GLOSSARY

OF OBSOLETE WORDS, AND OF WORDS VARYING FROM THEIR

ORDINARY SIGNIFICATION.

A

Aery or Aiery, a hawk's or eagle's
Abate, to depress, sink, subdue. nest.
A B C, a catechism.

Affect the letter, to practise allite-
Abhor, to protest against.

ration.
Abjects, debased servile persons. Affect, love.
Able, to qualify or uphold. Affection, affectation, imagination.
Abortive, issuing before its time. Affectioned, affected.
Absolute, complete, perfect. Affects, affections.
Abuse, deception.

Affeered, confirmed.
Abused, deceived.

Affied, betrothed.
Aby, to pay dear for, to rue, to Affined, joined by affinity.
suffer.

Affront, to confront.
Abysm, aby s.

Affy, to betroth.
Accite, to cite or summon. Aglet-baby, a diminutive being,
Accuse, accusation.

not exceeding the tag of a
Achieve, to obtain.

point, from aiguilettes.
Aconitum, wolf's-bane.

Agnize, acknowledge, confess, vow.
Acquittance, requital.

A-good, in good earnest.
Action, direction by mute signs, Aim, guess, suspicion.

charge, or accusation. Airy fame, mere verbal eulogy.
Action-taking, litigious.

Aider-liefest, best beloved
Actures, actions.

Ale, a merry-meeting
Additions, titles or characters. A’life, at life.
Address, to prepare, to make Allow, to approve.
ready.

Allowance, approbation.
Addressed, or addrest, ready. Amaze, to perplex.
Admittance, favor.

Amazonian chin, a beardless chin.
Advance, to prefer.

Ames-ace, the lowest chance of
Advertising, attentive.

the dice.
Adversity, contrariety.

Amiss, misfortune.
Advertisement, admonition. Amort, dispirited.
Advice, consideration, discretion, An, as if.
thought.

Anchor, a hermit.
Advise, to consider, to recollect. Ancient, an ensign, or standard-
Advised, cool, cautious.

bearer.

Angle, a fishing-rod.

Attended, waited for.
Anight, in the night.

Attent, attentive.
Answer, retaliation.

Atone, to reconcile.
Anthropophagi, cannibals. Attest, attestation.
Antick, the fool of the old play. Attorney, deputation.
Antiquity, old age.

Attorneyship, the discretional
Antres, caves and dens.

agency of another.
Appeache, to impeach.

Attornied, supplied by substitution
Appeal, to accuse.

of embassies.
Appeared, made apparent. Audacious, spirited, animated.
Apple-john, an apple that will Audrey, a corruption of Ethelrea.
keep for two years.

Augurs, prognostications.
Apply, to attend to, consider. Aukward, adverse.
Appointment, preparation. Aunts, strumpets.
Apprehension, opinion.

Authentic, learned.
Apprehensive, quick of compre- Awful, reverend.
hension.

Awless, failing to produce awe.
Approbation, entry or probation.

B.
Approof, approbation, proof.
Approve, to justify, prove, estab- Baccare, stand back, give place.
lish.

Bairn, brushwood.
Approved, experienced.

Baldrick, a belt.
Approvers, those who try. Bale, misery
Aqua-vitæ, strong waters, probably Baleful, baneful.
usquebaugh.

Balked, bathed or piled up.
Arabian bird, the phenix. Ballase, ballast.
Arch, chief.

worm.

Bate, strife.

Bilberry, the whortleberry.
Bate, to flutter as a hawk. Bilbo, a Spanish blade made at
Batlet, an instrument with which Bilboa.

washers used to beat clothes. Bilboes, fetters.
Batten, to grow fat.

Bill, articles of accusation.
Battle, army:

Bill, a weapon, formerly carried
Bawcock, a jolly fellow.

by watchmen.
Bay, the space between the main Bin, is.
beams of a house.

Bird-bolt, an arrow shot at birds
Bay-curtal, a bay docked horse. from a cross-bow.
Bay-window, a bow-window. Bisson, blind.
Beadsmen, religious persons, main- Blank, the white mark in a target.

tained to pray for their bene. Blank and level, mark and aim,
factor.

(terms of gunnery.)
Beak, the forecastle.

Blaze of youth, the spring of early
Bear a brain, to perfectly resemble. life.
Beard, to defy.

Blear, to deceive.
Bearing, demeanor.

Blench, to start off, to fly off.
Bearing-cloth, a mantle used at Blent, blended.
christenings.

Blind-worms, the cæcilia, or slow-
Beat (in falconry), to flutter.
Beating, hammering; dwelling upon Blood-boltered, daubed with blood.
Beaver, helmet in general. Blown, puffed-up, swollen.
Beck, a salutation made with the Blows, swells.
head.

Bloody, sanguine.
Becomed, becoming.

Blue caps, the Scotch.
Beetle, to hang over the base. Blunt, stupid, insensible.
Behave, to manage.

