one who is still learning his A B C
account
period of pregnancy
acrimonious
acrid
aegilops
ulcer in the inner corner of the eye
Anabaptists
a sect that considered it necessary to be re-baptized
anothergates
Otherwise
antics
grotesque figures imitating the antique
anti-Scripturists
a sect that denied the final authority of the Scripture
armiger
entitled to a coat-of-arms
atlasses
Eastern silk-satins
Auriga
charioteer
avence
herb bennet
Aqua-Mirabilis
"The wonderful water prepared of cloves, galangals, cubebs, mace, cardamums, nutmegs, ginger and spirit of wine, digested 24 hours, then distilled"
bagnio
a Turkish-bath establishment which was also a brothel
battle
battalion
Bezoartis
a preparation against poison, made from the livers and hearts of vipers, etc.
blind buzzard
a wilfully ignorant person
brawl
a sort of cotillon
breeching
beating on the breeches
brown-bill
a halberd or battle-axe with the blade stained brown, usually with ox-blood
budge
stiffly grave
buff-coat
a soldier's coat of stout buff-coloured leather
buffle-head
a person as stupid as a buffalo
butt
tree-trunk with its branches lopped off
buzz
rumour
camp-fever
typhus, complicated by relapsing fever
cashiered
paid off from the Army. (Not necessarily discharged with ignominy)
cat-in-pan, to turn
to be a political turn-coat
caudle
warm spiced gruel, mixed with wine or ale
chaldron
36 bushels
to cheek
to grasp the pike by the cheeks, or side-pieces, and bring it to the ready, as if about to lunge
Chiliasts
a sect that "expected the Millennium any day soon"
the claps
gonorrhea
clerk-ale
a feast for the benefit of the parish clerk
clip
hug
coat and conduct money
a tax to provide soldiers with service coats
coat card
court card
cocker up
pamper
collop
slice of meat for frying or grilling
commons
rations
compound
come to terms with
concoct the surfeits
digest the excesses
copula carnalis
coition
corky
dry as cork
costive
constipating
coven
a group of twelve female witches, with a male devil
culgees
figured Indian silks
to cry "cupboard"
to ask for food
cupped
bled with a cupping-glass
cuttanee
East Indian linen
daggy
bedraggled like a sheep that has lain in muck
deboshed
debauched
dehortations
exhortations against something or someone
deliration
delirious speech
demise
the expiration of a title to property
diurnals
journals
dividual
separate
to doltify
make doltish
to droil
to labour
to droll
to joke
house of easement
earth closet
elicampane
horse-head
endemial
endemic
ends and awls
a cobbler's odds and ends
ex animo
voluntarily
extended
seized upon in satisfaction of a debt
extrude
to remove forcibly
fadge
agree
Familists
a "monstrous and horrible sect that held religion to be based on Love rather than Fear"
ferule
a flat ruler with a pear-shaped end and a hole in the middle to raise blisters; used by schoolmasters
fescennine
bawdy
fico
fig
to firk
to move briskly
flaggy-haired
with lank, wispy hair
flibbergib
a flighty gossip
fliperous
flippant and frivolous
flux hepaticus
discharge from the liver
Fogo
volcanic fire
Fortune
Company of soldiers
fossilia
ancient objects dug up. (Not necessarily fossils)
frammer
hurdle-making instrument, rather like a wrench
fribbling
petty
to fub
to take down or outwit
fucus
cosmetic paint
gaggling
cackling
galliard
a lively dance in triple time
gerfalcon
male falcon
gillyflowers
carnations or pinks
gingerline
of the rich brown colour of gingili
girdlestead
waist
gitterning
playing on the gittern, a sort of guitar
glabrification
making smooth or bald
gloat upon
cast amorous glances upon. (Not in the modern sense of gazing with lustful satisfaction)
glooming
gloomy-looking
gloze
explain away deceitfully
goddamme blade
a swaggering gallant
gorge me that!
swallow that!
