Meed: reward. Meed: merit, desert, excellence. Meiny: people, domestics. Memories: memorials, remembrances. Memorized: made memorable. Mephistophilus: the name of a Mered: mere. Metaphysical: supernatural. Micher: a truant, a lurking thief. Miching: playing truant, skulking about. Mien: countenance. Mince: to walk with affected delicacy. Minding: calling to remembrance, reminding. Mineral: a mine. Minnow: a small river-fish, a term of contempt. Minstrelsy: office of minstrel. Misconceived: misconceivers. Miscreate: ill-begotten, illegiti mate. Misdoubt: to suspect. Miser: a miserable creature. Misery: avarice. Misprised: mistaken. Misprising: despising or under- Napless: threadbare. valuing. Missives: messengers. Mistaken: misrepresented. Mistempered: angry. Mode: the form or state of things. Modesty: moderation. Moe, or mowe: to make mouths. Mome: a dull stupid blockhead. Native: formed by nature. Nature: natural parent. obsequies, careful of. Obsequiously: funereally. Occupation: men occupied in busi ness. Occurrents: incidents. Oeiliad: a cast or glance of the O'er raught: over-reached. Offering: the assailant. Offices: culinary or servants' apartments. Old: frequent, more than enough. Oneyers: accountants, bankers. all colours. Open: publicly. Operant: active. Nay-word: a watch-word or bye- Opinion: obstinacy, conceit, chr word. Neat: finical. Neb, or nib: the mouth. Neeld: needle. Neif: fist. Nephew: a grandson or any lineal Orbs: circles made by the fairies descendant. Nether-stocks: Next: nearest. Nobless: nobleness. Noddy: fool, a game at cards. Nook-shotten: that which shoots into capes. Northern man: clown. vir borealis, a Note: notice, information, remark. on the ground. Orchard: a garden. Order: measures. Ordinance: rank. Orgulous: proud, disdainful. Osprey: a kind of eagle. Ostent: show, ostentation. Ostentation: shew, appearance. Overblow: to drive away, to keep P Pack: to bargain with. Paddock: toad. Pagan: a loose vicious person. Pale: to empale, encircle with a crown. Pall: to wrap, to invest. Palled: vapid. Palmers: holy pilgrims. Palter: to juggle or shuffle. Paper: to write down, or appoint by writing. Paper: written securities. parts. Parish-top: a large top formerly kept in every village to be whipped for exercise. Paritor: an apparitor, an officer of the bishop's court. Parle: parley. Partake: to participate. Partaker: accomplice, confederate. Parted: endowed with parts. Pash: to strike with violence. or Pass: to exceed, to go beyond common bounds. Passed: excelling, passed all ex- Passionate: a prey to mournful sensations. Passioning: being in a passion. Patch: a term of reproach. Pathetical: deeply affecting. Patient: to make patient, to compose. Patine: a dish used with the chalice, in the administration of the Eucharist. Pattern: instance, example. Paucas: few. Port: external pomp, figure. Portable: bearable. Portance: carriage, behaviour. Possess: to inform, to make to understand. Possessed: acquainted with, fully informed. Possessed: afflicted with madness. Perch: a measure of five yards Pouncet-box: a small box for per 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 glasPervert: to avert. ses. Pew-fellow: a companion. or curry. Pia mater: the membrane covering the substance of the brain. Pick: to pitch. Picked: nicely dressed, foppish. Picking: piddling, insignificant. Pickt-hatch: a place noted for brothels. Piece: a word of contempt for a woman. Pield: shaven. Pin and web: disorders of the eye. Placket: a petticoat. Plague: to punish. Practise: to employ unwarrantable arts. Practisants: confederates in stra- Prank: to adorn, to dress osten- Prefer to recommend, to advance. Pregnant enemy: the enemy of Premised: sent before the time. Presence: the presence-chamber, Pretence: design, intention. Plain song: the chaunt, in plano Pride: haughty power. Pleached: folded together. 