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Mess, party dining together, a set. WT. 1, 2. At great dinners the company was usually arranged into fours, called messes and served together; hence a set of four. LL. 4, 3. cHf. 1,4 Kin to mast, meat, mate, mead, sax. metsian, to eat; germ. mästen, to dung; gr. mestos, full; fr. mêts, turn'd up and assonant of mettre, apponere.

to Mesh, to catch in a net. TAn. 3, 2. To en- Mind's eye. H. 1, 2. S. 113. TL. 204. mesh. 0.2, 3. Mine, mien, countenance. MW. 1, §. to Mine, to dig, hollow, sap. H. 3, 4. Mingle, mixture. AC. 1, 5. 4, 8. Minikin, small, delicate. KL. 3, 6. Goth. min, lat. minus, fr. moins. Minimus, minim, any thing very small. MD. 3, 2. Minnock, minnick. MD. 3, 2. to which Malone substitutes mimic, actor, obliterating, as it seems, the humoristical colour of the passage, probably is but another form of minikin, or rather manakin, wh. s. minx, minim, and others signifying my dwarfish puppetlike fellow. Minnow, a little fish, cyprinus phoxinus, germ. Elritze. Co. 3, 1. LL. 1, 1.

Metaphysical, supernatural, transcendent.

M. 1, 5.

to Mete, to measure; to measure with the eye, to aim. LL. 4, 1. Lat. metiri, gr. metrein, kin to the lat. modius, modus, gr. medimnos, lat. meta.

Metewand, meteyard, tailor's yardmeasure or wand. TS. 4, 3.

Metheglin, drink made of honey and water. LL. 5, 2. Kin to mead, meathe, gr. methy, germ. Meth. Gifford's Ben Jons. II, 242. Mettle, mind. T.2, 1. stoutness, courage. aHd. 2, 4. 5, 4. JC. 1, 2; vigour. JC. 4, 2. 2, 1. M. 1,7; eagerness, vivacity, fire, briskness, life, spirit, nimbleness. AL. 2, 7. For metal TN. 2, 5. Its kindred s. in mad.

to Mew up, to shut up, to pen up, to close up, to commit. TS. 1, 1. KJ. 4, 2. Rc. 1, 1. 1, 3. RJ. 3, 4. From the gr. myō, myzō, myaō, amyō. Kin also

Minute Jacks. S. Jack of the clockhouse.
Nares however understands TA. 3, 6. fellows
that watch their minutes to make their ad-
vantage, timeserver. May be that both signi-
fications, that of the clockhouse automaton and
that of Jack of both sides be combined.
Minx, baboon, puppet; prim girl. TN. 3, 4.
0.3, 3. 4, 1. S. minnock.
Mirable, admirable. TC. 4, 5.

to Mire, to besmear, to soil with mire. TA. 4, 3.
Lat. merdare.

Mirke, darkness. AW. 2, 1. Spelt also mark, murk, merk, myrk, scot. pitmirk, (pickmark,) dark as pitch, icel. myrce. S. to smirch. Mirrors were worn publicly, by the men as brooches, or ornaments in their hats, by the women at their girdles, on their breasts, or in the centres of their fans. Gifford's Ben Jons. II, 263.

to Mewl, to squeak, screek. AL. 2, 7. to Miche, to skulk, conceal, hide one's self, as truants do from school, Lily's Euph. p. 71. to act by stealth. Hence mitching, skulking, concealed. H. 3, 2. At Norfolk in Gloucester-Misbehaved, unmannerly. RJ. 3, 3. shire it is spelt to mooch. Malone at H. d. 1. Miser, miserable wretch. aHf. 5, 5. TC. 3, §. The family is mokey, moky, traitor, germ. to Misgive, properly to inspire somewhat other, Munker, munkeln, Meuchel, mugel, maugel;| gr. mychios, inward, inwardly, mychos, inward angle; germ. Mucke, gloomy, clandestine malice, muckish, knavish, malicious; muscheln, prov. to deceive in the game at cards. Micher, a truant, one who acts by stealth. alld. 2, 4.

Mickle, great, very much. RJ. 2, 3. CE. 3, 1.
He. 2, 1. aHf. 4, 6. bHf. 5, 1.
Midriff, diaphragm. aHd. 3, 3.
Mightful, powerful. TAn. 4, 4
Milch, giving milk. H. 2, 2.

to Mildew, to blast, taint with mildew. H. 3, 4.
KL. 3, 4.

