dress.

Muss, a scramble.

Pack, to make a bargain, collusively.

Packings, frauds.

Pale, dominions, boundaries.

fellow.

Napless, threadbare.

word.

Neif, fist.

Nether-stocks, stockings.
Newt, the eft.

Nice, silly, trifling.

Nick, reckoning or count.
To nick, to set the mark on.
Night-rule, frolic of the night.
Nill, shall not.

Nine men's morris, figures cut out in the turf for a game so called. Noble touch, true metal unalloyed. Nonce, for the nonce, on purpose. Noon-tide prick, noontide point on the dial.

Nott-pated, round headed, cropt.
Novum, a game at dice.

Nouzle, to thrust the nose into.
Nowl, a head.

Nurture, education.

Nut-head, a catchpole.

Odd-even, the interval between twelve at night and one in the morning.

Od's pitikins, God's my pity.
Oeliads, glances of the eye. Fr.
Oes, circles.

Opal, a precious stone, of almost all colours.

Operant, active.
Opinion, reputation.
Ordinance, rank.
Orgulous, proud. Fr.

Ostent, ostentation or demonstra

tion.

Overcrows, overcomes, triumphs

over.

Overscutched, whipt, or carted, applied to low prostitutes. Ouphes, fairies.

Ousel-cock, supposed the cock blackbird.

Out-vied, defeated, a term in the old game of primers. Owe, own.

Paller, to shuffle.
Paragoned, peerless, withont
parison.

Parcell-bawd, half-bawd.
To parcell, to reckon.
Parcell-gilt, partly gilt.
Parilors, apparitors, officers
spiritual court.

Parle, dispute by words.
Parlous, perilous, keen, shre
Partizan, a pike.
Pash, head.

To pash, to butt, or strike with lence.

Passed, sometimes for surpass expression.

Passy-measure, a kind of dand
Patch, a fool.
Path, to walk.

Patines, round broad plates. Pavin, a kind of dance. Paucas palabris, few words, rupted from the Sp. pocas bras.

Payed, beaten, drubbed. Hen 1st Part, punished.

Peat, pet, or darling, a spo child.

Peer-out, appear out, or peep Peevish, foolish.

Peize, to weigh, to keep iu pense. Fr. Pelting, paltry.

Perdu, one of the forlorn hope. Perdy, a corruption of the Fr oath, par Dieu.

Perfect, certain, or well assure Periapts, charms worn about neck.

Pew-fellow, a companion.
Pheere, a mate, or companion.
Pheese, to plague or tease.
Pia Mater, the membrane that
tects the substance of the bra
Pick, to pitch.
Pickers, hands.
Pick-thank, an officious parasit
Piece, one, individual.
Pieled, shaved,

jar.

Pleached, folded in each other.
Point, to point exactly, completely.
Point-devise, exactly. Fr.
Poize, weight or moment.
Polack, a pole.

Politic regard, a sly look.
Pulled, bared or cleared.
Pomander, a perfumed ball, worn
in times of infection.
Pomewater, a species of apple.
Poor John, hake, dried and salted.
Popinjay, a parrot.

Port, show or appearance.
Portage, open space, or safe arrival
at a port.
Portance, carriage.

Possess, to make understand.
Potch, to push roughly or violently.
Potents, potentates.
Poulter, poulterer.

Pouncet box, a box cut with open work. Fr.

Prank, to adorn, to deck out.

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Quests, reports.

Question, conversation.

Questrist, one who goes in search
of another,
Quiddits, subtleties.

Quill, in the quill, written.
Quillets, evasion, chicanery.
Quintain, a post or butt set up.
Quips, hasty, passionate reproaches
and scoffs.

Quired, played in concert.
Quit, to requite.

Quittance, return of injuries or favours.

Quiver, nimble, active.

Quote, to observe or regard, to mock.

great sanctity.

Preeches, breeched, flogged.
Prenominate, already named.

ricket, a buck of the second year.

Prig, to filch.

