To Appeach, to impeach.
To Appeal, to accuse.

Approof, the fame as proof.

An Argofie, a fhip; from Argo the fhip of the Argonauts.

Aroint thee! avaunt! ftand off! This word feems to come from the Latin Dii averruncent!

Afcaunce, awry.

An Affinego, an afs-driver or ass-keeper. Ital. Afinaio.

Até, the goddess of mischief.

Attaints, the fame as taints; ftains, blemishes, any ftrokes or touches

of infection either in a natural or moral sense. Fr. Atteintes.

To Attone, to appease, to reconcile; alfo, to be reconciled, to agree.

B.

Baccaláre, a felf-conceited pretending fpark. An Italian word. To Bait, a term in falconry, when the hawk fpreads and claps her wings.

Baldrick, a belt. Fr. Baudrier.

Bale, misfortune, forrow.

Balk'd, floated: from the Italian verb Valicare.

Ban-dogs, dogs kept in bands, tied up.

To Bandy, to canvass, to difpute, to quarrel, most especially by retorting angry and provoking words: a metaphor taken from striking the balls at Tennis, which is the primary fenfe of the word. Fr.. Bander.

Barbafon, the name of a devil or fiend.

Barbed, fee Unbarbed.

Bafe, Country-bafe, a fport ufed amongst country people called Prisonbafe, in which fome purfue to take others prifoners. And therefore "Ibid the bafe" is, by ufing the language of that sport, to fay, "my bufinefs is to take prifoners."

Bafe Court, a back yard. Fr. Baffecour.

Bafta, it fufficeth, it is enough. An Italian word.

Bated, abated, funk.

A Batlet, a flat piece of wood, with which washerwomen beat coarfe linen.

To Batten, to feed, to paffure.

Baven, bruth wood, faggot wood.

Barcock, a coaxing term: probably from the French Bas coque.
Bearns, children.

Behefts, or Hefts, commands.

A Bergomafk-dance, a dance after the manner of the pealants of Bergomafco, a country in Italy, belonging to the Venetians. All the buffoons in Italy affect to imitate the ridiculous jargon of that people,

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and from thence it became a custom to mimick alfo their manner of dancing.

Befhrew! an imprecation, as "bethrew my heart !" ill betide my heart! To Befmirch or Smirch, to besmear, to foul, to dirty.

Beftraught, mad, distracted.

To Beteem, to yield, to deliver.

Spen.

A Bever, that part of the helmet, which lets down over the face, with a grate of iron bars before the eyes.

To Bewray, to difcover, to reveal.

Span. Bavera.

Bezonian, a beggarly scoundrel. Ital. Bisognofo.

A Biggen, a cap or coif of linen like thofe worn by children with a ftay under the chin. Fr. Beguin.

A Bilberry, the fruit of a small shrub, of a blue colour.

Bilbo, like a good bilbo," a fword-blade of Bilboa which will bend almoft round in a circle without breaking.

Biffon or Beefen, blear-eyed.

A Blank, a white or mark to fhoot at. Fr. Blanc.

To Blench, to boggle or turn afide with fear.

Blent, the fame as blended, mingled.

To Bolt or Boult, to fift as they do meal through a fieve.
To Bolter, as Blood-bolter'd, to welter, to wallow.

Lat. Volutare.

Fr. Veaultrer.

A Bombard or Bumbard, a mortar-piece or great gun. Fr. Bombarde: but in other places the word is used for a drinking veffel: and there is still in ufe in the northern parts of England a kind of flagon without a cover, and of the fame bignefs from top to bottom, which retains the name of a Gun.

A Barne, a limit or boundary. Fr. Borne. This hath been falfely printed Bourn, which fignifies another thing, namely, a brook or ftream of water.

A Bow, a yoke.

A Brach. The Italian word Bracco, from which this is derived, is understood to fignify any kind of beagle, hound, or setting dog: but Jo. Caius, in his book of British dogs, fays, that with us it most properly belongs to bitches of the hunting kind, and in that fenfe Shakspeare ufes it.

To Brack, to falt. It is fill ufed as an adjective in Lincolnshire and the northern counties: and Brackish is retained in ufe every where. Braid or Breid, bred, of a breed, of a certain turn of temper and conditions from the breed: a Scotch and north country word.

A-Brake, a thicket or cover.

A Brief, any procefs or order iffuing from the king.

Broached, fpitted, thruft through with a fpit. Fr. Brochée.

A Broch or Brooch or Brouch, an ornament of gold worn fometimes about the neck, and fometimes about the arm'.

To Brooch, to adorn.

Brogues, the fhoes or pumps which are worn by the Irish peasants. To Budge or Bodge, to give way, to ftir, to quit a place. Fr. Bouger. A Burgonet, a fteel cap, worn for the defence of the head in battle. Fr. Bourguinotte.

Bufky or Bofky, woody; from the old French word Bofc, of which Bofquet now in use is a diminutive.

C.

A Cade, a cafk. Lat. Cadus: alfo when joined to the name of any beaft it fignifies tame, brought up by hand.

Cadis, a galloon or binding made of worsted: a French word.

Caliver, the diameter or bore of a gun: thence fometimes the gun itself. Fr. Calibre.

A Callet. This word has two fignifications: fometimes a scold and fometimes a lewd drab.

A Cantle, a divifion or fegment of land, or other thing. Ital. Cantone. Fr. Canton.

A Canzonet, a fong, a ditty. Ital. Canzonetta.

Cappochia, a fool. An Italian word.

A Carack, a huge thip of burden, used by the Spaniards and Portuguese. Ital. Caracea.

Caracts, characters.

A Carkanet, a necklace. Fr. Carcan.

A Carle, a clown, a churl.

