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WORDS 
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A.

AARON, the first High­
Priest of the Jews.

ABAFT or AFT, a
Sea Term, signifying that part of
the Ship between the Main­
mast and the Stern.

To ABANDON, to forsake
utterly, or cast off.

An ABANDON'D Wretch, a
Person addicted to all manner of
Vice.

To ABASE, to lower, bring
down, or humble.

To ABASH, to make a­
shamed, or to confound.

ABASHMENT, Astonishment
or Confusion.

To ABASE, to make less, or
diminish.

ABATEMENT, a Lessening,
or something deducted

ABBA, a Scripture Word, 
signifying Father.

ABBESS, the Governess of a 
Nunnery.

ABBEY, a Monastery or Con­
vent.

ABBOT, a chief Ruler of
an Abbey.

To ABBREVIATE, to a­
bridge or make short.

ABBREVIATION, an A­
bridgment or Shortening.

ABBREVIATOR, a Person
who abridges or makes a short 
draught of a thing

ABBREVIATURE, a short­
ning, as one Letter standing for
a Word.

To ABDICATE, to renounce,
resign, or give up.

ABDICATION, a voluntary
Resignation or Renouncing

ABEL, the Name of Adam's
second Son.

ABERDENE, a City in
Scotland, where there is a U­
niversity.

ABERGAVENNY, a City
in Monmouthshire, in Wales

To ABET, to aid, assist, or 
encourage

ABETTOR, an Aider, Assist­
er, or Encourager.

To ABHOR, to loath or
hate.

ABHORRENCE, a loathing
or hating.

ABIAH, the Son of Samuel
the Prophet.

ABIATHAR, the Name of a
Son of Abimilech

ABIB, the Name of the first
Month among the Jews, an
swering to part of our March
and April

To ABIDE, to carry or stay
in a Place, to suffer or endure.

ABJECT, mean, base, or
vile.

An ABJECT, a Person of no
repute or esteem.

ABJECTION, a low mean
condition.

ABIEZER, one of King Da­
vid's thirty Champions.

ABIGAIL, Nabal's Wife,
and afterward's King David's.

ABIMILECH, a King of 
Gerar.

ABINGDON, a Town in
Barkshire.

ABISHAG, a beautiful vir­
gin who cherished King David
in his old Age

ABISHAI, one of King Da­
vid's Champions.

ABJURATION, a forswear­
ing or renouncing of Oath.

To ABJURE, to forswear or
renounce by Oath.

ABLATIVE, the last of the
six Cases in Nouns and Partici­
ples in Grammar.

ABLE, capable of performing.



ABLUTION, a Purging or 
Washing.

ABNER, the Uncle of King 
Saul, and Captain General of
his Army

ABOARD, within the Ship.

To ABOLISH, to deface or
destroy

ABOLITION, the defacing or
destroying

ABOMINABLE, that which
is to be hated or abhorred

To ABOMINATE, to hate
or abhor.

ABOMINATION, an Hatred
or Abhorrence of any thing.

ABORIGINES, the first In­
habitants or Natives of a Coun­
try.

ABORTION, a Miscarriage
or untimely Birth

ABORTIVE, Still-born, un­
timely, that which miscarries
or comes to nought.

ABOVE, aloft, high, or over
head.

ABOUT, as round about, or
near in time and place.

To ABRADE, to shave or
pare off

ABRAHAM, the great Patri­
arch of the Jewish Nation.

ABRAHAM's Balm, the
Hemp-tree, a kind of Willow
so called.

ABRASION, a paring or
shaving off

To ABRIDGE, to make 
shorter.

An ABRIDGMENT, an E­
pitome or short account of a 
Book.

To ABROGATE, to abolish,
discount, or repeal a Law in
force before.

ABROGATION, the repeal­
ing of an Act.

ABRUPT, broke off on a 
sudden, hasty, rough, unseason­
able.

ABSALOM, King David's re­
bellious Son

To ABSCOND, to hide one's
self.

ABSENT, out of the way,
missing

To ABSOLVE, to acquit
or discharge one of a crime.

ABSOLUTE, free from the
Power of another, arbitrary,
unlimited

ABSOLUTELY, after an ab­
solute manner

ABSOLUTION, a Pardon or
Forgiveness of Sins pronounced
by a Priest

To ABSORB, to drink or
suck up, to waste or consume.

ABSORBENT, drinking or 
sucking up

To ABSTAIN, to keep from
or forbear

ABSTEMIOUS, sober, mo­
derate, temperate in diet

ABSTINENCE, Temperance, 
Forbearance, restraining one's
self.

ABSTINENT, temperate in 
meat and drink. 

ABSTRACT, a short draught,
or epitome of any thing.

To ABSTRACT, to draw
away from, or take out of.

ABSTRUSE, obscure, dark,
hard to be understood.

ABSURD, not agreeable to 
common Sense, foolish, imper­
tinent.

ABSURDITY, Foolishness, 
Impertinence, a Disagreeable­
ness to Reason.

ABUNDANCE, great plenty
of.

ABUNDANT, abounding
with, plentiful

ABUSE, in ill use of, an Af­
front

To ABUSE, to treat ill, or 
misuse, to do an Injury



ABUSIVE, apt to abuse, af­
fronting, injurious.

ABYSSINES, a People of
Æthiopia.

A C signifies Anno Christi,
or the Year of Christ.

ACADEMICAL, belonging to
an University.

ACADEMICKS, a Sect of
Philosophers, the Followers of
Plato.

ACADEMIAN, one who stu­
dies in the Academy.

ACADEMY, an higher School 
or University

ACADINA, a Fountain in
Sicily, wherein all false Oaths
writ on Tables used to sink.

ACARUS, a little Worm that
breeds in Wax.

To ACCEDE, to come, or
draw near to.

ACCENT, a Mark shewing
that Syllable must be stronger
pronounced

To ACCEPT, to receive kind­
ly or favourably



ACCEPTABLE, well taken,
kindly received.

ACCEPTANCE,
ACCEPTATION, a taking
in good 
part, an accepting or receiving
kindly.

ACCESS, admittance, or ap­
proach to a Person or Place.

ACCESSIBLE, easy to come
at or approach

ACCESSION, a coming to, as
the Accession of the King to the
Crown, Addition, Increase.

ACCESSARY, a Person guil­
ty of a Crime not principal­
ly, but by Participation.

ACCIDENCE, a little Book
containing the first Principles of
the Latin Tongue.

ACCIDENT, a Casualty of
Chance

ACCIDENTAL, belonging to
Accidents, happening by Chance.

ACCLAMATION, a shouting 
for Joy, or Applause given.

ACCLIVITY, the rising or
steepness of a Hill

To ACCOMMODATE, to ad­
just, to apply, to provide for,
to furnish with

ACCOMMODATION, the pro­
viding for, fitting or adjusting.

To ACCOMPANY, to keep
company with, or go along with
a Person.

ACCOMPLICE, one who has
an hand in any Business or 
Design.

To ACCOMPLISH, to per­
form, finish or bring a thing to
Perfection

ACCOMPLISHED, as a Per­
son well accomplished, or ex­
traordinary Parts

ACCOMPLISHMENTS, Ac­
quirements in Learning.

ACCOMPT. See Account.

ACCORD, Consent or Agree­
ment

To ACCORD, to agree with,
hang together or unite.

To ACCOST, to approach, 
to draw near to, to make, or
come up to a Person.

ACCOUNTABLE, liable to
give an Accompt, answerable
for.

ACCOUNTANT, a Person
well versed in Arithmetick.

ACCOUTER, to attire, to
dress, trim or furnish.

ACCOUTREMENT, attire, 
Dress, Garb, Furniture.

To ACCREW, to be in­
creased or added to, to rise
from, to fall to.



ACCUMULATE, to heap up,
or gather together.

ACCUMULATION, a heap­
ing up, or gathering together.

ACCURACY, 
ACCURATENESS, Exact­
ness, 
Carefulness Nicety Correctness

ACCURATE, exact, curious,
or correct.

ACCURSED, one who lies
under a Curse.

ACCUSATION, a charging
or accusing, Information, Im­
peachment.

ACCUSATIVE, the fourth
Case of a Noun.

To ACCUSE, to charge with
a Crime, to impeach, to in­
dict

To ACCUSTOM himself, to
inure or use himself to any
thing.

ACEPHALI, a sort of Here­
ticks, who asserted but one Sub­
stance in Christ

ACH, a Pain in any part of
the Body

ACHERON, a River of Hell.

To ACHIEVE, to accom­
plish, to finish, to act

ACHILLES, the chief Cham­
pion of the Greeks in the Trojan
War

ACID, tart, sour, sharp, bi­
ting.

ACIDITY, sharpness, Sour­
ness, Tartness

To ACKNOWLEDGE, to 
own or confess a thing

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT, Con­
fession, or owning a thing, Gra­
titude

ACORN, the Fruit of the 
Oak.

ACOUSTICKS, Medicines
which help the Healing

To ACQUAINT, to make 
known to one, to give notice or
intelligence.

ACQUAINTANCE, Corre­
spondence, Conversation, Friend­
ship

To ACQUIESCE, to rest sa­
tisfied, to comply with or sub­
mit to

ACQUIESCENCE, the Act 
of Compliance or Consent.

To ACQUIRE, to attain, to
get, to purchase

ACQUISITION, a getting, 
attaining or purchasing.

To ACQUIT, to discharge or
free from

ACQUITTAL, a Deliverance
or Discharge.

ACQUITTANCE, a Release 
or Discharge in Writing for any
thing due

ACRE, a measure of Land,
containing 40 Perches in length,
and Four in breadth

ACRIMONIOUS, four, sharp,
tart

ACRIMONY, Sharpness, Sour­
ness, Tartness.

ACT, a Deed or Decree of
Parliament, or any other Court
of Judicature

ACTION, as Act, Dead of
Feat in Law, the Process or
Form of a Suit.

ACTIONABLE, that which
will bear an Action, or afford
cause on which an Action may
be grounded.

ACTIVE, quick, nimble,
lively, in Grammar the Voice
of a Verb which signifies Action
or Doing

ACTIVITY, Quickness, 
Nimbleness, Liveliness.

ACTON, a Town in the
County of Middlesex

ACTON-BURNEL, a Castle
in Shropshire, famous for a Par­
liament held therein the time of
Edward I.

ACTOR, properly the Doer



of a thing, an Actor upon the 
Stage

ACTRESS, a Woman Player

ACTUAL, really done.

To ACTUATE, to stir up,
to move, to quicken

ACUTE, sharp pointed, keen,
sharp witted, ingenious.

ACUTE Disease, that which
is soon over, but not without
danger to the Patient.

ADAGE, a Proverb or old
Saying

ADAGIO, the slowesr Move­
ment of Time in Musick.

ADAM, the first Man created.

ADAMANT, a Diamond, the
most valuable and hardest Stone

ADAMANTINE, belonging
to Adamant, hard, inflexible

ADAMITES, a fort of Here­
ticks in Bohemia who went 
naked, pretending to Adam's
Innocence.

To ADAPT, to make fit, to
suit one thing to another

ADAR, the Name of the
twelfth Month among the Jews.

To ADD, to join or put to.

ADDER, a Serpent whose
Poison is most deadly.

ADDERBOURN, a Town in 
the County of Wilts.

ADDERS-Tongue, an Herb 
having a single Leaf, in the
midst of which is a little Stalk
like the Tongue of a Serpent

ADDER-Sting, this is said of
Cattle when they are stung by
venomous Reptiles.

ADZE, an Instrument: used by
Coopers.

To ADDICT, to give one's
self wholly up to a thing, to
apply one's mind to it.

ADDITION, an adding, put­
ting, or joining to. In Arith­
metick, a Rule by which Num­
bers are added together.

ADDITIONAL, what is add­
ed over and above.

ADDLE, rotten, empty

ADDRESS, nice or dextrous
Carriage in the Management of
an Affair

To ADDRESS, to make Ap­
plication to, to present a Peti­
tion, or Direct a Letter.

ADDUC'D, created.

ADEMPTION, taking away,
a Revocation.

ADEPTS, a Set of Philoso­
phers who are said to have 
found out the Philosopher's
Stone

ADEPTION, getting.

ADEQUATE, equal, even, 
proportional

To ADHERE, to stick fast,
to cleave to.

ADHERENCE, the adhering
or sticking close to.

An ADHERENT, one that
adheres to a Party.

ADJACENT, lying near to, 
or bordering upon.

ADJECTIVE, a Word add­
ed to a Noun Substantive to de­
note its Property

ADIEU, God be with you,
farewel.

To ADJOIN, to join to.

ADJOINING, lying near to,
or bordering upon.

To ADJOURN, to put off to 
another Day or Time

ADJOURNMENT, an ad­
journing or putting off a Meet­
ing to another Time or Place.

To ADJUDGE, to give Judg­
ment, or Sentence of the Court.

To ADJURE, to charge in
God's Name, strictly or ear­
nestly.

To ADJUST, to make fit, or
set in order.

ADJUTANT, a military Of­
ficer, who eases the Major, and
supplies his Place when absent, 
also an Assister or Helper.



ADMENSURATION, a mea­
suring, or taking account of
Dimensions.

To ADMINISTER, to do 
service, to aid.

ADMINISTRATION, the
Act of administring

ADMINISTRATION, in
Law, the disposing of Goods
or Estate of a Person deceased
without making a Will

ADMINISTRATOR, 
ADMINISTRATIX, he 
or
she that has the Goods or a Per­
son dying without a Will com­
mitted to their Care.

ADMIRABLE, a wonderful,
rare, that deserves to be ad­
mired

ADMIRAL, a chief Com­
mander at Sea

Lord-High-ADMIRAL, he
that has the chief Command of
the Navy

ADMIRALTY, the Office or
Court of maritime Affairs

ADMIRATION, the Act of
admiring, wondering, &c.

To ADMIRE, to look upon
with wonder , to be surprised at

ADMISSION,
ADMITTANCE, receiving 
into, or
entrance upon

To ADMIT, to receive, to
allow of, to permit

To ADMONISH, to warn, 
advise or put in mind of.

ADMONITION, a Warning
or Advice

ADOLESCENCE, the Flower
of Youth

ADONIJAH, one of King
David's Sons

ADONIS, the beautiful Son
of Cynaras, King of Cyprus, who
was killed by a wild Boar, and 
changed into a purple Flower by
Venus.

To ADOPT, to make one
who is no Relation capable to
inherit

ADOPTIVE, belonging to,
or admitted by Adoption.

ADORABLE, that which is
fit to be adored or worshiped.

ADORATION, the Act of
worshiping, or adoring

To ADORE, to worship, re­
verence, or respect.

To ADORN, to beautify,
deck or trim.

To ADVANCE, to go for­
ward, or get beforehand.

ADVANCE Guard,
VANGUARD, 
the first 
Divi­
sion or Line of an Army, march­
ing in the Battle Array

ADVANCEMENT, Promo­
tion or Preferment

ADVANTAGE, Gain, Profit
or Benefit.

ADVANTAGEOUS, profita­
ble, gainful, beneficial

ADVENT, the Time appoint­
ed by the church for the ap­
proaching Festival of Christ's
Nativity

ADVENTITIOUS, what 
comes by chance or unex­
pectedly.

ADVENTURE, luck, chance,
hazard, an accidental Encounter.

To ADVENTURE, to ven­
ture upon, to hazard, to run a
Risque. 

ADVENTUROUS, bold,
hardly, daring

ADVERSARY, an Opposer,
Enemy, an adverse Party

ADVERSE, a contrary to, op­
posite or against.

ADVERSITY, Ill-fortune,
Distress.



To ADVERTISE, to give no­
tice to intelligence, or warning.

ADVERTISEMENT, Notice,
Intelligence, or Information

ADVICE, Intelligence, No­
tice, or Information

ADVISEABLE, what's fit to
be done, or to be advised on.

To ADVISE, to counsel or
give advice, to consider or
weigh seriously.

ADULATION, Flattery,
Fawning, Dissembling.

ADULATOR, a Flatterer,
Fawner or Dissembler.

ADULT, he that is full 
grown or come to Age

ADULTERATE, a counter­
feit, spoil'd, not genuine. 

To ADULTERATE, to coun­
terfeit, spoil or corrupt.

ADULTERATION, the Act
of spoiling or counterfeiting.

An ADULTERER, a Man
that commits Adultery.

ADULTEROUS, given to
Adultery.

An ADULTERESS, a Wo­
man who commits Adultery

ADULTERY, the defiling
the Marriage-bed, Incontinency
in married Persons

ADVOCATE, he that takes
care of another's Interest Thus
Christ is said to be an Advocate
for Mankind In Law, he that
is Counsel to maintain the
Rights and Properties of an­
other

ADVOWSON, the Right of
a Bishop, Dean and Chapter, or
Patron, to present a Clerk to a
Benefice when it becomes void.

ÆNIGMA, a Riddle, or in­
tricate Question.

ÆNIGMATICAL, belonging
to Riddles.

ÆRA, a particular Account
of Time, from some remark­
able Event; as the building
of Rome, or the Nativity of
Christ.

AERIAL, airy, belonging to
the Air

ÆTHER, the Firmament, the
Sky.

ÆTHEREAL, belonging to
the Sky or Firmament.

ÆTNA, a burning Mountain
in Sicily, which continually sends
forth Fire and Smoke.

AFFABILITY, Easiness of 
Access, Courtesy, Gentility

AFFABLE, easy to be spoke
with, civil, courteous

AFFAIR, Business, Concern,
Matter, or Thing.

To AFFECT, to have an In­
clination to, to set one's Mind
upon, to love.

AFFECTATION, Nicety,
Formality, Affectedness. 

AFFECTED, formal, nice,
precise.

AFFECTION, Kindness,
Good-will, Inclination to;
Love.

AFFECTIONATE, kind,
well affected to, full of Af­
fection.

AFFIANCE, Confidence,
Truth.

AFFIDAVIT, a Deposition
upon Oath

To make AFFIDAVIT, to
swear to the truth of a Thing.

AFFINITY, Kindred or Re­
lation by marriage, an Agreea­
bleness of Relation between se­
veral Things.

To AFFIRM, to assure, to be
positive of the truth of a Thing.

AFFIRMABLE, a Thing to
be affirmed.

AFFIRMATION, an assu­
ring, affirming, or speaking
positive to.



AFFIRMATIVE, positive,
peremptory, which serves to
affirm.

To AFFIX, to fasten to, to
set up.

To AFFLICT, to grieve,
trouble or cast down.

AFFLICTION, Grief, Sor­
row, Misery, Misfortune.

AFFLUENCE, Plenty, A­
bundance, great Store of any
Thing.

AFFRIGHT, to put in fear,
to scare.

AFFRONT, Abase, Injury,
Wrong.

To AFFRONT, to abuse, ill
use, or offer an Affront to

AFFRONTIVE, abusive, in­
jurious.

AFRAID, to be in fear of, 
to be feared.

AFRICA, a Quarter of the 
Earth.

AFTER, later in time.

AFTER-Math, the after
Grass, or second Mowing. 

AGA, the chief Captain of
the Janizaries among the Turks

AGAG, a King of the Ama­
lekites. 

AGAIN, another time.

AGAINST, opposite to, in­
stead of.

AGAST, frighted, put in a 
Fright, dismayed

AGE, the different time of a
Man's Life, also the space of
one hundred Years In Law
the special time which enables
a Man or Woman to do what
they could not do before.

AGENT, a Factor, or Dealer
for another, a Person who ma­
nages the Affairs of Commerce
in a foreign Country

To AGGRANDIZE, to make
great, enlarge, to raise or ad­
vance,

To AGGRAVATE, to make
a Crime worse.

AGGRAVATION, the In­
crease of a Crime.

AGGRESSOR, an Assailer,
Assaulter, or he that sets up­
on another

AGGRIEVED, troubled, af­
flicted, wronged.

AGILITY, Activity, Spright­
liness, Nimbleness.

To AGITATE, to tumble and
toss about, to stir up.

AGITATION, tossing, tum­
bling, jolting, or any violent
Motion

AGONY, Extremity or Pain
or Anguish, the Pains of Death.

AGRARIAN Law, a certain
Law for the Division of Lands
gained by Conquest among the
Soldiers

To AGREE, to yield or con­
sent, to make a Bargain

AGREEABLE, that which a­
grees with, pleasant, charming.

AGREEMENT, a Contract,
Bargain, or Thing agreed upon

AGRICULTURE, Husban­
dry, or the Improvement of
Land.

AGRIMONY, an Herb.

AGRIPPA, a Man's Name

AGUE, an intermitting Fe­
ver

AGUISH, tending to an Ague.

AHAB, a wicked King of
Israel

AHAZ, an idolatrous King of
Judah

AHAZIAH, a King of Israel

AHIEZER, a Prince of Dan.

AHIMELECK, a Priest who
received David at Nob.

AHITOPHEL, a Counsellor
to King David.

AID DE CAMP, an Office of
the Army, who waits in the
Camp to receive Orders from
the General.



To AID, assist, succour or
help

To AIL, to be sick or ill

AILESFORD, a Town in
Kent

AILMENT, a slight Disorder
or Indisposition

To AIM, to direct to a Mark,
to purpose or design

AIM, the Point one looks at
to those at a Mark, Purpose,
Design.

AIR, that Fluid in which we
breathe, and without which we
cannot live

AIR-Pump, an Instrument
contrived to draw the Air out of
any Vessel.

To AIR, to dry by the Fire,
to expose to the Air.

AIRY, brisk, full of Life,
thin, light

ALABASTER, a sort of soft
white Marble

ALACRITY, Mirth, Chear­
fulness, Liveliness, Briskness

ALAMODE, in the Fashion,
or fashionable

ALARM, a Signal given to
take Arms upon a Surprize from
the enemy, also a sort or Clock
to call Persons at a fixed time.

To ALARM, to give an A­
larm, to surprise, to fright.

ALAS, an Interjection of
Grief.

St ALBANS, a Town in the
County of Hartford, noted for
the Murder of St. Alban.

ALBION, the ancient Name
of Great Britain.

ALBUMAZAR, a famous
Arabian Physician.

ALCHIMIST, a Studier of
Chemistry

ALCORAN, the Turkish Bible
written by Mohammed.

ALCOVE, an arched Place in
which is a Bed of State.

ALBURGH, a Town in the 
Country of York

ALDERMAN, one of the
chief Magistrates of a City, or
Town Corporate

ALDGATE, the East-Gate of
the City of London

ALDER, a tall strait Tree

ALDERSGATE, one of the
Northern Gates of the City of
London.

ALDINGHAM, a Village in
Lancashire, so called from the
Roughness of the Way

ALDULPH, an Archbishop
of Litchfield.

ALDWORTH, a Town in
Berkshire.

ALE, a Drink well known.

ALE-Conner, an Officer ap­
pointed to examine the Goodness
of Bread, Beer and Ale.

ALE-Draper, a Name given
in ridicule to those who sell
Drink

ALEMBICK, a Still, or Ves­
sel for distilling.

ALERT, brisk, active, gay.

ALE-Shot, a Reckoning, or
Part, to be paid at an Ale­
house.

ALESBURY, a Town in 
Buckinghamshire. 

ALEXANDER, a proper
Name, the Name of a Grecian
King

ALFRED, the Name of a
prudent, pious and learned King
of England.

ALGEBRA, the Art of sol­
ving Questions by Letters in­
stead of Numbers.

ALGEBRAIST, one skilled
in the Art of Algebra.

ALHOLLANTIDE, Allsaints­
day, the first Day of Novem­
ber.

ALICE, a Woman's Name.

ALIEN, a Foreigner, or
Stranger.

To ALIENATE, to transfer,
or make over the Property of 



another, to withdraw one's 
Affection

ALIENATION, the Act of
alienating or making over

ALIMENT, Food, Nourish­
ment.

ALIMENTARY, belonging
to Food or Nourishment

ALL, the several Parts of the
Whole.

ALLHALLOWS, Allsaints.

To ALLAY, to appease, ini­
tigate or asswage, to ease, to
mix Metals with a baser sort.

To ALLEGE, to bring proof
of a thing, to note or instance
it.

ALLEGATION, alledging or
proving, to make good a Point.

ALLEGIANCE, the Obedi­
ence due from Subjects to their
Prince

ALLEGRO, the quickest
Time in Musick.

ALLELUYAH,
HALLELUJAH, 
praise the 
Lord

To ALLEVIATE, to allay,
to ease, to asswage

ALLEVIATION, an easement
or allaying.

ALLEY, a narrow Lane.

ALLIANCE, a joining of Fa­
milies by Marriage, Common­
wealths by Leagues, or Relations
by Match or Marriages.

To ALLIE, to marry

ALLIES, Princes, or States,
who enter into an Alliance for
their mutual Defence.

ALLIGATION, a binding or 
tying together. In Arithmetick,
a Rule by which such Questions
are solved as relate to Quanti­
ties mixed together.

ALLIGATOR, a large West-­
Indian Crocodile.

ALLINGTON, a famous
Town in Hampshire

To ALLOY, to appoint, as­
sign or give to.

ALLOTMENT, an Allotting,
assigning or appointing

To ALLOW, to give, grant
or approve.

ALLOWABLE, that which
may be granted or approved of.

ALLOWANCE, a Portion,
Pension, Salary, or Dividend.

ALLAY, a baser Metal
mixed with a finer, to bring
it to a due Temper.

To ALLUDE, to speak in
reference to any thing.

ALLUM, a Mineral.

To ALLURE, to decoy or
entice.

ALLUSION, the applying
one thing to the other.

In ALL-Wise, by all means.

ALMANACK, an yearly Ac­
count of the Months, Days and
Festivals of the Year

ALMIGHTY, all powerful.

ALMOND, a Fruit

ALMONDS of the Throat, 
a grandulous Substance, like two
Kernels.

ALMONER, a Church Of­
ficer belonging to the Prince,
whose business it is to distribute
the Alms.

ALMONRY, the Office or
Lodgings of the Almoner.

ALMOST, the greatest Part.

ALMS, Charity, or what is
freely given for God's Sake.

ALMS-house, a Place built,
and endowed, for the Mainte­
nance of the Poor.

ALNCESTER, a Town in
Cumberland.

ALOES, the Juice of a Tree
bearing the same Name.

ALOFT, on high

ALONE, single, by itself.

ALOOF, at a distance.

ALONG, forward.

ALPHA, the first Letter of
the Greek Alphabet, the Begin­
ning.



ALPHABET, the whole Order
of Letters in any Language

ALPHABETICAL, belong­
ing or agreeable to the Al­
phabet

ALPHONSUS, a com­
mon Name among the Por­
tuguese

ALSWOLD, a King of the 
Northumbrians

ALTAR, the place of Sacri­
fice

To ALTER, to change, vary
or turn.

ALTERABLE, that which
may be altered.

ALTERATION, Change.

ALTERNATE, that which is
done by turn or course, one
after the other.

ALTITUDE, Height.

ALWAYS, ever.

AMAIN, a Sea Term, when
one Ship bids defiance to
another, and commands to
yield

AMALEK, the Son of Eli­
phaz

AMARANTHUS, a Flower,
which lasts long without any
sensible Decay.

To AMASS, to treasure,
hoard, or heap up.

To AMAZE, to astonish, af­
fright or surprize.

AMAZONS, a war-like Ge­
neration of Woman near the
River of Thermodon in Asia, who
cut off their Right-Breast and
destroyed their Male Children

AMBASSADOR,
EMBASSADOR, 
one sent 
from one
Sovereign Prince to another to
represent his Person.

AMBASSADRESS, the Wife 
of an Ambassador. 

AMBER, a Gum

AMBERGREASE, a Per­
fume.

AMBIGUITY, Doubtfulness,
Obscurity in Words.

AMBIGUOUS, doubtful, un­
certain.

AMBITION, Pride, Haugh­
tiness, a Thirst after Honour.

AMBITIOUS, proud, haugh­
ty, a thirsting after Honour.

To AMBLE, to pace.

AMBLING, the most easy
Pace of a Horse

AMBROSE, a proper Name
of Men.

AMBROSIA, the Food of the
heathenish Gods.

AMBROSIAL, belonging to
Ambrosia

AMBUSCADE, 
AMBUSH, 
a party of 
Men lying
hid, as in a Wood, Etc.

AMEN, verily, so be it.

To AMEND, to correct, to
reform, to repair, or grow
better

AMENDMENT, a reforming
or growing better

AMENDS, Satisfaction, or
Reparation.

To AMERCE, to lay a Fine,
or Forfeiture upon

AMERICA, the fourth Part
of the Earth.

AMERSHAM, a Town in the
County of Bucks

AMIABLE, lovely, worthy
to be beloved.

AMICABLE, friendly, lov­
ing

AMITY, Friendship, Love,
Affection.

AMMON, the son of Lot.

AMMUNITION, war-like
Stores of all sorts.

AMNESTY, the Act of Obli­
vion, or a general Pardon.

AMOROUS, loving, or apt 
to love.

To AMOUNT, to rise up to
in Value.



AMOURS, Love-Intrigues,
of Gallantry

AMOZ, the Father of the
Prophet Isaiah.

AMPHIBIOUS, an Animal 
that lives both by Land and
Water, as Frogs and others

AMPHITHEATRE, a place
built by the Romans to repre­
sent various Shews.

AMPLE, large, extensive.

AMRAM, the Father of
Moses.

AMULET, a Charm hung a­
bout the Neck, or upon any part 
of the Body.

To AMUSE, to stop or de­
tain a Person upon vain Ex­
pectation

AMUSEMENT, an idle or
trifling Employment, also vain
Promises to gain time

AMY, a Woman's Name

ANABAPTISTS, a Sect, who
maintain that Persons ought not
to be baptized till they can
give an account of their Faith

ANALOGY, like reason, pro­
portion or relation.

ANANIAS, a proper Name.

ANARCHY, want of Go­
vernment, or a State of Con­
fusion.

ANATHEMA, a solemn 
Curse or Sentence of Excom­
munication.

ANATOMIST, a Person who 
dissects Human or other Bodies.

To ANATOMIZE, to dissect
or cut open.

ANATOMY, a Dissection, or
cutting up Man or Beast

ANCASTER, a Town in Lin­
colnshire.

ANCHOR, an Instrument of
Iron, to hold a Ship when she
rides.

To ANCHOR, to cast Anchor.

ANCHORING, being at An­
chor.

ANCHOVY, a small Spanish
Sea-fish.

ANCIENT, old, out of date.

ANCIENTS, a title of those
past reading.

ANCIENTLY, formerly, in
Days of old.

ANCLE, the Joint between
the Leg and Foot

AND, a Conjunction.

ANDOVER, a Town in
Hampshire.

ANDRADSWALD, a Wood
in Sussex, formerly 120 Miles
long.

ANDREW, a Man's Name.

St. ANDREWS, a Town in
Scotland, famous for a Univer­
sity.

ANEWST, nigh, almost, 
near at hand.

ANGEL, a Messenger, one
who brings good Tidings, like­
wise a Gold Coin worth about
ten Shillings

ANGELICA, an Herb, which
promotes Sweating

ANGELICAL, Angel-like, or
belonging to Angels.

ANGLE, the Corner of any
thing, also a Fishing-Rod.

To ANGLE, to fish with a
Line, or Fishing-Rod

ANGLESEY, an Isle near
Wales.

ANGLIA, that part of Great
Britain called England

ANGLICISM, the English
Idiom, or manner of Speech
peculiar to England.

ANGUISH, Grief, Trouble,
violent Pain.

ANIMADVERSION, a Re­
mark upon, Observation, or
Correction. 

To ANIMADVERT, to make
Remarks upon, to observe, to
take notice of.



ANIMAL, living, that which
has Life, or living Creature.

To ANIMATE, to enliven,
quicken, or encourage.

ANIMATED, enlivened,
quickened, encouraged.

ANIMOSITY, Hate, Grudge,
Courage, Quarrel, Contention.

ANNA,
ANN, a Christian Name.

ANNALS, a chronological
Account of any remarkable
Event.

ANNAS, a High-Priest of
the Jews.

To ANNEX, to add, unite or
join.

To ANNIHILATE, to reduce
to nothing, to destroy utterly.

ANNIVERSARY, that which
comes every Year at a certain
time, as the King's Birth-day.

ANNO Domini, the Year of
our Lord, from his Nativity.

ANNOTATION, a remark­
ing upon.

To ANNOY, to molest, to
trouble, to hurt, to prejudice.

ANNOYANCE, Nusance,
Damage, Injury.

ANNUAL, every Year, year­
ly.

ANNUITY, an yearly In­
come, or Rent to be paid for
Life, or any term of Years.

To ANNUL, to make void,
to repeal, to abolish

ANNUNCIATION, the Day
of the Angel's Message to the
Virgin Mary.

ANODYNES, Medicines 
which ease Pain.

ANON, presently, by and by.

ANONYMOUS, nameless.

To ANSWER, to return an
Answer

An ANSWER, a Response,
or speaking to.

ANSWERABLE, accountable
for, to be answered, propor­
tionate

ANT, a Pismire, an Emet. 

ANTAGONIST, an Adver­
sary, the opposite Party in an
Argument.

ANTECEDENT, going be­
fore.

To ANTEDATE, to date be­
fore it should be

ANTEDILUVIAN, before the
Flood.

ANTELOPE, a kind of Deer.

ANTHEM, a divine Song or
Hymn

ANTHONY, a Man's Name.

ANTHROPOPHAGI, Men-­
eaters, Savages that devour Mens
Flesh.

ANTICHAMBER, the Fore­
room or outward Chamber, next
the Bed-chamber.

ANTICHRIST, one who is
against Christ, a Seducer of
Mankind from the Doctrine of
Christ.

ANTICHRISTIAN, belong­
ing to Antichrist.

To ANTICIPATE, to do a
thing before-hand, to prevent.

ANTICK, old, ancient, out
of date.

An ANTICK, a Buffoon,
Jugler, Posture-master.

ANTICKS, old Figures re­
presenting Men, Beasts, or
Birds.

ANTIDOTE, a Resister of
Poison, a Counter-poison.

ANTIMONARCHICAL, a­
gainst Monarchy, or kingly
Government.

ANTIMONY, a Mineral.

ANTIPATHY, a natural dis­
like to any thing without a
Cause assigned.

ANTIPODES, the Inhabitants
of the Earth who walk with
their Feet against ours.



ANTIQUARY, a Person of
knowledge in old Medals and
Coins

ANTIQUATED, out of date.

ANTIQUE See ANTICK.

ANTIQUITY, the Days of
Yore, the State of ancient things.

ANTITRINITARIANS, those
who oppose the Doctorate of the
Trinity.

ANTIVENEREAL, Medicines
against the French Disease.

ANVIL, a Mass of Iron on
which Smiths hammer their
Work.

ANXIETY, Vexation or
Trouble of Mind

ANXIOUS, careful, sad, sor­
rowful

APACE, quick, fast.

APART, asunder, separate.

APARTMENT, a separate
Lodging in a House.

An APE, a Monkey.

APHORISM, a senten­
tious Speech.

APOCALYPSE, the Revela­
tion of St. John, a Vision.

APOCRYPHA, a certain Books
of doubtful Authority, not re­
ceived into the Canon or holy
Writ

APOLLO, a God of the Hea­
thens, famous for his Oracle.

APOLOGY, an Excuse or De­
fense. 

APOPLECTICK, belonging
to an Apoplexy. 

An APOPLEXY, a Disease
which deprives the Body of
Sense and Motion, so that the
Person falls down on a sud­
den.

APOSTASY, a falling away
from the true Religion.

APOSTATE, one that re­
nounces the true Religion.

APOSTLE, a Messenger, as
the Apostles of Christ.

APOSTLESHIP, the Dignity
or Office of an Apostle.

