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Eyliads, glances, looks. Oeiliads.

Eyne, eyes.

F.

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federate.

Fester, to corrupt.

Festinately, hastily.

Forbid, under interdiction.
Force, power.

Force, to enforce, to urge.

Festival terms, splendid phraseo Force, to stuff.

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Faculties, medicinal virtues, of Fig, to insult.

fice, exercise of power.

Fadge, to suit or fit.

Fading, the burthen of a song.
Fain, fond.

Fair, beauty, complexion, fair

ness.

Fair-betrothed, fairly contracted,
honourably affianced
Faith, fidelity.
Faithful, not an infidel.
Faithfully, fervently.
Faitors, traitors, rascals.
Fall, to let fall, to drop.
Fall, an ebb.

False, to make false.

Fights, clothes hung round a ship to conceal the men from the enemy. File, a list. Filed, defiled.

Filed, gone an equal pace with.
Fills, the shafts.

Filths, common sewers.
Fine, the conclusion,
Fine, full of finesse, artful.
Fine, to make showy, or specious.
Fineless, boundless, endless.
Firago for Virago.

Fire-drake, will-o'-the-wisp, or a fire-work.

Falsely, dishonestly, treacher- Fire-new, bren-new, new from

ously.

Falsing, falsifying.
Familiar, a demon.
Fancy, love.

Fancy-free, exempt from the power of love.

Fang, to seize or gripe.
Fanged, possessed of fangs.
Fans, ancient.

Fantastical, creatures of fancy.
Fap, drunk.

Far, extensively.
Farced, stuffed.

Fashions, farcens or farcy.
Fast, determined, fixed.
Fat, dull.

Fate, an action predetermined by

fate.

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the forge.

Firk, to chastise.

First, noblest, most eminent.
Fit, a division of a song.
Fitchew, a polecat.
Fitly, exactly.

Fives, a distemper in horses.
Flap-dragon, a small inflammable
substance, which topers swal-
low in a glass of wine.
Flapjacks, pan-cakes.
Flask, a soldier's powder-horn.
Flatness, lowness, depth.
Flaw,sudden violent gust of wind.
Flayed, stripped.
Flecked,spotted,dappled,streaked.
Fleet, to float.
Fleeting, inconstant.
Fleshment, first act of military

service.

Flewed, having the flews or chaps

of a hound.

Flickering, fluttering like the
motion of a flame.
Flight, a sort of shooting.
Flourish, ornament.
Flote, wave.
Flush, mature, ripe.
Foeman, an enemy in war.
Foin, to thrust in fencing.
Foizon, plenty.

Folly, depravity of mind.

Fond, foolish, or prized by folly. Fonder, more weak or foolish.

Fondly, foolishly.

Forced, false.
Fordid, destroyed.

Fordo, to undo, to destroy.
Foredone, overcome.
Forfended, prohibited, forbidden.
Foreign, employed in foreign
embassies.

Forepast, already had.
Fore-slow, to be dilatory, to loiter.
Forestall, to prevent by anticipa
tion.

Forgetive, inventive,imaginativë.
Forked, horned.

Formal, not out of form, regular, sensible, in form, in shape. Former, foremost.

Forspent, wasted, exhausted. Forspoke, contradicted, spoken against.

Forthcoming, in custody.
Forwearied, worn out.
Foul, homely, not fair.
For, a cant word for a sword.
Forship, mean, cunning.
Frampold, peevish, fretful, or

cross.

Frank, a sty.

Franklin, a little gentleman et freeholder.

Free, artless, free from art, ge

nerous.

Fret, the stop of a musical in

strument, which regulates the vibration of the string. Friend, a lover, a term appl cable to both sexes, a paramour Friend, friendship. Friendl, to befriend.

Frippery, a shop where old clothes were sold.

Frize, a cloth made in Wales.
From, in opposition to.
Fronted, opposed.

Frontier, forehead

Frontlet, a forehead cloth.
Frush, to break or bruise.
Frustrate, frustrated.
Fulfilling, filling till there be to
room for more.
Full, complete.
Fullams, loaded dice.

Fullest, most complete and per
fect.
Fumiter, fumitory.

Furnished, dressed.

G

Fools' zanies, baubles with the Gabardine, a loose felt cloak.

head of a fool.

Foot-cloth, a housing covering the body of the horse, and almost reaching to the ground,

Gad, a pointed instrument. Gain-giving, misgiving. Gainsay, to unsay, deny, com

dict.

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Gramercy, grand mercy, great

thanks.

Grange, the farm-house of a mo

nastery; a lone house.
Gratillity, gratuity.
Gratulate, gratifying, acceptable.
Grave, to entomb.

