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Stover, fodder and provision of all sorts for Streamer, flag, pennon. He. 3. prol. cattle. T. 4, 1. Kin, as it seems, to the gr. Streams. MD. 5, 1. Voss reads glittering steibō, stibas, stibaros, perhaps stōrennyein.

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gleams.

to Stow, to keep, stuff, cram. O. 1, 2. Kin to In Strength, in spite. JC. 3, 1. Kin to strain. the gr. staō, stauō, steibō, stibō, germ. to Strip, to bare, pull off, draw off, or out. stopfen, engl. to store, staple. T. 1, 1. figuratively O. 2, 1. Germ. streifen, gr. dryphein, dryptein, dreptein, drepein, der

Stowage, keeping, place where somewhat is kept. Cy. 1, 7.

pein.

Strossers, trossers, trowsers. He. 3, 7.
to Strive, to contend, emulate, vie. Cy. 2, 4
Struck, stricken in years, advanced in, af-
fected by years, as by thunderbolt, or lightning,
tempest, amazement, admiration (H. 3, 2.)
Rc. 1, 1.

Strut, to swell, protuberate; prance (wh. s.)
TC. 1, 3. AC. 3, it. H. 3, 2. MW. 1, 4. Cy.
3, 1. Kin to the gr. stereos, germ. starr,
starren, starzen, stürzen, strotzen, lat. tur-
gere, as to the gr. staō, styō, storthe, stor-
thynx, point,

Strachy in Lady of the strachy TN. 2, 5. in the meaning to give an apposite example of an unequal match, opposed to the yeoman of the wardrobe, i. e. surveyor of table-, bed- and body-linen, seems a disperate word, as Steevens calls it, who therefore conjectured starchy, for starchery, and explained it to mean the laundry. Even stretchy, formed from to stretch, to to extend, spread, would give the fit meaning of a room, where linen is stretched. It has been objected, that no such word existed, signifying the room, in which linen underwent the once most complicated and fashionable operation of using starch of different colours to tinge the linen; and that the lady of the laundry would not be so much superior to the yeoman of the wardrobe. Why not in the head of a conceited fool? Knight conjectured Stratico, as title of the governor of Messina. Malone found an allusion to a story in Lily's Euphues, where a young gentleman' (yeoman of the wardrobe seems yet another thing) 'is said to have found to obtain the love of the to Sty, to shut up in a sty (AC. 4, 13. H. 3, 4.) Dutchess of Milaine.' (Widow, unmarried, or married?) All endeavours, however, to find the genuine word of the poet, unless that of the Subduement, submission, defeat. TC 4, 5. common reading be true, though obsolete, to Subscribe, to yield, submit, surrender. seem fruitless, as on the other hand it needs, not to quote examples of unequal matches everywhere obvious.

to Straggle, to ramble, to wander without a
certain direction. TA. 5, 1. Kin to stray,
germ. recken, strecken, gr. oregein, and
strangein, strazein, strabein, straphein, stre-
phein, germ. streifen.
Stragglers, strollers, wandering, rambling
fellows. Rc. 5, 3.

Straight, strait, immediately, forthwith (Rb.
5, 1.) MW. 4, 1. KJ. 4, 3. 5, 7. Rb. 5, 3;
right, stout, strong, strict, rigid, severe.
MM. 2, 1. KJ. 5, 7. TA. 1, 1. From to strain,
kin to struggle (wh. s.) struggle, germ. stre-
cken, lat. rectus, stringo, it. stretto, fr.
étroit, germ. strack, stracks, to strow, strew,
straw etc. Horne Tooke Div. of P. I, 459.
Strain, tune. TN. 1, 1; descent, lineage. MA.
2,1; bent, touch, disposition. MW. 2, 1. TA.
4, 3. KL. 5. From to strain (s. straight) sax.
strynan, gignere, procreare, to get strynd,
Horne Tooke Div. of P. II, 290.

to Strain courtesy, to use ceremony, to
stand upon form; to decline civilly, to be shy,
to scruple, doubt, hesitate. VA. 148.
to Strait, to straiten, put to inconvenience,
or difficulties, to puzzle. WT. 4, 3. S. straight.
Straitpight, slender. Cy. 5, 5

Strange, coy, shy. Cy. 1, 7. Fr. étrange,
straniero, from the lat. extraneus,

it.

to Strangle, to put an end. Malone to S. 89. Strappado, a kind of rack, whipping with thongs.

