D.

_Dangerous of_, 146. Fearful of [showing], or, as some say it is in Chaucer, shy.

_Detected_, 27. Uncovered.

_Determination_, 153. Termination, or ending.

_Detracting_, 94. Drawing out, spinning out.

_Dilection._ A choosing, preferring, loving.

_Diriges_, 439. Dirges; a word derived from the Latin _dirige_.

_Disagreeable to_, 98. Disagreeing with, differing from.

_Dish, laid in my_, 130. For me to chew upon.

_Dismembred_, 313. There being no talk of the members of an animal being taken away, I take it that he means diversely membered from what it was naturally, as was the serpent with “manie legs”.

_Dizzards_, 291. Evidently fool or blockhead. That it was a name for the vice or fool of a play is by no means a proof of its prater or diseur origin, for he was not so much a prater as a funny lout who bore himself apishly, and “moved his body as him list”. Rather cognate to dizzy.

_Donee_, 148. Noted as an early use of the word.

_Doubt in_, 482; _doubted_, 6. Two excellent examples of the then frequent use of these words for fear and feared.

_Duplex s. s._, 282. Should have been duplicis, but the writer probably thought that this would be liable to a misrendering. S[piritus] S[ancti] is of course meant.

E.

_Eager_, 249. Sour; French, _aigre_, as in vinegar.

_Earnest pennie_, 542. The small sum given as part payment in earnest that, or as assurance that, the bargain had been made.

_Embossed_, 316. [Spoken of glasses in “perspective” devices.] Convex (?).

_Enabled_, 164. Made able, strengthened.

_Eversed_, 316. [As under _Embossed_.] Possibly concave (?).

_Exchange_, 218. To change or transform.

_Excourse_, 43. Lat. _excursus_, outgoing.

_Expend_, 444. Hang, or rather weigh out.

_Experiment_, 82. Trial, or mode of proof; the verb is similarly used.

_Exsufflation_, 440. In Roman Catholic baptism the devil is rejected by exsufflando (blowing him away) and by abrenunciation (the renouncing) of him and his works.

_Extermination_, 485. A driving out beyond the boundary or terminus.

_Eybitten_, 64. “Master Scot in his _Discovery_ telleth us, That our English people in Ireland, whose posterity were lately barbarously cut off, were much given to this Idolatry in the Queen’s time, insomuch that there being a Disease amongst their Cattel that grew blind, being a common Disease in that Country, they did commonly execute people for it, calling them eye biting witches” (_A Candle in the Dark_, by Th. Ady, M.A., 1656, p. 104). Scot did not tell him this, but the explanation prevents erroneous guesses.

F.

_Fautor_, 528. (Lat.) Favourer, supporter.

_Fetches_, 110. Devices, ruses, trickeries.

_Fitten_, 538. Make fit.

_Flawed_, 57. Flayed.

_Foine_, 257. A rapier, or, more generally, the thrust (or parry) made by a rapier. But see note on passage.

_Fond_, 204. Foolish, as commonly then.

_Footed_, 340. A rather awkward way of describing a box with two covers (opposite one another) and double-bottomed.

_Foreslowed_, 365. Slowed overmuch, _i.e._, omitted at times. So we have other words in fore—foregrown, etc. _Forespoken_, has been said to be a compound of our fore, meaning bespeak or predict (Rich.). But it is not to predict, but to do. Hence, I rather take it as equal to speak over-much against, _i.e._, bewitch.

_Frote_ (A. N.). To rub.

G.

_Gissard_, 528. A goose-herd.

_Graffing_, 290. A form, an older form, of “grafting”, and so the verb graff.

_Griphes_, 202. Vultures here, though in some authors it is the griffin or dragon.

_Gudgins_, 257. Gudgeons. This fish is a bait, and is easily caught. From this latter circumstance it is here, as frequently, and as in Shakespeare, used for a fool.

H.

_Hagging, went to_, 25. I suppose went to perform her part or duty as a witch. From hag-ridden, hag-tracks, and hag-worn, hag seems to have been used as a synonyme for wicked or witch.

_Haggister_, 82. Kentish for the magpie.

_Hailed_, 196. Haled, hauled.

_Hair, against the_, 9. Contrary to the inclination, a phrase which might readily be drawn as to other animals, but which, I think, arose from dressing a horse.

_Hair, hang her up by the_, 257. Seems from the word “utterly” to have been used metaphorically for make away with. Perhaps because Absalom was, and is popularly supposed to have so died; or possibly from this it was a civiller synonyme for being hung.

_Hallowe_, 316. Hollow.

_Handle_, 368. Used in one instance for to go about, or carry on, in a good sense; in the second, as to make a passive instrument of, as the monkey when he used the cat’s paw for the hot chestnuts.

_Heeles, by the_, 65. Arrested and confined him, because offenders were often put for safety into the stocks.

_Hickot_, 242. Hiccough.

_Ho_, 501. Our “woa”.

_Honestie_, 81. Chastity. Frequently used of mental as well as bodily chastity. We still speak in this sense of an “honest woman”.

_Hot_, 255. Preterite of hit. An old, and also frequent, Kentish form of the past in many verbs.

_Houseled, be_, 265. Receive the Eucharist.

_Hugger mugger_, 433. An early example, explained by “secretlie”; but it also means, I think, as a consequence of the secrecy, in a hurried, tumbling, indecorous fashion.

_Hundreth_, 338. A then common variant for hundred.