ABATE, to blunt, ii. 575.

Abated, subdued, depressed, iii. 164.

Abhominable, antiquated spelling of abominable, i. 83.

Abide, to pay the penalty, iii. 435.

Abide, sojourn, iii. 227.

Abjects, things thrown away as worthless, iii. 445,

Able, to qualify, iii. 103.

Aboding, foreboding, ii. 449.

Abram Cupid, i. 173.

Abridgment, pastime, i. 375, iii. 354.

Abroad, disbursed, expended, ii. 737.

Absey-book, A, B, C, book, catechism, i. 288.

Absolute, complete, iii. 530.

Abuse, delusion, deception, ii. 632.

Aby, to pay dear for, i. 364.

Accidence, i. 688.

Accite, to summon, iii. 598.

Accordingly, conformably, proportionately, ii. 26.

Accost, approach, i. 705.

Account of, to value, to appreciate, i. 11.

Ache (a noun), pronounced ache, and forming a riddle with

the letter H, i. 721, iii. 570.

Ache (a verb), pronounced ake, iii. 14.

Acknown, known, iii. 680.

Acquaintance, amity, iii. 773.

Across, to break, a tilt-yard technical, i. 732, ii. 17.

Acture, action, iii. 786.

Adamant, loadstone, i. 353.

Adam Bel, the Archer, i. 741.

Adam, old, a serjeant, i. 136.

Addiction, inclination, iii. 666.

Additions, qualities, titles, characteristics, ii. 22, iii. 266, 340.
Address, to prepare, to make ready, i. 60, 376, 412, 609, 671,

ii. 169, iii. 434, 754.

Admittance, vogue, fashion, i. 658, 688.

Advice, consideration, representation, i. 431, ii. 76.

Advised, assured, aware, persuaded, i. 299, 574, 648, 727.
Affect, to love, i. 58.

Affect the letter, to use alliteration, i. 72.

Affection, affectation, imagination, i. 82, ii. 249, iii. 201.
Affectioned, affected, ii. 249.

Affeer, to assess, or confirm, iii. 505.

Affined, bound, iii. 64S, 669.

Affray, to frighten, i. 194.

Affront, to confront, to encounter, iii. 358.

Affy, betroth, ii. 374.

Affy, to confide, iii. 598.

After-supper, a rere-supper, a second supper i, 385

Against the hair, against the grain, iii. 266.

Aglet-baby, a diminutive figure carved on a jewel, i. 237,

575, 714.

Agnize, to acknowledge, iii. 658.

Agood, in good earnest, i. 35.

Aim, to guess, to surmise, 1. 20, 21, iii. 653.

Aim! cry aim! to encourage, i. 39.

Aim, to give, to direct, i. 39, 130.

Ajax, a jakes, i. 93.

Albany, an ancient name for Scotland, iii. 57
Alder-liefest, all-dearest, dearest of all, ii. 342.

Ales, rustic festivities, i. 43.

A'life, as life, iii. 234.

All at once, a trite phrase, ii. 65, 440.

Alliterative examples, i. 386.

Allons! let us go, i. 81, 84.

Allow, to approve, iii. 80, 757.
Allowed, licensed, i. 92.

Allowing, allowed, lawful, iii. 202.
All-thing, every way, iii. 490.

Anthropophagi, Scythian savages, cannibals, iii. 709.

Ape-bearer, an instructor and exhibitor of apes, iii. 254.
Appaid, pleased, satisfied, iii. 747.

Apparent, nearest, iii. 202.

Apparent, manifest, iii. 426.

Apparitor, an officer of the spiritual court, i. 67.

Apperil, danger, peril, ii. 467.

Apple-John, i. 588.

Apply, to ply, i. 232.

Apprehension, conceit, sarcasm, ii. 301.

Approbation, proof, ii. 67, 716.

Approve, to justify, to confirm, i. 417, iii. 330.

Araise, to raise, to upraise, ii. 17.
Argosy, a large vessel, i. 247, 394.
Argument, conversation, i. 714.
Arm-gaunt, iii. 537.

Aroint begone! avaunt! iii. 474.

