ABATE, to blunt, ii. 575.

Abated, subdued, depressed, iii. 164.

Abhominable, antiquated spelling of abominable, i. 83.

Abide, to pay the penalty, iii. 435.

Abide, sojourn, iii. 227.

Abjects, things thrown away as worthless, iii. 445.
Able, to qualify, iii. 103.

Aboding, foreboding, ii. 449.

Abram Cupid, i. 173.

Abridgment, pastime, i. 375, iii. 354.

Abroad, disbursed, expended, ii. 737.

Absey-book, A, B, C, book, catechism, i. 288.

Absolute, complete, iii. 530.

Abuse, delusion, deception, ii. 632.

Aby, to pay dear for, i. 364.

ii. 169, iii. 434, 754.

Admittance, vogue, fashion, i. 658, 688.

Advice, consideration, representation, i. 431, ii. 76.

Advised, assured, aware, persuaded, i. 299, 574, 648, 727.
Affect, to love, i. 58.

Affect the letter, to use alliteration, i. 72.

Affection, affectation, imagination, i. 82, ii. 249, iii. 201.
Affectioned, affected, ii. 249.

Affeer, to assess, or confirm, iii. 505.

Affined, bound, iii. 648, 669.

Affray, to frighten, i. 194.

Affront, to confront, to encounter, iii. 358.

Affy, betroth, ii. 374.

Affy, to confide, iii. 598.

After-supper, a rere-supper, a second supper i. 385

Against the hair, against the grain, iii. 266.

Aglet-baby, a diminutive figure carved on a jewel, 1.237,
575, 714.

Agnize, to acknowledge, iii. 658.

Agood, in good earnest, i. 35.

Aim, to guess, to surmise, i. 20, 21, iii. 653.

Aim cry aim! to encourage, i. 39.

Aim, to give, to direct, i. 39, 130.

Ajax, a jakes, i. 93.

Albany, an ancient name for Scotland, iii. 57

Alder-liefest, all-dearest, dearest of all, ii. 342.

Ales, rustic festivities, i. 43.

A'life, as life, iii. 234.

All at once, a trite phrase, ii. 65, 440.

Alliterative examples, i. 386.

Allons! let us go, i. 81, 84.

Allow, to approve, iii. 80, 757.
Allowed, licensed, i. 92.

Allowing, allowed, lawful, iii. 202.
All-thing, every way, iii. 490.

Anthropophagi, Scythian savages, cannibals, iii. 709.

Ape-bearer, an instructor and exhibitor of apes, iii. 254.
Appaid, pleased, satisfied, iii. 747.

Apparent, nearest, iii. 202.

Apparent, manifest, iii. 426.

Apparitor, an officer of the spiritual court, 1. 67.

Apperil, danger, peril, ii. 467.

Apple-John, i. 588.

Apply, to ply, i. 232.

Apprehension, conceit, sarcasm, ii. 801.

Approbation, proof, ii. 67, 716.

Approve, to justify, to confirm, i. 417, iii. 330.

Araise, to raise, to upraise, ii. 17.
Argosy, a large vessel, i. 247, 394.

Argument, conversation, i. 714.

Arm-gaunt, iii. 537.

Aroint begone! avaunt! iii. 474.

A-row, one after another, successively, i. 143.

Arras, chamber-hangings, iii. 402.

Arrive, to arrive at, iii. 415.

Arthur's Show, Sir Dagonet in, i. 628.

Articulate, to enter into articles, iii. 140.

Articulated, circumstantially drawn out, i. 554.

Artificial, ingenious, i. 364.

Artist, a scholar, iii. 270.

Aspersion, sprinkling, iii. 35.

Assinego, an ass, iii. 278.

Assured, affianced, i. 131, 298.

Astonished, thunderstruck, iii. 755, 778.

Astringer, a falconer, ii. 56.

At friend, on terms of friendship, iil. 244.

Atomies, mites, i. 168.

Atomies, atoms, ii. 150, 156.

Atone, to reconcile, i. 450, ii. 715.

Attasked, taxed, charged, iii. 71.

Attorney, advocate, pleader, iii. 725.

