Oper se 0, or a new crier of lanterne and candle-lights. 1612, 4to; and Villanies discovered by lantern and candle-light, and the help of a new crier, called O per se O. 1616, 4to. Thus Shakespeare has even used a man per se, in evident allusion to the same form: They say he is a very man per se, Tro. & Cress., i, 2. ABACK. Compound of back, Backwards. They drew aback, as half with shame confound. TABADE. The past tense of to abide. A shafnet lesse, seven all. Taylor's Workes, 1630. To ABAND, v. Contracted from abandon, in the same sense. And Vortigern enforst the kingdom to aband. Spens., F. Q., II, x, 65. ABASHMENT. The state of being abashed. So did the Faerie knight himself abeare. Sp., F. Q.,V, xii, 19. ABEARING, or ABERING, also Abearance, joined with the epithet good. A regular law phrase for the proper and peaceful carriage of a loyal subject. So that when men were bound over to answer for their conduct, they were said to be bound, to be of good abearing. And likewise to be bound, by the vertue of that, Gamm. Gurt., O. P., ii, 74. Or they were obliged to find sureties for their good abearing. Herbert, Hist. of Hen. VIII. See the Law Dictionaries under good abearing. ABHOMINABLE for ABOMINABLE. A pedantic affectation of more correct speaking, founded upon a false notion of the etymology; supposing it to be from ab homine, instead of abominor, which is the true derivation. Shakespeare has ridiculed this affectation in the character of the pedant Holofernes. This is abhominable which he [Don Armado] would The error, however, was not un common. And then I will bring in Abhominable Lyving Hym to beguile. Lusty Juv. Or. of Dr., i, p. 188. Abhominable Lyving being a per- T. Aye, for thy love I'll sink; aye, for thee. To ABHOR, v. a. To protest against, or reject solemnly; an old term of canon law, equivalent to detestor. Therefore, I say again I utterly abhor, yea, from my soul Taken from Holinshed: Hen. VIII, ii, 4. And therefore openly protested that she did utterly See Spens., F. Q., I, vi, 4. +ABIDDEN. Supported, abided. The part. of abide. In times past verily we endured hard travaile and most irkesome to be abidden, even through snowes and the pinching cold of bitter frosts. Holland's Ammianus Marcellinus, 1609. ABJECT, n. s. A base, contemptible, or degraded person. unawares. Yea, the very abjects came together against me Mirr. for Mag., p. 20. tadj. To be rejected. "I will not use an abject word," i. e., a word deserving of rejection. Chapman, Hom. Il., ii, 317. +ABILLIAMENTS. A common form, in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, for habiliments, and applied generally to armour and warlike stores. And now the temples of Janus being shut, warlike abilliaments grew rusty, and Bellona put on maskingattire. Wilson, Hist. of James 1. To ABLE, had two distinct senses. 1. To make able, or to give power for any purpose. And life by this [Christ's] death abled, shall controll Death, whom thy death slew. 2. To warrant, or answer for. I'll able 'em. is still used in this sense in trivial language. I have bettered my ground, as you say, and quite rid me of my wandering guests, who will rather walk seven mile about, than come where they shall be forced to work one half hour. Metamorphosis of Ajax, 1596. Donne's Divine Poems, 6th. ABRAHAM-MEN, or TOM OF BEDLAM'S MEN, or BEDLAM BEGGARS. A set of vagabonds, who wandered about the country, soon after the dissolution of the religious houses; the provision for the poor in those places being cut off, and no other substituted. Also in the same play : O. Pl., vi, 22. You might sit and sigh first till your heart-strings Changeling, Anc. Dr., iv, 240. To ABODE. To forebode, to prog nosticate, to bode. This tempest, Dashing the garment of this peace, The sudden breach on't. The night-owl cry'd, aboding luckless time. ABODEMENT. 3 Hen. VI, v, 6. Omen, prognostic. [Abode is sometimes used as a noun in the same sense.] Tush, man, abodements must not now affright us. 3 Hen. VI, iv, 7. +ABOMINOUS, adj. Abominable. Yet here's not all, I cannot half untrusse Cleaveland, Character of a London Diurnall, 1647. +ABOTSERED. An old term in paint- These colours are likewise used to give the lusters Lomatius on Painting, by Haydock, 1598. †ABOVE. The phrase above the rest was not unfrequently used in the sense of especially, in particular. houre. One night above the rest (her good fortune having made her bold) she tarrying a little longer than her Westward for Smelts, 1620 ABOUT. Very singularly used, in the phrase about, my brains, signifying, "brains, go to work." Fie upon't! foh! About, my brains! Haml., ii, ad fin. Which is