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Disnatured, wanting natural affection. Empery, sovereign power.

Dispark, to destroy a park or inclosure.
Disperge, to sprinkle.

Disponge, to discharge as a sponge.
Dispose, disposal, command."
Dispose, to make terms.
Disposition, frame.

Disseat, displace, depose.
Dissemble, to gloss over, disguise.
Dissembling, putting dissimilar things
together.

Distained, unstained.
Distaste, to corrupt.
Distemper, intoxication.
Distemperature, perturbation.
Distempered, out of humour.
Distraught, distracted.

Distractions, detachments,
bodies.

Divert, to turn aside.
Division, a term in music.
Doff, to put off.

Dole, alins, distribution, lot.
Dolphin, the Dauphin.
Don, to put on, to do on.
Done to death, killed.
Done, expended, consumed.
Done upon the gad, suddenly.
Dotant, dotard.

Decline, to run through (as in gram-Double, full of duplicity.

Declined, the fallen.

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Double vouchers, a law term
Doubt, to fear.

Dout, to do out, extinguish.
Dowle, a feather.

separate

Down-gyved, hanging down, like what
confines the fetters round the ancles.
Draught, the jakes.
Draw, to withdraw.
Drawn, embowelled.

Drawn fox, one which is trailed over
the ground, to deceive the hounds.
Drachmas, a Greek coin.
Dressings, appearances of virtue.
Drew, assembled.

Drive, to fly with impetuosity.

Drollery, a puppet-shew.

Drugs, drudges.

Drumble, to act lazily.

Emulous, envious, jealous.
Emulation, envy.

Encave, to hide.
Endart, to dart forth.

Enfeoff, to invest with possession.
Engross, to fatten.

Engaged, delivered as an hostage.
Engrossments, accumulation.
Enkindle, to stimulate.

Enmesh, to inclose, as in meshes.
Enniew, (in falconry) to force to be in

cover.

Enridged, bordered.

Ensconce, to secure in a safe place,

to fortify.

Enseamed, greasy.

Enseer, to dry up.
Enshield, concealed.

Eusteeped, immersed.

Entertainment, pay; also, being re ce.ved into service.

Entreatments, favours; also, objects
of entreaty.

Envy, aversion, malice.
Enviously, angrily.
Ephesian, a cant term.
Erring, errant, wandering.
Escape, illegitimate child.
Escoted, paid.

Esil, or Eisel, a river.

Esperance, motto of the Percy family
Espials, spics.

Essential, existent, real.
Estimate, price.
Estimation, conjecture.
Estridges, ostriches.
Eterne, eternal.

Even, to make even, or evident.
Even christian, fellow-christian.
Evils, jakes.

Examined, doubted.

Excellent differences, distinguished ex-
cellencies.
Excrement, the beard.

Execute, to use, or employ.

Executors, executioners.

Ducdame, (duc ad me) bring him to Exhale, to breathe one's last.

me, the burthen of a song.

Dudgeon, the handle of a dagger.

Due, to endue, to deck.

Duke, a leader.

Dull, gentle soothing.

Dullard, a stupid person.

Dump, a mournful elegy.

Descant, to harangue upon; also, a Dup, to do up, to lift up.

Deprive, to disinherit.

Deracinate, to root up.

Derogate, degraded.

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Exercise, exhortation.

Exhaust, to draw forth.

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Dumb, to make silent.

Durance, some lasting kind of stuff.

E.

Expect, expectation.

Expedience, expedition.

Expedient, expeditious.

Expediently, expeditiously.

Expostulate, to discuss.

Exsufficate, bubble-like.
Extend, to seize.

Extent, violence, seizure.

Eager, (from aigre, Fr.) sour, harsh. Extern, external.

Extremity, calamity.

Eanlings, lambs.

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Expiate, to end.

Exposture, exposure.

Express, to reveal.

Expulsed, expelled.

Extracting, distracting.

Digress, to deviate from what is right. Ecstasy, madness.

Digression, transgression.

Dildos, the burthen of a song.

Dint, impression.

Disable, to undervalue.

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Fet, fetched.

Few, in brief.

Fico, a term of contempt.
Fielded, in the field of battle.

Fights, clothes hung round a ship to conceal the men from the enemy.

File, a list.

Filed, defiled.

Filed, gone an equal pace with. Fills, the shafts.

Filths, common sewers.

Finch egg, a gaudy fellow.

Frayed, frightened.
Free, artless.

Fret, the stop of a musical instrument.
Friend, a lover.

to befriend.

Friend, for friendship,
Frippery, an old clothes shop.
Frize, a Welch cloth.

From, in opposition to.
Fronted, opposed.
Frontier, forehead.
Frontlet, a forehead cloth.
Frush, to break or bruise.
Fulham, false dice.
Fulsome, obscene.

