GLOSSARY. 



357 



Plight, twist, 324 



Podagre, gout, 159 



Pointel, point, style, 338 



Pompion, or Pumpion, a pumpkin, melon, 

 or vegetable-marrow, 251 



Posthume, imposthume, abscess, 210 



Pounce, claw of a hawk, 107 



Powder, dust, 5 



Prance, to rebel (?), 173. Minsheu has: 

 " the prancing of a horse, tumultuose 

 flare et strepere" (ed. 1629). Florio 

 uses "prance" in the modern sense 

 (ed. 1659) 



Pregnable, able to take, or penetrate, 



J 3! 



Prick, prickle, spine, small bone, 139 

 Pricket, a wax candle of a certain size, 



266 ; a buck of the second year, 251 

 Pule away, pine away, 132 

 Pullen, poultry, 432 

 Puttock, a kite, glead, 172 



Quiver, quick, nimble, 45 



Race, or Raze (of ginger), a root, 126 



Rank, rage, 306 



Raphan, radish, 219 



Rear, raise, 129 



Rebound, make to rebound, 96 



Refraining, restraint, 21 



Rese (verb), to rage, rush angrily, 17 



Rese (subst.), rage, rush, 20 



Rib, dressed with a " rib " i.e., an instru- 

 ment used in dressing flax, 115 



Ridge, back-bone, 89 



Rivel, wrinkle, 109 



Rivelled, wrinkled, divided (as a wasp's 

 thorax and abdomen), 8 



Rivelly, wrinkled, 241 



Rivet, roe, 114 



Rob, dried juice of herbs (jam ?), 126 



Rosere, a rose-tree, 303 



Rothern, cattle, 32 



Sad, heavy, 126 



Savourly, daintily, with pleasure, 281 



Sawing, Sawy, serrated, 31 



Seld, seldom, 129 



Senvey, mustard, 212 



Several, separate, 222 



Shed, melt, flow, 299 



Shern-birds, hornets, 32 



Shingle, "a cloven board, a plank" 



(Cooper's "Thesaurus"), 198 

 Shittle, inconstant, weak, 193 

 Sicher, safe, 41 

 Sicherly, safely, 265 

 Sizing (themselves), limiting themselves 



to an allowance, 309. So King Lear, ii. 4, 



178 



Slipper, slippery, 4 

 Smape, crush, 124 

 Smaragdus, or Smaragd, emerald, 137 



Some-deal, partly, 289 



Sort, quantity, 57 



Sparhawk, sparrow-hawk, 147 



Spouse-breach, adultery, 177 



Spouse-head, wedlock, 183 



Spring, sprinkle, 4, 16 



Springing-time, spring, 30 



Sprung, sprinkled, 115 



S purling, or Sparling, smelt, 297 



Squinauth, " camel's hay," a kind of 



rush, 267 



j Startle, leap suddenly, 89 

 Stie, climb, 31 



Stockfish, dried fish. See 297 

 Stint, check, stop, cease, stay, 5 

 Stony, astonish, 199 

 Stover, fodder, 299 

 Studdery, stud, stable, 162 

 Sucket, sweetmeat, 335 

 Sunstead, solstice, 172 

 Sweven, dream, 3 



Tapping, perhaps misprint for "topping," 

 evidently the horn tips to the bow, 227 



Tassel, Tiercel, Tassel - gentle, or 

 Tiercel-gentle, a male hawk, 302 



Tawing, beating, 297. So "taw" or 

 " tawes," a (leather) whip 



Tharf-cake, or thard-cake, a thin, round, 

 unleavened cake of rye or barley, baked 

 hard, 218 



Theriaca, treacle, 100 



Thirl, pierce, penetrate, 167 

 ! Tiercel, a hawk, 147. V. Tassel 



Tiercel-gentle, a hawk, 302. V. Tassel 



Timber, timbrel, tabor, drum, 33 



Tivit, perhaps a misprint for "twite," 37 



Tofore, before, 299 



Tohaul, drag, 157 



Toll, draw, 231 



Trace, perhaps should be "tract," other- 

 wise the word means "place where it 

 may be traced," 141 



Treacle, mithridate, antidote to poison, 9 



Troubly, troubled, 175 



Underset, support, 77 



Unfastness, loose grain (of wood), 303 



Union, pearl, 105 



Unneath, or Uneath, hardly, scarcely, 20 



Unsadness, lightness, 303 



Unwitting, without the knowledge of, 44 



Urchin, hedgehog, 149 



Ventuous, windy, 157 

 Very, true, genuine, 84 

 Void, avoid, 100 



Wagging, loose, 261 



Wallowing feet aside, the uneven move- 

 ment produced by the difference in the 

 length of the fox's legs" wallow" being 

 a wave, 119 



