| amissness | The state of being or doing amiss. | 1648 | Go To Quotation |
| amphibolous | Ambiguous, of double or doubtful character. | 1644 | Go To Quotation |
| ancestorial | = ancestral adj. | 1659 | Go To Quotation |
| anheled | Breathing, or breathed out, with pain or effort. | 1644 | Go To Quotation |
| antepast | Something taken before a meal to whet the appetite (obs.); a foretaste. | 1590 | Go To Quotation |
| bastinade | = bastinado n. 1 – 3. | 1660 | Go To Quotation |
| bauger | Barbarous (or ? vile, beastly). | 1544 | Go To Quotation |
| billeting | The quartering of soldiers by billet. | 1640 | Go To Quotation |
| blackmouth | A foul-mouthed person; a slanderer. Now rare. | 1642 | Go To Quotation |
| blanked | Whitened, made white. Obs. | 1528 | Go To Quotation |
| blasphement | Blasphemy. | 1544 | Go To Quotation |
| bludder | | 1553 | Go To Quotation |
| boutefeu | An incendiary, a firebrand; one who kindles discontent and strife; also attrib. | 1597 | Go To Quotation |
| bubbleable | Capable of being duped. | 1669 | Go To Quotation |
| bulling | That issues (papal) bulls. | 1624 | Go To Quotation |
| canoneer | One who makes, cites, or interprets (ecclesiastical) canons; a canonist; a zealot or stickler for the canons. | 1641 | Go To Quotation |
| carlip | ? A species of firearm. | 1659 | Go To Quotation |
| censual | Of or relating to a census. | 1613 | Go To Quotation |
| ceremonious | Of persons: Addicted to ritual observances (obs.); given to ceremony; punctilious in… | 1553 | Go To Quotation |
| coffership | The office of cofferer n. (sense 2). | 1617 | Go To Quotation |
| compotation | A drinking or tippling together, drinking-bout, carouse, symposium. | 1593 | Go To Quotation |
| conciergerie | Applied in French to the office of a concierge (in sense 1), the residence or lodge… | 1610 | Go To Quotation |
| counter-letter | A letter of reply. | 1603 | Go To Quotation |
| crants | A garland, chaplet, wreath. | 1592 | Go To Quotation |
| cully | trans. To make a fool of, deceive, cheat, take in. | 1676 | Go To Quotation |
| cunicular | Of or pertaining to the cradle or to infancy. | 1676 | Go To Quotation |
| declined | Turned aside, deflected; sloped, oblique; brought low, debased, decayed; advanced towards its close: see the verb. | 1591 | Go To Quotation |
| denouncement | The action of denouncing; denunciation; †declaration; †announcement (of evil); public accusation or expression of condemnation. | 1544 | Go To Quotation |
| desistency | Cessation. | 1615 | Go To Quotation |
| determinatively | = determinately adv. | 1641 | Go To Quotation |
| discontentful | Full of discontent; fraught with or expressing discontent. | 1615 | Go To Quotation |
| Draconically | After the manner of Draco; with extreme severity. | 1641 | Go To Quotation |
| electorship | The state or dignity, or the dominions, of a German Elector. | 1624 | Go To Quotation |
| elozable | Amenable to flattery. | 1537 | Go To Quotation |
| epicurish | Of the nature of an epicure; sensual, voluptuous. | 1553 | Go To Quotation |
| exaestuate | intr. To boil up; to ferment; (of flames) to flare up. | 1642 | Go To Quotation |
| examinant | One who is being examined; one who is being examined as a witness; a deponent. Obs. | 1588 | Go To Quotation |
| fifth monarch | Christ as the head of the ‘fifth monarchy’; see Fifth monarchy n. | 1660 | Go To Quotation |
| forstand | trans. To stand up for, defend, represent. | 1642 | Go To Quotation |
| generalissima | A female generalissimo. Freq. fig. | 1643 | Go To Quotation |
| hangum-tuum | | 1650 | Go To Quotation |
| herbister | = herbist n. | 1623 | Go To Quotation |
| inconcerned | Unconcerned. | 1688 | Go To Quotation |
| insear | trans. To impress by searing. | 1603 | Go To Quotation |
| levelism | The principle of levelling distinctions in society. In early use spec. the principles advocated by the ‘Levellers’. | 1659 | Go To Quotation |
| newbuilding | The action of new-build v.; (in recent use esp.) the construction of new ships; an… | 1588 | Go To Quotation |
| notchel | to cry (a person) notchel: to announce publicly that one will not be responsible for the debts of the specified person. | 1681 | Go To Quotation |
| obcaecated | = obcaecate adj. | 1641 | Go To Quotation |
| occasionalist | An occasional conformist. Cf. occasional adj. n. Special uses. Obs. | 1705 | Go To Quotation |
| opposive | = opposite adj. (in various senses). | 1676 | Go To Quotation |
| paucify | trans. To make few or fewer; to lessen, diminish. | 1648 | Go To Quotation |
| perspicuate | trans. To make clear or evident. | 1634 | Go To Quotation |
| predivination | The divining of events beforehand. | 1603 | Go To Quotation |
| pudding pie | A name for various forms of pastry; esp. (formerly) a dough pudding containing meat and baked… | 1593 | Go To Quotation |
| self-interested | Characterized by self-interest; actuated solely by regard for one's personal advantage or welfare. | 1657 | Go To Quotation |
| slipperily | In a slippery manner. Chiefly fig. | 1603 | Go To Quotation |
| sulphured | Full of, or charged with, sulphur; sulphurous. | 1605 | Go To Quotation |
| theologico- | | 1644 | Go To Quotation |
| tiff | Manner of dressing or arranging, get-up; the way in which the hair, wig, etc. is dressed. | 1703 | Go To Quotation |
| unadmitted | Not allowed to enter. | 1616 | Go To Quotation |
| unbunched | (un- prefix 8.) | 1615 | Go To Quotation |
| unchristianlike | (un- prefix 7c.) | 1610 | Go To Quotation |
| uncrossly | Not adversely. | 1615 | Go To Quotation |
| unpantofle | (un- prefix 4.) | 1643 | Go To Quotation |
| unprojected | (un- prefix 8.) | 1653 | Go To Quotation |
| vampire | A preternatural being of a malignant nature (in the original and usual form of the… | 1734 | Go To Quotation |
| vogue | trans. To cry up or down. | 1661 | Go To Quotation |
| vrac | The name given in the Channel Islands to a fish resembling a carp. Also attrib. | 1673 | Go To Quotation |
| whiddle | See quot. 1725. | 1661 | Go To Quotation |
