Edward shovel-boards, Edward, Vith's shillings, used at shuffleboard.

Eftest, or Deftest, readiest.
Eld, old person or persons, Mer.
Wiv. Decrepitude, Mea. for

Mea.

Element, initiation, previous practice, aír, sky.

Elf, done by elves or fairies. Emballing, being distinguished by the ball, the emblem of royalty. Embare, expose, display to view. Embarquements, impediments, hinderances.

Embossed, when a deer is run hard, and foams at the mouth, he is said to be embossed. Swollen, puffy.

Empericutic, of an empirical kind, quackish.

Empery, dominion, sovereign command.

Emulous, often used in a bad sense
for envious.
Enactures, laws.
Encave, hide.

End, still an end, generally.
Enfeoff, to invest with possession.
Engaged, delivered as an hostage.
Engross, to fatten or pamper.
Engrossments, accumulations.
Enkindle, or kindle, to stimulate.
Enmesh, enclose them all, from
taking birds or fishes with meshes.
Enew, to flutter, terrify, a term in
falconry.

Enridged, bordered, or perhaps for enraged.

Ensconce, to secure in a safe place. Enseamed, greasy.

Enshell'd, concealed, masked. Ensteeped, immersed. Entertainment, pay, Cor. Oth. Receive into service Jul. Cæs. Entreatments, favours, or objects of entreaty.

Envy, often used for aversion, malice.

Ephesian, a cant term, perhaps for a toper.

Erewhile, a little while ago.
Erring, wandering, errant.
Escape, illegitimate child.
Escoted, paid: from escot, shot, or
reckoning.

Esperance, the motto of the Percy
family.
Espials, spies.

Essential, real, existent.

Estimable, i. e. wonder, esteeming
wonder, or esteem and wonder.
Estimate, the rate at which I value.
Estimation, conjecture.
Estridges, ostriches.
Eterne, eternal.

Even, to make even, or represent plain.

Even Christian, fellow Christian. Evils, jakes.

Examined, disputed or doubted. Excellent differences, distinguished excellencies.

Excrement, the beard.

Execule, sometimes for to use, or employ.

Executors, executioners.
Exempt, independent, not under
the control of.

Exercise, exhortation, lecture.
Exhale, breathe your last.
Exhibition, allowance.
Exigent, end.

Exorcism, in Shakespeare, gene-
rally means the ruising of spirits.
Expect, expectation.
Expedience, expedition.
Expedient, expeditious.
Expediently, expeditiously.
Expostulate, inquire or discuss.
Exsufficate, bubble-like.
Extacy, a degree of madness.
Extend, to seize.
Extent, violence.
Extern, outward.
Extremity, calamity.
Eyases, young nestlings.
Eyas-musket, a young hawk.
Eye, glance, look.

Eye in the eye, in view, before.
Eyliads, eyes; from aillades, Fr.
Eyne, eyes.

Face-royal, a face not to be meddled
with.
Facinorous, wicked.
Factious, active.

Faculty, exercise of power.
Fadge, to suit or fit.
Fadings, a dance.
Fain, fond.

Fair, fairness, beauty.
Faitors, traitors, rascals.
Fall, often used as an active verb:
At fall, at an ebb.

Falsing, a thing that's falsified, or false.

Falsely, illegally, illegitimately.
Mea. for Mea.
Familiar, a demon.

Gad, a sharp-pointed instrument: Done upon the Gad, suddenly, capriciously.

Galliard, an ancient dance.
Galliasses, a kind of ships so called.
Gallimaufry, a confused heap of
things together.
Gallow, to scare, or frighten.
Gallow-glasses, foot-soldiers among
the Irish.
Garboils, commotions.
Garish, gaudy, showy.
Gasted, frighted.

Gawd, a bawble, or trifle.
Gear, a colloquial expression, for
things or matters.
Geck, a fool.

Gennets, or jennets, Spanish horses.
German, a-kin.

Germins, seeds which have begun
to germinate or sprout.
Gest, a stage, on a journey.
Gib, a name for a cat.
Giglots, wanton wenches.
Gimmal, a kind of ring.
Gimmal-bit, a bit of which the parts
played one with another, snaffle
bit.

Ging, an old word for gang.
Gird, a sarcasm, or gibe: To gird,
to be sarcastical.
Glaive, a sword.

Glared, gazed upon, looked
fiercely.

