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Ataxy-Disorder.

Atoned-At peace. Atonement-Reconciliation.

GLOSSARY.

Atrophy-A want of due nourishment,

languor.

Attrition-A slighter sorrow for sin. Attach-To arrest.

Avoid To render void, to prevent.

Avoidance-Absence.

Balk-To refuse.

Bandog-A dog chained.

Barking at-Being barked at.
Barretor-A wrangler.
Bay-windows-Bow-windows.
Beat-To determine.
Bedumb-To render dumb.
Begun-Pledged in drinking,
Behoof-Advantage.
Beleague-To combine.
Beleagur-To besiege.

Belike-Probably.

Belime-To besmear.

Belking-Lurking.

Benefacture-Doing good.
Beslave-To enslave.

Bestead-To befriend, to serve, to treat.
Bevy-A brood, a company.

Biggin-A cap or coif.

Blank-To disappoint, to damp, to refute. Bloughty-Bloated, huge.

Blurt-To blab, to speak inconsiderately. Bolt-To sift.

Champerty, or Champertie-Confederacy
in quarrels.
Chare-Work.
Chary-Careful.

Chiliasts-They who expect the personal reign of Christ for a thousand years on earth.

Chronography-The time of an event.
Circuition-Going round or about.
Circumduction-A leading about.
Claw-To tickle, or flatter.
Clerkly-Scholar-like.

Clientage-In the condition of clients or dependants.

Clientele-The condition of clients or dependants.

Climacterical-Critical age.

Clodder-To clot together.

Coaction-Force, authority.

Coarctation-Confinement, restraint,

Coarcted-Confined, restrained.

Cocker-To pamper.

Coetaneous-Being of the same age or time.

Cogged-Pretended.

Cogging-Pretending.
Cognation-Relationship.

Cognizance-A crest, token.

Cognoscible-Capable of being known. Cohortation-An exhortation.

Coil-Tumult, hurry, confusion.

Collection-An inference.

Colloguing-Fawning, cringing. Colluding-Deceiving.

Boulimy-A disease in which the patient Colly bists-Money-changers, Bankers.

Boot-To benefit.

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Commensals-Fellowship at table.

Commessations-Revellings, junketings,

particularly after supper.

Commination-A threatening.

Comminatory-Threatening.

Commingle-To mingle together.

Commonitive-Admonitory.

Commoration-Residence, abode.

Commove-To disturb, to occasion com. motions.

Compellation-An address.
Compete-To equal.

Competitioning-Entering into competition.

Complie-An accomplice.
Complotting Plotting together.
Compost-To manure.

Comprehensor-He who has obtained.
Compurgator-He who vouches for others.
Conceit To imagine.

Concertation-A contest.

Concorporate-To unite with.

Concredit-To entrust.

Concussation-A concussion.

Condescent-Permission, acquiescence.

Celature-The art of engraving or cutting Conduction-Leading.

in metals.

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Congestion-Heaping together.

Connivancy-Winking at.
Confer to-To agree to.

Conquisition-Bringing together.

Consectaries-Inferences, consequences

Conserve-To preserve.

Considerable-To be considered.
Consign-To entrust, to hand down.

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Consignation-Sealing, signing.

Conspersion-Sprinkling.

Conspiration-Union.

Conspurcation-Defilement.

Constupration-Deflowering, violation.
Contaction-Touch.

Contesseration-A leaguing between stran

gers.

Contest-A fellow-witness.

Contestation-Combined witnessing. Contignation-A frame, &c. of beams or boards.

Contra-yerva-A species of birthwort, growing in Jamaica.

Contruth-To agree in testimony.

Convent-To summon, to convene.

Convict-To prove.

Conviction-A reproof of others.

Convince-To prove, refute, shew.
Cope-A priest's cloak or hood.

Corporals-The communion cloths used in

the Romish Church. Correlation-Reciprocal relation.

Correption-Reproof.

Corrival-A rival.

Corrivality-Rivalship.

