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Comforting, abetting. WINT. Corky, dry, or withered.

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Consent, used sometimes for will. Counterfeit, sometimes used for a

MAC.

Continent, that which contains or

incloses.

Contraction, marriage, contract.
Control, confute. TEMP.
Convents, agrees, is convenient.
Convented, summoned.
Converitite, a convert.
Convey, steal, conveyance, theft.
MER. WIV. and HEN. VI. 1st
Part.

Conveyers, thieves. Ibid.
Conveyed himself, derived his title.
Convicted, overpowered, baffled,
destroyed.
Convive, to feast.

Copatain hat, a hat with a conical

crown.

Copped, rising to a top or head. Coragio, an exclamation of encouragement.

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Coystril, a coward cock, a paltry Cunning, knowing, skilful, (in a

fellow.

Cozier, a taylor, from cousu; or

a cobler, or sowter.

Crack, a child. HEN. IV. 2d

Part. CORIOL.

good meaning.)

Curb, to bend and truckle, from

courber. HAM.

Curled, ostentatiously dressed. ОTH. and ANT. & CLEO.

Crack of doom, dissolution of Curious, scrupulous. TAM. SHR.

Nature.

MAC.

ANT. & CLEO.

Cranking, crankling, applied to Currents, occurrences. HEN. VI.

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Cruel, worsted. LEAR. applied to Darkling, in the dark.

garters.

Crush, to drink. ROM. & JUL. Crusado, a Portuguese coin. Cry, a pack or troop. COR. HAM. Cub-drawn, i. e. bear, one whose dugs are drawn dry. Cuisses, armour for the thighs, cuisses, Fr.

Darraign, range, put in order. Dauberry, counterfeit, disguise. Day-bed, a couch.

Dealt, fought by proxy. ANT. & CLE.

Dear, sometimes means immediate, consequential. Dearn, direful, lone, solitary.

Deboshed, debauched; sometimes Detected, suspected or charged.

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MEA. FOR MEA.

Determined, sometimes for concluded.

Dibble, an instrument in garden

ing.

Dickon, Richard.

Diet, to put under a regimen, to

oblige to fast, or to loath. Diffused, wild, irregular, extravagant.

Digression, transgression. Love's

LAB.

Dildos, the burthen of a song. Directitude, discreditude, or discredit.

Disable, undervalue. AS YOU. Disappointed, unappointed, unprepared. HAM.

Discandy, to melt the sweets, to dissolve.

Discourse, reason. TWELF. NIG. Dishabited, dislodged.

Dismes, Fr. tenths.

Disnatured, wanting natural affec

tion.

Dispark, to throw down the

hedges.

Disperge, to sprinkle.

Dispose, to make terms. ANT. & CLE.

Disputable, disputatious. As you. Dispute, talk over, reason upon, account for.

Disseat, displace.

Distained, unstained. COM. OF ER.

Distaste, to corrupt. TROIL. & Dull, gentle, soothing. HEN.

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Diverted, turned out of the course Dumbs, makes silent.

of nature. As YOU. Division, phrase in music, the

parts of it. ROM. & JUL.
HEN. IV. 1st Part.
Doff, see Daff.

Dole, alms, or distribution.
Don, to do on, put on.
Dont, do out, extinguish.
Dowl, a feather.
Down-gyved, hanging down like

the loose cincture which con-
fines the fetters round the
ancle.

Draught, the jakes. TIM.
Draw, sometimes used for with-
draw.

Drawn, swords drawn. TEMP.
A drawn for, one which is trailed

over the ground, and deceives
the hounds.

Dressings, semblances or habile

ments of virtue. MEA. FOR MEA.

Driven bed, one for which the feathers are selected by driving with a fan.

Dump, a mournful elegy.

Dung, an obscene word, probably part of a proverb. ROM. &

JUL.

Dungy, of dung, earthy.
Dupped, did up, put up, opened
Durance, some lasting kind of
stuff. HEN. IV. 1st Part.

E.

Eager, sour, harsh. HEN. VI.
3d Part.

Eanlings, lambs just dropt.
Ear, to plough. ANT. & CLE.
Ear-kissing, whispering.
Easy, slight, inconsiderable. HEN.
VI. 2d Part. COR.
Eche, eke out.

Ecstacy, alienation of mind.
TEMP. MUCH ADO. MAC.
Edward shovel-boards, Edward
VIth's shillings, used at shuffle-
board.

Effects, affects, affections. MEA.
FOR MEA. Actions. HAM.
Eftest, or Deftest, readiest.

Drumble, to act as confused and Eld, old person or persons. MER.

stupid.

Ducdame, duc ad me, the supposed

burthen of a song.

Dudgeon, the haft or handle of a dagger,

WIV. Decrepitude. MEA.

FOR MEA.

Element, initation, previous prac

tice. HEN. VIII.

Elf, done by elves or fairies.

Elvish marked, marked by elves. Emballing, being distinguished by the ball, the emblem of royalty.

Embare, expose, display to view. Embarquements, impediments, hindrances. COR. Embossed, inclosed; when a deer is run hard, and foams at the mouth, he is said to be embossed. ALL'S WELL. Swollen, puffy.

Empiricutick, of an empirical kind, quackish.

Ensconce, to secure in a safe place. Enseamed, greasy.

Enshield, concealed, masked.
Ensteeped, immersed.
Entertainment, pay. COR. OTH.

Receive into service. JUL.
CES.

Entreatments, favours, or objects

of entreaty.

Envy, often used for aversion, malice.

Ephesian, a cant term, perhaps

for a toper.

Erewhile, a little while ago.

Empery, dominion, sovereign Erring, wandering, errant. OтH.

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Escape, illegitimate child. TIT.

AND.

Escoted, paid; from escot, shot,

or reckoning.

Esil, or Eisel, a river. HAM.
Esperance, the motto of the Percy
family.
Espials, spies.

Essential, real, existent. OTH. Estimable, i. e. wonder, esteeming wonder, or esteem and wonder.

Estimate, the rate at which I value. COR.

Estimation, conjecture. HEN.
IV. 1st Part.
Estridges, ostriches.
Eterne, eternal.

Eten, to make even, or represent plain. LEAR.

Eren Christian, fellow Christian. MAC.

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