SHAKESPEARIAN GLOSSARY

ABATE           to shorten
                To cast down
                To blunt
ABATEMENT       diminution
ABHOR           protest; disgust
ABIDE           to sojourn
                to expiate
ABLE            to uphold
ABRIDGEMENT     a short play
ABROAD          away, apart
ABROOK          to brook, abide
ABSEY-BOOK      a primer
ABSOLUTE        positive, certain
                Complete
ABUSE           to deceive
ABUSE           deception
ABY             to expiate a fault
ABYSM           abyss
ACCITE          to cite, summon
ACCUSE          accusation
ACHIEVE         to obtain
ACKNOWN         'to be acknown' is to acknowledge
ACQUITTANCE     a receipt or discharge
ACTION-TAKING   litigious
ACTURE          action
ADDITION        title, attribute
ADDRESS         to prepare oneself
ADDRESSED       prepared
ADVANCE         to prefer, promote to honour
ADVERTISEMENT   admonition
ADVERTISING     attentive
ADVICE          consideration, discretion
ADVISE          sometimes neuter, sometimes reflective, to
                consider, reflect
ADVISED         considerate
ADVOCATION      pleading, advocacy
AFEARED         afraid
AFFECT          to love
AFFY            to affiance
                To trust
AFRONT          in front
AGAZED          looking in amazement
AGLET-BABY      the small figure engraved on a jewel
AGNISE          to acknowledge, confess
A-GOOD          a good deal, plenteously
A-HOLD          a sea-term
AIERIE          the nest of a bird of prey
AIM             a guess
ALDER-LIEFEST   most loved of all
ALE             alehouse
ALLOW           to approve
ALLOWANCE       approval
AMES-ACE        two aces, the lowest throw of the dice
AMORT           dead, dejected
AN              if
ANCHOR          an anchorite, hermit
ANCIENT         an ensign-bearer
ANGEL           a coin, so called because it bore the image of
                an angel
ANIGHT          by night
ANSWER          retaliation
ANTHROPOPHAGINIAN       a cannibal
ANTICK          the fool in the old plays
ANTRE           a cave
APPARENT        heir-apparent
APPEAL          accusation
APPEAL          to accuse
APPEARED        made apparent
APPLE-JOHN      a kind of apple
APPOINTMENT     preparation
APPREHENSION    opinion
APPREHENSIVE    apt to apprehend or understand
APPROBATION     probation
APPROOF         approbation, proof
APPROVE         to prove
                To justify, make good
APPROVER        one who proves or tries
ARCH            chief
ARGAL           a ridiculous word intended for the Latin ergo
ARGENTINE       silver
ARGIER          Algiers
ARGOSY          originally a vessel of Ragusa or Ragosa, a
                Ragosine; hence any ship of burden
ARGUMENT        subject
ARMIGERO        a mistake for Armiger, the Latin for Esquire
AROINT          found only in the imperative mood, get thee
                gone
A-ROW           in a row
ARTICULATE      to enter into articles of agreement
                to exhibit in articles
ASK             to require
ASPECT          regard, looks
ASPERSION       sprinkling; hence blessing, because before the
                Reformation benediction was generally accompanied
                by the sprinkling of holy water
ASSAY           attempt
ASSAY           to attempt, test, make proof of
ASSINEGO        an ass
ASSUBJUGATE     to subjugate
ASSURANCE       deed of assurance
ASSURED         betrothed
ATOMY           an atom
                Used in contempt of a small person
ATONE           to put people at one, to reconcile
                to agree
ATTACH          to seize, lay hold on
ATTASKED        taken to task, reprehended
ATTEND          to listen to
ATTENT          attentive
ATTORNEY        an agent
ATTORNEY        to employ as an agent
                To perform by an agent
AUDACIOUS       spirited, daring, but without any note of blame
                attached to it
AUGUR           augury
AUTHENTIC       clothed with authority
AVAUNT          int. be gone, a word of abhorrence
AVE             the Latin for hail; hence acclamation
AVE-MARY        the angelic salutation addressed to the Blessed
                Virgin Mary
AVERRING        confirming
AVOID           get rid of
AWFUL           worshipful
AWKWARD         contrary


BACCARE         keep back
BACKWARD        the hinder part; hence, when applied to time,
                the past
BAFFLE          embarrass
BALKED          heaped, as on a ridge
BALLOW          a cudgel
BALM            the oil of consecration
BAN             to curse
BANK            to sail by the banks
BARM            yeast
BARN            a child
BARNACLE        a shellfish, supposed to produce the sea-bird
                of the same name
BASE            a game, sometimes called Prisoners' base
BASES           an embroidered mantle worn by knights on
                horseback, and reaching from the middle to
                below the knees
BASILISK        a kind of ordnance
BASTA           enough
BASTARD         raisin wine
BATE            to flutter, as a hawk
BATE            to except
                To abate
BAT-FOWLING     catching birds with a clap-net by night
BATLET          a small bat, used for beating clothes
BATTLE          army
BAVIN           used as an a piece of waste wood, applied
                contemptuously to anything worthless

BAWCOCK         a fine fellow
BAWD            procurer
BAY             the space between the main timbers of the roof
BEADSMAN        one who bids bedes, that is, prays prayers
                for another
BEARING-CLOTH   a rich cloth in which children were wrapt at
                their christening
BEAT            to flutter as a falcon, to meditate, consider
                earnestly
BEAVER          the lower part of a helmet
BEETLE          a mallet
BEING           dwelling
BEING           since, inasmuch as
BE-METE         to measure
BE-MOILED       daubed with dirt
BENDING         stooping under a weight
BENVENUTO       (Italian), welcome
BERGOMASK       a rustic dance
BESHREW         evil befal
BESTRAUGHT      distraught, distracted
BETEEM          to pour out
BETID           happened
BEZONIAN        a beggarly fellow
BIDING          abiding-place
BIGGEN          a night-cap
BILBERRY        the whortleberry
BILBO           a sword, from Bilboa, a town in Spain where
                they were made
BILBOES         fetters or stocks
BILL            a bill-hook, a weapon
BIN             been, are
BIRD-BOLT       a bolt to be shot from a crossbow at birds
BIRDING         part. hawking at partridges
BISSON          blind
BLANK           the white mark in the middle of a target;
                hence, metaphorically, that which is aimed at
BLENCH          to start aside, flinch
BLENT   blended
BLOOD-BOLTERED  smeared with blood
BLOW            to inflate
BOARD           to make advances to; accost
BOB             a blow, metaph. a sarcasm
BOB             to strike, metaph. to ridicule, or to obtain
                        by raillery
BODGE           to botch, bungle
BODIKIN         a corrupt word used as an oath. 'Od's Bodikin,'
                God's little Body
BOITIER VERT    green box
BOLD            to embolden
BOLLEN          swollen
BOLTED          sifted, refined
BOLTER          a sieve
BOLTING-HUTCH   a hutch in which meal was sifted
BOMBARD         a barrel, a drunkard
BOMBAST         padding
BONA-ROBA       a harlot
BOND            that to which one is bound
BOOK            a paper of conditions
BOOT            help, use
BOOT            to help, to avail
BOOTLESS        without boot or advantage, useless
BOOTS           bots, a kind of worm
BORE            calibre of a gun; hence, metaph. size, weight,
                        importance
BOSKY           covered with underwood
BOSOM           wish, heart's desire
BOTS            worms which infest horses
BOURN           a boundary
                A brook
BRACE           armour for the arm, state of defence
BRACH           a hound bitch
BRAID           deceitful
BRAVE           handsome, well-dressed
BRAVE           boast
BRAVERY         finery
                Boastfulness
BRAWL           a kind of dance
BREAST          voice
BREATHE         to exercise
BREATHING       exercising
BREECHING       liable to be whipt
BREED-BATE      a breeder of debate, a fomenter of quarrels
BREESE          the gadfly
BRIBE-BUCK      a buck given away in presents
BRING           to attend one on a journey
BROCK           a badger, a term of contempt
BROKE           to act as a procurer
BROKEN          having lost some teeth by age
BROKEN MUSIC    the music of stringed instruments
BROKER          an agent
BROTHERHOOD     trading company
BROWNIST        a sectary, a follower of Brown, the founder
                of the Independents
BRUIT           noise, report, rumour
BRUIT           to noise abroad
BRUSH           rude assault
BUCK            suds or lye for washing clothes in
BUCK-BASKET     the basket in which clothes are carried to the
                wash
BUCKING         washing
BUCK-WASHING    washing in lye
BUG             a bugbear, a spectre
BULLY-ROOK      a bragging cheater
BURGONET        a kind of helmet
BURST           to break
BUSKY           bushy
BUTT-SHAFT      a light arrow for shooting at a target

