Carl, carlot, churl, clown, vi. 349 Carlot, carl, churl, clown, ii. 407 Carpet-knights, effeminate men, ii, 699 Carping, or capering, iii. 380 Carriage, or courage, iv. 143. 674 Carry out a side, to win a game, to succeed, v. 720
Carve, to court while carving, i. 181 Case, the skin of an animal, exterior,
ii. 590. 717; iii. 95
Case of lives, two lives, iii. 577 Caske, or casket, iv. 69
Cassock, a horseman's coat, ii. 604 Castiliano vulgo, ii. 646
Castle, or helmet, iv. 580; v. 47 Cataian, liar, thief, cheat, native of China, i. 192; ii. 667 Cates, cakes, dainties, ii. 475 Cats, the dislike of, ii. 323. 605 Cats, the Prince of, v. 137 Caudle, hempen, a halter, iv. 89 Cautelous, cautious, wary, v. 318 Censer in a barber's shop, ii. 507 Censer, man in a, iii. 526
Censure, opinion, judgment, sentence, i. 279; iv. 20. 269. 364 Censurer, or counsellor, vi. 42
Cess, out of all, out of all measure or
calculation, iii. 342
Cesse, to cease, ii. 619
Chains, by whom worn, ii. 26. 669 Chambers, small pieces of artillery, iii. 461. 575; iv. 384 Champain, open country, ii. 681 Changeling, a child changed by Fairies, or Gypsies, iii. 61
Chape, hook of a dagger, ii. 487. 603 Character, description, hand-writing, iii. 59; v. 649
Character, to write, v. 491
Charactery, any thing written, v. 323 Characts, marks, inscriptions, i. 340 Chares, offices, duties, vi. 234 Charge-house, or large house, ii. 149 Charm, to enchant, to bewitch, ii. 235; v. 322; vi. 268
Charm, enchantment, witchery, vi. 224 Charm your tongue, be silent, a phrase, iii. 78; vi. 120
Charmer, enchantress, witch, vi. 82 Charneco, a kind of wine, iv. 39 Chase, a term at tennis, iii. 554
Chattels, goods, iv. 428 Chaudron, entrails, v. 433 Cheater, escheator, i. 182; iii. 462 Cheers, or chats, iv. 636 Cherry-pit, a game, ii. 696 Cheveril, kid-skin, iv. 399; v. 139 Cheveril gloves, kid gloves, ii. 688 Chewet, or suet, iii. 403 Childing, productive, ii. 202 Choice, or chiefe, v. 491
Chopine, Venetian high-shoe, v. 523 Chopping French, iii. 303
Church Ales, holy ales, vi. 387 Cide, to decide, vi. 611 Cinque-pace, a dance, ii. 22 Cital, a recital, iii. 408 Cite, to incite, i. 112 Clack-dish of beggars, i. 314
Clear stories, in architecture, ii. 707 Clepe, to call, to name, v. 419. 495; vi. 515
Cliff, or cleft, iv. 574 Cling, to starve, v. 458
Clip, to embrace, i. 65; iii. 106. 194; iv. 71. 687; vi. 220. 503 Cloths, painted, common coloured hang- ings, iv. 594
Clout, the mark, or white in archery, iii. 477; v. 707
Clouted brogues, strong and heavy nailed shoes, vi.
Clubs! an exclamation for help, ii. 422 ; iii. 663; v. 24
Coach-fellow, or couch-fellow, i. 196 Coals, carrying, pocketing wrongs, iii. 578; v. 100
Coast, to approach sidelong, vi. 511 Coasting, or occasion, iv. 562
Cobloaf, a small round loaf, iv. 507 Cock, a cock-boat, v. 705
Cock and pie, by, an asseveration, i.
