Imatges de pàgina
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Pin, a term in archery.

Pin and web, disorder of the eye.

Pinfold, a pound.

Prank, to adorn.

Precept, a justice's warrant. Precisian, a puritan. Preeches, flogged.

Prefer, to offer.

Pregnant, ready.

Prest, ready.

Prenominate, fore-named.

Pretend, to intend.
Prevent, to anticipate.

Pricket, a buck of the second year.
Prig, to pilfer.

Prime, sprightliness of youth.
Primer, of more consequence.
Primero, a game at cards
Princox, a coxcomb.
Probal, probable,
Prodigious, portentous.

Proface, much good may it do you.
Profane, grossly talkative.

Progress, a royal journey of state. Prognostication, almanack.

Project, to shape.

Prolixious, coy, delaying.

Proof, puberty.

Prompture, suggestion.

Prone, humble, also prompt.

Proper, handsome.

Proper-false, deceitful.

Propertied, possessed.

Propagate, to advance, to improve.

Quietus, discharge.

Quillets, law chicane.

Quintain, a post set up for various ex

ercises.

Quips, scoffs.

Quire, to play in concert. Quiver, nimble, active. Quote, to observe.

R, dog's letter.

R.

Rabato, a neck ornament.

Race, original disposition, also flavour

Rack, wreck.

Rack, to exaggerate.

Rack, to harass by exactions.

Rack, the fleeting away of the clouds.

Racking, in rapid motion.

Rag, an opprobrious epithet
Ragged, rugged.

Rake, to cover.
Ram, rain.

Rampallion, a strumpet.

Rank, rate or pace.

Rank, rapidly grown.

Rapt, enraptured.

Rapture, a fit.

Rarely, curiously.

Rascal, lean deer.

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Properties, incidental necessaries to a Recheat, a horn, a tune to call the dogs

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Refel, to confute.

Refer, to reserve to.
Regard, look.

Regiment, government.

Regreet, exchange of salutation.

Reguerdon, recompense.
Rheumatic, capricious.
Relume, to relight.

Remorse, pity.

Remotion, removal.
Removes, journies.
Render, to describe.
Renege, to renounce.
Reports, reporters.
Reproof, confutation.
Repugn, to resist.
Reputing, boasting.
Reserve, to preserve.
Resolve, to be assured
Resolve, to dissolve.
Respective, respectful.
Respectively, respectfully.

Resty, mouldy

Retailed, handed down.

Retort, to refer back.

Reverb, to reverberate

Scale, to disperse.
Scaled, overreached.
Scaling, weighing.
Scall, scab.

Scamble, to scramble.
Scan, to examine nicely.
Scantling, proportion.

Scarfed, decorated with flags.
Scath, destruction.
Scathful, mischievous.
Sconce, the head.
Sconce, a fortification.
Scotch, to bruise,
Scrimers, fencers.
Scrip, a writing, a list.
Scroyles, scurvy fellows.
Scrubbed, stunted.
Sculls, shoals of fish.
Scutched, whipped.

Seal, to strengthen, or complete.
Seam, lard.

Seamels, a bird.

Sear, to stigmatize, to close.

Season, to temper, to infix, to impress.
Seat, throne.

Sect, a cutting in gardening.

Revolt of mein, change of complexion. Seel, to close up.

Revolts, rebels.

Rib, to enclose.

Ribald, a lewd fellow

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Seeling, blinding.

Seeming, seemly.

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Several, or severell, a field set apart for Sound, to publish.

corn and grass.

Sewer, the placer of the dishes.

Shame, modesty.

Shard-borne, borne on scaly wings. Shards, beetle's wings.

Shards, broken pots or tiles.

Shark up, to pick up.

Shaven Hercules, Samson.

Sheen, shining, gay.

Sheer, transparent

Shent, to scold, rebuke,

Sherris, sherry.

Shive, a slice.

Shog, to go off.

Shotten, projected.

spawned.

Soused gurnet, a gudgeon.
Sowl, to pull by the ears.
Sowle, to drag down.

Sowter, the name of a hound.
Spanielled, dogged.

Specialty, particular rights.

Speculation, sight.

Speculative, seeing.

Sped, the fate decided.

Speed, event.

Sperr, to shut up, defend by bars.

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Shotten-herring, a herring that has Sprights, spirits.

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Springhalt, a disease of horses.

Spurs, the greater roots of trees.

Square, to quarrel.

Shovel-boards, shillings used at

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Squarer, a quarreller.

