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Plainly, openly, vi. 605. Plaited, complicated, involved, viii. 16. Planched, made of brands, ii. 152. Plant, the foot, vii. 144. Platforms, plans, schemes, v. 275. Plausive, gracious, pleasing, popular, viii. 281. Pleached, folded together, vii. 204. Plot, piece or portion, v. 385. vi. 564. viii. 362.

Point, a metal hook fastened to the hose or breeches, ii. 16. Point, the utmost height, ii. 310. Point-de-vice, with the utmost possible exactness, ii. 44. 422. iii.

150.

Points, tags to the laces, iii. 357. iv. 422.

Poize, weight or moment, viii. 44.

473.

Polled, bared, cleared, vi. 588. Pomander, a ball made of perfumes, iii. 492.

Pomewater, a species of apple, ii.

402.

Poor-john, hake dried and salted,

Vill. 142.

Popinjay, a parrot, iv. 394. Popularity, plebeian intercourse,

v. 133.

Port, external pomp, figure, iii.

11.327.

Port, a gate, v. 91. vi. 347. Portable, bearable, iv. 153. Portance, carriage, vi. 545.; behaviour, viii. 432.

Possess, to inform, to make to understand, ii. 33. 153. vi. 347. Possessed, acquainted with, fully informed, iii. 19. vi. 524. Possessed, afflicted with madness, iv. 305.

Potch, to push violently, vi. 519. Potents, potentates, iv. 205. Pouncet-box, a small box for perfumes, iv. 394. Power, forces, an army, vi. 284. vii. 166. 479.

Practice, unlawful or insidious stratagem, ii. 174. vi. 151. viii.

Practise, to employ unwarrantable arts, vii. 123. Practisants, confederates in stra

tagems, v. 296. Prank, to adorn, to dress ostentatiously, to plume, ii. 37. iii. 470. vi. 547.

Precedent, original draft, vi. 77. Precept, a justice's warrant, v.99. Precisian, a great pretender to

sanctity, i. 210. Prefer, to recommend, to advance,

vii. 91. viii. 452. Pregnancy, readiness, v. 20. Pregnant, ready, plain, evident, apposite, ii. 48. 108. vii. 323. 515. viii. 305.328.

Pregnant enemy, the enemy of mankind, ii. 27.

Premised, sent before the time,

ν. 461.

Prenominate, already named, viii.

294.

Pre-ordinance, ordinance already established, vii. 44. Presence, the presence-chamber, vi. 195.; a publick room, viii.

241.

Presence, dignity of mien, iii. 51.; form, figure, vii. 540. Prest, ready, iii. 12. Pretence, design, intention, i. 141. iv. 116. viii. 20. 27. Pretend, to intend, design, iv. 118.

ν. 306.308.

Pretended, purposed or intended, i. 137.

Prevent, to anticipate, v. 22. 309. Prick, the point on the dial, v. 484. Pricks, prickles, skewers, i. 47. thology, ii. 297.

44.56.379.537.

viii. 52.

Pride, haughty power, v. 297.
Prig, to filch, iii. 469.
Prime, youth, the vigour of life,
iii. 226.

Prime, prompt, viii. 485.
Primer, more urgent, more im-
portant, vi. 155.
Primero, a game at cards, i. 270.
vi. 230.

Principality, the first or principal
of women, i. 131.

Principals, rafters of a building, Puck, or hobgoblin in fairy myvii. 507.

Princox, a coxcomb, or spoiled Pugging, thievish, iii. 466.

child, viii. 165.

Probal, probable, viii. 465. Process, summons, vii. 98. Procure, to bring, viii. 212. Prodigious, portentous, ominous,

iv. 215. 217. vi. 363. vii. 20. Proface, much good may it do you, v. 108.

Profane, love of talk, gross of language, v. 116. viii. 448. Profession, end and purpose of coming, iii. 222.

Progress, a royal journey of state,

vili. 358.

Pun, to pound, vi. 294.
Purchase, stolen goods, iv. 407.
Purchased, acquired by unjust

methods, v. 97. Purlieu, law definition of, iii. 173. Pursuivants, heralds, v. 285. Put to know, compelled to acknowledge, ii. 93.

Putter-on, one who instigates, iii,

434.

Putter-out, one who places out money at interest, i. 66. Putting-on, spur, incitement, ii.

158.

Puttock, a degenerate species of

Project, to shape or form, vii. 220.
Prompture, suggestion, tempta- hawk, vii. 241.

tion, ii. 132.

Prone, perhaps humble, ii. 102.
Prone, forward, vii. 344.
Proof, confirmed state of man-
hood, v. 84.

Propagate, to advance or im-
prove, vi. 396.
Propagation, getting, ii. 100.
Proper, well-looking, handsome,
i. 156. iii. 15. viii. 6.
Proper-false, proper or fair, and
false or deceitful, ii. 27.
Propertied, taken possession of,
ii. 72.

Properties, incidental necessaries to a theatre, i. 266. Property, due performance,iii. 226. Property, a thing quite at disposal, vii, 64.

