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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.

Royalty, nobleness, supreme ex-
cellence.

Roynish, mangy or scabby.
Ruddock, the redbreast.

Ruff, the folding of the tops of
boots.

Ruffle, to riot, to create disturh

ance.

Ruffling, rustling.

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

S.

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.
Fag, 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.

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.

Rash remonstrance, premature Revolts, revolters

discovery.

Rated, chided.

Rarin, to devour eagerly.

Rarin, ravenous.

Ravined, glutted with prey.
Raught, reached.

Raw, ignorant, unripe, unskilful.

Rauly, young and helpless.
Rayed, bewraved.

Razed, slashed, raised.

Rear-mouse, a bat

Reason, discourse.

Rib, to enclose.

Rid, to destroy.

Rift, split.

Riggish, wanton.

Right, just, even.

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.

Scale, to disperse, to put to flight.

Scaled, over-reached.

Scaling, weighing.

Scall, an old word of reproach.

Right-drawn, drawn in a right Scamble, to scramble.

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 con

tract.

Scantling, measure, proportion
Scapes of wit, sallies, irregular-

ties.

Scared, frightened.

Scarfed, decorated with flags.
Scath, destruction, harm.
Scath, to do an injury.
Scathful, mischievous, destruc-

tive.

Scone, a petty fortification.
Sconce, the head.

Scotched, cut slightly.

Scrimens, fencers.
Scrip, a writing, a list.
Scroyles, scabby fellows.
Sculls, great numbers of fishes
swimming together.
Scutched, whipt, carted.
Seal, to strengthen or com-
plete.
Seam, lard.
Sear, to stigmatize, to close.
See Sere.

Season, to temper, to infix, to impress.

Seasoned, established or settled by time.

Seat, throne.

Seated, fixed, firmly placed. Sect, a cutting in gardening. Securely, with too great confidence.

Seel, to close up.

Seeling, blinding.

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.

Shrive to confess, to call to confession.

Shut-up, to conclude.
Sule-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.

Seeming, specious, hypocriti- Sithence, thence. cal.

Seeming, 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.

3 Sequestration, separation.
Sere or sear, dry.

Sizes, allowances of victuals.
Skains-mates, loose companions.
Skirr, to scour, to ride hastily.
Slack, to neglect.
Slave, to treat as a slave.
Sleave, the ravelled knotty part

of the silk.

Sledded, riding in a sled or sledge Slights, arts, subtle practices. Slips, a contrivance of leather, to start two dogs at the same time. Sliver, to cut a piece or slice. Slops, loose breeches, or trowsers, tawdry dress.

Serjeant, a bailiff or sheriff's of- Slough, the skin which the ser

ficer.

Serpigo, a kind of tetter.

Serve, to fulfil.

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.

pent annually throws off.
Slower, more serious.
Slubber, to do any thing care-
lessly, imperfectly, to obscure.
Smilingly, with signs of pleasure.
Smirched, soiled or obscured.
Smoothed, to stroke, to caress,
to fondle.

Sneap, to check or rebuke, a re-
buke.
Sneaping, nipping.

Shard-borne, born by shards or Sneck-up, a cant-phrase,

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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.

hang yourself.”

Snuff, hasty anger.
Snuffs, dislikes.

Soil, spot, turpitude, reproach.
Solely, alone.
Solicit, courtship.
Solicit, to excite.
Soliciting, information.
Solidares, an unknown coin.
Sometimes, formerly.

Sooth, truth.

Sooth, sweetness.

Sorriest, worthless, vile.
Sorry, sorrowful or dismal.
Sort, to choose out.
Sort, a company, a pack, rauks
and degrees of men.
Sort, to happen, to agree.
Sort, the lot.

Sort and suit, figure and rank.
Sot, a fool.

Soul-fearing, soul-appalling.
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 spitefu!
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.

Springing, blooming, in the
spring of life.
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.

Starkly, stiffly.

Starred, destined.

State, a chair with a canopy

over it.

State, standing.

State, official state, dignity.

States, persons of high rank.
Station, the act of standing.
Statist, statesman.
Statue, a portrait.

Staves, the wood of the lances.
Stay, a hinderer, a supporter.
Stead, to assist, or help.
Sticking-place, the stop in a ma-
chine.

Sticklers. arbitrators, judges,
sidesmen.

Stigmatical, marked or stigma-
tized.

Stigmatick, one on whom nature
has set a mark of deformity.
Still, constant or continual.
Stilly, gently, lowly.
Stint, to stop, to retard.
Stith, an anvil.

Stoccata. a thrust or stab with a
rapier.

Stock. a term in fencing.
Stock, stocking.

Stomach, passion, pride, stub-
born resolution, constancy, re-
solution.

Stoop, a measure somewhat more

than half a gallon.

Stover, a kind of thatch.
Stoup, a kind of flagon.

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Swart, or swarth, black, or dark
brown.

Swarth, or swath, as much grass
or corn as a mower cuts down i
at one stroke of his scythe.
Swashing, noisy, bullying.
Swath, the dress of a new-born
child..

