GLOSSARY OF OBSOLETE WORDS, AND OF WORDS VARYING FROM THEIR ORDINARY SIGNIFICATION. Advertising, attentive. Adversity, contrariety. Advertisement, admonition. Advice, consideration, discretion, sion. Approbation, entry or probation. Approve, to justify, prove, establish. Aqua-vitæ, strong waters, probably usquebaugh. Arabian bird, the phoenix. Arch, chief. Argentine, silver. Argentine, the goddess Diana. Argosies, ships laden with great Argument, subject for conversation, Arm, to take up in the arms. Art, practice as distinguished from Ascaunt, askew, sideways. Aspect, countenance. Aspersion, sprinkling. Aglet-baby, a diminutive being, not As point, completely armed. exceeding the tag of a point, from Agnize, acknowledge, confess, vow. Alm, guess, suspicion. Airy fame, mere verbal eulogy Aider-liefest, best beloved. Ale, a merry-meeting. A'life, at life. Assay, test. Ascapart, a giant. Astringer, a gentleman falconer. Ates, instigate from Ate, the goddess Atomies, minute particles visible in the sun's rays. Attasked, taken to task. Ames-ace, the lowest chance of the Atone, to reconcile. dice. Attended, waited for. Attent, attentive. Attest, attestation. Attorney, deputation. of another. Attorneyship, the discretional agency Beard, to defy. Bearing, demeanour Bearing-cloth, a mantle used at chris-Bow, yoke. tenings, Bent, (in falconry) to flutter. Beck, a salutation made with the head. Beetle, to hang over the base. Beholding, viewing with regard. Beldame, ancient mother. Be-moiled, bedraggled, bemired. Bent, utmost degree of any passion. Bestowed, stowed away, lodged. Beteem, to give, pour out, permit,suffer. Bezonian, a mean fellow. Bolds, etaboldens. Bowlins or bowlines, tackle of a ship. Brace, armour for the arm. Brack, to salt. Braid, crafty, deceitful. Brake, an instrument of torture; also a thicket. Brands, a part of the andirons on which the wood for the fire was supported. Brasier, a manufacturer of brass; also, Break with, to break the matter to. Canary, a dance. Candle-wasters, those who sit up al Cap, to salute by taking off the cap. Capon, metaphor for a letter. Carbonado, a piece of meat eat crossways for the gridiron. Card, a sea-chart, perhaps also the Careires, the motion of a horse; tc pass the careires, means to over step the bounds of decorum. Carkanet, a necklace. Carl, clown, boor. Carlot, peasant. Carnal, sanguinary. Carowses, drinks. Carriage, import. Carried, conducted. Carry, to prevail over. Cart, a chariot. Case, skin, outward garb. Case of lives, a set of lives. Casques, helmets. Cassock, a horseman's loose coat. Cast, to empty; also to dismiss, reject. Cast, reckoned, Castilian, an opprobrious term. Castiliano vulgo, a cant term of con tempt. Cast-lips, left off lips. Cast the water, to find out disorders by inspecting the urine. Cataian, a liar. Catling, a small lutestring, made of cat gut. Cavalero-justice, a cant term. Brownist, a follower of Brown, a sec-Cavalerocs, gay fellows. tarian. Bruising-irons, an allusion to the an cient mace. Bruit, report with clamour. Blurt, blurted, an expression of con- Bunting, a bird, Butt-shaft, an arrow to shoot at shafts Censure, to give an opinion. By'rlaken, by our lady. C. Caddis, worsted lace. Cade, a barrel. Cadent, falling. Cain-coloured, yellow. Boot, profit, something over and above. Calculate, to foretell. Bore, demeaned. confederate. Coasting, conciliatory. Codling, an unripe apple. Cob-loaf, a crusty, uneven loaf. Cock, cock-boat. Cock-and-pye, a vulgar oath. Cockshut-time, twilight. Cockle-hat, a pilgrim's hat. Cockle, a corn-weed. Codding, amorous. Codpiece, a part of the dress. Coffin, the cavity of a raised pie. Cog, to cheat with dice, to lie. Cognizance, badge or token. Cogging, lying. Conversion, change of condition. Conveyance, slight of hand, theft. Conveyed himself, derived his title. Copatain hat, a hat with a conical crown Coragio, courage, be of good cheer. Coigne of vantage, convenient corner. Corinth, a brothel. Corinthian, a wencher. Corky, dry, withered.. Corollary, surpius. Collection, consequence, or corollary. Corporal, corporeal. Collied, black, smutted. Colt, to trick Corrigible, corrected. Costard, a head, Coster-monger, a dealer in costers or apples. Cote, to overtake. Coted, quoted, tegarded. Cotsale, Cotswood in Gloucester. Count, to reckon upon. Countenance, favour; also, false ap pearance, hypocrisy. Counter, a hunting term. Counter-caster, one who reckons with counters. Counter-cheek, a term in chess. Courses, the mainsail and foresail. Court confect, a spurious nobleman. Cowlstaff, a staff used in carrying a basket. Coy, to soothe. Coyed, yielded reluctantly. Coystril, a coward cock, a poltroon. Crack, dissolution; also, a boy-child. Cranking or crankling, the rush of a river. Crants, garlands. Crare, a small trading vessel. Craven, a cowardly cock, mean, cowardly. Create, compounded, made up