Sear'd, i 282. old. In the fear, fignifies old age Seednefs, i. 266. feed time, An old word To Seel, vi. 264. a term in falconry, to run a filk through the eyelids of a young hawk, and to draw them near together, in order to make the hawk bear a hood Sequele, a great man's train. A French word Seffa or Seffey, peace, be quiet. Shamois, i. 32. young kids Lat Ceffa A Shard, vii. 113. a tile, or broken piece of a tile: thence figuratively a scale or fhell upon the back of any creature. The Shardborn-beetle, means the beetle that is born up by wings hard and glazed like a potsheard Sharded, fcaled To Shark up, viii. 88. to pick up in a thievish manner. Fr. Chercher Sheen, clear, bright; fmiling, fhining; alfo brightness, luftre used in the first and laft fenfe by Spencer To Shend, to blame, to reprove, to rate, to rebuke, to disgrace, to evil-intreat A Shive, vi. 180, a lice A Showghe, vi. 261. a rough coated dog, a fhock Shrift, confeffion. To Shrive, to confefs A Siege, a feat; alfo, i. 30. the fundament of a man, in which fenfe the French often ufe it; "Mal au ficge; une fiftule au fiege" Sieg'd, ii. 306. placed, feated, fixed Sizes, vi. 43. certain portions of bread, beer, or other victuals, which in public focieties are fet down to the account of particular persons, A word ttill used in the colleges of the universities Sized, viii. 125. bedawbed as with size, which is a glewish composition ufed by painters. Ital. Sifa To Skirr, to fcour about a country Sleaded or Sleded, viii. 87. carried on a fled or fledge Slop, wide-knee'd breeches Slough, an husk, an outward skin. Smirch'd, ii. 39. fmeared, dawbed, dirtied To Sneap, to check, to fnub, to rebuke A Snipe, viii. 211. a diminutive woodcock Sooth, true or truth, a reality; also iv. 48. adulation, in the fenfe of the verb to Sooth To Sowle, vi. 372. to lug or pull A Sowter, iii. 114. a cobler. tended as the name of a dog Lat. Sutor. In this paffage it is in To Sperre, vii. 265. to bolt, to barricado, or any ways fasten Spleen is often used for a fudden start, a hafty motion, a momentary quickness A Spray, a young tender fhoot or branch of a tree Spurs, the fibres of a root or tree To Square, to jar, to wrangle or quarrel. For the derivation fee the next word A Squarer, ii. 3. a fwaggering blade. This word is taken from the French phrafe, Se quarrer, which fignifies to strut with arms a kembo, ("anfatus incedere,") an action which denotes a character of an hectoring bragadochio. The French fay, "Les jeuns fanfarons fe quarrent en marchant." ་་ A Squier, ii. 204. the fame as a fquare A Stanyel, iii. 114. otherwise called a Ring-tail, a kind of buzzard, or kite Starkly, i. 306. ftiffly, wearily, foundly Station, viii. 149. attitude, presence, perfon Steads, flocks, tools, from whence young flips or fuckers are propa gated Stickler-like, vii. 355. flicklers where feconds appointed in a duel to fee fair play, who parted the combatants when they thought fit: and this being done by interpofing with a stick, from thence came the name Stigmatical, iii, 181, branded with marks of difgrace. Lat. Stigma ticus Stint, i. 18. proportion, allotment A Stithy, an anvil. To Stithy, to beat upon an anvil Stoccata, viii. 42. a thrust in fencing. An Italian word A Stole, a robe, a long garment, a mantle, a woman's gown : ufød alfo by Spencer. Lat. Stola To Suggeft, iv. 6. and 52. to prompt or egg on Sumpter, vi. 44, a beast which carries neceflaries on a journey Surceafe, vi. 245 this generally fignifies the fufpenfion of any act but in this paffage it stands for the total ceafing after the final ex. ecution of it. Fr. Surfeoir A Swabber, iii. 97. an inferior officer in a ship, whofe business it is to keep the ship clean T A Tabourine, vii. 143. a drum. Fr. Tabourin To Take, to blaft, to firike with infection. Fr. Attaquer Tall is very frequently used for eminent, notable, considerable. To Tarre on, to provoke, to urge on, as they fet on dogs to fight Tear-cap, a ranting bully Tearsheet, a ranting whore Tefted, i. 280. tried, put to the test A Tether, a long rope with which horfes are tied to confine their feeding to a certain compafs, and prevent their trespassing farther. Thewes, finews, mufcles, bodily ftrength Thill-horfe, ii 89. the horfe which draws in the fhafts or thill of the Carriage Ccz Thirdborough, the fame as headborough or constable Tilth, i, 304. tillage Tiny, fmal', flender. Lat. Tenuis An old French word To Toze, iii. 272. to break in pieces, to draw out, or pull afunder, as they do wool, by carding it to make it foft; İt. Tozzare: Thence figuratively, by artful infinuations to draw out the fecrets of a man's thoughts To Tramell up, vi 245. to fop: A metaphor taken from a tramelnet which is ufed to be put crofs a river from bank to bank, and catches all the fifh that come, fuffering none to pass. Fr. Irmail Trick is a word frequently used for the air, or that peculiarity in a face, voice, or gefture, which diftinguifhes it from others Trickley, dainty, curious, fleight Trigon, iv. 194 a term in aftrology, when three figns of the fame nature and quality meet in a trine affect Toll-madam, iii, 250. a game commonly called pigeon-holes Trouffers, iv. 291. a