L'envoy, moral or conclusion Lozel, a dishonest fellow
Let, to hinder
Lewd, ignorant, idle, wicked
Lewdly, wickedly
Libbard, or lubbar, a leopard
Liberal, licentious or gross in
language
Liberty, libertinism
Lunes, lunacy, frenzy
Lurch, to purloin, to deprive
Lure, a thing stuffed to tempt
the hawk
Lush, rank, a dark full colour
Lustick, lusty, cheerful, plea-
Lusty, saucy
[sant
Luxurious, lascivious
License, an appearance of Luxuriously, wantonly
Lie, to reside, to be imprisoned Lym, a blood-hound
Liefest, dearest
Lieger, an ambassador at a Mace, a sceptre
Lifter, a thief [foreign court Magot-pie, magpie
Light o love, a dance tune
Lightly, commonly, in ordi-
Lightness, levity [nary course
Like, to compare
Likelihood, similitude [virtue
Likeness, specious or seeming
Liking, condition of body
Limbeck, a vessel used in dis-
tilling
Limbo parium, in confinement
Lime, bird-lime [or prison
Lime, to cement
Limed, entangled or caught, as
with bird-lime
Limit, appointed time
Limited, appointed, regular,
orderly
Magnifico, a chief man or
grandee at Venice
Mailed, wrapped up, covered
Malich, a wicked art
Makest, dost
[wench
Malkin, a scullion, a coarse
Mall, Mrs., alias Mary Frith,
or Moll Cutpurse
Mallecho, mischief
Malt-worms, tipplers
Mammering, hesitating
Mammets, puppets
Mammock, to cut in pieces
Man, to tame a hawk
[tion
Manage, conduct, administra-
Mandrake, a root supposed to
have the shape of a man
Mankind, masculine
Marches, the borders, limits,
or confines
[meat
Marchpane, a species of sweet-
Martlemas, the latter spring
Match, an appointment,
Mate, to confound [compact
Mated, amazed, dismayed
Meacock, a dastardly creature
Mealed, sprinkled or mingled
Mean, the tenor in music
Mean, the middle
Means, interest, pains
Measure, the reach
[actual Measure, a stately solemn
Measure, means [dance
Meazels, lepers
Medal, portrait
Limits, estimates, calculations
Lined, delineated
Link, a torch of pitch
Linstock, the staff to which the
match is fixed when ord-
nance is fired
List, the bound or limit
Lither, flexible, yielding
Littie, miniature
Livelihood, appearance of life
Livery, a law phrase belonging
to the feudal tenures
Living, estate, property
Living, speaking, manifest,
Loach, a small fish
Lob, looby, a term of contempt
Lockram, some kind of cheap
Lode-star, the pole star [linen
Lodged, laid by the wind
Loffe, to laugh
Medicine, a she-physician
Meed, reward
Meed, merit, desert, excellence
Meet, a match
Meiny, people, domestics
Mell, to meddle with
Memory, memorial
Mortified, ascetic, religious
Most, greatest
Motion, a kind of puppet-show
Motion, divinitory agitation
Motion, desires
Mephistophilus, the name of a Motions, indignation
spirit or familiar
Mercatante, a merchant
Mere, exact, entire, absolute
Mered, mere
Messes, degrees about court
Metal, temper
Metaphysical, supernatural
Mete-yard, measuring-yard
Mewed, confined
Motive, assistant or mover,
that which contributes to
Mould, earth
Mouse, to mammock, to tear to
Mouse-hunt, a weasel [pieces
Moy, a piece of money or a
Obligations, bonds
Observing, religiously attentive
Obsequious, serious, as
funeral obsequies, careful of Obstacle, obstinate [business measure of corn Occupation, men occupied in Much, an expression of disdain Occurrents, incidents Much, strange, wonderful Oe, a circle [eye. See Eyliads Muck-water, drain of a dung-Oeiliad, a cast or glance of the truant, hill O'er-dyed, dyed too much Muffler, a kind of dress for the O'er-parted, having too conlower part of the face siderable a part Muliters, muleteers [ed O'er-raught, over-reached Mulled, softened and dispirit-O'er-wrested, wrested beyond Multiplied, multitudinous Of, through [the truth Multiplying, multiplied Old, frequent, more than Multitudinous, full of multi-Old age, ages past tudes [from mummies Mummy, the liquor procured Mundane, worldly
