Attent, attentive.

Attribute, reputation.
Audible, quick of hearing.

Augures, augur or augury, Macb.
III. iv. 124.

Auld, old.

Aunt, an old woman; a loose woman, W. T. IV. iii. 11.

Avised, informed.

Avoid, leave; get rid of.

Bavin, brushwood.
Bawcock, dear fellow.

Beadsman, one hired to pray for another.

Bear. Bear a brain, have sense. Bear hard, dislike, bear a grudge. Bear in hand, deceive.

Bear-'ard, bear-herd, a keeper of

bears.

Bearing-cloth, the mantle in which a child was carried to be christened.

Beaver, the visor of a helmet; a hel- Blue-cap, a Scot. met.

Becomed, fitting.

Blurted, sneered. Board, accost, woo.

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

adj., mad.

Baby, doll (?), Macb. III. iv. 106.
Baccare, go back.

Backsword man, a single-stick player. Back-trick, a caper backwards in dancing.

Baffle, disgrace.
Baked-meats, pastry.

Balk logic, dispute, T. of S. I. i. 34.
Balked, piled up.
Ballow, cudgel.
Ban, curse.

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, rb., Hutter; 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.

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.

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 con-
tempt.

Bitumed, smeared with bitumen.
Black, dark-complexioned, as op-
posed 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 suf-
fered on that day, 1360.
Blacks, suit of mourning.

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; vb., upbraid. Brain, vb., understand, Cym. V. iv. 147.

Brainish, headstrong.
Brain-pan, skull.
Brain-sick, mad.
Brave, adj., fine, splendid; rb., 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, so., the white mark in the Breathed, exercised, in (good) wind.

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, cock boat, 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 "conference," 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.

Consist, insist.

Consort, company.

Conspectuity, sight.

Constancy, consistency.

Constant, logical.

Constringed, compressed.

Contagious, pernicious.

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 comparisons; sb., a dealer in comparisons (?), or, perhaps, one who regards 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

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

Contraction, marriage-contract.
Contrive, plot; spend.
Contriver, schemer.
Convent, vb., summon; be conven-
ient.
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, rb., to disdain; to caress.
Coystrill, a base groom.
Cozen, cheat.

remedy.

Corslet, cuirass.

Danger, power.

Dansker, Dane.

Dareful, defiant.

Darkling, adv., in the dark.

women's affairs.

Countenance, authority, favor. Counter, in the wrong direction. Counter-gate, gate of a prison called the Counter.

Counterpoint, counterpane, coverlet. Countervail, outweigh.

Dash, mark of disgrace, Lucr. 206.
Daubery, imposture.
Day-bed, sofa.

Day-woman, dairy-woman.
Deal on lieutenantry, act by deputy.
Dear, coming home to one intimately.
intense, grievous.

dis

reason, reasoning power.

Discoverer, scout.

Discover, recognize; reveal.

Disdained, disdainful.

Disease, trouble.

Disedge, satiate.

Disfurnish, deprive of means.
Disgracious, not finding favor.
Dishabit, dislodge.
Dishonest, unchaste.
Dishonoured, dishonorable.
Dislike, disapprove; displease.
Dislimn, blot out.
Dismay, be dismayed.
Disme, tenth.

Disnatured, unnatural.

Disorbed, thrown from its sphere.
Dispark, destroy the enclosures of.
Dispatched, bereaved.
Dispiteous, pitiless.
Disponge, discharge.

Dispose, sb., disposal; disposition; rb., make terms.

Disposer (My), one who disposes of (me).

Disproperty, take away.
Dispurse, disburse.

Drumble, to be sluggish.

Dry, thirsty; stupid, insipid.
Dry-beat, thrash.

Dry-foot (To draw), to hunt game
by the mere scent of the foot.
Dudgeon, handle of a dagger.
Due, endue.

Duello, the duelling code.
Dumb, to silence.

Dump, a melancholy tune.

Dun. In R. and J. I. iv. 41, there are references to two proverbial phrases: Dun's the mouse, which is unexplained; and Dun (a horse) is in the mire, the name of an old game, and a phrase meaning that things are at a standstill. Dup, do up, open. Durance, imprisonment.

M. Ado, IV. ii. 1. Distain, defile. Distance, hostility.

Distaste, to be, make, or find distasteful.

Earth, vb., bury.

Easy, slight.

Eche, eke (to rime with speech), Per. III. Pro. 13.

Ecstasy, being beside oneself.

Despised, despicable.

Detect, reveal.

Determinate, bring to an end.

Determination, limit.

Determine, to end.

Wives, I. iv. 160.

Distressful, got by distressing labor.
Disvouch, contradict.

Dive-dapper, a small water-fowl.
Dividable, separated.

Dividant, different.

Division, variation, modulation.

heraldry.

Diffidence, suspicion.

Diffused, irregular, wild, uncouth.

Digress, transgress.

Dig-you-den, give you good-even.
Dildo, refrain of a song.
Diminutives, very small coins.
Direction, skill in command.
Directitude, a word coined or cor-
rupted by a servant, Cor. IV. v.
222.

Directive, able to be directed.
Directly, clearly, Oth. II. i. 221.
Disable, disparage.

Disanimate, discourage.
Disappointed, unprepared.

