Foison plenty, plenty to the utmost abundance. Fr. Fond, valued, prized, sometimes foolish, indiscreet. Fond done, foolishly done. Foot, to grasp. Cym. Forage, to range abroad. K. John. Fordone, overcome or destroyed. Foredoomed, anticipated their doom. Lear. Forefended, prohibited, forbid. Foreslow, to be dilatory. Forgetive, from forge, inventive, imaginative. Forked plague, an allusion to the cuckold's horns. Oth. Formal capacity, not de-arranged, or out of form. Twel. Night. Former, sometimes for foremost. Jul. Cæs. Lear. Forspoken, contradicted, spoken against. Ant. and Cleo. Forwearied, worn out. Frampold, fretful, peevish. Frank, a stye. Franklin, a freeholder, a yeoman. Gyve, to catch, to shackle. Gyves, shackles. Haggard, a kind of hawk. Halcyon, a bird, otherwise called the king-fisher. Lear. Ham. Hangers, that part of the girdle or belt by which the sword was suspended. Ham. Hardiment, hardiness, bravery, stoutness. Harlocks, the name of a plant, probably the burdock. Harlots, sometimes applied to cheats of the male sex. Com. Er. Hell, a cant name for a dungeon in a prison. Com. Er. Hence, henceforward. Hen. IV. Henchman, page of honour. Hent, to seize or take possession, to take hold of Frels, the stops of a musical instrument, which regulate the Hermits, beadsmen. Mac. vibrations of a string. Hest, for behest, command. Hight, called. Mid. Night. Hilding, or hilderling, a low wretch. Hoar, hoary, mouldy. Hob-nob, let it happen or not. Hold, i. e. rumour, to believe it. Mac. Hold taking, bear handling. Hoodman-blind, blind-man's buff. Horologe, clock. Hores, to hox, or hough, to cut the hamstring. Hull, to drive to and fro upon the water, without sails or rudder. Humming, o'erwhelming. Per. Hunt-counter, blunderer, worthless fellow, probably bailiff. Hen. IV. 2d Part. Hunts-up, a morning hunting-tune. Hurly, noise. Hurtle, to dash, or push violently. Hyen, hyæna. Jauncing, jaunting. Jay, a bad woman. Cym. Ice-brooke, i. e. temper, tempered by being plunged into an ice-brook. Jesses, straps of leather tied about the foot of a hawk to hold her in hand. Indent, to bargain, or article. Indues, subdues. Oth. Indued, inured, or formed by nature. Ham. Indurance, delay, procrastination. Hen. VIIL Inhibit, for inhabit, or to forbid, or decline, ac a person refusing a challenge. Mac. Inhooped, inclosed, confined. Insconce, to fortify. Intention and intentively, for attention. Intrenchant, that which cannot be cut. Intrinse, intricate, or intrinsecate, ravelios. Kernes, light-armed soldiers. See Gallow-glasses. Manner, with the manner, in the fact. Wint. To' Key-cold, as cold as iron, a key of which is used to stop Martlemas, the latter spring. Hen. IV. 2d Part. small bleedings. Kicksy-wicksey, a ludicrous name for a wife, Kiln-hole, the place into which coals are but under a stove. Kirtle, a sort of garment. Knap, to break short. Knotts, figures into which part of a garden was disposed. Known, sometimes for been acquainted. Laced mutton, cant name for a courtezan. Lakin, ladykin, or little lady, Lances, lance-men. Love's Lab. Land-damn, probably, to banish from the land. Lapsed in time, having suffered time to slip. Lated, belated, benighted. Latten, lathy, thin., Lavolt, a dance. Laund, lawn. Lay, a wager. Hen. VI. 2d Part. Leaguer, a name for a camp. Leasing, falsehood. Leavened, matured, prepared. Mea.for Mea. Leech, physician. Leer, feature, complexion, or colour. Leet, court-lect, a petty court of justice. Leg, obeisance to my father. Hen. IV. 1st Part. Legerity, lightness, nimbleness. Leiger, a resident, or resident-ambassador. Leman, a lover, or mistress, Lenten, short and spare. L'envoy, a term borrowed from the old French poetry. Lewd, sometimes means