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1. † aˈrrivance, n. View full entry a1616
...The act or fact of arriving, arrival; concr. people arriving, arrivals: in which sense the 1st folio of Shakespeare has arrivancie(= y)....
2. † asiˈnego, n. View full entry 1609
...A little ass....
3. backing, n. View full entry 1598
...The action of supporting at the back....
4. biddy, n.2 View full entry a1616
...A chicken, a fowl. Also dial., a louse....
5. botch, n.2 View full entry a1616
...A botched place or part, a flaw or blemish resulting from unskilful workmanship....
6. chuck, n.2 View full entry 1598
...A familiar term of endearment, applied to husbands, wives, children, close companions....
7. ˈcock-light, n. View full entry a1625
...Morning dawn, cock-crowing....
8. cock-shut, n. View full entry 1597
...attrib. in cock-shut light, cock-shut time, etc.: twilight....
9. collied, adj. View full entry 1600
...Rendered ‘colly’; begrimed; blackened; darkened, murky....
10. colly, v.1 View full entry 1600
...trans. To blacken with coal-dust or soot; to begrime....
11. crank, v.1 View full entry 1594
...intr. To twist and turn about; to move with a sharply winding course, to zigzag. Obs....
12. dateless, adj. and n. View full entry 1597
...Having no time limit or fixed term; endless; eternal....
13. dead man's finger(s, n. View full entry 1604
...A local name for various species of Orchis, properly those with palmate tubers, as O. maculata and latifolia; in Shakespeare prob. the Early Purple Orchis, O. mascula...
14. † ˈdey-woman, n. View full entry 1598
...A dairy woman....
15. end, v.2 View full entry a1616
...trans. To put (corn, hay, etc.) into (a barn, stack, etc.); to ‘get in’. Also fig....
16. end-all, n. View full entry a1616
...That which ‘ends all’ (see quot. 1876). Now only dial. exc. in Shakespearian phrase, the be-all and the end-all. (See be-all)...
17. † fill, n.2 View full entry 1600
...pl. The thills or shafts of a cart. sing. The pair of shafts, ‘the space between the shafts’ (Johnson)....
18. gally, v. View full entry 1608
...trans. To frighten, daze, scare, startle. Now only dial. and in the whale fishery. Also dial. to scare away....
19. glaze, v.2 View full entry a1616
...intr. To stare....
20. grannam, n. View full entry 1597
...A grandmother; an old woman....
