GLOSSARY. ABATE, to depress, sink, sub- Allow, to approve. due. ABC-book, a catechism. Abjects, servile persons. Able, to qualify or uphold. Abortive, issuing before its time. Absolute, highly accomplished, perfect. Abused, deceived. Aby, to pay dear for. Abysm, abyss. Accuse, accusation. Achiere, to obtain. Acquittance, requital. charge or accusation. Allowance, approbation, Amort, sunk and dispirited. Anchor, anchoret. Ancient, an ensign. Anight, in the night. Answer, retaliation. Anthropophaginian, a cannibal. Action, direction by mute signs, Antres, caves and dens. Apparent, seeming, not real, heir stand. Approbation, entry on probation. Approof, proof, approbation. Approve, to justify, to make good, to establish, to recommend to Approved, felt, experienced, con- Argentine, silver. Argosies, ships of great burthen, galleous. Argument, subject for conversa- another. Art, practice as distinguished Alder-liefest, beloved above all Artificial, ingenious, artful. things. Ale, a merry meeting. As, as if. Aspersion, sprinkling. Assinego, a he-ass. 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 dark ened 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 prognostica tions. Aukward, adverse. Authentic, an epithet applied to the learned. Awful, reverend, worshipful. B. Baccare, stand back, give place. Bandog, village dog or mastiff. Banquet, a slight refection, a de sert. Bans, curses b Conclusion, determination, resolution. Conclusions, experiments. Concupy, concupiscence. Condition, temper, character, qualities, vocations or inclinations. Condolement, sorrow. Confound, to destroy, to expend, to consume. Confounded, worn or wasted. Consent, conspiracy, will, as sent, united voice. Consigned, sealed. Consist, to stand upon. Consort, to keep company with. Contemptible, contemptuous. Continent, the thing which contains. Continents, banks of rivers. Contraction, marriage contract. Contrive, to spend and wear out. Convent, to serve or agree. inter course, conduct, behaviour. Converse, interchange. Conversion, change of condition. Convertite, convert. Convey, to perform slight of hand, to manage artfully. Conveyance, theft, fraud. Convince, to overpower, subdue, convict. Convicted, overpowered, baffled. Cope, to encounter, to engage. Coragio, an exclamation of en- Coted, quoted, observed, or regarded. Cranks, windings. Crare, a small trading vessel. Craven, a degenerate, dispirited cock. Craven, mean, cowardly, to make cowardly. Create, compounded, or made up. Credent, creditable, credible. Credit, account, information, credulity. Credit, a great light set upon a beacon. Cressive, increasing. Crest, the top, the height. Crestless, those who have no right to arms. Crisp, curling, winding, curled, bent, hollow. Critic, cynic. Critical, censorious. Crone, an old worn-out woman. Crosses, money stamped with a cross. Crow, to exult over. Dare, to challenge or incite. Dark-house,a house made gloomy by discontent. Darkling, in the dark. Darraign, to arrange, put in or der. Daub, to disguise. Daubery, falsehood and imposition. Day-bed, a couch. Day-light, broad-day. Declined, the fallen. Deem, opinion, surmise. Defeatures, features, change of Defensible, furnishing the means Deftly, dexterously, with adroit ness. Defy, to refuse, to disdain. Demise, to grant. Demurely, solemnly Denay, denial. Denied,disbelieved or contemned. Denier, the twelfth part of a Doff, see Daff. French sou. Dole, lot, allowance. Dolphin, the Dauphin of France. Double, full of duplicity. Dout, to do out, extinguish Down-gyved, hanging down like Dribbling, a term of contempt. Dibble, an instrument used by Drollery, a show performed by gardeners. Dich, dit or do it. Dickon, familiarly for Richard. Die, gaming. Diet, regimen. Diet, to oblige to fast. Direction, judgment, skill. Discontenting, discontented. Disdained, disdainful. Disease, uneasiness, discontent. matters. Disposition, frame. a worse state. Distemper, intoxication. Distemperature, perturbation. Distempered, ruffled, out of hu mour. Distractions, detachments, separate bodies. Distraught, distracted. Diverted, turned out of the course of nature. Divilable, divided. puppets. Drugs, drudges, Drumble, to act lazily and stupidly. Dry, thirsty. Ducdame, duc ad me, bring him to me. Dudgeon, the handle of a dagger. Due, to endue, to deck, to grace. Dull, melancholy, gentle, soothing. Dull, to render callous, insensible. Dullard, a person stupidly unconcerned. Dump, a mournful elegy. E Eager, sour, sharp, harsh. Easy, slight, inconsiderable. ness. Effects, affects, or affections, ac- Eld, old time, or persons. Embossed, inclosed,swollen,puffy. Emulation, rivalry, envy, facti- Emulous, jealous of higher authority. Division, the pauses or parts of Encave, to hide. musical composition. Dirulgel, spoker of Doctrine, skill. Enfeoff, to invest with possession. Engine, instrument of war, military machine, the rack. Engross, to fatten, to pamper. Ensconce, to protect as with a fort. Enseamed, greasy. Enshield, shielded. Entertain, to retain in service. Entertainment, the pay of an army, admission to office. Entreatments, the objects of entreaty. Envy, hatred or malice. Esil, a river so called, or vinegar. Essential, existent, real. Estimate, price. Estimation, conjecture. Eterne, eternal. Even, calm, equable, temperate equal, fellow. Eren, to act up to. Excrements, the hair, nails, feathers of birds, &c. Execute, to employ, to put to use. Execution, employment or exercise. Executors, executioners. Exercise, exhortation, lecture, or confession. Exhale, hale or lug out. Exorcist, a person who can raise spirits. Expect, expectation. Expostulate, to inquire or discuss Exsufficate, contemptible, abo- Extent, in law, violence in gene ral. Extern, outward. Extracting, that which araws |