Squash, an immature peascod.

game of shovel board.

Shrewd, shrewish.
Shrift, auricular confession.
Shrive, to call to confession.
Side, purpose.

Side-sleeves, long sleeves.
Siege, a stool.

Squiney, to look asquint.

Squire, a rule or square.

Stage, to place conspicuously.

Stale, a decoy for birds.

Stannyel, a hawk, or stallion. Star, a scar.

Stark, stiff.

Starred, destined.

Sights, the perforated parts of a helmet. Statists, statesmen.

Sieve, a common voider.

Sandied, sandy colour.

Sightless, unsightly.

Silly, simple truth.

Savage, sylvan.

Sinew, strength.

Savageness, wildness.

Single, weak.

Saucy, lascivious.

Saw, tenor of a discourse.

Say, silk.

Say, a sample.

Scaffoldage, the gallery of a theatre.

Scald, beggarly.

Sink-a-pace, cinque pacé, a dance.

Sir, the title of a parson.

Sister, to imitate or re-echo

Sith, since.

Sithence, thence.

Statua, statue.

Statue, a portrait.

Stay, a hinderer, a supporter.

Sternage, the hinder part.

Sticking-place, the stop in a machine Sticklers, arbitrators, judges, partisans, umpires.

Stigmatical, stigmatised.

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Try conclusions, try experiments. Tub-fast, the sweating process in the venereal disease.

Tucket, or tucket sonnuance, a flourish on a trumpet.

Tup, a ram.
Tup, to cover an ewe.
Turre, to whisper.

Turlygood, or Turlupin, a gipsy.
Twangling jack, a scurvy musician.

look.

Vailing, lowering.

Vain, vanity.

Vain, lying.

Valance, fringed with a beard.
Vanity, illusion.

Vantage, opportunity, advantage.
Vantbrace, armour for the arm.
Varlet, a servant.
Vast, waste, dreary.

Vaunt, the avant, the fore-part.
Vaward, the fore-part.
Velure, velvet.

Venetian, admittance.

Vent, rumour.

Ventiges, holes of a flute.

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Wittol, knowing, conscious c
Wittol, a contented cuckold.
Woe, to be sorry.

Woman, to affect deeply.
Woman-tired, henpecked.

Wondered, able to perform wonders.
Wood, crazy, frantic.

Wooden thing, awkward business.
World to see, wonderful.

Woodman, an attendant on the forester

Westward hoe, the name of a play acted Woolward, wearing wool,

in Shakspeare's time.

Wether, used for a ram.
Wear, the fashion.

Whelked, varied with protuberances.
Whe'r, whether.
Where, whereas,

Whiffler, an officer in processions.
Whiles, until.

Whinidst, mouldy.

Whip, the crack, the best.

Whipstock, the carter's whip.
Whirring, hurrying.

Whist, being silent.

White, the white mark in the target.
White-death, the green sickness.
Whiting-time, bleaching time.
Whitsters, linen bleachers.
Whittle, a pocket knife.

Whooping, measure and reckoning.
Wide, remote from.
Wilderness, wildness.

Will, wilfulness.

Wimple, a hood or veil.
Winchester Goose, a strumpet

Winking-gates, gates hastily closed
from fear of danger.

Wassel candle, candle used at festivals. Winnowed, examined.

Wanned, pale.

Wannion, vengeance.

Ward, posture of defence.

Ward, guardianship.

Warden, a pear

Warn, summon.

Wassels, rustic revelry.

Watch, a watch-light.

Water-work, water-colours.

Wax, to grow.

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Work, fortification.

Workings, thoughts.

Worm, a serpent.
Worth, wealth.
Worship, dignity.

Wreak, to revenge; resentment. Wrest, an instrument for tuning the harp.

Wrested, obtained by force.

Wretch, a term of fondness.
Writ, writing.

Write, to pronounce confidently.

Writhled, wrinkled.

Wry, to deviate.

Wrong, hurt.

Wroth, misfortune.

Wrought, agitated.

Wrung, pressed, strained.

Y.

Yare, nimble, handy.
Yarely, nimbly, adroitly.
Yearn, to grieve or vex.
Yeild, to inform of.
Yellowness, jealousy

Yeoman, a bailiff's follower
Yerk, to kick.

Winter-ground, to protect against win. Yesty, foaming, frothy

ter.

Wis, to know.

Young, early.

Wise woman, a witch, a fortune-teller. Zany, a buffoon.
Wish, to recommend

Z.

Zealous, pions.
Zed, a term of contempt.
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