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Else, in other words, iii. 291.

Emanuel, a prefix to letters, ii. 394.

Emballing, the bestowal of royal dignity by the emblem of the
ball, ii. 664.

Embarquements, impediments, iii. 141.

Embossed, a term of the chase, signifying exhausted and out-
run, i. 228, ii. 34, iii. 573.

Emmew, a term in falconry, to paralyse, ii. 612.

Empery, empire, sovereignty, ii. 69, 549, 720.
Engaged, detained as a hostage, i. 551.

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.
Entitled, ennobled, iii. 766.

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.

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Farewell dear heart, ii. 278.
Fashions, a disease in horses, i. 250.
Fast and loose, a game, i. 58, iii. 573.
Fat, o'ercloying, sickening, ii. 272.
Fault, misfortune, i. 640, 667, ii. 212.

Favour, countenance, features, good graces, i. 344, 479, 541,
ii. 249, iii. 760.

Fear, to frighten, i. 270, ii. 430, 444, iii. 426, 452, 548, 733
Fearful, causing fear, i. 399.

Feat, neat, dexterous, nicely, ii. 760, iii. 22, 785.
Feated, moulded, fashioned, ii. 710.
Feature, comeliness of person, i. 14.

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.
Fellow, a companion, iii. 29.

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.
Fern-seed, its imaginary property of conferring invisibility,

&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.
Find, to detect, iii. 361.

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.
Flamen, a priest, ii. 490, iii. 146.

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.
Fleet, float, iii. 565.

Fleshed, eager from the taste of flesh, i. 574, ii. 85, 557.
Fleshed, made to taste flesh, initiated, i. 560, ii. 79, 267.
Fleshment, eagerness gained by successful initiation, iii ¡5
Flewed, having large, hanging chaps, i. 371, 385.
Flibbertigibbet, a fiend, iii. 89, 120.

Flirt-gills, wild, flirting, romping wench, i. 181.
Florentius' Love, i. 237.

Flying at the brook, hawking at water-fowl, ii. 352, 992
Foin, to pass, or thrust in fencing, i. 659, iii. 104.
Foison, abundance, Autumn, ii. 598, iii. 20, 768.
Folly, wantonness, iii. 703, 743.

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.

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Force, to strengthen, iii. 512.
Forced, stuffed, iii. 309.

Fordo, to destroy, iii. 115, 116, 390.

Foreslow, to delay, to loiter, ii. 418.
Forespoke, prejudiced, forbidden, iii. 558.

Forfeits, mulcts imposed by barbers, ii. 633, 668.
Forfend, to forbid, ii. 329, 366, 762, iii. 701, 704.
Forgetive, inventive, i. 608.

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,

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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.
Fullam, false dice, i. 646.

Funeral entertainments, iii. 398.
Fustian riddles, ii. 279.

GABERDINE, a large loose cloak, i. 438, iii. 24.

Gad, a sharp-pointed instrument, iii. 622.
Gadshill infested by robbers, i. 562.
Gain-giving, misgiving, iii. 394.

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.
Gambling in Shakespear's time, i. 100.

Gap, a parenthesis, iii. 232.

Gape, to yell, to roar, ii. 695, iii. 338.
Gaping pigs, i. 440.

Garagantua the giant, ii. 173, 278.

Garboils, turmoils, commotions, iii. 535.
Garden of Belmont, i. 441.

Garish, gaudy, blazing, i. 188, ii. 559.

Gascoigne, Chief Justice, i. 625.

Gasted, dismayed, iii. 73.

Gaudy, festival, iii. 565.

Gaunt, fierce, eager, iii. 537.

Geck, a person derided, ii. 276, 757.

General, the generality, the multitude, ii. 607, iii. 400, 423.

Generous, noble, nobly born, ii. 628, iii. 131.

Gentle, gentle-one, an epithet of endearment, iii. 229.

Gentry, courtesy, iii. 348.

German, akin, iii. 393.

German clocks, their introduction into England, i. 102.

Germens, seeds, iii. 84, 501.

Gest, scroll containing the route of a progress, &c. iii. 198.
Gests, exploits, iii. 570.