APOSTOLICAL, belonging
to, or deriving from the A­
postles.

APOTHECARY, a Com­
pounder of Medicines

APPAREL, Cloathing, Rai­
ment, Habit.

To APPAREL, to clothe, to
habit, to dress.

APPARENT, plain, certain,
evident.

APPARITION, a Spirit,
Ghost, Vision.

To APPEAL, to ask, or sub­
mit to the Opinion of an­
other.

To APPEAR, to be in sight,
to come before, to make a
Figure

APPEARANCE, the outward
Aspect of a thing, Figure,
Grandeur

To APPEASE, to asswage,
to mitigate, to quiet, pacify,
calm.

APPENDIX, an Addition or
Supplement.

To APPERTAIN, to belong
to, to have dependance upon.

APPERTINANCIES,
APPURTINANCES, be­
long­
ing to any thing, as Court, Out­
houses, Yards, belonging to a
House.

APPETITE, a desire of Food,
stomach to one's Victuals, a na­
tural Inclination or Desire, Lust.

To APPLAUD, to praise, to
commend, to approve of.

APPLAUSE, Praise, Com­
mendation, Approbation.

APPLE, a sort of Fruit.

APPLEBY, a Town in West­
morland.

APPLICABLE, that has re­
lation to, to be applied to.



APPLICATION, the addres­
sing of a Person, also Care and
Diligence.

To APPLY, to put or lay
one thing to another, to be di­
ligent or careful.

To APPOINT, to ordain, to
contribute, to set a Task

APPOINTED, constituted, 
ordained, ordered

APPOINTMENT, the Act 
of appointing.

To APPRAISE, to value or
set a Price upon Goods.

To APPREHEND, to lay
hold of, to understand, to fear
or suspect

APPREHENSION, a laying
hold of, Understanding, Fear.

APPREHENSIVE, sensible,
fearful of.

APPRENTICE, one bound by
Law for a term of Years, to
learn an Art of Trade.

To APPROACH, to draw or
come near to.

APPROBATION, approving
or liking any thing.

To APPROPRIATE, to make
a thing one's own, to claim the
Property of a thing

To APPROVE, to allow of,
to consent to.

APRICOCK, a kind of
Fruit

APRIL, the fourth Month of
the Year.

APRON, a Garment which
Women wear, before them.

APT, proper, fit, convenient

AQUA-Fortis, a strong Li­
quor made with equal Parts of
Saltpetre, Vitriol and Potters­
earth, distilled.

AQUA-Vitæ, , a Spirit distilled
from Malt

ARABELLA, a proper Name.

ARABIA, a large Country in 
Asia.

ARABICK, the Language of
Arabia

ARABLE-Land, fit to be
ploughed

ARAM, the Son of Shem.

ARBITRARY, absolute,
free, that which depends on
one's own Will.

ARBITRATION, the deci­
d'ng or putting a Matter to re­
ference to Arbitrators.

An ARBITRATOR, an ex­
traordinary Judge appointed by
the contending Parties, to de­
cide an Affair between them.

ARBOUR, a Bower, or shady
place in a Garden to keep off the
Sun

ARCANUM, a Secret.

ARCH, cunning, waggish.

An ARCH, a circular Build­
ing

ARCHANGEL, the Prince of
Angels

ARCHBISHOP, the chief
Bishop, who has Power over
the rest

ARCHBISHOPRICK, the Ex­
tent of the Archbishop's Juris­
diction.

ARCHDEACON, a dignified
Clergyman, whole Office it is
to reform Abuses in ecclesiasti­
cal Affairs.

ARCHDEACONDRY, the Ex­
tent of the Archdeacon's Juris­
diction. 

ARCHDUKE, a Duke above
other Dukes, as the Archduke of
Austria.

ARCHDUCHESS, the Wife
of an Archduke.

ARCHER, one skilled in
Archery, or shooting with a
Bow.

ARCHES Court, a Court be­
longing to the Archbishop of
Canterbury, for debating Affairs
ecclesiastical. 



ARCHIMEDES, a famous
Grecian Mathematician.

ARCHITECT, the chief
Builder of Surveyor in building.

ARCHITECTURE, a Science
laying down Rules for Building.

ARDENT, burning, very
hot, eager, zealous.

ARDOUR, Heat, vehement
Zeal.

ARDUOUS, difficult, labo­
rious.

AREA, Barn-floor, or Space
before a House.

To ARGUE, to reason, to
discourse upon a Subject

ARGUMENT, the Reason or
Proof of a thing, the Subject or
Head of a Discourse.

ARIANISM, the Opinion of
Arius, who denied the Equality
of the Godhead.

ARIANS, the Disciples of
Arius.

ARIGHT, well, truly, as it
ought to be

To ARISE, to get up, to
take Rise, or proceed from.

ARISTOCRACY, a Form of
Government, where the supreme
Power is lodged in the Hands of
the Nobility.

ARISTOTLE, a famous Gre­
cian Philosopher, Tutor to A­
lexander the Great

ARITHMETICAL, belong­
ing to Arithmetick.

ARITHMETICIAN, one 
skill'd in Arithmetic.

ARITHMETICK, a Science
which teaches the Properties of
Numbers.

ARK, a kind of Boat, as the
Ark of Noah

ARK of the Covenant, the 
Chest in which the Tables
of the Levitical Law were
kept.

ARM, a part of the Body.

To ARM, to take Arms, to
furnish with.

ARMAMENT, a store of Arms
or Provision for a Navy.

ARMED, ready prepared for
War.

ARMOUR, a Covering or
Defence for the Body.

ARMOURY, a Store-house
for Arms.

ARMS, all manner of Wea­
pons

ARMY, a Number of Soldiers
under the Command of a Ge­
neral

AROMATICK, spicy, sweet-­
scented.

ARONDEL, a Town in
Cornwall.

AROUND, in a Round,
round about.

To ARRAIGN, to indict, or
bring to Trial, to accuse

ARRANT, meer, downright;
as an arrant Dunce, or Knave.

ARRAS, a sort of rich Ta­
pestry.

To ARRAY, to put an Army
in order of battle, to set in
order, to dress up

ARREARS, an old Account,
Money due.

To ARREST, to stop, to se­
cure a Person for Debt.

To ARRIVE, to come to a
Place, to attain to.

ARRIVAL, a coming to.

ARROGANCE, Pride,
Haughtiness, Self-conceit

ARROGANT, proud, haugh­
ty, imperious

To ARROGATE, to lay
Claim to, to challenge, to take
upon one's self.

ARSENAL, a royal or pub­
lick, Store-house of Arms and
Ammunition.

ART, all that is performed
by Man's Industry.



ARTHUR, a famous war­
like King of the Britains

ARTICHOKE, a Plant well
known

Jerusalem ARTICHOKE, a
Root much of the same Nature
as a Potatoe

ARTICLE, a Condition, Co­
venant or Agreement, the Head
of a Discourse, the main Point.

To ARTICLE, to convenant
or agree.

ARTIFICE, Cunning, Craft, 
Slight, Device.

ARTIFICER, a Workman,
Artist, or Tradesman.

ARTIFICIAL, made or done
according to Art.

ARTILLERY, all sorts of
Fire-Arms.

ARTIST, one who under­
stands his Art, an ingenious
Workman

ARUNDEL, a Town in the 
Country of Sussex

ASAHEL, Joab's, Brother.

St. ASAPH, A Bishop's See in
the Country of Flint.

To ASCEND, to mount, to 
go up

ASCENSION-Day, a Festival,
kept ten Days before Whitsun­
tide

ASCENT, up Hill, also the
Motion of a Body upwards.

To ASCERTAIN, to make
sure or certain

To ASCRIBE, to impute, to
attribute to

To be ASHAMED, to be put
to Shame, or out of Counte­
nuance

ASH, a quick-thriving Tree.

ASHER, a Son of Jacob by
Zilpah

ASHES, the Remains of Fuel
Where it is burnt.

ASHORE, on the Shore or
Dry Land.

ASH-Wednesday, the 1st Day
of Lent.

ASIA, a fourth Part of the 
World.

ASIDE, by, on one side, out
of the way.

To ASK, to seek, to beg, to
demand, to intreat.

ASKEW, disdainfully, on
one side.

ASLOPE, aslant, awry, on
one side

ASPARAGUS, a Plant com­
monly called Sparrowgrass.

ASPECT, the Looks, Air or
Mien of a Person

ASPERITY, Roughness,
Harshness, Unevenness.

To ASPERSE, to sprinkle, to
slander or defame.

ASPERSION, a Sprinkling,
Slander, or Defamation.

To ASPIRE, to breathe, to
pretend to, or aim at a Dignity.

To ASSASSINATE, to mur­
der, or kill a Person barba­
rously.

An ASSASSIN, a Murderer
by Treachery.

ASSAULT, an Attack or On­
set, a Violence offered to an­
other.

To ASSAULT, to set upon,
to attack.

To ASSAY, to prove, or try.

To ASSEMBLE, to gather
together, to meet, or come to­
gether.

An ASSEMBLY, a Concourse
or Meeting of People.

ASSENT, Consent, Approba­
tion.

To ASSENT, to agree to, to
Consent to, to approve of.

To ASSERT, to affirm or
maintain.

ASSERTION, an affirming
or maintaining.



To ASSESS, to tax or rate,
to appoint what every one is to
pay.

ASSESSMENT, Taxing or
Rating.

ASSESSOR, he that appoints
the Taxes or Rates to be paid.

ASSETS, Goods sufficient for
an Heir or Executor, to dis­
charge the Debts and legacies of
a Person deceased.

ASSEVERATION, an ear­
nest Affirmation of Vouching

ASSIDUITY, Diligence, Ap­
plication, constant Attendance.

ASSIDUOUS, diligent, con­
tinual, constant

To ASSIGN, to appoint, to
allot. In Law, to make over a
Right to another.

ASSIGNATION, an Ap­
pointment

ASSIGNE'E, one whom the
Law makes so, without being
appointed by the Person. Thus
an Executor is an Assignée.

ASSIGNMENT, a making 
over to another

To ASSIST, to aid, help, or
lend a Hand, to succour

ASSISTANCE, Aid, Help,
Succour

An ASSISTANT, an Aider,
a Helper, a Partner in the Ma­
nagement of Business.

ASSIZE, a Sitting of Ju­
stices to determine Causes at
the quarterly Session: Also a
Statute concerning Weight and
Measure

An ASSOCIATE, a Compa­
nion, a Copartner

To ASSOCIATE, to join in
Copartnership, to keep com­
pany with

ASSOCIATION, a Society or
Fellowship with others.

To ASSUME, to take upon
one's self.

ASSURANCE, Certainty, 
Confidence

To ASSURE, to affirm, war­
rant, assert

To ASSWAGE, to appease, 
mitigate, abate, to make easy.

ASTHMA, a Shortness of
Breath, a Distemper in the
Lungs

ASTHMATICK, troubled
with a Shortness of Breath.

To be ASTONISHED, to be
amazed, or surprized.

ASTONISHMENT, Amaze­
ment, extraordinary Surprize.

ASTRAY, out of the way.

To go ASTRAY, to wander,
to take ill Courses.

ASTRINGENT, of a binding
Quality.

ASTROLOGER, one that
professes Astrology, or Fortune­
telling.

ASTRONOMER, a Person
skilled in Astronomy.

ASTRONOMICAL, belong­
ing to Astronomy

ASTRONOMY, a Science
teaching the Knowledge of hea­
venly Bodies.

ASUNDER, in two Parts, in
twain.

ASYLUM, a Place of Re­
fuge, a Sanctuary.

ATCHIEVEMENT, a noble
or great Exploit.

ATHEISM, the Disbelief of
a God

ATHEIST, one who does not
believe in God

ATHENS, a City of Greece.

ATLANTICK Ocean, that
which lies between Europe and
Africa

ATLAS, a King of Mauri­
tania skilled in Astronomy 

ATOM, a very small Part of
any Thing.



To ATONE, to appease the
divine Wrath, to make Satis­
faction for Sin.

ATONEMENT, Reconcilia­
tion, Amends.

To ATTACH, to apprehend, 
to lay hold of, to take by Power
of a Writ.

ATTACHMENT, a laying
Hand upon, a Seizing, A Di­
stress of Goods.

ATTACK, an Assault, On­
set, Charge.

To ATTACK, to assault, to
set upon, to urge, to quarrel
with.

To ATTAIN, to get, to ob­
tain or compass a thing. 

ATTAINDER, in Law, a
Word used for one who has
committed Treason.

To ATTAINT, to corrupt,
stain, or taint.

ATTAINTED, corrupted.
In Law, one found guilty of Fe­
lony, or High Treason.

To ATTEMPT, to endea­
vour, to undertake, to try.

To ATTEND, to listen, to
give ear to, also to wait on.

ATTENDANCE, Waiting­
service, a Retinue of Servants.

ATTENTION, Application,
Diligence.

ATTENTIVE, careful, dili­
gent, hearkning to.

To ATTENUATE, to make 
thin, to weaken, or lessen.

To ATTEST, to witness, cer­
tify, or assure.

ATTIRE, Apparel, Furni­
ture, Dress

ATTORNEY, a Person who
takes care of another Man's Bu­
siness by his Order.

ATTORNEY-General, a Per­
son appointed to manage Suits 
of Law belonging to the
Crown.

To ATTRACT, to draw to,
to allure or entice.

ATTRACTION, the drawing 
to, alluring, or enticing.

ATTRACTIVE, drawing
to, &c

To ATTRIBUTE, to impute
to, to father a thing upon one.

ATTRIBUTES, the Proper­
ties or glorious Excellencies of
God.

To AVAIL, to be advantage­
ous, profitable or serviceable to.

AVAILABLE, that which 
may turn to Advantage or Ac­
count.

AVARICE, a Covetousness, 
Nigardliness. 

AVARICIOUS, covetous,
niggardly.

AUCTION, a publick Sale of
Goods, where the highest Bid­
der is the Buyer.

AUCTIONEER, a Person
who sells Goods at Auctions.

AUDACIOUS, a bold, impu­
dent, daring, confident.

AUDACIOUSNESS, a Bold­
ness, Impudence, Confidence.

AUDIBLE, that may be 
heard.

AUDIENCE, an Assembly
listening to what is spoken.

AUDITOR, an Officer of the
King, appointed to examine the 
Accounts of Interior Officers.

AUDLEY-END, a sumptuous
House in the Country of Essex.

AVE-MARY, a Prayer to
the Virgin Mary.

AVENUE, a passage or En­
trance to a Place.

To AVER, to assert the
Truth, to affirm a thing.

AVERSION, a turning from,
a Hatred to any thing.

AVERY, a Place where Oats
are kept for the King's Horses

AVIARY, a Place for Birds.



AUGER, a Carpenter or
Joyner's Tool

To AUGMENT, to increase,
to inlarge, or improve.

AUGMENTATION, an In­
crease, Inlargement, or Improve­
ment.

AUGUR, a Soothsayer, a
Diviner, a Foreteller of Things.

AUGUST, grand, majestick.

AUKWARD, unhandy, un­
toward, ungain.

AUKWARDNESS, Unhan­
diness, Ungainliness

AULCASTER, a Town in
Warwickshire. 

AUNT, a Father's or Mo­
ther's Sister.

To AVOID, to shun, to e­
scape, to get out of the way of.

AVERDUPOIS, a Weight of
Sixteen Ounces to the Pound.

To AVOUCH, to justify, to
maintain, to stand to, to assert.

To AVOW, to justify a thing
already done.

AVOWABLE, justifiable.

AURORA, the Morning­
Twilight.

AUSPICIOUS, lucky, pro­
sperous.

AUSTERE, harsh, crabbed,
severe.

AUSTERITY, Roughness,
Harshness, Severity.

AUTHENTICK, of good Au­
thority, approved, allowed of.

AUTHOR, the Inventor,
Contriver, or Maker of any
thing; the Writer of a Book,
the Head or Ringleader of a
Faction.

AUTHORITY, Power, Rule,
Government.

To AUTHORISE, to give
Power of Authority to, to im­
power.

AUTUMN, the Season of the
Year after Harvest.

AUTUMNAL, belonging to 
Autumn.

AUXILIARY, helpful, aid­
ing, assisting. 

AW, Fear, Reverence, Re­
spect.

AWAY, absent from.

AWFUL, causing an Aw.

AWKWARD, See AUK­
WARD.

AWL, a sharp pointed Tool.

AX, a sharp Tool belonging
to Carpenters

AXIOM, a self-evident Prin­
ciple.

AXIS, the Axel-free of a
Coach or Cart.

AXLE-Tree, a Piece of Wood
under a Cart, upon which the
Wheels turn.

AXMINSTER, a Town in
Devonshire.

To AYL, to be sick, in pain.

AZARIAH, a King of Judah.

AZURE, Sky-colour, or
light-blue.


B.
BAAL, the Name of an
Idol.

BAASHA, a King of Israel.

To BABBLE, to chatter, to
prate, to talk impertinently. 

BABBLE, idle Talk.

A BABBLER, a Prater, a
Chatterer, an impertinent fel­
low.

BABE, an Infant in the
Cradle.

BABEL, a Tower built by
the Posterity of Noah after the
Flood.

BABOON, a large sort of
Monkey.

BACHELOR,
BATCHELOUR, an unmar­
ried Man.



BACHELOR of Arts, the first
Degree taken in the University.

BACK, the hinder part of the
Body.

To BACK, to mount, or get
on Horse-back, to countenance,
to support.

To BACKBITE, to speak ill
of behind the Back, to slander.

To BACKSLIDE, to fall
from, to revolt.

BACKWARD, behind, un­
willing.

BACKWARDNESS, Unwil­
lingness.

BACON, Hogs flesh salted
and dried

BAD, evil, naught, hurtful.

BADBURY, a Town in the
Country of Dorset.

BADGE, a Mark of Distinc­
tion worn by Noblemens Ser­
vants, and the Pensioners of
Parishes. 

A BADGER, a Beast so called.

To BAFFLE, to confound, to
disappoint.

BAG, a Sack, Pouch, or
Wallet, also a Cow's Udder

BAGGAGE, travelling Fur­
niture, Provision for an Army:
Also a Name given to a Woman
in ridicule.

BAGNIO, a House for Bath­
ing and Sweating.

BAIL, Security taken for the
Appearance of a person arrested.

To BAIL, to be Security for 
a Person arrested.

BAILABLE, that may be
bailed.

BAILIFF, the Maintenance of
a Province, to maintain the
Peace, and do Justice, also an
Officer who arrests Persons for
Debt.

BAILYWICK, a Hundred or
Mannor. 

To BAIT, to entice, to al­
lure, also to set Beasts a Flight­
ing together.

To BAKE, to dress, or roast
in an Oven

BALAAM, a Prophet among
the Israelites.

BALAK, a King of the Moa­
bites. 

BALANCE, a Pair of Scales,
an even Weight

To BALANCE, to weigh, to
consider, to make an Account
even.

BALCONY, a sort of Gallery
at the Front of an House.

BALD, without Hair.

BALDERDASH, a confused
or jumbled Discourse.

BALDWIN, a proper Name
of Men.

BALE, a Pack of any sort of
Goods.

BALIOL-College, in the Uni­
versity of Oxford

A BALK, a Path, or small
Ridge of Land between two
Burrows.

To BALK, to disappoint, to
discourage, to neglect.

BALL, any Thing round.

A BALL, a Publick Dancing.

BALLAD, a Song commonly
Sung in the Streets.

BALLAST, Sand, Gravel, or
Stores, placed at the Bottom of
a Ship, to keep her upright.

BALLOT, a little Ball used
in Voting.

To BALLOT, to Vote by
Balloting.

BALM, the Juice of a Tree
Growing in Egypt.

BALSAM, an healing oily
Composition, or natural Sub­
stance.

BALSAMICK, healing.

BALTICK, the Sea belonging
to the Island of Baltia, in the
German Ocean.



BAMBOROUGH, a Town in
Northumberland, where the
Kings of it formerly kept their
Court.

BAMBURY, a Town in Ox­
fordshire.

A BAND, any sort of Stuff
to bind with, also a Company
of Foot Soldiers.

The BAND of Pensioners, a
Company of Gentlemen carry­
ing Halberts, who attend the
King upon solemn Occasions.

Train BANDS, Companies
of Soldiers composed of the
Inhabitants of a City or
County

BANDAGE, a binding or
tying up.

BANDELIERS, a Leathern 
Pouch worn by Soldiers to carry
Powder and Ball

BANDITTI, Italian Rob­
bers.

BANDY, a crooked Stick or
Club, to play at Ball with.

To BANDY, to toss about,
to debate, to canvas

BANE, Ruin, Destruction.

To BANG, to beat, to strike.

BANGOR, a Bishop's See in
Caernarvonshire.

To BANISH, to send a Per­
son out of his native Country.

BANISHMENT, the being
banished.

BANK, a little Hill or rising
Ground; also a Place where
Money is deposited, and a Note
given for Security.

A BANKER, a Trader in
Money, who gives his Note for
what he receives.

A BANKRUPT, one who has
broke Stock, or run out in
Trade.

BANNS of Matrimony, the
Proclamation of a Marriage
Contract at Church.

A BANNER, an Ensign or
Standard.

BANNERET Knight, a
Knight made in the Field.

To BANQUET, to Feast.

A BANQUET, a Feast or
grand Entertainment.

To BANTER, to laugh at, to
jeer, to play upon.

A BANTLING, a young
Child.

BAPTISM, a Sacrament in
the Christian Church.

BAPTIST, the Title of St.
John, the Fore-runner of Christ.

To BAPTISE, to Christen, to
administer the Sacrament of
Baptism.

BAR, a strong Piece of Iron
or Wood, also a Place where
Lawyers stand to plead Causes
in Courts of Judicature. 

To BAR, to fasten close, to
stop, to hinder.

BARABBAS, a notorious Ma­
lefactor. 

BARBARA, a Women's
Name.

BARBARITY, Cruelty, In­
humanity.

BARBAROUS, inhuman,
cruel, fierce, rude, unpolished.

BARBARY, a Country in
Africa.

BARBEL, a Fish.

BARBER, a Shaver of Beards.

BARBERY-Tree, a Shrub
bearing Berries which have a
Sharp Taste.

BARDS, a Name given to
Poets

BARE, naked, uncovered.

To BARGAIN, to agree, to
contract in buying and selling.

A BARGAIN, an Agreement,
or Contract.

A BARGE, a large Boat to
carry Goods in, also a Boat of 
State.



To BARK, to pull off the
Bark of Rind, also to bark as 
a Dog does.

A BARK, a small Vessel with
one Deck

BARKLEY, a Town in
Gloucestershire

BARKSHIRE,
BERKSHIRE, 
a County in 
England,
lying West of London.

BARLEY, a Grain well
known.

A BARLEY-Corn, the short­
est English Measure.

BARM, the Workings of
Beer or Ale, Yeast.

BARN, a Repository for
Grain, Hay, &c.

BARNABAS,
BARNABY, 
a proper Name of
Men.

BARNACLES, Irons put on
the Noses of Horses, to make
them stand quietly.

BARON, the lowest Rank
of Nobility.

BARONESS, the Wife of a 
Baron

BARONET, the lowest De­
gree of Honour that is heredi­
tary, founded by King James I

BARRACK, a Building for
Soldiers to shelter themselves in
from the Weather.

BARREL, a Measure of
Wine, Ale, or Beer, containing
32 Gallons of Ale, 36 of Beer.

BARREN, unfruitful, dry.

To BARRICADE, to block
up.

BARRIERS, a Boundary, or
Place of Defense.

BARRISTER, a Pleader at
the Bar, a Lawyer.

BARROW, a Wheel-barrow.

BARROW-Hog, a Male
Swine gelt.

BARSABAS, the Name of
one of the 70 Disciples.

To BARTER, to change or
truck one Thing for another.

BARTHOLOMEW, a pro­
per Name of Men.

St. BARTHOLOMEW's-Ho­
spital, a Place for the Sick and
Lame, endowed by King Ed­
ward VI.

BASE, low, mean, vile, un­
worthy.

BASILISK, a Serpent, called
a Cockatrice

BASING, a Town and Castle
of Hampshire.

BASIS, the Bottom, Founda­
tion, or Support of a Building.

To BASK, to expose to the
Sun.

BASKET, a common Utensil.

BASON, a Vessel to wash
Hands in, a Reservoir for
Water.

BASS-Viol, a large musical
Instrument.

BASSAW, an Office of note
among the Turks.

A BASS, a Thing made of 
Straw, to kneel upon.

BASSOON, a musical Instru­
ment, the Bass Hautboy.

BASTARD, a Child born out
of Wedlock, an illegitimate
Child.

To BASTE, to beat or bang
heartily.

To BASTE Meat, to moisten
it when roasting with any Li­
quor.

BASTILE, a famous Prison
in France.

BASTINADO, Cudgelling or
Beating. 

BASTION, the Part of a For­
tification.

A BAT, a Club to play at
Cricket with, also a Bird re­
sembling a Mouse.

BAT-Fowling, a Way of
catching Birds in the Night.



BATCH of Bread, the whole
Quantity baked at a time.

To BATE, to abate or take
off from an Account.

BATERSEA, a Town in Sur­
rey on the River Thames.

BATH, a Town in Somerset­
shire, famous for its hot Springs.

A BATH, a Place to bathe in.

BATALLION, a Body of 
Foot Soldiers, consisting of 6, 7
or 800 Men.

BATTLE, a general Engage­
ment between two Armies.

BATTLE-Royal, a Battle be­
tween any odd Number of Cocks.

BATTER, a Mixture of
Flower, Water and Eggs.

BATTERY, a Place built to
raise Cannon upon. Also a Law
Term, for violently beating a
Person.

BATTLE-Abby, a Place in
the County of Sussex.

BATTLE-Bridge, a Place in
the Country of York; also the
Name of a Place in Middlesex.

BAUBLES, Play-things,
Toys.

To BAULK, to disappoint,
to cross, to vex.

A BAWD, a Woman who
makes it her Business to debauch
others for Profit.

BAWDY, filthy obscene Dis­
course.

To BAWL, to make a loud
Noise, to cry out.

BAY, an Arm of the Sea
coming up into the Land.

BAY Colour, a light Brown.

A BAYONET, a short Dag­
ger, to fix upon the End of a
Musket.

BAYS, a kind of woollen
Cloth.

To BE, to exist.

BEADLE, an Officer belong­
ing to a Court, or Parish-Officer.

BEAGLE, a small hunting
Dog.

BEAK, the Bill of a Bird.

A BEAM, a large Piece of
Timber used in Building; also
the Rays of the Sun.

BEAM-Fish, a voracious Fish,
a terrible Enemy of Mankind.

BEAN, a Pulse well known.

A BEAR, a wild Beast, also
a famous Northern Constellation

To BEAR, to carry, to hold
up, to bring forth.

BEARD, the Hair growing 
upon the Chin.

BEARERS, Persons that car­
ry any thing.

BEARN, a Child.

BEAST, a Creature void of
Reason.

BEASTLY, void of Reason,
acting like a Beast.

To BEAT, to strike, to knock,
to bang, to overcome.

To BEAT an Alarm, to give
Notice by Beat of Drum of sud­
den Danger.

To BEAT a Charge, to beat
a Signal to fall upon the Enemy.

BEATIFICK, making hap­
py, blessed.

BEATITUDE, Happiness,
Bliss, Blessedness. 

BEAU, a Pop, a spruce Fel­
low, formal in his Dress.

BEAUTEOUS,
BEAUTIFUL, 
comely, 
fair, hand­
some.

BEAUTIFULNESS, Hand­
somness.

To BEAUTIFY, to make
handsome, to adorn, to grace,
to set off.

BEAUTY, Handsomness,
Comeliness.

A BEAUTY, a handsome or
beautiful Woman.

To BECALM, to make calm,
to appease.



BECALMED, the Smoothness
of the Water at Sea for want of
Wind.

BECK, a Nod, or Sign with
the Head

To BECKEN, to make a Sign
with the Finger, to nod

To BECOME, to fit, to suit.

BED, to lie or rest upon

To BED with one, to lie in
the same Bed together.

BEDRIDDEN, obliged to
keep in Bed through Sickness or
Age.

To BEDAGGLE, to dirty the
Skirts or Bottom of one's
Cloaths.

To BEDASH, to dash, to
splash, or wet with Dirt.

BEDE, a learned English
Monk.

To BEDEW, to wet with
Dew, to sprinkle gently.

BEDFORD, the Name of the
capital Town of Bedfordshire.

BEDLAM, an Hospital for
mad People, in Moorfields.

A BEDLAM, a distracted
Person, or a mad Man

To BEDUNG, to daub with
Dung.

A BEE, a laborious Insect
that makes Honey

BEECH, a kind of Tree.

BEEF, Ox's Flesh.

BEER, a known Drink.

St. BEES, a Town in Cumber­
land

BEESOM, a Broom to sweep
with

BEESTINGS, the first Milk
of a Cow after calving.

BEET, a Garden Herb.

BEETLE, an Insect, also a
wooden Instrument to drive
Stakes in with.

To BEFAL, to happen to.

To BEFOOL, to make a Fool
of, to deceive.

BEFORE, on the fore part,
before hand

To BEFOUL, to daub, to
dirty, to bespatter

To BEG, to ask Aims, to
crave Charity

To BEGET, to generate, to
produce.

BEGGAR, one that is poor,
one that asketh Charity.

To BEGIN, to make a Be­
ginning, to commence.

To BEGIRT, to gird a­
bout.

BEGIRT, girt about.

To BEGUILE, to cheat, to
cozen, to deceive.

BEHALF, on the Part of In­
terest, Side.

To BEHAVE, to carry one's
self, to demean.

To BEHEAD, to cut off a
Head.

BEHIND, backward, on the
hinder Part.

To BEHOLD, to look upon,
to see, to regard.

To BEHOVE, to become, to
be the Duty of a Person.

To BELABOUR, to beat
heartily.

BELAGGED, left behind.

To BELCH, to break Wind
upward.

BELDAM, a decrepit, or ugly
old Woman.

BELFRY, that part of a 
Church Steeple where the Bells
hang.

To BELIEVE, to give credit
to.

A BELL, a loud sounding In­
strument hung in the Steeple of
Churches.

BELL-METAL, a Mixture
of Tin and Copper.

BELLONA, the Goddess of
War.



To BELLOW, to make a
great Noise, to cry out like an
Ox, or low.

BELLOWS, a Wind-Instru­
ment to blow the Fire

BELLY, that Part of the
Body inclosing the Entrails, Etc.

BELLY-BOUND, a Disease
in Cattle.

To BELLY, to look big, to
grow fat, or lusty.

BELLSWAGGER, a bluster­
ing Fellow, a Bully.

To BELONG, to appertain
to, to be one's due.

BELOVED, loved by, ad­
mired.

BELT, a Girt to hang a Sword
by, or something worn round
the Loins.

BELZEBUB, the Prince of
Devils.

To BELY, to Speak falsly of.

To BEMIRE, to dirty, to
daub.

To BEMOAN, to lament, to
be sorry for.

A BENCH, a Seat to sit upon.

BENCHER, a Lawyer of the
first Rank in the Inns of Court.

To BEND, to make crooked,
to stoop.

BENEATH, under, below.

BENEDICTINES, an Order
of Monks.

BENEDICTION, a Blessing.

BENEFACTION, a Gift, or
Kindness.

BENEFACTOR, a Doer of
good Offices, a Patron.

BENEFICE, an ecclesiasti­
cal Living.

BENEFICIAL, profitable,
advantageous.

BENEFICENCE, Kindness,
Well-doing, Liberality.

BENEFIT, Favour, Kind­
ness, Advantage.

BENEFIT of the Clergy, an
ancient Privilege granted to the
Clergy, by Virtue of which a
Man who was accused of Fe­
lony saved his Life by reading
of Latin, if the Ordinary of
Newgate said, Legit ut Clericus,
otherwise he was hanged.

BENEVOLENCE, Good­
will.

BENEVOLENT, kind, good­
natured, friendly

BENJAMIN, the youngest of
Jacob's Twelve Sons, also a
Perfume.

BENIGN, kind, courteous,
good-natured.

BENIGNITY, Kindness,
Goodness, Tenderness.

St. BENNET's in the Holm, 
a Place surrounded with Water
in the county of Norfolk.

BENSBURY, a Town in the
County of Surrey.

BENT, crooked, yielding,
complying. 

To BENUMB, to make numb.

BENUMED, void of feel­
ings, very cold.

BEQUEATH, to give, or
leave by Will.

To BEREAVE, to deprive,
to rob one of a thing.

BEREFT, deprived, robbed
of, void of.

BERGAMOT, a Pear having
a delicious Taste, also a Per­
fume.

BERGAMSTEAD, a Town
in Kent.

BERLIN, a sort of Chariot,
also the Metropolis of Prussia.

BERN, one of the four Pro­
testant Cantons in Switzerland.

BERNARD-College in Ox­
ford, rebuilt by Sir Tho. White,
and since called St. John's.

A BERRY, the Fruit of
Shrubs, Etc.



BERWICK, a famous Town
in Northumberland, upon the Ri­
ver Tweed

To BESEECH, to pray, or
intreat, to request.

To BESET, to surround, to
encompass.

BESIDE, on the Side, or near
to.

To BESIEGE, to lay Siege to.

BESIEGED, lain Siege to,
surrounded.

To BESMEAR, to bedaub,
to smear over.

To BESMUT, to blacken, to
daub with Soot.

To BESOT, to make stupid, 
to make very drunk.

BESPATTER, to daub with
dirt, to defame, to slander.

To BESPAUL, to daub with
Spittle

To BESPEAK, to speak for,
or order something. 

BESPOKE, spoke for, or or­
dered beforehand.

To BESPRINKLE, to sprin­
kle upon, to arrose.

BEST, the choicest. 

BESTIAL, beastly, brutish,
unmannerly. 

BESTIALITY, Beastliness,
Brutishness.

To BESTER, to move about
briskly, to labour hard.

To BESTOW, to give, to
grant, to lay out.

To BET, to lay a Wager at
play.

To BETAKE, to take to, to
apply to

To BETHINK, to call to
Mind.

BETHLEHEM, a City of
Judah.

To BETIDE, to befall, to
happen to.

BETIMES, early, in Sea­
son.

BETONY, the Name of an
Herb.

To BETOKEN, a signify, to
forebode.

To BETRAY, to be false to,
to deliver up, to disclose, or
reveal.

To BETROTH, a promise
in Marriage.

BETTER, more good

BETWEEN, in the Middle,
betwixt.

BEVER, a Castle in Lincoln­
shire

BEVERAGE, a mixed Drink.

To pay BEVERAGE, to give
an Entertainment upon the first
wearing of a Suit of Clothes.

BEVERLEY, a Town in York­
shire.

BEVIL, a Carpenter's Tool.

To BEWAIL, to lament.

To BEWAKE, to be cautious
of, to avoid.

BEWILDERED, one that has
lost his Way.

To BEWRAY, to reveal, or
discover, also to befoul.

To BETWITCH, to afflict
with Witchcraft, to charm, to
infatuate.

BEY, the Government of a Sea­
Port among the Turks.

BEYOND, farther.

BEZOAR, a Stone found in
the Stomach of a Goat.

To BEZZLE, to guzzle, to
tipple, or drink hard.

BIAS, a Weight fixed to a
Bowl, to turn it as it runs.

To BIAS, to set a Bias to, to
incline, to change the Direction
of a moving Body.

To BIB, to drink, or sip often.

BIBLE, the holy Scriptures
of the Old Testament. 

BIBLIOPOLIST, a Book­
seller.



BIBLIOTHEQUE, a Library
of Books, a large Study

To BID, to command, to in­
vite, to intreat.