Stratagem, great or dreadful event. bhd. 1, 1. RJ. 3, 5.

Stray, wrong way, byway. KL. 1, 1. to Stream, to unfold. Rb. 4, 1.

Stuck, stock, stoccado, wh. s., assault in fenc
ing. TN. 3, 4. H. 4, 7. where the fourth
folio has the glossematical tucke, rapier. Stuck,
however, is either the germ. Stock, stick,
staff, or thrust, push.

Stuff, utensils, baggage, vessels. CE. 4. tow.
end; substance, main point. O. 1, 2.
Stuff'd man, endowed. Also a cuckold. TS.
1, 1. where s. Farmer.

or stall. T. 1, 2. Kin to stable, gr. staō, germ. stellen.

TC. 4, 5. MM. 2, 4. AW. 1, 3. KL. 1, 2. where the folio has prescribed, limited, circumscribed.

Subscription, obedience, submission. KL. 3, 2.

Subtle, smooth, level. Co. 5, 2; sly, deceitful.
a Hd. 1, 3. JC. 2, 1. bad, foul, base.
Subtilties, captious, fallacious things, curiosi-
ties. T. 5. Dragons, castles, trees and other
sets of parade out of sugar, or meal had the
like denomination.

Suburbs, the general resort of disorderly persons
in fortified towns. MM. 1, 2. JC. 2, 1.
Sufficiency, skill, ability, capacity. MM. 1, 1.
WT. 2, 1,

Sufficient, able, credible. MV. 1, 3. bHd.
3, 2. 0.4, 1.

1.

to Suggest, to tempt, seduce. AW. 4, 5. TG.
2, 6. LL. 5, 2. 0. 2. end. From suggerere.
Suggestion, temptation, seduction. T. 2,
M. 1, 3. KJ.3, 1; crafty device. Hh. 4, 2.
Suit, petition or request made to a prince or
statesman; petition. RJ. 1, 4. Out of suits,
having no correspondence with, turned out of
service. AL. 1, 2.

Suitor, a person who had a petition to urge
at court, one who sought places, or favours.
MM. 2, 2. Co. 1, 1; wooer. MA. 1, 1. Kin to
fr. suivre, lat. sequi, and the germ.
suchen. As puu alluding to archery, and
shooter LL. 4, 1.

sue,

Sultry, hot and close. H. 5, 2. From swelte with Chaucer, of course for sweltry, from the germ. schwälen, schweelen, schwölen, schwelen, sax. swaelan, to swale, swelter, to light, beswaeled, set on fire, swolath, heat, swilie, hot. Kin to the hebr. kalah, to burn, lat. calidus, it. caldo, germ. schwül.

Sumpter, a horse that carries provisions, or to Sway, to press on in motion. bHd. 4, 1. other necessaries KL. 2, 4. French sommier, Kin to swag (s. swagbelly) and the germ. it. somaro, soma, salma, germ. Saum, from the hebr. sum, sax. seam, gr. sagma, engl.

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Surmise, jealousy, conjecture, to whom it is joined bHd. ind.

Surplice, the white linen garment, the priest wears over his clothes. AW. 1, 3. From the fr. surpelis, surplis, lat. superpellicium. to Surety, to make hostage. Co. 3, 1. Surreined, overworked, worn down. He. 3, 5. From rein, bridle.

Suspect, suspicion. CE. 3, 1. S. 70.

to Suspire, to respire, to breathe. bHd. 4, 4. KJ. 3, 4.

Swaddling, swathing cloth, or clout, cloth wrapped round a newborn child. aHd. 3, 2. H. 2, 2. Cy. 1, 1. Kin to swad, swath, cod, germ. Schote, gr. kytos, from keuthō. Swagbelly, fat, big belly. O. 2, 3. Swag is a variety for wag, swagger, germ. bewegen, schwanken, wanken, (with the n epenthetic) kin to quick (s. to quicken), to swab, waft. to Swagger, to crack, boast, hector, reel. MD. 3, 1. O. 2, 3. II. 1, 4. He. 4, 7. bHd. 2, 4. Swaggerer, braggard, cracker, hector. AL. 4, 5.