Micher, a truant, a lurking
Miching, playing
skulking about
Mien, countenance
Mince, to walk with affected
delicacy [brance, reminding
Minding, calling to remem-
Mineral, a mine
Minnow, a small river fish, a
term of contempt
Minstrelsy, office of minstrel
Misconceived, misconceivers
Miscreate, ill-begotten, ille-Mure, a wall
gitimate
Murrain, a plague in cattle
Muse, to admire, to wonder
Muss, a scramble
Misprising, despising, or un- Mutine, to rise in mutiny
Missives, messengers
Mistaken, misrepresented
Mistempered, angry
Misthink, to think ill
Mistress, the jack in bowling | Nay-word, a watch-word or
Mobled, or mabled, veiled, Neat, finical
[things Neb or nib, the mouth
Mode, the form or state of Neeld, needle
Model, image, representative, Neif, fist
[lineal descendant
copy
Nephew, a grandson or any
Modern, trite, common, mean- Nether-stocks, stockings
Modesty, moderation [ly pretty| Newt, the eft
Module, model, pattern
Moe, or mowe, to make mouths
Moiety, a portion [softening
Mollification, pacification,
Mome, a dull stupid blockhead
Momentany, momentary
Mood, anger, resentment, Nill, shall not
Moody, melancholy [manner Nine men's morris, a game
Moon-calf, an inaniniate Nobility, distinction, eminence
shapeless mass
Moonish, variable
Mope, to appear stupid
Moral, secret meaning
Morisco, Moor or Moorish, or
morris
Morris-pike, Moorish pike
Mortal-staring, that which
stares fatally
Next, nearest
Nice, silly, trifling
Nick, reckoning or count
Nick, to set a mark of folly on
Nighted, made dark as night
Night-rule, frolic of the night
Noddy, fool, a game at cards
Noontide-nick, noontide point
on the dial
Nonce, on purpose, for the
Nook-shotten, that which shoots
into capes
Northern-man, vir borealis, a
clown
[enough
Oneyers, accountants, bankers
Operant, active [character
Opinion, obstinacy, conceit,
Opposite, adverse, hostile, ad-
Opposition, combat [versary
Or, before
Orbs, rings made by the fairies
on the ground
Order, measures
Ordinance, rank
Orgulous, proud, disdainful
Osprey, a kind of eagle
Ostent, show, ostentation
Ostentation, show, appearance
Overblow, to drive away, to
keep off
Overture, opening or discovery
Ounce, a small tiger, or tiger-
Ouph, fairy, goblin
Ousel-cock, the cock blackbird
Out, begone
Out, full, complete
Outlook, to face down
Outvied, defeated, a term at
the game of gleek [affairs
Outward, not in the secret of
Owe, to own, possess, govern
Ox-lip, the greater cowsup
Pack, to make a bargain
Pack, combined, an accom
plice
Packings, plottings, under-
hand contrivances
Paddock, toad
Pageant, a dumb show
Paid, punished
Pain, penalty
Pains, labour, toil
Palabras, words
Pennons, small flags
Perch, a measure of five yards
and a half
Perdurable, lasting
Perdy, par Dieu, a French oath
Perfect, certain, well informed
Perfections, liver, brain, and
heart
Perjure, a perjured person
Periapts, charms sewed up
and worn about the neck
Perspectives, telescopes
Pervert, to avert
Pew-fellow, a companion
Pheere. See Feere
Possessed, acquainted with,
fully informed
[ness
Possessed, afflicted with mad
Potch, to push violently
Potents, potentates [perfume
Pouncet-box, a small box for
Power, forces, an army
Practice, unlawful or insidious
stratagem
[able arts
Practise, to employ unwarrant-
Practisants, confederates in
stratagems
Prank, to adorn, to dress os-
tentatiously, to plume
Precedent, original draft
Pheese, to tease or beat, to Precept, a justice's warrant
comb or curry
