Peat, a word of endearment.
Pedascule, a pedant.

Peer, to come out, to appear.
Peevish, foolish.

Peize, to balance, to keep in suspense, to weigh down. Pelting, paltry, petty, inconsi

derable.

Pennons, small flags.

Penthesilia, Amazon.

Pomewater, a species of apple.
Poor-john, hake dried and salted.
Popinjay, a parrot.

Popularity, plebeian intercourse.
Port, external pomp, figure.
Port, a gate.
Portable, bearable.

Portance, carriage, behaviour. Possess, to inform, to make to understand.

and a half. Perdurable, lasting.

Perdy, par Dieu, a French oath. Perfect, certain, well informed. Perfections, liver, brain, and

heart.

Perjure, a perjured person. Periapts, charms sewed up and worn about the neck. Perspectives, certain optical glas

ses.

Pervert, to avert.
Pew-fellow, a companion.
Pheere. See Feere.

Pheeze, to teaze or beat, to comb or curry.

Pia mater, the membrane covering the substance of the brain. Pick, to pitch.

Picked, nicely dressed, foppish. Pickers, the hands.

Picking, piddling, insignificant. Fickt-hatch, a place noted for brothels.

Piece, a word of contempt for a

woman.

Pield, shaven.
Pight, pitched, fixed.
Pilcher, a pilche, the scabbard.
Pilled, pillaged.

Pin and web, disorders of the

eye.

Pinnace, a small ship of burthen. Pix, a small chest in which the consecrated host was kept. Placket, a petticoat.

Plague, to punish.

informed.

Possessed, afflicted with madness.
Potch, to push violently.
Potents, potentates.
Pouncet-box, a small box for per-
fumes.

Power, forces, an army.
Practice, unlawful or insidious
stratagem.

Practise, to employ unwarrantable arts.

Practisants, confederates in stratagems.

Prank, to adorn, to dress osten

tatiously, to plume. Precedent, original draft. Precept, a justice's warrant. Precisian, a great pretender to sanctity.

Prefer, to recommend, to ad

vance.

Pregnancy, readiness.

Pregnant, ready, plain, evident, apposite.

Pregnant enemy, the enemy of mankind.

Premised, sent before the time.
Prenominate, already named.
Pre-ordinance, ordinance already
established.
Presence, the presence-cham
ber, a public room.
Presence, dignity of mien, form,
figure.
Prest, ready.

Pretence, design, intention.
Pretend, to intend, design.

cantu.

Plainly, openly.

Plaited, complicated, involved. Planched, made of brands. Plant, the foot.

Platforms, plans, schemes. Plausive, gracious, pleasing, popular.

Pleached, folded together.

Plot, piece of portion.

Prevent, to anticipate.
Prick, the point on the dial.
Pricks, prickles, skewers.
Pride, haughty power.
Prig, to filch.

Prime, youth, the vigour of life.
Prime, prompt.

Primer, more urgent, more important.

Primero, a game at cards.

the hose or breeches. Point, the utmost height. Point-de-vice, with the utmost possible exactness. Points, tags to the laces. Poize, weight or moment. Polled, bared, cleared.

Pomander, a ball made of perfumes.

pal of women.

Principals, rafters of a building. Princox, a coxcomb, or spoiled child.

Probal, probable.

Process, summons.

Procure, to bring.

Profane, love of talk, gross of language.

Profession, end and purpose of coming.

Progress, a royal journey of state.
Project, to shape or form.
Prompture, suggestion, tempta-
tion.

Prone, sometimes humble.
Prone, forward.

Proof, confirmed state of manhood.

Propagate, to advance or improve.

Propagation, getting.

Proper, well-looking, handsome.
Proper-false, proper or fair, and
false or deceitful.
Propertied, taken possession of.
Properties, incidental necessaries
to a theatre.
Property, due performance.
Property, a thing quite at dis-
posal.

Propose, to image, to imagine.
Proposing, conversing.
Propriety, regular and proper

state.

Prorogue, to lengthen or prolong.
Provand, provender.
Provencial, Provençal, from Pro-

vence.

Provincial, belonging to one's province.

Provost, sheriff or gaoler.
Prune, to plume..

Puck, or hobgoblin in fairy
mythology.
Pugging, thievish.
Pun, to pound.

Purchase, stolen goods. Purchased, acquired by unjust methods.

Purlieu, border, enclosure.
Pursuivants, heralds.

Put to know, compelled to acknowledge.

Putter-on, one who instigates. Putter-out, one who places out

money at interest.

Putting-on, spur, incitement. Puttock, a degenerate species of hawk.