Swart, black, darkbrown, dusky. CE. 3, 2. KJ. 3, 1. aHf. 1, 2. Germ, schwarz. Swarth, line or row of grass as left by the scythe; great parcel, or heap. TN. 2, 5. It seems not to be the same word with swath, wh. s., so that it expresses only the broad pronunciation, as Nares will, although it is often used for it. The notion is rather much different; viz that of cover, being the germ. word Schwarte, kin the gr. gerrhon, lat. corium, gr. chorion, gera, thong, lat. scortum, cortex, hebr. or, skin, coat, hide.

Swasher, bully, fellow that is all noise and no courage. He. 3, 2.

Swashing, dashing, spirited and calculated to surprise, noisy. AL. 1, 3. violent, overpowering. RJ. 1, 1. Kin to quash, lat. quassare, cutere, gr. kottein, germ. quasten. Swath, as much grass, as a mower cuts down at one stroke of his scythe. TC. 5, 5. Germ. Schwaden, kin therefore to scythe, sithe, lat. sica, sicula, ital. sega, germ. Sech, Sichel, gr. zanklē, engl. saw, germ. Sachs, icel. sax, knife.

schwingen, schwenken.

Sway, government. MM. 1, 4; whatever moves with violence in great bulk, frame, or mass, as the frame of earth. JC. 1, 3. Germ. Schwung.

to Swear, to swear by. KL. 1, 1. Lat. vereri, jurare.

Sweat was considered as the chief specific in the venereal disease. MM. 1, 2. Sweep, what is wiped, swept, dust, dross, scum. TA. 1, 2. Kin to wipe, swab. Sweepstake, the whole stage, or set in playing swept away. H. 4, 5.

Sweet, perfumed. WT. 4, 3. Gr. hedys, germ.

süss.

Sweet and twenty, said of soft, tender and repeated kissing. TN. 2, 8.

Sweeting, a sweet apple. RJ. 2, 4; term of endearment. allf. 3, 3.

to Swell, figuratively to provoke, excite. TA. 2, 5. cf. not.

to Swelter, to parch or dry up with heat, to roast. M. 4, 1. S. sultry.

to Swerve, to ramble, aberr, deviate. WT. 4, 3. Cy. 5, 4. He. 2, 2. AC. 3, 9. Kin to the germ. werben, to wrest, wind, turn, goth. quairban, sax. hweorfan, hwyrfan, germ. wirbeln, kehren, kin to quern, wh. s., churn. Swift, quick; changeable, variable. MD. 1, 1. It is but the dental form of quick, kin to swag, swab, assonating perhaps also shift, wh. s. to Swill, to swallow down, gulp; to water, moisten, bath. He. 3, 1.

to Swinge, to whip, bang, maul. TS. 5, 2. TG. 2, 1. KJ. 2, 1.

Swingebuckler, a bully, rake, reeler. bHd. 3, 2.

Switch, a small flexible twig. RJ. 2, 4. Hh.5, 8. Germ. Zweig, twig.

Switzers, hired guards, attendant upon kings. II. 4, 5.

to Swoond, to swoon. RJ. 3, 2. Kin to squander, germ. schwenden, schwinden, schweiwen, lat. evanescere, fr. évanouir, it. svanire, gr. dendillein.

Swoop, sudden descent of a preybird. M. 4, 8. From to swoop, kin to sweep, sax. swipan. Horne Tooke Div. of P. II, 263.

Sword, was of the length of 3 feet, 5 inches. S. Voss to Rc. 3, 1. Swearing upon the sword, viz to a stright transverse bar between the blade and the hilt, suggesting the idea of a cross. WT. 2, 8. H. 1, 5. aHd. 2, 4. Germ. Schwert, from wehren, to defend. Sword and buckler, as an epithet expressive of military energy. aHd. 1, 3. Sworder, bally. AC. 3, 11. Sworn brother, brother in arms; intimate fellow companion. MA. 1, 1. bHd. 3, 2. He. 2, 1. Sycamore, mulberry, figtree. RJ. 1, 1. 0.4, 8.

T.

Table, the palm of the hand extended, the whole collection of lines within the hand- as term of chiromancy. MV.2, 2; board, on which a picture is painted, a picture. AW. 1, 1. Needless and error is the reading of the second folio and of Malone He. 2, 3. a table of green

fields for' a babbled of gr. f., alluding to the Taking, trouble, embarrassment, fear. MW. 3, 3.

calenture.

