Cower, to sink down.

Cowlstaff, a staff used in carrying a basket.

Coy, to soothe.

Coyed, yielded reluctantly.

Coystril, a coward cock, a pol

troon.

Cozier, a tailor, a botcher. Crack, dissolution; also a boychild.

Cranking, or crankling, the rush

of a river.

Cranks, windings.
Crants, garlands.

Crare, a small trading vessel.
Crash, to be merry over.

Craven, a cowardly cock, mean, cowardly.

Create, compounded, made up of. Credent, credible.

Credit, account, information, credulity.

Cressets, lights set upon a beacon.
Cressive, increasing.
Crest, the summit.

Crestless, those who have no right

to armorial bearings.

Crewel, worsted.

Crisp, curled, winding.

Critic, cynic.

Critical, censorious.

Crone, a very old woman.

Crosses, money stamped with a

cross.

Crowkeeper, a scarecrow.
Crownet, last purpose.
Crulentious, cruel.

Crusado, a Portuguese coin.
Crush, to drink.

Crush a cup, to crack a bottle.
Cry, a pack of hounds.

Cry aim, to encourage.
Crystals, the eyes.
Cub-drawn, alluding to a bear

whose dugs are dry.

Cue, a theatrical term, the last word of the preceding speech. Cuisses, armour for the thighs. Cullion, a paltry fellow.

Cunning, knowledge.

Curb, to bend or truckle.

Curiosity, curiousness, finical de

licacy.

Curious, scrupulous.

Curled, ostentatiously dressed.
Currents, occurrences.

Cursed, under the influence of a malediction.

Curst, petulant, crabbed, harsh, ill-tempered. Curstness, ill-humour.

Curtail, a little cur.

Curtal, a docked horse.

Curtle-axe, a broadsword, cutlass.

Customer, a common woman.
Cut, a horse.

Cut and longtail, poor and rich.
Cuttle, a knife used by sharpers.
Cyprus, a transparent stuff.

D.

Daff, or doff, to put off.
Dally, to trifle.

Damn, to condemn.

Danger, reach or control.
Dank, wet, rotten.

Danskers, natives of Denmark.
Darkling, in the dark.
Darraign, to arrange.
Daub, to disguise.

Daubery, falsehood, counterfeit.
Day-bed, a couch.
Day-light, broad day.
Day-woman, dairymaid.
Dealt, fought by proxy.
Dear, immediate, consequential.
Dearn, direful, lonely, solitary.
Death-tokens, spots on those in-
fected with the plague.
Death's-man, executioner.
Debitor, debtor.
Deboshed, debauched.
Decay, poverty, misfortunes.
Deck of cards, a pack.
Decked, sprinkled.

Decline, to run through (as in

grammar) from first to last. Declined, the fallen. Deem, opinion, surmise. Deer, animals in general. Default (in the), at a need. Defeat, to free, to disembarrass. Defeature, alteration of features. Defence, art of fencing. Defend, to forbid. Deftly, adroitly, dexterously. Defy, to reject.

Derogate, degraded.

Descant, to harangue upon; also
a term in music.
Deserved, deserving.
Design, to make out.
Despatched, bereft.
Detected, suspected.
Dich, do it.

Dickon, Richard.
Die, gaming.

Diet, to compel to fast.

Diffused, wild, irregular.

Digress, to deviate from what is

right.

Digression, transgression.

Dint, impression.

Disable, to undervalue.

Disappointed, unprepared.

Discandy, to dissolve.

Disclose, to hatch.

Discontents, malcontents.

Discourse, reason.

Disease, uneasiness, discontent.
Diseases, sayings.

Disgrace, hardship, injury.
Dishabited, dislodged.
Dislike, displease.

Dislimn, to unpaint, obliterate.
Disme, tenth, or tithe.

Disnatured, wanting natural affection.

Dispark, to destroy a park or inclosure.

Disperge, to sprinkle.

