A, on; in. 'A, he. Abate, humble; diminish; blunt; depreciate; deduct; curtail. Abatement, diminution; deprecia tion. Abhor, refuse; horrify. Able, vb., warrant. About, intent on. Go about, prepare Abridgement, entertainment. Abruption, breaking off. Absey-book, A B C book, primer. Abuse, disfigure; dishonor; corrupt; deceive. Abuser, corrupter. Aby, pay for. Accept, sb., acceptance. GLOSSARY Affectioned, full of affectation. Against, just before, in expectation Agaz'd, looking with amazement. Agnize, acknowledge. A-hold, close to the wind. Aim, guess. Cry aim, encourage. Alder-liefest, dearest of all. Ale, ale-house, T. Gent. II. v 61. Accepted, welcome, T. and C. III. Allayment, alleviation. Accomplish, obtain; equip. iii. 30. Accite, cite. Accountant, liable. Accuse, sb., accusation. Annothanize, anatomize, explain. Annoyance, injury. Anon, immediately; sometimes. Antic, adj., fantastic; sb., buffoon; Appalled, weakened; made pale. Appeal, tb., impeach; sb., impeach ment. Appellant, impeacher. Apperil, peril. Apple-john, a kind of winter apple, long kept. Appliance, remedy. Apply, put in practice; devote. Apprehension, sarcasm. Apprehensive, imaginative, capable of perception. All-building, on which everything Approbation, proof; probation. All-thing, every way. Alms-drink, the left-over liquor given Along, at one's length. Amaze, confound. Amazement, utter bewilderment. Arch, sb. and adj., chief. Argal, Argo, corruptions of Lat. ergo, Argosy, a large merchantman. Arm-gaunt, war-worn (?), gaunt with 48. Armigero, for Lat. armiger, one en- Armipotent, powerful in arms. Aines-ace, two aces, the lowest throw Arrive, reach, obtain. Arthur's show, an exhibition by a Article (Of great), comprising many Arts-man, scholar. Assemblance, general appearance. Blurted, sneered. Board, accost, woo. Bedlam, sb., a madhouse; a madman; Bob, vb., to beat; cheat; sb., a cut adj., mad. Bed-swerver, adulteress. Beg us, apply for the guardianship of us as idiots, L. L. L. V. ii. 490. Being, sb. habit of life; residence; adv., when, since. Be-lee'd, forced to lee of the wind. Aweless, fearless; inspiring no fear. Belied, slandered; full of lies. Awful, filled with awe. Ban-dogs, fierce dogs kept chained. Bandy, strike to and fro; contend. Bane, poison; destruction. Bank, to land on or sail along the banks of, K. John, V. ii. 104. Banquet, dessert. Barbed, armed (of a horse). Barful, full of hindrances. Barnacle, a shell-fish supposed to grow on trees and turn into a goose. Bartholomew boar-pig. Roast pig was an attraction at Bartholomew Fair, held annually in London on Aug. 24th. Base, a rustic game. Bases, a kind of skirt worn by knights Bate, vb., flutter; weaken, remit. sticks. Batlet, a flat stick for beating linen in washing. Batten, to feed. Bemad, madden. Bend, sb., look, glance; vb., direct, incline. Bent, tension; inclination; look. Bergomask, a rustic dance after the 409. Beshrew, curse (used playfully). Besort, vb., suit; sb., convenience. Bias, awry; puffed out, swelled (as ting jest. Bodkin, a dagger. Bodykins, a disguised oath (origi- Bolting-hutch, box for sifting. Bona-roba, a light woman. Bonny, pretty, handsome; big. Boots, a method of torture. Botch, patch. Bots, worms in horses. Bottled, swollen, Rich. III, I. iii. 242. Bottom, sb., a ball of thread; vb., to wind. Bottom, a valley. Bound, to make to leap, Hen. V, V. ii. 146. Bound, hindered, stopped, J. Cæs. Bourn, boundary; stream. Bigamy, marrying a widow, Rich. Bow-hand, left hand. Bilbo, a Spanish blade (from Bilbao). Bill, note; notice, proclamation. Bisson, dim-sighted. Bite the thumb, a gesture of contempt. Bitumed, smeared with bitumen. Black, dark-complexioned, as opposed to fair. Black-cornered, hiding things in dark corners (?), T. of A. V. i. 47. Black Monday, Easter Monday, named from a storm from which the English forces in France suffered on that day, 1360. Boy, rb., act the part, being a boy (referring to the acting of female parts by boys), A. and C. V. ii. 220. Brabble, broil. Brace, armor for the arm; state of defence. Brach, a female hound. Braid, adj., deceitful; rb., upbraid. Brain, vb., understand, Cym. V. iv. 147. Brainish, headstrong. Brawn, muscle (esp. of the arm); a boar. Breach of the sea, surf. Breast, singing voice. Breath, gentle exercise. Breathe, to take exercise. Blank, sb., the white mark in the Breathed, exercised, in (good) wind. Battle, division of an army (in order Blacks, suit of mourning. of battle). Chamber, a small cannon. In Rich. III, III. i. 1, chamber is a translation of camera regis, i. e., London. Chamberer, a man accomplished in the arts of peace, as opposed to a soldier. Changeable, varying in color. Chape, metal point