Peat, a word of endearment.
Perlascule, a pedant.

Peer, to come out, to appear.
Peevish, foolish.

Peize, to balance, to keep in sus-
pense, to weigh down.
Pelting, paltry, petty, inconsi-
derable.

Pennons, small flags.

Penthesilia, Amazon.

Perch, a measure of five yards Possessed, acquainted with, fully and a half.

informed.

Pomewater, a species of apple.
Poor-john, hake dried and salted.
Popinjay, a parrot.
Popularity, plebeian intercourse.
Port, external pomp, figure.
Port, a gate.
Portable, bearable.

Portance, carriage, behaviour.
Possess, to inform, to make to
understand.

cantu.

Plainly, openly.

Plaited, complicated, involved.
Planched, made of brands.
Plant, the foot.

Platforms, plans, schemes. Plausive, gracious, pleasing, popular.

Pleached, folded together.

Possessed, afflicted with madness.
Potch, to push violently.
Potents, potentates.
Pouncet-box, a small box for per-
fumes.

Prone, sometimes humble.
Prone, forward.

Proof, confirmed state of man-
hood.

Propagate, to advance or im-
prove.

Power, forces, an army.
Practice, unlawful or insidious
stratagem.

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Propagation, getting.
Proper, well-looking, handsome.
Proper-false, proper or fair, and
false or deceitful.
Propertied, taken possession of.
Properties, incidental necessaries
to a theatre.

Practise, to employ unwarrant

able arts.

Practisants, confederates in stra-
tagems.

Prank, to adorn, to dress osten-
tatiously, to plume.
Precedent, original draft.
Precept, a justice's warrant.
Precisian, a great pretender to
sanctity.

Prefer, to recommend, to ad

vance.

Pregnancy, readiness.
Pregnant, ready, plain, evident,
apposite.

Pregnant enemy, the enemy of
mankind.

Premised, sent before the time
Prenominate, already named.
Pre-ordinance, ordinance already
established.

consecrated host was kept.
Placket, a petticoat.
Plague, to punish.

Pretence, design, intention.
Pretend, to intend, design.

Plain song, the chant, in plano Pretended, purposed or intended.

Presence, the presence-cham-
ber, a public room.
Presence, dignity of mien, form,
figure.
Prest, ready.

Proface, much good may it do

you.

Profane, love of talk, gross of language.

Profession, end and purpose of coming.

Prevent, to anticipate.
Prick, the point on the dial.
Pricks, prickles, skewers.
Pride, haughty power.
Prig, to filch.

Progress, a royal journey of state
Project, to shape or form.
Prompture, suggestion, tempta-

tion.

Putter-on, one who instigates.
Putter-out, one who places out
money at interest.
Putting-on, spur, incitement.
Puttock, a degenerate species of
hawk.

Prime, youth, the vigour of life.
Prime, prompt.

Primer, more urgent, more im-
portant.
Primero, a game at cards.

Plot, piece or portion.

Point, a metal hook fastened to Principality, the first or princi-
the hose or breeches.
Point, the utmost height.
Point-de-rice, with the utmost
possible exactness.
Points, tags to the laces.
Poize, weight or moment.
Polled, bared, cleared.
Pomander, a ball made of per-
fumes.

pal of women.
Principals, rafters of a building.
Princox, a coxcomb, or spoiled
child.
Probal, probable.
Process, summons.
Procure, to bring.

Prodigious, portentous, omi- Quarrel, a quarreller, the cause

of a quarrel

nous.

Quail, to faint, languish.
Quaint, fantastical, graceful.
Quaint-mazes, a game running
the figure of eight

Quaked, thrown into trepidation.
Qualify, to lessen, moderate.
Quality, confederates.

Quality, profession, condition of life.

Sheriff s-post, a large post set up
at the door of that officer for
affixing proclamations, &c.
Shive, a slice.
Shot, shooter.
Shovel-board, a game.

Seel, to close up.

