ELD, old times, alfo, old age.

To ELFE, Vol. 4. 126. to intangle hair in fo intricate a manner that it is not to be unravell'd. This the vulgar have fuppofed to be the work of Fairies in the nights: and all hair fo matted together hath had the name of Elfe-locks.

To EMBALL, Vol. 6. 305. to make up into a Pack. Fr. Emballer.

EMBOWELL'D, Vol. 3. 163. Emptied.

To EMMEW, Vol. 2. 38. to mew up, to coop up. An ENGLE, Vol. 3. 126. a Gull, a Put, a Bubble: derived from the French word Engluer, which fignifies to catch with bird-lime.

ENGLUTTED, Vol. 5. 234. fwallow'd up. Fr. Englouti. To ENMESH, Vol. 9. 226. to intangle in the Meshes of a Net.

To ENSEAR, to fear up, to make dry.

To ENSCONCE, to cover as with a Fort, to fecure.
ENSHIELD, Vol. 2. 32. fhielded, protected.
ENSTEEPED, Vol. 9. 210. lying under water.
To ENTAME, Vol. 3. 50. to tame, to fubdue.
ESCOTED, Vol. 9. 121. penfion'd: from the French
Efcot, a Shot or Reckoning.

EXIGENT, a Law-term, a Wiit fued out when the De.. fendant is not to be found, being part of the Procefs leading to an Out-lawry. Shakespear ufes it for any extremity. EXPEDIENT, the fame as expeditious. EXPEDIENCE, expedition.

EXSUFFOLATE, Vol. 9. 234. whifper'd, buzz'd in the Ears from the Italian Verb Suffolare.

An EYAS or EYESS, a young Hawk juft taken from the Neft, not able to prey for it felf. Fr. Niais; for Eyasmufket, fee MUSKET.

An EYERY, an Hawk's Neft.

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To FADE, to difappear, to vanish.

A FARROW, Vol. 8. 115, the litter of a Sow. N
FARSED or FARCED, stuff'd out. Fr. Farci.

A FARTHEL or FARDEL, a bundle, a pack, a burthen.
Ital. Fardello.

FAVOUR, Vol. 4. 148. Countenance, Vifage.

FELL, fierce, cruel.

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A FELL, a skin or hide of a beaft. Fell of hair, Vol. 8.
133. is the whole fcalp, upon which the hair grows.
A FEODARY, Vol. 2. 33. One who holds his Eftate
under the tenure of fuit and service to a fuperior Lord.
FEWNESS, Vol. 2. 15. Rarity.

A FITCHEW, Vol. 4. 162. a Polcat,

A FLAMEN, a Prieft; a Latin word.

FLAWS, fudden gufts of wind. See Vol. 5. 148.
FLECKER'D, Vol. 9. 32. Spotted, speckled, flufh'd with
red spots.

FLEW'D, Vol. 1. 106. FLEWS are the large chaps of a
deep-mouth'd hound.

To FLICKER, Vol. 4. 124. to smile.

FLOURIETS, Vol. 1, 104. young bloffoms, young spring-
ing flowers.

To FOIN, to push in fencing,

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Fo FOREDO, to undo, to overcome, to lay violent hands
upon.

To FOREFEND, to prevent, to forbid,
To FORESLOW, to delay,

FORTED, Vol. 2. 64, fortified, fecure,

FORTIN, Vol. 5. 28. a little Fort raised to defend 4
Camp, particularly in a fiege where the principal quarters
are joined by lines defended by Fortins and Redoubts; A
French word.

A FOSSET or FAUCET, a tap or peg of a barral. Fr.
Faufetto.

FOYSON or FOIZON, Plenty, efpecially of fruits of the
earth. Fr. Foifon.

FRANK'D UP, Vol. 6. 194. but up in a Frank, which
is a Sty for feeding a Boar.

A FRANKLIN, a Country Freeholder.

To FRUSH, Vol. 8. 230. to break, bruife, or crush. Fr. Froiter.

FULHAMS, Vol. 1. 193. a Cant-word for falfe Dice both

high and low, taken probably from the name of the first Inventor or the Place where they were firft made. The word is used and hath the fame fenfe in Hudibras, Part 2. Cant. I. v. 642. And in Don Quixot fol. ed. 1687. tranflated by Philips, part 2d book 3d chap. 16. I am no Paumer, no high-and-low-Fulbam-man. North's Examen, p. 108.

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A GABARDINE, the coarse frock of a fhepherd or fisherman or any Peafant: thence alfo any loofe Caffock, Ital. Gavardina.

GAIN-GIVING, Vol. 9. 181. the fame as mifgiving, a giving against as gain-faying, which is ftill in ufe, is faying against or contradicting.

A GALLIMAUFRY, Vol: 4. 6o. an hoch-poch or hash of feveral forts of broken meat, a medly. Fr. Galimafrée. To GALLOW, Vol. 4. 137. to scare, to frighten. GALLOWS, Vol. 2. 321. a Knave, one fit for the Gallows. Skinner.