Gleek, to joke or scoff.
Glib, to lib, or geld.
Glooming, gloomy.

Gloze, to expound, or explain.
Glut, to swallow.

God 'ild you, God yield you, or reward you.

God's sonties, the abbreviation of an ancient oath. Gongarian, for Hungarian, used as a term of reproach. Good den, good evening. Gorbellied, fat and corpulent. Gospelled, of precise or puritan virtue.

Gossomer, the white exhalations
which fly about in summer.
Gougeers, the French distemper.
Gourd, an instrument of gaming
Gouts, drops. Fr.

Gramercy, grand merci, great
thanks. Fr.
Grise, or Grize, a step.

Groundlings, the lower sort of people who stood on the ground,

in the old theatres.

Guerdon, reward.
Guerdoned, rewarded.
Gules, a term in heraldry, red.
Gust, to taste.

Gyve, to catch, to shackle.
Gyves, shackles.

Haggard, a kind of hawk. Halcyon, a bird, otherwise called the kingfisher.

Hallidom, christening. Handsaw, corrupted from Hernshaw.

Hangers, that part of the girdle or belt by which the sword was suspended.

Hardiment, hardiness, bravery,
stoutness.

Harlocks, the name of a plant, pro-
bably the bur-dock.
Harlots, sometimes applied to
cheats of the male sex.
Harlotry, vulgar, filthy.
Harness, armour.
Harrow, to conquer, to subdue.
Harry, to hurt, to use roughly.
Hatch, to cut or engrave.
Having, estate or fortune.
Haught, haughty.

Hay, a term in fencing.
Hearted throne, the heart in which
thou wast enthroned.
Hebenon, henbane.
Hefted, heaved, agitated.
Hefts, heavings.

Hell, a cant name for a dungeon in a prison.

Henchman, page of honour.
Hent, to seize or take possession,
to take hold of.
Herb of grace, rue.
Hermits, beadsmen.
Hest, behest, command.
Hight, called.

Hilding, or hilderling, a low
wretch.

Hoar, hoary, mouldy.
Hob-nob, let it happen or not.
Hold, i. e. rumour, to believe it.
Hold taking, bear handling.
Hoodman-blind, blindman's buff.
Horologe, clock.

Hoxes, to hox, or hough, to cut the hamstring.

Hull, to drive to and fro upon the water, without sails or rudder. Humming, overwhelming. Hunt-counter, blunderer, a term of the chase.

Hunts-up, a morning hunting tune.

Hurly, noise.

Hurtle, to dash, or push violently.
Hyen, hyæna.

Jauncing, jaunting.
Jay, a bad woman.
Ice-brook, i. e. temper, tempered by
being plunged into an ice-brook.
Jealous, suspicious.

Jesses, straps of leather tied about the foot of a hawk to hold her in hand.

Jet, to strut, to walk proudly.
Ignomy, ignominy.
Jig, a ludicrous dialogue in metre.
Imbare, to lay open, or expose.
Immanity, barbarity, savageness.
Immediacy, proximity without in-
tervention.

Imp out, to supply the deficiency, a
phrase from falconry.
Impair, unsuitable to the dignity.
Impawn, to engage; the modern
word is to commit one's self.
Imperious, sometimes used for im-
perial.

Imperseverant, ill perseverent, or perseverant.

Impress, a device, or motto.
Incarnardine, stained of a flesh
colour, or red.
Inclips, embraces.

Juvenal, a young man.

Keech, a lump or mass of tallow.
Kell, to cool.

Kernes, light-armed Irish soldiers,
See Gallow-glasses.

Key-cold, as cold as iron, a key of which is used to stop small bleedings.

Kicksy-wicksy, a ludicrous name for a wife.

Kiln-hole, the place into which coals are put under a stove. Kirtle, a sort of garment, tunic. Knap, to break short.

Knotts, figures into which part of a garden was disposed.

Laced mutton, cant name for a

Lakin, ladykin, or little lady.
Lances, lance-men.

Land-damn, probably, to banish from the land.

Land-rakers, wanderers on foot. Lapsed in time, having suffered time to slip.

Latch, to lay hold of.
Lated, belated, benighted.

endearment.

Indent, to bargain, or article.
Indues, subdues.

Indued, inured, or formed by na

ture.