Blurt, bluried, an expression of
Behests, commands.

contempt.
Beholding, viewing with regard. Board, to accost.
Behowl, to howl at.

Bobb, to trick.
Being, abode.

Bodged, boggled, clumsy.
Beldame, ancient mother.

Bodkin, a small dagger.
Be-lee'd, becalmed.

Bolted, sifted.
Belongings, endowments.

Bolting-hutch, the receptacle in
Be-mete, be-measure.

which the meal is bolted.
Be-moiled, bedraggled, bemired. Bombard, or bumbard, a barrel.
Bending, unequal to the weight. Bombast, the stuffing of clothes.
Benefit, beneficiary.

Bona-robas, strumpets.
Bent, utmost degree of any passion. Bond, bounden duiy:
Benumbed, inflexible.

Bony or bonny, handsome
Beshrew, may ill befall.

Book, paper of conditions.
Besmirch, to foul or dirty. Boot, profit, something over and
Best, bravest.

above.
Bestowed, stowed away, lodged. Bore, demeaned.
Bestraught, distracted.

Bore, the calibre of a gun.
Beteem, to give, pour out, permit, Bores, stabs.
suffer.

Bosky, woody:
Bewray, betray.

Bosom, wish, heart's desire.
Bezonian, a mean fellow.

Boulted, sifted.

| Brush of time, decay of time.
Bowlins or bowlines, tackle of a Bug, bugbears, false terrors.
ship.

Bumbard, a large drinking vessel.
Bollen, swollen.

Bung, a cut-purse.
Bordered, restrained.

Bunting, a bird.
Bower, a chamber.

Burgonet, a helmet.
Brace, armor for the arm.

Busky, woody.
Brach, a hound.

Butt-shaft, an arrow to shoot at
Brack, to salt.

shafts with.
Braid, crafty, deceitful.

Buxom, obedient.
Brain's-flow, tears.

stones.

Carl, clown, boor.

Charactery, the matter with which
Carlot, peasant.

letters are made.
Carnal, sanguinary.

Chares, task-work.
Carowses, drinks.

Charge-house, free-school.
Carriage, import.

Chariest, most cautious.
Carried, conducted.

Chariness, caution.
Carry, to prevail over.

Charitable, dear, endearing.
Carl, a chariot.

Charles-wain, the constellation
Case, skin, outward garb.

called the bear.
Case of lives, a set of lives. Charm your tongue, be silent.
Casques, helmets.

Charmer, one who deals in magic.
Cassock, a horseman's loose coat. Charneco, a sweet wine.
Cast, to empty; also to dismiss, Chance, fortune.
reject.

Chary, cautious.
Cast, reckoned.

Chases, a term in tennis.
Castilian, an opprobrious term. Chaudron, entrails.
Castiliano vulgo, a cant term of Cheater, for escheatour, an officer
contempt.

in the Exchequer.
Cast-lips, let off lips.

Checks, probably for ethics.
Cast the water, to find out disor- Cheer, countenance.

ders by inspecting the urine. Cherry-pit, a game with cherry-
Cataian, a liar.
Catling, a small lutestring, made Cheveril, soft leather; also, con-
of catgut.

science.
Cavalero-justice, a cant term. Chew, to ruminate, consider.
Cavaleroes, gay fellows.

Chewet, a chattering bird.
Caviare, too good for, or above the Chide, io reso to echo; also,

comprehension of; so called to scold, be clamorous.
from a delicacy made of the Chiding, sound; noisy.
roe of sturgeons, eaten by the Child, a knight, a hero.
quality:

Child, a female infant.
Cautel, subtlety:

Childing, unseasonably pregnant.
Cautel or cantle, the corner, or Chopine, a high shoe.
piece of anything.

Chopping, jabbering.
Cautelous, insidious, cautious. Chongh, a bird of the daw species.
Cearment, the wrapping of an em- Christom or chrisom, the white
balmed body.

cloth put on a new baptized
Cease, decease.
Censure, to give an opinion. Chuck, chicken, a term endear-
Centuries, companies of a hundred ment.
men each.

Chuff, rich, avaricious.
Ceremonious, superstitious. Cicatrice, the scar of a wound.
Certes, certainly.

Circummured, walled round.
Cess, measure, tax or subsidy. Circumstance, conduct, detail, cir-
Chair, throne.

cumlocution.
Chaliced, i. e. flowers, with cups, Cite, incite.
from calix.

Cital, recital.
Challenge, the right of refusing a Civil, grave, solemn.
juryman.

Civil, human.
Chamber, ancient name for Lon- Cittern, a musical instrument.

don; also, a piece of ordnance. Clack-dish, a beggar's dish.
Chamberers, intriguers.

Clamour, a term in bell-ringing.
Champian, an open country. Clap-in, fall to.
Chantry, a small chapel in a ca- Clapped i’ the clout, hit the white
thedral.

mark
Character, hand-writing.

Clap, to join hands.

child.