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Flourish, to ornament; also, to Gasted, frighted.

sanction.

Flout, to wave in mockery.

Flush, mature.

Foeman, an enemy in war.
Foin, to thrust in fencing.
Foizon, plenty.
Folly, depravity.
Fond, foolish.

Fools' zanies, baubles surmounted
with a fool's head.
Foot-cloth, horse-covering.
For, because.

Force, to stuff.

Forced, false.
Forbid, accursed.
Fordid, destroyed.

Fordo, to undo.

Foredone, overcome. Forefended, forbidden.

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Garnered, treasured up.

Gaudy, a festival.

Gaunt, meagre.

Gawd, a bauble.

Gaze, attention.

Gear, things or matters.
Geck, a fool.
General, generality.
Generosity, high birth.
Generous, nobly born.
Gennets, Spanish horses.
Gentle, noble, high-born.
Gentry, complaisance.
German, akin.

Germins, seeds begun to sprout.

Gest, a stage or journey.

Gib, a cat.

Giglot, a wanton.

Gilder, a coin, value 2s.
Gilt, gold money.
Gimmal, a ring or engine.
Ging, a gang.
Gird, a sarcasm.
Glaire, a sword.
Gleek, to joke.
Glib, to geld.
Glooming, gloomy
Gloze, to expound.
Glut, to swallow.
Gnarled, knotty.

God 'ield you, God yield you.
Gongarian, Hungarian.
Good-deed, indeed.

Good-den, good evening

Good-jer, the venereal disease.

Gorbellied, corpulent.

Gospelled, puritanic.

Fret, the stop of a musical in- Goss, furze.

strument.

Friend, a lover.

Friend, for friendship, to befriend. Frippery, an old clothes shop. Frize, a Welch cloth.

From, in opposition to.

Fire-drake, will-o'-the-wisp, or a Frontlet, a forehead cloth.

Frush, to break or bruise.

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Fronted, opposed.

Firago for Virago.

Frontier, forehead.

fire-work.

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First-house, chief branch of the Furnishings, colours, pretences.

Fitchew, a polecat.

Fit o' the face, a grimace.

Fits o' the season, disorders of the

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Fustilarian, fusty fellow.

Fulfilling, filling to the brim.
Full, complete.
Fumiter, fumitory.
Furnished, dressed.

G.

Gabardine, a loose cloak.

Gad, a sharp-pointed instrument.
Gain-giving, misgiving.
Gamester, a wanton.
Gait, passage.
Galliard, a dance.

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Lated, benighted.
Latten, thin as a lath.
Launch, lance.
Laund, lawn.
Laundering, wetting.

Lavoltas, a kind of dances.

Lay, a wager.
Leaguer, a camp.
Leasing, falsehood.
Leather-coats, apples.
Leavened, matured.

Leech, a physician.
Leer, feature, complexion.
Leet, petty court of justice.
Leg, obeisance.
Legerity, nimbleness.
Leges, alleges.
Leiger, resident.

Leman, a lover or mistress.

Leno, a pander.

Lenten, spare.

Let, to hinder.
Lethe, death.

L'Envoy, end of a poem.
Lewd, idle.

Libbard, or Lubbar, a leopard.
Liberal, licentious in speech.
Liberty, libertinism

License, licentiousness.

Liefest, dearest.

Lieger, an ambassador.

'Lifter, a thief.

Light o'love, a dance tune.
Lightly, commonly.
Like, to compare.
Liking, condition of body.
Likelihood, similitude.
Likeness, speciousness.
Limbeck, a vessel used in dis-
tilling.

Limbo, a place supposed near hell.
Lime, bird-lime; to cement.
Limited, appointed.
Limits, estimates.
Lined, delineated.

Linstock, the staff to which the
match is fixed when ordnance
is fired.

List, limit.

Lither, flexible.

Little, miniature.

Livelihood, appearance of life.
Livery, a law-phrase.
Living, estate, property.
Living, speaking, manifest.
Loach, a small prolific fish.
Lob, a dullard, a looby.
Lockram, a kind of linen.
Lode-star, the polar star.
Loffe, to laugh.

Loggats, a game.

Long purples, a flower.
Longing, belonging.
Longly, longingly.

Loofed, brought close to the wind.
Loon, a base fellow.

Looped, full of apertures.
Lop, the branches.

Lordling, a little lord.
Lot, a prize.
Lottery, allotment.

Love in idleness, a flower.

GLOSSARY.

Lover, sometimes for mistress.
Lowt, a clown.

Lowted, treated with contempt.
Lozel, a worthless fellow.
Lubbar, a leopard.
Lullaby, cradle.
Lunes, lunacy.

Lurch, to win, to purloin.
Lure, a decoy for a hawk.
Lush, rank, luscious.
Lust, inclination, will.
Lustic, lusty, cheerful.
Lusty, saucy.
Luxurious, lascivious.
Luxury, lust.

Lym, or Lyme, a bloodhound.

