE: Will o' the Wisp
FIRE-NEW: with
the glitter of novelty on, like newly- forged metal
FIRK: to chastise
FIT: a canto or
division of a song A trick or habit
FITCHEW: a polecat
FIVES: a disease incident to horses
FLAP-DRAGON: raisins in burning brandy
FLAP-JACK: a pan-cake
FLAT: certain
FLATNESS: lowness,
depth |
FLAW: a gust of wind sudden emotion, or the cause of it; to make a flaw in, to
break
FLECKED: spotted, streaked
FLEET: to float To pass away to pass the time
FLEETING: inconstant
FLESHMENT: the act of fleshing the sword, hence the first feat of arms
FLEWED: furnished with hanging lips, as hounds are
FLIGHT: a particular mode of practising archery
FLIRT-GILL: a light woman
FLOTE: wave, sea
FLOURISH: an ornament; to ornament,
disguise with ornament
FLUSH: fresh, full of vigour
FOIL: defeat, disadvantage
FOIN: to
fence, fight
FOISON: plenty
FOND: foolish, foolishly affectionate
FOOT-CLOTH: a saddle-cloth
hanging down to the ground
FOR: for that, because
FORBID: accursed, outlawed
FORBODE: forbidden
FORCE: to stuff, for 'farce.'
FORCED: falsely attributed
FORDO: to kill, destroy To
weary
FOREIGN: obliged to live abroad
FOREPAST: former
FORESLOW : to delay
FORFEND: to forbid
FORGETIVE: inventive
FORKED: horned
FORMAL: regular, retaining its proper and essential
characteristic
FORSPEAK: to speak against
FORSPENT: exhausted, weary
FORTHRIGHT: a straight
path; forthrights and meanders, straight paths and crooked ones
FORWEARY: to weary, exhaust
FOSSET-SELLER: one who sells the pipes inserted into a vessel to give vent to the liquor,
and stopped by a spigot
FOX: a sword; a cant word
FOX-SHIP: the cunning of the fox
FRAMPOLD: peevish, unquiet FRANK the feeding place of swine
FRANKED: confined
FRANKLIN: a freeholder,
a small squire
FRAUGHT: freighted
FRAUGHTAGE: freight
FRAUGHTING: to fraught. loading or
constituting the cargo of a ship
FRESH: a spring of fresh water
FRET: the stop of a guitar; to wear away To variegate
FRIEND: to befriend
FRIPPERY: an old-clothes shop
FROM: prep.
contrary to
FRONT: to affront, oppose
FRONTIER: opposition
FRONTLET: that which is worn on
the forehead
FRUSH: to break or bruise
FRUSTRATE: frustrated
FUB OFF: to put off
FULFILL: to
fill full
FULL: complete
FULLAM: a loaded die
FULSOME: lustful
FURNISHED: equipped
FURNITOR: furnitory, an herb
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~ G ~
GABERDINE: a loose outer coat, or smock frock
GAD: a pointed
instrument, a goad Upon the gad, with impetuous haste, upon the spur of the moment
GAIN-GIVING: misgiving
GAIT: going, steps
GALLIARD: a kind of dance
GALLIASSE: a kind of ship
GALLIMAUFRY: a ridiculous medley
GALLOW: to scare
GALLOWGLASS: the irregular infantry of
Ireland, and the Highlands of Scotland
GAMESTER: a frolicsome person A loose woman
GARBOIL: disorder, uproar
GARISH: gaudy, staring
GARNER: to lay by, as corn in a barn
GAST: frightened
GAUDY: festive
GAZE: an object of wonder
GEAR: matter of business of any kind
GECK: a fool
GENERAL: the generality, common people
GENERATIONS: children
GENEROSITY: noble birth
GENEROUS: noble
GENTILITY: good manners
GENTLE: gentlefolk; noble; to ennoble
GENTRY: complaisance, conduct becoming gentlefolk
GERMAN: akin Appropriate
GERMEN: seed, embryo
GEST: period
GIB: a he-cat
GIFTS: talents, endowment
GIGLOT: a wanton girl
GILDER: a coin of the
value of 1s. 6d. or 2s
GILT: money State of wealth
GIMMAL: double
GIMMOR: contrivance
GING: gang |
GIRD: to gibe; a sarcasm or gibe
GLEEK: to scoff; a scoff
GLOSE: to comment;
hence, to be garrulous
GLUT: to swallow
GNARL: to snarl
GOOD-DEED: indeed
GOOD-DEN: good-evening, contracted from 'Good-even.'
GOOD-YEAR or GOOD-JER: a corruption of the
French goujere; the venereal disease
GORBELLIED: corpulent
GOURD: a species of game of
chance
GOUT: a drop
GOVERNMENT: discretion
GRACIOUS: abounding in grace Divine
GRAINED: engrained
GRAMERCY: int. grand mercy, much thanks
GRANGE: the farmstead attached to a
monastery, a solitary farm-house
GRATILLITY: used ridiculously for 'gratuity.'