Tables, backgammon. LL. 5, 2. table book (II. 2, 2.) memorandum book. H.1, 5. bHd. 4, 1. of slate, in the form of a small portable book with leaves and clasps. S. Done's Ill. of Sh. II, 227.

to Table, to note, book, record. Cy. 1, 5.
Tabor, was the designation of a music shop,
and of a fool. TN. 3, 1. MM. 1, 2. T. 3, 2.
Douce's Ill. of Sh. I, 97. Drake's Sh. and his
time I, 164.

Tabourine, a common side drum. AC. 4, 8.
TC. 4, 5.
Tackled, twisted, plighted. T. stair, ladder
of ropes. RJ. 2, 4. T. is kin to tack, attach,
take, dag, sax. taekan, cimbr. taka, takia, fr.
attaquer, lowsax. Tacke, Tagge, germ. Zacke,
Takel, kin to Zagel, Zaal, Zail, tail, sax. taegl,
engl. to tug, daggle, germ. ziehen, zecken.
Tadpole, young shapeless toad or frog. TɅn.
4, 2. KL. 3, 4. From toad, wh. s., and the
sax. fola, gr. pōlos, lat. pullus, young.
Tag, common people, rabble, pack of rogues,
the lowest of the populace. Co. 3, 4. JC. 1, 2.
Commonly accompanied with rag and bobtail.
Anciently tagge and ragge. Six old pl. I, 90.
Tail. A witch transformed into any animal that
ought to have a tail, was always superstitiously
believed to be deficient in that part. M. 1, 3.
Tailor! An exclamation at a sudden fall, as
Johnson will MD. 2. 1; a woman's tailor TS.

4,8. The exclamation is no doubt a vulgar cry
of amazement and terror. Terror brings in
mind the buck (S. Puck). Buck and tailor give
occasion to many jests in many languages., Pan,
the buck, was son of the weaving Penélope;
and the fatal sister, the Parcae or Moirai,
are spinsters. For weaving and spinning were
symbol for the efficacy or activity of Nature
and of the fatal deities; and a goddess, of course
a woman, cause of the fall into the material world,
had woven the worldmantle, or gown and the
starmantle, and had in this way ruled and swayed
the destiny of the souls. S. F. Chn. Baur's Sym-
bolik und Mythologie, oder die Naturrelig. des
Alterthums. II, 329. ss. (Stuttg. 1824. III. 8.)
Kanne's Pantheon der ältesten Naturphilos.
p. 156. 147. The same's Chronus. p. 16. 103.
Conr. Schwenk's etymol. mytholog. Andeutun-
gen (Elberfeld 1828.) p. 80. s. Hence the word
"a tailor made thee KL. 2, 2. and the tailors
of the earth. AC. 1, 2. The word tailor itself
therefore, anciently talyowre, taylior, fluc-
tuates between the gr. daō, dauō, to cut, and
the lat. tela, stola, fr. toile.

to Take, to blast, strike, (wh. s.) to affect violently, as by witchcraft. MW. 4, 4. KL. 2, 4. H. 1, 1; to leap. KJ. 5, 2. To take in, to conquer. AC. 3, 7; to subdue. ib. 1, 1. WT. 4, 8. (t. in the mind); to apprehend. Cy. 4, 2. To take on, to feign, to pretend. ib. 3, 5. To take out, to copy. O. 3, 4. To take one with you, to be clear and explicit. aHd. 2, 4. RJ. 3, 5. To take one's ease in one's inn, proverbial phrase, to enjoy oneself, as if at home. aHd. 3, 3. Drake's Shk. I, 216. To take up, to settle, make up, to compose, make peace. AL. 5, 4: to borrow money, or take commodities upon trust. AW.2, 8; to take from the ground; perhaps at the same time to make head against, to stand up to, to hold out with. bHd. 1, 2; to incite, intice, stir up, to exasperate. bHd. 4, 2.

Talent and talon were frequently confounded
and sometimes punned upon. LL. 4, 2. Hawkins
Orig. of the engl. theatr. II, 244. Talon is claw
of a preybird. bнf. 3, 2. cf. 1, 4.
Tall, stout, bold, courageous, valiant, warlike.
TN. 1, 3. WT. 5, 2. He. 2, 1. RJ. 2, 4.
Tallow catch aHd. 2, 4. Johnson and Steevens
read keech, i. e. lump, fat of an ox rolled up
by the butcher in a round lump, in order to
be carried to the chandler. cf. bнd. 2, 1. Hh.
1, 1. Keech is the germ. Kuchen.
Talon. S. talent.

to Tame, to make gentle, to break, subdue.
TS. 2, 1. KL. 4, 2. Sax. tamian, gr. daman,
Tang, shrill sound; continual scolding. T. 2, 2.
dman, lat. domare, fr. dompter, germ. zähmen.
to Tang, to sound loudly, like a bell. TN.

