Topless, that which has nothing| Vaward, the fore part above it, supreme Velure, velvet Topple, to tumble Touch, sensation, sense, or feel- Vengeance, mischief ing Vent, rumour, matter for dis-
Venew, a bout, a term in fencing
Touch, exploit or stroke Touch, a spice or particle Touch, touchstone Touches, features Touched, tried
Toward, in a state of readiness Toys, rumours, idle reports, fan- cies, freaks of imagination Toze, to pull or pluck medi-Trace, to follow
Trade, a custom, an established habit
Tradition, traditional practices Traditional, adherent to old cus-
Tall, stout, bold, courageous Tallom-keech, the fat of an ox or COW
Tame, ineffectual
Tame snake, a contemptible fel- low
Tamed, flat, spiritless Tarre, to stimulate, to excite, provoke
Tartar, Tartarus, the fabled place of future punishment Task, to keep busied with scru- ples Tasked, taxed Taurus, sides and heart in cal astrology Tawdry, a kind of necklaces worn by country girls Taxation, censure or satire Teen, sorrow, grief Temper, to mould like wax Temper, temperament, constitu- tion
Temperance, temperature Tempered, rendered pliable: Tend, to attend upon, to wait for Tender, to regard with affection Tend'ring, watching with ten- derness
Tib, a strumpet Tickle, ticklish
Tent, to take up residence Tercel, the male hawk Termagant, the god of the Sara- Termagant, furious [cens Tested, brought to the test Testern, to gratify with a tester, or sixpence
Tetchy, touchy, peevish, fretful Tharborough, thirdborough, peace officer
a
Trick, smeared, painted, in he- raldry Tricking, dress
Theme, a subject/ Theorick, theory Themes, muscular strength Thick, in quick succession Thick-pleached, thickly inter-
Tricksy, clever, adroit Triumphs, masques, revels pub- lic exhibitions
Woven
Thill, the shafts of a cart Thirdborough. See Tharborough Thought, melancholy Thrasonical, boastful, bragging Thread, fibre or part Thread, to pass through Three-man-beetle, an implement
Trojan, cant word for a thief Troll, to dismiss trippingly from the tongue Trol-my-dames, a game Trossers, trowsers Trom, to believe Truth, honesty
Tucket, or tucket sonnuance, a flourish
Turlygood, or turlupin, a species of gipsy
used for driving piles Three-pile, rich velvet Thrift, a state of prosperity Throes, emits as in parturition Thrum, the extremity of a weav-
er's warp Thrumm d, made of coarse wool- len cloth
Turn, to become acescent Turquoise, a precious stone Twangling, an expression of con- tempt Twigging, wickered Tyed, limited, circumscribed Type, distinguishing mark, show or emblem Tything, division of a place, district
a
toms
Trail, the scent left by the pas- sage of the game Traitress, a term of endearment Tranect, a ferry Translate, to transfer, to explain Trash, a hunting phrase, to cor- Travel, to stroll [rect Traverse, a term in military ex-
ercise
Tickle-brain, some strong liquor Tight, handy, adroit Tightly, cleverly, adroitly Tilly-valley, an interjection of
contempt Tilth, tillage
Timeless, untimely inct, tincture
Tire, head-dress
Tire, to fasten, to fix the talons
Traversed, across Tray-trip, some kind of game Treachers, treacherous persons Trenched, cut, carved Trick, trick of the times Trick, peculiarity of voice, face, &c.
on
Tire, to be idly employed on Tired, adorned with ribands Tod, to yield or produce a tod, or twenty-eight pounds Tokened, spotted as in the plague Toll, to enter on the toll-book Tolling, taking toll Tomboy, a masculine, forward Vast, waste, dreary [fore girl Vaunt, the avant, what went be-
course
Ventages, the holes of a flute Venys, hits in fencing Verbal, verbose, full of talk Verify, to bear true witness Very, immediate
Vantage, convenience, opportu- nity, advantage Vantbrace, armour for the arm Varlet, a servant or footman to
a warrior
Via, a cant phrase of exultation Vice, the fool of the old moralities Vice, to advise Vice, grasp
Vie, to contend in rivalry Vied, bragged
Viewless, unseen, invisible Villain, a worthless fellow, a ser-
vant
Unavoided, unavoidable
Unbarbed, untrimmed, unshaven Unbated, not blunted Unbolt, to open, explain Unbolted, coarse r Unbookish, ignorant Unbreathed, unexercised,
practised Uncape, to dig out, a term in fox-hunting Uncharged, unattacked Unclew, to draw out, to exhaust Uncoined, real, unrefined, una- dorned
Unconfirmed, unpractised in the ways of the world
Under generation, the antipodes Undergo, to be subject to Under-skinker, a tapster, an un- derdrawer
V.
