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A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 15

Act 4 — INDEX TO NOTES. (continued 2)

Reading edition

Juments, beasts of burden, xii. 234

Jump, exactly, iv. 366;

to agree, viii. 430;

x. 184;

to eke, xiii. 63

Jump'd, agreed, xiv. 248

Justicer, a judge, xiii. 462

Jut, a jostle, iii. 102

Jutty, to jut, iv. 121

Keep, care, i. 202; ii. 233

Keep touch, x. 9

Keisar, emperor, ix. 202

Kembeth, combs, xii. 242

Kembs, combs, xii. 463

Kempt, combed, i. 376

Ken, to show, teach, i. 273;

to thank, iv. 61

Kercher, covering for head, xiv. 464

Kerchief, a covering for the head, i. 429

Kern, an Irish soldier, iv. 308

Kest, cast, i. 179

Kestrel, a hawk, ix. 111

Kex, hemlock, ix. 534;

xiv. 309

Kickshaws (for bashaw), xii. 280

Kind, nature, i. 113;

iii. 312;

natural, i. 245;

"of kind," naturally, i. 246;

iii. 210

Kit, a musical instrument, i. 48

Killing, a kitten, x. 349

Kit-strings, strings for the kit or fiddle, xii. 220

Knack, trick, ii. 214

Knacking (to be), iv. 121

Knacks, knick-knacks, i. 349;

viii. 157

Knap, blow, i. 422;

to knock, i. 428

Kneve, knave, viii. 122

Knit, bound, united, xi. 473;

xiv. 153

Knocked bread, i. 405

Knotted (read netted), cut, ii. 135

Knottle, knotted, iii. 333

Knowing, knowledge, i. 249

Knowledge, to acknowledge, i. 293

Knowlition, knowledge, i. 89

Ko, quote, iii. 103

Kock's nowns, God's wounds (an oath), iii. 79

Koss, kiss, iii. 75

Lack, like, vi. 71

Lacquey, to act as lacquey, xiv. 111

Lad, led, i. 160

Lade, load, i. 31

Ladyfied, made a lady, x. 321

Ladyware, genital organs, v. 345

Laft, left, i. 28, 68

Lag, late, ii. 252;

to linger, x. 48

Laken (=lady-kin), the Virgin Mary, x. 497

Lamback, to beat, vi. 204

Lambeak or Lamback, to strike, viii. 305

Lambswool, ix. 424

Lanard, ix. 379

Lance presado, the leader of a half file of soldiers, xiv. 328

Landskip, landscape, x. 178;

xiv. 300;

xv. 116

Lang, long, vi. 73

Lap-clap, to embrace, ix, 252

Larum, alarm, iv. 320;

xiii. 110

Lash, snare, vi. 254

Lass, less, i. 256

Late, lately, i. 6

Lathe, barn, xii. 507

Latten, brass, ix. 393

Laud, to praise, i. 131;

praise, i. 54, 397

Laundress, a woman employed at an Inns-of-Court, x. 275;

xiii. 231

Lave, long, ix. 304

Laverock, lark, i. 425

Lavolta, a dance, ix. 408.

Lavoltoe, xiv. 111

Lawless, illegal, ix. 74

Lay (= waylay), xiii. 253

Layk, like, vi. 76

Lay out, "put out to interest" xi. 363

Laytell, little, vi. 72

Lazars, lepers, viii. 70

Lead, a caldron, iii. 231

Leady, heavy, i. 85

Lease, a leash, iii. 355

Leech, surgeon, i. 168;

physician, x. 115

Lefe, dear, xii. 288

Leg, a bow, xiv. 443.

Leger wafers, xii. 334

Leman, a sweetheart, concubine, mistress, ii. 20;

iv. 143;

note, xiii. 497;

xiv. 296

Leme, gleam, i. 64

Lemen, laymen, vi. 71

Lenger, longer, i. 29, 103

Lenity, softness, v. 388

Lese, to lose, i. 74, 83, 156;

iv. 194

Lesing, leasing, falsehood, i. 119;

i. 159

Lest, list, i. 247;

please, i. 80

Let, hindrance, i. 347, 351;

x. 150;

to hinder, ii. 7, 387;

iv. 93;

to refrain, i. 252

Leteth, let (imperative), xii. 286

Leve, dear, iii. 208

Lewd, foolish, xiii. 442;

ignorant, i. 35, 36

Lewdness, ignorance, i. 270;

iv. 121

Lewt, a lout, i. 255

Libbard, leopard, xiv. 325

Libbards, leopards, xiii. 282

Liberal, licentious, v. 136

Liberally, licentiously, xi. 194

Lie, urine, x. 340

Lie at ward, a fencing term, viii. 149

Lief, soon, i. 20

Lieger, vii. 417;

ledger, resident, xiii. 271

Liever, sooner, i. 35

Life-vein, life's vein, i. 152

Lift, a term used in card playing, x. 186

Lig, to lie, xii. 257

Ligg, lie, xii. 507

Light, easy, i. 25;

"by this light," an oath, i. 33;

x. 298

Light-a-love, vii. 296

Light-bolt, lightning-bolt, xi. 312

Lighted, lightened, i. 126

Light-fingered, ii. 167

Lightly, easily, vii. 304

Lightness, levity, ii. 318

Light-skirt, a woman of light reputation, ix. 127

Like, to please, i. 31, 137;

ii. 213;

xi. 225, 499;

likely, i. 88

Likelihood, likeness, i. 55;

probability xi. 15

Liking, pleasure, i. 80, 247, 269;

xii. 378

Lilburn, a term of abuse, iii. 103

Limber, pliant, x. 363

Lim'd, snared, v. 80

Lin, to cease, ii. 116;

viii. 447

Lind, to lend, i. 255

Lindabrides, a strumpet;

note, xiv. 478

Lines, lineages, xii. 251

Linger, to prolong (?), viii. 440

Linstock, a stick with a match at the end, used by gunners, xiv. 141

Lip-clip, to kiss, ix. 252

Liripup, art, craft, iii. 322

List, pleasure, i. 24, 29;

please, i. 79;

xi. 487;

pleases, iv. 15

Lither, bad, iii. 250;

vii. 418

Livelihood, liveliness (?), x. 185

Lively, lifelike, xi. 514

Livery, to sue, to recover property, ix. 482

Living-giver, a master, xi. 465

Loadam (=lodam), a game at cards, ix. 101

Loading, laden, xiv. 248

Loathful, hateful, distasteful, i. 111

Loave-ears, long-ears, xiv. 321

Lob, term of contempt, ii. 221;

fool, lout, iii. 272;

viii. 448

Lobbish, blockish, iii. 268

Lobcock, a fool, iv. 75;

foolish, ix. 241

Lobcocked, ix. 288

Lob's pound, a snare, xv. 32

Lock and hasp, ii. 338

Lode, leading, i. 50

Lode star, leading star, v. 103

Loggerhead, a blockhead, x. 478

Loggerheaded, blockhead, vi. 177

Logheaded, blockhead, iv. 65

Lombard, banker, i. 266

Long, to belong, i. 255;

a long time, i. 149

Long coat, a nurse, xi. 464

Long of, on account of, ii. 300

Loose, purge, xv. 316

Loover, opening in the roof, sky-light, viii. 320;

xi. 105

Lope, to run, vi. 70

Lore, learning, i. 60;

lost, i. 413;

to teach, xii. 241

Lorn, lost, i. 271

Losel, a loose, worthless fellow, iii. 128, 218;

good for nothing, viii. 341

Loselled, losel, worthless (?), ix. 288

Losopher, a philosopher, i. 40

Losophy, philosophy, i. 42

Lout, iii. 103

Loud and still, openly and secretly, i. 269

Lough, to low, xii. 507

Lour, to look sad, ii. 290

Louse (to), to pick of lice, viii. 69

Louser, a catcher of lice, iv. 118

Lousious, luscious, iv. 73

Loute, to bow, xii. 507

Louted, treated as a loutish stupid, iii. 97

Loutishness, stupidity, iii. 117

Love-longing, i. 247

Love's dance, i. 156

Loving, love, iv. 15

Low, to allow, iii. 136

Loy, St, ii. 117

Lozel, a worthless fellow, vii. 155

Lub, love, iii. 67

Lug, to pull, drag by the ear, i. 231;

ix. 304

Lugs, the ears, ix. 215

Luke, look, vi. 73

Lull, to seize by the ear (?), ii. 211

Lulling, iv. 120

Lumperdy-clumperdy, iii. 92

Lumpish, dull, xii. 212

Lungis, a lubber, viii. 53

Lurden, a term of reproach, i. 76;

a lout, ix. 289

Lusk, sluggard, ix. 462

Luskish, slow, viii. 370

Lust, to please, i. 292;

iii. 102;

to desire, ii. 119

Lusty, pleasant, i. 48

Luxur, a lecher, x. 8

Lycand, pleasing, xii. 254

Lytherly, bad, xii. 241

Maculate, to spot, soil, i. 225

Mad, to madden, x. 169

Madding, mad, v. 185

Maddle-coddle, foolish, vi. 391

Made, "we're made," = our fortunes are made, xii. 211

Magnifico, a grandee, xi. 453

Maids, thornbacks, xii. 113

Mail, wallet, vi. 511

Maim'd, wounded, v. 13

Maintain, to encourage, iii. 155

Maintenance, servitude, xi. 468

Make ready, to dress, xiii. 489

Make, mate, iii. 24

Maked, matched, i. 252

Maker, poet, ii. 112

Making, mating, xi. 144

Malcontent, discontented, xiv. 107

Malcontented, discontented, x. 162

Malecotoon, peach, xii. 236

Malison, curse, iii. 181

Malkin, a term of contempt, iii. 65

Malvoisin, Malmsey wine, i. 24

Manchet, white bread, viii. 160

Manhood, manliness, xi. 459

Mankin, manly, furious, ii. 216

Mankind, manlike, vii. 319;

ferocious, viii. 439

Mankine, masculine, iii. 146

Mannerly, well-behaved, vii. 162

Man-of-war, constable, i. 185

Manship, vii. 417

Mantle-tree, mantlepiece, ix. 222

Marchpane, ix. 424;

xi. 540;

note, xii. 235

Mare, nightmare, "let pass away the mare," i. 57;