BUXOM           obedient
BY'RLAKIN       by our little Lady: an oath


CADDIS          worsted galloon, so called because it resembles
                the caddis-worm
CADE            a cask or barrel
CAGE            a prison
CAIN-COLOURED   red (applied to hair)
CAITIFF         a captive, a slave; hence, a witch
CALCULATE       prophesy
CALIVER         a hand-gun
CALLET          a trull
CALLING         appellation
CALM            qualm
CAN             to know, be skillful in
CANAKIN         a little can
CANARY          a wine brought from the Canary Islands
CANDLE-WASTERS  persons who sit up all night to drink
CANKER          a caterpillar
                The dog-rose
CANSTICK        a candlestick
CANTLE          a slice, corner
CANTON          a canto
CANVAS          to sift: hence, metaphorically, to prove
CAPABLE         subject to
                Intelligent
                Capable of inheriting
                Ample, capacious
CAPITULATE      make a combined force
CAPOCCHIA       a simpleton
CAPRICIO        caprice
CAPRICIOUS      lascivious
CAPTIOUS        capacious
CARACK          a large ship of burden
CARBONADO       meat scotched for broiling
CARBONADO       to scotch for broiling
CARD            the taper on which the points of the compass
                are marked under the mariner's needle
CAREIRE         the curvetting of a horse
CARKANET        a necklace
CARL            a churl
CARLOT          a churl
CASTILIAN       a native of Castile; used as a cant term
CASTILIANO VULGO   a cant term, meaning, apparently, to use discreet
                language
CATAIAN         a native of Cathay, a cant word
CATLING         cat-gut
CAUTEL          deceit
CAUTELOUS       insidious
CAVALERO        a cavalier, gentleman
CAVIARE         the roe of sturgeon pickled; metaph. a delicacy
                not appreciated by the vulgar
CEASE           decease
CEASE           put off, made to cease
CENSURE         judgment
CENSURE         to judge, criticise
CENTURY         a hundred of anything, whether men, prayers, or
                anything else
CEREMONY        a ceremonial vestment, religious rite, or
                anything ceremonial
CERTES          certainly
CESS            rate, reckoning
CHACE           a term at tennis
CHAMBER         a species of great gun
CHAMBERER       an effeminate man
CHANSON         a song
CHARACT         affected quality
CHARACTER       a letter, handwriting
CHARACTER       to carve or engrave
CHARACTERY      handwriting
                That which is written
CHARE           a turn of work
CHARGE-HOUSE    a free-school
CHARLES' WAIN   the constellation called also Ursa Major, or
                the Great Bear
CHARNECO        a species of sweet wine
CHAUDRON        entrails
CHEATER         for escheator, an officer who collected the
                fines to be paid into the Exchequer
                A decoy
CHEQUE          a technical term in falconry; when a falcon
                flies at a bird which is not her proper game she
                is said to cheque at it
CHEQUES         perhaps intended for ethics
CHEER           fortune, countenance
CHERRY-PIT      a game played with cherrystones
CHEVERIL        kid leather
CHEWIT          cough
CHILDING        pregnant
CH'ILL          vulgar for 'I will.'
CHIRURGEONLY    in a manner becoming a surgeon
CHOPIN          a high shoe or clog
CHRISTENDOM     the state of being a Christian
CHRISTOM        clothed with a chrisom, the white garment
                        which used to be put on newly-baptized children
CHUCK           chicken, a term of endearment
CHUFF           a coarse blunt clown
CINQUE PACE     a kind of dance
CIPHER          to decipher
CIRCUMSTANCE    an argument
CITAL           recital
CITE            to incite
CITTERN         a guitar
CLACK-DISH      a beggar's dish
CLAP I' THE CLOUT       to shoot an arrow into the bull's eye of the target
CLAW            to flatter
CLEPE           to call
CLIFF           clef, the key in music
CLING   t       o starve
CLINQUANT       glittering
CLIP            to embrace, enclose
CLOUT           the mark in the middle of a target
COAST           to advance
COBLOAF         a big loaf
COCK            a cockboat
COCK            a euphemism for God
COCK-AND-PIE    an oath
COCKLE          tares or darnel
COCKNEY         a cook
COCK-SHUT-TIME  the twilight, when cocks and hens go to roost
COG             to cheat, dissemble
COGNIZANCE      badge, token
COIGN           projecting corner stone
COIL            tumult, turmoil
COLLECTION      drawing a conclusion
COLLIED         blackened. Othello;
COLOUR          pretence
COLOURABLE      specious
COLT            to defraud, befool
CO-MART         a joint bargain
COMBINATE       betrothed
COMBINE         to bind
COMMODITY       interest, profit
COMMONTY        used ludicrously for comedy
COMPACT         compacted, composed
COMPARATIVE     drawing comparisons
COMPARATIVE     rival
COMPARE         comparison
COMPASSIONATE   moving comparison
COMPETITOR      one who seeks the same thing, an associate in
                any object
COMPLEMENT      accomplishment
COMPLEXION      passion
COMPOSE         to agree
COMPOSTION      composition
COMPTIBLE       tractable
CON             to learn by heart
                To acknowledge
CONCEIT         conception, opinion, fancy
CONCUPY         concubine
CONDITION       temper, quality
CONDOLEMENT     grief
CONDUCT         escort
CONFECT         to make up into sweetmeats
CONFOUND        to consume, destroy
                Coriolanus;
CONJECT         conjecture
CONSIGN         to sign a common bond, to confederate
CONSORT         company
CONSORT         to accompany
CONSTANCY       consistency
CONSTANT        settled, determined
CONSTANTLY      firmly
CONSTER         to construe
CONTEMPTIBLE    contemptuous
CONTINENT       that which contains anything
                That which is contained
CONTINUATE      uninterrupted
CONTRACTION     the marriage contract
CONTRARY        to oppose
CONTRIVE        to conspire
                to wear away
CONTROL         to confute
CONVENT         to convene, summon
                to be convenient
CONVERT         to change
CONVERTITE      a convert
CONVEY          to manage
                To filch
CONVEYANCE      theft, fraud
CONVICT         convicted
CONVICTED       overpowered, vanquished
                A doubtful word
CONVINCE        to conquer, subdue
CONVIVE         to feast together
CONVOY          escort
CONY-CATCH      to cheat
CONY-CATCHING   poaching, pilfering
COOLING CARD    used metaphorically for an insurmountable obstacle
COPATAIN HAT    a high-crowned hat
COPE            to reward, to give in return
COPY            theme
CORAGIO         courage!
CORAM           an ignorant mistake for Quorum
CORANTO         lively dance
CORINTH         a cant term for a brothel
CORINTHIAN      a wencher
CORKY           dry like cork
CORNUTO         a cuckold
COROLLARY       a surplus
CORPORAL        corporeal, bodily
CORPORAL
OF THE FIELD    an aide-de-camp
CORRIVAL        rival
COSTARD         the head
COSTER-MONGER   peddling, mercenary
COTE            a cottage
COTE            to quote, instance
COTE            to come alongside, overtake
COT-QUEAN       an effeminate man, molly-coddle
COUCHINGS       crouchings
COUNT CONFECT   a nobleman composed of affectation
COUNTENANCE     fair shew
COUNTERFEIT     portrait
                A piece of base coin
COUNTERPOINT    a counterpane
COUNTERVAIL     to counterpoise, outweigh
COUNTRY         belonging to one's country
COUNTY          count, earl
COUPLEMENT      union
COURT HOLY-WATER  flattery
COVENT          a convent
COVER           to lay the table for dinner
COWISH          cowardly
COWL-STAFF      the staff on which a vessel is supported
                between two men
COX MY PASSION  an oath, a euphemism for 'God's Passion.'
COY     to stroke, fondle
                to condescend with difficulty
COYSTRIL        a kestrel, a cowardly kind of hawk
COZEN           to cheat
COZENAGE        cheating
COZENER         a cheater
COZIER          a tailor
CRACK           to boast
CRACK           a loud noise, clap
                A forward boy
CRACKER         boaster
CRACK-HEMP      a gallows-bird
CRANK           a winding passage
CRANKING        winding
CRANTS          garlands.  A doubtful word
CRARE           a ship of burden
CRAVEN          a dunghill cock
CREATE          formed, compounded
CREDENT         creditable
                Credible
                Credulous
CREDIT  report
CRESCIVE        increasing
CRESTLESS       not entitled to bear arms, lowborn
CRISP           curled, winding
CROSS           a piece of money, so called because the coin
                was formerly stamped with a cross
CROW-KEEPER     one who scares crows
CROWNER         a coroner
CROWNET         a coronet
CRY             the yelping of hounds
                A pack of hounds
                A company, use contemptuously
CRY AIM         to encourage
CUE     the last words of an actor's speech, which
                is the signal for the next actor to begin
CUISSES         pieces of armour to cover the thighs
CULLION         a base fellow
CUNNING         skill
CUNNING         skilful
CURB            to bend, truckle
CURRENTS        occurrences
CURST
CURSTNESS       shrewishness
CURTAIL         a cur
CURTAL  a        docked horse
CURTAL-AXE      a cutlass
CUSTALORUM      a ludicrous mistake for Custos Rotulorum
CUSTARD-COFFIN  the crust of a custard-pudding
CUSTOMER        a common woman
CUT             a cheat
                'To draw cuts' is to draw lots
CYPRESS         a kind of crape


