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Immediacy, proximity without in

tervention.

Imp out, to supply the deficiency,

a phrase from falconry. Impair, unsuitable to the dignity. TROIL. AND CRESS. Impawn, to engage; the modern

word is to commit one's self. Imperious, sometimes used for imperial.

Imperseverant, ill perseverent, or perseverant.

Impress, a device, or motto. Incarnardine, stained of a flesh colour, or red.

Inclips, embraces.

Incony, fine, or pretty, a term of

endearment.

Indent, to bargain, or article.

Indues, subdues. ОTH.

Intrenchant, that which cannot be

cut.

Intrinse, intricate, or intrinsecate,

ravelled.

Inward, sometimes for an inti

mate.

Journal, daily. MEA. FOR MEA.
Irk, to make uneasy.
Irregulous, lawless, licentious.
Issued, descended. TEMP.

Iteration, citation, or repetition.
Jump, sometimes to agree with,
to suit.
Justicer, a justice.
Juvenal, a young man,

K.

Keech, a lump or mass of tallow. HEN. VIII.

Indued, inured, or formed by Keel, to cool.

nature. HAM.

Indurance, delay, procrastination.

HEN. VIII.

Inhibit, for inhabit, or to forbid,

or decline, as a person refusing a challenge. MAC. Inhooped, inclosed, confined. Initiate, young, just initiated. MAC.

Ink-horn mate, a book-man.
Inkle, a species of tape, or worsted.
Insculped, engraved.
Insconce, to fortify.

Intention and Intentively, for at-
tention, attentively.
Interessed, interested.

Kernes, light-armed soldiers. See Gallow-glasses.

Key-cold, as cold as iron, a key of which is used to stop small bleedings.

Kicky-wicksey, a ludicrous name for a wife.

Kiln-hole, the place into which
coals are put under a stove.
Kirtle, a sort of garment.
Knap, to break short.

Knotts, figures into which part of
a garden was disposed.
Known, sometimes for been ac-
quainted.

Kybe or Kibe, a chilblain. TEMP.

L.

Laced mutton, cant name for a courtezan. Two GEN. VER. Lackeying, floating backwards and forwards.

Lag, the fag-end. TIM.
Lakin, ladykin, or little lady.
TEMP.

Lances, lance-men. LOVE'S LAB.
Land-damn, probably, to banish

from the land.

Land-rakers, wanderers on foot. Lapsed in time, having suffered

time to slip.

Latch, to lay hold of. MAC.
Lated, belated, benighted.
Latten, lathy, thin.
Lavolt, a dance.
Laund, lawn.

Lay, a wager. HEN. VI. 2d

Part.

Leaguer, a name for a camp.
Leasing, falsehood.

Leas, a lea is a term at Kidderminster for a hank or quantity of yarn. TEM.

Leatened, matured, prepared.

MEA. FOR MEA. Leech, physician.

Leer, feature, complexion, or

colour.

Legerity, lightness, nimbleness. Leiger, a resident, or residentambassador.

I eman, a lover, or mistress.
Lenten, short and spare.
L'envoy, a term borrowed from

the old French poetry. Lewd, sometimes means idle. Libbard, leopard.

Liberty, for libertines, or liber-
tinism.
Liefest, dearest.
Lifter, a thief.

Limbeck, a vessel to emit fumes
and vapours.
Limbo-patrum, in confinement.
Lime, bird-lime. TEMP.
Limed, ensnared, as with bird-
lime.

Limits, estimates, or outlines, rough sketches. HEN. IV. 1st Part.

Lined, delineated. As You. Line, genealogy. HEN. V. Link, a torch, used to make old

hats black. TAM. SHREW. Linstock, the staff to which the match is fixed, when ordnance is fired.

List, the bound or limit.

NIGHT.

&c.

TwE.

MEA. FOR MEA.

Lither, flexible, or yielding.

Leet, court-leet, a petty court of Loach, a very small fish, exceed

justice.

Leg, obeisance to my father.

HEN. IV. 1st Part.

ingly prolific.

Lob, an epithet implying dullness

and inactivity.

Lock, a particular lock of hair, Male, male parent. HEN. VI.

called a love-lock.

Lockram, a kind of linen.

Lode-star, leading star, the pole

star.

Loggats, a game played with

bowl and pins.

Longing, for longed, wished or

desired. Two GENT. Longly, longingly.

Loofed, brought close to the wind.

Loon, a base fellow.

Looped, full of apertures. LEAR. Lop, the branches. HEN. VIII. Lordings, the diminutive of lord. Lover, sometimes used for mistress.

Lowen, a sorry fellow.

Louted, treated with contempt.
Lozel, a worthless fellow.
Luner, lunacy, frensy.
Lurch, to purloin, to deprive.
Lush, a dark full colour, rank

and juicy. TEMP. Lustick, cheerful, pleasant. Dutch. Lym, or lyme, a bloodhound.

M.

Mace, sceptre. JUL. CES.
Magot-pie, magpie.
Magnifico, a chief man in Venice.

Moiled, wrapt up, bundled up,

covered with mail. Main descry, the main body is descried.

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Mammocked, cut in pieces.
Mammets, puppets.

Manage, conduct, administration.
К. Јони.

Mandragora, a plant of soporific virtue.

Mandrake, a root, supposed to

have the shape of a man, and

to groan when pulled from the ground.

Mankind, i. e. witch, a masculine

witch. WINT. TALE. Manner, with the manner, in the

fact. WINT. TALE. Marchpane, a kind of sweet confection, or biscuit.

Marches, borders, confines. HEN.
V.

Marge, margin, brink. TEMP.
Martlemas, the latter spring.
HEN. IV. 2d Part.
Mated, confounded.

ERR. MAC. &c.

COM. OF

Meacock, timorous, dastardly. Mealed, sprinkled, or mingled. Mean, a tenor. Two GENT. &c. Measure, a solemn dance. LOVE'S LAB. &c.

Meazels, lepers. COR.

Medicin, physician. MAC.
Meditation, quickness of enthusi-
astic thought. HAM.
Meiney, people. Fr.

Mell, to meddle with. ALL'S
WELL.

Memory, sometimes used for me-
morial.

Mends, the means, the where

withal.

Mere, sometimes for absolute,

entire, total.

Momentany, short, momentary.

Monster, to make monstrous.
LEAR.

Moon-calf, an inanimate and
shapeless mass. TEMP.
Moonish, variable.

Mope, to be stupid or foolish.
Mopes and mowes, wry faces and
mockings.

Mort, i. e. of the deer, a tune on
the death of the deer.
Mortal, abounding. As you.
retired,

Mered question, the sole question. Mortifyed, religious,

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