What Does Beefwitted Mean What Does Coxcomb Mean in Shakespeare
An On-line Shakespearean Glossary
Use this glossary to look up unusual words used in Shakespeare's plays. As this is a general glossary, you will want to make sure that the definition fits the context of the line in which the word is used.
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| 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; 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: to accuse; accusation 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: 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; 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 |
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| 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 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 |
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| 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; 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; put off, made to cease CENSURE: judgment; 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; 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 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 CONJECT: conjecture CONSIGN: to sign a common bond, to confederate CONSORT: company; 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 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; 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 |
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| 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); 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; 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; 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; 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; 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; 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 |
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| 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; 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; a shade of colour, as in shot silk EYNE: eyes |
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| 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; 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; to affright FEARFUL: subject to fear, timorous FEAT: dexterous; 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; to defile To smooth or polish To make even FILL-HORSE: shaft-horse FILLS: the shafts FILTH: a whore FINE: end; 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; 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; 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; 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: lustfulFURNISHED: equipped FURNITOR: furnitory, an herb |
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| 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; noble; 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; a sarcasm or gibe GLEEK: to scoff; 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; to decorate GUARDAGE: guardianship GUINEA-HEN: the pintado, a cant term GULES: red, a term in heraldry GULF: the throat GUN-STONE: a cannon ballGUST: taste, relish GYVE: to fetter |
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| 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; 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 |
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| 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 graf;. to splice a falcon's broken feathers; a scion; a child IMPAWN: to stake, compromise IMPEACH: to bring into question; 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; 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; 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 |
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| 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; 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; hazard JUMP: exactly, nicely JUSTICER: a judge, magistrate JUT: to encroach JUTTY: a projection; to jut out beyond JUVENAL: youth, young man |
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| 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 |
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| LABRAS: lips LACED-MUTTON: a courtesan LAG: the lowest of the people; 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; hindrance LETHE: death LEVEL: to aim; 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; to liken, compare; 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; 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; 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: lustLYM: a limer or slow hound |
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| 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; the tenor part in a harmony; 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 MISER: 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; 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; used ironically MURE: a wall MUST: a scrambleMUTINE: to mutiny; a mutineer |
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| 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; 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 |
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| 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: a euphemism for 'God's' in exclamations such as OD'S BODY, OD'S HEARTLINGS, OD'S PITTIKINS, and OD'S PLESSED WILL 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; to open | OPEN: plain; public; 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; outside OWE: to own |
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| PACK: to practice unlawful confederacy; 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; to strike violently, to bruise, crush PASS: to practice; 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; 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; 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; 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; gain, winnings PUT: to compel PUTTER-ON: an instigator PUTTER-OUT: one who lends money at interestPUTTING-ON: instigation PUTTOCK: a kite |
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| 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: that which makes a thing what it is; the essential nature 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; past tense of the verb to quit, quitted QUITANCE: requital QUIVER: active QUOTE: to note |
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| RABATO: a ruff RABBIT-SUCKER: a weasel RACE: breed; inherited nature RACK: wreck; 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; 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; 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; account | RENEGE: to renounce, to deny REPAIR: to renovate, comfort REPEAL: to reverse the sentence of exile 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; corresponding RESPECTIVELY: respectfully RETAILED: handed down RETIRE: retreat; to draw back REVERB: to echo REVOLT: a rebel RIB: to enclose as within ribs RID: to destroy RIFT: to split; 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; a diadem; unceremonious ROUNDEL: a dance or song ROUNDURE: an enclosure ROUSE: carousal ROYNISH: mangy RUBIOUS : ruddy RUDDOCK: the redbreast RUSH: to pushRUSHLING: rustling |
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| 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; taste SANDED: marked with yellow spots SANS: without SAUCY: lascivious SAW : a moral saying SAY: silken; 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; scanty, short scarcely SCANTLING: a small portion SCAPE: to escape; a sally SCATHE: injury; 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; mean SEAL: to set one's seal to a deed; hence, to confirm SEAM: fat SEAMY: showing the seam or sewing SEAR: scorched, withered; to stigmatize 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; 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; modesty SHARDS: shreds, broken fragments of pottery; 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; 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; true SORE L: a buck of the third year SORRIEST: most sorrowful SORRY: sorrowful, dismal SORT: a company; rank, condition; lot 'In a sort,' in a manner; 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; the front part of a woman's dress, stomacher; 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; 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; constantly STILLY: softly STINT: to stop to stop STITHY: a smith's forge; 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; 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; 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; 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, quickSWINGE-BUCKLER: a bully |
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| 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; 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; 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; to tear as a bird of prey Hence, metaphorically, to feed; 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; 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 branchesTWINK: a twinkling TWIRE: to peep, twinkle |
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| 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 |
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| 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: a waste-place; metaphorically, the dead of night; a gulf VASTIDITY: immensity VASTLY: like a waste VASTY: vast, waste VAUNT: to speak vaingloriously of; boast of; brag VAUNT-COURIERS: forerunners VAWARD: vanguard; advanced guard of an army; metaphorically, the first of anything VEGETIVES: herbs VELURE: velvet VELVET-GUARDS: 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: off with you! VICE: to screw; 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; common VULGARLY: publicly |
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| WAFT: to wave, beckon; To turn WAFTAGE: passage; 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;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; to think WEED: garment WEET: to wit, know WEIGH OUT: to outweigh WELKIN; the sky; 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; 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-peckedWONDERED: 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; to avenge WREAKFUL: revengeful, avenging WREST: an instrument used for tuning a harp WRIT: gospel, truth WRITHLED: shrivelled WROTH : calamity, misfortuneWRUNG: twisted, strained WRY: to swerve |
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| XANTHIPPE: Socrate's scolding wife | |
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| 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 |
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| ZANY: a clown, gull | |
Original glossary provided by the Internet Public Library gopher system. Additions and corrections made by Amy Ulen.
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