Strachy, probably some kind of Sway, the whole weight, mo

domestic office.

Straight, immediately.
Strain, descent, lineage.
Strain, difficulty, doubt.
Strait, narrow, avaricious
Straited, put to difficulties.
Strange, odd, different from.
Strange, alien, becoming a stran-

mentum.

Sweeting, a species of apple.
Swift, ready.

Swinge-buckiers, rakes, rioters.
Swoop, the descent of a bird of
prey.

T.

Tested, brought to the test.
Testern, to gratify with a tester,
or sixpence.

Tetchy, touchy, peevish, fret-
ful.
Tharborough, thirdborough, a
peace officer.
Theme, a subject.
Theorick, theory.

Thewes, muscular strength.
Thick, in quick succession.
Thick-pleached, thickly inter

woven.

Thill, the shafts of a cart.
Thirdborough. See Tharboroug
Thought, melancholy.
Thrasonical, boastful, bragging.
Thread, fibre or part
Thread, to pass through.
Three-man-beetle, an implemen:
used for driving piles.
Three-pile, rich velvet.
Thrift, a state of prosperity.
Throes, emits as in parturition.
Thrum, the extremity of a weav
er's warp.

ger, a stranger. Strangely, wonderfully.

Strangeness, shyness, distant behaviour.

Stranger, an alien.

Table, the palm of the hand ex-
tended.

Table, a picture.

Tables, table-books, memoran-
dums.

Stratagem, great or dreadful Tabourine, a small drum.

Strangle, to suppress.

event.

Strict, hard.

Strive, to contend.

Stuck, a thrust in fencing. See
Stoccata. Stock.

Stuff, baggage.

Stuff, substance or essence.
Stuffed, plenty, more than enough.
Subscribe, to agree to.

Subscribe, to yield, to surren-
der.

Subscription, obedience.

Submerged, whelmed under wa

ter.

Subtilty, deception.
Subtle, smooth, level.
Success, succession.

Successive, belonging to the suc-
cession.

Successively, by order of succes

sion.

Sudden, violent.
Sufficiency, abilities.

Tag, the lowest of the populace.
Taint, to throw a slur upon.
Take, to strike with a disease, to
blast.

Take-in, to conquer, to get the
better of.

Take up, to contradict, to call to

an account.

Take-up, to levy.

Tall, stout, bold, courageous.
Tallow keech, the fat of an ox or

COW.

Tame, ineffectual.

Thrummed, made of coarse wool-
len cloth.

Tib, a strumpet.
Tickle, ticklish.

Tickle-brain, some strong liquor.
Tight, handy. adroit.
Tightly, cleverly, adroitly
Tilly-valley, an interjection of
contempt.
Tilth, tillage.
Timeless, untimely.
Tinct, tincture.

Tame snake, a contemptible tel- Tire, head dress.

low.

Tamed, flat, spiritless.

Tire, to fasten, to fix the talons

on.

Tarre, to stimulate, to excite, Tire, to be idly employed on. provoke.

Tartar, Tartarus, the fabled

place of future punishment.
Task, to keep busied with scru-
ples.
Tasked, taxed.

Tired, adorned with ribands.
Tod, to yield or produce a tod, oi
twenty-eight pounds.
Tokened, spotted as in the plague
Toll, to enter on the toll-book
Tolling, taking toll.

Tomboy,a masculine, forwardgirl. |
Topless, that which has nothing
above it, supreme.
Topple, to tumble.

Touch, sensation, sense, or feel
ing.

Touch, exploit or stroke.

Touch, 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.
Toze, to pull or pluck.
Trace, to follow.

Trade, a custom, an established habit.

Tradition, traditional practices. Traditional, adherent to old customs.

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-

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Vain, vanity.

Vain, light of tongue, not veracious.

Valance, fringed with a beard.
Validity, value.
Vanity, illusion.

Vantage, convenience, opportunity, advantage.

Vantbrace, armour for the arm. Varlet, a servant or footman to a warrior

Vast, waste, dreary.

Vaunt, the avant, what went before.

Vaward, the fore part.
Velure, velvet.

Venew, a bout, a term in fencing
Vengeance, mischief.

Vent, rumour, matter for dis

course

Ventages, the holes of a flute
Fenys, hits in fencing
Verbal, verbose, full of talk.
Verify, to bear true witness
Very, immediate.

Via, a cant phrase of exultation.
Vice, the fool of the old moralities.
Vice, to advise.

Vice, grasp.

Vie, to contend in rivalry
Vied, bragged.

Viewless, unseen, invisible
Villain, a worthless fellow, a ser-

vant.

Virginalling, playing on the virginal, a spinnet.

Virtue, the most efficacious part, valour.

Virtuous, salutiferous.
Virtuous, belonging to good-
breeding.

Vixen, or fixen, a female fox.
Vizaments, advisements.
Voluntary, voluntarily.
Votarist, supplicant.
Vouchsafed, vouchsafing
Vox, tone or voice.
Vulgar, common.
Vulgarly, publicly

U.

