Blurted, sneered. Board, accost, woo.

Bedlam, sb., a madhouse; a madman; Bob, vb., to beat; cheat; sb., a cut

adj., mad.

Bed-swerver, adulteress.

Beg us, apply for the guardianship of us as idiots, L. L. L. V. ii. 490. Being, sb. habit of life; residence; adv., when, since.

Be-lee'd, forced to lee of the wind.

Ban-dogs, fierce dogs kept chained. Bandy, strike to and fro; contend. Bane, poison; destruction.

Bank, to land on or sail along the banks of, K. John, V. ii. 104.

Banquet, dessert.

Barbed, armed (of a horse).
Bare, vb., shave.

Barful, full of hindrances.
Barn, child.

Barnacle, a shell-fish supposed to grow on trees and turn into a goose. Bartholomew boar-pig. Roast pig was an attraction at Bartholomew Fair, held annually in London on Aug. 24th.

Base, a rustic game.
Base court, lower court.

Bases, a kind of skirt worn by knights
on horseback.
Basilisco-like, given to repetition,
like Basilisco, a foolish knight in
Soliman and Perseda.
Basilisk, a fabulous serpent that
killed by its look; a large cannon.
Basta (Ital.), enough.
Bastard, a sweet Spanish wine.
Bat, a heavy stick.
Bate, sb., quarrel.

Bate, vb., flutter; weaken, remit.
Bate-breeding, causing quarrels.
Bateless, not to be blunted.
Bat-fowling, catching birds with

sticks.

Batlet, a flat stick for beating linen in washing.

Batten, to feed.

Bemad, madden.
Bemoiled, bedraggled.

Bend, sb., look, glance; vb., direct, incline.

Bent, tension; inclination; look.
Ben venuto, welcome.
Berattle, cry down.

Bergomask, a rustic dance after the
manner of Bergamo, in N. Italy.
Bermoothes, Bermudas.
Beseeming, appearance, Cym. V. v.

409.

Beshrew, curse (used playfully).
Besonian, base fellow.

Besort, vb., suit; sb., convenience.
Bespeak, address.
Bested, situated.
Bestraught, distracted.
Beteem, grant, allow.
Bewray, reveal.

Bias, awry; puffed out, swelled (as
a bowl is on the bias side) (?),
T. and C. I. iii. 15.
Biddy, a chicken-call.
Bide, endure.
Biding, abode.

ting jest.

Bodkin, a dagger.

Bodykins, a disguised oath (origi-
nally, by the sacramental wafer).
Boggle, swerve, hesitate.
Boggler, an inconstant person.
Bolins, bowlines.
Bollen, swollen.
Bolt, sift, refine.

Bolting-hutch, box for sifting.
Bombard, a leathern vessel for liquor.
Bombast, sb., padding of cotton wool;
adj., fustian.

Bona-roba, a light woman.
Bonnet, to take off the bonnet in
courtesy.

Bonny, pretty, handsome; big.
Boot, booty; profit.

Boots, a method of torture.
Bore, over-reach.
Bosky, shrubby.

Botch, patch.

Bots, worms in horses.

Bottled, swollen, Rich. III, I. iii. 242.

Bottom, sb., a ball of thread; vb., to wind.

Bottom, a valley.

Bound, to make to leap, Hen. V, V. ii. 146.

Bound, hindered, stopped, J. Cæs.
IV. iii. 221.

Bourn, boundary; stream.
Bow, sb., yoke.

Bigamy, marrying a widow, Rich. Bow-hand, left hand.
III, III. vii. 189.
Biggen, nightcap.

Bilbo, a Spanish blade (from Bilbao).
Bilboes, a kind of fetters used at sea.
Bill, a halberd.

Bill, note; notice, proclamation.
Bird-bolt, a blunt-headed arrow.
Birding, fowling.
Birth-child, a child adopted because
of its being born within a certain
domain.

Bisson, dim-sighted.

Bite the thumb, a gesture of contempt.

Bitumed, smeared with bitumen. Black, dark-complexioned, as opposed to fair.

Black-cornered, hiding things in dark corners (?), T. of A. V. i. 47. Black Monday, Easter Monday, named from a storm from which the English forces in France suffered on that day, 1360.

Boy, rb., act the part, being a boy (referring to the acting of female parts by boys), A. and C. V. ii. 220. Brabble, broil.

Brace, armor for the arm; state of defence.

Brach, a female hound.

Braid, adj., deceitful; rb., upbraid. Brain, vb., understand, Cym. V. iv.

147.

Brainish, headstrong.
Brain-pan, skull.
Brain-sick, mad.
Brave, adj., fine, splendid; tb., to
make fine, to swagger, to defy.
Bravery, finery; bravado.
Brawl, a French dance, L. L. L. III.
i. 9.

Brawn, muscle (esp. of the arm); a boar.

Breach of the sea, surf. Breast, singing voice. Breath, gentle exercise. Breathe, to take exercise. Blank, sb., the white mark in the Breathed, exercised, in (good) wind.