GRATULATE: to
congratulate
GRAVE: to bury
GREASILY: grossly
GREEK: a bawd
GREEN: immature, fresh, unused
GREENLY: foolishly
GREET: to weep
GRIZE: a step
GROSSLY: palpably
GROUNDLING: one who sits in
the pit of a theatre
GROWING: accruing
GUARD: decoration; to decorate
GUARDAGE: guardianship
GUINEA-HEN: the pintado, a cant term
GULES: red, a term in heraldry
GULF: the
throat
GUN-STONE: a cannon ball
GUST: taste, relish
GYVE: to fetter |
~ H ~
HACK: to become common
HAGGARD : a wild or unreclaimed hawk
HAG-SEED: seed or offspring of a hag
HAIR: course, order, grain
HALIDOM: holiness,
sanctification, Christian fellowship; used as an oath, and analogous to 'By my faith.'
HALL: an open space to dance in
HALLOWMAS: All Hallows' Day
HAP: chance, fortune
HAPPILY: accidentally
HANDSAW: perhaps a corruption of Heronshaw; a hern
HARDIMENT: defiance, brave
deeds
HARLOCK: charlock, wild mustard
HARRY: to annoy, harass
HAUGHT: haughty
HAUNT: company
HAVING: property, fortune
HAVIOUR: behavior
HAY: a term in fencing
HEADY: violent, headlong
HEAT: of 'to heat,' heated
HEBENON: henbane
HEFT: a heaving; furnished with a handle:
hence, metaphorically, finished off, delicately formed
HELM: to steer, manage
HENCE: henceforward
HENCHMAN: a page or attendant
HENT: to seize, take
HERMIT: a beadsman, one bound
to pray for another
HEST: command |
HIGH: used in composition with adjectives to heighten or
emphasize their signification, as, high- fantastical
HIGHT: called
HILD: held
HILDING: a
paltry fellow
HINT: suggestion
HIREN: a prostitute. with a pun on the word 'iron.'
HIT: to
agree
HOISE: to hoist, heave up on high
HOIST: hoisted
HOLP: to help; helped
HOME: to the
utmost
HONEST: chaste
HONESTY: chastity
HONEY-STALKS: the red clover
HOODMAN-BLIND: the game
now called blindman's-buff
HORN-MAD: probably, 'harn-mad,' that is, brain-mad
HOROLOGE: a
clock
HOT-HOUSE: a brothel
HOX: to hamstring
HUGGER-MUGGER: secrecy
HULL: to drift on the sea
like a wrecked ship
HUMOROUS: fitful, or, perhaps, hurried
HUNT-COUNTER: to follow the scent
the wrong way
HUNTS-UP: a holla used in hunting when the game was on foot
HURLY: noise,
confusion
HURTLE: to clash
HURTLING: noise, confusion
HUSBANDRY: frugality Management
HUSWIFE: a jilt
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~ I ~
ICE-BROOK:
an icy-cold brook
I'FECKS: int. in faith, a euphemism
IGNOMY: ignominy
IMAGE: representation
IMBARE: to bare, lay open
IMMEDIACY: close connexion
IMMOMENT: unimportant
IMP: to graf;. to splice a falcon's broken feathers; a
scion; a child
IMPAWN: to stake, compromise
IMPEACH: to bring into question; impeachment
IMPEACHMENT: cause of censure, hindrance
IMPERCEIVERANT: duff of perception
IMPETICOS: to pocket
IMPORTANCE: importunity
IMPORTANT: importunate
IMPORTING: significant
IMPOSE: imposition, meaning command or task imposed upon any
one
IMPOSITIONS: command
IMPRESE: a device with a motto
IMPRESS: to compel to serve
INCAPABLE: unconscious
INCARNARDINE: to dye red
INCENSED: incited, egged on
INCH-MEAL: by inch-meal, by portions of inches
INCLINING: compliant; inclination
INCLIP: to embrace
INCLUDE: conclude
INCONY: fine, delicate
INCORRECT: ill-regulated
IND: India
INDENT: to compound or bargain
INDEX: a preface |
INDIFFERENT:
ordinary
INDIGEST: disordered
INDITE: to invite; to convict
INDUCTION: introduction, beginning
INDURANCE: delay
INFINITE: infinite power
INGRAFT: to engraff, engrafted
INHABITABLE: uninhabitable
INHERIT: to possess
INHOOPED: penned up in hoops
INKHORN-MATE: a contemptuous term for an ecclesiastic, or
man of learning
INKLE: a kind of narrow fillet or tape
INLAND: civilized, well-educated
INLY: inward; inwardly
INQUISITION: enquiry
INSANE: that which causes insanity
INSCONCE: to arm, fortify
INSTANCE: example; information; reason, proof
INTEND: to pretend
INTENDING: regarding
INTENDMENT: intention
INTENTIVELY: attentively
INTERESSED: allied
INTERMISSION: pause, delay
