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Rapt, rapturously affected.
Rated sinew, a strength reckoned
upon.
Ravin, to devour voraciously.
Raught, reached.

Rawly, without preparation,
suddenly, hastily.

Rayed, bewrayed.

Revolts, revolters.

Rheumatic, for capricious, hu

moursome.
Rib, to inclose.
Ribald, lewd fellow.
Rid, to destroy.

Rift, to split.

Riggish, wanton.

Rigol, a circle.

Recheat, a horn, a tune to call Rim, probably a cant word for

Raze, a bale.

the dogs back.

Reck, to care for..

Reckless, careless.

Recorders, a kind of flute.
Red-lattice phrases, alehouse con-
versation, from the form of the
doors and windows.
Red plague, the erysipelas, St.
Anthony's fire.
Reechy, discoloured by smoke.
Reels, probably for wheels.
Ant. and Cleo.
Refel, to confute.
Regreet, exchange of salutation.
Reguerdon, recompense, return.
Remorse, sometimes used for
pity.

Remotion, removal from place
to place, shifting.
Remues, journies, stages.
Render, sometimes, to describe.
Renege, to renounce.
Repair, generally signifies to
renovate.

Ant. and

Repeals, recalls. Oth.
Reports, reporters.
Cleo.
Reproof, confutation. Hen. IV.
1st Part.
Repugn, to resist.
Reserve, to guard, to preserve
carefully. Per.
Resolve, sometimes for dissolve.
Respect, caution, regard to con-

sequences.

re

Respective, respectful or
spectable.
Respectively, respectfully.
Rest, what I am resolved on.
Hen. V.

Retort, to refer back. Mea. for
Mea.

Reverbs, reverberates.

money. Hen. V.
Ringed, encircled.
Rivage, the bank or shore.
Rivality, equal rank.
Rivals, equals. Ham.
Rive, to discharge or burst.
Romage, tumultuous hurry.
Ronyon, a scab, a despicable

person.

Rood, the cross.

Rooky, abounding with rooks.
Ropetricks, roguish tricks, or
abusive language.
Ropery, rognery.

Roundel, a circular dance.
Roundure, a circle.

Rouse, a draught of jollity,
carousal.

Royal, or real, a coin of the
value of ten shillings.
Royally attorneyed, nobly sup-
plied by substitution of en-
bassies.

Roynish, mangy, scurvy.
Ruddock, the red-breast.
Ruffle, to be noisy, disorderly.
Ruffling, bustling or rustling.
Rule, method of life. Twel. Nig.
Rump-fed, fed with offals.
Rush, for rush-ring.
Ruth, pity, compassion.
Sacarson, the name of a bear.
Sacring-bell, the bell which gives
notice of the host approaching.
Sad ostent, grave appearance.
Sagg, to sink down.
Sallet, a helmet.
Saltiers, satyrs.
Samingo, San Domingo.
Sandied, of a sandy colour, the
colour of the true blood-hound.
Saw, discourse. Love's Lab.

Revolt of mein, change of com Say, old word for silk. Fr.

plexion.

Scale, to disperse, to spread.

Scaling, weighing.
Scall, a word of reproach, scab.
Scamble, to scramble.
Scanned, examined nicely.
Scandling, measure or propor-
tion.

Scarfed, decorated with flags.
Scath, destruction, harm.
Sconce, the head, or a kind of
fortification.

Scotch, to bruise or crush.
Scrimers, fencers. Fr.
Scroyles, scabby fellows.
Scrubbed, stunted, shrub-like, or
short and dirty.
Sculls, shoals of fish.

Seam, lard.

Shog, to go off.
Shotten, projected.

Shove groat, a kind of game.
Shovel boards, shillings used at
the game of shovel-board.
Mer. Wiv.

Shoughs, a species of dog.
Shoulder clapper, a bailiff.
Shrewd, sometimes for severe,
bitter.

Shrift, confession.
Shrive, to call to confession.
Side, purpose
or resolution.

Lear.

Siege, a stool, or privy, or seat. Sieve, a common voider. Troil. and Cres.

Sightless, unsightly. K. John.

Seamy side without, inside out. Sights, 1. e. of steel, the per

Seamels, a bird.

Sear, dry.

Sear, to close up.

Seel, to sew up.