Chamber, a small cannon. In Rich. III, III. i. 1, chamber is a translation of camera regis, i. e., London. Chamberer, a man accomplished in the arts of peace, as opposed to a soldier.

Changeable, varying in color.
Channel, sb., gutter, vb., to furrow.
Chanson, song.

Chape, metal point of a scabbard.
Chapeless, without a chape.
Chapless, without a jaw.
Chaps, jaws, clefts in the skin.
Character, sb., handwriting; vb.,

write.

Charactery, writing.
Chare, a bit of work, job.
Charge, load, weight; expense.
Chargeful, expensive.
Charge-house, schoolhouse.
Charneco, a kind of wine.
Chaudron, entrails.
Che, I (dialect).

Bubukles, pimples.
Buck, sb., linen to be washed; b., Captivate, take captive.
to wash.

Buck-basket, a laundry-basket.
Bucket, a pole or yoke (?), 2 Hen.
IV, III. ii. 282.

Buckle, to bow; to join in close com-
bat.

Buckler, protect.

Bucklersbury, a street in London, chiefly inhabited by druggists. Bug, bugbear.

Bugle, a black glass bead.
Bulk, body; projecting part of a
building.

Bully, a fine fellow; a swaggerer.
Bully-rook, a swaggering cheat.
Bum-baily, a warrant officer.

Bung, pickpocket.

Burgonet, a close-fitting helmet.

Burn (sack), to boil to mitigate its strength.

Bush, a vintner's sign.
Busky, shrubby.

Buss, kiss.

Buttery, provision room.

Button, bud. In his buttons, in his power to succeed (?), M. Wives, III. ii. 71.

Butt-shaft, a blunt arrow, used for shooting at a target. By-drinkings, drinkings between

Carack, a large merchant vessel. Caraways, confections made with caraway seeds.

Carbonado, sb., meat slashed across for broiling; vb., to cut across. Carcanet, necklace.

Card, sb., chart. Cooling card, a
term from some game, applied to
anything that checks one's enthu-
siasm.

Card, vb., to mix.
Cardinally, a mistake for "carnally,"
M. for M. II. i. 81.
Carduus Benedictus, blessed thistle,
a medicinal herb.

Career (To pass a), to run a short
gallop at full speed.
Carl, rustic.
Carlot, rustic.

Carnal, eating flesh, Rich. III, IV. iv.
56.

Carpet consideration, reasons of
courtiership rather than services
in war.

Carpets, table or floor coverings.
Carpet-mongers, carpet knights.
Carriage, tenor, Ham. I. i. 94.
Carry coals, endure insult.
Carry out my side, play my game
successfully.

Carve, to make courteous or inviting
gesture, M. Wives, I. iii. 49.
Case, sb., skin; set.

Case, vb., mask; surround; flay.
Cast, vb., dismiss; inspect (water).
Cast, adj., discarded.
Cataian, Chinese.

Cater-cousins, good friends.

Catlings, cat-gut for fiddle-strings.

of Cautel, deceit.

Cautelous, deceitful.
Cease, decease.

Censure, sb., opinion, judgement; vb., to judge.

Cerecloth, cerements, waxed linen
used for a shroud.
'Cerns, concerns.

Cess (Out of all), excessively.
Chaces, a term in tennis.
Chafe, sb., anger.

Cheater, escheator, an officer of the Exchequer.

Chequin, an Italian gold coin. Cherry-pit, the game of pitching cherry-stones into a small hole. Cheveril, a soft, easily stretched

leather.

Chewet, a chough, daw; a kind of
mince-meat.
Childing, fruitful.
Chill, I will (dialect).
Chirurgeonly, surgeon-like.
Chopine, a high-soled shoe or clog.
Chough, jackdaw.

Christom, for chrisom, christening

robe. A chrisom child was a child in its first month, still wearing the white cloth put on at baptism; so, an innocent child. Chud, I would (dialect). Chuff, a wealthy churl. Cinque-pace, a stately dance. Cipher, decipher.

Circummur'd, walled round. Circumstance, detail; formal phrases. Cital, recital.

Cite, incite.

Citizen, adj., town-bred.
Cittern, guitar.

Civil, grave. Civil doctor, a doctor of civil law.

Clack-dish, a beggar's dish with a

movable cover with which a noise was made.

Clamour, to silence, W. T. IV. iv. 250.

Clap, pledge by clasping hands. Clap i' the clout, hit the bull's eye. Clapper-claw, thrash.

Clearness, freedom from suspicion. Clepe, to call.

Cliff, clef, the key in music. Climate, sb., region (of the earth or sky).

Climate, vb., reside.

Climatures, regions or dwellers in a
region (?), Ham. I. i. 125.
Cling, shrivel.

Clinquant, glittering.
Clip, embrace, enclose.

Cloistress, a nun.

Close, adj., secret.

an agreement.

