HEN. VIII.

Examined, disputed or doubted.

ALL'S WELL.

Excellent differences, distinguished

excellencies.

Excrement, the beard. Lov. LAB. MER. OF VEN. WINT. TAL. HAM.

Execute, sometimes for to use, or employ.

Executors, executioners. HEN.V.
Exempt, independant, not under
the control of. COM. OF ER.
Exercise, exhortation, lecture.
RICH. III.

Exhale, breathe your last. HEN. V.
Exhibition, allowance. Two GEN.
VER. OTH. LEAR.
Exigent, end.

Exorcism, in Shaks. generally
means the raising of spirits.
Expect, expectation. TROIL. &
CRES.

Expedience, expedition. HEN. II.

1st Part, &c.

Expedient, often for expeditious. Expediently, expeditiously. Expostulate, enquire or discuss. HAM.

Ersufflicate, bubble-like.

Extacy, a degree of madness.
HAM.

Extend, to seize. ANT. & CLE.
Extent, violence. TWELFTH
NIGH.
Extern, outward.

Eyas-musket, a troublesome

puppy, infant Lilliputian.

Eyas and musket, are young hawks.

Eyases, young nestlings. HAM.
Eye, a shade. TEMP.
Eyliads, eyes; from oëïllades. Fr,
Eyne, eyes.

F.

Face-royal, a face not to be med-
dled with, HEN. IV. 2d Part.
Faced, turned up with facings.
TAM. SHREW.
Facinorous, wicked.
Factious, active. JUL. CES.
Faculty, exercise of power. MAC.
Fadge, to suit or fit.
Fadings, a dance.
Fain, fond. HEN. VI. 2d Part.
Fair, sometimes for fairness,
beauty.

Faitors, traitors, rascals.
Fall, often used as an active verb;

At fall, at an ebb. TIM. Falsing, a thing that's falsified, or false. COM. OF ER. Falsely, illegally, illegitimately. MEA. FOR MEA. dishonestly, treacherously.

Familiar, a dæmon. HEN. VI. 2d Part.

Fancies and Goodnights, little

poems so called. Fancy, often used for love.

Fang, to seize, or gripe.

Fine issues, great consequences. Fineless, unbounded, endless. Fire-drake, a serpent, a will-o'

the-wisp, a firework.

Fire-new, just off the irons, quite

new.

Firk, to chastise. HEN. V.
First house, chief branch of the
family.

Firstlings, first produce.
Fit o' the face, a grimace.
Fits o' the season, its disorders.
Fixure, position.

Flap dragon, an inflammable sub-
stance swallowed by topers.
Flap-jack, a kind of pancake.
Flaw, a sudden gust of wind.

HEN. IV. 2d Part, &c. Flecked, spotted,dappled,streaked. Fleet, for float. ANT. & CLE. Fleshment, performance. A young

soldier fleshes his sword when he first draws blood with it.

ology.

hounds.

b.

Gaunt, thin, lean, or meagre.
Gawd, a bauble, or trifle.
Gear, a colloquial expression, for
things or matters.
Geck, a fool.

Gennets, or Jennets, Spanish horses.

German, a-kin.

Germins, seeds which have begun

to germinate or sprout. Gest, a stage, or journey. WIN.

TALE.

Gib, a name for a cat.
Giglots, wanton wenches.
Gimmal, a double ring.
Gimmal bit, a bit of which the
parts played one with another.
Ging, an old word for gang.
Gird, a sarcasm, or gibe: To
gird, to be sarcastical.
Glaire, a sword.

Glared, gazed upon, looked fiercely.

Gleek, to joke or scoff.
Glib, to lib, or geld.
Glooming, gloomy. ROM. & JUL.
Gloze, to expound, or explain.
Glut, to swallow. TEMP.
God 'ild you, God yeild you, or

reward you.

God's sonties, the abbreviation of

an ancient oath. Gongarian, for Hungarian, used

as a term of reproach. Good den, good evening. Good-jer, from gougere, what the pox!

Gorbellied, fat and corpulent. Gospelled, of precise or puritan virtue.

Goss, or Gorse, furze. TEMP. Gossomer, the white exhalations

which fly about in summer. Gougcers, the French distemper. Gourd, an instrument of gaming. MER. WIV. Gouts, drops. Fr. Gramery, grand merci, great thanks. Fr. TIT. AND. Grange, a solitary farm-house. Gratulate, to be rejoiced. MEA. FOR MEA.

Grise, or Grize, a step.
Groundlings, the lower sort of
people who stood or sat on the
ground in the old theatres.
Guerdon, reward.
Guerdoned, rewarded.

Gules, a term in heraldry, red.
Gust, to taste. WINT. TAL.
Gyce, to catch, to shackle.
Gyves, shackles.

H.

Haggard, a kind of hawk. Halcyon, a bird, otherwise called the king-fisher. LEAR. Hallidom, sentence at the day of judgment.

Handsaw, corrupted from Hernshaw. HAM.

Hangers, that part of the girdle or belt by which the sword was suspended. HAM.

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