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plutistagos to myllos, meaning also the private parts of women. Remember codpiece! Plain, even and perspicuous. AL. 2, 7. Plain song, the simple notes of an air without ornament, or variation; opposed to discant, or pricksong, variegated, full of flourish and variety. He. 3, 2. MD. 3, 1.

Plaisterer, dauber, roughcaster of walls. bHf. 4, 2. From the gr. plassō, plēssō. to Plait, plat, pleach, plash, to interweave branches, to weave, braid, interwow; twingle. RJ. 1, 4. MA. 1, 1. 3, 1. AC. 4, 12. Kin to plight, plyght, ply, gr. plekein, plissein, ploke, lat plica, germ. Flechte. Planched, boarded. MM. 4, 1. Planets were supposed to have the power of doing sudden mischief by their malignant aspect, which was conceived to strike objects. WT. 1, 2. 2, 1. Hence planetstruck, affected by malignant planets.

Plant, sole of the foot, foot. AC. 2, 7. Plantage, probably any thing planted. TC. 3, 2.

Plantain, plaintain, plantago, whose leaves were supposed to have great virtues in curing wounds. RJ. 1, 2. LL. 2, 2. 3, 1. Plate, a piece of silver money. AC. 5, 2. From the gr. platys, broad, kin to plache, plane, blache, boh. plachta, germ. Blech. Platform, elevation of building, or fortification, sconce. aHƒ. 2, 1. H. 1, 1. O. 2, 1. Pleas aunce, pleasance, pleasantness, delight. 0.2, 3.

to Pledge, to pawn. cHf. 3, 3; to do reason in drinking. bHd. 4, 2. TA. 1, 2.

Pleurisy, inflammation of the pleura. H. 4, 7. Pliant, fit, apt. 0. 1, 3.

Plight, state, condition, course. AC. 5, 2. TAn. 3, 1. WT. 2, 1. M. 1, 2. cHf. 3, 3; faithfulness, faith, KL. 1, 1. Kin to pledge, plait, plevin, germ. Pflicht, lat. legare, engl. liege,

wh. s.

to Plod, to toil and moll, to take great pains.
He. 1, 2. 2, 1. Cy. 3, 2. bHf. 4, 1. Kin to the
gr. plazo, plathō, plegō, plagen.
Plodder, unwieldy fancymonger. LL. 1, 1.
Plot, place, spot of ground. bHf. 1, 4. Kin to
the germ. Platz.

Plotproof, convinced of treason. WT. 2, 3.
Kin to plight, wh. s. S. Horne Tooke Div. of

P. II, 129.

to Plume, to deck with feathers; to embellish, to trim. 0. 1, 3.

Plummet, plumbline, sounding lead. T. 3, 3.

MW. 5, 5.

Plumpy, fat. AC. 2, 7.

to Ply, to insist, urge, press, dun. AL. 3, 5.
TS. 2, 1. TAn. 5, 2. H. 2, 1. AC. 3, 2. cHf.
3, 2. Kin to the germ. pläuen, pleyen, plegen,
gr. plegein, plessein, engl. plod, gr. plekein,
plagein.
Pocky, infected with the venereal disease. H.
5, 1.

led for, among the guests. Gifford's Ben Jons. V, 431. II, 443. TN. 1,5. WT. 4, 3. bHd. 2, 4. To stand upon points, to be nice, scrupulous. MD. 5, 1. To grow to a point, to come to the matter. MD. 1, 2. To come to full points, to come to the end of the matter. bld. 2, 4. Point devise, or device, precise, nice to excess, of the utmost or finieal exactness. LL. 5, 1. AL. 3, 2. TN. 2, 5. Douce Ill. of Sh. I, 93. refers it to needlework, from the fr. point devisé, and mentions point lace as similar, applied in a secondary sense to whatever was uncommonly exact, or constructed with the

nicety and precision of stitches made or devised by the needle.

Poking-stick, a small stick, of wood, bone, iron, or steel used for setting the plaits of ruffs. WT. 4, 3. with Steevens. Polack, Polander. H. 1, 1. Pole. ib. 4, 2. to Poll, to strip, plunder. Co. 4, 5. Poll, head. AW. 4, 3. bнd. 2, 4. H. 4, 5. Lowsax. Polle, Poll, Pull, phryg. bal, bala, germ. Bolle, bel, bol, bül, pers. pola, kin to Ball and bowl.

