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Bare the beard, to shave the beard, ii. 623.

Bird-bolt, a description of archery, i. 741.

Bisson, blind, iii. 355.

Barm, yeast, i. 349.

Barnacle, a shell-fish, iii. 50.

Barns, bairns, i. 720.

Base, a rustic game, i. 42.

Base-court, lower court,

Bases, an embroidered mantle, hanging from the waist to the

knee, worn by knights on horseback, also the housings of

a horse, also the hose, iii. 11, 193.

Basilisco, i. 329.

Basilisks, huge pieces of ordnance, i. 525

Basta, enough, i. 235.

Bastard, a sweet wine, i. 529.

Bat, staff or club, iii. 785.

Bate, to flap the wings like a hawk, i. 218.

Batlet, a bat to beat linen with, ii. 141.

Batten, to feed, iii. 370.

Battle, an army, ii. 92, 574, iii. 648.

Bavin, a faggot of brushwood, i. 540.

Bawcock, beau coq, fine fellow, ii. 261. iii. 200.

Bay-window, bow-window, ii 268.

Bead's-man, one whose duty is to offer up prayers for another,

i. 3, ii. 342.

Bear a brain, to remember well, i. 166.
Beards, fantastic fashions of, ii. 118.
Bear-garden, Parish, ii. 703.

Bear hard, to rein in from mistrust or fear, iii. 418, 426, 435.
Bearing-cloth, an infant's mantle in which it is carried to the
font, iii. 222.

Bear in hand, to encourage, to buoy up, i. 258, 575, 727, iii. 491.
Beaver, the lower part of a helmet, sometimes used for the
helmet itself, i. 548.

Beck, a bow, ii. 470.

Become, to adapt, to render fit, to adorn, i. 31, ii. 151, 321,
783, 785.

Becoming, self-restrained, iii. 220.

Bed-fellow, intimate friend, ii. 76

Bedlam-beggars, mad beggars, iii. 118.

Beetles, overhangs, iii. 342.

Beg a fool, to ask in wardship, i. 104, 120.

Begetter, one who gets or procures, iii. 758.

Beggar and the King, a ballad, i. 101.
Beguiled, masked, disguised, iii. 754.
Behave, to control, ii. 482.

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Biting the thumb, a contemptuous action, i. 160.

Blacks, mourning habiliments, iii. 200.

Blank, a mark in gunnery, iii. 211.

Blench, to flinch, to start off, ii. 628, iii. 204, 265.

Blend, blended, iii. 786.

Bless the bridal-bed, i. 386.

Bless the mark, i. 33, 401, iii. 648.

Blind-worm, slow-worm, i. 354, iii. 501.

Block, a hat mould, i. 696.

Blood in, with the blood up, i. 71.
Blood-boltered, clotted with blood, iii. 502.
Blow, to swell, iii. 570.

Blue caps, the Scotch, i. 533.
Blunt, dull, insensible, ii. 443.
Board, to accost, i. 705, ii. 239.

Boar's Head Tavern in East Cheap, i. 564.
Bob, to rap, to hit, i. 349, ii. 143, 574.
Bobbed, tricked, iii. 699.

Bodged, bungled, ii. 407.

Bodkin, a stiletto, a dagger, iii. 359.
Bodykins, God's, an oath, iii. 355.
Bolds, emboldens, iii. 109.

Bolted, sifted, iii. 235.
Boltered, clotted, iii. 502.

Bolters, sieves, i. 543.

Bolting-hutch, the bin into which meal is bolted, i. 534.
Bombard, or bumbard, a barrel, a capacious vessel, some-
times of leather, for holding drink, i. 534, ii. 696.
Bombast, a sort of wadding used to fill out dresses, i. 97.
Bona-robas, women of pleasure, i. 597.
Bone-ache, the Neapolitan, iii. 283, 308.
Boot, help, advantage, i. 449, ii. 319.
Boots, to give, to sell a bargain, i. 41.

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Buckle, to bend, i. 574.

Buff, the dress of a sergeant, i. 136.

