GLOSSARY.

A.

Abace, in the two old quartos; but in the folios Abase, to lower,

to let fall.

Aband, to abandon.

Abash, to terrify, make ashamed.

Abear, to bear, carry, demean, behave.

Abet, to vindicate, and, to maintain.

Abide, Aby, Abyde, to abide, suffer, endure.

Abjected, thrown down.

Abode, staying, or delay.

Abraid, awake, awoke.

Abray out of sleep, raise, awake. Abrayd, awaked.

Abusion, fraud, abuse.

Abye, abide by.

Accloy, to cloy, fill up. Accloyes, chokes up, fills up.

Accorage, to encourage.

According, granting.

Accoste, to approach.

Accosting, in falconry, to crouch or stoop.

Account, tell over.

Accoy'd, soothed, appeased.

Accoyled, stood around, gathered together.

Accrewed, increased, united, collected.

-Achates, 1st and 2d quartos. The folios Cates, i. e. provisions. Acquit, released.

Acrates, intemperance.

Adaw, to daunt. Sometimes signifies to abate.

Addeme, adjudge, deem.

Address, to dress, prepare, order, make ready.
Admirance, admiration.

Adoe, business.

Adore, for adorn.

Adorne (substantively), adorning, ornament.
Adredd, Adrad, frightened, to be afraid, to dread.

Advance, to hasten, to set forward.

Advaunce, to recommend.

Advaunced, incited, inflamed.

Advewed, considered.

Advise, to consult, deliberate, consider.

Advisement, counsel, advice, circumspection.

Adward, award, judgment, sentence.

Aery, a hawk's-nest.

Affeare, to frighten.

Affect, affection, passion.

Affrap, to encounter, to strike down.

Affray, terror, tumult. To Affray, to terrify.

Affrended, made friends.

Affret, rencounter, hasty meeting.

Affronting, opposing front to front; meeting face to face.

Affy, betroth. Affide, betrothed, affianced.

Aggrace, favour, kindness.

Aggrate, to gratify, to please.

Aghast, frightened, astonished.

Aglets, see Aygulets.

Agraste, did so much aggrace; showed so much grace and favour.
Agrise, to dread and fear greatly; to astonish, to give abhorrence.
Aguise, to put on an appearance; to set off after a new manner.
Albe, albeit, although.

Algates, by all means, any way, wholly, nevertheless.
All, altogether, wholly; also used for although.

Amate. 1. to subdue, to daunt, to distress, to terrify. 2. To

associate with, to keep company.

Amearsd, fined.

Amenage, manage, carriage.

Amenaunce, carriage, behaviour.

Amis, apparel, garment.

Amoves, moves; the particle a is added.

Annoyes, annoyances, injury, mischief, hurt.

Anticks, antique odd figures of men, beasts, birds, &c.

Apall, to discourage, daunt, terrify.

Apay, to pay, content, satisfy, require.

Appeach, impeach, accuse, censure.

Appele, it seems to be used for accuse.

Arabic or Araby, Arabia.

Arborett, a flowering shrub.

Aread, Areed, show, advise, declare, tell.

Areare, backwards; a lagging or backward pace.

Areeds, advices, discourses.

Arew, in a row together, all together.

Arke, chest or coffer.

Arraught, did reach, seize on; reached, snatched, seized.

Array, order, apparel, dress.

Arere, backward.

Arret, sometimes signifies decree.

Askaunce, to look askance, enviously, obliquely, sideways, awry.

Aslake, to appease.

Aspects, appearances.

Assay, proof, trial, attempt, attack.

Assoile, to free, to quit. Assoiled, absolved, discharged.
Assot, to besot, deceive, make a fool of.

Assotted, stupefied.

Assynd, marked out.

Astart, to startle.

Astond, astound, astonished.

Atchievement, enterprise, or performance.

At earst, instantly.

Ate, did eat.

Atone, i. e. friends again, at one; Atoned, reconciled.

Attacht, apprehended, laid hold on,

Attaint, it did attaint; it seemed to absorb it, and to put it out

by its superior splendor.

Attempter, tempter,

Attente, most heedfully.

Attonce, once for all; at one and the same time.

Attone, bereaved, taken away altogether.

Attrapt, attrapped, adorned.

Atween, between.

Avale, to lower, abate, bring down, descend.

Avaunting, vaunting, the a superadded. According to Hughes it signifies advancing.

Avenge, vengeance. Avengement, revenge.

Aventured, it seems to be of the same signification with couched.

Avize, Avyse, Avise, to perceive, to consider.

To behold, to ob

Aye, ever.

Aygulets, tagged points.

B.

Bace, low, the lower parts, the bottom.
Bad, asked, entreated, prayed.
Baffuld, baffled, beat, defeated.

Baile, power, a limit, a bound.
Bains, banns.

Baisemains, compliments, respects.

Bale, evil, mischief, misery, sorrow, burden.

Baleful, sorrowful, unfortunate, full of harm.

Balke, to disappoint, baffle, frustrate.

Bannerall, a little flag worn by knights on the top of their lances. Bannes, curses. To Ban, to curse. Band, did curse.

Barbed, embossed, adorned as the trappings.

Barbes, bosses or ornaments in the trappings of a horse.
Barbican, an outer-work, gate, or watch-tower.

Base, unto the base, below, bottom.

Bases, any coverings for the legs.

Basen, as, Big looks basen wide [Mother Hubbard's Tale ] i. e.

extended as with wonder.

Basenet, a helmet.

Bashed, abashed.

Basted, wrought, slightly, sewed.

Bate, did beat, Hughes. Did bite, Upton.

Battill, to grow fat.

Bauldrick, a belt; Bauldrick of the heavens, the zodiack, in which are the twelve signs.

Bay, to bark, Faery Queene, Book i. Canto 7. Stanza 3. it signifies to bathe, cherish, or foment. To hold or keep at bay, is the hunter's phrase of the stag, when the hounds are baying, or barking at him.

Bayt, to rest.

Beacon, a raised building of combustible matter, to be fired in order to give notice to distant people of invasions. Upton. Beadmen, prayer-men.