Force, to strengthen, iii. 512. Fordo, to destroy, iii. 115, 116, 390. Foreslow, to delay, to loiter, ii. 418. Forked, horned, iii. 202, 679. Form, the place where a hare sits, iii. 728. Formal, reasonable, sober-minded, i. 142, iii. 545. Forth, out, i. 395, ii. 632, iii. 442. Forthright, a straight path, iii. 294. Fortune my Foe, i. 688. Forty, a word expressing an indefinite number, i. 150. ii. 293, 677. Foul, plain, homely, ii. 154. Four, colloquialism for some, iii. 350. Fox, a cant term for a sword, ii. 101. Frame, order, limit, i. 725. Frampold, cantankerous, i. 656. Frank, a sty, i. 586, ii. 524. Fraughting, constituting the fraught or freight, iii. 7. French brawl, a dance, i. 102. Fret, a key, and also a stop-point, of a stringed musical instrument, i. 243, iii. 367. Friend, a lover, i. 704, iii. 431. Frippery, a shop for second-hand apparel, iii. 40. From the teeth, in pretence, iii. 556. Front, beginning, iii. 775. Frontier, the forehead, i. 515. Frontlet, a forehead cloth worn by ladies at night, iii. 117. Froth and lime, a cant phrase for a tapster, i. 644. Frush, to bruise, to break, iii. 316. Fulfilled, filled to repletion, iii. 751 Funeral entertainments, iii. 398. Fustian riddles, ii. 279. GABERDINE, a large loose cloak, i. 438, iii. 24. Gad, a sharp-pointed instrument, iii. 622. Gait, step, progress, i. 648, iii. 36, 334. Galliard, a dance, i. 104, ii. 69. Gallias, a huge galley, i. 247. Gallimanfry, a medley, iii. 234. Gallow, to affright, iii. 85. Gallowglasses, Irish foot soldiers, ii. 395, iii. 472. Gap, a parenthesis, iii. 232. Gape, to yell, to roar, ii. 695, iii. 338. Garagantua the giant, ii. 173, 278. Garboils, turmoils, commotions, iii. 535. Garish, gaudy, blazing, i. 188, ii. 559. Gillivors, gillyflowers, iii. 231. Gird, a sarcasm, a taunt, i. 271. Give aim, to direct, i. 39. Give out, to surrender, to relinquish, ii. 382. Give the bucklers, to yield oneself vanquished, i. 744. Glib, to geld, iii. 209. Glorious, ambitious, ostentatious, ii. 718. Gloves in the cap, custom of wearing, iii. 119. Gloze, to wheedle, i. 458, iii. 627. God bless the mark, i. 401, iii. 648. God buy you, God be with you, ii. 99. God, dig you den, God, give you good even, i. 69, 197. God, 'ild you, God reward you, ii. 168. God save the mark, i. 516. God warn us, ii. 159. Gondola, description of the, i. 439. Good cheap, a bon marché, i. 543. Good even and twenty, a popular salutation, i. 653. Good life, ii. 246. Good man, a man of substance, i. 397, iii. 128. Good wine needs no bush, fi. 174. Gorbellied, pot-bellied, swag-bellied, i. 524. Go to the world, a matrimonial saying, i. 707, ii. 11, 166. Gouts, drops, iii. 483. Government, moderation, forbearance, self-control, ii. 409 Gracious, loving, comely, gentle, i. 307, 417, 724, iii. 769. Grave, pernicious, fatal, iii. 573. Graves, armour for the legs, i. 603. Greenly, immaturely unwisely, iii. 379 Green Sleeves, a tune, i. 651, 687. Griefs, grievances, i. 551, iii. 445. Gross, palpable, ii. 13. Growing, accruing, i. 133. Grow to a point, come to business, i. 346. Grype, the gryphon, or griffin, a vulture, iii. 743. Guidon, a standard, ii. 99. Gules, in heraldry, red, ii. 489, iii. 