Mill-sixpences. Milled money was invented
by Antoine Brucher, in France, about 1553.
Elizabeth coined milled money from about
1562 to 1572, when the use of mill was dis-
continued till about 1623. After 1662 it remain-
ed completely establisbed. MW. 1, 1.
Milliner, tireman, pedler, haberdasher. aHa.
1, 3. WT. 4, 3. From Milan, or Malines.
Originally a milliner was a man.
Millstones. To weep millstones, proverbially
said of a person not likely to weep at al. Rc.
1, 3. 1, 6. TC. 1, 2. where it is applied to
tears of laughter.

to Mince, to cut small. TA. 4, 8. H. 2, 2; to
affect nicety, delicacy by short steps. MW.
5, 1. aHd. 3, 1. Hh. 2, 8. TC. 1, 2. KL. 4, 6;
in speaking by flowers. He. 5, 2; by colouring.
AC. 1, 2. Kin to the gr. minys, minyō, miny-
theo, minythizō, lat. minus, minuere; fr.
mince. Douce's Ill. of Sh. I, 80.

Minds is the reading suggested. AC. 1, 2. instead of winds.

than what may be required and justified by
time or act and will; to fill with doubt, anxiety.
RJ. 1, 4. JC. 3, 1.

Misgreff'd, misimped, different, misallied.
MD. 1, 1.

Missingly, occasionally, by intervals, some-
times. WT. 4, 1.

to Misthink, to blame, to find fault with. cHf. 2, 5.

Mistress, the small ball at the game of bowls, now called the Jack, at which the players aim. TC. 3, 2.

Mite, a little worm. AW. 1, 1. Kin to moth, lowsax. Miete, germ. Motte, gr. mydaō. Moat, ditch filled with water round a house or castle for defence. Rb. 2, 1. AW. 5, 2. Kiu to the precedent, as to mist, mead, mud, middlelat. mota, fr. mote, explained tourbe, by Dufresne, motarium, palustris locus unde eiusmodi motae eruuntur. Of course it would be properly a ditch of turf.

to Moble, mable, wh. s. to veil or cover the head close. H. 2, 2.

Mockery, prestige, phantom, opposed to true things. He. 4. chor. M. 3, 4. Kin to the gr. mōkaō, myktērizō, hebr. hemik, fr. moquer. Mockwater, a jocular term of reproach to the french Dr. Caius MW. 2, 3. meaning a pretending, counterfeit, deceiving, spurious waterdoctor, called a while before King Urinal. Model, module, measure, portion, quantity. Rb. 3, 2; Douce's Ill. of Sh. I, 410. pattern. Rc. 3, 2. 5, 1. H. 5, 2.

Modern, common, trivial, trite, worthless. AL. 2, 7. 4, 1. M. 4, 3. KJ. 3, 4. AC. 5, 2. 0.1, 3. RJ. 3, 2.

stay in the joint, like the ribs and masts of a ship in tempest, of course to withstand, to maintain, defend one's self. O. 2, 1.

to Mortise, to join by a mortaise. Hence H. 3, 3. mortis'd and adjoin'd.

Mo
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Moe, mowe, distortion of the face made in
ridicule. Cy. 1, 7. Mocks, mops, and mowes
as they are linked etymologically by the gr.
mio, denoting gestures of farcical aping-ab, ap
are original words, kin to memphō, momphe,
or mimicking, so they are also joined usually.
to Moe, to make mowes, or faces at one. T.
2,2.
Moldwarp, mole. aHd. 3, 1. H. 1, 5. From
the sax. myl, mold, lowsax. mul, mull, engl.
mull, grinded gravel and dust, germ. Gemülle,
kin to the gr. myllō, malō, melō, molō, mylō,
molyō, lat. molo, engl. mill; and werfen, to
throw.

Mome, blockhead, sometimes buffoon. CE. 3, 1.
Kin to mime, and mommō. Douce's Ill. of Sh.
I, 366.
Momentany, lasting for a moment. MD. 1, 1.
Monarcho, a fantastical Englishman, affecting
the airs of an Italian; alluded to probably
LL. 4, 1.

Montanto, montant, an old fencing term.
MW. 2, 3. Hence jocularly Signor Montanto
or a great fencer. MA. 1, 1.