DAFF            to befool
                To put off; this seems to be a corruption of 'doff.'
DAMN            to condemn
DANGER          reach, control, power
DANSKER         a Dane
DARE            to challenge
DARKLING        in the dark
DARRAIGN        to set in array
DAUB            to disguise
DAUBERY         imposition
DAY-WOMAN       a dairy-maid
DEAR            dire
                That which has to do with the affections
                Piteous
                Important
DEARN           lonely
DEBOSHED        debauched, drunken
DECK            to bedew. This is probably a form of the verb
                'to dag,' now a provincial word
DECK            a pack of cards
DECLINE         to enumerate, as in going through the cases of
                a noun
DECLINED        fallen
DEEM            doom, judgment
DEFEAT          to undo, destroy
DEFEAT          destruction
DEFEATURE       disfigurement
DEFENCE         art of fencing
DEFEND          to forbid
DEFENSIBLE      having the power to defend
DEFTLY          dexterously
DEFY            renounce
DEGREES         a step
DELAY           to let slip by delaying
DEMERIT         merit, desert
DEMURELY        solemnly
DENAY           denial
DENIER          the 12th part of a French sol coin
DENOTEMENT      marking
                Note or manifestation
DENY            to refuse
DEPART          departure
DEPART          to part
DEPARTING       parting, separation
DEPEND          to be in service
DERIVED         born, descended
DEROGATE        degraded
DESCANT         a variation upon a melody, hence,
                metaphorically, a comment on a given theme
DESIGN          to draw up articles
DESPATCH        to deprive, bereave
DESPERATE       determined, bold
DETECT          to charge, blame
DETERMINE       to conclude
DICH            optative mood, perhaps contracted for 'do it.'
DIET            food regulated by the rules of medicine
DIET            to have one's food regulated by the rules of
                medicine
DIFFUSED        confused
DIGRESSING      transgressing, going out of the right way
DIGRESSION      transgression
DIG-YOU-GOOD-DEN        give you good evening
DILDO           the chorus or burden of a song
DINT            stroke
DIRECTION       judgment, skill
DISABLE         to disparage
DISAPPOINTED    unprepared
DISCASE         to undress
DISCONTENT      a malcontent
DISCOURSE       power of reasoning
DISDAINED       disdainful
DISLIMN         to disfigure, transform
DISME           a tenth or tithe
DISPARK         to destroy a park
DISPONGE        to squeeze out as from a sponge
DISPOSE         disposal
DISPOSE         to conspire
DISPOSITION     maintenance
DISPUTABLE      disputatious
DISPUTE         to argue, examine
DISSEMBLY       used ridiculously for assembly
DISTASTE        to corrupt
DISTEMPERED     discontented
DISTRACTION     a detached troop or company of soldiers
DISTRAUGHT      distracted, mad
DIVERTED        turned from the natural course
DIVISION        a phrase or passage in a melody
DIVULGED        published, spoken of
DOFF            to do off, strip
                To put off with an excuse
DOLT            a small Dutch coin
DOLE            portion dealt
                Grief, lamentation
DON             to do on, put on
DONE            'done to death,' put to death
DOTANT          one who dotes, a dotard
DOUT            to do out, quench
DOWLAS          a kind of coarse sacking
DOWLE           the swirl of a feather
DOWN-GYVED      hanging down like gyves or fetters
DRAB            a harlot
DRABBING        whoring
DRAUGHT         a privy
DRAWN           having his sword drawn
DRAWN           drunk, having taken a good draught
DRIBBLING       weak
DRIVE           to rush impetuously
DROLLERY        a puppet-show
DRUMBLE         to dawdle
DRY             thirsty
DUC-DAME        perhaps the Latin duc-ad-me, bring him to me
DUDGEON         a dagger
DULL            soothing
DULLARD         a dull person
DUMP            complaint
DUP             to do up, Lift up


EAGER           sour
                Harsh
                Biting
EANLING         a yeanling, a lamb
EAR             to plough
ECHE            to eke out
EFT             ready, convenient
EISEL           vinegar
ELD             old age
EMBOSSED        swollen into protuberances
                Covered with foam
EMBOWELLED      disembowelled, emptied
EMBRASURE       embrace
EMINENCE        exalted station
EMPERY          empire
EMULATION       jealousy, mutiny
EMULOUS         jealous
ENCAVE          to place oneself in a cave
END             'Still an end,' continually for ever
ENFEOFF         to place in possession in fee simple
ENGINE          a machine of war
ENGLUT          to swallow speedily
ENGROSS         to make gross or fat
ENGROSSMENT     immoderate acquisition
ENKINDLE        to make keen
ENMEW           to shut up, as a hawk is shut up in a mew
ENSCONCE        to cover as with a fort
ENSEAMED        fat, rank
ENSHIELD        hidden
ENTERTAIN       encounter
                Experience
ENTERTAINMENT   treatment
                A disposition to entertain a proposal
                Service
ENTREATMENTS    interviews
EPHESIAN        a toper, a cant term
EQUIPAGE        attendance
EREWHILE        a short time since
ESCOT           to pay a man's reckoning, to maintain
ESPERANCE       hope, used as a war-cry
ESPIAL          a scout or spy
ESTIMATION      conjecture
ESTRIDGE        ostridge
ETERNE          eternal
EVEN            coequal
EVEN            to equal
EXAMINE         to question
EXCREMENT       that which grows outwardly from the body
                and has no sensation like the hair or nails
                Any outward show
EXECUTOR        an executioner
EXEMPT          excluded
EXERCISE        a religious service
EXHALE          to hale or draw out
                to draw the sword
EXHIBITION      allowance, pension
EXIGENT         death, ending
EXION           ridiculously used for 'action.'
EXPECT          expectation
EXPEDIENCE      expedition, undertaking
                Haste
EXPEDIENT       expeditious, swift
EXPIATE         completed
EXPOSTULATE     to expound, discuss
EXPOSTURE       exposure
EXPRESS         to reveal
EXPULSE         to expel
EXSUFFICATE     that which has been hissed off, contemptible
EXTEND          to seize
EXTENT          a seizure
EXTERN          outward
EXTIRP          to extirpate
EXTRACTING      distracting
EXTRAUGHT       part. extracted, descended
EXTRAVAGANT     foreign, wandering
EXTREMES        extravagance of conduct
                Extremities
EYAS            a nestling hawk
EYAS-MUSKET     a nestling of the musket or merlin, the smallest
                species of British hawk
EYE             a glance, oeillad
EYE             a shade of colour, as in shot silk
EYNE            eyes


FACINOROUS      wicked
FACT            guilt
FACTIOUS        instant, importunate
FACULTY         essential virtue or power
FADGE           to suit
FADING          a kind of ending to a song
FAIN            glad
FAIN            gladly
FAIR            beauty
FAITOR          a traitor
FAll            to let fall
FALLOW          fawn-coloured
FALSE           falsehood
FALSING         deceptive
FAMILIAR        a familiar spirit
FANCY
FANCY-FREE      untouched by love
FANG            to seize in the teeth
FANTASTIC       a fantastical person
FAP             drunk
FAR             farther
FARCED          stuffed
FARDEL          a burden
FARTUOUS        used ridiculously for ' virtuous.'
FAST            assuredly, unalterably
FAT             dull
FAVOUR          countenance
                Complexion
                Quality
FEAR            the object of fear
FEAR            to affright
FEARFUL         subject to fear, timorous
FEAT            dexterous
FEAT            to make fine
FEATER          comp. degree. more neatly
FEATLY          nimbly, daintily
FEATURE         beauty
FEDERARY        confederate
FEEDER          agent, servant
FEE-GRIEF       a grief held, as it were, in fee-simple, or the
                peculiar property of him who possesses it
FEERE           a companion, husband
FEHEMENTLY      used ridiculously for 'vehemently.'
FELL            the hide
FENCE           art or skill in defence
FEODARY         one who holds an estate by suit or service to
                a superior lord; hence one who acts under the
                direction of another
FESTER          to rankle, grow virulent
FESTINATELY     quickly
FET             fetched
FICO            a fig
FIELDED         in the field of battle
FIG             to insult
FIGHTS          clothes hung round a ship to conceal the men
                from the enemy
FILE            a list or catalogue
FILE            to defile
                To smooth or polish
                To make even
FILL-HORSE      shaft-horse
FILLS           the shafts
FILTH           a whore
FINE            end
FINE            to make fine or specious
FINELESS        endless
FIRAGO          ridiculously used for 'Virago.'
FIRE-DRAKE      Will o' the Wisp
FIRE-NEW        with the glitter of novelty on, like newly-
                forged metal
FIRK            to chastise
FIT             a canto or division of a song
                A trick or habit
FITCHEW         a polecat
FIVES           a disease incident to horses
FLAP-DRAGON     raisins in burning brandy
FLAP-JACK       a pan-cake
FLAT            certain
FLATNESS        lowness, depth
FLAW            a gust of wind
                sudden emotion, or the cause of it
FLAW            to make a flaw in, to break
FLECKED         spotted, streaked
FLEET           to float
                To pass away
                to pass the time
FLEETING        inconstant
FLESHMENT       the act of fleshing the sword, hence the
                first feat of arms
FLEWED          furnished with hanging lips, as hounds are
FLIGHT          a particular mode of practising archery
FLIRT-GILL      a light woman
FLOTE           wave, sea
FLOURISH        an ornament
FLOURISH        to ornament, disguise with ornament
FLUSH           fresh, full of vigour
FOIL            defeat, disadvantage
FOIN            to fence, fight
FOISON          plenty
FOND            foolish, foolishly affectionate
FOOT-CLOTH      a saddle-cloth hanging down to the ground
FOR             for that, because
FORBID          accursed, outlawed
FORBODE         forbidden
FORCE           to stuff, for 'farce.'
FORCED          falsely attributed
FORDO           to kill, destroy
                To weary
FOREIGN         obliged to live abroad
FOREPAST        former
FORESLOW        to delay
FORFEND to forbid
FORGETIVE       inventive
FORKED          horned
FORMAL          regular, retaining its proper and essential
                characteristic
FORSPEAK        to speak against
FORSPENT        exhausted, weary
FORTHRIGHT      a straight path; forthrights and meanders,
                straight paths and crooked ones
FORWEARY        to weary, exhaust
FOSSET-SELLER   one who sells the pipes inserted into a vessel
                to give vent to the liquor, and stopped by a
                spigot
FOX             a sword; a cant word
FOX-SHIP        the cunning of the fox
FRAMPOLD        peevish, unquiet
FRANK           the feeding place of swine
FRANKED         confined
FRANKLIN        a freeholder, a small squire
FRAUGHT         freighted
FRAUGHTAGE      freight
FRAUGHTING      to fraught. loading or constituting the
                cargo of a ship
FRESH           a spring of fresh water
FRET            the stop of a guitar
FRET            to wear away
                To variegate
FRIEND          to befriend
FRIPPERY        an old-clothes shop
FROM            prep. contrary to
FRONT           to affront, oppose
FRONTIER        opposition
FRONTLET        that which is worn on the forehead
FRUSH           to break or bruise
FRUSTRATE       frustrated
FUB OFF         to put off
FULFILL         to fill full
FULL            complete
FULLAM          a loaded die
FULSOME         lustful
FURNISHED       equipped
FURNITOR        furnitory, an herb