Umber, a dusky yellow-coloured earth.

Umbered, discoloured by the gleam of fire.

Unaccustomed, unseemly, inde

cent.

Unaneled, without extreme unction.

Unavoided, unavoidable.

Unbarbed, untrimmed, unshaven.
Unbated, not blunted.

Unbolt, to open, explain.
Unbolted, coarse.

Unbookish, ignorant.

Unbreathed,

unexercised,

un

practised.

hunting.

Uncape, to dig out, a term in fox

Uncharged, unattacked.

Unclew, to draw out, to exhaust. Uncoined, real, unrefined, unadorned.

Unconfirmed, unpractised in the
ways of the world.

Under generation, the antipodes
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

cares.

Unhouseled, not having received
the sacrament.

Unimproved, not guided by know-
ledge or experience.
Union, a species of pearl.
Unkind, contrary to kind or na-

ture.

Unmastered, licentious.

Unowed, that which has no

owner.

Unpregnant, not quickened.
Unproper, common.

Unqualitied, unmanned, disarme
of his faculties.

Unquestionable, unwilling to be
conversed with.
Unready, undressed.

Unrespective, inattentive to con

sequences.

Unrest, disquiet.

Unrough, smooth-faced, unbearded.

Unsisted, untried.

Unsisting, always opening, never

at rest.

Unsmirched, clean, not defiled.

Unsquared, unadapted to their subject.

Unstanched, incontinent. Untempering, not tempering, not softening.

Untraced, singular, not in com

mon use.

Untrimmed, undressed.

Untruth, disloyalty, treachery.
Unvalued, invaluable.

Up-spring, upstart.

Urchins, hedge-hogs, or perhaps fairies.

Usance, usury.

Use, practice long countenar ced

by custom.

Use, to make a practice of.
Use, interest.

Used, behaved.

Usurping, false.

Work, a term of fortification. Workings, labours of thought.

ried.

Worm, a serpent.

Worship, dignity, authority.
Worth, wealth or fortune, the
value, full quota or propor-
tion
Worts, cabbage.
Wot, to know.

Wound, twisted about.
Wreak, resentment.
Wreak, to revenge.
Wrest, an instrument for tuning
the harp.

Wrested, obtained by violence.
Writ, writing, composition.
Writhled, wrinkled.
Wrongs, the persons who wrong
Wrongs, injurious practices.
Wroth, misfortune.
Wrought, worked, agitated.
Wrung, pressed, strained.

Y.

Yarely, readily, nimbly.
Yearns, grieves or vexes.
Yeasty, or yesty, foaming of
frothy.

Yeild, to inform of. condescend

to.

Yeild, to reward
Yellowness, jealousy.
Yeoman, a bailiff's follower.
Yesty. See Yeasty.

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Utis, a merry festiva
Utter, to vend by retail.

Utterance, a phrase in combat,
extremity.

'W.

Waft, to beckon.

Wage, to fight, to combat, to
prescribe to.
Wages, is equal to.

Waist, the part between the quar-
ter-deck and the forecastle.
Waist, the middle.

Walk, a district in a forest,
Wannion, vengeance.
Ward, posture of defence.
Ward, guardianship.
Warden, a species of pears.
Warder, guard, sentinel.
Warn, to summon.
Wassels,

meetings of rustic

mirth.

Watch, a watch-light.

Wax, to grow.

Water-work, water-colours.

Waxen, increase.

Wealth, advantage, happiness.

Wear, the fashion.

Wee, little.

Weeds, clothing.

Ween, to think, to imagine.
Weet, to know.

Weigh, to value or esteem, to
deliberate.

Velkin, the colour of the sky, blue.

Well-found, of acknowledged ex-
cellence.

Well-liking, plump, embonpoint.
Wen, swollen excrescence.
Wend, to go.

Whelked, varied with protuber

Ances.

Whe'r, whether.

Where, whereas.

| Whiffler, an officer who walks World, to go to the, to be mar

first in processions.
Whiles, until.

Whip, the crack, the best.
Whipstock, a carter's whip.
Whirring, whirring away.
White, the white mark in ar-
chery.

White death, the chlorosis.
Whiting-time, bleaching time,
spring.

Whitsters, the bleachers of linen.
Whittle, a species of knife.
Whooping, measure or reckon-
ing.

Wide, remotely from, wide of the
mark.

Wilderness, wildness.
Will, wilfulness.
Wimple, a hood or veil.
Winter-ground, to protect against
the inclemency of winter.
Wis, to know.

Wish, to recommend.
Wit, to know.

Witch, to charm, to bewitch.
Wits, senses.

Wittol, knowing, conscious of.
Witty, judicious, cunning.
Woe, to be sorry.
Woman, to affect suddenly and
deeply.

Woman-tired, he pecked.
Wondered, able to perform won-
ders.

Wood, crazy, frantic.

Woodman, an attendant on the
forester.

Woolward, a phrase appro

priated to pilgrims and peni-
tentiaries.

Words, dispute, contention.

Zany, a buffoot
drew

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