Seeling, blinding.

Sith, since.

Seeming, specious, hypocriti- Sithence, thence.

cal.

Seeming, seemly.

Seen, versed, practised.
Seld, seldom.

Setebos, a species of devil.
Several, separated, appropriated.
Sewer, an officer who placed the
dishes on the table.
Shame, to disgrace.
Shame, modesty.
Shard-borne, born by shards or

Shoughs, shocks, a species of dog.
Shouldered, rudely thrust into.
Shrewd, having the qualities of a
shrew.

scaly wings.

Shards, the wings of a beetle.
Shards, broken pots or tiles.
Sharked, picked up as a shark

collects his prey.
Sheen, shining, splendour, lustre.
Sheer, pellucid, transparent.
Shent, scolded,rebuked, ashamed,
disgraced.

Shent, to reprove harshly.

Shrift, confession.

Shrive to confess, to call to
confession.

Shut-up, to conclude.
Side-sleeves, long sleeves.
Siege, stool, seat, rank.
Sight, the perforated part of a
helmet.

Sightless, unsightly.
Sign, to show, to denote.
Silly, simple or rustic.

Silly, sooth, plain, simple truth.
Sincere, honest.
Sinew, strength.

Single, weak, debile, small, void
of duplicity or guile.
Sink-a-pace,cinque-pace,a dance.
Sir, the designation of a parson.
Sir-reverence, a corruption of

feeling, sensual passion.
Sensible, having sensation.
Septentrion, the north.
Sequestration, separation.
Sere or sear, dry.

Sledded, riding in a sled or sledge
Slights, arts, subtle practices.
Slips, a contrivance of leather, to
start two dogs at the same time.
Sliver, to cut a piece or slice.
Slops, loose breeches, or trow-
sers, tawdry dress.

Serjeant, a bailiff or sheriff's of- Slough, the skin which the ser

ficer.

save-reverence.

Sizes, allowances of victuals.
Skains-mates, loose companions.
Skirr, to scour, to ride hastily.
Slack, to neglect.
Slave, to treat as a slave.
Sleave, the ravelled knotty part

of the silk.

pent annually throws off.
Slower, more serious.
Slubber, to do any thing care-
lessly, imperfectly, to obscure.
Smilingly, with signs of pleasure.
Smirched, soiled or obscured.
Smoothed, to stroke, to caress,
to fondle.

Sneap, to check or rebuke, a re-
buke.

Sneaping, nipping.
Sneck-up, a cant-phrase,
hang yourself."
Snuff, hasty anger.
Snuffs, dislikes.

Soil, spot, turpitude, reproach.
Solely, alone.
Solicit, courtship.
Solicit, to excite.
Soliciting, information.
Solidares, an unknown coin.
Sometimes, formerly.

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States, persons of high rank.
Station, the act of standing.
Statist, statesman.

Statue, a portrait.

Stares, the wood of the lances.
Stay, a hinderer, a supporter.
Stead, to assist, or help.
Sticking-place, the stop in a ma-
chine.

Sticklers, arbitrators, judges,
sidesmen.

Stigmatical, marked or stigma

tized.

Stigmatick, one on whom nature
has set a mark of deformity.
Still, constant or continual.
Stilly, gently, lowly.
Stint, to stop, to retard.
Stith, an anvil.

Stoccata, a thrust or stab with a
rapier.

Stock, a term in fencing.
Stock, stocking.
Stomach, passion, pride, stub-
born resolution, constancy, re-
solution.

Stoop, a measure somewhat more
than half a gallon.
Stover, a kind of thatch.

Strict, hard.

Strive, to contend.

Stuck, a thrust in fencing. See
Stoccata. Stock.

Stuff, baggage.

Stuff, substance or essence.
Stuffed, plenty, more than enough.
Subscribe, to agree to.
Subscribe, to yield, to surren-

der.