Pomander, a ball, or other form, composed of or filled with perfumes, worn in the pocket, or about the neck. WT. 4, 3. From pomme d'ambre; for a box of silver could also have the form of an apple.

Pome water, a species of apple, malus carbonaria. LL. 4, 2.

to Ponder, to poise; to be scrupulous. KL.3, 4. Lat. ponderare.

Pool, kennel, puddle, sink. T. 4, 1. bHf. 4, 1. Lowsax. Pool, lat. palus, germ. Pfuhl, kin to the gr. pelos, slime, mud. S. puddle. Poop, stern of a ship; lat. puppis. AC. 2, 2. S. Kanne's Panth. der ältesten Naturphilos. p. 225. and the same's Chronos p. 310. to Pop, to move quickly, to crack, to burst. TC. 4, 5. To pop in, to enter with a quick, sudden and unexpected motion, to intrude. H. 5, 2. To pop out, to steal out, to deceive. KJ. 1, 1. From the gr. poppyzein, whence it seems to mean also to allure Six old plays I, 16.

Poperin, popperin, a sort of pear first brought from Poperingues in Flanders. S. Malone at RJ. 2, 1.

Popinjay, popingey, parrot. aHd. 1, 3. After all a corruption of psittacus. like papagayo, papagallo.

Poppy, papaver. 0.3, 3. Sax. popig. Popularity, conversation with people. He.

1, 1.

Porch, hall, portico. H. 1, 5. JC. 1, 3. Co. 3, 1. From porticus.

to

Pore, to look close, carefully, with great attention and care, to spy. LL. 1, 1. He. 4. ch. Kin to the gr. peran, poreuein; to bore with the eyes.

Porpentine, porcupine (CE. 5, 1. bHf. 3, 1. TC. 2, 1.) H. 1, 5.

Porringer, porrenger, turreen. TS. 4, 3; a sort of tire, or headdress. Hh. 5, 3. From porrum.

Point, hovering, soaring and coming down of a hawk. bHf. 2, 1. tagged string, or lace, fringe, with which the breeches were fastened or trussed to the doublet. These tags, which supplied the place of buttons were sometimes very costly, being formed of silver, gold and occasionally of precious stones, cornelians, agats etc. To show the impatience of a bridegroom it was a custom, to tear them off, instead of untying them, and throw them, to be scramb- 2, 3. S. port.

Port, gate (porta) bHd. 4, 4. Co, 1, 7. TA. 5, 5; carriage, manner, deportment, gait (fr. portée) AC. 4, 12; state, attendance. TS. 1, 1. Portage, port, porthold. He. 3, 1. Portance, carriage, manner, deportment. Co.

to Portcullis, to furnish with a falling gate. Prease, press, crowd. Hh. 4, 1. The true Rb. 1, 3. from portcullice, portcullis, port- reading for the modern press! cluse, viz porta clausa; also an english coin, to Prease, to press. cHf. 3, 1. with the figure stamped on the reverse. Gifford's Ben Jons. II, 113.

Precedent, example. Cy. 3, 1. rule to future times. MV. 5, 1. KJ. 5, 2. Rb. 2, 1. Hh. 1, 2; prognostic, indication. VA. 5.

to Possess, to make master of in point of knowledge, to inform precisely. MM. 4, 1. Precisian, a puritan, or precise person. MW. TN. 2, 3. MA. 5, 1. MV. 1, 3. Co. 2, 1. 2, 1. where others read physician. S. 147. Posset, a drink composed of hot milk, curdled Preciseness, chastity, honesty. aHf. 5, 4. by some strong infusion; much in favour of Precontract, previous contract. MM. 4, 1. old, both as luxury and medicine. M. 2, 2. Predict, prediction. S. 14. Lat. posca.

to Posset, to make a posset, to make coagulate, or curd. H. 1, 5.

Post, haste, speed. Rc. 3, 6; messenger. TN. 1, 5. bHd. 2, 4.

to Post, to speed. TG. 2, 3. H. 1, 2. TC. 1, 3. Cy. 3, 4. To post over, to colour, palliate. bHf. 3, 1. to post off, to place aside. cHf. 4, 8. Posts painted and ornamented were usually set up at the doors of sheriffs and other magistrates, on which the royal proclamations were fixed. TN. 1, 5. Posy, nosegay. MW. 3, 1; device, motto. MV. 5, 1. H. 3, 2. From poésie. Pot. To the pot, destroyed. Co. 1, 4. to Pot, to carouse. 0. 2, 3.