Cockney, a person cockered, ii. 704 Cockney, a cook, or dish, v. 663
Coffin, custard, the crust round a cus-
tard, ii. 506; v. 82
Cog, to deceive, to cheat, ii. 159 Colbrand, the giant, iii. 132 Collied, black, coaled, ii. 191 Collied, or quelled, vi. 53 Collier, a term of abuse, ii. 696 Coloquintida, colocynth, vi. 34
Colours, to fear no, to feel no alarm,
Colt, to trick, to fool, iii. 346 Co-mart, a treaty, a bargain, v. 476 Combined, bound, restrained, i. 333 Combinate, contracted, i. 309 Comforting, abetting, supporting, iii. 43 Comma, connexion, v. 596
Commend, to take upon, to take upon commendation, ii. 384 Commends, recommends, vi. 327 Common and several, ii. 114 Compact, in concert with, v. 655 Compact, made up, composed, vi. 490 Companion, a fellow, ii. 600. 694; iv. 684; v. 358; vi. 102. 285 Compassed window, a bay or bow- window, iv. 488
Competitor, a confederate, a rival, ii. 707; vi. 148
Comply, to compliment, iv. 333; v. 521. 601
Compt, account, v. 230
Comptible, accountable, liable or sub- ject to, ii. 656
Compulsative, compulsatory, v. 477 Conclusions, experiments, vi. 252. 274 Concolinel, a tune, ii. 116
Condition, habit, temperament, vi. 232 Coney-catching, cheating, defrauding, i. 173; ii. 491. 518
Confiscate, or confiscated, iv. 188 Confound, to mingle, to lose, i. 370 Congreeing, agreeing together, iii. 552 Conjunctive, united, v. 579 Consist, to stand, vi. 403 Consort, concert, i. 136; v. 149 Consort, to associate with, to keep com- pany, i. 369; iv. 290 Construe, or conster, ii. 684 Contain, to retain, ii. 343
Contaminate, or contaminated, iii. 616 Contemptible, contemptuous, ii. 37 Con thanks, to give thanks, a colloquial phrase, ii. 603; v. 275 Continuate, or convenient, vi. 86 Contraction, marriage contract, v. 555 Contrive, to spend, or pass, ii. 469; vi. 667
Convented, collected, iii. 167; iv. 445 Convey, to steal, to cheat, to defraud, i. 180; iii. 291. 548
Conveyance, stealing, fraud, artifice, iii. 660; iv. 172
Convince, to overcome, to conquer, ii. 174; v. 403. 445; vi. 88. 272. 398 Convince, to convict, iv. 514 Convive, to feast together, iv. 569 Copatain hat, a conical hat, ii. 517 Cope, covering, vi. 278. 454
Cope, to cheap, to deal, to traffic, to bargain, ii. 334
Cophetua, King, and the Beggar, a ballad, ii. 105
Coranto, a dance, ii. 562. 649; iii. 586 Corky, dry, hard, shrivelled, v. 689 Costard, the head, ii. 118; v. 712 Cote, to overtake, v. 519 Counsel, secresy, i. 172 Counsellor, or courtier, v. 118 Counter, to hunt, to hunt on a wrong scent, v. 573
Counterfeit, portrait, likeness, v. 281 Counterpoints, counterpanes, ii. 481 Couples for dogs, iv. 502
Court cupboard, a buffet, v. 120 Court holy water, flattery, v. 672 Court of guard, iii. 670; vi. 43. 54 Coverture, or overture, iv. €26 Cower, to bend, to sink, vi. 445 Coy, to stroke, to caress, ii. 233; vi. 488 Coystril, a kestrel, a bastard hawk, ii. 646; vi. 455
Cozier's catches, botchers', or cobblers'
Crack, a boy, a child, iii. 476; iv. 614 Crack-hemp, a term of abuse, ii. 516 Crants, garlands, v. 592
Crare, or crayer, a small ship, bark, or vessel, vi. 336
Credent, credible, plausible, creditable, i. 336; iii. 21
Credit, a thing believed, ii. 710 Cressets, blazing lights, iii. 369 Cressid's uncle, Pandarus, ii. 554 Crone, an old woman, iii. 44 Crosby House, or Place, iv. 237. 281 Crosses, pieces of money with crosses upon them, ii. 103; iii. 441 Cross-gartering, a fashion, ii. 680 Crow-keeper, a clumsy ungainly bow- man, v. 115. 707
Crowing of the French cock, iii. 197 Crown, or cow, iv. 459
Cruel, or quarrel, iv. 398
