283, 578

Acture-action, iii. 772

Adamant-loadstone, i. 362
Adam, old-a serjeant, i. 226

Addiction-inclination, ii. 685

Additions qualities, titles, characteristics,
i. 585, iii. 117, 191

Address-to prepare, to make ready, i. 127,
304, 390, 420, 506, ii. 166
Admittance-vogue, fashion, i. 112

Advice-consideration, representation, i.
445, ii. 199

Advised-assured, aware, persuaded, i.
103, 277, 758, ii. 126
Affect-to love, i. 302

Affect the letter-to use alliteration, i. 317
Affection-affectation, imagination, i. 329,

680

Affectioned-affected, i. 641

Affeer-to assess, or confirm, iii. 38

Affined-bound, ii. 664, 689

Affray-to frighten, ii. 639

Affront-to confront, to encounter, iii. 138,
320

Affy-betroth, ii. 355

Affy-to confide, iii. 548

Against the hair-against the grain, iii.
191

Agate-ring, ii. 80

Aglet-baby-a diminutive figure carved on
a jewel, i. 521, ii. 127

Agnize to acknowledge, ii. 675
Agood-in good earnest, i. 87

Aigre-eager, sour, iii. 120

Aim-to guess, to surmise, i. 69, ii. 670
Aim! cry aim !-to encourage, i. 92
Aim-to give, to direct, i. 92, 219
Ajax-a jakes, i. 343

Albany-an ancient name for Scotland, ii.

737

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

311

A-life-as life, i. 716

All at once-a trite phrase, ii. 187, 450
Allons-let us go, i. 327. 330
Allow-to approve, ii. 767, iii. 718
Allowed-licensed, i. 340

Allowing-allowed, lawful, i. 680
All-thing-every way, iii. 21

Alms-drink-a portion of liquor drunk to

relieve a companion, iii. 498

Althea's dream, ii. 138

Amazing-confounding, appalling, i. 145,

ii. 9

Ames-ace-both aces, i. 584

Amiss- a fault, iii. 162, 730, 766

Amort-dejected, i. 549.

Anchor-an anchorite, iii. 146

Ancient-ensign, an ensign bearer, ii. 104,
143, 664

Andrew-a name for a ship, i. 398

Angerly-angrily, i. 52

Appaid-pleased, satisfied,

iii. 698

Apparent-nearest, i. 680

Artificial-ingenious, i. 376
Artist a scholar, iii. 196
Aspersion- sprinkling, i. 33
Assinego-an ass, iii. 205
Assured-affianced, i. 221, 755

Astonished-thunderstruck, iii. 715, 746
At friend-on terms of friendship, i. 731
Atomies-mites, ii. 607

Atomies-atoms, i. 481, 487.

Atone-to reconcile, ii. 5, iii. 267

Attasked-taxed, charged, iii. 756

Attorney-advocate, pleader, iii. 660

Aunts-wenches, i. 708

Awful-authorised, lawful, ii. 160

Awful men-men of worth and authority, i.

ii. 323

Banquet-a dessert, i. 560

Barbason-a fiend, i. 113, ii. 196

Barbed-caparisoned, ii. 442

Bare the beard-to shave the beard, i. 185
Barm-yeast, i. 359
Barns-bairns, i. 270

Base-court-lower court, ii. 37

Bases-an embroidered mantle, hanging
from the waist to the knee, worn by
knights on horse-back; also the housings
of a horse; also the hose, iii. 615
Basilisks-huge pieces of ordnance, ii. 77
Basta-enough, i. 518

Bastard-a sweet wine, ii. 80
Bat-staff or club, iii. 769
Bate-to blunt, i. 293

Batler-a bat to beat linen with, i. 469
Batten-to feed, iii. 154
Battle-an army, ii. 220, 664
Bavin-a faggot of brushwood, ii. 95.
Bawcock-beau coq, fine fellow, i. 656,
679

Bay-window-bow-window, i. 663
Bead's-man-one whose duty is to offer up
prayers for another, i. 48, ii. 311
Bear a brain-to remember well, ii. 605
Bear hard-to rein in from mistrust or fear,
iii. 424, 443

Bearing-cloth-an infant's mantle in which
it is carried to the font, i. 706

Bear in hand-to encourage, to buoy up, i.
278, 546, ii. 127, iii. 22

Beaver-the lower part of a helmet, some-

times used for the helmet itself, ii. 103

Bessy, o'er the bourn, iii. 779

Best-best one, an epithet of endearment,
iii. 478

Bestowed-secreted, stowed, i. 208
Bestraught-distracted, i. 512

Beteem-to allow, to suffer, i. 354, iii. 111
Better penny-a proverbial phrase, i. 95
Bevel-crooked, iii. 756

Bewray-to betray, to discover, ii. 287, 383
Bezonian-a term of contempt, ii. 181
Bias-a swelling out, iii. 237
Bid-to invite, i. 414, iii. 554

Bid forth-invited out, i. 414

Bid the base-to challenge in the game of
'base,' iii. 660

Biggin--a coif, ii. 169

Bilberry-the whortleberry, i. 141
Bilbo, i. 97, 127

Bilboes-instruments of torture, fetters, iii.

