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. Crare, a small trading vessel. Craven, a cowardly cock, mean, cowardly. Create, compounded, made up of. Credent, credible. Credit, account, information, credulity. Cressets, lights set upon a beacon. 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. Crusado, a Portuguese coin. Crush a cup, to crack a bottle. Cry aim, to encourage. 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. 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 and longtail, poor and rich. D. Daff, or doff, to put off. Damn, to condemn. Danger, reach or control. Danskers, natives of Denmark. Daubery, falsehood, counterfeit. 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 Dickon, Richard. 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. Disgrace, hardship, injury. Dislimn, to unpaint, obliterate. Disnatured, wanting natural affection. Dispark, to destroy a park or inclosure. Disperge, to sprinkle. Disponge, to discharge as a sponge. Dispose, disposal, command. 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. Dotant, dotard. Double, full of duplicity. Dout, to do out, extinguish. 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. Drive, to fly with impetuosity. Drugs, drudges. Drumble, to act lazily. Ducadme (duc ad me), bring him to me, the burthen of a song. Dull, gentle, soothing. Durance, some lasting kind of Empery, sovereign power. sion. Engross to fatten. Engaged, delivered as an hostage. 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. Esil, or Eisel, a river. Esperance, motto of the Percy family. Extend, to seize. Extent, violence, seizure. Eyry, a nest of hawks. F. Face, to carry a foolish appear ance. Face-royal, a privileged face. Factious, active. Faculty, exercise of power. Falsing, falsifying. Falsely, illegally, dishonestly. 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. Farced, stuffed. Fardel or Farthel, a burthen. Fashions, the farcens, a disease of horses. Fat, dull. Favour, countenance. Fear, to intimidate, danger. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. Forbid, accursed. Forspent, exhausted. Foxship, mean, cunning. 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. Frontlet, a forehead cloth. Fumiter, fumitory. Furnished, dressed. G. Gabardine, a loose cloak. Gad, a sharp-pointed instrument. Gain-giving, misgiving. Gamester, a wanton. Gait, passage. Galliasses, ships. Gallimaufry, a medley. Gallow, to scare. Gallowglasses, Irish foot-soldiers. Garish, gaudy. Garnered, treasured up. Gasted, frighted. Gaudy, a festival. Gaunt, meagre. General, generality. Generous, nobly born. Gennets, Spanish horses. Gentle, noble, high-born. Gentry, complaisance. German, akin. Germins, seed begun to sprout. 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. God 'ield you, God yield you. Good-den, good evening. Good-jer, gougere, a disease. Gorbellied, corpulent. Gospelled, puritanic. 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. stood on the ground in the old Guard, to fringe. Guarded, ornamented. Gules (in heraldry), red. Gust, to taste. Gyve, to shackle. Gyves, shackles. H. Hack, to become cheap. Haggard, wild; also a wild hawk. Hair, complexion, or character. Hall! make room. Hallidom, doom at judgment-day. Handsaw, hernshaw (a hawk). Hangers, that which suspends the sword. Happily, accidentally. Happy, accomplished. Hardiment, bravery. Hatch, to engrave. Haunt, company. Hebenon, henbane. Hefted, heaved, agitated. Herb of grace, rue. Hermits, beadsmen. Hest, command. Hight, called. Hilding, a poltroon. His, often used for its. Hoar, hoary, mouldy. Hoodman-blind, blindman's-buff. Hot-house, a bagnio. Hull, to float without guidance. Hungry, unprolific. Hunt-counter, worthless dog. 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. Images, children, representatives. Immanity, barbarity. Impair, unsuitable, unequal. Impetticos, to impetticoat, or impocket. Importance, importunity. Impossible, incredible. Imp out, to supply the deficiency. Inclip, to embrace. Include, to conclude. Incompt, subject to account. Incony, or kony, delicate, pretty. Indigest, shapeless. Indite, to convict. Induction, preface, prelude. Informal, deranged. Inhabitable, not habitable. Inhibit, to forbid, decline. Initiate, young. Inland, civilised. In place, present. Insane, that which makes insane. Insanie, insanity. Insconce, to fortify. Insculped, engraven. Inseparate, inseparable. Instances, motives. Intergatories, interrogatories. In that, because. Intrenchant, which cannot be cut. Intrinse, intricate. Inwardness, intimacy. Iron-clad, in armour. 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. Mallecho, mischief. Mandragora, a soporific plant. Mankind, masculine. Manner, in the fact. Man-queller, a man-killer. Marchpane, a sweetmeat. Martial hand, a careless scrawl. 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. Legerity, nimbleness. Leiger, resident. Leman, a lover or mistress. |