355. Gulf, the throat, the swallow, iii. 501. Gull, a young unfeathered bird, i. 554. Gun-stones, black roundles, stone-shot for cannon, ii. 116. Gust, taste, ii. 238, iii. 202. Guts, a lack-brain, a shallow pate, iii. 402. Gyve, a shackle, a fetter, iii. 664. HACKET, Marian of Wincot, i. 229. Haggard, a wild unreclaimed hawk, i. 714, iii. 679. Halcyon, a bird, iii. 75. Half-faces, meagre visages, i. 329. Halidom, by my, an old oath, i. 31. Hall, a hall! make room, i. 169. Hallowmas Beggars, i. 42. Hand, to bear in, to encourage, to buoy up, i. 258, 727, iii. 491. Handfast, mainprize, at large on security, iii. 241. Hang by the walls, to be hung up as useless, ii. 768. Hangings of walls in chambers of old castles, i. 495. Happy man be his dole, a trite phrase, i. 234, 524, 668. ii. 452. Hard, to bear, to mistrust, to doubt, to fear, iii. 418, 426, 435. Harlotry, a term of reproach, i. 201, 539, iii. 695. Harlots, base companions, villains, i. 144. Harmony of the soul, i. 441. Harness, armour, iii. 571. Harrow, to subdue, to overcome, iii. 330. Harry, to harass, iii. 555. Has the mends in his own hands, must make the best of it, iii. 265. Hat at meals, wearing the, i. 439. Haughty, high, ii. 302. Haunt, company, iii. 375. Have an eye of, to see through, iii. 353. Having, fortune, revenue, possession, i. 662, iii. 787. Havoc, cry, a signal for indiscriminate slaughter, i. 295, iii. 158, 437. Hay, a dance, i. 84. Hay, the, a fencing term, i. 217. Hazard, a term in tennis, ii. 69. Headborough, a constable, i. 228. Heaven to earth, an asseveration, i. 557. Hefts, heavings, iii. 208. Hell, a vile dungeon in a prison, i. 150. Helpless, giving no help, i. 120, iii. 728. Hem, boys, hem! the burden of an old song, i. 627. Hence, henceforward, i. 623. Henchman, a page, i. 351. Henry the Fifth's early life, i. 503. Hent, to take, iii. 228. Hent, a purpose, iii. 368. Herb-grace, rue, iii. 382. Hercules and his load, iii. 399. Here be with me, mocking me with opprobrious gestures, iii. 202. Hereby, as it may happen, i. 58. Hermits, beadsmen, iii. 480. Herne's oak, i. 690. Hero and Leander, ii. 173. Herod, a tyrant of the Miracle-plays, iii. 401. Hest, command, iii. 13, 29, 36. Hey non nonny, old ballad burden, iii. 381. Hey Robin, jolly Robin, a song, i. 281. Hide fox and all after, the game of hide and seek, iii. 376. High-men, false dice, i. 646. Hight, called, named, i. 53, 55, 376, ii. 208. High-tides, high-days, i. 300. Hild, held, iii. 751. Hilding, degenerate, i. 573. Hillo, ho, boy! Falconers' encouragement to hawks, iii. 344 His, used for the impersonal its, i. 480, ii. 10, iii. 75, 562, 598, Hit it, can you, a song or dance, i. 70, iii. 607, 663. Ho! ho! ho! a fiendish or supernatural laugh, i. 368, 384. Hobby-horse, a pasteboard horse in May games, i. 102. Hob nob, hit or miss, ii. 263. Hold or cut bow-strings, a term in archery, i. 382. Holland, price of in Shakespeare's time, i. 566. Honesty, chastity, liberality, ii. 32, 131, 477, iii. 213, 360. Hood, in falconry, to cover the hawk's eyes with a hood, i. 218. Hoodman, Hoodman blind, Blind man's buff, ii. 56. Horologe, a clock, iii. 668. Hot-house, a house of ill fame, ii. 600. Houses in fencing, i. 216. Houses in heraldry, i. 217. Housewife, a hussy or harlot, iii. 577. However, anyway, i. 4. Hox, to hough, to hamstring, iii. 203. Idle, infertile, iii. 656. Idle bed, bed of idleness, iii. 425. I' fecks, in faith, iii. 200. Ignomy, ignominy, i. 560. 