Mane,maining.s.moan,moan

ing. Mangonel. an engine used for difcharging great fiones, arrows, &c. before the inven tion of gunpowder. Margarite. a pearl. lạt. Maugre. p. 4. spite of. p. 75. ill-will incur.) Me.p.9.men.Me con men'gan, Me-thuncketh. methinks. Mean. moderate, middle-fized. Meit. s meet. fit, proper. Meid. s. p. 15. mood. Meife s, foften, reduce, mitigate. p. 108.. Mell.honey. Alfo,meddle,mingle. Mente the faught. s. p. 105. measure the battle. To give to the menfe, is, to give above the measure. Twelve and one to the menfe, is common with children in their play.

Menzie. s. meaney. retinue,
company.
Meflager. f. messenger.
Minny. s. mother.
Mirke. s. dark, black.
Mirry. s. meri. merry.
Mifkaryed. mifcarried.
Mifter. s. to need.
Mo, moe. more
Moiening. by means of. fr.
Mome. a dull, fupid perfon.
Mone. moon.

More, mure, s. moor, heath, marsby ground; also wild hill. p. 4. mores ant the fenne. q. d. hill and dale. Morne. p. 75. to morn. to-morrow: in the morning. Mornyng. p. 45. mourning.

Mote I thee, might I thr ie.
Mowe. may, mou. s. mouth.
Muchele bolt. mickle boaft,
great boaf.
Mude. s. mood.
Mulne. mill.

Murne, murnt, murning. s. mourn, mourned, mourning. Myzt; myzty. might; mighty.

N.

Nathelefs. nevertheless.
Near. s. ner. nere. ne'er,never.
Neat. oxen, cows,
large cattle.
Neatherd. a keeper of cattle.
Neatreffe. a female ditto.
Nere. p. 274. ne were; were
it not for.

Neft; nyest. next; nearest.
Noble. a gold coin in value 20
groats, or 6s. 8d.
Nollys, p.

noddles, heads. Nom. p. 8. took. Nome. name.. Non, none. None. noon. Nonce. purpose. for the nonce. for the occafion. Norfe. s. Norway.

Raik. s. to go apace. Raik on raw. go faft in a row.

reft.

Ranted. s. p. 6. were merry. vid. Gl. to Gent. Shepherd. Raught. reached, gained, obtained. Razt. raught, or p. bereft. Rea'me, reaume. realm. Rede, redde. p. 9. read. Rede, read. p. 31. advise, ad

vice. Redreffe. p. 71. care, labour. Refe, reve, reeve. bailiff. Refe, bereave, or perhaps, rive, Split. p. Reid. s. advife.

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Remeid.

Rew. s. take pity.
Rin. s. run.

Rise. p. 276. Shoot, busb, fbrub.
Rive. p. 279. rife, abounding.
Rood loft, the place in the
church where the images
were fet up.
Rudd. ruddinefs; complexion.
Rude. s. rood. cross.
Ruell-bones. p. 18. perhaps
bones diverfly coloured. f. ri-
ole or perhaps, small bone-
rings, from the Fr. rouelle,
a fmall ring or hoop. Cot-
grav. Diction.

Rugged. p. 23. pulled with

violence.

Schiples. s. biplefs.
Scho. s. fhe.
Schuke. s. book.
Sclat. flate: p. 12. little table-
book of flates to write upon.
Scomfit. difcomfit.

Scot. tax, revenue. p. 5. a
year's tax of the kingdom;
alfo foot, reckoning.
Se; fene; feying. See; seen;
feeing.

See, fees. s. fea, feas.
Sely, feely. filly, fimple.
Selven. felf.

Selver, filler. s. filver.
Sen. s. fince.

Senvy. muftard-feed. f. fenvie.
Seve. p. 279. feven.
Sey yow. p. 11. fay to, tell

you.

Seyd. s. faw.

Shave, p. 69. be fhave. been Shaven.

Sheeve, fhive. a great flice or luncheon of bread. p. 244. Shirt of male, or mail, was a garment for defence made all of rings of iron, worn under the coat. According to fome, the Hawberk was fo formed. Sho. s. fhe.

Shope.p.271. betook me, shaped my course.

Shorte. s. borten.

Shrive. confefs. Item,hear confefion.

Shynand. s. fhining.

Shurting, recreation, diverfion, paftime. Vid. Gaw. Dougl.

Gloff

Shunted. Jhunned.

brightness.

Side. s. long.

Sindle.

Sindle. s. feldom.