Bug, a bugbear, a goblin, ii. 444, 755, iii. 392.

Bulk, the breast, iii. 347.

Bully-rook, a jolly dog, i. 644.

Bung, a cutpurse, i. 590.

Burden, the base, foot, or under-song, i. 42.

Burgonet, a helmet, iii. 537.

Burst, broken, i. 255, 601.

Busky, bosky, woody, i. 553.

But, unless, except, i. 175, 300, 621, iii. 561, 572, 795.

But, only, iii. 353, 421.

Butcher of a silk button, i. 216.

Buttery bar, ii. 277.

Buxom, lusty, sprightly, buoyant, ii. 88.

Buz, buz! an interjection of impatience, iii. 354.

Buzzard, a beetle, i. 244.

By and by, immediately, i. 672, ii. 355, iii. 32.

By day and night, at all times, ii. 272, 342.

By these ten bones, a common adjuration, ii. 348.

By'rlakin, by our ladykin, or little lady, i. 357, iii. 32.

CADDIS, worsted galloon, i. 528, iii. 232.

Cade, a barrel, ii. 376.

Cadent, falling, iii. 70.

Cain-coloured, yellowish red, i. 686.

Cake is dough, hopes are frustrated, i. 234, 270.
Caliver, a hand-gun, i. 601.

Call, a bird-call, i. 308.

Callet, a strumpet, ii. 347, iii. 213, 693.
Callino, castore me, ii. 101.

Calm, a mispronunciation of qualm, i. 589.
Camelot, iii. 118.

Can, knows, iii. 795.

Canary, a dance with castanets, i. 64, ii. 17.
Candle-wasters, Bacchanals, revellers, i. 730.
Canker, the dog-rose, i. 701, iii. 768.
Canstick, a candlestick, i. 538.

Cantle, a slice, a corner, i. 537, iii. 559.
Cantons, cantos, ii. 243.

Canvas, to toss, ii. 292.

Can you hit it? a song, or dance, i. 70.

Capable, impressible, susceptible, i. 297, 300, 574, ii. 156, iii.

14, 72.

Capitulate, to confederate, i. 541.

Capocchio, a simpleton, iii. 299.

Capricious, goatish, ii. 153.

Captain-jewels, superior jewels, iii. 768.

Captious, capatious, ii. 13.

Carbonado, a collop cooked on the coals, i. 558.

Carbuncle, a gem supposed to emit native light, iii. 639.
Carcanet, a necklace, i. 126, iii. 768.

Card, by the, according to the book of manners, iii. 388,
Carded, i. 540.

Carduus Benedictus, the blessed thistle, i. 743.

Career, a term of the menage.

Careful, painful, anxious, i. 145.

Carkanet, a necklace, i. 126, iii. 768.

Carlot, a churl, ii. 157.

Caroused, a bumper, a drinking bout, iii. 398.

Carpet knights, ii. 280.

Carpets, coverings for the table, i. 255.

Carping, taunting, i. 540.

Carrack, a ship of great burden, iii. 651.

Carry coals, to submit to indignities, i. 159, ii. 84.
Carry out a side, a card-table phrase, iii. 109.
Carrying dead bodies off the stage, iii. 402.
Cart, a car, or chariot, iii. 363.

Carve, to give an amorous sign, i. 104, 645.

Case, a brace, a pair, ii. 83.

Case, a skin, ii. 273.

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Cates, cakes, dainties, i. 127, 244.

Catling, a lute string, i. 205.

Cautel, crafty circumspection, iii. 338.

Cautelous, treacherous, insidious, iii. 166.

Caviare, a delicacy prepared from sturgeon's roe, iii. 400.

Censer, a fire-pan for perfumes, i. 264.

Censure, to pass judgment, i. 6, ii. 598, 647, iii. 339, 782.
Ceremony, pronounced as a trisyllable, ii. 23.

Certes, iii. 33, 647.

Cess, measure, i. 520.

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Charmer, an enchantress, one who works by spells, iii. 684.
Charming, magical, fascinating, ii. 714, iii. 606.
Charneco, a sort of wine, ii. 358.
Charters, blank, i. 497.