Precisian, a great pretender
to sanctity
Pia mater, the membrane
covering the substance of Prefer, to recommend, to ad-
Pick, to pitch [the brain Pregnancy, readiness [vance
Picked, nicely dressed, foppish Pregnant, ready, plain, evi-
Pickers, the hands
dent, apposite [mankind
Picking, insignificant [site Pregnant enemy, the enemy of
Pick-thank, an officious para- Premised, sent before the time
Piece, a word of contempt for Prenominate, already named
Piel'd, shaven [a woman Pre-ordinance, ordinance al-
Pight, pitched, fixed
ready established
Pilcher, a pilche, the scabbard Presence, the presence-cham-
Pilled, pillaged
[eye ber, a public room
Pin and web, disorders of the Presence, dignity of mien,
Pinnace, a small ship of burden Prest, ready [form, figure
Pix, a small chest in which the Pretence, design, intention
consecrated host was kept Pretend, to intend, design
Placket, a petticoat
Pretended, purposed or in-
Plague, to punish
Prevent, to anticipate [tended
Plain song, the chant, in plano Prick, the point on the dial
Plainly, openly
Pricks, prickles, skewers
Plaited, complicated, involved Prig, to filch
Planched, made of planks Prime, youth
Plants, the feet
Prime, prompt
Platforms, plans, schemes
Plausive, gracious, pleasing,
popular
Pleached, folded in each other
Plot, piece or portion
Point, a metal hook fastened
to the hose or breeches
Point, the utmost height
Point-de-vie, exactly
Points, tags to the laces
Poize, weight or moment
Polled, bared, cleared
Pomander, a ball made of per-
fumes
[important Primer, more urgent, more Primero, a game at cards Principals, rafters of a building
Princox, a coxcomb, or spoiled
Probal, probable
Process, summons
Procure, to bring
Prodigious, portentous, ominProface, much good may it do [coming
you Profession, end and purpose of Progress, a royal journey of
Project, to shape or form
Pomewater, a species of apple
Poor-john, hake dried and Prompture, suggestion, tempt-
Popinjay, a parrot [salted ation
Popularity, plebeian inter-Prone, sometimes humble, or
Port, external pomp [course Proof, confirmed state of man-
Port, a gate
Portable, bearable
Portance, carriage, behaviour
Possess, to inform, to make to
Propagate, to advance or im-
Propagation, getting prove
Proper, well-looking, hand-
Proper-false, proper or fair,
and false or deceitful
Propertied, taken possession of
Properties, incidental neces-Quire, to play in concert
saries to a theatre.
Property, due performance
Property, a thing quite at dis-
posal
Quintain, a post set up for
various exercises
Quips, reproaches and scoffs
Prorogue, to lengthen or pro
[rity Regiment, government, authoRegrect, exchange of salutation Reguerdon, recompenee, re(connected Relative, nearly related, or
Quit, to requite or answer
Quittance, return of obliga- Remembered, remembering
Quiver, nimble, active [tions Remembrance, admonition
Quote, to observe or regard Remorse, pity, tenderness of
heart
Propose, to image, to imagine
Proposing, conversing [state
[ness
Propriety, regular, and proper Rabato, an ornament for the Remotion, removal or remote-
Removed, remote, sequestered
Provand, provender [long Rabbit-sucker, a young rabbit Render, to describe
Provencial, Provencal, from Race, original disposition, in- Render, a confession, an ac-
Provence
born qualities, a smack or Renege, to renounce
Provincial, belonging to one's Rack, wreck
[flavour Repair, to renovate
Provost, sheriff or gaoler
Repeal, to recall
Prune, to plume
Reports, reporters
Reproof, confutation
Repugn, to resist
Reputing, boasting of
Resolve, to be firmly persuaded,
Resolve, to dissolve satisfied
Respect, consideration, caution