Crumbs to rub chains, ii. 669 Crush a cup, to drink a cup, v. 111 Crush'd, compelled, forced, iii. 552 Cruzadoes, Portuguese coins, vi. 81 Cry aim, to encourage, to incite, i. 207. 212; iii. 140
Cue, the tail, or end of a speech, ii. 215; iv. 289
Culpable, or capable, iv. 452 Cunning, knowledge, v. 288; vi. 430 Cunning, skill, v. 583
Cupid and Death, the fable of, vi. 513 Curds and cream at farm-houses, i. 207 Curiosity, scrupulousness, particulari- ty, v. 628
Cursorary, cursory, iii. 638
Curtains, the, in our old play-houses,
Curtal, a docked horse, ii. 562 Curtle-ax, a cutlass, ii. 369 Custard, leaping into a, ii. 573 Customer, a prostitute, a whoremon- ger, vi. 91
Cut, a docked horse, ii. 671
Cut and long-tail, probably dogs of all kinds, i. 222
Cut a purse, to pick a pocket, iii. 67 Cyprus, crape, ii. 686
Daggers, of old, worn by women, v. 181 Dagonet, Sir, in King Arthur's Show, iii. 483
Damascus and Cain, iii. 661 Dancing horse of Banks, ii. 103 Danger, to stand within, to be indebted
Dare, bare, or blear, vi. 288 Daring larks, dazzling them, iv. 426 Darkling, in the dark, ii. 210 Darraign, to prepare for battle, iv. 143 Dates used in old cookery, iv. 492 Daub, to cover, conceal, v. 694 Days, to take no longer, a phrase, v. 63 Day-woman, dairy-woman, ii. 106 Dead, to do, to kill, iv. 132 Deal, part, portion, share, vi. 687 Dear, injurious, ii. 714
Dear, or dire, ii. 178; v. 286. 485
Dearn, dark, lonely, dreary, dismal,
v. 90; vi. 424
Death, an antick, iii. 267
Debauch'd, deboist, or debosh'd, i. 54; ii. 565; v. 641
Deceivable, deceptive, ii. 711; iii. 257 Deck, a pack of cards, iv. 197 Deck, to sprinkle, i. 21
Decline, to reduce, to lower, v. 261 Decline, to incline to, to turn toward, i. 389
Defend, to forbid, ii. 23; iv. 299 Deftly, dexterously, cleverly, v. 434 Defy, to refuse, to reject, iii. 168 Dejectitude, or directitude, iv. 690 Delations, informations, vi. 66 Demerits, merits, iv. 610; vi. 18 Demonstrance, or remonstrance, i. 351 Denay, a denial, ii. 675 Denay, to deny, iv. 20
Den, good, good-even or good-day, ii.
45; iii. 131; iv. 632; v. 172 Denier, the 12th part of a sous, iv. 239 Depart, to part, to separate, ii. 112 Descant, variation in music, i. 97; iv. 298; vi. 561
Design, to point out, to designate, to show, iii. 225
Despiteously, pitilessly, v. 73
Detect, to display, to discover, iv. 146 Devils, roaring, in old plays, iii. 615 Dich, do it, v. 223
Diet, to take, to be under a regimen, to fast, i. 103; ii. 624
Diffuse, to disorder, confuse, make strange, i. 239; v. 634
Dildos and fadings, the burdens of old ballads, iii. 76
Disable, to underrate, ii. 409 Disappointed, unprepared, v. 500 Discandying, melting, vi. 209 Disclaim in, to disclaim, v. 653 Disclose, to hatch, v. 594 Discolourers, painters of faces, iv. 571 Diseases or degrees, iii. 441 Dismes, tens, iv. 511 Disposed to be wanton, ii. 115 Disposed, composed, vi. 230 Dissolve, to determine, vi. 209 Distilled, or bechilled, v. 486 Doff, to do of, to put off, ii. 37 Doits, small coins, vi. 225
Dole, happy man be his, share, or por- tion, i. 223; ii. 457; iii. 22. 348 Dole, dealing, distribution, iii. 432 Dollars and dolours, i. 269
Don, to do on, to put on, v. 571 Doubtfully, or doubly, i. 374
Do withall, I could not, I could not help it, ii. 319
Dowle, down, plume, i. 61 Dreams, John a-, v. 527 Drench, or dregs of a storm, i. 46 Dress'd, addressed, prepared, iv. 499 Dribbling, or dribbing, i. 274
Drum, John, his Entertainment, ii. 588 Drumble, to dawdle, to be slow, i. 218 Ducdame, or duc ad me, ii. 379 Dudgeon, handle, v. 405 ·
Dug, or dung, vi. 239
Dullard, dolt, simpleton, vi. 369 Dumb, to silence, vi. 151
Dump, a sad tune or song, i. 136; ii.