kind of breeches wide and tucked up high, fuch as are fill worn in the robes of the order of the Garter. Fr. Treuffe. But frait trouffers in this paffage has a jefting sense, and means the natural fkin without any breeches. To Trow, to believe. An old word To Trufs, is a term in falconry, when a hawk near the ground rai foth a fowl, and foaring upwards with it, feizeth it in the air To Try, i 2 a term in failing. A fhip is faid to try when the hath no more fails abroad but her main-fail, when her tacks are close aboard, the bowlings fet up, and the fheets haled clofe aft, when alfo the helm is tied clofe down to the board, and so she is let lie in the fea Tub faft, vi. 141. .. The author in the place referred to, is alludirg to the lues venerea, and its effects. At that time the cure of it was performed either by guaiacum, or mercurial unctions: And in both cafes the patient was kept up very warm and close; that in the first application the fweet might be promoted; and left, in the other, he should take cold, which was fatal. The regimen for the courfe of guaiacum (fays Dr Friend in his hiftory of phyfic, “vol. ii. p. 380 ) was at first frangely circumstantial ; and so rigorous, that the patient was put into a dungeon, in order to "make him fweat; and in that manner (as Fallopias expreffes it) "the bones, and the very man himself, was macerated." man fays, in England they ufed a Tub for this purpofe, as abroad, a cave, or over, or dungeon. And as for the unction, it was fometimes continued for thirty feven days, (as he obferves, p. 375.) ;. and during this time there was neceffarily an extraordinary absți'nence required, Hence the term of the Tab-faft Wife Fucket, a prelude or voluntary in mufic, a flourish of inftruments. Ital. Toccata Turlupins, vi. 38. a new fpecies of gypfies, a fraternity of naked beggars, that sprang up in the fourteenth century, and ran up anddown Europe U Umber, a colour used by painters, a dark yellow Unaneal'd, viii. 106. unprepared. To Anneal or Neal, in its pri mary and proper fenie, is to prepare metals or glafs by the force of fire for the different ufes of the manufacturers in them: andthis is here applied by the author in a figurative sense to a dying perfon; who, when prepared by impreffions of piety, by repent ance, confeffion, abfolution, and other acts of religion, may be faid to be anneal'd for death.- -Mr Pope explains this word by, no knell rung; i. e. without enjoying the benefits of the paffing bell; which used to toll while the perfon lay expiring, and thence was fo called. This fhocking cuftom ftill prevails in fome parts of England Unanointed, viii. 106. not having received extreme unction. Unbarbed, vi. 356, bare, uncovered. In the times of chivalry, when a horfe was fully armed and accoutred for the encounter, he was faid to be barbed; probably from the old word Barbe, which Chau cer uses for a veil or covering Unbated, viii. 170. unabated, unblunted Unbolted, vi. 34. unfifted Unbraided, iii. 257. unfaded, fresh Unbreech'd, iii. 211. not yet in breeches, a boy in coats Uncape, i. 221. a term in fox-hunting, fignifying to dig out the fox when earth'd Unchary, iii. 129. careless Unhoufel'd, viii. 106. without having received the facrament. Houfel is a Saxion word for the eucharift, which feems derived from the Latin Hoftiola Unneath, hardly, fcarcely An Urchin, an hedge-hog, which was reckoned among the animals ufed by witches as their familiars: Hence, figuratively, a little unluckly mischievous boy or girl Ure, i. 264. ufe, practice Utas or Utis, iv. 188. the eight and last day of a festival, for fo long the great feftivals were accounted to laft, the conclufion being kept with more than ordinary merriment: From the French Huit To th' Utterance, vi. 260. to the utmoft, to all extremity. Fr. Outrance. At Utterance, vii. 205. at all extremity To Vail, to let down, to drop, to stoop To Van, to winnow, to purge; from the French Vanner; which is derived from the Latin Vannus, Ventilabrum, the fan used for win. nowing the chaff from the corn. Vantbrace, vii. 284. defenfive amour for the arm. Fr. Avant-bras Vary, vi. 34, variation, change Vannt-couriers, vi. 48. forerunners. Fr. Avant coureurs Vaward, the fame as van-guard, the first line of an army: and from thence the forward or leading part of any thing Velure, ii. 327. velvet. Fr. Velours Venew, ii. 188. a reft or bout in fencing A Venige, viii. 144. a vent or paffage for air. Fr. Ventouse Vice," Vice's dagger," iv. 208. and "Like the old Vice," iii. 140. W To Wage, to combat with, to enter into conflict with, to encounter. Wared or Wapid, vi 140. mournful, forrowful. Chaucer To Warp, to contract, to fhrink night, with a great The word is com"Health be to you!" Waffel or Waffaile, the merriment of twelfth bowl carried about from houfe to houfe. pounded of two Saxon words, fignifying, A Waffel candle, iv. 171. is a candle larger than ordinary used at, that ceremony A Web, iv. 171. a fpot in the eye injurious to the fight, Weyward fifters, vi, 236. This word Weyward had anciently the fame finte as Weird, and was the very fame differently spelt; having acquired its larger fignification from the quality and tem |