2, 5. Kin to tongue, goth. tungo, sax. tung, Tanling, one who is subject to the tanning kin to the gr. phthongos, phthengomai. influence of the sun. Cy. 4, 4. 'Tis only another spelling for tawnling, from tawny, yellow like tanwater, barkwater, used by the tanners. The word is kin to taw, lowsax. tauen, sax. tawian, (to supple leather by briskly rubbing and beating it. S. Gifford's Ben Jons. IIII, 494.) gr. diainō, deuō, dephō, depsō.

to

to Tap, to draw off. Rb. 2,1. Kin to the gr.
typō, and siphon, fr. tapon, it. zaffo, germ.
Targe, target, shield. cHf. 2, 1. From the gr.
Zapfen.
Tarre, or tar, to set on, to encourage in an
thyreos, germ. Tartsche.
attack, particularly dogs. KJ. 4, 1. H. 2, 2.
TC. 1, 3. Kin to tear, gr. syrein, fr. tirer,
pers. deriden, germ. zerren, zerreissen.
Tarriance, stay, delay. TG. 2, 7. From tarry,
variety of tardy, lat. tardus, kin to the germ.
zerren, fr. tirer.

Tart, sharp, keen, pungent, harsh. 4C. 2, 5.
KL. 4, 2. Anglosax. teart, from tyran, exacer-
bare, irritare, exasperare. Horne Tooke Div.
of P. II, 270. kin also to the gr. tharrhos.
Tartar, tartarus, heathen hell. TN. 2, 5. He.
2, 2.

to Task, to impose a daywork, to occupy or
engage fully, as in a task. MW. 4, 6. He. 1, 2.
0. 2, 3; to bid, summon. Rb. 4. From the gr.
taxis, tassein, fr. tâche.
Tasking, offering. aHd. 5, 2.
Tassel, tuft. TC. 5, 1. Middlelat. tassellus.
gr. thysanos, thysthlon, thyssanos, from thyō,
thyssō, to swinge, to move.

Tassel, tassel gentle, male of the gosshawk.
RJ.2, 2. TC. 3, 2. Drake's Shk. and his time I,
263. 267. A variety of tercel, terciel, from ter-
tiolus, fr. tiercelet, it. terzuolo, germ. Tärz.
to Tatter, to rend, rag. KL. 4, 6. RJ. 5, 1.
A reduplicative form of tear!

to Taunt, to rail at, to insult. CE. 4, 4. Rc.
3, 1. AC. 1, 1. AL. 3, 5. No doubt variety of
taint, fr. teindre, lat. tingere, gr. tenchein,
germ. tünchen.
Taunt, blotting, reproach. cHf. 2, 1. Rc. 1, 8.
Tawdry, WT. 4, 3. according to Skinner a
corruption of Saint Audrey, Auldry or Ethelreda,
meaning a thing bought at the fair of St.
Audrey, where gay toys were sold, on the 17
of October. May be that this is a later interpre-
tation for the earlier origin from theatrical,

Termagant, is said to be originally a scythian deity, celebrated by lunar sacrifices, the Trivigante of the Italians, or Tervagant of the french romancers, derived from Diana Trivia. S. Nares. No doubt the word is corrupted, perhaps from yet more other words, suggested by the idea of a terrible, strong and great being, like Artemis, Britomartis, and Hecate, as for instance the Saxon tyr magan, very powerful, or the lat. ter magna. This imaginary personage, like all mythological ideas and beings, had a history, or historical evolution, in which it was differently explained, misshaped and corrupted, like the word itself denoting it, as we have seen an example in Maid Marian. In this way it became in the old plays and moralities a mask of a most violent character.