34; v. 187; vi. 561
Dun's the mouse, a phrase, v. 116
Eager, sour, sharp, biting, iv. 157; v.
Eaning time, birth-time, vi. 435
Ear, to plough or till, ii. 543; iii. 269; iv. 716; vi. 148. 483. 592 Ear-bussing, kissing, or buzzing, v. 647 Eche, for eke, vi. 424 Eftest, readiest, easiest, ii. 66 Egal, equal, v. 67
Eggs for money, taking, iii. 21
Eld, old age, i. 238. 303 ; iv. 513 Element, initiation, qualification,iv.365 Emballing, or empaling, iv. 399 Embarquements, or embarguements, impediments, iv. 629
Embossed, foaming at the mouth, ii. 444. 490; vi. 225 Embroided, embroidered, iii. 76 Empyric physic, or emperick-qutique, quackery, iv. 633
Emulation, or exultation, iv. 608 Enactures, or enactors, v. 542 Encharmed, enchanted, v. 107 End, and there an, a phrase, iii. 558 Engaged, or incaged, iii. 400
Enginer, engineer, v. 561 Enmew, to mew up, i. 305 Ensconce, to shelter, to hide, i. 217; vi. 572
Enseamed, greasy, sweaty, v. 556 Ensign, or Ancient, the colours, or the bearer of them, v. 369
Entreat, to treat, to use, iii. 262; iv. 43 Envoy, or Lenvoy, ii. 118
Envy, hatred, and to hate, ii. 322; iv. 624. 671; v. 319 Escoted, paid, v. 520 Esil, or eysel, vineyar, v. 594 Esperance, hope, v. 692
Essay, or assay, to try, iv. 133 Even, or to win, ii. 542
Even Christian, fellow Christian, v. 586 Ever among so merrily, the burden of a ballad, iii. 521
Everlasting garment, an, i. 400 Evils, or offals, i. 293
Excrement, beard, hair, iii. 93; v. 558
Exempt, separated, taken away, i. 381
Exercise, religious instruction, iv. 286 Exhibition, allowance, i. 101 Exigent, end, extremity, iii. 682 Expedience, expedition, speed, haste, iii. 322. 611; v. 141
Expedient, expeditious, iii. 136. 239; iv. 53. 238
Expediently, expeditiously, ii. 387 Expiate, expired, finished, concluded, iv. 287; vi. 600
Exposure, or exposture, iv. 677 Exsufflicate, puffed up, vi. 69
Extemporal performances, v. 522 Extend, to seize, vi. 141
Extent, or ostent, v. 521
Extract, taken away, iv. 499 Extraught, extracted, iv. 146 Extravagant, wandering, vi. 16 Eyases, young hawks, v. 520 Eyas-musket, a young, little, nestling hawk, i. 215
Eye, a slight shade of colour, a small quantity, i. 36; v. 493
Eyes, green, admired, i. 151; v. 173 Eyry, a nest, v. 520
Eysel, or esil, vinegar, vi. 639
Falcon, a female hawk, iv. 532 Fadge, to suit, to answer, ii. 151. 663 Fair, fairness, beauty, i. 375; ii. 124. 192.390; vi. 518
Faitour, a vagabond, a rascal, iii. 464 Fall, to let fall, to drop, i. 43; iii. 280; vi. 95
False Steward, the, a ballad, v. 575 Fancies and good-nights, iii. 484 Fancies, the humour of forty, ii. 488 Fancy, love, ii. 238; iii. 86; vi. 661 Fangled, new-fangled, vi. 358 Fap, drunk, fuddled, i. 175 Farced, tumid, stuffed, filled, iii. 604; iv. 572; v. 456 Fashion-mongering, ii. 71 Fashions, the farcins, in horses, ii. 487 Fast and loose, a game, vi. 224 Favour, countenance, look, ii. 672; iii.
