Determined, sometimes for concluded. Dibble, an instrument in gardening. Dickon, Richard.

Diet, to put under a regimen, to oblige to fast, or to loath. Diffused, wild, irregular, extravagant.

Digression, transgression. Love's Lab.

Dildos, the burthen of a song. Directitude, discreditude, or discredit.

Disable, undervalue. As you.
Disappointed, unappointed, un-
prepared. Ham.
Discandy, to melt the sweets, to
dissolve.

Discourse, reason. Twel. Night.
Dishabited, dislodged.
Dismes, Fr. tenths.
Disnatured, wanting natural af-|
fection.

Dispark, to throw down the hedges.

Disperge, to sprinkle.
Dispose, to make terms. Ant.
and Cleo.
Disputable,

you.

disputations.

As

Dispute, talk over, reason upon,
account for.
Disseat, displace.
Distained, unstained. Com. Er.
Distate, to corrupt. Troil. and
Cres.
Distemperature, perturbation.
Distraught, distracted.
Diverted, turned out of the
course of nature. As you.
Division, phrase in music, the
parts of it. Rom. and Jul.
Hen. IV. 1st Part.
Doff. See Daff

Dole, alms, or distribution.
Don, to do on, put on.
Dout, do out, extinguish.
Dowl, a feather.
Down-gyved, hanging down like
the loose cincture which con-
fines the fetters round the ancle.
Draught, the jakes. Tim.
Draw, sometimes used for with
draw.

Dullard, a person stupidly unconcerned.

Dumbs, makes silent. Dump, a mournful elegy. Dung, an obscene word, probably part of a proverb. Rom. and Jul.

Dungy, of dung, earthy. Dupped, did up, put up, opened. Durance, some lasting kind of stuff. Hen. IV. 1st Part.

Eager, sour, harsh. Hen. VI. 3d Part.

Eanlings, lambs just dropt.
Ear, to plough. Ant. and Cle.
Ear-kissing, whispering,
Easy, slight, inconsiderable.
Hen. VI. 2d Part. Cor.
Eche, eke out.

Ecstacy, alienation of mind.
Temp. Much Ado. Mac.
Edward shovel-boards, Edward
VIth's shillings, used at shuffle-
board.
Effects, affects, affections. Mea.
for Mea. Actions. Ham.
Eftest, or Deftest, readiest.
Eld, old person or persons.
Mer. Wiv. Decrepitude. Mea.
for Mea.
Element, initiation, previous
practice. Hen. VIII.
Elf, done by elves or fairies.
Elvish marked, marked by elves.
Emballing, being distinguished
by the ball, the emblem of
royalty.

Embare,expose, display to view. Embarquements, impediments, hindrances. Cor. Embossed, inclosed; when a deer is run hard, and foams at the mouth, he is said to be embossed. All's Well. Swollen, puffy. Empericutick, of an empirical kind, quackish.

Empery, dominion, sovereign >command.

Emulous, often used in a bad
sense for envious.
Enactures, laws.
Encave, hide.

End, still an end, generally.
Enfeoff,to invest with possession.
Engaged, delivered as an hos-
tage. Hen. IV. 1st Part.
Engross, to fatten or pamper.
Rich. III.
Engrossments,

accumulations.

Hen. IV. 2d Part. Enkindle, or kindle, to stimulate. Mac. As you. Enmesh, inclose them all, from taking birds or fishes with meshes.

Enmew, to force to lie in cover; a term in falconry. Enridged, bordered, or perhaps for enraged. Lear. Ensconce, to secure in a safe place. Enseamed, greasy. Enshield, concealed, masked. Ensteeped, immersed. Entertainment, pay. Cor. Oth. Receive into service. Jul. Cas. Entreatments,favours, or objects of entreaty.

Envy, often used for aversion, malice.

Ephesian, a cant term, perhaps for a toper.

Erewhile, a little while ago. Erring, wandering, errant. Oth. Escape, illegitimate child. Tit. And.

Escoted, paid; from escot, shot, or reckoning. Esil, or Eisel, a river. Ham. Esperance, the motto of the Percy family.

Hen.

Estimate, the rate at which I
value. Cor.
Estimation, conjecture.
IV. 1st Part.
Estridges, ostriches.
Eterne, eternal.

Even, to make even, or repre-
sent plain. Lear.
Even Christian,fellow Christian.
Mac.
Evils,jakes. Mea. for Mea. Hen.
VIII.

Examined, disputed or doubted.
All's Well.

Excellent differences, distinguished excellencies. Excrement, the beard. Lov. I ab. Mer. Ven. Wint. Tale. Ham. Execute, sometimes for to use, or employ.