Q.

Quail, to faint, languish.
Quaint, fantastical, graceful.
Quaint-mazes, a game running
the figure of eight

Quaked, thrown into trepidation.
Qualify, to lessen, moderate.
Quality, confederates.

Quality, profession, condition of life.

nous.

Rabato, an ornament for the neck.
Rabbet-sucker, a sucking rabbit.
Race, original disposition, inborn
qualities, a smack or flavour.
Rack, wreck.

Rack, to exaggerate.
Rack, to harass by exactions.
Rack, the fleeting away of the
clouds.

Racking, in rapid motion.
Rag, an opprobrious epithet.
Ragged, rugged.

Rake, to cover.

Rank, rate or pace.

Rank, grown up to a great height and strength.

Rapt, rapturously affected.
Rapture, a fit.

Rarely, curiously, happily.

Rascal, applied to lean deer.

Rash, heady, thoughtless, quick,

violent.

Rebeck, an old musical instru

ment.

Receiving, ready apprehension. Receipt, receptacle. Recheate, a sound by which the dogs are called back. Reck, to care for, to mind, to attend to.

Reckless, careless, heedless. Recollected, studied or often repeated.

Record, to sing.

Rivals, partners

Rive, to burst, to fire.

Road, the haven where shipsride

at anchor. Rogues, vagrants.

Romage, rummage.

Ronyon, a scurvy woman.
Rood, the cross.
Rook, to squat down.

Ropery, roguery.

Rope-tricks, abusive language.
Round, a diadem.

geolet.

Recure, to recover.

Round, rough, unceremonious.

house.

Reduce, to bring back.

smoky, greasy.

Refell, to refute.
Refer, to reserve to.
Regard, look.

Regiment, government, authority.
Regreet, exchange of salutation.
Reguerdon, recompense, return.
Relative, nearly related, or con-
nected

Remembered, remembering.
Remembrance, admonition.
Remorse,pity, tenderness of heart.
Remotion, removal or remoteness.
Removed, remote, sequestered.
Render, to describe.

Render, a confession, an account.
Renege, to renounce.
Repair, to renovate.
Repeal, to recall.
Reports, reporters.
Reproof, confutation.
Repugn, to resist.
Reputing, boasting of.

Requiem, a mass for the soul of
a person deceased.
Resolve, to be firmly persuaded,
satisfied.

Resolve, to dissolve.
Respect, consideration, caution.
Respective, respectable, respect.
ful, formal.

Respective, cool, considerate.
Respectively, respectfully.
Retailed, handed down.

Retire, to draw back.

Reverb, to reverberate.

Royalty, nobleness, supreme excellence.

Roynish, mangy or scabby.
Ruddock, the redbreast.
Ruff, the folding of the tops of
boots.

Ruffle, to riot, to create disturb

ance.

Ruffling, rustling.
Ruin, displeasure producing ruin
Rule, a method of life.
Ruth, pity, compassion.

S.

Sacred, accursed.
Sacrificial, worshipping.
Sad, grave or serious.
Sadly, seriously.
Sadness, seriousness.
Safe, to render safe.
Sagg or swagg, to sink down.
Salt, tears.

Sanded, of a sandy colour.
Satisfy, rest with satisfaction.
Savage, silvan, uncultivated,
wild.

Savageness, wildness.
Saucy, lascivious.

Saw, anciently, not a proverb,
but the whole tenor of any
discourse.
Say, silk.

Say, a sample, a taste or relish. Scaffoldage, the gallery part of

the theatre.

Scald, a word of contempt, poor

filthy.

cause.

Rigol, a circle.

Ringed, environed, encircled.
Ripe, come to the height.

Rivage, the bank or shore.
Rivality, equal rank.

Scan, to examine nicely. Scant, to be deficient in, to co

tract.

Scantling, measure, proportion Scapes of wit, sallies, irregulari ties.

GLOSSARY.

Sheriff's-post, a large post set up
at the door of that officer for
affixing proclamations, &c.
Shive, a slice.
Shot, shooter.
Shovel-board, a game.
Shoughs, shocks, a species of dog.
Shouldered, rudely thrust into.
Shrewd, having the qualities of a

shrew.

Shrift, confession..

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confession.

Shut-up, to conclude.

Sude-sleeves, long sleeves.
Siege, stool, seat, rank.

Sight, the perforated part of a helmet.

Sightless, unsightly.
Sign, to show, to denote.
Silly, simple or rustic.
Silly, sooth, plain, simple truth.
Sincere, honest.
Sinew, strength.