idle. Libbard, leopard. Liberty, for libertines, or libertinism. Liefest, dearest. Lifter, a thief. Limbeck, a vessel to emit fumes and vapours. Limbo-patrum, in confinement. Limed, ensnared, as with bird-lime. Mated, confounded. Com. Er. Mac. &c. Measure, a solemn dance. Love's Lab. &c. Medicin, physician. Mac. Meditation, quickness of enthusiastic thought. Meiney, people. Fr. Mell, to meddle with. All's Well. Memory, sometimes used for memorial. Mere, sometimes for absolute, entire, total Micher, a truant. Miching mallecho, a secret mischief. Minute-jacks, Jack o'lantern. Miscreate, illegitimate, spurious. Misprised, mistaken. Misprising, despising, contemning. Missingly, at intervals, occasionally. Missives, messengers. Mistempered, angry, contentious. Mistful, i. e. eyes ready to flow with tears. Mobled, veiled or muffled. Model, sometimes for mould. Modern, sometimes for absurd, new-fangled Module, model. Moe, to make mouths. Moist star, the moon. Mome, a dull, stupid' blockhead. Momentary, short, lasting for a moment. Monster, to make monstrous. Lear.. Moonish, variable. Mope, to be stupid or foolish. Mopes and moves, wry faces and mockings. Mort, i. e. of the deer, a tune on the death of the deer. Mortal, abounding. As you. Mortifyed, religious, retired, peaceable. Motion, sometimes for puppet; puppet-shows were called Motive, sometimes for assistant, or mover. Limits, estimates, or outlines, rough sketches. Hon. IV. Mouldwarp, the mole. 1st Part. Lined, delineated. As you. Line, genealogy. Hen. V. Link, a torch, used to make old hats black. Tam. Shrew. Linstock, the staff to which the match is fixed, when ord. nance is fired List, the bound or limit. Twel. Night. Mea. for Mea. &c. Loach, a very small fish, exceedingly prolific. Lock, a particular lock of hair, called a love-lock. Lockram, a kind of linen. Lode-star, leading star, the pole-star. Loggats, a game played with bowl and pins. Longing, for longed, wished or desired. Two Gent. Looped, full of apertures. Lear. Lop, the branches. Hen. VIII. Lordings, the diminutive of lord, Lover, sometimes used for mistress. Lowted, treated with contempt. Lunes, lunacy, frenzy. Lurch, to purloin, to deprive. Lush, a dark full colour. Lustic, cheerful, pleasant. Dutch. Lym, or lyme, a bloodhound.. Mace, sceptre. Jul. Cas Magot-pie, magpie. Magnifico, a chief man in Venice. Mailed, wrapped up, bundled up, covered with mail. Main descry, the main body is descried Moys, picces of gold. [motions Muck, sometimes an expression of admiration or disdain Mummy, the liquor that runs from mummies. Mure, wall. Murky, dark. Muss, a scramble. Mutine to mutiny or a mutinous fellow. 3 Prig, to filch. Prime, sprightliness of youth. All's Well. Princor, a coxcomb or pet. Proface, much good may it do you. Ital. Profane, sometimes, free of speech, talkative. Profession, end and purpose of coming. Prolixious, coy, distant. Prompture, suggestion, instigation. Prone, humble or prompt. Mea. for Mca. Properties, the necessaries of a theatre. Provand, provender. Prune, sometimes for to plume. Pugging, cant word for coveting, as a thief, a sharper. Puke, colour between russet and black. Pun, to pound. Troil, and Cres. Pussel, a low wench. Putter-out, one who puts out his money on interest or other advantage. Patlock, a mean species of hawk. Quall, to sink, to faint. Quaint, fantastically dressed. Mer. Wiv. Paucas palabras, few words, corrupted from the Sp. pocas Quarry, the game after it is killed. palabras. Peat, pet, or darling, a spoiled child. Peculiar, belonging to an individual. Mea. for Mec. Peer-out, appear out, or peep out. Peevish, sometimes for foolish. Peize, to weigh, to keep in suspense. Fr. Pelling, sometimes for paltry. Pennons, small flags. Perdu, one