P. Pack, to bargain with. Pagan, a dissolute person. Palabras, words. Pale, dominions. Pale, to encircle with a crown. Pall, to wrap, to invest. Palled, vapid. Palmers, pilgrims. Palmy, victorious. Palter, to juggle, to cheat. Paly, pale. Pang, to afflict. 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. Parted, endowed, shared. Particular, private. Pash, to strike; a head. Pass, to decide, assure, convey. Passed, eminent. Passing, surpassing. Passion, suffering. Passioning, being in a passion. the bishop's court. Pastry, the pastry-room. Patch, a fool. Patched, in a fool's coat. Path, to walk. Pathetical, affecting. 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. Perdy (par Dieu), a French oath. Perjure, a perjurer. Person, parson. Perspectives, optic-glasses. Pervert, to avert. Pestilence, poison. Pewfellow, a companion. Pheeze, to tease, to currycomb. Phisnomy, physiognomy. 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. Pin and web, a disorder of the eye. Pinfold, a pound. Pix, the box that contains the host. Place, a mansion. Plausive, gracious; applauded. 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. Pomander, a perfume-ball. Popularity, intercourse with the Portable, bearable Portance, behaviour. Potents, potentates. Pouncet-box, a perfume-box. Practice, stratagems. Prank, to adorn. Precept, a justice's warrant. Precisian, a puritan. Prefer, to offer. Pregnant, ready. Prenominate, forenamed. Pretend, to intend. Prevent, to anticipate. Pricket, a buck of the second year. Prig, to pilfer. Prime, sprightliness of youth. Primero, a game at cards. 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. Prompture, suggestion. Propagate, to advance, to improve. Proper-false, deceitful. 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. Rib, to enclose. Rim, money. Ringed, encircled. Rivage, the bank or shore. Rive, to burst, to fire. Romage, rummage, bustle. Rook, to squat. Ropery, roguery. Rope-tricks, abusiveness. Round, rough. Rounded, whispered. Roundel, a country dance. Ruddock, a redbreast. Ruff, the folding of the tops of boots. Ruffle, to be noisy. Ruffling, rustling. Rump-fed, fed with offals. 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, broken pots or tiles. Shent, to scold, rebuke. Sherris, sherry. Shive, a slice. Shog, to go off. Shotten, projected. Shotten-herring, a herring that has spawned. Shoulder-clapper, a bailiff. the game of shovel-board. Shrewd, shrewish. Shrift, auricular confession. Side, purpose. Side-sleeves, long sleeves. Sights, the perforated parts of a helmet. Silly, simple truth. Sink-a-pace, or cinque-pace, name of a dance. Sir, the title of a parson. Sister, to imitate or re-echo. Sithence, thence. Sizes, allowances of victuals. Skills not, is of no importance. Slave, to treat with indignity. Slip, counterfeit coin. Slips, a contrivance in leather, to start two dogs at the same time. Sliver, to slice. Slops, loose breeches. Slough, the skin which the serpent annually throws off. Slower, more serious. Slubber, to do carelessly, to ob scure. Slugabed, sluggard. Smirched, soiled. Sneaping, nipping. Sneck-up, go hang yourself. Soil, spot, turpitude, reproach. Sometime, formerly. Sooth, truth. Sooth, sweetness. Sorel, a deer during his third year. Sort, to happen, to agree. Sort and suit, figure and rank. Soul-fearing, soul-appalling. Soused gurnet, a gudgeon. Sowter, the name of a hound. Specialty, particular rights. Speculative, seeing. Sped, the fate decided. Sperr, to shut up, or defend by bars. Spill, to destroy. Springhalt, a disease of horses. Squarer, a quarreller. Squire, a rule or square. 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. Strain, descent, lineage. 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. Sumpter, a horse that carries ne cessaries on a journey. Superfluous, overclothed. Suspect, suspicion. Swart, dark brown. Swath, grass cut at one stroke. Sweeting, an apple. Sweltered, weltered. Swinge-bucklers, riotous fellows. Swoop, the descent of a bird of Tartar, Tartarus. Task, to keep busied with scruples. Tassel-gentle, or Tercel-gentle, a species of hawk. Tasked, taxed. Taurus, sides and heart in medical astrology. Tawdry, necklaces worn by country girls. Tawney-coat, the dress of an ap paritor. Taxation, censure, satire. Tender, to regard with affection. Tent, to take up residence, to search. Tercel, the male hawk. Terms, the phraseology of courts. Tested, attested, brought to the test. Testerned, gratified with a tester, or sixpence. Tetchy, touchy, peevish. Tether, a string by which any ani mal is fastened. Tharborough, a constable. Theorick, theory. Thews, muscular strength. woven. Thill, the shafts of a cart. Thin helm, thin covering of hair. warp. Thrummed, made of coarse woollen. Tib, a courtesan. Tickle, ticklish. Tickle-brain, a strong drink. Tilly-vally, a trifle. Tilth, tillage. Timeless, untimely. Tire, head-dress. Tire, to fasten. Tire, to be idly employed on. Toged, habited. Tranect, a ferry or sluice. Translate, to transform. Trash, to check. Traverse, to march across. Tray-trip, a kind of play. Trick, peculiarity of feature. Tricksy, adroit. |