Mobled, or Mabled, viii. 126. veiled A Mome, i 176. a dull stupid blockhead, a stock, a poft. This owes its original to the French word Momon, which fignifies the gaming at dice in masquerade; the custom and rule of which is, that a strict filence is to be obferved; whatfoever fum one stakes, another covers, but not a word is to be spoken; from hence alfo comes our word Mum! for filence A Mooncalf, an idiot Mull'd, vi 373. softened and dispirited, as wine is when burnt and fweetened. Latin Mollitus 1 A Mummer, vi. 324. a masker. Momerie A Mure, a wall, Latin Murus Murk, darkness. Murry, dark Mummerie, masquerading. Fr, A Musket, a male hawk of a small kind, the female of which is the fparrow-hawk; fo that Eyas Mufket, i. 218. is a young unfledged male hawk of that kind. Fr. Mouchet A Mufs, vii. 132, a fcramble N Nayward, "to th' nayward," iii. 222. to the fide of denial, towards the laying Nay A Nay ward, ii. 106. the fame as by-word; a word of contempt: also a word fecretly agreed upon, as among foldiers, for the distinguishing friends from foes A Neafe, or Neife, or Neive, a fist A Neb, iii. 211. the bill or beak of a bird 66 Nick, cut of all nick," i. 164, out of all count; i. e. extravagant ly. A phrafe taken from accounts when calculations were made by nicking on numbers upon a stick Nine mens morris, a kind of rural chefs A Nole, i. 89. a noddle Ceillades, glances. Fr. Ocillades An Opal, iii. 109. a precious ftone reflecting almost all colours. Fr. Orgillous, vii. (Prol. to Tr. and Creff), proud. Fr. Orgueilleux Ofprey, vi. 379, the fea-eagle; of which it is reported, that when he hovers in the air, all the fish in the water underneath turn up their bellies, and lie fil for him to feize which he pleafes. One of the names of this bird is Offifraga, from which by corruption is deduced Ofprey. See Gefner, and William Turner. The name in Pliny is Haliactos An Oftent, a fhew, an outward appearance. Lat. Oftentus To Overween, to reach beyond the truth of any thing in thought, especially in the opinion of a man's felf Ouphe, the fame as Elfe, from which it is a corruption, a fairy, a hob goblin Ouphen, elfish, of fairy kind An Ouzie, a blackbird Owches, iv. 189. bosses or buttons of gold fet with diamonds. The word is mentioned in an old statute of Henry VIII. made against excess in apparel; it is also used by Chaucer and Spencer To Owe, is very frequently used for poffefs; to be the owner of; especially where the author would imply an absolute right or property in the thing poffeffed A Paddock, a toad, or frog P Palabras, ii. 43. o'my word. Span. Dò Palabra. Pocas Palabras, ii. 289. few words Pale-clipt, i. 45. inclofed or fenced with pales A Palliament vi. 169. a robe. Ital. Paliamento A Pantaloon, ii. 246. a man's garment anciently worn, in which the breeches and stockings were all of a piece. Fr. Pantalon A Pantler, the officer in a great family who keeps the bread. Fr.. Panetier To Pantler, vii. 145. to run after one like a footman To Paragon, to compare. Fr. Paragonner; also to equal, viii. 213. A Paragon, a compleat model or pattern A Parator, the fame as apparator or apparitor; an officer belonging to the spiritual courts, who carries fummons, and ferves proceffes To Parget, to daub or plaister over Partlet, ii, 230,, a name given to a hen; the original fignification being a ruff, or band, or covering for the neck ▲ Pash, ii. 210. a kifs. Span. Paz. La paz de Judas," is a phrase with the Spaniards, by which they express treachery To Path, to dash, Patens, ii. 134. a round plate of gold borne in heraldry; the cover of the facramental cup A Pelt, a skin or hide. Lat. Pellis Pelting (a pelting village, a pelting farm), has the fame fease as beggarly. There is a rot among sheep, particularly called the Pel-vot; which is, when the sheep from proverty and ill-keeping first lose their wool, and then die. This word comes from Pelt, a fkin; the poor being generally clothed in leather Perdy, vi. 40. an oath. Fr. Par Dieu Periapts, iv. 396. amulets; charms worn as prefervatives against dif cafes or mischief. Gr. Пgára, Pro amuleto appendo." Steph. A Pet, a lamb taken into the house, and brought up by hand; a cadelamb. A Petar, viii. 153. a kind of little cannon filled with powder, and. ufed for the breaking down the gates of a town, and for counter mining. Fr. Petard Picked, harp, fmart, Fr. Piqué Pight, pitched, placed, fixed. A Pike, vi. 300. a fork A Pilcher, a furr'd gown or cafe, any thing lined with fur; a cloak or coat of skins Pin, vi. 55. a horny induration of the membranes of the eye Pink, i. 205. a veffel of the fmall craft, employed as a carrier (and fo called) for merchants A Pix, iv. 286. a little cheft or box wherein the confecrated hoft is kept in Roman Catholic countries Lat. Pixis Plage, vi. 12. place, country, or boundary. Lat. Plaga To Plash to reduce into order the largest and most riotous plants in a hedge, by cutting deep into their bodies, to make them bend down, and then interweaving them with the lower parts of the hedge. The original and true word is to Pleach, by vulgar use pronounced Plafh To Pleach, to twift together, to interweave Point-device, ii. 257 exact to the greatest nicety. Fr. A points devifes. The expreffion is ufed by Chaucer Poil'd, vi. 373. fhaven Pomander, iii. 269. a