"two-legged mare," the gallows, iii. 335

Margarites, pearls, xii. 475

Margent, margin, ix. 169

Marish, marshy, x. 161

Marl, marvel, x. 504

Marl'd, marvelled, xi. 284

Marmoset, monkey, xiii. 298;

xiv. 285

Marry, the Virgin Mary, xi. 461

Marry a God, marry, the Virgin Mary, vii. 477

Marshal (of the revels), i. 45

Martialist, v. 9;

a soldier, viii. 440;

xiii. 462

Martyrdom, suffering, x. 149

Marybone, marrow-bone, ii. 79

Masculine, male, xi. 452

Maship, mastership, i. 367;

iii. 65

Massiness, massiveness, x. 131

Massy, massive, ii. 329;

xi. 339

Masterdom, power, viii. 250

Mastlin, mixed metal, ix. 411

Match, rival, ii. 349

Maternal (tongue), mother (tongue) i. 7

Matron, an old crone, i. 72

Matt, the mass, iii. 146

Maugre, in spite of, xi. 316;

xii. 288

Maukins, note, viii. 258

Maumet, puppet, x. 167

Mavors, Mars, xii. 451

Maw, term used in card-playing, ix. 387;

x. 539

Mayhap, perhaps, i. 66

Maze, to amaze, iv. 65

Mazzard, pate, xi. 47

Me, expletive, x. 280;

xi. 102

Meacock, a milksop, iv. 118

Meads, meadows, vii. 295

Mean, "a mean," i. 9;

"the mean season," meantime, i. 48;

"in a mean," of a medium size, moderate, i. 62;

v. 285, 293

Measure, moderation, i. 258

Meaze, form of a hare, ix. 44

Meditation, mediation, xv. 19

Meed, reward, iii. 231

Meet with, to serve out, vii. 462;

to be even with, xiii. 62

Megrim, megrims, i. 160; xv. 30

Melancholy, madness, i. 84

Melist, it pleases me, i. 154

Mell, to meddle, iii. 248

Mending, amendment, i. 153

Mends, amends, v. 299

Merce, to amerce, ix. 487

Merchant, person, fellow, chap, i. 69;

ii. 255,383;

xi. 28;

iii. 8;

rogue, xii. 165

Merchantman, merchant, xii. 158

Mercurials, xi. 301

Mere, pure, perfect, vii. 270

Merely, quite, absolutely, x. 204

Merk, to darken, xii. 507

Meseem, meseems, vi. 62

Meseraics, xi. 303

Met, dreamt, xii. 242

Metamorphose, to change, transmute, xi. 488

Mete, to measure out a reward, viii. 304;

to measure, ix. 557;

measured, x. 37

Metely, fitly, meetly, i. 48

Meteoroscope, xi. 344

Metheglin, xiii. 32

Methink, methinks, i. 9

Mettles, vii. 146

Meve, to move, i. 244;

iv. 98

Mew'd, confined, restrained, i. 60

Meyne, company, i. 262

Mich, much, i. 22

Micher, a truant, flincher, i. 164;

viii. 57;

ix. 550;

x. 332

Mickle, great, much, i. 249;

iii. 86;

viii. 151;

xii. 507

Middes, midst, i. 16

Middle-earth, i. 250

Midsummer-ale, note, xiii. 503

Mightly, mightily, i. 248

Milksop, vii. 127

Mincing, ii. 290

Mind, to intend, iii. 45

Minion, favourite, darling, ii. 169;

iii. 159;

xi. 19;

xiv. 100;

servant, vii. 293

Minionly, mincingly, ii. 346

Minish, to diminish, i. 141, 417

Minister, to administer, xii. 104

Mischief, misfortune, i. 23, 234

Mischievous, unfortunate, i. 188

Misdeem, to misjudge, ii. 119

Miser, wretched, ii. 252;

a wretch, vii. 62;

viii. 343

Miserable, compassionate, vi. 360

Mislike, to dislike, i. 386;

ii. 345;

xi. 530;

to displease, iv. 35

Miss, to be wanting to, i. 90;

to lose, i. 215;

to fail, ii. 225;

iv. 54;

fault, sin, i. 147, 186, 192

Mister, to serve, be needful, i. 264;

to need, i. 347

Misterm, vii. 493

Mistress, note, xii. 120, 165

Mistrist, mistrust, i. 203

Misuse, to abuse, commit adultery, i. 308

Misusing, abuse, i. 193

Mit (=mist?), i. 356

Mo, more, i. 7, 246

Mockage, mockery, iii. 135

Mocking-stock, vii. 176

Model, plan, x. 65

Modesty, moderation, x. 475

Moiling, toiling, xiii. 7

Moilingest, most toilsome, x. 259

Molt, molten, x. 335

Moly, note, viii. 228

Mome, a fool, ii. 315

Moneth, month, ii. 179

Monethmayndes, (= month-minds), monthly remembrances of the departed, vi. 72

Moneths, months, iii. 183

Monition, admonition, i. 132;

ii. 270

Moon, frenzy, x. 50

Moot, talk, iv. 258;

to plead, ix. 180

Mooting, discussion, ix. 183

Mooting night, note, xii. 276

Moped, moping, xv. 521

Mopish, foolish, ii. 255

Moppet, a term of endearment, viii. 308

Moral, "a moral play," i. 99

More, greater, x. 118

Morglay, note, xii. 286

Morion, helmet, xii. 488

Morn, "to-morn," to-morrow, ii. 283

Mort, a loose woman, viii. 156

Most, greatest, i. 113

Most-part, ad. mostly, i. 30

Mot, may, i. 256, 257;

xv. 418

Mote, may, ii. 255;

xii. 241

Motion, movement, x. 119;

puppet-show, x. 135;

puppet, note, xiii. 420;

xiv. 412

Motley, a fool, x. 525

Motte, witty saying, xi. 401

Mought, might, i. 249;

iv. 306

Mounseer, a Frenchman, xiv. 32

Mount Saint, game of cards, x. 186

Moustachio, xi. 76

Movings, motions, i. 11

Mow, to make grimaces, 1. 246;

to mock, viii. 49

Mowing, making grimaces, ii. 211;

mouthing, x. 493

Mowt, might, vi. 72

Much, very, i. 379

Muck, riches, xiii. 7

Mued, moulted, xi. 360

Muliebrity, womanhood, v. 345

Mum, silent, i. 74;

silence, iii. 352

Mumchance, note, xii. 120

Mummery, masking, v. 300

Mun, must, iii. 159;

vi. 74;

xv. 143

Mundungo, tobacco, xiv. 291

Murlons, merlins (hawks), iv. 70

Murnival, a term used in card-playing, xi. 217

Murrain, plague, curse, xiii. 160;

plaguy, very, xv. 144

Murrainer, worse (?), iii. 221

Murrainly, much, exceedingly, iii. 213

Murrion, murrain, iii. 180

Muscadine (wine), ix. 526

Muskadine, muscadel, xi. 491

Muss, a term of abuse, ix. 367

Musselden, muscadine, iv. 73

Mussers, hiding-places, x. 294

Mutin, mutinous, iv. 258

Muzzling, iv. 120

Mynock (myn hock), vi. 242

Naked, without weapons, xiv. 334;

note, 511

Nale, "at nale," (=atten ale) at the ale-house, i. 166;

ale, vi. 73

Napery, napkin, xv. 159

Nat, not, iii. 177

Natural, an idiot, xi. 453

Naturate, natural, i. 11

Naturing, bringing into birth, i. 11

Naunt, aunt, whore, xiii. 161

Nawl, an awl, iii. 210

Nay, denial, iii. 38

Ne, nor, i. 226

Near, nearer, ii. 125;

iii. 64;

xi. 46

Nearhand, nearly, iii. 31

Neat, finely-dressed, vii. 286

Neck verse, i. 159

Neele, needle, iii. 180

Neighbourhood, neighbourliness, xii. 67

Nem, take, xii. 287

Nempd, named, xii. 242

Nessary, necessary, i. 253

Nething, nothing, vi. 72

New, "a new day," i. 86

New-joint (to), ix. 556

Next, nearest, i. 27;

ix. 441;

nearest of kin, x. 196;

the next heir, x. 31

Nice, i. 116; foolish, i. 235;

tender, delicate, ii. 272;

coy, xi. 531

Nicely, quietly, iii. 232

Niches in the wall, note, xv. 216

Nick (of time), xii. 390;

xv. 47, 60;

a term used in dicing, ii. 171

Nicking, using a beer-can with a raised bottom, hence giving short measure, xii. 334

Nidiot, idiot, ii. 303

Nifling, trifling, xiv. 317

Niggers (= snigs), an oath, xiii. 6, 22

Niggersnoggers, an oath, xiii. 5, 10

Niggler, sporter, xiv. 313

Nill, will not, vi. 475;

vii. 108;

x. 474

Nim, to take, xiv. 350

Nimmer, thief, xi. 370

Ningle, a term of endearment, xiv. 297

Nipitaty, note, viii. 60

Nippitate, note, vii. 445

Niset, a term of endearment, ii. 22

Niters, note, xi. 430

Nitty-napry, xiv. 344

Nod, noddy, ii. 130

Noddlehead, x. 328

Noddy, nobody, iv. 17

Noiling, noise (?), iii. 230

Noise, band, x. 263;

note, xii. 281

Noisome, poisonous, noxious, xii. 192

Nol, pate, vi. 253

Noly, ii. 171

Norice, nurse, xii. 241

Nosthrils, nostrils, i. 376

Not, nought, i. 321

Notable, well-known, i. 69

Note, mark, ix. 427

Notes, signs, vii. 187

Nother, nor, i. 22;

neither, i. 200, 368

Nothing, not at all, i. 7

Noughtiness, badness, ii. 317

Noughty, naughty, bad, ii. 307

Nouns, zounds, x. 260

Nowl, an owl, ii. 113

Noy, annoy, ii. 109

Nuddled, note, xiv. 62

Nup, a fool, ix. 367

Nupson, a fool, ix. 458

Nurslings, ix. 453

Nusled, nurtured, in. 44

Obediency, obedience, xi. 486

Obeisance, obedience, i. 59

Obeying, obedient to, xii. 570

Obstination, obstinacy, i. 164

Occident, west, i. 18

Occupier, a merchant, x. 308

Occupy, cohabit, xii. 137

Occurents, occurrences, xi. 475

Odsnigs, an oath, xii. 249

Of, by, concerning, ii. 274

Officious, diligent in office, ii. 339

Oft among, often, at intervals, i. 7

Ointment, unction, i. 132

Old, much, ix. 381

Oliv'd, note, xii 239

Olivet, xiv. 344

On, of, i. 59

On-begging, a-begging, vi. 399

One, "at one," friendly, vi. 57;

"in one," at one, vi. 148

One's, some one's, xi. 443

On's, of his, xi. 453

Oon, one, xv. 424

Ooze, mud, xii. 492

Ope, open, x. 116;

xiii. 31

Open-arses, medlars, xiv. 414

Opinionated, thought of, viii. 139

Opportuneful, opportune, iv. 374

Opunctly, opportunely, xi. 264

Oration, prayer, i. 409

Orbicularly, around, circularly, i. 14.