gorget
piece of armour protecting the throat
green-geese-pie
pie made of freshly-killed geese (i.e. not pickled or smoked)
gricomed
syphilitic. (A nobleman or knight was said to be "gricomed", whereas a citizen "suffered from the Neapolitan scab" and a serving man "had the plain pox")
grutch
grudge
gust
appetite
heart-breakers
a man's long side locks
Hiera Picra
"sacred-bitter": a drug of aloes, honey and canella which "purges choler from the stomach"
hinnies
mules dammed by an ass and sired by a horse
Hocktide
a festival celebrated on the second Monday and Tuesday after Easter, when rents were paid
hogen-mogen
high and mighty. (A Dutch term)
to huddle
to jumble away into concealment
hugger-mugger
hole-and-corner secrecy
hydromel
Russian mead
Ibis
"this foul bird feedeth upon watersnakes and useth his beak for a clyster-pipe. Wherefore the poet Ovid, taking example from the poet Callimachus, cast this word satirically at an author whom his soul loathed"
to imbecilitate
to weaken
impostume
a swelling
indifferent good
fairly good
indurated
hardened
infall
assault
issues
artificial ulcers created to cause a discharge of matter
Jacobus
gold coin of King James I
jakes
latrine
jauncing
bouncing
jaunt
a fatiguing journey
jennet
small Spanish horse
John apples
apples ripe about St. John's Day (June 24th)
jointure
dowry
jump right with
fit in with
junto
governmental clique
keck
retch
kill-cow
a person of great importance
kind, against
unnaturally
Lamia
a vampire witch
lapides sui generis
stones of a distinct variety
lardons of lard
slices of pork or fat bacon for enriching a pie
leaguer
the camp of an army investing a fortress
leash of hawks
three hawks
leet-ale
festival at the time of the annual Manorial Court of Record
lick-dish
servile person
licorish
lustful
logger-head
"one whose wit is as little as his head is great"
losel
ruined or worthless
lozenge figure
diamond shape: used for enclosing a woman's coat-of-arms where a man would use a shield-shape
to make legs
to bow ceremoniously
to make the beast with two backs
to have sexual intercourse
malignant
an enemy to Parliament—but the Royalists occasionally used this same word against the Parliamentarians
manna
the crystallized juice of the manna-ash
mantling
drapery or leaves fastened to a helmet to keep off the sun; now shown in coats-of-arms as ornamental scroll work
mastline
like "maslin," "mesclan," etc., a different spelling of "mislan"
matches
lengths of perpetually-smouldering wick used by musketeers for touching off their muskets, or by cannoneers for their cannon
maw
crop of a fowl, honey-bag of a bee
melon-pompion
large pumpkin-like melon
mislan
rye and wheat mixed
Mithridate
a compound drug invented by King Mithridates of Pontus to protect him against every sort of poison; also used against infectious diseases
mittimus
warrant for commitment to prison
mixen
manure heap
montero-cap
a Spanish hunter's cap, with ear-flaps
morion
steel helmet without any face protection
Mundungo
tobacco that has gone mouldy
musk-melon
a small sweet melon
muster
a parade of soldiers, or a parade list
nappy
heady
Natura Naturata
the passive as opposed to the active principle of Nature
nimmed
pilfered
niny-hammer
a conceited fool
nuncupative
given by word of mouth
Obs
objections in a logical dispute
obsequious
obedient. (Not necessarily in the sense of being servile)
officiously
dutifully. (Not in the sense of being a nuisance)
Old Brownists
followers of Robert Brown, an Elizabethan clergyman, the "Father of Religious Independency"
oyster, choking
a damaging retort
panagories
popular festivals
pelting
wretchedly trivial
phlegm
one of the four "humours" which were held to rule the constitution of the body. Phlegm made one apathetic and phlegmatic. The others were Blood, which made one lively and sanguine; Yellow Bile, or Choler, which made one petulant and choleric; Black Bile, which made one gloomy and melancholy
pica
an unnatural longing by a pregnant woman for a particular food
poaching
making "poches" or holes in the ground
points
tagged laces
the popular
the mob
pot
familiar name for a morion, or steel cavalry helmet
powdering-tubs
pickling tubs
praysed
valued
prevaricator
a joking quibbler
prick-song hymns
hymns with formal written music
privileged men
college servants and the like who, though not University students, were reckoned with the Gown, not the Town
procatarctical cause
external cause
prolusion
introductory drama
propria quae maribus
a Latin verse written by Lilly the Grammarian to help boys to remember the gender of Latin nouns
puny
freshman or novice
Questionists
a sect of sceptics who believed only in liberty of conscience and liberty of prophesying
quintain
a swinging target for lance practice: anyone who did not hit it squarely was apt to be unhorsed
rabbits
young rabbits. Full-grown ones were coneys
raddled
daubingly marked
rebus
a punning picture, e.g. the Abbot Islip's personal rebus in Westminster Abbey shows a little man falling from a tree, "I slip"; also two eyes and a lip, "Eyes lip"
to redargue
to go back over an argument
to renege
to break one's oath or principle
rossomakka
the Russian maccarib, i.e. reindeer [?]
