Imatges de pàgina
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File, majority, a list,

Filed, polished, defiled.

Fills, the shafts of a carriage.

Fine, to bring to an end, artful, to

make showy.

Findless, endless.

Fire-drake, a firework.

Fire-new, quite new.

Fitchew, a polecat.

Fires, vives, a distemper in horses.

Flag, a straw, a rush.
Flamens, priests.

Flap-dragon, an inflammable substance drank off in wine.

Flapjacks, pancakes.

Flask, a soldier's powder-horn.
Flaw, blast, fortune.

Flecked, streaked.

Fleet, float.

Fleeting, inconstant.

Flews, the large chaps of a hound.

Flight, a kind of shooting.

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Forespoke, forbid.

Forewearied, worn out.

Forfeit, to transgress, punishment.

Forfend, forbid.

Forgetice, inventive.

Forked heads, barbed arrows.
Formal, sensible.

Former, foremost.

Foul, homely, plain.

Fox, a cant name for a sword.
Forship, low cunning.

Frampold, fretiul, peevish.
Frank, sty.

Franklin, freeholder.

Frankly, freely.

Fraught, freight, cargo.

Free, liberal.

French brawl, a dance.

Freshes, springs.

Friend, friendship, a lover.

Frippery, an old clothes' shop.

Frize, a Welsh cloth.

Frontlet, a cloth worn by ladies to make the forehead smooth.

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Gloze, explain, to flatter.
Gnarled, knotted.

God before, God be my guide.

God 'ild you, God reward you.
God's sonties, God's sanctities.
Gongarian, Hungarian,
Good, rich,

Good-den, good evening.
Gourd and fullam, false dice.
Government, self-control,
Grace, power, favour,
Gracious, pleasing, beautiful.
Grained, ingrained, furrowed,
Grange, a solitary farm-house.
Grates, offends.

Gratillity, gratuity.

Gratulate, to rejoice in.

Grave, engrave.

Graymalkin, a cat.

Green, fresh,

Grise, degree, step.

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Groundlings, the people in the pit Implorators, implorers.

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Handfast, contract, Haggard, a hawk not well trained, Halcyon, the kingfisher, which, when hung up dead in a room, was supposed to turn its beak towards the quarter whence the wind blew.

Hallidom, a petty oath signifying faith, &c.

Hap, chance.

Happies, makes happy.
Hardiment, bravery.

Harlots, sometimes applied to male

cheats.

Harnesss, armour.

Hatch, to engrave.

Haughty, high-spirited,

Haunt, company.

Hlaving, estate.

Havings, accomplishments.

Hazard, a place in a tennis court,

Head, source.

Heart, sincerity

Heary, cloudy, dark,
Hebenon, heubane.
Herd, aim, direction.
Hefts, heavings.

Hell, a cant name for a prison.
Helm, helimet.

Impleached, interwoven.

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Liberties of sin, licensed offenders

Liberty, libertinism,

Lie, reside.

Liefest, dearest,

Liegers, ambassadors.
Lieu, in exchange for.
Lifter, a thief.

Lighter, inferior.

Lightly, commonly.
Lightness, levity.
Like, thrive on.

Likelihood, similitude.

Likeness, appearance.
Likes, pleases.

Liking, condition, substance.

Limbeck, alembic, a vessel used in distilling. Limber, flimsy.

Limbo Patrum, prison.

Lime, birdlime, to ensnare, to cement.

Limited, legitimate, appointed.
Limits, estimates.

Lincolnshire bagpipe, croaking of a frog.

Line, lineage, extent.

Lined, delineated.

Link, a torch of pitch.
Linstock, match.

List, listen to, desire, selvage.
Lists, limits, bounds.
Lither, yielding.

Little, miniature.

Livelihood, appearance of life.
Loach, a prolific fish,

Lob, an expression of contempt.
Lockram, linen,

Lode-star, pole-star.

Loggats, an ancient game resembling nine pins. Longing, eagerly expected,

Longly, longingly,

Loofed, brought close to the wind. Loose, lust.

Lop, branch.

Lord have mercy on us, the inscrip-
tion on plague-visited houses.
Lordling, diminutive of lord,
Lottery, allotment,
Lover, mistress, friend.

Love-spring, early shoots or buds of love.

Lown, a sorry fellow.

Lowted, treated with contempt.
Lozel, scoundrel.

Lunes, fits.

Lurch, to win.

Lush, rank, juicy, vigorous.

Lust, will,

Lustic, gamesome, cheerful.

Luxury, incontinence, lascivious

ness.

Lym, a blood-hound,

M.

Mace, sceptre.
Maculation, place, spot.
Mad, inconstant.
Made, skilled, trained.
Madonna, Italian, dame.
Magnificoes, chief citizens.
Magot-pies, magpies.
Mail, bag.

Main, mass of

Makeless, mateless, widowed.
Malkin, scarecrow.
Malt-worms, drunkards,
Mammering, doubting.
Mammock, to tear.

Manage, government, horsemanship.

Mandrake, or Mandragora, a root possessing soporific qualities, Mankind, masculine,

Manner, in the fact.

Man of wax, a handsome man. Marches, the English and Scottish borders.

