GLOSSARY. Aspersion, sprinkling. Assurance, conveyance or deed. Ates, instigation from Ate, the mischievous goddess that incites bloodshed. Atomies, minute particles discernible in a stream of sunshine that breaks into a darkened room, atoms. Atone, to reconcile. Attasked, reprehended, corrected Attended, waited for. Attent, attentive. Attorney, deputation. Attorneyship, the discretional agency of another. Attornied, supplied by substitution of embassies. Attributive, that which attributes or gives. Avaunt,contemptuous dismission Averring, confirming. Audacious, spirited, animated. Audrey, a corruption of Etheldreda. Augurs, auguries or prognostications. Aukward, adverse. Authentic, an epithet applied to the learned. Awful, reverend, worshipful. Awless, not producing awe. B. Baccare, stand back, give place. Bandog, village dog or mastiff. Banquet, a slight refection, a de sert. Bans, curses Cotsale, Cotswood in Gloucester- Cursed, under the influence of Covered, hollow. Count, to make account, to rec- Curst, petulant, crabbed, shrewd- man. Count Confect, a specious noble- Curstness, ill-humour. Countenance, false appearance, hypocrisy. Corinthian, a wencher. Corky, dry, withered, husky. Corollary, surplus. Coronet, a crown. Counterfeit, a likeness, a por trait. Counterpoints, counterpanes. Cower, to sink by bending the Cowl-staff, a staff for carrying a Coy, to soothe or stroke. Coystril, a coward cock, a mean Cranks, windings. D. Daff or doff, to do off, to put Dally, to play or trifle Cozier, a tailor or botcher. Crab, a wild apple. Danger, reach or control. Crack, a boy or child, a boy- Danskers, natives of Denmark. Dark-house, a house made gloomy Crow, to exult over. Coster-monger, meanly, merce- Curiosity, finical delicacy, scru Custard-coffin, the crust of a cus- pulousness or captiousness. Curious, scrupulous. nary. Cote, to overtake. Coted, quoted, observed, or re- Curled, ostentatiously dressed. garded. Currents, occurrences. Customer, a common woman. Cyprus, a transparent stuff. by discontent. Darraign, to arrange, put in or- Daub, to disguise. Daubery, falsehood and imposi- Day-bed, a couch. Declined, the fallen. Defeatures, features, change of Defensible, furnishing the means Defiance, refusal. Deftly, dexterously, with adroit ness. Defy, to refuse, to disdain. Denied,disbelieved or contemned. Denier, the twelfth part of a Doff, see Daff. French sou. Denotements, indications or dis- | Dolphin, the Dauphin of France. Double, full of duplicity. Dout, to do out, extinguish Discontenting, discontented. Deny, to refuse. Depart, to part. Deracinate, to force up by the roots. Derogate, degraded, blasted Descant, a term in music. Deserred, deserving. Desperate, bold, adventurous. Detected, charged or guilty. Dribbling, a term of contempt. Dibble, an instrument used by Drollery, a show performed by Dich, dit or do it. puppets. Drugs, drudges, Dickon, familiarly for Richard. Drumble, to act lazily and stu Die, gaming. pidly. Diet, regimen. Diet, to oblige to fast. Diffused, extravagant, irregular. Dole, lot, allowance. rate bodies. Distraught, distracted. Diverted, turned out of the course of nature. Drab, whoring. Dry, thirsty. Ducdame, duc ad me, bring him to me. Dudgeon, the handle of a dagger. Dull, to render callous, insen- Dullard, a person stupidly un- Dump, a mournful elegy. E Eager, sour, sharp, harsh. Ecstacy, alienation of mind, mad ness. Effects, affects, or affections, ac- Eld, old time, or persons. Embossed, inclosed,swollen,puffy. Emulation, rivalry, envy, facti- Divilable, divided. Dirision, the pauses or parts of Encave, to hide. Enfeoff, to invest with possession. |
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