Cantle, corner; part, share. aHd. 3, 1. AC. 3, 8. Compare the gr. kanthos, the germ. Kante, the ital. canto, the fr. coin, chanteau, chantel, lat. quantulum. S. Douce's Ill. of Sk. I, 482. Canton, corrupted for canto, song. TN. 1, 5. or rather cento, as it is used in a contemptible meaning. Caitiff, scoundrel, slave. MM. 2, 1. 5, 1. AW. to Canopy, to cover with a canopy or balda3, 2. Rb. 1, 2. Rc. 4, 4. TA. 4, 3. KL. 3, 2. chin, to overshade. RJ. 5, 1. 0.4, 1. The fr. chétif, lat, captivus. Cake, a kind of delicate bread. Compare the germ. kochen, Kuchen, lat. coquere. My (our) cake is dough, a proverb implying the loss of hope, or expectation; a cake which comes out of the oven in the state of dough, being considered as utterly spoiled. TS. 5, 1. 1, 1. to Calculate, to prophesy out of the stars. JC. 1, 3. bllf. 4, 1. Caliver, a small seagun, aHd. 4, 2. bHd. 3, 2. to Call in, to confiscate, retire, repeal, attach, to Canvass, to sift, try, test, examine. aHf. 1, 3; in an obscene sense. bHd. 2, 4. Compare the gr. kannabis, hemp and tow-for canvass is a sort of coarse cloth, packcloth, sailcloth and kanabos, cane, or stalk, done over with wax or clay in modelling. to Cap, to take off the cap, to court. 0.1, 1: Capable, subject to, susceptible. KJ. 3, 1. Capacity, capaciousness, compass, circumference. TN. 2, 5. Caparison'd, accoutered. AL. 3, 2. From the turk. ciaprack, covering, germ. Schabracke. Caper, capriole. To cut capers. TN, 1, 3. to cuper. Rc. 1, 1. fr. cabrioler. Kin to chèvre, lat. Capra. Callat, callet, calot, strumpet. WT. 2, 8. KJ. 5, 1. bHf. 1, 3. cHf. 2, 2. 0.4, 1. Gifford Ben Jons. III, 277. Calote in french a sort of cap once worn by wuntry girls. From de-| signating poverty or meanness it seems to to Capitulate, to make head, to form insurdenote depravity and vice.' cf. the same VI, 30. May be from to callet, to rail; or from the hebr. callah, bride; or kalal, to be mean, contemptible. rection. aHd. 3, 2. Capocchia, the feminine form of the ital. word capocchio, a fool. TC. 4, 2. Capon, a billet - doux. LL. 4, 1. S. bill. Calling, vocation, state, charge, office, func-Captain, used as adjective, chief, more extion. aHf. 3, 1. Camelot, a town in Somersetshire, now called Camel, near South - Cadbury, much celebrated as one of the places, at which king Arthur kept his court. KL. 2, 2. Camomile, chamomile, the more it is trodden on, the faster it grows. aHd. 2, 4. Allusion to John Lyly's Euphues. Can, a kind of cup. TN. 2, 2. Compare the to Can, to know, be skilful. H. 4, 7. Candle's ends, to drink off. A piece of roman- Candle-wasters, rakes who sit up all night Cannon, S. clamour. cellent, or valuable. TA. 3, 5. Captious, like capable (0. 3, 3.) capacious, recipient, capable of receiving. AW. 1, 3. Carack, carrack, large ship of burden, galleon. 0. 1,,2. Caraway, s. carraway. Carbuncle, a precious stone that was believed carkanet, carquenet, neck chain. CE. 3, 1. S. 52. to Card, to mix, debase by mixing, aHd. 3, 2. Card, mariner's compass; properly the paper, Career, careires. To pass the careires, a Canon, rule, law. H. 1, 2. Co. 3, 1. TA. 4, 8. Carman, one that leads a car. MM. 2, 1. Carnation, gilliflower. WT. 4, 8. to Carouse, to tope, tipple, drink frequently. to Carp at, to censure, cavil, rebuke, find fault with, flout. KL. 1, 4. Hh. 1, 1. where it is joined with to mock. aHd. 3, 2. 4, 1. MA. 3, 1. Rc. 3, 5. From the lat. carpere. Carpet, a covering of various colours to spread on floors or tables. Rb. 3, 3. S. Gifford's Ben Jons. III, 458. V, 182. From the gr. karpasos, lat. carbasus a kind of fine spanish flax. Plin. H.N. 19, 1. Carpet-knights, knights dubbed, in peace, on a carpet, by mere court favour, not in the field for military prowess. It seems only to have been a mock title, and was perfectly current as a term of great contempt for those who serve abominable and filthy idleness. They were called also knights of the green cloth, and carpet-mongers. MĀ.5,2. 