I parte the kangled locks. error for Kendall's Flowers of Epigrammes, 1577. +KANIKER. One who sells ale, to be taken away in cans, and not drunk on the premises. Also in townes which are no thorow-fare, the justices shall doe well to be sparing in allowing of any alehouse, (except it be at the suit of the chiefe inhabitants there, and to supply the necessary wants of their poore): and then Kanikers (onely to sell to the poore, and out of their doores) would suffice, if they were enabled by a law. KATE ARDEN. A female of no good fame, in Ben Jonson's time, whose name seems to have been almost proverbial. On the burning of the Globe theatre on the Bankside, he says, Nay, sigh'd a sister, 'twas the nun Kate Arden Execration upon Vulcan, vol. vi, 410. KATEXIKENE, more properly KATEXOCHEEN, signifying, chiefly, or above all others. A Greek expression Kar' ἐξοχὴν, incorrectly represented in English letters, and made into one word. You are a lover already, Be a drunkard too, and after turn small poet, And then you are made, Katerikene the madman. Messinger's Guardian, iii, 1. KAY. The word key was often so pronounced. And commonly the gawdy livery weares Of nice corruptions, which the times doe sway, And waites on th' humour of his pulse that beares Ilis passions set to such a pleasing kay. Also p. 101. Daniel, Musophilus, p. 97. How so, quoth I? the dukes are gone their waies, Th' have bar'd the gates, and borne away the kaies. Mirror for Mag., p. 407. †To KEAKE. To cackle, like a goose. Helpe, sportfull muse, to tune my gander keaking quill. d Herrings Tayle, 4to, 1598. The base, the tenor, treble, and the meane, All acting various actions in one sceane; The sober goose (not thinking ought amisse) Amongst the rest did (harshly) keake and hisse; At which the peacocke, and the pyde-coate jay, Said, take the foolish gaggling goose away. Taylor's Workes, 1630. "Dalton's Countrey Justice, 1620 To KECK. To blame? or, perhaps, KARKANET. A necklace. See CAR KANET. KARROW, or CARROW. An Irsh word, thus explained by Spenser: There is another much like, but much more lewde and dishonest, and that is of their carrows, which is a kinde of people that wander up and downe to gentle men's houses, living only upon cardes and dice, the which, though they have little or nothing of their owne, yet will they play for much money, which if they winne, they waste most lightly, and if they lose, they pay as slenderly, but make recompense with one stealth or another; whose only hurt is not that they themselves are idle lossells, but that thorough gaming they draw others to like lewdnesse and idleness. View of Irel., p. 398. Todd. There is among them a brotherhood of karrowes, that prefer to play at chartes all the yere long, and make it their onely occupation. Holinsh., vol. 1, B 1, col. 2. KASTRIL. A base species of hawk; called also the stannel, or the windhover. See CASTREL and KESTREL. What a cast of kastrils are these, to hawk after ladies thus! Tru. I, and to strike at such an eagle as Dauphine. B. Jons. Epicane, iv, 4. to check. Excuse me, reader, that my muse Hudibras Redivivus, part 12, 1707. KECKSIES, for kexes. See KEX. KEECH. The fat of an ox or cow, rolled up by the butcher in a round lump, a good deal resembling the body of a fat man, is called a keech. We are assured by Dr. Percy, that this is the proper term, and still in use. It is applied by Shakespeare to a butcher, and to Wolsey, the the reputed son of a butcher. Did not goodwife Keech, the butcher's wife, come in then, and call me gossip Quickly. 2 Hen. IV, ii, 1. I wonder That such a keech (as Wolsey] can with his very bulk Hen. VIII, i, 1. Hence, though not certain, it is highly probable that tallow-keech is the right reading in 1 Hen. IV, ii, 4. See TALLOW-KEECH. To KEEL. To cool; from cælan, to cool, Saxon. A keel, or keel-vat, was the vessel in a brewery now called a cooler. See Skinner, Minshew, and Coles. Dr. Goldsmith says, in a note on Shakespeare, that to keel the pot is still used in Ireland for to scum it. It may be so, and yet the original meaning might be also to cool it, by scumming, stirring, &c.; which particular way of cooling should, as Dr. Farmer suggests, be considered as implied in that phrase. While greasy Joan doth keel the pot. Would it not vex thee, where thy sires did keep, To see the dunged folds of dag-tail'd sheep? Hall, Satires, v, 1, p. 86. In