Potatoe (americ. badada). MW. 5, 5. TC.5, 2. to Potch, poche, to thrust at with a pointed instrument. Co. 1, 10. Nearly allied to push. Potent, potentate. KJ. 2, 2.

Pother, noise, alarum, Co. 2, 1. KL. 3, 2. Kin to the gr. peto, petaō, ptōssō, patassō, patagos.

Pottle, measure of two quarts. 0.2, 3. Variety of bottle.

Poulter, a dealer in poultry (kin to fowl). aHd. 2, 4. Poultice, fomentation, bathing by a pap. RJ. 2, 5. Lat. puls, pultis.

Pouncet box, a box perforated with small holes, for carrying perfumes. aHd. 1, 3. to Pound up, to imprison, close or pen up. Co. 1, 4. TG. 1, 1. Kin to the gr. pao, paio, pun, pen, pin.

to Pout, to look sullen by thrusting oat the lips, to mop and mow. RJ. 3, 8. Fr. bouder. to Powder, to pickle, sprinkle with salt. aHd. 5, 4. Hence powdering tub. He. 2, 1. Powers, vital spirits. MV. 3, 5.

Por, the small pox. LL. 5, 2. From the pocks (germ. Bake) pustules.

to Poze, to confound. MM. 2, 4. Kin to pose, appose, puzzle, from the gr. paō, pauō, lat. paveo, to terrify.

Practice, art, deceit, treachery, trick, shift, intrigue. KL. 2, 4. 2, 1. 5, 3. 0.5, 2. Hh. 1, 1. TG. 4, 1. MM. 5, 1. AL. 2, 3. Gifford's Ben Jons. III, 822. IV, 285. Cf. likening; made. Practic, practical. He. 1, 1. Practisants, traitors, confederates in treachery. aHf. 3, 2.

Praise at parting, a sort of proverbial expression, alluded to T. 3, 3.

to Prance, to rear up; to strut. bHf. 2, 1. S. to perk.

Prank, trick, practice. TN. 4, 1. WT. 4, 8. KL. 1, 4. H. 3, 4. 0. 2, 1.

to Prank, to dress out affectedly or splendidly, to deck, adorn, decorate with ostentation. TN. 2, 4. WT. 4, 3. Co. 3, 1. S. perk. Prawn, crabfish. bHd. 2, 1.

Pregnancy, ingenuity, wit, dexterity. bHd. 1, 2.

Pregnant, ready, apt to produce; stored with information. MM. 1, 1; ingenious, full of art or intelligence. TN. 2, 2. H. 2, 2; apprehensive, ready to understand, rich in perceptive powers. TN. 3, 1; full of force, conviction, proof in itself. Cy. 4, 2; artfull, designing, full of deceit. H. 3, 2. As a fashionable term (s. article) it was abused with great laxity. to Prejudicate, to reprobate by prejudice.

AW. 1, 2.

to Prejudice, to intrench, incroach, cross. alf. 3, 3.

to Premise, to speak of before, to explain previously. bHf. 5, 2. where however Voss Preordinance, forechoosing. JC. 3, 1. where corrects promised, as KL. 5, 8. it is joined to first decree. Prescript, written down before. He. 3, 7. Prescription, receipt. AW. 1, 8; order, direction in writing. H. 2, 2.

Presence, dignity of miens, look. CE. 3, 2. MV. 3, 2. AL. 1, 2; presence chamber, state room in a palace, where the sovereign_usually 4. appears. Hh. 3, 1. Rb. 1, 3; any grand stateroom. RJ. 5, 3.

Presently, at this present time. TG. 5, 1. Prest, from to press in the sense of to hasten, ready or earnest to do a thing. MV. 1, 1. Perhaps from prest, for près, from the lat. Press, order of levy. aHd. 4, 2. praesto. Pressure, coin, stamp, first printed sheet.

Pretence, intention. TG. 3, 1. M. 2, 3. H. 3, 2. Pretty He. 1, 2. in pretty traps to catch the pretty thieves is the true reading for petty. to Pretend, to intend. TG. 3, 6; to use a to Prevent, to go before; to anticipate. JC. pretence. Cy. 2, 8.

