Eylials, glances, looks. See Feodary, an accomplice, a con
federate.
Ociliads. Eyne, eyes.
F.
Face, to carry a foolish appear
ance.
Faced, turned up with facings Facinorous, wicked. Fact, guilt. Factious, active.
Faculties, medicinal virtues, of Fig, to insult.
fice, exercise of power. Fadge, to suit or fit.
Failing, the burthen of a song. Fain, fond.
Fair, beauty, complexion, fair
ness.
Fair betrothed, fairly contracted, honourably affianced
Fantastical, creatures of fancy. Fap, drunk.
Far, extensively. Farced, stuffed.
Fashions, farcens or farcy. Fast, determined, fixed. Fat, dull.
Fate, an action predetermined by
fate.
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 husband.
Feet, footing. Fell, skin.
Fell-feats, savage practices. Fellow, cerapanion.
Fence, the art of, or skill in de- fence.
Fester, to corrupt. Festinately, has ily.
Festival terms, splendid phraseo- Force, to stuff. logy. Forced, false. Fet, fetched. Fordid, destroyed.
Few, in short, in few words. Fico, a fig.
Fielded, in the field of battle. Fierce, proud, hasty, vehement, rapid.
Fights, clothes hung round a ship to conceal the men from the
Filed, defiled.
Filed, gone an equal pace with. Fills, the shafts.
Filths, common sewers. Fine, the conclusion. Fine, full of finesse, artful. Fine, to make showy, or specious. Fineless, boundless, endless. Firago for Virago. Fire-drake, will-o'-the-wisp, ora fire-work.
Fire-new, bren-new, new from the forge. Firk, to chastise.
First noblest, most eminent. Fit, a division of a song. Fitchew, a polecat. Fitly, exactly.
Fires, a distemper in horses. Flap-dragon, a small inflammable substance, which topers swal- low in a glass of wine. Flapjacks, pan-cakes. Flask, a soldier's powder-horn. Flatness, lowness, depth. Flaw,sudden violent gust of wind. Flayed, stripped. Flecked, potted,dappled,streaked. Fleet, to float. Fleeting, inconstant. Fleshment, first act of military
service.
For, for that, since, because. Forbid, under interdiction. Force, power.
Force, to enforce, to urge.
Flewed, having the flews or chaps
of a hound.
Fordo, to undo, to destroy. Foredone, overcome. Forfended, prohibited, forbidden Foreign, employed in foreign
embassies.
Forepast, already had. Fore-slow, to be dilatory, to loiter. Forestall, to prevent by anticipa-
tion.
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
room for more. Full, complete.
Fullams, loaded dice.
Fullest, most complete and per- fect.
Fumiter, fumitory. Furnished, dressed.
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. Folly, depravity of mind. Fond, foolish, or prized by folly. Fonder, more weak or foolish. Fondly, foolishly.
G
Fools' zanies, baubles with the Gabardine, a loose felt cloak head of a fool. Foot-cloth, a housing covering the body of the horse, and almost reaching to the ground.
Gad, a pointed instrument. Gain-giving, misgiving. Gainsay, to unsay, deny, contra-
dict
Gait, way or steps. Galliard, an ancient dance. Galliasses, a species of galleys. Gallowglasses, heavy armed foot. Gallow, to scare or frighten Gallymawfry, a medley. Game, sport, jest. Gamester, a frolicksome person,
a wanton.
Gaping, shouting or roaring. Garboils, commotion, stir. Garish, gaudy, showy. Garner, to treasure up. Gasted, frightened. Gaudy, a festival day. Gawls, baubles, toys. Gaze, attention.
Gear, a general word for things
or matters.
Geck, a fool.
General, generality. General, compendious. Generation, children. Generosity, high birth. Generous, most noble. Gentility, urbanity.
Gentle, noble, high-minded, be
longing to gentry. Gentry, complaisance. German, akin.
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. or 2$.
Gilt, gilding, golden money. Gimmal, 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.
Gloze, to expound, to comment upon.
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 gal- licus
Gorbellied, fat and corpulent. 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. Gourds, a species of dice. Gouts, drops.
Grace, acceptableness, favour. Grace, to bless, to make happy. Gracious, graceful, lovely. Grained, furrowed, like the grain of wood, died in grain or in-
dented.