the university of Cambridge this sense is still preserved; they say there. Where do you keep? I keep in such a set of chambers. †KEEP. To keep counsel, to be discreet. First and foremost tell me this: can this fellow keepe counsell? Terence in English, 1614. To keep talk, to converse together. But whilest we have kept talke, they are left a great way behinde. Ibid. KEEP, 8. The chief strong hold of an ancient castle. But this day their speech was the sooner broken of, by reason that he who stood as watch upon the top of the keepe, did not only see a great dust arise, but, &c. Pembr. Arcad., p. 249. A word now well known, from antiquarian researches. KEEP, s. Care, notice. Love's L. L., v, 2. Faith, Doricus, thy brain boils, keel it, keel it, or all the fat's in the fire. Marston's What you will, 1607, Anc. Drama, ii, 199. Latterly it seems to have been applied only to the cooling of boiling liquor; in Chaucer's time it was more generally used: And doune on knees full humbly gan I knele, Besechyng her my fervent wo to kele. Court of Love, 775. It was used also by Gower. Coles, in his Dictionary, has, "to kele, frigefacio." Kersey has also, "to keel, to cool." KEEL, KEIL, or KAYLE. A nine-pin ; from quille, French. All the furies are at a game called nine-pins or keils, made of old usurers' bones, and their souls looking on with delight, and betting on the game. B. Jons. Chloridia, a Masque, vi, 216. And now at keels they try a harmielesse chaunce; And now their curre they teach to fetch and daunce. Pembr. Arcadia, Lib. I, p. 83. Coles has, "a keal, metula lusoria," &c.; and Cotgrave, under Quille, says, "the keele of a ship; also a keyle, a big peg, or pin of wood, used at ninepins or keyles," &c. +KEEL. A kiln. Calcaria fornax, Plinio. invòs. A lime keele. Nomenclator. To KEEP, v. n. To live, or inhabit; the 5th sense in Todd's Johnson. Servile to all the skiey influences That do this habitation, where thou keep'st, For in Baptista's keep my treasure lies. Tam. of Shr., i, 2. Johnson has observed this sense in Dryden. To take keep was to notice, to pay attention to anything. And unto Morpheus comes, whom drowned deepe Ibid., xiv, GO. And, gazing on the troubled stream, took keep, But he forsakes the herd-groom and his flocks, Drayt. Ecl., viii, p. 1427. H. More, Cupid's Conft., p. 311. To KEEP TOUCH. be exact to an appointment. I have kept touch, sir, which is the earl, of these. This scene containeth the greife of Pamphilus as touching the marriage: where likewise he promiseth to kecpe faithfull touch with Glycerie, yea whether his father will or no, if cause so require. Terence in English, 1614. +Firmavit fidem. He hath surely kept his promise: hee hath made an assurance to keep touch with us: hee hath given an infallible token that he will perIbid. forme promise. +And that they should keepe touch with me I looke; Foure thousand and five hundred bookes I gave To many an honest man, and many a knave. Taylor's Workes, 1630. A pretty play-fellow; chirp it would, And hop and fly to fist; Keep cut, as twere a usurer's And bill me when I ist. gold, Colgrave's Wits Interpreter, 1671, p. 176. is said to be provincial, and derived from the Danish. See Todd. †KEEP-FRIEND. Sufficiently explained To KEMB. To comb; from cœmban, in the example. And he had besides two iron rings about his neck, the one of the chain, and the other of that kind which are called a keep-friend, or the foot of a friend, from whence descended two irons unto his middle. History of Don Quixote, 1678, f. 45. +KEEPING. Upon my keeping, i. e., upon my guard. I doo promes you that I am upon me kypying every KEIGHT, for caught. Betwixt her feeble armes her quickly keight. KEISAR. See KEYSAR. Bury himself in every silk-worm's kell, Is here unravell'd. B. Jons. Devil is an Ass, ii, 6. and betwixt The air and them two kels of fat lay on them. Chapm. Il., xxiii. Also a thin film, grown over the eyes: His wakeful eyes, that, &c., &c., Now cover'd over with dim cloudy kels, Jag him, gentlemen, I'll have him cut to the kell, then down the seams. +KELL. A net. As often as knotts ben knitt on a kell. Ballad of Childe Maurice, Percy MS. +KELL. A sort of soup was called kell, and may be here alluded to. Thy breakfast thowe gott every day, MS. Lansd., 241. +KELL. A kiln. See KEEL. Yea, as deep as a well, Some think it is hell. Cleveland's Works. KELD, for kelled. Covered