INTRENCHMENT: not capable of being cut
INTRINSE: intricate
INTRINSICATE: intricate
INVENTION: imagination
INWARD: an intimate friend; intimate
INWARDNESS: intimacy
IRREGULOUS:
lawless, licentious
ITERATION: reiteration |
~ J ~
JACK: a mean
fellow
JACK-A-LENT: a puppet thrown at in Lent
JACK GUARDANT: a jack in office
JADE: to whip, to treat with contempt
JAR: the ticking of a clock; to tick as a clock
JAUNCE: to prance
JESS: a strap of leather attached to the talons of a hawk, by which
it is held on the fist
JEST: to tilt in a tournament
JET: to strut |
JOURNAL:
daily
JOVIAL: appertaining to Jove
JUDICIOUS: critical
JUMP: to agree to hazard; hazard
JUMP: exactly, nicely
JUSTICER: a judge, magistrate
JUT: to encroach
JUTTY:
a projection; to jut out beyond
JUVENAL: youth, young man |
~ K ~
KAM: crooked
KECKSY: hemlock
KEECH: a lump of tallow
KEEL: to skin
KEEP: to restrain
KEISAR: Caesar, Emperor
KERN: the rude foot soldiers of the Irish
KIBE: a chilblain
KICKSHAW: a made dish
KICKSY WICKSY: a wife, used in disdain |
KILN-HOLE:
the ash-hole under a kiln
KIND: nature
KINDLE: to bring forth young; used only of beasts
KINDLESS: unnatural
KINDLY: natural
KIRTLE: a gown
KNAP: to snap, crack
KNAVE:
a boy; A serving-man
KNOT: a figure in garden beds
KNOW: to acknowledge |
~ L ~
LABRAS: lips
LACED-MUTTON: a courtesan
LAG: the lowest of the
people; late, behindhand
LAKIN: ladykin, little lady, an endearing term applied to the
Virgin Mary in the oath, 'By our lakin.'
LAND-DAMN : perhaps to extirpate; Hanmer thinks it
means to kill by stopping the urine
LAPSED: taken, apprehended
LARGE: licentious, free
LARGESS: a present
LASS-LORN: deserted by a mistress
LATCH: to smear To catch
LATED: belated
LATTEN: made of brass
LAUND: lawn
LAVOLTA: a dance
LAY: wager
LEAGUE: besieging army
LEASING: lying
LEATHER-COATS: a kind of apple
LEECH: a physician
LEER: countenance, complexion
LEET: a
manor court
LEGE: to allege
LEGERITY: lightness
LEIGER: an ambassador resident abroad
LEMAN: a
lover or mistress
LENTEN: meagre That which may be eaten in Lent
L'ENVOY: the farewell or
moral at the end of a tale or poem
LET: to hinder to binder; hindrance
LETHE: death
LEVEL: to aim; that which is aimed at
LEWD: ignorant, foolish
LEWDLY: wickedly
LEWDSTER: a lewd
person
LIBBARD: a leopard
LIBERAL: licentious
LIBERTY: libertinism
LICENCE: licentiousness
LIEF: dear
LIFTER: a thief
LIGHT O' LOVE: a tune so called
LIGHTLY: easily, generally
LIKE: to
please; to liken, compare; likely
LIKELIHOOD: promise, appearance |
LIKING: condition
LIMBECK: an alembick, a still
LIMBO: or Limbo patrum, the place where good men under the Old
Testament were believed to be imprisoned till released by Christ after his crucifixion
LIME: bird-lime; to entangle as with bird-lime To smear with bird-lime To mix lime with
beer or other liquor
LIMN: to draw
LINE: to cover on the inside To strengthen by inner works
LINSTOCK: a staff with a match at the end of it used by gunners in firing cannon
LIST: a
margin, hence a bound or enclosure
LITHER: lazy
LITTLE: miniature
LIVELIHOOD: appearance of
life
LIVERY: a law phrase, signifying the act of delivering a freehold into the possession
of the heir or purchaser
LIVING: lively, convincing
LOACH: a fish so called
LOB: a looby
LOCKRAM: a sort of coarse linen
LODE-STAR: the leading-star, pole-star
LOFFE: to laugh
LOGGATS: the game called nine-pins
LONGLY: longingly
LOOF: to lull, bring a vessel up to the
wind
LOON: a low contemptible fellow
LOT: a prize in a lottery
LOTTERY: that which falls to a
man by lot
LOWT: a clown
LOWT: to treat one as a lowt, with contempt
LOZEL: a spendthrift
LUBBER: a leopard
LUCE: n. the pike or jack, a fresh-water fish
LUMPISH: duff, dejected
LUNES: fits of lunacy
LURCH: to defeat, to win; to shift, to play tricks
LURE: a thing stuffed
to resemble a bird with which the falconer allures a hawk
LUSH: juicy, luxuriant
LUSTIG: lusty, cheerful