Ghostly, spiritual, i. 176.

Gib, a cat, contraction of Gilbert, i. 512, iii. 373.

Giddy, inconstant, i. 740.

Giglot, a wanton, ii. 321.

Gillian of Brentford, i. 689.

Gillivors, gillyflowers, iii. 231.

Gimmal-bit, a bit in two parts, ii. 99.
Ging, a gang, i. 674.

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 boots, to sell a bargain, i. 41.

Give the bucklers, to yield oneself vanquished, i. 744.

Give the nod, to ridicule by gesture, iii. 269.

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.
Gongarian, i. 644.

Good cheap, a bon marché, i. 543.

Good even and twenty, a popular salutation, i. 653
Good goose bite not, a proverbial saying, i. 180.

Good leave, i. 289.

Good life, ii. 246.

Good man, a man of substance, i. 397, iii. 128.
Good manners, book of, ii. 173.

Good wine needs no bush, ii. 174.

Gorbellied, pot-bellied, swag-bellied, i. 524.

Go to the world, a matrimonial saying, i. 707, ii. 11, 166.
Gourds, false dice, i. 646.

Gouts, drops, iii. 483.

Government, moderation, forbearance, self-control, ii. 409
iii. 752.

Gracious, loving, comely, gentle, i. 307, 417, 724, iii. 769
Grange, a solitary farm or lone house, iii. 650.

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.
Grise, a step, ii. 257.

Gross, palpable, ii. 13.
Groundlings, iii. 361.

Growing, accruing, i. 133.

Grow to a point, come to business, i. 346.
Grudges, murmurs of discontent, iii. 599.

Grype, the gryphon, or griffin, a vulture, iii. 743.
Guard, to ornament with a border, i. 311, 404.

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.

Gust, taste, ii. 238, iii. 202.

Guts, a lack-brain, a shallow pate, iii. 402.

Gyve, a shackle, a fetter, iii. 664.

HACKET, Marian of Wincot, i. 229.

Haggard, a wild unreclaimed hawk, i. 714, iii. 679.

Halcyon, a bird, iii. 75.

Half-faces, meagre visages, i. 329.

Halidom, by my, an old oath, i. 31.

Hall, a hall! make room, i. 169.

Hallowmas Beggars, i. 42.

Hand, to bear in, to encourage, to buoy up, i. 258, 727, iii. 491.

Handfast, mainprize, at large on security, iii. 241.
Handsaw, corruption of hernshaw, or heron, iii. 354.

Hang by the walls, to be hung up as useless, ii. 768.
Hangings for theatres, ii. 332.

Hangings of walls in chambers of old castles, i. 495.
Hangman, rogue, rascal, a name given to Cupid, i. 715.
Happy, accomplished, ii. 737.

Happy man be his dole, a trite phrase, i. 234, 524, 668.
Happy the son whose father goes to the devil, a proverb

ii. 452.

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Hay, a dance, i. 84.

Hay, the, a fencing term, i. 217.

Hazard, a term in tennis, ii. 69.

Headborough, a constable, i. 228.

Heaven to earth, an asseveration, i. 557.
Heavy night, a thick, cloudy night, iii. 699.

Hefts, heavings, iii. 208.

Hell, a vile dungeon in a prison, i. 150.

Helpless, giving no help, i. 120, iii. 728.

Hem, boys, hem! the burden of an old song, i. 627.

Hence, henceforward, i. 623.

Henchman, a page, i. 351.

Henry the Fifth's early life, i. 503.

Hent, to take, iii. 228.

Hent, a purpose, iii. 368.

Herb-grace, rue, iii. 382.

Hercules and his load, iii. 399.

Here be with me, mocking me with opprobrious gestures, iii. 202.

Hereby, as it may happen, i. 58.

Hermits, beadsmen, iii. 480.

Herne's oak, i. 690.

Hero and Leander, ii. 173.

Herod, a tyrant of the Miracle-plays, iii. 401.

Hest, command, iii. 13, 29, 36.

Hey non nonny, old ballad burden, iii. 381.