To BID for, to offer a Price
for any thing.

BIENNIAL, for the Space of
two Years, two Years old.

BIER, a wooden Frame to
carry dead Bodies upon

BIG, large, huge, great.

BIGAMY, having two Hus­
bands or Wives

BIGGEN, a Child's Cap.

BIGOT, a superstitious Per­
son in Religion, or in Politicks

BIGOTRY, Superstition, an
obstinate adhering to an Opi­
nion

BIGOTTED, grown a Bigot.

BILBERRIES, the Fruit of
the Bramble.

BILBOES, a kind of Stocks
for the Punishment of Sailors.

BILE, Gall

BILIOUS, full of Bile, Cho­
lerick. 

To BILK, to cheat, to de­
ceive, to bubble.

BILL, a Tool to lop Trees
with

BILL of Parcels, an Account
of Goods given by the Seller to
the Buyer.

BILL of Exchange, a Note
ordering the Payment of a sum
of Money in one Place, for Va­
lue received in another.

BILL of Sale, a Deed given
by the Borrower of a Sum of
Money, at the time he delivers
his Goods, as Security to the
Lender.

BILLA VERA, a Bill found
by the Grand Inquest at the
Sessions

BILLET, a Stick, a Log of
Wood, also a Ticket for Quar­
tering of Soldiers. 

BILLET DEUX, a Love-Let­
ter.

To BILLET Soldiers, to
Quarter them in Houses by
Ticket

BILLIARDS, a Game.

BILLINGSGATE, a noted
Fish-Market in London

A BILLINGSGATE, a scold­
ing impudent Woman

BILLOW, a Surge, or Wave
of the Sea.

BINCHESTER, a Town in
the Bishoprick of Durham

To BIND, to tie fast, to fas­
ten together.

BINDING, a fastening to­
gether, also the strengthning of
a Bargain

BIOGRAPHER, one who
writes the Lives of Great Men.

BIOGRAPHY, a writing of
Lives.

BIRCH, a Tree.

BIRD, a Fowl.

BIRTH, the being born, De­
scent, Extraction. At Sea, a
convenient Place on board a
Ship.

BIRTHRIGHT, a Right of
Inheritance.

BISHOP, a Chief Officer of
the Church

SUFFRAGAN-BISHOP, one
who has the Title of Bishop.

BISHOPRICK, the Province
of a bishop.

BISSEXTILE, Leap-Year,
which happens every fourth
Year.

BIT, a little of any thing;
also a Part of a Horse's Bridle.

A BITCH, a Female Dog.

To BITE, to lay hold of
with the Teeth

BITT, a Coin in Barbadoes,
valued at Seven Pence Half­
Penny.



BITTER, ill-tasted, unplea­
sant

BITTERN, a kind of Heron
frequenting marshy Places.

BITTERNESS, of a bitter
Taste.

To BLAB, to reveal a Secret,
to make a Discovery of what
should be concealed.

BLACK, a Colour.

To BLACKEN, to make
Black, also to asperse a Man's
Character.

BLACKNEY, a Town in
Norfolk

BLACK-ROD, the Usher of
the Order of the Garter, who
attends the King's Chamber, and
the House of Lords in Parlia­
ment.

BLADDER, a Bag contain­
ing the Urine of Animals.

BLADE, the cutting Part of
a Sword, it also belongs to corn
or Grass.

BLAIN, a Boil or Ulcer.

To BLAME, to find Fault
with.

BLAME, Fault, Imputation,
Reproach

BLAMEABLE, deserving
Blame, faulty, reproachable.

BLANK, pale, wan, or out
of Countenance

A BLANK, a void Space in
Printing or Writing; also an
unbenefited Ticket in a Lottery

BLANK Verse, Verse with­
out Rhime.

BLANKET, a Woollen co­
verlet for a Bed.

To BLARE, no flare, to
melt away as a Candle does.

To BLASPHEME, to curse,
revile, speak evil of God, or
holy Things.

BLASPHEMOUS, wicked,
belonging to Blasphemy.

BLASPHEMY, vile or op­
probrious Language, tending to
the Dishonour of God.

BLAST, a Puff of Wind, 
also Damage done to Trees or
Corn by Wind.

To BLAST, to spoil the Fruits
of the Earth, to take away a
person's Reputation, to spoil a
Design

To BLASE, to shine out, to
publish or spread abroad

To BLASON, to display a
Coat of Arms.

A BLAZE, a flaming Light,
as that of a Torch.

BLAZONRY, the Art of
Heraldry.

BLEAK, chilly, or cold, 
pale

A BLEAK, a little Fish.

BLEAR-EYED, Blood­
shotten, or redder than ordinary.

To BLEAT, to cry like a 
Sheep or Goat.

To BLEACH, to whiten in
the Sun.

To BLEED, to lose Blood, to 
let Blood, also to yield well

BLEEDING Cull, one who,
when he has lost a little Money,
will not leave off till he has
lost all

BLEMISH, a Stain in a Man's
Reputation, a Spot or Fault.

To BLEMISH, to spot or
stain, to hurt a Man's Cha­
racter

To BLEND, to mix together.

To BLESS, to bestow a Bles­
sing upon, to prosper, to say
Grace.

BLESSOE, a Town in Bed­
fordshire

BLIGHT, a Hurt done to
Corn, or Fruit-Trees

BLIGHTED, blasted.

BLIND, deprived of Sight.

BLINDS for Windows, Can­
vas framed and placed behind 



the Window, to prevent People's
looking in.

To BLINK, to twinkle with 
the Eyes.

BLISS, Joy, Happiness.

BLISTER, a raising of the
Skin into a bladder. 

BLITH, pleasant, merry, gay.

BLOCK, the Stump of a Tree.

BLOCKS, the Pullies of a 
Ship

BLOCKADE, the encompas­
sing a Town with Troops, so
that it must be starved, or sur­
render.

BLOOD, the chief Fluid in
the Body.

BLOOD-HOUNDS, Hunting
Dogs that have an exquisite
Scent

BLOOD-RED, hot, the last
Degree or heat given to Iron in 
a Smith's Forge.

BLOOD-STONE, a Stone fa­
mous for stopping of Blood

BLOODINESS, the being
bloody, bloody mindedness.

BLOODY, daubed with Blood,
cruel, barbarous.

BLOODY FLUX, a voiding
of Blood by the Fundament.

A BLOOM, a Blossom

To BLOOM, to put forth
Blooms

A BLOSSOM, a Flower of a
Plant or Tree.

To BLOSSOM, to put forth
Flowers.

To BLOTE, to swell, to
look plump

A BLOW, a Stroke, a Knock.

To BLOW, as a Flower, to
open from the Bud.

To BLOW, as the Wind
blows, &c

BLOWING Snake, a Snake
in Virginia, which blows and
swells its Head very much be­
fore it bites.

BLOWZE, a fat, bloated,
clumsy Wench, ill dressed.

BLUBBER, a sort of Sea­
Fish, also Whale-Oil before it 
is boiled.

BLUE, a Colour.

BLUEBOTTLE, a Weed that
grows among Corn.

BLUFF, bold, daring, au­
dacious.

BLUNDER, a Over-sight, a
Mistake, a Fault.

BLUNDERBUSS, a short
Brass Gun, also a blundering
Fellow, a Coxcomb.

BLUNT, with little Edge.

To BLUSH, to redden the
Face from Modesty, Shame, or
Surprize

To BLUSTER, to make a
Noise like Wind, to make a
Pother.

A BOAR, a Male Swine.

BOARD, a Plank, a Table.

To BOARD a Ship, to enter
Men into her.

BOARD and BOARD, is when
two Ships touch each other

A BOARDER, one who diets
with another.

To BOAST, to brag of.

BOAT, a Vessel for Sea or
River

BOATSWAIN, an Officer
who has the Charge of Anchors,
Cables, Sails, &c

To BOB, to strike, also to
cheat.

BOBBINS, little Tools used
in making Lace.

To BODE, to foretel, to de­
clare

BODKIN, an Utensil Wo­
men are to roll their Hair upon.

BODLEIAN Library, a fa­
mous Library at Oxford, found­
ed by Sir Thomas Bodley 

BODMIN, a Town in Corn­
wall.



BODY, Matter, Substance,
also a Number of People.

BOG, a marshy, muddy, wa­
try Ground.

To BOGGLE, to waver, to
scruple.

BOHEMIA, a Kingdom in
Germany

To BOIL, to seeth in Water
over a Fire.

A BOIL, a hard Swelling

BOISTEROUS, tempestuous,
fierce, unruly.

BOLD, stout, couragious,
undaunted

BOLSTER, a Cushion to lay
the Head on.

BOLT, an Iron to fasten a
Door

BOLTSPRIT,
BOWSPRIT, the Mast at 
the Head of
a Ship which stoops forward.

To BOLT, to fasten with a
Bolt.

BOLUS, a Dose of Physick
about the bigness of an Hazle­
Nut.

BOMBS, hollow Balls of Iron
filled with Gun-powder, and
thrown into a Town besieged.

To BOMBARD, to throw
Bombs out of a Mortar into a
Town.

BOMB-Chest, a wooden Chest
filled with Bombs and buried
under Ground, to blow up the
Besiegers.

BOMB-Catch, a Vessel built
to carry Mortars at Sea, and
for throwing of Bombs.

BOMBASINE, a sort of Stuff.

BOMBAST, affected Language,
Blustering Nonsense.

To BOMBAST, to beat or
bang soundly.

BONCHRETIEN, the Name
of a fine Pear.

BONA FIDE, without Fraud
or Deceit.

BOND, an Obligation.

BONDAGE, Slavery.

BONDMEN, Persons who
bind themselves to serve the
Lord.

BONE, a Part of the Body
void of Sense, which supports
the Body

BONNET, a sort of Cap.

BONNY, genteel, fine,
spruce.

A BOOBY, a Coxcomb, a
very ignorant Fellow.

BOOKISH, given to Books.

BOON, a Favour, a good
Turn.

BOOR, a Country Clown.

BOORISH, clownish, un­
mannerly, brutish.

BOOTS, a Covering for the
Legs in Travelling.

BOOTH, a small Cottage built
at Fairs.

BOOTY, Spoil, Plunder, Pil­
lage.

BORAGE, an Herb.

BORAX, a Mineral used by
Goldsmiths in Melting and Sol­
dering of Gold.

To BORDER, to edge, bind,
or lace

BORDERER, one who lives
on the Borders of a Country.

To BORE, to make a Hole
with any Tool

A BORE, the Hollow of a 
Piece of Ordnance of Gun.

BOREE, a kind of French
Dance.

BOREAS, the North Wind.

BORN, brought into the
World, as a Child.

BORNE, carried, brought.

BOROUGH, a Town Corpo­
rate, a large Village.

To BORROW, to take upon
Credit.

BOSCASTLE, a Town in
Cornwall.



BOSEHAM, a Town in Sussex.

BOSOM, the fore part of the 
Body inclosing the Heart.

BOTANY, the Knowledge of
Plants.

BOTANIST, one skilled in
the Knowledge of Plants.

To BOTCH, to patch, to
mend clumsily.

A BOTCHER, a clumsy
Workman.

BOTH, two, the one and the 
other.

BOTILER, 
BUTLER, an Officer that 
provides the
King's Wines.

BOTTLE-BRIDGE, a Place
in Huntingtonshire.

BOTTLE, a Vessel to con­
tain Liquids.

BOTTOM, the Ground, or
Foundation of any thing.

BOTTOMRY, is the Bor­
rowing of Money upon the Bot­
tom of a Ship, to be paid with
Interest at the Ship's Return, or
the Money lost, if the Ship be
lost.

BOVERTON, a Town in
Glamorganshire

To BOUGE out, to stick out.

A BOUGH, a Shoot or Branch
of a Tree.

To BOUND, to rebound, to
fly back.

BOUNDARY, the Limits or
Bounds of a Country.

BOUNDS, Limits.

BOUNTEOUS,
BOUNTIFUL, liberal, free, 
generous,
beneficent.

BOUNTY, Liberality, Ge­
nerosity, Beneficence.

BOURN, a Town in Lin­
colnshire

BOUTS, Times, Trails, Es­
says

BOW, an Instrument to shoot
Arrows with, also a mathema­
tical Instrument for taking the 
Sun's Height, &c.

To BOW, to bend to make
crooked.

BOWELS, the Guts, also
Pity, Compassion.

BOWER, an Arbour made
with green Twigs interwoven

A BOWL, a round Ball of
Wood used in Bowling-greens.

To BOWL, to play at Bowls.

BOX, a wooden Chest, or
Coffer, also a sort of Wood so
called.

BOX and Needle, a Compass
applied to a Theodolite in Sur­
veying.

BOY, a Lad

A BRACE, a Pair, as a Brace
of Partridges, Braces, &c.

To BRACE, 
BRACED, in Printing, a
particular Mark to join
Words or Lines together, thus 

BRACED, joined, or fastened 
together.

BRACES of a Coach, are
thick Leathern Thongs on which
it hangs.

BRACELET, an Ornament
worn upon Womens Arms,
also a Piece of Armour to de­
fend the Arm.

BRACK, a Flaw or Fault in
a Thing.

BRACELET, a Cramp Iron.

BRACKISH, a little Salt

BRACKLEY, a Town in
Northamptonshire

BRADFORD, a Town in
Wiltshire.

BRAGGADOCIO, a bounc­
ing, swaggering Blade

To BRAGG, to boast.

To BRAID, to Plait Hair

A BRAID, a Lock of Weft 
of Hair, a small Lace, or
Edging

BRAIN, the general Organ of
Sense, also Wit, Judgment.



To BRAIN, to dash out the
Brains.

BRAKE, Female Fern, also
an Instrument with Teeth, to
dress Flax or Hemp with.

BRAMANS, a Sect of Indian
Philosophers who live upon
Herbs.

BRAMBLES, prickly Shrubs.

BRAMBLE-Net, a sort of Net
for catching small Birds

BRAN, a Husk sifted from
ground Corn.

BRANCASTER, a Town in
Norfolk.

BRANCH, the Bough of a
Tree, the Stock of a Pedigree,
also the Horns of a Stag's head.

To BRANCH out, to divide,
or shoot into Branches.

BRANCHED, shot into
Branches like a Deer's Horn.

BRAND, a Piece of burning
Wood, a Mark made with a hot
Iron, a Note of Disgrace.

To BRAND, to mark with a
hot Iron

BRAND-Iron, to mark a
Malefactor with.

To BRANDISH, to flourish a
Sword or Spear.

BRANDLING, a small Worm
for Fishing, the Dew-worm.

BRANDON, a famous Town
in Norfolk.

BRANDY, a strong Water
distilled from Wine.

To BRANGLE, to quarrel,
to scold, to be angry.

BRASIL, a Province in South
America, also a sort of heavy
red Wood brought from thence. 

BRASS, a sort of factitious
Metal.

BRAT, a little Infant.

BRAVADO, a bouncing, va­
pouring Fellow.

BRAVE, stout, valiant, cou­
rageous.

A BRAVO, a Bully, a hector­
ing Fellow.

To BRAVE it, to dare, to
bounce, to hector.

BRAVERY, Courage, Va­
lour, Finery, Gallantry.

To BRAWL, to make a
Noise, to chide, to scold.

A BRAWL, a Squabble, or
Dispute.

BRAWN, Hog's Flesh sowsed. 

BRAWNY, muscular, lusty,
strong

To BRAY, to cry like an Ass.

To BRAZE, to Solder with
Brass

BRAZEN, made of Brass;
impudent.

BRAZIER, a Dealer in Brass
Goods

BREACH, a Quarrel, a Fal­
ing out, also the Ruin of any
Part of the Wall of a Town
batter'd by Cannon.

BREAD, a sort of Food well
known.

BREAD-Room, the Place
where Sea-Biskets are kept. 

To BREAK, to snap to Pieces,
also to turn Bankrupt.

To BREAK Bulk, to take
Part of the Cargoe out of the
Hold of a Ship.

To BREAK Ground, to open
the Trenches before a Town,
with a Design to besiege it.

To BREAK up a Deer, to
cut up a Deer.

BREAM, a fresh Water Fish.

BREAST, that Part of the
Trunk of the Body which con­
tains the Heat and Lungs.

BREAST-Pain, a Disease in
Horses.

BREAST-Plough, a Plough
driven by the Breast

BREASTWORK. Vide PA­
RAPET.



BREATH, the Air sucked in
and thrown out of the Lungs.

BREEK, 
BRACK, a Gap in a Hedge.

BRECKNOCKMERE, 
in Brecknockshire.

BRECKNOCKSHIRE, 
a County in Wales.

BREECH, the Backside, al­
so the hinder-part of a Piece of
Ordnance.

BREECHES, a Part of Mens
Clothing from the Waste to the
Knees.

To BREED, to increase, to
produce

BREEZE, a fresh Gale of 
Wind.

BREMICHAM, 
BIRMINGHAM, a Town in 
the Coun­
ty of Warwick, famous for hard
Ware, or Iron-work.

BRENTKNOL, a Place in
Somersetshire

BRENTFORD, a Town in
Middlesex.

BRENTMARSH, a Place in
Somersetshire.

BRENTWOOD,
BURNTWOOD, a Town in 
Essex Fif­
teen Miles from London.

BRETHENHAM, a Town in
the County of Suffolk.

BREVET, a Brief, a Pope's
Bull.

BREVIARY, a popish Mass
book.

BREVIATE, an Abstract of
a Writing or Deed.

BREVIERE, a small printing
Letter.

BREVITY, Shortness, Con­
ciseness. 

To BREW,
BREWESS,
BREWIS, to make Drink. 
Crusts of Bread 
soak'd in the
Fat of Broth.

BRIAN, a proper Name.

To BRIBE, to corrupt with
Gifts or Reward.

BRIBERY, the Act of Brib­
ing.

BRICK, Earth moulded into
a long square Form, and burnt.

BRIDE-CHURCH, St. Brid­
get's Church, an Irish Saint.

A BRIDE, a new married
Woman.

BRIDEGROOM, a new mar­
ried Man.

BRIDEWELL, a House of
Correction, in Fleetstreet, in the
City of London, formerly a
Place.

BRIDGE, a Passage of Wood
or Stone over a River.

BRIDGE of Boats, Boats of
Copper joined together, and co­
vered with Boards, for Soldiers
to march over them

Draw BRIDGE, one with
Hinges to be drawn up, or let
down at pleasure.

BRIDGEWATER, a Port in
the County of Somerset.

To BRIDLE, to keep a Horse
in with Reins, to curb the
Passion.

A BRIDLE, a Headstall, or
Check for a Horse.

BRIEF, short, also common,
rife

A BRIEF, an Order issuing
out to Chancery, or any other
Court, also Letters Patent for
collecting Charity for Sufferers
by Fire, or other Accident.

BRIG, in Lincolnshire

BRIGADE, a Party of Sol­
diers, either Horse or Foot: Of
Horse, Eight or Ten Squadrons,
of Foot Four, Five or Six Ba­
tallions.

BRIGADE, of a Troop of 
Horse is a third Part, not ex­
ceeding Fifty Men.

BRIGADIER, an Officer who
commands the Brigade.



BRIGANTINE, a light Ves­
sel, that can both Row and Sail
well, and is proper for chacing
or fighting. 

BRIGHT, shining, lucid.

BRIGHTNESS, a Shining.

BRIGHTHELMSTEAD, a
Town in Sussex.

BRILL, a Place in Bucking­
hamshire.

BRILLANT, a Diamond cut
like a Table.

BRIM, the Edge of any
Thing, as of a Hat or Glass.

A BRIMMER, a full Cup of
Glass.

BRIMSTONE, a Mineral,
Burning-stone.

BRINDLED, spotted, of dif­
ferent Colours. 

BRINE, a salt Liquor, or
Pickle

BRINE-Water, a salt Wa­
ter, which when boiled turns
into Salt.

BRINY, Salt, belonging to
Brine.

BRISK, lively, gay.

BRISKNESS, Liveliness,
Sprightliness. 

BRISKET, that Part of the
Breast lying next to the Ribs.

BRISTLES, strong Hair up­
on the Back of a Hog.

BRISTOL, a famous trading
Sea-port and City in Somerset­
shire

BRISTOL-Stone, a hard
transparent Stone, found in a
Rock near Bristol.

A BRITAIN, a Native of
Great Britain.

BRITANNIA, Great Britain.

BRITANNY, a Province of
France.

BRITISH, belonging to Great
Britain.

BRITTLE, apt to break,
frail, fickle.

To BROACH, a spit Meat,
to tap a Beer or Wine Vessel, &c. 
Also to publish first. 

BROAD, wide, large, capa­
cious.

BROAD-Piece, a Gold Coin,
one worth Twenty-three Shil­
lings, the other Twenty-five.

BROADSIDE, the Discharge
of all the Guns on one Side a
Ship at once. 

BROCADE, a sort of Cloth
wrought with Gold or Silver.

BROGUES, Wooden Shoes.

BROIL, a Quarrel, Distrub­
ance.

To BROIL, to roast Meat on
the Coals.

BROKERAGE, the Reward
of a Broker, also the Broker's
Business. 

BROKEN-Bridge, a Town in
Wiltshire.

BROKER, a Procuror, who
brings Merchants and Chapmen
together, a Factor, also a Seller of
old Cloths, or one who takes
in Pawns, also a People who
buy and sell Stocks upon the
Exchange.

To BROOD, to set upon
Eggs, as Fowl does, to hatch
them.

A BROOK, a small Current
of Water.

To BROOK, to bear pati­
enly, to put up an Affront.

BROTH, the Liquor in
which Meat is boiled.

A BROTHEL, a Bawdy­
house a Stews.

To BROW-Beat, to snub, or
keep under.

BROWN, a Colour.

BROWNISTS, a Sect of
rigid Independents.

BROWSE, the young Sprouts
of Trees in the Spring.



To BROWSE, to feed upon
Browse.

To BRUISE, to strike with
any thing hard, to hurt.

BRUSH, a Utensil made with
Bristles.

To BRUSH, to cleanse with
a Brush.

BRUSH-Wood, small Wood
for Fuel.

To BRUSTLE, to rattle like
Silk, to Vapour, to come bold­
ly up to one.

BRUTAL, irrational, brutish.

BRUTALITY, Beastliness,
Brutishness, Rudeness. 

BRUTE, a Beast without
Reason.

BRUTISH, beastly, beast­
like.

BUBBLE, a Bladder upon any
Liquor, also a silly Fellow.

BUBO, a hard Swelling in
the Groin, proceeding from the
Pox; a Plague Boil.

BUCANIERS, Pirates in the
West-Indies, the Rovers, the
ungoverned Rabble in Jamaica

BUCEPHALUS, the Name of
the Horse of Alexander the Great.

BUCK, a Male Deer, also a
Male Rabbit, or Goat

BUCKINGHAM, the County
Town of Buckinghamshire.

BUCKTHORN, a Shrub, 
whose Berries are used in
Physick.

BUCKWHEAT, a sort of
Grain much used in Surrey.

BUCKET, a Utensil to draw
Water in.

BUCKLE, a thing to fasten
Shoes, a Curl of Hair.

To BUCKLE, to bend, or
bow down, to condescend; al­
so to curl Hair.

BUCKLER, a Shield, a Piece
of Armour, Defense, Pro­
tection.

BUCKLER of Beef, a Piece
of the Surloin.

BUCOLICKS, Pastoral Songs.

To BUD, to spout, to put
forth.

A BUD, a Blossom, or young
Shoot.

To BUDGE, to stir, or move.

BUFF, a sort of thick tan­
ned Leather.

BUFFALO, a wild Beast like
an Ox, common in Asia and
America.

BUFFET, a Blow or Box on
the Ear.

A BUFFET, a Side-board for
Plate.

A BUFFLE-Head, a Block­
head, a dull heavy Fellow.

A BUFFOON, a Jester, a
Droll, a comical Fellow.

BUFFOONRY, a Jesting, 
Drollery.

BUG, a noisom Insect.

BUGBEAR, an imaginary
Monster to fright Children

BUGDEN, a Town in Hunt­
ingtonshire.

BUGGERY, the Sin of So­
domy, or one Man's copulating
with another.

BUGLE, a sort of wild Ox,
also a kind of Glass Beads, an
Herb.

To BUILD, to erect Houses

BULGED, a Ship is said to
bulge when some of her Timber
is struck off, and she becomes
leaky

BULK, Bigness, Largeness,
Size, also a Stall before a Shop.

BULKER, a common Jilt, a
Whore.

BULKY, a big gross, of a
large Size.

BULL, a Beast well known,
also a Blunder in Discourse,
likewise a Decree of the Pope's.

BULLFEAST, a Festival in
Portugal and Spain, in which
Men on Horseback encounter
wild Bulls.



BULLFINCH, a Bird.

BULLHEAD, a small River
Fish

BULLACE, a wild Plum.

BULLBEGGAR, an imagi­
nary Thing to fright Children. 

BULLET, a Ball of Lead, &c.
cast for Guns.

BULLINGBROOK, a Town
in Lincolnshire.

BULLION, Gold or Silver in
the Lump, before it is purified
or refined.

BULLNESS, a Place in Cum­
berland.

BULLOCK, a young Bull.

BULLY, a hectoring bounc­
ing Fellow.

BULRUSH, a sort of reed
growing in fenny or marshy
Places.

BULWARK, a Defence, a
Fort, or fortification.

BUMBASHINE, a Stuff made
of Silk and Cotton.

BUMBAST, Linnen doubled
and interwoven with Flax; also
a hard uncouth Style in Writing.

BUMPKIN, a Blockhead, a
Country Clown.

BUNCH, a Cluster of Fruit,
a Lump, a Knob.

BUNDLE, a Parcel of any
thing bound together.

BUNG, the Mouth of a Barrel.

To BUNGLE, to do a thing
awkwardly, to cobble, to botch.

A BUNGLER, a Butcher, a
bad Workman.

BUNN, a sort of Cake.

A BUNTER, a Gatherer of
Rags in the Streets.

BUNTING, a Bird like a Lark.

To BUOY up, to encourage,
to support.

BURCHESTER, a Town in
Oxfordshire. 

BURDEN,
BURTHEN, a Load, a 
Weight, as
much as a Man or Horse can carry.

BURFORD, a Town in Ox­
fordshire.

BURGESS, the Inhabitant of
a Borough; also one who serves
for a Borough in Parliament.

BURGH, a Borough, a large
Village.

BRUGH-Castle, in Suffolk.

BURGHER, a Freeman of a
Town, a Citizen.

BURGOMASTER, the chief
Magistrate of a Town in Holland.

BURGLAR, a Thief, a
House-breaker.

BURGLARY, the breaking
open an House.

St. BURIERS, a Town in
Cornwall.

BURLESEQUE, a merry way
of writing, or turning a seri­
ous Thing into Ridicule.

To BURN, to scorch, to con­
sume to Ashes.

BURNING-Well, a Well in
Lancashire, into which if a
Candle be put in will take Fire.

To BURNISH, to polish, to
give a Lustre to.

BURNISHER, one that po­
lishes, or burnishes. 

BURROWS, Holes in a
Warren that serve as a Covert
for Rabbits.

BURSER, a Purser, or
the Treasurer of a College or
Monastery. 

BURSTED, a Place in Essex.

BURST, split, broke asunder. 

BURTON, a Town in Lan­
cashire.

To BURY, to put a Corpse
under Ground, to intern.

A BUSH, a Briar, or Thorn.

BUSHEL, a dry Measure of
Four Pecks, or Eight Gallons

BUSK, a Piece of Whale­
bone, or Iron, to keep down
the forepart of Women's Stays.

To BUSS, to kiss.

A BUSS, a kiss or Salute.



BUST, a Statue representing
the Head, Breast, and Shoulders
of a human Body

To BUSTLE, to hurry, to
stir about

To BUSY, to employ, to
work.

BUSY, employed, at work

BUTLER, an Officer in a
Prince or Nobleman's House.

To BUTT, to run, or push
against with the Horn. 

A BUTT, a large Vessel,
containing a Hundred and Twen­
ty Gallons of Wine, also a Mark
to shoot at.

BUTTER, a Food made of
churned Cream.

BUTTER-Teeth, great broad
Fore-teeth

BUTTER-Fly, an Insect well
known.

BUTTERY, a Place where
Victuals are kept

BUTTES, the End of plough'd
Lands, lying in Ridges between
the Furrows.

BUTTOCK, the Breech, or
Haunch.

BUTTRESS, an Arch or Mass
of Stone to bear up a Wall.

BUTTRESS,
BUTTRICE, a Tool made 
use of by
Farriers. 

BUXOM, wanton, amorous,
merry.

BUXTON, a Town in Der­
byshire.

To BUZZ, to hum, or make
a Noise like Bees, to speak
softly.

BUZZARD, a sort of Kite
or Hawk; also a senseless, ig­
norant Fool.

BY-Laws, Laws made in
Courts Leet, or Courts Baron,
also all Laws made by particu­
lar Corporations

BYRAM, a solemn Festival
among the Turks, a sort of Car­
nival.

BY-Blow, a Bastard Child.

BY-Word, a Proverb.


C.
C. An Abbreviation for One
Hundred: also for Christ.

C C Corpus Christi.

CABAL, a Party, a Set, a
Gang.

To CABAL, to plot together,
to conspire, to form a Party.

A CABALLER, a Party-Man, 
a Plotter.

CABBAGE, a Plant well
known.

CABBAGE-Worm, a sort of
Insect.

CABBIN, a Hut, or Cottage,
also a little Lodging-room on
board a Ship.

CABINET, a Closet in a Pa­
lace, or Nobleman's House, a
Chest of Drawers.

CABLE, a large Rope fasten­
ed to the Anchor of a Ship.

CACAO, an Indian Tree that
bears Nuts, of which Chocolate
is made

To CACKLE, to make a
Noise like a Hen

CACODÆMON, an evil
Spirit, a Devil.

CADAVEROUS, belonging
to a dead Carcass.

CADE Lamb, a young Lamb
weaned and brought up by
hand.

CADENCE, a just Fall of a
Tune or Voice.

CADET,
CADEE, a younger Brother,
one who serves as 
Volunteer in the Wars at his
own Expense.

CADWALLADER, a Name
of a King of the Britains.



CÆLING, a River in Corn­
wall.

CAERDIFF, a City of Gla­
morganshire.

CAERNARVON, a Town
famous for the Birth of Ed­
ward III.

CÆSAR, the Name of Twelve
Roman Emperors who succeeded
Julius Cæsar.

CAG, a Vessel which con­
tains Four or Five Gallons.

CAGE, an Inclosure for
Birds.

CAIAPHAS, a High-Priest
among the Jews.

To CAJOLE, to coax, flat­
ter, or sooth.

CAIMACAN, a great Officer
among the Turks.

CAITIFF, a poor Wretch, a
sorry Fellow.

CALAMITOUS, wrenched, 
miserable.

CALAMITY, Misery, Trou­
ble, Misfortune.

A CALASH, an open tra­
velling Chariot. 

To CALCINE, to burn to a 
Cinder

To CALCULATE, to cast
Account, to reckon

CALCULATION, an Ac­
ccount, a Reckoning.

CALEFACTION, a heating
or warming.

CALENDAR, a Division of
Time from the Motion of hea­
venly Bodies, an Almanack

CALENDS, the first Days of
every Month

CALENTURE, a burning
Fever, a Distemper peculiar to
Sailors.

CALF, the young Offspring
of a Cow.

Sea-CALF, a large Sea-Fish,
with a Velvet black-spotted
Skin.

CALLICOE, a sort of Cloth
made of Cotton brought from
the East-Indies.

CALIPH, 
CALIFF, an Emperor or 
King.

To CALK a Ship, is to drive
Oakam into all the Seams, to
keep out the Water.

To CALL, to name, to speak
loud to.

CALLIMANCO, a sort of
Woollen Stuff.

CALLOSITY, a Hardness or
Thickness of the Skin.

CALLOUS, a hard, thick.

CALLUS, a kind of hard
Flesh, also the glewy Sub­
stance which unites broken
Bones

CALM, quiet, still, peace­
able.

A CALM at Sea, when there
is no Wind stirring.

To CALM, to appease, to
quiet, to pacify.

CALVARY, a Mountain out
of the City of Jerusalem, so 
called from the Number of
dead Men's Skulls found there.

CALVINISM, the Doctrine
of J. Calvin, a noted Reformer
of the Church at Geneva.

CALVINISTS, the Followers
of Calvin.

To CALUMNIATE, to
reproach, to slander, to de­
tract. 

CALUMNY, Slander, De­
traction, Aspersion.

CAMBRIA, Wales, so called.

CAMBRICK, a fine Linnen 
brought from Cambray in
Flanders.

CAMBRIDGE, a City, and
famous University.

CAMEL, a Beast of Burden,
common in the Eastern Coun­
tries.



CAMELEON, A Creature re­
sembling a Lizzard, which is
said to live upon the Air.

CAMERADE,
COMRADE, a Bed-fellow, 
a Mess-mate,
a Fellow-soldier.

CAMOMILE, an Herb.

CAMP, a Place where an
Army pitches their Tents

CAMPAIGN, a Plain, a
Champion Country, also the
Time that an Army continues in
the Field every Year.

CAMBDEN, a Town in Glou­
cestershire, from whence the fa­
mous Camden had his Name.

CAMPSHIRE, the gum of an
East-Indian Tree.

CANAAN, the Land of Pro­
mise.

CANAL, an artificial River
or long Pond.

To CANCEL, to erase, or
blot out, to make void.

CANCER, a Crab-fish, a Con­
stellation so called, also a dan­
gerous Ulcer in Womens Breasts.

CANDID, a kind, courteous,
sincere.

CANDIDATES, those who
stand for a Place, or Preferment, 
or Members of Parliament.

CANDLEMAS-DAY, the se­
cond of February, being the
Festival of the Purification of
the Blessed Virgin.

CANDOUR, Sincerity, plain
Dealing, Courtesy.

To CANDY, to cover over
with Sugar, to preserve.

CANE, an Indian Reed.

CANIBALS, Men-eaters, a
People who feed upon human
Flesh.

CANISTER of Tea, a Quan­
tity from Seventy-five Pounds to
a Hundred, also a small Vessel
of Sliver, Tin &c. to hold
Tea.

CANKER, a spreading Sore,
also the Rust of Brass or Iron.

CANKER-WORM, an In­
sect which destroys Corn.

CANKERED, eaten with
Rust.

CANN, a Wooden Vessel to
drink out of.

CANNINGTON, in Somer­
setshire.

CANNISTER, an Instrument
used by Coopers in racking off
Wines

CANNON, a Piece of Ord­
nance.

To CANNONADE, to batter
with Cannon.

CANON, a Church Law
or Decree, a Rule, also a Pre­
bendary, who enjoys a Living
in a collegiate Church or Cathe­
dral.

CANON-LAW, a Collec­
tion of ecclesiastical Decrees
taken from ancient Councils.

CANONICAL, according to
Rule or Order, authentick.

CANONICAL-HOURS, the
Time appointed by the Church
for divine Service.

To CANONIZE, to declare
or pronounce one a Saint.

CANONSHIP, the Title of
a Canon's Benefice.

CANOO, an Indian Boat
made of the Trunk of a Tree.

CANOPY, a Cloth of State
set over the Heads of Sovereign
Princes, also a Testern and
Curtains for a Bed.

CANOROUS, Shrill, loud
Singing, high Sounding.

CANOT-WOOD,
CANK-WOOD, a Wood in 
Somerset­
shire.

CANT, Gibberish.

To CANT, to talk obscure,
to use an uncommon Speech.



CANTERBURY, a famous
City, the Metropolis of Kent,
an Archbishop's See.