LUXURIOUS: lascivious
LUXURY: lust
LYM: a limer or slow hound |
~ M ~
MADE: having his fortune made
MAGNIFICO: the chief magistrate
at Venice
MAGOT-PIE: a magpie, a pie which feeds on magots
MAIL: covered as with a coat of
mail
MAIN-COURSE: a sea-term
MAKE: to do up, bar; To do
MALKIN : a familiar name for Mary;
hence a servant wench
MALLECHO: mischief
MAMMERING: hesitating
MAMMETS: a woman's breasts A
doll
MAMMOCK: to break, tear
MAN: to tame a hawk
MANAGE: management
MANDRAGORA : or Mandrake a
plant of soporiferous quality, supposed to resemble a man
MANKIND: having a masculine
nature
MARCHES: frontiers, borders
MARCHPANE: a kind of sweet biscuit
MARGENT: margin
MARRY
TRAP: an oath
MARTLEMAS: the Feast of St. Martin, which occurs on the 11th of Nov. when the
fine weather generally ends; hence applied to an old man
MATCH: an appointment
MATE : to
confound, dismay
MEACOCK: tame, cowardly
MEALED: mingled
MEAN: instrument used to promote an
end; the tenor part in a harmony; opportunity, power
MEASURE: reach; A stately dance
MEAZEL: a leper, spoken in contempt of a mean person
MEDAL: a portrait in a locket
MEDICINE: a physician
MEED: reward, hire Merit
MEHERCLE: by Hercules
MEINY: retinue
MELL: to mix, to
meddle
MEMORISE: to cause to be remembered
MEPHISTOPHILUS: the name of a familiar spirit
MERCATANTE: a foreign trader
MERELY: simply, absolutely
MESS: a company of four
METAPHYSICAL: supernatural
METE-YARD: measuring-wand
MEW UP: to confine
MICHER: a truant |
MICKLE: much
MILL-SIXPENCE: a milled sixpence
MINCE: to do any thing affectedly
MINCING: affected
MISCREATE: illegitimate
MISDOUBT: to suspect
MISER: avarice
MISPRISE to despise; To mistake
MISPRISION: mistake
MISSIVE : messenger
MISTEMPERED: angry
MISTHINK : to think ill of
MISTRESS the jack in bowling
MOBLED: muffled
MODERN: commonplace
MODULE : a model, image
MOE: and more;
Of frequent occurrence
MOIETY: a portion
MOME: a stupid person
MOMENTANY: momentary
MONTHS-MIND: a monthly commemoration of the dead, but used ludicrously to mean a great mind
or strong desire
MOOD: anger
MOON-CALF: a nick-name applied to Caliban
MOONISH : inconstant
MOP: nod
MORISCO: a Moor
MORRIS-PIKE: Moorish-pike
MORT: death, applied to animals of the
chase
MORT-DU-VINAIGRE: a ridiculous oath
MORTAL: fatal, deadly Murderous
MORTIFIED: ascetic
MOSE: a doubtful word, applied to some disease in a horse
MOTION: solicitation Emotion; a puppet
MOTIVE: one who moves; That which moves
MOTLEY: or the many-coloured coat of
a fool, or a fool
MOTLEY-MINDED: foolish
MOUSE-HUNT: a weasel
MOW: to make grimaces
MOY: a
coin, probably a moidore
MUCH: int. significant of contempt; used ironically
MURE: a
wall
MUST: a scramble
MUTINE: to mutiny; a mutineer |
~ N ~
NAPKIN:
a handkerchief
NATURAL: an idiot
NAYWARD: towards denial
NAYWORD: a catch-word, by-word
NEB: the beak
NEELD: a needle
NEIF: hand
NEPHEW: a grandson
NETHER-STOCKS: stockings
NEXT: nearest
NICE: foolish
NICK: score or reckoning; to brand with folly
NIGHTED: black as night
NIGHT-RULE: nightly solemnity |
NINE MEN'S
MORRIS: a place set apart for a Moorish dance by nine men
NINNY: a fool, jester
NOBILITY: nobleness
NOBLE: a coin, worth 6s. 8d
NODDY: a dolt
NONCE: for the nonce, corrupted from 'for then once,' for
the occasion
NOOK-SHOTTEN: indented with bays and creeks
NOURISH: a nurse
NOVUM: a game at dice
NOWL:
head
NUTHOOK: a hook for pulling down nuts, hence a thief
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~ O ~
O:
a circle
OAR: to row as with oars
OBSEQUIOUS: behaving as becomes one who attends funeral
obsequies
OBSEQUIOUSLY: funereally
OBSTACLE: ridiculously used for 'obstinate'
OCCUPATION: persons occupied in business
OCCURENT: an incident
OD'S: a euphemism for 'God's' in exclamations such as OD'S
BODY, OD'S HEARTLINGS, OD'S PITTIKINS, and OD'S
PLESSED WILL
OEILLIAD: an amorous glance
O'ERPARTED: having too important a part to act
O'ER-RAUGHT: overreached overtasked