5, 1.

Prevention, suspicion, mistrust, surprise. JC. 2, 1.

Prick, sting, awl and tool. RJ. 2, 4. At pricks LL. 4, 1. where the opp. of to bowls implies an obscenity; a point, mathematical point. cHf. 1, 4. KL. 2, 8.

to Prick, to spur; to ride briskly. JC. 2, 1. LL. 1, 1.

Pricksong, music written down,, sometimes more particularly music in parts; from the points or dots with which it is noted down. RJ. 2, 4. When opposed to plain song (wh. s.) it means counterpoint, as distinguished from mere melody.

Primal, original, first. AC. 1, 4. H. 3, 8. Prima, morning; spring. LL. 5, 8; ready, eager. 0.3, 3.

Primero, prime, or primavista, a game at cards. Prime is four cards of different suits;

if they were all of one colour, he that held them, won the flush. MW. 4, 5. Hh. 5, 1. Primrose way, or path, flowery, pleasant path. M. 2, 3. H. 1, 8.

Primy, early, belonging to the spring. H. 1, 8.
to Prince, to act like a prince. Cy. 3, 3.
Principal, stock. MV. 4, 1. AW. 1, 1.
Princock, princox, a pert, forward, presump-
tuous, saucy youth. RJ. 1, 5. From praecox.
In Print, with exactness, in a precise and per-
fect manner, accurately, with the utmost
nicety. TG. 2, 1. LL. 3, 1. Gifford's Ben Jons.
II, 82. V, 178.

Private, privacy. TN. 3,3; private intimation.
KJ. 4, 3.

Privity, foreknowing, previous notice. Hh.

1, 1.

Prize, any thing taken as booty. bHf. 4, 1. 7. 0. 1, 2.

Prizer, prize fighter, or wrestler. AL. 2, 3.
Proball, probable. No doubt a corruption.
0. 2, 3.

Prodigious, like a prodigy, portentous, hor-
rible, unnatural, misborn. KJ. 3, 1. Rb. 1, 2.
Prodigiously, portentously. KJ. 3, 1.
Prodigy, misborn, crookblack. cHf. 1, 4.
Proface, a familiar exclamation of welcome
at a dinner or other meal, much good may do
you. bHd. 5, 3. Buon prò vi faccia is by all
means a very common italian phrase.
to Profess one's self to, to clap up brother-
ship with one. JC. 1, 2.

Proffer, offer. aHf. 5, 1. AW. 2, 1.
Prolixious, prolix, causing delay. MM. 2, 4.
Promotions, advances, charges, employs,
preferments. AL. 2. 3. Rc. 1, 3.

the root, sprig of a vine near to the earth; and pramnos, vine. Hence prenizein, dor. pranizein, to sink forward, and to prune properly to bow down and lop or cut off the sprig of a vine in order to propagate it, to provine; then to lop whatsoever tree. AL. 2, 3; finally to pick out the prominent broken or superfluous feathers. S. pricked.

Prunes, stewed, a favourite dish, particularly
common in brothels. MM. 2, 1. aHd. 3, 3. with
Steevens. MW. 1, 1. bHd. 2, 4.

to Pry, to push forward, penetrate, intrude,
pierce. Tin. 5, 1; to penetrate with the eyes,
to search, inquire, spy. MV. 2, 9. aHd. 4, 1.
He. 3, 1. From the gr. perō, peirō, peraō.
Puck, pug, pouke, fiend, devil. MD. 2, 1.
Allied to buck, bug, wh. s., icel. and goth.
puke. S. goblin, and compare the greek aix,
goat. The terrible god of the mythology is
horse, buck, goat, bull, (S. Kanne's erste
Urkunden der Gesch. 536. 468.) and hence in
the different languages a great number of words
and phrases denoting terror, frightening, aston-
ishing, spectrelike and fiendish acts are derived
from that sphere of words, which they asso-
nate. S. Drake's Sh. and his time. II, 347.
to Puddle, to make muddy, and dim, properly
by paddling in the dirt. O. 3, 4. It is the
lengthened form of pool, wh. s., oldgerm.
Pfudel, Pfütze.