'Ild you, yield you, reward you, Ill, badly, iii. 739. ii. 168. Ill-erected, erected for evil, i. 483. Imp, to amend a hawk's wing, i. 462. Impair, unsuitable, unbecoming, iii. 305. Impartial, neutral. ii. 631. Impeachment, hindrance, ii. 89. Impleached, interwoven, intertwined, iii. 786. Imperious, imperial, iii. 389. Imperseverant, imperceptive, ii. 743. Importance, significance, iii. 245. Important, importunate, i. 143, 290, 704, ii. 36, 276, iii. 100. Impose, bidding, requirement, i. 31. Impossible, incredible, i. 705, ii. 19. Impress, a device, a motto, i. 468. In few, in short, in brief, i. 237, 574, iii. 9. In blood, with the blood up, i. 71. In by the week, a saying, i. 85. In compt, in trust, iii. 480. In deed, in fact, in form, iii. 345. In print, precisely, to the letter, i. 12. In youth when I did love, a ballad, iii. 404. Inapposite similitudes, i. 563. Incapable, insusceptible, unintelligent, ii. 531, iii. 385. Incarnadine, encrimson, iii. 487. Incensed, prompted, ii. 689. Inclip, to embrace, iii. 550. Incony, delicate, fine, pretty, i. 67. Indian, dead, in exhibitions, iii. 49. Indifferent, impartial, passable, moderate, i. 255, 466, ii. 665, iii. 352. Indirectly, wrongfully, i. 291. Induction, beginning, entrance, i. 536. Indurance, confinement, ii. 690. Informal, deranged, ii. 632. Ingaged, disengaged, ii. 50. Ingenier, or Ingener, an ingenious person, an artist, iii. 602. Ingeniously, ingenuously, ii. 475. Inhabitable, not habitable, i. 448. Inherit, to obtain possession, to possess, i. 26, 448. Inhibit, to prohibit, ii. 8. Iniquity, a Morality character, ii. 601. Inkhorn, a bookman, a pedant, ii. 305. Inkle, a kind of tape, iii. 232. Inland, opposed to upland, urbanely-bred, ii. 144, 152. Inn, mansion, abode, i. 483. Innocent, a natural, a fool, ii. 42, iii. 90. Innocent, foolish, i. 736. Inquisitive, inquisitor, i. 116. Inset, to set, i. 575. Instance, object, purpose, ii. 38. Instance, indication, proof, iii. 753. Intend, pretend, i. 258, ii. 475, 548, iii. 739. King and the Beggar, a ballad, i. 101. Intergatories, interrogatories, i. 436, ii. 42. Intrinsicate, intricate, iii. 584. Inwardness, confidence, intimacy, i. 727. In years, in wrinkles, i. 92. Irremoveable, irremoveably, iii. 237. It, its, i. 330, ii. 500, iii. 69, 203, 214, 218, 337, 390. It is not so, nor 't was not so, i. 741. Italian story of The Bag of Gold, i. 440. I wis, certainly, truly, i. 275, 413. JACK-A-LENT, a puppet to be thrown at in Lent, i. 663. Jack, boy! ho, boy! the commencement of an old round King's Chamber, London, ii. 578. Knap, to break or crack, i. 414. Knave, a servitor, iii. 648. Knot-grass, a plant supposed to possess the property of stunt- ing animal growth, i. 366. Knots, garden figures, i. 55, 475. Labras, the lips, i. 642. Laced mutton, a cant term for a courtezan, i. 41. Lady-bird, a female of loose manners, i. 165. Lady, lady, lady, the burden of an old ballad, i. 217. Lady of my earth, fille de terre, lady of my corporal part, i. 163. Laid on with a trowel, laid on thickly, ii. 132. Lapwing, allusions to the, i. 135, 714, ii. 598, iii. 394. Lash, to fasten with a cord, i. 119. Lass-lorn, forsaken by a mistress, iii. 36. Latch, to catch, iii. 508, 777. Latched, letched, licked over, i. 362. Late, recently, ii. 540, iii. 756. 