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GLOSSARIAL INDEX.

ABHOMINABLE, antiquated spelling of abominable, i. 83.

Abide, to pay the penalty, iii. 435.

Abide, sojourn, iii. 227.

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

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ii. 169, iii. 434, 754.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Affined, bound, iii. 648, 669.

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

Affy, betroth, ii. 374.

Affy, to confide, iii. 598.

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

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

Aglet-baby, a diminutive figure carved on a jewel, i. 237, 575.

714.

Agnize, to acknowledge, ini. 658.

Agood, in good earnest, i. 35.

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

Aim cry aim to encourage, i. 39.

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

Ajax, a jakes, i. 93.

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

Ales, rustic festivities, i. 43.

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

Allons! let us go, i 81, 84.

Allow, to approve, iii. 80, 757.

Allowed, licensed, i. 92.

Althea's dream, i. 586.

Amazing, confounding, appalling, i. 453, 685.
Ames-ace, both aces, ii. 22.

Amiss, a fault, iii. 765, 783.

Amort, dejected, i. 262.

Anchor, an anchorite, iii. 363.

Ancient, ensign, an ensign-bearer, i. 549, 590, iii. 648.

Andrew, a name for a ship, i. 394.

Angerly, angrily, i. 7.

Anthropophagi, Scythian savages, cannibals, iii. 709.

Ape-bearer, an instructor and exhibitor of apes, iii. 254.

Appaid, pleased, satisfied, iii, 747.

Apparent, nearest, iii. 202.

Apparent, manifest, iii. 426.

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

Apperil, danger, peril, ii. 467.

Apple-John, i. 588.

Apply, to ply, i. 232.

Apprehension, conceit, sarcasm, ii. 301.

Approbation, proof, ii. 67, 716.

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

Araise, to raise, to upraise, ii. 17.
Argosy, a large vessel, i. 247, 394.

Argument, conversation, i. 714.

Aroint begone! avaunt! iii. 474.

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

Arras, chamber-hangings, iii. 402.
Arrive, to arrive at, iii. 415.

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

Articulate, to enter into articles, iii. 140.

Artificial, ingenious, i. 364.

Artist, a scholar, iii. 270.

Aspersion, sprinkling, iii. 35.

Assinego, an ass, iii. 278.
Assured, affianced, i. 131, 298.

Astonished, thunderstruck, iii, 755, 773.
Astringer, a falconer, ii. 56.

At friend, on terms of friendship, iii. 244.
Atone, to reconcile, i. 450, ii. 715.

Attasked, taxed, charged, iii. 71.

Attorney, advocate, pleader, iii. 725.

Aunts, wenches, iii. 227.

Awful, authorised, lawful, i. 604.

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

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

BACCARE, stand back, i. 242.

Baffled, treated with ignominy, i. 450.

Bale, injury, iii. 129.

Balked, ridged, heaped up, i. 510.

Balk logic, to dispute, to wrangle, i. 233.
Ballow, a pole or staff, iii. 104.

Ban, to curse, iii. 725.

Banbury cheese, a thin cheese, i. 641.

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

Bankes's horse, i. 100.

Banquet, a dessert, i. 270.

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

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Barnacle, a shell-fish, iii. 50.
Barns, bairns, i. 720.

Base, a rustic game, i. 42.

Base-court, lower court, i. 474.

Bases, an embroidered mantle, hanging from the waist to the
knee, worn by knights on horseback, also the housings of

a horse, also the hose, iii. 11, 193.

Basilisco, i. 329.

Basilisks, huge pieces of ordnance, i. 525.

Basta, enough, i. 235.

Bastard, a sweet wine, i. 529.

Bat, staff or club, iii. 785.

Bate, to flap the wings like a hawk, i. 218.

Batlet, a bat to beat linen with, ii. 141.

Batten, to feed, iii. 370.

Battle, an army, ii. 92, 574, iii. 648.

Bavin, a faggot of brushwood, i. 540.