Margent, marginal notes.
Marish, marsh,

Mart, market-place, exchange.

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Medicine, physician.

Meed, reward.

Meet, even, a match.

Meiny, retinue.

Memorized, made memorable.

Menelaus, the husband of Helen of Greece, a cuckold,

Mephistophilus, the name of an ugly spirit.

Mercatante, a merchant.
Merely, absolutely.
Mermaid, syren.

Metaphysical, supernatural.

Mettle, constitution, habit.
Micher, a truant,

Miching Malheco, secret mischief.
Mickle, much

Milch, milky.

Mimic, actor.

Mineral, mine.

Mi perdonate, pardon me,

Miscreate, spurious.

Miser, wretch.

Misery, avarice.

Misprised, mistaken.

Misprising, despising, undervaluing

Misprision, misconception.
Miss, dewithout,
Missingly, at intervals,
Missive, messenger.
Mistempered, angry.
Mobled, muffled, veiled.
Model, representative.
Modern, trite, familiar.
Modesty, moderation.
Module, model,
Moe, make mouths.
Moiety, part.

Moist star, the moon.
Moldwarp, the mole.
Mome, blockhead,

Monarcho, a fantastical personage

who lived in Shakespeare's time. Month's mind, desire for something. Mood, manner, resentment,

Moody frontier, cloudy looks, melancholy.

Moon, a month.

Moonish, changeable.

Moral, concealed meaning, applica

tion.

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Nice, trifling, weak.

Nicely, sophistically.

Nicholas' clerks, St, a cant name for thieves.

Nicholas, St, patron saint of chil

dren and scholars.
Nick, reckoning, calculation.
Nicked, a mark set upon fools,
Night-rule, night-revel.
Nill, will not.

Nobless, nobleness.

Noddy, a game at cards.

Noise, a band of musicians.
Nomination, mentioning.
Nonce, purpose, time.

Nook-shotten, thrust in a corner.

No poynt, the double negative of the French, non point.

Note, notice.

Novum, Novum quinque, a game with dice.

Nowl, head.

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P.

Pack, to bargain with, to trick.
Packed, combined.

Packings, underhand dealings.
Paddock, toad.

Pageants, mocking shows.
Pain, penalty.

Painted cloth, cloth with painted mottoes.

Pales, encompasses.
Pall, to wrap, fail.
Palliament, a robe.

Paragon, beyond compare.

Parallels, wrinkles.
Parcel, partly, add to.
Parcel-gilt,, partly gilt.
Pard, a leopard,

Parle, talk, parley, dispute.
Parlous, dangerous.
Part, relationship.
Partaker, confederate.
Partizan, a pike.
Parts, parties,

Pash, to strike, a tuft or head of hair.

Passage, passengers, passing recollection.

Passed, exceeded,

Passes, devices.
Passionate, mournful,

Passions, sufferings, feelings.
Patch, a simple fellow, a fool.
Patched fool, a fool in a parti-
coloured coat.
Patchery, roguery.
Pathetical, affecting.

Patins, a small flat dish used in the
administration of the Eucharist.
Pauca, pauca, few words.
Paucas pallabris, a word to the wise,
Pavin, a solemn dance.
Pay, to do.

Peascod, husk.

Peat, pet.

Peck, to throw.

Pedascule, pedant.
Peereth, appeareth.
Peevish, foolish, silly.

Peg-a-Ramsey, name of an old song.
Peize, to weigh,

Pelican, blood-sucking.

Pelt, to clamour.

Pelting, paltry, insignificant.
Pennons, small flags.

Pentecost, Whitsuntide.
Penthesilia, Amazon.
Perdu, forlorn hope.
Perdurably, lastingly.

Perdy, a vulgarised French oath,
"pardieu,"
Peregrinate, foreign.

Perfect, well-informed, assured.
Periapts, amulets.

Perish, destroy.

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Platforms, plans.

Plausibly, with applause.
Pleach'd, folded.

Plebeii, plebeians.

Pleurisy, superabundance, fulness. Plot, a piece of ground.

Point, fully armed.

Point-derise, nice to excess

Points, hooks for fastening the breeches.

Poize, weight,

Politic, crafty, astute.

Poll, to clear.

Pomander, scent-bag.

Pomewater, a species of apple.
Poor, low, humble.

Poor-john, salted fish.
Poringer, cup.

Porpentine, porcupine.

Port, appearance, carriage, gate.
Portable, bearable, endurable.

Possessed, informed, insane.
Potch, poke, push.

Pouncet-box, a box for perfumes.
Power, army, forces.

Practice, conspiracy, stratagem, malignant art, artifice.

Prank, to dress splendidly.
Precedent, pattern,

Precepts, warrants,

Precisian, physician,

Prefer, to advance.
Preferred, presented.

Pregnant, full of, apprehensive, ready.

Prenominate, already named,
Presence, diguity of manner, pre-
sence chamber.
Present, presents.
Press, crowd.

Pressel, ready.

Pressure, impression.

Pretence, intention, design.

Pretend, indicate,

Prevent, to anticipate.

Prick, point, skewer,

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Purl, to curl.,

Puttock, kite.