Chases, a term of tennis, ii. 69.
Chaudron, entrails, iii. 501.

'Cheater, an Escheater, i. 646, iii. 783.
Cheater, a gamester, a cozener, i. 590.
Check, to fly from, or shy at, iii. 384.
Cheer, fare, iii. 363.

Cheer, visage, aspect, i. 363, 420, iii. 740.
Cherry-pit, a game, ii. 261.

Cheveril, a soft leather, i. 180, ii. 255, 664.

Chewet, a noisy chattering bird, i. 554.

Chide, to rebuke, to re-sound, ii. 80.

Chide with, to quarrel with, ii. 757, iii. 695, 777.

Child, a female infant, iii. 221.

Childing, teeming, i. 351.

Children that have no names, illegitimate children, iii. 531.

Chopines, clogs having very thick soles, iii. 400.

Chop-logic, a nickname, also, to exchange logic, i. 197, 489.
Chrisom, a white cloth used in the baptism of infants, ii. 117.
Chuck, chicken, term of endearment, i. 84, ii. 261, iii. 684.
'Cide, to decide, iii. 767.

Cinque-pace, a dance, i. 104, 704.

Circle, diadem, iii. 562.

Circumstance, conduct, circumstantial deduction, i. 4, iii. 294.
Circumstance, circumlocution, i. 395.

'Cital, recital, i. 556.

'Cite, to incite, i. 14, ii. 411.

Cittern, a musical instrument, i. 94.

Civil, sour, bitter, i. 707, ii. 259.
Clack-dish, a beggar's dish, ii. 616.

Clamour, to refrain or silence, iii. 233.

Claw, to flatter, i. 701.

Clean, utterly, completely, i. 468.

Clean kam, rigmarole, iii. 159.

Clear-stories, upper rows of windows in a church, ii. 281.
Cleave the pin, to split the wooden pin in a target, i. 39, 71.
Clement's Inn, i. 627.

Clepe, to call, to designate, iii. 340, 492, 732.

Clerkly, scholarly, i. 11, 678.

Cling, to shrivel, to shrink, iii. 513.

Clip, to embrace, iii. 246.

Close, by stealth, secretly, i. 229, 311.

Close, to wheedle, to fawn, to flatter, ii 633.

Close, wanton, ii. 490.

Cloth-of-gold of tissue, cloth of gold on a ground of tissue.
iii. 543.

Cloud in the face, a dark spot in the forehead of a horse, iii.

554.

Clout, the white mark in a target, i. 71.

Clouted brogues, nailed shoes, ii. 748.
Clown, merryman, ii. 277.

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Clowns or Jesters, the practice of retaining, ii. 54.
Coast, to advance, iii. 730.

Coat, coat of arms, iii. 787.

Coats in heraldry, i. 384.

Cock-a-hoop, i. 170.

Cock and pye, a popular adjuration, i. 631.

Cockatrice, a fabulous monster, i. 189, ii. 262, iii. 743.
Cockle-hat, a pilgrim's hat, iii. 379.
Cockney, a spooney, a cook, iii. 79.
Cock-shut, twilight, ii. 569.

Coffin, the crust of a raised pie, i. 264, iii. 635.

Cog, to load dice, to cheat, to defraud, i. 89.

Cognizance, a badge, ii. 301.

Coil, trouble, turmoil, i. 7, 82, 366, iii. 359.

Colbrand the giant, i. 289.

Cold to bed, to thy cold bed, i. 227.

Collied, smutted, blackened, obscured, i. 343, iii. 669.
Collop, iii. 200.

Colme-kill, iii. 518.

Coloquintida, a plant bearing a bitter fruit, iii. 710.
Colours, artifices, ii. 299.

Colours on sculpture, iii. 257.

Colt, to gull, i. 523.

Combinate, contracted, ii. 614.

Combination, contract, ii. 276.

Come away, come away, a song, iii. 519.

Come off, to pay, i. 676.

Comforting, encouraging, abetting, iii. 213.