of the forlorn hope. Fr Perdurable, lasting. Perdy, a corruption of the French oath par Dieu. Perfect, sometimes used for certain, or well assured. Periapts, charms worn, about the neck, Pew-fellow, a companion. Pheere, a mate, or companion. Pheese, to plague, or teaze. I'll pheese you, I'll comb your head. Quart d'ecu, fourth part of a French crown Queasy, suspicious, unsettled. Quell, sometimes, to murder. Queller, a murderer Quests, reports. Mea. for Mca. Quest, pursuit. Lear. Question, sometimes, conversation. Questrist, one who goes in search of another. Quiddcts, subtleties. Quill, in the quill, written. Hen. IV. 2d PT. Quillets, evasions, chicanery. Quintain, a post or butt set up. Quips, hasty, passionate reproaches and scott Quired, played in concert. Quit, sometimes, to requite. Quittance, return of injuries or favours. Pia Mater, the membrane that protects the substance of Quiver, nimble, active. Quote, sometimes, to observe or regard Rabato, an ornament for the neck. Race of heaven, something descended from neaven, heavenly Rack, the last ficeting vestige of the highest clouds. To rack, to harass by exactions. Ram, for rain. Ant. and Clco. Rampallian, a ramping, low creature. Rapt, rapturously affected. Rated sinew, a strength reckoned upon. Ravin, to devour voraciously. Raught, reached. Rawly, without preparation, suddenly, hastily. Rayed, bewrayed. Raze, a bale. Recheat, a horn, a tune to call the dogs back. Reck, to care for. Plantage, plaintain, or any kind of plants subject to the Reckless, careless. influence of the moon. Plants, feet; from the Lat. Ant. and Cleo. Recorders, a kind of flute. Red-lattice phrases, alehouse conversation, from the form of the doors and windows. Red plague, the erysipelas, St. Anthony's fire. Reechy, discoloured by smoke. Reels, probably for wheels. Ant. and Cleo. Refel, to confute. Regreet, exchange of salutation. Reguerdon, recompense, return, Remorse, sometimes used for pity. Remotion, removal from place to place. 3 P Shoughs, a species of dog. Shoulder clapper, a bailiff. Shrewd, sometimes for severe, bitter. Shrift, confession. Shrive, to call to confession. Side, purpose or resolution. Lear. Siege, a stool, or privy, or seat. Sieve, a common voider. Troil, and Cres. Sightless, unsightly. K. John. Sights, i. e. of steel, the perforated part of the helmet Single, sometimes for weak, little. Sister, to imitate or re-ccho. Sith, and sithence, since. Sizes, allowances. Lear. Skain's mates, kin's mates. Skill, reason. Wint. Tale. Skills not, is of no importance. Skinker, a tapster; from Skink, drink. Slave, to treat with indignity. Lear. Royally attorneyed, nobly supplied by substitution of Sleided, untwisted. embassies. Roynish, mangy, scurvy. Ruddock, the red-breast. Slights, arts. Mac. Slip, a counterfeit piece of money. Slips, a contrivance in leather, to start two dogs at the same Slivered, sliced. Smirched, soiled, obscured. Ruffle, to be noisy, disorderly. [time Ruffling, bustling or rustling. Slops, loose breeches or trowsers. Rule, method of life. Twel. Night. Rump-fed, fed with offals. Slough, the skin which the serpent throws off annually. Slowed, delayed. Rush, for rush-ring. Slubber, to obscure. Ruth, pity, compassion. Sneap, rebuke, check. Sacarson, the name of a bear. Sneck up, a cant phrase, probably for, go hang yourself. Sacring-bell, the bell which gives notice of the host approach. Snipe, an insignificant fellow. Snuff sometimes for anger. Soft, i e. conditions, gentle qualities of mind. Soil, sometimes, turpitude, reproach. Solidarcs, some species of coin. Sooth, truth. Wint. Tale. Sandied, of a sandy colour, the colour of the true blood- Sorer, a greater or heavier crime. Cym. Saw, discourse. Love's