M.

Mace, a sceptre.
Mad, wild, inconstant.
Magot-pie, a magpie.

Magnifico, a Venetian potentate.
Magnificent, boastful.
Mailed, wrapt in armour.
Make, to bar, to shut.

Makeless, mateless, widowed.
Male, a bag.

Malkin, a trull.

Mallecho, mischief.

Maltworms, tipplers.

Mammering, stammering.
Mammets, puppets.
Mammock, to tear.

Man, to tame a hawk; the devil.
Mandragora, a soporific plant.
Mandrake, a root.
Mankind, a wizard.
Manner, in the fact.
Manacle, a handcuff.
Marches, confines.
Man-queller, a man-killer.
Marchpane, a sweetmeat.
Margent, margin.

Martial hand, a careless scrawl.
Mated, confounded.
Martlemas, the latter spring.
Material, full of matter.
Maugre, in spite of, notwithstand-

ing.

Maund, a basket.

Meacock, a dastard.

Mealed, mingled.

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Merit, a reward.

Mermaid, a syren.
Metaphysical, supernatural.
Mete-yard, measuring yard.
Mewed, confined.

Micher, a truant.

Miching Mallecho, a secret mis
chief.

Mince, to walk affectedly.
Minding, reminding.

Minnow, a very small fish.
Minstrelsy, office of minstrel.
Minute-jack, Jack-o-lantern.

Miscreate, illegitimate, spurious,
Misdoubt, to suspect.
Miser, a miserable being.
Misery, avarice.
Misprised, mistaken.
Misprising, despising.
Missives, messengers.
Mistempered, angry.

Mistful, ready to weep.
Misthink, to think ill.
Mistress, the jack in bowling.
Mo, more.

Mobled, veiled, muffled.
Model, mould.

Modern, new-fangled.

Modesty, moderation.
Module, model.

Moe, to make mouths.
Moiety, a portion.
Mollification, softening.
Moist star, the moon.
Mome, a blockhead.
Momentany, momentary.
Monster, to make monstrous.

Month's mind, a popish anniver

sary.

Mood, anger, manner.

Moody, melancholy.
Moonish, variable.

Mops and Moes, ludicrous an

tics.

Moral, secret meaning.
Morisco, Moorish.
Morris-pike, Moorish pike.

Mort of the deer, a tune on the
death of the deer.

Mortal, murderous, fatal.

Mortal, abounding.

Mean, the middle; the tenor in Mortified, ascetic.

Mortal-staring, killing by a look.

Most, greatest.

Mot, a motto.

Measure, the reach; a solemn Mother, the hysteric passion.

dance; means.

Meazels, lepers.
Medal, portrait.
Meddle, to mingle.

Medicine, a she-physician.
Meet, a match.
Meiney, domestics.
Memory, memorial.
Memories, memorials.
Mends, the means.
Mephistophilus, a familiar spirit.
Mercatante, a merchant.
Merchant, a low fellow.
Mere, entire, absolute.

Mered question, the sole question.
Merely, entirely.

Motion, divinatory agitation.

Motion, desires.

Motion, a puppet.

Motions, indignation.

Motive, a mover.

Mouldwarp, the mole.
Mouse, to tear to pieces.
Mouse, a term of endearment.
Mouse-hunt, a weasel.

Moy, a piece of money; also, a
measure of corn.

Much, strange, wonderful.
Muck-water, drain of a dunghill.
Muffler, a wrapper for the lower
part of the face.
Muleters, muleteers.

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Out, full, complete.

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Perdurable, lasting.

Outvied, defeated, a term at the Perdy, (Par Dieu) a French oath.

game of gleek.

Outward, not in the secret. Owe, to possess, to own. Oxlip, the great cowslip.

P.

Pack, to bargain with.
Pack, an accomplice.
Packing, plotting, fraud.
Paddock, a toad.

Pagan, a dissolute person.
Pageant, a dumb show.
Paid, punished.

Nook-shotter, that which shoots Palabras, words.

Nonce, on purpose.

Non com, nonplus.

into capes.

Note, notice.

Northern man, a clown.

Nott-pated, round-headed.

Nourish, to nurse.

Noursle, to fondle as a nurse.

Novum, a game at dice.

Nowl, a head.

Nut-hook, a thief.

0.

Odd-even, the interval between
twelve at night and one in
the morning.
Od's-pitikins, God me pity.
Oeliads, glances of the eye.
O's, circles, pockmarks.
Obligations, bonds.
Obsequious, funereal.

Observation, celebration
Obstacle, obstinate.
Occurrents, incidents.
Occupation, mechanics.
O'er- raught, over-reached.
O'ercrow, overcome.
O'erlooked, fascinated.
Of, through.

Offering, the assailant.
Office, service.

Offices, culinary apartments
Of all loves, by all means.
Old, frequent.

Old age, ages past.

Pale, dominions.

Pale, to encircle with a crown.

Pall, to wrap, to invest.
Palled, vapid.