Sitteth. p. 3. fit ye.
Skaith, fcath. barm, mifchief.
Skalk. p. 134. perhaps from
the Germ. Schalck, malici-

ous, perverfe. (Sic Dan. Skalck. Nequitia, malicia, c. Sheringham de Angl. Orig. p. 318.)—Or perhaps from the Germ. Schaichen.. to fquint. Hence our Northern word, kelly, to squint. Skinker. one that ferves drink. Skomfit. difcomfit. Skot. fhat, reckoning. Slattered. flit, broke into splin

ters.

Sle, flea, fley, flo. flay.
Slee. s. Ay.

Sende. a prefent.

Sone. foon. p. 9. foon.
Sonn. p. 276. fon. fun.

Soth, footh. truth; also, true.
Soothly. truly.
Sould. s. ftould.
Souling, p. 242. victualling.
Sowle fill used in the north
far any thing eaten with
bread. A. S. Suple. Suple.
Job. 21. 5. (or to fowle, may
be from the French word
faouler" to fluff and cram,
to glut." vid. Cotgrave.)
Sowne found p.47.(rhythmigr.)

Spec. fpak, fpack. s. spake.
Speere. p. 135..

Speered, fparred. i. e. faftened,
shut * . vid. p. 135.
Speir. s. fpeer. pear.
Speir. s. (p. 62.) fpeer. fpeare.

afk, inquire. Vid. Gloff. vol. 3. Spence, pens. expence. Spindles and whorles, the inftruments used for fpinning in Scotland, in the fame manner as fpinning wheels here †. Spilt. s. Spoilt. Spole. Thoulder. f. efpaule. p. 192. it seems to mean arm-pit."

Stalwart, ftalworth. fout.
Startopes. bufkins, or half boots,
sworn by ruftics, laced down
before.
Stead, tede. place.
Steir. s. ftir.

Stel. feel. fteilly. s. fleely.
Stound.time, aftound, a while.
Stown. s. folen.
Stoup of weir. a pillar of war.
Strike. p. 12 Aricken.
Stra, ftrae. s. ftraw,
Styrt. fart.

Suthe, fwith. foon, quickly.
Suore bi ys chin. fworn by his

chin.

Swarvde, fwarved. climbed. Swaird. the grafly furface of the ground.

Swearde, fwerd. fword.
Swevens. dreams.

Swypyng. p. 22. firiking faft;
[Cimb. fuipan, cito agere,
or rather courging,' from
volvere, raptare.] Scot.
Sweap. to fcourge, Vid. Gloff.
to Gaw. Douglas.
Swepyls. p. 21. A Swepyl is
that faff of the flail, with

which the corn is beaten out. vulg. a Supple: (called in the midland counties a Swindgell; where the other part is termed the Hand-staff.) Swinkers. labourers.

Swyving. whoring.
Syke. Jigh.

Syn. fince. Syne. s. then.
Syfhemell. p. 66. Ifkmael.
Sych. fuch.

syth. fince.

Syzt. Jight.

T.

Take. p. 25. taken.
Taken. s. p. 108. token, fign.
Targe. target, shield.
Te. to. te make. p. 3. to make.
Te he! interjection of laughing.
Tent. s. heed.

Terry. diminutive of Thierry.
Theodoricus, Didericus. Lat.
Tha.p.22. them.Thah. though.
Thare, theire,ther, thore. there.
The. thee.

The God. p. 25 Jeems contracted for The he. i. e. high God.

Thole; tholed. fuffer; fuffered.
Thouft. thou shalt, or shouldest.
Thrang. s. throng: ciofe.
Thrawis. s. throes.
Thirtti thoufent.thirtythousand
Thrie. s. thre, three.
Thrif. thrive.

Thruch, throuch. s. through.
Thud. p. 108. noife of a fall.
Tibbe. In Scotland Tibbe is
the diminutive of Ifabel.
Tild down. p. 177.pitched. qu.
Till. s. to p. 16. when. query.
Timkin. diminutive of Timothy.
Tint. s. loft.

Too-fall. ts. p. 374. twilight.
Traiterye. treafon.
Trie. s. tre. tree.

Trichard. treacherous. f. tricheur.

Triethen. trick, deceive. Trough, trouth. troth. Trow. think, believe, truft. Trumped. p. 15. boafted, told bragging lies, lying ftories. So in the North they fay, "That's a Trump," i. e. a lie." She goes about trumping:" i. e. telling lies. Trumps made of tree. p. 21. perhaps