with scales, In their wild rivers, in their banks, and sleeps, Drayton, Noah's Flood, p. 1534. | Saxon. Yet are the men more loose than they, B. Jons. Catil., act i, chorus. B. & F. Beggar's Bush, ii, 1. Witts Recreations, 1654. +Come, beauteous Mars I'll kemb thy hair smooth as the ravens feather, And weave those stubborn locks to amorous bracelets. Randolph's Jealous Lovers, 1646. KEMLIN. See KIMNEL. KEMP'S SHOES. To throw an old shoe after a person, was considered as sending them off with a lucky Kemp's shoe is archly mentioned by Ben Jonson, as if proverbially old. Kemp the actor was doubtless meant; and Mr. Gifford conjectures, not improbably, that he might play the very part in which his shoes are thus mentioned, that of Carlo Buffone. omen. 1 warrant you, I would I had one of Kemp's shoes to throw after you. Every Man out of his H., iv, 8. Throwing the shoe is introduced by Jonson elsewhere: Hurl after an old shoe, I'll be merry whatever I do. Masque of Matamorph. Gipsies, vol. vi, 84. About the time when this play of Every Man out of his Humour was acted, Kemp had produced his Nine Days' Wonder, and was sufficiently popular to make a good-humoured jest upon him well received. KEMPT, for kembed, the participle of KEMB. There is nothing valiant or solid to be hoped for from such as are always kempt, and perfumed, and every day smell of the taylor. B. Jons. Discoveries, vol. vii, p. 115. The old edition has kempt'd, which is a mistake. To KEN. To see; and KEN, sight. These words, though not current in common usage, have been so preserved in poetic language, that they cannot properly be called obsolete. Instances are numerous in writers of very modern date. See Johnson's Dict. In Scotland these words are still in full currency. +Let this suffice, that they are safely come within a In the observance of al which, time and travell had now brought us in kenne of a very pleasantly scituated towne, faire and sumptuously builded. Rowley, Search for Money, 1609. KENDAL GREEN. A sort of forester's green cloth, for the manufacture of which, Kendal, in Westmoreland, was famous. Three mis-begotten knaves in Kendal green. Fitz. Then Green-hood. Hen. IV, ii, 4. B. Jons. Underw., vol. vii, 34. The sturdy plowman doth the soldier see Hall's Satires, IV, 6, p. 76. It was the uniform of Robin Hood's followers: All the woods Are full of out-laws that, in Kendall green, Follow'd the outlaw'd earl of Huntington. Robert, Earl of Huntington, 1601. Kendal was very early, what it still continues, a flourishing place for the clothing trade in general; and Fuller the gives them a kind hint upon subject: I hope the townsmen thereof (a word is enough to the wise) will make their commodities so substantiall, that no southern town shall take an advantage, to gain that trading away from them. I speak not this out of the least distrust of their honesty, but the great desire of their happiness, who, being a Cambridgeman, out of sympathy wish well to the clothiers of Kendall, as the first founders of our Sturbridge fair. Worthies, vol. ii. +KENNEL. A pack of dogs. At that he and his companions opened their mouths altogether, and called me citizen, for it is a word of derision which that kennell doth give to those whom they esteem to be simple fellowes. Comicall History of Francion, 1655. KENNEL-RAKERS. Low people. They heard behind them so great a hooping and hallowing of men and boys, and an outery of women, that they were inforced to look back, and presently Ovi umbilicus. The streine or kenning of the egge. KENTAL, for quintal. An hundred I give this jewell to thee, richly worth Now for our Irish wars; See the Image of Rich. 11, ii, 1. Edw. II, O. Pl., ii, 350. Ireland, by John Also the same kind of troops from other parts: Macb., i, 2. From the western isles They han fat kerns, and leany knaves, Spens. Eclog., July, 199. Sometimes kerne is used plurally, or as a collective name: They came running with a terrible yell, as if heaven and earth would have gone together, which is the very image of the Irish hubub, which their kerne use at their first encounter. Spenser, View of Irel., p. 370. Todd. They are desperate in revenge; and their kerne thinke no man dead untill his head be off. Gainsford's Glory of Engl., p. 149. For the supposed etymologies, see Todd. KERSEN'D. A corruption of christened; as CURSEN'D, supra. Pish, one goodman Cesar, a