GABERDINE       a loose outer coat, or smock frock
GAD             a pointed instrument, a goad
                Upon the gad, with impetuous haste, upon the spur
                of the moment
GAIN-GIVING     misgiving
GAIT            going, steps
GALLIARD        a kind of dance
GALLIASSE       a kind of ship
GALLIMAUFRY     a ridiculous medley
GALLOW          to scare
GALLOWGLASS     the irregular infantry of Ireland, and the
                Highlands of Scotland
GAMESTER        a frolicsome person
                A loose woman
GARBOIL         disorder, uproar
GARISH          gaudy, staring
GARNER          to lay by, as corn in a barn
GAST            frightened
GAUDY           festive
GAZE            an object of wonder
GEAR            matter of business of any kind
GECK            a fool
GENERAL         the generality, common people
GENERATIONS     children
GENEROSITY      noble birth
GENEROUS        noble
GENTILITY       good manners
GENTLE          gentlefolk
GENTLE          noble
GENTLE          to ennoble
GENTRY          complaisance, conduct becoming gentlefolk
GERMAN          akin
                Appropriate
GERMEN          seed, embryo
GEST            period
GIB             a he-cat
GIFTS           talents, endowment
GIGLOT          a wanton girl
GILDER          a coin of the value of 1s. 6d. or 2s
GILT            money
                State of wealth
GIMMAL          double
GIMMOR          contrivance
GING            gang
GIRD            to gibe
GIRD            a sarcasm or gibe
GLEEK           to scoff
GLEEK           a scoff
GLOSE           to comment; hence, to be garrulous
GLUT            to swallow
GNARL           to snarl
GOOD-DEED       indeed
GOOD-DEN        good-evening, contracted from 'Good-even.'
GOOD-YEAR
or GOOD-JER     a corruption of the French goujere; the
                venereal disease
GORBELLIED      corpulent
GOURD           a species of game of chance
GOUT            a drop
GOVERNMENT      discretion
GRACIOUS        abounding in grace Divine
GRAINED         engrained
GRAMERCY        int. grand mercy, much thanks
GRANGE          the farmstead attached to a monastery, a
                solitary farm-house
GRATILLITY      used ridiculously for 'gratuity.'
GRATULATE       to congratulate
GRAVE           to bury
GREASILY        grossly
GREEK           a bawd
GREEN           immature, fresh, unused
GREENLY         foolishly
GREET           to weep
GRIZE           a step
GROSSLY         palpably
GROUNDLING      one who sits in the pit of a theatre
GROWING         accruing
GUARD           decoration
GUARD           to decorate
GUARDAGE        guardianship
GUINEA-HEN      the pintado, a cant term
GULES           red, a term in heraldry
GULF            the throat
GUN-STONE       a cannon ball
GUST            taste, relish
GYVE            to fetter


HACK            to become common
HAGGARD         a wild or unreclaimed hawk
HAG-SEED        seed or offspring of a hag
HAIR            course, order, grain
HALIDOM         holiness, sanctification, Christian fellowship;
                used as an oath, and analogous to 'By my faith.'
HALL            an open space to dance in
HALLOWMAS       All Hallows' Day
HAP             chance, fortune
HAPPILY         accidentally
HANDSAW         perhaps a corruption of Heronshaw; a hern
HARDIMENT       defiance, brave deeds
HARLOCK         charlock, wild mustard
HARRY           to annoy, harass
HAUGHT          haughty
HAUNT           company
HAVING          property, fortune
HAVIOUR         behavior
HAY             a term in fencing
HEADY           violent, headlong
HEAT            of 'to heat,' heated
HEBENON         henbane
HEFT            a heaving
HEFT            furnished with a handle: hence,
                metaphorically, finished off, delicately formed
HELM    to steer, manage
HENCE           henceforward
HENCHMAN        a page or attendant
HENT            to seize, take
HERMIT          a beadsman, one bound to pray for another
HEST            command
HIGH            used in composition with adjectives to heighten
                or emphasize their signification, as, high-
                fantastical
HIGHT           called
HILD            held
HILDING         a paltry fellow
HINT            suggestion
HIREN           a prostitute. with a pun on the word 'iron.'
HIT             to agree
HOISE           to hoist, heave up on high
HOIST           hoisted
HOLP            to help; helped
HOME            to the utmost
HONEST          chaste
HONESTY         chastity
HONEY-STALKS    the red clover
HOODMAN-BLIND   the game now called blindman's-buff
HORN-MAD        probably, 'harn-mad,' that is, brain-mad
HOROLOGE        a clock
HOT-HOUSE       a brothel
HOX             to hamstring
HUGGER-MUGGER   secresy
HULL            to drift on the sea like a wrecked ship
HUMOROUS        fitful, or, perhaps, hurried
HUNT-COUNTER    to follow the scent the wrong way
HUNTS-UP        a holla used in hunting when the game was on
                foot
HURLY           noise, confusion
HURTLE          to clash
HURTLING        noise, confusion
HUSBANDRY       frugality
                Management
HUSWIFE         a jilt


ICE-BROOK       an icy-cold brook
I'FECKS         int. in faith, a euphemism
IGNOMY          ignominy
IMAGE           representation
IMBARE          to bare, lay open
IMMEDIACY       close connexion
IMMOMENT        unimportant
IMP             to graft. to splice a falcon's broken feathers
IMP             a scion, a child
IMPAWN          to stake, compromise
IMPEACH         to bring into question
IMPEACH         impeachment
IMPEACHMENT     cause of censure, hindrance
IMPERCEIVERANT  duff of perception
IMPETICOS       to pocket
IMPORTANCE      importunity
IMPORTANT       importunate
IMPORTING       significant
IMPOSE          imposition, meaning command or task imposed
                upon any one
IMPOSITIONS     command
IMPRESE         a device with a motto
IMPRESS         to compel to serve
INCAPABLE       unconscious
INCARNARDINE    to dye red
INCENSED        incited, egged on
INCH-MEAL       by inch-meal, by portions of inches
INCLINING       compliant
INCLINING       inclination
INCLIP          to embrace
INCLUDE         conclude
INCONY          fine, delicate
INCORRECT       ill-regulated
IND             India
INDENT          to compound or bargain
INDEX           a preface
INDIFFERENT     ordinary
INDIGEST        disordered
INDITE          to invite
                To convict
INDUCTION       introduction, beginning
INDURANCE       delay
INFINITE        infinite power
INGRAFT         to engraff, engrafted
INHABITABLE     uninhabitable
INHERIT         to possess
INHOOPED        penned up in hoops
INKHORN-MATE    a contemptuous term for an ecclesiastic, or man
                of learning
INKLE           a kind of narrow fillet or tape
INLAND          civilized, well-educated
INLY            inward
INLY            inwardly
INQUISITION     enquiry
INSANE  that which causes insanity
INSCONCE        to arm, fortify
INSTANCE        example
                Information
                Reason, proof
INTEND  to pretend
INTENDING       regarding
INTENDMENT      intention
INTENTIVELY     attentively
INTERESSED      allied
INTERMISSION    pause, delay
INTRENCHMENT    not capable of being cut
INTRINSE        intricate
INTRINSICATE    intricate
INVENTION       imagination
INWARD          an intimate friend
                intimate
INWARDNESS      intimacy
IRREGULOUS      lawless, licentious
ITERATION       reiteration


JACK    a        mean fellow
JACK-A-LENT     a puppet thrown at in Lent
JACK GUARDANT   a jack in office
JADE            to whip, to treat with contempt
JAR             the ticking of a clock
JAR             to tick as a clock
JAUNCE          to prance
JESS            a strap of leather attached to the talons of a
                hawk, by which it is held on the fist
JEST            to tilt in a tournament
JET             to strut
JOURNAL         daily
JOVIAL          appertaining to Jove
JUDICIOUS       critical
JUMP            to agree
                        to hazard
JUMP            hazard
JUMP            exactly, nicely
JUSTICER        a judge, magistrate
JUT             to encroach
JUTTY           a projection
JUTTY           to jut out beyond
JUVENAL         youth, young man


KAM             crooked
KECKSY          hemlock
KEECH           a lump of tallow
KEEL            to skin
KEEP            to restrain
KEISAR          Caesar, Emperor
KERN            the rude foot soldiers of the Irish
KIBE            a chilblain
KICKSHAW        a made dish
KICKSY WICKSY   a wife, used in disdain
KILN-HOLE       the ash-hole under a kiln
KIND            nature
KINDLE          to bring forth young; used only of beasts
KINDLESS        unnatural
KINDLY          natural
KIRTLE          a gown
KNAP            to snap, crack
KNAVE           a boy
                A serving-man
KNOT            a figure in garden beds
KNOW            to acknowledge