OFFERING: challenging
OFFICE: benefit, kindness use, function
OLD: a cant term for great, as we say fine, or pretty
ONCE: some time
ONEYER: a banker; a doubtful word
OPE: open; to open |
OPEN:
plain; public; to give tongue as a hound
OPERANT: active
OPINIONED: used ridiculously for pinioned
OPPOSITE: adversary
OPPOSITION: combat
OR: before
ORDER: measures
ORDINANCE: rank, order
ORGULOUS: proud
ORT: leaving, refuse
OSTENT: show, appearance
OSTENTATION: show, appearance
OUNCE: a beast of prey of the tiger kind
OUPHE: a fairy
OUSEL-COCK: the blackbird
OUT: all out, fully
OUT-LOOK:
to face down
OUTWARD: not in the secret of affairs; outside
OWE: to own |
~ P ~
PACK: to
practice unlawful confederacy;
a number of people
confederated
PADDOCK: a toad
PAID: punished
PALABRAS: words, a cant term, from the Spanish
PALE: to enclose
PALL: to wrap as with a pall
PALLED: impaired
PALMER: one who bears a
palm-branch, in token of having made a pilgrimage to Palestine
PALMY: victorious
PARCELLED: belonging to individuals
PARD: the leopard
PARITOR: an apparitor
PARLE: talk
PARLOUS: perilous
keen, shrewd
PARTED: endowed, gifted
PARTIZAN: a pike
PASH: the face; to strike
violently, to bruise, crush
PASS: to practice; To surpass expectation
PASSANT: a term of
heraldry, applied to animals represented on the shield as passing by at a trot
PASSING: surpassingly, exceedingly
PASSION: to have feelings
PASSIONATE: to suffer
PASSY-MEASURE: a
kind of dance
PASTRY: the room where pastry was made
PATCH: a mean fellow
PATCHED: dressed in
motley
PATCHERY: trickery
PATH: to walk
PATHETICAL: affected, hypocritical
PATIENT: to make
patient, to compose
PATINE: the metal disc on which the bread is placed in the
administration of the Eucharist
PATTERN: to give an example of Afford a pattern for
PAUCA
VERBA: few words
PAUCAS: few, a cant word
PAVIN: a dance
PAX: a small image of Christ
PAY: to
despatch
PEAT: a term of endearment for a child
PEDASCULE: a pedant, schoolmaster
PEER: to
peep out
PEIZE: to balance, weigh down
PELTING: paltry
PERDU: lost
PERDURABLE: durable
PERDY: a
euphemism for Par Dieu
PERFECT : certain; to inform perfectly
PERIAPTS: charms worn
round the neck
PERJURE: a perjured person
PERSEVER: to persevere
PERSPECTIVE: a telescope, or
some sort of optical glass
PEW-FELLOW: a comrade
PHEEZE: to comb, fleece, curry
PIA-MATER: the membrane covering the brain, the brain itself
PICK: to pitch, throw
PICKED: chosen,
selected
PICKERS: (and stealers), the fingers, used ridiculously
PICKING: insignificant
PICKT-HATCH: a place noted for brothels. Merry Wives of Windsor
PIED: motley-coated, wearing
the motley coat of a jester
PIELED: shaven
PLIGHT: pitched
PILCHER: a scabbard
PILL: to
pillage
PIN : a malady of the eye; The centre of a target
PINFOLD: a pound, a place to confine
lost cattle
PIONED: digged
PLACKET: a petticoat-front
PLAIN SONG: a simple air
PLAITED: intricate
PLANCHED: made of boards |
PLANTATION: colonizing, planting a colony
PLAUSIVE: plausible
PLEACHED: interwoven
POINT: a lace furnished with a tag by which the breeches were
held up
POINT-DE-VICE: faultless
POISE: balance Doubt
POLLED: bare
POMANDER: a perfumed ball
POMEWATER: a kind of apple
POOR-JOHN: a herring
POPINJAY: a parrot
PORT: pomp, state; a
gate
PORTABLE: bearable
PORTANCE: conduct, behavior
POSSESS: to inform
POTCH: to push
violently
POTENT: a potentate
POUNCET-BOX: a box for holding perfumes
POWER: forces, army
PRACTISE: wicked stratagem
PRACTISANT: a confederate
PRANK: to dress up
PRECEPT: a justice's
summons
PRECIOUSLY: in business of great importance
PREGNANCY: fertility of invention
PREGNANT: fertile of invention Ready Obvious
PRENOMINATE: to name beforehand, to prophesy
PRE-ORDINANCE: old-established law
PRESENCE: the presence-chamber High bearing
PREST: ready
PRETENCE: design
PRETEND: to portend To intend
PREVENT: to anticipate
PRICK: the mark denoting