Lab. Say, old word for silk. Fr. Sorel, a deer during his third year. Sorts, different degrees or kinds. Sort and suit, figure and rank. Sot, fool Fr. Mer. W. Souced gurnet, a gudgeon, a term of reproach. Soud, sweet, or an exclamation denoting weariness. Shrew. Sowle, to drag down. Sowter, the name of a hound. Spanicled, dogged. Speak parrot, to act childishly and foolishly. Speak holiday, i. e. words, curiously and affectedly chosen, Speculation, for sight. Mac. Speculative, instruments, the eyes. Oth Speed, fate or event. Sperr, to stir. Wint. Tale. Spill, to destroy. Lear. Spleen, often for hurry, or tumultuous speed Spotted, wicked. Sprag, ready, alert. Sprighted, haunted. Springhalt, a disease incident to horses. Square, sometimes, to quarrel. Squarer, a quarrelsome fellow. Squash, an immature peascod. Squiney, to look asquint. Squire, sometimes, for a rule of square. Stage, to place conspicuously. Staged, exhibited. Staggers, a disorder peculiar to horses. Al Stain, colour or tincture. Ibid. Stale, a decoy to catch birds. Temp. Stannyel, the name of a kind of hawk. Night. Statua, statue, sometimes pronounced as three syllables. Saves, the wood of the lances. Rich. III. Stead, to help or befriend. Storage, the hinder part, close after. Ilen. V. Tilley-valley, an interjection of contempt. Time, a ripener. Troil. and Cres Timeless, untimely. Timely-parted, i c. ghost, departed in the course of time and nature. Tire, to fasten, to fix the talons. Tire valiant, or volant, a kind of head-dress. Suckler, one who stood by to part the combatants, an Tired, sometimes for adorned. mpire. Troil. and Cres. Stigmatical, marked or stigmatized. Still, sometimes for constant, continual Stilly, gladly, lowly. Stinted, stopped. Rom. and Jul. Stint, sometimes, to stop. Stithied, forged; from stithy, an anvil Stoccata, a thrust or stab. Ital. Stock, sometimes for stocking. Stone-bow, a crossbow to shoot stones. Tod, to produce a tod, a certain quantity of wool Tokened, spotted. Ant. and Cleo. Tolling, taking toll. Hen. IV. 2d Part. Too much, any sum, ever so much. Temp. Topple, to tumble. Touches, the features, the trait. Stomach, sometimes for stubborn resolution, pride, or Toward and towards, sometimes, instead of readinces. haughtiness. Toys, sometimes, for whims, freaks. Stover, hay made of coarse rank grass, and used for thatching Trace, sometimes to follow or succeed in. Strait, narrow, avaricious. K. John. Straited, put to difficulties. Strange and strangeness, sometimes for shy and shyness. Strawy, strayinь.. Striker, cant wor for a borrower. Hen. IV. 1st Part. Stuck, or stock, for stoccata, a term in fencing. Stuffed sufficiency, abilities more than enough. Submerged, whelmed under water. Subscribe, sometimes, to yield or surrender. Subtleties, disguised dishes. Temp. Success, sometimes, for succession. Successive, i. e. title, title to the succession. Tit. And. Sumpter, either the horse or the package that conveys Superfluous, overclothed. All's Well. living in abundance. Burcrase, cessation, stop. Surreigned, over-ridden. Swart, or swarth, black or dark brown. Swashing, imposing, bullying. Tricksy, clever, adroit. Trigon, Aries, Leo, and Sagittarius. Triple, for third, or one of the three. Ant. and Cleo. Trossers, probably for trowsers, or a kind of breeches. Swath, the quantity of grass cut down by a single stroke of True, sometimes, for honest. Vent, rumour, materials for discourse. Cor. Ventages, the holes of a flute. Verbal, verbose. Cym. Umber, a dusky, yellow-coloured earth. Unaneled, without extreme unction. Unavoided, unavoidable. Rich. II. Unbarbed, bare, uncovered, beardless. Unbated, i. e. sword.not blunted as foils are Unbonnetted, without an addition from dignities. |