Blurted, or Blurt, an expression of contempt. Bobbed, fooled out of, cheated. Bodge, to botch, or to budge. HEN. VI. 3d Part. Boitier, a box to hold salve, or simples. Bolds, emboldens. Boltered, bedaubed, begrimed. Bolting-hutch, a wooden recepta cle into which the meat is bolted. Bombard, a barrel. HEN. IV. Part. I.-TEMP. Bona-robas, ladies of pleasure. Bores, stabs, or wounds. Borne in hand, deceived, imposed upon. Bosky, woody; bosky acres, are fields divided by hedge-rows; from boscus and bosquet. TEMP. Bots, worms in the stomach of a horse. A bots light upon, an imprecation. Bottled spider, a large, bloated, glossy spider. Boulted, sifted, or refined. Bourn, boundary, or rivulet dividing land. Bow, yoke. AS YOU LIKE IT. Bower, chamber. CORIOL. Bowlins, or Bowlines, ropes by which the sails of a ship are governed when the wind is unfavourable. Bowling, or the smoothness of a bowling-green. WIN. TALE. Bowstrings, i. e. hold or cut, at all events. M. Nig. Dre. Brace, the armour for the arm: warlike brace, state of defence. Brach, a kind of hound; or used as a term of contempt. TROIL. AND CRESS. Brack, to salt. Braid, crafty or deceitful. Brake, an instrument of torture, or a thicket or furze-bush. Brands, a part of the andirons, on which the wood for the fire was supported. Brasier, a manufacturer in brass, or a reservoir for charcoal. HEN. VIII. Brave, to make fine; bravery was the old term for elegance of dress. Bravely, splendidly, or gallantly. Bravery, finery. Brawl, a kind of dance. LovE's LABOUR. Braying, an epithet applied to the sound of the trumpet, harsh, grating. K. JOHN. Break, to begin. TIT. ANDRON. Break up, to carve. Break with, to break the matter to. Two GENT. VER. Breast, voice. TWELF. NIGHT. Breath, speech. K. JOHN. TIMON.-Exercise, TROIL. AND CRESS.-A slight exercise of arms, ibid. Breathing-courtsy, verbal compli- Brown bill, a kind of battle-axe ment. Breeched, foully sheathed, or mired. MAC. Breeching, liable to school discipline. TAM. OF THE SHREW. Bribe-buck, a buck sent for a bribe. Bridal, a nuptial feast; a word yet used in the North. Brief, a short account, a contract hastily performed.-Now-born brief, is the breve originale of the feudal times. ALL'S WELL. Bring, attend or accompany. HEN. V. Bring out, bring forth. TIM. Brock, the badger. Broken mouth, a mouth that has lost part of its teeth. Broken tears, tears which are interrupted. Broker, a matchmaker, a pro curess. Two GENT. VER. Broker, deals as a broker. Brooch, a trinket with a pin fixed to it. Brooched, adorned. Brought, attended. JUL. CES. Brow, i. e. of youth, the height of youth. Card, sea-chart. MAC. HAM. Carded, mixed. Caitiff, a prisoner, slave, or scoundrel. Calculate, to foretel or prophesy. Carieres, i. e. to pass the carieres, JUL. CES. Caliver, a light kind of musket. Callet, a bad woman, or witch. Calling, appellation. As you LIKE. Camelot, a place where king Arthur is supposed to have kept his court. Canaries, the name of a brisk, light dance. Canker, the canker-rose, dog rose, or hip. MUCH ADO. Canstick, candlestick. Cantle, a corner, or piece of any thing. Cantons, used for cantos. TWELf. NIGHT. Canvas-climber, one who climbs the mast to furl the canvas, a ship-boy. Capped, saluted by taking off the cap. Capable impressure, hollow mark. AS YOU. Capocchia, a sot, or dull, heavy gull, from the Italian capocchio. Capricious, lascivious. As you. Captious, for capacious. ALL's WELL. Carack, a vessel of great bulk. Carbonado, a piece of meat cut crossways for the grid-iron. a military phrase. MER. WIV. Means that the common bounds of good-behaviour were overpassed. Carkanet, a kind of necklace or chain. Carl, clown, husbandman. Carnal, sanguinary. RICH. III. Carpet knight, a term of reproach, spoken of one knighted in time of peace, and on a carpet, on some festive occasion. TWEL. NIGHT. Carriage, import. HAM. Case, skin. TWELFTH NIGHT. outside. Case of lives, a set of lives, or pair of any thing. Cased lion, a lion irritated by con Cassock, a horseman's loose coat. Cataian, a liar; the first adven turers who visited Cataia, or of catgut. Cavalero-justice, a cant term. Cavalero, an airy, sprightly, irre gular fellow. Chantry, little chapel in a cathe Character, hand-writing. MUCH Characts, characters. Charactery, the matter of which Caviare, too good for, or foreign Charge-house, free-school. to. Caviare, a luxurious Russian dish, made of the roe of the Cautel, subtlety, or deceit. Cearment, the wrapping of an embalmed body. Cease, decease, die. ALL'S WELL. Certes, certainly. TEMP. refusing a juryman. HEN. VIII. Chamber, London was anciently called the king's chamber. RICH. III. Chamber, a piece of ordnance. HEN. IV. 2d Part. for one stolen. Channel, kennel. HEN. VI. 3d Chariest, from chary, the most Chariness, caution. Cheater, for escheatour, an officer Check, command, control. CYM. Cherry-pit, pitching cherry-stones chattering bird, or a fat pudding. HEN. IV. 1st Part. Chide, resound, re-echo. HEN. V.-MID. NIGHT'S. Child, sometimes applied to knights and heroes. LEAR. Childing, pregnant. Chirurgeonly, like a surgeon. TEMP. Choppine, a high shoe or clog. Chopping, jabbering, talking Clouted, strengthened with clout, glibly. or hob-nails. Chough, a bird of the jackdaw Clutch, to clasp, or grasp. Clack-dish, a beggar's dish. Clean kam, awry. Clerkly, like a scholar. TEM. ANT. AND CLEO. &c. Clout, the white mark at which arches took their aim. Coasting, conciliating, inviting. TROIL. AND CRESS. Cob-loaf, a crusty, uneven, gibbous-loaf. Cock and pye, a popular adjuration. Cockshut-time, twilight. with corn. Cockled, like the fish called a cockle. Cockle hat, cockle-shell hat, such as pilgrims wore. Cockney, a well-known term of Cog, to falsify the dice, to lie. Coigne of vantage, convenient corner. Coignes, corners. Coil, bustle, stir. Collection, consequence or corol lary. CYM.-HAM. Collied, black, smutted with coal, discoloured. Collier, a term of reproach, from |