Hey Robin, jolly Robin, a song, i. 281.

Jide fox and all after, the game of hide and seek, iii. 376.

High-men, false dice, i. 646.

Hight, called, named, i. 53, 55, 376, ii. 208.

High-tides, high-days, i. 300.

Hild, held, iii. 751.

Hilding, degenerate, i. 573.

Hillo, ho, boy! Falconers' encouragement to hawks, iii. 344.
Hiren, i. 591.

His, used for the impersonal its, i. 480, ii. 10, iii. 75, 562, 598,
651, 725.

Hit it, can you, a song or dance, i. 70, iii. 607, 663.
Ho! stop! iii. 395.

Ho! ho! ho! a fiendish or supernatural laugh, i. 368, 384.
Hoar, to make white with leprosy, ii. 490.

Hobby-horse, a pasteboard horse in May games, i. 102.
Hobby-horse, a by-word for an abandoned woman, i. 65, iii.
203, 689.

Hob nob, hit or miss, ii. 263.

Hold or cut bow-strings, a term in archery, i. 382.
Holla! a term of the manège, ii. 151.

Holland, price of in Shakespeare's time, i. 566.

Honesty, chastity, liberality, ii. 32, 131, 477, iii. 213, 360.

Hood, in falconry, to cover the hawk's eyes with a hood, i. 218,
ii. 91.

Hoodman, Hoodman blind, Blind man's buff, ii. 56.
Hope, to expect, iii. 540, 662.

Horologe, a clock, iii. 668.

Hot-house, a house of ill fame, ii. 600.

Houses in fencing, i. 216.

Houses in heraldry, i. 217.

Housewife, a hussy or harlot, iii. 577.

However, anyway, i. 4.

Hox, to hough, to hamstring, iii. 203.
Hugger-mugger, secretly, by stealth, iii. 879.
Hull, to toss to and fro like a ship, ii. 668.

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Idle, infertile, iii. 656.

Idle bed, bed of idleness, iii. 425.

I' fecks, in faith, iii. 200.

Ignomy, ignominy, i. 560.

'Ild you, yield you, reward you, ii. 168.

Ill, badly, iii. 739.

Ill-erected, erected for evil, i. 483.

Ill-inhabited, ill-lodged, ii. 153.

Ill-sorted, ill accompanied, i. 591.

Imbared, to lay bare, ii. 67.

Immanity, cruelty, ferocity, ii. 322.
Imp, son, ii. 94.

Imp, to amend a hawk's wing, i. 462.

Impair, unsuitable, unbecoming, iii. 305.

Impartial, neutral, ii. 631.

Impeachment, hindrance, ii. 89.

Impleached, interwoven, intertwined, iii. 786.

Imperious, imperial, iii. 389.

Imperseverant, imperceptive, ii. 743.

Importance, significance, iii. 245.

Important, importunate, i. 143, 290, 704, ii. 36, 276, iii. 100.

Impose, bidding, requirement, i. 31.

Impossible, incredible, i. 705, ii. 19.

Impress, a device, a motto, i. 468.

In few, in short, in brief, i. 237, 574, iii. 9.

In blood, with the blood up, i. 71.

In by the week, a saying, i. 85.

In compt, in trust, iii. 480.

In deed, in fact, in form, iii. 345.
Imputation, reputation, iii. 275.

In print, precisely, to the letter, i. 12.

In youth when I did love, a ballad, iii. 404.

Inapposite similitudes, i. 563.

Incapable, insusceptible, unintelligent, ii. 531, iii. 385.

Incarnadine, encrimson, iii. 487.

Incensed, prompted, ii. 689.
Inch, island, iii. 473.

Inclip, to embrace, iii. 550.

Incony, delicate, fine, pretty, i. 67.
Increase, produce, iii. 774.
Indent, contract, i. 516.

Indian, dead, in exhibitions, iii. 49.

Indifferent, impartial, passable, moderate, i. 255, 466, ii. 665,

iii. 352.

Indirectly, wrongfully, i. 291.

Induction, beginning, entrance, i. 536.

Indurance, confinement, ii. 690.