of a scabbard. write. Charactery, writing. Captious, capacious, All's Well, I. iii. Cheapen, to offer to buy. 208. Bubukles, pimples. Buck-basket, a laundry-basket. Buckle, to bow; to join in close com- Buckler, protect. Bucklersbury, a street in London, chiefly inhabited by druggists. Bug, bugbear. Bugle, a black glass bead. Bully, a fine fellow; a swaggerer. Bung, pickpocket. Burgonet, a close-fitting helmet. Burn (sack), to boil to mitigate its strength. Bush, a vintner's sign. Buss, kiss. Buttery, provision room. Button, bud. In his buttons, in his power to succeed (?), M. Wives, III. ii. 71. Butt-shaft, a blunt arrow, used for shooting at a target. By-drinkings, drinkings between Carack, a large merchant vessel. Caraways, confections made with caraway seeds. Carbonado, sb., meat slashed across for broiling; vb., to cut across. Carcanet, necklace. Card, sb., chart. Cooling card, a Card, vb., to mix. Career (To pass a), to run a short Carnal, eating flesh, Rich. III, IV. iv. Carpet consideration, reasons of Carpets, table or floor coverings. Carve, to make courteous or inviting Case, vb., mask; surround; flay. Cater-cousins, good friends. Catlings, cat-gut for fiddle-strings. of Cautel, deceit. Cautelous, deceitful. Censure, sb., opinion, judgement; vb., to judge. Cerecloth, cerements, waxed linen Cess (Out of all), excessively. Cheater, escheator, an officer of the Exchequer. Chequin, an Italian gold coin. Cherry-pit, the game of pitching cherry-stones into a small hole. Cheveril, a soft, easily stretched leather. Chewet, a chough, daw; a kind of Christom, for chrisom, christening robe. A chrisom child was a child in its first month, still wearing the white cloth put on at baptism; so, an innocent child. Chud, I would (dialect). Chuff, a wealthy churl. Cinque-pace, a stately dance. Cipher, decipher. Circummur'd, walled round. Circumstance, detail; formal phrases. Cital, recital. Cite, incite. Citizen, adj., town-bred. Civil, grave. Civil doctor, a doctor of civil law. Clack-dish, a beggar's dish with a movable cover with which a noise was made. Clamour, to silence, W. T. IV. iv. 250. Clap, pledge by clasping hands. Clap i' the clout, hit the bull's eye. Clapper-claw, thrash. Clearness, freedom from suspicion. Clepe, to call. Cliff, clef, the key in music. Climate, sb., region (of the earth or sky). Climate, vb., reside. Climatures, regions or dwellers in a Clinquant, glittering. Cloistress, a nun. Close, adj., secret. Close, vb., enclose; join; come to Concernancy, import. an agreement. Closure, enclosure; conclusion. Codling, an unripe apple. Cognizance, badge. Coil, turmoil, entanglement. Collect, infer. Collection, inference. Concerning, affair. Conclusion, experiment. Conclusions passed the careers, things took their course. Condition, rank; character; quality. Confirmity, blunder for "infirmity," Conscience, consciousness, thought. Consider, pay. Considered, fit for deliberation. Come off, pay. Come tardy off, done Contemptible, contemptuous. without alacrity. Comfortable, consoling. Coming-on, adj., complaisant; sb., future; attack. Commend, recommendation; greeting. Comment, power of observation. Commodity, convenience; profit; parcel. Commoner, prostitute. Compassed, round, arched. Complement, outward form; accomplishment. Complexion, temperament; external appearance. Complices, accomplices. Composure, composition; combination. Compt, reckoning; the judgementday, Oth. V. ii. 273. Comptible, sensitive. Con, learn by heart. Con thanks, be thankful. Conceit, sb., imagination, thought; fanciful idea; vb., judge. Conceited, possessed with an idea; fanciful. Conceitless, stupid. Contemptuous, contemptible. Contraction, marriage-contract. Convent, vb., summon; be convenient. Conversation, intercourse; behavior. Convey, carry or carry on secretly; Copulative, one desiring to be married. Copy, theme; lease, tenure. Coranto, a quick dance, Corinthian, a fast fellow. Cornuto, cuckold. Corporal, corporeal. Correspondent, obedient. Course, the attack of the dogs in Cowl-staff, a pole on which a burden Coy, vb., to disdain; to caress. Cozier, cobbler. Crack, sb., a small boy. Crack, vb., to boast. Crack-hemp, a fellow deserving to be hanged. Crank, sb., winding; vb., to wind. Crants, garlands (Q. reading for Ff. "rites" in Ham. V. i. 255). Crescive, growing. Cresset, a fire-basket, suspended as a beacon. Crisp, curled, wavy. Crispin's Day, October 25. Cross, a coin stamped with a cross. Cruel, in Lear, II. iv. 7, a pun on crewel, worsted. Crusado, a Portuguese coin. Cry on, shout, Ham. V. ii. 375. Culverin, a kind of cannon. Curious, elegant; scrupulous; elab Corrosive or corsive, a painful biting Dan, lord, master, |