Ordinately, in order, ii. 217

Orient, i. 296;

east, i. 18

Orient pearl, xi. 489

Orison, vow, vii. 431;

prayer, i. 89;

x. 121

Other, or, i. 409

Otherwhere, elsewhere, iii. 266

Outcoming, a coming out, i. 255

Outcry, auction, xiv. 445

Outgnawn, gnawed out, iv. 338

Outher, either, i. 202

Outlandish, foreign, xiii. 43;

v. 262

Outnick, xv. 60

Outraged, rased, scraped out, i. 293

Outsearch, i. 102

Outsep, except, vi. 392

Outvoice, xi. 86

Outward, outer, i. 484

Overbarring, viii. 77

Overblown, blown over, xi. 74

Overcrow, to overcome, subdue, viii. 452

Overlove, vii. 23

Overpeer, ix. 404

Oversayne, to oversay, i. 33

Overslip, to omit, xi. 490

Over-year, xi. 401

Owe, own, i. 202;

v. 232;

ix. 471;

xi. 124

Pacifical, peacemaking, xii. 270

Pagend, pageant, xv. 423

Paicture, picture, vi. 74

Pain, pains, i. 7;

to take pains, iv. 33

Paining, suffering, i. 81

Pair, pack, vi. 421

Paishe, passion, iii. 130

Pall, robe, vii. 106

Palliardize, dirtiness, viii. 135

Palmer, the rod, a schoolmaster (?), ii. 275

Palter, to mumble, speak indistinctly or shufflingly, iii. 205

Paltry, rubbish, viii. 137

Palyes, palace, xii. 253

Pander, panderer, viii. 148;

xi. 520, 546

Panderise, to act as panderer, x. 294

Pantable, pantofle, slipper, iv. 67;

vii. 409;

xv. 105

Pantler, the keeper of a pantry, iv. 491

Parachitoe, xiv. 289

Parages, rank, lineage, iii. 66

Parator, apparitor, ix. 307

Parbreak, to vomit, viii. 462

Parcel, part, x. 275

Parcels, parts, xii. 62

Pardy, }

Perde, } by God, i. 111, 154; ii. 221

Paril, peril, vi. 74

Parley, to speak, ix. 477

Parliament (= parament), apparel, vi. 312

Parlous, perilous, great, x. 77

Parlously, perilously, xiv. 395

Part, to share, i. 243

Partaker, a sharer, vii. 255

Parted, shared, i. 67

Partiner, partner, i. 126

Partlet, a ruff, i. 350

Parts, parties, iii. 248;

conflicts, vii. 401

Party, person, x. 123

Pash'd, crushed, viii. 314

Pass, to care, ii. 47;

care, ii. 171, 301;

to surpass, i. 408;

exalt, vii. 352;

to exceed (belief), ix. 364;

passage, xi. 375

Passable (pun on), xii. 220

Passage, game at dice, i. 266;

xi. 431;

note, xii. 120

Passages, love-passages, x. 194;

what has passed between two persons, xi. 14, 33.

Passes, surpasses, xiii. 105

Passing measures, a slow dance, ix. 408

Passion, suffering, i. 274;

a love sonnet, xi. 327

Passion-a-me, an oath, xi. 522

Pastance, pastime, i. 23;

iii. 88

Patch, a fool, iii. 186;

iv. 220;

x. 493;

xi. 140

Patter, to talk, i. 181

Paunch, to stab, ix. 451

Paunch'd, wounded in the belly, v. 26

Paxes, pax-breads (?), iii. 11

Pay, pleasure, iv. 71

Paynim, pagan, xii. 229

Peach, to impeach, accuse, i. 157

Peaching, blabbing, xv. 29

Peak, to be peaky, ii. 212

Peaking, prying (?), vii. 437

Peakish mome, ii. 208

Pearl, note, xiv. 424

Pearmains, xii. 328

Pease (a), iv. 224

Peat, pet, vii. 475;

ix. 369;

xiv. 321

Peccant, sinner, xiv. 355

Pectorals, xiv. 321

Pee-dee, note, xiv. 289

Peel, Pele, a baker's rod or shovel, i. 424

Peer, equal, i. 26;

to look at, iv. 353

Peevish, foolish, ii. 304

Pelf, riches, wealth, xi. 466

Pelican, xii. 174

Pelt, a blow (?), ii. 391

Peltingly, paltry (?), viii. 350

Pelts, shields, xii. 477

Penitency, penitence, xi. 458

Pennyfather, miser, vii. 300;

xi. 468

Pented, painted, vi. 74

Peppercorn, note, xii. 280

Peradventure, hazard, ix. 17

Percase, perhaps, i. 67; ii. 109

Perdue, a soldier on a forlorn hope, xii. 235

Perdurable, everlasting, i. 64

Perdy, by God, i. 43

Perfectness, perfection, vii. 302

Perfit, perfect, i. 7, 61, 353

Perfitly, perfectly, i. 383

Perilsome, perilous, viii. 46

Period, end, x. 170;

xi. 472, 563

Perk, to perch, iv. 124

Perpend, iv. 167, 236

Perry, a squall, vii. 482

Personable, iii. 32

Personally, in person, i. 28

Perspicil, a telescope, xi. 311

Persuase, persuasion, vii. 376

Perturb, to disturb, i. 217

Perturbation, disturbance, xi. 86

Pervart, perverted, ii. 58

Pervert, perverted, i. 200

Pes, haunch, iii. 181

Pesle-mesle, pell-mell, v. 246

Pestens, pestilent, bad, iv. 82

Pester, iii. 32

Pestilent, troublesome, iii. 11

Pestilently, badly, iii. 271

Pestle, gammon, leg, iv. 82

Petitory, petitionary, ix. 341

Pettifogger, attorney, vi. 281;

ix. 264

Pettifogging, cheating, ix. 238

Pettyfogging (groom), a knavish lawyer, x. 356

Phalange, phalanx, ix. 362

Pheer (= feer), companion, iv. 263;

xiii. 425

Philosophy (natural), i. 6

Philtres, xiv. 520

Phlegm, "easy phlegm," xv. 199

Phlegmy, xv. 117

Physnomy, face, note, xiv. 253, 320

Pick, sharp point, vii. 318

Pickadel, part of a doublet, xi. 17

Picking, pilfering, vii. 214

Pickle, plight, viii. 364

Pick-thank, xv. 29

Piddling, petty, xiii. 143, 152

Piece, a cup, i. 178;

a vessel, ii. 232;

creature, xiii. 163;

coin, xiii. 8;

woman, xiv. 318, 479

Pigeon-holes, note, xii. 101, 120

Pight, placed, i. 249;

ix. 176;

pitched, i. 403;

determined, ii. 47

Pigsnie, a term of endearment, ii. 151;

xiii. 142

Pigsny, a term of endearment, iii. 80;

ix. 547

Pilfries, pilferings, xi. 303

Pill and poll, to pilfer and to plunder, x. 501

Pilling and polling, vi. 49

Pin, "a merry pin," i. 45

Pinch, "at a pinch," in need, xii. 365

Pinchback, viii. 76

Pinchgut, miser, xiv. 291

Pinder, pinner, viii. 232

Pinion, term used in dicing, ii. 35

Pink, to gamble (?), ii. 35

Pinkany, a term of endearment, vii. 324

Pink'd, peep'd, xi. 117

Pinken eyes, small eyes (?), xi. 71, 72

Pinky eyne, small eyes, vii. 167

Pins, legs, i. 181

Pioner, pioneer, x. 160

Pishes, cries of pish, xii. 298

Pissing, "a pissing while," iii. 224

Pistoles, coins, xv. 131

Pistolets, pistols, xiv. 164;

coins, xv. 126

Piteousness, pity, x. 189

Pithily, strongly, i. 250

Pitiful, merciful, compassionate, i. 81, 288

Pittance, a morsel of bread, ii. 242

Plain, to complain, vi. 414

Plaint, complaint, vii. 83;

x. 189

Planch, to patch all round, iii. 176

Plantain, xv. 143

Plantation, colony, xi. 467;

xv. 334

Plantations, colonies, xiii. 274

Plat, place, ii. 297;

iii. 196

Platform, note, xiii. 336

Play fast and loose, xiii. 174

Pleasance, pleasure, i. 56

Pleasaunce, pleasure, xii. 240

Pleasure, to give pleasure, vi. 150;

to humour, vi. 291;

to please, viii. 299;

x. 134

Plenal, full, xiii. 153, 156

Plete, to plead, i. 262

Plight, vow(?), i. 82;

to pledge, i. 257;

a pledge, promise, iv. 313;

sort, company, iii. 173

Plotform, plot, platform, note, viii. 423

Pluck, to drag, pull, i. 72;

xiii. 285

Pluck'd, pulled, xi. 282

Pluck up heart, iv. 245

Plumb, plummet, x. 199

Pocky, xi. 463

Podstick (= pot-stick), a staff, ii. 114

Poetise, to make poetry, xi. 451

Poignant (sword), sharp, ii. 250

Poignet, a little bodkin, i. 351

Poinard, poignard, ix. 117

Point-device, with great exactness, i. 23, 44

Pointed, appointed, i. 33

Pointment, appointment, i. 33, 37

Points (untrussed), ix. 41

Poise, weight, x. 119, 146, 190

Poking-stick, note, viii. 161

Politicly, craftily, xii. 52

Poll, to pill, rob, i. 199

Poll'd, having the hair cut, iv. 81, 82

Polldennery, extortion, ix. 229

Polling, plunder, iii. 118

Polt, lame, viii. 91

Pomander, balls of perfume, ix. 419

Ponderosity, heaviness, i. 14

Poopnoddy, a fool, ix. 242

Popinjay, a parrot, ii. 117

Porkling, a pig, viii. 369

Port, manner, bearing, behaviour, courage, ii. 248, 335;

vii. 293

Portace, }

Portass, }

Portesse,} prayer-book, breviary, iii. 24;

vii. 464;

viii. 393

Portraiture, painting, i. 62

Pose, to question, vii. 291

Poser, examiner, ix. 139

Posnets, little pots, xii. 328

Possems, possets, xiv. 296

Possess, to inform, ix. 483

Possessed, acquainted, informed, xiii. 144, 175

Possing, pushing, iii. 183

Post, term used in dicing, ii. 35;

haste, iv. 18, 19;

viii. 399;

to haste, v. 11;

vii. 203;

messenger, viii. 154;

x. 488;

