226 Bacon 



EASILIEST, 34, = most easily. 



ELENCH, 131, a technical term refutation of an argument or 



position. 



EMBASE, see Imbase. 

 ENABLEMENT, 64,= aid or means. 

 ESTUATION, 1 6 1, = heat and commotion. 

 EXCEED, 1 08, = pass beyond the bounds of moderation used 



without a case after it. 

 EXPULSED, 1 43, = expelled. 



EXQUISITE, 29, = carefully fought out (not refined, as now). 

 EXTERN, 86, 164, 170, =foreign or outward. 

 EXTIRPER, 42,= extirpator the old verb being to extirp, not to 



extirpate. 



FACTURES, 107, ii3,=fashion or features of a thing. For the word 



feature is only another form of the word facture. 

 FANTASTICAL, 23, = (in this place) false based upon the fancy alone, 



without any basis of fact or truth. 

 FLEXUOUS, 96, = bending and pliant. 

 FRIPPER, I45, = broker. We retain the word in our frippery 



iromfrivolus, a seller of frivolous or worthless goods. See Trench s 



Glossary. 



GAMESTER, i63,=player not with the sightest sense of gambling. 

 So in Shakespere, 



&quot; Sirrah, young gamester, your father was a fool.&quot; 



Taming of the Shrew, ii. i . 

 And, 



&quot; You are a merry gamester.&quot; Henry VIII., i. 4. 

 The word is still used in its right sense in the West of England. 

 GIGANTINE, 1 60, = gigantic, giant-like. (This adjective is not in 



Richardson.) 



GRAVELLED, 71, = stuck or set fast in gravel; then, embarrassed. 

 So Shakespere, As you Like It, iv. i, &quot; Gravelled for lack of 

 matter.&quot; Dean Trench quotes the Rheims version of the Acts 

 xxvii. 41, &quot; When they were fallen into a place between two seas, 

 they gravelled the ship.&quot; The word has now passed out of the 

 original sense. Gravel is derived either from glareola or from 

 gravare the loading of ships for ballast or from to grave or dig 

 out (to grub) a doubtful suggestion of Serenius. The first 

 seems to be the most probable. 



GROUND, 162, = an accompaniment with an instrument in music 

 the metaphor being somewhat similar to that which would connect 

 bass with base or ground-floor of anything. The basso part is 

 simply the low part as distinct from tenore, midway; alto, high; 

 soprano, above all. Thus bass or ground would be the foundation 

 on which all rests. 



HOLDING OF, 2, = pertaining to. 



HUMOUR, HUMOROUS, 15, 41, 170. This word (Lat. humor, moisture) 

 was originally used of the four &quot; humours &quot; of the body, blood, 

 phlegm, choler, melancholy; it came to a morbid state of the mind 