106. 286; v. 313; vi. 34. 363. 469 Fear, to alarm, to frighten, iii. 504; iv. 174; vi. 171. 518
Fearful, terrible, i. 33 Feat, neat, nice, vi. 363. 660 Feated, made feat or nice, vi. 261 Fecks, i', in faith, or in fact, iii. 19 Feeders, servants, vi. 207
Feeding, breeding, bringing up, iii. 75 Fee-farm, for ever, freehold, iv. 532 Feere, a companion, wife, v. 56; vi. 388 Fell, the skin, ii. 149
Fellow, a companion, ii. 694
Feodary, confederate, accomplice, i. 300; iii. 35; vi. 305 Fern-seed, for invisibility, iii. 345 Fet, fetch'd, iii. 576
Fetch, a contrivance, v. 506
Fico, a fig, i. 180
Fig, the Spanish, iii. 524
Fil'd, defiled, v. 418
File, list, rank, v. 419
Fills, or phills, shafts, iv. 532
Fine, to conclude, to end, vi. 555
Fine, or line, iii. 548.
Finsbury, or Lipsbury, pinfold, v. 652
Firago, or virago, ii. 700
Fire-drake, a fire-work, iv. 460 Fitchew, a polecat, vi. 92
Fits, old divisions in ballads, iv. 527
Five wits, the, the five senses, v. 117. 678; vi. 652
Fives, the vives, in horses, ii. 487
Fixure, or fixture, iv. 497 Flap-dragon, ii. 148; iii. 61. 467 Flap-jacks, pancakes, vi. 409
Flaw, a gust of wind, iv. 55. 708; v.
426. 592; vi. 427. 499
Flew'd, chapped like hounds, ii. 237 Flecked, spotted, dappled, v. 134 Fleet, to float, vi. 209 Fleshed, having tasted flesh, iv. 314 Flight arrows, for distance, ii. 10 Float, or flote, a wave, i. 24 Florentius' love, ii. 463 Flouted, scorned, derided, iv. 263 Flush as May, v. 552
Foison, plenty, abundance, i. 39. 278; v. 444; vi. 176. 614 Followers, suitors, vi. 314
Fond, foolish, silly, weak, i. 342; ii.
228. 316. 373; iii. 298. 496; iv. 45; v. 35; vi. 41
Fools, clothed in motley, iv. 361 Fools, the begging of, i. 373 Foot, to grasp in the talons, vi. 357 Foot-cloth, housing for horses, iv. 87 Footed, landed, v. 676
Force not, care not for, value not, ii. 165; vi. 558
Force of, of necessity, compulsorily, ii.
Force perforce, of mere necessity, un- avoidably, iii. 502
Force, or farce, to stuff, to fill, to cram, iv. 523. 572
Fordo, to destroy, v. 592; vi. 113
Foreslow, to delay, iv. 149
Forfeits in barbers' shops, i. 348
Forfend, to forbid, iii. 285
Forked heads, a kind of arrows, ii. 370
Formal, regular, sensible, not deranged,
Forspoke, spoken against, vi. 193
Forthy, therefore, vi. 405
Fox, a sword, iii. 614
Fox, the hid, or the kid fox, ii. 33 Frampold, uncomfortable, disagreeable, troublesome, i. 199
French falconers, v. 523 Fretten, fretted, ii. 325
Freke, a fellow, v. 68
Frank, a sty, or fatting-place, iii. 456; iv. 249. 592
Fray, to alarm, frighten, ii. 609
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