Seeling, blinding.

Seld, for seldom.

Semblably,

in

resemblance,

alike. Seniory, seniority. Sennet, a flourish on cornets. Sense, sometimes for reason and natural affection. Septentrion, the North. Sequence, of degree, methodically.

Sere, dry, withered.
Serpigo, a kind of tetter.
Sessa, from cesser, be quiet.
Set of wit, a term from tennis.
Sets up his rest, a term from the
military exercise.

Setobos, a kind of god or devil. Several, or severell, a field separated from others to bear corn and grass.

Sewer, the person who placed the dishes in order. Shard borne, borne on shards or wings.

Shark up, to pick up without distinction.

Shaven Hercules, Samson.
Sheen, shining, bright, gay.
Sheer, pellucid, transparent.
Shent, scolded, roughly treated.
Sherris sack, sherry sack.
Shive, a slice.

forated part of the helmet. Single, sometimes for weak, little.

Sister, to imitate or re-echo.
Sith, and sithence, since.
Sizes, allowances. Lear.
Skain's mates, kin's mates.
Skill, reason. Wint. Tale.
Skills not, is of no importance.
Skinker, á tapster; from Skink,
drink.

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Sowle, to drag down.
Sowter, the name of a hound.
Spanieled, dogged.

Speak parrot, to act childishly
and foolishly.

Speak holiday, i. e. words, curi-
ously and affectedly chosen.
Speculation, for sight. Mac.
Speculative, instruments, the
eyes. Oth.

Speed, fate or event.
Tale.

Sperr, to stir.

Spill, to destroy.

Lear.

Wint.

Spleen, often for hurry, or multuous speed.

Stark, stiff.

State, sometimes for a chair of
Statists, statesmen.

state.

Statua, statue, sometimes pro-
nounced as three syllables.
Staves, the wood of the lances.
Rich. III.

Stead, to help or befriend.
Sternage, the hinder part, close
after. Hen, V.

Stickler, one who stood by to part the combatants, an umpire. Troil. and Cres. Stigmatical, marked or stigmatized.

Still, sometimes for constant, continual.

Stilly, gladly, lowly.

Stinted, stopped. Rom. and Jul.
Stint, sometimes, to stop.
Stithied, forged; from stitky, an
anvil.

Stoccata, a thrust or stab. Ital.
Stock, sometimes for stocking.
Stomach, sometimes for stub-
born, resolution, pride or
haughtiness.

Stone-bow, a crossbow to shoot

stones.

Stover, hay made of coarse rank grass, and used for thatching. Strachy, or thrachy, of Thrace. tu-Strait, narrow, avaricious. K. John.

Spotted, wicked.
Sprag, ready, alert.
Sprighted, haunted.
Springhalt, a disease incident to

horses.

Square, sometimes, to quarrel.
Squarer, a quarrelsome fellow.
Squash, an immature peascod.
Squiney, to look asquint.
Squire, sometimes for a rule or
square.

Stage, to place conspicuously.
Staged, exhibited.
Staggers, a disorder peculiar to
horses. All's Well.
Stain, colour or tincture. Ibid.
Stale, a decoy to catch birds.
Temp.

Stannyel, the name of a kind of
hawk; a stallion. Twel. Night.

Straited, put to difficulties.
Strange and strangeness, some-
times for shy and shyness.
Strangle, sometimes for to sup-

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Successive, i. e. title, title to the successión. Tit. And. Suggest, sometimes, to tempt, to excite.

Suited, dressed. Lear. Sumpter, either the horse or the package that conveys necessaries.

Superfluous, overclothed. All's
Well. living in abundance.
Lear.

Surcease, cessation, stop.
Surreigned, over-ridden.
Swart, or swarth, black or dark
brown.

Swashing, imposing, bullying. Swath, the quantity of grass cut down by a single stroke of the scythe.

Sway, weight or momentum.
Jul. Cas.
Sweltered, weltered.

Terms, the technical language of courts. Mea. for Mea. Tested, attested, genuine. Mea. for Mea.

Testerned, gratified with a tester, or sixpence.

Tetchy, touchy, peevish, fretful. Tether, a string by which any animal is fastened. Tharborough, third borough, a peace officer. Theorick, theory.

Thews, muscular strength, or appearance of manhood. Thick-pleached, thickly inter

woven.