"to ride post," ix. 102

Posting, hastening, xi. 488

Posts, supports (?), i. 75

Pot (go to), ii. 252;

vi. 66;

vii. 302

Potgun, popgun, iii. 141

Pothecary, apothecary, i. 178;

i. 346

Potluck, viii. 87

Pottle, a half-gallon, xi. 136, 195

Poult-foot, club-foot, xiv. 308

Pouped, deceived, iii. 194

Powdered, salted, viii. 320

Power, force, iv. 260

Poynado, poignard, xii. 524

Poynant, sharp, xii. 286

Practic, practical, xi. 98

Practice, treason, plotting, plot, vii. 451;

xiv. 128, 149

Præstigiatory, juggling, xi. 324

Praise-worth, praiseworthy, vii. 73

Prancome, a trick, iii. 177

Prank, trick, ii. 117, 230;

iii. 198;

to adorn, ix. 231

Pranker, finer, ix. 431

Prater, a chatterer, ii. 255

Pratty, pretty, viii. 23

Praty, pretty, i. 71, 165

Preachment, a declaration, ix. 307

Preacquainted, xiii. 487

Prease, crowd, vii. 53

Prebends, i. 226

Precious thief, ii. 143

Preciousness, xv. 103

Predication, preaching, i. 235

Predycacyon, preaching, xv. 426

Prefe, proof, i. 179

Pregnant, full of wit, xii. 111

Pregnant wits, i. 7

Prenticehood, apprenticeship, iii. 310

Presence, company, i. 35

Presently, at once, xi. 82

Presentment, representation, xiv. 280, 281

Prest, ready, i. 82, 248

Prester-Johnian, xii. 229

Prestly, readily, i. 253

Pretence, intention, iii. 307

Pretend, to intend, vii. 178;

ix. 283

Pretended, intended, iii. 13

Pretty man, i. 19

Prevent, to forestall, anticipate, ii. 250;

vii. 233;

xii. 101;

go before, xiii. 473

Prey, prize, ii. 360

Price, prize, renown, iii. 28

Prick, to ride, iv. 92

Prick-eared cur, i. 87

Prick-eared song, i. 48

Pricked, dressed, i. 244

Pricket, a young buck, ix. 149

Prickle, prick, v. 46;

to prick, xiv. 318

Pricks (on a gall), i. 14

Prick-shafts, xiii. 39

Prick-song, i. 48;

xi. 144

Priesthade, priesthood, vi. 72

Prime, spring, ix. 231

Primero, term used in card-playing, ix. 387

Prims, pretty lasses, i. 181

Princock, a dandy, ii. 170;

iv. 308

Princocks, vii. 442

Princox, coxcomb, xi. 126;

xii. 524

Prinkox, a fop, ii. 260

Prink up, iii. 6

Print, to impress, ii. 275

Privity, secresy, i. 34

Privy council, secret council, i. 157

Proface, note, viii. 160

Proine, to prune, x. 160

Promise is debt, i. 137

Propagation, conception, i. 290

Proper, "a proper wench," i. 26;

well-behaved, i. 426;

own, viii. 148

Properties, (of a theatre), xiii. 274

Property, (of a stage), a scene (?), viii. 316

Propriety, property, xiv. 364

Prospective, a view, vii. 269

Provand, plain, common, xiv. 385

Prune, to pick clean, trim, xi. 361

Pucellage, maidenhead, i. 77

Pudder, pother, disturbance, xiv. 444

Pudding-time, iii. 319

Pugging, pulling, iv. 120

Puisne, puny, x. 25

Puissance, power, i. 41

Puissant, powerful, xiii. 343

Pullen, poultry, iii. 239;

chicken, ix. 491

Pumps, dancing-shoes, xv. 360

Pums, a term of endearment, i. 405

Punk, a prostitute, xiv. 60

Punks, ix. 471

Punto, note, xiv. 284

Purchase, to obtain, get, viii. 402;

robbery, xi. 304;

a prize, xii. 232;

xiii. 406

Purchasing, getting, xi. 490

Purfled, trimmed, ix. 417

Purgation, cleansing, i. 213

Purls, hem or fringe, xi. 134

Purple, a disease, i. 175

Purporting, iv. 173

Purpose (to), to the purpose

Purpur, purple, i. 252

Pursy, fat, viii. 369

Purvey, to provide, i. 25

Putting out, lending money at interest, xi. 190

Pye, ii. 22

Pyketh, picks, xii. 242

Pyrdewy, i. 156

Quadragesimal, lenten, xii. 268

Quail, to terrify, vi. 266;

to languish, vii. 48, 204

Quaintly, fitly, xiii. 158

Quapp, to quake, xii. 242

Quarled, curdled, x. 84

Quarry, xi. 404;

game, xiv. 379

Quashed, smashed, i. 399

Quass, to quaff, iii. 327

Quatorzain, viii. 88

Quaver, to sing, ii. 117

Quean, woman, ii. 346

Queasy, sickly, ii. 112;

xiii. 45;

xiv. 145

Queck, blow (?), ii. 8

Queen's game, ii. 34

Quell, to kill, subdue, i. 79

Quere, quire, i. 194

Quest, jury, ii. 176;

inquiry, xiv. 343

Quick, living, alive, i. 110;

v. 248

Quick brimstone, gunpowder, i. 179

Quid, the what, x. 363

Quiddits, quibbles, v. 363

Quiddle, iv. 81

Quillets, quibbles, x. 289

Quirister, chorister, vii. 470

Quiristers, choristers, xv. 416

Quirk, trick, xv. 169

Quirks, quibbles, x. 125, 292

Quit, clear, free, i. 132, 373;

to acquit, vi. 588

Quite, to requite, viii. 175

Quittance (to), x. 200

Quod, said, iii. 31

Quod-a, quoth he, ii. 81

Quodestow, saidest thou, iii. 23

Quoit, "to quoit away" (?), to quit, xiv. 208

Quotha, quoth he, i. 23

Rabblement, rabble, iii. 35

Rabbling, intriguing, iv. 143

Raches, a kind of dog, ix. 148

Raffraff, riffraff, viii. 39

Rage, fever, i. 85

Ragman rolles, }

Ragman-rolls, } bulls, i. 234;

xv. 427

Rakehell, ix. 450

Ramp, a romp, iii. 95, 215

Rampallion, rascal, xi. 197

Rampier, rampart, xii. 521

Rampiers, ramparts, iv. 309; x. 326

Ramping, rampant, i. 399;

romping, iii. 94

Rampion (wine), i. 24

Randall, random, vii. 360

Rank, row, ix. 440

Rapt, ravished, x. 358

Rascal, rabble, ix. 223

Rascal deer, ix. 148

Rase, race, channel, i. 164;

to erase, xi. 53

Raspice (wine), i. 24

Rather, sooner, i. 364;

earlier, iii. 117

Ratsbane, poison for rats, xiv. 79

Rattled, rated, scolded, xiii. 112, 138

Raught, reached, gave, iv. 302;

reft, vii. 57

Rave, to talk madly, iii. 228

Ray, array, iii. 137;

to soil, viii. 87

Rayed, soiled, ix. 241

Razed, rooted out, iv. 337

Reach, aim, vii. 123;

reaching cough, xi. 43

Reading, advice, xi. 14

Rear, to raise, xi. 489

Rear-banquets, xiv. 293

Rearward, rear, v. 11

Reason, right, ii. 118;

"I'll do you reason," I'll pledge you, xv. 214

Rebato, an ornament for the neck, a kind of ruff, x. 122

Recede, withdrawal, xiv. 312

Rech, to care, ii. 290;

care for, xii. 288

Rechless, careless, reckless, i. 298;

iii. 196

Reck, to care, i. 188;

vii. 68

Recoil, ii. 368

Reconcilement, reconciliation, ix. 52;

xii. 275;

xiii. 463;

xv. 89

Record, to sing, v. 51;

viii. 154

Recorder, a flageolet, iii. 87

Recover, to cause to recover, viii. 467

Recoverance, recovery, i. 287

Recreance, recreation, vi. 32

Recreate, to refresh, xi. 511

Recure, to recover, i. 369;

vii. 107;

xii. 172;

recovery, ix. 52

Rede, reed, counsel, viii. 405

Reduce, to bring back, x. 280;

xii. 452

Reed, to advise, i. 181;

advice, ii. 257;

vi. 475;

vii. 337

Re-edified, rebuilt, xii. 200

Reek, to smoke, xi. 275

Reels, vii. 303

Refel, to refute, viii. 318

Refranes, proverbs, xi. 401

Reft, bereft, viii. 159

Refuge, refuse, vii. 335

Refuse me, oath, xiii. 5

Regiment, rule, viii. 77;

authority, xii. 505

Rehearsing, repeating, i. 61

Reject, rejected, i. 213

Remit, to condone, xi. 474

Remorseless, pitiless, ix. 504

Ren, to run, ii. 253

Renne, to run, i. 181, 246, 395;

iii. 70

Renowm, renown, iv. 338

Rent, i. 199

Rented, rent, distracted, ix. 133

Repass, a term used in legerdemain, x. 306

Reprefe, reproof, i. 120

Resolute, vii. 487

Resolution, i. 12

Resolve, to make one acquainted with the resolution of another, vii. 45;

to dissolve, vii. 46

Resolved, dissolved, xi. 62

Respective, respectful, vii. 396;

x. 342

Respire, to revive, xi. 67

Respite, delay, i. 103, 106

Rest, stake, xi. 363

Rested, arrested, i. 178

Resty, restive, vi. 32

Retchless, reckless, ii. 196

Retire, retirement, xiv. 312

Retrograde, recreant, x. 95

Reuth, pity, xii. 286

Reve, to rive, ii. 271

Revel, sport, fun, i. 371

Reven, to rob (?), i. 252

Revengement, revenge, vii. 162

Rever, robber, viii. 155

Reverent, reverential, xi. 143

Revert, to turn back, xi. 476

Rew, row, i. 262

Rewarding, a reward, i. 63

Rewhayre, require, vi. 71

Rheuming, ruminating (?), ix. 152

Rib, wife, xii. 214

Ribald, prostitute, i. 82

Ribble-rabble, nonsense, viii. 110

Riches (singular), i. 8

Rid, rode, v. 343

Ridder, deliverer, i. 216

Rig, strumpet, iii. 215

Righting, setting right, xv. 13;

xv. 55

Rightwiseness, righteousness, i. 100

Rim, verge, degree, x. 22

Rine, rind, cane, i. 246;

ix. 244

Riot, extravagance, xii. 101

Ria, branch (of a tree), i. 252

Rise-again, a rising again, i. 286

Roarer, a bully, swaggerer, xi. 139;

xii. 102

Rock, distaff, i. 65

Rode, ridden, x. 118

Roguery, wantonness, xii. 241

Roil, to roam, iii. 91

Roister, roisterer, iii. 307;

