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Gaze, attention.

Gear, things or matters.
Geck, a fool.
General, generality.
Generosity, high birth.

beams. Gourds, dice.

Gouts, drops.

Go your gait, go away.

Grained, furrowed, like the grain of

wood; also, died ingrain.

Gramercy, great thanks.

Grange, a lone farm house
Gratillity, gratuity.
Grats, pleases.

Gratulate, to be rejoiced in.
Grave, to entomb.

Grave-man, a man in his grave.
Graves or Greaves, leg-armour
Greasily, grossly.
Greek, a bawd.

Greenly, unskilfully.
Green-sleeves, an old song.
Grise or Grize, a step.
Grossly, palpably.

Groundlings, those who sat or stood
on the ground in the old theatres;
the common people.
Guard, to fringe."
Guarded, ornamented.
Guerdon, a reward.
Gules, (in heraldry) red.
Gulf, the swallow, the throat.
Guiled, treacherous.
Guinea-hen, a prostitute.
Gun-stones, cannon balls.
Gurnet, a fish.

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Laced mutton, a prostitute.
Lackeying, moving like a lackey
Lag, the rabble.

Lakin, ladykin, or little lady.
Lances, lance-men.
Lands, landing-places.
Land-rakers, wanderers on foot
Large, licentious.

Lass-lorn, forsaken by his mistress.
Latch, to lay hold of.

Latched or Letched, licked over
Lated, benighted.

Latten, thin as a lath.

Launch, lance.

Laund, lawn.

Laundering, wetting.

Lavoltas, a kind of dances.
Lay, a wager.

Leaguer, a camp.

Leasing, falsehood.
Leather-coats, apples.
Leavened, matured.
Leech, a physician.
Leer, feature, complexion.
Leet, petty court of justice
Leg, obeisance.
Legerity, nimbleness
Leges, alleges.

Leiger, resident

Leman, a lover or mistress.

Leno, a pander.

Lenten, spare.

Let, to hinder.

Lethe, death.

L'Envoy, end of a poem.

Include, to conclude.

Inclusive, enclosed.

Incompt, subject to account.

Incony or Kony, delicate, pretty.
Incorrect, ill-regulated.
Indent, to sign an indenture.
Index, something preparatory.
Indifferent, impartial.
Indigest, shapeless.

Light o'love, a dance tune
Lightly, commonly.
Like, to compare.
Liking, condition of body.
Likelihood, similitude.
Likeness, speciousness.d

Limbeck, a vessel used in distilling.
Limbo, a place supposed near hell.
Lime, bird-lime; to cement.
Limited, appointed.
Limits, estimates.
Lined, delineated.

Linstock, the staff to which the match is fixed when ordnance is fired. List, limit.

Lover, sometimes for mistress,
Lowt, a clown.

Lowled, treated with contempt.
Lozel, a worthless fellow.
Lubbar, a leopard.
Lullaby, cradle.
Lunes, lunacy.

Lurch, to win, to purloin.
Lure, a decoy for a hawk.
Lush, rank, luscious.
Lust, inclination, will.
Lustic, lusty, cheerful.

Lusty, saucy.

Luxurious, lascivious.
Luxury, lust.

Lym, or Lyme, a bloodhound.

Mace, a sceptre.
Mad, wild, inconstant.
Magot-pie, a magpie.

Magnifico, a Venetian potentate.
Magnificent, boastful.
Mailed, wrapt in armour.
Make, to bar, to shut.

Makeless, mateless, widowed.
Male, a bag,

Malkin, a trull.

Mallecho, mischief.
Maltworms, tipplers.

Mammering, stammering.
Mammets, puppets.
Mammock, to tear.

Man, to tame a hawk; the devil.

Mandragora, a soporific plant.
Mandrake, a root.

Mankind, a wizard.

Manacle, a handcuff.

Manner, in the fact.

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Nook-shotter, that which shoots into

Odd-even, the interval between twelve
at night and one in the morning.
Od's-pitikins, God me pity.
Oeliads, glances of the eye.
O's, circles, pockmarks.
Obligations, bonds.
Obsequious, funereal.
Observation, celebration.
Obstacle, obstinate.

Mort of the deer, a tune on the death Occurrents, incidents.

Or e'er, before.
Orbs, fairy circles.
Orchard, a garden.
Ordinance, rank.
Order, measures.
Orgulous, haughty.

Osprey, an eagle.

Ostent, ostentation, appearance.

Ostentation, appearance.

Overblow, to drive away.

Overscutched, whipped at a cart's.

Ousel-cock, the cock blackbird.
Out, full, complete.