'Lated, belated, benighted, iii. 494, 560. Latten-bilbo, a sword wanting both edge and temper, i. 642 Lattice, red, denotement of an ale-house, i. 626, 654, ii. 23. Laundry, a laundress, i. 644. Lead apes in hell, employment of a bear-ward, i. 242. Learn, to teach, iii. 610. Leather-coats, a kind of apple, i. 621. Leave, to cease, to part with, i. 17,33. 434. Leer, countenance, favour, ii. 159, iii. 623. Leet, the court-leet, i. 230. Leg, to make a, to make obeisance, ii. 470, 520. L'envoy, a postscript or epilogue in old writings, i. 65. Let, stop, bar, hindrance, i. 21, iii. 198, 342, 741. Letter, syllable, ii. 751. Level, range in gunnery, iii. 211, 218, 778. Lewd, wicked, base, malicious, i. 449, 735, ii. 355. Liberal, licentious, i. 404, 724, iii. 663. Lick his fingers, an old saw, i. 201. Lie, to reside, i. 53. Liefest, dearest, ii. 363. Lieger, a resident ambassador, ii. 611, 718. Lie in the throat, its signification, i. 626, ii. 262, iii. 356. Lieu, guerdon, iii. 9. Lift, lifted, ii. 287. Lifter, a thief, iii. 268. Lightly, commonly, usually, ii. 540. Light o' love, ballad of, i. 42, 745. Likes, pleases, i. 30. Liking, condition of body, i. 542, 651. Lily's Accidence, i. 688. Limbeck, an alembic, a vessel used in distilling, ill. 481. Limbo, a prison, ii. 696, iii. 616. Limbs of Limehouse, the long-shore rabble, ii. 695. Lime, bird-lime, iii. 40. Limited, appointed, iii. 486. Lincolnshire bagpipes, i. 562. Line, to strengthen, i. 527. Line of life, a term in palmistry, i. 438. Lip, to kiss, iii. 687. Little, miniature, ii. 149, iii. 354. Lively, living, iii. 615. Liver, the seat of love, i. 652, 726. Livery, to sue, i. 497. Living, riches, possessions, resources, i. 436. Lob, clown, fool, i. 349. Lockram, coarse linen, iii. 145. Locks, love-locks, the fashion of wearing, i. 743. Locusts, insects, or the fruit of the locust tree iii. 710. Lode-star, leading or guiding star, j. 381. Lodge in a warren, i. 742. Lodged, layed, i. 473. Loggats, a game like skittles, iii. 387. London, the King's Chamber, ií. 578. 'Long of, because of, i. 61, 366, ii. 317, 438, 762, iii. 182. Loofed, a sea-term, signifying to bring a ship nearer the Mall, Mistress, her picture, ii. 240, 277. Mallecho, malefaction, iii. 363. Malt-worms, drunkards, i. 521, 593. Mammering, hesitating, iii. 676. Mammet, a puppet, a doll, i. 198. Mammock, to rend, to tear, iii. 134. Man in the moon, legend of the, i. 386. Manage, to govern, i. 286, 474. Mandragora, a powerful opiate, iii. 537, 680, 711. Mandrake, fabulously endowed with life, i. 220, ii. 370. Manningtree ox roasted, i. 534. Manqueller, manslayer, i. 582. Many-many, numberless, iii. 368. Map, a picture, iii. 618. Marches, borders, boundaries, ii. 68, 413. Marchpane, a confection, i. 169. Margent, margin, i. 101. Marian, Maid, Robin