Aunts, wenches, iii. 227.

Awful, authorised, lawful, i. 604.

Awful men, men of worth and authority, i. 28

wkward, distorted, contrary, ii. 80, 367.

BACCARE, stand back, i. 242.

Baffled, treated with ignominy, i. 450.

Baldrick, a belt, i. 699.

ale, injury, iii. 129.

Balked, ridged, heaped up, i. 510.

Balk logic, to dispute, to wrangle, i. 233.

Balow, a pole or staff, iii. 104.

Ban, to curse, iii. 725.

Banbury cheese, a thin cheese, i. 641.

Band, a bond, i. 136, iii. 553.

Ban-dog, perhaps a dog chained or banded, ii. 349.

Bankes's horse, i. 100.

Banquet, a dessert, i. 270.

Barbason, a fiend, i. 658, ii. 74.

Barbed, caparisoned, iii. 514.

Barbers' forfeits, f. 638.

Bear a brain, to remember well, i. 166.
Beards, fantastic fashions of, ii. 118.
Bear-garden, Parish, ii. 703.

Bear hard, to rein in from mistrust or fear, iii. 418, 426, 435.
Bearing-cloth, an infant's mantle in which it is carried to the
font, iii. 222.

Bear in hand, to encourage, to buoy up, i. 258, 575, 727, iii. 491.
Beaver, the lower part of a helmet, sometimes used for the
helmet itself, i. 548.

Beck, a bow, ii. 470.

Become, to adapt, to render fit, to adorn, i. 31, ii. 151, 321,
783, 785.

Becoming, self-restrained, iii. 220.

Bed-fellow, intimate friend, ii. 76

Bedlam-beggars, mad beggars, iii. 118.

Beetles, overhangs, iii. 342.

Beg a fool, to ask in wardship, i. 104, 120.

Begetter, one who gets or procures, iii. 758.

Beggar and the King, a ballad, i. 101.
Beguiled, masked, disguised, iii. 754.
Behave, to control, ii. 482.

Belike, to favour, to approve, iii. 506.

Be-mete, to beat with a yard measure, i. 264.

Bemoiled, bedraggled, i. 255.

Be naught a while, a mischief on you! ii. 128.

Bench-hole, forica, iii. 570.

Benefit, a beneficiary, ii. 330.

Benumbed, stiff, inflexible, iii. 281.

Bergomask, a dance, i. 378.

Bermoothes, the Bermudas, iii. 11, 48.

Beshrew, to curse, to imprecate sorrow or evil on a person,
i. 85, 409.

Besmirch, to soil, to befoul, ii. 101, iii. 338.

Bessy, o'er the bourn, iii. 90.

Best, best one, an epithet of endearment, iii. 535.

Bestowed, secreted, stowed, i. 118.

Bestraught, distracted, i. 230.

Beteem, to allow, to suffer, i. 343, iii. 336.

Better part, the spiritual part, iii. 521, 771.
Better penny, a proverbial phrase, i. 640.
Bevel, crooked, iii. 778.

Bevis, Sir, ii. 699.

Bewray, to betray, to discover, ii. 315, 404.
Bezonian, a term of contempt, i. 621.

Bias, a swelling out, iii. 303.

Bid, to invite, i. 406, ii. 165, 166, iii. 603.

Bid forth, invited out, i. 406.

Bid the base, to challenge in the game of "base," i. 42, iii. 724.

Biggin, a coif, i. 612.

Bilberry, the whortleberry, i. 682.

Bilbo, i. 642, 671.

Bilboes, instruments of torture, fetters, iii. 391.

Bills, to set up, to post bills, to advertise, i. 741.

Bills, halberds, battle-axes, i. 720, iii. 102.

Bills, pikes of Watchmen, i. 743.

Bird-bolt, a description of archery, i. 741.

Bisson, blind, iii. 355.

Biting the thumb, a contemptuous action, i. 160.
Blacks, mourning habiliments, iii. 200.

Blank, a mark in gunnery, iii. 211.

Blench, to flinch, to start off, ii. 628, iii. 204, 265.

Blend, blended, iii. 786.

