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Enlangoured, part.pa. Fr.faded with langour, R.7399. Enleven, num. Sax. eleven, 17317.

Enlumine, v. Fr. to illuminate, 7909.

Enoint, part. pa. Fr. anointed, 2963.

Enfeled, part. pa. Fr. fealed up, kept fecret, C. V. 151.
Enfpire, v. Fr. to inspire, 6.

Enfure, v. Fr. to affure, 12077, 12971.
Entaile, n. Fr. fhape, R. 162, 3711.

Entailed, part. pa. Fr. carved, R.140.
Entalente, v. Fr. to excite, Bo. v. pr. 5.

Entend, v. Fr. to attend, 5857, 11001.

Entendement, n. Fr. understanding, T. iv. 1696.
Entente, n. Fr. intention, 1489.
Ententif, adj. Fr. attentive, 9165.

Enterchangeden, pa. t. pl. Fr. exchanged, T. iii. 1374.
Entermedled, part. pa. Fr. intermixed, R. 906.
Entermete, v. Fr. to interpofe, 6416; R. 2966.
Enterpart, v. Fr. to share, T. i. 593.

Entetched, part.pa. Fr. entaché; it is applied indifferently to things and perfons marked or endowed with good or bad qualities: entetched and defouled with yvel, Bo. iv. pr. 3, ftained and defiled with evilthe best entetched, T. v. 832, endowed with the best qualities.

Entree, n. Fr. entry, 1985.

Entremees, n. pl. Fr. choice difhes ferved in between the courses at a feaft, Cotg. R. 6831.

Entrike, v. Fr. to deceive, R. 1642-to entangle, A.F. 403.

Entuned, part. pa. Fr. tuned, 123.

Entunes, n. pl. Fr. fongs, tunes, Du. 309.

Envenime, v. Fr. to poison, 6056.

Enveniming, n. poisoning, 9934.

Envie, v. Fr. to vie, to contend, 5724; Du. 406.

Environ, adv. Fr. about, C. L.1031; Conf. Am. 139, b.

Environ, v. Fr. to furround, R. 7067.
Envoluped, part. pa. Fr. wrapt up, 12876.
Envyned. See the n. on ver. 344.
Epiftolis, Lat. epiftles, 4475.

Equipolences, n. pl. Fr. equivalents, R. 7126.

Er, adv. Sax. before, 3787-before that, 4193, 2639. Erande, n. Sax. a meffage, an errand, Du. 134.

Ere, v. Fr. to plough, 888.

Ereos, for Eros, pr. n. Gr. Love, 1376..

Erke, adj. Sax. weary, sick, R. 4867.

Erly, adv. Sax. early, 811, 2491.

Erme, v. Sax. to grieve, 12246.
Ermeful. See the n. on ver. 12236.

Ermin, adj. Armenian, 14344.

Erneft, n.Sax. zeal, ftudious pursuit of any thing, L.W. 1285.

Erneftiful, adj. ferious, 9051; T. ii, 1727.

Erratike, adj. Fr. wandering, applied to the planets, T. v. 1811.

Erraunt, part.pr. Fr.ftrolling, applied to a thief, 17173. Ers, erfe, n. Sax. the fundament, 3732, 7272.

Erft, adv. fuperl. of er, first, 778; at erst, at first, for the first time, 8861,15732, 13624-it is fometimes redundant, long erft or, 12596, long before, Ertheles, adj. Sax. without earth, T. iv. 770. Efchaunge, n. Fr. exchange, T. iv. 146.

Efcheve, efehue, v. Fr. to fhun, to decline, 9686; C. N.

114.

Efculapius, pr. n. 431; a book of medicine under his name is mentioned by Fabric, Bibl. Gr. t. i. p. 56,

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Efe, n. Fr. pleasure, 5709.

Efe, v. to accommodate, 2196.

Efed, part. pa. 2672. See the n. on ver. 29.

Efement, n. relief, 4177, 4184.

Efe, adj. gentle, light; efie fighes, T. iii. 1369, which paffage Lord Surry has copied, Songes, c. p. 12, "and eafy fighes, fuch as folkes draw in love." Efter, comp. d. lighter; of efter avail, C. L. 116, of lighter or lefs value.

Efilich, adv. gently, T. i. 317.

Efperus, pr. n. Hesperus, a name of the planet Venus, B. K. 613.

Efpiaille, n. Fr. fpying, private watching, 6905; M. 276.

Efpirituell, adj. Fr. fpiritual, heavenly, R. 650, 672. Effoine, n. Fr. a legal excufe, P. 150.

Eftat, eftate, n. Fr. state, condition, 203, 524-adminiftration of government, 7600.

Eflatelich, adj. ftately, 140.