Indurance, delay, procrastination.
Inhooped, enclosed, confined.
Initiate, young, just initiated.
Ink-horn mate, a bookman.
Inkle, a species of tape, or worsted.
Insculped, engraved.

Insconce, to fortify.

Lavolta, a dance.
Laund, lawn.
Lay, a wager.

Leaguer, a name for a camp.
Leasing, falsehood.
Leavened, matured, prepared.
Leech, physician.

Leer, feature, complexion, colour.

or

Leet, court-leet, a petty court of justice.

Leg, obeisance, bow.

tention, attentively.

Interessed, interested.

Intrenchant, that which cannot be cut.

Intrinse, intricate, or intrinsecate, ravelled.

Inward, sometimes for an inti

mate.

Journal, daily.

Irk, to make uneasy.

Irregulous, lawless, licentious. Iteration, citation, or repetition. Jump, to agree with, to suit, to match.

Leiger, a resident, or resident-ambassador.

Leman, a lover, or mistress.
Lenten, short and spare.

L'envoy, a term borrowed from the old French poetry.

Lewd, ignorant, sometimes means idle.

Limbo-patrum, confinement.
Limed, ensnared, as with bird-lime.
Limits, estimates, or outlines,
rough sketches.
Lined, delineated.

Link, a torch used to make old hats black.

Linstock, the staff to which the match is fixed, when ordnance is fired.

List, the bound or limit.
Lither, flexible, or yielding.
Loach, a very small fish, excced-
ingly prolific.

Lob, an epithet implying dulness and inactivity.

Lock, a particular lock of hair, called a love-lock. Lockram, a kind of linen. Lode-star, leading star, the polestar. Loggats, a game played with bowl and pins.

Longing, forlonged, wished, or desired.

Loofed, brought close to the wind.
Loon, a base fellow.

Looped, full of apertures.
Lop, the branches.

Lordings, the diminutive of lord.
Lover, friend.

Lown, a sorry fellow.

Lowted, treated with contempt.
Lozel, a worthless fellow.
Lunes, lunacy, frenzy.
Lurch, to purloin, to deprive.
Lush, a dark full colour.

Lustic, cheerful, pleasant. Dutch.
Lym, or lyme, a bloodhound.

Magot-pie, magpie.

Magnifico, a chief man in Venice. Mailed, wrapped up, bundled up, covered with mail.

Main descry, the main body is descried.

Male, male parent.

Malkin, a kitchen weuch, or scullion, a trull. Maltworms, tipplers.

Mammering, hesitating, stammer

ing. Mammet, puppet. Mammocked, cut in pieces. Manage, conduct, administration. Mandragora, a plant of soporific virtue. Mandrake, a root, supposed to have the shape of a man, and to groan when pulled from the ground. Mankind, masculine.

Manner, with the manner, in the fact.

Marchpane, a kind of sweet confection, or biscuit.

Marches, borders, confines. Martlemas, St. Martin's tide, in November.

Mated, confounded.

Meacock, timorous, dastardly.
Meated, sprinkled, or mingled.
Mean, a tenour.

Measure, a solemn dance.
Meazels, lepers.
Medicine, physician.
Meditation, quickness of enthusias-
tic thought.

Meiney, people. Fr.
Mell, to meddle with.
Memory, memorial.

Mends, the means, the wherewithal.
Meer, absolute, entire, total.
Mered question, the sole question.
Mewed, confined.
Micher, a truant.
Minute-jack, Jack o' the clock.
Miscreate, illegitimate, spurious.
Misprised, mistaken.

Misprising, despising, contemning. Missingly, at intervals, occasionally.

Missives, messengers.

Mistempered, angry, contentious. Mistful, i. e. eyes ready to flow with tears.

Mobled, veiled or muffled.
Model, mould, plan.

Modern, common, of every day.
Module, model.

Moe, to make mouths.
Moist star, the moon.
Mome, a dull, stupid, blockhead.
Momentany, short, momentary.
Monster, to make monstrous.
Moonish, variable.

Mope, to be stupid or foolish. Mopes and mowes, wry faces and mockings.

Mort, i. e. of the deer, a tune on the death of the deer. Mortal, pernicions, deadly. Mortified, religious, retired, peaceable.

Motion, puppet; puppetshows were called motions.

Motive, assistant, or mover.
Mouldwarp, the mole.
Moys, pieces of gold.

Much, an expression of admiration or disdain.

Muckwater, the drain of a dunghill,