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To Drumble, to drone, to be sluggish. Ital. Dormigliare.

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To Elfe, to entangle hair in so intricate a manner that it is not to be unravelled. This the vulgar have supposed to be the work of fairies in the nights: and all hair so matted together hath had the name of Elfe-locks.

To Emball, to make up into a pack. Fr. Emballer.

Embowell'd, emptied.

To Emmew, to mew up, to coop up.

An Engle, a gull, a put, a bubble: derived from the French word Engluer, which signifies to catch with birdlime.

Englutted, swallowed up. Fr. Englouti.

To Enmesh, to entangle in the meshes of a net.

To Ensear, to sear up, to make dry.

To Ensconce, to cover as with a fort, to secure.

Enshield, shielded, protected.

Ensteeped, lying under water.

To Entame, to tame, to subdue.

Escoted, pension'd: from the French Escot, a shot or reckoning. Exigent, a law-term, a writ sued out when the defendant is not to be found, being part of the process leading to an outlawry. Shakspeare uses it for any extremity.

Expedient, the same as expeditious. Expedience, expedition. Exsuffolate, whisper'd, buzz'd in the ears: from the Italian verb Suffolare.

An Eyas or Eyess, a young hawk just taken from the nest, not able to prey for itself. Fr. Niais: for Eyas-musket, see

Musket.

An Eyery, an hawk's nest.

F.

To Fade, to disappear, to vanish.

A Farrow, the litter of a sow.

Farsed or Farced, stuff'd out. Fr. Farci.

A Farthel or Farde!, a bundle, a pack, a burthen. Ital. Fardello. Favour, countenance, visage.

Fell, fierce, cruel.

A Fell, a skin or hide of a beast. Fell of hair, is the whole scalp, upon which the hair grows.

A Feodary, one who holds his estate under the tenure of suit

and service to a superior lord.

Fewness, rarity.

A Fitchew, a polecat.

A Flamen, a priest; a Latin word.

Flaws, sudden gusts of wind.

Flecker'd, spotted, speckled, flushed with red spots.

Flew'd; Flews are the large chaps of a deep-mouth'd hound.

To Flicker, to smile.

Fouriets, young blossoms, young springing flowers.

To Foin, to push in fencing.

To Foredo, to undo, to overcome, to lay violent hands upon.

To Forfend, to prevent, to forbid.

To Foreslow, to delay.

Forted, fortified, secure.

Fortin, a little fort raised to defend a camp, particularly in a siege 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 barrel. Fr. Faussette.
Foyson or Foizon, plenty, especially of fruits of the earth. Fr.
Foisons.

Frank'd up, shut up in a frank, which is a sty for feeding a boar.
A Franklin, a country freeholder.

To Frush, to break, bruise, or crush. Fr. Froisser. Fulhams, a cant-word for false dice both high and low, taken probably from the name of the first inventor or the place where they were first made. The word is used and hath the same sense in Hudibras, Part 2, cant. 1, v. 642. And in Don Quixote, fol. ed. 1687, translated by Philips, part 2d, book 3d, chapter 16. I am no Paumer, no high-and-low-Fulham man. See also North's Examen. p. 108.

G.

A Gabardine, the coarse frock of a shepherd or fisher-man, or any peasant: thence also any loose cassock. Ital. Gavardina. Gain-giving, the same as misgiving, a giving-against: as gain

saying, which is still in use, is saying against or contradicting. A Gallimaufry, an hotch-potch or hash of several sorts of broken meat, a medley. Fr. Gallimafrée.

To Gallow, to scare, to frighten.

Gallows, a knave, one fit for the gallows. Skinner.

Gallowglasses, soldiers among the wild Irish, who serve on horseback.

Garboils, disorders, tumults, uproars.

Garish, gaudy, glaring, flaunting.

Gasted, as aghasted, frighted, dismayed.

A Gaude, a toy, a trifle.

Gear, or Geer, stuff.

A Geck, a bubble easily impos'd upon. To Geck is to cheat. Germin, the first sprouting of seed of a branch. Lat. Germen. Gests, noble actions or exploits: a word so used by Chaucer and Spenser. Lat. Res gesta or Gesta.

Geste, the roll or journal of the several days and stages prefix'd

in the progresses of our kings: many of them being still extant in the Herald's office. Fr. Giste or Gite.

A Gibbe, any old worn-out useless animal.

Giglets or Giglots, wanton women, strumpets.

Gimmal or Gimbald or Jymold; this word Skinner interprets only as applied to a ring consisting of two or more rounds, and thence derives it from the French Gemeau and the Latin Gemellus: a Jymold bitt therefore may well be taken in that sense from the little rings often annex'd to bitts to play in the horse's mouth but Gimmals carries a more general signification, such as the word Gim-cracks has now, viz. some little quaint devices or pieces of machinery.

A Glavie, a cutting sword, a cimeterre; used also by Spenser: a French word.

To Gleek, to joke, jeer, or scoff.

To Glose, to flatter, to collogue.

To Gloss, to interpret, to comment upon. Fr. Glóser.

Godild you! God shield you!

Gossomer or Gossamour, the long white cobwebs which fly in the air in calm sunny weather, especially about the time of autumn.

Goujeres, the French disease (lues venerea), from the French word Gouje, which signifies a common camp trull, as Goujer signifies a man who deals with such prostitutes. These words Gouje and Goujer being used as common terms of reproach among the vulgar, and because that loathsome disease was first brought from the siege of Naples about the year 1495, by the French army and the women who followed it, and was by them dispersed over all Europe, therefore the first name it got among us was the Goujeres; the disease of the Gouje's. Gourd, a large fruit so called, which is often scoop'd hollow for the purpose of containing and carrying wine and other liquors: from thence any leathern bottle grew to be called by the same name, and so the word is used by Chaucer. Gouts, Drops. Fr. Gouttes.

Gratulate, 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, a fish which keeps at the bottom of the water: Hence one of the low vulgar.

Guarde, the hem or welt of a garment; also, any lace or galloon

upon the seams or borders of it. To Guard, to lace over, to adorn.

Guerdon, reward: an old French word now disused.
Gyves, shackles.

H.

To Hack, to hackney, to turn hackney or prostitute.

An Haggard, a wild hawk.

To Harp, to seize, to lay hold of. Fr. Harper.

Harper, a name given by the witches to some of their mischievous imps.

To Harry, to hate, to ruffle. Fr. Harer.

To Hatch, a term in drawing, to shade off and finish with the

fine strokes of a pen.

A Having, (a substantive) is very frequently used for a possession in any thing.

Hefts, the same as heavings.

Helmed, guided, conducted.

A Henchman, a page.

To Hend, to seize, to lay hold of: also, to hem in, to surround.

Hests or Behests, commands.

Hight, named or called: or, is named or called.

Hilding, or Hilderling, base, degenerate, set at nought.

To Hockle, to hamstring, to cut the sinews about the ham or hough.

Holding sometimes signifies the burden or chorus of a song.

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