Canary, a dance with castanets, i. 64, ii. 17. Candle-wasters, Bacchanals, revellers, i. 730. Cantle, a slice, a corner, i. 537, iii. 559. 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. 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. Card, by the, according to the book of manners, iii. 388. 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. Carve, to give an amorous sign, i. 104, 645. Case, a brace, a pair, ii. 83. Case, a skin, ii. 273. Caskets, in Merchant of Venice, story of the, i. 438. 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, ii. 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. Chamber wall furnishings in old castles, 495. Chambers, small pieces of ordnance, ii. 655. Chances, crosses, casualties, iii. 648. Changeling, a child changed by fairies or gipsies, i. 349, 351. iii. 222. Channel, kennel, ii. 417. Character, handwriting, ciphers, iii. 73, 221, 246, 428, 769, 784. Charge, of Watchmen, i. 743. Charles's-wain, the constellation called the bear, i. 520. Charm for tooth-ache, i. 743. Charm, to conjure, iii. 427. Charm the tongue, to restrain or put a spell upon the tongue, ii. 446, iii. 704. Charmer, an enchantress, one who works by spells, iii. 684. 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. 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. Cinque-pace, a dance, i. 104, 704. Circle, diadem, iii. 562. Circumstance, conduct, circumstantial deduction, i. 4, iii. 294 'Cital, recital, i. 556. 'Cite, to incite, i. 14, ii. 411. Cittern, a musical instrument, i. 94. Civil, sour, bitter, i. 707, ii. 259. 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. 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. 3 F Clowns or Jesters, the practice of retaining, il. 54. 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. 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. Colme-kill, iii. 518. Coloquintida, a plant bearing a bitter fruit, iii. 710. 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. Comparative, ready in comparisons, or similes, i. 513, 540. Competitor, coadjutor, confederate, auxiliary, i. 17, ii. 267. Composure, composture, composition, ii. 494, iii. 284, 536. 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. 897, ii. 41, 135, iii. 426, Conduct, a conductor, a guide, i. 187, 210, ii. 263, 360, iii. 741. 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. Consort, fellowship, fraternity, i. 29, 116, 186. Consort, a band of musicians, i. 26. Conspectuity, vision, perception, iii. 143. 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. 421. Convent, to agree, to be convenient, ii. 276. Convent, to summon, to cite, ii. 631, 689. Convertite, a penitent, a convert, iii. 745. Convey, to filch, to manage by stealth, i. 482, 706, ii. 991, 710 iii. 506, 561. Convicted, vanquished, i. 306. Convince, to conquer, i. 96, ii. 716, ili. 481, 500. 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. Cornuto, a cuckold, i. 671. Corollary, an overplus, iii. 36. Corporal of the field, an aide-de-camp, i. 67. Coted, came alongside, iii. 353. Couching, crouching, iii. 434. Counsel, in counsel, secret, in secret, i. 17, 640, ii. 35, iii. 15. Counter-caster, a disparaging term for merchant, iii. 648. 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 holy-water, glozing speeches, iii. 84. 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. 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. 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, 409. 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. 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. Cry in the top of question, to crow over or challenge, iii. 353. Cue, a stage term for the last words of a speech, 1. 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, iil. 553, 751. Curious-knotted, abounding in intricate figures, i. 55, 475. Cursed, under the influence of a malediction, iii. 314. Curst, cross-grained, sour, intractable, malicious, i. 69, 365, Curtle-ax, a cutlass, ii. 99, 136. Custard, leaping into at civic feasts, ii. 56. Dancing Horse, Bankes's, i. 100. Danger, power, i. 426, iii. 728. Dangerous, biting, mischievous, i. 53, iii. 211, 423. 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-man, executioner, iii. 748. Death-tokens, plague-spots forewarning death, iii. 320, 559. 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. Defend, to forbid, i. 550, 704, 729, iii. 658. 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. Dilations, delations, accusations, distillations, iii. 677. Disabled, disparaged, impugned, ii. 168, 326. Dishabited, dislodged, i. 294. Dislike, to express disapprobation, ii. 168. Dislimn, to render indistinct, to obliterate, iii. 573. Dismount thy tuck, draw thy rapier, ii. 262. Dispark, to destroy the enclosures of a park, i. 468. Dispute on, to debate a cause, iii. 708. Disseat, depose, iii. 511. Distain, to cloud, to cast into the shade, ii. 213. Do, do, an expression of contempt, iii. 278. 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. 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. Drachma, a Greek coin, iii. 442, 446. Draught-house, forica, drain, sewer, &c., ii. 605, iii. 309. Drawn fox, i. 544. Dreams, John-a-, a sleepy, muddle-headed fellow, iii. 356. 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. 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. 