ABHOMINABLE, antiquated spelling of abominable, i. 83.

Abide, to pay the penalty, iii. 435.

Abide, sojourn, iii. 227.

Abjects, things thrown away as worthless, iii. 445.

Able, to qualify, iii. 103.

Aboding, foreboding, ii. 449.

Abridgment, pastime, i. 375, iii. 354.

Abroad, disbursed, expended, ii. 737..

Absey-book, A, B, C, book, catechism, i. 288.

Absolute, complete, iii. 530.

Abuse, delusion, deception, ii. 632.

Aby, to pay dear for, i. 364.

Accite, to summon, iii. 598.

Accordingly, conformably, proportionately, ii. 26.

Accost, approach, i. 705.

Account of, to value, to appreciate, i. 11.

Ache (a noun), pronounced ache, and forming a riddle with

the letter H, i. 721, iii. 570.

Ache (a verb), pronounced ake, iii. 14.

Acknown, known, iii. 680.

Acquaintance, amity, iii. 773.

Across, to break, a tilt-yard technical, i. 732, ii. 17.

Acture, action, iii. 786.

Adamant, loadstone, i. 353.

Adam Bel, the Archer, i. 741.

Adam, old, a sergeant, i. 136.

Additions, qualities, titles, characteristics, ii. 22, iii. 266, 340.
Address, to prepare, to make ready, i. 60, 376, 412, 609, 671,
ii. 169, iii. 434, 754.

Admittance, vogue, fashion, i. 658, 688.

Advice, consideration; representation, i. 431, ii. 76.

Advised, assured, aware, persuaded, i. 299, 574, 648, 727.
Affect, to love, i. 58.

Affect the letter, to use alliteration, i. 72.

Affection, affectation, imagination, i. 82, ii. 249, iii. 201.
Affectioned, affected, ii. 249.

Affeer, to assess, or confirm, iii. 505.

Affined, bound, iii. 648, 669.

Affront, to confront, to encounter, iii. 358.

Affy, betroth, ii. 374.

Affy, to confide, iii. 598.

After-supper, a rere-supper, a second supper, i. 385.

Against the hair, against the grain, iii. 266.

Aglet-baby, a diminutive figure carved on a jewel, i. 237, 575.

714.

Althea's dream, i. 586.

Amazing, confounding, appalling, i. 453, 685.
Ames-ace, both aces, ii. 22.

Amiss, a fault, iii. 765, 783.

Amort, dejected, i. 262.

Anchor, an anchorite, iii. 363.

Ancient, ensign, an ensign-bearer, i. 549, 590, iii. 648.

Andrew, a name for a ship, i. 394.

Angerly, angrily, i. 7.

Anthropophagi, Scythian savages, cannibals, iii. 709.

Ape-bearer, an instructor and exhibitor of apes, iii. 254.

Appaid, pleased, satisfied, iii, 747.

Apparent, nearest, iii. 202.

Apparent, manifest, iii. 426.

Apparitor, an officer of the spiritual court, i. 67.

Apperil, danger, peril, ii. 467.

Apple-John, i. 588.

Apply, to ply, i. 232.

Apprehension, conceit, sarcasm, ii. 301.

Approbation, proof, ii. 67, 716.

Approve, to justify, to confirm, i. 417, iii. 330.

Araise, to raise, to upraise, ii. 17.
Argosy, a large vessel, i. 247, 394.

Argument, conversation, i. 714.

Aroint! begone! avaunt! iii. 474.

A-row, one after another, successively, i. 143.

Arras, chamber-hangings, iii. 402.
Arrive, to arrive at, iii. 415.

Arthur's Show, Sir Dagonet in, i. 628.

Articulate, to enter into articles, iii. 140.
Artificial, ingenious, i. 364.

Artist, a scholar, iii. 270.

Aspersion, sprinkling, iii. 35.

Assinego, an ass, iii. 278.
Assured, affianced, i. 131, 298.
Astonished, thunderstruck, iii, 755, 773.
Astringer, a falconer, ii. 56.

At friend, on terms of friendship, iii. 244.
Atone, to reconcile, i. 450, ii. 715.

Attasked, taxed, charged, iii. 71.

Attorney, advocate, pleader, iii. 725.

Aunts, wenches, iii. 227.

Awful, authorised, lawful, i. 604.

Awful men, men of worth and authority, i. 28.

Awkward, distorted, contrary, ii. 80, 367.

BACCARE, stand back, i. 242.

Baffled, treated with ignominy, i. 450.

Bale, injury, iii. 129.

Balked, ridged, heaped up, i. 510.

Balk logic, to dispute, to wrangle, i. 233.
Ballow, a pole or staff, iii. 104.

Ban, to curse, iii. 725.

Banbury cheese, a thin cheese, i. 641.

Band, a bond, i. 136, iii. 553.

Bankes's horse, i. 100.

Banquet, a dessert, i. 270.

Allowing, allowed, lawful, iii. 202.

All-thing, every way, iii. 490.

Alms-drink, a portion of liquor drunk to relieve a companion,

iii. 549.

Basilisks, huge pieces of ordnance, i. 525.

Basta, enough, i. 235.

Bastard, a sweet wine, i. 529.

Bat, staff or club, iii. 785.