Pudding, a bowel stuffed with a certain mix-
ture of meal etc. MW. 2, 1. 0.2, 1. Kin to
the gr. pyar, pyos, pyetia, pytea, by paō.
Puffed, boisterous, tempestuous, stormy. H.
1, 8. Allied to the gr. ao, auō, phaō, phauō,
lowsax. busten, pusten, gr. physaō, fr. bouf-

to Prompt, to suggest; to teach. TC. 3, 3. Cy.fer, bouffir, ital. sbuffare; engl. bubble.
3, 3.

Prone, prompt, ready. Cy. 5, 4. MM. 1, 8.
easily moving. Douce Ill. of Sh. I, 122.
Prop, stay, support. MV, 2, 2. cHf. 2, 1. H.
4, 5.

Pugging, thieving, thievish; perhaps itching, greedy, agog. WT. 4, 2. The word roots in peak, pick, french piquer, whence piquant, reducible to eager, lat. acer, kin to the gr. oxos, lat. acus, acies, gr. pikros.

black, as pitch, gr. peuke. Hence puke stocking Falstaff is called aHd. 2, 4. viz dark coloured stocking, that was then a reproach. to Pule, to groan, sigh, whine, whimper. TG. 2, 1. Co. 4, 2. TC. 4, 1. RJ. 3, 5. No doubt from a natural sound.

Proper, one's own. WT. 2, 3. H. 5, 2; hand-Puke, grey or dark colour between russet and some, tall, welllooked. O. 4, 1. MV. 1, 2. AL. 1, 2. bHd. 2, 2. KL. 1, 1. Gifford's Ben Jons. II, 143. Property, due performance, fitness. AW. 2, 1. in a theatrical sense any articles necessary to be produced in scene. MW. 4, 4. MD. 1, 2. to Property, to take possession of, to appropriate, to hold, pen up. TN. 4, 2; of course to domineer, sway. KJ. 5, 2; to fit, qualify. AC. 5, 2.

Propriety, wonted state and tranquillity. O. 2, 8.

I protest, a fashionable phrase at Sh's times, as now on mine honour. Whalley in Gifford's Ben Jons. I, 24.

Provand, provant, provender, provision, ammunition. Co. 2, 1. From praebenda, provenderium, fr. breuver, breuvage.

Proviso, reservation. aHd. 1, 3. where it is joined with exception.

Provost, executioner, or rather superintendant of executions, provost marshall. MM. 2, 1. From praepositus.

to Prune, anciently preen, proin, is said a hawk, when she picks her feathers and sets them in order with her bill. Cy. 5, 4. aHd. 1, 1. LL. 4, 3. The root of this word seems the gr. pro, prin, pran, whence prymnos, premnos, promnos, extreme, last, as prominent, jutting out, namely the end of a trunk at the foot of

to Pull, to draw, tug, towse. Co. 3, 2. MM.
2, 1. Kin to pelt, and bill.
Pulsidge, little pulse. bHd. 2, 4.
to Pun, to pound, as in a mortar; to push,
thrust, knock, heat or strike with force. TC.
2, 1. Sax. punian, conterere. Allied perhaps
to the gr. phenō.

Punto, punta. Term of old fencing. MW. 2, 3.
Puppets dallying, the babies in the eyes.
H. 3, 2. S. babe.

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Pur, 4 pur of fortune's AW. 5, 2. is called
Parolles's letter, because, like the purring of
the sycophant cat, it was calculated to procure
favour and protection'. Douce's Ill. of Sh. I,
825. The passage is notwithstanding always
obscure, and seems to want a correction. Should
we read perhaps fur? meaning not the letter
of Parolles, but Parolles himself, who had
talked before of his familiarity with fresher
clothes. Or poor fool of fortune's?
Purchase, a cant term among thieves for the
produce of their robberies. He. 3, 2.
Puritan, a pure person, a precise rigorist,
affecter of superior purity and sanctity, called

also precisian. TN. 2, 3. They applied profane tunes to sacred uses, which they considered as robbing the devil of them. WT. 4, 2. objected to the use of the surplice. AW. 1, 3. Our time has a new edition of them.

to Purl, to curl, or run in circles. TL. 201. Labial form of curl, kin to the germ. wirren, quirlen, querlen, gr. gyrun, curvus, world, and perhaps to brodeln, brudeln, sprudeln;

broil.

Purlicu, purley, purlue, ground severed from the forest, in which the owner may hunt and kill deer. AL. 4, 8.