the hour on a dial; to incite; To choose by pricking a hole with a pin opposite the
name
PRICK-SONG: music sung in parts by note
PRICKET: a stag of two years
PRIDE: heat
PRIG: to
steal
PRIME: rank, lecherous
PRIMER: more-important
PRIMERO: a game at cards
PRINCIPALITY: that which holds the highest place
PRINCOX: a coxcomb
PRISER: a prize-fighter
PROCURE: to
bring
PREFACE: interj. much good may it do you
PROFANE: outspoken
PROGRESS: a royal
ceremonial journey
PROJECT: to shape or contrive
PROMPTURE: suggestion
PRONE: ready, willing
PROOF: strength of manhood
PROPAGATE: to advance, to forward
PROPAGATION: obtaining
PROPER-FALSE: natural falsehood
PROPERTIED: endowed with the properties of
PROPERTIES: scenes, dresses, &c. used in a theatre
PROPERTY: to take possession of
PROPOSE: to
suppose, for the sake of argument; To converse
PROPOSE: conversation
PROROGUE: to defer
PROVAND: provender
PROVISION: forecast
PUCELLE: a virgin, the name given to Joan of Arc
PUDENCY: modesty
PUGGING: thieving
PUN: to pound
PURCHASE: to acquire, win; gain,
winnings
PUT: to compel
PUTTER-ON: an instigator
PUTTER-OUT: one who lends money at interest
PUTTING-ON: instigation
PUTTOCK: a kite |
~ Q ~
QUAIL:
to faint, be languid, be afraid; to cause to quail
QUAINT: curiously beautiful
QUAKE: to cause to quake or tremble
QUALIFY: to moderate
QUALITY: those of the same nature; rank or condition
QUARREL: a suit, cause
QUARRY: game, a heap of game
QUART D'ECU: a quarter crown
QUARTER: the post allotted to a soldier
QUAT: a pimple; used in contempt of a person
QUEASY: squeamish, unsettled
QUELL: murder
QUENCH: to grow cool
QUERN: a hand-mill
QUEST: enquiry, search, inquest, jury |
QUESTRIST:
one who goes in search of another
QUICK: so far gone in pregnancy that the child is alive
QUICKEN: to come to life
QUIDDIT: a subtle question
QUIDDITY: that which makes a thing what it is; the essential
nature
QUILLET: quidebet, a subtle case in law
QUINTAIN: a post for tilting at
QUIP: sharp jest, a taunt
QUIRE: to sing in concert
QUIT: to requite, respond; past tense of the verb to quit,
quitted
QUITANCE:
requital
QUIVER: active
QUOTE: to note |
~ R ~
RABATO: a ruff
RABBIT-SUCKER: a weasel
RACE: breed; inherited nature
RACK: wreck; to enhance the price of anything To drive as
clouds
RAG: a term of contempt applied to persons
RAKE: to cover
RAPT: transported with
emotion
RAPTURE: a fit
RASCAL: a lean deer
RASH: quick, violent
RATE: opinion, judgment
RATE: to assign, to value To scold
RATOLORUM: a ludicrous mistake for Rotulorum
RAUGHT: past tense
of reach
RAVIN : ravenous; to devour
RAWLY inadequately
RAWNESS: unprovided state
RAYED: arrayed, served
RAZED: slashed
REAR-MOUSE: the bat
REBATE: to deprive of keenness
REBECK: a
three-stringed fiddle
RECEIPT : money received
RECEIVING: capacity
RECHEAT: a point of the
chase to call back the hounds
RECORD: to sing
RECORDER: a flute
RECURE : to cure, recover
RED-LATTICE: suitable to an ale-house, because ale-houses had commonly red lattices
RED-PLAGUE: erysipelas
REDUCE: to bring back
REECHY: smoky, dirty
REFELL: to refute
REFER: to
reserve to
REGIMENT: government
REGREET: a salutation; to salute
REGUERDON: requital
RELATIVE: applicable
REMEMBER: to remind
REMORSE: pity
REMORSEFUL: full of pity, compassionate
REMOTION: removal
REMOVED : sequestered, remote
RENDER: to describe you; account |
RENEGE: to renounce, to deny
REPAIR: to renovate, comfort
REPEAL: to reverse the sentence of exile
REPROOF: confutation
REPUGN: to resist
REQUIEM : mass for the dead, so
called because it begins with the words " Requiem eternam dona eis, Domine"
RESOLVE: to
satisfy; To dissolve
RESPECT: consideration
RESPECTIVE: respectful, thoughtful; corresponding
RESPECTIVELY: respectfully
RETAILED: handed down
RETIRE: retreat; to draw
back
REVERB: to echo
REVOLT: a rebel
RIB: to enclose as within ribs
RID: to destroy
RIFT: to
split; a split
RIGGISH: wanton
RIGOL: a circle
RIPE: drunk
RIVAGE: the shore