Bawcock, beau coq, fine fellow, ii. 261, iii. 200.

Bay-window, bow-window, ii. 268.

Bead's-man, one whose duty is to offer up prayers for another,
i. 3, ii. 342.

Bear a brain, to remember well, i. 166.

Bear-garden, Parish, ii. 703.

Bear hard, to rein in from mistrust or fear, iË. 418, 426, 435.
Bearing-cloth, an infant's mantle in which is carried to

the font, iii. 222.

Bear in hand, to encourage, to buoy up, i. 258, 575, 727, iii.

491.

Beaver, the lower part of a helmet, sometimes used for the
helmet itself, i. 548.

Beck, a bou, ii. 470.

Become, to adapt, to render fit, to adorn, i. 31, ii. 151, 321,
783, 785.

Becoming, self-restrained, ini. 220.

Bed-fellow, intimate friend, ii. 76.
Bedlam-beggars, mad beggars, iii. 118.

Beetles, overhangs, iii. 342.

Beg a fool, to ask in wardship, i. 104, 120.
Begetter, one who gets or procures, iii. 758.
Beggar and the King, a ballad, i. 101.
Beguiled, masked, disguised, iii. 754.
Behave, to control, ii. 482.

Belike, to favour, to approve, iii. 506.

Be-mete, to beat with a yard measure, i. 264.

Bemoiled, bedraggled, i. 255.

Be naught a while, a mischief on you! ii. 128.

Bench-hole, forica, iii. 570.

Benefit, a beneficiary, ii. 330.

Benumbed, stiff, inflexible, iii. 281.

Bergomask, a dance, i. 378.

Bermoothes, the Bermudas, iii. 11, 48.

Beshrew, to curse, to imprecate sorrow or evil on a person, i.
85, 409.

Besmirch, to soil, to befoul, ii. 101, iii. 338.

Bessy, o'er the bourn, iii. 90.

Best, best one, an epithet of endearment, ii. 535.

Bestowed, secreted, stowed, i. 118.

Bestraught, distructed, i. 230.

Beteem, to allow, to suffer, i. 343, iii. 336.⚫

Better part, the spiritual part, iii. 521, 771.

Better penny, a proverbial phrase, i. 640.
Bevel, crooked, iii. 778.

Bevis, Sir, ii, 699.

Bewray, to betray, to discover, ii. 315, 404.

Bezonian, a term of contempt, i. 621.

Bias, a swelling out, iii. 303.

Bid, to invite, i. 406, ii. 165, 166, iii. 603.

Bid forth, invited out, i. 406.

Bid the base, to challenge in the game of "base," i. 42, iii.

724.

Biggin, a coif, i. 612.

Bilberry, the whortleberry, i. 682.

Bilbo, i. 642, 671.

Bilboes, instruments of torture, fetters, iii. 391.

Bills, to set up, to post bills, to advertise, i. 741.
Bills, halberds, battle-axes, i. 720, iii. 102.

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

Bisson, blind, iii. 355.

Biting the thumb, a contemptuous action, i. 160.
Blacks, mourning habiliments, iii 200.

Blank, a mark in gunnery, iii. 211.

Blench, to flinch, to start off, ii. 628, iii. 204, 265
Blend, blended, iii. 786.

Bless the bridal-bed, i. 386.

Bless the mark, i. 33, 401, iii. 648.

Block, a hat mould, i. 696.

Blood in, with the blood up, i. 71.

Blood-boltered, clotted with blood, iii. 502.

Blow, to swell, iii. 570.

Blue caps, the Scotch, i. 533.
Blunt, dull, insensible, ii. 443.
Board, to accost, i. 705, ii. 239.

Bob, to rap, to hit, i. 349, ii. 143, 574.
Bobbed, tricked, iii. 699.

Bodged, bungled, ii. 407.