Furnishings, colours, pretences.
Fustilarian, fusty fellow.
Fulfilling, filling to the brim.
Full, complete.

Fine, the conclusion, to make shewy, Fumiter, fumitory.

artful.

Fine issues, great consequences.

Fineless, boundless, endless.

Furnished, dressed.

G.

Gabardine, a loose cloak.

Fire-drake, will-o'-the-wisp, or a fire- Gain-giving, misgiving.

Finer, final.

Firago, for Virago.

work.

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Glaire, a sword.

Gleek, to joke.

Glib, to geld.
Glooming, gloomy.
Gloze, to expound.
Glut, to swallow.
Gnarled, knotty.

God 'ield you, God yield you.
Gongarian, Hungarian.

Good-deed, indeed.

Good-den, good evening.

Good-jer, the venereal disease.

Gorbellied, corpulent.

Gospelled, puritanic.

Goss, furze.

Gossamer, atoms that float in the sun

beams.

Gourds, dice.

Gouts, drops.

Go your gait, go away.

Grained, furrowed, like the grain of

wood; also, died ingrain."

Gramercy, great thanks.

Grange, a lone farm house
Gratillity, gratuity.
Grats, pleases.

Gratulate, to be rejoiced in.
Grave, to entomb.

Grave-man, a man in his grave.
Graves or Greaves, leg-armour
Greasily, grossly.

Greek, a bawd.

Greenly, unskilfully.
Green-sleeves, an old song.
Grise or Grize, a step.
Grossly, palpably.

Groundlings, those who sat or stood on the ground in the old theatres; the common people.

Guard, to fringe.
Guarded, ornamented.
Guerdon, a reward.
Gules, (in heraldry) red.
Gulf, the swallow, the throat.
Guiled, treacherous.
Guinea-hen, a prostitute.
Gun-stones, cannon balls.
Gurnet, a fish.

Gyve, to shackle.

Gad, a sharp-pointed instrument.

Gust, to taste.

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First-house, chief branch of the family. Galliasses, ships.

Fives, a distemper in horses.

Gallimaufry, a medley.
Gallow, to scare.

Gallow-glasses, Irish foot-soldiers.
Garboils, commotions.

sea-Gaping, shouting.

Garish, gaudy.

Garnered, treasured up.
Gasted, frighted.

Flap-dragon, inflammable stuff swal. Gaudy, a festival.

Fixure, position.

lowed by topers.

Flap-jack, a pancake.

Flaw, a sudden gust of wind.

Flecked, spotted, streaked.

Fleet, for float.

Fleshment, performance.

Flewed, deep-mouthed.

Gaunt, meagre.

Gawd, a bauble.

Gaze, attention.

Gear, things or matters.
Geck, a fool.
General, generality.
Generosity, high birth.

Gyves, shackles.

H.

Hack, to become cheap.
Haggard, wild; also, wild hawk.
Hair, complexion, or character.

Hall! make room.
Happily, accidentally.
Happy, accomplished.
Hardiment, bravery.
Harlocks, wild mustard.
Harlot, a male cheat.
Harness, armour.
Harrows, subdues.
Harry, to harrass.
Having, possessions.
Haviour, behaviour.
Haught, haughty.
Haughty, elevated
Halcyon, a bird.

Hallidon, doom at judgment-day.
Handsaw, hernshaw, (a hawk.)
Hangers, that which suspends the sword
Harlotry, vulgar, filthy.
Hatch, to engrave.
Haunt, company.
Hay, a fencing term.
Heat, heated.
Hebenon, henbane.
Hefted, heaved, agitated.
Hell, a dungeon in a prison.
Helmed, steered through.
Hence, henceforward.
Henchman, a page of honour.
Hent, to seize.
Herb of grace, rue.
Hermits, beadsmen.
Hest, command.
Hight, called.
Hilding, a poltroon.
Hiren, a harlot.

His, often used for its.
Hoar, hoary, mouldy.
Hob-nob, as it may happen.
Hoist, hoisted.

Hold, to esteem.
Hold-taking, bear-handling.
Holla! a term of the manege.
Holy, faithful.

Hoodman-blind, blindman's buff.
Horologe, clock.
Hot-house, a bagnio.
Hox, to ham-string.
Huggermugger, secretly.

Hull, to float without guidance.
Humming, o'erwhelming.
Humorous, humid.
Hungry, unprolific.

Hunt-counter, worthless dog.
Hunts-up, a hunting tune.
Hurly, noise.

Hurtle, to dash against.

Hurtling, boisterous merriment.

Husbandry, thriftiness.
Huswife, a jilt.

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(Indite, to convict.
Induction, preface, prelude
Indurance, delay.
Informal, deranged.
Infinite, extent or power.
Ingaged, unengaged.
Ingraft, rooted.
Inhabitable, not habitable.
Inherit, to possess.
Inhibit, to forbid, decline.
In his eye, in his presence.
Inhooped, inclosed.
Ink-horn mate, a book-mate.
Inkle, worsted tape.
Initiate, young.
Inland, civilized.
Innocent, a fool.
In place, present.