'Ì'N.3, 4. where dubb’d on carpet consideration is on account of his merits or services done on carpets, in women's chambers; trencher-knights. Ll. 5, 2. S. Douce's Ill. of Sh. I, 105. Carraway, caraway, carum carui L., a plant, the seeds of which being esteemed carminative and stomachic, are still used in confections, cakes, sweet meats. bHd. 5, 3. Compare the greek karos. Cassock, any loose coat, but particularly a to Cast water, to find out diseases by the in- Castilian, used as a reproach, which probably Cat a mountain, or of the m. T. 4, 1. MIV. Cataian, a Chinese, Cataia, or Cathay being Carriage, frame upon which a cannon or ord- Carry-tale, tale-bearer, tell-tale. bHd. 4, 1. to Carve, to cut, cut out. MA. 5, 1; to cut in, Case, inclosure, covering. TN. 5, 1. AC. 4, 18; Catch, to get, hold on. KJ. 1, 1; to receive any contagion, plague, or disease. bHd. 2, 4. as in Germ. abkriegen, wegkriegen; to catch at, to hit, guess, gather. AC. 2, 2. MA. 5, 2. Catch, prize, boot. TS. 2, 1. TC. 2, 1; a species of vocal harmony to be sung by three or more persons, so contrived, that, though each sings precisely the same notes, as his fellows, yet by beginning at stated periods of time from each other, there results from the performance a harmony of as many parts, as there are singers; a roundel, round song, canon. TN. 2, 3. For both words compare to get, the gr. gaō, chaō, chaskō, chateō, lat. capio, capesso, pers. hatschiden, to rub, take, jaziden, Cate, food, eating, board. CE. 3, 1. TS. 2, 1. to embrace, seize. allf. 2, 3. to Cater, to heap up store. AL. 2, 3. Cater cousin, relation in the fourth degree, Catling, string of a lute or violin, made of Cavalero, or cavalier, a knight; any gallant. Hence officer of the court party in Charles the First's wars, the gaiety of whose appearance was strikingly opposed to the austerity and sourness of the opposite side. bHd. 5, 3. He. 3. ch. Caudle, cardiac, cordial, mixture of wine and other ingredients for women in childbed and sick persons. LL. 4, 3. bHf. 4, 7. fr. chaudeau, incitabulum, calda aqua. to Caudle, to corroborate, comfort, refresh. TA. 4, 3. Caviare, cavear, caveary, the spawn of a kind of sturgeon pickled, salted and dried, made also of the spawn of other kinds of fish, as botargo. In the time of Shk. it was a new and fashionable delicacy, not obtained or relished by the vulgar and therefore used by him to signify any thing above their comprehension. H. 2, 2. Perhaps from ovarium. S. Douce's Ill. of Sh. 2, 236. Causes of quarrel. RJ. 2, 4. In AL. 5, 4. there are enumerated seven by the book of Vincentio Saviola of honour and honourable quarrels (1594) viz retort courteous, quip modest, churlish reply, valiant reproof, quarrelsome countercheck, circumstantial lie, direct lie. Cautele, cautell, caution, deceit. H. 1, 3. Cautelous, cautious, artful, insidious, treacherous. Co. 4, 1. JC. 2, 1. to Caw, to cry as the rook or crow. MD. 3, 2. Censer, perfuming pan, with many perforations Center of the earth, the sun. RJ. 2. 1. TC. Century, party of an hundred men. KL. 4, 4. to Chafe, to heat, warm. bнf. 3, 2. TC. 1, 2. Chain. A gold chain anciently a fashionable ornament for persons of rank and dignity, as rich usurers. MA. 2,1. Cy. 3, 3. stewards. TN. 2, 3. S. Gifford's Ben Jons. II, 82. to Chalk, to sign with chalk, or cray, to design, assign. Hh. 1, 1. to Challenge, to defy to combat. MA. 5, 1; to claim. cf. 4, 7. Compare the fr. challenger, chalonger, calenger, calonger, calumniare, gr. kaleō, klyō, klymi, to call and to hear, originally to call in law. Chamber (camera regia) London. Rc. 3, 1; a sort of short pieces of ordnance, or cannon, which