Bodkin, a stiletto, a dagger, iii. 359.
Bodykins, God's, an oath, iii. 355.
Bolds, emboldens, iii. 109.
Bolted, sifted, iii. 235.
Boltered, clotted, iii. 502.
Bolters, sieves, i. 543.

Bolting-hutch, the bin into which meal is bolted, i. 534.
Bombard, or bumbard, a barrel, a capacious vessel, some-
times of leather, for holding drink, i. 534, ii. 696.
Bombast, a sort of wadding used to fill out dresses, i. 97.
Bona-robas, women of pleasure, i. 597.
Bone-ache, the Neapolitan, iii. 283, 308.

Boot, help, advantage, i. 449, ii. 319.
Boots, to give, to sell a bargain, i. 41.

Bordered, restrained, iii. 97.

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

Bosky, woody, i. 553.

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

Bottled, bloated, îi. 523.

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

Bought and sold, entrapped, betrayed, made a victim, ii. 318

iii. 278.

Bourn, boundary, iii. 101, 359.

Bow, yoke, ii. 155.

Bowed, bent, ii. 664.

Brach, a hound bitch, i. 228.

Braid, false, deceitful, ii. 39.

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

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

Braving, blustering, hectoring, iii. 606.

Brawl, a dance, i. 102.

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

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

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

Breast, voice, ii. 246.

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

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

Breeched, sheathed, mired, iii. 488.

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

Brentford, Gillian of, i. 689.

Brewer's horse, i. 542.

Brew good ale, a proverb, i. 24.

Bribe-buck, 1. 681.

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

Brock, a badger, ii. 252.

Broken music, the music of stringed instruments, ii 120, 132,

iii. 287.

Broker, a pander, a procuress, a cheat, i. 6, 298, ii. 32,

iii. 786.

Brooched, adorned, decorated, iii. 576.

Brooded, watchful, i. 305.

Broom-groves, iii. 36.

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

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

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

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

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But, only, iii. 353, 421.

Butcher of a silk button, i. 216.

Buttery bar, ii. 277.

Buxom, lusty, sprightly, buoyant, ii. 88.

Buz, buz! an interjection of impatience, iii. 354.

Buzzard, a beetle, i. 244.

By and by, immediately, i. 672, ii. 355, iii. 32.

By day and night, at all times, ii. 272, 342.

By these ten bones, a common adjuration, ii. 348.

By'rlakin, by our ladykin, or little lady, i. 357, iii. 32.

CADDIS, worsted galloon, i. 528, iii. 232.
Cade, a barrel, ii. 376.

Cadent, falling, iii. 70.

Cain-coloured, yellowish red, i. 686.

Cake is dough, hopes are frustrated, i. 234, 270.
Caliver, a hand-gun, i. 601.

Call, a bird-call, i. 308.

Callet, a strumpet, ii. 347, iii. 213, 693.
Callino, castore me, ii. 101.

Calm, a mispronunciation of qualm, i. 589.
Camelot, iii. 118.

Can, knows, iii. 795.

Canary, a dance with castanets, i. 64, ii. 17.
Candle-wasters, Bacchanals, revellers, i. 730.
Canker, the dog-rose, i. 701, iii. 768.
Canstick, a candlestick, i. 538.

Cantle, a slice, a corner, i. 537, iii. 559.
Cantons, cantos, ii. 243.

Canvas, to toss, ii. 292.

Can you hit it? a song, or dance, i. 70.

Capable, impressible, susceptible, i. 297, 300, 574, ii. 156, iii.

14, 72.

Capitulate, to confederate, i. 541.

Capocchio, a simpleton, iii. 299.

Capricious, goatish, ii. 153.

Captain-jewels, superior jewels, iii. 768.

Captious, capatious, ii. 13.

Carbonado, a collop cooked on the coals, i. 558.

Carbuncle, a gem supposed to emit native light, iii. 639.
Carcanet, a necklace, i. 126, iii. 768.

Card, by the, according to the book of manners, iii. 388.
Carded, i. 540.