LABRAS          lips
LACED-MUTTON    a courtesan
LAG             the lowest of the people
LAG             late, behindhand
LAKIN           ladykin, little lady, an endearing term applied
                to the Virgin Mary in the oath, 'By our lakin.'
LAND-DAMN       perhaps to extirpate; Hanmer thinks it means
                to kill by stopping the urine
LAPSED          taken, apprehended
LARGE           licentious, free
LARGESS         a present
LASS-LORN       deserted by a mistress
LATCH           to smear
                To catch
LATED           belated
LATTEN          made of brass
LAUND           lawn
LAVOLTA         a dance
LAY             wager
LEAGUE          besieging army
LEASING         lying
LEATHER-COATS   a kind of apple
LEECH           a physician
LEER            countenance, complexion
LEET            a manor court
LEGE            to allege
LEGERITY        lightness
LEIGER          an ambassador resident abroad
LEMAN           a lover or mistress
LENTEN          meagre
                That which may be eaten in Lent
L'ENVOY         the farewell or moral at the end of a tale or
                poem
LET             to hinder
                to binder
LET             hindrance
LETHE           death
LEVEL           to aim
LEVEL           that which is aimed at
LEWD            ignorant, foolish
LEWDLY          wickedly
LEWDSTER        a lewd person
LIBBARD         a leopard
LIBERAL         licentious
LIBERTY         libertinism
LICENCE         licentiousness
LIEF            dear
LIFTER          a thief
LIGHT O' LOVE   a tune so called
LIGHTLY         easily, generally
LIKE            to please
LIKE            to liken, compare
LIKE            likely
LIKELIHOOD      promise, appearance
LIKING          condition
LIMBECK         an alembick, a still
LIMBO           or Limbo patrum, the place where good men under
                the Old Testament were believed to be imprisoned till
                released by Christ after his crucifixion
LIME            bird-lime
LIME            to entangle as with bird-lime
                To smear with bird-lime
                To mix lime with beer or other liquor
LIMN            to draw
LINE            to cover on the inside
                To strengthen by inner works
LINSTOCK        a staff with a match at the end of it used by
                gunners in firing cannon
LIST            a margin, hence a bound or enclosure
LITHER          lazy
LITTLE          miniature
LIVELIHOOD      appearance of life
LIVERY          a law phrase, signifying the act of delivering
                a freehold into the possession of the heir or
                purchaser
LIVING          lively, convincing
LOACH           a fish so called
LOB             a looby
LOCKRAM         a sort of coarse linen
LODE-STAR       the leading-star, pole-star
LOFFE           to laugh
LOGGATS         the game called nine-pins
LONGLY          longingly
LOOF            to lull, bring a vessel up to the wind
LOON            a low contemptible fellow
LOT             a prize in a lottery
LOTTERY         that which falls to a man by lot
LOWT            a clown
LOWT            to treat one as a lowt, with contempt
LOZEL           a spendthrift
LUBBER          a leopard
LUCE            n. the pike or jack, a fresh-water fish
LUMPISH         duff, dejected
LUNES           fits of lunacy
LURCH           to defeat, to win
LURCH           to shift, to play tricks
LURE            a thing stuffed to resemble a bird with which
                the falconer allures a hawk
LUSH            juicy, luxuriant
LUSTIG          lusty, cheerful
LUXURIOUS       lascivious
LUXURY          lust
LYM             a limer or slow hound


MADE            having his fortune made
MAGNIFICO       the chief magistrate at Venice
MAGOT-PIE       a magpie, a pie which feeds on magots
MAIL            covered as with a coat of mail
MAIN-COURSE     a sea-term
MAKE            to do up, bar
                To do
MALKIN          a familiar name for Mary; hence a servant
                wench
MALLECHO        mischief
MAMMERING       hesitating
MAMMETS         a woman's breasts
                A doll
MAMMOCK         to break, tear
MAN             to tame a hawk
MANAGE          management
MANDRAGORA      or Mandrake a plant of soporiferous quality,
                supposed to resemble a man
MANKIND         having a masculine nature
MARCHES         frontiers, borders
MARCHPANE       a kind of sweet biscuit
MARGENT margin
MARRY TRAP      an oath
MARTLEMAS       the Feast of St. Martin, which occurs on the
                11th of Nov. when the fine weather generally ends;
                hence applied to an old man
MATCH           an appointment
MATE            to confound, dismay
MEACOCK         tame, cowardly
MEALED          mingled
MEAN            instrument used to promote an end
MEAN            the tenor part in a harmony
MEAN            opportunity, power
MEASURE         reach
                A stately dance
MEAZEL          a leper, spoken in contempt of a mean person
MEDAL           a portrait in a locket
MEDICINE        a physician
MEED            reward, hire
                Merit
MEHERCLE        by Hercules
MEINY           retinue
MELL            to mix, to meddle
MEMORISE        to cause to be remembered
MEPHISTOPHILUS  the name of a familiar spirit
MERCATANTE      a foreign trader
MERELY          simply, absolutely
MESS            a company of four
METAPHYSICAL    supernatural
METE-YARD       measuring-wand
MEW UP          to confine
MICHER          a truant
MICKLE          much
MILL-SIXPENCE   a milled sixpence
MINCE           to do any thing affectedly
MINCING         affected
MISCREATE       illegitimate
MISDOUBT        to suspect
MISERY          avarice
MISPRISE        to despise
                To mistake
MISPRISION      mistake
MISSIVE         messenger
MISTEMPERED     angry
MISTHINK        to think ill of
MISTRESS        the jack in bowling
MOBLED          muffled
MODERN          commonplace
MODULE          a model, image
MOE             and more. Of frequent occurrence
MOIETY          a portion
MOME            a stupid person
MOMENTANY       momentary
MONTHS-MIND     a monthly commemoration of the dead, but used
                ludicrously to mean a great mind or strong desire
MOOD            anger
MOON-CALF       a nick-name applied to Caliban
MOONISH         inconstant
MOP             nod
MORISCO         a Moor
MORRIS-PIKE     Moorish-pike
MORT            death, applied to animals of the chase
MORT-DU-VINAIGRE        a ridiculous oath
MORTAL          fatal, deadly
                Murderous
MORTIFIED       ascetic
MOSE            a doubtful word, applied to some disease
                in a horse
MOTION          solicitation
                Emotion
MOTION          a puppet
MOTIVE          one who moves
                That which moves
MOTLEY          or the many-coloured coat of a fool, or
                a fool
MOTLEY-MINDED   foolish
MOUSE-HUNT      a weasel
MOW             to make grimaces
MOY             a coin, probably a moidore
MUCH            int. significant of contempt
MUCH            used ironically
MURE            a wall
MUST            a scramble
MUTINE          to mutiny
MUTINE          a mutineer


NAPKIN          a handkerchief
NATURAL         an idiot
NAYWARD         towards denial
NAYWORD         a catch-word, by-word
NEB             the beak
NEELD           a needle
NEIF            hand
NEPHEW          a grandson
NETHER-STOCKS   stockings
NEXT            nearest
NICE            foolish
NICK            score or reckoning
NICK            to brand with folly
NIGHTED         black as night
NIGHT-RULE      nightly solemnity
NINE MEN'S MORRIS       a place set apart for a Moorish dance by
                nine men
NINNY           a fool, jester
NOBILITY        nobleness
NOBLE           a coin, worth 6s. 8d
NODDY           a dolt
NONCE           for the nonce, corrupted from 'for then once,'
                for the occasion
NOOK-SHOTTEN    indented with bays and creeks
NOURISH         a nurse
NOVUM           a game at dice
NOWL            head
NUTHOOK         a hook for pulling down nuts, hence a thief



O               a circle
OAR             to row as with oars
OBSEQUIOUS      behaving as becomes one who attends funeral
                obsequies
OBSEQUIOUSLY    funereally
OBSTACLE        ridiculously used for 'obstinate.'
OCCUPATION      persons occupied in business
OCCURENT        an incident
OD'S BODY       |    'Od's in these
OD'S HEARTLINGS |  and all similar
                | exclamations is
OD'S PITTIKINS  |  a euphemism
OD'S PLESSED WILL       |    for 'God's.'
OEILLIAD        an amorous glance
O'ERPARTED      having too important a part to act
O'ER-RAUGHT     overreached
                        overtasked
OFFERING        challenging
OFFICE          benefit, kindness
                use, function
OLD             a cant term for great, as we say fine, or pretty
ONCE            some time
ONEYER          a banker.  A doubtful word
OPE             open
OPE             to open
                to open
OPEN            plain
                Public
OPEN            to give tongue as a hound
OPERANT         active
OPINIONED       used ridiculously for pinioned
OPPOSITE        adversary
OPPOSITION      combat
OR              before
ORDER           measures
ORDINANCE       rank, order
ORGULOUS        proud
ORT             leaving, refuse
OSTENT          show, appearance
OSTENTATION     show, appearance

OUNCE           a beast of prey of the tiger kind
OUPHE           a fairy
OUSEL-COCK      the blackbird
OUT             all out, fully
OUT-LOOK        to face down
OUTWARD         not in the secret of affairs
OUTWARD outside
OWE     to own


