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Glossary of Shakespeare terms meaning

SHAKESPEARIAN GLOSSARY

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
ABUSE 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 accusation
APPEAL to accuse
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   attempt
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
ATTORNEY         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

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 an 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

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
CARBONADO     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
CEASE   put off, made to cease
CENSURE           judgment
CENSURE           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
CHARACTER      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. Othello;
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
Coriolanus;
CONJECT            conjecture
CONSIGN           to sign a common bond, to confederate
CONSORT          company
CONSORT          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. A doubtful word
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
CUNNING          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

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
DECK     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
DEFEAT 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
DEPART              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
DIET      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
DISPOSE             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
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

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
EVEN    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
EYE        a shade of colour, as in shot silk
EYNE     eyes

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
FAIN     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
FEAR     to affright
FEARFUL            subject to fear, timorous
FEAT     dexterous
FEAT     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
FILE       to defile
To smooth or polish
To make even
FILL-HORSE        shaft-horse
FILLS     the shafts
FILTH    a whore
FINE      end
FINE      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
FLAW    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
FLOURISH          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
FRET     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

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
GENTLE noble
GENTLE 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
GIRD     a sarcasm or gibe
GLEEK   to scoff
GLEEK   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
GUARD 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

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
HEFT     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        secresy
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

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 graft. to splice a falcon's broken feathers
IMP       a scion, a child
IMPAWN           to stake, compromise
IMPEACH           to bring into question
IMPEACH           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
INCLINING         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
INLY      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

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
JAR        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
JUMP    hazard
JUMP    exactly, nicely
JUSTICER            a judge, magistrate
JUT        to encroach
JUTTY    a projection
JUTTY    to jut out beyond
JUVENAL            youth, young man

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

LABRAS lips
LACED-MUTTON            a courtesan
LAG       the lowest of the people
LAG       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
LET        hindrance
LETHE   death
LEVEL    to aim
LEVEL    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
LIKE       to liken, compare
LIKE       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
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
LURCH 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

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
MEAN   the tenor part in a harmony
MEAN   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
MISERY 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
MOTION            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
MUCH used ironically
MURE   a wall
MUST   a scramble
MUTINE             to mutiny
MUTINE             a mutineer

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
NICK     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

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 BODY        |    'Od's in these
OD'S HEARTLINGS          | and all similar
| exclamations is
OD'S PITTIKINS | a euphemism
OD'S PLESSED WILL        |    for 'God's.'
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
OPE       to open
to open
OPEN    plain
Public
OPEN    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
OUTWARD         outside
OWE     to own

PACK    to practise unlawful confederacy
PACK    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
PASH    to strike violently, to bruise, crush
PASS     to practise
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
PERFECT            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
PORT    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
PRICK    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
PURCHASE        gain, winnings
PUT       to compel
PUTTER-ON       an instigator
PUTTER-OUT     one who lends money at interest
PUTTING-ON     instigation
PUTTOCK           a kite

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           |
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
QUIT     past tense of the verb to quit, quitted
QUITANCE         requital
QUIVER active
QUOTE to note

RABATO             a ruff
RABBIT-SUCKER              a weasel
RACE     breed; inherited nature
RACK    wreck
RACK    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
RAVIN   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
REGREET            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
RENDER             account
RENEGE             to renounce, to deny
REPAIR to renovate, comfort
REPEAL to reverse the sentence of exile. Two
Gentlemen of Verona
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
RESPECTIVE       corresponding
RESPECTIVELY   respectfully
RETAILED           handed down
RETIRE retreat
RETIRE to draw back
REVERB to echo
REVOLT a rebel
RIB        to enclose as within ribs
RID        to destroy
RIFT      to split
to split
RIFT      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
ROUND a diadem
ROUND unceremonious
ROUNDEL          a dance or song
ROUNDURE       an enclosure
ROUSE carousal
ROYNISH            mangy
RUBIOUS           ruddy
RUDDOCK          the redbreast
RUSH    to push
RUSHLING         rustling