Disponge, to discharge as a

sponge.

Dispose, disposal, command.
Dispose, to make terms.
Disposition, frame.
Disseat, displace, depose.
Dissemble, to gloss over, to dis-
guise.

Dissembling, putting dissimilar

things together. Distained, unstained. Distaste, to corrupt.

Distemper, intoxication.

Distemperature, perturbation.

Distempered, out of humour.

Distraught, distracted.

Distractions, detachments, sepa

rate bodies.

Divert, to turn aside.

Division, a term in music.

Doff, to put off.

Dole, alms, distribution, lot.
Dolphin, the dauphin.
Don, to put on, to do on.
Done to death, killed.
Done, expended, consumed.
Done upon the gad, suddenly.

Dotant, dotard.

Double, full of duplicity.
Double vouchers, a law term.
Doubt, to fear.

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

Down-gyved, hanging down, like what confines the fetters round the ancles.

Draught, the jakes.

Draw, to withdraw.

Drawn, embowelled.

Drawn fox, one which is trailed

over the ground to deceive the hounds.

Drachma, a Greek coin.
Dressings, appearances of virtue.
Drew, assembled.

Drive, to fly with impetuosity.
Drollery, a puppet-show.

Drugs, drudges.

Drumble, to act lazily.

Ducadme (duc ad me), bring him

to me, the burthen of a song.
Dudgeon, the handle of a dagger.
Due, to endue, to deck.
Duke, a leader.

Dull, gentle, soothing.
Dullard, a stupid person.
Dumb, to make silent.
Dump, a mournful elegy.
Dup, to do up, to lift up.

Durance, some lasting kind of

Empery, sovereign power.
Emulous, envious, jealous.
Emulation, envy.
Encave, to hide.
Endart, to dart forth.
Enfeoff, to invest with posses-

sion.

Engross to fatten.

Engaged, delivered as an hostage.
Engrossments, accumulation.
Enkindle, to stimulate.
Enmesh, to inclose, as in meshes.
Enmew (in falconry), to force to

lie in cover. Enridged, bordered.

Ensconce, to secure in a safe

place, to fortify. Enseamed, greasy. Enseer, to dry up. Enshield, concealed. Ensteeped, immersed. Entertainment, pay; also being

received into service. Entreatments, favours; also ob

jects of entreaty.
Envy, aversion, malice.
Enviously, angrily.
Ephesian, a cant term.
Erring, errant wandering.
Escape, illegitimate child.
Escoted, paid.

Esil, or Eisel, a river.

Esperance, motto of the Percy family.

Extend, to seize.

Extent, violence, seizure.
Extern, external.
Extremity, calamity.
Expiate, to end.
Exposture, exposure.
Express, to reveal.
Expulsed, expelled.
Extracting, distracting.
Extravagant, wandering.
Eyas musket, a young hawk.
Eyases, nestlings.
Eyliads, eyes.
Eyne, eyes.

Eyry, a nest of hawks.
Eysel, vinegar.

F.

Face, to carry a foolish appear

ance.

Face-royal, a privileged face.
Facinorous, wicked.
Fact, guilt.

Factious, active.

Faculty, exercise of power.
Fadge, to suit.
Fadings, a dance.
Faith, fidelity.
Faithfully, fervently.
Fain, fond.
Fair, for fairness.
Faitors, traitors.

Falsing, falsifying.

Falsely, illegally, dishonestly.
Familiar, a demon.

Fancies and good-nights, little

poems so called.

Fancy, love.

Fancy-free, clear of love.

Fang, to seize.

Fans, ancient.

Fantastical, imaginative.

Fantasticoes, affected persons.
Fap, beaten, drunk.

Farced, stuffed.

Fardel or Farthel, a burthen. Fashions, the farcens, a disease of

horses. Fat, dull.

Favour, countenance.
Favours, features.

Fear, to intimidate, danger.
Feared, afraid.