Commend, to commit, to submit, to resign, ii. 48, iii. 214, 571.

Commission warrant, authority, iii. 201.

Commit, to fornicate, iii. 88.

Commodity, advantage, self-interest, i. 298.

Common, public, i. 63.

Common liar, rumour, iii. 530.

Common players, strolling players, iii. 353.

Compact, made up, compounded, i. 129, iii. 723.

Companion, a low fellow, i. 138, ii. 722, iii. 179, 694.

Company, companion, ii. 40, 65.

Comparative, ready in comparisons, or similes, i. 513, 540.
Compassed, arched, iii. 724.

Competitor, coadjutor, confederate, auxiliary, i. 17, ii. 267.
Complements, point-de-vice manners, i. 53, 178, ii. 77.
Comply, to fraternise, to play the courtier, iii. 354, 394.
Compose, accord, agree, iii. 540.

Composure, composture, composition, ii. 494, iii. 284, 536.
Compt, in, in trust, to be accounted for, iii. 480.

Comptible, susceptible, sensitive, ii. 242.

Con, to know, to allow, to award, ii. 41, iii. 795.

Conceit, imagination, i. 184, 463.

Conceited, conceptive, apprehensive, iii. 752.

Concent, agreement in music, ii. 116.

Conclusions, experiments, ii. 717, iii. 373.

Concolinel, i. 64, 101.

Concupy, concupiscence, iii. 312.

Condition, profession or art, ii. 462.

Condition, nature, disposition, i. 397, ii. 41, 135, iii. 426,
542, 665.

Conduct, a conductor, a guide, i. 187, 210, ii. 263, 360, iii. 741.
Coney-catch, to cheat, i. 269.

Coney-catcher, a sharper, a trickster, i. 641.

Confess and be hanged, a cant phrase, iii. 687.

Conger and fennel, i. 593.

Conjurations, entreaties, i. 210.

Consent, agreement, unison, i. 617, ii. 116.
Consigned, sealed, iii. 301.

Consort, fellowship, fraternity, i. 29, 116, 186.

Consort, a band of musicians, i. 26

Conspectuity, vision, perception, iii. 143.

Constancy, consistency, i, 375, iii. 434.
Contain, to hold, to retain, i. 435.

Contemptible, mocking, contemptuous, i. 712.

Content, acquiescence, iii. 722.

Content, continent, self-restrained, iii. 445.

Continence, temperance, iii. 598.

Continent, capacious, iii. 378.

Continuate, uninterrupted, iii. 685.

Contraction, marriage-contract, iii. 370.

Contrive, to scheme, to plot, i. 429, ii. 95, iii. 431.

Convent, to agree, to be convenient, ii. 276.

Convent, to summon, to cite, ii. 631, 689.
Convert, to turn, ii. 486.

Convertite, a penitent, a convert, iii. 745.

Convey, to filch, to manage by stealth, i. 482, 706, ii. 291, 710

iii. 506, 561.

Convicted, vanquished, i. 306.

Convince, to conquer, i. 96, ii. 716, iii. 481, 506.
Convive, to feast together, iii. 307.

Cooling-card, ii. 326.

Copatain-hat, a high-crowned hat, i. 269.

Cope, to encounter, i. 430.

Copy, theme, i. 142.

Coranto, a dance, ii. 20, 117.

Corinth, a cant name for a bordello, ii. 473.

Corinthian, a wencher, i. 527.

Cornuto, a cuckold, i. 671.

Corollary, an overplus, iii. 36.

Corporal of the field, an aide-de-camp, i. 67.

Costard, the head, i. 65.

Coted, came alongside, iii. 353.
Cot-quean, a molly-coddle, i. 202.
Cotsale, or Cotswold Hills, i. 686.

Couching, crouching, iii. 434.

Counsel, in counsel, secret, in secret, i. 17, 640, ii. 35, iii. 132.
Countenance, to receive, to entertain, i. 255, ii. 127, îii. 184.

Counter, to run, to track the scent backward, i. 150.

