tinism. Liefest, dearest. Lifter, a thief.

Limbeck, a vessel to emit fumes and vapours.

Limbo-patrum, in confinement. Limed, ensnared, as with birdlime.

Limits, estimates, or outlines, rough sketches. Hen. IV. 1st Part.

Lined, delineated. As you. Line, genealogy. Hen. V. Link, a torch, used to make old hats black. Tam. Shrew. Linstock, the staff to which the match is fixed, when ordnance is fired.

List, the bound or limit. Twel. Night. Mea. for Mea. &c. Lither, flexible, or yielding. Loach, a very small fish, exceedingly prolific. Lob, an epithet implying dullness and inactivity.

Lock a love-lock.

a particular lock of hair,

Lockram, a kind of linen.
Lode-star, leading star, the pole-

star.

Loggats, a game played with bowl and pins. Longing, for longed, wished or desired. Two Gent. Longly, longingly.

Main descry, the main body is descried.

Hen. VI.

Span.

Male, male parent.
3d Part.
Malich, a wicked art.
Malkin, a kitchen wench, or
scullion, a trull.
Maltworms, tipplers.
Mammering, hesitating, stam-
mering.

Mammocked, cut in pieces.
Mammets, puppets.

Manage, conduct, administration. K. John.

Mandragora, a plant of soporific virtue. Mandrake, a root, supposed to have the shape of a man, and to groan when pulled from the ground.

Mankind, i. e. witch, a masculine witch. Wint. Tale. Manner, with the manner, in the fact. Wint. Tale. Marchpane, a kind of sweet confection, or biscuit. Marches, borders, Hen. V

confines.

Martlemas, the latter spring.
Hen. IV. 2d Part.
Mated, confounded. Com. Er.
Mac. &c.

Meacock, timorous, dastardly.

wind. Loon, a base fellow. Looped, full of apertures. Lear. Lop, the branches. Hen. VIII. Lordings, the diminutive of lord. Lover, sometimes used for mis

Mean, a tenor. Two Gent. &c.
Measure, a solemn dance. Love's
Lab. &c.
Meazels, lepers. Cor.
Medicin, physician. Mac.
Meditation, quickness of enthu
siastic thought. Ham.
Meiney, people. Fr.
Mell, to meddle with. All's Well.
Memory, sometimes used for
memorial.

Mends, the means, the wherewithal.

Mere, sometimes for absolute, entire, total.

Mered question, the sole question.
Mewed, confined.
Micher, a truant.

Miching mallecho, a secret mischief. Minute-jacks, Jack o'lantern. Miscreate, illegitimate, spurious. Misprised, mistaken. Misprising, despising, contemning.

Missingly, at intervals, occasionally.

Missives, messengers.
Mistempered, angry, contentious.
Mistful, i. e. eyes ready to flow.
with tears.

Mobled, veiled or muffled.
Model, sometimes for mould.
Modern, sometimes for absurd,
new-fangled.
Module, model.

Moe, to make mouths.
Moist star, the moon.
Mome, a dull, stupid, blockhead.
Momentary, short, momentary.
Monster, to make monstrous.
Lear.

Moonish, variable.

Mope, to be stupid or foolish. Mopes and mowes, wry faces and mockings.

Mort, i. e. of the deer, a tune on the death of the deer. Mortal, abounding. As you. Mortifyed, religious, retired, peaceable.

Motion, sometimes for puppet; puppetshows were called motions.

Motive, sometimes for assistant,

Night-rule, frolic of the night.
Mid. Night.
Nill, shall not.

Per. Nine men's morris, figures cut out in the turf for a game so called.

Noble touch, true metal unalloyed.

Nonce, for the nonce, on purpose. Noon-tide prick, noontide point on the dial.

Nott-pated, round-headed, cropt.
Novum, a game at dice.
Nouzle, to nurstle a fondling.
Nowl, a head.

Nurture, education.
Nut hood, a catchpole.

Odd-even, the interval between twelve at night and one in the morning.

Od's pitikins, God's my pity.
Oeliads, glances of the eye. Fr.
Oes, circles.

Onyers, probably for owners.
Opal, a precious stone, of almost
all colours.
Operant, active.

Opinion, sometimes for self-conceit.

Orbs, fairy circles. Mid. Night. Ordinance, rank. Cor. Orgulous, proud. Fr.

Ostent, ostentation or demon

stration.

Overcrows, overcomes, triumphs

over.

Overscutched, whipt, or carted, applied to low prostitutes. Ouphes, fairies.

black-bird.

Out-vied, defeated, a term in
the old game of gleek.
Owe, sometimes used for own.
Orlip, the greater cowslip.

Pack, to make a bargain, or act
collusively.
Packings, frauds.

Payed, beaten, drubbed. Hen.
IV. 1st Part, punished.
Pale, sometimes dominions,
boundaries.

Pall, to wrap, or invest. Mac.
Palled, vapid, decayed.
Palmers, pilgrims who visited
holy places.
Palmy, victorious.
Palter, to shuffle.
Paragoned,
comparison.
Parcell-bawd, half-bawd.
To parcell, sometimes to reckon.
Parcell-gilt, partly gilt.
Paritors, apparitors, officers of
the spiritual court.
Parle, dispute by words.
Parlous, perilous, keen, shrewd.
Partizan, a pike.
Pash, head.

peerless, without

To pash, to butt, or strike with violence.