Puzzle, a drab.

Pyramises, pyramids,

Quail, relax, a harlot.

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Sprag, apt.

Sprighted, haunted.

Spurs, roots of trees.
Squandered, scattered.

Square, equal, quarrel, equitable,
Squarer, a brawling fellow,
Squire, a rule, square.
Stain, disgrace, tincture.

Stale, a stalking-horse, bait, a thing

for sale, to make cheap.
Stannyel, a hawk,
Starkly, stiffly.
State, fortune.

Statist, statesman.

Statute-caps, woollen caps, ordered to be worn by the middle and lower classes in England on Sundays and holidays.

Stares, lances.

Stay, wait,

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sent, pride.

Story, a jest.

Straight, immediately, forthwith.
Strain, lineage, difficulty, doubt.
Strait, difficulty.

Strangeness, coyness, coldness.
Stratagem, decisive event,
Stricture, strictness,
Stronds, strands, shores.
Stuck, thrust,

Stuck-in, stoccata, a term in fencing.
Stuffed, enough, ample abilities,
Stuffed man, a cuckold,

Subscribe, assent to.

Subscribes, submits, yields.

Subscription, obedience.

Subtle, deceitful.

Success, succession,

Sudden, violent.

Sue his livery, claim his land,

Suggested, tempted.

Suggestion, prompting, temptation.
Suit, petition.

Sumpter, a pack horse.

Sun of York, the cognizance of

Edward IV.

Sur-reined, overstrained,

Suspect, suspicion.

Swarth, a row of cut grass.

Swashing, slashing, swaggering.

Sweeting, an apple.

Swinge-bucklers, rakes, madcaps.
Swinged, scourged.

Swounds, swoons.

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Tharborough, third-borough, a peace
officer.

Therene, a funeral song.
Thetis, the sea,

Thick-pleached, closely interwoven.
Thill-horse, the horse between the
shafts.

Thorough, through.

Thought, melancholy.

Thrasonical, from Thraso, a boaster
in Terence.

Three-man-beetle, a heavy wooden
mallet for driving piles.
Three-man-song men, trios.
Three-nooked, three-parted,

Three-pile, best velvet,

Thrum, coarse yarn.

Tickle, ticklish, uncertain,
Tight, handy.

Tike, a cur.

Timeless, untimely.

Time's flies, flies of a season.

Tire, head-dress, to glut, beyond
description.

Tired, adorned with trappings.
Titan, the sun.

Tod, a pack of wool weighing 28 lb.
Toged, dressed in a toga or gown,
Token'd, spotted.
Toll, to pay toll.

Tomboys, wantons.

Tongues, languages.

Topless, supreme,

Torquoise, a precious gem.
Total gules, all red.

Touch, touchstone, exploit, deed.
Touches, features, hints.

Toward, ready, prepared.
Toys, trifles, whims,
Toze, to wrench, force.
Tract, path,

Trade, a confirmed habit,
Trail, scent.

Translate, describe.

Trash, to check, to restrain,
Traverse, march.

Traversed, crossed.
Tray-trip, a boyish game.
Treachers, traitors,

Tremor cordes, trembling of the heart.
Trench'd, carved, cut.
Trick, sound, peculiarity.
Trick'd, smeared.
Tricksy, sportive, adroit,

Table, picture, canvas, the palm of Tristful, sorrowful,

the hand.

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Triumphs, revels, masques, shows.
Trojan, a cant term for a thief.
Trol-my-dames, a game resembling
that of bagatelle.

Trotting paritors,

officials.

Trow, believe.

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Turn Turk, change conditions.
Tushes, tusks.

Twelve score, twelve score yards
Twiggen, wicker.

Twire, twinkle, peep.

Two brave bears, a bear and ragged staff was the crest of the Nevals of Warwick.

Two ordinaries, from meal-time to meal-time.

Type, distinction, title.

U.

Unaccustomed, indecent.

Unadvised, unknowing.

Unaneled, without extreme unction.

Unavoided, unavoidable.

Unbarbed sconce, unshaven head.

Unbated, not blunted.

Unbolt, explain.

Unbolted, unrefined.

Unbookish, ignorant.

Unbreathed, unexercised.

Uncape, unbag.

Unclew, unwind.

Unconfirmed, unexperienced.

Underfiends, infernal fiends.
Underskinker, tapster.
Underwrite, subscribe.
Uneath, not easily.

Unexpressive, inexpressible.
Unhappiness, evil disposition.
Unhappy, mischievous,
Unhoused, unsettled.
Union, a rich pearl.

Unkind, unnatural

Unmastered, licentious.

Unpolicied, impolitic.

Unproper, common,

Unqualitied, divested of reason.

Unquestionable, not to be questioned.

Unready, undressed.

Unrespective, inconsiderate.

Unseminared, unmannered.

Unstanched, incontinent, unchaste.

Untented, undressed,

Untraded, uncommon.
Untrimmed, unsullied.
Untuned cares, harsh cares.
Unvalued, invaluable.

Upspring, a kind of dance; spring

is in common use in Scotland for a quick dance or tune. Urchins, evil sprites. Urging, straying.

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