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
SALT     taste
SANDED             marked with yellow spots
SANS    without
SAUCY lascivious
SAW     a moral saying
SAY       silken
SAY       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
SCANT scanty, short
scarcely
SCANTLING       a small portion
SCAPE   to escape
SCAPE   a sally
SCATHE              injury
SCATHE              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; metaph. mean
SEAL     to set one's seal to a deed; hence, to confirm
SEAM   fat
SEAMY showing the seam or sewing
SEAR     scorched, withered
SEAR     to stigmatise
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
SEEMING           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
SHAME modesty
SHARDS             shreds, broken fragments of pottery
SHARDS             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
SLIVER 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
SOOTH true
SOREL   a buck of the third year
SORRIEST           most sorrowful
SORRY sorrowful, dismal
SORT     a company
Rank, condition
Lot
'In a sort,' in a manner
SORT     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
SQUARE             the front part of a woman's dress, stomacher
SQUARE             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
STALE   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
STILL     constantly
STILLY   softly
STINT    to stop
to stop
STITHY a smith's forge
STITHY 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
SUCCESSIVELY   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
SURCEASE         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
SWARTH            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

TABLE   a tablet, note-book
TABLE-BOOK     note-book
TABLES the game of backgammon
A note-book
TABOUR             a small side-drum
TABOURER        a player on the tabour
TABOURINE       tambourine, drum
TAG      the rabble
TAINT   tainted
TAINTURE          defilement
TAKE     to infect, blast, bewitch
TAKE IN              to conquer
TAKE OUT          to copy
TAKE UP            to borrow money, or buy on credit
To make up a quarrel
TAKING infection, malignant influence
TAKING UP        buying on credit
TALE     counting, reckoning
TALL      strong, valiant
TALLOW-CATCH             a lump of tallow
TANG    twang, sound
TANG    to sound
TANLING            anything tanned by the sun
TARRE   to excite, urge on
TARRIANCE        delay
TARTAR              Tartarus
TASK     to tax
Challenge
TASKING            challenging
TASTE   to try
TAWDRY-LACE a rustic necklace
TAXATION         satire, sarcasm
TAXING satire
TEEN     grief
TELL      to count
TEMPER             to mix
TEMPERANCE   temperature
TEMPERED        mixed
TEND    to attend to
TENDER              to hold, to esteem
To have consideration for
TENT     to probe as a wound
TENT     a probe for searching a wound
TERCEL the male of the goshawk
TERMAGANT     a ranting character in old plays
TESTED pure, assayed
TESTERN            to reward with a tester, or six-pence
THARBOROUGH             a constable
THEORICK          theory
THEWES             sinews, muscles
THICK   rapidly
THICK-PLEACHED           thickly intertwined
THIRD-BOROUGH           a constable
THOUGHT         anxiety, grief
So 'to take thought' is to give way to grief
THRASONICAL   boastful
THREE-MAN BEETLE      a wooden mallet worked by three men
THREE-MAN-SONG-MEN            singers of glees in three parts
THREE-PILE        three-piled velvet
THRENE             lament
THRID   thread, fibre
THROE to put in agonies
THRUM              the tufted end of a thread in weaving
THRUMMED     made od coarse ends or tufts
TICKLE ticklish
TIGHT   nimble, active
TIGHTLY             briskly, promptly
TIKE      a cur
TILLY-VALLY       int. an exclamation of contempt
TILTH    tillage
TIMELESS           untimely
TINCT    stain, dye
TIRE      attire, head-dress
TIRE      to tear as a bird of prey
Hence, metaphorically, to feed
TIRE      to attire, dress
TANG    twang, sound
TOD      to yield a tod of wool
TOKENED           marked with plague spots
TOKENS             plague spots
TOLL     to exact toll
To pay toll
TOO TOO           excessively
TOPLESS            supreme, without superior
TOUCH touchstone for testing gold
Trait
An acute feeling
TOUCHED          pricked
TOUSE to pull, drag
TOWARD           nearly ready
TOWARDS         nearly ready
TOYS     trifles, foolish tricks
TRADE beaten path
TRANECT           a ferry
TRANSLATED     transformed
TRASH to cheque, as a huntsman his hounds
TRAVAIL             labour, toil
TRAY-TRIP          an old game played with dice
TREACHERS       traitors
TREATIES           entreaties
TRENCHED         carved
TRICK    technically, a copy of a coat of arms; hence,
any peculiarity which distinguishes voice or
feature
TRICK    to dress up
TRICKED             blazoned
TRICKING           ornament
TRICKSY             elegantly quaint
TRIPLE third
TROJAN              a cant word for a thief
TROL-MY-DAMES           the name of a game; also called
pigeon-holes
TROTH-PLIGHT betrothed
TROW   to trust, think
TRUE     honest
TRUNDLE-TAIL   a long-tailed dog
TUCKET-SONANCE         a flourish on the trumpet
TUNDISH           a funnel
TURLYGOOD      a name adopted by bedlam-beggars
TURN    to modulate
TWANGLING     twanging
TWIGGEN          made of twigs, wicker
TWILLED            Retained by woven branches
TWINK a twinkling
TWIRE   to peep, twinkle