Primer, more important.
Primero, a game at cards.
Princox, a coxcomb or pet.
Probat, probable.

Proface, much good may it do you.
Ital.
Profane, sometimes, free of speech,
talkative.

Rabbit-sucker, a young rabbit. Race of heaven, something descended from heaven, heavenly. Race, a pond.

Rack, the last fleeting vestige of the highest clouds.

To rack, to harass by exactions.
Ram, for rain.

Rampallion, a ramping, low crea

ture.

Rapt, rapturously affected.
Rated sinew, a strength reckoned

upon.

Serpigo, a kind of tetter. Sessa, cesa, Sp., cease.

Set of wit, a term from tennis. Sets up his rest, a term from the military exercise.

Setobos, a kind of god or devil. Several,or severell, a field separated from others to bear corn and grass.

Sewer, the person who placed the dishes in order. Shard-borne, borne on shards or wings.

Shark up, to pick up without distinction.

Shaven Hercules, Samson.
Sheen, shining, bright, gay.
Sheer, pellucid, transparent.
Shent, scolded, roughly treated.
Sherris sack, sherry sack.
Shive, a slice.

Shog, to go off.

Shotten, projected.

Shove groat, a kind of game.

game of shovel-board.

Shoughs, a species of dog.

Sneap, rebuke, check.
Sneck up, a cant phrase, probably
for, go hang yourself.
Snipe, an insignificant fellow.
Snuff, anger, annoyance.
Snuffs, dislikes.

Soft, i.e. conditions, gentle qualities of mind.

Soil, turpitude, reproach.
Solidares, some species of coin.
Sooth, truth.

Sorer, a greater or heavier crime.
Sorel, a deer during his third year.
Sort, to choose out.

Sorts, different degrees or kinds.
Sort and suit, figure and rank.
Sot, fool. Fr.

Soud, sweet, or an exclamation denoting weariness.

Sowle, to drag down.

Souter, the name of a hound.

Spanieled, dogged.

Speak parrot, to act childishly and foolishly.

Shoulder clapper, a bailiff.
Shrewd, severe, bitter.
Shrift, confession.

Shrive, to call to confession.
Side, partnership at play.
Siege, a stool or seat.
Sieve, a common voider.
Sightless, unsightly.

Sights, i.e, of steel, the perforated

part of the helmet.

Single, weak, little.
Sith and sithence, since.

Sizes, allowances.

Skains's mates, kin's mates.
Shill, reason.

Skills not, is of no importance. Skinker, a tapster; from Skink, to draw.

Skirr, to scour.

Slave, to treat with indignity.
Sleave, coarse unwrought silk.
Sledded, carried on a sledge.
Sleided, untwisted.
Slights, arts.

lip, a counterfeit piece of money; a line for leading a dog. Slivered, sliced.

Slops, loose breeches or trowsers. Slough, the skin which the serpent throws off annually.

Slowed, delayed.
Slubber, to obscure.
Smirched, soiled, obscured.

and affectedly chosen.

Speculation, sight.

Speculative instruments, the eyes.
Speed, fate or event.
Sperr, to bar up.

Spill, to destroy.

Spleen, hurry, or tumultuous speed.
Spotted, wicked.

Sprag, ready, alert.
Sprighted, haunted.

Springhalt, a disease incident to

horses.

Square, to quarrel.

Squarer, a quarrelsome fellow.
Squash, an immature peascod.
Squiney, to look asquínt.
Squire, a rule or square.
Stage, to place conspicuously.
Staggers, a disorder peculiar to
horses.

Stain, colour or tincture.
Stale, a decoy to catch birds.
Stannyel, the name of a kind of
hawk.
Stark, stiff.

State, a chair of state.
Statist, statesman.

Staves, the wood of the lances.
Stead, to help or befriend.
Sternage, the hinder part, close
after.

Stickler, one who stood by to part
the combatants, an umpire.
Stigmatical, marked or stigmatized.
Still, quiet, constant, continual.