Vail, to condescend to look, to Undertaker, one who takes upon let down, to bow, to sink himself the quarrel of another Vailing, lowering Underwrite, to subscribe, to obey Vain, vanity Under-wrought, under-worked,
Vain, light of tongue, not vera- cious
Valance, fringed with a beard Validity, value Vanity, illusion
undetermined Undeserving, undeserved Unearned, not deserved Uneath, scarcely, not easily Unexpressive, inexpressible Unhappy, mischievously waggish, unlucky
Unhidden, open, clear Unhoused, free from domestic
cares
Unhouseled, not having received the sacrament
Unimproved, not guided by know- Waist, the part between the quar- ledge or experience ter-deck and the forecastle Union, a species of pearl Waist, the middle
ture
Unkind, contrary to kind or na- Walk, a district in a forest Wannion, vengeance Ward, posture of defence no Ward, guardianship
Warden, a species of pears Warder, guard, sentinel Warn, to summon Wassels, meetings of rustic mirth Watch, a watch-light Water-work, water-colours Wax, to grow Waxen, increase
Unquestionable, unwilling to be conversed with Unready, undressed Unrespective, inattentive to con- Wealth, advantage, happiness
sequences Unrest, disquiet Unrough,
Wear, the fashion Wee, little
bearded
Witch, to charm, to bewitch Wits, senses
Wittol, knowing, conscious of Witty, judicious, cunning Woe, to be sorry [deeply Woman, to affect suddenly and Woman-tired, hen-pecked Wondered, able to perform won. Wood, crazy, frantic [ders Woodman, an attendant on 2 forester
Woolnard, a phrase appropriated to pilgrims and penitentiaries Words, dispute, contention Work, a term of fortification Workings, labours of thought World, to go to the, to be marrie Worm, a serpent Worship, dignity, authority Worth, wealth or fortune, the value, full quota or proportion Worts, cabbage Wot, to know Wound, twisted about Wreak, resentment Wreak, to revenge
Wrest, an instrument for tuning the harp
Whe'r, whether
Wrested, obtained by violence Writ, writing, composition Writhled, wrinkled
Where, whereas
Whiffler, an officer who walks Wrongs, the persons who wrong first in processions Wrongs, injurious practices Whiles, until Wroth, misfortune Whip, the crack, the best Wrought, worked, agitated Whipstock, a carter's whip Wrung, pressed, strained Whirring, whirring away White, the white mark in archery White death, the chlorosis Whiting-time, bleaching time, spring
Usurping, false
Utis, a merry festival Utter, to vend by retail
Whitsters, the bleachers of linen Whittle, a species of knife
Utterance, a phrase in combat, Whooping, measure or reckoning extremity
Wide, remotely from, wide of the Wilderness, wildness [mark Will, wilfulness Wimple, a hood or veil Winter-ground, to protect against the inclemency of winter Wis, to know
Unmastered, licentious Unowed, that which has
owner
Unpregnant, not quickened Unproper, common Unqualitied, unmanned, disarmed of his faculties
Unsisted, untried Unsisting, always opening, never
at rest
Unsmirched, clean, not defiled Unsquared, unadapted to their subject
Unstanched, incontinent Untempering, not tempering, not softening Untraced, singular, not in com-
mon use
Untrimmed, undressed
Untruth, disloyalty, treachery Unvalued, invaluable
Up-spring, upstart
Urchins, hedge-hogs, or perhaps Usance, usury Use, practice long countenanced by custom
[fairies
Use, to make a practice of Use, interest
Used, behaved
Waft, to beckon
Wage, to fight, to combat, to Wages, is equal to [prescribe to
Ween, to think, to imagine Weet, to know Weigh, to value or esteem, to deliberate
Welkin, the colour of the sky, blue [cellence Well-found, of acknowledged ex- Well-liking, plump, embonpoint Wen, swollen excrescence Wend, to go
Whelked, varied with protuber
ances
Wish, to recommend Wit, to know."
Yarely, readily, nimbly Yearns, grieves or vexes Yeasty, or yesty, foaming or froth Yeild, to inform of, condescend t Yeild, to reward Yellowness, jealousy Yeoman, a bailiff's follower Yesty. See Yeasty
Z.
Zany, a buffoon, a merry andre
BUNGAY: PRINTED BY J. R AND C. CHILDS.
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