Informal, deranged, ii. 632.

Ingaged, disengaged, ii. 50.

Ingenier, or Ingener, an ingenious person, an artist, iii. 663.

Ingeniously, ingenuously, ii. 475.

Inhabitable, not habitable, i. 448.

Inherit, to obtain possession, to possess, i, 26, 448.

Inhibit, to prohibit, ii. 8.

Iniquity, a Morality character, ii. 601.

Inkhorn, a bookman, a pedant, ii. 305.

Inkle, a kind of tape, iii. 232.

Inland, opposed to upland, urbanely-bred, ii. 141, 152.

Inn, mansion, abode, i. 483.

Innocent, a natural, a fool, ii. 42, iii. 90.

Innocent, foolish, i. 736.

Inquisitive, inquisitor, i. 116.

Inset, to set, i. 575.

Instance, object, purpose, ii. 38.

Instance, indication, proof, iii. 753.

Intend, pretend, i. 258, ii. 475, 548, iii. 739.
Intenible, incapable of holding, ii. 13.
Intention, intensity, iii. 201.

Intergatories, interrogatories, i. 436, ii. 42.
Interments following close upon death, i..218.
Interments of the body in ordinary robes, i. 219.
Intrinse, intricate, iii. 75.

Intrinsicate, intricate, iii. 584.
Invention, imagination, ii. 607.

Inwardness, confidence, intimacy, i. 727.

In years, in wrinkles, i. 92.

Irremoveable, irremoveably, iii. 237.

It, its, i. 330, ii. 500, iii. 69, 203, 214, 218, 337, 390.

It is not so, nor 't was not so, i. 741.

Italian story of The Bag of Gold, i. 440.

I wis, certainly, truly, i. 275, 413.

JACK-A-LENT, a puppet to be thrown at in Lent, 1. 663.

Jack, boy! ho, boy! the commencement of an old round

in three parts, i. 255.

Jack Guardant, Jack in office, iii. 179.

Jack, or Mistress, in bowling, ii. 722, iii. 321.
Jack shall have Jill, a proverbial saying, i. 368.
Jacks, keys of virginals, iii. 779.

Jacks and gills, drinking vessels, i. 255.

Jar, or tick, of clocks or watches, i. 490, iii. 198.
Jauncing, hard riding, i. 491.

Jay, a prostitute, ii. 735.

Jealous, suspicious, i. 209.

Jepthah and his daughter, a popular ballad, iii. 354, 399.
Jerk, a twitch, a sudden movement, i. 73.

Jesses, short thongs attached to the foot of a hawk, iii. 679.
Jest, to take part in a mask or revel, i. 454.

Jet, to strut, ii. 188, 252, 733.

Jew, incony, i. 67.

Jig, a dance, i. 104, 704.

Jig, an extempore performance of the clown after a play,

iii. 355.

Jog on, jog on, a song, iii. 255.

John-a-dreams, a sleepy, muddle-headed fellow, iii. 356.
John Drum's entertainment, ii. 56.

John of Gaunt, i. 494.

Joint-ring, a divided ring used as a love token, iii. 696.
Joint-stool, a, an old proverbial saying, i. 244.
Jourdain, Margery, the witch, ii. 392.

Jovial, like Jove, ii. 750, 758.

Judas and his red beard, ii. 155.

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Laid on with a trowel, laid on thickly, ii. 132.
Lakin, ladykin or little lady, i. 357, iii. 32.
Land-carack, a dissolute expression, iii. 651.
Lantern, a turret full of windows, i. 210.

Lapwing, allusions to the, i. 135, 714, ii. 598, iii. 394.
Larks, to dare, ii. 678.

Lash, to fasten with a cord, i. 119.

Lass-lorn, forsaken by a mistress, iii. 36.

Latch, to catch, iii. 508, 777.

Latched, letched, licked over, i. 362.

Late, recently, ii. 540, iii. 756.

'Lated, belated, benighted, iii. 494, 560.

Latten-bilbo, a sword wanting both edge and temper, i. 642.

Lattice, red, denotement of an ale-house, i. 626, 654, ii. 23.
Laund, a lawn, ii. 422, iii. 730.