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. Pomewater: a species of apple. pal of women. Principals: rafters of a building. Prodigious: portentous, ominous. Prorogue: to lengthen or prolong. Provost: sheriff or gaoler. Puck: or hobgoblin in fairy mythology. Pugging: thievish. Pun: to pound. Purchase: stolen goods. Racking: in rapid motion. Rank: grown up to a great height Rarely: curiously, happily. Purchased: acquired by unjust Rash: heady, thoughtless, quick, methods. violent. Rash remonstrance: premature discovery. Rated: chided. Ravin: to devour eagerly. Reckless: careless, heedless. Record: to sing. Rounded: whispered. Rounding: whispering. Recorder: a kind of flute or flage- Roundel: a country-dance. let. Recure: to recover. Roundure: circle. Rouse: a draught of jollity. Red-lattice: the sign of an ale- Royal: due to a king. house. Reduce: to bring back. Reechy: discoloured by smoke, smoky, greasy. Refell: to refute. Questrist: one who goes in search Regard: look. of another. Quests: reports. Quick: lively, spritely, living. Regiment: government, authority. Remembered: remembering. Royalize: to make royal. Royalty: nobleness, supreme excellence. Roynish: mangy or scabby. 1 །། Scald: a word of contempt, poor, filthy. Scale: to disperse, to put to flight. Scaled: over-reached. Scall: an old word of reproach. Scantling: measure, proportion. Scapes of wit: sallies, irregularities. Scared: frightened. Scarfed: decorated with flags. Scrip: a writing, a list. Seam: lard. Sear: to stigmatize, to close. See Sere. Season: to temper, to infix, to Seated: fixed, firmly placed. Seel: to close up. Seeming: specious, hypocritical. Self-bounty: inherent generosity. Sennet: a flourish or sounding. Sense: reason, natural affection, || Sliver: to cut a piece or slice. feeling, sensual passion. Sensible: having sensation. Septentrion: the north. Sequestration: separation. Sere, or sear: dry. Slops: loose breeches, or trowsers, tawdry dress. Slough: the skin which the serpent annually throws off. Slower: more serious. Sergeant: a bailiff or sheriff's of Slubber: to do any thing care 'ficer. Serpigo: a kind of tetter. Serve: to accompany. 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, shamed, disgraced. Shent: to reprove harshly. Shovel-board: a game. a shrew. Shrift: confession. Shrive: to confess, to call to confession. Shut-up: to conclude. 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 rebuke. Sneaping: nipping. Sneck-up: a cant phrase, “go hang yourself." Snuff: hasty anger. Sooth: sweetness. Sort and suit: figure and rank. Soul-fearing: soul-appalling. Sowl: to pull by the ears. Spanned: measured. Specialty: particular right. Sight: the perforated part of a Sped: the fate decided. helmet. Sightless: unsightly. Single: weak, debile, small, void save-reverence. Sith: since. Sithence: thence. 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. Speed: event. Sperr: to shut up, defend by bars, &c. Spleen: humour, caprice, spirit, Squarer: a quarrelsome fellow. Stale: a pretence. Stand: to withstand, to resist. Standing bowls: bowls elevated on feet. Stannyal: the common stonehawk. Star: a scar of that appearance. Stark: stiff. Starkly: stiffly. Starred: destined. Stuff: substance or essence. cession. Successively by order of suc cession. Sudden: violent. Suggest: to tempt, to prompt, to State: a chair with a canopy Suggestions: temptations. over it. Stock: a term in fencing. Stomach: passion, pride, stubborn Suited: dressed. Sweeting: a species of apple. Swinge-bucklers: rakes, rioters. Strachy: probably some kind of Swoop: the descent of a bird of Strange: alien, becoming a stranger, a stranger. Strangely wonderfully. prey. T. Table: the palm of the hand extended. Table: a picture. Tallow-keech: the fat of an ex or cow. Tame: ineffectual. Tame snake: a contemptible fel- . low. Tamed: flat, spiritless. Tarre: to stimulate, to excite, provoke. Tartar: Tartarus, the fabled place of future punishment. Task: to keep busied with scruples. Tasked: taxed. Taurus: sides and heart in me- tion. Temperance: temperature. Tempered: rendered pliable. Tend: to attend upon, to war fr. Tender: to regard with affectio Tend'ring: watching with te derness. Tent: to take up residence. Tercel: the male hawk. Termagant: the god of the Sa racens. Termagant: furious. Tetchy: touchy, peevish, fretful woven. Thill: the shafts of a cart. Thread: to pass through. Tables: table-books, memoran- Thrummed: made of coarse weal dums. Tabourine: a small drum. Strangeness: shyness, distant be- Tag: the lowest of the populace. haviour. Stranger: an alien. Strangle: to suppress. Taint: to throw a slur upon. Take: to strike with a disease, to blast. Stratagem: great or dreadful Take in: to conquer, to get the len cloth. Tickle-brain: some strong liquor. contempt. |