CANTHARIDES, Spa­
nish Flies, used to raise Blisters.

CANTICLES, the Book of
Solomon's Songs.

CANTON, a Division, or
Part of a Country.

To CANTON, to dispute into
Quarters, to fortify one's self in
a Place

CANVASS, a sort of coarse 
Linnen Cloth.

To CANVASS, to sift or exa­
mine into a Matter.

CAP of Maintenance, part of
the Ornaments of State born be­
fore the King of Coronations,
and other grand Solemnities,
and before some inferior Magi­
strates.

CAPABLE, fit to do a Thing,
or qualified for it, able

CAPACIOUS, capable to re­
ceive, spacious, vast.

To CAPACITATE, to make
capable or sit for a thing.

CAPACITY, Ability, Skill,
Wit.

CAP-A-PLE, from Head to
Foot.

CAPARISION, a Horse's Fur­
niture.

To CAPARISON, a dress
with Trappings or Furniture

CAPE, a Mountain or high
Place running out into one
Sea, also the Neck-piece of a
Cloak.

A CAPER, the Flower of a
Shrub growing in Italy, and
brought to England in Pickle.

CAPILLARY, belonging to
Hair, as small as a Hair.

CAPITAL, chief, principal,
also worthy of Death.

CAPITATION, a Tax paid
by the Head, a Poll-Tax.

CAPITOL, an antient Cicadel
of Rome.

To CAPITULATE, to treat
upon Terms, or make Articles
of Agreement, to parley with
a Besieger upon the Conditions
of Surrender.

CAPITULATION, the Act 
of capitulating.

CAPON, a Cock cut, to fat­
ten the berer

CAPRICE, a Whim, Freak,
or Maggot, a hasty Action

CAPRICIOUS, humoursome,
whimsical, fantastical, head
strong.

CAPRICORN, one of the
Twelve Signs of the Zodiack.

CAPTAIN, a head Officer
of a Troop of Horse, or Com­
pany of Foot; also of a Ship.

CAPTIOUS, peevish, quar­
relsome, full of Exception.

To CAPTIVATE, to take
Prisoner, to enslave.

A CAPTIVE, a Prisoner, a
Slave.

CAPTIVITY, Slavery, Loss
of Freedom.

CAPTURE, a Seizure, Prize,
a Taking.

CAPUCHINS, Friars of the
Order of St. Francis.

CAR, a sort of Cart.

CARABINE, 
CARBINE, a sort of short 
Gun used by
Horseman

CARABINEERS, Horsemen
who carry Carbines.

CARAT of Gold, a Weight
of Twenty four Grains, or Di­
amonds and Pearls Four Grains
only.

CARAVAN, a Body of Mer­
chants who travel together over
Desarts for fear of being rob­
bed, also a covered Waggon
convenient for Travellers.



CARAVANSERY, an Inn
for Caravans, in Turky and
Persia.

CARBUNCLE, a precious
Stone of a fiery red Colour, al­
so a Plague Sore. 

CARCASS, a dead Body.

CARCASSES, Iron Cases, &c.
about the bigness of Bombs filled
with Granadoes, and combusti­
ble Stuff for firing Houses.

To CARD, Wooll, to work
Wooll with Cards.

CARDIGAN, the County
Town of Cardiganshire.

CARDINAL, the Principal
or Chief, also an high Dignity
in the Church, whose Number
is Seventy.



CARDINAL Points, the Four
principal Points of the Compass
East, West, North, and South

CARDINAL Virtues, are
Prudence, Temperance, Justice,
and Fortitude.

CARDOON, a Spanish Plant
not unlike an Artichoke

CARDS, thin marked Past­
boards to play with; also to
comb Wooll with.

CARE, Heed, Caution.

To CAREEN, to trim, or
clean the Bottom of a Ship,
by bringing her down on one
Side.

CAREER, a Race, a Course,
a running full Speed.

CARESBROOK, a Castle in
the Isle of Wight, famous for
the Imprisonment of King
Charles I.

To CARESS, to cherish, to
make much of, to endear by
kind Expressions.

CARESSES, fond Expres­
sions, Endearments.

CARET, in Writing, is this
Mark (^) and signifies some­
thing omitted.



CARGO, the Freight or La­
ding of a Ship.

CARIAGE. See CARRIAGE.

CARIBEE ISLANDS, Islands
in the West-Indies.

CARLISLE, a Bishop's See in 
the County of Cumberland.

CARLTON, a Town in Nor­
folk.

CARMELITES, an Order of
Monks.

CARNAGE, a Slaughter, a
Massacre

CARNAL, fleshy, belonging
to the Flesh.

CARNATION, a Flesh Co­
lour, also a Flower of that
Colour.

CARNAVAL,
CARNIVAL, Shrovetide, a 
Time of
Mirth and Feasting among Pa­
pists, from Twelfth-day to Lent.

CARNIVOROUS, devouring
or feeding upon Flesh.

CARNOSITY, a hard fleshy
Excrescence. 

CAROL, a Song usually sung
on one's Birth-Day, also a Hymn
at Christmas, in Honour of
Christ's Nativity.

CAROLINA Hat, a sort of
Felt, or Cloth Hat

CAROLUS, a broad Piece of
Gold valued at Twenty-three
Shillings

CAROT, an eatable Root.

A CAROUSE, a Hard-drink­
ing-bout.

To CAROUSE, to drink
hard, to quaff.

CARP, a fresh Water Fish.

To CARP, to catch at, to
censure, to blame.

CARPENTER, one who does 
the Wood Work belonging to
the building of Houses or Ships

CARPENTRY, the Trade of
a Carpenter.



CARPET, a Woollen Cover­
ing for a Table, or Floor.

CARRAT, a Weight for Gold,
or precious Stones. See CA­
RAT

CARREER, a riding or dri­
ving full Speed.

CARRIAGE, the carrying of
Goods, or Merchandise, also a
covered Waggon.

CARRIAGES, Carts made
for the carrying of Pieces of
Ordnance

CARRION, stinking Flesh,
or the Carcass of a dead Beast.

To CARRY, to bear, to go
away with.

CART, a Machine to carry
any thing in.

CARTEL, a Challenge, also
an Agreement between Princes
at War for the Exchange of Pri­
soners.

CARTESIAN, belonging to
des Cartes

CARTESIUS, a modern
French Philosopher.

CARTHUSIANS, an Order
of Monks.

CARTILAGE, a Gristle.

CARTOONS, the most per­
fect sort of Drawing upon Pa­
per, to be afterward drawn in
Fresco upon a Wall.

CARTRIDGE, a Charge of
Powder put into a Paper ready
for a Gun.

To CARVE, to cut, to di­
vide, to serve Meat at Table,
also to cut Wood or Stone into
Figures.

CARVER, a Cutter in Wood
or Stone.

CASCADE, a Fall of Wa­
ters, either natural or artificial

CASE, a little Box, or Co­
vering for any thing, also a
Thing, Matter, or Question.

CASEMENT, that Part of a
Window which opens to let the
Air in

CASH, ready Money.

CASHIER, a Cash-keeper.

To CASHIRE, to disband or
discharge.

CASK, a Vessel for Liquor.

CASKET, a little Cabinet or
Chest.

CASSAWARE, a very large
Bird with Feathers like Camel's
Hair.

CASSIA, a Reed of a purg­
ing Quality.

CASSOCK, a Vestment worn
by Clergymen under their
Gowns.

To CAST, to sling or throw,
also to think or contrive.

CAST, a Throw.

CASTANETS, Snappers
which Dancers tie about their
Fingers

CASTER, a Place in Hun­
tingtonshire.

CASTIGATION, Cha­
stisement, Punishment

CASTLE, a strong Place in a
City or Country.

CASTLEFORD, in Yorkshire.

CASTLING, the Young of
any Beast brought forth un­
timely.

CASTOR, a Beaver, a wild
Beast, also a Hat made of its
Furr.

To CASTRATE, to geld, or
cut out the Stones of an Animal;
also to leave out a Part of a
Book.

CASTRATED, gelt, left out.

CASTRATION, Gelding, or
taking away the Testicles of an
Animal.

CASUAL, accidental, by
chance.

CASUALTY, a sudden Acci­
dent, a Chance.



CASUIST, a Person skilled
in solving Cases of Conscience.

CATFISH, a West-Indian Fish.

CATACOMBS, Grottoes near
Rome, where the primitive
Christians fled to hide them­
selves.

CATALANS, the Inhabi­
tants of Catalonia. 

CATALOGUE, a List of 
Names or things, as of Books, 
&c.

CATAPLASM, a Pultice of 
Herbs, Roots, &c.

CATARACT, a Distemper of
the Eyes. 

CATARRH, a falling down
of Humours from the Head up­
on the Lungs.

CATASTROPHE, the End of
an Affair; the fatal Conclusion
of an Action, or of a Man's
Life

CATCH, a Prize or Booty,
also a short witty Song.

To CATCH, to lay hold of,
to snatch, to overtake.

CATCH POLE, a Serjeant 
or Balliff. 

CATECHISM, a short System
of Instructions or what is to be
believed and done.

To CATECHIZE, to instruct
Youth in the Principles of Re­
ligion.

CATEGORICAL, Affirma­
tive, positive.

To Cater, to provide Vic­
tuals, &c.

CATERER, a Purveyor or
Provider of Victuals for a No­
bleman's Family

CATERPILLAR, an Insect
which devours the Leaves of
Plants and Trees

CATHARINE, a Woman's
Name.

CATHARTICK, Purging.

CATHEDRAL Church, the
Episcopal Church of any Place.

CATHOLICISM, Universali­
ty, the Roman Catholick Pro­
fession. 

CATHOLICK, Universal. 

CATKINS, a Substance
growing on Nut Trees, Birch
Trees, &c. in the Winter.

CATS HEAD, a large Apple.

CAT PEAR, a Pear in the
Shape of an Hen's Egg.

To CATTERWAWL, to cry
as Cats do when they are proud.

CAVALCADE, a Procession
on Horseback.

CAVALIER, a Knight, or
Gentleman on Horseback.

CAVALIERS, a Name by
which the King's Party was
distinguished in the Civil Wars

CAVALRY, a Body of Horse
belonging to an Army.

CAUDLE, a sweet compo­
sition of Sugar, Wine, Eggs
and Spice.

CAVE, a Den, a Place under
Ground.

CAVEAT, a Warning, or
Admonition, also a Bill entered
in the Ecclesiastical Court to
stop the Proceedings of one who
would prove a Will to the Pre­
judice of another. 

CAVERN, a hollow Place in
the Earth, a Den, a Cave

CAVERNOUS, full of great
Holes, or Caverns

CAVEER, the Spawn of
Sturgeon pickled

CAVIL, a Quirk, Shift, or
subtle Argument.

CAVITY, a Hollow.

CAUL, the fat Skin which
covers the Bowels, also part
of a Woman's Head-dress

CAULDRON, a large Kettle,
a Copper, or boiling Vessel

CAUSE, a Reason, Motive, 
or Principle.



To CAUSE, to be the Cause
of, to occasion.

CAUSEY, a Highway
banked, and raised for Foot­
Passengers.

CAUSTICK, a burning or
corroding Quality, a Thing
which burns.

To CAUTERIZE, to burn.

A CAUTERY, a red hot
Iron, or burning Stone

CAUTION, Care, Wari­
ness, Heedfulness, Warning.

To CAUTION, to give No­
tice, Advice, or Warning

CAUTIOUS, careful, wary,
circumspect.

To CEASE, to leave off,
give over, to be at an End.

CEDAR, a sort of Tree
growing in warm Climates.

To CELEBRATE, to ho­
nour a Person with Praises, Mo­
numents, or Inscriptions, to
keep a Festival.

CELEBRATED, highly ho­
noured, renowed, famous, of
great note, also solemnized. 

CELEBRATION, the Act of
Celebrating with Pomp and So­
lemnity

CELERITY, Swiftness, Ve­
locity, Speed, Expedition

CELESTIAL, heavenly, be­
longing to Heaven.

CELIBACY, a single or un­
married Life

CELL, a Cave, Hut, or Pri­
son.

CELLAR, the lowest part of
a House, under Ground.

CELLERAGE, Cellar room.

CEMENT, a strong sticking
Mortar, also a Compound of
Pitch and Plaister of Paris, &c.
to fasten Work to.

To CEMENT, To stick, or
join together, to solder.

CENSOR, an Examiner,
one who values and taxes
Estates.

CENSORIOUS, severe, apt
to find fault with or reprove 
others.

CENSURABLE, that deserves
to be censured.

CENSURE, Correction, Re­
proof.

To CENSURE, to condemn,
to find fault with.

CENT, a Hundred, as so
much per Cent, is so much in the
Hundred. 

CENTAUR, a fabulous Mon­
ster, half Man and half Horse.

CENTER, the middle Point
of any Thing, properly of a
Sphere or Circle.

To CENTER, to meet in a
Point, to terminate, to end.

CENTRAL, belonging to the
middle.

CENTRY, a private Soldier
upon Duty.

CENTRY-BOX, a wooden
Box to skreen a Soldier from
bad Weather. 

CENTUPLE, a hundred Fold.

CENTURION, a Captain o­
ver a Band of a Hundred Sol­
diers.

CENTURY, an Age, the
Space of a Hundred Years.

CEPHALICK, belonging to,
or good for the Head

CERATE, a Searcloth, a
soft sort of Plaister.

CEREMONIAL, belonging
to Ceremony.

A CEREMONIAL, a Book
which contains the Ceremonies
of the Romish Church.

CEREMONIOUS, full of Ce­
remonies.

CEREMONY, Formality,
Compliment, Pomp or State.

CERTAIN, sure, fixed, set­
tled, undoubted, past Dispute.



CERTAINTY, full of As­
surance.

CERTIFICATE, a Testi­
mony in Writing, of the Truth 
of a Thing.

To CERTIFY, to inform, to
give Notice of, to declare for
certain

CERUSS, White Lead.

A CESS, a Tax.

To CESS, to tax, to assess.

CESSATION, a leaving off,
or giving over.

CESSION, a giving up, re­
signing, or yielding.

CESSOR, an Assessor, or
Imposer of Taxes.

CHASE, a Station for wild
Beasts in a Forest.

To CHACE, to pursue, to
follow, to hunt.

To give CHACE to a Ship, 
to follow, or fetch her up.

CHACE GUNS, those Guns
which are at the Head or Stern
of a Ship.

CHAD, a kind of Fish.

To CHAFF, to heat by rub­
bing with the Hand, to fret or
fume; to grow angry.

CHAFF, the Husk of Corn.

CHAFFER, to change, to
buy or sell, to traffick.

CHAFFINCH, a small Bird.

CHAFFERED, bargained for,
sold.

To CHAFFERN, to cheapen,
to buy.

CHAFING-DISH, a Piece of
Kitchen Furniture for warming
Victuals. 

CHAGRIN, Trouble, Grief,
Sorrow, Melancholly.

To CHAGRIN, to vex, to
trouble, to grieve or make
sad.

CHAIN, Links of Iron joined
together

CHAIN-PUMPS, a sort of
Ship Pumps bolted into the
Ship's Side

CHAIN-SHOT, Bullets, link­
ed together.

CHAIR, a Seat to set upon,
also a Sedan, an open Chaise.

CHAIRMAN, the President
of a Committee, Society, or
Club, &c. also one that car­
ries a Chair.

CHAISE, a light open Cha­
riot drawn by one Horse.

CHALDREN, 
CHALDRON, a Quantity 
of Coals
containing Twelve Sacks, or
Thirty-six Bushels.

CHALICE, a Communion
Cup, used at administering the
Sacrament.

CHALLENGE, a Summons
to fight a Duel, a Defiance, a
Claim.

To CHALLENGE, to give a
Challenge to fight, to except a­
gainst, to claim.

CHALYBEATS, Medicines
prepared with Steel.

CHAM, the Title of the So­
vereign Prince of Tartary.

CHAMADE, a Signal by 
Drum or Trumpet, when they
have a mind to parley.

CHAMBER, an Apartment in
a House.

CHAMBERLAIN, the Name
of the Person at an Inn who
provides Beds for Travellers

The CHAMBERLAIN of 
England, an Officer who has
the Government of the King's
Palace, and provides Necessa­
ries in the House of Lords in
the Time of Parliament.

CHAMBERLAIN of London, 
an Officer of the City who keeps
the publick Treasure, and pre­
sides over the Affairs relating to
Apprentices, and grants Free­
doms of the City, &c.



CHAMLOT, a Stuff mixed
with Camels Hair.

To CHAMP, to chew, as a
Horse does his Bit

CHAMPAIN,
CHAMPAGNE, an open 
Country, a
large Plain

CHAMPIGNONS, red-gill'd
eatable Mushrooms

CHAMPION, one who fights
a Duel for another.

King's CHAMPION, one
whose Office is at the Corona­
tion to ride completely armed
into Westminster-hall, and chal­
lenge any Person who denys the
King's Title to the Crown.

CHAMPION Land, Land not
inclosed, or large Downs or
Plains

CHANCE, Fortune, Hazard.

CHANCE Medley, the acci­
dental killing of a Person with­
out Malice propense.

CHANCEL, that part of a
Church next the Altar or Com­
munion-Table.

CHANCELLOR, an Officer
of great Dignity and Power.

The Lord CHANCELLOR, 
a Person who hears Causes in
the High Court of Chancery,
and moderates the Common-­
Law according to Equity.

CHANCERY, a Court of
Equity moderating the Severity
of other Courts.

CHANDLER, a Seller of va­
rious sorts of Wares

CHANGE, Alteration, Va­
riety

To CHANGE, to alter, to
transform, to barter.

CHANGEABLE, apt to
change or alter, uncertain, in­
constant. 

CHANGELING, a Fool, an
Idiot, a silly Fellow.

Money CHANGER, a Ban­
ker who deals in the Receipt or
Payment of Money

CHANNEL, a Gutter, a Con­
veyance for Water in the Streets,
and from the Tops of Houses;
also a streight Sea between two
Lands.

CHANTER, a Singer in a
Chapel or Cathedral.

CHAOS, a disorderly Heap,
a Confusion.

To CHAP, to crack, or make
a Chink, to open as the Ground 
does

A CHAP, a Crack, a Chink,
a Fissure, also a Customer

CHAPE, a thin Plate of Sil­
ver or Brass, &c. at the End of
the Scabbard of a Sword

CHAPEL, a Building for di­
vine Service, where the Parish
is large

CHAPLAIN, one who per­
forms divine Service in a
Chapel.

CHAPLET, a String of
Beads used by Roman Catho­
licks, to number Prayers by.

CHAPMAN, a Customer, or
Buyer.

CHAPS, the Mouth and
Cheeks, &c. the lower parts of
the Face.

CHAPTER, a Division, or
Part of a Book.

CHAPTER, a Body of Cler­
gymen belonging to a Cathedral
or Collegiate Church.

CHAPTER-HOUSE, a Place
where the Chapter is held.

CHARACTER, Description,
Title, Quality.

CHARACTERS, Marks or
Signs, in peculiar Sciences, as
in Algebra, Printing, &c.

CHARACTERISTICK, 
a Mark, a Sign.

To CHARACTERISE, to give
a Character or Description of.



CHARCOAL, Coal made of
Wood burnt.

CHARE-WOMAN, one hi­
red by the Day to do the Work
of a House.

CHARFORD, a Ford in
Hampshire, over the River
Avon.

CHARGE, a Burden or Load,
an Employ or Office, also a
Accusation or Impeachment, an
Onset.

CHARGE, among Farriers,
is a Medicine applied to the
Body of a Horse.

To CHARGE, to command,
to give Orders, to accuse, to
load or burden, also to attack,
to fall upon an Enemy.

CHARGEABLE, costly, ex­
pensive.

CHARGER, a large Dish or
Plate.

CHARINESS, Sparingness,
Carefulness.

CHARING-CROSS, a Cross
erec ted by King Edward I. in
Memory of Queen Eleanor, now
famous for the Statue of King
Charles I.

CHARIOT, a light sort of
Coach.

CHARIOTEER, a Driver
of a Chariot.

CHARITABLE, bountiful,
liberal, kind, beneficent.

CHARLES, a Name of Men.

CHARM, a Spell, an In­
chantment, a Bait or Allure­
ment.

To CHARM, to ravish, to
bewitch, to delight extremely.

CHARMER, one who be­
witches, or charms.

CHARNEL-HOUSE, a Place
for dead Mens Bones.

CHARON, the Ferryman
who carries Souls over the Ri­
ver Styx.

CHARR, a Fish like a Trout.

CHARTS, Maps, Descrip­
tions or Draughts of Places.

CHARTER, Letters, Patent
granted by the King for parti­
cular Privileges to Towns or
Corporations.

CHARTER-HOUSE, former­
ly a Convent, now a College,
founded and nobly endowed by
Tho Sutton Esquire.

CHARTER-LAND, Land
which a Man holds by Charter,
otherwise called Freehold.

CHARY, careful, choice,
sparing.

To CHASE, to hunt, to fol­
low, to pursue.

To CHASE as Silversmiths, 
to emboss.

CHASM, an opening of the
Earth, a Gap.

CHAST, modest, uncorrupt­
ed, unpolluted, undefiled.

To CHASTEN,
To CHASTIZE, to correct, 
to punish.

CHASTISEMENT, Correc­
tion, Punishment.

CHASTITY, Modesty, Con­
tinence.

CHAT, prating idle Talk

To CHAT, to prate, to chat­
ter, &c.

CHATTELS, all Goods
moveable and immoveable, but
such as are in the Nature of a
Freehold.

To CHATTER, to prate or
prattle, to make a Noise as
Birds do, or with the Teeth as
when a Person is cold.

CHATTER-PIE, a kind of
Bird

CHAUNTRY, a Church or
Chapel endowed with a yearly
Revenue, for the Maintenance
of those Priests who sing daily
Masses for the Donors.

CHEAP, of a small Price or
Value.



To CHEAPEN, to ask the
Price of a Commodity, to beat
down.

CHEAR, Joy, Gladness,
Courage, Heart.

CHERDSLEY, a Town in
Buckinghamshire.

CHEARFUL, brisk, gay,
lively

CHEAT, a Deceit, Knavery,
Couzening.

CHECK, Reproof, Censure,
Restraint

To CHECK, to curb or re­
strain, also to chide or repri­
mand.

CHECKER-Work, Work set
out with divers Colours, or in
Squares 

CHEDDER, a Place in So­
mersetshire, famous for large
Cheeses

CHEER, good Fare, Enter­
tainment. 

CHEESE, an Eatable made
of Milk.

CHELMSFORD, a Town in
Essex.

CHELSEY, a Town in
Middlesex,on the River Thames,
famous for a noble College.

CHEPSTOW, in Monmouth­
shire

To CHERISH, to nourish,
to maintain, to make much of

CHERISHER, one who
cherisheth, or assisteth

CHERRY, a Fruit well
known

CHERTSEY, a Town in
Surrey, near the River Thames.

CHERUBIM, the Second of
the Nine Orders of Angels.

CHERVIL, a Sallad Herb.

CHESNUT, a sort of Fruit.

CHESS, a sort of Game.

CHEST, a sort of Box, or
Trunk, also the Breast, or that
Part of the Body which contains
the Heart and Lungs.

CHESTER, a City in Cheshire. 

CHESTER UPON STREET, 
a Place in the Bishoprick of
Durham. 

CHESTHUNT, a Place in
Hertfordshire

CHEVERIL, a kind of ten­
der Leather made of the Skins
of Goats.

To CHEW, to grind Meat
between the Teeth.

CHICANE, Tricking, Cun­
ning.

To CHICANE, to trick, to
deceive, to couzen. 

CHICHESTER, a City in
Sussex, and a Bishop's See.

CHICKLINGS, a sort of
Pulse called everlasting Pease.

A CHICK,
A CHICKEN, the Young of 
a Hen.

To CHIDE, to rebuke, to
find Fault with, to wrangle.

CHIDLEY, a Place in De­
vonshire. 

CHIEF, a principal, first, so­
vereign, also a Commander.

CHIEFTAIN, a Captain or
General.

CHILBLAIN, a Swelling
occasioned by Cold.

A CHILD, a Son or Daughter.

CHILDERMAS-DAY, Inno­
cents-Day, the 27th of Decem­
ber, observed in Commemora­
tion of the Murder of the Beth­
lehem Children by Herod.

CHILDHOOD, the State of
a Child.

CHILDISH, silly, like a
Child.

CHILL, 
CHILLY, cold, or sensible 
of cold.

CHILTERN, a Town in
Buckinghamshire

CHIMÆRA, 
CHIMERA, an idle Con­
ceit, a Whim,
a strange Fancy.

CHIMERICAL, imaginary,
whimsical, fantastical



CHIME, a Tune set to Bells,
or in a Clock.

To CHIME, to ring Bells in
a particular manner.

CHIMNEY, a Funnel for the
Conveyance of Smoke.

CHIMNEY-MONEY, a Tax
formerly laid upon Fire-hearths. 

CHIN, the lower-part of the
Face.

CHINA, the most eastern
Part of Asia, from whence we
have Tea and China Ware.

CHINA-ROOT, a Root used
in Diet-drinks.

CHINE, the Back-bone.

To CHINE, to cut through
quite down the Back.

CHINE COUGH,
CHIN-COUGH, a violent 
Cough in­
cident to young Children.

CHINK, a Cleft in a Wall or
Board.

To CHINK, to gape like the
Earth, also to ring or sound like
Money. 

CHINT, fine India painted
Callicoe.

CHIPPENHAM, a Town in
Wiltshire.

CHIROGRAPHY, a Writing
with one's own Hand

CHIROMANCER, a Person
skilled in Chiromancy.

CHIROMANCY, the Art of
telling Fortunes by the Hands

A CHIP, a small Piece of
Wood cut off with an Ax

To CHIRP, to make Noise
like a Bird

CHIRURGEON, a Sur­
geon.

CHIRURGERY, the Art of
Surgery.

CHIRURGICAL, belonging
to Surgery.

CHISEL,
CHIZZEL, a Joyner's or 
Carpenter's
Tool.

CHIT, a little sniveling Boy
or Girl.

CHIT-LARK, a kind of
Bird.

Not found in OED, unless "titlark".



CHITTERLINGS, Guts
cleaned and dressed for Food, an
Ornament for Linnen.

CHIVALRY, Horsemanship,
Knighthood, Valour.

CHIVES, fine Threads of
Flowers, also a small sort of
Onions.

CHOCOLATE, a sort of
Drink made with Indian Cocoa­
Nuts.

CHOICE, Election, a chu­
sing, also rare, chosen.

CHOIR, the Quire of a 
Church where divine service is
said or sung.

To CHOKE, to strangle or
stifle, to stop up.

CHOAK-PEAR, a rough­
tasted pear used in baking

CHOLER, Bile, a yellow
Liquid in the Gall-Bladder, al­
so Anger or Passion, &c.

CHOLERICK, passionate,
abounding with Choler. 

To CHOOSE, to elect, to
make Choice of, to pick out.

To CHOP, to mince, to cut
small, also to truck or ex­
change.

A CHOPIN, a liquid Mea­
sure which contains about a 
Pint Winchester Measure.

CHORDEE', a Contraction of
the Frænum in Gonorrh&aelig,a,
which binds the Yard down.

CHORISTER, a Quirister.

CHOROGRAPHY, a Part of
Geography, which treats of
particular Countries.

CHORUS, a Company of
Singers, a Choir or Quire.

To CHOWSE, to cheat or
cozen.



CHRIST, the Name of the
ever Blessed Redeemer of Man­
kind.

To CHRISTEN, to baptize
in the Name of Christ.

CHRISTENDOM, that Part
of the World professing Christi­
anity

CHRISTIAN NAME, the
Name given to a Child in Bap­
tism.

A CHRISTIAN, one who
professes Christianity.

CHRISTIAN, belonging to
the Doctrine of Christ.

CHRISTIANITY, the Reli­
gion and Principles or Christi­
ans

CHRISTMAS, the Festival
of Christ's Nativity, on the
25th of December.

CHRISTOPHER, a Man's
Name.

CHRONICAL, belonging to
Time, of long continuance.

CHRONICAL Distempers, 
such as come by Fits at certain
times, which do not rise pre­
sently to a height, but waste
the Patient by degrees.

CHRONICLE, a History ac­
cording to the Order of Time.

CHRONICLES, the Name of
two Books in the Old Testament.

CHRONOLOGER, a Writer
of Chronology.

CHRONOLOGICAL, 
belonging to Chronology.

CHRONOLOGY, a Science
teaching the Computation of
Time from the Creation.

CHRYSOSTOM, the Name
of an ancient Bishop of Con­
stantinople, famous for his Elo­
quence

CHUB, a sort of Fish with a
great Head.

CHUB, a great Jolt-head.

To CHUCK, to stroke under
the Chin, also to cry like a
Partridge.

To CHUCKLE, to burst out
into Laughter, to laugh by Fits
as if tickled

A CHUCKLE, 
CHUCKLEHEAD, a rat­
ling, 
noisy, empty Fellow.

CHUFFY, clownish, rough,
rude.

CHUM, a Chamber-fellow,
a Bedfellow

CHUMP, a thick soft Block,
or Log of Wood.

CHURCH, a Place for di­
vine Service, also a Congrega­
tion of Christians.

The Catholick CHURCH, 
the whole Body of the Faithful.

CHURCH-Wardens, Officers
annually chosen to take care
of the Church, and Parish Af­
fairs

CHURL, a Clown, a stingy
Fellow.

CHURLISH, a clownish, ill­
natured, surly.

CHURLISHNESS, Surliness,
Clownishness.

A CHURN, a Vessel to make
Butter in.

To CHURN, to beat Cream
in a Churn to make Butter.

CHYMICAL, belonging to
Chymistry

CHYMIST, a person skilled
in Chymistry.

CHYMISTRY, the Exami­
nation of the component Parts
of Bodies by the Help of Fire.

CIBOL, a sort of small
Onion.

CICATRICE, a Mark or
Scar.

To CICATRIZE, to heal up,
to bring to a Scar.

CICELEY, a Woman's
Name.



CICERO, the Name of the
famous Roman Orator

CICERONIAN Style, an ele­
gant Style like Cicero's

CICESTER, 
CIRENCESTER, a Town 
in Glou­
cestershire

CICHORY, 
SUCCORY, an Herb called 
wild Endive

CIDER, a Drink made of
Apples

CIELING, the Partition be­
tween the Floors of a House,
the Top of a Room.

CIMBRI, the antient Britains.

CIMITER, a crooked Sword
used in Turkey, &c.

CINDERS, Coals burnt to
pieces, Embers.

CINNAMON, a Spice; the
second Bark of a Tree growing
in the East-Indies

CINQUEPORTS, five Havens
on the East part of England,
Hastings, Dover, Romney, Hithe
and Sandwich, to which Rye
and Winchelsea are since added.

Lord Warden of the CINQUE­
PORTS, a Governour of those
Havens, who has the Authority
of an Admiral.

CION, a young Shoot, Sprig,
or Sucker.

CIPHER, of no value except
a Figure is placed on the Left­
hand of it, which increases its
Value by Tens, also the first
letters of a Person's Name in­
terwoven together Ciphers al­
so signify odd Characters in
which Letters are written,
that they may not be under­
stood

CIRCLE, a Compass, or
Ring, &c.

CIRCLES of the Empire, are
Provinces of Germany, of which
there are ten.

CIRCUIT, a Compass, a
Tour, also the Journies of the
Judges twice a Year.

CIRCULAR, round, in Form
of a Circle.

To CIRCULATE, to move
round as the Blood does in a hu­
man Body.

CIRCULATION, a continu­
al Motion round.

To CIRCUMCISE, to cut
round about

CIRCUMCISION, a cutting
off a part of the Fore-skin of
the Yard, a Ceremony used by
the Jews and Mohammedans.

CIRCUMFERENCE, the Out­
line of a Circle.

CIRCUMLOCUTION, 
a round about Discourse.

To CIRCUMSCRIBE, to
bound, or set Limits to, &c.

CIRCUMSPECT, wary, cau­
tious, considerate.

CIRCUMSPECTION, Hoed, 
Wariness, Care.

CIRCUMSTANCE, a Parti­
cular that accompanies an Ac­
tion, as Time, Place, &c.

CIRCUMSTANTIAL, rela­
ting to Circumstances

CIRCUMVALLATION­
Line, a Line cut by the Besiegers,
to defend the Camp against an
Army that should attempt to re­
lieve the Town Besieged.

To CIRCUMVENT, to come
about, also to over-reach, to
deceive.

CIRCUMVOLUTION, a rol­
ling or turning about.

CISTERN, a Vessel of Lead
to keep Water in.

CITADEL, a Fort built near
a City, that may command it in
case of Rebellion

CITATION, a quoting, also
a Summons to appeal before an
ecclesiastical Judge.



To CITE, to quote a Passage
in a Book, also to summons
before a spiritual Judge.

CITIZEN, an Inhabitant of
a City, a Freeman.

CITRINE OR CITRON Co­
lour, a Lemon Colour.

CITRON, an agreeable Fruit
resembling a Lemon.

CITY, a large Town, a Town
Corporate, having a Cathedral
Church, and a Bishop's See.

CIVET, a Perfume like Musk,
found in a Bag under the Tail
of Civet cat

CIVIL, courteous, well-bred.

CIVIL-LAW, a Body of
Laws, composed out of the best
of the Grecian and Roman Laws

CIVILIAN, a Professor or
Student of the Civil-Law.

CIVILITY, Courtesy, Good­
manners.

To CIVILIZE, to make cour­
teous, to polish.

To CLACK, to rattle, snap,
or make a Noise, also to blab.

A CLAIM, a Challenge or De­
mand

To CLAIM, to lay claim to,
to challenge, to pretend a Right
to any thing

To CLAMBER, to creep up
a high Place

CLAMMY, glewy, sticking,
thick.

CLAMOROUS, noisy, full of
Clamour.

To CLAMOUR, to make a
Noise, to complain, to cry out
against

CLAN, a Family or Tribe in
Scotland. 

CLANDESTINE, in private,
in secret, by the stealth, &c.

CLANDESTINELY, private­
ly, secretly. 

To CLANG, to sound like a
Trumpet

CLAP, a Blow, a Crack;
the Pox.

To CLAP one, to give one the
French Disease.

CLAP-NET and Looking­
glass, an Invention to catch
Birds

CLARA, a Name of Women.

CLARE, a Village in Suffolk.

CLARET, a Name for red
Wines.

CLARIFICATION, a clari­
fying of Liquors. 

To CLARIFY, to make
clear.

CLARY, a sort of Plant.

To CLASH, to make a Noise
like two Swords struck one a­
gainst the other, to quarrel, to
disagree.

A CLASP, a sort of Buckle.

To CLASP, to buckle, to
embrace.

CLASP-NAILS, a sort of
Nails with small Heads, that
they may sink into the Wood.

CLASS, a Form in a School, 
an Order, Rank or Distinction.

CLASSICAL, belonging to a
Degree or Class.

A CLASSICK Author, an Au­
thor read in the Schools

To CLATTER, to make a
Noise

A CLATTERING, a rat­
ling Noise.

CLAVER-GRASS,
CLOVER-GRASS, a kind 
of three
leaved Grass.

CLAW, the Nail of a Fowl's
Foot, and of some Beasts.

To CLAW, to scratch or
tear.

CLAY, a fat clammy Earth.

CLEAN, pure, free from Dirt.

CLEANLINESS, Neatness,
&c.

CLEANLY, clean, pure, free
from Filth.



To CLEANSE, to make clean.

CLEAR, fair, fine, pure.

To CLEAR, to make room.