Month's mind, anniversary in times of popery in remembrance of dead persons, a month after their decease. Those anniversaries being welcome to the friars, because profitable, month's mind was also used for eager desire, longing, strong inclination. TG. 1, 2. John Croft refers it to the longing of a woman in the first month of pregnancy.

Mood, humour, temper of mind. Co. 1, 3; anger, wrath, eagerness. MD. 3, 2. TG. 4, 1. O. 2, 3. S. mad.

Moody, of mood, of mind, melancholy. Moody food is called the music AC. 2, 5. humorsome, wilfull, obstinate, peevish. aHf. 3, 1. cHf. 4, 6. Rc. 5, 1.

Moon, man in the, with a briarbush on the back, a dog on the side (MD. 5, 1.) was a comical object of the stage. T. 2, 1. Drake's Sh. and his time I, 383.

Mooncalf, false conception, mola carnea, or
foetus imperfectly formed. T. 2, 2. a monster,
lumpish, stupid and heavy.

Moonish, variable, changeable. AL. 3, 2.
Moonlike, variable, inconstant. LL. 4, 3. is
Warburton's correcture for menlike, Musou
proposes not less probably vanelike.
Mop. T. 4, 1. joined with moe,

wh. s.
to Mope, to be dull and stupid, to go on dull
and lazy. He. 3, 7; to make dull, benumbed.
H. 3, 4. Kin to the preceding word and its
family.

Moral, meaning. MA. 3, 4. TS. 4, 4. TA. 4, 4. More, greater. KJ. 2, 1. More and less, great and small. aHd. 4, 8. bHd. 1, 1.

Morisco, dancer in a morrisdance. bHf. 3, 1; the dance itself.

Morris dance, moorish dance, used on festival occasions, and particularly on Mayday. AW. 2, 2. S. May, and maid Marian, Hobbyhorse. Add Irving's Bracebridge - hall. II, 5.11. Morrispike, a formidable weapon used often by the english mariners, sometimes by soldiers. ČE. 4, 3.

to Mose in the chine, a disorder in horses by some called mourning in the chine. TS. 3, 1. Most, used redundantly. KL. 2, §. H. 2, 2. Most, greatest. aHƒ. 4, 1.

Mote, moth, atom, any very small object. H. 1, 1. KJ. 4, 1. He. 4, 1. Sax. mot, kin to mite, wh. s.

Mother, womb; hysterica passio. KL. 2, 4.
Motion, puppetshow. TG. 2, 1. WT. 4, 2.
Gifford's Ben Jons. VII, 218; will, disposition,
thought, tendency. O. 1, 2; proposal, over-
ture. T'N. 3, 4.

Motive, assistant, mover. AW. 4, 4.
Motly, motley, habit composed of various
colours, the customary dress of a domestic
fool. AL. 2, 7. 3, 3. TN. 1, 5. Hh. prol. It
belongs to medley, meddley: Gifford's Ben
Jons. II, 247. VI, 338.

to Moult, to mew, wh. s., to shed or cast the
feathers, as birds do. aHd. 3, 1. H. 2, 2. Spelt
anciently mout, mowt; from mutare (pennas)
to mute (a term of falconry); whence the low-
sax. Mut, casting of the shell of crabs, mutern;
muzgivati, mutatoria vestis; fr. mue.
Mountaineer, a synonymous term of robbers
and outlaws having their haunts in mountainous
countries. Cy. 4, 2.

Mountant, rising up; a real or mock term of heraldry, TA. 4, 3. French montant. Mountebank, quack, wandering and shuckling physician. CE. 1, 2. H. 4,7. Ital. montambanco, saltimbanco, properly one that mounts at a bank, or stage.

to Mountebank, to play the mountebank; to cheat, gain by quackish or charlatanish deceit, craft. Co. 3, 2. where it is joined to cog. Mouse, term of endearment. LL. 5, 2. H. 3, 4. to Mouse, to mammock, to tear in pieces, to teaze. MD. 5, 1.

Mousehunt, hunter of mice, but with allusion to a different object of pursuit; such as is called mouse only in playful endearment. RJ. 4, 4.

Moy, a piece of money. He. 4, 4. From moidore, or moedore, a portuguese piece of gold; or from modius. S. Dufresne.

