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1. aroint | aroynt, v. View full entry 1608
...In aroint thee! (? verb in the imperative, or interjection) meaning apparently: Avaunt! Begone!...
2. ballow, n.1 View full entry a1616
...Prob. a misprint for baton, to which the word is emended in many modern editions of King Lear. The Quartos read battero (which is prob. another...
3. biddy, n.2 View full entry a1616
...A chicken, a fowl. Also dial., a louse....
4. bow-wow, int. and n. View full entry a1616
...ˈbaʊˈwaʊ An imitation of the barking of a dog....
5. † braid, adj. View full entry a1616
...? Deceitful....
6. † bully-rock | bully-rook, n. View full entry 1602
...= bully1; jolly comrade, boon companion....
7. bump, n.1 View full entry 1599
...A blow somewhat heavy, but rather dull in sound; a sudden collision, more or less violent. So with a bump (fig.), abruptly, with a shock....
8. cangenet, n. View full entry 1598
...= canzonet...
9. † congree, v. View full entry a1616
...intr. To agree together, accord....
10. † dich, n. View full entry a1616
...A corrupt or erroneous word, having apparently the sense do it:...
11. dobbin, n. View full entry 1600
...An ordinary draught or farm horse; sometimes contemptuously, an old horse, a jade....
12. † exˈsufflicate, adj. View full entry a1616
...? Puffed up, inflated, ‘windy’....
13. gibber, v.1 View full entry 1604
...intr. To speak rapidly and inarticulately; to chatter, talk nonsense. Said also of an ape....
14. graze, v.2 View full entry a1616
...trans. To touch (a surface) lightly in passing; esp. to roughen or abrade (the skin or a part of the body) in rubbing or brushing past. Also, to suffer slight abrasion...
15. † high-day, int. View full entry a1616
...Erroneous form of hey-day, arising from confusion with prec....
16. † Hiren, n. View full entry 1600
...Used allusively by Shakespeare and early 17th century writers as meaning ‘a seductive woman’, a harlot....
17. hist, int. (and n.) View full entry 1599
...Used to enjoin silence, attract attention, or call on a person to listen. Also (after use in sense 2) in hist-a-boy. Now somewhat arch....
18. hizz, v. View full entry 1608
...intr. To make a hissing or whizzing noise....
19. keech, n. View full entry 1623
...A lump of congealed fat; the fat of a slaughtered animal rolled up into a lump. Also dial. with other allied meanings....
20. mistership, n. View full entry a1616
...Compositorial misreading of mistress-ship...