Imbare, to lay open or display to view.
Immanity, barbarity, savageness. Immediacy, close connexion. Imp, to supply.
Imp, progeny. Impair, unsuitable. Impartial, sometimes used for partial.
Impawned, wagered and staked. Impeach, to bring into question. Impeachment, reproach or impu- tation, hinderance. Imperious, imperial. Imperseverant, perseverant. peticos, to impetticoat or im- pocket.
Importance, importunacy. Importance, the thing imported. Importing, implying, denoting. Impose, injunction, command. Impositions, commands. Impossible, incredible or inconceivable.
K
Kam, awry, crooked. Keech, a solid lump or mass. Keel, to cool.
Keep, to restrain, to dwell, to reside. Keisar, Cæsar.
Kernes, light-armed Irish foot. Key, the key for tuning, a tun- ing-hammer. Kicksy-wicksy, a wife. Kiln-hole, a place into which coals are put under a stove. Kind, nature, species. Kindless, unnatural Kindly, naturally. Kindly, kindred. Kinged, ruled by.
Inland, civilized, not rustic. Insane, that which makes insane. Insconce, to fortify. Insculped, engraven. Inseparate, inseparable. Instance, example, proof. Instances, motives. Insuit, solicitation.
Intend, to pretend. Intending, regarding.
Intendment, intention or dispo- Kinsman, near relative.
sition.
Knave, servant. Knife, a sword or dagger. Knots, figures planted in box Know, to acknowledge, Know of, to consider.
Kirtle, part of a woman's dress.
town.
Lackeying, moving like a lackey
or page.
Lag, the meanest persons. Lances, lance-men.
Land-damn, to destroy in some
way.
Lands, landing-places. Lapsed, time suffered to slip. Large, licentious
Lass-lorn, forsaken of his mis
tress.
Latch, to lay hold of
Latched or letched, licked over. Late, lately.
Lated, belated, benighted. Latten, thin as a lath. Lavoltas, a kind of dances. Laund, lawn.
Lay, a wager. Leaguer, the camp. Leasing, lying.
Leather-coats, a species of apple Leave, to part with, to give
away.
Leech, a physician. Leer, feature, complexion.
Leet, court-leet, or court of the
manor.
Legerity, lightness, nimbleness. Leges, alleges.
Leiger, resident. Leman, lover, mistress. Lenten, short and spare. L'envoy, moral, or conclusion of a poem. Let, to hinder.
Let be, to desist. Lethe, death.
Lewd, ignorant, idle, wicked. Lewdly, wickedly.
Libbard, or lubbar, a leopard. Liberal, licentious or gross in language.
Liberty, libertinism.
License, an appearance of licentiousness.
Lie, to reside, to be imprisoned. | Liefest, dearest.
Lieger, an ambassador at a foreign court.
Lifter, a thief.
Light o' love, a dance tune.
Lightly, commonly, in ordinary
course
Lightness, levity.
Like, to compare.
Moonish, variable.
Mope, to appear stupid. Moral, secret meaning.
Morisco, Moor or Moorish, or morris.
Morris-pike, Moorish pike. Mortal, murderous, fatal. Mortal-staring, that which stares fatally.
Mortified, ascetic, religious. Most, greatest.
Motion, a kind of puppet-show. Motion, divinitory agitation. Motion, desires.
Motions, indignation. Motive, assistant or mover, that which contributes to motion. Mould, earth.
Mouse, to mammock, to tear to pieces.
Mouse, a term of endearment.
Metaphysical, supernatural. Mete-yard, measuring-yard. Mewed, confined.
Micher, a truant, a lurking thief. | Mouse-hunt, a weasel
Mowe.
See Moe.
Moy, a piece of money or a mea- sure of corn
Much, an expression of disdain. Much, strange, wonderful. Muck-water, drain of a dung-hill. Muffler, a kind of dress for the lower part of the face. Muliters, muleteers.
Mulled, softened and dispirited. Multiplied, multitudinous. Multiplying, multiplied. Multitudinous, full of multitudes. Mummy, the balsamic liquor of. Mundane, worldly. Mure, a wall. Murky, dark.
Murrain, a plague in cattle. Muse, to admire, to wonder. Must, a scramble.
Mutine, to rise in mutiny. Mutines, mutineers.
N.
