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Breach, what is made by the breaking in of the sea. Chaw, jaw.

Breeme, sharp and bitter.

Brethren, sometimes for relations in general.
Brickle, full of, or fit for bricks.

Bridale, the nuptial feast.

Brigandines, coats of mail, or a species of ship. Brigants, the inhabitants of the northern parts of England.

Brim, the margin or bank of a stream. Britomartis, among the Cretans, a name for Diana, the goddess of chastity.

Briton moniments, the moniments or antiquities of Britain.

Brize, a gad, or horse-fly.

Brond, the brandishing of a sword.

Brooke, to bear, endure, or digest.
Brust, sometimes for burst.

Bryzes, the breeze, or gad-flies.

Brutenesse, sottishness, stupidity.

Bug, a monster, any frightful appearance.

Bulles, bulls.

Burden, sometimes for club.

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Cloyd, a term used among farriers, when a horse is

pricked with a nail in shoeing.

Colled, hung about the neck.

Commen, commune.

Burganet, a Spanish murrion, or steel head-piece. Comment, devise, or feign.

Burgein, to spring forth, or bud.

Bushy tead, bushy torch.

Busie payne, diligent labour.

Buskets, little bushes.

Commonly, sometimes for lovingly and sociably. Compare, sometimes for procure.

Compast, round.

Complement, complete character.

But, sometimes for except; but for, because; Complements, every thing which serves to complete.

but if, unless.

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By cyphers, astrological figures.

Complishing, accomplishing, fulfilling.

Complor, plot, or combination.

Complynes, even-song; the last service of the day.

Concent, harmony.

Concrew, grew together.

Cond, learnt.

By hooke or by crooke, proverb, by right or wrong, by Condition, generally used for the inward qualities

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Cranck, lusty, courageous.

Desining, designing.

Despetto, despight.

Detaine, sometimes for detention.

Cranks, the sudden or frequent involutions of the Devicefull sights, sights full of devices, as masques,

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Deigne, vouchsafe.

triumphs, &c.

Devoyre, duty.

Dew, due, i. e. descent. Diapred, diversified.

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Disaventurous deare, unfortunate hurt or trouble.

Discharge, to clear from the charge.

Discided, cleft in two.

Disclosed, disengaged, untied.

Discourse, shifting ground, traversing to and fro.
Discust, shaken off.

Disease, want of ease, uneasiness.
Disentrayle, to draw, or drag forth.
Disentrayled, drawn along floatingly.
Disgraste, dissolute, debauched.
Dishabled, lessened.

Disleali, perfidious, treacherous.
Disloignd, remote.

Disloyall, unfaithful, perfidious.
Dismayd, badly made, ill-shaped.
Dispacing, ranging about.

Disparage, sometimes for disparagement, unequal or improper union.

Dispence, consumption, or expense.
Dispiteous, unmerciful.
Disple, discipline.

Dissaventures, misfortunes.
Disseise, dispossess.
Disseized, dispossessed.

Distraughted, distracted.

Ditt, ditty or song.

Diverse, i. e. dream, a dream that occasions diversity and distraction.

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Delay, sometimes to smooth or soften; to put Doolfull, dolefull.

away; to temper, or mitigate.

Delayd, removed, put away, tempered.

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Doubt, sometimes for fear.

Doubled, sometimes for redoubted.

Doubtfull, fearful.

Entayled, carved.

Entayle, carving, sculpture. Enterdeale, mediation.

Doucepere, lez douze pairs, the twelve peers of Entertaine, sometimes to take.

France.

Dout, fear.

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Dreadfull, full of the dread of danger.

Entertake, entertain, receive.

Entertayne, entertainment.

Entire, not mangled or wounded, in a whole skin. Entrailed, or Entrayld, wrought between, twisted, as in knot-work.

Entyre, inward, inner.

Envy, sometimes to vie with.

Dreare, horrour, sometimes for misfortune, and for Enure, to use, or practise.

force, sorrow.

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Farely, early.

Earst, at earst, at length.

Edifide, or Edifyde, built.

Eeke, increase, eeked, increased.

Eft, afterwards, moreover, again.

Element, the sky, or air.

Eld, old age.

Els, else, other.

Embase, to demean, or lessen, to debase.

Embassade, as embassadors.

Enured, committed, used.

Equipage, order.

Esloyne, withdraw.

Essoyne, excuse, a law phrase.

Eternal night, death, or darkness of Hell.

Ethe, easy.

Ever among, ever and anon.

Evil heare, have an ill character, are ill spoken of. Eubaan, from Euboea, an island near Boeotia. Ewftes, evets, or efts, newts, &c.

Excheat, or Escheat, any lands or profits that fall

to the lord of a manor by forfeiture, &c.

Expert, for to experience.

Express, pressed out.

Expyre, send forth, or bring forth.

Extasie, sudden surprise.

Extirpe, extirpate.

Extort, for extorted.

Extreate, extraction.

Eyas, unfledged.

Eye of Heaven, the Sun.

Fade, vanish.