Fearful, timorous; also formid

able. Feat, dexterous.

Feated, made neat.

Feature, beauty.

Federacy, confederate.

Fee-grief, a peculiar sorrow.

Feeder, a dependant.

Feeding, maintenance.

Feere, or pheere, a companion. Feet, footing.

Fell, skin.

Fell of hair, capilitium, any part

covered with hair.
Fell-feats, savage actions.
Fence, the art of self-defence.
Feodary, a confederate.
Festinately, hastily.

Festival terms, elegant phrase.

Fet, fetched.

Few, in brief.

Fico, a term of contempt. Fielded, in the field of battle. Fights, clothes hung round a ship to conceal the men from the enemy.

File, a list.

Filed, defiled.

Filed, gone an equal pace with.

Fills, the shafts.

Filths, common sewers.
Finch-egg, a gaudy fellow.

Fine, the conclusion, to make showy, artful.

Fine issues, great consequences. Fineless, boundless, endless. Finer, final.

Firago, for Virago.

Fire-drake, will-o'-the-wisp, or a

fire-work.

Fire-new, quite new.
Firk, to chastise.

First-house, chief branch of the

family.

Firstlings, first produce.

Fit, a division of a song.

Fitchew, a polecat.

Fit o' the face, a grimace.

Fits o' the season, disorders of the

season.

Fives, a distemper in horses.
Fixure, position.

Flap-dragon, inflammable stuff

swallowed by topers.

Flap-jack, a pancake.

Flaw, a sudden gust of wind.

Flecked, spotted, streaked.

Fleet, for float.

Fleshment, performance.

Flewed, deep-mouthed.

Flibbertigibbet, a fiend.

Flickering, fluttering.

Flight, a sort of shooting.
Flote, wave.

Flourish, to ornament; also to

sanction.

Flout, to wave in mockery.

Flush, mature.

Foeman, an enemy in war.

Foin, to thrust in fencing.

Foizon, plenty.

Folly, depravity.

Fond, foolish.

Fools' zanies, baubles surmounted

with a fool's head.
Foot-cloth, horse-covering.
For, because.
Force, to stuff.
Forced, false.

Forbid, accursed.
Fordid, destroyed.
Fordo, to undo.
Fordone, to overcome.
Forfended, forbidden.
Forepast, already had.
Fore-slow, to loiter.
Forgetive, inventive.
Forked, horned.
Formal, in form.
Former, foremost.

Forspent, exhausted.
Forspoke, contradicted.
Forslow, delay.
Forwearied, worn out.
Fox, a sword.

Foxship, mean, cunning.
Frampold, peevish.

Frank, a sty.

Franklin, a small freeholder. Frayed, frightened.

Free, artless.

Fret, the stop of a musical in

strument.

Friend, a lover.

Friend, for friendship, to befriend.
Frippery, an old clothes shop.
Frize, a Welsh cloth.
From, in opposition to.
Fronted, opposed.
Frontier, forehead.

Frontlet, a forehead cloth.
Frush, to break or bruise.
Fullam, false dice.
Fulsome, obscene.
Furnishings, colours, pretences.
Fustilarian, fusty fellow.
Fulfilling, filling to the brim.
Full, complete.

Fumiter, fumitory.

Furnished, dressed.

G.

Gabardine, a loose cloak.

Gad, a sharp-pointed instrument.

Gain-giving, misgiving.

Gamester, a wanton.

Gait, passage.
Galliard, a dance.

Galliasses, ships.

Gallimaufry, a medley.

Gallow, to scare.

Gallowglasses, Irish foot-soldiers.
Garboils, commotions.
Gaping, shouting.

Garish, gaudy.

Garnered, treasured up.

Gasted, frighted.

Gaudy, a festival.

Gaunt, meagre.
Gawd, a bauble.
Gaze, attention.
Gear, things or matters.
Geck, a fool.

General, generality.
Generosity, high birth.

Generous, nobly born.