explained by a similar pas- My brain, about again! for thou hast found †ABOUT. Out of the way. The word And these, what name or title e'er they bear, That stand in fair election for the title Hence probably the phrase of sham- one's self. To awaken. To rouse Sax. But, when as I did out of sleepe abray, I found her not where I her left whileare. Used also actively : For feare lest her unwares she should abrayd. But from his study he at last abray'd, Over all Fairf. T., xiii, 50. Perhaps cor A goodly, long, thick, Abraham-colour'd beard. kr See note on Mer. W., i, 4, and Cor., Say what abridgement have you for this evening. Mids., v, 1. Haml., ii, 2. In this place, however, the sense is disputable. But this interpretation is strengthened by a subsequent passage, in which Hamlet calls the players "the abstract, and brief chronicles of the time;" (1015, b,) abridyement, however, is not repeated there, as is erroneously said in a note of Mr. Steevens on the first passage. ABRON. For auburn. A lustie courtier, whose curled head With abron locks was fairly furnished. Hall. Sat., B. iii, S. 5. +ABSCESSION. An abscess. A form in use among the physicians of the Shakesperian age. If truly it doth turne into abscessions, and that it cannot be that the gathering together and eruption of the matter should be letted, it shall be lawful to use medicines which can both matter, open, and cleanse the ulcer. Barrough's Method of Physick, 1624. Wormwood. +ABSINTH. Seeing my injurious fortune, Hath so remov'd me from my greatest blisse, And greeve to laugh: absinth and poyson be my sustenance. The Passenger of Benvenuto, 1612. +ABSTERGIFIE. To cleanse. Specially, when wee would abstergifie, and that the huske remaine behind in the boyling of it; but though it refrigerates and dissecates without the huske, yet be it as it will, I finde it no wayes friendly to my selfe. The Passenger of Benvenuto, 1612. +ABSTERSIVE. Cleansing. "Abstersive, cleansing, or wiping away." Cotgrave. +To ABSUME. To take from; to destroy. From the Lat. absumo. He then (for hope of flight was quite expell'd) And from their eyes all light did quite absume. Virgil, by Vicars, 1632. +ABURNE. For auburn. His head short curld: his beard an aburne browne, ABUS. The river Humber. Foreby the river that whylome was hight Hence Drayton : For my princely name, From Humber king of Huns, as anciently it came. Polyolb., 28, p. 1206. But he does not mention the more ancient name. ABY, v. For abide; to stand to, or support the consequences. [This explanation is not correct; aby is de In the dark back-ward and abysm of time. Temp., i, 2. Sp., Tears of Muses, 188. B. & F., Cust. of Country, ii, 1. Or governs but a country Academy. Ben. Jon., Sad. Shep., iii, 1. Dr. Johnson, in his Dictionary, has quoted Love's Labour Lost for this accentuation, but the editions now have academe in that place. Love's L. L., i, 1. ACATER. A caterer; a purveyor. Go bear them in to Much Th' acater, let him thank her. B. Jon., Sad. Shep., ii, 6. You dainty wits? two of you to a cater, To cheat him of a dinner. B. & F., Mad. Lov., ii, 4. ACATES. Often contracted to cates. Provision, food, delicacies. I, and all choice that plenty can send in; A sordid rascal, one that never made In the above passage I have transposed the word but, which evidently restores the true sense. The editions have it Never made Good meal in his sleep, but sells, &c. Not to make a good meal in his sleep would certainly be no sign of avarice, since such meals cost nothing; but the consequence of starving by day may be dreaming of good meats at night. The Mantuan, at his charges, him allow'th + To ACCEND. While the dark world the sun's bright beams accend, The shadow on the body doth attend. Owen's Epigrams, by Harvey, 1677. +ACCEPTATION. Acceptance. Marmyon's Fine Companion, 1633. That your lordships acceptation may shew how much you favour the noble name and nature of the poet and book. Sir J. Harington's Epigrams, 1633. +ACCEPTIVE, adj. Accepted, or agreed upon. But myself will use acceptive darts, I did repel his letters, and deny'd +An attack of a fever. accommodated: or when a man is,-being,-whereby, See also Ben. Jons. Poetast., iii, 4, Spens., F. Q., II, ii, 38. Haml., ii, 1. +ACCORDING. In accordance; suit And in this sikenesse wymmen fallen doun to grounde +ACCISE. Excise. Twere cheap living here, were it not for the mon- The French are a free and debonnaire acostable peeple, both men and women. Howell's Fam. Letts., 1650. Then is your careless courage accoyd, Lastly, who would have imagined that the accise To ACCOY, v. To dishearten or subdue. would have taken footing heer? a word I remember in the last Parliament save one, so odious, that when Sir D. Carleton, then Secretary of State, did but name it in the House of Commons, hee was like to be sent to the Tower; although hee nam'd it to no ill sense but to shew what advantage of happines the peeple of England had o're other nations, having neither the gabells of Italy, the tallies of France, or the accise of Holland laid upon them. ACCITE, v. To call, or summon. Our coronation done, we will accite, Ib. Spens., Shep. Kal., Feb., 47. As I before remember'd, all our state. 