Laundry, a laundress, i. 644.
Lavolta, a dance, ii. 117.

Lead apes in hell, employment of a bear-ward i. 242.
Leaguer, a camp, ii. 34.

Learn, to teach, iii. 610.
Leasing, lying, ii. 241.

Leather-coats, a kind of apple, i. 621.
Leave, licence, iii. 727.

Leave, to cease, to part with, i. 17,33. 434.

Leer, countenance, favour, ii. 159, iii. 623.
Leese, old form of lose, iii. 761.

Leet, the court-leet, i. 230.

Leg, to make a, to make obeisance, ii. 470, 520.
Leman, paramour, mistress, sweetheart, i. 675, ii. 246.
Lenten, meagre, iii. 353.

L'envoy, a postscript or epilogue in old writings, i. 65.
Let, to forbear, iii. 737.

Let, stop, bar, hindrance, i. 21, iii. 198, 342, 741.
Let the world slide, a proverbial saying, i. 227.
Letter, syllable, ii. 751.

Level, range in gunnery, iii. 211, 218, 778.

Lewd, wicked, base, malicious, i. 449, 735, ii. 355.
Libbard, leopard, i. 93.

Liberal, licentious, i. 404, 724, iii. 663.

Lick his fingers, an old saw, i. 201.

Lie, to reside, i. 53.

Liefest, dearest, ii. 363.

Lieger, a resident ambassador, ii. 611, 718.

Lie in the throat, its signification, i. 626, ii. 262, iii. 356.

Lieu, guerdon, iii. 9.

Lift, lifted, ii. 287.

Lifter, a thief, iii. 268.

Lightly, commonly, usually, ii. 540.

Light o' love, ballad of, i. 42, 745.

Likes, pleases, i. 30.

Liking, condition of body, i. 542, 651

Lily's Accidence, i. 688.

Limbeck, an alembic, a vessel used in distilling, iii. 481.

Limbo, a prison, ii. 696, iii. 616.

Limbs of Limehouse, the long-shore rabble, ii. 695.

Lime, bird-lime, iii. 40.

Limited, appointed, iii. 486.

Lincolnshire bagpipes, i. 562.
Line, to strengthen, i. 527.

Line, lineage, ii. 80.

Line of life, a term in palmistry, i. 438.
Linstock, a match used by gunners, ii. 81.

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Lip, to kiss, iii. 687.
Lipsbury Pinfold, iii. 74.
Lists, enclosures, i. 495.
Lither, lazy, idle, ii. 320.

Little, miniature, ii. 149, iii. 354.

Lively, living, iii. 615.

Liver, the seat of love, i. 652, 726.

Livery, to sue, i. 497.

Living, riches, possessions, resources, i. 436.

Lob, clown, fool, i. 349.

Lockram, coarse linen, iii. 145.

Locks, love-locks, the fashion of wearing, i. 743.

Locusts, insects, or the fruit of the locust tree, iii. 710.

Lode-star, leading or guiding star, i. 381.

Lodge in a warren, i. 742.

Lodged, layed, i. 473.

Loggats, a game like skittles, iii. 387.

London, the King's Chamber, ii. 578.

'Long of, because of, i. 61, 366, ii. 317, 438, 762, iii. 182.
Loofed, a sea-term, signifying to bring a ship nearer the

wind, iii. 560.

Loose, to discharge, iii. 70.

Loose bodied gown, dress supposed to be indicative of a loose
woman, i. 264.

Lop, faggot wood of a tree, ii. 652.

Lordship, dominion, i. 342.

Love in idleness, a flower, i. 234.

Lover, a friend, iii. 431, 438, 765.

Loves, of all, for love's sake, i. 356, 656, iii. 673.

Low-crouched, low-crooked, iii. 434.

Low-men, false dice, i. 646.

Lower messes, inferior persons, iii. 203.
Lozel, a worthless fellow, iii. 213.

Luce, a pike, i. 639.

Lullaby, a burden of songs and ballads, iii. 639.
Lunes, lunacy, mad freaks, i. 673, iii. 211, 284.
Lupercalia, feast of, iii. 459.