Eftres, n. pl. Fr. the inward parts of a building, 1973, 4293; R. de la R. 13267, car il feet de l'Hoffel les eftres.

Eterne, adj. Lat. everlasting, 1306.

Ethe, adj. Sax. eafy, R. 3955; T. v. 850.

Evangiles, n. pl. Fr. gofpels, 5086.

Even, adj. Sax. equal; an even Criften, P. 181, 207, a fellow-Chriftian.

Evenlike, adj. Sax. equal, Bo. iv. m. 6.

adv. equally, Bo. iv. pr. 2.

Ever, adv. Sax. always; ever in on, 1773, 3878, continually in the fame manner; ever lenger the more, 10718, 11772. See P. 264, where this elliptical phrase is expressed at length.

Everich, adj. Sax. every one of many, 373, 2194each of two, 1188, 2098, 2101, 6986.

Ew, n. Sax. yew, 2925.

Exaltat, part. pa. Lat. exalted, 6286.

Exametron, 13985, is explained by the context to fignify a verfe of fix feet; it ufually fignifies the heroick

verfe, but here, I fuppofe, must be understood to mean the iambick, in which the ancient tragedies were commonly versified.

Executour, n. Fr. executioner, 7592.

Executrice n. Fr. a female executioner, T. ii. 618. Exorcifations, n. pl. Fr.exorcifms, conjurations, F. iii. 173.

Expans yeres, 11587. "In this and the following verfes "the poet defcribes the Alphonfine aftronomical "tables by the several parts of them, wherein fome "technical terms occur which were used by the old "aftronomers, and continued by the compilers of "of thofe tables. Collect years are certain fums of years, with the motions of the heavenly bodies correfponding to them, as of 20, 40, 60, &c. dif“pofed into tables; and expaus years are the single years, with the motions of the heavenly bodies "anfwering to them,beginning at 1,and continued

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on to the smallest collect fum, as 20, &c. A root or "radix is any certain time taken at pleasure, from "which as an era the celeflialmotions are to be com"puted. By proporcionel convenientes are meant the "tables of proportional parts." Gloff. Ur." Argu

ment in altronomy is an arch whereby we feek an"other unknown arch proportional to the first." Chambers.

Expectaunt, part. pr. Fr. waiting, R. 4571.
Expleite, v. Fr. to perform, R. 6174.

Ey, n. Sax. an egg, 14851, 16274; but as it were a a grypes eye, Conf. Am. 22.

Ey, interj. 10165.

Eyen, n. pl. Sax. eyes, 152, 201.

Eyre, for air, F. ii. 419.

Eyrib, adj. aerial, belonging to the air, F. ii. 424, 457.

Fable, n. Fr. idle difcourfe, R. 1439, 6603.
Faconde, n. Fr. eloquence, A. F. 558.

Facounde, adj. eloquent, Du. 926; A. F. 521. Faerie, n. Fr. the nation of Faeries, 6441. See the note-Enchantment, the work of faeries, 9617, 10515; king of Faerie, 13101, 8; quene of Faerie, 10190; contree of Faerie, 13731.

Fain, adj. Sax. glad, 13241; than was I as fayne as foule of fayre morowe, P. P. 47, b.

Fain, adv. gladly, 9949.

Faine, v. Fr. to feign, to diffemble, R. 3089; to fwinke and travail he not faineth, R. 5685, he does not feign or pretend only to labour, i.e. he labours seriously.

Fairchede, n. Sax. beauty, R. 2484.

Faitour, n. Fr. a lazy idle fellow, P. P. 32 h. 33 b. faitard, faiteor, un parefleux, piger. Lacombe.

Falding, n. 392, 3212, a kind of coarse cloth, Sk. He derives it from the A. S. feald, plica: however that may be Helmoldus [Chron. Stav. I. i. c. 1,] fpeaks of indumenta lanea (probably coarse enough) quæ nos appellamus faldones; and fallin in Irifh, according to Lhuyd,fignifies a mantle. Giraldus Cambr. [Topog Hibern. dift. 3. c. 10,] describes the Irifh as clothed in phalingis laneis, vice palliorum. Faldyng cloth, Amphibalus, Birrus. Prompt. Parv. Row cloth, as faldyng and other like. Endromis Amphibalus. ibid. See Du Cange in v.. Amphibalus.

Fall, for fallen, part. pa. P. 147.

Falfen, v. Fr. to falfify, 3175-to deceive R. 5416. Falue, adj. Sax. yellow, 1366.

Fales n. pl. Sax. harrowed lands, 6238.

Famuler, adj. Lat. domestick, 9658.

Fan, n. See the n. on ver. 16991.

Fande, pa. t. of finde, v. Sax. found, R. 2707.

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