viii. 340

Roisters, roisterers, iii. 307, 320

Roisting, roistering, ii. 300;

iii. 348;

viii. 360

Romth, space, iii. 207

Ront, runt, a term of abuse (?), viii. 366

Rood, cross, i. 26, 137;

ii. 36

Rood-tree, cross, i. 253

Roomer, "to cry roomer," a nautical term, x. 253

Roper, ropemaker, ii. 16

Rosary, a place where roses grow, x. 186

Rosy, blushing, xi. 306

Rot, to destroy, vii. 314

Rotten, a rat, iii. 216

Rought (= rout), to roar, snore, i. 270

Round, to whisper, v. 10;

ix. 365, 436;

to encircle, xiii. 184

Rounding, whispering, iii. 78

Roundly, plainly, xi. 471

Rouse, to praise, iii. 59

Rout, company, i. 260;

to assemble, iii. 137

Rowt, to appear (in arms?), i. 256

Rub, a term used by bowlers, xi. 55

Rubbers, "a rubbers," a game of whist, vii. 272

Ruddock, redbreast, iv. 72

Rudeness, fault, i. 294

Ru'd, pitied, xii. 370

Ruffle, to swagger, i. 402;

to brandish, i. 407

Ruffler, a swaggerer, i. 395

Ruinate, to destroy, to ruin, viii. 158, 184;

xi. 480;

ruined, xiv. 103

Rumney (wine), i. 24

Rumple, to play wantonly, viii. 389

Runagate, renegade, ix. 267

Ruth, pity, i. 256;

vii. 30;

cruelty, xiv. 138

Ruthful, piteous, v. 127

Rutter, trooper, v. 265

Sa, so, xii. 507

Sacket, xi. 340

Sacrament, "by God's sacrament," iii. 34

Sacrament (by Gog's), iii. 180

Sacring, consecrating, x. 235

Sad, adj. sober, serious, i. 20;

iv. 137

Sadder, slower, iii. 132

Sadly, seriously, iii. 78;

vii. 39

Sadness, seriousness, sobriety of conduct, i. 187;

iii. 124

Safe-conduct, i. 375

Safeguard, to protect, ix. 565;

x. 212

Sained, blessed, i. 261

Saker, a gun, xi. 325

Salacious, xiv. 344

Sale, hall, i. 243;

shall, vi. 71

Sallet, a sort of helmet, i. 396;

sallad, i. 397

Same, "in same," together, i. 245, 247

Sampler, v. 259

Sanctimonious, holy, x. 128

Sandry, sundry, vi. 74

Sanguine, ruddy, iv. 80

Sanguineous, ruddy, i. 54

Sans, without, i. 26;

xi. 104

Sate, to satisfy, xiv. 337

Sauce-box, an impudent fellow, x. 509;

xi. 536;

xv. 68

Saunce-bell, a bell rung at different parts of the mass-service, x. 422

Saunt, term used in card-playing, ix. 387

Savour, smell, i. 20;

to feel, experience, i. 294;

to smack, xi. 454

Saw, proverb, xiii. 8

Sawl, soul, vi. 77

Saws, sayings, i. 20

Saxes, note, xii. 287

Sayn, to say, xii. 242

Saysmatic, schismatic, vi. 71

Scab, term of abuse, xii. 313

Scale, ladder, x. 139

Scaledrake, sheldrake, xiv. 290

Scamble, to scramble, x. 244

Scant, scarcely, i. 78

Scape, to escape, i. 163

Scaped, escaped, i. 41

Scapethrift, viii. 138

Scarbabe, a scarecrow, ix. 268

Scath, harm, ii. 249

Scathe, harm, to hurt, injure, v. 327;

viii. 152;

ix. 21;

xv. 145

Sciotherical, belonging to a sundial, xi. 326

Sconce, head, x. 300;

xiv. 304

Scot and lot, xii. 251

Scouting (= scutting), mucking, messing, ix. 154

Scrag, a scraggy, lean person, xiv. 164

Screeking, screeching, ix. 341

Screw'd, shrewd, supercilious (?), xiv. 351

Screwed, shrewd, xiv. 282

Scrine, a desk, iii. 141

Scrubbed, scrubby, shaggy, xii. 323

Scud, to run away, vii. 321;

viii. 292

Se, seat, i. 244

Sear, a term in falconry, xi. 341

Search, try, prove, i. 199;

xiii. 389

Secretness, secresy, i. 85

Sector, executor, iii. 105

Secure, confident, v. 167;

vii. 180

Seducement, seduction, xiii. 213

Seech, to seek, i. 268;

i. 406

Seely, blessed, i. 267;

happy, ix. 216

Seeming, apparent, xi. 457

Seeth, to boil, ii. 171

Seethe, to boil, i. 162;

ix. 490;

xiii. 25

Segs, sedyes, v. 213

Seld, seldom, rare, iv. 302;

x. 86

Seld-seen, seldom seen, rare, v. 107

Self, same, vi. 376;

x. 139

Seller (= soler), a room aloft, i. 157

Sellinger, St Leger, ix. 409

Semblant, appearance, pretence, iii. 6

Sembling, dissembling, ii. 251

Sempiternal, everlasting, i. 286

Sempster, xi. 210

Send, sent, i. 64

Seneschalship, viii. 139

Sens, since, iii. 117

Sensibility, tender feelings, sensitiveness, xv. 207

Sensible, sensitive, xi. 15

Sentence, sense, i. 10;

saw, saying, iii. 264

Sent-Loy, Saint-Loy, vi. 75

Sepulture, burial, ii. 274

Serpently, serpentlike, i. 60

Serviceable, willing to be of service, ii. 339

Sess, to assess, viii. 155

Set-by, to esteem, to prize, i. 46;

iv. 17

Settles, benches, xi. 304

Sever, to separate, viii. 86

Several, separate, xi. 462

Sew, pottage, xii. 507

Sewen, follow, i. 248

Shagged, shaggy, iv. 279

Shag-hair, shaggy-haired, xii. 477

Shagrag, a beggarly fellow, xii. 132

Shake, shaken, iii. 88

Shamble, bandy, ix. 488

Shamefac'd, modest, xii. 295, 298

Shamefast, modest, iii. 68

Shapen, made, i. 247

Sharepenny, a miser, ix. 228

Shark, to rob, xii. 73

Sharp, to sharpen, ix. 422

Shase, she has, iii. 221

Shaveling, a monk, viii. 301

Shaver, ix. 116

She-chirurgeon, xiv. 399

Sheen, bright, vii. 58

Sheer, clear, viii. 443

Sheerly, quite, ix. 120

Shent, ruined, ii. 216;

injured ii. 279;

punished (?), iii. 71

Shewer, an example, ii. 388

Shidder, thither, xii. 507

Shifts, viii. 138

Shine, sheen, splendour, vii. 313

Shit, shut, i. 183;

ii. 153

Shoot-anchor (= sheet-anchor?), iii. 58

Shope, ordained, provided, i. 163

Short, "at short and long," the long and the short of it, i. 25

Shot, reckoning, i. 353

Shot-anchor, sheet-anchor (?), i. 366

Shotlog, xi. 141

Show, to appear, x. 120

Shrew, to curse i. 33;

ii. 223;

xv. 426;

a vicious horse (?), viii. 425

Shrewd, bad, i. 20, 60, 401;

iii. 346;

viii. 297;

xi. 43;

xii. 142;

a wicked man, iii. 241

Shrewdly, badly, iii. 131;

xiv. 473

Shrieve, sheriff, viii. 146;

x. 344

Shrive, to confess, iii. 219

Shroud, to shelter, iv. 308;

xi. 484

Shrow, shrew, iv. 232;

viii. 302

Sib, akin, viii. 124

Sibber, ii. 78

Sickerly, certainly, i. 259

Side, wide, iv. 118

Sieged, besieged, x. 324

Siesta, note, xv. 22

Sifflements, whistlings, ix. 340

Signet (= sonata), iv. 349

Signiorise, v. 185

Signiorising, lording it, v. 220

Signiory, lordship, v. 216

Sikerly, surely, truly, iii. 255;

xii. 241

Silder, less often, vii. 46

Simper, ix. 115

Simplitude, simplicity, i. 268

Sin, since, i. 175;

since, xii. 257;

sinner, x. 61

Sink and cise, terms used in card-playing, iii. 346

Sinksanker, a cardsharper, viii. 192

Sipers (= Cyprus), a white stuff of which veils were made, i. 350

Sir, a gentleman, xi. 463

Sisterne, sisters, xii. 242

Sistren, sisters, i. 226, 227

Sith, since, i. 13, 16, 268;

iii. 282;

x. 115

Sithence, since, iv. 336

Sitten, sat, xi. 520

Skald, a term of abuse, a scabby or shabby fellow, iii. 216, 217

Skein, a knife, x. 229

Skene, a dagger, ix. 337

Skill, knowledge, i. 7;

to help, iii. 178;

to matter, iii. 311;

matter consequence, iv. 128

Skiuker, drawer, tapster, a pourer out of wine, viii. 426;

x. 252

Skipjack, a dwarf, iii. 312;

vi. 179

Skirret, x. 126

Slab, to lap up, ii. 215

Slack, late, ii. 245

Slake, to assuage, to soften, i. 202;

iii. 30

Slampambs, craft, iii. 39

Slav'd, enslaved, x. 116;

xiv. 437

Slaver, to slobber, viii. 60;

x. 539

Slavering, slobbering, vii. 300;

x. 499

Sle, to slay, i. 257;

ii. 251;

iii. 147

Sleight, craft, deceit, i. 82;

prudence, iii. 27

Sleightly, slyly, ii. 243

Sleights (of hand), x. 208

Slick, sleek, soft, xiv. 58

Slidder, slippery, i. 213

Slide, to go astray, ii. 100

Slight, weak, x. 73

'Slight (= God's light), an oath, xi. 125;

xiii. 235

Slim, frail, feeble, i. 288

Slip, false coin, x. 197

Slopped, lapped up, iii. 193

Slops, breeches, x. 345;

xi. 67

Slot, note, xiv. 520

Slouch, a lout, xi. 282

Slouches, slutches, dirty fellows, i. 416

Slough, slew, i. 235

Sloughing hot cockles, ix. 102

Slubber, to obscure, iv. 374

Smack, to taste, ii. 230

Small, i. 10

Smattering, talking, i. 211

Smick-smack, ii. 85

Smit, smitten, i. 41

Smock-satyr, woman-hater, xiv. 277

Smolder, to smother, iii. 243

Smug, trim, nice, neat, iv. 183;

ix. 326;

x. 473;

to adorn, xi. 532;