Carduus Benedictus, the blessed thistle, i. 743.

Career, a term of the menage.

Careful, painful, anxious, i. 145.

Carkanet, a necklace, i. 126, iii. 768.

Carlot, a churl, ii. 157.

Caroused, a bumper, a drinking bout, iii. 398.

Carpet knights, ii. 280.

Carpets, coverings for the table, i. 255.

Carping, taunting, i. 540.

Carrack, a ship of great burden, iii. 651.

Carry coals, to submit to indignities, i. 159, ii. 84.
Carry out a side, a card-table phrase, iii. 109.
Carrying dead bodies off the stage, iii. 402.
Cart, a car, or chariot, iii. 363.

Carve, to give an amorous sign, i. 104, 645.

Case, a brace, a pair, ii. 83.

Case, a skin, ii. 273.

Caskets, in Merchant of Venice, story of the, i. 438.

Casque, a helmet, ii. 63.

Cassock, a horseman's coat, ii. 41.

Cast, dismissed, iii. 667.

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Cates, cakes, dainties, i. 127, 244.

Catling, a lute string, i. 205.

Cautel, crafty circumspection, iii. 338.

Cautelous, treacherous, insidious, iii. 166.

Caviare, a delicacy prepared from sturgeon's roe, iii. 400.

Censer, a fire-pan for perfumes, i. 264.

Censure, to pass judgment, i. 6, ii. 598, 647, iii. 339, 782.
Ceremony, pronounced as a trisyllable, ii. 23.

Certes, iii. 33, 647.

Cess, measure, i. 520.

Chamber wall furnishings in old castles, 495.

Chambers, small pieces of ordnance, ii, 655.

Chances, crosses, casualties, iii. 648.

Changeling, a child changed by fairies or gipsies, i. 349, 351

iii. 222.

Channel, kennel, ii. 417.

Character, handwriting, ciphers, iii. 73, 221, 246, 428, 769, 784
Chares, drudgery, iii. 577.

Charge, of Watchmen, i. 743.

Charles's-wain, the constellation called the bear, i. 520.

Charm for tooth-ache, i. 743.

Charm, to conjure, iii. 427.

Charm the tongue, to restrain or put a spell upon the tongue,

ii. 446, iii. 704.

Charmer, an enchantress, one who works by spells, iii. 684.
Charming, magical, fascinating, ii. 714, iii. 606.
Charneco, a sort of wine, ii. 358.
Charters, blank, i. 497.

Chases, a term of tennis, ii. 69.
Chaudron, entrails, iii. 501.

'Cheater, an Escheater, i. 646, iii. 783.
Cheater, a gamester, a cozener, i. 590.
Check, to fly from, or shy at, iii. 384.
Cheer, fare, iii. 363.

Cheer, visage, aspect, i. 363, 420, iii. 740.
Cherry-pit, a game, ii. 261.

Cheveril, a soft leather, i. 180, ii. 255, 664.

Chewet, a noisy chattering bird, i. 554.

Chide, to rebuke, to re-sound, ii. 80.

Chide with, to quarrel with, ii. 757, iii. 695, 777.

Child, a female infant, iii. 221.

Childing, teeming, i. 351.

Children that have no names, illegitimate children, iii. 531.

Chopines, clogs having very thick soles, iii. 400.

Chop-logic, a nickname, also, to exchange logic, i. 197, 489.
Chrisom, a white cloth used in the baptism of infants, ii. 117.
Chuck, chicken, term of endearment, i. 84, ii. 261, iii. 684.
'Cide, to decide, iii. 767.

Cinque-pace, a dance, i. 104, 704.

Circle, diadem, iii. 562.

Circumstance, conduct, circumstantial deduction, i. 4, iii. 294
Circumstance, circumlocution, i. 395.

'Cital, recital, i. 556.

'Cite, to incite, i. 14, ii. 411.

Cittern, a musical instrument, i. 94.