Fain, or Faine, glad, desirous, or joy.
Fained, desired.

Embay, to bathe, to delight or cherish; embayd, Faitours, vagabonds.

delighted.

Embayld, bound up.

Embosse, to enclose, sheath, or lodge, sometimes to adorn.

Embost, overwhelmed, hard pursued, sometimes ornamented, concealed, or enclosed.

Embowd, arched, bent like a bow.
Emboyled, full of wounds and sores.
Embrave, decorate.

Embrewed, wet with blood, steeped, or moistened.
Eme, uncle.

Empaire, grow worse, or to hurt or invade.

Emparlaunce, parley.

Empeach, to hinder.

Emperill, endanger.

Emprise, enterprise.

Enaunter, lest that.

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Fere, a companion, sometimes used for husband.

Enfouldered, thrown forth like thunder and light-Ferme, farm, in the sense of lodging-house.

ning.

Enfyred, kindled, set on fire.

Engore, to pierce, to prick, to make bloody or gory.
Engrained, dyed in grain.

Engrave, sometimes to put into the grave, to bury.
Enhaunced, raised, lifted up.
Enraced, inrooted, implanted.

Feutred, made ready.

Fiaunt, commission, or warrant.
Field, sometimes used for battle.
File, defile, or sometimes for style.
Filed, defiled, sometimes smooth, polished.
Fine, taper, thin.

Fire-mouthed, a mouth emitting flames.

Enseames, furnishes with seed, fattens, or nourishes. Fit, or Fitt, a strain, or air.

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Fond, foolish, but sometimes used for found.

Fone, often used for foes.

Food, sometimes for feud.

Georgos, a husbandman.

German, brother.

Gerne, or Girn, for grin; to yawn.

Gest, action, or adventure.
Ghesse, to think.

Giambeur, boots.

Gibe, to jest.

Gin, engine, or plot.

For, sometimes for because, instead of notwith- Girlonds, guardians.

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Giusts, justs, or tournaments.

Glade, gladden, or make glad.
Glaives, swords, or sometimes clubs.

Glib, the mustachio, or hair upon the upper lip.
Glitterand, glittering.

Glode, for glowed, or glided.

Glozing, deceiving by a false glass, flattering, lying. Gnarre, snarl.

Good houre, good fortune.

Goodman, master of the house.'

Gorge, the throat.

Formally, sometimes according to form or method. Gossibs, friends.

Forslacked, delayed.

Forswath, sunburnt. Forswonck, over laboured. Forth do well, pour forth. Forth to hold, to march forth.

Forthink, think before-hand of.

Forward, bold.

Forwearied, over fatigued.

Foster, a forrester.

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Gownd, wearing a gown.

Grace, favour.

Graile, particles of gravel.

Gramercy, great thanks.

Grange, sometimes for a dwelling.

Grantorto, great injury and wrong, a tyrant's name. Graste, graced, favoured.

Gratious, handsome.

Grayle, gravel.

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Foyle, trample upon, or overthrow, sometimes de

Francker franion, a merrier companion.

Griesie, greasy.

Francklin, a person of note, classed with the ranks Grin, sometimes for grind.

of miles and armager.

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Griple, griping, tenacious.

Groynd, grunted.

Gryde, pierced.

Gryesy, dirty, moist, or foggy.

Grylle, Gryllus, one of the companions of Ulysses,

transformed into a hog by Circe.

Grysie, filthy, or squalid.

Guant, the river Gvant, or Cam.

Guarish, to heal.

Guerdon, reward.

Gyeld, hall, a guild-hall.

Gyre, circle.

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Haught, high.

Haulst, embraced.

Hazardy, rashness, or playing at hazard.
Heard, a keeper of cattle, a herdsman.
Heardgrooms, keepers of cattle.

Heben wood, ebony.

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In gentle thewes, in genteel accomplishments.
In place, used for here, and sometimes for there;
in existence.

In round lists, lists encompassed all round.
Inclination, bending downwards.
Incline, bend down.

Hell them quite, perhaps cover, or devour them Inclyning, bowing.

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Incontinent, incontinently, instantly.
Indew, to put on, to be clothed with.
Indewd, swallowed and digested, relished.
Indifferent, impartial.

Indigne, unworthy.

Indignifyde, treated disdainfully.
Infamy, slander.

Infant, the prince.

Inferd, brought upon.

Informed, half-formed, imperfect.

Ingate, entrance.

Inholders, inhabitants.

Inly, inwardly, entirely.

Inne, habitation, seat, or recess.
Inquest, quest, or adventure.
Inspyre, breathe, or blow.

pre-Instantly, earnestly.

Holy grayle, the real blood of our Saviour,
tendedly brought by Joseph of Arimathea.
Hood, a term denoting a state, as manhood, &c.
Hooke and crooke, see By hooke.
Hooved, hovered.

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Intended, stretched out.

Intendiment, intendment, understanding, attention, or thought,

Interesse, interest, or right and title to.

Intimate, to partake of mutually.

Intuse, contusion.

Invade, go into.

Invent, find.

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