CLEAR-Sighted, one that
has a quick Sight, also sharp,
or ready wired

CLEARNESS, Brightness,
Transparency

To CLEAVE, to stick or ad­
here to, also to split to Pieces.

CLEAVER, a Butcher's
Chopping-Knife

CLEMENCY, Meekness,
Mildness, Gentleness.

CLEMENT, meek, mild,
gentle, also a Man's Name.

To CLENCH, to make fast,
to turn the Points of Nails.

CLENCH-NAILS, such as
will drive without splitting the
Wood

CLERGY, an Order of Men
peculiarly devoted to the Service 
of God.

CLERK, a Title given to
Clergymen or Ministers of the
Church

CLERK of the Crown, an
Officer who attends the Lord­
Chancellor for special Matters
of State.

CLERK of the Crown Office, 
one who draws, reads and re­
cords all Indictments against
Traitors. 

CLEVELAND, a Place in
Yorkshire

CLEVER, a skilled, ingenious,
handy, well shaped

CLEVERLY, skillfully,
handily, &c.

CLEW, a Bottom of Yarn,
Thread &c.

To CLICK, a Word used to
express the Noise of a Watch, &c

A CLICKER, a Journeyman­
Shoemaker, who invites Cus­
tomers into a Shop.

CLIENT, one who employs a
Lawyer to plead his Cause.

CLIFF,
CLIFT, the Side of a Hill 
or craggy Moun­ 	
tain.

CLIMACTERICAL Years, 
are certain observable Years
which are supposed to be at­
tended with some extraordinary
Change of Life, which is every
seventh or ninth Year, the grand
Climactericks are, the Sixty­
third and Eighty-first-Years,
wherein if any Sickness happens
it is accounted dangerous.

CLIMATE, a Part of the
Earth between two Circles pa­
rallel to the Equator, where
there is half an Hour's Difference
in the longest Day of Summer

To CLIMB, to creep up by
little and little

To CLINCH, to gripe hard
with the Fist.

A CLINCHER, a witty, in­
genious Person, smart at Re­
partee.

To CLING, to stick close to.

CLINGY, apt to cling,
clammy.

To CLINK, to ring or sound
like Metal.

CLIO, one of the Nine Muses.

To CLIP, to cut around about
or small

CLIVERS, a kind of Herb.

CLOKE, an outward Gar­
ment or Covering

To CLOTHE, to cover with
Cloth, to dress

CLOCK, a Machine to mea­
sure Time.

CLOD, a Lump of Earth.

CLOG, a Piece of Wood
fastened to the Legs of Beasts,
to prevent their going astray,
a Load or Hindrance.

CLOGS, Pattens without
Rings.

CLOISTER, a Place in a 
Monastery with Piazzas.



To CLOISTER, to confine,
or shut up.

CLOSE, near together, thick,
also dark, hidden, reserved.

A CLOSE, the Conclusion or
end of a Thing, also a Piece of
Ground hedged about.

To CLOSE, to conclude,
to make an End, to agree
with.

CLOSELY, nearly, together.

CLOSENESS, the being close
or near together, Reservedness

CLOSET, an small Apartment
in a Room.

CLOTH, the Stuff of which
Garments are made.

CLOTTED, thick, in Lumps.

CLOUDS, a Gathering of
watry Particles, which united
into Drops form Rain.

CLOUDINESS, the being
cloudy, Surliness

CLOUDY, abounding with
Clouds, overcast.

CLOVE of Garlick, &c.

CLOVES, a Spice, the Fruit
of a Tree in the East-Indies.

CLOVER-GRASS, an ex­
cellent Grass for Cattle.

CLOUTERLY Fellow, a
stupid Jolt-headed Fellow

CLOUTS of a Cart, are Iron
Plates nailed on the End of the
Axle-Tree, to save it from
wearing.

CLOWN, a country Fellow,
an unmannerly Person.

CLOWNISH, awkard, un­
mannerly, rude

To CLOY, to glut, to be o­
ver satisfied, or filled.

A CLUB, a large Stick.

CLUB-LAW, that which
obliges every Man to pay an
equal Share.

To CLUCK, to cry like a 
hen to her Chickens.

CLUMPER, a Clot, a Clod.

To be CLUMPERED, to be
clotted together.

CLUMPS, Numbskull.

CLUMSINESS, Aukward­
ness, Unhandiness.

CLUMSY, aukward, thick,
unhandy.

CLUNG, shrunk, half fa­
mished, withered

CLUSTER, a Bunch of Fruit,
as Grapes, &c also a Heap of
Things

To CLUTCH, to clinch the
Fist.

CLUTCHES, clinched Hands,
Possession. 

To CLUTTER, to make a
Noise, or rattle.

A CLUTTER, a Stir, a
Bustle.

A CLYSTER, a Medicine
injected into the Bowels by the
Fundament. 

A COACH, a large sort of
Chariot with two Seats.

COADJUTOR, a Fellow­
Helper or Assistant

To COAGULATE, to con­
geal, thicken, curdle.

To COAKS, to flatter, to
sooth, to fawn upon.

COAL, a Fuel dug out of the
Earth.

COAST, a Country lying on
the Sea, a Seal-shore

To COAST along, to sail a­
long the Coast

COASTING, Sailing within
Sight of the Land.

COAT, an outward Garment,
also a Sheepfold. 

COAT of Mail, a Piece of
Armour which covers the whole
Body.

To COBBLE, to botch, to
work pitifully

A COBBLER, a Mender of
old Shoes, a bungling Work­
man.



COBWEB, a Web made by
Spiders.

COCAO, 
CACAO, an Indian Nut of 
which Chocolate
is made.

COCHENEAL, a Grain used
in Dying of Scarlet, &c.

A COCK, a Fowl, also the
Pin of a Dial or Gun, the Needle
of a Balance.

COCK of Hay, a Heap of
Hay

COCK-A-HOOP, standing up­
on high Terms.

COCKATRICE, a Serpent,
otherwise called a Basilisk.

COCKPIT, a Place for the
Fighting of Cocks.

COCKSWAIN,
COCKSON, an Officer of 
a Ship who
takes care of the Cockboat, and
is in Readiness with his Crew to
man it upon Occasion.

COCKERMOUTH, a Town
in Cumberland

COCKET, a Warrant sealed
by the Officers of the Customs,
to certify that the Goods of a
Merchant are custom'd

COCKLE, a Shell-Fish.

To COCKLE, to shrink, to
pucker, to wrinkle up as Cloth
does.

COCKNEY, a Nick-name
given to one born in the City of
London.

COCKREL, a young Cock.

COCO, an Indian Nut which
contains a sweet Liquor.

COD, a Husk or Shell; a Bag 
containing Mens Testicles, also 
a sort of Fish

CODE, a Volume of the
Civil-Law collected by the Em­
peror Justinian, and compiled
into a Book called Codex.

CODICIL, a Supplement to a
will or other Writing.

CODLIN, an Apple for Stew­
ing.

COEQUAL, equal to each
other, as Fellows and Partners
are.

COERCIVE, restraining, ser­
ving to keep in.

COESSENTIAL, of the same
Essence.

COETERNAL, of equal Eter­
nity with one another.

COEXISTENT, of the same
Existence.

COFFEE, a Drink well
known, made with a Berry
brought from Turkey

COFFER, a Chest, a long
Box.

COFFERER, an Officer of
the King's Household.

COFFIN, a Case for a dead
Corps.

To COG, to flatter, to cheat
at Dice

COGENT, pressing, urging,
forcing, strong.

COGITATION, Thought,
Reflection, Cognisance, Know­
ledge.

COGNITION, a knowing or
judging of a Thing.

To COHABIT, to live to­
gether.

COHABITATION, a coha­
biting or living together.

COHEIR, a joint Heir with
another.

COHEIRESS, a Woman who
shares Inheritance with another

To COHERE, to stick or
hang together, to agree.

COHERENCE, a sticking to­
gether, an Agreement.

COHERENT, a Discourse is
so when it is well connected, or
hangs well together. 

COIF, a sort of Hood, or Cap
for the Head.

A COIL, a Clutter, Noise or
Tumult.

COIN, any sort of stamped
Money.



COINCIDENT, happening
together, falling in with.

COITION, a Meeting toge­
ther, the Act of Copulation.

COITS,
QUOITS, a sort of Iron 
Rings or Horse­
Shoes, to play with.

COLCHESTER, the princi­
pal Town in Essex.

COLEBROOK, a Town in
Buckinghamshire.

COLEHAM, a Town in Mid­
dlesex. 

CHOLICK, a violent Pain in
the Belly.

COLLAPSED, fallen to de­
cay, ruined.

COLLAR, the upper part of
a Doublet or Band, also a Ring
to wear about the Neck of a 
Dog or Horse.

COLLAR of S'S, a Collar or
Chain worn about the Neck of
the Knights of the Garter. 

To COLLAR, to lay hold of
another by the Collar.

COLLAR-DAYS, Festival-­
Days, when the Knights of the
Garter wear the Collar of S'S.

To COLLATE, to bestow a
Spiritual Living, to compare
or examine, also to examine
whether Books are perfect.

COLLATERAL, on one Side,
as collateral Relations are Bro­
ther's and Sister's Children, and
their Descendants.

COLLATERAL Security, is
any Security given beside the
Deed itself, for the Performance
of a Covenant.

COLLATION of a Benefice, 
is the bestowing a Church Li­
ving by a Bishop who has it in
his own Gift.

COLLEAGUE, a Fellow or
Copartner in an Office, a Fellow
Collegian

A COLLECT, a short Prayer
with the Epistles and Gospels
appropriated to any particular
Day or Occasion by the Church.

To COLLECT, to gather, or
pick up.

COLLECTION, a gathering,
or picking up, Things gathered
together, as a Collection of
Books.

COLLECTIVE, gathered to­
gether into one, comprehensive.

COLLEGE, a Company or
Society of People of the same
Profession, also the Building
where they live.

COLLEGIATE Church, is
one endowed for a Society of a 
Dean, &c. and Prebendaries
and Canons, &c.

To COLLIDE, to break,
knock or bruise together.

COLLIER, one who deals or
works in Coals.

COLLISION, a dashing or
striking together.

To COLLOGUE, to flatter,
coaks, or sooth, to conspire to­
gether. 

COLLOP, a Cut or Slice of
Meat.

COLLOQUY, a Discourse, a
Conference. 

To COLLUDE, to deceive.

COLLUSION, Deceit, Cou­
senage.

COLLUSORY, done by De­
ceit or Collusion

COLLY, the Black of a Ket­
tle or Chimney.

To COLLY, to blacken with
Soot, to smut, &c.

COLLYFLOWER, a sort of
Cabbage Plant bearing a Flower.

COLONEL, the chief Com­
mander of a Regiment

COLONY, a Plantation, or
People transplanted from one
Country to another to culti­
vate it.

COLOSSUS, one of the
Wonders of the World, being



the Statue of a Man so large, that
Ships sail'd between its Legs.

COLOUR, Complexion,
Looks, also Shew or Pretence.

COLOURABLE, fair, plau­
sible.

To COLOUR, to give co­
lour to, to choke, to excuse, to
brush

COLOURS, the Banner of a
Company or Soldiers, also the
English placed at the Sterns and
Poops or Ships.

COLT, a young Horse, Mare,
or Ass.

COLTER, a Piece of Iron
belonging to a Plough, which
cuts the Ground.

COLTSFOOT, an Herb.

COLUMN, a round Pillar, to
bear up or adorn a Building.

COMB, an Instrument to un­
tangle the Hair, Wooll, &c.
also the Crest of a Cock.

To COMB, to untangle the
Hair, &c.

COMBATANT, a Champion,
fighting Man.

COMBAT, a Fight or Battle.

To COMBATE, to fight, to
resist, to oppose.

COMBER, Perplexity, Trou­
ble, Misfortune.

COMBINATION, a confede­
racy, or Conspiracy.

To COMBINE, to join to­
gether, to conspire, to plot to­
gether.

COMBUSTIBLE, apt to take
Fire, or burn

COMBUSTION, a Burning;
an Uproar, a Hurley-burley.

To COME, to draw nigh, to
approach

COMEDIAN, an Actor of
Comedies, a Stage-Player.

COMEDY, a Dramatick
Piece, representing some Action
of Human Life in a comick
manner.

COMELINESS, Beauty,
Gracefulness.

COMELY, beautiful, hand­
some, graceful

COMET, a Blazing-Star

COMFIT, Sweet meats, Fruits,
&c preserved dry

To COMFORT, to strengthen,
or instruct with Counsel

COMFORT, Consolation. 

COMICAL, mercy, facetious, 
pleasant, humorous

COMICALLY, merrily, fa­
cetiously.

A COMING Wench, a free
temper'd Girl

To COMMAND, to bid,
charge or order; to rule.

COMMANDER, a chief
Officer or General, a Gover­
nour.

COMMANDMENT, a divine
Precept, Ordinance, or Law.

To COMMEMORATE, to
remember, to celebrate the Me­
mory of a worthy Person, or
Action.

COMMEMORATION, 
a remembring or mentioning,
a solemn Remembrance of some
memorable Action.

To COMMENCE, to begin;
also to proceed in a Law Suit,
to take a Degree in the Uni­
versity.

COMMENCEMENT, an A­
cademical Meeting, when Stu­
dents begin to be Masters of
Arts, &c. 

To COMMEND, to praise,
to speak well of, also to give
in charge.

COMMENDABLE, Praise­
worthy, that deserves Commen­
dation.

COMMENDAM, a void Be­
nefice commended to an able
Clerk, till it be otherwise dis­
posed of. 



COMMENDATION, a prais­
ing or setting forth; also Re­
spect or Service sent to an­
other. 

COMMENDATORY, which
serves to recommend. 

COMMENSURABLE, equal
in Measure or Proportion.

COMMENSURATION, 
a measuring one Thing by an­
other

COMMENT, a Remark up­
on, or Exposition of an Author's
Text, an Interpretation or
Gloss

To COMMENT, to remark,
or expound, to criticize, or find
Fault with an Author's Wri­
tings.

COMMENTARY, an Expo­
sition of obscure Passages in any
Author, also an Abstract or
Abridgment of Things.

COMMENTATOR, a Writer
of Commentaries

COMMERCE, Trade, Traf­
fick, also Conversation, Corre­
spondence. 

To COMMISERATE, to have
Pity upon

COMMISERATION, a ha­
ving Pity upon.

COMMISSARY, a Church-­
Officer, who supplies the Bishop's
Place in the Exercise of Ecclesi­
astical Jurisdiction, in the re­
mote Parts of his Diocese, al­
so an Officer of the Musters,
who takes account of the 
Strength of each Regiment, &c.

COMMISSION, a Power
given for one Person to act for
another, also a Warrant by 
which every Officer acts in his
Post

COMMISSION of Bankrupt­
cy, is a Commission under the
Great Seal of England, directed
to the Commissioners, to en­
quire into the Affairs of the
Bankrupt, for the Benefit of the
Creditors.

To COMMISSION, to give
a Commission, to appoint a Per­
son to act for another.

A COMMISSIONER, one
who acts by Virtue of a com­
mission.

To COMMIT, to act, or do;
to deliver up; to refer or leave
an Affair to.

COMMITTEE, a Number of
Persons to whom a Matter is
referred.

COMMODE, a sort of Head­
dress for Women.

COMMODIOUS, useful, fit,
convenient

COMMODITY, Convenien­
cy, Advantage, Profit, also
Goods or Merchandize.

COMMODORE, an Under­
Admiral, or Commander of a
Squadron or Ships at Sea.

COMMON, ordinary, pub­
lick; also that which belongs to
all alike

A COMMON, a Parcel of
Land in common to any Town
or Lordship.

COMMONALITY, the com­
mon People.

COMMON-HUNT, the chief
Huntsman belonging to the 
Lord-Mayor or City of Lon­
don.

COMMONWEALTH, any
Form of Government, as it is
distinguished from Monarchy.

COMMONWEALTHSMAN, 
a Stickler for a Commonwealth­
Government, also one who acts
for the Good of the Common­
weal.

COMMONER, a Member of
a College at the University, al­
so a Member of the House of
Commons.



COMMONS, a Proportion of
Victuals, especially the regular
Meals of a College or Society. 

The COMMONS of England, 
the Knights, Burgesses, &c.
assembled in Parliament.

COMMOTION, Disturbance,
Noise, Uproar, Confusion.

To COMMUNE, to discourse
or talk together.

COMMUNICABLE, that may
be comunicated or imparted

COMMUNICANT, one who
receives the Sacrament of the
Lord's-Supper.

To COMMUNICATE, to
tell, to impart, to shew, to dis­
cover or reveal, also to partake
of the holy Sacrament.

COMMUNICATION, Inter­
course, Conference, Converse

COMMUNICATIVE, ready
to impart, sociable, free, open.

COMMUNION, Fellowship,
Union by Faith, also the Sa­
crament of the Lord's-Supper.

COMMUNITY, a Partner­
ship, the having Things in
Common; a Society of Men
united for mutual Advantage.

To COMMUTE, to exchange.
In Civil Law, to buy off a Pu­
nishment.

COMPACT, close, well join­
ed, brief and pithy.

A COMPACT, a Bargain, or
Agreement.

To COMPACT, to put close
together.

COMPANION, a Company­
keeper, a Partner, Fellow or
Mate.

COMPANION of the Garter, 
a Knight of the Garter. 

COMPANY, a Society; a
small Body of Foot-Soldiers
commanded by a Captain.

COMPARABLE, that may
be compared, like.

COMPARATIVE, capable of,
or implying Comparison.

COMPARATIVELY, as
compared to something else.

To COMPARE, to examine
one thing by another, to liken.

COMPARISON, a setting two
or more things together to see
how they agree, Proportion,
Resemblance.

COMPARTMENT, a pro­
portionable Division in Building;
also a Border in a Garden.

COMPASS, the Extent of a
Thing round about.

To COMPASS, to contrive,
to plot, to endeavour, also to
effect.

Sea-COMPASS, an Instru­
ment of Use in Navigation, &c.

Pair of COMPASSES, an In­
strument to draw Circles, &c.

COMPASSION, Pity, a Fel­
low-feeling, a true Sense of an­
other's Misfortunes.

COMPASSIONATE, inclined
to Pity, or Compassion.

COMPATIBLE, that agrees
or suits with another thing.

COMPATRIOT, a Fellow­
Countryman.

To COMPEL, to force, or
constrain.

COMPENDIOUS, short, brief,
concise.

COMPENDIUM, an Albridg­
ment.

To COMPENSATE, to make
amends for, to recompense

COMPENSATION, Recom­
pence, Amends, Satisfaction.

COMPETENCY, a Suffici­
ency, Learning, &c.

COMPETENT, a sufficient, du­
ly qualified.

COMPETITION, a Rival­
ship, or standing Candidate for
the same thing.



COMPETITOR, a Ri­
val, one who sues for the same 
thing.

To COMPILE, to collect or
gather from several Authors, to
heap together.

COMPLACENCY, Pleasure
or Delight in a Thing, an a­
greeable Temper.

To COMPLAIN, to make
complaint of, to bemoan, to
bewail.

COMPLAISANCE, an oblig­
ing Carriage or Behaviour.

COMPLAISANT, courteous,
civil, mannerly.

COMPLEMENT, a filling
up or perfecting what is want­
ing

COMPLEAT, perfect, full;
also neat, fine.

COMPLETION, an Accom­
plishing, fulfilling, or perform­
ing.

COMPLEX, compound, or
conflicting of many Things put
together. 

COMPLEXION, an Embra­
cing, the State of Constitution
of the Body, the Colour of the
Face

COMPLEXIONED, tem­
pered.

COMPLIANCE, a yielding
or complying.

COMPLIANT, submitting or
yielding to.

COMPLICATED, folded, or
wrapt together

COMPLICATION, a Col­
lection of Things; also several
Diseases affecting the Body at
the same time.

COMPLICE, a Partner in a
Crime, an Accomplice.

COMPLIMENTS, obliging
Words, Civilities of Behaviour.

To COMPLIMENT, to use
Compliments or Civilities.

To COMPLORE, to bewail
or weep together.

To COMPLOT, to conspire or
combine together.

A COMPLOT, a Plot, or
Conspiracy.

To COMPLY, to yield, or
submit to.

COMPORTMENT, Be­
haviour, Carriage.

To COMPOSE, to put toge­
ther, make or frame; to quiet
or appease, to adjust or settle,
to compound or make up.

To COMPOSE, In Printing,
to set the Letters or Characters
in order according to the origi­
nal Copy.

To COMPOSE, a Difference, 
to make it up, to come to an
Agreement.

COMPONENT, serving to
compose, constituent. 

COMPOSED, quiet and easy
in Mind.

COMPOSEDNESS, ease of
Mind.

COMPOSITION, a setting or
putting together, also a Mix­
ture of different Things in
Physick.

COMPOSITION, in Trade, is
when a Debtor cannot pay the
whole Debt, but agrees with his
Creditors to pay so much in the
Pound.

COMPOSITOR, a Printer
who composes the Matter, and
makes up the Forms for the 
Press.

COMPOSURE, a Thing com­
posed, also Calmness of Mind.

COMPOUND, many Things
together. In Grammar, a Word
made of two.

To COMPOUND, to mix, to
make up of several Ingredients;
also to come to an Agreement
with Creditors for Debts.



COMPTON, in the Hole, a
Place in Warwickshire.

To COMPREHEND, to con­
tain or include; also to under­
stand.

COMPREHENSIBLE, that
may be comprehended, contain­
ed or understood.

COMPREHENSION, the un­
derstanding a Thing, the Be­
ing contained in an Act.

COMPREHENSIVE, signifi­
cant, containing much, very
full.

To COMPRESS, to squeeze
close together.

COMPRESSION, a squeezing
together.

To COMPRISE, to contain,
to include, or take in.

COMPROMISE, is a Promise
of Parties at Variance, to refer
the Decision of the Controversy
to Arbitrators.

To COMPROMISE, to con­
sent to such a Reference.

COMPULSION, a Restraint
or Force.

COMPUNCTION, a Prick­
ing, also a Remorse of Con­
science for a Crime Commit­
ted. 

COMPUTABLE, that may
be reckoned. 

COMPUTATION, a reckon­
ing or casting Account.

To COMPUTE, to reckon,
or cast up.

To CON, to know or learn,
to understand.

CONCAVE, hollow on the
inside like an Oven.

A CONCAVE, a Hollowness.

CONCAVITY, the inside
Hollowness of a round Body.

To CONCEAL, to hide, to
keep secret.

CONCEALMENT, the Act of
Concealing.

To CONCEDE, to yield, to
grant, to give way to.

CONCEIT, Opinion, Fancy,
Imagination.

To CONCEIT, to fansy, to
imagine.

CONCEITED, opinionated,
proud, affected.

CONCEIVABLE, that may
be conceived. 

To CONCEIVE, to imagine,
or apprehend; also to breed a
Child. 

CONCEPTION, a conceiving
or bearing a Child; a compre­
hending.

To CONCERN, to belong to,
or regard, to trouble one's self
with.

CONCERN, Affair, Business,
Matter of Importance, also be­
ing affected in Mind.

CONCERNED, interested,
troubled, sorry.

To CONCERT, to advise,
consult, or state an Affair; to
contrive or lay a Design.

CONCESSION, a granting,
or yielding, an Allowance or
Grant.

CONCILIATION, a Recon­
cilement, Agreement or Union.

CONCISE, brief, short.

CONCLAVE, a Closet, or
Inner-room locked up, especi­
ally a Room in the Vatican,
where the Cardinals meet to
chuse the Pope, the Assembly
of Cardinals, to elect a Pope,
or for the Decision of any im­
portant Affair in the Church.

To CONCLUDE, to finish, to
make an end, to determine, to
resolve upon, also to draw a
Consequence from something
said.

CONCLUSION, the End,
Close, or Issue of a Thing, also
a Consequence.



CONCLUSIVE, which serves
to conclude.

CONCOCTION, a Boiling;
also the Digestion of the Ali­
ments in the Stomach.

CONCOMITANT, accompa­
nying; also a Companion.

CONCORD, Agreement, U­
nion, Harmony, good Under­
standing.

To CONCORD, to agree to­
gether.

CONCORDANCE, Agree­
ment; also a general alphabe­
tical Index of all the Words in
the Bible..

CONCORDANT, agreeing
together.

CONCOURSE, a running to­
gether, a resorting of People to
a Place, a Multitude assembled.

CONCUBINE, a Woman
who lives with a Man as if she
was his lawful Wife.

CONCUPISCENCE, an eager
Desire of enjoying any thing; 
but more particularly a Wo­
man.

To CONCUR, to run tog­
ether, to conspire, or agree with
one.

CONCURRENCE, a running
together, an Agreement in
Opinion.

CONCURRENT, a Rival or
Competitor.

CONCUSSION, a shaking or
striking together, a Shock of
an Earthquake. 

To CONDEMN, to sentence 
to Death; to dislike, to disap­
prove, to give Judgment a­
gainst. 

CONDEMNABLE, which de­
serves to be condemned.

CONDEMNATION, a dis­
liking or disapproving, also a
sentencing to Death, or other
Punishment.

To CONDESCEND, to com­
ply or yield to.

CONDESCENTION, Com­
plaisance, or Compliance.

CONDIGN, worthy, accord­
ing to Desert. 

CONDISCIPLE, a School­
Fellow.

CONDITION, Nature, Dis­
position, the Circumstances of
a Person, also an Agreement.

CONDITIONAL, implying
Conditions, or Terms.

CONDITIONED, endued 
with certain Qualities, or Hu­
mours.

CONDOLENCE, a Sympa­
thy in Sorrow, a Fellow-feeling
of another's Grief.

To CONDOLE, to sympa­
thize, or take Share of un­
other's Grief.

CONDUCIBLE,
CONDUCIVE, profitable,
good, ad­
vantageous. 

To CONDUCT, to guide,
lead, or bring along.

CONDUCT, a guiding or
managing an Affair, Forecast,
Discretion, Behaviour.

CONDUCTRES, a she Guide,
&c.

CONDUIT, a Pipe for con­
veying Water, a Water-course.

CONEY, a Rabbit.

To CONFABULATE, to
talk together.

CONFECTIONER, a Seller
of Sweet-meats.

CONFEDERACY, an Alli­
ance between Princes for their
common Safety, a Conspiracy.

To CONFEDERATE, to
join in Confederacy, to com­
bine, to plot together.

CONFEDERATES, Princes, 
or States, entered into an Alli­
ance.



To CONFER, to give or be­
stow, to compare, also to dis­
course together.

CONFERENCE, a Discourse
upon particular Affairs; a
Parley.

To CONFESS, to acknow­
ledge or own, to declare one's
Sins in order to Absolution.

CONFESSOR, a Popish
Priest who hears the Confessions
of Penitents, and gives them
Absolution. 

To CONFIDE, to trust in,
to rely upon.

CONFIDENCE, Assurance,
Boldness, Presumption.

CONFIDENT, bold, daring,
positive.

A CONFIDENT, an intimate
trusty Friend, one who may be
relied upon.

To CONFINE, to curb, to
restrain, to imprison, to border
upon.

CONFINEMENT, Impri­
sonment, Restraint.

CONFINES, Borders, or Li­
mits of a Country, Frontiers.

To CONFIRM, to give fresh
Assurance of a Thing, also to
administer the Church Rite of
Confirmation. 

To CONFISCATE, to sieze
upon Goods, as forfeited to the
King's Exchequer, &c.

CONFISCATED, forfeited.

CONFLUENT, a flowing or
running together.

To CONFORM, to make
like to, to fashion or frame,
so comply with. 

CONFORMABLE, agreea­
ble, suitable, or the same Form
of Fashion.

CONFORMIST, one who
conforms to any Establishment, 
as the French Protestants to the
Church of England.

CONFORMITY, a Compli­
ance.

To CONFOUND, to mix or
huddle together, to perplex or
puzzle, to put out of Counte­
nance, also to waste or de­
stroy.

CONFOUNDEDLY, after a
horrid or terrible manner.

To CONFRONT, to bring
Face to Face, to oppose, to
compare.

CONFUSED, disordered,
perplexed, of a Heap.

CONFUSION, Disorder, Di­
sturbance, a being put to the
Blush, or out of Countenance, 
Ruin, or Destruction.

CONFUTATION, a dispro­
ving of a thing laid. 

To CONFUTE, to overthrow
the Arguments of another; to
baffle.

CONGE, Leave, Licence,
Permission; also a Bow, or re­
verence. 

CONGE d'elire, the King's
Permission to a Dean and Chap­
ter, to chuse a Bishop.

To CONGEAL, to freeze, to
thicken as Ice does.

CONGEALABLE, that may
be frozen

CONGEE, a low Bow, or
Reverence.

CONGENEROUS, of the
same sort, or kind.

CONGER, a large kind of
Eel.

CONGERSBURY, a Town in
Somersetshire.

To CONGLUTINATE, to
glue, knit, or join together.

To CONGRATULATE, to
wish Joy of, to rejoice upon the
good Fortune of another. 

CONGRATULATING, 
a wishing Joy of a thing.



To CONGREGATE, to as­
semble, to gather together.

CONGREGATION, an As­
sembly, a Meeting, or gather­
ing together.

CONGRESS, a Meeting, or
coming of People together.

CONGRUENCE, Agreeable­
ness, Conformity, Suitableness. 

CONGRUENT, agreeable,
suitable.

CONGRUITY, Agreeable­
ness, Conformity.

CONGRUOUS, convenient,
meet, proper

CONJECTURE, Guess, Sup­
position.

To CONJECTURE, to guess,
to suppose without Proof

CONJUGAL, belonging to 
a married Couple

CONJUNCTION, a join­
ing together.

CONJUNCTURE, the State 
and Circumstnce of Affairs.

CONJURATION, a Plot,
a Conspiracy, also a personal
dealing with the Devil, or evil
Spirits.

To CONJURE, to charge
upon Oath, to plot together;
also to practice Conjuration.

To CONN, to get or learn
without Book, also to beat with
the Fist.

CONNECTED, joined u­
nited, fasten together.

To CONNECT, to join, to
unite or fasten together.

CONNECTION, a joining
Things together, a Dependency
of one Thing upon another.

CONNIVANCE, a Winking
at any thing, or feigning not to
see it.

To CONNIVE, to wink at,
to take no notice of.

To CONQUER, to over­
come, to subdue, to gain by
Force of Arms.

CONQUERABLE, that may
be conquered or overcome.

CONQUEROR, one who has
conquered or overcome; a Sub­
duer. 

CONQUEST, Victory, the
Thing conquered.

CONRAD, the proper Name
of a Man.

CONSANGUINITY, the Re­
lation between Persons of the
same Blood.

CONSCIENCE, the Opinion
or Judgment, or the Testimony
or Witness of Person's own 
Mind.

CONSCIENTIOUS, one that
has a good Conscience, just, up­
right.

CONSCIENTIOUSLY, just­
ly, Uprightly.

CONSCIENTIOUSNESS, Just­
ness, Uprightness.

CONSCIONABLE, reasona­
ble, equitable.

CONSCIOUS, inwardly guil­
ty, privy to one's self or a 
Crime.

CONSCIOUSLY, guiltily.

To CONSECRATE, to de­
dicate, to hallow, to devote;
also to canonize.

CONSECRATION, a Dedi­
cating or Hallowing.

CONSECUTIVE, following,
or succeeding immediately

CONSENT, Approbation, A­
greement.

To CONSENT, to agree, or
allow of.

CONSEQUENCE, a necessary
following, or Conclusion, Im­
portance, Moment, Weight.

CONSEQUENT, following,
succeeding, ensuing.

CONSEQUENTLY, necessa­
rily following.

CONSERVATION, a Keep­
ing or Preserving.



CONSERVATOR, a Keeper
or Preserver, a Maintainer, De­
fender, or Protector.

CONSERVATORY, a Place
to lay or preserve Things in.

A CONSERVE, Flowers,
Fruits, or Herbs preserved with
Sugar.

To CONSIDER, to think of,
or meditate upon, to regard or
have respect for.

CONSIDERABLE, worthy
of Consideration, remarkable.

CONSIDERATE, advised,
circumspect, cautious, discreet.

CONSIDERATELY, ad­
visedly, cautiously, discreetly.

CONSIDERATION, 
Thought, a Reason or Motive,
a Regard, or Respect.

To CONSIGN, to appoint,
to deliver, to make over.

CONSIMILAR, a like, or
agreeing.

To CONSIST, to be made up
of, to hang or agree together.

CONSISTENCE, Essence,
the Manner of Being, the
Thickness of liquid Things.

CONSISTENT, agreeable,
suitable to.

CONSOLABLE, that may
be comforted.

CONSOLATION, Comfort,
an easing of Sorrow.

To CONSOLIDATE, to
make whole.

CONSONANT, agreeable,
conformable. 

CONSORT, a Companion,
the Wife of a Sovereign Prince,
&c.

CONSORT of Musick, a
Piece of Musick consisting of
several Parts

To CONSORT, to keep
company with.

CONSPICUOUS, clear, evi­
dent, manifest.

CONSPIRACY, a Combina­
tion, private Consultation, or
Plot, an Agreement between
People, to commit any Action.

CONSPIRATOR, a Plotter,
one who conspires with an ill
Design.

To CONSPIRE, to plot or
combine together.

CONSTABLE, an Officer for
Preservation of the Peace, also
one who has the Command of
the Tower

CONSTANCY, a Firmness,
or Resolution of Mind.

CONSTANT, steady, reso­
lute, lasting or durable.

CONSTELLATION, a
Number of fixed Stars, a
Planet.

CONSTERNATION, Fear,
Astonishment, great Surprize.

To CONSTITUTE, to ap­
point, ordain, or make.

CONSTITUTION, an Ordi­
nance or Decree; also the State
of the Body, the Form of Go­
vernment used in a Country.

To CONSTRAIN, to oblige
by Force, to keep in or re­
strain.

CONSTRAINT, Force, Vio­
lence, Compulsion.

CONSTRUCTION, a Build­
ing, also the Meaning of any
Discourse

To CONSTRUE,
To CONSTER, to ex­
pound, or
interpret the Meaning of any
thing.

CONSUBSTANTIAL, of the
same Substance.

CONSUBSTANTIATION, 
The Doctrine of the Lutherans,
who believe the Substantial
Presence of the Body and Blood
of Christ, with the Substance of
the Bread and Wine in the 
Lord's-Supper.



CONSUL, the Title of the
Chief Sovereign Magistrate a­
mong the Romans, whereof
there were two, and is now
given to the Chief Governour
of some Cities, but especially
to the Chief Managers of Trade,
or Residents for Merchants in
Foreign Parts.

To CONSULT, to advise
with, or ask a Person's Opi­
nion, to weigh a Thing, also
to provide for, or take care
of

A CONSULTATION, an
asking of Advice, or Opinion,
especially of Physicians concern­
ing their Patients.

To CONSUME, to destroy or
waste, to pine away, to di­
minish or decay, also to spend
or squander away.

CONSUMMATE, complete,
perfect, accomplished.

To CONSUMMATE, to ful­
fil, finish, or make perfect.

CONSUMMATION, a ful­
filling, finishing, or perfecting.

CONSUMPTION, a Decay,
or wasting away.

CONSUMPTIVE, that which
is inclined to decay or waste
away

CONTACT, the Touch, or
Touching.

CONTAGION, Infection,
the Catching a Disease.

CONTAGIOUS, Infectious,
apt to infect.

To CONTAIN, to hold, to
comprehend, to keep back, or
refrain, to keep within Bounds.

To CONTEMN, to despise,
slight, or set at nought.

To CONTEMPLATE, to
look upon, to behold, to medi­
tate, to consider.

CONTEMPLATION, Study,
Meditation, serious thinking.