Counter-caster, a disparaging term for merchant, iii. 648.
Counterfeit, a portrait, i. 418, iii. 768.

Counterfeit, a false piece of money, iii. 283.

Counterpoints, counterpanes, i. 246.

Countervail, to make equal or equivalent, i. 183.

County, an earl, a peer, i. 196, 321.

Couplement, i. 93, iii. 763.

Courage, mettle, spirit, ii. 415.

Course, carrière of a horse, i. 306.

Courser's-hair, a vulgar superstition concerning, iii. 534.
Court-cupboard, a cabinet, i. 169.

Court holy-water, glozing speeches, iii. 84.
Court of wards, i. 150.

Courts, a term in tennis, ii. 69.

Cousin, a kinsman, i. 169.

Covent, a convent, ii. 626.

Cover, to prepare the table, ii. 142.

Cower, to bend or sink, ii. 212.

Cowl-staff, a pole used to carry a bucket, i. 666.
Coystril, a mean groom, or peasant, ii. 217, 238.

Cozenage, sorcery, witchcraft, i. 149.

Cozier, a botcher of clothes or shoes, ii. 247.

Crack, a manikin, iii. 134.

Cracked coin, iii. 400.

Crants, crowns, garlands, iii. 390.

Crare, a small vessel of burden, ii. 748.

Credent, credible, plausible, ii. 627, iii. 201.

Credit, information, ii. 269.

Crescive, increasing, growing, ii. 65.

Crewel, worsted, iii. 77.

Crispian, feast of, ii. 119.

Critic, a cynic, iii. 311, 777.

Critical, cynical, censorious, iii. 663.

Crooked, bowed or crouched, iii. 434.

Cross, a coin stamped with a cross, i. 56, ii. 141, 469.

Cross, to pass across the path of a spectre, iii. 332.

Crow-keeper, a scarecrow, or a rustic employed to frighten

crows, iii. 120.

Crush a cup of wine, an invitation to a carouse, i. 164.
Cruzado, crusado, a gold coin so called, iii. 712.

Cry, a pack, a troop or company, iii. 164, 366.

Cry aim, to encourage, i. 39, 293, 662.

Cry Havoc a signal for indiscriminate slaughter, i. 295, iii.
158, 437.

Cry in the top of question, to crow over or challenge, iii. 358.
Cry on, to announce, to assert, ii. 272, 573, iii. 700.

Cue, a stage term for the last words of a speech, i. 358.

Cuisses, armour for the thighs, i. 548.

Cullion, a paltry fellow, i. 258, ii. 83.

Cunning, knowing, skilful, i. 233, ii. 204, 503, 623

Curb, to bow or truckle, iii. 372.

Curiosity, finical refinement, ii. 492.

Curious, scrupulous, over punctilious, i. 265, iii. 553, 751.
Curious-good, fastidiously precise, iii. 751.

Curious-knotted, abounding in intricate figures, i. 55, 475.
Curled, an epithet of gentility, iii. 653, 748.

Cursed, under the influence of a malediction, iii. 314.

Curst, cross-grained, sour, intractable, malicious, i. 69, 365,

ii. 257, iii. 73, 223, 730.
Curtail-dog, a halting dog, i. 652.
Curtle-ax, a cutlass, ii. 99, 136.

Custard, leaping into at civic feasts, ii. 56.
Customer, a loose woman, ii. 52, iii. 689.
Cut and long tail, good and bad, i. 668.
Cyprus, or Cypress, a stuff like crape, ii. 256.
DAFF, or doff, to put off, i. 174, 731.
Dagonet, Sir, in Arthur's Show, i. 628.
Damn, to condemn, iii. 444, 530.
Damnable, damnably, iii. 219.

Dancing Horse, Bankes's, i. 100.
Dancing sword, ii. 55.

Danger, power, i. 426, iii. 728.

Dangerous, biting, mischievous, i. 53, iii. 211, 423.

Dank, wet, rotten, i. 176, 355, 620.

Danskers, Danes, iii. 346.

Dare larks, to, ii. 678.

Darius's casket, ii. 333.

