336 GLOSSARY. 



Apt, adj. Fit, suitable: p. 181, 1. 22. Compare Shakespeare, Jul. Cxs. 



ii. 2. 97 : A mock Apt to be render d. 



Arefaction, sb. Drying, the act or state of growing dry: p. 124, 1. 14. 

 Arrogancy, sb. Arrogance : p. 5, 1. 9 ; p. 88, 1. 22. Compare Shake 

 speare, Hen. VIII. ii. 4. no: 



But your heart 



Is cramm d with arrogancy, spleen, and pride. 



Artificial, adj. Constructed with art, ingenious, skilfully contrived : p. 125, 

 1. 5. So in Shakespeare, Timon of Athens, i. I. 37 : 



Artificial strife 



Lives in these touches, livelier than life.* 

 Artsman, sb. One skilled in the liberal arts: p. 150, 1. 15. 

 As = that, in the phrases so as : p. 4, 1. 4 ; p. 16, 1. 28, &c. insomuch 



as : p. 56, 1. 2. Such ... as : p. 91, 1. 23. 

 As. As that: p. 23, 1. 5. As for instance: p. 26, 1. 15. 

 Ask, v. t. To require: p. 85, 1. 6. Comp. Essay vi. p. 18 ; It asketh a 

 strong wit, and a strong heart, to know, when to tell truth, and to doe it. 

 Aspect, sb. The appearance of a planet, which varied with its position 

 among the stars : p. 145, 1. 10. Used metaphorically, p. 79, 1. 2, with a 

 reference to the old astrological belief in the power exercised by the planets 

 upon the fate of man. So Shakespeare, Tr. and Cr. i. 3. 92 : 



Whose medicinable eye 

 Corrects the ill aspects of planets evil. 

 So also Essay ix. p. 29. 



Aspersion, sb. Sprinkling; and so, intermixture : p. 47,!. 20; p. 199,1.6. 

 Assure, v. i. To ensure, guarantee: p. 152,!. 21. Used transitively by 

 Shakespeare, 3 Hen. VI. iii. 3. 240: 



This shall assure my constant loyalty. 

 Assured, p.p. Safe, secure : p. 171, 1. 18. 



As touching. With respect to: p. 8, 1. 10. See Matt, xviii. 19. 

 Astrolabe, sb. An ancient astronomical instrument for taking the height 

 of the stars &c. Chaucer wrote a treatise upon it for the use of little 

 Lewis his son : p. 80, 1. 13. 

 Athletic, sb. The art of activity : p. 133, 1. 24. We now use athletics 



in the same sense. 



Attend, used as a transitive verb, p. 153, 1. 6. 

 Attended, p.p. Accompanied: p. 224, 1. 32. 

 Attend upon. To accompany : p. 225, 11. 23, 24. 

 Authorised, adj. Gifted with authority: p. 253, 1. 16. Authenticated: 



p. 34, 1. 27. 

 Awake, v. t. To awaken, rouse: p. 203, 1. 1 1. 



We must awake endeavour for defence.* 



Shakespeare, K. John, ii. I. 8l. 

 B. 



Backward, adv. Backwards: p. 38, 1. 19. 



Baladine, sb. A ballet dancer : p. 165,!. 22. Cotgrave (Fr. Diet. ed. 1632) 

 gives, Baladin : m. A common dauncer of galliards, and other stirring, 



or 



_. liuely Ayres. 

 Bare = Bore; past tense of bear : p. 59, 1. 19. 