pleasantly, xii. 327

'Snails, an oath, xiii. 7, 37

Sneaksbill, one who doesn't pay his score, xii. 258

Sneap'd, rebuked, x. 428

Snick-up, ix. 285

Snigs, xii. 257, 259

Snip, a snap, x. 346

Snipsnap, iii. 332

Snudge, a mean fellow, iv. 314;

a miser, viii. 83

Snudge-snout, ix. 232

Snuff pepper, to feel offended, xiii. 166

Snyb, to snub, reprove, xii. 240

So, provided, i. 63

Soaker, drinker, xii. 334

Soap, "soap-ashes," i. 31

Soar, a young hawk, xi. 360

Sod, boiled, i. 25

Sodden, boiled, i. 34

Sodometry, Sodomy, ii. 65

Soldan, sultan, i. 31

Solf, to call over the notes of a tune, i. 71

Solicitancy, solicitation, xiv. 291

Somedele, somewhat, xii. 241

Sometime among, sometimes, at intervals, i. 7

Sonde, message, xv. 421

Sooth, true, i. 20, 66;

to flatter, soften, iii. 59;

viii. 455,

to prove, iv. 258;

truth, vii. 287;

ix. 569;

xii. 256

Sophy, philosophy, iii. 261

Sops, i. 79

Sorel, a buck of the third year, ix. 149

Sort, set, lot, company, i. 405;

ii. 309;

viii. 118, 291;

xiii. 430;

choose, v. 164;

to turn out, viii. 411;

xiv. 129;

condition, rank, x. 343

Sossing, sousing (?), iii. 183

Sot, fool, ii. 378;

xi. 525

Sothery, sweet, i. 376

Sotting, getting drunk, xiii. 437

Sound, to part, sunder, i. 244;

swoon, iii. 107;

vii. 323, 383;

true, x. 49

Souse, soused fish, pickled fish, i. 418;

iii. 356;

a blow, ii. 126;

to beat, iii. 218;

(a dish of), vi. 291;

ix. 240

Souterly, snobbish, iii. 321

Span-counter, xiv. 306

Sparkify, to make a spark (gallant) of, xv. 47

Sparkles, sparks, xii. 514

Speck-and-span new, xi. 334

Spectatrix, xiii. 513

Spectrum, a looking-glass, ix. 221

Speculation, sight, xii. 563

Speed, to prosper, i. 70;

to despatch, xiv. 176;

success, i. 135

Spells, x. 207

Spence, pantry, i. 35

Spent, spend, i. 407

Spere, to ask, i. 321

Spettle, iii. 11

Spial, espial, vi. 409;

spy, viii. 274

Spice, species, i. 58

Spill, to destroy, i. 119, 270;

iii. 118

Spindleshanks, legs, ii. 336

Spital-house, hospital, iii. 193

Spitchcock, xii. 236

Spitchcock'd, xii. 239

Spite, to anger, ii. 289

Spittle-house, hospital, viii. 70

Splayed, displayed, i. 147

Splendent, resplendent, ix. 310

Spokes, saws, sayings, vii. 300

Spongeous, spongy, ix. 422

Spot, to defame, x. 155

Spousail, marriage, xii. 241

Spousal, viii. 117

Spreet, spirit, iii. 177

Sprent, sprinkled, i. 425;

vii. 83;

ix. 267

Spright, spirit, vii. 474

Spring, dance, viii. 348

Springal, a young fellow, youth, ix. 271;

x. 366;

xiii. 159

Springe, a trap, snare, xi. 69

Springed, ensnared, xiii. 47

Springes, traps, xiv. 352

Sprite, spirit, iii. 49

Spriteful, sprightly, xi. 126

Sprites, spirits, i. 46

Spruce, finely dressed, vii. 286

Spun, to burst out, ii. 273

Spurt, ii. 291

Spyal, spy, viii. 397

Squall, a squalid thing, ii. 387;

a little insignificant fellow, vi. 199, 200;

one who squalls, xiv. 102

Squalms, i. 68

Square, to adjust, xi. 564

Squich, to skip, ii. 387

Squich'd, winced, v. 343

Squirrility, scurrility, iv. 62

Squitter-book, viii. 74

Stab (? slab), to eat up, ii. 215

Stacker, to stagger, i. 270

Stager (= an old stager), not a newcomer, xv. 19

Stale, stole, i. 171

Stales, baits, allurements, vii. 137;

viii. 260

Stall, stole, i. 160;

to forestall, xii. 45

Stalworthy, brave, i. 251

Stamel, a kind of fine worsted, ix. 164

Stammer, to stop, i. 250

Stand in paint, xi. 133

Standish, xii. 270

Stang, did sting, i. 363;

stung, v. 348

Staniel, coward, note, xiv. 284

Stanielry, weakness, xiv. 357

Star Chamber, to bring before the Star Chamber, x. 378

Star-cross'd, x. 182

Stark, great, i. 65;

strong, ii. 33;

quite, iii. 69

Starken, stark, v. 403

Starker, greater, i. 68

Start, started, i. 49

States, note, xiv. 470

Statist, note, xiii. 421

Stead, "in the stead of," i. 30

Steely, like steel, xiv. 240

Steep-fall (hill), precipitous, vii. 210, 223

Stellified, made a star, xii. 114

Stench, staunch, xiv. 329

Stere, to stir, move i. 293

Stern, tail, xiv. 365

Sterve, to die, vi. 51

Stick, to hesitate, iii. 285;

xiv. 241

Stickled, acted the umpire, xii. 275

Stickler, umpire, xii. 121

Sticklers, umpires, xii. 450

Stigmatic, branded, viii. 300

Stilling, distilling, iv. 236

Stinkard, a stinking fellow, x. 339;

xiv. 145

Stint, stop, iv. 268;

vii. 46

Stinted, stopped, x. 56

Stirrups, fetters, i. 184

Stir stumps, xv. 41

Stitch (in side), xv. 182

Stitchel, a term of abuse, xiv. 357

Stock, rapier, ix. 119

Stomach, bravery, pluck, iii. 138;

indignation, viii. 324

Stomach'd, disliked, resented, iii. 125

Stone priest, viii. 461

Stoon, stone, xv. 423

Stoop, post, vii. 66;

xi. 364, 400

Stound, interval, time, i. 183;

ii. 213;

iii. 117;

a blow, vii. 64

Stout, brave, iii. 137

Stoutly, bravely, ii. 359

Stra, straw, i. 255

Straight, straightways, xi. 488

Strained, distressed, xiii. 9

Strait, strict, i. 109

Straitest, strictest, x. 188

Straitly, strictly, i. 73

Strakegrouud, struck, foundered, i. 163

Straking, stretching, i. 88

Strands, i. 243

Strange, "to make strange," to be shy, i. 83;

shy, coy, xiii. 61

Strawed, strewed, iv. 120

Streck, vi. 31

Strene, strain (note is wrong), i. 55

Stricken, struck, iv. 218

Strike up, to play, i. 74

Stroke, struck, i. 49

Stroken, struck, i. 407;

iv. 53;

vi. 200

Strow, scattered, xiv. 311

Studious, musing, thoughtful, i. 88

Studs, mares, xiv. 342

Stung, bitten, i. 202

Stutter, stutterer, iv. 137

Sublime, sublimate, i. 366

Submiss, submissive, iv. 256

Subordination, gradation of higher and lower orders, xiii. 373

Subscribe, to agree, xiv. 148

Subsizer, ix. 181

Suburb-garden, note, xii. 119

Successive, successful, xiv. 325

Suckets, xiv. 337

Sufferance, suffering, endurance, x. 149;

xiii. 300;

permission, xi. 287

Suffisance, sufficiency, ii. 242

Suffrages, sufferings, x. 169

Sugarloaf-hat, v. 330

Sullenwood, southernwood, xii. 144

Sulpbury, sulphurous, xi. 486;

xiv. 126

Summersault, xv. 69

Sumner, summoner, ix. 397;

x. 356;

xi. 537;

xiii. 88

Supernaculum, viii. 58

Supernal, above, i. 396

Supportance, support, xiv. 319

Supportation, support, i. 6, 201

Suppose, conjecture, viii. 423

Suppository, viii. 370

Surcease, to stop, iv. 327

Surcloy'd, surfeited, v. 190

Surquedry, pride, v. 312

Suspect, suspected, ii. 167;

vii. 56, 377;

viii. 427;

xi. 73;

suspicion, i. 57;

xi. 108, 490

Sustenance, support, xi. 472

Sustentation, sustenance, xi. 481

Swabber, one who swabs, xii. 219

Swabbers, xv. 216

Swad, a bumpkin(?), vi. 256;

fellow, vi. 380;

ix. 109

Swain, servant, ii. 247

Swap, to drink up, iv. 73

Swash, swaggerer, vi. 254

Swath-bands, rolls of cloth in which infants were swathed or swaddled, i. 350

Swearing, "of swearing," a-swearing, iii. 186

Sweat, "the sweat," the plague, iv. 119

Sweeting, darling, i. 417;

ii. 286;

viii. 364;

a sweet apple, viii. 91;

sweetheart, x. 551

Swelt, to swelter, vi. 291;

die, xii. 253

Swerd, sword, i. 151

Sweven, dream, xii. 242

Swill, xii. 232

Swinepox, measles, xii. 337

Swinge, to beat, iv. 224

Swing'd, beaten (?), iii. 95, 246

Swink, toil, iii. 192

Swoons, }

Swounds } (= God's wounds), an oath, vii. 344, 352

Swythe, quickly, iii. 182

Taberet, i. 48

Table-book, xi. 345

Tables (to play at), vii. 271

Tacklings, tackle, xii. 345

Tacon, vi. 197

Taffata, xi. 113

Taint with, to accuse of, xiv. 211

Taker, "the king's taker," i. 24

Taking, temper, condition, ii. 376;

x. 226

Talc (oil of), note, xiii. 225

Tale of a tub, ii. 335

Tall, adj., valiant, brave, i. 41;

iii. 147;

vii. 318;

x. 294

Tallies, note, xii. 137

Talter, to hang, swing, i. 428

Tampion, a plug, i. 370

Tane, taken, i. 255

Tango mongoes, x. 521

Tapester, a female drawer (of wine), i. 263

Tapper, a male drawer, i. 425

Tappis, to lie, xiv. 322

Taratink, xii. 327

Tare, tore, i. 148

Tarmagons, termagants, xiv. 286

Tarry, to delay, i. 14

Tartarian, a thief, x. 242

Task, v. 379;