Executors, executioners. Hen.V. Exempt, independent, not under

the control of. Com Er. Exercise, exhortation, lecture. Rich. III.

Exhale, breathe your last. Hen.
V.

Exhibition, allowance.
Gent. Oth. Lear.
Exigent, end.

Two

Exorcism, in Shakspeare, generally means the raising of spirits.

Expect, expectation. Troil. and Cres.

Expedience,expedition. Hen.IV. 1st Part, &c.

Expedient, often for expeditious.
Expediently, expeditiously.
Expostulate, inquire or discuss.
Ham.

Exsufficate, bubble-like.
Extacy, a degree of madness.
Ham.

Extend, to seize. Ant. and Cleo.
Extent, violence. Twel. Night.
Extern, outward.

Extremity, calamity. Per. Lear. Eyas-musket, a troublesome puppy, infant Lilliputian.

Eyas and musket, are young
hawks.
Eyases, young nestlings. Ham.
Eye, a shade. Temp.
Eyliads, eyes; from aillades. Fr.
Eyne, eyes.

Face-royal, a face not to be meddled with. Hen. IV. 2d Part.

Faced, turned up with facings.
Tam. Shrew.
Facinorous, wicked.
Factious, active. Jul. Cas.
Faculty, exercise of power.

Mac.

Fadge, to suit or fit.
Fadings, a dance.

Fain, fond. Hen. VI. 2d Part. Fair, sometimes for fairness, beauty.

Faitors, traitors, rascals. Fall, often used as an active verb: At fall, at an ebb. Tim. Falsing, a thing that's falsified, or false. Com. Er. Falsely, illegally, illegitimately. Mea. for Mea. Dishonestly, treacherously. Familiar, a demon. Hen. VI. 2d Part.

Fancies and Goodnights, little poems so called. Fancy, often used for love. Fang, to seize, or gripe. Fantastical, of fancy, or imagination. Mac. Fantasticoes, affected, foolish fel

lows.

Fap, beaten, or drunk.
Far, extensively. Cym.
Far off guilty, guilty in a remote
degree.
Farced, stuffed.
Farthel, or fardel, a bundle, a

burthen.

Fashions, the farcens, or farcy.

Tam. Shrew.

Favour, often for countenance.
Favours, features.
Fear, sometimes to affright.
Fear, danger.

Feat, to form, to model.
Feat, ready, dexterous.
Federacy, a confederate.

Fee-farm, a kiss in fee-farm, a long and unbounded kiss, from a law phrase.

Feeders,low debauched servants. Feeding, substance, or mainteWint. Tale.

nance.

Feere, a companion, a husband.
Fell, skin.

Fell of hair, hairy part. Mac.
Fence, skill in fencing. Much
Ado. Hen. VI. 2d Part.
Feodary, an accomplice. Mea.
for Mea. Cym.
Festinately, hastily.

Festival terms, splendid phraseology.

Fet, fetched, derived.
Fico, a fig, or figo.
Fielded, in the field.
Fig, to insult.

File, or list. Mac. &c.
Filed, defiled. Mac.
Finch egg, a term of reproach:
a finch's egg is remarkably
gaudy.

Fine, to make showy or specious.
Hen. V.

Finer, for final. Hen. V.
Fine issues, great consequences.
Fineless, unbounded, endless.
Fire-drake,a serpent, a will-o'-the
wisp, a firework.

Fire-new, just off the irons, quite

Flibbertigibbet, a fiend.
Flickering,fluttering,undulation,
the motion of flame.
Flote, wave.

Flourish, to ornament, sanction.
Mea. for Mea.

Flout, to wave idly, to wave in mockery.

Flush youth, youth ripened to manhood.

Foeman, an enemy in war. Foin, to make a thrust in fencing. Foison, plenty.

Foison plenty, plenty, to the utmost abundance. Fr. Fond, valued, prized, sometimes foolish, indiscreet. Fond done, foolishly done. Foot, to grasp. Cym. Forage,to range abroad. K.John. Fordone, overcome or destroyed. Foredoomed, anticipated their doom. Lear.

Forefended, prohibited, forbid. Foreslow, to be dilatory. Forgetive, from forge, inventive, imaginative.

Forked plague, an allusion to the cuckhold's horns. Oth.

Gaberdine, the coarse frock of a peasant, or a loose cloke. Gad, a sharp pointed instrument: Done upon the Gad, suddenly, capriciously.

Galliard, an ancient dance. Galliasses, a kind of ships so called.