stood on their breeching, without any carriage, used chiefly for rejoicings and theatrical cannonades, yet not excluded from real service. bHd. 2, 4. Chamberer, a wanton person, gallant, intriguer. Chance, hazard, fortune. MM. 3, 2. MA. 3, s. to Change, to wear changes or variety of any Changeling, child put in the place of another; Channel, hollow bed of running water. JC. 1, 1. Chaplet, crown, wreath. MD. 2, 2. Charact, distinctive mark, as in arms. MM. 5, 1. to Character, to inscribe, engrave in one's mind or memory. H. 1, 3. S. 122. Charactery, writing, that which is charactered, expression. MW. 5, 5. JC. 2, 1. Cf. to carve. Chare, charwork, taskwork, or any labour. AC. 5, 2. 4, 13. Charge. To give charge to the watchmen appears to have been a regular part of the duty of the constable of the night. MA. 3, 3. Charge-house, a common school. LL. 5, 1. Chariness, caution, scrupulousness. MW.2, 1. Kin to care, gr. kear, kër, lat. cor, germ. Herz. Charity, figured as a saint in the romish calendar, and consequently was spoken of currently. II. 4, 5. Charles's wain, old name for the seven bright to Charm, to move by charms, spells, to en- Charnico, charneco, a sort of sweet spanish to Chatter, or chat, to blab. T. 2, 2. Cy. 1,7; 1 MD. 2, 2. is called childing, pregnant, fruitful; and childing plants are proliferous, in which one flower rises within or around another, and sometimes several. Chill, I will. KL. 4, 6. den, kuiten, keffen, kodern, gr. kotillein, to Child, to bear children. Hence the autumn. pers. gujed, engl. kit, quad, quoth. Chaudron, chauldron, part of the entrails of an animal. M. 4, 1. Kin to the gr. kotylos, koilos, hollow, kotyle, cholades, fr. chaudron, germ. provinc. Kutteln; from kyō, chaō, kaō. Cheap, is market, and the adj. good with its comparatives is often joined with it by old writers. Gifford's Ben Jons. II, 407. aHd. 3, 3. Anciently cheping is market, chepe, price, from the sax. cypan, to cope. Chear, cheer, look, air of the countenance. aHf. 1, 2. Kin to the ital. ciera, the gr. kara. S. Douce's Ill. of Sh. I, 193. to Chear, to encourage, quicken. cHf. 1, 1. M.5, 3. where it is opposed to disseat. RJ. 2, 3. Kin to the teuton. cyr, ceor, cwiger, turn, move, run. Cheater, unfair gamester, one who played with false dice. bHd. 2, 4. escheator, officer in the exchequer. MW. 1, 3. S. Gifford's Ben Jons. VIII, 498. Kin to the lat. capere, engl. deceit, chouse, cozen, that imply the notion of dark, night, concealment, as the gr. keuthō, I conceal, skotos, darkness, the fr. cacher, coucher show evidently. Check, restraint, restraining law. TS, 1, 1; reproof, reprimand. bHd. 4, 3. where it is joined with rebuke. Kin to the sax. scacan, engl. shake, kick, fr. choc, gr. kiō, kikō, kichō, kichanō, hiko, to go, movn. Chilling, making cold. TAR. 2, 4. Kin to the lat. gelų, germ. Kalte, kalt, and by enantiosemy or inverted sense -s. I. A. Kanne de vocabulor. enantiosemia, s. observ. de confusione in linguis babylon. Norimb. 1819. 8. to the lat. calere, calidus, ital. caldo, Childness, childishness. IVT. 4, 2. Chime, harmonious sound of bells. TC. 1, 3. a Hd. 3, 2. Kin to the gr. kymbé, kymbos by chaō, kyō. S. chaudron. Chin. In MD. 2, 2. for old Hyem's chin and icy crown Gray and Voss restore chill, cold. Chine, backbone, ridgebone. Hh. 5, 3. TS. 3, 2. Kin to the ital. schiena, gr. skelis, schelis, schalis, skelos. Chink, crevice, cleft, gap in a wall. MD. 3, 1; sound of money, money. RJ. 1, 5. Hence Ben Jonson uses to cry chink of the money that sounds in the pocket. VI, 137. cf. V, 336. The word is a mongrel of the gr. chaō, hisco, germ. gähnen, and ginglizō, lat. clango, germ. klingen, klingeln. Chioppine, chapin, chopine, chippin, cioppino, a sort of high shoe, formerly worn by ladies, or rather a clog, or patten. H. 2, 