Gennets, Spanish horses. Gentle, noble, high-born. Gentry, complaisance.

German, akin.

Germins, seed begun to sprout.
Gest, a stage or journey.
Gib, a cat.

Giglot, a wanton.

Gilder, a coin, value two shillings.

Gilt, gold money.

Gimmal, a ring or engine.

Ging, a gang.

Gird, a sarcasm.

Glaire, a sword.

Gleek, to joke.
Glib, to geld.
Glooming, gloomy.
Gloze, to expound.
Glut, to swallow.
Gnarled, knotty.

God 'ield you, God yield you.
Gongarian, Hungarian.
Good-deed, indeed.

Good-den, good evening.

Good-jer, gougere, a disease.

Gorbellied, corpulent.

Gospelled, puritanic.
Goss, furze.

Gossamer, atoms that float in the

sunbeams. Gourds, false dice. Gouts, drops.

Go your gait, go away.

Grained, furrowed, like the grain

of wood; also dyed in grain. Gramercy, great thanks.

Grange, a lone farm-house.

Gratillity, gratuity.

Grats, pleases.

Gratulate, to be rejoiced in.

Grave, to entomb.

Grave-man, a man in his grave.

Graves or Greaves, leg-armour.

Greasily, grossly.

Greek, a pander.

Greenly, unskilfully.
Green-sleeves, an old song.
Grise or Grize, a step.
Grossly, palpably.
Groundlings, those who sat or

stood on the ground in the old
theatres; the common people.

Guard, to fringe.

Guarded, ornamented.
Guerdon, a reward.

Gules (in heraldry), red.
Gulf, the swallow, the throat.
Guiled, treacherous.
Guinea-hen, a prostitute.
Gun-stones, cannon-balls.
Gurnet, a fish.

Gust, to taste.

Gyve, to shackle.

Gyves, shackles.

H.

Hack, to become cheap.

Haggard, wild; also a wild hawk.

Hair, complexion, or character.
Halcyon, a bird.

Hall! make room.

Hallidom, doom at judgment-day.

Handsaw, hernshaw (a hawk).

Hangers, that which suspends the

sword.

Happily, accidentally.

Happy, accomplished.

Hardiment, bravery.
Harlocks, wild mustard.
Harlot, a cheat.
Harlotry, vulgar, vile.
Harness, armour.
Harrows, subdues.
Harry, to harass.

Hatch, to engrave.
Having, possessions.
Haviour, behaviour.
Haught, haughty.
Haughty, elevated.

Haunt, company.
Hay, a fencing term.
Heat, heated.

Hebenon, henbane.

Hefted, heaved, agitated.
Hell, a dungeon in a prison.
Helmed, steered through.
Hence, henceforward.
Henchman, a page of honour.
Hent, to seize.

Herb of grace, rue.

Hermits, beadsmen.

Hest, command.

Hight, called.

Hilding, a poltroon.
Hiren, a harlot.

His, often used for its.

Hoar, hoary, mouldy.
Hob-nob, as it may happen.
Hoist, hoisted.
Hold, to esteem.
Holdtaking, bear-handling.
Holla! a term of the manege.
Holy, faithful.

Hoodman-blind, blindman's-buff.
Horologe, clock.

Hot-house, a bagnio.
Hox, to hamstring.
Huggermugger, secretly.

Hull, to float without guidance.
Humming, overwhelming.
Humorous, humid.

Hungry, unprolific.

Hunt-counter, worthless dog.
Hunt's-up, a hunting tune.
Hurly, noise.

Hurtle, to dash against.

Hurtling, boisterous merriment.

Husbandry, thriftiness.

Huswife, a jilt.

Hyen, hyæna.

I.

Icebrook, a brook of icy qualities.

Idle, barren.

Ifecks, in faith.

Ignomy, ignominy.
Ill-inhabited, ill-lodged.

Images, children, representatives.
Imbare, to expose.