Muck, an ironical or contemptuous exclamation for little or none, far from it, by no means, not at all. bhd. 2, 4. AL. 4, 8. Gifford's Ben Jons. I, 117. II, 44. III, 279. VI, 365. It seems an elliptical phrase for much good may it do you.

Muck, dung. Co. 2, 2. Belonging to the hebr.
mak, mud; lat. mucidus, muccidus; gr.myxos,
snotty, myxa, snot; lowgerm. Muge, slime,
mire, lapp. mickko, dung. Horne Tooke Div.
of P. II, 297. from the sax. micgan, meiere,
mingere, to piss; a thing pissed upon; hence
as wet as muck.

Muddy, confuse and unsettled. WT. 1, 2. H.
4, 7. Kin to mead, moat etc. wh. s.
Muffler, a sort of veil, or wrapper, worn by
ladies, chiefly covering the chin and throat.
MW.4, 2. He. 3, 6. with Malone. Douce's Ill.
of Sh. 1, 75. Kin to the gr. myō, engl. mouth,

Mort of the deer, a certain set of notes usually blown by huntsmen on the occasion of the death (mors) of the deer. WT. 1, 2. Mortaise, mortise, mortice, hole cut into a piece of timber, that another piece may be put Mulled, softened, sweetened, dispirited. Co. into it and form a joint. To hold the m., to 4, 5. Kin to mulcere, mulsus, whence mulsum,

mow.

in bed. VA. 67.

(mull. Walter Sc. Heart of Midloth. I, 7.), | Naked bed, in, of a person undressed, and aqua mulsa, honeywater. Mumbudget, mumbouget, a cantword implying silence. MW. 5, 2. 5, 5. Slender's watchword. It seems to have been originally a dice hazard, like mumchance, where great calmness was required. Gifford's Ben Jons. IV, 174. 474. The word mum is kin to mommery, gr. mormō, mommō, mombrō; germ. Mumme, mask, Mummel, Mummerei.

Mummy, pissasphalt, a pitchy substance used for preserving dead bodies and for dying. 0.3, 4.

to Munch, to chew eagerly by great mouthfu's. MD. 4, 1. Variety of to mounch, maunch, mouch, kin to the fr. macher, to the gr. smuō, směchō, smychō, smōchō, germ, schmatzen, provinc. mätschen.

Murdering piece, a very destructive kind of ordnance, calculated to do much execution at once, having a wide mouth and discharging large stones. H. 4, 5.

Mure, wall. bHd. 4, 4.

Murky. AW. 2, 1. T. 4, 1. M. 5, 1. S. mirk.
Murrain, rot among cattle. T. 4, 2. MD. 2, 1.
Co. 1, 5. TC. 2, 1. Anciently morren, from
mori, or kin to the gr. marainō, to wither.
Muscadel, muscadine, a rich sort of wine.
TS. 3, 2.

to Muse, to wonder. T. 3, 3. M. 3, 4. KJ. 3, 1.
bHd. 4, 1. bHf. 3, 1. cHf. 3, 2. Co. 3, 2. AW.
2, 5. Of the family of mad, wh. s.
Mushroom, agaricus. T. 5, 1. From the fr.

mousseron.

Musket, the male young of the sparrowhawk. MW. 3,3. S. eyas. From the fr. mousquet, it. muschetto. Also a sort of gun; by the custom, of giving to poliorcetical engines the names of animals, like aries, musculus, echinus etc. Muss, a scramble, when any small objects are thrown among the rabble, to be taken by those, who can seize them. AC. 3, 2. From the fr. mouche, like to the greek childish play, called myia chalke, a kind of blind man's buff. Gifford's Ben Jons, VI, 472. VI, 82.

to Muster, to assemble in order to form an army. Rb. 2, 2; to gather to congest. MM. 2, 4. Germ. mustern, lat. monstrare, it. mo

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Nap, sleep, slumber. TS. ind. 2. Rc. 5,3; flock of wool, tufted superficies of cloth. bHf. 4, 2. In the first meaning it is the transposed gr. hypnos, as the sax. hnappian, sanscr. suapap, to sleep, suap, sleep, oldlat. sopnus for somnus; in the second the general notion is hollow, and its kindred are the sax. nappe, hnaeppe, cup, gall. hanap, ital. nappo, hebr. nabub, from bub; cambr. nef, heaven; bohem. nebe, oldgerm. Nauf, a coffin; pers. naf, navel; gr. nape, valley; icel. gnypa, nupr, gnupr, promontory. Hence

Nape properly the vaulted, arched or bowed
part of the neck, the head or top of the neck,
the hinder part of the neck. Co. 2, 1.
Napless, wanting nap, threadbare, worn out.
Co. 2, 1.

