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Paper, to commit to writing.
Parcel, part; to reckon up.
Parcel-gilt, partially gilt.
Parish-top, a large top, formerly
kept in every village, to be

whipped for exercise. Parle, parley.

Parlous, perilous, shrewd.
Part, to depart.

Parted, endowed, shared.

Particular, private.
Partizan, a pike.

Parts, party.

Pash, to strike; a head.

Pashed, crushed.

Pass, to decide, assure, convey.
Pass on, to decide.

Passed, eminent.

Passing, surpassing.

Passion, suffering.
Passionate, grieving.

Passioning, being in a passion.
Passy-measure, a dance.
Paritor, an apparitor, or officer of

the bishop's court. Pastry, the pastry-room. Patch, a fool.

Patched, in a fool's coat.

Path, to walk.

Pathetical, affecting.
Patient, to soothe.

Patine, a dish used with the chalice in administering the Eucharist.

Paucas, few.

Pavin, a dance.

Pay, to beat.

Peat, pet, darling.

Pedascule, a pedant.

Peer-out, to peep out.

Peevish, foolish.

Peize, to weigh, or keep in sus

pense.

Penthesilea, an Amazon.

Pelting, paltry.

Pennons, small flags.

Perdu, one of the forlorn hope.
Perdurable, lasting.

Perdy (par Dieu), a French oath.
Perfect, certain; well-informed.
Periapts, charms worn about the
neck.

Perjure, a perjurer.

Person, parson.

Perspectives, optic-glasses.

Pervert, to avert.

Pestilence, poison.

Pewfellow, a companion.
Pheere, companion.

Pheeze, to tease, to currycomb.
Phill-horse, shaft-horse.

Phisnomy, physiognomy.
Pick, to pitch.

Pick-axes, fingers.

Picked, foppish.

Pickers, the hands.

Picking, insignificant.

Pickt-hatch, a place noted for brothels.

Pick-thank, a parasite.

Piece, a contemptuous term for a

woman.

Pied ninny, a fool.
Pieled, shaven.
Pight, pitched, fixed.
Pilcher, the scabbard.
Piled, deprived of hair.
Pilled, pillaged.
Pin, a term in archery.

Pin and web, a disorder of the eye.

Pinfold, a pound.

Pix, the box that contains the host.

Place, a mansion.
Placket, a petticoat.
Plague, punish.
Plainly, openly.

Plaited, complicated.
Plantage, plantain.
Planched, made of planks.
Plant, the foot.
Plates, silver money.
Platforms, schemes.

Plausive, gracious, applauded.
Pleurisy, plethory.

Pleached, folded.

Plot, portion.

Point, negative.

Point, a hook used to fasten the

hose.

Point-de-vice, exactly. Points, tags to laces. Poize, weight.

Polack, a Polander.
Polled, bared.

Pomander, a perfume-ball.
Pomewater, an apple.
Poor-john, salted fish.
Popinjay, a parrot.
Popularity, intercourse with the
vulgar.

Porpentine, porcupine.
Port, deportment.

Port, a gate.

Portable, bearable.

Portance, behaviour.
Possess, to inform.
Potch, to push.

Potents, potentates.
Poulter, a poulterer.

Pouncet-box, a perfume-box.
Power, an army.

Practice, stratagems.

Prank, to adorn.

Precept, a justice's warrant.

Precisian, a puritan.

Prefer, to offer.

Pregnant, ready.

Prenominate, forenamed.

Prest, ready.

Pretend, to intend.

Prevent, to anticipate.

Pricket, a buck of the second

year.

Prig, to pilfer.

Prime, sprightliness of youth.
Primer, of more consequence.

Primero, a game at cards.
Princox, a coxcomb.

Probal, probable.

Prodigious, portentous.

Proface, much good may it do

you.

Profane, gross in language.

Progress, a royal journey of state. Prognostication, almanack.

Project, to shape.

Prolixious, coy, delaying.
Proof, puberty.

Prompture, suggestion.
Prone, humble, also prompt.

Propagate, to advance, to improve.
Proper, handsome.

Proper-false, deceitful.

Propertied, possessed.

Properties, incidental necessaries to a theatre.

Property, due performance.

Propose, to imagine, to converse. Proposing, conversing.

Provand, provender.

Provost, a sheriff or gaoler.

Prune, to plume.

Pugging, thievish.

Puke, a sort of russet colour.
Purchase, stolen goods.
Purchased, unjustly acquired.
Purl, to curl.

Purlieu, border.
Pursuivants, heralds.
Pussel, a low wench.

Put to know, forced to acknow

ledge.

Putter-out, one who lends money

on interest.

Putting-on, incitement.

Puttock, a hawk.

Q.

Quail, to sink, to faint, to be van

quished.

Quaint, fantastical, also graceful. Quaintly, skilfully.

Quaked, terrified.

Qualify, to lessen, moderate.

Quality, confederates, condition. Quarrel, a quarreller.