178

Bills-halberds, battle-axes, i. 267, iii. 793
Bisson-blind, iii. 136, 356

Biting the thumb-a contemptuous action,
iii. 597, 598

Blacks-mourning habiliments, i. 679
Blank-a mark in gunnery, i. 241

Blench-to flinch, to start off, i. 190, 634.
iii. 188

Blend-blended, iii. 772

Bless the mark, i. 84, 408, ii. 664.
Blind-worm-slow-worm, i. 364, iii. 32
Block-a hat mould, i. 242

Blood in-with the blood up. i. 316.
Blood-boltered-clotted with blood, iii. 34
Blow-to swell, iii. 525

Blue caps-the Scotch, ii. 85
Blunt dull, insensible, ii. 433
Board-to accost, i. 628

Bob-to rap, to hit, i. 359, 473, ii. 522, iii. 217
Bobbed-tricked, iii. 724

Bodged-bungled, ii. 388

Bodkin-a stiletto, a dagger, iii. 139

Bodikin-God's. an oath, iii. 136

Bolds-emboldens, ii. 800

Bolted, bolting-sifted i. 718, iii. 188
Boltered-clotted, ii. 34

Bolters-sieves, ii. 98

Bolting-hutch-the bin into which meal is
bolted, ii. 86

Bombard, or bumbard-a barrel, a capaci
ous vessel, sometimes of leather, for hold-
ing drink, ii. 96, 592

Bombast-a sort of wadding used to fill out
dresses, i. 346

Bona-robas-women of pleasure ii. 151
Bone-ache, the Neapolitan, iii. 211, 244
Boot - help, advantage, ii. 4. 294
Bordered-restrained, ii. 786

Borne in hand-encouraged by delusive
promises, iii. 22
Borrowed-assumed, iii. 774
Bosky-woody, ii. 109

Bosom multiplied-many-stomached, iii.

372

Bots-worms in the stomach of a horse, i.
537, ii. 72

Bottled-bloated, ii. 458

Bottom-to wind round, or upon, i. 77

Bought and sold-entrapped, betrayed,
made a victim, ii. 291, iii. 205

Bourn-boundary, ii. 792, iii. 139
Bow-yoke, i. 485

Bowed-bent, ii. 550

Brach-a hound bitch, i. 508, iii. 206
Braid--false, deceitful, i. 606

Braved-bedizened, ornamented, i. 473, 550
Bravery-finery, ostentation, i. 152, 473,
iii. 462

Braving-blustering, hectoring, iii. 559
Break up-to carve. i. 113, 413

Break with him-to open the subject to
him, i. 55, iii. 431
Breast-voice, i. 639

Breath a breathing, a combat for exercise,
iii. 240

Breathe in watering-to take breath while
drinking, ii. 79

Breeched-sheathed, mired, iii. 19

Breed-bate-an exciter of quarrels, i. 102
Brewer's horse, ii. 97

Brew good ale-a proverb, i. 75
Bribe-buck, i. 141

Brize-the gad, or horsefly, iii. 197, 512
Broken music-the music of stringed in-
struments, i. 458, iii. 217

Broker-a pander, a procuress, a cheat, i

52, 757, . 771

Brooched-adorned, decorated, iii. 534
Brooded-watchful, i. 766

Broom-groves, i. 35

Brown-bastard-a sweet wine, ii. 80
Brown-bill-a battle-axe, iii. 793

Brownist-a follower of Brown, a sectary,
i. 652

Bruit-report, ii. 268. 429, iii. 49, 111, 258
Buckle-to bend, ii. 125

Buff-the dress of a sergeant, i. 225
Bug-a bugbear, a goblin, ii. 434, iii. 178
Bulk-the breast, iii. 125

Bully-rook-a jolly dog, i. 100

Bung-a cutpurse, ii. 143

Burgonet-a helmet, iii. 482

Burst-broken, i. 543, ii. 156
Busky-bosky, woody, ii. 109

But-unless, except, i. 526, iii. 130, 513,
528, 784

But-only, iii. 130, 427

Buxom lusty, sprightly, buoyant, ii. 214
Buz, buz-an interjection of impatience,

...

111. 133

Canker-the dog-rose, i. 248, iii. 736
Canstick-a candlestick, ii. 91
Cantle-a slice, a corner, ii. 9o, iii. 512
Cantons-cantos, i. 635

Canvas-to toss, ii. 258

Can you hit it?-a song, or dance, i. 315
Capable-impressible, susceptible, i. II,
488, ii 126

Capitulate to confederate, ii. 96
Capocchia-a simpleton, iii. 232
Capricious-goatish, i. 484

Captain-jewels-superior jewels, iii. 735
Captious-capacious, i. 575

Carbonado-a collop cooked on the coals.
ii. 115

Carcanet-a necklace. i. 215, iii. 735

Card, by the, according to the book of
manners, iii. 174

Card, to-to mix, or mingle, ii. 95

Career, or Careire-a term of the menage,
i. 97

Careful-painful, anxious, i. 237
Carkanet-a necklace, i. 215, iii. 735
Carlot-a churl, i. 489

Carpets-coverings for the table, i. 542
Carping-taunting, ii. 96

Carrack-a ship of great burden, ii. 663
Carry coals-to submit to indignities, ii.
208, 597

Carry out a side-a card-table phrase, ii.

801

Carrying dead bodies off the stage, iii. 186.
Cart-a car, or chariot, iii. 145

Carve-to give an amorous sign, i. 100
Case-a brace, a pair, ii. 207
Case-a skin, i. 169

Casque-a helmet, ii. 185

Cassock-a horseman's coat, i. 609

Cast-dismissed, ii. 685

Castiliano vulgo, i. 628
Castle-a helmet, iii. 573

Cataian-a term of reproach, i. 107
Cates cakes, dainties, i. 216, 529
Cautel-crafty carcumspection, iii. 114
Cautelous-treacherous, insidious, iii. 386
Censer-a fire-pan for perfumes, i. 550
Censure to pass judgment, i. 51, 155, ii.
527, iii. 115. 765

Ceremony-pronounced as a trisyllable, i.

586