Suggest, to tempt, to prompt, to
instigate.
Suggestion, hint.
Suggestions, temptations.
Suited, dressed.

Sullen, obstinately troublesome.
Summer-swelling, that which
swells or expands in summer.
Summoners, summoning officers.
Sumpter, a horse that carries ne-

cessaries on a journey.
Superfluous, over-clothed.
Superstitious, serving with super-for.
stitious attention.

Stoup, a kind of flagon.

mentum.

Sweeting, a species of apple.
Swift, ready.

Strachy, probably some kind of Sway, the whole weight, mo-
domestic office.
Straight, immediately.
Strain, descent, lineage.
Strain, difficulty, doubt.
Strait, narrow, avaricious.
Straited, put to difficulties.
Strange, odd, different from.
Strange, alien, becoming a stran-
ger, a stranger.
Strangely, wonderfully.
Strangeness, shyness, distant be-

Swinge-buckiers, rakes, rioters.
Swoop, the descent of a bird of
prey.

haviour.

Subscription, obedience.

Submerged, whelmed under wa

Supposed, counterfeited, ima-
gined.

ter.

Subtilty, deception.
Subtle, smooth, level.
Success, succession.
Successive, belonging to the suc-
cession.

Successively, by order of succes.

sion.

Sudden, violent.
Sufficiency, abilities.

Sure, safe, out of danger, surely.
Sur-reined, over-worked, or rid-
den.

Suspire, to breathe.

Swaggerer, a roaring, fighting
fellow.

Swart, or swarth, black, or dark
brown.

Swarth, or swath, as much grass
or corn as a mower cuts down
at one stroke of his scythe.
Swashing, noisy, bullying.
Swath, the dress of a new-born
child.

Stranger, an alien.

Strangle, to suppress.

Stratagem, great or dreadful Tabourine, a small drum.

event.

T.

Table, the palm of the hand ex-
tended.

Table, a picture.
Tables, table-books, memoran-
dums.

Tag, the lowest of the populace.
Taint, to throw a slur upon.
Take, to strike with a disease, to
blast.

Taurus, sides and heart in medi. dical astrology.

Tawdry, a kind of necklaces
worn by country girls.
Taxation, censure or satire
Teen, sorrow, grief.
Temper, to mould like wax.
Temper, temperament, constitu-
tion.

Temperance, temperature.
Tempered, rendered pliable
Tend, to attend upon, to wait

Tender, to regard with affection. Tend'ring, watching with ten derness.

Take-in, to conquer, to get the
better of.

Take up, to contradict, to call to

an account.

Take-up, to levy.

Tall, stout, bold, courageous.
Tallow keech, the fat of an ox or

COW.

Timeless, untimely.
Tinct, tincture.

Tame, ineffectual.

Tame snake, a contemptible tel- Tire, head dress.
low.

Tharborough, thirdborough, a
peace officer.
Theme, a subject.
Theorick, theory.
Thewes, muscular strength.
Thick, in quick succession.
Thick-pleached, thickly inter-

woven.

Thill, the shafts of a cart.
Thirdborough. See Tharborough
Thought, melancholy.
Thrasonical, boastful, bragging.
Thread, fibre or part
Thread, to pass through.
Three-man-beetle, an implement
used for driving piles.
Three-pile, rich velvet.
Thrift, a state of prosperity.
Throes, emits as in parturition.
Thrum, the extremity of a weav-
er's warp.

Thrummed, made of coarse wool-
len cloth.

Tib, a strumpet.
Tickle, ticklish.

Tickle-brain, some strong liquor.
Tight, handy, adroit.
Tightly, cleverly, adroitly.
Tilly-valley, an interjection of
contempt.
Tilth, tillage.

Tire, to fasten, to fix the talons

on.

Tire, to be idly employed on.
Tired, adorned with ribands.
Tod, to yield or produce a tod, or
twenty-eight pounds.
Tokened, spotted as in the plague
Toll, to enter on the toll-book
Tolling, taking toll.