A-row, one after another, successively, i. 143.

Arras, chamber-hangings, iii. 402.

Arrive, to arrive at, iii. 415.

Arthur's Show, Sir Dagonet in, i. 628.

Articulate, to enter into articles, iii. 140.

Articulated, circumstantially drawn out, i. 554.

Artificial, ingenious, i. 364.

Artist, a scholar, iii. 270.

Aspersion, sprinkling, iii. 35.

Assinego, an ass, iii. 278.

Assured, affianced, i. 131, 298.

Astonished, thunderstruck, iii. 755, 773.

Astringer, a falconer, ii. 56.

At friend, on terms of friendship, iii. 244.

Atomies, mites, i. 168.

Atomies, atoms, ii. 150, 156.

Atone, to reconcile, i. 450, ii. 715.

Attasked, taxed, charged, iii. 71.

Attorney, advocate, pleader, iii. 725.

Aunts, wenches, iii. 227.

Awful, authorised, lawful, i. 604.

Awful men, men of worth and authority, i. 28.

Awkward, distorted, contrary, ii. 80, 367.

BACCARE, stand back, i. 242.

Baffled, treated with ignominy, i. 450.
Baldrick, a belt, i. 699.

Bale, injury, iii. 129.

Balked, ridged, heaped up, i. 510.

Balk logic, to dispute, to wrangle, i. 233.

Balow, a pole or staff, iii. 104.

Ban, to curse, iii. 725.

Banbury cheese, a thin cheese, i. 641.

Band, a bond, i. 136, iii. 553.

Ban-dog, perhaps a dog chained or banded, ii. 349.

Bankes's horse, i. 100.

Banquet, a dessert, i. 270.

Barbason, a fiend, i. 658, ii. 74.

Barbed, caparisoned, iii. 514.

Barbers' forfeits, f. 638.

799

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, li. 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.

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

Bisson, blind, iii. 355.

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, il 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, L. 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, smė
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.

Bordered, restrained, iii. 97.

Borne in hand, encouraged by delusive promises, iii. 491.
Borrowed, assumed, iii. 788.

Bosky, woody, i. 553.

Bosom multiplied, many-stomached, iii. 156.

Bots, worms in the stomach of a horse, i. 250, 520.

Bottled, bloated, ii. 523.

Bottom, to wind round, or upon, i. 25.

Bought and sold, entrapped, betrayed, made a victim, iL

313, iii. 278.

Bourn, boundary, iii. 101, 359.

Bow, yoke, ii. 155.

Bowed, bent, ii. 664.

Brach, a hound bitch, i. 228.

Braid, false, deceitful, ii. 39.

Braved, bedizened, ornamented, i. 264, ii. 144.

Bravery, finery, ostentation, ii. 144, 596, iii. 452.

Braving, blustering, hectoring, iii. 606.

Brawl, a dance, i. 102.

Break a day, to make a breach of contract, i. 438.

Break up, to carve, i. 69, 406.

Break with him, to open the subject to him, i. 8, iii. 425.

Breast, voice, ii. 246.

Breath, a breathing, a combat for exercise, iii. 305.

Breathe in watering, to take breath while drinking, i. 527

Breeched, sheathed, mired, iii. 488.

Breed-bate, an exciter of quarrels, i. 647.

Brentford, Gillian of, i. 689.

Brewer's horse, i. 542.

Brew good ale, a proverb, i. 24.

Bribe-buck, i. 681.

Brize, the gad, or horsefly, iii. 272, 560.

Brock, a badger, ii. 252.

Broken music, the music of stringed instruments, ii. 120,

132, iii. 287.

Broker, a pander, a procuress, a cheat, i. 6, 298, ii. 32, iii. 786.
Brooched, adorned, decorated, iii. 576.

Brooded, watchful, i. 305.

Broom-groves, iii. 36.

Brown-bastard, a sweet wine, i. 529.

Brown-bill, a battle-axe, iii. 102.

Brownist, a follower of Brown, a sectary, ii. 257, 279.

Bruit, report, ii. 299, 439, iii. 318, 335, 514.