Propose, to image, to imagine, v.

105.

Proposing, conversing, ii. 227. Propriety, regular and proper state, viii. 460,

Prorogue, to lengthen or prolong, vii. 538.

Provand, provender, vi. 529. Provencial, various meanings of, viii. 336.

Provincial, belonging to one's
province, ii. 181.
Provost, sheriff or gaoler, ii. 108.
Prune, to plume, iv. 385.

Quail, to faint, languish, iii. 120.

iv. 458. v. 504. vii. 350. Quaint, various meanings of, i. 272.

v. 416.

Quaint-mazes, a game running the figure of eight, ii. 299. Quaked, thrown into trepidation, vi. 515.

Qualify, to lessen, moderate, ii.

157.

Quality, confederates, i. 17. iv. Quest, inquest or jury, search, vi. 38. vii. 501.; expedition, viii.

466.

Quality, profession, condition of life, 1. i. 158. viii. 309. 437. Quarrel, a quarreller, vi. 182.; the cause of a quarrel, iv. 78. Quarry, various meanings of, iv. 158. vi. 496.

Quart d'ecu, fourth part of a
French crown, iii. 278.
Quarter, the allotted posts, sta-

tion, iv. 268. viii. 460. Quat, a pimple, viii. 520. Queasy, squeamish, delicate, unsettled, settled, ii. i 217. viii. 40. Quell, to murder, to destroy, ii. 354. iv. 101. vi. 380. Quench, to grow cool, vii. 254. Quern, a hand-mill, ii. 297.

13. 425.

Question, conversation, ii. 71. 129. iii. 69. 156. 465. 507. vi. 336. vii. 123. viii. 95.119.262.282. Questrist, one who goes in search of another, viii. 83. Quests, reports, ii. 153. Quick, lively, spritely, ii. 370. vii. 224.; living, v. 154. Quicken, to animate, iii. 321. Quiddits, subtilties, viii. 384. Quillets, law chicane, ii. 418. vi. 457. viii. 385.

Quintain, description of, iii. 111. Quips, reproaches and scoffs, i.

159.

Quire, to play in concert, vi. 565. Quit, quitted, i. 18.

Quit, to requite or answer, v. 172. vi. 129. vii. 181. viii. 395. Quittance, return of obligations,

v. 11. vi. 404. Quiver, nimble, active, v. 66. Quote, to observe, i. 126. iii. 297. iv. 247. vi. 357. vii. 420. viii. 158.296.

R.

Rabato, an ornament for the neck, ii. 240.

Rabbet-sucker, a sucking rabbit, iv. 430.

Race, original disposition, inborn qualities, i. 25.; a smack or flavour, vii. 109. Rack, conjectures on, i. 76. Rack, to exaggerate, ii. 252. Rack, to harass by exactions, vi.

599.

Rack, the fleeting away of the
clouds, vii. 202.
Racking, in rapid motion, v. 490.
Rag, an opprobrious epithet, i.

261.

Ragged, rugged, iii. 127.
Rake, to cover, viii. 109.
Rank, rate or pace, iii. 141.

Rank, grown up to a great height

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Reduce, to bring back, vi. 135. | Revolts, revolters, vii. 328.

Reechy, discoloured by smoke,
smoky, ii. 239. viii. 352.; greasy,
vi. 527.

Refell, to refute, ii. 174.
Refer, to reserve to, ii. 141.
Regard, look, vi. 334.
Regiment, government, authority,

vii. 163.

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Remembrance, admonition, v.106.
Remorse, pity, tenderness of heart,
i. 86. 164. ii. 119. 174. iii. 68.
115. iv. 93. 253. v. 340. vi. 85.
vii. 24. viii. 484.

Remotion, removal or remoted-
ness, vi. 464. viii. 56.
Removed, remote, sequestered, iii.
149. viii. 283.

Render, to describe, iii. 174.

Rheumatic, meaning of, in Shak-

speare's time, ii. 300. v. 42.160.

i. 25.

Rib, to inclose, iii. 39.
Rid, to destroy,
Rift, split, iii. 502.
Riggish, wanton, vii. 131.
Right, just, even, v. 408.
Right-drawn, drawn in a right
cause, iv. 281.
Rigol, a circle, v. 92.
Ringed, environed, encircled, v.

317.

Ripe, come to the height, iii. 19.
Rivage, the bank or shore, v. 166.
Rivality, equal rank, vii. 159.
Rivals, partners, viii. 258.
Rive, to burst, to fire, v. 314.
Road, the haven where ships ride
at anchor, i. 132.
Rogues, vagrants, iii. 309.
Romage, rummage, viii. 262.
Ronyon, a scurvy woman, i. 261.
iv. 81.

Rood, the cross, v. 57. vi. 66.
Rook, to squat down, v. 571.
Ropery, roguery, viii. 184.

Render, a confession, vi. 476.; an Rope-tricks, abusive language, iii.

account, vii. 329.