to rate, scold, xi. 225

Tatterdemalion, xii. 128

Tavern-bushes, xii. 130

Taverner, innkeeper, i. 23

Tawdry, towardly (?), v. 403

Tawrhalts (= tawed halters?), i. 158

Taym, time, vi. 75

Taythes, tithes, vi. 71

Te, to, vi. 71

Tee-hee, wee-hee! x. 231

Teen, sorrow, vexation, vii. 87;

anger, ix. 123;

grief, xii. 507

Teg, a young deer, ii. 193, 220

Temper, to mix, xiii. 107

Templars, xi. 496

Tend, to go to, i. 12;

to attend, ix. 292

Tender, to regard, xi. 454

Tene, to anger, annoy, i. 251

Tensures, exertions, x. 380

Tent, to probe, iii. 311

Tenting, tempting, vi. 74

Tenure, tenor, vi. 69

Term, "term of thy life," i. 34

Termagant, a violent fellow, x. 322

Testament, will, i. 132

Tester, note, xii. 125;

bed-head, xiii. 35

Testern, a coin, xi. 210

Tewell, bore, hole, i. 370

Thacked, thatched, ix. 164

Than, then, vi. 74

Thankworthy, ii. 112

The, to thrive, prosper, i. 257, 259;

viii. 163;

xv. 418

Thea, thou, vi. 74

Theatral, theatrical, xiv. 281, 293

Thedom, success, i. 261

Then, than, xv. 57

There, where, i. 132, 249

Thiles, roofs (?), xii. 489

Thilk, that same, i. 200;

that, iv. 74

Thills, shafts, xii. 136

Thinks, things, ii. 287

Tho, then, i. 244;

iv. 338

Thone, the one, ii. 211

Thorough, to go through with, xv. 78

Thother, the other, ii. 211, 260

Thratty, thirty, vi. 72

Thrist, thrust, i. 138;

thirst, ii. 165

Throes, pains, xii. 481

Throst, starved, ii. 210

Throughgirt, pierced through, v. 164

Thrumming, threading (?), xi. 249

Thrusteen, thirteen, i. 405

Thwacks, blows, iv. 320

Thwart, cross, unlucky, xi. 42

Thylke, that same, xii. 242

Tibiard, shin, viii. 139

Tice, to entice, i. 115

Tick-tack, ii. 85

Tick (upon), credit, xv. 336

Tickle, ticklish, v. 82;

unsteady, uncertain, v. 194; v

ii. 128;

xii. 241

Tickle our catastrophe, x. 225

Tiddle, to pet, spoil, ii. 173, 174

Tide, time, i. 12, 249

Tidlings, pets, ii. 164

Tie-dog, bandog, viii. 261

Till soon farewell, à bientôt, xi. 577

Timpany, viii. 370

Tink, to tinker, i. 261

Tire, attire, ii. 377;

to prey on, v. 248;

viii. 278

Tires, attires, xi. 201

Tirl, i. 20

Tisty-toisty, iii. 332

Tite, soon, directly, iii. 182

Tithing, tidings, i. 151

Titivile, iii. 58

Tittifills, knaves, i. 424

Tittle-tattles, viii. 418

Titubate, to stumble, viii. 139

To, compared with, ix. 154;

in addition to, xiii. 234

Toast (in wine), i. 79

Tobacco man, xi. 127

To friend, "for a friend," xv. 14

Toiled, wearied, x. 208

Tollage, toll, xii. 111

Tomboy, iii. 94

Tone, the one, vii. 378

Tongue-wralling, tongue-jangling, iv. 120

Toohing, blowing of a horn, ii. 195

Too-too, very much, very, i. 423;

vi. 68, 236;

xi. 32;

xi. 119

To pose, to puzzle, xv. 59

Topple, to wrestle (?), ii. 210

To-rent, rend asunder, i. 408

Torpedo, electric eel, xii. 426

Torrup, to interrupt, iv. 74

Tossing, sharp (?), iii. 207

Toteth, peeps, i. 42

Tother, second, vii. 292;

the other, vii. 371

To-torn, torn to pieces, i. 424

Totter, to swing (on the gallows), i. 158;

xi. 274

Touch, "to flee touch," i. 156;

feeling, x. 117;

trick (?), i. 262, 429;

touchstone, iii. 89

Tourney, tournament, i. 74

Touse, to trouble, tease, iv. 323;

to pull, drag, ix. 215

Towardly, good, xii. 120

Towards, about to come, coming, future, vii. 473;

xi. 522

To-yere, this year, iv. 118

Trace, "to lead a trace," i. 47

Train, to allure, xiv. 116

Traitress, i. 83

Tralilly, term of endearment, ix. 326

Tralucent, clear, ix. 232;

xii. 290

Translate, translated, i. 7

Transmue, to change, xii. 308

Transmued, transformed, xii. 242

Transportment, transport, xv. 70, 93, 103

Trans-shape, transform, xiv. 320

Trattling, talkative, ii. 211

Travail, pain, labour, viii. 312

Tread, a path, i. 293;

business, ii. 235

Treatment, entertainment, xiv. 350

Tredging, trudging, ii. 126

Trencher-analects, note, xii. 269

Trencher-salt, xi. 403

Trentals, note, xiv. 170

Treygobet (= Hey-go-bet?), a game, ii. 34

Treytrip, note, xiii. 238

Triacle, medicine, i. 365

Triacles, medicines, viii. 46

Trick, neat, proper, ii. 233;

iii. 92;

to trim, vii. 254

Tricker, one who is neat, iii. 281

Tricksy, neat, trim, ii. 281

Trick up, to adorn, x. 175

Tricotee, xiv. 280

Trill (the bones), ii. 92

Trim, proper, fine, ii. 346;

xiv. 357;

adornment, xv. 116

Trimly, neatly, ii. 344

Trimmer, iii. 251

Trim-tram, ii. 66

Trine, astronomical term, xi. 336

Trink'd, adorned, xi. 363

Trip, a tripping, ii. 253

Triump, trump, ii. 34

Trot, an old woman, i. 427;

iii. 72

Trote, (?), vii. 155

Troth, "of troth," truly, iv. 16

Trothing, belief, troth, vi. 73

Trothless, truthless, vii. 137;

viii. 119

Troth-plight, pledged, viii. 109, 111

Troublous, troublesome, i. 287

Trouchman, interpreter, vi. 463

Trounce, ii. 221

Trowl the bowl, troll (pass) the cup, iii. 180

Truchman, note, xiii. 344

Truckers, xiv. 350

Trudge, to pack off, to trot, iii. 24, 43

Trug, a wench, vi. 512

Trull, loose wench, i. 44;

xiv. 317;

term of endearment, ii. 290

Trump, game at cards, iii. 199;

triumph, iv. 144, 145;

a trumpet, xi. 486

Truncheon, a headless spear, iv. 328

Trundletail, note, xii. 121

Trunk-hose, xii. 238

Trup up, pack up, x. 539

Trussed, packed, i. 117

Trust, fidelity, xi. 540

Truth, "of truth," of a truth, i. 67

Tuck, sword, xiv. 284

Tucket, a set of notes on the trumpet, iv. 380

Tune, voice, ii. 284

Turchis, turquois, ix. 422

Turmoil, to disturb, iv. 149;

viii. 360;

to trouble, x. 139

Tutress, a female tutor, vii. 499

Twain, two, i. 48

Twatter, to talk, chat, ix. 270

Twattox, viii. 369

Tway, two, ii. 376

Tweche, touch, ii. 47

Twichbox, touchbox, iv. 67

Twin, to separate, i. 244

Twist, twisted, i. 158;

fork, xii. 553

Twitting, chattering, xii. 294

Tyrannious, tyrannical, iv. 217

Tyre (wine), i. 24

Tyren, to tear, xii. 254

Ud's, God's, an oath, xi. 101;

xiv. 289

Ugly, horrible, v. 191

Umbrageous, xv. 9

Unaware, "at unaware," unawares, ix. 43

Unbaptized, heathenish, xii. 287

Unbiassed (bowl), ix. 539

Unbowelled, disembowelled, vii. 24

Uncharm, to take off the spell, xi. 563

Uncivilise, to cease to act civilly, xiii. 78

Unclear, unshriven, impenitent, x. 46

Uncompanied, having no fellow or equal, x. 119

Unconceiving, thoughtless, xi. 463

Unconcernedness, unconcern, xv. 102

Uncouth, unknown, vi. 171;

harsh, unkind, strange, xi. 124;

xii. 214

Uncreate, uncreated, x. 173

Uncuriously, xv. 24

Undecency, indecency, xiii. 78

Undelved, undigged, v. 118

Underlaid, soled (of boots), i. 183

Undermine, to supplant, ii. 250

Undeserved, undeserving, i. 71

Undo, to ruin, i. 75

Undoing, ruin, xi. 478

Unfallibly, infallibly, viii. 66

Unfoil'd, untroubled, unvanquished, iv. 330

Ungotten, i. 59

Unhappy, unlucky, unfortunate, ix. 566;

xiv. 303

Unhappily, wickedly, xiv. 243

Unhelm, to take off the helmet, iv. 333

Uning, uniting, i. 302

Unkind, ungrateful, i. 100

Unlaced, ix. 180

Unladified, having lost the position of a lady, xi. 79

Unmaiden'd, deflowerd, xiv. 224

Unmannerly, wanting in courtesy, xi. 516

Unneath, scarcely, with difficulty, xii. 507

Unneth, scarcely, i. 7;

iii. 117

Unperfect, imperfect, ix. 432

Unperfit, imperfect, ii. 329

Unplume, to take off the plume or crest, x. 134

Unquietness, disease, i. 311

Unready, "to make unready," to undress, xiii. 79

Unrest, disquietness, i. 56;

disquiet, v. 97

Unrestful, unquiet, vii. 389

Unrevocable, irrevocable, x. 154

Unroosted, uprisen, out of bed, xi. 281

Unseized, unloosed, xv. 210

Unshamefacedness, immodesty, i. 60

Unshamefast, shameless, immodest, ii. 270;

vi. 161

Unsufferable, intollerable, x. 194

Unthrift, extravagant, lavish, viii. 26;

xi. 274;

an extravagant person, viii. 29;

a rogue, x. 183

Unthriftiness, folly, i. 91

Until, unto, i. 269

Untractable, unyielding, ii. 203

Untrimmed, dishevelled, vii. 87

Untruss, xi. 471

Unuseful, useless, xiii. 396

Unwenned (=unwemmed), pure, xii. 241

Unwieldy, without control, iv. 266

Unwitting (of), ignorant of, xi. 31

Unwitty, unwise, viii. 336

Unwreaken, unrevenged, vii. 86

Upbraid, a reproach, vii. 192

Upbringing, nurture, i. 91

Upbrought, nurtured, i. 92

Upholster, an upholsterer, xi. 247

Upland, the uplands, i. 262

Uplandish, foreigner, vi. 221

Upsey, note, xiv. 470

Up-trained, trained up, brought up, iv. 209

Urchen, hedgehog, ix. 382

Urchin, child, term of endearment, i. 72

Ure, use, practice, i. 378;