Graves, or greaves, armour for
the legs.
Greasily, grossly.

Greek, a bawd, or pander.
Green, unripe, not fully formed.
Greenly, awkwardly, unskilfully.
Greets, pleases.

Grief, pain, grievances.
Griefs, grievances, wrongs.
Grievances, sorrows, sorrowful
affections.

Grieve, to lament for.

Grise, a step.

Grossly, palpably.

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utmost.

Hight, called.

Groundlings, the frequenters of Hilding, a paltry cowardly fel

the pit in the playhouse.

Growing, accruing.

Guard, defence.

Guard, to fringe or lace.

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Gilt, gilding, golden money.
Gimmal, a ring or engine.
Ging, a gang.

Gird, a sarcasm or gibe, emotion.
Gleek, to joke or scoff, to beguile.
Glimmering, faintly illuminated
by the stars.

Gloze, to expound, to comment

upon.

Glut, to englut or swallow up.
Gnarled, knotted.
Good-deed, indeed, in very deed.
Good-den, good evening.
Good-life, of a moral or jovial turn.
Good-jer, gougere, morbus gal-
licus

Gorbellied, fat and corpulent.
Gossips, tattling women who at
tend lyings-in.
Gossomer, the white cobweb-like
exhalations that fly about in
hot sunny weather.

Guards, badges of dignity.
Guerdon, reward.
Guerdoned, rewarded.
Guiled, treacherous.
Guinea-hen, a prostitute.
Gules, red, a term in heraldry.
Gulf, the swallow, the throat,
Gun-stones, cannon-balls.
| Gurnet, a fish resembling
piper.

Gust, taste, rashness.
Gyve, to catch, to shackle.
Gyves, shackles.

H.

low.

Hint, suggestion, circumstance.
Hiren, a harlot.

His, often used for its.

Hit, to agree.

Hoist, hoisted.

Hold, to esteem.

Holla, a term of the manege.
Holy, faithful.

Home, completely, in full ex

tent.

Honest, chaste.
Honesty, liberality.

a Honey-stalks, clover flowers.
Honour, acquired reputation.
Hoop, a measure.
Hope, to expect.
Horologe, clock.
Hox, to ham-string.

Hack, to become cheap and vul-
gar.

Haggard, a species of hawk.
Haggard, wild.
Hair, complexion or character.
Happily, accidentally, fortu-
nately.

Happy, accomplished.
Hardiment, bravery, stoutness.
Harlocks, wild mustard.
Harlot, a cheat.

Harp, to touch on a passion.
Harrow, to conquer, to subdue.
Harry, to use roughly, to harass.
Having, estate or fortune, pro-
motion, allowance of expense.

Government, evenness of temper, Haviour, behaviour.

decency of manners.

Gourds, a species of dice.
Gouts, drops.

Grace, acceptableness, favour.
Grace, to bless, to make happy.
Gracious, graceful, lovely.
Grained, furrowed, like the grain
of wood, died in grain or in-
dented.

Haught, haughty.
Haughty, high, elevated.
Haunt, company.

Hay, a term in the fencing

school.

Head, the source, the fountain.
Head, body of forces.

Hull, to drive to and fro upon
the water without sails or rud-
der.
Humorous, chargeable, humid,
moist.

Hungry, steril, unprolific.
Hunt-counter, base tyke, worth-
less dog.

Hunts-up, the name of a tune, a
morning song.

Hurly, noise.

Hurtling, merry with impetuo-
sity.

Husbandry, thrift, frugality.
Huswife, a jilt.

I.

Ice-brook, a brook of icy quali
ties in Spain.

I' fecks, in faith.
Ignomy, ignominy.
Ill-inhabited, ill-lodged.

Ill-nurtured ill-educated.

Images,children, representatives.

Heart, the most valuable or pre- Imaginary, produced by the

cious part,

power of imagination.

Imbare, to lay open or display to

view.

Immanity, barbarity, savageness.
Immeliacy, close connexion.
Imp, to supply.
Imp, progeny.
Impair, unsuitable.
Impartial, sometimes used for
partial.

Impawned, wagered and staked.
Impeach, to bring into question.
Impeachment, reproach or impu-
tation, hinderance.
Imperious, imperial.
Imperseverant, perseverant.
Impeticos, to impetticoat or im-
pocket.

Importance, importunacy.
Importance, the thing imported.
Importing, implying, denoting.
Impose, injunction, command.
Impositions, commands.
Impossible, incredible or incon-
ceivable.

Impress, to compel to serve. Impress, a device or motto. Impugn, to oppose, to controvert. Incapable, unintelligent. Incarnardine, to stain of a red

colour.