Civil, sour, bitter, i. 707, ii. 259.
Clack-dish, a beggar's dish, ii. 616.

Clamour, to refrain or silence, iii. 233.

Claw, to flatter, i. 701.

Clean, utterly, completely, i. 468.

Clean kam, rigmarole, iii. 159.

Clear-stories, upper rows of windows in a church, ii. 281.

Cleave the pin, to split the wooden pin in a target, i. 39, 71.
Clement's Inn, i. 627.

Clepe, to call, to designate, iii. 340, 492, 732.

Clerkly, scholarly, i. 11, 678.

Cling, to shrivel, to shrink, iii. 513.

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Cat, the agent and favourite of witches, iii. 519.
Cataian, a term of reproach, i. 652.

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Clowns or Jesters, the practice of retaining, ii. 54.
Coast, to advance, iii. 730.

Coat, coat of arms, iii. 787.

Coats in heraldry, i. 384.

Cock-a-hoop, i. 170.

Cock and pye, a popular adjuration, i. 631.

Cockatrice, a fabulous monster, i. 189, ii. 262, iii. 743.
Cockle-hat, a pilgrim's hat, iii. 379.
Cockney, a spooney, a cook, iii. 79.
Cock-shut, twilight, ii. 569.

Coffin, the crust of a raised pie, i. 264, iii. 635.

Cog, to load dice, to cheat, to defraud, i. 89.

Cognizance, a badge, ii. 301.

Coil, trouble, turmoil, i. 7, 82, 366, iii. 359.
Colbrand the giant, i. 289.

Cold to bed, to thy cold bed, i. 227.

Collied, smutted, blackened, obscured, i. 343, iii. 669.
Collop, iii. 200.

Colme-kill, iii. 518.

Coloquintida, a plant bearing a bitter fruit, iii. 710.
Colours, artifices, ii. 299.

Colours on sculpture, iii. 257.

Colt, to gull, i. 523.

Combinate, contracted, ii. 614.

Combination, contract, ii. 276.

Come away, come away, a song, iii. 519.

Come off, to pay, i. 676.

Comforting, encouraging, abetting, iii. 213.

Commend, to commit, to submit, to resign, ii 48, iii. 214, 571.

Commission, warrant, authority, iii. 201.

Commit, to fornicate, iii. 88.

Commodity, advantage, self-interest, i. 298.

Common, public, i. 63.

Common liar, rumour, iii. 530.

Common players, strolling players, iii. 353.

Compact, made up, compounded, i. 129, iii. 723.

Companion, a low fellow, i. 138, ii. 722, iii. 179, 694.

Company, companion, ii. 40, 65.

Comparative, ready in comparisons, or similes, i. 513, 540.
Compassed, arched, iii. 724.

Competitor, coadjutor, confederate, auxiliary, i. 17, ii. 267.
Complements, point-de-vice manners, i. 53, 178, ii. 77.
Comply, to fraternise, to play the courtier, iii. 354, 394.
Compose, accord, agree, iii. 540.

Composure, composture, composition, ii. 494, iii. 284, 536.
Compt, in, in trust, to be accounted for, iii. 480.
Comptible, susceptible, sensitive, ii. 242.

Con, to know, to allow, to award, ii. 41, iii. 795.

Conceit, imagination, i. 184, 463.

Conceited, conceptive, apprehensive, iii. 752.

Concent, agreement in music, ii. 116.

Conclusions, experiments, ii. 717, iii. 373.

Concolinel, i. 64, 101.

Concupy, concupiscence, iii. 312.

Condition, profession or art, ii. 462.

Condition, nature, disposition, i. 397, ii. 41, 135, iii. 426,
542, 665.

Conduct, a conductor, a guide, i. 187, 210, ii. 263, 360, iii. 741.
Coney-catch, to cheat, i. 269.

Coney-catcher, a sharper, a trickster, i. 641.

Confess and be hanged, a cant phrase, iii. 687.

Conger and fennel, i. 593.