CONTEMPLATIVE, given
to Contemplation.

CONTEMPLATOR, one who
contemplates

CONTEMPORANY,
CONTEMPORARY, of the 
same
Time or Standing, he who lives
at the same Time or Age with
a nother.

CONTEMPT, Scorn or Dis­
dain.

CONTEMPTIBLE, that de­
serves to be scorned or dis­
dained.

CONTEMPTUOUS, disdain­
ful, scornful, reproachful.

CONTEMPTUOUSLY, in a
scornful manner.

To CONTEND, to strive,
quarrel, or dispute.

CONTENTION, Struggle,
great Effort, a Quarrel.

CONTENT, 
CONTENTMENT, Ease, Satis­
faction,
Contentedness. 

CONTENTIOUS, quarrel­
some, litigious.

CONTENTS, the Matter con­
tained in a Book, Chapter, Let­
ter, Vessel, &c.

CONTEST, Dispute, Con­
troversy.

To CONTEST, to dispute, to
quarrel, or wrangle.

CONTESTABLE, that may
be disputed, disputable.

CONTEXT, the Verses in
Scripture which are before or
after the Text.

CONTEXTURE, the joining
together, or framing a Dis­
course or other thing.

CONTIGUOUS, that touches
or is next; close, adjoining.

CONTINENCE, 
CONTINENCY, Chastity, 
Temper­
ance, the abstaining from un­
lawful Pleasures.



CONTINENT, sober, tem­
perate.

CONTINGENCE, 
CONTINGENCY, a Casu­
alty or
Event, an Accident.

CONTINGENT, that may,
or may not happen, casual, ac­
cidental.

CONTINUAL, without In­
termission.

CONTINUANCE, a long
lasting, Length or Duration of
Time.

CONTINUATION, the last­
ing of any Thing without In­
termission.

To CONTINUE, to carry on,
to abide, to remain, to pursue,
or persevere.

CONTINUITY, the Joining
the several Parts of a Thing to­
gether.

CONTORSION, a Wrench­
ing, Wresting or Pulling away.

CONTRABAND Goods, 
Goods prohibited by Act of Par­
liament to be exported or im­
ported.

CONTRACT, a Bargain,
Covenant or Agreement, Arti­
cles in Writing, Deed, &c.

To CONTRACT, to bargain,
covenant or agree, also to
shorten or abridge, to get a
Disease, or ill Habit.

CONTRACTION, a Shrink­
ing or Shortning, a drawing
together. 

To CONTRADICT, to gain­
say, to speak against another
Man's Opinion.

CONTRADICTION, Gain­
saying, Opposition.

CONTRADICTORY, which
contradicts itself, or implies a
Contradiction.

CONTRADISTINCTION, a
Distinguishing on the other Side
of a Question.

CONTRARY, opposite, dis­
agreeing.

CONTRARIETY, Opposi­
tion, Disagreement.

CONTRAST, a small Dis­
pute or Difference; also a due
Disposition of the different Parts
of a Figure in Painting.

CONTRAVALLATION­
Line, a Trench cut round a Place
by the Besiegers, to secure them­
selves from the Musket-shot of
the Town.

To CONTRIBUTE, to give
something with others, to assist
in the doing any thing, to a­
vail.

CONTRIBUTION, a joint
giving of Money towards any
Business of Importance, also a
Tax paid by Frontier Towns,
to prevent being plundered

CONTRITE, sorrowful,
penitent for past Crimes, Sins,
&c. against the Divine Law.

CONTRITION, a true sin­
cere Sorrow for Sin.

CONTRIVANCE, Device,
Invention, Ingenuity.

To CONTRIVE, to invent,
to devise or imagine, to plot.

To CONTROL, to examine
an Account, to over-look, to
disprove, or find fault with, to
rule or govern.

CONTROLLER, an Over­
seer, an Officer who keeps a
Roll of the Accounts of infe­
rior Officers.

CONTROVERSY, Dispute,
Debate, Variance.

To CONTROVERT, to dis­
pute, to argue for or against.

CONTROVERTED, in dis­
pute, undetermined, not agreed
upon.

CONTUMACY, Stubborn­
ness, Wilfulness, Rebellion.



CONTUMELY, Reproach,
Abuse, Affront. 

CONTUSION, a beating or
bruising.

CONVALESCENCE, a Re­
covery of Health or Strength
after a Distemper.

To CONVENE, to assemble,
to meet together.

CONVENIENCE,
CONVENIENCY, Advantage, A­
greeableness, Fitness, Suitable­
ness.

CONVENIENT, fit, suitable,
agreeable.

CONVENT, a Religious
House, or Monastery.

CONVENTICLE, a little pri­
vate Assembly for religious
Exercises.

CONVENTION, an Assem­
bly of the States of the Realm.

CONVERSABLE, sociable,
easy of Access.

CONVERSANT, keeping
Company with, also well versed
or skilled in.

CONVERSATION, Dis­
course, Behaviour, Society.

To CONVERSE, to dis­
course, or talk together, to be
familiar with.

CONVERSION, a Change
of Turning, especially from bad
to good.

To CONVERT, to turn or
change, also to apply to one's
own Use, likewise to bring a
Person to the true Religion.

A CONVERT, a Person
who is turned to the true Re­
ligion.

CONVERTIBLE, change­
able, that may be turned.

To CONVEY, to carry or
send away, to make over an
Estate, &c.

CONVEYANCE, in Law, a
Deed by which Lands, &c. are
made over to another.

CONVEYANCER, a Person
skilled in Conveyances.

CONVICT, a Person found
guilty of a Crime.

To CONVICT, to prove a
Person guilty of an Offence.

CONVICTION, the proving
a Person guilty of a Crime by
Verdict of the Jury.

To CONVINCE, to make
one sensible of the Truth of a 
thing.

CONUNDRUM, a quaint,
humourous Sentence or Ex­
pression.

CONVOCATION, an assem­
bling together of the Clergy up­
on Church Affairs, also the
Persons so met are called Con­
vocation: The Upper-House
consists of Archbishops and Bi­
shops, &c. and the Lower­
House, of the inferior Clergy.

To CONVOKE, to call toge­
ther.

CONVOY, a Guide, or Con­
ducter, also a Man or Men of
War which go to defend Tra­
dring Ships from the Enemy;
Men, Ammunition, &c. con­
veyed into a Town.

To CONVOY, to guard, to
protect from Danger.

CONVULSION, an involun­
tary Motion of the Limbs of the
Body, as in the Cramp, &c.

CONVULSIVE, belonging to
Convulsions.

To COO, to make a Noise
like Pidgeons.

COOK, a Man or Woman
who dresses Victuals.

COOKERY, the Trade of a 
Cook, the Art of dressing Meat.

COOL, cooling, or almost
cold.

COOLER, a Vessel used by
Brewers.

COOLLY, in a cool or sedate
manner.



COOLNESS, the being cool,
or sedate.

COOM, the Stuff with which
the Axes of coach or Cart
Wheels are daubed.

A COOP, a Place to keep
Fowls in till they are fat.

A COOPER, one who makes
Tubs, Barrels, &c.

To CO-OPERATE, to work
together.

CO-ORDINATE, of the
same Rank, or Order.

COPARTNER, one who is
joined in Partnership with an­
other.

To COPE a Wall, to cover
in.

To COPE, with one, to strive
with, or make head against.

COPERNICUS, a famous
Astronomer, who supposed the
Planets to move around the sun.

COPING, the Top of a
Building, or the Brow of a
Wall made sloping.

COPIOUS, plentiful, a­
bounding.

COPIOUSLY, plentifully, a­
bundantly.

A COPIST, a Transcriber,
one who takes a Copy. 

COPPER, a Metal well
known.

COPPERASS, a sort of Mi­
neral.

COPPICE,
COPSE, a small Under­
wood which
may be cut once in Twelve or
Fifteen Years.

COPULATION, a Coupling
together, a carnal Coupling be­
tween Male and Female.

COPY, a Pattern to write af­
ter; the Original of a Book,
also a printed Book.

COPYHOLD, a Tenure for
which the Tenant has nothing
to show but the Copy of the
Rolls made by the Lord's
Court.

To COPY, to write after an
Original.

COQUETTE, an amorous,
wanton Girl.

COQUETRY, a wanton Car­
riage or Behaviour, Skill in
Intriguing, &c.

CORAL, a sort of Sea-Plant
turned to Stone

CORD, a Rope or Line. 

CORDAGE, all the Ropes or
Tackling of a Ship.

CORDELIER, a Grey-Fryar 
of the Franciscan Order.

CORDIAL, comfortable,
hearty, sincere.

CORDIALLY, heartily, sin­
cerely.

CORDIALITY, Heartiness,
Sincerity. 

CORDWAINER, a Shoe­
maker.

CORE, the Heart of Fruit

CORNITH, a famous City of
Peloponesus formerly, now a
ruined City on the Morea. 

CORINTHIAN Order, an
Order in Architecture.

CORK, the Bark of the Cork
Tree, which resembles an Oak,
and grows plentifully in Italy.

CORMORANT, a Water­
Fowl which resembles a Raven.

CORN, the Grain of Wheat,
Barley, Rye, &c.

CORNED, seasoned with Salt.

CORNELIUS, the proper
Name of a Man.

CORNER, an Angle.

CORNET, an Ensign of a
Company or Horse, who car­
ries the Standard.

CORNWALL, a County in
the West of England.

CORONATION, the Crown­
ing of a King.



CORONER,
CROWNER, an Officer 
who enquires
into the casual or accidental
Death of a Person, in the King's
Name.

CORONET, a little Crown,
such as the Lords wear at the
King's Coronation for Dis­
tinction.

CORPORAL, bodily, or be­
longing to the Body.

A CORPORAL, an inferior
Officer of Foot Soldiers.

CORPORAL Oath, so called
because the Person who takes it
is obliged to lay his Hand on
the Bible.

CORPORALITY, bodily
Substance.

CORPORATION, a political
Body established by a Royal
Charter.

CORPOREAL, of bodily
Substance, or belonging to the
Body.

CORPS, a dead Carcass.

CORPULENCY, Bulkiness,
or Grossness of Body.

CORPULENT, bulky, fat,
gross.

CORPUS CHRISTI-DAY, a
Festival in honour of the Sacra­
ment of the Lord's Supper.

To CORRECT, to amend,
to reprove or check, to punish
or chastise, also to allay or
temper.

CORRECT, without Fault.

CORRECTION, Punishment,
Reproof, Chastisement, Amend­
ment.

CORRECTLY, exactly.

CORRECTNESS, Exactness.

A CORRECTOR, one who
corrects or amends.

To CORRESPOND, to an­
swer, fit, or agree, to hold a
Commerce together by wri­
ting.

CORRESPONDENCE, 
a holding Intelligence or Com­
merce with, also an Agree­
ment or Proposition of one
thing with another.

CORRESPONDENT, an­
swering to, agreeable, suitable.

CORRIGIBLE, that may
be corrected or amended.

To CORROBORATE, to
strengthen, to confirm an Opi­
nion or Argument.

To CORRODE, to eat, or
gnaw.

CORROSION, a Gnawing,
or Eating.

CORRUPT, naught, rotten,
tainted, vicious, also bribed.

To CORRUPT, to spoil, to
debauch or defile, to bribe, to
putrify.

CORRUPTIBLE, liable to
Corruption.

CORRUPTION, a growing
rotten, or going to decay, an
Infection; also Bribery.

CORRUPTLY, viciously, 
taintedly.

CORSAIR, a Sea-Robber, a
Pirate.

To COSEN, to cheat, or de­
fraud.

COSIN,
COSEN, a Kinsman or Wo­
man, by Blood or 
Marriage.

COSMOGRAPHY, a Science
describing the several Parts of
the World.

COSMOLOGY, a Discourse
upon the World.

COSSACKS, a Militia or Bo­
dy of Men in Poland.

COST, Charge, Expence.

COSTARD-MONGER, a Sel­
ler of Apples, a Fruiterer.

COSTIVE, bound in the
Belly.

COSTLINESS, being of high
Price, Dearness. 



COSTLY, expensive, charge­
able, dear.

COTEMPORARY, one of
the same Age or Standing with
another.

COTESWOLD, a Place in
Gloucestershire.

COTTAGE, a little House in
the Country.

COTTON, a woolly Stuff
contained in the Fruit of a Tree
growing in the East-Indies.

To COUCH, to lie down;
to comprehend or comprise; to
take a Film from the Eye;
to set a Lance upon the Rest.

A COUCH, a Seat, or move­
able Bed to lie upon.

COVENANT, a Bargain or
Agreement.

To COVENANT, to make a
Bargain or Agreement.

COVENTRY, a City and
Bishoprick in Warwickshire.

COVERLET, a Covering for
a Bed.

COVERT, an Umbrage, or
shady Place.

To COVET, to desire eager­
ly, to lust after

COVETOUS, greedy, stingy,
niggardly, avaricious.

COVETOUSLY, avaricious­
ly, stingily, &c.

COVETOUSNESS, Avarice,
Greediness, an earnest Desire of
Money, &c.

To COUGH, to make a Noise
occasioned by catching Cold.

A COULTER, a cutting In­
strument in the fore-part of a 
Plough.

COUNCIL, an Assembly of
the chief Persons of a Nation,
or principal Inhabitants of a 
City.

COUNCIL,
COUNSEL, an Advocate or
Counsellor, who 
pleads the Cause of his Client
at the Bar of a Court of
Justice.

COUNSEL, Advice.

To COUNSEL, to advise, or
give Advice.

COUNSELLOR, an Adviser, 
especially a Person consulted in
Matters of Law.

Privy COUNSELLOR, a 
Member of the King's Privy
Council.

COUNT, a foreign Earl.

To COUNT, to reckon, to
cast Account; also to account,
value, or esteem.

COUNTENANCE, Looks,
Face, Visage, also Encourage­
ment.

To COUNTENANCE, to en­
courage or favour.

COUNTER, a Counting­
Board in a Shop, a Piece of
Brass or other Metal used at
Cards, also the Name of two
Persons in the City of London, 
one in the Poultry, one in Wood­
street.

To COUNTER-BALANCE, 
to weigh one Thing against the
other.

COUNTER-BOND, a Bond
to save a Person harmless, who
has given his Bond for another.

COUNTERFEIT, false, imi­
tated, feigned.

A COUNTERFEIT, a Cheat.

To COUNTERFEIT, to i­
mitate, to forge, to dissemble.

To COUNTERMAND, to
forbid, to contradict former
Orders.

COUNTERPART, in Law,
the Copy of an Indenture or
Deed, so that one Copy may be
kept by one Party, and another
by the other.

A COUNTER-PLOT, a Plot
contrived to destroy another.



To COUNTERPOISE, to
weigh one thing against an­
other.

COUNTERPOISE, an e­
qual Balance

COUNTER-POISON, an An­
tidote, something that hinders
the Effect of Poison.

COUNTER-SECURITY, Se­
curity given to a Person who has
entered into Bonds to another.

To COUNTERVAIL, to be
of equal Value, or of sufficient
Recompence for.

COUNTESS, the Wife of a
Count or Earl.

COUNTRY, an Empire,
Kingdom or Province. It is
also usually understood in Oppo­
sition to the City.

COUNTIES, Corporate, are
Citie, or ancient Boroughs,
upon which the Kings of Eng­
land have bestowed some parti­
cular Privileges.

COUNTIES Palatine, are
Four, Chester, Durham, Lan­
caster, and Ely, whose Power
was formerly very great, but
much lessened at present.

COUPLE, Two Things, or a
Pair.

To Couple, to join toge­
ther

To COPULATE, as in the
Act of Generation.

COURAGE, Bravery, Va­
lour, Resolution, Stoutness. 

COURAGEOUS, bold, stout,
full of Courage

COURAGEOUSLY, stoutly,
bravely.

COURIER, a Messenger who
rides post to bring Expresses. 

COURSE,
COARSE, thick, rough,
clownish, rude.

A COURSE, a Race, Order;
Turn, also a Service of Meat,
&c.

COURSES, Womens month­
ly Terms.

COURT, a Yard belonging
to a House, also the King's Pa­
lace, likewise a Place where
Justice is administered.

To COURT, to woo, or
make love to, to desire earnest­
ly, to sue or stand for.

COURT-DAYS, Days when
the Courts of Judicature are
open.

COURTEOUS, civil, affa­
ble, gentle.

COURTEOUSLY, civilly,
affably.

COURTEZAN,
COURTISAN, a Lady be­
longing to
the Court, also a Strumpet or
Whore.

COURTESY, Civility, Kind­
ness, an obliging Behaviour, a
Cursey, or Reverence from
Women.

COURTLY, airy, gallant,
spruce.

COURTSHIP, Courtesy, the
making Love.

COUSIN, a Kinsman or wo­
man by Blood or Marriage.

COVY of Partridges, a Flock
or Flight of those Birds.

COW, a Beast well known.

To COW one, to put one out
of heart, or keep in awe.

A COWARD, cowhearted,
one that has no courage.

COWARDLINESS, Want of
Courage.

COWARDLY, like a
Coward

COWHERD, one who looks
after Cattle.

COWSLIP, a Flower.

COXCOMB, a conceited Fel­
low.

COY, shy, one that pretends
to be modest.



To COZEN, to cheat or
bubble

CRAB, a Sea-Fish, a wild
Apple, also a small Insect
which infects Mankind

CRABBED, sour, unripe,
rough, surly.

CRABBEDLY, sourly, surlily.

A CRACK, a cracking Noise,
also a Whore.

To CRACK, to make a
Noise, to boast.

CRACKBRAINED, one dis­
ordered in his Senses.

CRACKER, a Squib, or sort
of Firework.

To CRACKLE, to make a 
cracking Noise.

CRADLE, a sort of Bed for
young Children.

CRAFT, Cunning, Subtilty,
Wile, or Trick.

Handy CRAFT, any mecha­
nick Art or Trade.

CRAFTILY, cunningly.

CRAFTINESS, Subtilty,
Cunning.

CRAFTY, cunning, subtil.

CRAGG, the small End of
the Neck, also the Top of a
Rock.

CRAGGED,
CRAGGY, rough, uneven, 
steep

To CRAM, to stuff, or thrust
close.

CRAMP, a Disease occasion­
ed by a violent Contraction of
the Muscles.

CRAMP-IRON, an Iron to
fasten Stones in Building.

CRANBOURN, a Town in
Dorsetshire

CRANE, a Fowl, a Ma­
chine to draw up a great
Weight, also a crooked Pipe
for drawing Liquors out of a 
Vessel.

CRANE, an American Fowl
having a Bag under the Neck,
which will contain two Gallons
of Water.

CRANK, brisk, merry,
pleasant.

To CRANKLE, to go in and
out.

CRANNY, a Chink or Cre­
vice.

CRAP, a cant Word for
Money.

CRAPE, a sort of Stuff
much used in Mourning

To CRASH, to make a Noise.

CRASTINATION, Delay, a
putting off

CRAVAT, a Neckcloth.

To CRAVE, to ask earnest­
ly, to beseech.

CRAVEN, a Place in York­
shire.

To CRAWL, to creep along
slowly.

CRAZILY, sickly, weakly.

CREAM, the fattest part of
the Milk.

To CREAM, to flower or
mantle like Drink.

To CREATE, to make out
of Nothing, to fashion or
frame, to cause or procure.

CREATION, a forming
Something out of Nothing,
which is proper to God only.

CREATOR, the Person who
creates.

CREATURE, a created Be­
ing, one who owes his Fortune
to the Favour of some Great
Man.

CREDENCE, Belief, Credit.

CREDENTIALS, Letters, of
Credit and Recommendation,
especially those given to Am­
bassadors, &c.

CREDIBLE, that which may
be believed, worthy of Credit.

CREDIBLY, in a manner de­
serving Belief.



CREDIT, Reputation, Trust,
Esteem, Authority, and Power.

To CREDIT, to trust, to
grace or set off.

CREDITABLE, of good
Credit or Repute, that which
brings Credit or Honour.

CREDITABLY, in good Re­
pute, handsomely.

CREDITOR, one who trusts
another with Money or Goods.

CREDULITY, Easiness to
believe

CREDULOUS, easy or ready
to believe

CREDULOUSLY, believing
too easily.

CREED, a summary Account
of the chief Articles of the
Christian Faith.

CREEK, a little Bay, a Nook
in a Harbour where any thing
is landed.

A CREEK, in the Neck, a
Pain and Stiffness in the Neck.

To CREEP, to crawl upon
all Fours, to come privately.

A CREEPER, a creeping
Creature, also a Plant so called.

CREEPING, crawling along
slowly or secretly.

CREEPINGLY, slowly, pri­
vately, secretly.

CREPITATION, a Cracking
or Noise.

CREPUSCLE, the Twilight.

CRESSES, the Name of an
Herb

CREST, the Tuft on the
Head of a Bird, the Mane of a
Horse, the Top of an Helmet.

CRETE, an Island in the
Mediterranean, now called
Candy.

CREVICE, a Chink or Cleft. 

CREW, a Company or Gang.

CREWET, a Viol, or nar­
row mouthed Glass to hold Oil
or Vinegar.

CRAYFORD, a Town in
Kent.

CRIB, a Cratch, or Manger 
for Cattle.

CRIBBAGE, a Game at
Cards.

CRICK, a Cramp in the
Neck.

CRICKET, a little Insect a­
bout Chimnies and Ovens, a
little Stool; also a sort of Play
with Batts and Ball.

CRIME, an Offence, a Fault,
a Sin or Transgression.

CRIMINAL, guilty of a
Crime, or belonging to it.

A CRIMINAL, an Offender,
a Malefactor. 

CRIMSON, a fine deep red
Colour.

To CRINGE, to make a ve­
ry low Bow, or great Sub­
mission.

To CRINKLE, to go in
and out, to run in Folds or
Wrinkles.

CRIPPLE, a Lame Person, 
one who has lost the Use of his
Limbs

CRIPPLEGATE, one of the
Gates of the City of London.

CRISP, dried by frying,
brittle, apt to crumble.

ST. CRISPIN, the Patron of
the Shoemakers.

CRITICAL, of nice Judg­
ment, censorious. 

CRITICISM, the Art of
Judging or Censuring Mens
Actions, Words, or Writings,
also critical Discourse or Re­
flection.

To CRITICISE, to play the
Critick, to censure a Man's
Actions, Words, or Writings;
to examine strictly, to find
fault with.

To CROCK, to black with 
Soot.



CROCODILE, a large Crea­
ture in the Shape of a Lizard,
living on Land and in Water

CROCUS, Saffron, of Saffron­
Colour.

To CROKE, to make a Noise
like a Frog, or Raven, or as
the Guts do with Wind.

CRONY, an intimate Friend
or Acquaintance. 

A CROOK, a Shepherd's
Staff.

CROOKED, not strait, bent,
turning in and out.

CROOKEDLY, in a crooked
manner, aukwardly. 

CROOKEDNESS, the Bent,
or Crooked. 

CROP, the Ears of Corn, the
whole Parcel of it in Harvest,
also the Craw or Stomach of a
Bird.

CROSIER, a Bishop's Staff,
in the shape of a Shepherd's
Crook.

CROSS, a Gibbet formerly
used to fasten Malefactors up­
on, also Trouble or Affliction.

CROSSGRAINED, peevish,
stubborn, humoursome

CROSSPURPOSES, contrary
Designs or Devices.

CROTCHET, a Fansy, or
Whim. 

To CROUCH, to bow down
submissively.

CROUCHING, bowing, sub­
missive

CROUP, the hinder part of a 
Horse

A CROUPER, a Device put
under a Horse's Tail, to keep
the Saddle steady.

A CROW, a Bird; also an
Instrument for moving heavy
Things.

To CROW, to make a Noise
like a Cock, to brag, or
boast.

CROWD, a Throng, Multi­
tude or Press.

CROWLAND, a Town in
Lincolnshire.

CROWN, a Cap of State
worn by Sovereign Princes,
also a Coin of Five Shillings
Value; likewise the Top of the
Head.

To CROWN, to set a Crown
on the Head, to reward, to
finish honourably.

CROWN-GLASS, the finest
sort of Window-Glass.

CRUCIAL, in the Shape of a
Cross.

To CRUCIATE, to torment.

CRUCIBLE, a Melting-Pot
made of Earth, for the melting
Metals, Minerals, &c.

CRUCIFIX, a Figure re­
presenting Christ upon the Cross

CRUCIFICTION, a fixing to
a Cross, crucifying. 

To CRUCIFY, to fix to a 
Cross, also to mortify. 

CRUDE, raw, undigested.

CRUDITY, Rawness, or In­
digestion in the Stomach.

CRUEL, hard hearted, fierce,
painful, grievous

CRUELLY, in a cruel or
barbarous manner.

CRUELTY, Barbarousness,
Hard-heartedness, also ill Tem­
per.

To CRUISE, to sail up and
down for Guard of the Seas.

A CRUISER, a Ship ap­
pointed to cruise.

CRUM, a small Bit of any
thing, also the soft part of Bread

To CRUM,
To CRUMBLE, to break 
into small 
Bits.

CRUMMY, full of Crum,
plump.

CRUMP, crooked, crook­
back'd.



To CRUMPLE, to put out
of the Folds of Pleats, to ruffle
or touzle.

CRUPPER, the Buttocks of
a Horse, also a Roll of Lea­
ther under a Horse's Tail.

To CRUSH, to squeeze, or
break to pieces, to ruin or
oppress.

CRUST, the hard part of
Bread, or shelly part of any
thing

CRUTCHED-FRIARS, a
Place in the City of London
near Aldgate.

CRUTCHES, Props for lame
People.

To CRY, to weep, to make
Proclamation.

CRYSTAL, a very bright
and transparent Stone.

CRYSTALLINE, belonging
to Crystal, also one of the
Humours of the Eye.

CUB, a young Bear, Fox, &c.

CUBIT, the length of the
Arm from the Elbow to the
Middle-Finger, also a Scrip­
ture Measure, about One Foot
Nine Inches.

CUCKOLD, one whose Wife's
Adultery plants Horns upon his
Head.

CUCKOO,
CUCKOW, a Bird well 
known.

CUCUMBER, a cold sort of
Fruit.

CUCURBITE, a chymical
Vessel of Glass.

To chew the Cud, to chew a­
gain as Cows do, also to reflect
or think.

CUDGEL, a Stick to fight
with.

To CUDGEL, to beat with
a Cudgel or Stick.

CUE, an Item given what
to say; also a Mood or Hu­
mour.

CUIRASSIERS, Horsemen
armed with a Cuirass.

CULINARY, belonging to a
Kitchen.

To CULL, to pick. or chuse. 

CULLY, a Fool, a soft head­
ed Fellow.

To CULLY, to make a Fool
of, to impose upon.

CULPABLE, blameable,
faulty, guilty.

CULPRIT, a Word of Form
used by the Clerk of the Arraign­
ments in Trials, after the Pri­
soner has pleased not Guilty.

To CULTIVATE, to till the
Ground, to improve or ma­
nage.

CULTIVATION, the Art of
Tilling, or Improving.

CULTURE, Husbandry, Til­
lage, Improvement.

To CUMBER, to trouble, to
stop or crowd.

CUMBERLAND, a County
in England.

CUMBERSOME, trouble­
some, unwieldy, inconvenient.

To CUMULATE, to heap up.

CUNNING, crafty, subtle, 
skillful

A CUNNINGMAN, a For­
tune-teller, or Conjurer.

CUNNINGLY, craftily, 
subtilly.

CUNNINGNESS, the being
Crafty or Cunning.

CUP, a Vessel to drink out
of.

To CUP, to apply Cupping­
Glasses.

CUPID, the God of Love.

CUPIDITY, Desire, Cove­
tousness, &c.

CUPPING-GLASS, a sort of
Glass Vial, to draw Blood from
the Part it is applied to.

CURABLE, that may be
cured.



CURACY, the Office of a
Curate 

CURATE, a Parson or Vicar
of a Parish, who has the Care
of his Parishioners Souls.

A CURB, a part of a Bridle.

To CURB, to check, restrain,
or keep under.

To CURDLE, to turn into
Curd

CURE, the Healing a Distem­
per, or Wound, also a Benefice 
with the Charge of Souls.

To CURE, to heal.

CURIOSITY, Inquisitiveness,
Niceness, also a Rarity, or cu­
rious Thing.

CURIOUS, inquisitive, de­
furing to know every thing,
neat, nice, excellent, rare.

To CURL, to twirl, or turn
up.

A CURL, a Ring of Hair,
&c.

CURMUDGEON, a covetous, 
pitiful, niggardly, or close­
fisted Fellow.

A CURR, a Mongrel Dog.

CURRANT Money, good
Money that passes from one to
another.

CURRANTS, a sort of Fruit
of the Grape Kind.

CURRENCY, Currentness, 
Coarse.

CURRENT, that goes, or is
established or received, as cur­
rent Coin.

A CURRENT, a Stream, or
Running.

CURRIER, a Dresser of
Leather.

To CURRY, to rub down,
comb, or dress Leather

To CURRY Favour, to make
Suit to one, to get one's self
into favour.

CURRY-COMB, an Iron
Tool to dress Horses.

To CURSE, to wish ill to.

A CURSE, an ill Wish, a
Punishment.

CURSORILY, slightly, ha­
stily.

CURSORY, flight, hasty,
running over in a Hurry.

CURST, fierce, shrewd, al­
so cursed.

To CURTAIL, to cut short,
to dock, to diminish.

CURTAIN, a Hanging about
a Bed, or Window, &c.

CURVATURE, bending, or
bowing, Crookedness.

A CURVE, a crooked Line.

CURVITY, Crookedness.

CUSHION, a sort of Pillow
to sit and lean upon

A CUSTARD, a Dish of Food
made of Milk, Eggs, &c.

CUSTODY, Ward, keeping
in safe Hold, or Prison.

CUSTOM, Fashion, Habit,
or Use.

CUSTOMHOUSE, is a Build­
ing where the King's Customs
are received.

CUSTOMABLE, according
to Custom, or liable to pay
Custom.

CUSTOMARILY, commonly
used.

CUSTOMARY, accustomed,
ordinary, common.

CUSTOMER, one who buys
any thing of another.

To CUT, to divide, or part
with a Knife, &c.

CUTTINGLY, sharply, sar­
castically. 

CUTLETS, short Ribs of a
Neck of Mutton, or Veal.

A CUT-THROAT, a Vil­
lain, or Murderer.

A CUT-THROAT Place, 
where People are exacted upon.

CUTLER, a Maker and Sel­
ler of Knives, Swords, &c.



CUTTLE-FISH, a Sea-Fish.

CYCLOPES, a gigantick Peo­
ple having but one Eye, said to
have inhabited Sicily.

CYMBAL, a musical Instru­
ment.

CYMBALIST, one who plays
on the Cymbal.

CYNICAL, dogged, churlish.

CYNICALLY, doggedly,
churlishly.

CYNICKS, a Sect of Philo­
sophers of a churlish Behaviour.

CYON, a Graff, Sprig, or
Sucker of a Tree.

CYPRESS, a Tree.

CYPRIAN, a proper Name
of Men.

CZAR, the Title of the Em­
peror of Muscovy and Russia.




D.
D, Is a numerical Letter, and
denotes five Hundred.

DAB, a flat Fish, also a Slap
on the Face, likewise a dirty
Clout. 

To DAB, to slap, or strike.

A DABCHICK, a Water
Fowl.

To DABBLE, to splash, to
stir about in the Water and
Dirt

DÆMON, a good or evil
Spirit.

DAFFODIL, a Flower so
called

DAGGER, a Weapon well
known

DAGGER-FISH, a sort of
Sea Fish

To DAGGLE, to daub the
Shirts of one's Clothes

DAGON, an Idol of the Phi­
listines. 

DAILY, every Day, each
Day.

To DAIN, to vouchsafe, to
condescend.

DAINTIES, Delicacies, Ni­
ceties, Tit-bits.

DAINTILY, nicely, deli­
cately.

DAINTINESS, Niceness, De­
licateness.

DAINTY, nice, delicate,
fine, curious.

DAIRY, a Place where But­
ter and Cheese is made.

DAISY, a Flower.

DALE, a Valley, a Bottom
between two Hills.

DALLIANCE, Toying,
Wantonness.

To DALLY, to toy or play
with, to delay, or trifle.

DAM, a Female Beast which
brings forth Young.

To DAM, to stop or shut up.

A DAM, a Floodgate, or
Stoppage in a River.

DAMAGE, Loss, Hurt, Pre­
judice.

DAMASCUS, the chief City
of Syria.

DAMASK, fine Silk, Lin­
nen &c.

DAMASK ROSE, a pale co­
lour'd Rose.

To DAMASK, to figure Silk,
Linnen, &c with Flowers, to
draw rude Draughts on waste
Paper, also to warm any thing
a little.

DAME, a Lady, among
Country People, Mistress, Goody.

To DAMN, to condemn to
Hell, to curse, to cry down.

DAMNABLE, wicked, de­
structive.

DAMNABLY, wickedly, de­
structively.

DAMNATION, the Punish­
ment of the Damned.

To DAMNIFY, to damage,
hurt, or prejudice.



DAMP, Moisture, Wetness;
also a Vapour arising from
Mines.

To DAMP, to make moist,
to chill, to put a Damp upon

DAMPISH, a little moist,
or wet.

DAVENPORT, a Town in
Chester.

DAMSEL, a young Maiden.

DAMSIN, 
DAMSON, a sort of Plum.

To DANCE, to move the
Body according to a composed
Measure.

To DANDLE, to fondle, or
make much of.

DANDRIFF, a Scurf stick­
ing to the Skin of the Head.

DANDYRAT, a Dwarf, or
little Fellow.

DANES, the People of Den­
mark.

DANGER, Hazard, Jeo­
pardy.

DANGEROUS, hazardous,
full of Danger.

DANGEROUSLY, hazard­
ously.

To DANGLE, to hang, or
swing to and fro.

DANIEL, the Name of a
Prophet.

DANUBE, a famous River,
one Thousand three Hundred
Miles long, running from the
Euxine Sea through Germany.

DAPPER, a Man of a small
Stature.

DAPPLE, a Colour peculiar
to Horses.

DARBY, the County Town
of Darbyshire.

To DARE, to venture, to
hazard, also to challenge, or
provoke.

DARING, bold, adventu­
rous.

DARLINGLY, boldly.

DARK, without Light, ob­
scure, mysterious.

DARKEN, to make dark,
or obsure.

DARKLY, obscurely.

DARKNESS, Obscurity.

DARKSOM, a little dark,
darkish.

DARLING, a Favourite, a
beloved Child.

To DART, to shoot or throw
a Dart or Arrow.

DARTFORD, a Town in
Kent.

DARTING, Shooting, or
Throwing.

DARTINGLY, like a Dart.

To DASH, to cut or strike,
to splash, or bespatter with Dirt,
also to put out of Countenance.

DASTARD, a Coward, or
faint-hearted Fellow

DATE, the Writing which
expresses the Day of the Month,
or Year.

To DATE, to put a Date to

DATES, the Fruit of the
Date Tree.

DAUGHTER, a Female
Child.

DAVID, a King of Israel, &c

St. DAVID's DAY, the first
day of March, when the Welch
wear Leeks upon their Hats, in
Memory of a former Victory.

To DAUNT, to affright, to
put out of heart.

DAUNTLESS, undaunted.

DAUPHIN, the Title of the
King of France's eldest Son.

DAW, or Jackdaw, a Bird.

To DAWB, to besmear, to
foul, to bribe.

To DAWN, to begin to grow
Light, as the Day does.

DAY, a Space of Time which
is differently reckoned; the Ar­
tificial Day is the Time from
Sun rising to Sun setting, the 



Natural Day is the Space of
Twenty-four Hours, which the
Sun takes in moving round the
Earth.

