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GLOSSARY.

A.

Alder-liefeft, preferred to all things; from leve or lefe, dear, and alder, of all.

ABJECTS, the most servile and lowest A'life, at life.

of fubjects.

Aby, to pay dear for, to suffer.

Amazonian chin, a chin without a beard.
Ames-ace, the lowest chance of the dice.

Abyfm, abyfs, from the French abyfme, Amort, funk, difpirited.

now abîme.

Accite, to call or fummons.
Aconitum, woolfsbane.

Adam, the name of an outlaw, noted for

his skill in archery. MUCH ADO. Adam Cupid, an allufion to the same perfon, ROM. And Jul.

Addreft, ready, prepared.

Advertising, attentive,

Aery, or Aiery, a nest.

Ancient, an enfign, or standard-bearer.
Angle, a fifhing-rod. WINT. TALE.
Antres, caves and dens.
Appeach, to impeach.

Apple-John, fpecies of apple that will keep for two years; in French, deux-ans. Approof, approbation, or fometimes proof,

confirmation.

Aqua vita, probably, ufquebaugh. MER.

WIVES.

Affect the letter, to practife alliteration. Arabian bird, the phenix.

LOVE'S LAB.

Affects, affections or paffions,
Affeered, a law-term for confirmed.
Affied, betrothed.

Affined, joined by affinity.
Affront, fometimes to face, or confront.
Affy, to betroth in marriage.
Aglet-baby, a diminutive being, not ex-
ceeding in fize the tag of a point; from
aiguillettes.

Agnize, acknowledge, confefs, avow. Aiery, a hawk's or eagle's neft. RICH.

III.

Airy fame, verbal eulogium.

Argentine goddess, regent of the filver

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As point, completely armed. Atomies, minute particles difcernible when the fun breaks into a darkened

room.

Attafked, taken to task, cenfured. Attent, attentive.

B.

Baccare, a proverbial word, of doubtful meaning; perhaps from baccalare, arrogant.

Bawcock, perhaps from beau and coq, a jolly cock, or cock of the game. Bay curtal, a bay docked horse. Bay windows, bow-windows. Beadfmen, chaplains, or perfons maintained by charity to pray for their benefactor.

Bear a brain, to have a perfect remem

brance.

Beck, a falutation made with the head; in the North, it means curtfying.

Bail, bane, ruin, misfortune. HEN. VI. Becomed, becoming. Roм. AND JUL.

2d Part.

Baldrick, a belt.

Behefts, commands.

Bebowl, to howl at.

Balker, either bathed, or piled up. HEN. Beldame, ancient mother. HEN. IV. 1ft

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Bandog, i. e. band-dog, a village dog, or Be-lee'd, becalmed.

mastiff.

Bandy, a metaphor from tennis-playing,

to exchange smartly.

Belongings, endowments.

Be-mete, bemeasure.

Bemoiled, bedraggled, bemired.

Banning, curfing, commonly used in Befmirch, to foul or dirty.

Scotland.

Bans, curfes.

Barbafon, the name of a dæmon.
Barbe, a kind of veil.

Barber-monger, one who conforts with barbers, a low fellow.

Barm, yeast, used in the midland counties,

and in Ireland and Scotland. Barnacles, a kind of fhell-fifh, growing on the bottom of fhips. Barne, a child.

Barrful, full of impediments.
Bases, a kind of loose breeches. PER.
Bafta, 'tis enough. ITAL. AND SPAN.
Bate, ftrife or contention. MER. WIV.
Batlet, the inftrument with which washers

beat their coarse cloaths.

Batten, to grow fat.

Beftraught, distracted.

Beteem, to give or beftow, or to permit,

deign, or fuffer. HAM.

Bevy, a company or number, originally applied to larks.

Bewray, betray, discover. Bezonian, a term of reproach; from bisognofo, a needy person.

Bias cheek, fwelling out like the bias of a bowl.

Bid the bafe, to challenge in a contest. Two GENT.

Biggin, a kind of cap, worn now only by children.

Bilberry, the whurtle-berry.

Bilbo, a Spanish blade, flexible and elaftic, the best of which are made at Bilboa.

Bavin, brushwood, which, fired, burns Bilboes, a bar of iron, with fetters annex

fiercely, but is foon out.

ed to it, by which mutinous failors

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