2 Hen. IV, v, 2. ACCREW, v. To ACCLOY, v. To choke, or fill up. The mouldy moss which thee accloyeth. Spens., Shep. Kal., Feb., 135. To increase. Do you not feel your torments to accrew? To accrue, now demands to after it, Hence CLOY. Increase. For conferring, I doe passe it over, as that wherto I seldome have beene beholden, yet much affecting it, and knowing that it brings a great accrument unto wisedome and learning. Optick Gl. of Hum., 1639. To ACCOIL. To be in a coil, or bustle ACCUSEMENT. An accusation. of business. To About the cauldron many cookes accoyld ACCOMMODATE, v. This word it was Accommodated; that is, when a man is, as they say, Whiche neverthelesse by untrue suggestions and forged accusements, *** were condemned, &c. Holinshed's Chronicles, 1577. +ACCUSTOM, v. To fashion; to form in manners. I accustome or bringe one up in maner, je morigine. He is well accustumed, Il est bien moriginé. Palsgrave. +ACCUSTOMABLY. By custom; usually; in constant practice. +ACE. To bate an ace, to hesitate, +ACHATE. The agate. These, these are they, if we consider well, Taylor's Workes, 1630. ACHES. The plural of ach; was undoubtedly a dissyllable, pronounced aitches, and continued to be so used to the time of Butler and Swift, which last had it in his Shower in London, as first printed. Can by their pains and ach-es find Hudibr., III, ii, 407. The examples are too numerous to be quoted. Mr. Kemble was therefore certainly right in his dispute with the public on this word; but whether a public performer may not be too pedantically right, in some cases, is another question. Yet ach was pronounced ake, as now; for proof of which see AJAX. ACOP. See Cop. TACQUAINTANCE. The phrase to be of acquaintance was used commonly in the sense of to be intimate. I brought him to supper with me soone after he landed and came on the shoare; for he and I have beene of very great acquaintance alwaics from our childhood. Terence in English, 1614. +To ACQUISE. To acquire. Late to go to rest, and erly for to ryse Honour and goodes dayly to acquyse. Enterlude of Avoryse, n. d. †ACQUISITITIOUS, adj. Acquired; not innate. It was a hard question, whether his wisdom and †To ACQUIT, or ACQUITE. To requite. His harte all vowed t' exploits magnificent Doth none but workes of rarest price endite, That palme or cypress should his paines acquite. +ACROOK. On the decline. ACTON. Hoqueton or Auqueton, Fr. A kind of vest or jacket worn with armour. From which, by some intermediate steps, the word jacket is derived. His acton it was all of black, His hew berke, and his sheelde, Ne noe man wist whence he did come, Percy Rel., i, p. 53. See Glossary. It is there defined, “a kind of armour, made of taffaty or leather, quilted, etc. worn under the habergeon, to save the body from bruises." But if it was worn under the coat of mail, how could its colour appear? Roquefort defines it, Espece de chemisette courte ; cotte d'armes, espece de tunique." He adds, that in Languedoc it was called jacouti, and that Borel says, thence comes jacquette, a child's dress. Glossaire de la Langue Romane. ACTRESSES. It is well known that there were none in the English theatres till after the Restoration. Coryat says, in his account of Venice, Here I observed certaine things that I never saw A prologue and epilogue, spoken about June, 1660, turns particularly on this subject. These lines are a part of the former: I come unknown to any of the rest, To tell you news, I saw the lady drest; The woman playes to day, mistake me not, No man in gown, or page in petty coat; A woman to my knowledge, yet I can't, (If I should dye) make affidavit on't. Some French women, however, acted at the Black Friars in 1629. Histriomast, p. 315. The circumstance may also be traced from passages in the old dramatists. In the epilogue to "As you like it," which was spoken by Rosalind, the player says, "If I were a woman, I would kiss as many of you as had beards that pleas'd me, complexions that liked me, and breaths that I defy'd not." Gayton censures foreign theatres for permitting women to act. "The |