UMBERED          stained, dark, as with umber
UNANELED        without extreme unction
UNAVOIDED      unavoidable
UNBARBED        untrimmed
UNBATED          unblunted
UNBOLT             to disclose
UNBOLTED        unsifted, unrefined
UNBREATHED   unpractised
UNCAPE             to throw off the hounds
UNCHARGED     undefended, applied to the gates of a city
UNCLEW            to unravel, undo
UNCOINED        unalloyed, unfeigned
UNDERGO         to undertake
UNDERTAKER    one who takes up another's quarrel
UNDER-WROUGHT        undermined
UNEATH            hardly
UNEXPRESSIVE inexpressible
UNFAIR to deprive of beauty
UNHAPPILY       censoriously
UNHAPPY          mischievous
UNHATCHED     undisclosed
UNHOUSELED   without receiving the sacrament
UNIMPROVED   unreproved
UNION a pearl
UNJUST              dishonest
UNKIND             unnatural
UNLIVED            bereft of life
UNMANNED     untamed, applied to a hawk
UNOWED           unowned
UNPREGNANT stupid
UNPROPER        common to all
UNQUESTIONABLE         not inquisitive
UNREADY          undressed
UNRESPECTIVE inconsiderate
UNSISTING        unresting
UNSTANCHED   incontinent
UNTEMPERING unsoftening
UNTENTED        unsearchable
UNTRADED        unused, uncommon
UNTRIMMED    spoiled of grace or ornament
UNTRUE             untruth
UNVALUED        invaluable
UPSPRING REEL              a boisterous dance
URCHIN             the hedge-hog
USANCE             usury
USE       interest
UTIS      riotous merriment, which accompanied the eighth
day of a festival
UTTER   to expel, put forth
UTTERANCE       extremity

VADE    to fade
VAIL      to lower
VAILING             lowering
VAINNESS          vanity
VALANCED        adorned with a valence or fringe; applied
to the beard
VALIDITY            value
VANTAGE          advantage
VANTBRACE      armour for the front of the arm
VARLET a servant, valet
VAST     properly a waste-place, metaphorically, the dead
of night
A gulf
VASTIDITY          immensity
VASTLY like a waste
VASTY   vast, waste
VAUNT the van, that which precedes
VAUNT-COURIERS          forerunners
VAWARD           the van, vanguard, advanced guard of an army
Hence, metaphorically, the first of anything
VEGETIVES        herbs
VELURE velvet
VELVET-GUARDS            literally, velvet trimmings; applied
metaphorically to the citizens who wore them
VENEW a bout in fencing, metaphorically applied to
repartee and sallies of wit
VENEY a bout at fencing
VENGE to avenge
VENTAGES         holes in a flute or flageolet
VERBAL wordy
VERY     true, real
VIA        int. off with you!
VICE      to screw
VICE      the buffoon in the old morality plays
VIE        to challenge; a term at cards
To play as for a wager
VIEWLESS          invisible
VILLAIN a lowborn man
VINEWED           mouldy
VIOL-DE-GAMBOYS        a bass viol
VIRGINALLING playing as on the virginals, a kind of a
spinet
VIRTUE the essential excellence
valour
VIRTUOUS         excellent
Endowed with virtues
VIZAMENT         advisement
VOLUBLE           fickle
VOLUNTARY      volunteer
VOTARIST          votary, one who has taken a vow
VULGAR             the common people
VULGAR             common
VULGARLY         publicly