Bless the bridal-bed, i. 386.

Bless the mark, i. 33, 401, iii. 648.

Blind-worm, slow-worm, i. 354, iii. 501.

Block, a hat mould, i. 696.

Blood in, with the blood up, i. 71.
Blood-boltered, clotted with blood, iii. 502.
Blow, to swell, iii. 570.

Blue caps, the Scotch, i. 533.
Blunt, dull, insensible, ii. 443.
Board, to accost, i. 705, ii. 239.

Boar's Head Tavern in East Cheap, i. 564.
Bob, to rap, to hit, i. 349, ii. 143, 574.
Bobbed, tricked, iii. 699.

Bodged, bungled, ii. 407.

Bodkin, a stiletto, a dagger, iii. 359
Bodykins, God's, an oath, iii. 355.
Bolds, emboldens, iii. 109.

Bolted, sifted, iii. 235.
Boltered, clotted, iii. 502.

Bolters, sieves, i. 543.

Bolting-hutch, the bin into which meal is bolted, i. 534.
Bombard, or bumbard, a barrel, a capacious vessel, soma
times of leather, for holding drink, î. 534, ii. 696.
Bombast, a sort of wadding used to fill out dresses, i. 97.
Bona-robas, women of pleasure, i. 597.
Bone-ache, the Neapolitan, iii. 283, 308.
Boot, help, advantage, i. 449, ii. 319.
Boots, to give, to sell a bargain, i. 41.

But, only, iii. 353, 421.

Butcher of a silk button, i. 216.

Buttery bar, ii. 277.

Buxom, lusty, sprightly, buoyant, ii. 88.

Buz, buz! an interjection of impatience, iii. 354.

Buzzard, a beetle, i. 244.

By and by, immediately, i. 672, ii. 355, iii. 32.

By day and night, at all times, ii. 272, 342.

By these ten bones, a common adjuration, ii. 348.

By'rlakin, by our ladykin, or little lady, i. 357, iii. 32.

CADDIS, worsted galloon, i. 528, iii. 232.
Cade, a barrel, ii. 376.

Cadent, falling, iii. 70.

Cain-coloured, yellowish red, i. 686.

Cake is dough, hopes are frustrated, i. 234, 270.
Caliver, a hand-gun, i. 601.

Call, a bird-call, i. 308.

Callet, a strumpet, ii. 347, iii. 213, 693.
Callino, castore me, ii. 101.

Calm, a mispronunciation of qualm, i. 589.
Camelot, iii. 118.

Can, knows, iii. 795.

Canary, a dance with castanets, i. 64, ii. 17.
Candle-wasters, Bacchanals, revellers, i. 730.
Canker, the dog-rose, i. 701, iii. 768.
Canstick, a candlestick, i. 538.
Cantle, a slice, a corner, i. 537, iii. 559.
Cantons, cantos, ii. 243.

Canvas, to toss, ii. 292.

Can you hit it? a song, or dance, i. 70.

Capable, impressible, susceptible, i. 297, 300, 574, ii. 156, iii.

Capricious, goatish, ii. 153.

Captain-jewels, superior jewels, iii. 768.

Captious, capatious, ii. 13.

Carbonado, a collop cooked on the coals, i. 558.

Carbuncle, a gem supposed to emit native light, iii. 639.
Carcanet, a necklace, i. 126, iii. 768.

Card, by the, according to the book of manners, iii. 388.
Carded, i. 540.

Carduus Benedictus, the blessed thistle, i. 743.

Career, a term of the menage.

Careful, painful, anxious, i. 145.

Carkanet, a necklace, i. 126, iii. 768.

Carlot, a churl, ii. 157.

Caroused, a bumper, a drinking bout, iii. 398.

Carpet knights, ii. 280.

Carpets, coverings for the table, i. 255.

Carping, taunting, i. 540.

Carrack, a ship of great burden, iii. 651.

Carry coals, to submit to indignities, i. 159, ii. 84.
Carry out a side, a card-table phrase, iii. 109.
Carrying dead bodies off the stage, iii. 402.
Cart, a car, or chariot, iii. 363.