Conjurations, entreaties, i. 210.

Consent, agreement, unison, i. 617, ii. 116.

Consigned, sealed, iii. 301.

Consort, fellowship, fraternity, i. 29, 116, 186.

Consort, a band of musicians, i. 26.

Conspectuity, vision, perception, iii. 143.
Constancy, consistency, i, 375, iii. 434.
Contain, to hold, to retain, i. 435.

Contemptible, mocking, contemptuous, i. 712.

Content, acquiescence, iii. 722.

Content, continent, self-restrained, iii. 445.

Continence, temperance, iii. 598.

Continent, capacious, iii. 378.

Continuate, uninterrupted, iii. 685.

Contraction, marriage-contract, iii. 870.

Contrive, to scheme, to plot, i. 429, ii. 95, iii. 431.

Convent, to agree, to be convenient, ii. 276.

Convent, to summon, to cite, ii. 631, 689.
Convert, to turn, ii. 486.

Convertite, a penitent, a convert, iii. 745.

Convey, to filch, to manage by stealth, i. 482, 706, ii. 291, 710

iii. 506, 561.

Convicted, vanquished, i. 306.

Convince, to conquer, i. 96, ii. 716, iii. 481, 506.
Convive, to feast together, iii. 307.
Cooling-card, ii. 326.

Copatain-hat, a high-crowned hat, i. 269.

Cope, to encounter, i. 430.

Copy, theme, i. 142.

Coranto, a dance, ii. 20, 117.

Corinth, a cant name for a bordello, ii. 473.
Corinthian, a wencher, i. 527.

Cornuto, a cuckold, i. 671.

Corollary, an overplus, iii. 36.

Corporal of the field, an aide-de-camp, i. 67.
Costard, the head, i. 65.

Coted, came alongside, iii. 353.
Cot-quean, a molly-coddle, i. 202.
Cotsale, or Cotswold Hills, i. 686.

Couching, crouching, iii. 434.

Counsel, in counsel, secret, in secret, i. 17, 640, ii. 35, iii. 182.
Countenance, to receive, to entertain, i. 255, ii. 127, iii. 184.
Counter, to run, to track the scent backward, i. 150.

Counter-caster, a disparaging term for merchant, iii. 648.
Counterfeit, a portrait, i. 418, iii. 768.

Counterfeit, a false piece of money, iii. 283.

Counterpoints, counterpanes, i. 246.

Countervail, to make equal or equivalent, i. 183.

County, an earl, a peer, i. 196, 321.

Couplement, i. 93, iii. 763.

Courage, mettle, spirit, ii. 415.

Course, carrière of a horse, i. 306.

Courser's-hair, a vulgar superstition concerning, iii. 534
Court-cupboard, a cabinet, i. 169.

Court holy-water, glozing speeches, iii. 84.
Court of wards, i. 150.

Courts, a term in tennis, ii. 69.

Cousin, a kinsman, i. 169.

Covent, a convent, ii. 626.

Cover, to prepare the table, ii. 142.

Cower, to bend or sink, ii. 212.

Cowl-staff, a pole used to carry a bucket, i. 666.
Coystril, a mean groom, or peasant, ii. 217, 238.

Cozenage, sorcery, witchcraft, i. 149.

Cozier, a botcher of clothes or shoes, ii. 247.

Crack, a manikin, iii. 134.

Cracked coin, iii. 400.

Crants, crowns, garlands, iii. 390.

Crare, a small vessel of burden, ii. 748.

Credent, credible, plausible, ii. 627, iii. 201.

Credit, information, ii. 269.

Crescive, increasing, growing, ii. 65.

Crewel, worsted, iii. 77.
Crispian, feast of, ii. 119.

Critic, a cynic, iii. 311, 777.

Critical, cynical, censorious, iii. 663.

Crooked, bowed or crouched, iii. 434.

Cross, a coin stamped with a cross, i. 56, ii. 141, 469.