of. Credit, account, information, credulity Crest, the summit. Crestless, those who have no right to armorial bearings. Crewel, worsted. Crisp, curled, winding. Critical, censorions. Crone, a very old woman. Crosses, money stamped with a cross. Crow-keeper, a scarecrow. Crownet, last purpose. Crulentious, cruel. Crusado, a Portuguese coin. Crush, to drink. Crush a cup, to crack a bottle. Cry, a pack of hounds. Cub-drawn, alluding to a bear whose dugs are dry. Cue, a theatrical term, the last word of the preceding speech. Cuisses, armour for the thighs. Curb, to bend or truckle. Curled, ostentatiously dressed. Cursed, under the influence of a male diction. Curst, petulant, ill tempered, crabbed, harsh. Curstness, ill-humour. Curtail, a little cur. Curtal, a docked horse. Curtle-axe, a cutlass, broad-sword. Customer, a strumpet. Cut, a horse. Disnatured, wanting natural affection. Empery, sovereign power. Dispark, to destroy a park or inclosure. Disponge, to discharge as a sponge. Dissent, displace, depose. Distrined, unstained. Distemperature, perturbation. Distempered, out of humour. Distractions, detachments, separate bodies. Divert, to turn aside. off, to put off. Dole, alms, distribution, lot. Emulous, envious, jealous. Encave, to hide. Endart, to dart forth. Enfeoff, to invest with possession Engaged, delivered as an hostage. Enmesh, to inclose, as in meshes, cover. Enridged, bordered, Ensconce, to secure in a safe place, to fortify. Enseamed, greasy, Enseer, to dry up. Entertainment, pay; also, being te Entreatments, favours; also, objects Envy, aversion, malice. Esil, or Eisel, a river. Esperance, motto of the Percy family Essential, existent, real. Estimation, conjecture. Even, to make even, or evident. Examined, doubted. Excellent differences, distinguished e cellencies. Excrement, the beard. Execute, to use, or employ. Ducdame, (duc ad me) bring him to Exhale, to breathe one's last. me, the burthen of a song. Dudgeon, the handle of a dagger Due, to endue, to deck, Duke, a leader. Dull, gentie soothing. Dullard, a stupid person. Dump, a mournful elegy. Descant, to harangue upon; also, a Dup, to do up, to lift up. Deserved, deserving. Deprive, to disinherit. Deracinate, to root up. Derogate, degraded. term in music. Duinb, to make silent. Exercise, exhortation. Exhaust, to draw forth, Eager, (from aigre, Fr.) sour, harsh.Extern, external, Extremity, calunity. Durance, some lasting kind of stuff. E. Eaulings, lambs. Ear, to plough. Ear-kissing, whispering. Easy, slight, inconsiderable. Eche, to eke out. Expiate, to end. Exposture, exposure. Express, to reveal. Expulsed, expelled. Extracting, distracting. Digress, to deviate from what is right. Ecstasy, madness. Feat, dexterous. Feated, made neat, Fee-grief, a peculiar sorrow. Feature, beauty. Federacy, confederate. Feeder, a dependant. Foizon, plenty. Germins, seeds begun to sprout Giglot, a wanton. Gilder, a coin, value 2s. Gimmal, a ring or engine. Fools' zanies, baubles surmounted with Gird, a sarcasm. Folly, depravity. Fond, foolish. a fool's head. Foot-cloth, horse-covering For, because. Force, to stuff. Forced, false. of Fordid, destroyed. Formal, in form. Former, foremost. Forspent, exhausted. Forspoke, contradicted Forslow, delay. Forwearied, worn out. Foxship, mean, cunning Fell of hair, capilitium, any part cover- Franklin, a small freeholder ed with hair. Fell-feats, savage actions. Fence, the art of self-defence. Festival terms, elegant phrase. Fet, fetched. Few, in brief. Frayed, frightened. Fret, the stop of a musical instrument. Friend, for friendship, to befriend. From, in opposition to. Furnishings, colours, pretences Fine, the conclusion, to make shewy, Fumiter, fumitory. Glaire, a sword. God 'ield you, God yield you. Good-deed, indeed. Good-den, good evening. Good-jer, the venereal disease Gorbellied, corpulent. Gospelled, puritanic. Goss, furze. Gossamer, atoms that float in the sun beams. Gourds, dice. Gouts, drops. Go your gait, go away. Grained, furrowed, like the grain of wood; also, died ingrain. Gramercy, great thanks. Grange, a lone farm house Gratulate, to be rejoiced in. Grave-man, a man in his grave. Greenly, unskilfully. Groundlings, those who sat or stood Guard, to fringe. Gyve, to shackle. G. Fineless, boundless, endless. Finer, final. Firago, for Virago. work. Fire-new, quite new. Firk, to chastise. First-house, chief branch of the family. Galliasses, ships. Gallimaufry, a medle Gallow, to scare. Gallow-glasses, Irish foo- soilers. Fits o' the season, disorders of the sea-Gaping, shouting. Fives, a distemper in horses. Fixure, position. Garish, gaudy. Garnered, treasured up Flap-dragon, inflammable stuff swal-Gaudy, a festival. lowed by topers. Flap-jack, a pancake. Flaw, a sudden gust of wind. Flecked, spotted, streaked. Fleet, for float. Gasted, frighted. Gyves, shackles. H. Hack, to become cheap. Haggard, wild; also, wild hawk.. Happily, accidentally. |