PACK            to practise unlawful confederacy
PACK            a number of people confederated
PADDOCK         a toad
PAID            punished
PALABRAS        words, a cant term, from the Spanish
PALE            to enclose
PALL            to wrap as with a pall
PALLED          impaired
PALMER          one who bears a palm-branch, in token of having
                made a pilgrimage to Palestine
PALMY           victorious
PARCELLED       belonging to individuals
PARD            the leopard
PARITOR         an apparitor
PARLE           talk
PARLOUS         perilous
                keen, shrewd
PARTED          endowed, gifted
PARTIZAN        a pike
PASH            the face
PASH            to strike violently, to bruise, crush
PASS            to practise
                To surpass expectation
PASSANT         a term of heraldry, applied to animals
                represented on the shield as passing by at a trot
PASSING         surpassingly, exceedingly
PASSION         to have feelings
PASSIONATE      to suffer
PASSY-MEASURE   a kind of dance
PASTRY          the room where pastry was made
PATCH           a mean fellow
PATCHED         dressed in motley
PATCHERY        trickery
PATH    to walk
PATHETICAL      affected, hypocritical
PATIENT         to make patient, to compose
PATINE          the metal disc on which the bread is placed in
                the administration of the Eucharist
PATTERN         to give an example of
                Afford a pattern for
PAUCA VERBA     few words
PAUCAS          few, a cant word
PAVIN           a dance
PAX             a small image of Christ
PAY             to despatch
PEAT            a term of endearment for a child
PEDASCULE       a pedant, schoolmaster
PEER            to peep out
PEIZE           to balance, weigh down
PELTING         paltry
PERDU           lost
PERDURABLE      durable
PERDY           a euphemism for Par Dieu
PERFECT         certain
PERFECT         to inform perfectly
PERIAPTS        charms worn round the neck
PERJURE         a perjured person
PERSEVER        to persevere
PERSPECTIVE     a telescope, or some sort of optical glass
PEW-FELLOW      a comrade
PHEEZE          to comb, fleece, curry
PIA-MATER       the membrane covering the brain, the brain
                itself
PICK            to pitch, throw
PICKED          chosen, selected
PICKERS         (and stealers), the fingers, used ridiculously
PICKING         insignificant
PICKT-HATCH     a place noted for brothels. Merry Wives
                of Windsor
PIED            motley-coated, wearing the motley coat of a
                jester
PIELED          shaven
PLIGHT          pitched
PILCHER         a scabbard
PILL            to pillage
PIN             a malady of the eye
                The centre of a target
PINFOLD         a pound, a place to confine lost cattle
PIONED          digged
PLACKET         a petticoat-front
PLAIN SONG      a simple air
PLAITED         intricate
PLANCHED        made of boards
PLANTATION      colonizing, planting a colony
PLAUSIVE        plausible
PLEACHED        interwoven
POINT           a lace furnished with a tag by which the
                breeches were held up
POINT-DE-VICE   faultless
POISE           balance
                Doubt
POLLED          bare
POMANDER        a perfumed ball
POMEWATER       a kind of apple
POOR-JOHN       a herring
POPINJAY        a parrot
PORT            pomp, state
PORT            a gate
PORTABLE        bearable
PORTANCE        conduct, behavior
POSSESS         to inform
POTCH           to push violently
POTENT          a potentate
POUNCET-BOX     a box for holding perfumes
POWER           forces, army
PRACTISE        wicked stratagem
PRACTISANT      a confederate
PRANK           to dress up
PRECEPT         a justice's summons
PRECIOUSLY      in business of great importance
PREGNANCY       fertility of invention
PREGNANT        fertile of invention
                Ready
                Obvious
PRENOMINATE     to name beforehand, to prophesy
PRE-ORDINANCE   old-established law
PRESENCE        the presence-chamber
                High bearing
PREST           ready
PRETENCE        design
PRETEND         to portend
                To intend
PREVENT         to anticipate
PRICK           the mark denoting the hour on a dial
PRICK           to incite
                To choose by pricking a hole with a pin opposite the
                name
PRICK-SONG      music sung in parts by note
PRICKET         a stag of two years
PRIDE           heat
PRIG            to steal
PRIME           rank, lecherous
PRIMER          more-important
PRIMERO         a game at cards
PRINCIPALITY    that which holds the highest place
PRINCOX         a coxcomb
PRISER          a prize-fighter
PROCURE         to bring
PREFACE         interj. much good may it do you
PROFANE         outspoken
PROGRESS        a royal ceremonial journey
PROJECT         to shape or contrive
PROMPTURE       suggestion
PRONE           ready, willing
PROOF           strength of manhood
PROPAGATE       to advance, to forward
PROPAGATION     obtaining
PROPER-FALSE    natural falsehood
PROPERTIED      endowed with the properties of
PROPERTIES      scenes, dresses, &c. used in a theatre

PROPERTY        to take possession of
PROPOSE         to suppose, for the sake of argument
                To converse
PROPOSE         conversation
PROROGUE        to defer
PROVAND         provender
PROVISION       forecast
PUCELLE         a virgin, the name given to Joan of Arc
PUDENCY         modesty
PUGGING         thieving
PUN             to pound
PURCHASE        to acquire, win
PURCHASE        gain, winnings
PUT             to compel
PUTTER-ON       an instigator
PUTTER-OUT      one who lends money at interest
PUTTING-ON      instigation
PUTTOCK         a kite


QUAIL           to faint, be languid, be afraid
                to cause to quail
QUAINT          curiously beautiful
QUAKE           to cause to quake or tremble
QUALIFY         to moderate
QUALITY         those of the same nature
                Rank or condition
QUARREL         a suit, cause
QUARRY          game, a heap of game
QUART D'ECU     a quarter crown
QUARTER         the post allotted to a soldier
QUAT            a pimple; used in contempt of a person
QUEASY          squeamish, unsettled

QUELL           murder
QUENCH          to grow cool
QUERN           a hand-mill
QUEST           enquiry, search, inquest, jury
QUESTRIST       one who goes in search of another
QUICK           so far gone in pregnancy that the child is
                alive
QUICKEN         to come to life
QUIDDIT         |  a subtle question
QUIDDITY        |
QUILLET         quidebet, a subtle case in law
QUINTAIN        a post for tilting at
QUIP            sharp jest, a taunt
QUIRE           to sing in concert
QUIT            to requite, respond
QUIT            past tense of the verb to quit, quitted
QUITANCE        requital
QUIVER          active
QUOTE           to note


RABATO          a ruff
RABBIT-SUCKER   a weasel
RACE            breed; inherited nature
RACK            wreck
RACK            to enhance the price of anything
                To drive as clouds
RAG             a term of contempt applied to persons
RAKE            to cover
RAPT            transported with emotion
RAPTURE         a fit
RASCAL          a lean deer
RASH            quick, violent
RATE            opinion, judgment
RATE            to assign, to value
                To scold
RATOLORUM       a ludicrous mistake for Rotulorum
RAUGHT          past tense of reach
RAVIN           ravenous
RAVIN           to devour
RAWLY           inadequately
RAWNESS         unprovided state
RAYED           arrayed, served
RAZED           slashed
REAR-MOUSE      the bat
REBATE          to deprive of keenness
REBECK          a three-stringed fiddle
RECEIPT         money received
RECEIVING       capacity
RECHEAT         a point of the chase to call back the hounds
RECORD          to sing
RECORDER        a flute
RECURE          to cure, recover
RED-LATTICE     suitable to an ale-house, because ale-houses
                had commonly red lattices
RED-PLAGUE      erysipelas
REDUCE          to bring back
REECHY          smoky, dirty
REFELL          to refute
REFER           to reserve to
REGIMENT        government
REGREET         a salutation
REGREET         to salute
REGUERDON       requital
RELATIVE        applicable
REMEMBER        to remind
REMORSE         pity
REMORSEFUL      full of pity, compassionate
REMOTION        removal
REMOVED         sequestered, remote
RENDER          to describe you
RENDER          account
RENEGE          to renounce, to deny
REPAIR          to renovate, comfort
REPEAL          to reverse the sentence of exile. Two
                Gentlemen of Verona
REPROOF         confutation
REPUGN          to resist
REQUIEM         mass for the dead, so called because it begins
                with the words, Requiem eternam dona eis, Domine
RESOLVE         to satisfy
                To dissolve
RESPECT         consideration
RESPECTIVE      respectful, thoughtful
RESPECTIVE      corresponding
RESPECTIVELY    respectfully
RETAILED        handed down
RETIRE          retreat
RETIRE          to draw back
REVERB          to echo
REVOLT          a rebel
RIB             to enclose as within ribs
RID             to destroy
RIFT            to split
                to split
RIFT            a split
RIGGISH         wanton
RIGOL           a circle
RIPE            drunk
RIVAGE          the shore
RIVAL           a partner
RIVALITY        equal rank
RIVE            to fire
ROAD            the high road, applied to a common woman
ROISTING        roistering, violent
ROMAGE          unusual stir
RONVON          a term of contempt applied to a woman
ROOD            the crucifix
ROOK            a cheater
ROPERY          roguery
ROPE-TRICKS     tricks such as are played by a rope-dancer
ROUND           to whisper
                To become great with child
                to finish off
ROUND           a diadem
ROUND           unceremonious
ROUNDEL         a dance or song
ROUNDURE        an enclosure
ROUSE           carousal
ROYNISH         mangy
RUBIOUS         ruddy
RUDDOCK         the redbreast
RUSH            to push
RUSHLING        rustling