Bate, to flap the wings like a hawk, i. 218.

Batlet, a bat to beat linen with, ii. 141.

Batten, to feed, iii. 370.

Battle, an army, ii. 92, 574, iii. 648.

Bavin, a faggot of brushwood, i. 540.

Bawcock, beau coq, fine fellow, ii. 261, iii. 200.

Bay-window, bow-window, ii. 268.

Bead's-man, one whose duty is to offer up prayers for another,
i. 3, ii. 342.

Bear a brain, to remember well, i. 166.

Bear-garden, Parish, ii. 703.

Bear hard, to rein in from mistrust or fear, i. 418, 426, 435.
Bearing-cloth, an infant's mantle in which is carried to
the font, iii. 222.

Bear in hand, to encourage, to buoy up, i. 258, 575, 727, iii.
491.

Beaver, the lower part of a helmet, sometimes used for the
helmet itself, i. 548.

Beck, a bow, ii. 470.

Become, to adapt, to render fit, to adorn, i. 31, ii. 151, 321,
783, 785.

Becoming, self-restrained, ini. 220.
Bed-fellow, intimate friend, ii. 76.
Bedlam-beggars, mad beggars, iii. 118.
Beetles, overhangs, iii. 342.

Beg a fool, to ask in wardship, i. 104, 120.
Begetter, one who gets or procures, iii. 758.
Beggar and the King, a ballad, i. 101.
Beguiled, masked, disguised, iii. 754.
Behave, to control, ii. 482.

Belike, to favour, to approve, iii. 506.

Be-mete, to beat with a yard measure, i. 264.
Bemoiled, bedraggled, i. 255.

Be naught a while, a mischief on you! ii. 128.

Bench-hole, forica, iii. 570.

Benefit, a beneficiary, ii. 330.

Benumbed, stiff, inflexible, iii. 281.

Bergomask, a dance, i. 378.

Bermoothes, the Bermudas, iii. 11, 48.

Beshrew, to curse, to imprecate sorrow or evil on a person, i.
85, 409.

Besmirch, to soil, to befoul, ii. 101, iii. 338.

Bessy, o'er the bourn, iii. 90.

Best, best one, an epithet of endearment, ii. 535.

Bestowed, secreted, stowed, i. 118.

Bestraught, distracted, i. 230.

Beteem, to allow, to suffer, i. 343, iii. 336.

Better part, the spiritual part, iii. 521, 771.
Better penny, a proverbial phrase, i. 640.
Bevel, crooked, iii. 778.

Bird-bolt, a description of archery, i. 741.

Bisson, blind, iii. 355.

Biting the thumb, a contemptuous action, i. 160.
Blacks, mourning habiliments, iii. 200.

Blank, a mark in gunnery, iii. 211.

Blench, to flinch, to start off, ii. 628, iii. 204, 265.
Blend, blended, iii. 786.

Bless the bridal-bed, i. 386.

Bless the mark, i. 33, 401, iii. 648.

Block, a hat mould, i. 696.

Blood in, with the blood up, i. 71.

Blood-boltered, clotted with blood, iii. 502.

Blow, to swell, iii. 570.

Blue caps, the Scotch, i. 533.
Blunt, dull, insensible, ii. 443.
Board, to accost, i. 705, ii. 239.

Bob, to rap, to hit, i. 349, ii. 143, 574.
Bobbed, tricked, iii. 699.

Bodged, bungled, ii. 407.

Bodkin, a stiletto, a dagger, iii. 359.
Bodykins, God's, an oath, iii. 355.
Bolds, emboldens, iii. 109.
Bolted, sifted, iii. 235.
Boltered, clotted, iii. 502.
Bolters, sieves, i. 543.

Bolting-hutch, the bin into which meal is bolted, i. 534.
Bombard, or bumbard, a barrel, a capacious vessel, some-
times of leather, for holding drink, i. 534, ii. 696.
Bombast, a sort of wadding used to fill out dresses, i. 97.
Bona-robas, women of pleasure, i. 597.
Bone-ache, the Neapolitan, iii. 283, 308.
Boot, help, advantage, i. 449, ii. 319.
Boots, to give, to sell a bargain, i. 41.

Bordered, restrained, iii. 97.

Borne in hand, encouraged by delusive promises, iii. 491.
Borrowed, assumed, iii. 788.

Breathe in watering, to take breath while drinking, i. 527,

Breeched, sheathed, mired, iii. 488.

Breed-bate, an exciter of quarrels, i. 647.

Brentford, Gillian of, i. 689.

Brewer's horse, i. 542.

Brew good ale, a proverb, i. 24.

Bribe-buck, 1. 681.

Brize, the gad, or horsefly, iii. 272, 560.

Brock, a badger, ii. 252.

Broken music, the music of stringed instruments, ii. 120, 132,

iii. 287.

Broker, a pander, a procuress, a cheat, i. 6, 298, ii. 32,

iii. 786.

Brooched, adorned, decorated, iii. 576.

Brooded, watchful, i. 305.

Broom-groves, iii. 36.

Brown-bastard, a sweet wine, i. 529.

Brown-bill, a battle-axe, iii. 102.

Brownist, a follower of Brown, a sectary, ii. 257, 279.

Bruit, report, ii. 299, 439, iii. 318, 335, 514.