Respective, respectable,
Puke, a colour between russet
Pugging, thievish [and black
Pun, to pound
Purchase, stolen goods
Purchased, acquired by unjust
methods
Purlieu, border, enclosure
Pursuivants, heralds
Put to know, compelled to ac-
knowledge
Putter-on, one who instigates
Putter-out, one who places out
money at interest
Putting-on, spur, incitement
Puttock, a degenerate species
of hawk
Quat, a pimple [unsettled
Queasy, squeamish, delicate,
Quell, to murder, to destroy
Quern, a hand-mill
Quest, inquest or jury, search,
expedition
Question, conversation
Rack, to exaggerate
Rack, to harass by exactions
Rack, the fleeting away of the
highest clouds
Racking, in rapid motion
Rag, an opprobrious epithet
Ragged, rugged
Rake, to cover [creature
Rampallion, a ramping low
Rank, rate or pace
Rank, grown up to a great
height and strength
Rapt, rapturously affected
Rapture, a fit
Rarely, curiously, happily
Rascal, applied to lean deer
Rash, heady, thoughtless,
quick, violent
Rash remonstrance, premature
Rated, chided
spectful, formal
Respective, cool, considerate
Respectively, respectfully
Retailed, handed down
Reverb, to reverberate
Revolts, revolters
Rib, to enclose
Rid, to destroy
Rift, split
Riggish, wanton
[discovery Right, just, even
Ravin, to devour eagerly
Ravin, ravenous
Ravined, glutted with prey
Raught, reached
Raw, ignorant, unripe, unskil-
Rawly, young and helpless
Rayed, bewrayed
Razed, slashed, raised
Rear-mouse, a bat
Reason, discourse
Right-drawn, drawn in a right
Rigol, a circle
Ringed, environed, encircled
Ripe, come to the height
Rivage, the bank or shore
Rivality, equal rank
Rivals, partners
Reason, to talk, to argue for Ronyon, a despicable person
Rebeck, an old musical instru-
Receiving, ready apprehension
Receipt, receptacle
Recheate, a sound by which the
dogs are called back
Reck, to care for, to mind, to
attend to
Recorder, a kind of flute or
Recure, to recover [flageolet
Rood, the cross
Rook, to squat down
Ropery, roguery
Rope-tricks, abusive language
Rother, a provincial name for
Round, rough, unceremonious
Rounded, whispered
Rounding, whispering
Roundel, a country dance
Questrist, one who goes in Red-lattice, the sign of an ale-Roundure, circle
search of another
Quests, reports
Quick, lively, spritely, living
Quicken, to animate
Quiddits, subtilties
Quillets, law chicanery
| Reduce, to bring back (house
Red-plague, the erysipelas
Reechy, discoloured by smoke,
smoky, greasy
Refell, to refute
Refer, to reserve to
Rouse, a draught of jollity
Royal, due to a king
Royalty, nobleness, supreme
excellence
Roynish, mangy, or scabby
Ruddock, the redbreast
Ruff, the folding of the tops of Seen, versed, practised
boots
[turbance Seld, seldom
Ruffle, to riot, to create dis-
Ruffling, rustling [ruin
Ruin, displeasure producing
Ruth, pity, compassion,
Sacring-bell, bell announcing
the approach of the host
Sadly, seriously
Sadness, seriousness
Semblably, in resemblance,
Seniory, seniority [alike
Sennet, a flourish on cornets
Sense, reason, natural affec-
tion, feeling, sensual passion
Sensible, having sensation
Septentrion, the north
Sequestration, separation
Sere or sear, dry
Sagg or swagg, to sink down Serpigo, a kind of tetter
Sallet, a helmet
Salliers, satyrs
Sanded, of a sandy colour
Satisfy, rest with satisfaction
Savage, sylvan, uncultivated,
Savageness, wildness
Saw, not a proverb, but the
whole tenor of any discourse
Sav, silk
Say, a sample, a taste or relish
Scaffoldage, the gallery part of
the theatre poor, filthy
Scald, a word of contempt,
Scale, to disperse, to put to
Scaled, over-reached flight
Scaling, weighing
Scall, an old word of reproach