Quarry, the game after it is killed. Quart d'écu, the fourth of a French

crown.

Quat, a pimple.

Queasy, squeamish.

Quell, to murder.

Quench, to grow cool.

Quern, a handmill.

Quest, pursuit.

Question, conversation.

Questrist, one who seeks an

other.

Quests, reports.

Quiddits, subtleties.

Quietus, discharge.

Quillets, law chicane.

Quintain, a post set up for various

exercises.

Quips, scoffs.

Quire, to play in concert.

Quiver, nimble, active.

Quote, to observe.

R.

Rabato, a neck ornament.

Race, original disposition, also flavour.

Rack, wreck.

Rack, to exaggerate.

Rack, to harass by exactions.

Rack, the fleeting away of the clouds.

Racking, in rapid motion.

Rag, an opprobrious epithet.

Ragged, rugged.

Rake, to cover.
Ram, rain.

Rampallion, a courtesan.

Rank, rate or pace.
Rank, rapidly grown.
Rapt, enraptured.
Rapture, a fit.

Rarely, curiously.

Rascal, lean deer.

Rash remonstrance, premature
discovery.
Raught, reached.

Ravin, to devour eagerly.
Ravined, glutted with prey.

Rawly, suddenly.

Rayed, betrayed.

Razed, slashed.

Raze, a bale.

Rear-mouse, a bat.
Reason, discourse.

Rebeck, a musical instrument.

Recheat, a horn, a tune to call the dogs back.

Receipt, receptacle.

Receiving, ready apprehension.
Reck, to care for.
Reckless, careless.
Record, to sing.
Recorders, a kind of flute.
Recure, to recover

Red-lattice phrases, alehouse con

versation.

Red-plague, the St. Antony's fire. Reechy, discoloured with smoke. Reels, wheels.

Refel, to confute.

Refer, to reserve to.

Regard, look.

Regiment, government.

Regreet, exchange of salutation.

Reguerdon, recompense.

Relume, to relight.

Remorse, pity.

Remotion, removal.
Removes, journeys.
Render, to describe.
Renege, to renounce.
Reports, reporters.
Reproof, confutation.
Repugn, to resist.
Reputing, boasting.
Reserve, to preserve.
Resolve, to be assured.
Resolve, to dissolve.
Respective, respectful.
Respectively, respectfully.
Resty, mouldy.

Retailed, handed down.

Retort, to refer back.

Reverb, to reverberate.

Revolt of mien, change of complexion.

Revolts, rebels.

Rheumatic, capricious.

Rib, to enclose.
Ribald, a lewd fellow.
Rid, to destroy.
Rift, split.
Riggish, wanton.
Rigol, a circle.

Rim, money.

Ringed, encircled.

Rivage, the bank or shore.

Rivality, equal rank.

Rivals, partners.

Rive, to burst, to fire.

Romage, rummage, bustle.
Ronyon, a drab.

Rood, the cross.

Rook, to squat.

Ropery, roguery.

Rope-tricks, abusiveness.
Round, a diadem.

Round, rough.

Rounded, whispered.

Roundel, a country dance.

Rounding, whispering.
Roundure, a circle.

Rouse, carousal.
Roynish, mangy.
Royal, a coin.

Ruddock, a redbreast.

Ruff, the folding of the tops of boots.

Ruffle, to be noisy.

Ruffling, rustling.

Rump-fed, fed with offals.
Ruth, pity.

S.

Sacarson, the name of a bear.
Sacred, accursed.

Sacrificial, worshipping.

Sacring-bell, the bell announcing

the approach of the host.

Sad ostent, with a grave appear

ance.

Sagg, or swagg, to sink down.
Sallet, a helmet.
Salt, tears.

Saltiers, satyrs.

Samingo, St. Domingo.

Sandied, sandy colour.
Sans, without.

Saucy, lascivious.

Savage, sylvan.

Savageness, wildness.

Saw, tenor of a discourse.

Say, silk.

Say, a sample.

Scaffoldage, the gallery of a the

atre.

Scald, beggarly.

Scale, to disperse.

Scaled, overreached.

Scaling, weighing.
Scall, scab.

Scamble, to scramble.

Scan, to examine nicely.
Scantling, proportion.

Scarfed, decorated with flags.

Scath, destruction.
Scathful, mischievous.
Sconce, the head.

Sconce, a fortification.
Scotch, to bruise.
Scrimers, fencers.
Scrip, a writing, a list.
Scroyles, scurvy fellows.
Scrubbed, stunted.
Sculls, shoals of fish.
Scutched, whipped.

Seal, to strengthen, or complete.
Seam, lard.

Seamell, a bird.

Sear, to stigmatise, to close.

Season, to temper, to infix, to impress.

Seat, throne.

Sect, a cutting in gardening.

Seel, to close up.

Seeling, blinding.

Seeming, seemly.

Seen, versed, practised.
Seld, seldom.

Semblably, resemblingly.
Seniory, seniority.

Sennet, a flourish on cornets.