RIVAL: a partner
RIVALITY: equal rank
RIVE: to fire
ROAD: the high road, applied to a common
woman
ROISTING: roistering, violent
ROMAGE unusual stir
RONVON: a term of contempt applied
to a woman
ROOD: the crucifix
ROOK: a cheater
ROPERY: roguery
ROPE-TRICKS: tricks such as are
played by a rope-dancer
ROUND: to whisper; to become great with child; to finish off; a
diadem; unceremonious
ROUNDEL: a dance or song
ROUNDURE: an enclosure
ROUSE: carousal
ROYNISH: mangy
RUBIOUS : ruddy
RUDDOCK: the redbreast
RUSH: to push
RUSHLING: rustling |
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SACRIFICIAL: reverent, as words used in religious worship
SACRING-BELL: the little bell rung at mass to give notice that the elements are consecrated
SAD: serious
SADLY: seriously
SADNESS: seriousness
SAFE: to make safe
SAG: to hang down
SALT: lascivious; taste
SANDED: marked with yellow spots
SANS: without
SAUCY: lascivious
SAW : a
moral saying
SAY: silken; assay, taste, relish
SCAFFOLDAGE; the gallery of a theatre
SCALD: scurvy, scabby
SCALE; to weigh in scales
SCALL: a scab, a word of reproach
SCAMBLE : to
scramble
SCAMEL: probably a misprint for sea-mel, sea-mew
SCAN: to examine subtly
SCANT : to
cut short, to spare; scanty, short scarcely
SCANTLING: a small portion
SCAPE: to escape; a sally
SCATHE: injury; to injure
SCATHFUL: destructive
SCONCE: the head
SCOTCH: to bruise or cut slightly
SCRIMER : a fencer
SCROYLE a scabby fellow
SCULL: a shoal of fish
SCURVY: scabby; mean
SEAL: to set one's seal to a deed; hence, to confirm
SEAM: fat
SEAMY: showing the seam or sewing
SEAR: scorched, withered; to stigmatize
SEARCH: to
probe; hence, to apply a healing remedy
SEATED: fixed, confirmed
SECT: a slip or scion A
political party
SECURELY: inconsiderately
SEEL: to close
SEELING: closing, blinding
SEEMING: seemly, becomingly; outward manner and appearance
SEEN: versed, instructed
SELD : seldom
SELF-BOUNTY: native goodness
SEMBLABLY : alike
SENIORY: seniority
SENNET: a flourish of
trumpets
SEPULCHRE: to bury
SEQUESTRATION : separation
SERE: dry
SERJEANT: a bailiff
SERPIGO : a
cutaneous disease
SERVICEABLE: 'serviceable vows,' vows that you will do her service, or be
her servant
SETEBOS: the name of a fiend
SETTER: one who watches travellers to give
information to thieves
SEVERAL: land which is not common but appropriated
SHAME: to be
ashamed; modesty
SHARDS: shreds, broken fragments of pottery; the wing cases of
beetles; hence 'sharded,' and 'shard-borne,'
SHARKED: snatched up, as a shark does his prey
SHEEN: brilliancy
SHEER: pure; unmixed
SHENT : rebuked, blamed; hurt
SHERIFF'S-POST; a post at
the door of a sheriff, to which royal proclamations were fixed
SHIVE: slice
SHOT: the
reckoning at an ale-house
SHOUGHS: shaggy dogs
SHOULDERED: plunged
SHOVEL-BOARD: game played
by sliding metal pieces along a board at a mark
SHREWD: mischievous
SHRIFT: confession; absolution
SHRIVE: to confess
SHRIVING-TIME: time for confession
SHROUD: to enshroud oneself,
cover oneself up
SIDE-SLEEVES: loose hanging sleeves
SIEGE: seat; stool; rank
SIGHT: an
aperture in a helmet
SIGHTLESS: invisible; unsightly
SIGN: to give an omen
SILLY: simple,
rustic
SIMULAR: counterfeit, feigned
SINGLE: feeble
SIR : a title applied to a bachelor of
arts at the Universities
SITH: since
SITHENCE : since
SIZES: allowances
SKAINS-MATES: scapegraces
SKILL: to be of importance
SKILLESS: ignorant
SKIMBLE-SKAMBLE: rambling,
disjointed
SKINKER: a drawer of liquor
SKIRR: to scour
SLACK: slacken
SLAVE: to turn to
slavish uses
SLEAVE: floss-silk
SLEDDED: sledged
SLEIDED: untwisted, raw, applied to silk
(Gower)
SLEIGHTS: artifices
SLIPPER: slippery
SLIPS : a kind of noose, or leash; a piece of
base money
SLIVER : to slice; a slice
SLOPS: loose breeches
SLUBBER: to slur over
SMIRCHED: smeared, soiled
SMOOTH: to flatter
SMOOTHED: flattered, fawned upon
SNEAP: taunt,
sarcasm
SNEAPED : pinched |
SNECK-UP: go hang!