Nasty, filthy, slovenly, sluttish. He. 2, 1. H.
3, 4. properly wet, kin to the gr. notis.
Natural, fool, blockhead. AL. 1, 2. MD. 1, 3.
Naught, bad, naughty, good for nothing,
worthless. Be naught was a petty execration
between anger and contempt, with added
awhile, merely to round the phrase, AL. 1, 1.
From ne aught, sax. naht, nawhiht.
Nave, navel, centre of a wheel. M. 1, 2. S.
nap.

Nayward, towards a negative, or a nay. WT.
2, 1.

Nayword, watchword. MW. 2, 2; proverb,
bye word. TN. 2, 8.

Neare, neere, for nearer. Rb. 5, 1.
Neat, horned cattle of the oxspecies. WT. 1, 2.
cHf. 2, 1. Cy. 1, 2. TS. 4, 3. T. 2, 2. Sax.
neat, neaten, niten, icel. naut, scott. nowt,
nott; oldgerm. Noz, the chief cattle, ox,
horse, sheep, dim. Nözel. S. Fr. v. Thürheim
Fortsetz. des Tristan. 723. Provincially Noss,
Genosser.

Neb, bill of a bird. WT. 1, 2. Variety of nib,
sax. naebbe, nebbe, nose, icel. nebbi, germ.
Schnebbe, Schnabel, engl. snaffle, sued. naeff,
naebb, whence the germ. schnappen, schnauben,
schnupfen, schnüffeln.

Necessaries, stores, stocks, provisions, victuals. He. 1, 2.

Need. More than need. LL. 3, 3. KJ. 1, 1. Neeld, neele, needle. MD. 3, 2. KJ. 5, 2. P. 5, 5. TL. 46. Sax. needle, goth. nethls, icel. nal, germ. Nadel, kin to the gr. neein, nethein, germ. nähen, nyssein, nyttein, to perforate.

to Neese, neeze, to sneeze. MD. 2, 1. From

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Mutuality, reciprocation, interchangeable fa-
miliarity. O. 2, 1. From the lat. mutuus.
Muzzle, fastening for the mouth, which hinders
to bite. bld. 4, 4. Anciently mosel, moozle, to
from the fr. museau, by the gr. myō, kin to

mouth.

Neigh, 0.1, 1. Sax. hnaegan, lat. hinnire. Netherstocks, stockings, lower stocks, oppos. to the upperstocks, or breeches. The whole was originally in one, like the present pantaloons. KL. 2, 4. Germ. nieder, gr. nerthe.

Mystery, art, trade, profession. MM. 4, 2. In this sense it should properly be spelt mistery, from the fr. mestier, metier, maistery, ma-New fangled, new invented. LL. 1, 1. AL. stery, by the lat. magisterium, germ. Meisterei.

N.

Nag, small horse, jade. aHd. 3, 1. AC. 3, 8.

4, 1. Cy. 5, 4. chiefly as it seems in a contemptuous sense. S. fangled.

Newt, eft. MD. 2, 3. TA. 4, 3. KL. 3, 4. M. 4, 1. Variety risen out of the absorbed article an, and kin to the nordengl. effet, evet, gr. echis, ophis, aspis.

Galloway nags. bHd. 2, 4. Lowsax. Nickel, to Nibble, to bite a little and often. AL. 3, 3. T. 4, 1. Anciently gnibble, kin to the gr.

kin probably to neigh.

knaō, knapō, knaphō, knaptō, gnaptō, germ. Nonny, or Hey nonny, nonny, a kind of burden gnabbeln.

Nice, tender, delicate. TG. 3, 1; of no moment, foolish, trifling. RJ.3, 1. 5, 2. TS. 3, 1. whence nice and trivial respects Rc. 3, 7. JC. 4, 3. nice offence. AC. 3, 4. Nice as subst. for delicacy of hearing, like dark (He. ch. 4.) fair (RJ. 1. ch.) prime (AW. 2, 1.) mean (KL. 4, 1.) restored Voss MD. 1, 1. for voice, reading my ear should catch your ice, my eye your eye. Unless the word be kin to nesh, and to the gr. neossos, we might derive it with Horne Tooke Div. of P. II, 384. from the sax. hnescian, mollire.