Purples, one of the names for a species of orchis, probably the orchis mascula, or early purple, which had several fanciful names. H. 4, 7.

to Purse, to contract, like a purse, to wrinkle, said of the brow. 0. 3, 1.

to Put forth, to produce, sprout up, to bud. WT. 1, 2. (twice). To put off, to dispatch, dismiss. LL. 4, 1. TA. 2, 2. To put on, to accuse, indict. MM. 2, 3. To put on, to challenge, incite. 0.2, 1. To put out, to disappoint, trouble, confound. LL. 5, 2. To put up, to conceal. RJ. 1, 1. bHƒ. 2, 1. From ponere, positus, postus.

Putter out, one who deposited money on going abroad, on condition of receiving great interest for it at their return home. A kind of gambling practised in the days of Elizabeth and James I. T. 3, 3.

Puttock, kite. bHf. 3, 2. despised in proportion to the high estimation of the hawk; hence it was often used as a name of reproach for a base and contemptible person. Cy. 1, 2. TC. 5, 1. Kin to pewit, lowg. Piwittick, dutch kewit, gr. pephinx, lat. buteo.

Puzzle, pusle, filthy drab. aHf. 1, 4. Kin to the germ. butt, butz, small, not grown out, pusio, pusillus, whence Butzigel, or to the ital. puzzo, stink.

to Puzzle, to perplex, embarrass, confound. TN. 4, 2. AC. 1, 1. Kin to poze, wh. s. Pyramides, plural of pyramis. AC. 5, 2. pyramid. AC. 3, 3. From the egypt. piramue, beam of sun.

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Quail, a bird, tetrao coturnix. AC. 2, 3. Was thought to be a very amorous bird. Hence a prostitute. S. Malone at TC. 5, 1.

to Quail, to curd, curdle; to faint, languish, sink, abate, sink into dejection. Cy. 5, 5. cHf. 2, 3. aHd. 4, 1. AL. 2, 2. though Douce Ill. of Sh. I, 298. explains it here by to slacken, relax, or diminish, which is the sense not so much different, (because fainting and languishing is a slackening and relaxing of spirits) not however the signification; to press down, to oppress, or overpower, or rather, to vex, torment. TC. 5, 1. AC. 5, 2. where quail and shake are joined. For the word is a mongrell

of the fr. cailler, the gr. skellein, skillein; to drain, wither, fall away, and the germ. quälen; Douce believes of to quell, from the Sax. cwellan. The said signification however will be sufficient.

Quaint, neat, elegant, graceful, brisk, spruce, ingenious, artful, dexterous. T. 1, 2. MIV. 4, 6. MA. 3, 4. MD. 2, 3. MV. 3, 4. TG. 4, 3. aHf. 4, 1. bHf. 3, 2. From the oldfr. coint, lat. comptus, kin, as it seems, to the germ. weidlich, from wad, or wat, sax. waeda, cloth, Germ. Gewand; wattan, to clothe, goth. waftgo.

Quaintly, ingeniously, artfully. TG. 3, 1. MV. 2, 4. cHf. 2, 5. H. 2, 1.

Quaintness, beauty, elegance. MIV. 4, 6. to Qualify, to appease, allay, soften. MV. 4, 1. KJ. 5, 1. KL. 1, 2. MM. 1, 1. MA. 5, 4. Quality, profession, occupation, calling. TG. 4, 1. TA. 4, 3. bHd. 5, 2. chiefly of a player. H.2, 2. (twice); persons of the same profession, or fraternity. T. 1, 2.

Quality, call you me? Construe me. In this manner Malone corrected the nonsense He. 4, 4. of the folio Qualtitee calmie custure me, suspecting, that the words were part of an old song, detected afterwards by Boswell, saying 'Callino, callino, Castore me', little girl of my heart, so that Pistol, instead of attending to the Frenchman is meant to hum a song. This interpretation however seems too artificial and subtle. The simplest emendation would be perhaps Quality call you me? Accost to me! words, that easily might be misheared by an oscitant copist.

Qualm, sudden fit of sickness, illness. bHƒ. 1, 1. MA. 3, 4. LL. 5, 2. The germ. Qualm, from wallen, kin to the gr. eilyein, a word that in another modification eilyspaō was used of pangs and gripes; the guttural form was kylō, kyllō, kyliō, kylindō, germ. kollern, koltern, hebr. galal, the dental form Schwall. It will be therefore properly ebullition, boiling up.