Carrat, the weight which distinguishes the fineness of gold. Fr. Carat. A Cafk, an helmet. Fr. Cafque.

Cataian. Cataia is a country on the north of China, which, in the time of queen Elizabeth, was reported by the first voyagers thither to be rich in gold ore, and upon that encouragement many persons were perfuaded to adventure great fums of money in fitting out ships thither, as for a moft gainful trade; but it proved a notorious deceit and falfehood; hence Cataian ftands for one of no credit.

Catlings, fmall ftrings for musical instruments made of cat-gut.
Cautel, an ill-defigning craft in order to enfnare. So

Cautelous, crafty, cunning, deceitful. So is the French Canteleux atways used in a bad fenfe, dangerously artificial.

A Cearment, the wrapping of an embalmed body. Ital. Coramento. A Cenfer, a plate or dish, in which they burnt incenfe, and at the bottom of which was ufually reprefented in rude carving the figure of fome faint. Fr. Encenfoir.

Charneco. This feenus to have been a cant word for fome ftrong liquor, which was apt to bring drunken fellows to the stocks, fince in Spanifh Charniégos is a term ufed for the ftocks. Beaumont and Fletcher use the fame word in the play, Wit without money.

Chawdron,

Chawdron, a dish of meat still used in the northern parts of England, made of the entrails of a calf.

A Chevril, a kid. Fr. Chevreau.

A Chewet, a pie or magpie. Fr. Chouette or Cheuette.

A Chioppine, a thick piece of cork, bound about with tin or filver, worn by the women in Spain at the bottom of their shoes to make them appear taller. Span. Chapin.

A Chough or Cornish Chough, a bird which frequents the rocks by the fea-fide, moft like to a jackdaw, but bigger.

Cinque-pace, a grave dance fo called. Fr. Cinque pas.

A Cital, a recital.

To Clepe, to call.

Cobloaf, a mishapen loaf of bread, run out in the baking into lumps and protuberances.

Cockle, a weed in corn.

To Cockle, to fhrink, to wrinkle up.

A Cockney, one born and bred in the city, and ignorant of all things out of it.

Coigne Coin, a corner. Fr. Coin.

Coil, buftle, tumult.

Collied, footy, black.

To Con, to learn, to know, to understand. To con thanks means the fame as to give thanks, being to be reckoned a particular phrafe, and indeed a Græcifm, χάριν οἶδα.

To Convent, to concur, to be fuitable. Lat. Convenire.

To Convince, to overcome, in which fenfe the Latin word Convinco is ufed fometimes.

To Convive, to feat together. Lat. Convivere.

Copatain, high raised, pointed: from Coppe, the top or point of any thing.

To Cope, to encounter, alfo to invest one's felf with, as with a cope or mantle.

A Corollary, an over-measure in any thing, or a furplus thrown in. Fr. Corollaire. Lat. Corollarium.

A Coffer, a botcher: from the old French Coufer, to few.

To Courb, to bend. Fr. Courber.

To Cower, to fink or squat down. Ital. Covare. Fr. Couver.

To Crash, to be merry over: a Crash being a word still used in fome countries for a merry bout.

To Craven, to make recreant or cowardly.

A Creffet, a great light fet upon a beacon, light-houfe, or watch-tower: from the French word Croisette, a little crofs, because the beacons anciently had croffes on the top of them.

Crifp, glittering or making things glitter, in which fenfe the verb crifpare in Latin is fometimes used. It alfo fignifics curled, from the Latin Crifpus.

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A Croan,

A Croan, an old toothless sheep: thence an old woman.
Cuiffes, armour for the thighs. Fr. Cuiffarts.

A Cullion, a fool, a dull stupid Cuddon. Ital. Coglione.

A Cuttle, in its proper sense is a fea-fifh, which by throwing out a black juice like ink fouls the water and fo escapes the fisher. Hence by metaphor it is used to fignify á foul-mouth'd fellow.

Curfeu, the eight o'clock bell. Fr. Couvre feu.

D.

To Daffe, to put by, to turn afide with flight and neglect.
Dank, moift, damp.

To Darraign, to range, or put in order. Fr. Arranger.
A Deck of Cards, the fame as a pack.

A Deem, a fuppofition, a furmife.

To Defend, to forbid. Fr. Defendre.

Deftly, nimbly, briskly. Deft, nimble, ready, neat, spruce.
To Deracinate, to eradicate, to root up.

Fr. Deraciner.

Dewberries, ftrictly and properly are the fruit of one of the fpecies of wild bramble called the creeping or the leffer bramble: but as they ftand here among the more delicate fruits they must be understood to mean raspberries, which are also of the bramble kind.

A Dibble, an inftrument with which gardeners make holes in the earth. To Diet, to limit, to controul, to prescribe to.

To Difcandy, to diffolve, to melt, to thaw.

Difmes, tenths: a French word.

To Difperge, to fprinkle, to scatter. Lat. Difperga.
To Doff, to put off.

Draff, wash for hogs.

To Drumble, to drone, to be fluggish. Ital. Dormigliare.
Dulcet, fweet. Lat. Dulcis.

To Ear, to plough or till.

Eld, old times; alfo, old age.

E.

To Elfe, to entangle hair in fo intricate a manner that it is not to be unravelled. This the vulgar have supposed to be the work of fairies in the nights and all hair fo matted together hath had the name of Elfe-locks.

To Emball, to make up into a pack. Fr. Emballer.

Embowell'd, emptied.

To Emmew, to mew up, to coop up.

An Engle, a gull, a put, a bubble: derived from the French word Engluer, which fignifies to catch with birdlime.

Englutted, fwallowed up. Fr. Engldui.

To Enmesh, to entangle in the meshes of a net.

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