Hood's mistress, i. 544. Masks for ladies' faces when riding, i. 44. Masques and triumphs, i. 44. Match, to set a, to plan a robbery, i. 513. Mate, to confound, to bewilder, to destroy, i. 129, ii. 364. Material, full of matter, ii. 154. Maugre, in spite of, notwithstanding, ii. 257, iii 112, 623. Maund, a basket, iii. 784. Meacock, a chicken-hearted fellow, i. 246. Mealed, mingled, ii. 622. Mean, a term in music, i. 7. Measure, a dance, i. 103, 704, iii. 733. Medecin, a physician, iii. 511. Meeds, deserts, merits, ii. 411, 440, 466, iii. 393. Meiny, retinue, iii. 77. Melancholy of Moor-ditch, i. 562. Men of hair, satyrs, iii. 256. Mends in his own hands, must make the best of it, iii. 265. Mere, quite, ii. 32. Mere, sole, absolute, certain, ii. 631, 678, iii. 666. Mered, entire, sole, iii. 563. Merely, entirely, absolutely, i. 712, ii. 40, 153, iii. 415. Merit, guerdon, reward, i. 454. Mermaid, a siren, iii. 726. Merry-greek, a wag or humourist, iii. 268. Metaphysical, supernatural, iii. 478. Mete-yard, a measuring yard, i. 264. Methoughts, methought, iii. 201. Mewed, a term of falconry, i. 194. Mile-end, the musters at, i. 628. Mill-sixpences, i. 642. Modern, ordinary, common, i. 190, 306, iii. 507, 582, 772. Modo, a fiend, iii. 89, 96, 120. Module, model, i. 327, ii. 41. Moe, to make mouths, iii. 22. Moiety, a portion, also the half, i. 537, iii. 735. Moist star, the moon, iii. 332. Mold-warp, the mole, i. 538. Mome, a blockhead, a dolt, i. 127. Moment, import, iii. 360. Monarcho, a crazy Italian so called, i. 103. Money-lenders' brown paper, ii. 638. Monopoly privileges, iii. 117. Monstrous, unnatural, ominously prophetic, iii. 420. Montanto, a term of fence, i. 696. Month's mind, i. 42. Moon-calf, a false conception, iii. 25. Moonish, variable, inconstant, ii. 153. More, greater, further, i. 309, ii. 76, iii. 741. Mort o' the deer, a strain on the horn, iii. 199. Most an end, constantly, perpetually, i. 33. Motion, puppet-show or puppet, i. 11, iii. 255. Mought, might, ii. 444. Mouse, a term of endearment, i. 84, ii. 241. Mowes, mouths, ludicrous antics, iii. 36, 354. Much, an expression of contempt, i. 590, ii. 161, 468. Muleters, muleteers, iii. 558. Mum-budget, a pass-word, i. 685. Murdered persons bleeding on the approach of the murderer, Murdering-piece, a piece of artillery with several barrels, Muscadel, a wine used in church at marriage ceremonies, Musit, or Muset, a gap in a hedge, iii. 728. Mutines, mutineers, i. 330. Mutton, laced, a cant term for a courtezan, i. 41. My cake is dough, a proverbial saying, i. 234, 270. Naughty, wicked, base, i. 421, iii. 93. Nay-word, a watch-word, i. 680, ii. 248. Neapolitan bone-ache, iii. 283, 308. Near, in close confidence, i. 705. Near be, ne'er the near, a proverbial phrase, i. 484. Neat slave, a base cow-herd, iii. 74. Neeld, needle, ii. 208, iii. 741. Neglection, neglect, ii. 206, 318, iii. 272. Neif, fist, i. 370, 591. Nether-stocks, short stockings, i. 529, iii. 77. Next way, the nearest way, i. 540, ii. 12, iii. 223. Nice, trivial, effeminate, dainty, i. 187, 209, 400, 574. Nicely, scrupulously, ii. 209. Nicholas' clerks, St., cut-purses, i. 521. Nick, to mark like a fool, i. 