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1. † alchimistie, n. View full entry 1578
...= alchemistry1....
2. anbury | ambury, n. View full entry 1598
...A soft tumour or spongy wart on horses and oxen....
3. chuckle, v. View full entry 1598
...intr. ‘To laugh vehemently; to laugh convulsively’ (Johnson). Cf. checkleObs....
4. † drill, v.2 View full entry 1603
...intr. To flow in a small stream or in drops; to trickle, percolate; to drip....
5. higgledy-piggledy, adv., n., and adj. View full entry 1598
...Without any order of position or direction; in huddled or jumbled confusion and disorder; with heads and tails in any or every direction. Usually contemptuous....
6. † marl, v.3 View full entry 1598
...trans. To marinate or souse (fish)....
7. † nin, n.1 View full entry 1611
...A child's word for: a drink....
8. † patise, n.2 View full entry 1598
...A red pigment made from white lead and red ochre. More fully patise red....
9. † Petrarchistical, adj. View full entry 1603
...Imitative of Petrarch....
10. snar, n. View full entry 1611
...A knot in wood. Obs. (Cf. snarl4.)...
11. † twattle, n.2 (and adj.) View full entry 1598
...A pygmy, a dwarf. Also attrib. or as ...
12. twirl, v.1 View full entry 1598
...intr. To rotate rapidly, to spin; to be whirled round or about; also to turn round quickly so as to face or point the other way; also fig....
13. † whorr, v. View full entry 1598
...intr. To coo, as a dove....