Gallimaufry, a confused heap of
things together.
Gallow, to scare, or frighten.
Gallow-glasses, foot soldiers
among the Irish.
Garboils, commotions.
Garish, gaudy, showy.
Garnered, treasured up.
Gasted, frighted.

Gaunt, thin, lean, or meagre.
Gawd, a bauble, or trifle.
Gear, a colloquial expression,
for things or matters.
Geck, a fool.

Gennets, or jennets, Spanish

horses. German, a-kin.

Germins,seeds which have begun
to germinate or sprout.
Gest, a stage, or journey. Wint.
Tale.

Giglots, wanton wenches.
Gimmal, a ring.

Franklin, a freeholder, a

man.

Frets, the stops of a musical instrument, which regulate the vibrations of a string. Frippery, a shop where old clothes were sold. Temp. Frontlet, part of a woman's headdress. Lear.

Frush, to break, or bruise. Fulham, a cant term for false dice.

Fulsome, obscene. Mer. Ven.
Furnishings, colours, external
pretences. Lear.
Fustilarian, from fusty, a cant

name.

Gleek, to joke or scoff.
Glib, to lib, or geld.
Glooming, gloomy. Rom. and
Jul.

Gloze, to expound, or explain.
Glut, to swallow. Temp.
God'ild you, God yield you, or
reward you.

God's sonties, the abbreviation of an ancient oath. Gongarian, for Hungarian, used as a term of reproach. Good den, good evening. Good-jer, from gougere, what the pox!

Gorbellied, fat and corpulent,
Gospelled, of precise or puritan
virtue.
Goss, furze.

Gossomer, the white exhalations
which fly about in summer.
Gougeers, the French distemper.
Gourd, an instrument of gaming.
Mer. Wiv.
Gouts, drops. Fr.
Gramercy, grand merci, great
thanks. Fr. Tit. And.
Grange, a solitary farm-house.
Gratulate, to be rejoiced in.
Mea. for Mea.
Grise, or Grize, a step.
Groundlings, the lower sort of
people who stood or sat on the
ground, in the old theatres.
Guerdon, reward.
Guerdoned, rewarded.
Cules, a term in heraldry, red.
Gust, to taste. Wint. Tale.
Gyve, to catch, to shackle.
Gyves, shackles.

Haggard, a kind of hawk. Halcyon, a bird, otherwise called the king-fisher. Lear. Hallidom, sentence at the day of judgment.

Handsaw, corrupted from Hernshaw. Ham. Hangers, that part of the girdle or belt by which the sword was suspended. Ham. Hardiment, hardiness, bravery,

stoutness.

Harlocks, the name of a plant, probably the burdock. Harlots, sometimes applied to cheats of the male sex. Com. Er.

Harlotry, vulgar, filthy. Harness, armour. Mac. &c. Harrow, to conquer, to subdue. Harry, to hurt, to use roughly. Hatch, to cut, or engrave. Having, estate or fortune. Haught, haughty.

Hay, a term in fencing. Rom. and Jul.

Hearted throne, the heart in which thou wast enthroned. Hebenon, henbane.

Hefted, heaved, agitated.
Hefts, heavings.

Hell, a cant name for a dungeon
in a prison. Com. Er.
Hen.
Hence, henceforward.
IV.

Henchman, page of honour.
Hent, to seize or take possession,
to take hold of.
Herb of grace, rue.
Hermits, beadsmen. Mac.
Hest, for behest, command.
Hight, called. Mid. Night.
Hilding, or hilderling, a low

wretch.

Hoar, hoary, mouldy.
Hob-nob, let it happen or not.
Hold, i. e. rumour, to believe it.
Mac.

Hold taking, bear handling.
Hoodman-blind, blind-man's buff.
Horologe, clock.

Hoxes, to hox, or hough, to cut the hamstring.

Hull, to drive to and fro upon the water, without sails or rudder.

Humming, o'erwhelming. Per. Hunt-counter, blunderer, worthless fellow, probably bailiff. Hen. IV. 2d Part.

Hunts-up, a morning hunting

tune. Hurly, noise.

Hurtle, to dash, or push violently. Hyen, hyæna.

Jauncing, jaunting.

Jay, a bad woman. Cym. Ice-brooke, i. e. temper, tempered by being plunged into an ice-brook.

Jesses, straps of leather tied about the foot of a hawk to hold her in hand.

Jet, to strut, to walk proudly. Ignomy, ignominy.

Jig, a ludicrous dialogue in metre. Ham.

Imbare, to lay open, or expose. Immanity, barbarity, savage

ness.

Immediacy, proximity without intervention.