SACRIFICIAL     reverent, as words used in religious worship
SACRING-BELL    the little bell rung at mass to give notice
                that the elements are consecrated
SAD             serious
SADLY           seriously
SADNESS         seriousness
SAFE            to make safe
SAG             to hang down
SALT            lascivious
SALT            taste
SANDED          marked with yellow spots
SANS            without
SAUCY           lascivious
SAW             a moral saying
SAY             silken
SAY             assay, taste, relish
SCAFFOLDAGE     the gallery of a theatre
SCALD           scurvy, scabby
SCALE           to weigh in scales
SCALL           a scab, a word of reproach
SCAMBLE         to scramble
SCAMEL          probably a misprint for sea-mel, sea-mew
SCAN            to examine subtly
SCANT           to cut short, to spare
SCANT           scanty, short
                scarcely
SCANTLING       a small portion
SCAPE           to escape
SCAPE           a sally
SCATHE          injury
SCATHE          to injure
SCATHFUL        destructive
SCONCE          the head
SCOTCH          to bruise or cut slightly
SCRIMER         a fencer
SCROYLE         a scabby fellow
SCULL           a shoal of fish
SCURVY          scabby; metaph. mean
SEAL            to set one's seal to a deed; hence, to confirm
SEAM            fat
SEAMY           showing the seam or sewing
SEAR            scorched, withered
SEAR            to stigmatise
SEARCH          to probe; hence, to apply a healing remedy

SEATED          fixed, confirmed
SECT            a slip or scion
                        A political party
SECURELY        inconsiderately
SEEL            to close
SEELING         closing, blinding
SEEMING         seemly, becomingly
SEEMING         outward manner and appearance
SEEN            versed, instructed
SELD            seldom
SELF-BOUNTY     native goodness
SEMBLABLY       alike
SENIORY         seniority
SENNET          a flourish of trumpets
SEPULCHRE       to bury
SEQUESTRATION   separation
SERE            dry
SERJEANT        a bailiff
SERPIGO         a cutaneous disease
SERVICEABLE     'serviceable vows,' vows that you will do
                her service, or be her servant
SETEBOS         the name of a fiend
SETTER          one who watches travellers to give information
                to thieves
SEVERAL         land which is not common but appropriated
SHAME           to be ashamed
SHAME           modesty
SHARDS          shreds, broken fragments of pottery
SHARDS          the wing cases of beetles; hence 'sharded,'
                and 'shard-borne,'
SHARKED         snatched up, as a shark does his prey
SHEEN           brilliancy
SHEER           pure
                Unmixed
SHENT           rebuked, blamed
                Hurt
SHERIFF'S-POST  a post at the door of a sheriff, to which royal
                proclamations were fixed
SHIVE           slice
SHOT            the reckoning at an ale-house
SHOUGHS         shaggy dogs
SHOULDERED      plunged
SHOVEL-BOARD    game played by sliding metal pieces along
                a board at a mark
SHREWD          mischievous
SHRIFT          confession
                Absolution
SHRIVE          to confess
SHRIVING-TIME   time for confession
SHROUD  to enshroud oneself, cover oneself up
SIDE-SLEEVES    loose hanging sleeves
SIEGE           seat
                Stool
                Rank
SIGHT           an aperture in a helmet
SIGHTLESS       invisible
                Unsightly
SIGN            to give an omen
SILLY           simple, rustic
SIMULAR         counterfeit, feigned
SINGLE          feeble
SIR             a title applied to a bachelor of arts at the
                Universities
SITH            since
SITHENCE        since
SIZES           allowances
SKAINS-MATES    scapegraces
SKILL           to be of importance
SKILLESS        ignorant
SKIMBLE-SKAMBLE rambling, disjointed
SKINKER         a drawer of liquor
SKIRR           to scour
SLACK           slacken
SLAVE           to turn to slavish uses
SLEAVE          floss-silk
SLEDDED         sledged
SLEIDED         untwisted, raw, applied to silk
                 (Gower)
SLEIGHTS        artifices
SLIPPER         slippery
SLIPS           a kind of noose, or leash
                A piece of base money
SLIVER          to slice
SLIVER          a slice
SLOPS           loose breeches
SLUBBER         to slur over
SMIRCHED        smeared, soiled
SMOOTH          to flatter
SMOOTHED        flattered, fawned upon
SNEAP           taunt, sarcasm
SNEAPED         pinched
SNECK-UP        go hang!
SNUFF           anger
                'To take in snuff' is to take offence
SOFTLY          gently
SOIL            spot, taint
SOLICIT         solicitation
SOLIDARE        a small coin
SOLVE           solution
SOMETIMES       formerly
SOOTH           truth
                Conciliation
SOOTH           true
SOREL           a buck of the third year
SORRIEST        most sorrowful
SORRY           sorrowful, dismal
SORT            a company
                Rank, condition
                Lot
                'In a sort,' in a manner
SORT            to choose
                to suit
                To consort
SOT             fool
SOUL-FEARING    soul-terrifying
SOWL            to lug, drag
SOWTER          name of a dog
SPECIALLY       a special contract
SPED            settled, done for
SPEED           fortune
SPERR           to bolt, fasten
SPIAL           spy
SPILL           to destroy
SPILTH          spilling
SPLEEN          violent haste
                Used of the lightning flash
SPRAG           quick
SPRING          shoot, bud
                Beginning
SPRINGHALT      stringhalt, a disease of horses
SPRITED         haunted
SPURS           roots of trees
SQUANDERED      scattered
SQUARE          to quarrel
SQUARE          the front part of a woman's dress, stomacher
SQUARE          equitable
SQUARER         quarreller
SQUASH          an unripe peascod
SQUIER          a square or rule
SQUINY          to squint
STAGGERS        a disease in horses, attended with giddiness:
                hence any bewildering distress
STAIN           to disfigure
STALE           a decoy
                A gull
                A prostitute
STALE           to make stale, deprive anything of its
                freshness
STAND UPON      to be incumbent on
STANIEL         an inferior kind of hawk
STARK           stiff
STARKLY         stiffly
STATE           a canopied chair
STATION         attitude
                Act of standing
STATIST         a statesman
STATUA          a statue
STATUE          image, picture
STATUTE         security, obligation
STATUTE-CAPS    woollen caps worn by citizens
STAY            a cheque
STEAD           to profit
STEELED         set or fixed
STERNAGE        steerage, course
STICKLER        an arbitrator in combats
STIGMATIC       a deformed person
STIGMATICAL     deformed
STILL           constant
STILL           constantly
STILLY          softly
STINT           to stop
                to stop
STITHY          a smith's forge
STITHY          to forge
STOCCADO        a stoccata, or thrust in fencing
STOCK           a stocking
STOMACH         courage, stubbornness
                Appetite, inclination
STONE-BOW       a cross-bow for throwing stones
STOUP           a cup
STOUT           strong, healthy
STOVER          fodder
STRACHY         A word of doubtful meaning
STRAIGHT        immediately
STRAIN          lineage
                        Disposition
STRAITED        straitened
STRANGE         foreign
                Coy, reserved
                Marvellous
STRANGENESS     coyness, reserve
STRANGER        foreigner
STRAPPADO       a kind of punishment
STRICTURE       strictness
STROSSERS       trowsers
STUCK           a thrust of a sword
STUCK IN        corruption of stoccata
STUFF           baggage
                Material, substance
STUFFED         filled, stored
STY     to lodge as in a sty
SUBSCRIBE       to yield
                to succumb
SUCCESS         issue, consequence
                Succession
SUCCESSIVE      succeeding
SUCCESSIVELY    in succession
SUDDEN          hasty, rash
SUDDENLY        hastily
SUFFERANCE      suffering
SUGGEST         to tempt, entice
SUGGESTION      temptation, enticement
SUITED          dressed
SULLEN          doleful, melancholy
SUMPTER         a horse that carries provisions on a journey
SUPPOSE         a trick, imposition
SUPPOSED        counterfeit
SURCEASE        to cease
SURCEASE        cessation, end
SURPRISE        to capture by surprise
SUR-REINED      over-worked
SUSPECT         suspicion
SUSPIRE         to breathe
SWABBER         a sweeper of the deck of a ship
SWARTH          black
SWARTH          quantity of grass cut down by one sweep of the
                scythe
SWASHER         swaggerer
SWASHING        dashing, smashing
SWATH           The same as 'swarth.'
SWATHLING       swaddling
SWAY            to move on
SWEAR           to adjure
SWEAR OVER      to out-swear
SWIFT           ready, quick
SWINGE-BUCKLER  a bully