Counterfeisance-Counterfeiting.

Cruciation-Torment.

Cruze-To crush.

Cynosure-The north-star, what attracts

the eye.

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Dilation-Delay.

Dilatory-Deferring to a long period.

Dimication Contention.

Dimitted-Dismissed.

Dint-A stroke.

Diremption-Dissolution.

Direption or Disreption-Plundering.

Disappoint-Disappointment.

Disagreeable-Unsuitable.

Discern-To cause to differ, to distinguish.

Daghes-point-The point of a leather Discerption-A division, rent.

latchet.

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Discession-Departure.

Disclamation-Being disclaimed, the act of disclaiming.

Discruciate-To torment.

Discuss-To dismiss.

Disdoubt-To doubt.

Disherson-Disinheriting.

Disjunct-Making opposition or separa

tion.

Debellation-Subduing by war, warring Disparition-Disappearing.

Deal-Quantity, portion.

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Disperse-To make known.

Disport-Sport.

Disrespective-Careless.

Disruption-Breaking asunder.

Disseised-Dispossessed.

Dissolute-Loose in meaning.

Dissolution-Melting.

Distermine or Disterminate-To place at a distance.

Distract-To divide.

Distraught-Distracted.

Disvaluation-Disesteem.

Diswont-To bring to disuse.

Ditation-Enriching.

Dition-Rule, dominion.

Dittany-The herb garden-ginger.

Diversion-Turning away.

Divestiture-The act of stripping.

Divident-Distinct.

Divinatory-Predictive.

Divulgation-Making known.

Divulsion-Plucking off or away,

Divulsive-Tearing away.

Dole-A Gift.

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Each-where-Every where.
Edition-The act of publication.
Effectuously-Feelingly.
Eft soone-Quickly.

Egestion-The act of discharging food.
Ejulation-Lamentation.
Eke-To spin out.

Elimination-Turning out of doors.
Elocation-Removal to a distance.

Eluctation-Deliverance.

Elusion-Artifice, evasion.

Embase-To degrade.

Emboss-To enclose.
Emergent-Naturally arising.
Emissitious-Prying.

Enfeoff-To invest, to put into possession.
Enlive-To make alive, to animate.
Enter-To give entrance to.

Enter-know-To have mutual knowledge.
Enthirst-To cause to thirst.

Entitative-An abstraction of all circum-
stances from the thing considered.
Epiphonema-Exclamation.
Eremite-A hermit.

Eremitical, or Eremitish-Retired.
Erratical-Wandering, irregular.
Ereption Snatching away.
Escheat-A forfeiture; to forfeit.
Espials-Acts of spying, spies.
Estate To put into possession.
Ethnic-A heathen, heathenish.
Euge! Well done!
Eutaxy-Good order.

Evacuate-To make void.

Evasion from-Escape.

Evict-To prove.
Eviction-Proof.

Evince-To prove, to convict.

Evirate-To castrate.

Eviternal-Immortal, eternal.

Eviternally--Eternally.

Eviternity Eternity.

Evolation-Act of flying out.

Expoliation-Stripping.

Exprobration-Reproach, censure.
Expugn-To take by storm, to conquer.
Expurgation-Purification.

Exquisite-Entire, perfect, accurate.
Exquisitely-Accurately.

Exauthoration-The act of dismission or

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Exsibilation-The act of bissing.

Exsiccation-Drought, drying up. Extramission-Discharging.

Exundation-An overflow.

Excutifidian-One who believes that true

faith may be lost.

Exigent-Extremity, necessity.

Exinanition-An emptying out, privation.
Exotical-Foreign.
Expect To wait.

Face-bread-The shew-bread.

Facile-Easy, candid."
Failing-Causing to fail.

Fainten-To cause to faint.

Familists A sect called the Family of Love.

Experiment-Proof, experience, instance;

to try, to prove.

Expilate-To plunder. Expilation-Plundering.

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Gaudy-Joyous.

Gazul-See Suhit.