Passed, sometimes for surpassed

all expression. Mer. Wiv. Passy-measure, a kind of dance. Patch, a fool. Mer. Ven. &c. Path, to walk.

Patines, round broad plates. Pavin, a kind of dance. Paucas palabris, few words, corrupted from the Sp. pocas palabras.

Feat, pet, or darling, a spoiled

child.

Peculiar, belonging to an individual. Mea. for Mea. Peer-out,appear out, or peep out. Peevish, sometimes for foolish. Peize, to weigh, to keep in suspense. Fr.

Pelting, sometimes for paltry. Pennons, small flags.

Perdu, one of the forlorn hope.

Fr.

Perdy, a corruption of the
French oath par Dieu.
Perfect, sometimes used for cer-
tain, or well assured.
Periapts, charms worn about
the neck.

Pew-fellow, a companion.
Pheere, a mate, or companion.
Pheese, to plague, or teaze.
I'll pheese you, I'll comb your
head.

Pia Mater, the membrane that protects the substance of the brain..

Pick, sometimes for to pitch.
Pickers, hands.

Pick-thank, an officious parasite.
Piece, sometimes used as an
epithet of contempt.
Pieled, shaved.
Pight, pitched, fixed.
Pilcher, leathern sheath.
Piled,that which has lost the hair.
Piled-esteemed,probably for vile-

esteemed.

Pilled, pillaged. Pinfold, a pound. Pink eyne, red eyes. Pinnace, anciently signified a ship of small burthen. Pix, the box in which consecrated wafers were kept. Placket, a petticoat. Plague, for, to punish. Plainly, openly, free from concealment. Cor.

Planched, made of boards or planks.

Plantage, plaintain, or any kind of plants subject to the influence of the moon. Plants, feet; from the Lat. Ant. and Cleo.

Plates, silver money. Ant, and Cleo.

Platforms, plans or schemes. Hen. VI. ist Part.

Plausive, gracious, pleasing, popular.

Pleached, folded in each other.
Plot, a piece or portion. Cor.
Ham.
Point, to point, exactly, com-
pletely. Temp.

Point-devise, exactly. Fr. Poize, weight or moment. Polack, an inhabitant of Poland. Politic regard, a sly look. Polled, bared or cleared. Pomander, a perfumed ball worn in times of infection. Pomewater, a species of apple. Poor John, hake, dried and salted.

Popinjay, a parrot.

Port, show or appearance. Tam. Shrew.

Portage, open space, or safe arrival at a port. Portance, carriage. Possess, sometimes for to make understand.

Potch, to push roughly or violently.

Potents, potentates.
Poulter, poulterer,
Pouncet box, a box cut with open
work. Fr.

Prank, to adorn, to deck out.
Precisian, one who pretends to
great sanctity.
Preeches, breeched, flogged.
Prenominate, already named.
Pricket, a buck of the second
year.
Prig, to filch.

Prime, sprightliness of youth.
All's Well.

Primer, more important.
Primero, a game at cards.
Princor, a coxcomb or pet.
Probal, probable.

Proface, much good may it do you. Ital.

Profane, sometimes, free of speech, talkative. Profession, end and purpose of coming.

Prolixious, coy, distant. Prompture, suggestion, instigation.

Prone, humble or prompt. Mea. for Mea.

Properties, the necessaries of a

theatre.

Provand, provender.

Prune, sometimes for to plume. Pugging, cant word for coveting, as a thief or sharper. VOL. VIL.

Puke, colour between russet and black.

Pun, to pound. Troil. and Cres. Pussel, a low wench. Putter-out, one who puts out his money on interest or other advantage.

Puttock,a mean species of hawk.

Quail, to sink, to faint.
Quaint, fantastically dressed.
Mer. Wiv.

Quaked, thrown into trepidation. Quarry, the game after it is killed.

Quart d'ecu, fourth part of a French crown.

Quat, ascab, an angry blockhead.
Queasy, suspicious, unsettled.
Quell, sometimes, to murder.
Queller, a murderer.

Quests, reports. Mea. for Mea.
Quest, pursuit. Lear.
Question, sometimes, conversa-
tion.

Questrist, one who goes in
search of another.
Quiddets, subtleties.
Quill, in the quill, written. Hen.
VI. 2d Part.

Quillets, evasions, chicanery.
Quintain, a post or butt set up.
Quips, hasty, passionate re-
proaches and scoffs.
Quired, played in concert.
Quit, sometimes, to requite.
Quittance, return of injuries or
favours.

Quiver, nimble, active.
Quote, sometimes, to observe
or regard.

Rabato, an ornament for the neck.

Rabbit-sucker, a young rabbit. Race of heaven, something descended from heaven, heavenly.

Race, a single root.
Rack, the last fleeting vestige
of the highest clouds.
Torack, to harass by exactions.
Ram, for rain. Ant. and Cleo.
Rampallian, a ramping, low

creature.

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