Palmers, pilgrims.

Palmy, victorious.
Paly, pale.

Palter, to juggle, to cheat.
Pang, to afflict.

Paper, to commit to writing.
Parcel, part, to reckon up.
Parcel-bawd, half-bawd.
Parcel-gilt, partially gilt.
Parish-top, a large top, formerly
kept in every village, to be
whipped for exercise.
Parle, parley.
Parlous, perilous, shrewd.
Part, to depart.

Parted, endowed, shared.
Particular, private.
Partizan, a pike.
Parts, party.

Pash, to strike; a head.
Pashed, crushed.

Pass, to decide, assure, convey.
Pass on, to decide.
Passed, eminent.
Passing, surpassing.
Passion, suffering.
Passionate, grieving.
Passioning, being in a passion.
Passy Measure, a dance.

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Pied ninny, a fool.
Pieled, shaven.
Pight, pitched, fixed.
Pilcher, the scabbard.
Piled, deprived of hair.
Pilled, pillaged.

Pin, a term in archery.

Pin and web, disorder of the eye. Pinfold, a pound.

Pix, the box that contains the host. Place, a mansion.

Placket, a petticoat.

Plague, punish.

Plainly, openly.

Plaited, complicated.

Plantage, plantain.

Planched, made of planks.

Plant, the foot.

Plates, silver money.
Platforms, schemes.

Plausive, gracious, applauded.
Pleached, foided.

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Rawly, suddenly.

Purl, to curl.

Rayed, betrayed.

Purlieu, border.

Point, hooks used to fasten up Pursuivants, heralds.

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Popinjay, a parrot.

Pussel, a low wench.

Put to know, forced to acknowledge.

Putter-out, one who lends money
on interest.
Putting-on, incitement.
Puttock, a hawk.

Q.

Popularity, intercourse with the Quail, to sink, to faint to be van

Porpentine, porcupine.

vulgar.

Port, deportment.

Port, a gate.

Portable, bearable.

Portance, behaviour.

Possess, to inform.

Potch, to push.

Potents, potentates.

Poulter, poulterer.

Pouncet-box, a perfume-box.

Power, an army.

Practise, stratagems.

Prank, to adorn.

Precept, a justice's warrant.

Precisian, a puritan.
Preeches, flogged.

Prefer, to offer.

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quished. Quaint, fantastical, also graceful. Quaintly, skilfully. Quaint-mazes, a game. Quaked, terrified.

Quality, confederates; condition. Quarrel, a quarreller.

Quarry, the game after it is killed. Quart d'écu, the fourth of French crown.

Quat, a scab.

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Razed, slashed.
Raze, a bale.
Rear-mouse, a bat.
Reason, discourse.

Rebeck, a musical instrument.
Recheat, a horn, a tune to call
the dogs back.
Receipt, receptacle.

Receiving, ready apprehension.
Receate, a hunting term.
Reck, to care for.
Reckless, careless.
Record, to sing.

Recorders, a kind of flute.
Recure, to recover.

Red-lattice phrases, alehouse talk.
Red-plague, the St. Antony's fire.
Reechy, discoloured with smoke.
Reels, wheels.
Refel, to confute.
Refer, to reserve to.
Regard, look.

Regiment, government.

Regreet, exchange of salutation. Reguerdon, recompense.

Rheumatic, capricious.

Relume, to relight.

Remorse, pity.

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Quintain, a post set up for various Reputing, boasting.

exercises.

Quips, scoffs.

Quire, to play in concert. Quiver, nimble, active. Quote, to observe.

R, dog's letter.

R.

Proface, much good may it do Rabato, a neck ornament.

you.

Profane, grossly talkative.

Progress, a royal journey of state.

Prognostication, almanack.

Project, to shape.

Prolixious, coy, delaying.

Proof, puberty.

Prompture, suggestion.
Prone, humble, also prompt.

Propagate, to advance, to improve.
Proper, handsome.
Proper-false, deceitful.
Propertied, possessed.

Properties, incidental necessaries to a theatre.

Property, due performance.
Propose, to imagine, to converse.
Proposing, conversing.
Provand, provender.

Provost, sheriff or gaoler.

Prune, to plume.

Pugging, thievish.

Puke, a sort of russet colour.
Purchase, stolen goods.

Race, original disposition, also

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Reserve, to preserve.
Resolve, to be assured.

Resolve, to dissolve.

Respective, respectful.
Respectively, respectfully.
Resty, mouldy.

Retailed, handed down.

Retort, to refer back.
Reverb, to reverberate.

Revolt of mien, change of com

plexion.

Revolts, rebels.
Rib, to enclose.

Ribald, a lewd fellow.

Rid, to destroy

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Rash remonstrance, premature Rope-tricks, abusiveness

discovery.

Raught, reached.

Ravin, to devour eagerly.

Ravined, glutted with prey.

Round, a diadem.

Round, rough.

Rounded, whispered.

Roundel, a country dance

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