Darkling, in the dark, i. 355.

Darraign, boldly prepared, ii. 415.

Daubery, juggling, i. 675.

Day-woman, dairy-woman, i. 58.

Dealt on lieutenantry, fought by proxy, iii. 560.

Dear, choice, rare, momentous, extreme, i. 59, 449, ii. 135, iii.

293, 398, 618, 655, 658, 765.

Death at the ebb of tide, a popular opinion, ii. 117.
Death rock me asleep, beginning of a ballad, i. 627.
Death's fool, ii. 637.

Death's-man, executioner, iii. 748.

Death-tokens, plague-spots forewarning death, iii. 320, 559.
Debitor-and-creditor, the title of some old treatises on book-
keeping, iii. 648.

Deceptious, deceiving, iii. 311.

Decked, sprinkled, iii. 9.

Deck of cards, a pack of cards, ii. 443.

Defeat, to disfigure the countenance, iii. 659.
Defeatures, ill-looks, defacement, i. 121, 145.
Defence, knowledge of sword-play, i. 216, iii. 384.
Defend, to forbid, i. 550, 704, 729, iii. 658.
Deftly, smartly, featly, iii. 501.
Defunctive, mortuary, iii. 795.

Defy, to contemn or spurn, iii. 791.
Defy, to renounce, i. 518.

Delighted, delighting, iii. 659.

Demerits, good or ill deserts, iii. 132, 651.

Demit, to depress or cast down, ii. 488.

Demi-wolves, a species of dog, iii. 492.
Denay, to deny, ii. 347.

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Dilations, delations, accusations, distillations, iii. 677.
Dildos and fadings, obscene burdens of old ballads, iii. 232.
Direct, explicitly, without ambiguity, iii. 413.
Disability, disparagement, i. 15.

Disabled, disparaged, impugned, ii. 168, 326.
Disappointed, unappointed, iii. 344.
Discandying, liquefying, iii. 565, 573.
Disclose, disclosure, iii. 361.

Dishabited, dislodged, i. 294.

Dislike, to express disapprobation, ii. 168.

Dislimn, to render indistinct, to obliterate, iii. 573.
Dismes, tenths, iii. 279.

Dismount thy tuck, draw thy rapier, ii. 262.

Dispark, to destroy the enclosures of a park, i. 468.
Dispute, to reason, i. 191, iii. 235.

Dispute on, to debate a cause, iii. 708.

Disseat, depose, iii. 511.

Distain, to cloud, to cast into the shade, ii. 213.
Distempered, disordered, iii. 366, 649.
Distinctly, separately, iii. 10.
Distractions, detachments, iii. 559.
Distraught, distracted, i. 202, ii. 546.
Division, variation in music, i. 194.

Do, do, an expression of contempt, iii. 278.
Doff, to do off, to put off, i. 174, 731.

Dole, distribution, i. 574.

Do me right, accept my challenge, i. 733.

Do me right, pledge me in a bumper, i. 621.

Don, to put on, iii. 379.

Done, destroyed, iii. 729.

Double-cracks, double-thunder-claps, iii. 472.

Double-dealer, one unfaithful in love or wedlock, i. 740, ii. 272.
Double-pictures, pictures that showed two faces by turning,

iii. 547.

Double set, twice round, iii. 668.
Dout, to extinguish, ii. 98.
Dower, gift, iii. 688.

Dowle, a feather, down, iii. 33.

Down-gyved, hanging down loose, iii. 347.
Dowzabel, i. 135.

Drachma, a Greek coin, iii. 442, 446.

Draught-house, forica, drain, sewer, &c., li. 605, iii. 309.
Draw dry foot, to track by the scent of the foot, i. 150.
Drawer, a waiter, i. 527, 587, 656.

Drawn fox, i. 544.

Dreams, John-a-, a sleepy, muddle-headed fellow, iii. 356.
Dress, to address, to prepare, ii. 93, iii. 273.

Drinking habits of Englishmen, iii. 710.

Drinking in the morning fasting, i. 687.

Drive, to rush pell-mell, iii. 609.