Cross, to pass across the path of a spectre, iii. 332.

Crow-keeper, a scarecrow, or a rustic employed to frighten

crows, iii. 120.

Crush a cup of wine, an invitation to a carouse, i. 164.
Cruzado, crusado, a gold coin so called, iii. 712.

Cry, a pack, a troop or company, iii. 164, 366.

Cry aim, to encourage, i. 39, 293, 662.

Cry Havoc a signal for indiscriminate slaughter, i. 295, iii.
158, 437.

Cry in the top of question, to crow over or challenge, iii. 359.
Cry on, to announce, to assert, ii. 272, 573, iii. 700.

Cue, a stage term for the last words of a speech, i. 358.

Cuisses, armour for the thighs, i. 548.

Cullion, a paltry fellow, i. 258, ii. 83.

Cunning, knowing, skilful, i. 233, ii. 204, 503, 623.

Curb, to bow or truckle, iii. 372.

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Curiosity, finical refinement, ii. 492.

Curious, scrupulous, over punctilious, i. 265, iii. 553, 751.
Curious-good, fastidiously precise, iii. 751.

Curious-knotted, abounding in intricate figures, i. 55, 475.
Curled, an epithet of gentility, iii. 653, 748.

Cursed, under the influence of a malediction, iii. 314.

Curst, cross-grained, sour, intractable, malicious, i. 69, 365,
ii. 257, iii. 73, 223, 730.
Curtail-dog, a halting dog, i. 652.
Curtle-ax, a cutlass, ii. 99, 136.

Custard, leaping into at civic feasts, ii. 56.
Customer, a loose woman, ii. 52, iii. 689.
Cut and long tail, good and bad, i. 668.
Cyprus, or Cypress, a stuff like crape, ii. 256.
DAFF, or doff, to put off, i. 174, 731.
Dagonet, Sir, in Arthur's Show, i. 628.
Damn, to condemn, iii. 444, 530.
Damnable, damnably, iii. 219.

Dancing Horse, Bankes's, i. 100.
Dancing sword, ii. 55.

Danger, power, i. 426, iii. 728.

Dangerous, biting, mischievous, i. 53, iii. 211, 423.
Dank, wet, rotten, i. 176, 355, 520.

Danskers, Danes, iii. 346.

Dare larks, to, ii. 678.

Darius's casket, ii. 333.

Darkling, in the dark, i. 355.

Darraign, boldly prepared, ii. 415.

Daubery, juggling, i. 675.

Day-woman, dairy-woman, i. 58.

Dealt on lieutenantry, fought by proxy, iii. 560.

Dear, choice, rare, momentous, extreme, i. 59, 449, ii. 135, iii.

293, 398, 618, 655, 658, 765.

Death at the ebb of tide, a popular opinion, ii. 117.

Death rock me asleep, beginning of a ballad, i. 627.
Death's fool, ii. 637.

Death's-man, executioner, iii. 748.

Death-tokens, plague-spots forewarning death, iii. 320, 559.
Debitor-and-creditor, the title of some old treatises on book-
keeping, iii. 648.

Deceptious, deceiving, iii. 311.

Decked, sprinkled, iii. 9.

Deck of cards, a pack of cards, ii. 443.

Defeat, to disfigure the countenance, iii. 659.
Defeatures, ill-looks, defacement, i. 121, 145.
Defence, knowledge of sword-play, i. 216, iii. 384.
Defend, to forbid, i. 550, 704, 729, iii. 658.
Deftly, smartly, featly, iii. 501.

Defunctive, mortuary, iii. 795.

Defy, to contemn or spurn, iii. 791.
Defy, to renounce, i. 518.

Delighted, delighting, iii. 659.

Demerits, good or ill deserts, iii. 132, 651.

Demit, to depress or cast down, ii. 488.

Demi-wolves, a species of dog, iii. 492.
Denay, to deny, ii. 347.

Denier, a French coin, ii. 519.