Scamble, to scramble
Scamell, a limpet
Scan, to examine nicely
Scant, to be deficient in, to
contract
[tion Scantling, measure, proporScapes of wit, sallies, irregu
Sessa, be quiet
Serve, to fulfil
Serve, to accompany
Set, seated
Setebos, a species of devil
Several, separated, appropri-
ated
Sewer, an officer who placed
the dishes on the table
Shame, to disgrace
Shame, modesty
Shard-borne, borne by shards
or scaly wings
Shards, the wings of a beetle
Shards, broken pots or tiles
Sharked, picked up as a shark
collects his prey [lustre
Sheen, shining, splendour,
Sheer, pellucid, transparent
Shent, scolded, rebuked,
ashamed, disgraced
Shent, to reprove harshly
Sheriff's-post, a large post set
up at the door of that officer
for affixing proclamations,
Shive, a slice
Shot, a shooter
Shovel-board, a game [dog
Shoughs, shocks, a species of
Shouldered, rudely thrust into
Shrewd, having the qualities
Shrift, confession [of a shrew
Shrive, to confess, to call to
confession
Scarfed, decorated with flags
Scath, destruction, harm
Scath, to do an injury
Scathful, mischievous, de-
structive
Sconce, the head, or a petty
fortification
Scotched, cut slightly
Scrimens, fencers
Scrip, a writing, a list
Scroyles, scabby fellows
Sculls, great numbers of fishes
swimming together
Scutched, whipt, carted
Seal, to strengthen or com-
Seam, lard
Sea-mell, the sea-mew
Sear, to stigmatize, to close.
See Sere.
[impress
Season, to temper, to infix, to
Seasoned, established or set-
Seat, throne [tled by time
Sect, a cutting in gardening
Seel, to sew up
Seeling, blinding
Seeming, specious, hypocritic- Sithence, thence
Seeming, seemly
Shut-up, to conclude
Side-sleeves, long sleeves
Siege, stool, seat, rank
Sight, the perforated part of a
Sightless, unsightly [helmet
Sign, to show, to denote
Silly, simple or rustic
Silly, sooth, plain, simple truth
Sincere, honest
Sinew, strength
Single, weak, debile, small,
void of duplicity or guile
Sink-a-pace, cinque-pace, a
dance
Sir-reverence, a corruption of
Sith, since [save-reverence
[all Sizes, allowances of victuals
Skains-mates, loose compan-
Skinker, a tapster
[ions
Skirr, to scour, to ride hastily
Slack, to neglect
Slave, to treat as a slave
Sleave, the ravelled knotty
part of the silk
[sledge
Sledded, riding in a sled or
Slights, subtle practices
Slips, a contrivance of leather,
to start two dogs at the same
time
Sliver, to cut a piece or slice
Slops, loose breeches, or
Slough, the skin which the serpent annually throws off Slubber, to do anything carelessly, imperfectly, to ob
Smirched, soiled or obscured
Sneap, to check or rebuke, a
Sneaping, nipping [rebuke
Sneck-up, a cant phrase, "go
hang yourself"
Snuff, hasty anger
Snuffs, dislikes
Soil, spot, turpitude, reproach
Solely, alone
Solicit, courtship
Solicit, to excite
Soliciting, information
Solidares, an unknown coin
Sometimes, formerly
Sooth, truth
Sooth, sweetness
Sorriest, worthless, vile
Sorry, sorrowful or dismal
Sorel, a deer during his third
year
Sort, a company, a pack,
ranks and degrees of men
Sort, to happen, to agree
Sort, the lot
Sort and suit, figure and rank
Sot, a fool
Soul-fearing, soul-appalling
Sound, to declare or publish
Sound, soundly
Sowl, to pull by the ears
Sowter, perhaps the name of
Spanned, measured [a hound
Specialty, particular rights
Sped, the fate decided
Speed, event [bars, &c.
Sperr, to shut up, defend by
Spleen, humour, caprice, spirit,
resentment [ous speed
Spleen, violent hurry, tumultu-
Spleens, inclination to spiteful
Spot, stain or disgrace [mirth
Spotted, wicked
Sprag, or spackt, apt to learn
Spread, to stand separately
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