GALLOWGLASSES, Vol. 6. 77. Soldiers among the wild
Irifb, who ferve on horfeback.

GARBOILS, Vol. 7. 254. diforders, tumults, uproars.
GAR SH, gaudy, glaring, flaunting.

GASTED, Vol. 4. 119. as aghafted, frighted, difmayed.
A GAUDE, a toy, a trifle.

GEAR or GEER, ftuff.

A GECK, a bubble eafily impos'd upon. To GECK is to

Cheat.

GERMIN, the first sprouting of feed or of a branch. Lat,,

Germen.

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GESTS, noble actions or exploits a word fo used by
Chaucer and Spencer. Lat. Res gefta or Gefta.
GESTE, Vol. 4. 7. the roll or journal of the feveral days
and flages prefix'd in the progreffes of our Kings: many

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of them being till extant in the Herald's office. Fr. Gifte or Gite. : ) A GIBBE, any old worn-out useless Animal, LANDG GIGLETS or GIGLOTS, Wanton Women, Strumpets. GIMMAL or GIMBALD or JYMOLD, this word Skinner interprets only as applied to a ring confifting of two or more rounds, and thence derives it from the French Ge meau and the Latin Gemellus a fymold bitt therefore, Vol. 5. 231. may well be taken in that fenfe from the little rings often annex'd to bitts to play in the horse's mouth but Gimmals, Vol. 5. 269. carries à more general fignification, fuch as the word Gim-cracks has now, viz. fome little quaint devices or pieces of Machinery. A GLAIVE, a cutting Sword, a Cimeterre; used allo by Spencer: a French word.

To GLEEK, to joke, jeer or fcoff. A

To GLOSE, to flatter, to collogue.

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To GLOSS, Vol. 5. 181. to interpret, to comment upon.
Fr. Glofer.
GODILD you! God fhield you!"

GOSSOMER or GOSSAMOUR, the long white cobwebs
which fly in the Air in calm funny weather, efpecially
about the time of Autumn.
GOUJERES, the French difeafe (lues venerea) from the
French word Gouje, which fignifies a common Camp-Trull,
as Goujer fignifies a man who deals with fuch Proftitutes.
Thefe words Gouje and Goujer being used as common terms
of reproach among the vulgar, and because that loathfome
difeafe was firft brought from the fiege of Naples about
the Year 1495. by the French Army and the Women
who followed it, and was by them difperfed over all
Europe, therefore the first name it got among us was the
the disease of the Gouje's.

Goujeres ol. 1. 193. a large fruit fo called, which is

GOURD,

often fcoop'd hollow for the purpose of containing and earrying wine and other liquors: from thence any leathern bottle grew to be called by the fame name, and fo the word is ufed by Chaucer.

GOUTS, Vol. 8. 91. Drops. Fr. Gouttes.
GRATULATE, Vol. 2. 79. Fit for Gratulation.

GRICE or GRISE, or GRIECE, or GREEZE, Steps,
Stairs. Fr. Grez.

GRIMALKIN, a name given to a Cat.
GRIME, dirt, filth,

A GROUNDLING, Vol. 9. 133. a fish which keeps at
the bottom of the water: Hence one of the low vulgar.
GUARDE, the hem or welt of a garment: alfo, any lace
or galloon upon the feams or borders of it. To GUARD,
to lace over, to adorn.

GUERDON, Reward: an old French word now difufed.
GYVES, Shackles.

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To HACK, Vol. 1. 198. to hackney, to turn Hackney or
Prostitute.

An HAGGARD, Vol. 2. 161. a wild Hawk.

To HARP, Vol. 8. 115. to feize, to lay hold of. Fr.
Harper.

HARPER, Vol, S. 113. a name given by the Witches to
fome of their mifchievous Imps.

To HARRY, Vol. 7. 288. to hare, to ruffle. Fr. Harer. To HATCH, Vol. 8. 155. a term in drawing, to fhade off and finish with the fine ftrokes of a Pen.

A HAVING (a fubftantive) is very frequently used for a
poffeffion in any thing.

HEFTS, Vol. 4. 21. the fame as Heavings.
HELMED, Vol. 2. 46. guided, conducted.
A HENCHMAN, Vol. 1. 77. a Page.

To HEND, to feize, to lay hold of: alfo, to hem in, to furround.

HESTS or BEHESTS, Commands.

HIGHT, named or called: or,

named or called.

HILDING or HINDERLING, bale, degenerate, fet at nought.

To HOCKLE, to hamstring, to cut the finews about the ham or hough.

HOLDING fometimes fignifies the burthen or chorus of a fong.

HOLLIDAM, Vol. 3. 144. holy dame, bleffed Lady. HOSE, Vol. 2. 308. Breeches. Fr, Chaufes, or Haut de fbaues.