Drollery, a puppet-show, iii. 33.

Drugs, drudges, ii. 491.

Drum, John, his entertainment, ii. 56.

Ducats of Venice, i. 439.

Dudgeon, the wooden handle of a dagger, iii. 483.

Due, to endue, ii. 317.

Dullard, a dull observer, ii. 762.

Dumbed, silenced, rendered mute, iii. 537.

Dumps, heavy, mournful tunes, i. 204, iii. 749.

Dun out of the mire, i. 215.

Duns the mouse, a proverbial saying, i. 215.

Dupp, to lift up, to open, iii. 379.

Durance, a buff leather garment usually worn by sergeants,

i. 150.

Durance, robe of, cant term for imprisonment, i. 150.

Dwell, to abide, to continue, i. 399.

Dyeing the hair, custom of, i. 742.

EAGER, aigre, sour, iii. 344, 778.

Eagles' power of gazing on the sun, ii. 452.

Ear, to plough, i. 471, ii. 12, iii. 532, 536, 720.

Ecstasy, aberration of mind, i. 138, iii. 372, 785.

Eftest, quickest, readiest, i. 729.

Egal, equal, iii. 627.

Eggs for money, will you take, a proverbial phrase, iii. 202,

Egyptian thief at point of death, ii. 281.

Eisel, wormwood, vinegar, iii. 391, 777.

Eld, old, old age, iii. 281.

Elements of the body, principles of life, iii. 553.

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Else, in other words, iii. 291.

Emanuel, a prefix to letters, ii. 394.

Emballing, the bestowal of royal dignity by the emblem of the
ball, ii. 664.

Embarquements, impediments, iii. 141.

Embossed, a term of the chase, signifying exhausted and out-
run, i. 228, ii. 34, iii. 573.

Emmew, a term in falconry, to paralyse, ii. 612.

Empery, empire, sovereignty, ii. 69, 549, 720.
Engaged, detained as a hostage, i. 551.

Engross, to fatten, ii. 548.

Ensconce, to hide, to shelter, i. 122, 654, 665, ii. 20, iii. 753.

Ensear, to make sterile, ii. 490.

Ensign, a standard-bearer, iii. 454.

Entertainment, re-instatement, iii. 679.
Entitled, ennobled, iii. 768.

Entrance, trance, reverie, ii. 197.

Entreat, to entertain, iii. 307.

Envy, hatred, malice, i. 424, ii. 316, 659, iii. 425.

Ephesian, a slang term, i. 586, 678.

Epitaphs upon tombs, i. 744.

Equinoctial of Queubus, ii. 246.

Erring, erratic, iii. 332.

Escoted, paid, iii. 352.

Esperance, hope, iii. 311.

Espousals, modes of, ii. 281.

Essay, to assay, iii. 64.

Estate, affairs, iii. 235.

Esteem, the sum of what is held estimable, ii. 49.
Estimation, supposition, conjecture, i. 519.
Estridges, i. 548, iii. 565.

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Extern, external, iii. 648.

Extraught, extracted, ii. 417.

Extravagant, wandering, iii. 332, 650.

Eyases, nestlings, unfledged hawks, iii. 253.

Eyas musket, a young male sparrow-hawk, i. 663.

Eyry, an aiery, a nest or brood of hawks, iii. 353.
FACE, to bully, to brave, i. 276, iii. 452.

Faced, turned over with facings, i. 264.
Facinorous, wicked, ii. 20.

Fact, crime, deed, iii. 218, 741.

Fadge, to fit, to suit, to agree with, i. 84.

Fair, beauty, i. 69, 121, 844, ii. 149, iii. 733, 741, 762, 763.

Fairy, an enchantress, iii. 570.

Faitor, a rascal, a traitor, i. 591.

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Farewell dear heart, ii. 278.
Fashions, a disease in horses, i. 250.
Fast and loose, a game, i. 58, iii. 573.
Fat, o'ercloying, sickening, ii. 272.
Fault, misfortune, i. 640, 667, ii. 212.