Qualmish, being ill, nauseating. He. 5, 1. Quarrel, quarry. S. Douce's Ill. of Sh. I, 363. strife, dispute. Hh. 2, 3. where some interpreters mean arrow, or square dart (from the ital. quadrella), Steevens however reads: but if that quarrel fortune to (for do) divorce it from the bearer, that is, but if discord happen or chance (making to fortune, a verb) to separate it. Quarry, quarrie, any thing hunted (sought after, from querir, to search. S. Douce's Ill. of Sh. I, 399.) by dogs, hawks, or otherwise, game, prey sought. M. 4, 3. Co. 1, 1. Unless one would take quarry with Nares for the square, or inclosure, into which the game was driven, or for a heap in the form of a quarry, one might say, that it reminded the greek word keraizein, to pill, rob, kill.

Quarter, friendship, concord. O. 2, 3. from the allowed partnership in the quarterium, tent of a soldier.

Quat, pimple, or spot upon the skin; metaphorically a diminutive person, or sometimes a shabby one, a scab. 0. 5, 1. Quatch, squat, of flat. AW. 2, 2. Quean, term of reproach to a female, a slut, hussey, woman of ill fame. MW. 4, 2. AW. 2, 2. bHd. 2, 1. The word is called to queen, gr. gyne, oldg. quina, sax. cwen, dan. kun, and to the lat. cunnus.

Queasiness, loath, aptness to vomit. bHd. Quip, a sharp stroke of wit or arch raillery, 1, 1.

Queasy, squeamish. MA. 2, 1. AC. 3, 6. KL. 2, 1. Kin to the gr. geuein, germ. kiesen, engl. to choose, to taste, whence holl. kies, curious, austr. kiesetich, keuselbetich, he that chooses the eating, or bites, nauseous; hence nice, tender, delicate. Gifford's Ben Jons.

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Quell, murder. M. 1, 7. Variety of to kill.
to Quell, to murder. MD. 5, 1. TA. 4, 3.
Querne, mill to grind corn; whether by hand,
or with a horse. MD. 2, 1. Sax. cweorn, kin
to the germ. kehren, gr. gyrun, engl. swerve,
Cf. to purl. S. Garnett's tour. I, 155
Burt's letters on Scotl. II, 170.
Quest, inquest, search, inquiry. Rc. 1, 4.
MM. 4, 1. S. Douce's Ill. of Sh. I, 138. person
seeking. 0. 1, 2.

wh. s.

Questant, a suitor, candidate, seeker of any object competitor. AW. 2, 1.

Questrist, a person who goes in quest of another. KL. 3, 7.

Question, talk, conversation. MM. 2,4; doubt. a Hd. 4, 1. KL. 5, 3.

to Question, to converse. MV. 4, 1. H. 2, 2. to Quicken, to vivify, encourage, animate. T'S. 1, 1. MV. 2, 8.; to become alive. KL. 3, 7; chiefly in lust. 0. 3, 3. 4, 2. From quick, sax. cuce, cwic, oldg. quick, lively, fresh, kin to the gr. kiō, lat. cieo, sanscr. chitta, roused, animated, gr. kikys, lat. vigeo, germ. erquicken, wegen, wecken, wackeln, as meaning motion,

to move.

Quietus, the official discharge of an account.
Particularly in the Exchequer accounts, state-
ment, balance of account, quittance, metapho-
rically. H. 3, 1. S. 126.

Quill, fold of a ruff, or ruffle, which were
plaited and quilled. In the quill, in form and
order, like a quilled ruff. bHf. 1, 3. unless it
is by scrip, in writing (from the kaulos,
gr.
lat. caulis, germ. Kiel); sting. H. 1, 5. hence
sharpquilled bHf. 3, 1.
Quillet, sly trick or turn, in argument, or
excuse. H. 5, 1. aHf. 2, 4. LL. 4, 3. bHf. 3, 1.
TA. 4, 3. 0.3, 1. For quibblet, as diminutive
of quibble. Douce Ill. of Sh. I, 231. derives it
from quidlibet.