Niceness, delicacy. Cy. 3, 4.

to some old lovesongs. MA. 2, 3. H. 4, 5.
to Nonsuit, to deprive of the benefit of a
legal process for some failure in the manage-
ment, to put off, to reject. O. 1, 1.

Nook, neck; bay. T. 1, 2; corner. AL. 3, 2.
Nookshotten, crenelled, indented, notched.
He. 3, 5.

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Northern man, vir borealis, a clown. LL. 5, 2.

to Nose, to smell. II. 4, 3.

Not, not only. Co. 3, 3. Confounded with now
in not to swell your spirit. TA. 3, 5.
Note, ignominy, infamy, shame. Rb. 1, 1.
Nottpated, nottheaded, having their close
cut. aHd. 2, 4. Gifford's Ben Jons. VI, 146.
From to not, sax. hnot, to shear, poll; kin
to nyssein.

Nicholas, Saint, the patron of scholars, more particularly of schoolboys; his day the 6th of December. TG. 3, 1. Converted jocularly into Old Nick, devil, he gave a name to St. Ni-Nowl, head. MD. 3, 2. Rc. 2, 1. S. noddy. cholas clerks, when used to signify thieves, Nourice, norice, nurse. aHf. 1, 1. highwaymen and the like. aHd. 2, 1. Novum, or novem, a kind of game at dice, in Nick, notch. Out of all nick TG. 4, 2. beyond which it appears that five or six persons played. all reckoning or count; reckonings being kept LL. 5, 2. Douce's Ill. of Sh. I, 243. upon nicked or notched sticks or tailies. Nuncle, mine uncle; customary appellation of to Nick, to notch, to carve. CE. 5, 1. the licensed fool to his superior. KL. 1, 4. 5. Niece, relation in general. TG. 4, 1. unless it be rather godfather, gossip; from Niggard, covetous, avaricious, pinchfast. M. nonnus. S. Dufresne. 4, 3. Hh. 1, 1. TA. 5, 6. H. 3, 1. Kin to the gr. knizō, knigō, germ nagen, kneipen, whence Gnipho, the old covetous in comedy.

to Niggard, to spare, to keep niggardly. JC. 4, 3.

Nightrule, night revel, or nightwork. MD. 3, 2. Rule in this composition no doubt is the same word as revel. Douce's Ill. of Sh. I, 192. although not in misrule.

to Nill, not to will, to be averse to. TS. 2, 1.
H. 5, 1.

Nine fold, for ninefoals. KL, 3, 4.
Nine men's morris, a game played by the
shepherds, cowkeepers etc. in the midland
counties. A figure is maid on the ground by
cutting out the turf, and two persons take
each nine stones, which they place by turns in
the angles and afterwards move alternately as
at chess or draughts. Who can place three in
a straight line, may then take off any one of
his adversaries, where he pleases. MD. 2, 2.
with Voss. It seems the same as nineholes.
Ninny, blockhead, clown. T. 3, 2.

Numb, forceless, torpid, chilled, feeble, weak. aHf. 2, 5. TAn. 3, 1. Formerly num, benum,

sax. benumen, benumed, from niman, capere,
eripere, to nim, as membris captus. Horne
Tooke Div. of P. II, 305. germ. benommen, ein-
genommen; perhaps also kin to the hebr. num,
to sleep. So numbcold Rc. 2, 1.

Number, poetical measure. LL. 4, 3. Rd. 2, 4.
TC. 3, 2.

Nurture, education, civility, manner, gentle-
ness. AL. 2, 7.

Nuthook, a hook to pull down the branches of nuts, in order to gather them; metaphorically a bailiff, who hooks or seizes debtors or malefactors with a staff or otherwise. bld. 5, 4. MW. 1, 1.

Nutmeg, gilt, was a common gift at Christmas, or festive times, and a love philtrum. LL.5, 2. Gifford's Ben Jonson VII, 405.

0.

to Nip, to bite, pinch, as frost, to taunt. bHf. O, any thing circular, as the stars, or round 2, 4. S. to nibble.

