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Fortin, iv. 102. a little fort raised to defend a camp, particularly in a fiege where the principal quarters are joined by lines defended by fortins and redoubts. A French word

A Foffet or Faucet, a tap or peg of a barrel. Fr. Fauffette

Foule, Fr. the croud or multitude running away in a rout or confufion

Føyfon or Foizon, plenty, especially of fruits of the earth; harvest. Fr. Foifons

Franked up, v. 191. fhut up in a frank, which is a sty for feeding a boar

A Franklin, a country-freeholder

To Frufh, vii. 353. to break, bruife, or crush. Fr. Froifer Fulhams, i, 191. a cant word for falfe dice both high and low, taken probably from the name of the first inventor, or the place where they were first made. The word is ufed, and hath the fame fenfe in Hudibras, part 2, cant. 1. v. 642. And in Don Quixote, fol. edit. 1687 tranflated by Philips, part 2. book 3. chap. 16. "I am no paumer, no high-and-low Fulham man.” North's Examen, p. 108

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See alfo

A Gabardine, the coarfe frock of a fhepherd or fisherman, or any peasant: thence alfo any loofe caflock. Ital. Gavardina

Gain giving, viii. 185. the fame as mifgiving, a giving against; As gain faying, which is still in ufe, is faying against or contradict ing

Skinner

A Gallimaufry, iii. 261. an hotch potch, or hash of feveral forts of
broken meat, a medley. Fr. Gallimafree
To Gallow, vi. 49. to fcare, to frighten
Gallows, ii. 190, a knave, one fit for the gallows.
Gallow-glaffes, v. 76. vi. 233. heavy-armed foot-
Garboils, vii 82. diforders, tumults, uproars
Garifh, gaudy, glaring, flaunting

Gafted, vi 30. as aghafted, frighted, dismayed
To Gaude, iii. 202. to rejoice, Fr. Gaudir
A Gaude, a toy, a trifle, a bauble

To Geap, ii. 180. to jeer, ridicule

Gear or Geer, stuff

A Geck, a bubble eafily impofed upon.

To Geck, is to cheat

Germin, the first fprouting of feed of a branch. Lat Germen
Cefts, noble actions, exploits, feats: A word fo ufed by Chaucer and
Spenfer. Lat. Res gefte, or gefta

Cefte, i 207. the roll or journal of the feveral days and flages pre. fixed in the progreffes of our kings; many of them being ftill extant, in the herald's office; a ftage or journey. Fr. Gifte or Gîte

A Gibbe, any old worn-out useless animal

Giglets, or Giglots, wanton women, drabs, ftrumpets Gimmal, or Gimbald, or Jymold. This word Skinner interprets only as applied to a ring confifting of two or more rounds, and thence

derives

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derives it from the French Gemeau, and the Latin Gemellus. Jymold bitt therefore, iv 304. may well be taken in that fenfe, from the little rings often annexed to bitts to play in the horse's mouth. But Gimmals, iv. 341. carries a more general fignification; fuch as the word Gimcracks has now, viz. fome little quaint devices or pieces of machinery

A Glaive, a cutting fword, a cimeterre; used alfo by Spencer. A French word

To Gleck, to joke, to jeer, or fcoff

To Glofe, to flatter, to collogue

To Gloss, iv, 252. to interpret, to comment upon. Fr. Glifer “ Godild you! God fhield you!

Gord, i. 191. an inftrument of gaming

Goffomer, or Goffamour, the long white cobwebs which fly in the air ia calm funny weather, efpecially about the time of autumn Goujeres, the French difeafe, (lues venerea); from the French word Gouje, which fignifies a common camp-trull; as Goujer fignifies a man who deals with fuch proftitutes. These words Gouje and Goujer being used as common terms of reproach among the vulgar, and becaufe that lothfome difeafe was first brought from the fiege of Naples about the year 1495, by the French army, and the women who followed it, and was by them difperfed over all Europe; therefore the first name it got among as was the Goujeres; the dif eafe of the Goujes

Gouts, vi. 249. drops. Fr. Gouttes >

Gratulate, i. 332. fit for gratulation

Grice, or Grife, or Griece, or Greeze; degrees, steps, stairs. Fr. Grez Grimalkin, a name given to a cat