Closure, enclosure; conclusion.
Clothier's yard, cloth-yard shaft, the
old English arrow.
Clout, the bull's eye.
Cloy, to stroke with the claw.
Coast, advance gropingly; attack,
3 Hen. VI, I. i. 268.
Cobloaf, a misshapen loaf.
Cock, cockboat, Lear, IV. vi. 19.
Cock, corruption of "God."
Cockney, a city-bred person.
Cockshut time, twilight.
Codding, lustful.

Codling, an unripe apple.
Coffin, the crust of a pie.
Cog, cheat.

Cognizance, badge.
Coign, corner-stone.

Coil, turmoil, entanglement.

Collect, infer.

Collection, inference.

Concerning, affair.

Conclusion, experiment. Conclusions passed the careers, things took their course.

Condition, rank; character; quality.
Condole, lament for.
Confidence, blunder for "confer-
ence," M. Wives, I. iv. 172.
Confiners, borderers.

Confirmity, blunder for "infirmity,"
2 Hen. IV, II. iv. 64.
Confound, waste, destroy.
Congest, heap together.
Congied, taken leave.
Congreeing, agreeing.
Congreet, greet.

Conscience, consciousness, thought.
Conscionable, conscientious.
Conserve, preserve.

Consider, pay.

Considered, fit for deliberation.

without alacrity.

Comfortable, consoling.
Coming-in, income.

Coming-on, adj., complaisant; sb., future; attack.

Commend, recommendation; greeting.

Comment, power of observation. Commodity, convenience; profit; parcel.

Commoner, prostitute.
Comonty, a blunder for "comedy,"
T. of S. Ind. ii. 140.
Compact, made up of.
Companion, fellow (in bad sense).
Comparative, adj., quick at compari-
sons; sb., a dealer in compari-
sons (?), or, perhaps, one who re-
gards himself as an equal, 1 Hen.
IV, III. ii. 67.

Compassed, round, arched.
Compassionate, moving pity.
Compeer, equal.
Competitor, partner.

Complement, outward form; accomplishment.

Complexion, temperament; external

appearance.

Complices, accomplices.
Comply, use ceremony.
Compose, come to an agreement.
Compost, manure.
Composture, manure.

Composure, composition; combination.

Compt, reckoning; the judgementday, Oth. V. ii. 273. Comptible, sensitive.

Con, learn by heart. Con thanks, be thankful.

Conceit, sb., imagination, thought; fanciful idea; vb., judge. Conceited, possessed with an idea; fanciful.

Conceitless, stupid.
Conceptious, apt to conceive.
Concern, to import.

Contemptuous, contemptible.
Content, adj., restrained.
Continent, sb., that which contains;
an abstract.

Contraction, marriage-contract.
Contrive, plot; spend.
Contriver, schemer.

Convent, vb., summon; be convenient.

Conversation, intercourse; behavior.
Convertite, convert.

Convey, carry or carry on secretly;
steal; pass off, Hen. V, I. ii. 74.
Conveyance, trickery.
Convicted, defeated.
Convince, overcome, convict.
Convive, feast together.
Cony-catch, cheat.
Copatain, high-crowned.
Cope, sb., the heavens.
Cope, vb., to encounter, requite.
Copesmate, companion.
Copped, peaked.

Copulative, one desiring to be married.

Copy, theme; lease, tenure.
Coram, corruption of "quorum,"
from the Latin commission naming
Justices.

Coranto, a quick dance,

Corinthian, a fast fellow.

Cornuto, cuckold.

Corporal, corporeal.

Correspondent, obedient.

Course, the attack of the dogs in
bear-baiting; a point on the com-
pass, Temp. I. i. 53.
Court-cupboard, an open sideboard.
Court holy-water, flattery.
Court-hand, legal penmanship.
Courtship, elegant manners.
Cousin, any relative not of one's im-
mediate family.
Covent, convent.
Cover, lay the table.
Cowish, cowardly.

Cowl-staff, a pole on which a burden
is borne between two persons.
Cox my passion! Corruption for
"God's passion!"

Coy, vb., to disdain; to caress.
Coystrill, a base groom.
Cozen, cheat.

Cozier, cobbler.

Crack, sb., a small boy.

Crack, vb., to boast.

Crack-hemp, a fellow deserving to be hanged.

Crank, sb., winding; vb., to wind. Crants, garlands (Q. reading for Ff. "rites" in Ham. V. i. 255).

Crescive, growing.

Cresset, a fire-basket, suspended as a beacon.

Crisp, curled, wavy.

Crispin's Day, October 25.

Cross, a coin stamped with a cross.
Cross-row, the alphabet.
Crudy, raw.

Cruel, in Lear, II. iv. 7, a pun on crewel, worsted.

Crusado, a Portuguese coin.
Crush (a cup), drink.
Cry, a pack; a troop; a rumor.
Cry aim. See Aim.

Cry on, shout, Ham. V. ii. 375.
Cubiculo, chamber.
Cullion, a lout.

Culverin, a kind of cannon.
Curiosity, fastidiousness.

Curious, elegant; scrupulous; elab