Quilt, cover made by stitching one cloth over
another with some soft substance between
them. a Hd. 4, 2. From the lat. volvere, volu-
tum, rolled, germ. Wulst, allied of course to
the words quoted above under qualm.
Quinapalus, probably an imaginary jocular
name, to sound like somewhat learned. TN.
1, 5.

sarcasm. TG. 4, 2. AL. 5, 4. afd. 1, 2. In Dodsley's Old pl. II, 113. Manes explains it a short saying of a sharp wit, with a bitter sense in a sweet word. Variety of whip, kip, sax. hweop, germ. Wip, Wippe, Schwippe, kin to the gr. koptein, germ. kappen, kippen, of course hauen, Hieb, and the cantword Pfiff for strike.

to Quire, to sing in quire choir, chorus. MV. 5, 1. Co. 3, 2.

Quirk, quick stroke, sharp fit, flash of wit. 0.2, 1. Kin to the germ. Gewirk, by a tropus similar to that in betray. Cf. intrinse.

Quittance, requital. He. 2, 2. aHf. 2, 1. bHd.

Quiver, nimble, agile. bHd. 2, 2.
1, 1. TA. 1, 1. AL. 3, 5.
to Quiver, to shake, squake, tremble. bHf.
4, 7. TAR. 2, 3. Variety of to quave, quaver,
germ. weben, beben, prov. webeln, wiebeln,
wimmeln.

Quoif, tire of head. WT. 4, 3. bHd. 1, 1. Variety
of coif, kin to the germ. Kopf, Schopf, it.
cuiffo, gr. kebe, kebalē, kephale, fr. chef,
oldg. Haubet.

to Queit, to coit, cast, fling, throw. bHd. 2, 4.

to Quote, to note, mark, distinguish. RJ. 1, 4. KJ. 4, 2. H. 2, 2. TG. 2, 4. LL. 5, 2. TAn. 4, 1. The lat. citare. S. Gifford's Ben Jons. III, 201.

Quotidian, fever, ague. AL. 3, 2. He. 2, 1.

R.

Rabbet, rabbit, coney. TS. 4, 4. A metathesis
Rabato, band or ruff. MA. 3, 4. Fr. rabat.
of ferret, middlelať. furectus, furetus, lat
viverra, germ. Frett.

Rabbitsucker, a sucking rabbit; a young
one. aHd. 2, 4.

Race, the peculiar flower or taste of wine, or the original disposition of any thing, that which marks its origin, race, or descent. T. 1, 2. MM. 2, 4. AC. 1, 3. From radix, sp. raiz, raza, ital. razza.

Rack, the moving body of clouds, driven on by the wind, the fleeting motion of the clouds. S. 33. H. 2, 2. AC. 4, 12. Horne Tooke Div. of P. II, 273. 889. allies rack, rake, rick, rich, riches, by the sax. rikgan, congerere, colligere, to collect, draw, rake together; wraich, reek, reik, roik, reeke as from recan, exhalare, answering to the germ. Rauch. Rakia in Hebr. means the vault of heaven. In T. 4, 1. Hanmer corrected needlessly track. S. Drake's Sh. and his time II, 103. to overvalue, over

rate.

1, 1. LL. 5, 2; to torture, torment. TN. 5, 1. The germ. recken, to stretch, strecken. Radish, germ. Rettig, aHd. 2, 4. bHd. 3, 2. Rag, term of reproach for a shabby, beggarly person. Rc. 5, 3. TA. 4, 3. Kin to the gr. rhakos, from rhassō, rhēssō, germ. reissen,

Quaintaine, quintell, a trunk, post, or a to Rack, to raise to the utmost. MA. 4, 1. MV. turk or saracene figure set up for tilters to run at it, in mock resemblance of a tournament, or a crossbar turning upon a pole, having a broad board at the one end, and a bag full of sand hanging at the other. He that hit not the board, was laughed to scorn; if he hit it full and rid not the faster, he would have such a blow with the sandbag on his back. AL. 1, 2. Whalley in Gifford's Ben Jons. VIII, 132. The word is lowl. quintana, the cambr. gwynt, wind, kin to the germ. wehen, to blow, and the engl. vane; or to the germ. wenden, to turn.

Riss.

Rages in the plural. Cy. 4, 2.
Rail, turnpike, fieldgate, bar to shut the pass-.
age. Hh. 5, 3. Sax. raegel, diminutive of raeg,
or ray. Horne Tooke Div. of P. II, 231. germ.
Riegel, lat. rallus, swed. traoli, fr. treillis.

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