the gr. theatrikos, meaning also pompous, os-to Tent, to search as a wound. Co. 1, 9. 3, 2. tentations, showy, toyish. H. 2, 2. From tent, a roll of lint employed in Tawny was the usual colour of the livery of examining or purifying a wound, gr. tainia. ecclesiastical apparitors, or sumners. aHf. 1, 3. Tercel. S. tassel. to Tax, to upbraid, rate, blame. MM. 2, 4. MA. 1, 1. 2, 3. H. 3, 3. KL. 3, 2. Taxation, censure, satire. AL. 1, 2. Team, yoke, horses, or oxen drawing together the same carriage. aHd. 3, 1. TG. 3, 1. MD. 5, 1. RJ. 1, 4. Kin to tame, as it seems. to Tear a cat, to rant and behave with violence, like a bully. MD. 1, 2. Allusion to a bully named Tearcat in The roaring girl 1611. Techy, teatchy, tetchy, touchy, froward, peevish, fretful, easily offended. Rc. 4, 4. TC. 1, 1. Out of the cited forms there seem to be other varieties teachy RJ. 1, 2. teatish, tettish, tetty, testy, of one and the same french word testu, têtu, that underwent those changements partly by different interpretations. So for instance to touch could assonate, and the german provincial zatschig, or tatschig, said of tenderlings and spoiled men; although this be an other side of the idea, viz a morose one, capricious, heady (the translation of our word!) stubborn, wayward.

to vex,

to Teem, to beget, bring forth. M. 4, 3. He.
5, 2. KL. 1, 4. 0.4, 1. Rb. 2, 1. 5, 2. Kin
to the gr. demein, to build, fr. timbre, germ.
zimmern. The soul builds the body.
Teen, care, grief, dolour, pain, affliction,
sorrow. T. 1, 2. Rc. 4, 1. LL. 4, 3. RJ. 1, 3.
Sax. teon, tene, teyne, from teonan,
irritate.
to Temper, to mould, like wax into a shape.
bHd. 4, 3. TG. 3, 2; to mix, season. H. 5, 2.
Cy. 5, 5; to frame, shape, tune, form, settle.
MM. 5, 1. AL. 1, 2. RJ. 3, 3; to dispose,
practise. TAn. 4, 4; to agree, congrue, accord
with. cHf. 4, 6. The chief idea of the word
is that of proportioning, or setting in certain
mutual relation the elements and powers of
nature, or mind, of combining the sundry parts
in a whole. A scholar will remember here the
cup, as symbol and mirror of the world. S.
Görres' über den Dichtungskreis des heili-
gen Grales, in Lohengrin, ein altdeutsches
Gedicht, nach der Abschrift des vatic. Msc. von
Ferd. Gloekle, herausgeg. v. J. Görres. Heidelb.
1813. 8. Baur's Symbol. u. Mythol. III, 194.
Temperate, sober, chaste. T. 4.
Templehall or temple's inn, the lawyers college)

at London. aHf. 2, 4. Temples and courts of justice were asyles. So the Tower. ib. 1, 3. Temporizer, turncoat, timeserver. WT. 1, 2. Tenantless, unpeopled, unoccupied, uninhabited. H. 1, 1. TG. 5, 4. From tenant, vassal. aHd. 3, 1.

Ten bones, the fingers. bHf. 1, 4.
Ten commandments, the nails on the ten
fingers. bHf. 1, 3.

Tender, offering, appointment. LL. 2, 1. MD.
3, 2. H. 1, 3. From tendere.

to Tender, to rate, tax, value, regard with
affection. H. 1, 3. aHf. 4, 7. TL. 77.
Ten groats was an attorney's fee. AW. 2, 2.
Rb. 5, 5.

Tennis ball, a bladder stuffed with hairs
MA. 3, 2. cased in leather. CE. 2, 1. thrust
with the feet, or pushed by rackets. RJ. 2, 5
in tennis-courts. H. 2, 1. bHd, 2, 2. P. 3, 2.
It seems kin to the gr. dinō, dineō, doneō,
to swinge, move in circle.

H. 3, 2; than it came to mean, as an adjective, fiery and violent aHd. 5, 4. perhaps not without assonating something like the gr. thermaustris, a violent dance; for y and alternate, as in ycleped, yclad etc., and at last a scolding woman was so called. Test, coppel of the refiners; trial, proof. T. 4. beg.. O. 1, 3. MM. 1, 1. Kin to tagō, takō, tēkō, to melt, flow, stagōn, stazō, tēganon Tested, brought to test, assayed, poor. MM. 3, 2. From the precedent. This seems preferable to 'stamped with a head (fr. téte) and left in legacy, from the lat. testari.'

to Testern, to bestow a sixpence. TG. 1, 1. From testern, testorn, teston, from tête, teston, it. testa, testone, stamped upon. Gifford's Ben Jons. I, 107. Douce's Ill. of Sh. I, 35.