Sense, sensual desires.
Septentrion, the north.
Sequestration, separation.
Sere, or sear, dry.
Serpigo, a tetter.

Serve, to fulfil.

Setebos, a demon.

Set, a term at tennis.

Sessa, be quiet.

Several, separated.

Several, or severell, a field set

apart for corn and grass.

Sewer, the placer of the dishes.
Shame, modesty.

Shard-borne, borne on scaly wings.
Shards, beetles' wings.

Shards, broken pots or tiles.
Shark up, to pick up.
Shaven Hercules, Samson.
Sheen, shining, gay.
Sheer, transparent.

Shent, to scold, rebuke.

Sherris, sherry.

Shive, a slice.

Shog, to go off.

Shotten, projected.

Shotten-herring, a herring that

has spawned.

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Sorel, a deer during his third

year.
Sorry, sorrowful.

Sort, to happen, to agree.
Sort, the lot.

Sort and suit, figure and rank.
Sot, a fool.

Soud, sweet.

Soul-fearing, soul-appalling.
Sound, to publish.

Soused gurnet, a gudgeon.
Sowl, to pull by the ears.
Sowle, to drag down.

Sowter, the name of a hound.
Spanielled, dogged.
Specialty, particular rights.
Speculation, sight.

Speculative, seeing.

Sped, the fate decided.
Speed, event.

Sperr, to shut up, or defend by bars.

Spill, to destroy.
Spotted, wicked.
Sprag, apt to learn, alert.
Sprighted, haunted.
Sprightly, ghostly.
Sprights, spirits.

Springhalt, a disease of horses.
Spurs, the greater roots of trees.
Square, to quarrel.

Squarer, a quarreller.
Squash, an immature peascod.
Squiney, to look asquint.

Squire, a rule or square.
Stage, to place conspicuously.
Stale, a decoy for birds.
Stannyel, a hawk or stallion.
Star, a scar.
Stark, stiff.

Starred, destined.

Statists, statesmen.
Statua, statue.
Statue, a portrait.

Stay, a hinderer, a supporter.
Sternage, the hinder part.
Sticking-place, the stop in a ma-
chine.

Sticklers, arbitrators, judges, par

tisans, umpires.

Stigmatic, marked with deformity, branded.

Stigmatical, stigmatised.

Stilly, gently, lowly.

Stinted, stopped.

Stint, to stop.

Stith, an anvil.

Stithied, forged at the furnace.

Stithy, a smith's shop.

Stoccata, a stab.

Stock, a stocking.

Stomach, pride.
Stone-bow, a cross-bow.
Stoup, a flagon.
Stover, thatch.

Strain, descent, lineage.
Strain, difficulty, doubt.
Strait, narrow, avaricious.
Strange, shy.

Stratagem, a great or dreadful

event.

Strawy, straying.

Striker, a borrower.

Stuck or stock, a term used in

fencing.

Stuff, baggage, substance or es

sence.

Stuffed sufficiency, ample abili

ties.

Subscription, obedience. Success, succession.

Sudden, violent.

Sufficiency, abilities.

Suggest, to tempt.
Suggestion, temptation.
Suited, dressed.

Sumpter, a horse that carries ne

cessaries on a journey.

Superfluous, overclothed.
Supposed, counterfeit.

Surreined, overridden.
Suspire, to breathe.
Surcease, an end.
Suspect, suspicion.
Swart, dark brown.
Swashing, bullying.

Swath, grass cut at one stroke.
Sway, weight.

Sweeting, an apple.

Sweltered, weltered.
Swift, ready.

Swinge-bucklers, riotous fellows.
Swounded, swooned.

Swoop, the descent of a bird of

prey.

T.

Table, the palm of the hand.

Table, a picture.

Tables, tablets, memorandum

books.

Tabourine, a small drum.

Tag, the rabble.

Take, to strike with disease, to

blast.

Take-in, to conquer. Take-up, to contradict.

Talent, talon.

Tall, courageous.
Tallow-keech, tub of tallow.
Tame, ineffectual.

Tame-snake, a poltroon.
Tarre, to excite, provoke.

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Toged, habited.
Tokened, spotted.
Tolling, taking toll.
Topless, supreme.
Topple, to tumble.
Touches, features.
Toward, in readiness.
Toys, whims, rumours.
Toze, to unravel.

Trade, established custom.
Tradition, traditional usages.
Trail, scent left by game.
Traitress, a term of endearment.
Trammel, to catch.

Tranect, a ferry or sluice.

Translate, to transform.

Trash, to check.

Traverse, to march across.

Traversed, across.

Tray-trip, a kind of play.
Treachers, traitors.
Trenched, carved.

Trick, peculiarity of feature.
Trick, to dress out.
Tricking, dress.

Tricksy, adroit.

Trigon,-Aries, Leo, and Sagit

tarius, in the Zodiac.

Trip, to defeat.

Triple, one of three.
Triumphs, revels.

Trojan, cant term for thief.
Troll-my-dames, the game of nine

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