GLOSSARY
Advowtry | Adultery |
Animalia | Animals (L.) |
Arsie-versie | Upside-down |
Aruspicy | Prophesying, fortune-telling |
Bachrach | Wine from Bacharach, in Germany |
Bavin | A bundle of firewood |
Boutefeu | Arsonist or (literal or metaphorical) firebrand |
Cacodaemon | An evil Spirit |
Caldes'd | Cheated |
Calendae | The 1st or 2nd of the month |
Calleche | A carriage with two wheels and a folding hood |
Camelion | A giraffe |
Camisado | An attack by night, during which the attackers wore shirts over their armour so they could recognise one another |
Cane & Angue pejus | Worse than a dog or a snake (L.) |
Caperdewsie | The stocks |
Capoch'd | Pulled off the hoods |
Caprich | A caprice |
Carbonading | Thrashing, beating |
Carroch | A stately or luxurious carriage |
Catasta | The stocks |
Cawdie | A military cadet |
Cawdle | Soup or gruel |
Ceruse | White lead used as a cosmetic |
Champaign | Champagne wine |
Champain | Countryside |
Chous'd, choust, chows'd | Cheated |
Chowse | A cheat's victim |
Classis | The elders and pastors of all the Presbyterian congregations in a district |
Coincidere | To come together (L.) |
Congees | Bows, curtseys |
Conster | Construe, explain |
Conventicle | Secret or illegal religious meetings |
Covins | Conspiracies |
Cucking-stool | A stool to which a malefactor (often an unfaithful wife) was tied, to be exposed to public ridicule, or ducked in a pond or river. |
Curship | The title of being a cur -- pun on "worship" |
Curule | An ivory chair used as a mayor's throne |
Deletory | That which wipes out or destroys |
Deodand | In English law an article which had caused a man's death was ordered by the court to be a forfeited as a deodand (Ad Deo dandum - to be given to God). Before the reformation it or its value was given to the Church; afterwards to the local landowner. |
Dewtry | A stupefying drink made from the Indian thorn-apple fruit. |
Dialectico | A philosophical point of argument |
Dictum factum | No sooner said than done (L.) |
Disparo | To separate (L.) |
Donzel | A young page or squire |
Drazel | A slut |
Ducatoon | An Italian silver coin, worth about 6 shillings. |
Ejusdem generis | Of the same kind (L.) |
Enucleate | To explain the meaning of |
Ex parte | On behalf of (L.) |
Exaun | A religious establishment not under the authority of the local bishop |
Fadging | Fitting |
Feme-covert | A woman under the protection of a husband ( a legal term) |
Ferk | Beat, whip |
Festina lente | Make haste slowly (L.) |
Fingle-fangle | A whimsical or fantastic idea |
Fother | A cart-load |
Fulhams | Loaded dice |
Ganzas | The birds which the hero of a popular romance harnessed to take him to the moon |
Genethliack | A caster of horoscopes |
Geomancy | Divination by interpreting the patterns of lines drawn at random on the ground or on paper. |
Gleave | A spear or halberd |
Granado | A grenade |
Grilly'd | Grilled |
Grincam | Syphilis |
Guep | Go on! -- said to a horse or as an expression of derision. |
Habergeon | A chain-mail shirt |
Haut-gousts | Tasty things |
Headborough | A constable |
Hiccius Doctius | A nonsense word used by jugglers, conjurers etc., hence, any kind of trick or dishonest dealing |
Hight | Called, named |
Hoccamore | Wine from Hochheim, in Germany |
Horary | Hourly |
Huckle | The hip |
Hugonots | French Calvinists |
Hypocondries | The upper abdomen, between the breastbone and the navel |
Id est | That is (L.) |
Idem | The same (L.) |
Illation | Inference, deduction |
In eodem subjecto | Thrown together in the same place (L.) |
In querpo | Naked |
Jobbernol(e) | A thick head or blockhead |
Jure divino | By God's law (L.) |
Langued | Heraldic term meaning, with a tongue of a particular colour e.g. langued gules - with a red tongue |
Lathy | Thin, like a lath |
Linsey-woolsey | A cloth of mixed wool and linen threads |
Linstock | A stick for holding a gunner's match |
L'Ombre | A card game |
Longees | Lunges |
Lustrations | Ceremonials of ritual purification by washing |
Mainprize | To stand surety for someone |
Manicon | A plant (deadly nightshade) or its extract, believed to cause insanity when taken. |
Manto | Mantua, a kind of woman's loose gown |
Martlet | A swallow or martin |
Mazzard | The head |
Meazle | A spot or pustule |
Mira de lente | Wonderfully slow (L.) |
Mordicus | With the teeth (L.) |
Morpion | A crab-louse |
Mundungus | Bad tobacco |
Nare olfact | Nostril (L.) |
Neat (noun) | A calf or cow |
Negatur | It is denied (L.) |
Nimmer | A petty thief |
Omnibus nervis | With every sinew (L.) |
Oppugn | Attack or fight against |
Orcades | The Orkneys |
pacquet-male | Large wallet |
Padder | A thief |
Pari Libra | Equally (L.) |
Pathic | Passively homosexual |
Pernicion | Total ruin |
Petronel | A short carbine or large pistol |
Picqueer | Skirmish or quarrel |
Pigsney | A term of endearment for a woman, "darling" |
Plus satis | More than enough (L.) |
Poesie | Poetry |
Pullen | Poultry |
Punese | A bed-bug |
Pursy | Rich |
Quarteridge | A tax or payment due quarterly |
Quatenus | So far as (it is) (L.) |
Quillets | Verbal points or quibbles |
Rampiers | Ramparts |
Rationalia | Thinking creatures (L.) |
Rochet | A bishop's white gown or surplice |
Satis | Enough |
Sault | Jump |
Scire facias | To know the appearance of (L.) |
Sedes Stercoraria | Filthier seat (L.) |
Seisin | A token of ownership, formally handed over when property is sold. |
Shanker | A venereal sore, chancre |
Slubberdegullion | A dirty, slovenly person |
Soland geese | Barnacle geese (Branta leucopsis) |
Staffier | A footman |
Stentrophonick | Loud, as from a megaphone |
Stum | A mixture of wine and grape juice |
Suggill'd | Beaten severely |
Sui juris | Independently (L.) |
Swound | A swoon |
Synodical | Arising from or of the nature of a synod - a meeting of bishops etc. of the Anglican Church |
Tantundem dat tantidem | So much of that gives so much of this = they are exactly the same (L.) |
Tarsel | A male falcon |
Theorbo | A kind of lute with two necks |
Totidem verbis | In just as many words (L.) |
Trapes | Tripes |
Trepan | To trap |
Trigon | A set of 3 signs of the Zodiac at 120-degree angles to each other |
Tussis pro crepitu | A cough for a fart (L.) |
Velis & remis | By sail and oar (L.) |
Veni, Vidi, Vici | I came, I saw, I conquered (L.) |
Versal | Universal |
Videlicet | That is, viz. (L.) |
Vitiligation | Argument, quarrelling |
Vizard | A mask or disguise |
Welkin | The sky |
Whiffler | A ceremonial guard who cleared the way for a mayor or other official |
Whinyard | A short sword |
Ycleped | Named |
Yerst | Erst, formerly |