Testril seems but other form of testern. TN. 4, 7.

Tether, tedder, halter, or rope of horses in the pasture ground. H. 1, 3. Germ. Tüder, hebr. sad, nervus.

Tetter, scab, scurf, sore. H. 1, 5. Sax. teter. to Tetter, to make a scart. Co. 3, 1. Tewksbury mustard, was famous by its thickness. bhd. 2, 4. and pungency. Tharborough, corruption of thirdborough, constable, headborough. LL. 1, 1. TS. ind. 1. in the old divisions of municipal power the third in rank in the decennary or tithing. Gifford's Ben Jons. VI, 136.

to Thatch, to cover with rushes, straw. TA. 4, 8. From the lat. tego, tectum, gr. tegos, stegos.

Theatres, existing in London at Sh's time were: the Globe an the Bankside, Southwark, a summerhouse, where Sh. and his brethren performed. Gifford's Ben Jons. II, 455. Dodsley's pref. to the Old pl. p. 50; the Phoenix, in Drurylane. Gifford's Ben Jons. V, 167. according to Dodsley p. 51.; the same as Cockpit; the Fortune, near Whitecross street, property of Edw. Alleyn, who rebuilt it. Gifford's Ben Jons. II, 451. Dodsley p. 50. Blackfriars, said to have been in the same hands, as the Globe. Dodsley p. 51; the Redbull at the upper end of St. Johnstreet, Dodsley p. 51; the Beargarden, or Parisgarden, wh. s., in Southwark, near to the Globe; the Hope, on the bankside, Southwark. Gifford's Ben Jons. II, 456. Dodsley p. 50; Whitefriars; the Curtain in Shoreditch;

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Theorie, theory. He. 1, 1. AW. 4, 3. O. 1. 1.
Thew, bulk, mass, lump of flesh. bHd. 3, 4.
JC. 1, 3. H. 1, 3. Sax. theow, kin to thigh,
thick, from thiccian, densare, condensare. Horne
Tooke Div. of P. II, 312.

Thickskin, coarse, vulgar, unpolished. MW.
4, 5. MD. 3, 2.

Thillhorse, thiller, horse that goes between the
shafts MV. 2, 2. is Malone's emendation for
philhorse of all the ancient copies, that is said
to be a corruption used in some counties. May
be it assonates, however, the gr. pōlos, engi,
foal, germ. Fohlen, Füllen. Tautologies of
this kind are not seldom.

Thing, trifle inconsiderable. TS. 4, 8. said
of persons in a scornful sense. WT. 2, 1.
Thing of nothing, any thing very worthless.
H. 4, 2.

to Think scorn, to disdain; to feel an offence,
mixed with contempt. Cy. 4, 4.

words and drill and twirl anciently seem to
have been used promiscuously.

to Throb, to knock, beat, pant. M. 4, 1. bHƒ.
4, 4. TAn. 5, 3. Variety of three, to give
woes, pains, aches, pangs (Hh. 2, 4. TA. 5, 3.
Cy. 5, 4.) T. 2, 1. to throw, gr. rheō, rhepō,
Throstle, thrush, properly misselthrush. MD.
rhipō, rhiptō, rhopō.
3,1. MV.1, 2. Germ. Drostel, Trostel, Droschel,
lat. turdus, turdela. Douce's Ill. of Sh. I, 250.
Thrum. S. thread.

to

Thrum'd hat, a hat composed of tufts or thrums, or of very coarse cloth. MW. 4, 2. Thumbring, plain broad goldring worn on the thumb by grave personages. aHd. 2, 4. Thump, to beat with dull heavy blows. bHƒ. 2,3. LL. 3, 1. Rc. 5, 3. Kin to the gr. typū, typto, with m inserted, like in tympanon. Thunderstone, thunderbolt. (curious stoneaxes, formed of green granite. Walter Scott's Pirate III, 4.) JC. 1, 3. Cy. 4, 2.

Thwarting, crossing, repugnant, adverse, sinistre. cHf. 4, 6. MA. 3, 2. From the germ. zwerch, queer, gr. gyros, kyros, kyrtos, lat. curvus, celt. gwyr, lowsax. dwarv.

Third or thrid, for thread, fibre, part, por-Tib and Tom, ace of trumps, and the knave
tion; metathetically. T. 4, 1. Six Old pl. I, 62.
Germ. Draht, from drehen.
Thirty one, a trifling game. TS. 1, 2.
This confounded with his. Hh. 1, 2.