3 F2 Else, in other words, iii. 291. Emanuel, a prefix to letters, ii. 394. Emballing, the bestowal of royal dignity by the emblem of the Embarquements, impediments, iii. 141. Embossed, a term of the chase, signifying exhausted and out- Emmew, a term in falconry, to paralyse, ii. 612. Empery, empire, sovereignty, ii. 69, 549, 720. Engross, to fatten, ii. 548. Ensconce, to hide, to shelter, i. 122, 654, 665, ii. 20, iii. 758. Ensear, to make sterile, ii. 490. Ensign, a standard-bearer, iii. 454. Entertainment, re-instatement, iii. 679. 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. Extended, seized, iii. 532. 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. Faced, turned over with facings, i. 264. Fact, crime, deed, iii. 218, 741. Fadge, to fit, to suit, to agree with, i. 84. Fair, beauty, i. 69, 121, 344, ii. 149, iii. 733, 741, 762, 763. Fairy, an enchantress, iii. 570. Faitor, a rascal, a traitor, i. 591. Falcon, the female hawk, iii. 290. Familiar, a demon, i. 58, ii. 381. Fancies, lyrical pieces, i. 601. Farewell dear heart, ii. 278. Favour, countenance, features, good graces, i. 344, 479, 541, Fear, to frighten, i. 270, ii. 430, 444, iii. 426, 452, 548, 733 Feat, neat, dexterous, nicely, ii. 760, iii. 22, 785. 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 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. &c. i. 564. Fet, fetched, ii. 82, 359 Fettle, to prepare, i. 197. Few, in, in brief, 1. 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. Fine, to embellish, to refine, ii. 67. Fine, the conclusion, i. 699, ii. 45, iii. 747. Fineless, endless, unnumbered, iii. 678. Fire, a dissyllable, i. 6. Firo-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. 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. Fleshed, eager from the taste of flesh, i. 574, ii. 85, 557. Flirt-gills, wild, flirting, romping wench, i. 181. Flying at the brook, hawking at water-fowl, ii. 352, 992 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 cke, iii. 387. False hair, fashion of wearing, i. 439 Fancies, the humour of forty, i. 250. Fancy, affection, love, i. 343, 371, iii. 236, 740. Fangled world, ii. 758. Fantastical, visionary, iii. 474. Fantasticoes, affected persons, i. 179. Farced, stuffed, tumid, ii. 96. Fardel, a pack, a burden, iii. 239, 359. Force, to strengthen, iii. 512. Forced, stuffed, iii. 309. Fordo, to destroy, iii. 115, 116, 390. Foreslow, to delay, to loiter, ii. 418. Forked, horned, iii. 202, 679. Forlorn, fore-lost, ii. 289. Form, the place where a hare sits, iii. 728. Formal, reasonable, sober-minded, i. 142, iii. 545. Former, fore, foremost, iii. 453. Forth, out, i. 395, ii. 632, iii. 442. Forthright, a straight path, iii. 294. Fortune my Foe, i. 688. Forty, a word expressing an indefinite number, i. 150. ii. 293, Foul, plain, homely, ii. 154. Four, colloquialism for some, iii. 350. Fox, a cant term for a sword, ii. 101. Frame, order, limit, i. 725. Frampold, cantankerous, i. 656. Frank, a sty, i. 586, ii. 524. Fraughting, constituting the fraught or freight, iii. 7. French brawl, a dance, i. 102. Fret, a key, and also a stop-point, of a stringed musical instrument, i. 243, iii. 367. Friend, a lover, i. 704, iii. 431. Frippery, a shop for second-hand apparel, iii. 40. From the teeth, in pretence, iii. 556. Front, beginning, iii. 775. Frontier, the forehead, i. 515. Frontlet, a forehead cloth worn by ladies at night, iii. 117. Froth and lime, a cant phrase for a tapster, i. 644. Frush, to bruise, to break, iii. 316. Fulfilled, filled to repletion, iii. 751. Funeral entertainments, iii. 398. Fustian riddles, ii. 279. GABERDINE, a large loose cloak, i. 438, iii. 24. Gad, a sharp-pointed instrument, iii. 622. Gait, step, progress, i. 648, iii. 36, 334. Galliard, a dance, i. 104, ii. 69. Gallias, a huge galley, i. 247. Gallimanfry, a medley, iii. 234. Gallow, to affright, iii. 85. Gallowglasses, Irish foot soldiers, ii. 395, iii. 472. Gap, a parenthesis, iii. 232. Gape, to yell, to roar, ii. 695, iii. 338. Garagantua the giant, ii. 173, 278. Garboils, turmoils, commotions, iii. 535. Garden of Belmont, i. 441. Garish, gaudy, blazing, i. 188, ii. 559. Gillivors, gillyflowers, iii. 231. Gird, a sarcasm, a taunt, i. 271. Gis, by, by Jesus, iii. 379. Give aim, to direct, i. 39. Give out, to surrender, to relinquish, ii. 382. Give the bucklers, to yield oneself vanquished, i. 744. Gleek, to flout or scorn, to jest, i. 204, 359. Glib, to geld, iii. 209. Glorious, ambitious, ostentatious, ii. 718. Gloves in the cap, custom of wearing, iii. 119. Gloze, to wheedle, i. 458, iii. 627. God bless the mark, i. 401, iii. 648. God buy you, God be with you, ii. 99. God, dig you den, God, give you good even, i. 69, 197. God, 'ild you, God reward you, ii. 168. God save the mark, i. 516. God warn us, ii. 159. Gondola, description of the, i. 439. Government, moderation, forbearance, self-control, ii. 409 Gracious, loving, comely, gentle, i. 307, 417, 724, iii. 769 Grave, pernicious, fatal, iii. 573. Graves, armour for the legs, i. 603. Greenly, immaturely unwisely, iii. 379 Green Sleeves, a tune, i. 651, 687. Griefs, grievances, i. 551, iii. 445. Gross, palpable, ii. 13. Growing, accruing, i. 133. Grow to a point, come to business, i. 346. Guidon, a standard, ii. 99. Gules, in heraldry, red, ii. 489, iii. 355. Gulf, the throat, the swallow, iii. 501. Gull, a young unfeathered bird, i. 554. Gun-stones, black roundles, stone-shot for cannon, ii. 116. Hand, to bear in, to encourage, to buoy up, i. 258, 727, iii. 491. Handfast, mainprize, at large on security, iii. 241. Hang by the walls, to be hung up as useless, ii. 768. Hangings of walls in chambers of old castles, i. 495. Happy man be his dole, a trite phrase, i. 234, 524, 668. ii. 452. |