ruck
the slower-moving mass in a retreat or race
ruddle
red dip for marking sheep
ruffler
swash-buckler
ruffles it
swaggers
running-battle
a country sword dance
sack-posset
warm drink made with dry Spanish wine
sand-caster
sand-pot used before the invention of blotting-paper
scout-master
intelligence officer
scrivener
law-stationer, who also gave legal advice and arranged loans and mortgages, etc. He stood in much the same relation to a lawyer as an apothecary did to a physician
to scum up
to froth up
seaton
a twist of silk or other material inserted in a wound to keep it open and thus maintain an artificial issue
Sebaptists
a sect that believed in self-baptism
Seekers
a sect that held that no perfect Revelation had yet been granted to Man, but ecstatically looked for one
Sergeant-major
Major
sequestration
official confiscation
several
separate
shallowling
a superficial person
sillabub
a drink of milk warm from the cow, curdled with sweet wine or cider
slip-coat cheese
cream cheese
slouch
slovenly fellow
slubberdegullion
a slobbering person
smooty
smutty
snaggle-toothed
with teeth jutting irregularly
snail-water
a drug distilled from snails, as a remedy against consumptions and hectic fevers
snap-sack
knapsack
snibbed
snubbed
to snuff
to sniff disdainfully
Socinians
followers of Lælius and Faustus Socinus, sixteenth-century theologians who held that Jesus was Man, not God
Sodom-apple
a Dead Sea apple
Sol
solution to a logical problem
soosies
fabrics of silk and cotton mixed
Soul-sleepers
a materialistic sect that denied the existence of the soul
spooner
spoon-maker
spud knife
a cheap knife
to stand perdue
to be in ambush
stilling-room
distillery
stock-fish
salted cod
stomach, without
unwilling to face something
sublunary
earthly
swinger
rogue
tabor
drum
tailed sonnet
a sonnet with six extra lines
Tangerine
of Tangiers
tenter-hooks
crooked nails fastened to the edges of cloth to prevent it shrinking after it is milled
thrum-chair
chair with a woven seat
thwartly
contradictorily or perversely
tire-woman
lady's maid
Tories
Irish bandits
tormentil
sept-foil
to tote
to peep
town butt
the bull provided for serving the cows of a town-ship
train-oil
whale oil
Traskites
a sect who held that the Sabbath should be celebrated on Saturday
trot
hag
tuck
a rapier
turk's cap
tulip
ululate
howl
untruss
undo one's breeches
vapouring
talking nonsense
Venice red
scarlet
verbenas
leaves and twigs used in religious ceremonies
vitilitigation
recrimination
whifflers
armed attendants who clear the way for a procession
whirret
smart blow
whored
made a whore of, by a false or repudiated marriage
wisses
knows
witling
a person who thinks himself witty
yawl
bawl
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