WAFT   to wave, beckon
To turn
WAFTAGE          passage
WAFTURE          waving, beckoning
WAGE   to reward as with wages
WAILFUL            lamentable
WAIST the middle of a ship
WANNION         'with a vengeance.'
WAPPENED       withered, overworn
WARD   guard
Prison
WARDEN           a large pear used for baking
WARDER            truncheon
WARN to summon
WASSAIL            a drinking bout
Festivity
WAT     a familiar word for a hare
WATCH a watch light
WATCH to tame by keeping constantly awake
WATER-GALL     a secondary rainbow
WATER-RUG      a kind of dog
WATER-WORK painting in distemper
WAX     to grow
WAXEN perhaps, to hiccough
WEALTH            weal, advantage
WEAR   fashion
WEATHER-FEND             to defend from the weather
WEB AND PIN   the cataract in the eye
WEE      small, tiny
WEE      to think
WEED   garment
WEET    to wit, know
WEIGH OUT      to outweigh
WELKIN              the sky
WELKIN              sky-blue
WELL-LIKING     in good condition
WELL SAID         int. well done!
WEND   to go
WESAND            the wind-pipe
WHELK a weal
WHELKED          marked with whelks or protuberances
WHEN an exclamation of impatience
WHEN AS          when
WHERE whereas
WHERE a place
WHIFFLER          an officer who clears the way in processions
WHILE-ERE        a little while ago
WHILES until
WHIP-STOCK     handle of a whip
WHIST hushed, silent
WHITE the centre of an archery butt
WHITELY            pale-faced. A doubtful word
WHITING-TIME bleaching time
WHITSTER         bleacher
WHITTLE            a clasp knife
WHOO-BUB       hubbub
WHOOP             to cry out with astonishment
WICKED             noisome, baneful
WIDOW             to give a jointure to
WIDOWHOOD   widow's jointure
WIGHT person
WILD     weald
WILDERNESS     wildness
WIMPLED          veiled, hooded
WINDOW-BARS lattice-work across a woman's stomacher
WINDRING        winding
WINTER-GROUND          to protect (a plant) from frost
WIS       in the compound 'I wis,' certainly
WISH    to commend
WISTLY wistfully
WIT       knowledge, wisdom
WITHOUT          beyond
WITS     five, the five senses
WITTOL a contented cuckold
WITTY   intelligent
WOMAN-TIRED hen-pecked
WONDERED       marvellously gifted
WOOD mad
WOODCOCK      a simpleton
WOODMAN      a forester, huntsman
A cant term for a wencher
WOOLWARD     shirtless
WORD to flatter or put off with words
To repeat the words of a song
WORLD 'To go to the world' is to get married
So 'a woman of the world' is a married woman
WORM a serpent
WORSER            worse
WORSHIP          to honour
WORTH              wealth, fortune
WORTS cabbages
WOT     to know
WOUND             twisted about
WREAK vengeance
WREAK to avenge
WREAKFUL        revengeful, avenging
WREST an instrument used for tuning a harp
WRIT     gospel, truth
WRITHLED         shrivelled
WROTH              calamity, misfortune
WRUNG             twisted, strained
WRY      to swerve

XANTHIPPE Socrate's scolding wife

YARE     ready, being understood
YARELY readily
YAW     out of control
Y-CLAD clad
Y-CLEPED           called, named
YEARN to grieve, vex

YELLOWNESS    jealousy
YELLOWS           a disease of horses
YEOMAN           a sheriff's officer
YIELD    to reward
To report
YOND    and yonder
YOUNKER          tyro

ZANY a clown, gull

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