Thill, or fill, the shafts of a cart or waggon.

Thin helm, thin covering of hair. Lear.

Thought, sometimes for melancholy.

Swinge-bucklers, rakes or rioters. Thrasonical, insolently boasting;

Swounded, swooned.

Table, the palm of the hand
extended, a picture.
Tables, books of ivory for me-
morandums.

Tabourines, small drums.
Ta'en order, taken measures.
Tag, the vulgar populace. Cor.
Taint, corruption or disgrace.
Take, i. e. a house, to go into
a house. Com. Er.
Take, sometimes, to strike with
lameness or disease.
Take in, to subdue.
Talent, often for talon.
Tarre, to stimulate, to set on.
Tasked, sometimes for taxed.
Tassel-gentle, or tercel gentle, a
species of hawk.

Tawney coat, the dress of a summoner or apparitor. Taxation, sometimes for censure

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Thread, sometimes for to pass.
Three-pile, rich velvet.
Thrift, a state of prosperity.
Cym.

Thrumbed, made of thrum, the end of the weaver's warp. Tib, a nickname for a wanton. Tickle, sometimes for ticklish. Tickle-brain, the name of a strong liquor.

Tilley-valley, an interjection of contempt.

Time, a ripener. Troil. and Cres.

Timeless, untimely. Timely-parted, i. e. ghost, departed in the course of time and nature.

Tire, to fasten, to fix the talons. Tire valiant, or volant, a kind of head-dress.

Tired, sometimes for adorned. Tod, to produce a tod, a certain quantity of wool.

Toged, wearing their habits. Oth. Tokened, spotted. Ant. and Cleo. Tolling, taking toll. Hen. IV.

2d Part.

Tomboy, a masculine, forward girl.

Too much, any sum, ever so
much. Temp.
Topless, supreme, sovereign.
Topple, to tumble.

Touches, the features, the trait.
Toward and towards, sometimes,
instead of readiness.
Toys, sometimes for whims,
freaks.

Toze, to unravel, to close examine.

Trace, sometimes, to follow or succeed in.

Trail, the scent left by the passage of the game. Trammel, to catch; tremmel is a species of net. Tranect, probably some kind of ferry, dam, or sluice. Mer. Ven. Translate, sometimes for to change or transform. Trash, to cut away the superfluities, or to check; a phrase in hunting.

Traverse, an ancient military word of command. Traversed, i. e. arms, arms

across.

Tray-trip, a kind of game at tables or dranghts. Treachers, traitors. Trenched, cut or carved. Fr. Trick, sometimes for a peculiarity of feature.. Trick, to dress out. Tricksy, clever, adroit. Trigon, Aries, Leo, and Sagittarius.

Trip, to defeat or disappoint.
Triple, for third, or one of the
three. Ant. and Cleo.
Triumphs, sometimes for shows,
masks, revels.
Trol-my-dames, trou-madame,
the game of nine holes.
Troll, to sing trippingly.
Trossers, probably for trowsers,
or a kind of breeches.
Trot, a familiar address to a man.
Trow, to imagine or conceive;
I trow.

True, sometimes for honest.
Trundle-tail, a species of dog.
Trusted, for thrusted. Mac.

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Vail, sometimes to cast down,
to let fall down.
Valenced, fringed with a beard.
Validity, sometimes for value.
Vanity, an illusion. Temp.
Vantage, opportunity. Cym.
Vantbrace, armour for the arm.
Fr.

Vast, sometimes for waste, dreary.

Vaunt, the avant, what went
before, or the vanguard.
Vaward, the fore part.
Velure, velvet.

Venetian, admittance, a fashion
admitted from Venice.
Venew, a bout at a fencing
school.
Veneys, venews.

Vent, rumour, materials for discourse. Cor.

Ventages, the holes of a flute. Verbal, verbose. Cymb. Verify, to hear witness. Cor. Very, sometimes for immediate. Vice, to draw or persuade. Vice, a grasp. A mimic. Ham. Vie, a term at cards, to brag. Violenteth, probably rageth. Virgin crants, maiden garlands. Ger.

Virginal, a kind of spinnet. Virginal, belonging to a virgin. Virtuous, sometimes for salutiferous.

Vizament, advisement.

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