Outvied, defeated, a term at the game

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Parish-top, a large top, formerly kept Platforms, schemes.

in every village, to be whipped for Plausive, gracious, applauded.

exercise.

Parle, parley.

Parlous, perilous, shrewd.

Part, to depart.

Parted, endowed, shared.

Particular, private.

Partizan, a pike.

Parts, party.

Pash, to strike; a head.

Pashed, crushed.

Pass, to decide, assure, convey.

Pass on, to decide.

Passed, eminent.

Passing, surpassing

Passion, suffering.

Passionate, grieving.

Passioning, being in a passion.

Passy Measure, a dance.

Pursuivants, heralds.

Pussel, a low wench.

Put to know, forced to acknowledge.
Putter-out, one who leads money on
interest.

Putting-on, incitement
Puttock, a hawk.

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Quail, to sink, to faint, to be vanquished
Quaint, fantastical, also graceful.
Quaintly, skilfully.

Quaint-mazes, a game.

Quaked, terrified.

Quality, confederates; condition.

Quarrel, a quarreller.

Point, hooks used to fasten up breeches. Quarry, the game after it is killed.

Quartd'ecu, the fourth of a French

crown.

Quat, a scab.

Queasy, squeamish.

Plurisy, plethory.

Pleached, folded.

Plot, portion.

Point, negative.

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Quell, to murder.

Pomander, a perfume ball.

Pomewater, an apple.

Poor-john, salted fish.

Popinjay, a parrot,

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Quench, to grow cool.

Quern, a hand-mill.

Quest, pursuit.

Question, conversation.

Popularity, intercourse with the vulgar Questrist, one who seeks another.

Paritor, an apparitor, or officer of the Portable, bearable.

bishop's court.

Pastry, the pastry room.

Patch, a fool.

Patched, in a fool's coat.

Path, to walk.

Pathetical, promise-breaker.

Patient, to soothe.

Portance, behaviour.

Possess, to inform.

Potch, to push.
Potents, potentates.
Poulter, poulterer.

Pouncet-box, a perfume-box.
Power, an army.

Patine, a dish used with the chalice in Practise, stratagems.

administering the Eucharist.

Paucas, few.

Pavin, a dance.

Pay, to beat.

Peat, pet, darling.

Pedascule, & pedant.

Peer-out, to peep out.

Peevish, foolish.

Peize, to weigh, keep in suspense.

Penthesilia, Amazon.

Pelting, paltry.

Pennons, small flags.

Perdu, one of the forlorn hope.
Perdurable, lasting.

Perdy, (Par Dieu) a French oath.
Perfect, certain; well-informed.
Perfections, liver, brain, and heart.
Periapts, charms worn about the neck.
Perjure, a perjurer,
Person, parson.

Perspectives, spy-glasses.

Pervert, to avert.

Pestilence, poison.

Pew-fellow, a companion.

Pheere, companion.

Pheeze, to teaze, to currycomb.

Phisonomy, physiognomy.
Phill-horse, shaft-horse.

Pick, to pitch.

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.

Pieled, shaven.

Pight, pitched, fixed.

Pilcher, the scabbard.

Piled, deprived of hair.

Pilled, pillaged.

Pin, a term in archery.

Pin and web, disorder of the eye.

Pinfold, a pound.

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Pretend, to intend.

Prevent, to anticipate.

Pricket, a buck of the second year.
Prig, to pilfer.

Prime, sprightliness of youth.
Primer, of more consequence.
Primero, a game at cards
Princox, a coxcomb.
Probal, probable.
Prodigious, portentous.

Proface, much good may it do you.
Profane, grossly talkative.

Progress, a royal journey of state.
Prognostication, almanack.

Project, to shape.

Prolixious, coy, delaying.

Proof, puberty.

Prompture, suggestion.

Prone, humble, also prompt.

Propagate, to advance, to improve.

Proper, handsome.

Proper-false, deceitful.

Propertied, possessed.

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Rack, wreck.

Rack, to exaggerate.

Rack, to harass by exactions.

Rack, the fleeting away of the clouds.

Racking, in rapid motion.

Rag, an opprobrious epithet
Ragged, rugged.

Rake, to cover.

Ram, rain.

Rampallion, a strumpet.

Rank, rate or pace.

Rank, rapidly grown.

Rapt, enraptured.

Rapture, a fit.

Rarely, curiously.

Rascal, lean deer.

Rash remonstrance, premature disco

very.

Raught, reached."

Ravin, to devour eagerly.

Ravined, glutted with prey..

Rawly, suddenly.

Rayed, betrayed.

Razed, slashed.

Raze, a bale.