Geason-Rare, wonderful.

Geniculation-Bending the knee.

Gimmer-Movement, machinery.
Gird-A twitch, pang.
Give To misgive.

Glaver-To flatter, to wheedle.
Glibbed-Rendered glib.
Gloriation-Boasting.
Go-To be.

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Handsel-Earnest, first-fruits, first use.
Harborous-Sheltering, protecting.
Headily-Headlong.

Headsman-A beheader.

Healthists-Drinkers of healths.

Hearten-To encourage.

Hemerocallis-The Day-Lily.

Henchman-A page, attendant.

Heremites-Hermits.

Hernshaw-A place where herons breed.

Hesternal-Of yesterday.

Heterarchy-The government of another.
Hold-To continue.

Holocausts-Burnt-offerings.
Homonymy-Equivocal nature.
Honorificence-Honour.

Honest To make to appear honest.

Hospital Hospitable.

Humanity-Human nature.
Husband-An economist.

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Immutation-Change.

affinity.

Immission-Sending.

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Inhiation-A gaping after, or longing for. Inhibit-To prohibit.

Inhibition-Prohibition.

Inned-Gathered in.

Inoperation-Internal operation.

Insensate-Senseless, enraged, mad.

Insensateness-Insensibility.

Imp-A shoot; to graft, to connect in Insition-Engrafting.

Impeccancy-Infallibility.

Impeditive-Obstructive.

Impetration-An obtaining by request.
Impetratory or Impetrative-Such as would
obtain.

Imploration-Entreaty.
Importune-Importunate.

Impreparation-Want of preparation.
Impress-Device, emblem.

Insist in-To confine to.

Instance-Earnestness.

Instantany-Instantaneous, momentary.
Instantly-Earnestly.
Instinct-Instigation.
Insultation-Mockery.

Intellective--Relating to the understanding.
Intelligencers-Intelligences.

Intend-To render intense, to stretch, to

encrease.

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Longanimity-Long forbearance, long enduring.

Longsome-Tiresome.
Loose-The end, issue.

Lunets-Blinds for the eyes, Satellites.
Luxation-Disjointing.

Lycanthropy-A kind of madness, in which men have the qualities of wild beasts.

Maceration-Wasting.

Make-bait-A maker or promoter of mischief.

Maleficiation-Injury.

Mal-grè-Maugre, in spite of.

Malice-To behave maliciously, to bear malice to.

Mammock-A shapeless piece, a frag

ment.

Mancipate-To enslave.
Manducation-Eating.

Mannishness-Masculine character.

Manuary-A workman; performed by the hand.

Manuduction-Guidance by the hand.
Manumission-Releasing.

Maravedi-A small Spanish copper-coin.
Marian Times The times of Queen
Máry Ist.
Marish-Marshy.
Mart-To sell.
Marting-Selling.

Mask-To confound.

Mast-The fruit of the beech-tree.

Masterly Imperiously, proudly.

Mate-To subdue.

Mathe-Mowing.

Maturation-Ripening, maturity.

Maumet-A puppet, a figure dressed up.

Mavis-The thrush.

Maze-To confound.

Median-Middle.

Meiny-Retinue, family.

Meliority-That which is better.

Memorative-Adapted to assist the me

mory.

Menage-Horsemanship.

Mere, or Meare—A boundary.

Merit-To deserve at another's hand.
Mesline-Mixed, mixture.

Metonymically-The putting of one word for another.

Metwand-A wand to measure with.

Michaelmas flaws-The bad weather common at the autumnal equinox.

Millenaries, Millenarians-See Chiliasts.

Minatory-Threatening.

Misacception-Taking in a wrong sense. Misceline-Mixed, confused.

Misprision-Contempt, mistake, oversight.

Mis-relate-To refer improperly.

Miswonting-Disuse.

Monomachy-Single combat.

Moonets Satellites.

Morphew-A white scurf; to scurf.

Most-what-Usually, for the most part.

Most-where-In most places.

Mot-Motto.

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