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Dilations, delations, accusations,distillations, iii. 677.
Dildos and fadings, obscene burdens of old ballads, iii. 232.
Direct, explicitly, without ambiguity, iii. 413.
Disability, disparagement, i. 15.

Disabled, disparaged, impugned, ii. 168, 326.
Disappointed, unappointed, iii. 344.
Discandying, liquefying, iii. 565, 573.
Disclose, disclosure, iii. 361.
Dishabited, dislodged, i. 294.

Dislike, to express disapprobation, ii. 168.

Dislimn, to render indistinct, to obliterate, iii. 573.
Dismes, tenths, iii. 279.

Dismount thy tuck, draw thy rapier, ii. 262.

Dispark, to destroy the enclosures of a park, i. 468.
Dispute, to reason, i. 191, iii. 235.

Dispute on, to debate a cause, iii. 708.

Disseat, depose, iii. 511.

Distain, to cloud, to cast into the shade, ii. 213.
Distempered, disordered, iii. 366, 649.
Distinctly, separately, iii. 10.
Distractions, detachments, iii. 559.
Distraught, distracted, i. 202, ii. 546.
Division, variation in music, i. 194.

Do, do, an expression of contempt, iii. 278.
Doff, to do off, to put off, i. 174, 781.

Dole, distribution, i. 574.

Do me right, accept my challenge, i. 733.

Do me right, pledge me in a bumper, i. 621.

Don, to put on, iii. 379.

Done, destroyed, iii. 729.

Double-cracks, double-thunder-claps, iii. 472.

Double-dealer, one unfaithful in love or wedlock, i. 740, ii. 272.
Double-pictures, pictures that showed two faces by turning,
iii. 547.

Double set, twice round, iii. 668. J

Dout, to extinguish, ii. 98.

Dower, gift, iii. 688.

Dowle, a feather, down, iii. 33.

Down-gyved, hanging down loose, iii. 347.
Dowzabel, i. 135.

Drachma, a Greek coin, iii. 442, 446.

Draught-house, forica, drain, sewer, &c., ii. 605, iii. 309.

Draw dry foot, to track by the scent of the foot, i. 150.
Drawer, a waiter, i. 527, 587, 656.

Drawn fox, i. 544.

Dreams, John-a-, a sleepy, muddle-headed fellow, iii. 356
Dress, to address, to prepare, ii. 93, iii. 273.
Drinking habits of Englishmen, iii. 710.

Drinking in the morning fasting, i. 687.

Drive, to rush pell-mell, iii. 609.

Drollery, a puppet-show, iii. 33.

Drugs, drudges, ii. 491.

Drum, John, his entertainment, ii. 56.

Ducats of Venice, i. 439.

Dudgeon, the wooden handle of a dagger, iii. 483.
Due, to endue, ii. 317.

Dullard, a dull observer, ii. 762.

Dumbed, silenced, rendered mute, iii. 537.

Dumps, heavy, mournful tunes, i. 204, iii. 749.

Dun out of the mire, i. 215.

Duns the mouse, a proverbial saying, i. 215.

Dupp, to lift up, to open, iii. 379.

Durance, a buff leather garment usually worn by sergean

i. 150.

Durance, robe of, cant term for imprisonment, i. 150.

Dwell, to abide, to continue, i. 399.

Dyeing the hair, custom of, i. 742.

EAGER, aigre, sour, iii. 344, 778.

Eagles' power of gazing on the sun, ii. 452.

Ear, to plough, i. 471, ii. 12, iii. 532, 536, 720.

Ecstasy, aberration of mind, i. 138, iii. 372, 785.

Eftest, quickest, readiest, i. 729.

Egal, equal, iii. 627.

Eggs for money, will you take, a proverbial phrase, iii. 201

Egyptian thief at point of death, ii. 281.

Eisel, wormwood, vinegar, iii. 391, 777.

Eld, old, old age, iii. 281.

Elements of the body, principles of life, iii. 553.

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