Grime, dirt, fil.h, ftain, fmut

A-Groundling, viii. 134. a fish which keeps at the bottom of the water: Hence one of the low vulgar

Guarde, the hem or welt of a garment; alfo any lace or galloon upon the feams or borders of it. To Guard, to lace over, to adorn Guerdon, reward; an old French word now difufed

Gyves, thackles. To Gyve, to catch, to fhackle

H

To Hack, to hackney, to turn hackney or prostitute

An Haggard, ii. 30. a wild hawk

To Harp, vi. 274. to feize, to lay hold of. Fr. Harper

Harper, vi. 272. a name given by the witches to fome of their mif. chievous imps

To Harry, vii. 116. to hare, to ruffle. Fr. Harer

To Hatch, vii, 278. a term in drawing, to thade off, and finish with the fine firokes of a pen

A Having (a fubftantive) is very frequently used for a poffeffion in any thing

Hefts, iii. 221. the fame as heavings
Helmed, i. 298. guided, conducted
A Henchman, i. 74. a page, usher

To Hend, to feize, to lay hold of; alfo to hem in, to furround
Hent, viii. 205. ufe, custom

Heried, i. 74. praifed, celebrated

Heris, mafter; an old Scots word

Hefts or Behefts, commands. Heft, vi. 7. regal command
Hight, named or called; or is named or called

Hilding or Hinderling, bafe, degenerate, fet at nought

To Hockle, to hamstring, to cut the finues about the ham or hough Holding fometimes fignifies the burden or chorus of a song. Holli'am, ii. 359. holy dame, bleffed lady

Holy day, to fpeak holy-day, i, 2 16. to fpeak in a high-flown, fustian style

Hofe, ii, 177. breeches. Fr. Chauffes, or Haut de chauffes

To Hull, v. 31o. to float, to drive to and fro upon the water without fails or rudder

To Hurtle, to fkirmish, to clash, to run against any thing, to justle, to meet in fhock and encounter. Fr. Heurter. Ital. Urtare An Hyen or Hyera, ii. 270. an animal of which many wonderful things are told; among which one is, that it can imitate the voice and laughter of men

I

Jeffes, a term in falconry; fhort straps of leather tied about the legs of an hawk, with which he is held on the fift

Imboft, iii. 51. a hunting term; when a deer is hard run, and foams at the mouth, he is faid to be imboft. A dog alfo, when he is ftrained with hard running, (efpecially upon hard ground), will have his knees fwelled, and then he is faid to be imbolt: From the French word Boffe, which fignifies a tumour

Impage, grafting; from Impe, a graff, a flip
Importance, iii. 151. the fame as importunity

Important, the fame as importunate

Incony, or Kony, delicate. A north-country word

An Indige, iii. 362. a chaos, (" rudis indigeftaque moles")
Induction, iv. 181. the fame as introduction; alfo inducement
To inherit, to poflefs

To Infcence, to cover as with a fort, to fecure

Intraitments, viii, 101. coynefs

Intrenchant, vi, 296. incroaching,

"The intrenchant air," means

the air which fuddenly incroaches and clofes upon the space left by any body which had paffed through it

Jymold.

See Gimmal

K

Kam," Clean kam," vi. 351. crooked, athwart, awry, cross from.. the purpofe. Ital. Afchenbo.

nunciation, brought to Kim kam

"Clean kam" is, by vulgar pro

To Keel, ii. 216 feems here to mean to drink fo deep, as to turn up the bottom of the pot; like turning up the keel of a ship

Kerns, rith boors; light-armed foot

A Keftrel, a little kind of baftard hawk

A Ketch, a tub, a caík, a barrel, a hogshead. Fr. Caque

Kickfy-wickly, iii, 34, a made word in ridicule and difdain of a wife Kindled, ii. 256. to kindle, is the word for rabbits bringing forth their young

A Kirtle, a woman's gown

L

Labra, i. 184. a lip. An Italian, word

To Land-damm, iii. 324. Probably this was a coarfe expreffion in the cant ftrain formerly in common ufe, but fince laid afide, and forgotten; which meant the " taking away a man's life" For Land or Lant is an old word for urine; and to ftop the common paffages and functions of nature, is to kill

Latten, i. 184. a factitious metal; tinned plates beaten out very thin. Fr. Letan ou Laiton

Laund, the fame as lawn, a plain extended between woods. Fr. Lande Lavolta, an old dance, in which was much turning, and much capering. Fr. La volte

A Leafb, a leathern thong, by which a falconer holds his hawk, or a courfer leads his greyhound. Ital. Laccio

To Lech, to lick over.