to practise, i. 153;

interest, xiv. 314

Utter, outside, i. 260

Vacabone, vagabond, iv. 63

Vade, to go, i. 424;

vii. 38;

to fade, go away, vi. 557

Vail, to doff, ix. 371;

to lower, xi. 55

Vailing, bending, xiv. 105

Vain, fain, iv. 79

Vair, fair, viii. 339

Valiancy, valour, bravery, v. 37;

viii. 322

Valter, to falter, iv. 219, 220

Valuation, value, iii. 264

Vantage, advantage, iii. 35

Vara, very, vi. 76

Vardingale, farthingale, vi. 434

Vast, fast, iii. 182;

iv. 218

Vat, fat, iv. 220

Vatten, to fatten, vi. 177

Vaulting-house, a brothel, vii. 436

Vaut, fault, iii. 313

Vay, faith, viii. 364

Vear, fear, viii. 339, 362

Veget, lively, xii. 293

Venereous, unchaste, xiv. 191

Veneys, note, xiii. 169

Vengeance, terribly, very, i. 405;

iv. 64

Venom, venomous, i. 297

Venter, to venture, i. 121:

iv. 57

Verament, truly, i. 421;

ii. 110

Verdit, verdict, ii. 177

Verity, truth, iii. 319

Vetch, note, xii. 132

Via, away! x. 217

Viand, sing, i. 21

Vild, vile, v. 85;

vii. 296

Vill, to fill, viii. 338

Vilthy, filthy, iii. 176

Vired, fired, viii. 338

Virginal jacks, x. 346

Virtually, powerfully, xiv. 311

Visitants, visitors, xv. 61

Visitation, visit, xi. 13;

plague, xv. 327

Visnomy, x. 323

Vizarded, concealed, xiv. 256

Vlat, flat, viii. 344

Vocation, trade, xv. 132

Voider, avoider, i. 125;

a basket for clearing the table, xii. 112

Voiding knife, note, ix. 447

Voiding of, avoiding of, i. 34

Vool, a fool, iv. 219

Voolish, foolish, iv. 219

Vor, for, viii. 338

Vorbod (of God), prohibition, "God forbid," iv. 219

Vorty, forty, viii. 338

Vound, found, iv. 219

Vox, fox, iv. 75

Vriend, friend, iii. 313

Vull, full, viii. 344

Wade, to go, i. 67

Waesheal, note, xii. 285

Wage, hire, i. 247

Wage-pasty, a term of abuse, ii. 141

Wain-man, waggoner, v. 206

Wait, to watch, be on guard, i. 248

Waking, watchful, xi. 528

Walter, to feel sick, i. 365

Waltering, iv. 313

Wan, won, i. 385;

did win, xi. 472

Wanderers, planets, xi. 302

Wane, waning, xv. 46

Wanion, curse, vi. 196;

xiii. 158

Wannion, curse, iv. 121

Want, to do without, v. 350

Ward, award, vi. 166;

"lie at ward," a term in fencing, viii. 149

Wards, spies, xiii. 183

Ware, be aware, i. 169:

x. 8

Wark, work, i. 202;

ii. 195;

to work, i. 253

Warks, works, i. 7

Warling, a slave, x. 303

Warrantise, warranty, guarantee, iii. 139;

vii. 126;

to warrant, viii. 44, 301

Washen, washed, ii. 122

Washical, what-do-you-call-it, iii. 243

Wassail, note, xi. 487

Waste-good, a spendthrift, xii. 102

Watching-candle, xi. 352

Waterstairs, x. 124

Wawd, would, vi. 71

Wawl, to make a noise like cats, ix. 211

Wealth, welfare, prosperity, i. 73;

iii. 122

Weam, belly, x. 366

Weapon'd, armed, vii. 417

Wearied, worried, ix. 325

Weary, aware, vi. 547

Weasand, windpipe, iii. 230

Wed, a pledge, i. 165;

"to wed" for a pledge, i. 147;

wedded, viii. 109

Weed, garment, v. 330

Weet, to learn, know, iii. 204

Weete, know, xii. 507

Weigh, to care, iii. 49

Welde, wielder, ruler, i. 268

Welding, to carry, v. 27

Wele, well, xii. 253

Welkin, sky, v. 274;

xii. 507

Wellaway, well-a-day! i. 173

Well-a-year, cf. well-a-day, vii. 397

Well-left, having a rich inheritance, xi. 514

Wend, to go, vii. 36;

x. 226;

goes, xii. 241

Wenest, weenest, i. 119

Went, weened, i. 119;

equipped, well-begone (?), i. 244

Werme, warm, xii. 311

Wete, to know, i. 119, 262

Wex, waxed, ix. 355

Whadragesima, quadragesima, vi. 74

Whaiet, quiet, vi. 76

What d'ye lack, a term of abuse, xi. 152

What is he for, x. 355

What-not, a term of abuse, ix. 78

Whatsomever, whatsoever, i. 427

Wher, whether, xiii. 47, 511

Whiffler, a tobacco smoker, hence a trifling fellow, x. 303;

xiv. 360

While, until, vi. 65

Whiles, whilst, xii. 299;

"the whilst," i. 65

Whimling, a weak person, viii. 231

Whin-yard, a sword, x. 363

Whips-talk, a whipstock, v. 95

Whipstock, xi. 384

Whist, be silent, ix. 432

Whit, aught, i. 428

White son, iii. 329;

boy, darling, vii. 325

White, centre of target, xii. 455;

xiv. 144

White-liver'd, coward, xiv. 284

Whittle, a dagger, i. 168

Whore, to act as a procurer or panderer, xi. 520

Whot, hot, vii. 47

Whur, to scold, iii. 70

Whylk, which, xii. 284

Wight, brave, active, i. 252;

viii. 158, 221;

xii. 507

Wild, vague, loose, i. 245

Wildfire, i. 72;

xiv. 130

Wildness, wilderness, i. 149

Wilful, voluntary, i. 200

Will I nill I, viii. 302

Wimble, nimble, xii. 507

Wimple, a veil, iv. 146

Wimpled, veiled, vi. 429

Winch up, xii. 469

Wis, know, iv. 183

Wished, desired, recommended, xi. 449;

xiii. 65, 140

Wit, to know, i. 102, 202, 223;

opinion, iii. 7

Witch, a wizzard, x. 104

With, withy, vii. 176

Withdrawing-room, the drawing-room, x. 361

Withouten, without, i. 255

Wits, senses, i. 12, 130

Wittol, a cuckold, xi. 40;

to make a fool of, xiii. 107

Witty, wise, clever, ii. 316

Wizard, wiseacre, xiv. 357

Wizzel, windpipe, xiii. 271

Wocum (= welcome), welcome, viii. 362

Woe, sorry, i. 347; ix. 565

Woll, will, ii. 113

Womankind, feminine, xi. 455

Womanshire, womankind, ix. 327

Women be the devil's nets, i. 61

Wonder, wonderfully, i. 250

Wondernise, to make wonderful, vii. 324

Wonderous, wonderfully, ii. 180

Wonders, wondrous, i. 9

Wondersly, wondrously, i. 16

Wonnot, will not, vi. 312;

xiii. 80

Wonts, is accustomed, viii. 343

Wood, mad, i. 351;

ii. 122

Woodcock, a simpleton, ii. 295

Wooden walls, ships, xii. 514

Woodman, forester, vii. 321

Woot, know, iv. 364;

will it, x. 339;

wilt, xiii. 29;

xiii. 39

Worch, to work, i. 274

Worched, worked(?), ii. 375

Wordly, worldly, ii. 329

Wore (= ore), i. 29, 30

World, "a world", i. 35;

ii. 291

Worm, reptile, i. 202;

serpent, x. 117

Wort, herb, i. 428

Worth, "of worth," worthily, i. 142

Wost, knowest, iv. 219

Wot, know, i. 23;

ii. 115;

x. 123

Wottest, knowest, i. 264

Wott'st, knowest, i. 25

Wounds and hearts, an oath, iii. 265

Woundyn, wrapped, xv. 419

Wrabbed, rabid (?), i. 379;

ii. 211

Wrack, wreck, iii. 345;

xii. 186;

ruin; viii. 270;

vengeance, iv. 300, 308

Wrangle, to discuss, xi. 271

Wrangling, peevish, x. 155

Wreak, v. 386

Wrigaldry-wrag, i. 49

Writhen, wrinkled, viii. 89

Wrought, done, i. 249

Yall, to cry, viii. 242

Yalling, yelling, ii. 190

Yate, gate, vi. 76;

xii. 255

Yawl, a noise made by the inside, iii. 193

Yawl and jawl, to wrangle and jangle, ix. 284

Yawled, yelled, ix. 252

Ycapred, capered, xii. 253

Ycleped, called, ix. 176;

xii. 241;

xiii. 163

Yclept, called, xiii. 12

Yclipped, called, x. 315

Year of the Lord, date of the year, a.d., xiv. 391

Yearthly, earthly, i. 55

Yeasty, frothy, vii. 300

Yede, went; i. 179;

iii. 227;

walk, xii. 507

Yeft, gift, xii. 288

Yeke, eke, xii. 242

Yell, to resound, ix. 279

Yellows, jaundice, x. 259

Yeoman of the collar, prisoner in chains, i. 158

Yerk, to jerk, iv. 74

Yert-point, xiv. 306

Yesternight, i. 34

Yfeel, to feel, xii. 253

Yferre, afar, xii. 311

Yfound, found, i. 252

Yfrounced, adorned, xii. 311

Ying, young, i. 245

Ylaft, left, xii. 240

Ylike, like, xii. 241

Yon, yonder, xi. 113

Yond, yonder, iii. 78

Yore, of yore, i. 262

Your, yours, i. 374

Yoush, you shall, iii. 187

Y-proved, true, i. 250

Yreken, raked, xii. 240

Ystept, advanced, xii. 241

Zacks, sacks, iii. 313

Zay, say, iv. 219

Zee, see, iii. 313

Zell, to sell, iv. 219

Zembletee, appearance, iii. 82

Zennight, a week, iv. 219

Zest, sayest, viii. 339

Zet, set, viii. 347

Zhrode, shrewd, iv. 219

Zold, sold, iii. 313

Zome, some, iv. 219

Zon, son, viii. 338

Zoons, zounds, xi. 65

Zow, sow, viii. 347

Zuch, such, iv. 221

Zure, sure, viii. 344

Zwap, swap, blow, iv. 222

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