Favour, countenance, features, good graces, i. 344, 479, 541,
ii. 249, iii. 760.

Fear, to frighten, i. 270, ii. 430, 444, iii. 426, 452, 548, 733.
Fearful, causing fear, i. 399.

Feat, neat, dexterous, nicely, ii. 760, iii. 22, 785.
Feated, moulded, fashioned, ii. 710.

Feature, comeliness of person, i. 14.

Fecks, i', in faith, iii. 200.

Feeders, nickname for servants, iii. 564.

Fee grief, peculiar sorrow, iii. 508.

Fell, skin, coat of an animal, ii. 148, iii. 111.

Fell of hair, any part covered with hair, iii. 512.

Fellow, a companion, iii. 29.

Fennel, for flattery and lust, iii. 403.

Feodary, a vassal, a federate, ii. 608, 732, iii. 208.

Fere, feer, or phere, companion, husband or wife, iii. 621.

Fern-seed, its imaginary property of conferring invisibility,

&c. i. 564.

Fet, fetched, ii. 82, 359

Fettle, to prepare, i. 197.

Few, in, in brief, i. 237, 574, iii. 9.

Fico, a term of contempt, i. 645, ii. 88.

Fifteen, an impost, ii. 380, 454.

Fights, waste-cloths round a ship in a fight, i. 656.

Figo for thy friendship, a fig for, &c. ii. 88.

Filed, defiled, iii. 491.

Filed, marched in equal pace, ii. 676.

Filed, polished, i. 82, iii. 773, 793.

Fills, thills, the shafts of a waggon, iii. 289.
Find, to detect, iii. 361.

Fine, to embellish, to refine, il. 67.

Fine, the conclusion, i. 699, ii. 45, iii. 747.

Fineless, endless, unnumbered, iii. 678.
Fire, a dissyllable, i. 6.

Fire-drake, a meteor, or fire-work, ii. 695.

Fire-new, brand-new, freshly coined, i. 53.

Fit, a song, division of a song, strain of harmony, iii. 287.

Fit, to start, ii. 192, iii. 778.

Fitchew, a polecat, iii. 689.

Fives, a disease in horses called the vives, i. 250.

Flamen, a priest, ii. 490, iii. 146.

Flap-dragon, a drinking sport, i. 627.

Flap-jack, a pancake, ii. 192.

Flask, a soldier's powder-horn, i. 94.

Flaw, a gust of wind, ii. 365, iii. 726.

Flecked, spotted, dappled, flaked, i. 176.
Fleet, float, iii. 565.

Fleshed, eager from the taste of flesh, i. 574, ii. 85, 557.

Fleshed, made to taste flesh, initiated, i. 560, ii. 79, 267.

Fleshment, eagerness gained by successful initiation, iii. 75.

Flewed, having large, hanging chaps, i. 371, 385.
Flibbertigibbet, a fiend, iii. 89, 120.

Flirt-gills, wild, flirting, romping wench, i. 181.
Florentius' Love, i. 237.

Flying at the brook, hawking at water-fowl, ii. 352, 392.

Foin, to pass, or thrust in fencing, i. 659, iii. 104.
Foison, abundance, Autumn, ii. 598, iii. 20, 768.
Folly, wantonness, iii. 703, 743.

Fond, foolish, i. 421, ii. 298, iii. 64, 166.

Fools, the begging of, i. 104, 120.

Foot-cloth, housing for horses, ii. 374, 380, 546.

For, because, ii. 600, 738.

For, for fear of, i. 8, iii. 768.

For, 'fore, ii. 87, iii. 550, 563, 572.

For all waters, plays any character, ii. 268.

For and, and eke, iii. 387.

For the Heavens, by Heaven! i. 401, 704.

For the Lord's sake, a form of supplication, ii. 638.

For why, because, for this reason, i. 130, 252, iii. 617, 791, 792.

Forage, to range abroad, i. 321.

Forbid, forespoken, bewitched, iii. 474.

Force, to care, to regard to, value, i. 91, iii. 748.

Force, physical vigour, iii. 297.

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