TABLE           a tablet, note-book
TABLE-BOOK      note-book
TABLES          the game of backgammon
                A note-book
TABOUR          a small side-drum
TABOURER        a player on the tabour
TABOURINE       tambourine, drum
TAG             the rabble
TAINT           tainted
TAINTURE        defilement
TAKE            to infect, blast, bewitch
TAKE IN         to conquer
TAKE OUT        to copy
TAKE UP         to borrow money, or buy on credit
                To make up a quarrel
TAKING          infection, malignant influence
TAKING UP       buying on credit
TALE            counting, reckoning
TALL            strong, valiant
TALLOW-CATCH    a lump of tallow
TANG            twang, sound
TANG            to sound
TANLING         anything tanned by the sun
TARRE           to excite, urge on
TARRIANCE       delay
TARTAR          Tartarus
TASK            to tax
                Challenge
TASKING         challenging
TASTE           to try
TAWDRY-LACE     a rustic necklace
TAXATION        satire, sarcasm
TAXING          satire
TEEN            grief
TELL            to count
TEMPER          to mix
TEMPERANCE      temperature
TEMPERED        mixed
TEND            to attend to
TENDER          to hold, to esteem
                To have consideration for
TENT            to probe as a wound
TENT            a probe for searching a wound
TERCEL          the male of the goshawk
TERMAGANT       a ranting character in old plays
TESTED          pure, assayed
TESTERN         to reward with a tester, or six-pence
THARBOROUGH     a constable
THEORICK        theory
THEWES          sinews, muscles
THICK           rapidly
THICK-PLEACHED  thickly intertwined
THIRD-BOROUGH   a constable
THOUGHT         anxiety, grief
                So 'to take thought' is to give way to grief
THRASONICAL     boastful
THREE-MAN BEETLE        a wooden mallet worked by three men
THREE-MAN-SONG-MEN      singers of glees in three parts
THREE-PILE      three-piled velvet
THRENE          lament
THRID           thread, fibre
THROE           to put in agonies
THRUM           the tufted end of a thread in weaving
THRUMMED        made od coarse ends or tufts
TICKLE          ticklish
TIGHT           nimble, active
TIGHTLY         briskly, promptly
TIKE            a cur
TILLY-VALLY     int. an exclamation of contempt
TILTH           tillage
TIMELESS        untimely
TINCT           stain, dye
TIRE            attire, head-dress
TIRE            to tear as a bird of prey
                Hence, metaphorically, to feed
TIRE            to attire, dress
TANG            twang, sound
TOD             to yield a tod of wool
TOKENED         marked with plague spots
TOKENS          plague spots
TOLL            to exact toll
                To pay toll
TOO TOO         excessively
TOPLESS         supreme, without superior
TOUCH           touchstone for testing gold
                Trait
                An acute feeling
TOUCHED         pricked
TOUSE           to pull, drag
TOWARD          nearly ready
TOWARDS         nearly ready
TOYS            trifles, foolish tricks
TRADE           beaten path
TRANECT         a ferry
TRANSLATED      transformed
TRASH           to cheque, as a huntsman his hounds
TRAVAIL         labour, toil
TRAY-TRIP       an old game played with dice
TREACHERS       traitors
TREATIES        entreaties
TRENCHED        carved
TRICK           technically, a copy of a coat of arms; hence,
                any peculiarity which distinguishes voice or
                feature
TRICK           to dress up
TRICKED         blazoned
TRICKING        ornament
TRICKSY         elegantly quaint
TRIPLE          third
TROJAN          a cant word for a thief
TROL-MY-DAMES   the name of a game; also called
                pigeon-holes
TROTH-PLIGHT    betrothed
TROW            to trust, think
TRUE            honest
TRUNDLE-TAIL    a long-tailed dog
TUCKET-SONANCE  a flourish on the trumpet
TUNDISH         a funnel
TURLYGOOD       a name adopted by bedlam-beggars
TURN            to modulate
TWANGLING       twanging
TWIGGEN         made of twigs, wicker
TWILLED         Retained by woven branches
TWINK           a twinkling
TWIRE           to peep, twinkle


UMBERED         stained, dark, as with umber
UNANELED        without extreme unction
UNAVOIDED       unavoidable
UNBARBED        untrimmed
UNBATED         unblunted
UNBOLT          to disclose
UNBOLTED        unsifted, unrefined
UNBREATHED      unpractised
UNCAPE          to throw off the hounds
UNCHARGED       undefended, applied to the gates of a city
UNCLEW          to unravel, undo
UNCOINED        unalloyed, unfeigned
UNDERGO         to undertake
UNDERTAKER      one who takes up another's quarrel
UNDER-WROUGHT   undermined
UNEATH          hardly
UNEXPRESSIVE    inexpressible
UNFAIR          to deprive of beauty
UNHAPPILY       censoriously
UNHAPPY         mischievous
UNHATCHED       undisclosed
UNHOUSELED      without receiving the sacrament
UNIMPROVED      unreproved
UNION           a pearl
UNJUST          dishonest
UNKIND          unnatural
UNLIVED         bereft of life
UNMANNED        untamed, applied to a hawk
UNOWED          unowned
UNPREGNANT      stupid
UNPROPER        common to all
UNQUESTIONABLE  not inquisitive
UNREADY         undressed
UNRESPECTIVE    inconsiderate
UNSISTING       unresting
UNSTANCHED      incontinent
UNTEMPERING     unsoftening
UNTENTED        unsearchable
UNTRADED        unused, uncommon
UNTRIMMED       spoiled of grace or ornament
UNTRUE          untruth
UNVALUED        invaluable
UPSPRING REEL   a boisterous dance
URCHIN          the hedge-hog
USANCE          usury
USE             interest
UTIS            riotous merriment, which accompanied the eighth
                day of a festival
UTTER           to expel, put forth
UTTERANCE       extremity


VADE            to fade
VAIL            to lower
VAILING         lowering
VAINNESS        vanity
VALANCED        adorned with a valence or fringe; applied
                to the beard
VALIDITY        value
VANTAGE         advantage
VANTBRACE       armour for the front of the arm
VARLET          a servant, valet
VAST            properly a waste-place, metaphorically, the dead
                of night
                A gulf
VASTIDITY       immensity
VASTLY          like a waste
VASTY           vast, waste
VAUNT           the van, that which precedes
VAUNT-COURIERS  forerunners
VAWARD          the van, vanguard, advanced guard of an army
                Hence, metaphorically, the first of anything
VEGETIVES       herbs
VELURE          velvet
VELVET-GUARDS   literally, velvet trimmings; applied
                metaphorically to the citizens who wore them
VENEW           a bout in fencing, metaphorically applied to
                repartee and sallies of wit
VENEY           a bout at fencing
VENGE           to avenge
VENTAGES        holes in a flute or flageolet
VERBAL          wordy
VERY            true, real
VIA             int. off with you!
VICE            to screw
VICE            the buffoon in the old morality plays
VIE             to challenge; a term at cards
                To play as for a wager
VIEWLESS        invisible
VILLAIN         a lowborn man
VINEWED         mouldy
VIOL-DE-GAMBOYS a bass viol
VIRGINALLING    playing as on the virginals, a kind of a
                spinet
VIRTUE          the essential excellence
                valour
VIRTUOUS        excellent
                Endowed with virtues
VIZAMENT        advisement
VOLUBLE         fickle
VOLUNTARY       volunteer
VOTARIST        votary, one who has taken a vow
VULGAR          the common people
VULGAR          common
VULGARLY        publicly


WAFT            to wave, beckon
                To turn
WAFTAGE         passage
WAFTURE         waving, beckoning
WAGE            to reward as with wages
WAILFUL         lamentable
WAIST           the middle of a ship
WANNION         'with a vengeance.'
WAPPENED        withered, overworn
WARD            guard
                Prison
WARDEN          a large pear used for baking
WARDER          truncheon
WARN            to summon
WASSAIL         a drinking bout
                Festivity
WAT             a familiar word for a hare
WATCH           a watch light
WATCH           to tame by keeping constantly awake
WATER-GALL      a secondary rainbow
WATER-RUG       a kind of dog
WATER-WORK      painting in distemper
WAX             to grow
WAXEN           perhaps, to hiccough
WEALTH          weal, advantage
WEAR            fashion
WEATHER-FEND    to defend from the weather
WEB AND PIN     the cataract in the eye
WEE             small, tiny
WEE             to think
WEED            garment
WEET            to wit, know
WEIGH OUT       to outweigh
WELKIN          the sky
WELKIN          sky-blue
WELL-LIKING     in good condition
WELL SAID       int. well done!
WEND            to go
WESAND          the wind-pipe
WHELK           a weal
WHELKED         marked with whelks or protuberances
WHEN            an exclamation of impatience
WHEN AS         when
WHERE           whereas
WHERE           a place
WHIFFLER        an officer who clears the way in processions
WHILE-ERE       a little while ago
WHILES          until
WHIP-STOCK      handle of a whip
WHIST           hushed, silent
WHITE           the centre of an archery butt
WHITELY         pale-faced.  A doubtful word
WHITING-TIME    bleaching time
WHITSTER        bleacher
WHITTLE         a clasp knife
WHOO-BUB        hubbub
WHOOP           to cry out with astonishment
WICKED          noisome, baneful
WIDOW           to give a jointure to
WIDOWHOOD       widow's jointure
WIGHT           person
WILD            weald
WILDERNESS      wildness
WIMPLED         veiled, hooded
WINDOW-BARS     lattice-work across a woman's stomacher
WINDRING        winding
WINTER-GROUND   to protect (a plant) from frost
WIS             in the compound 'I wis,' certainly
WISH            to commend
WISTLY          wistfully
WIT             knowledge, wisdom
WITHOUT         beyond
WITS            five, the five senses
WITTOL          a contented cuckold
WITTY           intelligent
WOMAN-TIRED     hen-pecked
WONDERED        marvellously gifted
WOOD            mad
WOODCOCK        a simpleton
WOODMAN         a forester, huntsman
                A cant term for a wencher
WOOLWARD        shirtless
WORD            to flatter or put off with words
                To repeat the words of a song
WORLD           'To go to the world' is to get married
                So 'a woman of the world' is a married woman
WORM            a serpent
WORSER          worse
WORSHIP         to honour
WORTH           wealth, fortune
WORTS           cabbages
WOT             to know
WOUND           twisted about
WREAK           vengeance
WREAK           to avenge
WREAKFUL        revengeful, avenging
WREST           an instrument used for tuning a harp
WRIT            gospel, truth
WRITHLED        shrivelled
WROTH           calamity, misfortune
WRUNG           twisted, strained
WRY             to swerve

XANTHIPPE       Socrate's scolding wife

YARE            ready, being understood
YARELY          readily
YAW             out of control
Y-CLAD          clad
Y-CLEPED        called, named
YEARN           to grieve, vex

YELLOWNESS      jealousy
YELLOWS         a disease of horses
YEOMAN          a sheriff's officer
YIELD           to reward
                To report
YOND            and yonder
YOUNKER         tyro


ZANY            a clown, gull