Renege, to renounce, vii. 97.
Repair, to renovate, iii. 207.
Repeal, to recall, viii. 466.
Reports, reporters, vii. 124.
Reproof, confutation, iv. 391.
Repugn, to resist, v. 310.
Reputing, boasting of, v. 396.
Requiem, a mass for the soul of a
person deceased, viii. 390.
Resolve, to be firmly persuaded,
satisfied, ii. 150. v. 259. 305.
vii. 496.

Resolve, to dissolve, viii. 269.
Respect, consideration, caution,
iv. 247. vi. 299. viii. 15. 321.
Respective, respectable, i. 172.;
respectful, formal, iv. 190.
Respective, cool, considerate, viii.

195.

Respectively, respectfully, vi. 426.
Retailed, handed down, vi. 59.109.
Retire, to draw back, ck, iv. 314.
Reverb, to reverberate, viii. 11.

332.

Round, a diadem, iv. 92.
Round, rough, unceremonious,

v. 199.

Rounded, whispered, iv. 212.
Rounding, whispering, iii. 420.
Roundel, a country-dance, ii. 305.
Roundure, circle, iv. 202.

Rouse, a draught of jollity, viii.

269.280.456.

Royal, due to a king, v. 74.
Royalize, to make royal, 6. 24.
Royalty, nobleness, supreme ex-

cellence, iv. 121.
Roynish, mangy or scabby, iii. 120.
Ruddock, the redbreast, vii. 319.
Ruff, the folding of the tops of
boots, iii. 247.
Ruffle, to riot, to create disturb-

ance, vii. 382.
Ruffling, rustling, iii. 379.
Ruin, displeasure producing ruin,
Rushes, use of, in Shakespeare's | Scath, to do an injury, viii. 164. days, vii. 265.

vi. 215.

Rule, a method of life, ii. 32.

Ruth, pity, compassion, vi. 497.

S.

Sacred, accursed, vii. 396.

Scathful, mischievous, destructive, ii. 77.

Scone, a petty fortification, iv. 20.

v. 182.

Sacrificial, worshipping, vi. 397. Sad, grave or serious, i. 114. ii.

Sconce, the head, iv. 13. viii. 385. Scotched, cut slightly, iv. 126. Scrimens, fencers, viii. 377.

Scrip, a writing, a list, ii. 293. Scroyles, scabby fellows, iv. 206. Sculls, great numbers of fishes,

206. 226. iii. 481.

Sadly, seriously, v. 106.

Sadness, seriousness, v. 520. Safe, to render safe, vii. 110.

Sagg or swagg, to sink down, iv. Seal, to strengthen or complete,

164.

Salt, tears, viii. 106.
Sanded, of a asar sandy colour, ii. 339.
Satisfy, rest with satisfaction, ii.139
Savage, sylvan, uncultivated, wild,

v. 178.

Savageness, wildness, viii. 293. Saucy, lascivious, iii. 281. Saw, anciently, not a proverb, but the whole tenor of any discourse, ii. 458.

Say, silk, v. 440.

Say, a sample, a taste or relish, viii. 123.

Scaffoldage, the gallery part of the theatre, vi. 284. Scald, a word of contempt, poor, filthy, vii. 223.

Scale, to disperse, to put to flight, vi. 379.492.

Scaled, over-reached, ii. 142.
Scaling, weighing, vi. 545.

Scall, an old word of reproach, i.

233.

Scamble, to scramble, ii. 261. iv. 254.

Scan, to examine nicely, iv. 135.
Scant, to be deficient in, to con-
tract, viii. 57. 59.
Scantling, measure, proportion,
vi. 291.

Scapes of wit, sallies, irregulari-
ties, ii. 154.
Scared, frightened, vi. 585.
Scarfed, decorated with flags, iii.

swimming together, vi. 379. Scutched, whipt, carted, v. 67.

36.

Scath, destruction, harm, iv. 196. v. 392. vi. 31. vii. 436.

vi. 540.

Seam, lard, vi. 310.
Sea-mells, conjectures on, i. 52.
Sear, to stigmatize, iii. 432.; to
close, vii. 240. See Sere.
Season, to temper, viii. 272.; to
infix, to impress, 277.
Seasoned, established or settled by
time, vi. 569.
Seat, throne, v. 144.
Seated, fixed, firmly placed, iv. 87.
Sect, a cutting in gardening, viii.

440.

Securely, with too great confidence, iv. 310.

Seel, to close up, vii. 221. viii.

478.

Seeling, blinding, iv. 127.
Seeming, specious, hypocritical,

i. 235. ii. 131. viii, 13.
Seeming, seemly, iii. 186.
Seen, versed, practised, iii. 333.
Seld, seldom, vi. 527.
Self-bounty, inherent generosity,
viii. 477.

Semblably, in resemblance, alike,
iv. 479.

Seniory, seniority, vi. 98.
Sennet, a flourish or sounding, vi.
186. vii. 8.

Sense, reason, natural affection,
feeling, i. 36.; sensual passion,
vii. 550.

Sensible, having sensation, vi. 507.
Septentrion, the north, v. 488.
Sequestration, separation, viii.

440.

Sere or sear, dry, iv. 42. 164.

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