Napkin, handkerchief. Napless, threadbare. Native, formed by nature. Nature, natural parent. Nay-word, a watch-word or by- Open, publicly. Operant, active.
word.
Neat, finical.
Neb or nib, the mouth.
Noddy, fool, a game at cards. Noise, music.
Nonce, on purpose, for the turn. Nock-shotten, that which shoots into capes.
Northern man, vir borealis, a clown.
Note,notice, information, remark. Novice, a youth. Novum, some game at dice. Nourish, to nurse. Nowl, a head.
Observing, religiously attentive. Obsequious, serious, as at funeral obsequies, careful of. Obsequiously, funereally. Obstacle, obstinate.
Occupation, men occupied in bu- Pains, labour, toil. Palabras, words.
siness.
Occurrents, incidents.
Oe, a circle.
crown.
Oeiliad, a cast or glance of the Pall, to wrap, to invest. eye. See Eyliads.
Palled, vapid.
O'erdied, died too much. O'er-looked, slighted.
O'er-parted, having too consi
derable a part.
Nurture, education. Nuthook, a thief.
0.
Obligations, bonds.
Observed, paid respective atten
tion to
Of, through.
Offering, the assailant.
Office, service.
Offices, culinary or servants'
O'er-raught, over-reached. O'er-wrested, wrested beyond the Paper, written securities. truth. Parcel, reckon up.
Oneyers, accountants, bankers. Opal, a precious stone of almost all colours.
Neeld, needle.
Neif, list.
sary.
Nephew, a grandson or any lineal Opposition, combat. descendant. Or, before.
Nether-stocks, stockings. Newness, innovation.
Newt, the eft.
Next, nearest. Nice, silly, trifling. Nick, reckoning or count. Nick, to set a mark of folly on. Nighted, made dark as night. Night-rule, frolic of the night. Nine men's morris, a game. Nobility, distinction, eminence. Nobless, nobleness.
Opinion, obstinacy, conceit, cha
racter.
Opposite, adverse, hostile, adver
apartments.
Old, frequent, more than enough. Paritor, an apparitor, an officer Old age, ages past. Once, sometime.
of the bishop's court. Parle, parley. Purlous, perilous. Parlous, keen, shrewd. Part, to depart. Partake, to participate. Partaker, accomplice, confede-
rate.
Overture, opening or discovery. Ounce, a small tiger, or tiger-cat. Ouph, fairy, goblin.
Ousel-cock, the cock blackbird. Out, be gone.
Out, full, complete. Outlook, to face down. Outried, a term at the game of gleek.
Outward, not in the secret of affairs.
Owe, to own, possess, govern. Ox-lip, the great cowslip.
Padlock, toad.
Pagan, a loose vicious person Pageant, a dumb show. Pail, punished. Pain, penalty.
Pale, to empale, encircle with a
Pack, to bargain with. Pack, combined, an accomplice. Packing, plotting, underhand
Palmers, holy pilgrims. Palmy, victorious. Palter, to juggle, or shuffle. Paper, to write down, or ap- point by writing.
Orbs, circles made by the fairies Parts, party. Pash, a head.
on the ground. Orchard, a garden. Order, measures. Ordinance, rank. Orgulous, proud, disdainful. Osprey, a kind of eagle. Ostent, shew, ostentation. Ostentation, shew, appearance. Overblow, to drive away, to keep off.
Parcel-gilt, gilt only on certain parts.
Parish-top, a large top formerly kept in every village to be whipped for exercise.
Parted, shared.
Parted, endowed with parts. Participate, participant, partici- pating. Partizan, a pike.
Pash, to strike with violence. Pashed, bruised, crushed. Pass, to decide, to assure
convey.
Pass, to exceed, to go beyond common bounds.
Passed, excelling, past all ex- pression or bounds. Passes, what has passed. Passing, eminent, egregious. Passion, suffering.
Passionate, a prey to mournful sensations.
Passioning, being in a passion. Passy-measure, a dance. Pastry, the room where pastry was made.
Patch, a term of reproach. Patched, in a parti-coloured coat. Path, to walk.
Pathetical, deeply affecting. Patient, to make patient, to com-
pose.
Patine, a dish used with the cha- lice, in the administration o the Eucharist.
Pattern, instance, example. Pavin, a dance. Paucas, few. Pay, to beat, to hit.
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