To DAZZLE, to hurt the
Eyes with too strong Light.

DAZZLING, hurting the
Sight by its Lustre or Shining.

DEACON, an Officer of the
Church who assists the Priest in
divine Service.

DEAD, without Life.

DEADLY, that which occa­
sions Death. 

DEAF, without the Sense of
Hearing.

To DEAFEN, to make deaf.

DEAFISH, a little deaf.

DEAFNESS, the being deaf.

DEAL, a Town in Kent.

To DEAL, to trade, to por­
sion out

DEAN, a dignified Clery­
man who has Power over Ten
Canons, or more.

DEAN and Chapter, a Spiri­
tual Body Corporate, consisting 
of the Dean and his Prebenda­
ries.

DEANRY, the Jurisdiction
of a Dean.

DEAR, costly, valuable, pre­
cious.

DEARLY, preciously, very
much.

DEARNESS, Costliness, Pre­
ciousness.

DEARTH, great Scarcity,
or Want of Provisions

DEATH, a Stoppage of the
Blood's Motion, a Separation of
the Soul from her Body.

DEATHWATCH, a little
Insect which makes a Noise
like a Watch.

To DEBAR, to hinder, to
keep from, to shut out.

To DEBARK, to disem­
bark.

To DEBASE, to humble, to
bring down, to disparage, to
counterfeit Coin

To DEBATE, to dispute.

DEBATE, dispute, Quarrel,
Strife.

To DEBAUCH, to corrupt,
to spoil, also to seduce and
vitiate a Woman.

A DEBAUCH, a riotous Ban­
queting, or Drunkenness.

DEBAUCHERY, Revelling,
Incontinency, Lewdness.

DEBENHAM, a Town in
Suffolk.

DEBENTURE, a Bill drawn
upon the Publick, for the Pay­
ment of Seamens or Land
Soldiers Arrears to the Cre­
ditor; also a Bill given to the
King's Servants for the Payment
of Salaries.

To DEBILITATE, to
weaken, to make feeble.

DEBILITY, Weakness,
Feebleness, Infirmity.

DEBONNAIR, courteous,
affable, brisk, airy, &c.

DEBORAH, a Prophetess. 

DEBOSHEE, a debauched
Fellow

DEBT, what is due from one 
Man to another.

DEBTOR, one who is in­
debted to another.

DECALOGUE, the Ten Com­
mandments

To DECAMP, to break up
the Camp, to march off

DECAMPMENT, a Decamp­
ing, or Marching off.

To DECANT, to pour off
from the Dregs.

DECANTER, a Flint Bottle
to hold Wine or Beer, to pour
into a Glass.

To DECAPITATE, to be­
head.



To DECAY, to fail, to fall,
to grow worse, to wither.

DECEASE, a natural Death.

To DECEASE, to die a na­
tural Death.

To DECEDE, to depart.

DECEIT, a Cheat, a Trick.

DECEITFUL, unsincere.

DECEITFULLY, not sin­
cerely.

DECEITFULNESS, Unfaith­
fulness, the Want of Sincerity.

DECEIVABLE, easy to be
deceived, that may be deceived.

To DECEIVE, to beguile,
to cheat, or cozen.

DECEMBER, the Month so
called, because it is the tenth
from March, which was for­
merly the first Month of the 
Year.

DECENCY, Neatness, Come­
liness, good Manners.

DECENT, neat, clean, be­
coming.

DECENTLY, neatly, be­
comingly.

DECEPTION, Deceit, Fraud,
Beguiling. 

To DECIDE, to conclude,
to determine, to bring an Affair
to an Issue, to agree, or make
up a Difference.

DECIMAL Arithmetick, the
Working a Faction of Num­
bers in a tenth Proportion

To DECIPHER, to find out
the Meaning of a Letter writ­
ten in Cyphers, also to en­
ter into the Bottom of a diffi­
cult Affair.

DECISION, a determining, 
or deciding a thing in Debate.

DECISIVE, 
DECISORY, deciding, de­
termining,
fit to decide any thing in Debate.

DECISIVELY, in the manner
of a Decision.

To DECK, to adorn, to set
off.

DECK of a Ship, a planked
Floor on which the Guns lie,
and the Men walk to and fro.

To DECLAIM, to make pub­
lick Speeches, to inveigh a­
gainst.

DECLAMATION, a publick
Oration, or Speech.

DECLARATION, a decla­
ring, setting forth, also a pub­
lick Order, or Proclamation.

To DECLARE, to make
known, to publish, to open
one's Mind, or Thoughts.

DECLENSION, a declining,
or growing old.

DECLINATION, bowing
down, a Declining, or Decay­
ing.

To DECLINE, to bow down,
to decay, also to shun, or avoid,
to refuse

DECLIVITY, a Steepness
downward.

DECOCTION, a boiling, or
seething, a Diet-Drink.

To DECORATE, to adorn.

DECORATION, Ornament,
Embellishment.

DECORUM, that comely
Behaviour and good Grace
which every Man ought to have
in his Actions.

A DECOY, a Place fitted for
catching of wild Fowl, a Snare,
a Wheedle

To DECOY, to entice, to al­
lure, to draw away.

DECOY-DUCK, a Duck that
flies Abroad, and decoys others
into a Place, where they become
a Prey.

A DECREASE, a growing
less, a Wasting or Diminishing,
also the Wane of the Moon.

To DECREASE, to grow
less, to waste, to decay.

A DECREE, an Order, or
Stature, a Purpose, or Resolu­
tion.



To DECREE, to ordain, or
appoint, to resolve, or deter­
mine.

DECREES,
DECRETALS, a Volume of 
the Canon­
Law, collected by Gratian, and
so called

DECREMENT, Waste, or
Decrease.

DECREPIT, weak, feeble,
worn out with Age.

DECREPITLY, weakly,
feebly.

DECRETAL, of or belong­
ing to Decrees.

DECRETALS, the second of
the Three Volumes of the Ca­
non Law

A DECRETORY, a defini­
tive Sentence.

DECRETORY, which serves
to decree, or to decide abso­
lutely.

To DECRY, to speak ill of,
to cry down

DECUPLE, Tenfold.

To DEDECORATE, to dis­
honour, or shame one.

To DEDICATE, to set apart
for sacred Use, to inscribe, or
address a Book to a Person.

DEDICATION, a Dedica­
ting, or Addressing to; also a
Consecrating. 

DEDICATORY, belonging
to a Dedication.

DEDIGNATION, a Disdain­
ing, or Despising. 

To DEDUCE, to draw a Con­
sequence, to infer.

DEDUCIBLE, that may be
deduced, or infered from.

To DEDUCT, to subtract, or
take away from, to lessen.

A DEDUCTION, a taking
away from; also a Consequence,
or Inference

DEE, a River of Cheshire. 

DEED, an Action, or Thing
done. In Law, the Writing
which contains the Effect of a
Contract between Man and Man.

To DEEM, to judge, or
think.

DEEMOUTH, a Place in
Cheshire.

DEEP, profound, or that
has a great way from the Top
to the Bottom.

DEEPLY, profoundly,
greatly.

DEEPNESS, Depth, the be­
ing deep.

A DEER, a wild Beast of
the Forest.

To DEFACE, to spoil, to
blot out.

DEFAMATION, the taking
away a Person's Character, a
speaking slanderous Words.

DEFAMATORY, slanderous,
abusive.

To DEFAME, to take away
a Man's Character, to slander,
discredit, or backbite.

DEFATIGABLE, that may
be made weary, easy to be
wearied.

To DEFATIGATE, to tire,
or make weary.

DEFAULT, Defect, Want,
a Flaw, or Imperfection.

DEFEAT, an Overthrow, the
Loss of a Battle.

To DEFEAT, to beat, to
overthrow, to rout, to disap­
point. 

To DEFECATE, to make
clear of Dregs.

DEFECT, Want, Blemish,
Imperfection.

DEFECTION, a falling off
from a Revolt.

DEFECTIVE, full of Faults,
faulty, imperfect.

DEFECTIVELY, deficiently.

DEFECTIVENESS, Defici­
ency.



DEFENCE, Guard, or Pro­
Tection; a Maintaining, or Ju­
stifying. In War, Opposition,
Resistance.

DEFENCELESS, without
Defence, or Protection.

To DEFEND, to guard, to
protect, to support, to main­
tain, to justify.

DEFENDANT, in Law, the
Person against whom an Action
is brought.

Se DEFENDENDO, a Law
Term, when a Man is found to
have killed another in his own 
Defence.

DEFENDER of the Faith, a
Title given to Henry VIII. by
Pope Leo X.

DEFENSIBLE, that may be
defenced.

DEFENSIVE,
DEFENSITIVE, that serves 
to defend.

DEFENSIVELY, done in
one's own Defence.

To DEFER, to delay, or put
off.

DEFERENCE, Respect, Sub­
mission, Regard.

DEFIANCE, a Challenge.

DEFICIENCY, Defect, Want,
falling short of.

DEFICIENT, failing, want­
ing.

A DEFILE, a strait narrow
Passage.

To DEFILE, to pollute.

DEFILEMENT, a Polluting,
or Defiling.

To DEFINE, to explain,
to decide, or determine.

DEFINITE, certain, limited,
bounded.

DEFINITION, a short Ac­
count of the meaning of a 
Word.

DEFINITIVE, serving to
decide, decisive, positive.

DEFLECTION, a bend­
ing down, a turning aside out
of the way.

To DEFLOUR, 
To DEFLOWER, to rob a 
Maiden
of her Virginity, also to take
away the Grace or Lustre of a
Thing

To DEFORM, to disfigure,
to spoil the Shape of.

DEFORMED, disfigured,
ugly, out of Shape.

DEFORMITY, Ugliness, Ill­
favouredness.

To DEFRAUD, to cheat, co­
zen, or beguile.

To DEFRAY, to bear the
Expenses of any one.

DEFUNCT, deceased, dead.

To DEFY, to challenge, to
out-brave.

DEGENERACY, a being in
a degenerate State or Condition.

DEGENERATE, grown
worse, corrupted.

To DEGENERATE, to fail
from a noble to a baser kind.

DEGENERACY, growing
worse.

DEGENERIOUS, degenera­
ted, base, vile

DEGRADATION, a Degra­
ding.

To DEGRADE, to put out
of Place, Estate, Degree, or
Dignity.

DEGRADING, putting out
of Office, lessening one's Repu­
tation.

DEGRADINGLY, done in a
degrading manner.

To DEJECT, to cast down,
to afflict, to sink the Spirits.

DEJECTED, cast down, di­
spirited.

DEJECTEDLY, afflictedly,
sorrowfully.

DEJECTEDNESS, the being,
cast down, Affliction. 



To DEIFY, to make one a
God.

To DESIGN, to vouchsafe,
to grant kindly.

DEISM, is the Belief of
those, who, denying all revealed
Religion, acknowledge only the
Existence of one God.

DEIST, one who adheres to
Deism.

DEITY, the Godhead, the
Nature and Essence of God, al­
so a fabulous God or Goddess.

DELAY, a Put-off, a Stop or
Stay.

To DELAY, to defer, to put
off from Time to Time.

DELAYED, deferred, put
off, also mingled with Water.

DELECTABLE, delightful,
pleasant.

DELECTABLY, delightfully,
pleasantly

DELECTATION, Delight,
or Pleasure.

To DELEGATE, to appoint,
by extraordinary Commission,
Judges to hear and determine a
particular Case

DELEGATION, an Appoint­
ment of Delegates.

DELIBERATE, advised,
prudent, wary.

To DELIBERATE. To weigh
In Mind, to ponder upon, to
Consult, or debate.

DELIBERATELY, advised­
ly, warily.

DELIBERATION, a Con­
sulting or Debating.

DELICACY, Daintiness,
Niceness, Tenderness.

DELICATE, dainty, neat,
nice.

DELICATELY, daintily,
nicely.

DELICIOUS, pleasant to the
Taste, sweet, charming.

DELICIOUSLY, very plea­
santly.

DELIGHT, Pleasure, Joy.

To DELIGHT, to afford
Pleasure, to take Delight in.

DELIGHTFUL, pleasant.

DELIGHTFULLY, pleasant­
ly.

DELIGHTFULNESS, Plea­
santness.

To DELINEATE, to draw
the first Draught of a Thing.

DELINEATION, the making
a rough Draught. 

DELINQUENT, a Criminal
or Offender.

DELIRIOUS, raving, light­
headed.

To DELIVER, to put into
one's Hands, to give up, to set
at Liberty.

DELIVERANCE, a setting
free, a Release; the delivering
up a Thing

DELIVERY, a Delivering;
also uttering or speaking in
Discourse.

To DELUDE, to deceive, to
beguile, to cheat.

DELUGE, a Flood, an over­
flowing of Water.

DELUSION, Deceit, Cheat,
Imposture.

DELUSIVE,
DELUSORY, which is apt 
to delude,
beguile, or deceive.

DELUSIVELY, deceitfully.

DEMAND, the asking any
thing of another with Autho­
rity, a Claim.

To DEMAND, to ask, to re­
quire, to lay claim

To DEMEAN one's self, to
carry or behave one's self, to
act well or ill.

DEMEANOUR, Behaviour,
Carriage.

DEMERIT, that which
makes one worthy of Blame
or Punishment.



To DEMERIT, to deserve
Ill, to do a Thing worthy of
Blame, Punishment, &c.

DEMISE, alerting or making
over of Lands, or Tenements, 
&c. by Lease or Will, also
Death, when applied to the
King.

DEMOCRACY, a Form of
Government, where the Legi­
slative Power is in the Hands of
the People.

To DEMOLISH, to throw
down any Building.

DEMOLITION, a rasing, or
throwing

DEMON, a good or evil Spi­
rit, the Devil.

A DEMONIACK, a Person
Possessed by the Devil

DEMONSTRABLE, that
may be demonstrated or proved.

DEMONSTRATED, in such
a manner as to demonstrate a
thing.

DEMONSTRATIVE­
LY, convincingly.

To DEMONSTRATE, to
shew plainly, to prove beyond
Contradiction

DEMONSTRATION, a ma­
king a thing plain, a clear
Proof.

DEMONSTRATIVE, which
serves to demonstrate, convinc­
ing, evident.

DEMURE, grave, affected,
Gravity

To DEMUR, to put in Ob­
jections, or Doubts, to put off
a suit.

DEN, a Cave, or Lurking­
place under Ground.

DENBIGH, the County Town
Denbighshire.

To DENIGRATE, to deny.

DENEGATION, a Denial.

DENIAL, a denying, or re­
fusing.

DENISON, a Foreigner made
Free by the King's Charter.

DENNIS, the proper Name
of a Man

To DENOMINATE, to give
a Name to.

DENOMINATION, a Name,
or giving a Name unto, also
the Name of itself.

To DENOTE, to shew by
Mark, to signify

To DENOUNCE, to publish,
or proclaim.

DENSITY, Thickness.

DENTIFRICE, a Medicine
for cleaning the Teeth.

To DENY, not to grant, or
admit of, to gainsay, or disown.

To DEPART, to go from a
Place, also to die.

To DEFEND, to rely on, to
proceed from.

DEPENDENCE, 
DEPENDENCY, a relying 
upon, a
relation or subjection to

A DEPENDENT, one who
depends upon another.

DEPENDENT, depending.

DEPLORABLE, to be de­
plored, or lamented

DEPLORABLY, lamentably.

To DEPLORE, to lament, or
bewail one's Misfortune.

DEPONENT, one who gives
Information upon Oath before a
Magistrate.

To DEPOPULATE, to dis­
people, to spoil, or lay a Place
waste

DEPOPULATION, a dis­
peopling, spoiling or wasting,
or destroying a Country.

DEPORTMENT, Behaviour,
Carriage.

To DEPOSE, to give Testi­
mony, also to dethrone a Sove­
reign.



To DEPOSITE, to lay down,
or trust a Thing with any one,
to lay in a Place.

DEPOSITION, what is laid
down, a Testimony given in a
Court of Justice, also deposing,
or depriving of some Dignity.

To DEPRAVE, to corrupt,
or spoil.

To DEPRECATE, to pray a­
gainst Calamity.

DEPRECATION, praying a­
gainst, or for Pardon, &c.

To DEPRECIATE, to un­
dervalue, to cry down the Price
of a Thing.

DEPREDATION, a rob­
bing, a making a Prey of.

To DEPRESS, to press or
weigh down, to humble.

DEPRESSION, pressing or
forcing down, humbling, &c.

To DEPRETIATE, to under­
value, or lessen the Price of any
Thing.

DEPRIVATION, a berea­
ving, or making away.

To DEPRIVE, to take away,
or rob one of any thing.

DEPTFORD, a Village in
Kent upon the River Thames.

DEPTH, Profundity, the
Measure of a Place from the
top to the Bottom

DEPUTATION, a deputing,
or sensing upon a special Com­
mission

To DEPUTE, to appoint
any Person to act in the stead
of another.

A DEPUTY, a Person ap­
pointed to act in the Place of
another.

DERHAM, a Town in Nor­
folk.

To DERIDE, to scoff, or
laugh at.

DERISION, a deriding,
mocking, or laughing to Scorn.

To DERIVE, to draw from
another, or from the Original.

To DEROGATE, to lessen
the Worth of a Person or Thing,
to disparage, to go from.

DEROGATORY, which
tends to derogate.

DERTMORE, a barren Place
in Devonshire

DERTMOUTH, a famous
Port in Devonshire.

DESCANT, a Comment on
any Subject, a continued Dis­
course.

To DESCANT, to run a Di­
vision with the Voice, also to
paraphrase upon a Subject.

To DESCEND, to go (down,
to drive one's Original from,
or come of a Family.

DESCENDENTS, Offspring,
Progeny, Posterity.

DESCENSION, a descend­
ing, or going down.

DESCENT, the coming, or
going down, also the steep Side
of a Hill, also birth of Ex­
traction.

To make a DESCENT upon a
Country, to land on it, and to
enter it in an hostile manner.

To DESCRIBE, to represent
an Action or Thing, in Writing
or Speech.

DESCRIPTION, a setting
forth a Thing either in Figures
or Words.

To DESCRY, to discover a­
far off, to discern.

DESERT, Merit, or Worth.

To DESERT, to forsake, to
run away from one's Colours.

A DESERT, a Wilderness, a
large wild Country, a solitary
Place, also the last Course of a
Feast, Fruit, Sweet-meats, &c.

DESERTER, a Soldier that
goes over to the Enemy, or runs
away from his Colours, also



he that forsakes his Religion, 
Prince, &c.

DESERTION, a deserting,
forsaking, or running from
Colours, &c.

To DESERVE, to be worthy
of Reward or Punishment.

DESIGN, Contrivance, In­
vention, Purpose, also the first
Draught of a Picture.

DESIRE, Longing, Wishing;
also Entreaty, Request

DESIRABLE, that is to be
desired, or wished for.

DESIROUS, greatly desiring,
or wishing for.

To DESIST, to cease, give
over, or leave off.

DESOLATE, left alone, for­
lorn, uninhabited, laid waste.

DESOLATION, a laying
waste, or making desolate.

DESPAIR, without Hopes.

To DESPAIR, to be out of
all Hopes.

DESPERADO, a desperate,
man, hair-brained Fellow.

DESPERATE, who is in De­
spair, or despaired of, and
dangerous, violent.

DESPERATELY, dangerous­
ly.

DESPICABLE, liable to be
despised, base, mean.

DESPICABLY, in a despica­
ble manner.

To DESPISE, to condemn, 
disdain, or slight

DESPISINGLY, contemptu­
ously

DESPITE, Envy, Malice,
Spite.

To DESPOIL, to strip or rob
a Man of his Goods, &c

To DESPOND, to lose Cou­
rage, to despair, to be dis­
heartened, or dejected.

DESPONDENCE, a failing
of Courage, a being out of
Hopes.

DESPONDENT, despairing,
giving up all Hopes.

DESPOTICK, arbitrary, ab­
solute, supreme.

To DESTIN, to appoint, de­
sign, or order.

DESTINY, Fate, also Death.

DESTITUTE, forlorn, For­
saken, deprived of.

To DESTROY, to ruin, to
deface, to kill

DESTRUCTION, a Destroy­
ing, Ruin, Overthrow.

DESTRUCTIVE, apt to de­
stroy, pernicious. 

To DETACH, to send away
a Party of Soldiers on some Ex­
pedition.

DETACHMENT, a Party of
Soldiers drawn out of a great
Body, to go on some Expe­
dition.

DETAIL, the Particulars, or
particular Circumstances of an
Affair.

To DETAIN, to keep, or
withhold, to stop, or hinder.

To DETECT, to discover, to
find out, or lay open

DETECTION, a Discovering,
or laying open.

DETENTION, a Detaining,
Confining, or Imprisoning.

To DETER, to affright, to
discourage one from doing a
thing.

To DETERGE, to wipe or
rub off, to cleanse.

DETERMINABLE, which
may be determined, or decided.

DETERMINATELY, in a
decisive manner.

DETERMINATE, which is
determined, positive

DETERMINATION, a final
Resolution to do or not do an



Action, an Appointment, a De­
cision

To DETERMINE, to decide,
to purpose, or design

DETERMINATELY, final­
ly, unalterably, resolutely.

To DETEST, to abhor, hate,
or loath.

DETESTABLE, to be ab­
horred, vile, base, wretched.

DETESTABLY, in a detesta­
ble manner. 

DETESTATION, an abhor­
ring, or loathing.

To DETHRONE, to depose,
or drive a Sovereign from his
Throne.

To DETRACT, to take from,
to lessen, to slander, or speak
ill of

DETRACTION, a drawing
from, also Backbiting, Slan­
dering.

DETRIMENT, Damage,
Mischief, Hurt, Loss.

DETRIMENTAL, hurtful,
which brings Hurt or Damage.

DEVASTATION, a laying
waste.

To DEVEST, to strip, or un­
clothe, to deprive of

To DEVIATE, to go out of
the way, to swerve from.

DEVICE, a Contrivance, In­
vention, or feigned Story, also
a Motto or Conceit in a Coat of
Arms, &c.

DEVIL, a fallen Angel.

DEVILISH, of or belonging
to the Devil.

DEVILISHLY, very wick­
edly.

DEVISE, in Law, whatso­
ever is bequeathed by Will, 
also the Act of Bequeathing

To DEVISE, to invent, ima­
gine, fansy, or feign; also to
forge, or contrive.

DEVOIR, Duty, what ought
to be according to the Rules of
Civility.

To DEVOLVE, to tumble
down, to come from one to an­
other, as an Estate does

DEVOTEE, a Bigot.

To DEVOTE, to vow, or
consecrate to God, to set apart
for holy Use

DEVOTION, Piety, religious
Zeal, also vowed Services, at
the Command or Disposal of.

To DEVOUR, to eat or
swallow down greedily, to
waste, or consume.

DEVOURINGLY, very
greedily.

DEVOUT, religious, pious,
full of Devotion.

DEUTERONOMY, the
fourth Book of Moses so called.

DEW, the Vapour of the
Earth exhaled by the Heat of
the Sun, and then fallen to the
Earth again.

To DEW, 
To BEDEW, to Sprinkle,
moistened, or
wet with Dew

DEXTERITY, Handiness,
Cleverness, Nimbleness, Skill.

DEXTEROUS, handy, cun­
ning, skillful.

DEXTEROUSLY, cleverly,
skillfully.

DIABOLICAL, devilish, ve­
ry wicked.

DIADEM, an Imperial or
Royal Crown.

DIAL, a Plane on which
Lines and Figures are drawn,
With a Gnomen to shew the
Hour of the Day.

DIALECT, a manner of
Speech peculiar to some part of
a Country

DIALLING, the Art of ma­
king Dials.

DIALOGUE, a Discourse be­
tween two or more Persons, or 



a written discourse where Per­
sons are talking together.

DIAMETER, a Line which
passes through the Center of a
Circle, and is bounded by the Cir­
cumference, dividing the Cirtcle
into two equal Parts.

DIAMETRICALLY opposite, 
directly opposite or contrary

DIAMOND, the most valu­
able and hardest of precious
Stones.

DIANA, the Goddess of
Hunting.

DIAPER, Linen Cloth
wrought with Flowers and
Figures

DIARY, an Account of what
passes every Day, a Journal, or
Day-book

To DICTATE, to tell an­
other what to write, &c.

DICTIONARY, a Collection
of all the Words of a Language
explained in alphabetical Order.

DIDAPPER, the Name of a
Bird.

To DIDDER, to shiver or
shake with Cold.

DIET, Food, Nourishment,
also a Convention or the States
of a Kingdom or Empire.

To DIET, to provide with
Food.

To DIFFER, to disagree, to
vary, to be unlike.

DIFFERENCE, a Diversity,
also a Controversy, Dispute, or
Quarrel.

DIFFERENT, which differs,
various, unlike.

DIFFERENTLY, in a diffe­
rent manner

DIFFICULT, hard, trouble­
some to perform or understand,
crabbed.

DIFFICULTLY, hardly.

DIFFICULTY, Trouble in
performing or understanding any
thing.

DIFFIDENCE, Mistrust,
Doubtfulness, Suspicion.

DIFFIDENT, mistrustful,
suspicious, doubtful.

DIFFIDENTLY, mistrust­
fully.

To DIFFUSE, to spread here
and there.

DIFFUSE, ample, large,
extended.

DIFFUSION, a scattering
abroad, extending, &c.

DIFFUSE, which spreads
itself far, or is of great Extent.

To DIG, to break or open
Ground with a Spade.

To DIGEST, to dissolve in
the Stomach, also to dispose,
or put in order.

DIGESTION, the Concoction
of the Aliments in the Stomach,
or the Dissolution of it.

DIGIT, the Quantity of three
Quarters of an Inch in Measure.

To DIGNIFY, to advance to
a Dignity.

DIGNITY, Honour, Repu­
tation, Advancement, some con­
siderable Preferment. 

To DIGRESS, to go from
the Subject in Hand.

DIGRESSION, a going out 
of the way, leaving the Sub­
ject Matter in Hand

To DIJUDICATE, to judge
between two Parties, to dis­
cern, to distinguish. 

DIJUDICATION, a deciding
a Difference between two.

DIKE, a Ditch.

To DILACERATE, to tear
asunder.

To DILAPIDATE, to rid a
Place of Stones, to lavish, or
waste.

DILAPIDATION, is a letting
a Building run to Ruin.

To DILATE, to make or
grow wide, also to inlarge up­
on a Subject.



DILATORY, full of or ma­
king Delays.

DILIGENCE, great Care,
Industry, Carefulness

DILIGENT, careful, industri­
ous, laborious.

DILIGENTLY, carefully,
industriously

DILSTONE,
DEVILSTONE, a Town in 
Northum­
berland.

To DILUTE, to thin, or
wash off with a Liquid.

DIM, obscure, dark.

To make DIM, to render ob­
scure, or dark.

DIMLY, darkly, obscurely. 

DIMNESS, Weakness of
Sight.

DIMENSION, the just Mea­
sure of any thing

To DIMINISH, to lessen, to
abate, to decay, or decrease

DIMINUTION, a lessening,
or diminishing. 

DIMUTIVE, little, small,
that which diminishes, or makes
less

DIMINUTIVELY, by way
of Diminution.

DIMITY, a fine sort of
Fustian.

DIMPLE, a little Dent in the
Cheek or Bottom of the Chin.

DIMPLED, which has such a
Dimple.

A DIN, a Noise.

To make, a DIN, to make a 
great Noise.

To DINE, to eat at Noon.

To DING, to throw or dash
against, to fling.

DINNER, a meal at Noon.

DINT, an Impression, or
Mark, also the Drift of a 
Discourse.

DIOCESE, the Bounds of a
Bishop's Jurisdiction.

DIONYSIUS, a Name of Men.

To DIP, to put into Water;
also to look slightly into a Book.

DIPTHONG, two Vowels 
sounded together in one Syllable.

DIRE, cruel, unmerciful,
terrible

DIREFUL, cursed, damnable.

DIREFULLY, cursedly,
damnably.

DIRECT, strait, right.

To DIRECT, to guide, go­
vern, rule, or manage; also to
level, or aim at.

DIRECTION, Directing, In­
struction, Management, Aim,
Mark

DIRECTLY, in a strait Line.

DIRECTOR, a Guider, a
Manager, or Overseer.

DISABILITY, a being dis­
abled.

To DISABLE, to make un­
unable, or uncapable of.

To DISABUSE, to undeceive.

To DISACCORD, to disagree.

DISADVANTAGE, Damage,
Loss, Prejudice.

DISADVANTAGEOUS, that
which turns to Disadvantage,
prejudicial, hurtful.

DISADVANTAGEOUSLY, 
hurtfully, prejudicially.

DISAFFECTED, bearing no
good Will to, dissatisfied with,
discontented. 

DISAFFECTEDLY, with an
ill Will, discontentedly

To DISAGREE, to fall out,
to quarrel, to be at Variance.

DISAGREEABLE, that
which is unpleasant; offensive,
unsuitable.

DISAGREEABLY, unplea­
santly.

DISAGREEMENT, a Differ­
ence, or not consenting to.

To DISALLOW, to dislike,
or disapprove of, to discounte­
nance.

To DISANNUL, to repeal,
to abolish, to make void.



To DISAPPEAR, to go out
of Sight, to vanish.

To DISAPPOINT, to deceive,
to fail, to break one' s Word.

DISAPPOINTMENT, a dis­
appointing, a cross Accident.

To DISAPPROVE, not to
approve of, to disallow, dislike,
or find fault with.

To DISARM, to take a Wea­
pon from another.

DISARRAYED, put into
Disorder, or Confusion

DISASTER, ill Luck, Mis­
fortune.

DISASTROUS, unfortunate,
unlucky

To DISAVOW, to disown,
to disallow, to deny.

To DISBAND, to put off the
Company, to turn out of the
Service.

DISBELIEF, Doubt, Mis­
trust

To DISBELIEVE, not to be­
lieve, to mistrust, to doubt of.

To DISBURDEN, to unload,
to to ease, or take off a Burden.

To DISBURSE, to spend or
lay out Money

DISBURSEMENT, a spend­
ing, or laying out.

To DISCARD, to lay out at
Cards, to turn away, or dis­
charge from Service.

To DISCERN, to see, to per­
ceive, or know one Thing from
another

DISCERNIBLE, to be seen or
perceived.

DISCERNMENT, the Facul­
ty of Discerning, Judgment,
Discretion. 

A DISCHARGE, an Acquit­
tance for Money paid, a Re­
lease, a dismissing, or sending
away; also a Purging, or other
Evacuation.

To DISCHARGE, to ease,
or release; to dismiss from Ser­
vice, also to fire off a Gun, &c.

DISCIPLE, a Scholar, or
Learner.

DISCIPLINE, Instruction,
Management, strict Order; also
Correction, or Pennance.

To DISCIPLINE, to teach
or instruct, order or rule, to
correct.

To DISCLAIM, to quit Claim
to, to refuse utterly, or renounce
any thing.

To DISCLOSE, to discover
or reveal a Secret.

To DISCOLOUR, to alter or
change the Colour of any thing

To DISCOMFIT, to over­
throw or defeat in Battle.

To DISCOMFORT, to afford
no Comfort, to afflict, or cast
down.

To DISCOMMEND, to find
fault with, to blame, or dis­
praise.

DISCOMMENDATION, Dis­
praise, Blame, Disgrace, Shame.

To DISCOMMODE, to be
troublesome to, or incommode.

DISCOMMODITY, Inconve­
niency.

To DISCOMPOSE, to dis­
order, disquiet, trouble, or put
out of Humour.

DISCOMPOSURE, Disorder,
Confusion. 

DISCONSOLATE, comfort­
less, melancholy, deprived of
Comfort.

DISCONTENT,
DISCONTENTMENT, not
be­
ing contented, Sorrow, Trouble.

DISCONTENTED, displeas­
ed, uneasy, troubled.

DISCONTINUANCE, an In­
terruption, or breaking off.

To DISCONTINUE, to
leave or break off for a time.



DISCORD, Strife, Variance,
Quarrelling, Disagreement.

To DISCORD, to disagree.

DISCONTENTEDLY, unea­
sily

To DISCOVER, to find out,
to reveal, to make manifest

DISCOVERY, a finding out,
&c

DISCOUNT, Abatement in a
Sum of Money or Account.

To DISCOUNT, to abate
from an Account, or Reckoning.

To DISCOUNTENANCE, to
put out of Countenance, to give
a Check to, to discourage.

To DISCOURAGE, to
dishearten, to put out of heart.

DISCOURAGEMENT, a dis­
couraging, disheartening, &c.

To DISCOURSE, to talk,
reason, or argue.

DISCOURSE, Talk, Speech,
or Reasoning.

DISCOURTEOUS, unkind,
uncivil.

DISCOURTESY, Displeasure,
an ill Turn.

DISCREDIT, Disgrace, Dis­
repute, Reproach

To DISCREDIT, to disgrace,
to make a Man lose his Credit.

DISCREET, wise, conside­
rate, sober.

DISCREPANT, differing
from, disagreeing.

DISCRETION, Prudence,
Wisdom, also Will, or Plea­
sure.

To DISCRIMINATE, to put
a Difference between.

To DISCUSS, to examine,
to scan, to sift, to strike off the
Difficulties a Matter is perplexed
with. 

DISCUSSION, an Examina­
tion of a Question, or difficult
Matter

DISDAIN, Scorn.

To DISTAIN, to scorn, or
despise.

DISDAINFULLY, scornfully.

DISDAINFULNESS, Scorn­
fulness.

DISEASE, Distemper, or
Sickness.

DISEASED, troubled with a
Disease.

To DISEMBARK, to go
from on board a Ship, to land
Goods out of a Ship.

To DISEMBOGUE, to dis­
charge itself into the Sea.

To DISENGAGE, to free
from an Engagement, to get,
or take off.

To DISESTEEM, to have no
Esteem for, to disregard.

DISFAVOUR, out of Fa­
vour, a Disfigurement, an ill
turn.

To DISFIGURE, to put out
of Shape, to make ugly.

To DISGARNISH, to take
away the Garnish.

To DISGORGE, to vomit;
to empty itself into the Sea, as 
a River doth. 

DISGRACE, Shame, Disho­
nour, Disfavour.

To DISGRACE, to put to
Shame, or turn out of Favour.

DISGRACEFULLY, shame­
fully.

DISGRACEFULNESS, 
Shamefulness.

To DISGREGATE, to scat­
ter, or disperse.

DISGUISE, a false Habit, a
Pretence, Colour, or Cloak.

To DISGUISE, to put into
another Fashion; to dissemble,
or cloak.

DISGUISEDLY, by way of
Disguise.

To DISGUST, to distaste, or
dislike, to displease, or be a­
verse to.



DISGUST, Distaste, or
Dislike.

DISGUSTFUL, distasteful,
unpleasant.

DISGUSTFULLY, distaste­
fully, unpleasantly. 

DISHABILLE, an Undress.

A DISH, a Platter, &c.

DISHARMONY, Discord,
Jarring.

To DISHEARTEN, to dis­
courage, to put out of heart.

DISHEVELLED, having the
Hair hanging loose or dangling
about the Shoulders

DISHONEST, void of Ho­
nesty, knavish, also unchast, 
lewd. 

DISHONESTLY, knavishly.

DISHONESTY, Knavery,
unfair Dealing, also Lewdness,
or Debauchery.

DISHONOURABLE, without
Honour, disgraceful.

DISHONOUR, Infamy, Dis­
grace.

DISHONOURABLY, dis­
gracefully.

To DISHONOUR, to make
infamous, to disgrace, to dis­
parage.