Lurch, to gain an easy victory at cards, iii. 148.
Lush, succulent, iii. 19.

Lustique, lusty, ii. 20.

Luxury, concupiscence, ii. 635.

Lym, a bloodhound, iii. 92.

MACULATE, stained, spotted, i. 57.

Made up, finished, accomplished, ii. 498.

Magic verses to cause death, ii. 332.
Magot-pies, magpies, iii. 498.

Mahomet's dove, ii. 333.

Mahu, a fiend, iii. 89, 96, 120.

Mailed up, wrapped up, ii, 359.

Main, main land, iii. 83.

Main of light, flood of light, iii. 769.

Make, a mute, iii. 761.

Make a leg, to make obeisance, ii. 470, 520.

Make all split, a nautical expression, i. 346.

Make a shaft or a bolt, here goes, hit or miss, i. 667.

Make, Make the door, to do, to bar the door, i. 128, 653,

ii. 128, 160, iii. 336.

Makeless, mateless, iii. 761.

Malkin, a homely wench, ii. 213, iii. 145.

Mall, Mistress, her picture, ii. 240, 277.

Mallecho, malefaction, iii. 363.

Malt-worms, drunkards, i. 521, 593.

Mammering, hesitating, iii. 676.

Mammet, a puppet, a doll, i. 198.

Mammock, to rend, to tear, iii. 134.

Man in the moon, legend of the, i. 386.

Manage, to govern, i. 286, 474.

Mandragora, a powerful opiate, iii. 537, 680, 711.

Mandrake, fabulously endowed with life, i. 220, ii. 370.

Mankind-woman, a termagant, a virago, iii. 167, 213.
Manner, mainour, a thing stolen, i. 54.

Manner, with the, in the fact, i. 54.

Manningtree ox roasted, i. 534.

Manqueller, manslayer, i. 582.

Many-many, numberless, iii. 368.

Map, a picture, iii. 618.

Marches, borders, boundaries, ii. 68, 413.

Marchpane, a confection, i. 169.

Margent, margin, i. 101.

Marian, Maid, Robin Hood's mistress, i. 544.

Marigold, the sunflower, iii. 231.

Masks for ladies' faces when riding, i. 44.

Masques and triumphs, i. 44.

Match, to set a, to plan a robbery, i. 513.

Mate, to confound, to bewilder, to destroy, i. 129, ii. 364.

Material, full of matter, ii. 154.

Maugre, in spite of, notwithstanding, ii. 257, iii. 112, 623

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Mere, sole, absolute, certain, ii. 631, 678, iii. 666.

Mered, entire, sole, iii. 563.

Merely, entirely, absolutely, i. 712, ii. 40, 153, iii. 415,

Merit, guerdon, reward, i. 454.

Mermaid, a siren, iii. 726.

Merry-greek, a wag or humourist, iii. 268.

Metaphysical, supernatural, iii. 478.

Mete-yard, a measuring yard, i. 264.

Methoughts, methought, iii. 201.

Mewed, a term of falconry, i. 194.
Micher, a vagabond, i. 533.
Miching, skulking, iii. 363.
Milch, moist, iii. 355.

Mile-end, the musters at, L 628.

Mill-sixpences, i. 642.

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Modern, ordinary, common, i. 190, 306, iii. 507, 582, 772.

Modo, a fiend, iii. 89, 96, 120.

Module, model, i. 327, ii. 41.

Moe, to make mouths, iii. 22.

Moiety, a portion, also the half, i. 537, iii. 735.

Moist star, the moon, iii. 332.

Mold-warp, the mole, i. 538.

Mome, a blockhead, a dolt, i. 127.

Moment, import, iii. 360.

Monarcho, a crazy Italian so called, i. 103.

Money-lenders' brown paper, ii. 638.

Monopoly privileges, iii. 117.

Monstrous, unnatural, ominously prophetic, ili. 420.

Montanto, a term of fence, i. 696.

Month's mind, i. 42.

Mon-calf, a false conception, iii. 25.

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