143. Nick, out of all, beyond all reckoning, i. 30. Nicked, emasculated, iii. 563. Night-rule, a night revel, i. 361. Nill, will not, ii. 201. Nine men's morris, a rustic sport, i. 383. Nine Worthies, pageant of, i. 104. Noble, a coin, i. 532. Nobody, the picture of, iii. 32, 49. Noddy, a game at cards, also a noodle, a simpleton, í. 5. No had, an archaic expression, i. 315. Noise, a band of musicians, i. 588. Nonce, for the occasion, i. 514. Nook-shotten, spawned in a corner, ii. 87. No poynt, non point, i. 62, 89. Nott-pated, round-headed, i. 528. Novum, a game played with dice, i. 93. Nurture, breeding, ii. 144. Nut-hook, a beadle or catchpoll, i. 622, 642. O, orb, circlet or round, iii. 581. Oaken garlands, iii. 187. Oath of fidelity by attendants of the nobility, ii. 767. Oaths taken on the sword, i. 497, iii. 345. Ob, obolum, a halfpenny, i. 535. Oberon, of fairy legends, i. 383. Obidicut, a fiend, iii. 96. Objected, proposed, projected, ii. 299. Odds, quarrel, iii. 669. Od's pittikins, God me pity, ii. 750. O'erparted, not equal to a part or character, i. 93. Oes, circular bosses of shining metal, i. 364. Oes, small-pox marks, i. 85. Of, for, iii. 219, 542. Of all loves, for love's sake, i. 356, 656, iii. 673. Offices, the apartments in great establishments where refresh- ments were prepared or distributed, iii. 666. Old, old utis, rare, rare fun, i. 589, 647, 736. On, of, iii. 415, 772. On, pronounced own, i. 10. Once, for the nonce, sometimes, i. 128, 149, 668,700, iii. 149,580. Opposite, adversary, i. 603, ii. 258. Or e'er, before, sooner than, i. 318, ii. 732, iii. 7, 43. Orbs, field fairy-rings, i. 348. Order, to take, to adapt measures, i. 238, iii. 436. Orient, pellucid, lustrous, iii. 537. Ospray, a large hawk, the sea-eagle, iii. 175. Ostent, appearance, parade, i. 404. Otherwhere, otherplace, i. 120, iii. 62. Ounce, the lynx, i. 354. Ouphes, elves, goblins, i. 677. Out, past, iii. 8. Out of all cess, out of all measure, i. 520. Out of all nick, beyond all reckoning, i. 30. Out of thy star, iii. 350. Outvied, defeated, i. 246. Overflown, flooded, drowned, i. 370. Overlook, to overbear, to overcome, to bewitch, í. 325, 416, 683. Oversee, to execute, or superintend the execution of a will, Overwrested, overwound, iii. 273. Owches, bosses of gold set in diamonds, i. 589. Owe, to own, to possess, i. 127, 330, 355, 479, ii. 27, 598, iii. 763. Owl, the, a baker's daughter, iii. 403. PACK, to scheme, to complot, iii. 624. Packed, confederate, i. 734. Packing, plotting, chicaning, i. 270, ii. 738, iii. 84. Paddock, a toad, iii. 373, 472. Pageant of the Nine Worthies, i. 104. Pageants and masques, i. 44, 104. Paid, punished, í. 530, ii. 748. Painted-cloth, hangings for rooms, i. 93, 626, íí. 151, iii. 740. Pajock, peacock, iii. 366. Palabras, few words, i. 721. Pale, to impale, ii. 409. Palled, decayed, waned, iii. 550. Palliament, a robe, iii. 601. Pansies for thoughts, fii. 403. Pantaloon, the Italian, i. 249, 275. Parcel, parcel-gilt, part, parti-gilt, i. 582, 642. Paris Garden for bear-baiting, ii. 703. Parish-top for the public amusement, ii. 238, 277. Paritor, an apparitor, i. 67. Parle, speech, i. 5, 294, ii. 85. |