Single, weak, debile, small, void

of duplicity or guile. Sink-a-pace,cinque-pace,a dance. Sir, the designation of a parson. Sir-reverence, a corruption of

save-reverence.

Sith, since. hypocriti-Sithence, thence.

Seaming, seemly. Seen, versed, practised. Seld, seldom. Self-bounty, inherent generosity. Semblably, in resemblance, alike. Seniory, seniority. Sennet, a flourish or sounding. Sense, reason, natural affection, feeling, sensual passion.

Sensible, having sensation.

Septentrion, the north.

Sequestration, separation.

Sere or sear, dry.

Serve, to accompany.

Set, seated.

Setebos, a species of devil. Several, separated, appropriated. Sewer, an officer who placed the dishes on the table. Shame, to disgrace. Shame, modesty. Shard-borne, born by shards or scaly wings.

Shards, the wings of a beetle. Shards, broken pots or tiles. Sharked, picked up as a shark collects his prey. Sheen, shining, splendour, lustre. Sheer, pellucid, transparent. Shent, scolded, rebuked,ashamed, disgraced.

Shent, to reprove harshly.

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Sound, to declare or publish. -
Sound, soundly.

Soul, to pull by the ears.
Souter, perhaps the name of a
hound.

Spanned, measured.
Specialty, particular rights.
Sped, the fate decided.
Speed, event.

Sperr, to shut up, defend by bars, &c.

Spleen, humour, caprice, spirit. resentment.

Spleen, violent hurry, tumultuous speed.

Spleens, inclination to spiteful

mirth.

Spot, stain or disgrace.
Spotted, wicked.

Sprag, or spackt, apt to learn.
Spread, to stand separately.
Sprighted, haunted.
Sprights, spirits.
Springhalt, a disease incident to
horses.

spring of life.
Springing, blooming, in the
Sprightly, ghostly.
Spurs, the longest and largest
roots of trees.

Square, to quarrel.
Square, regular, equitable, just,
suitable.

Square, compass, comprehen-
sion, or complement.
Squarer, a quarrelsome fellow.
Squash, an immature peascod.
Squiny, to look asquint.
Squire, a square or rule.
Staggers, delirious perturbation.
Stale, a bait or decoy to catch
birds.

Stale, a pretence.
Stale, to allure.

Stand, to withstand, to resist.
Standing bowls, bowls elevated
on feet.

Stannyal, the common stone-
hawk.

Star, a scar of that appearance.
Stark, stiff.

ing.

Touch, exploit or stroke.

Touck, a spice or particle. Touch, touchstone.

Touches, features.

Touched, tried.

Toward, in a state of readiness.
Toys, rumours, idle reports, fan-
cies, freaks of imagination.
Tore, to pull or pluck.
Trace, to follow.

Trade, a custom, an established habit.

Tradition, traditional practices. Traditional, adherent to old cus

toms.

Trail, the scent left by the passage
of the game.
Traitress, a term of endearment.
Tranect, a ferry.
Translate, to transfer, to explain.
Trash, a hunting phrase, to cor-

rect.

Travel, to stroll.

Traverse, a term in military exercise.

Traversed, across.

Tray-trip, some kind of game.
Treachers, treacherous persons.
Trenched, cut, carved.
Trick, trick of the times.
Trick, peculiarity of voice, face,
&c.

Trick, smeared, painted, in he-
raldry.
Tricking, dress.

Tricksy, clever, adroit.
Triumphs, masques, revels, pub-
lic exhibitions.
Trojan, cant word for a thief.
Troll, to dismiss trippingly from
the tongue.
Trol-my-dames, a game.
Trossers, trowsers.
Trow, to believe.

Truth, honesty.

Tucket, or tucket sonnuance, a flourish.

Turlygood, or turlupin, a species of gipsy.

Turn, to become acescent.

Turquoise, a precious stone.

Twangling, an expression of contempt.

Twigging, wickered.

Tyed, limited, circumscribed. Type, distinguishing mark, show or emblem.

Tything, division of a place, a

district.

V.

Fail, to condescend to look, to

let down, to bow, to sink, Vailing, lowering.

Vanity, illusion.

Unconfirmed, unpractised in the ways of the world.

Undergo, to be subject to. Under-skinker, a tapster, an un derdrawer.

Undertaker, one who takes upon

himself the quarrel of another. Underwrite, to subscribe, to obey. Under-wrought, under-worked, undetermined.

Undeserving, undeserved.
Unearned, not deserved.
Uneath, scarcely, not easily.
Unexpressive, inexpressible.
Unhappy,mischievously waggish,
unlucky.

Unhidden, open, clear.
Unhoused, free from domestic