Immanity, barbarity.
Immediacy, close connexion.
Imp, progeny.

Impair, unsuitable, unequal.
Impartial, partial.
Impawned, wagered.
Imperious, imperial.

Impetticos, to impetticoat, or impocket.

Importance, importunity.
Important, importunate.
Impose, injunction.
Impositions, commands.

Impossible, incredible.

Imp out, to supply the deficiency.
Impress, a device or motto.
Incapable, unintelligent.
Incarnadine, to dye red.
Incensed, incited.

Inclip, to embrace.

Include, to conclude.
Inclusive, inclosed

Incompt, subject to account.

Incony, or kony, delicate, pretty.
Incorrect, ill-regulated.
Indent, to sign an indenture.
Index, something preparatory.
Indifferent, impartial.

Indigest, shapeless.

Indite, to convict.

Induction, preface, prelude.
Indurance, delay.

Informal, deranged.
Infinite, extent or power.
Ingaged, unengaged.
Ingraft, rooted.

Inhabitable, not habitable.
Inherit, to possess.

Inhibit, to forbid, decline.
In his eye, in his presence.
Inhooped, inclosed.
Inkhorn mate, a book-mate.
Inkle, worsted-tape.

Initiate, young.

Inland, civilised.
Innocent, a fool.

In place, present.

Insane, that which makes insane.

Insanie, insanity.

Insconce, to fortify.

Insculped, engraven.

Inseparate, inseparable.

Instances, motives.
Insuit, solicitation.
Integrity, consistency.
Intend, to pretend.
Intending, regarding.
Intendment, intention.
Intention, eager desire.
Intentively, attentively.
Interessed, interested.

Intergatories, interrogatories.

In that, because.

Intrenchant, which cannot be cut.

Intrinse, intricate.

Inwardness, intimacy.

Iron-clad, in armour.
Irregulous, licentious.
Issues, consequences.
Iteration, repetition.

Itination, recitation.

J.

Jack-a-Lent, a puppet thrown at in Lent.

Jack-guardant, a jack in office.

Jack-sauce, a saucy fellow.

Jaded, worthless.

Jar, the noise made by the pen.

dulum of a clock.

Jaunce, jaunt.

Jauncing, jaunting.

Jay, a wanton.

Jesses, straps of leather fastened

round hawks' legs.

Jest, to play a part in a mask.

Jet, to strut.

Jig, a ludicrous dialogue in verse. Jovial, belonging to Jove.

Mad, wild, inconstant.

Magnifico, a Venetian potentate.

Magnificent, boastful.

Magot-pie, a magpie.

Mailed, wrapped in armour.
Make, to bar, to shut.
Makeless, mateless, widowed.
Male, a bag.
Malkin, a trull.

Mallecho, mischief.
Maltworms, tipplers.
Mammering, stammering.
Mammets, puppets.
Mammock, to tear.
Man, to tame a hawk.
Manacle, a handcuff.

Mandragora, a soporific plant.
Mandrake, a root.

Mankind, masculine.

Manner, in the fact.

Man-queller, a man-killer.
Marches, confines.

Marchpane, a sweetmeat.
Margent, margin.

Martial hand, a careless scrawl.
Martlemas, the latter spring.
Mated, confounded.

Material, full of matter.

Maugre, in spite of, notwithstand

ing.

Maund, a basket.

Meacock, a dastard.

Mealed, mingled.

Mean, the middle; the tenor in

music.

Means, interest.

Measure, the reach; a solemn

dance; means.

Meazels, lepers.

Leaguer, a camp.

Leasing, falsehood.

Leather-coats, a species of apples.

Leavened, matured.

Leech, a physician.

Leer, feature, complexion.

Leet, petty court of justice.
Leg, obeisance.

Legerity, nimbleness.
Leges, alleges.

Leiger, resident.

Leman, a lover or mistress.
Leno, a pander.
Lenten, short and spare.
Let, to hinder.