Thong, leathern strap; implement, used by
sharpers, in the cheating game of fast and
loose. MIV. 2, 2. The reading, however, of the
original editions is throng, crowd. cf. KL.3, 2.
Thought, grief, care. AL. 4, 1. TN. 2, 4.
AC, 4, 7. H. 4, 5.

Thrall, slave. M. 3, 6. aHf. 1, 2. 2, 3. Rc. 4, 1.
Sax. thrael, thrall, oldg. Trill, from trillen,

to vex.

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Three man song, song for three voices. WT. 4, 2.

Three hooped, bound with three hoops. bHf. 4, 2. Douce's Ill. of Sh. II, 23.

Three inch, mean, contemptible. TS. 4, 1. Threepile, the finest and most costly kind of velvet, worn by persons of wealth. WT. 4, 2; name of a mercer, dealing in that commodity. MM. 4, 3.

Threepil'd, refined, approaching or pretending to perfection. MM. 1, 2; exaggerated, highflown. LL. 5, 2.

Threesuited, who had no greater change of
rayment, than three suits would furnish him
with. Malone to KL. 2, 2.

Thrift, savingness. TA. 1, 1; profit, gain,
success. H. 3, 2. Kin to drive, germ. treiben,
Trieb, said of plants shutting up.
Thrifty, saving, well husbanded; small. AL.
2, 3.

to Thrill, to bore. KL. 4, 2. MM. 3, 1; to
trickle down, to gush, purl, warble, quaver.
RJ. 4, 8. aHd. 2, 4. Thrill and trill originally
are different, the first being kin to the germ.
drehen, the second to the gr. treo, terō, lat.
tremo, terreo, engl. to tremble. But both these

in the game of gleek; common names of low
and vulgar persons. Douce's Ill. of Sh. I, 318.
AW. 2, 2. Cf. rushring and Malone to P. 4, 6.
Tickle, tottering, slight, easily overthrown,
inconstant. MM. 1, 3. bHd. 2, 1. It seems to
be the dental form of fickle, germ. wackelig,
wankend.
Tidde taddle, and pibble pabble are com-
pounds as in Germ. Schnickschnak, Wischi-
waschi, and in Engl. prittle prattle, bibble
Tide, flux and reflux of the sea, ebb and flood;
babble etc. He. 4, 1.
torrent, vogue. KJ. 5, 6. aHd. 4, 1. bHd. 5, 2;
time, season, change, course. JC. 3, 1. 4, 3.
TA. 1, 2. Sax. tid, tyd, lowsax. Tyd, Tyde,
kin to the hebr. et, gr. eita, ēdē, franc. zit,
cit, cyt, germ. Zeit.

Tidy, seasonable; handy, nice, quaint, nimble,
elegant. bHd. 2, 4. Reed explains it by fat.
to Tie, to bind; hold in bonds. Hh. 4, 2. (where
ty'de is the genuine reading of the first and
second folio, confirmed by the similar use of
the verb in VA, Hanmer and Farmer substitute
in vain. tyth'd). MM. 4, 1. for Shave the head
and tie the beard Voss substitutes die. — To
tie over, to draw over, and metaphorically to
entice, to put in hopes, to oblige for the
coming time. He. 5. tow. end. Sax. tygan,
icel. tyja, gr. deō, to bind, germ. ziehen.
Tight, close; neat, clever, quaint. TS. 2. end.
Tightly, cleverly, neatly. MW. 1, 3.
Tike, dog of a larger or common breed,

as

mastiff, shepherd's dog. KL. 3, 6. He. 2, 1. Icel. tyk, sued. and goth. tick, kin to the gr. dakō, daknō.

Tilly vally, tilly fally TN. 2, 3. bHd. 2, 5. exclamation of contempt. From titivillitium, chippings of filament, naughty, insignificant. Plaut. Cas. 2, 5. 39. It answers to tiddle taddle, wh. s.

Tilt TG. 1, 8. combined with tournament, breaking of lances, a military exercise, combat of knights, on horse. From the flat. tolutim with Plautus, said of horse's gait, when it lifts the feet equally; whence tolutarius equus, asturio, ambulator, gradarius, a curvetting horse, germ. Zelter, zelten, zeltnen, span. thieldo, kin to

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