also sometimes signifies to blind. Bless. Spenser has used this word to signify the waving or brandishing of a sword. Blin, to cease, give over. Blist for Blest, blessed, B. iv, C. 7. St. 46. But in B. vi. C. 8. St. 13. all about so blest, i.e. injured, wounded.

Blonket liveries, gray coats. Bloosme, blossom.

Pro

nounce it bloom, B. iv. C. 8. St. 2. Bode, did abide. Bolt, an arrow. Bond,bound; kept as bond slaves. Bonnibel, a fair maid. Boone, favour, request, petition. Boot, advantage, help, profit. Bootless, unavailing, unprofitable.

To bord, to accost, to approach. Bord, a jest. Bordragings, ravagings or incursions on the borBorowebase, usury. [ders. Borrel, rude, clownish. Bosse, a protuberance in the middle of the shield. Boughts, circular folds or windings.

Boulted, sifted. Bourn, a brook or rivulet. Bouzing can, a large drinking pot. Borre, often used for an inner chamber or private apartment. Brace, compasse. Brade, for broad. Brag, proudly. Braided, knitted, plaited, wreathed.

Brakes, bushes, brambles, fern. Brame, vexation. Brand, sometimes a firebrand, sometimes sword.

a

Bransles, brawls, a sort of

ture

Brast, or Brac'd, burst. Brave, not only valiant and bold, but fine and spruce. Brawned bours, well si

newed arms. Bray, sound shrill. Breem, fierce. Breme, chill, bitter. Brent, burnt.

Brickle, fit for bricks. Brigants, robbers, freebooters.

Brockage, [Moth. Hub.
Tale pimping.
Brond, Brond-iron. Vide

Brand.

Brooke, bear, endure, di

gest.

Brunt, violent attack, accident.

Brush, small wood, brush wood.

Bruteness, sottishness, stupidity, brutishness. Bryzes, the breeze or gad flies.

Buckle; to buckle, to buckle

on armour; to prepare for battle. Buffe, a blow, buffet. Bug, a bug-bear. Bugle, a small bugle-horn. Burganet, a helmet. Burgein, to spring forth, or bud. Buskets, little bushes. But, unless, except. But for, and because. Buxome, yielding. Bylive. See Bilive. Bynempt. See Benempt,

C.

Caprifole, woodbine, honey-suckle. Captivaunce, captivity. Capuccio, the hood of a cloak. Carke, care.

Carle, a clown, a churl.
Carol, to sing songs of joy.
Carven, to cut.
Cast, to cast in one's mind,
to think, to contrive:
also used for time; or a
throw.

Cast of faulcons, a set of
falcons.
Castory, beaver's oil.
Causen, to argue or debate.
Cav'd, made hollow.
Caytive, mean, vile cap-
tive, slave.
Certes, certainly.
Cesse, cease,

Cesure, a cutting off. Chaffer, to bargain, to traffic, to exchange. Chamelot, stuff mixed with

camel's hair; camlet. Chamfred, bent, crooked, chapt, or wrinckled. Charm, to temper. Chast, chased. Chaufe, anger, heat, wrath. Chaunticlere,so namedfrom chaunting or singing with a clear and silver voice.

Chaw, the jaw.
Chaw, to chew.

Concent, harmony. Concrew, to grow toge

ther. Connd, learned. Condigne, worthy. Congée, bow, reverence. Conjure, to conspire. Constraint, uneasiness. Contecke, contention. Contrive, spend, consume. Convenable, agreeable. Coosen passions,, kindred passions.

Copesmate, a companion. Coportion, a portion or share with you.

Corbe, crooked.
Corbes, ornamentsin build-
ing.

Cordwayne, Spanish lea-
ther.
Coronal, crown, garland.
Cosset, a lamb brought up

without the ewe. Cotes, sheep-folds. Cott, floating cottage. Could, as Could his good to all; i. e. dispensed his bounty.

Count, account reckoning. Countercast, a counter contrivance or cunning.

Counterfeasaunce, counterfeiting.

Counterstroke, an opposite stroke.

Couplement, union, marriage, coupling together. Cour'd, for covered. Court, courteousness. Couth, to know or be skilful in.

Cragg, neck. Crakes, boastings. Cranck, lusty. Cranks, same as Crankles; i. e. turnings, windings. Craples, claws. Cratch, a rack, or a stall. Craven, coward, or cowardly. Creasted, tufted. Credence, belief.

Crew, the priests Crew, the holy-water pot.

Crime, sometimes proach.

Crooke, gibbet.

re

Crowd, a fiddle. Cruddy-blood, crudled, coagulated. Crumenal, purse. Culver,(Saxon word)dove, pigeon.

Culverin, a piece of ord

nance.

Curat, Curiets, Curats, thus differently spelled;

armour for the back and breast.

D.

Daintie, delicate. Lamnifyde, injured, impaired.

Dan, an old title signify- ing Master. Dapper ditties, neat or pretty songs. Darrayne, to hazard, venture, attempt, or prepare to fight. Darred larke, alluding to catching of larks by what they call a daring glass. Dayes-man, umpire, arbi

trator.

Daynt, dainty, delicate. Dayr'house, dairy-house. Dealth, dealeth, gives. Dearnly, Dernly, eagerly, earnestly.

Debonaire, sprightly,cour

teous. Decesse, decease. Decrewed, decreased. Default, did default, did offend.

Defeasaunce, defeating.
Defly, finely or nimbly.
Define, to end; to deter-
mine or decide.
Defould, defiled or brought
to shame.
Delay'd, removed.
Delices, delight, pleasure.

to remove, or put a

Disentrayled, drawn along

floatingly.

Disgraste, dissolute, debauched.

Disieal knight, perfidious, traiterous. Disloignd, disloined, remote, far. Dispence, consumption. Disple, discipline, correc

tion.

Disport, sport, diversion, pastime. Dispredden, spread, diffused around. Dispurveyance, want of provision. Disseized, made to quit or relinquish, dispossessed of.

Dissolute, languid, broken,

B. 1. C. 7. St. 51. Distbronized, dethroned. Distinct, varied. D.straine, i. e. draw it, or

break it asunder. Distraught, drawn aside, distracted.

Dies, orders, directions, Ditt, a ditty, a song. Diverst, turned aside,