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I.

*Iayle, 88, _s._ a gaol, prison.

Ictus sapit, 2/8. Lat. Prov. See Note E15.

Indian eie, 43/16, _s._ the Pink, so called from the eye-shaped marking of the corolla.

Inholder, 97/1, _s._ innkeeper.

Inned, 23/19, _pp._ saved, housed.

Intreating, 88/5, _s._ treatment.

Inuest, 11/8, _v._ surround.

Ise, 112/2, _s._ ice.

Isop, 42/9, _s._ hyssop. A name assigned in the Authorised Version of the Bible to the caper.

Ist, 5/3, is it.

Iuie, 50/6, *Iuye, 42, _s._ ivy. A.S. _ifig_.

J.

Jack, 17/20, _s._ a horse or wooden frame upon which wood is sawn.

Jack, 85/10, _s._ a drinking vessel containing half a pint according to Grose, and quarter of a pint according to Pegge, and Peacock's Gloss. of Manley and Corringham.

Jade, 17/3, _s._ an ill-tempered horse.

Janting, 87/3, _v._ driving. Cotgrave gives another form of the word in English. "_lancer un cheval_. To stirre a horse in the stable till hee sweat withall; or (as our) to iaunt; an old word." "Jaunt" is found in Romeo and Juliet, ii. 5, 26, "What a _jaunt_ have I had!" and in line 53 of the same scene:

"To catch my death with _jaunting_ up and down."

Cf. also Richard II. v. 5, 94.

Jarring, 88/3, _s._ quarrelling, scolding.

Jerke, 64*/9, _s._ stroke, blow. See Yerke.

Jet, 114/38, _v._ strut about, walk proudly. Fr. _jetter_.

"Along the streetes as he doth _jetting_ passe, His outside showes him for an inward asse." --Rowland's Knave of Hearts, 1613.

Jettie, 68/1, _v._ walk or strut about.

Jobbing, 37/12, _v._ pecking. "As an ass with a galled back was feeding in a meadow, a raven pitched upon him, and their sate _jobbing_ of the sore."--L'Estrange's Esop.

John Baptist, 12/4. The feast of St. John the Baptist, 24th June.

Jornie, 57/38, _v. pr. t._ go on a journey, start.

Just, 57/10, _adv._ neatly, trimly.

K.

Karle hempe, 15/24, _s._ the male hemp. See Glossary of Manley and Corringham (E. D. Soc. No. VI.), by E. Peacock.

Keies, 89/3, _s. pl._. keys, locks.

Kell, 57/51, _s._ hop-kiln.

Kerue, 114/32, _v._ (carve), set out, arrange.

Kest, 11/3, _v. imp._ cast, turn.

Kiffe, 10/30, _s._ kith, kindred, relations.

Kinde, 46/20, _s._ nature, natural way. A.S. _cynd_.

Kirnels, 36/13, _s. pl._ pips, seeds. A.S. _cyrnel_.

Knacker, 58/5, _s._ a cart, collar and harness maker, chiefly employed by farmers.

Knackes, 86/7, _s. pl._ knickknacks, trifles.

Knap, 85/11, _v. imp._ rap, knock.

Knauerie, 9/13, _s._ roguery, craft, deceit.

Knede, 74/5, _v. imp._ knead. A.S. _cnedan_. O. H. Ger. _chnetan_.

Kniueles, 98/1, _adj._ having no knives. "When knives were not laid for the guests, as at the present period, they would use their daggers to carve with, which were harmless as to any other purpose."--Mavor.

Knot, 22/22, _s._ flower-beds laid out in fanciful shapes. See Bacon's Essay Of Gardens, ed. W. A. Wright, p. 189: "As for the making of _knots_, or figures, with divers coloured earths, that they may lie under the windowes of the house, on that side, which the garden stands, they be but toyes." Compare also Love's Labour's Lost, i. 1, 249: "Thy curious-_knotted_ garden;" and Milton's Paradise Lost, iv. 242:

"Flowers worthy of Paradise, which not nice art In beds and curious _knots_, but nature boon Pour'd forth profuse."

And Shakspere, Richard II. iii. 4, 46.

Knotted, 42/13, _adj._ jointed. "The _knotted_ rush-ringes, and gilte Rosemaree."--Spenser, Shep. Cal. November.