Fr. Lécher

To Leach, to cure. A Leach, a physician

Leer, or Lear, earth, mold

A Leman, a fweet-heart, a gallant, or a mistress,

L'aimante

Lethe, death, destruction

A Libbard, ii. 206. a leopard

Lief, dear, beloved

Fr. L'aimant,

A Linstock, a staff of wood, with a match at the end of it, used by

gunners in firing cannon

Lither, iv. 391, foft, mild

A Lob. i. 72. a lubber, a looby

Loch, a lake. A Scots word

Loches, viii 201 a very pleasant confection introduced into medicine by the Arabian physicians

Lockram, a fort of coarfe linen

Loggats, viii. 174. the ancient name of a play or game, which is one among the unlawful games enumerated in the ftatute 33. Henry VIII. It is the fame which is now called Kittle pins, in which boys often make ufe of bones inftead of wooden pins, throwing at them with another bone instead of bowling

Lozell, a lazy lubber

A Luce, i, 181. a pike or jack

Lunes, fits of lunacy or frenzy, mad freaks. The French fay of a a man who is but fantastical and whimsical, Il a des lunes

Lush, i. 20. of a dark, deep, fuil colour, oppofite to pale and faint... Fr. Loufche

Luttic, iii. 28 lufty. A Dutch word

Luftrous, iii. 20, full of luftre

Lym, vi. 59, a lime-hound, J. Caius derives the name from Lyemme which is an old word, fignifying a strap or thong with which dogs are led.

M

Mail'd, v. 34. clothed or covered as with armour

Malhechor, a poifoner. A Spanish word. Miching malbechor, viii. 138 lying in wait for the poifoner

To Mammer, to hesitate, to stand in fufpenfe. The word often occurs in old English writings, and probably takes its original from the French M'amour, which men were apt often to repeat when they were not prepared to give a direct answer

A Mammet, a puppet, a figure dressed up; a girl

Manour, or Mainour, or Maynur, an old law term, (from the French Mainaver or Manier, Latin Manu tra&are), fignifies the thing which a thief takes away or fteals: And to be taken with the Manour or Mairour, is to be taken with the thing stolen about him; or doing an unlawful act, flagrante delicto, or, as we fay, in the fact. The expreffion is much used in the foreft laws. Sec Manwood's edition in quarto, 1665, p. 292. where it is fpelt Manner · Mappery, vii. 281. the art of planning and defigning

To Mate, vi. 289. to confound, to conquer, to overcome, to subdue, Spen..

A Maukin or Malkin, a kind of mop made of clouts for the ufe of fweeping ovens; thence a frightful figure of clouts dreffed up; thence a dirty wench

A Mazzard, viii. 174. a jaw. Fr, Mafhoire

A Meacock, ii. 320. an uxorious or effeminate man

To Meal, i 307 to mingle

A Medecin, vi. 290. a physician ››

Meed most frequently stands for reward; but it is fometimes used for merit; as vi. 106

See alfo Minshew

Meered, vii. 129. relating to a boundary ; Meer being a boundary or · mark of divifion

Meether, vii. 212. beauty

A Meiny, people, a retinue, domeftic fervants, Fr. Menie

To Mell, iii. 63. to mix, to mingle. Fr. Mêler

Mephoftophilus, the name of an infernal fpirit in the old fabulous hiftory of Dr Faustus

A Mew, ii. 306. a confinement at home

A Micher, iv. 114. a truant, a lazy loiterer, who fculks about in corners and by places, and keeps out of fight; a hedge creeper

Miching, viii. 138 fecret, covered, lying hid; lying in wait

Ming, mixture, compofition

A Minnow, the smallett of fishes, fmall fry

Mifprifed, fometimes it fignifies miflaken, from the French verb mcfprendre; fometimes undervalued or disdained, from the French verb méprijer

A Milprison, a mistake

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