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Noise, set, band, company of musicians. bHd.
2,4. Kin to the gr. neikos, by nekō, nyssō, and
to nidget, sax. nithing, abject, oldgerm.
neizzen, neisen, nausen, naysen, to afflict.
Nonage, minority, underage. Rc. 3, 2.
Nonce, nones, purpose, design. aHd. 1, 2. For
the nonce, deliberatedly, designedly. aHf.2, 8.
H. 4, 7. Probably kin to the gr. noeō, noēma,
ion. nōmo, noēmōn, nosse, gr. ginōskō, gnōmē,
gnōmōn.

Non com MA. 3, 5. for non compos mentis, or
non plus.

O

spots of any kind, spangles etc. MD. 3, 2;
globe of the earth AC. 5, 2; circle of a theatre.
He. 1. chor; spots in a person's face. LL.5, 1;
a lamentation, or exclamation of sorrow. RJ.
3, 3; the arithmetical zero. KL. 1, 4.
yes for oyez, exclamation of a crier, used
as substantive for exclamation. TC. 4, 5. MW.
5, 5.

Obsequious, belonging to a funeral, or ob-
sequies. H. 1, 2; absorbed in funeral grief.
cHf. 2, 5. S. 31.
Obsequiously, in celebration of a funeral.
Rc. 1, 2.

Observant, a person who observes, an obse-
quious attendant. KL. 2, 2.
Observance, obeisance. AL. 5, 2.
Obstacle, froward, stubborn, obdurate. aHf.
5, 5.

Obstruct, obstruction; a conjectural unneces-
sary reading of Warburton instead of abstract
AC. 3, 6.

Ov
Occasion, want, need. AL. 4, 1; pretext. KJ. Ordered, dressed. JC. 5, 5.
4, 2.
Ordinance, fate. Cy. 4, 2.

to Occupy, to possess or enjoy, in obscene
sense. bHd. 2, 4.

Od's pitikins, a diminutive adjuration, corrupted from God's pity, quasi God's little pity. Cy. 4, 2. So in 's blood for god's blood, odd's my will.

Odd, unusual, uncommon, strange, unexpected. aHf. 1, 2. Odd even of night 0.1, 1. the time about midnight. From the gr. heis, one, dor. ais, as, pers. ahad.

Odds, difference, disparity, M. 3, 4; unequal match, superiority. alif. 4, 4. cllf. 2, 1. He. 4, 3. Rb. 3, 4. To set at odds, to make discordant. KL. 1, 3, To take the odds, to get advantage over. aHd. 5, 1. To lay odds with, to lay a wager. bHd. 5, 5.

Oeillad, glance of the eye, ogle. KL. 4,

French word!

5.

Of abundantly, or in unusual construction; as
I shall desire you of more acquaintance. MD.
3, 1. I humbly do desire your grace of pardon
MV. 4, 1. AL. 5, 4.

Offal, broken pieces of meat, remnants of meat.
JC. 1, 3. Probably from the germ. Abfall.
Horne Tooke Div. of P. II, 327

Offering, one who offers a battle, or fray,
therefore valorous, vigorous, robust, strong.
aHd. 4, 1.

Office, errand. TN. 1, 5.

Offices, the parts of a house appropriated to
the servants. Co. 1, 1. M. 2, 1. where the
reading officers is absurd. Rb. 1, 2. TA. 2, 2.
Oft used as adjective S. 14. where aught is glos-
sematical reading.

Old, frequent, abundant; a burlesque phrase.
MW. 1, 4. M. 2, 3.
Oldcastle, John, afterwards Lord Cobham,
died under Henry V. as Wicleffit and martyr
of protestantism. S. Bale a brief chronicle,
concernynge the examination and death of the
blessed martyr of Christ, Sir John Old. 1559.-
The mirror of martyrs or the life and death of
that thrice valiant captain and most goodly
martyr, Sir J. Oldc. 1601. Although scorned
in the old comedies, it seems yet sure, that
Falstaff is not his portrait.

Ordinary, a public dinner, where each person pays his share, long the universal resort of gentlemen, particularly in the reign of James I. LL. 2,3. AC.2, 2. lounging places of the men of the town, and the fantastic gallants, exchange for news, gambling, part of fashionable edu

cation.