Do him dead, kill him. Do me right,
a challenge to fight or drink. Do
withal, help it.
Document, instruction.
Dogged, malicious.
Doit, half a farthing.
Dole, sorrow.
Doom, decide, judge.
Dotant, dotard.

Double-fatal, fatal in two ways (of
the yew, the leaves of which are
poisonous, and the wood used for
bows).
Doubt, fear.
Dout, put out.
Dowlas, coarse linen.

ment of a purpose.

Effectually, in effect, Sonn. 113. 4.
Effigies, likeness.

Effuse, sb., effusion; vb., to shed.
Eftest, quickest.
Eftsoons, at once.

Egal, equal.

Egally, equally.

Eggs for money? (Will you take) Will you be imposed on?

Egma, blunder for "enigma," L. L. L. III. i. 73.

Eisel, vinegar.

Elbow, vb., stand close to, haunt.
Element, the sky.
Elf, vb., to entangle.

Elf-locks, hair matted together, supposedly by fairies.

Elvish-marked, marked by elves or fairies.

Emballing, being invested with the ball (and sceptre) at coronation. Embargement, placing under embargo, hindrance. Embayed, land-locked.

Emboss, to drive to extremity. Embossed, foaming at the mouth; swollen.

Enact, action.

Enacture, action.

Encave, to hide.

Enchantingly, as if by charms. Encompassment, circumvention. Encounter, encounterer, L. L. L. V. ii. 82.

Encumbered, folded.

End, to harvest, Cor. V. vi. 37.
End. Still an end, continually.
Endeared, bound.

Enfeoff, to hand over as a fief, surrender.

Enforce, urge, press hard.
Enfranched, freed.

Engage, pledge; give as a hostage. Engine, contrivance (of war, torture, etc.).

Englut, swallow up.
Engraffed, firmly fixed.

Engross, to fatten; take wholesale.
Engrossment, accumulation.
Enlard, fatten.

Enlarge, set at liberty.
Enlargement, liberty.

Enormous, monstrous, Lear, II. ii. 76.

Enpatron, be the patron saint of.
Enseamed, filthy.

Ensear, dry up.

woven.

Ever among, perhaps a corruption of ever anon, continually. Evil, disease; especially the King's evil, i. e. scrofula. In M. for M. II. ii. 172, apparently a privy. Evitate, avoid.

Examine, question, doubt. Exceed, to be preeminent, surpassing Except, tb., to object, make a reservation. Except before excepted, a legal phrase used in contracts. Excitement, encouragement,

im

Exempt, vb., remove; adj., remote.
Exequies, funeral rites.
Exhalation, meteor.

Exhale, draw out (used of a sword by Pistol).

Exhaust, draw forth.
Exhibition, allowance. In M. Ado,
IV. ii. 5, used blunderingly.
Exigent, sb., exigence, decisive mo-
ment; end.

Exion, blunder for "action," 2 Hen.
IV, II. i. 32.

Exorciser, exorcist, necromancer. Exorcism, conjuration for raising spirits.

Expect, await.

Expectance, wondering.

Expectancy, hope.

Expedience, haste; expedition.
Expedient, quick.

Expense, spending; loss.

Expiate, terminate; terminated.
Exploit, fighting.
Expostulate, discuss.
Expostulation, discussion.
Exposture, exposure.

Express, adj., expressive; exactly
fitting its purpose; tb., reveal.
Expressive, open, demonstrative.
Expressly, distinctly.
Expressure, expression; impression.
Expulse, expel.

Ex-sufficate, puffed out, empty.
Extant, present.

Extend, increase, magnify; seize upon; show, use.

Extent, seizure; attack; friendly conduct; display.

Extenuate, lessen, mitigate, depreciate.

Extermine, destroy.

Extern, outward.

Extinct, extincted, extinguished.
Extincture, extinction.
Extirp, root out.

Extracting, absorbing, distracting.
Extraught, derived.

Extravagancy, aimless wandering.
Extravagant, wandering.
Eyas, a nestling.

Eyas-musket, a young male sparrowhawk.

Eye, sb., tinge of color; presence; rb., to appear.

Eyne, eyes.

Face, vb., bully, brazen; trim. To
face it with a card of ten, a term
from primero, to bluff on a ten.
Facinerious, facinorous, wicked.
Fact, crime.

Factionary, taking sides.
Factious, taking sides.
Factor, agent, deputy.
Faculty, power, essential quality.
Fadge, agree, fit, work well.
Fading, burden of a song.
Fail, failure.

Fain, glad; obliged.

Faining, longing; affectionate, M.
N. D. I. i. 31.

Fair, sb., beauty; a beautiful person;
vb., to make beautiful.
Fairing, present bought at a fair.
Faithed, believed.

Faithless, unbelieving.

Faitor, evil-doer.

Fall, sb., cadence; ebb; vb., to fall away; let fall; bring forth, be brought forth; to begin.

Fall away (or from or off), desert, revolt.

Fallow, yellowish brown.

False, vb., to be untrue; sb., falsehood.

False fire, a flash in the pan.
Falsing, deceptive.
Fame, make famous.
Familiar, sb., attendant spirit.
Famoused, made famous.

Fancy, love. Fancies and Goodnights in 2 Hen. IV, III. ii. 342, means little songs.

Fang, seize.