2. S. Gifford's Ben Jons. II, 258. Douce's Ill. of Sh. II, 231. From the span. chapin, arab. chipin, cork. to Check, to restrain, refrain, curb, interrupt. party-coloured, inlaid as the fields of a chess board. TAn. 2, 3. Kin to the fr. échec, it. scacco, from the pers. shah, king, ar. sheik, prince. Chip, to hew, cut in splints. TC. 5, 5; to cut asunder, to carve. bHd. 2, 4; Kin to chop, wh. s.; gr. koptō, fr. couper. some birds and insects. bHf. 3, 2. Spelt also chire, chirre, chirrup (Vic. of Wakef.), scot. chirme, kin to the gr. garyō, gērys, kēryo, kerysso, germ. girren, lowsax. kören. Cheek by jowl. To go ch. b. j. with one, low to Chop, to cut off. MM. 1, 2. 0. 4, 1; to Cherry-pit, a puerile game, which consisted of pitching cherrystones into a small hole. TN. 3, 4. Chest, breast. TC. 4, 5. Kin to cist by the gr. chaō. S. catch; chaudron. Cheveril, kid; kidleather. TN. 3, 1. metaph. yielding, pliable, flexible. RJ. 2, 4. Hh. 2, 3. to Chew, to grind with the teeth, to masticate: to taste, relish. MM. 2,4; with upon, to weigh, poize, meditate. JC. 1, 2. Kin to the germ. kauen, gr. geuō. Chewet, the chattering chough, or jackdaw. a Hd. 5, 1. to Chide, to scold, rebuke. M. 3, 1. aHd. 2, 4. 0.4, 2. TC. 2,2. LL. 4,3. AL. 3, 5. WT. 5, 3. He. 1, 2. 2, 4. cHf. 5, 4. RJ. 4, 1. AL. 4, 3; sometimes merely to make a noise, to resound, echo, without any reference to scolding. So MD. 4, 1. means the cry of hounds. Chief, preference, accomplishment, distinguished talent, leading example. H. 1, 3.-Kin to the old fr. kef, chef, gr. kabē, kebē, kybē, germ. Kopf, it. capo. Child, a youth trained to arms, whether squire or knight. KL. 3, 4. S. Edinb. Rev. Dec. 1816. N. LIV. on Lord Byron. not. The anglosax. cild, germ. Kind, from the gr. ginō, gignō, lat. geno. This is evident by maim, confound, mangle a language in speaking it. Rb. 3, 3. Hence choplogic, fragments of 1., or sayings. RJ. 3, 5. Chrisome, chrysom, chrisme, the face cloth or piece of linen put on the head of a child newly baptis'd; infants, that die within the month of birth. He. 2, 3. From the gr. chrisma anointing oil, used anciently at baptism. S. Douce's Ill. of Sh. V, 487. Christendom, appellation in general. AW. 1, 1; christianity. KJ. 4, 1. to Chronicle, to put in chronicle, to write down, to record in history. O. 2, 1. Chronicler, he that writes chronicles. In AL. 4, 1. Hanmer and Edwards propose the emendation coroners (wh. s.) supporting it by H. 5, 1. Chuck, corrupted from chick, and used as a fondling expression, or term of endearment. TN. 3, 4. LL. 5, 2. M. 3, 2. O. 4, 2. Chuff, a term of reproach, usually applied to avaricious old citizens. aHd. 2, 2. Kin to the germ. Schuft, from Hufe, a measure of land, by the scyth. apia, signifying earth. S. Herodot. 4, 59. Churl, peasant, avaricious, ill bred. RJ. 5, §. Kin to carl, wh. s. Cinque pace, a kind of lively dance, called also galliard,, the seps of which were reguttated by the number five. MA. 2, 1. Cinque ports, Hastings, Dover, Hithe, Rum- to Cling, to cleave, stick, adhere. Hh. 1, 1; to ney, Sandwich, with Winchelsex and Rye, opposite to France. Hh. 3, 1. Circuit, circle. bHf. 3, 1. From the lat. cir cumire. to Circumstance, to be ruled by the circum- Cistern, pool. M. 4, 3. 0. 