pump-maker, Kersen'd him. B. & Fl. Wit. at ser. Weap., iii, 1. To KERVE. To cut; the same as carve. Altered for the sake of the rhyme. [But see the second example.] Released her that else was like to sterve, It is, however, nearer to the original +First she would sell her milk for 11d., and with this 11d., buy 12 egs, which she wold set to brood under a hen, and she would have 12 chickons, these chykons being growne up, she would kerve them, and by that meanes, they should be capons; these capons would be worth (being yong) five pence a piece; that is just Mirrour of Mirth, by R. D., 1583 a crowne. they discovered a young man, who had nothing but To KEST, for to cast; for the rhyme his shirt on his back, and not so much as shoes on his feet, who was followed by a number of the kennelrakers, who made a perpetual shout. Comicall History of Francion, 1655. KENNING. The vital part of the egg. also. Chaunst to espy upon her yvory chest The rosie marke, which she remember'd well That little infant had, which forth she kest. Spens. F. Q., VI, xii, 15. 31** Only that noise heav'n's rolling circles kest, Ne thought of honour ever did assay +KETCHES. Catches? Rock-monday, and the wake in summer, shrovings, the wakeful ketches on Christmas-eve, the hoky, or seed-cake, these he yearly keeps, yet holds them no relics of popery. +KETHER. A term of contempt. Mut. Hei, hei! handsom, kether! sure somebody has been rouling him in the rice; sirrah, you a spoil'd your clothes. [Offers to beat it off. Chav. Nay, what de do, faather? now to zee your ignorance, why 'tis all the fashion, man; it came over from England with the last ship came in here, there's no-body look'd upon that is not bedon zo; nay, they zay the fine ladies like it so hugeously, they powder their dogs and monkeys. Unnatural Mother, 1698. KETTLE, for kettledrum; by abbreviation. And let the kettle to the trumpet speak, The cannons to the heav'ns, the heav'ns to earth, Haml., v, 2. So in the former part of the same play this custom is described: The king doth wake to-night and takes his rouse, i, 4. KETTLE-PINS, for skettle-pins, ninepins. Billiards, kettle-pins, noddy-boards, tables, truncks, shovel-boards, fox and geese, and the like. Shelton, Pref. to Don Quiz., cited by Todd. KEWWAW. Askew. The picture topsie-turvie stands kewwaw: The world turn'd upside downe, as all men know. Taylor's Workes, 1630. KEX, or KECKSIE. A dry stalk of hemlock, and sometimes of other kinds. Perhaps kecksies is only a mistaken form, instead of the plural of kex, kexes; and kex itself may have been formed from keck, something so dry that the eater would keck at it, or be unable to swallow it. It can hardly be a corruption of cigue. And nothing teems Hen. V, v, 2. Ray's Prov., 222. But hateful docks, rough thistles, kecksies, burs, Losing both beauty and utility. As hollow as a gun: or as a ker. It is now common to say a kex." See Todd. as dry as Cotgrave under Canon has, "Canon de suls, a kex, or elder stick; also a potgun made thereof;" he gives it too as the translation of Cigue. It was written also kix, which is less remote from cigues: If I had never seen, or never tasted By kix, he means the empty useless Coles inconsistently renders kecks by cremium, which means bavin or dry brush wood; and kex by cicuta, hemlock. KEY-COLD. Very cold, as cold as a key. Poor key-cold figure of a holy king! Rich. III, i, 2. of 'em. For till they be key-cold dead, there's no trusting Sir Adam, is best hide your head for fear your wise KEYSAR, KESAR, or KEISAR. Old spelling for Caesar, and used proverbially for an emperor; particularly in the expression Kings and Keysars, which very frequently occurs. Thou art an emperor, Cæsar, Keisar, and Pheezar. Spens. Tears of Muses, 569. See also George a Greene, O. Pl., iii, 49; Mirr. for Mag., p. 293. KICKSY-WICKSY, or KICKSY-WINSEY. A ludicrous word, of no definite meaning, except, perhaps, to imply restlessness; from kick, and wince, in allusion to a restive horse; applied by Parolles, in All's well that ends well, to a wife: He wears his honour in a box unseen, That hugs his kicksy-wicksy here at home. ii, 3. Taylor the water-poet has used a similar term, apparently designing to convey by it his determination to kick and wince at his debtors, having given that name to a poem written against them. He calls it, "A Kicksie-winsie, or a Lerry-cum-twang." The same |