SNUFF: anger; 'To take in snuff' is to take
offence
SOFTLY: gently
SOIL: spot, taint
SOLICIT: solicitation
SOLIDARE: a small coin
SOLVE: solution
SOMETIMES: formerly
SOOTH: truth; conciliation; true
SORE L: a buck of the third
year
SORRIEST: most sorrowful
SORRY: sorrowful, dismal
SORT: a company; rank, condition; lot
'In a sort,' in a manner; to choose to suit; to consort
SOT: fool
SOUL-FEARING : soul-terrifying
SOWL: to lug, drag
SOWTER: name of a dog
SPECIALLY: a special contract
SPED: settled, done for
SPEED: fortune
SPERR: to bolt, fasten
SPIAL: spy
SPILL: to destroy
SPILTH: spilling
SPLEEN: violent haste; used of the lightning flash
SPRAG: quick
SPRING: shoot, bud; beginning
SPRINGHALT: stringhalt, a disease of horses
SPRITED: haunted
SPURS: roots of trees
SQUANDERED: scattered
SQUARE: to quarrel; the front part of a woman's dress, stomacher; equitable
SQUARER: quarreller
SQUASH: an unripe peascod
SQUIER: a square or rule
SQUINY: to squint
STAGGERS: a disease in horses, attended with giddiness: hence any
bewildering distress
STAIN: to disfigure
STALE: a decoy; a gull; a prostitute; to make
stale, deprive anything of its freshness
STAND UPON: to be incumbent on
STANIEL: an inferior
kind of hawk
STARK: stiff
STARKLY: stiffly
STATE: a canopied chair
STATION: attitude; act of
standing
STATIST: a statesman
STATUA: a statue
STATUE: image, picture
STATUTE: security,
obligation
STATUTE-CAPS: woollen caps worn by citizens
STAY: a cheque
STEAD: to profit
STEELED: set or fixed
STERNAGE: steerage, course
STICKLER: an arbitrator in combats
STIGMATIC: a deformed person
STIGMATICAL: deformed
STILL: constant; constantly
STILLY: softly
STINT: to stop to stop
STITHY: a smith's forge; to forge
STOCCADO: a stoccata, or thrust in
fencing
STOCK: a stocking
STOMACH: courage, stubbornness; appetite, inclination
STONE-BOW: a
cross-bow for throwing stones
STOUP: a cup
STOUT: strong, healthy
STOVER: fodder
STRACHY: A
word of doubtful meaning
STRAIGHT: immediately
STRAIN: lineage; disposition
STRAITED: straitened
STRANGE: foreign ; coy, reserved Marvellous
STRANGENESS: coyness, reserve
STRANGER: foreigner
STRAPPADO: a kind of punishment
STRICTURE: strictness
STROSSERS: trowsers
STUCK: a
thrust of a sword
STUCK IN: corruption of stoccata
STUFF: baggage; material, substance
STUFFED: filled, stored
STY: to lodge as in a sty
SUBSCRIBE: to yield to succumb
SUCCESS : issue, consequence; succession
SUCCESSIVE : succeeding; in succession
SUDDEN: hasty, rash
SUDDENLY: hastily
SUFFERANCE: suffering
SUGGEST: to tempt, entice
SUGGESTION: temptation, enticement
SUITED: dressed
SULLEN: doleful, melancholy
SUMPTER: a horse that
carries provisions on a journey
SUPPOSE: a trick, imposition
SUPPOSED: counterfeit
SURCEASE: to cease; cessation, end
SURPRISE: to capture by surprise
SUR-REINED : over-worked
SUSPECT: suspicion
SUSPIRE: to breathe
SWABBER: a sweeper of the deck of a ship
SWARTH: black; quantity of grass cut down by one sweep of the scythe
SWASHER : swaggerer
SWASHING: dashing, smashing
SWATH: The same as 'swarth.'
SWATHLING: swaddling
SWAY: to move on
SWEAR: to
adjure
SWEAR OVER : to out-swear
SWIFT: ready, quick
SWINGE-BUCKLER: a bully |
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