little round ball of perfumes. Fr. Pomme d'ambre Pomwater, iii. 269. a very large apple A Precisian, i. 196. one who profeffes great fancity, a ghostly father a fpiritual guide Prime, viii, 244. prompt; from the Celtique or British Prim A Prizer, ii. 235. a prize-fighter To Procter, vii. 160. to plead by an advocate Proface, iv. 238 much good may do you! Ital. Profaccia To Propend, vii. 294. to lean more, to incline more favourably. Lat, Propendeo Properties, a term much used at the playhouses for the habits andimplements neceffary for the reprefentation; and they who furnish them, are called Property-men. This feems to have arisen from that fenfe of the word Property, which fignifies a blind, a tool, a ftalking-horfe To Purfle, to over-lay with tinsel, gold thread, &c. Fr. Pourfiler A Quab, a gudgeon, (Gobio capitatus. Skin.); and a gudgeon is often ufed in a figurative fenfe for a foft eafy fool, ready to fwallow any bait laid for him To Quail, to droop, to languish, to faint A Quarrel, v 302 a large arrow fo called Queafy, vi. 29. fickish, nauseating A Quell, vi. 247 a murtherous conqueft. In the common acceptation, to quell, fignifies to fubdue any way; but it comes from a Saxon word, which fignifies to kill A Quern, a churn; also a mill A Queft, vi. 70. a lamentation, a complaint. Lat. Queflus A Queftant or Quefter, one who goes in queft of any thing Quill, (" deliver our fupplications in quill," v. 13); this may be fuppofed to have been a phrafe formerly in ufe, and the fame with the French en quille, which is faid of a man when he ftands upright upon his feet, without stirring from the place. The proper sense of Quille in the French is a nine-pin; and in fome parts of England nine-pins are still called Cayls; which word is used in the statute Henry VIII. cap 9. Quille in the old British language alfo signifies any piece of wood fet upright. 33. Quillets, quibbles, querks, fubtilties; law-chicane, a falfe charge, or an evafive answer. Quips, i. 162. gibes, flouts A Quintain, ii. 228. a butt, a poft, or the figure of a man fet up in wood for the purpose of military exercifes, throwing darts, breaking lances, or running a tilt against it. Fr. Quintaine To Quote, to understand, to interpret, to rate, to estimate, to reckon. R The Rack, vii. 147. vii. 126. the courfe or driving of the clouds;' the veftige of an embodied cloud, which hath been broken and diffipated by the wind Raied, blotted, stained, fouled: the fame as Beraied, which is the term more known of late days. Fr. Rayé Rash, iv. 223. dry To Rate, ii. 45. to rail or revile Raught the fame as reached To Ravin, to fnatch or devour greedily A Raze of ginger, iv. 96. this is the Indian word for a bale, and muft be diftinguiched from Race, which fignifies a single root of ginger Rear-mice or Rere-mice, bats Rebato, ii. 40. an ornament for the neck, a collar band or kind of ruff Fr. Rabat. Menage faith it comes from Rabattre, to put back; because it was at firft nothing but the collar of the fhirt or fhift turned back towards the fhoulders A Recheate, ii. 7. a particular leffon upon the horn to call dogs back from the fcent; from the old French word Recet, which was used in the fame fenfe as Retraite Rechlefs or Recklefs, regardlefs, negligent To Reck, to regard, to care, to be anxious about, to regret the lofs of Reechy or Reeky, fmoaky, or foiled with smoak, or a dark yellow; thence alfo fweaty or filthy with fweat Reed, leffon, doctrine, counfel Reer, vi. 38. flow, backward, unwilling to fhew itfelf Reguerdon, iv. 370. recompence To Rein, to curb, to reftrain 1 Fr. Relever To Releve, i. 64. to heighten, to add to. Ribaud, debauched, abandoned, proflituted, a luxurious fquanderer. Fr. Ribaud Ribi, iv. 107. drink away! Italian. The imperative mood of Ribere, which is the fame as Ribevere, to drink again Riggish, wanton Rigol, iv. 226. a circle;- from the Italian Rigole, which fignifies à little round wheel or trundle Roifting, vii, 295. blustering, fwaggering A Rood, a cross A Rowfe, viii. 94. the fame as a carowse A Ruddock, vii. 232. a robin-red breast A Runnion or Ronyon, a icabby or mangy man or woman. Fr. Ruth, pity, compaffion Sacring-bell, v. 326. the little bell which is rung in the proceffion of the hoft, to give notice of its approach, or to call to fome holy office. From the French word Sacrer, to confecrate or dedicate to the fervice of God Sad is frequently used for grave, fober, serious To Sagg, is (properly) to fink on one side, as weights do when they are not balanced by equal weights on the other Sallet or Salade, v. 77. a helmet. Corrupted from Calata, a helmet. (fays Skinner,)“ quia galeæ cælatæ fuerunt." Span. Celada. Fr. Sulade Saltier, iii. 261 a term in heraldry; one of the ordinaries in form of St Andrew's crofs Sanded, i. 104. of a fandy colour, which is one of the colours belonging to a true blood-ho..nd San Domingo, iv. 239. St Dominick. Span. Sans, without. A French word A Saw, a wife faying, a proverb "Say, vi. 91. etlay. Fr. Efai To Scan, to canvafs, to examine, to weigh and confider well any bulinefs Scarfed, ii. 95. pieced or joined clofe together; a term used by the shipbuilders Ital. Schiacciare Scathe, harm, hurt, mifchief, damage, Scatheful, mischievous A Sea-mall, a kind of gull, a bird haunting the fea-coasts |