Rear-mouse, a bat.

Rebeck, a musical instrument,

Reason, discourse.

Properties, incidental necessaries to a Recheat, a horn, a tune to call the dogs

theatre.

Property,

due performance.

Propose, to imagine, to converse.
Proposing, conversing.
Provand, provender.

Provost, sheriff or gaoler.
Prune, to plume.

Pugging, thievish.

Puke, a sort of russet colour.
Purchase, stolen goods.
Purchased, unjustly acquired.
Purl, to curl.

Purlieu, border.

back.

Receipt, receptacle.

Receiving, ready apprehension.

Receate, a hunting term.

Reck, to care for.

Reckless, careless.
Record, to sing.

Recorders, a kind of flute.
Recure, to recover.

Red-lattice phrases, alehouse talk.
Red-plague, the St. Antony's fire.
Reechy, discoloured with smoke.
Reels, wheels.

Refel, to confute.

Refer, to reserve to.
Regard, look.

Regiment, government.

Regreet, exchange of salutation.

Reguerdon, recompense.
Rheumatic, capricious.
Relume, to relight.
Remorse, pity.

Remotion, removal.

Removes, journies,
Render, to describe.
Renege, to renounce.
Reports, reporters.
Reproof, confutation.
Repugn, to resist.
Reputing, boasting.
Reserve, to preserve.
Resolve, to be assured
Resolve, to dissolve.
Respective, respectful.
Respectively, respectfully.
Resty, mouldy

Retailed, handed down.
Retort, to refer back.

Reverb, to reverberate

Scale, to disperse.
Scaled, overreached.
Scaling, weighing.
Scall, scab.

Scamble, to scramble.
Scan, to examine nicely.
Scantling, proportion.

Scarfed, decorated with flags.
Scath, destruction.
Scathful, mischievous.
Sconce, the head.
Sconce, a fortification.
Scotch, to bruise.
Scrimers, fencers.
Scrip, a writing, a list.
Scroyles, scurvy fellows.
Scrubbed, stunted.
Sculls, shoals of fish.
Scutched, whipped.

Seal, to strengthen, or complete
Seam, lard.

Seamels, a bird.

Sear, to stigmatize, to close.

Season, to temper, to infix, to impress. Seat, throne.

Sect, a cutting in gardening.

Revolt of meir, change of complexion. Seel, to close up.

Revolts, rebels.

Rib, to enclose.

Ribald, a lewd fellow

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Seeling, blinding.

Seeming, seemly.

Seen, versed, practised.

Seld, seldom.

Semblably, resemblingly.
Seniory, seniority.

Sennet, a flourish on cornets.
Sense, sensual desires.
Septentrion, the north.
Sequestration, separation.
Sere, or sear, dry.

Serpigo, a tetter.

Serve, to fulfil.

Setebos, a demon.

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Several, or severell, a field set apart for Sound, to publish.

corn and grass.

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Soused gurnet, a gudgeon.
Sowl, to pull by the ears.
Sowle, to drag down.

Sowter, the name of a hound
Spanielled, dogged.

Specialty, particular rights.

Speculation, sight.

Speculative, seeing.

Sped, the fate decided.

Speed, event.

Sperr, to shut up, defend by bars.

Spill, to destroy.

Spotted, wicked.

Sprag, apt to learn, alert.

Sprighted, haunted.

Shotten-herring, a herring that has Sprights, spirits.

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Springhalt, a disease of horses.

Sprightly, ghostly.

Spurs, the greater roots of trees.

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Shoughs, shocks, a species of dog. Shove-groat, a game.

game of shovel board.

Shrewd, shrewish.

Shrift, auricular confession.
Shrive, to call to confession.
Side, purpose.

Side-sleeves, long sleeves.
Siege, a stool.

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Sights, the perforated parts of a helmet. Statists, statesmen.

Sieve, a common voider.

Sandied, sandy colour.

Sightless, unsightly.

Silly, simple truth.

Savage, sylvan.

Sinew, strength.

Savageness, wildness:

Single, weak.

Saucy, lascivious.

Saw, tenor of a discourse.

Say, silk.

Say, a sample.

Scaffoldage, the gallery of a theatre.

Scald, beggarly.

Sink-a-pace, cinque pace, a dance.

Sir, the title of a parson.

Sister, to imitate or re-echo

Sith, since.

Sithence, thence.

Statua, statue.

Statue, a portrait.

Stay, a hinderer, a supporter.

Sternage, the hinder part.

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Sticking-place, the stop in a machine Sticklers, arbitrators, judges, partisans, umpires.

Stigmatical, stigmatised.

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