Ordnance, statute, decree, institute. KL. 4, 1; artillery, cannon. TS. 1,2. He. 3. prol. In the last signification translated from the misunderstood word kanon, confounded with canna. Ordure, mire, dung. He. 2, 4. French word from the lat. sordes, icel. aur.

Ore, brass. H. 4, 1. AW.3, 6. Sax. ore, ora, lat. aurum, kin to iron, icel. jarn, goth. eisarn, sax. isern, isen, iren, irn, scott. irne, yrn, airn, sued. jaern, dan. jern; lat. ferrum; span. hierro; lat. aes, old, ais, aeris, aeneus, ahe

neus.

Orgillous, proud. TC. prol. 1, 2. French or-
gueilleux.

Ornaments, scarlet, red of lips. S. 142.
Ort, scrap, or trifling fragment, piece. TA. 4, 3.
TC. 5, 2. Horne Tooke Div. of P. II, 328. derives
it from the sax. orettan, turpare, vile facere,
deturpare, therefore any thing made vile,
worthless; irish orda, fragment. Perhaps it is
from the original word ar, or, ur, meaning
earth, and kin to the gr. artos, bread. Earth,
earthly food, or victuals, terrestrian,
what is perishable, therefore worthless, are not
much distant. In Lowsax. Ort, Ortels means
what the cattle rejects of food; whence irt,
meal, repast, Oerte, shot.

and

Osier, salix. AL. 4, 3. Gr. oisos, oisya, itys, itea, lat. vitus, vitex.

Osprey, seaeagle, falco ossifragus, and hali-
aetus L., of destructive power and fascinating
influence. Co. 4, 7.

Ostent, prodigy; show, appearance. MV. 2, 2.
2, 8. He. 5. chor.
Othergates, otherways, otherguise. TN. 5, 1.
Ottomites, Ottomans, Turks. O. 1, 3.
Ouche, owch, a broche, spangle or necklace.
bHd. 2, 4. derived from the middlelat. nusca,
nosca, ital. nocchia, a kind of bosse, also a
clasp, buckle. Why not immediately from acus,
uncus, gr. ankos, ankys, onkos, germ. Anke,
Haken, relations of Nacken, neck, nook,
nock, fr. hanche, germ. Winkel? This primary
signification of clasp and buckle lost, remained
only that of a jewel wrought for suchlike

One, an individual, a single person. M. 3, 4. Sometimes it was written and pronounced on. TG. 2, 1, KJ. 3, 3. with Malone, Oneyers, onyers, public accountants. To settle accounts in the Exchequer is still called to ony, from the mark o. ni, which is an abbreviation of the latin form: oneretur, nisi habeat sufficientem exonerationem. So observes and re-to Overbulk, to overcharge like a bulk, to stores aHd. 2, 1. Malone for monyer, and

owner.

Ooze, wetness, moisture, AC. 2, 7. T. 1, 2. 3, 3; brook, source, germ. Wase. Cy. 4, 2. Kin to eaves, wh. s., wos, woose, ouze, owze, in Iun. etymol. angl., the gr. asis, slime, mire, hyō, hygō, hydō, hyzó, pluo.

to Oose, to run, drain, flow, distill gently. TA. 1, 1.

Oozy, slimy, muddy. T. 5, 1.

Opal, a stone thought to possess magical powers,
admired on account of its beautiful variety of
colours, and symbol of changeableness. TN.
2, 4.

Operant, operative, fit for action. H. 3, 2.
Opinion, credit, reputation. aHd.5, 4. 0.2, 3.
Or ere
ere ever before ever. T. 1, 2. M. 4, 3.

ornaments.

oppress. TC. 1, 3.

Overcanopy'd, overhung with a canopy or baldachin. MD. 2, 2.

to Overcast, to become dark, cloudy, covered with clouds. Rc. 3, 2.

Overdy'd blacks, cloth too much dyed in black, that breaks and bursts sooner. WT. 1, 2. to Overpart, to charge with a too heavy part, to pretend too much. LL. 5, 2.

to Overpeer, to peer over, or overhang, oversee. MV. 1, 1. aHf. 1, 4. Co. 2, 3.

to Overperch, to soar, hover, hang, fly over. RJ. 2, 2.

to Overrate, to overprize. Cy. 1, 5. Overscutched, bHd. 3, 2. by some interpreters explained filthy, greasy, by Ray for overswitched, much lashed with a whip, whipped,

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