Carve, to give an amorous sign, i. 104, 645.

Case, a brace, a pair, ii. 83.

Case, a skin, ii. 273.

Caskets, in Merchant of Venice, story of the, i. 438.

Casque, a helmet, ii. 63.

Cassock, a horseman's coat, ii. 41.

Cast, dismissed, iii. 667.

Cates, cakes, dainties, i. 127, 244.

Catling, a lute string, i. 205.

Cautel, crafty circumspection, iii. 338.

Cautelous, treacherous, insidious, iii. 166.

Caviare, a delicacy prepared from sturgeon's roe, iii. 400.

Censer, a fire-pan for perfumes, i. 264.

Censure, to pass judgment, i. 6, ii. 598, 647, iii. 339, 782.

Ceremony, pronounced as a trisyllable, ii. 23.

Certes, iii. 33, 647.

Cess, measure, i. 520.

Chamber wall furnishings in old castles, 495.

Chambers, small pieces of ordnance, ii. 655.

Chances, crosses, casualties, iii. 648.

Changeling, a child changed by fairies or gipsies, i. 349, 351

iii. 222.

Channel, kennel, ii. 417.

Character, handwriting, ciphers, iii. 73, 221, 246, 428, 769, 784.
Chares, drudgery, iii. 577.

Charge, of Watchmen, i. 743.

Charles's-wain, the constellation called the bear, i. 520.

Charm for tooth-ache, i. 743.

Charm, to conjure, iii. 427.

Charm the tongue, to restrain or put a spell upon the tongue,
ii. 446, iii. 704.

Charmer, an enchantress, one who works by spells, iii. 684.
Charming, magical, fascinating, ii. 714, iii. 606.

Charneco, a sort of wine, ii. 358.
Charters, blank, i. 497.

Chases, a term of tennis, ii. 69.
Chaudron, entrails, iii. 501.

'Cheater, an Escheater, i. 646, iii. 783.
Cheater, a gamester, a cozener, i. 590.
Check, to fly from, or shy at, iii. 384.

Cheer, fare, iii. 363.

Cheer, visage, aspect, i. 363, 420, iii. 740.
Cherry-pit, a game, ii. 261.

Cheveril, a soft leather, i. 180, ii. 255, 664.

Chewet, a noisy chattering bird, i. 554.

Chide, to rebuke, to re-sound, ii. 80.

Chide with, to quarrel with, ii. 757, iii. 695, 777.

Child, a female infant, iii. 221.

Childing, teeming, i. 351.

Children that have no names, illegitimate children, iii. 531.

Chopines, clogs having very thick soles, iii. 400.

Chop-logic, a nickname, also, to exchange logic, i. 197, 489.
Chrisom, a white cloth used in the baptism of infants, ii. 117.
Chuck, chicken, term of endearment, i. 84, ii. 261, iii. 684.
'Cide, to decide, iii. 767.

Cinque-pace, a dance, i. 104, 704.

Circle, diadem, iii. 562.

Circumstance, conduct, circumstantial deduction, i. 4, iii. 294
Circumstance, circumlocution, i. 395.

'Cital, recital, i. 556.

'Cite, to incite, i. 14, ii. 411.

Cittern, a musical instrument, i. 94.

Civil, sour, bitter, i. 707, ii. 259.

Clack-dish, a beggar's dish, ii. 616.

Clamour, to refrain or silence, iii. 233.

Claw, to flatter, i. 701.

Clean, utterly, completely, i. 468.

Clean kam, rigmarole, iii. 159.

Clear-stories, upper rows of windows in a church, ii. 281.

Cleave the pin, to split the wooden pin in a target, i. 39, 71.
Clement's Inn, i. 627.

Clepe, to call, to designate, itt. 340, 492, 732.

Clerkly, scholarly, i. 11, 678.

Cling, to shrivel, to shrink, iii. 513.

Clip, to embrace, iii. 246.

Close, by stealth, secretly, i. 229, 311.

Close, to wheedle, to fawn, to flatter, ii 633.

Close, wanton, ii. 490.

