A Bever, that part of the helmet which lets down over the face, with a grate of iron bars before the eyes. Span. Bevera To Bewray, to discover, to reveal Buzonian, a beggarly fcoundrel, a vile or needy perfon. пого Ital Bifog A Biggen, a cap or coif of linen like thofe worn by children with a ftay under the chin. Fr. Beguin A Bilberry, the fruit of a small shrub, of a blue colour. Bilbo, like a god bilbo,” i. 229 a fword blade of bilbo, which will bend almoft round in a circle without breaking Biffon or Beefen, blear-eyed A Blank, vi. 98. a white or mark to shoot at. Fr. Blanc Blent, the fame as blended, mingled Bold bearing, i 202. outfacing To Bolt or Boult, to fift as they do meal through a fieve Bolter'd, as blood-bolter'd, vi. 276. one whole blood hath iffued out at many wounds, as flour of corn passes through the. holes of a fieve A Bombard or Bumbard, i. 28 a mortar piece or great gun. Fr. Bombarde. But in other places, as v 115 and v. 354 the word is ufed for a drinking vefel: and there is ftill in ufe in the northern parts of England a kind of flagon without a cover, and of the fame bignefs from top to bottom, which retains the name of a gun. A Borne, a limit or boundary. Fr. Borne. This word (fays the Oxford editor) hath been faltely printed Burn, which fignifies another thing, namely, a br ok, or stream of water; but other editors prefer Bourn, as fignifying a limit or boundary A Bow, ii 260, a yoke A Brach. The Italian word Bracco, from which this is derived, is understood to fignify any kind of beagle hound, or setting dog: but Jo. Caius, in his book of British dogs, fays, that with us it moft properly belongs to bitches of the hunting kind, and in that fenie Shakespear uses it To Brack, to falt. It is ftill ofed as an adjective in Lincolnshire and the northern counties: and bra kish is retained in ufe every where Braid or Breid, iii. 57. bred, of a breed, of a certain turn of temper and conditions from the breed. A Scots and north country word A Brake, i. 83, and 89 a thicket or cover A Briet, iii 31. any procefs or order itluing from the King Broached, iv 321. fpitted, thrust through with a ipit. Fr. Brochée A Broch, or Brooch, or Brewch, an rnament of gold worn by women fometimes about the neck, and sometimes about the arm A Brock, iii. 113. a badger To Brooch, vii. 152 to adorn Brogues, the fhoes or pumps which are worn by the Irish peasants t A Burgonet, v. 85. a feel cap, worn for the defence of the head i Bulky or Bofky, woody: from the old French word Bofe, of which C A Cade, v. 63. a cafk. Lat. Cadus. Alfo, when joined to the name of any beast, it fignifies" tame, brought up by hand” Cadis, iii. 257. a galloon or binding made of worsted. A French word Caliver, the diameter or bore of a gun: thence fometimes the gun it felf. Fr. Calibre A Callat. This word has two fignifications: fometimes a fcold, and fometimes a lewd drab Candent, hot, fcalding A Cantle, iv. 121. a piece or lump, a divifion or fegment of land, or other thing. Ital. Cantone. Fr. Canton A Canzonet, ii, 174, a fong, a ditty. Ital. Canzonetta Cappochia, vii. 323. a fool, An Italian word A Carack, iii. 176. a flow, heavy built vessel of burthen, used by the Spaniards and Portuguese. Ital. Caracca Caracts, i. 319. characters A Carkanet, a necklace. Fr. Carcan A Carle, a clown, a churl Carrat, the weight which distinguishes the fineness of gold, Fr. Garat Castle, a close helmet which covered the whole head Cataian, i. 199 Cataia is a country on the north of China, which in the time of Q. Elifabeth, was reported by the first voyager thither to be rich in gold ore; and upon that encouragement many perfons were perfuaded to adventure great fums of money in fiting our fhips thither, as for a moft gainful trade; but it proved a notorious deceit and falsehood: hence Cataian ftands for one of no credit, a notorious lyar Catlings, vii. 319. fmall ftrings for musical inftruments made of catgut Cautel, viii. 98. fraud, deceit, an ill defigning craft, in order to in- Cautelous, vi. 362. crafty, cunning, deceitful. So is the French A Cearment, viii, 103 the wrapping of an embalmed body. Ital. A Center, iv. 242 a plate or difh in which they burnt incenfe, and at the bottom of which was ufually reprefented in rude carving the figure of fome faint Fr. Encenfoir Charneco, y. 32 a fort of sweet wine. As Charneca is, in Spanish, the name of a kind of turpentine tree, 'tis thought the growth of it was in fome district abounding with that tree; or that it had its name from a certain flavour resembling it Chawdron, vi. 273. a dish of meat still used in the northern parts of England, made of the intrails of a calf. A Chevril, a kid. Fr. Chevreau A Chewet, iv 146. a pye or magpye Fr. Chouette or Cheuette A Childing, i. 74. teeming, bearing fruit A Chioppine, viii. 124. a thick piece of cork, bound about with tin or filver, worn by the women in Spain at the bottom of their shoes to make them appear taller; a tight.heeled shoe, or flipper. Span. Chapin A Chough or Cornish chough, a bird which frequents the rocks by the fea-fide, moft like to a jackdaw, but bigger Cinque pace, a grave dance fo called. A Cital, iv. 150. a recital, taxation Fr. Cinque pas Cobloaf, vii. 287. a mif-shapen loaf of bread run out in the baking into lumps and protuberances Cockle, a weed in corn To Cockle, to shrink, to wrinkle up