4, 2. Lat. cisterna. Civil, grave, decent, solemn. TN. 3, 4. RJ. Clack-dish, clap-dish, a wooden dish carried by beggars, with a moveable cover, which they clapped and clattered to show, that it was emply. In this they received the alms. MM. 3, 2. to Clamber, to climb, climber. H. 4, 7. Kin to Clamour, to vociferate, outcry. WT. 4, 3. to Clapper-claw, to revile, injure, hiss out, Clasp, tach, hook, buckle. RJ. 1, 8; embracing. O. 1, 1. to Clasp, to embrace. TC. 4, 5. to Claw, to scratch, tickle with the claws. MA. 1, 1. bнd. 1, 2. O. 1, 3. Cy. 3, 6. Rc. 2, 4. Rb. 3. Clear, pure, innocent, blameless. KL. 4, 6. T. 3, 3. cHf, 3, 3. to Clear, to purify, justify. WT. 3, 2; to lead out. 1, 2. end. to Cleave, to split, part asunder; to unite with closely. T. 4, 1. Kin to cleaver, cleft, cliff, clift, cloven, clough, clout. §. Horne Tooke Div. of. P. II, 178. to Clepe, to call. H. 1, 4. Kin to the gr. kleō, klyō. Clerkly, like a scholar. TG, 1, 2. MW. 4, 5. bHƒ. 3, 1. Cliff, in music, key. TC.5, 2; declivity of a hill, rock. KL. 4, 1. A mongrel, from the fr. clef, and the lat. clivus, gr. geōlophos, germ. Klippe. S. to cleave. wither, shrink, shrivel up. M. 5, 5. Clinquant, shining, glittering, glistening. Hh. 1, 1. Fr. clinquant, tinsel. to Clip, to embrace, met. to encompass. KJ. 5, 2. Co. 1, 6. 4, 5. AC. 4, 8. WT. 5, 2. bHƒ. 4, 1. AC. 5, 2. O. 3, 3. Cy. 2, 3. Clocksetter, ringer of the bells. KJ. 3,1. joined with sexton. Clodpole, clodpoll, clotpoll, blockhead. Cy. 4, 2. TC. 2, 1. TN. 3, 4. Kin. to globus, Kloos. to Close, to join, come near, as in a fight, or battle. bHd. 2, 1; to allay. bHd. 2, 4. Cloth. Painted cloth, old tapestry hangings with trite mottoes, and moral sentences from the mouths of the figures worked or painted in then. AL. 3, 2. Clout, mark fixed in the centre of the butts, at which archers shot for practice; metaphor. an object sought, of any sort. LL. 4, 1. KL. 4, 6. bHd. 3, 2; rag, rubber. H. 2, 2. RJ. 2, 4. — Kin to cloth, lat. clavus, fr. clou. Clown. The theatrical clown or fool - for these terms were sometimes used as synonymous, sometimes distinguished — seems to have been a kind of heterogeneous character, drawn in part from real life, but very considerably heightened in order to produce stage effect. His first shape is no doubt in the Vice of the old mysteries and moralities. He was different from the domestic fool, who was the inmate of every opulent house, and whose profession required a considerable degree of skill and dexterity, wherefore he enjoyed great liberties, although he did not always escape whipping. KL. 1, 4. AL. 1,2. The costume of the domestic fool in Shk's. time was of two sorts: a) a motley or partycoloured coat, attached to the body by a girdle, with bells at the skirts and elbows, breeches and hose close, sometimes each leg of a different colour; a hood resembling a monk's cowl, sometimes decorated with asses ears, or else terminated in the neck and head of a cock. It often had the comb or crest only of the animal, whence the term coxcomb. In the hand an official sceptre or bauble, a short stick ornamented at the end with the figure of a fool's head, or with that of a doll, or puppet. To this instrument there was frequently annexed an inflated skin or bladder, whose form varied, sometimes obcenely. Sometimes a strong bat or club was substituted for the bauble, sometimes a sort of flapper or rattle ornamented with bells; b) a long petticoat, of various colours, the materials often costly, as of velvet, and fringed with yellow. But there were many variations of these dresses. Instead of the hood with the cockscomb appeared a single bell and more. The head was frequently shaved, in imitation or perhaps ridicule of a monk's crown. The tails of foxes or squirrels were often suspended to the garment. Often the idiot was clothed in a calf or sheep's skin. A large purse or wallet at the girdle is a very ancient part of the fool's dress. The practice of introducing the fools and clowns between the acts and scenes, and after the play was finished, to amuse the audience with extemporaneous wit and buffoonery has been traced from the greek and roman theatres. S. Douce's Ill. of Sh. II, 297. ss. The character of a clown as peculiar to a country family is expressed in the word's origin from the lat. colonus, as it is derived also by Ben Jonson VI, 144. |