Cloth-of-gold of tissue, cloth of gold on a ground of tissue,

iii. 543.

Cloud in the face, a dark spot in the forehead of a horse, iii.

554.

Clout, the white mark in a target, i. 71.

Clouted brogues, nailed shoes, ii. 748.
Clown, merryman, ii. 277.

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Clowns or Jesters, the practice of retaining, ii. 54.
Coast, to advance, iii. 780.

Coat, coat of arms, iii. 787.

Coats in heraldry, i. 884.

Cock-a-hoop, i. 170.

Cock and pye, a popular adjuration, i. 631.

Cockatrice, a fabulous monster, i. 189, ii. 262, iii. 743.
Cockle-hat, a pilgrim's hat, iii. 379.
Cockney, a spooney, a cook, iii. 79.
Cock-shut, twilight, ii. 569.

Coffin, the crust of a raised pie, i. 264, iii. 635.
Cog, to load dice, to cheat, to defraud, i. 89.
Cognizance, a badge, ii. 301.

Coil, trouble, turmoil, i. 7, 82, 366, iii. 359.
Colbrand the giant, i. 289.

Cold to bed, to thy cold bed, i. 227.

Collied, smutted, blackened, obscured, i. 343, iii. 669.
Collop, iii. 200.

Colme-kill, iii. 518.

Coloquintida, a plant bearing a bitter fruit, iii. 710.

Colours, artifices, ii. 299.

Colours on sculpture, iii. 257.

Colt, to gull, i. 523.

Combinate, contracted, ii. 614.

Combination, contract, ii. 276.

Come away, come away, a song, iii. 519.

Come off, to pay, i. 676.

Comforting, encouraging, abetting, iii. 213.

Commend, to commit, to submit, to resign, ii 48, iii. 214, 571.

Commission warrant, authority, iii. 201.

Commit, to fornicate, iii. 88.

Common players, strolling players, iii. 353.

Compact, made up, compounded, i. 129, iii. 723.

Companion, a low fellow, i. 138, ii. 722, iii. 179, 694.

Company, companion, ii. 40, 65.

Comparative, ready in comparisons, or similes, i. 513, 540.
Compassed, arched, iii. 724.

Competitor, coadjutor, confederate, auxiliary, i. 17, ii. 267.
Complements, point-de-vice manners, i. 53, 178, ii. 77.
Comply, to fraternise, to play the courtier, iii. 354, 394.
Compose, accord, agree, iii. 540.

Composure, composture, composition, ii. 494, iii. 284, 536.
Compt, in, in trust, to be accounted for, iii. 480.
Comptible, susceptible, sensitive, ii. 242.

Con, to know, to allow, to award, ii. 41, iii. 795.

Conceit, imagination, i. 184, 463.

Conceited, conceptive, apprehensive, iii. 752.

Concent, agreement in music, ii. 116.

Conclusions, experiments, ii. 717, iii. 373.

Concolinel, i. 64, 101.

Concupy, concupiscence, iii. 312.

Condition, profession or art, ii. 462.

Condition, nature, disposition, i. 397, ii. 41, 135, iii. 426,
542, 665.

Conduct, a conductor, a guide, i. 187, 210, ii. 263, 360, iii. 741.
Coney-catch, to cheat, i. 269.

Coney-catcher, a sharper, a trickster, i. 641.

Confess and be hanged, a cant phrase, iii. 687.

Conger and fennel, i. 593.

Conjurations, entreaties, i. 210.

Consent, agreement, unison, i. 617, ii. 116.
Consigned, sealed, iii. 301.

Consort, fellowship, fraternity, i. 29, 116, 186.

Consort, a band of musicians, i. 26

Conspectuity, vision, perception, iii. 143.
Constancy, consistency, i, 375, iii. 434.
Contain, to hold, to retain, i. 435.

Contemptible, mocking, contemptuous, i. 712.

Content, acquiescence, iii. 722.

Content, continent, self-restrained, iii. 445.

Continence, temperance, iii. 598.

Continent, capacious, iii. 378.

Continuate, uninterrupted, iii. 685.

Contraction, marriage-contract, iii. 370.