Incensed, incited, suggested.
Inclining, compliant.
Inclip, to embrace.

Include, to shut up, to conclude.
Inclusive, enclosed.

Incony, or kony, fine, delicate.
Incorrect, ill-regulated.
Increase, produce.

Indent, to bargain and article.
index, something preparatory.
Indifferent, sometimes for dif-
ferent, impartial.
Indite, to convict.
Induction, entrance, beginning,
preparations.

Indurance,delay,procrastination. Infinite, extent or power. Ingaged, sometimes for unengaged.

Ingraft, rooted, settled.

Inhabitable, not habitable

Inherit, to possess.
Inhibit, to forbid.
Inhooped, enclosed, confined.
Inkhorn-mate, a book-mate.
Inkle, a kind of tape, crewell or
worsted.

Inland, civilized, not rustic.
Insane, that which makes insane.
Insconce, to fortify.
Insculped, engraven.
Inseparate, inseparable.
Instance, example, proof.

Instances, motives.

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Jack, a term of contempt. Jack-a-lent, a puppet thrown at in Lent.

Jack guardant, a jack in office. Jaded, treated with contempt, worthless.

Jar, the noise made by the pen

dulum of a clock. Jauncing, jaunting. Jesses, straps of leather by which

the hawk is held on the fist. Jest, to play a part in a mask. Jet, to strut.

Jovial, belonging to Jove.
Journal, daily.

Jump, to agree with, to put into agitation.

Jump, hazard, to venture at.
Jump, just.

Justicer, justice, judge.
Jut, to encroach.
Jutty, to project.
Juvenal, a young man.

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Intendment, intention or dispo- Kinsman, near relative.

sition.

town.

Lackeying, moving like a lackey or page.

Lag, the meanest persons.
Lances, lance-men.

Land-damn, to destroy in some way.

Lands, landing-places.
Lapsed, time suffered to slip.
Large, licentious

Lass-lorn, forsaken of his mis

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Let be, to desist.
Lethe, death.

Lewd, ignorant, idle, wicked.
Lewdly, wickedly.

Libbard, or lubbar, a leopard. Liberal, licentious or gross in language.

Liberty, libertinism. License, an appearance of licentiousness.

Lie, to reside, to be imprisoned. Liefest, dearest.

Lieger, an ambassador at a fo

reign court.

Lifter, a thief.

Light o' love, a dance tune. Lightly, commonly, in ordinary

course

Lightness, levity.

Like, to compare,

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Living, speaking, manifest, ac- Marchpane, a species of sweet

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Loof, to bring a vessel close to Measure, a stately solemn dance.

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Lullaby, sleep in house, i. e., Memorized, made memorable.

cradle.

Lunes, lunacy, frenzy.

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Lurch, to win.

Memory, memorial.

Mephistophilus, the name of a spirit or familiar.

Lure, a thing stuffed to tempt | Mercatanté, a merchant.

the hawk.

Lush, rank, luscious.

Lust, inclination, will.'

Lustick, lusty, cheerful, pleasant.
Lusty, saucy.

Luxurious, lascivious.
Luxuriously, wantonly.
Luxury, lust.

Lym, a species of dog

Mere, exact, entire, absolute.
Mered, mere.
Mermaid, siren.

Messes, degrees about court.
Metal, temper.
Metaphysical, supernatural.
Mete-yard, measuring-yard.
Mewed, confined.

Micher, a truant, a lurking thief.

Miching, playing truant, skulk ing about.

Mien, countenance.

Mince, to walk with affected de licacy

Minding, calling to remem-
brance, reminding.
Mineral, a mine.

Minnow, a small river fish, a
term of contempt.
Minstrelsy, office of minstrel.
Misconceived, misconceivers.
Miscreate, ill-begotten, illegiti

mate.

Misdoubt, to suspect.

Miser, a miserable creature.
Misery, avarice.
Misprised, mistaken.
Misprising, despising, or under-
valuing.

Missives, messengers.
Mistaken, misrepresented
Mistempered, angry.
Misthink, to think ill.
Mistress, the jack in bowling.
Mobled or mabled, veiled, grossly
covered.

Mode, the form or state of things. Model, image, representative, copy.

Modern, trite, common, meanly pretty.

Modesty, moderation.
Module, model, pattern.
Moe or mowe, to make mouths.
Moiety, a portion.
Mollification, pacification, soften-
ing.

Mome, a dull stupid blockhead.
Momentany, momentary.

Month's mind, a popish anniver

sary.

Mood, anger, resentment, man

ner.

Moody, melancholy.

Moon-calf, an inanimate shapeless mass.

Moonish, variable.

Mope, to appear stupid.
Moral, secret meaning.

