Affront, to confront.

Affy, to betroth.

Aglet-baby, a diminutive being,
not exceeding the tag of a
point, from aiguilettes.

Agnize, acknowledge, confess, vow.
A-good, in good earnest.

Aim, guess, suspicion.

Airy fame, mere verbal eulogy.
Aider-liefest, best beloved

Ale, a merry-meeting

Amaze, to perplex.

Additions, titles or characters.

A'life, at life.

Address, to prepare, to
ready.

make

Allow, to approve.

Allowance, approbation.

Addressed, or addrest, ready.

Admittance, favor.

Amazonian chin, a beardless chin.

Ames-ace, the lowest chance of

Approved, experienced.
Approvers, those who try.

Aqua-vitæ, strong waters, probably
usquebaugh.

Arabian bird, the phoenix.
Arch, chief.

Argentine, silver.

Argentine, the goddess Diana.
Argier, Algiers.

Argosies, ships laden with great
wealth.

Argument, subject for conversa-
tion, evidence, proof.
Arm, to take up in the arms.
Aroint, avaunt, begone.
A-row, successively.

Art, practice as distinguished from
theory; also, theory.
Articulate, to enter into articles.
Artificial, ingenious, artful.
As, as if.

Ascaunt, askew, sideways.
Aspect, countenance.
Aspersion, sprinkling.

As point, completely armed.
Assay, test.

Ascapart, a giant.
Assinego, a male ass.
Astringer, a gentleman falconer.
Assurance, conveyance or deed.
Assured, affianced.

Ates, instigate from Até, the god-
dess of bloodshed.
Atomies, minute particles visible
in the sun's rays.
Attasked, taken to task.

Baccare, stand back, give place.
Bairn, brushwood.
Baldrick, a belt.
Bale, misery.
Baleful, baneful.

Balked, bathed or piled up.
Ballase, ballast.

Balm, the oil of consecration.
Ban, curse.
Band, bond.

Bandog, village-dog.
Bandy, to exchange smartly.
Bank, to sail along banks.
Banning, cursing.
Banquet, a slight repast.
Bar, barrier.

Barbason, the name of a demon.
Barbe, a kind of veil.

Barbed, warlikely caparisoned.
Barber-monger, an associate of
barbers.
Bare, to shave.

Boulted, sifted.

| Brush of time, decay of time.

Bumbard, a large drinking vessel.
Bung, a cut-purse.

Bunting, a bird.

Burgonet, a helmet.

Busky, woody.

Butt-shaft, an arrow to shoot at
shafts with.

Buxom, obedient.
By'rlaken, by our lady.

C.

Caddis, worsted lace.
Cade, a barrel.
Cadent, falling.
Cage, a prison.
Cam-colored, yellow.
Caitiff, a scoundrel.
Calculate, to foretell.
Caliver, a musket.
Call, to visit.

Callet, a woman, a witch.
Calling, appellation.
Calm, qualm.

Camelot, a place where King Ar-
thur is supposed to have kept
his court.
Canary, a dance.
Candle-wasters, those who sit up
all night to drink.
Canker, the dog-rose.
Canstick, candlestick.
Cantons, cantos.
Canvas, to sift.

Canvas-climber, a sailor.
Cap, the top, the chief.
Cap, to salute by taking off the cap.
Capable impressure, hollow mark.
Capitulate, to make head against.
Capocchia, a sot.

Capon, metaphor for a letter.
Capricious, lascivious.
Captious, capacious.

Carack, a ship of great bulk.
Caracts, characters.

crossways for the gridiron.
Card, a sea-chart, perhaps also the

compass.

Carded, mixed.
Care, inclination.

Careires, the motion of a horse;
to pass the careires, means to
overstep the bounds of deco-

rum.

Carkanet, a necklace.

Cast, reckoned.

Castilian, an opprobrious term.
Castiliano vulgo, a cant term of
contempt.
Cast-lips, let off lips.
Cast the water, to find out disor-
ders by inspecting the urine.
Cataian, a liar.

Catling, a small lutestring, made
of catgut.
Cavalero-justice, a cant term.
Cavaleroes, gay fellows.
Caviare, too good for, or above the
comprehension of; so called
from a delicacy made of the
roe of sturgeons, eaten by the
quality.
Cautel, subtlety.

Cautel or cantle, the corner, or
piece of anything.
Cautelous, insidious, cautious.
Cearment, the wrapping of an em-
balmed body.

Cease, decease.

Censure, to give an opinion.
Centuries, companies of a hundred
men each.

Ceremonious, superstitious.
Certes, certainly.

Cess, measure, tax or subsidy.
Chair, throne.

Chaliced, i. e. flowers, with cups,
from calix.

Challenge, the right of refusing a
juryman.
Chamber, ancient name for Lon-
don; also, a piece of ordnance.
Chamberers, intriguers.

Champian, an open country.

Charactery, the matter with which

letters are made.

Chares, task-work.

Charge-house, free-school.

Chariest, most cautious.
Chariness, caution.

Charitable, dear, endearing.
Charles-wain, the constellation
called the bear.

Charm your tongue, be silent.
Charmer, one who deals in magic.
Charneco, a sweet wine.
Chance, fortune.
Chary, cautious.

Chases, a term in tennis.
Chaudron, entrails.

Cheater, for escheatour, an officer
in the Exchequer.
Checks, probably for ethics.
Cheer, countenance.
Cherry-pit, a game with cherry-

stones.

Cheveril, soft leather; also, con-
science.

Chew, to ruminate, consider.
Chewet, a chattering bird.
Chide, to resound, to echo; also,
to scold, be clamorous.
Chiding, sound; noisy.
Child, a knight, a hero.
Child, a female infant.
Childing, unseasonably pregnant.
Chopine, a high shoe.
Chopping, jabbering.

Chough, a bird of the daw species.
Christom or chrisom, the white
cloth put on a new baptized
child.

Chuck, chicken, a term of endear-

Cite, incite.
Cital, recital.

Civil, grave, solemn.
Civil, human.

Cittern, a musical instrument.
Clack-dish, a beggar's dish.
Clamour, a term in bell-ringing.
Clap-in, fall to.

thedral.

Character, hand-writing.

mark.
Clap, to join hands.