Contrive, to scheme, to plot, i. 429, ii. 95, iii. 431.

Convent, to agree, to be convenient, ii. 276.

Convent, to summon, to cite, ii. 631, 689.

Convert, to turn, ii. 486.

Convertite, a penitent, a convert, iii. 745.

Convey, to filch, to manage by stealth, i. 482, 706, 11. 291, 710
iii. 506, 561.

Convicted, vanquished, i. 306.
Convince, to conquer,

i. 96, ii. 716 iii. 481, 506.
Convive, to feast together, iii. 307.
Cooling-card, ii. 326.

Copatain-hat, a high-crowned hat, i. 269.
Cope, to encounter, i. 430.

Copy, theme, i. 142.

Coranto, a dance, ii. 20, 117.

Corinth, a cant name for a bordello, ii. 473.
Corinthian, a wencher, i. 527.

Cornuto, a cuckold, i. 671.
Corollary, an overplus, iii. 36.

Corporal of the field, an aide-de-camp, i. 67.

Costard, the head, i. 65.

Coted, came alongside, iii. 353.
Cot-quean, a molly-coddle, i. 202.
Cotsale, or Cotswold Hills, i. 686.

Couching, crouching, iii. 434

Counsel, in counsel, secret, in secret, i. 17, 640, ii. 35, iii. 132.
Countenance, to receive, to entertain, i. 255, ii. 127, iii. 184.

Counter, to run, to track the scent backward, i. 150.

Counter-caster, a disparaging term for merchant, iii. 648.

Counterfeit, a portrait, i. 418, iii. 768.

Counterfeit, a false piece of money, iii. 283.

Counterpoints, counterpanes, i. 246.

Countervail, to make equal or equivalent, i. 183.

County, an earl, a peer, i. 196, 321.

Couplement, i. 93, iii. 763.

Courage, mettle, spirit, ii. 415.

Course, carrière of a horse, i. 306.

Courser's-hair, a vulgar superstition concerning, iii. 534.
Court-cupboard, a cabinet, i. 169.

Court holy-water, glozing speeches, iii. 84.
Court of wards, i. 150.

Courts, a term in tennis, ii. 69.

Cousin, a kinsman, i. 169.

Covent, a convent, ii. 626.

Cover, to prepare the table, ii. 142.

Cower, to bend or sink, ii. 212.

Cowl-staff, a pole used to carry a bucket, i. 666.
Coystril, a mean groom, or peasant, ii. 217, 238.

Cozenage, sorcery, witchcraft, i. 149.

Cozier, a botcher of clothes or shoes, ii. 247.

Crack, a manikin, iii. 134.

Cracked coin, iii. 400.

Crants, crowns, garlands, iii. 390.

Crare, a small vessel of burden, ii. 748.

Credent, credible, plausible, ii. 627, iii. 201.

Credit, information, ii. 269.

Crescive, increasing, growing, ii. 65.

Crewel, worsted, iii. 77.

Crispian, feast of, ii. 119.

Critic, a cynic, iii. 311, 777.

Critical, cynical, censorious, iii 663.

Crooked, bowed or crouched, iii. 434.

Cross, a coin stamped with a cross, i. 56, ii. 141, 469.

Cross, to pass across the path of a spectre, iii. 332.

Crow-keeper, a scarecrow, or a rustic employed to frighten

crows, iii. 120.

Crush a cup of wine, an invitation to a carouse, i. 164.
Cruzado, crusado, a gold coin so called, iii. 712.

Cry, a pack, a troop or company, iii. 164, 366.

Cry aim, to encourage, i. 39, 293, 662.

Cry Havoc a signal for indiscriminate slaughter, i. 295, iii.
158, 437.

Cry in the top of question, to crow over or challenge, iii. 358.
Cry on, to announce, to assert, ii. 272, 573, iii. 700.

Cue, a stage term for the last words of a speech, i. 358.

Cuisses, armour for the thighs, i. 548.

Cullion, a paltry fellow, i. 258, ii. 83.

Cunning, knowing, skilful, i. 233, ii. 204, 503, 623

Curb, to bow or truckle, iii. 372.