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.

178; iii. 513

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,

ii. 651; iii. 529

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'

songs, ii. 668

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

Cruel, worsted, v. 659

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,

i. 355; iv. 394

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

to a person, ii. 328

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 ·

Due, to endue, iii. 708

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.

494. 500

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

Eyen, eyes, i. 116

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.

334; iii. 84. 352

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,

ii. 679; vi. 167

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