Insane, that which makes insane.
Insanie, insanity.
Insconce, to fortify.
Insculped, engraven.

Inseparate, inseparable.
Instances, motives.
Insuit, solicitation.
Integrity, consistency.
Intend, to pretend.
Intending, regarding.
Intendment, intention.
Intention, eager desire..
Intentively, attentively.

Interessed, interested.

Intergatories, interrogatories.

In that, because.

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Laced mutton, a prostitute.
Lackeying, moving like a lackey
Lag, the rabble.

Lakin, ladykin, or little lady.
Lances, lance-men.
Lands, landing-places.
Land-rakers, wanderers on foot.
Large, licentious.

Lass-lorn, forsaken by his mistress.
Latch, to lay hold of.

Latched or Letched, licked over
Lated, benighted.

Latten, thin as a lath.
Launch, lance.
Laund, lawn.

Laundering, wetting.

Lavoltas, a kind of dances.
Lay, a wager.

Leaguer, a camp.

Leasing, falsehood.

Leather-coats, apples.
Leavened, matured.
Leech, a physician.

Leer, feature, complexion.
Leet, petty court of justice.
Leg, obeisance.

Legerity, nimbleness
Leges, alleges.

Leiger, resident

Leman, a lover or mistress.

Leno, a pander.

Lenten, spare.

Let, to hinder.

Lethe, death.

L'Envoy, end of a poem.

Include, to conclude.

Inclusive, enclosed.

Incompt, subject to account.

Incony or Kony, delicate, pretty.
Incorrect, ill-regulated.
Indent, to sign an indenture.
Index, something preparatory.
Indifferent, impartial.

Indigest, shapeless.

Lifter, a thief.

Light o'love, a dance tune.
Lightly, commonly.
Like, to compare.

Liking, condition of body.
Likelihood, similitude.
Likeness, speciousness.

Limbeck, a vessel used in distilling.
Limbo, a place supposed near hell.
Lime, bird-lime; to cement.

Limited, appointed.

Limits, estimates.

Lined, delineated.

Linstock, the staff to which the match

is fixed when ordnance is fired. List, limit.

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Miser, a miserable being.
Misery, avarice.
Misprised, mistaken.
Misprising, despising.
Missives, messengers.
Mistempered, angry.
Mistful, ready to weep.
Misthink, to think ill.

Mistress, the jack in bowling.

Mo, more.

Mobled, veiled, muffled.
Model, mould.

Modern, new-fangled.
Modesty, moderation.
Module, model.

Moe, to make mouths.
Moiety, a portion.
Moist star, the moon.
Mollification, softening.
Mome, a blockhead.
Momentany, momentary.
Monster, to make monstrous..

Month's mind, a popish anniversary.
Mood, anger, manner.
Moody, melancholy.
Moonish, variable.

Mops and Moes, ludicrous anticks.
Moral, secret meaning.

Morisco, Moorish.

Morris-pike, Moorish pike.

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Odd-even, the interval between twelve
at night and one in the morning.
Od's-pitikins, God me pity.
Oeliads, glances of the eye.
O's, circles, pockmarks.
Obligations, bonds.
Obsequious, funereal.
Observation, celebration.
Obstacle, obstinate.

Mort of the deer, a tune on the death Occurrents, incidents.

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Much, strange, wonderful.
Muck-water, drain of a dunghill.
Muffler, & wrapper for the lower part

of the face.

Muleters, muleteers.
Mulled, softened.

Multiplied, multitudinous.
Multiplying, multiplied.

Multitudinous, full of multitudes.

Mure, a wall.

Murky, dark.

Must, a scramble

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Occupation, mechanics.

O'er-raught, over-reached.

O'ercrow, overcome.

O'erlooked, fascinated.

Of, through.

Offering, the assailant.
Office, service.

Offices, culinary apartments.
Of all loves, by all means.
Old, frequent.

Old age, ages past.
Once, sometime.
Oneyers, bankers.
Opal, a precious stone.
Operant, active.

Opinion, obstinacy, conceit.
Opposite, adverse.

mea-Opposition, combat.
Or e'er, before.
Orbs, fairy circles.
Orchard, a garden.
Ordinance, rank.
Order, measures.
Orgulous, haughty.
Osprey, an eagle.

Ostent, ostentation, appearance.

Ostentation, appearance.

Overblow, to drive away.

Overscutched, whipped at a cart's.

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Nick, to set the mark of folly on; rec- Palabras, words.

koning.

Night-rule, frolic of the night.

Nighted, made dark as night.

Pale, dominions.

Pale, to encircle with a crown.

Pall, to wrap, to invest.

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