A Cockney, one born and bred in the city, and ignorant of all things out of it. Coigne or Coin, a corner. Fr. Coin. Coil, buftle, tumult, turmoil. Collied, i. 66. footy, black Commere, viii. 181. a fhe-goffip To Con, to learn, to know, to understand. To con thanks, mean's the fame as to give thanks, being to be reckoned a particular phrafe, and indeed a Græcifm, xdev oifa To Convent, iii. 152. to concur, to be fuitable. Lat. Convenire. To Convince, to overcome; in which fenfe the Latin word Convince is used fometimes To Convive, to feaft together. Lat. Convivere Copatain, ii. 354. copped, high raifed, pointed: from Coppe, the top or point of any thing To Cope, to encounter; alfo, viii. 63. to invest one's felf with, as with a cope or mantle Cornette, a woman's head-drefs for the night. A Corollary, i. 45 an over meafure in any thing, or a furplus thrown in. Fr. Corollaire. Latin Corollarium A Cofier, a botcher: from the old French Coufer, to few To Courb, viii. 152. to bend. Fr. Courber To Cower, to fink or fquat down. Ital. Covore. Fr. Couver To Crash, viii. 12. to be merry over: a Crafh being a word still used in fome counties for a merry bout To Craven, vii. 213. to make recreant or cowardly A Creffet, iv, 119. a great light fet upon a beacon, light-houfe or watch-tower: from the French word 'Croisette, a little cross; be. caufe the beacons anciently had croffes on the top of them Crete, ii. 183. white. Lat. Creta Cript, vaulted. Lat, Crypfa, a vault VOL. VIII. Bb A.Croan, ii. 230. an old toothless fheep: thence an old woman Fr. Cuiffarts A Cullion, a fool, a dull stupid cuddon. Ital. Coglione A Cattle, iv. 191, in its proper sense is a fea-fish; which, by throwing out a black juice like ink, fouls the water, and fo efcapes the fither. Hence, by metaphor, it is used to fignify a foul-mouth'd fellow Curfeu, the eight o'clock bell. Fr. Couvre feu D To Daffe, to put by, to turn aside with slight and neglect To Darraign, v. 114. to range, or put in order. Fr. Arranger A Deem, vii, 327. a supposition, a furmise To Defend, viii. 208. to forbid. Fr. Defendere Deftly, nimbly, brifkly. Deft, nimble, ready, neat, spruce Dewberries, i. 87. ftrictly and properly are the fruit of one of the fpecies of wild bramble, called the creeping or the leffer bramble; but as they ftand here among the more delicate fruits, they must be understood to mean rafberries, which are alfo of the bramble kind A Dibble, an inftrument with which gardeners make holes in the earth To Diet, to limit, to controul, to prescribe to Difmes, vii. 290. tenths. A French word To Difperge, to sprinkle, to scatter. Lat. Difpergo Draff, iv. 149. wash for hogs To Drumble, i. 221. to drone, to be fluggish. Ital. Dormigliare Dulcet, fweet, Lat. Dulcis E To Ear or Are, to plow or till. Lat. Aro Eifel, viii. 179. vinegar Eld, old times; alfo, old age To Elfe, vi. 37. to intangle hair in fo intricate a manner, not to be unravelled. that it is This the vulgar have fuppofed to be the work of fairies in the night: and all hair so matted together, hath had the name of Elfe-locks To Emball, v. 303, to make up into a pack. Fr. Emballer Embarrment, obftacle Embowelled, iii. 18, emptied To Emmew, i. 290, to mew up, to coop up An Engle, ii. 339. a gull, a put, a bubble: derived from the French word Engluer, which fignifies to catch with bird-lime Engl. t'ed, iv. 307 fwallowed up. Fr. Englouti To Enlard, to fatten, encourage To Enmesh, viii. 230. to entangle in the meshes of a net To Enfear, to fear up, to make dry To Enfconce, to cover as with a fort, to fecure Enfhield, i. 284. fhielded, protected Enfteeped, viii. 214. lying under water To Ent-me, ii. 264 to tame, to fubdue Entremes, vi. 272. intrails. Escoted, viii, 122. penfioned: from the French Efcot, a fhot ar reckoning Exigent, a law-term, a writ fued out when the defendant is not to be found, being part of the process leading to an outlawry. Shakefpear ufes it for any extremity Expedient, the fame as expeditious. Expedience, expedition Exfuffolate, viii. 238. whispered, buzz'd in the ears: from the Italian verb Suffolare Eyas, or Eyefs, a young unfledged hawk; from the Italian Niafo, which originally fignifies any young bird taken from the nest unfledged; metaphorically a fully fellow. For Eyas-mufket, fee mus ket An Eyery, an hawk's neft To Fade, to disappear, to vanish F A Farrow, vi. 2 74. the litter of a fow Farfed or Farçed, stuff'd out. Fr. Farci A Farthebor Fardel, a bundle, a pack, a burthen. Ital. Fardello Favour, countenance, vifage Fell, fierce, cruel A Fell, a fkin or hide of a beaft. Fell of hair, vi. 293. is the whole fcalp upon which the hair grows A Feodary, i. 285. one who holds his eflate under the tenure of fuit and fervice to a fupérior lord Fewnefs, i. 266. rarity Fights, i. 205. any manner of defence, either fmall arms or cannon A Fitchew, vl. 76. a polcat A Flamen, a priest; a Latin word Flaws, fudden gults of wind. See vol. iv. 222. Flecker'd, viii. 29. frotted, fpeckled, flushed with red fpots Flew'd, i. 104. Flews are the large chaps of a deep-mouth'd hound To Flicker, vi. 35. to finile Flouricts, i. 102. young bloffoms, young springing flowers To Flout, vi. 234. to defh a thing in a perfon's face To Foin, to push in fencing To Foredo, to undo, to overcome, to lay violent hands upon To Foreflow, to delay. Eorted, i. 3.18. fortified, fecure |