Morisco, Moor or Moorish, or morris.

Morris-pike, Moorish pike.
Mortal, murderous, fatal.
Mortal-staring, that which stares
fatally.

Mortified, ascetic, religious.
Most, greatest.

Motion, a kind of puppet-show.
Motion, divinitory agitation.
Motion, desires.

Motions, indignation.

Motive, assistant or mover, that which contributes to motion. Mould, earth.

Mouse, to mammock, to tear to pieces.

Mouse, a term of endearment,
Mouse-hunt, a weasel

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Mowe. See Moe.

Moy, a piece of money or a mea

sure of corn

Much, an expression of disdain.
Much, strange, wonderful.
Muck-water, drain of a dung-hill.
Muffler, a kind of dress for the
lower part of the face.
Muliters, muleteers.

Mulled, softened and dispirited.
Multiplied, multitudinous.
Multiplying, multiplied..
Multitudinous, full of multitudes.
Mummy, the balsamic liquor of.
Mundane, worldly.
Mure, a wall.
Murky, dark.

Murrain, a plague in cattle.
Muse, to admire, to wonder.
Must, a scramble.
Mutine, to rise in mutiny.
Mutines, mutineers.

N.

Napkin, handkerchief.

Napless, threadbare.

Native, formed by nature. Nature, natural parent.

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Oeiliad, a cast or glance of the Pall, to wrap, to invest.

eye. See Eyliads. O'erdied, died too much. O'er-looked, slighted.

O'er-parted, having too, considerable a part.

O'er-raught, over-reached.

Palled, vapid.

Palmers, holy pilgrims.
Palmy, victorious.

Palter, to juggle, or shuffle.
Paper, to write down, or ap-
point by writing.

O'er-wrested, wrested beyond the Paper, written securities.

truth.

Of, through.

Offering, the assailant.
Office, service,

Offices, culinary or servants' apartments.

Old, frequent, more than enough.
Old age, ages past.
Once, sometime.
Oneyers, accountants, bankers.
Opal, a precious stone of almost
all colours.

Nay-word, a watch-word or by- Open, publicly. word.

Neat, finical.

Neb or nib, the mouth.

Neeld, needle.

Neif, fist.

Operant, active.

Opinion, obstinacy, conceit, cha-
racter.

Opposite, adverse, hostile, adver-
sary.

Nephew, a grandson or any lineal Opposition, combat.

descendant.

Nether-stocks, stockings.

Newness, innovation.

Newt, the eft.

Next, nearest.

Nice, silly, trifling.
Nick, reckoning or count.
Nick, to set a mark of folly on.
Nighted, made dark as night.
Night-rule, frolic of the night.
Nine men's morris, a game.
Nobility, distinction, eminence.
Nobless, nobleness.
Noddy, fool, a game at cards.
Noise, music.

Nonce, on purpose, for the turn.
Nook-shotten, that which shoots

into capes. Northern man, vir borealis, a clown.

Note,notice, information, remark.
Novice, a youth.

Novum, some game at dice.
Nourish, to nurse.
Nowl, a head.

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Or, before.

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Orbs, circles made by the fairies Parts, party.

on the ground.

Orchard, a garden.
Order, measures.
Ordinance, rank.

Orgulous, proud, disdainful.
Osprey, a kind of eagle.
Ostent, shew, ostentation.
Ostentation, shew, appearance.
Overblow, to drive away, to keep
off.

Overture, opening or discovery.
Ounce, a small tiger, or tiger-cat.
Ouph, fairy, goblin.
Ousel-cock, the cock blackbird.
Out, be gone,

Out, full, complete.
Outlook, to face down..
Outvied, a term at the game of
gleek.

Outward, not in the secret of affairs.

Owe, to own, possess, govern.
Ox-lip, the great cowslip.

P.

Pack, to bargain with.

Pack, combined, an accomplice.

Observed, paid respective atten. Packing, plotting, underhand

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Pash, a head.

Pash, to strike with violence.
Pashed, bruised, crushed.

Pass, to decide, to assure or convey.

Pass, to exceed, to go beyond

common bounds.

Passed, excelling, past all ex-
pression or bounds.
Passes, what has passed.
Passing, eminent, egregious.
Passion, suffering.

Passionate, a prey to mournful sensations.

Passioning, being in a passion. Passy-measure, a dance. Pastry, the room where pastry was made.

Patch, a term of reproach. Patched, in a parti-coloured cost Path, to walk.

Pathetical, deeply affecting. Patient, to make patient, to com pose.

Patine, a dish used with the cha lice, in the administration of the Eucharist. Pattern, instance, example. Pavin, a dance. Paucas, few. Pay, to beat, to hit.

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