To DISINCHANT, to set
free from an Enchantment

To DISINGAGE, to recall
an Engagement

DISINGENUITY, want of
Sincerity, Dissimulation. 

DISINGENUOUS, insincere,
false hearted, unfair.

DISINHABITED, void of
Inhabitants, desolate.

To DISINHERIT, to de­
prive one of his Inheritance.

To DISINTANGLE, to un­
ravel, to disingage.

DISINTERESTED, void of
Self-interest, impartial, un­
biassed. 

DISINTERESTEDLY, im­
partially.

To DISINTERR, to dig up,
or take a dead Body out of a 
Grave.

To DISINVITE, to call back
an Invitation, to forbid a Per­
son to come who was before 
invited.

To DISJOIN, to separate,
part, or loosen.

To DISJOINT, to put out
of Joint.

DISJUNCTION, a Separa­
tion, Disjoining, or Division

To DISLOCATE, to dis­
place, to put out of Joint

DISLOCATION, a displa­
cing, the putting out of Joint
or Place.

To DISLODGE, to put or
turn out of Houses, Lodging,
Post, &c.

DISLOYAL, unfaithful to a
Prince, or Husband, treache­
rous

DISLOYALLY, perfidiously. 

DISLOYALTY, Unfaithful­
ness, commonly used with re­
gard to one's Prince.

DISMAL, dreadful, hideous,
terrible

DISMALLY, dreadfully

To DISMANTLE, to take or
pull off a Mantle, to destroy the
Fortification of a Town

To DISMAY, to terrify,
astonish, &c

To DISMEMBER, to cut off
a Limb, or Member, to di­
join, or divide out

To DISMISS, to discharge,
send or put away.

DISMISSION, a putting a­
way.

To DISMOUNT, to take a­
way, or remove, to unhorse,
to alight from on Horseback.

DISOBEDIENCE, Undutiful­
ness, Frowardness.

DISOBEDIENT, undutiful,
stubborn, froward.



DISOBEDIENTLY, unduti­
fully

To DISOBEY, to withdraw
one's Obedience, to act contrary
to Order.

DISOBLIGATION, a Dis­
pleasing, Disobliging, Offence.

To DISOBLIGE, to displease,
to do an ill Office to.

DISOBLIGINGLY, offensive­
Ly, displeasingly

DISORDER, Confusion,
Trouble, Discomposure of Mind,
Riot.

To DISORDER, to put out
of Order, to confound, to dis­
compose, to vex.

DISORDERLY, unrulily.

To DISOWN, not to ac­
knowledge for one's own, to
deny

DISPANSION, a spreading
abroad.

To DISPARAGE, to dis­
praise, decry, or speak ill of.

DISPARAGEMENT, a les­
sening, or undervaluing.

DISPARITY, Inequality, 
Difference, Unlikeness.

DISPATCH, the quick do­
ing of a Thing, Expedition,
Riddance. 

To DISPATCH, to hasten,
to rid off, to send away in haste,
also to kill with speed.

DISPATCHES, Letters sent
abroad about publick Affairs.

To DISPEL, to drive away.

DISPENSABLE, that may be
dispensed with.

DISPENSARY, a Treatise of
Medicines, also a Place where
they are made or kept.

DISPENSATION, a distri­
buting or dealing, also a suffer­
ing a Man to do a Thing con­
trary to Law, an Indulgence
from the Pope

DISPENSATORY, a Book
which directs Apothecaries
make Medicines.

To DISPENSE, to distribute,
or dispose of, to administer, be­
stow, or manage.

To DISPENSE with, to ex­
cuse, to free from the Obli­
gation of a Law.

To DISPEOPLE, to unpeo­
ple, or destroy the People of a
Country.

To DISPERSE, to scatter,
to spread abroad.

DISPERSEDLY, scattered
up and down here and there.

To DISPIRIT, to dishearten, 
or discourage.

To DISPLACE, to remove,
to put out of Place.

To DISPLANT, to take up
that which is planted.

To DISPLAY, to spread
wide, to unfold, declare, or ex­
plain at large.

To DISPLEASE, to offend,
to be disagreeable, or unaccept­
able to.

DISPLEASINGLY, of­
fensively.

DISPLEASURE, Affront,
Discontent, Anger.

DISPOSAL, the Power of
Disposing, Command, Manage­
ment.

To DISPOSE, to set in Order,
to fit, to make ready.

To DISPOSE of, to do what
one pleases with a Thing.

DISPOSITION, a disposing
of placing of Things, State,
Situation, Inclination, or Apt­
ness, also the natural Inclina­
tion of the Mind, or Constitu­
tion of the Body.

To DISPOSSESS, to turn out
of Possession, to deprive.

DISPRAISE, Blame, Cen­
sure, Reproach.



DISPROFIT, Damage, Loss,
Prejudice.

DISPROOF, a disproving.

DISPROPORTION, an In­
equality.

DISPROPORTIONABLE, 
DISPROPORTIONATE, 
that which bears no Proportion
to, unequal.

To DISPROPORTION, to
make unequal.

To DISPROVE, to prove the
contrary.

DISPUTABLE, which may
be disputed.

DISPUTANT, a Disputer,
one who holds a Dispute, or
Argument.

DISPUTATION, a debating,
disputing, or arguing.

DISPUTE, Debate, Contest,
Quarrel.

To DISPUTE, to debate,
discourse, or argue, to quarrel,
or wrangle

To DISPUTE, a thing, to
strive or contend for it, to quar­
rel about it.

DISQUIET, Trouble, Un­
easiness.

To DISQUIET, to disturb
one's Rest, to trouble, to make
uneasy.

DISQUIETLY, uneasily.

DISQUISITION, a diligent
Search or Enquiry into a Thing.

DISREGARDFUL, negligent.

To DISREGARD, to have
no Regard to, to slight, not to
mind.

DISREGARDFULLY, negli­
gently, slightingly. 

To DISRELISH, not to re­
lish well, to dislike.

DISREPUTATION,
DISREPUTE, ill Name
or Fame, Discredit.

DISRESPECT, Incivility,
Slight.

DISRESPECTFUL, not
showing Respect, uncivil.

DISRESPECTFULLY, 
slightingly, uncivilly. 

To DISRESPECT, to shew
no Respect, to be uncivil to.

To DISROBE, to pull off
one's Robe, to stp one of his
Clothes.

DISSATISFACTION, Dis­
content, Disgust, Displeasure

DISSATISFACTORILY, by
way of Dissatisfaction.

DISSATISFACTORY, which
gives no Satisfaction, displea­
sing, offensive.

To DISSATISFY, to disgust,
displease, or offend.

To DISSECT, to cut open a
dead Body, to anatomize.

DISSECTION, a cutting in
Pieces, or anatomizing.

To DISSEMBLE, to feign, or
pretend, to conceal, or cloak.

DISSEMBLINGLY, by way
of Dissimulation

To DISSEMINTATE, to
sow, scatter, or spread abroad.

DISSENSION, Disagreement,
Strife, Quarrelling.

DISSENT, Contrariety of O­
pinion.

DISSENTER, one of a dif­
ferent or contrary Opinion, it is
chiefly used to signify those who
do not conform to the Church of
England.

DISSERTATION, a Debate,
Reasoning or Discourse upon any
Subject.

To DISSERVE, to do one a
Prejudice.

DISSERVICE, an ill Office
or Turn, an Injury or Pre­
judice.

DISSEVERED, separated,
divided, parted in two.

DISSIMILAR, unlike, of a
different Kind or Nature.



DISSIMILITUDE, Unlike­
ness.

DISSIMULATION, Flatter­
ing, Counterfeiting, Dissem­
bling, Hypocrisy. 

To DISSIPATE, to disperse,
or scatter, to consume, spend,
or waste.

DISSIPATION, a dispersing,
or scattering, a wasting.

DISSOCIATION, a separa­
ting of Company.

DISSOLUBLE, that may be
dissolved

To DISSOLVE, to loosen, or
unbind, to melt. 

DISSOLUTE, loose, wanton,
give to Pleasure.

DISSOLUTELY, wantonly,
voluptuously.

DISSOLUTENESS, Lewd­
ness, Debauchery, &c.

DISSOLUTION, a Separa­
tion of Parts, a dissolving, al­
so Death

DISSONANT, untunable,
jarring, disagreeing

To DISSUADE,
To DISSWADE, to divert, 
to put off
from a Design, to advise to the
contrary.

DISSUASION, a perswading
one contrary to a Resolution
taken.

DISSWASIVE, apt or pro­
per to dissuade.

DISTAFF, an Instrument used
in Spinning.

DISTANCE, the Remoteness
of one Thing from another, ei­
ther in point of Time, Place or 
Quantity.

DISTANCED, set at a conve­
nient Distance, &c. outstripped.

DISTANT, far asunder, dif­
fering.

DISTASTE, Dislike.

To DISTASTE, to dislike,
to cause Offence, to displease.

DISTASTEFUL, displeasing,
disagreeable

DISTASTEFULLY, dis­
pleasingly

DISTEMPER, Sickness, Dis­
ease, an ill Disposition of Body,
also a Disorder in Kingdom or
State.

DISTEMPERED, diseased,
out of Temper.

To DISTEND, to stretch, or
stuff out.

DISTENTION, a stretching,
stuffing out, or enlarging.

DISTICH, a Couple of Verses
in a Poem, making a complete
Sense

To DISTILL, to drop, or run
away Drop by Drop.

DISTILLATION, a distil­
ling, or dropping down, also a
failing of Humours from the
Brain.

DISTINCT, different, sepa­
rate one from the other, also
clear, plain.

DISTINCTION, Difference,
or putting a Difference between
one thing and another.

DISTINCTLY, separately,
clearly

To DISTINGUISH, to dis­
cern, or put a Difference be­
tween.

DISTINGUISHABLE, which
may be distinguished.

DISTINGUISHABLY, in
such manner as to be distin­
guished.

To DISTORT, to wrest a­
side, to pull away, to make
crooked.

DISTORTION, a wrestling,
or wringing away

To DISTRACT, to draw or
pull asunder, to perplex, trou­
ble, or interrupt, also to make
one distracted, or mad.

DISTRACTEDLY, madly.



DISTRACTEDNESS, Mad­
ness.

DISTRACTION, Madness,
Phrenzy, Perplexity.

To DISTRAIN, to seize up­
on a Person's Goods for Rent,
Parish Duties, &c.

DISTRESS, the Act of Di­
straining, also a great Strait, 
Adversity, or sad Calamity.

DISTRESSED, brought in­
to Distress, reduced to Extre­
mity, Misery, or Want.

DISTRESSEDLY, mise­
rably

To DISTRIBUTE, to share,
part, or divide, to dispute, or
set in Order.

DISTRIBUTION, a divi­
ding, or sharing among many.

DISTRIBUTIVE, which
serves to distribute.

DISTRACT, a particular
Territory, the Bounds or Ex­
tent of a Jurisdiction.

DISTRUST, Jealousy, Sus­
picion.

To DISTRUST, to suspect,
To be jealous of

DISTRUSTFUL, suspicious.

DISTRUSTFULLY, suspi­
ciously.

DISTRUSTFULNESS, Sus­
piciousness.

To DISTURB, to interrupt,
to let or hinder, to cross, trou­
ble, or vex.

DISTURBANCE, Trouble,
Disorder, Interruption.

DISUNION, Division, Sepa­
ration, Disagreement.

To DISUNITE, to divide,
or set at Variance, to separate,
disjoin.

DISUSAGE,
DISUSE, a being out of 
use.

To DISUSE, to forbear the
Use or, to break one's self of a
Use of Custom.

A DITCH, a Trench about a
Field, &c.

To DITCH, to dig a Trench
about a Field, &c

DITTO, the aforesaid, or the
same.

DITTY, a Song, or Ballad. 

DIVAN, the great Council,
or Court of Justice among the
Turks and Persians.

To DIVE, to duck under
Water; also to inquire strictly
into a Matter.

A DIVER, one who dives;
also a Bird called a Didapper.

DIVERSE, sundry, various,
several, many, different, con­
trary.

To DIVERSIFY, to vary,
alter, or make different

DIVERSION, a Pastime, or
Recreation, a turning aside
from an Affair.

DIVERSITY, Variety, be­
ing different, or unlike.

DIVERSLY, variously.

To DIVERT, to lead or
turn aside, to take off, also to
delight, or please.

DIVERTING, pleasant, a­
greeable.

DIVERTINGLY, pleasantly.

DIVES, a Title usually ap­
plied to the Rich Man in the 
Gospel.

To DIVEST, to strip, or
deprive of.

To DIVIDE, to separate, to
part, or put asunder, to set at
variance, to distribute

DIVIDEND, a Number gi­
ven to be divided, also an
equal Share of the Profits of a
joint Stock.

DIVIDERS, a Pair of Ma­
thematical Compasses.

DIVINATION, divining,
presaging, or foretelling Things
to come.



DIVINE, belonging to God,
heavenly.

A DIVINE, a Clergyman.

To DIVINE, to guess, to
foretel, to soothsay. 

DIVINELY, heavenly, in a
heavenly manner.

A DIVINER, a Conjurer, a
Soothsayer.

DIVINITY, the divine Na­
ture, the Godhead, also that
Knowledge which has for its
Object God, and his Revelation.

DIVISIBLE, that may be
divided.

DIVISION, a separating any
thing into Parts, variance,
Discord.

DIVISOR, in Arithmetick,
the Number by which the Di­
vidend is to be divided. 

DIVORCE, a Dissolution of
Marriage, or a Separation of
Man and Wife.

DIURNAL, belonging to the
Day, daily.

To DIVULGE, to publish,
or spread abroad.

DIZZINESS, Giddiness, or
Swimming in the Head.

DIZZY, giddy.

DOCIBLE, DOCILE, teachable, apt to
learn, tractable.

DOCILITY, Teachableness,
Tractableness

DOCK, a Plant, also the
Tail of a Horse, a Place for
Shipping

To DOCK a Horse, to cut off
his Tail.

DOCTOR, a one who has ta­
ken the highest Degree in any
Science at the University.

DOCTORS-COMMON, a
College in London for the Pro­
fessors of the Civil Law.

DOCTRESS, a She-doctor.

DOCTRINE, Learning,
Knowledge, Maxims, Tenets.

DOCUMENT, a Lesson of
Instruction, Admonition, Warn­
ing.

To DOCUMENTIZE, to in­
struct, or teach, also to ad­
monish.

To DODGE, to run from one
Place to another, to prevari­
cate, to play shifting Tricks.

DOE, a Female Deer, Rab­
bit, &c.

To DOFF, to do off, to put
off.

A DOG, an Animal well
known, also an Andiron.

DOGDAYS, certain Days
from the Twenty-Fourth of Ju­
ly, to the Twenty-eighth of
August. So called from the Dog­
star, which rises and sets with
the Sun

To DOG one, to follow one
close at the Heels, in order to
know where he is going. 

DOGE, the Chief Magistrate
either of Venice or Genoa.

DOGGED, sullen, crabbed,
Surly.

DOGGEDLY, sullenly.

DOGGEDNESS, Sullenness.

DOGGISH, snarling, crabbed­
ness.

DOGGREL, bad Poetry, or
Verses.

DOGMATICAL,
DOGMATICK, positive, 
wedded to,
or imposing his own Opinion.

DOGMATICALLY, posi­
tively.

To DOGMATIZE , to speak
Positively; to give Instructions,
to teach new Opinions. 

DOIT, a small Coin in Hol­
land, in value less than a
Farthing.

DOLEFUL, sad, mournful,
woful.



DOLEFULLY, mournfully.

DOLEFULNESS, Mournful­
ness.

DOLLAR, a Dutch Coin
worth about Four Shillings Six­
pence.

DOLOROUS, grievous, pain­
ful, sad.

DOLOUR, Pain, Grief, Sor­
row, Anguish.

DOLPHIN, a Sea Fish, also
a Northern Constellation

DOLPHIN, 
DAUPHIN, a Title of the 
French King's
Eldest Son.

DOME, a vaulted roof, or
Tower of a Church, a Cupola.

DOMESTICK, belonging to
an Houshold, or one's own
Country, in opposition to Fo­
reign

DOMINATION, Dominion,
Empire, Sovereignty.

To DOMINEER, to hector,
rule, or bear Authority, also
to vapour over others.

DOMINICAL Letter, one of
the first Seven Letters of the
Alphabet, wherewith the Sun­
days are marked throughout the
Year in the Almanack.

DOMINICANS, an Order of
Fryars founded by Dominick, a
Spaniard

DOMINION, Power, Rule,
Authority, Government, the
Extent of a Kingdom, or State

DOMINO, a sort of Hood
worn by the Canors of a Ca­
thedral Church; also a mourn­
ing Vail for Women.

DONATION, a Grant, a
Deed of Gift.

DONATISTS, a Sect of He­
reticks, so called from Donatus
Bishop of Carthage, they held,
that the Son in the Trinity was
less than the Father, and the
Holy Christ less than the Son.

DONCASTER, a Town in
Yorkshire, 123 Miles from Lon­
don

DONMOW, 
DUNMOW, a Priory in Es­
sex, where
there was a Custom, that any
Person who had married a Year
and a Day, upon taking Oath
that he had not repented of it
in that time, was entitled to
a Gammon and Flitch of
Bacon.

DONOUR, a Giver, or Be­
nefactor

DOOM, Judgment, Sentence.

DOOMSDAY, the Day of
Judgment in a Future State.

DOOMSDAY BOOK, a Re­
gister, from which Sentence and
Judgment might be given in
the Tenure of Estates. It is
now preserved in the Exchequer
in two Volumes.

A DOOR, the Entrance into
a House.

DORCAS, a proper Name of
Women.

DORCHESTER, the County
Town of Dorsetshire, one Hun­
dred Miles from London, also
another in Oxfordshire.

DORICK, one of the Five
Orders in Architecture.

DORMANT, a sleeping

To lye DORMANT, to be
out of use.

DORMITORY, a Sleeping­
place, or Bed-chamber, especi­
ally in a Monastery, &c

DORMOUSE, a Field Mouse,
that sleeps all the Winter

DOROTHY, a proper Name
of Women.

DORSER,
DOSSER, a Pannier, or 
Basket, to carry
Things on Horseback.

DORSETSHIRE, a County
on the Sea Coast.



DOSE, a Quantity of Physick
ordered by a Physician to be
taken at once.

DOTAGE, Doting, Dulness,
Stupidity.

A DOTARD, a doting Fel­
low.

To DOTE, to grow dull,
senseless, or stupid.

To DOTE upon, to be very
fond of.

DOTINGLY, sillily, fondly.

DOUBLE, twofold, twice as
much, or twice the Value, al­
so deceitful, dissembling.

To DOUBLE, to make dou­
ble, or fold up.

DOUBLES, Folds, Wrinkles.

DOUBLET, an old fashioned
Garment for Men, much the
same as a Waistcoat

DOUBLETS at Dice, are
Throws of the same Sort, as
two Fours, &c.

To DOUBT, to be uncertain,
not to know on which side to
determine a Matter.

DOUBTFUL, uncertain.

DOUBTFULLY, uncertainly.

DOUBTFULNESS, Uncer­
tainty

DOUBTINGLY, dubiously.

A DOVE, a Female Pigeon

DOVE-LIKE, harmless, in­
nocent.

DOVER, a famous Port in
Kent, Sixty-seven Miles from
London.

DOUGH, Flour tempered
with Water, Salt and Yeast, and
kneaded for baking.

DOUGHTY, stout, undaunted.

To DOUK, to duck or im­
merge under Water.

DOWAGER, a Widow who
enjoys her Dowry. This Title
is commonly given to the Wi­
dows of Princes, Dukes, and
other Persons of Honour.

A DOWDY, a swarthy gross
Woman

DOWER,
DOWRY, the Marriage 
Portion brought
by a Wife to her Husband.

DOWGATE, a Port of the
Thames near the Bridge, Lon­
don

DOWLAS, a sort of Linnen
Cloth.

DOWN, downwards.

DOWNS, hilly Plains, or
Hills consisting of Sands, &c.
also the Sea lying near the
Sands upon the Coasts of Kent,
where the English Navy resides.

DOWNY, soft, full of Down.

To DOWSE, to give one a
Slap on the Chaps.

DOXY, a She Beggar, a
Trull.

To DOZE, to grow dull,
heavy, or sleepy.

A DOZEN, the Number
Twelve.

DRAB, a common dirty
Whore, a Slut.

DRACHM, the eighth part
of an Ounce, containing Three
Scruples, or Sixty Grains.

DRAG, a Hook, also a Net.

A DRAG-NET, a Draw or
Sweep-Net.

To DRAGGLE, to drag,
draw, or trail in the Dirt.

DRAGON, a sort of Serpent,
also a Constellation.

DRAGONS BLOOD, the Gum
or Resin of a Tree.

DRAGOON,
DRAGGONER, a Soldier 
who fights
sometimes on Horseback and
sometimes on Foot.

DRAIN, a Water-Course, or
Sink.

To DRAIN, to draw off
Water by Ditches, Furrows, &c

DRAINABLE, which may 
be drained.



DRAKE, a Male Duck; al­
so a sort of Gun.

DRAM, Vide DRACHM.

DRAMA, a Play, either Co­
medy or Tragedy

DRAMATICK, relating to
Acts, especially those of Stage­
Play

DRAMATICK POEM, a
Composition intended for the
Stage.

DRAMATICALLY, like
Stage-Plays.

DRAK, 
DRAB, Cloth, Woollen 
Cloth.

DRAPER, a Seller or Cloth
Linnen or Woollen.

DRAPERY, the Cloth Trade.

DRAUGHT, the Resem­
Blance of a Thing drawn, the
Copy of a Writing, also a
Portion, or what a Person
drinks at once. 

DRAUGHTS, a Game, al­
so Harness for Drawing-Horses.

To DRAUL, to speak very
slowly.

DRAULINGLY, speaking
very slowly.

To DRAW, to pull out, or
along, to trace with a Pencil,
&c.

DRAWBACK, a Return of
some Part or the Duties paid for
Goods imported, and drawn back
on Exportation.

DRAWBRIDGE, a Bridge
contrived to let up or down, as
Occasion requires.

DRAWNET, a Net for
Catching the larger sort of
Fowls

To DRAWL out one's
Words, to speak leisurely, or
lazily

DRAY, a sort of Cart used
by Brewers.

A DRAZLE, a dirty Slut.

"drazle" not found in OED.



DREAD, great Fear.

DREADFUL, causing great
Fear, terrible.

DREADFULLY, in a dread­
ful manner, terribly

DREAM, an acting of the
Imagination in Sleep.

DREAMER, one who
dreams, a Sluggard

DREAMINGLY, slow­
ly, sluggishly.

To DREDGE Meat, to sprin­
kle it with Flour while roast­
ing.

A DREDGER, a Flour-box.

DREGS, Filth, Dross, the
Sediments at the Bottom of a
Beer or Wine-Vessel, &c.

A DRENCH, a physical Po­
tion for a Horse.

To DRENCH, to give a
Drench, also to bathe or soak. 

To DRESS, to clothe, also
to cook Meat

To DRIBBLE, to slabber, or
let one's Spittle sail out of the
Mouth.

DRIBBLET, a small Portion,
also a little Money paid out of a
large Debt

DRIFT, the Impulse of the
Mind, Aim, Scope, Purpose.

DRIFT at Sea, signifies any
Thing that floats upon the
Water.

DRILL, a Tool for Boring;
also an overgrown Ape or
Baboon

To DRILL, to bore Holes
with a Drill

To DRILL one on, to draw
or entice, to protract Time.

DRILY, in a dry manner,
slily

DRINESS, Thrift, Drougthi­
ness, Sliness.

DRINK, any Liquor to be
drank.

To DRINK, to sup up Li­
quor.



To DRIP, to drop slowly.

DRIPPING, the Fat which
drops from Meat when roasting.

To DRIVE, to put on, im­
pel, or force.

To DRIVEL, to let the Spit­
tle fall on one's Chin.

A DRIVELER, a silly Fel­
low.

A DRIVER, one who drives
or eggs on.

To DRIZZLE, to fall in
small Drops, like Rain.

DRIZZLY, full of small
Drops.

DROIT, Right, Justice,
Equity

A DROLL, a comical Fel­
low, a Buffoon; also a sort of
Farce.

To DROLL, to play the Droll,
to joke or jest, to be waggish.

DROLLERY, a merry and
facetious way of Speaking or
Writing, full of merry and
waggish Wit.

DROMEDARY, a sort of
Camel, having two Bunches on
the Back

A DRONE, a sort of Bee or
Wasp without a Sting, also a
slothful Man or Woman.

DRONISH, slothful. 

DRONISHLY, slothfully.

DRONISHNESS, Slothful­
ness.

To DROOP, to hang down
the Head, to languish.

DROOPINGLY, faintly,
languishingly. 

A DROP, the smallest Quan­
tity of any Liquor.

To DROP, to fall by Drops.

DROPSICAL, subject to, or
troubled with a Dropsy. 

A DROPSY, the gathering
of Water, either through the
whole Body or part of it.

DROSS, the Scum of Metals.

DROSSY, full of Dross.

A DROVE, a Herd of Cattle.

DROVERS, Men who drive
Cattle for Hire or Sale.

DROUGHT, excessive Thirst,
or Driness of the Earth, or Air;
the Thirstiness of Animal Bodies.

DROUSY, 
DROWSY, inclined to sleep, 
sluggish.

DROUSILY, sluggishly.

DROUSINESS, Sleepiness,
Sluggishness.

To DROWN, to plunge in­
to, or overwhelm with Water.

To DRUB, to cudgel, or
beat soundly.

DRUBBING, a Beating up­
on the Bum or Belly.

A DRUDGE, one who does
all mean Services.

To DRUDGE, to toil, or la­
bour hard, also to fish for
Oysters.

DRUDGERY, dirty, labori­
ous Work, Slavery.

DRUDGINGLY, laboriously.

DRUGGET, a sort of Wool­
len Stuff.

DRUGGIST, a Dealer in
Drugs.

DRUGS, all sorts of dried
Simples used in Physick, &c.

DRUM, a musical warlike
Instrument, also a fine Sieve,
like a thin Membrane at the
Bottom of the Cavity of the 
Ear.

To DRUM, to beat upon a
Drum.

DRUM-MAJOR, the chief
Drummer.

DRUNK, fuddled, intoxica­
ted with Liquor.

A DRUNKARD, a hard
Drinker.

DRUNKENNESS, Drinking
to excess.

DRUSILLA, a proper Name
of a Woman.



DRY, without Juice, void
of Moisture, empty, flat; also
reserved, sly, stingy.

To DRY, to make dry.

To DUB, a Knight, to confer
the Honour of Knighthood up­
on one. 

DUBIOUS, doubtful, un­
certain.

DUBIOUSLY, doubtfully.

DUBIOUSNESS, Doubtful­
ness.

DUCAT, a foreign Coin of
Gold or Silver, of different Va­
lues, according to the Places
where coined.

DUCATOON, foreign
Coin, much the same with
Ducat.

A DUCE, the Two, upon
Cards or Dice.

DUCE take you, the Devil,
or an evil Spirit take you.

A DUCK, a Water Fowl.

To DUCK, to dive under
Water, to stoop, to bow.

DUCTILE, that may be ea­
sily drawn out into Wires or
hammered into thin Plates.

DUDGEON, Stomachfulness,
Grudge, disdain.

To take in DUDGEON, to
take in bad part, to be dis­
pleased at.

DUE, to be owing, or unpaid.

DUEL, a Fight between two
Persons.

DUELLER, a Person who
fights a Duel

A DUG, the Teat of a Cow
or other Beast.

DUKE, the highest Title of
Honour in England.

DUKEDOM, the Dominion
and Territories of a Duke.

To DULCIFY, to make
sweet, or sweeten.

DULCIMER, a musical In­
strument.

DULCINISTS, a sort of He­
reticks, who asserted that the 
Father having reigned from the
Beginning of the World to the
Coming of Christ, then the
Son's Reign began, and lasted
till the Year 1300, when the
Reign of the Holy Ghost began.

DULL, heavy, sluggish, 
stupid.

DULLY, heavily, stupidly.

DULNESS, Heaviness, Stu­
pidity.

DUMB, not having the Use
of Speech, also silent.

DUMBLY, silently

DUMBNESS, the being
Dumb

DUMP, a sudden Astonish­
ment, melancholy Fit.

DUMPISH, somewhat me­
lancholy.

DUMPS, Melancholy, fixed
Sadness.

DUN, a Colour something
like Brown.

A DUN, a glamorous or pres­
sing Demand for a Debt.

To DUN, to demand a Debt
with a Clamour.

A DUNCE, a blockish, stu­
id Person.

DUNG, Ordure, Soil, Filth.

To DUNG, to manure Land
with Dung.

DUNGEON, the darkest, 
closest, and most loathsom part 
of a Prison.

DUNMOW Vide DONMOW.

DUNNY, deafish, somewhat
Deaf.

DUNSTABLE, a Town in
Bedfordshire, thirty Miles from
London.

DUNWICK, a Town in
Suffolk, 82 Miles from London.

DUODECIMO, in Twelves;
as a Book that has Twelve
Leaves in a Sheet.



A DUPE, a Cully, a Fool, a
Ninny.

DUPLICATE, a Transcript,
or Copy of Writing.

DURABLE, which is of
long Continuance, lasting.

DURABLY, lastingly.

DURABLENESS, Lasting­
ness. 

DURANCE, Confinement,
Imprisonment

DURATION, Continuance.

DURHAM, a Bishop's See,
two Hundred Fifty-five Miles
from London.

DUSKISH, 
DUSKY, somewhat dark, 
obscure

DUSKISHLY, darkly.

DUSKISHNESS, Darkness,
Obscurity.

DUST, Earth dried to a
Powder.

DUSTY, full of Dust.

DUTCHESS, the Wife of a
Duke.

DUTCHY, the Territory of
A Duke.

DUTIFUL, obedient, re­
spectful.

DUTIFULLY, obediently.

DUTIFULNESS, Obedience.

DUTY, any thing one is
obliged to do, also a publick
Tax

DWARF, a Person of very
low Stature.

DWARFISH, like a 
Dwarf.

To DWELL, to inhabit, to
abide in a Place.

To DWINDLE, to decrease,
waste, or decay gradually

To DYE, to dye Colours,
also to give up the Ghost.

DYSENTERY, a Looseness,
accompanied with Gripings in
the Bowels.

DYSPNÆEA, a Difficulty in 
Breathing.


E.
EACH, every one.

EADITH, a proper Name
of a Woman.

EADGAR,
EDGAR, the Name of a 
most powerful
and peaceful King of the Eng­
lish Saxons.

EADWIN, a Christian Name
of Men.

EAGER, sharp, sour, tart;
also earnest, vehement, sharp
set.

EAGERLY, sharply, ear­
nestly.

EAGERNESS, Sharpness,
Earnestness.

EAGLE, the largest and
strongest of all Birds of Prey.

EAR, put of an Animal Bo­
dy, also the Tops of Corn.

To EAR, to shoot out Ears
as Corn.

EARL, a Title of Nobility,
between a Marquis and a Vis­
count.

EARLDOM, the Dignity and
Jurisdiction of an Earl

EARLINESS, the being
early.

EARLY, betimes.

To EARN, to get or obtain
by Labour, &c.

EARNEST, industrious, di­
ligent, important, weighty

EARNEST, Money given in
Hand, to bind a Bargain

EARNESTLY, industriously,
eagerly.

EARNESTNESS, Eagerness.

EARST, before, formerly.

EARTH, one of the Four
Elements.

To EARTH, go to into a
Hole under Ground, as a Fox,
&c. Also to cover Trees or
Plants with Earth.



EARTHLINESS, the being
earthly

EARTHLY, belonging to
the Earth

EARTHQUAKE, a violent
Shaking of the Earth.

EARTHY, of the Nature
and Quality of Earth.

EARWIG, an Insect

EASE, Rest, Comfort, Plea­
sure

To EASE, to give, Ease, or
Rest, also to slacken, or let
loose.

EASEMENT, Easing, Re­
freshment.

An EASEMENT, a Privy, or
House of Office.

EASILY, softly, gently.

EASINESS, Gentleness, Con­
tentedness.

EAST, that Quarter of the
Earth where the sun rises.

EASTER, a solemn Festival,
appointed in Commemoration of
Christ's Death and Resurrection. 

EASTER-OFFERINGS, Mo­
ney paid to the Priest at Easter.

EASY, at ease, free, con­
tented, also ready, mild

To EAT, to take Nourish­
ment

EATABLE, which may be
eaten.

EATON, a Town situated on
the Shore of the River Thames

EAVES, the Edges of the
Tiling of a House.

EAVES-DROPPER, a Lis­
tener under the Eaves or Win­
dows of a House, to hear what
People say.

EBB, the going out of the
Tide.

To EBB, to flow back as the
Tide

EBONY, a sort of Black
Wood of the Ebony Tree.

EBRIETY, Drunkenness

EBULLITION, a Boiling, or
Bubbling up.

ECHO, the Reflection of a
Voice or Sound, from Hills,
Woods or hollow Places.

ECCLESIASTES, the Title
of a Book in Scripture, written
by King Solomon.

ECCLESIASTICAL, belong­
ing to the Church.

An ECCLESIASTICK, a
Churchman, or Clergyman.

ECCLESIASTICUS, an apo­
cryphal Book, written by Jesus
the Son of Sirach. 

To ECHE, to increase, add,
or help out.

ECLIPSE, a Defect, or Fail­
ing of Light in Sun or Moon.
That of the Sun, is when the
Moon interposes between the
Earth and the Sun, that of the
Moon, when the Earth comes
between it and the Sun.

To ECLIPSE, to darken, or
obscure.

ECSTASY, a Trance, or
Swooning, also a Transport of
the spirits by Passion.

EDDER, a kind of Fish

Sense of "edder" not found in OED.



EDDY, the Running back of
the Water at any Place, con­
trary to the Tide or Stream

EDEN, the Garden of Pa­
radise

EDGE, the sharp part of a
Weapon.

To EDGE, to make a Border,
or Edge.

EDICT, a Commandment,
publick Ordinance, or Decree.

EDIFICE, a Building.

To EDIFY, to improve, or
profit by Instruction.

EDINBURGH, the Metropo­
lis of the Kingdom of Scotland,
three Hundred Twenty-eight
Miles from London.

EDINTON, a Town in Wilt­
shire



EDITH, the Wife of Edward
the Confessor.

EDITION, a setting forth,
or publishing; the Publication
of a Book.

EDITOR, the Publisher of a
Book.

EDMONTON, a Village six
Miles from London.

EDMUND, a proper Name
of Men

EDMUNDSBURY, a Town
in Suffolk, Sixty Miles from
London.

To EDUCATE, to bring up
from a Child, to nourish; to
instruct.

EDUCATION, the bringing
up of Youth, Instruction.

EDWARD, a proper Name
of Men.

EDWIN, the Name of two
Kings of England

EEL, a long and roundish
sort of Fish.

To EFFACE, to deface, rase
out, or destroy

EFFECT, any thing done,
or brought to pass, also Con­
sequence, End, Issue.

EFFECTS, the Goods of a
Merchant, Tradesman, &c.

To EFFECT, to perform, or
bring to pass; to put in Exe­
cution.

EFFECTIVE, which brings
to Effect, real.

EFFECTIVELY, so as to
produce the Effect desired.

EFFECTOR, the Author, or
Performer of a Thing.

EFFECTLESS, of no Effect.

EFFECTUAL, which neces­
sarily produces its Effect, for­
cible, powerful.

EFFECTUALLY, complete­
ly, thoroughly.

To EFFECTUATE, to accom­
plish, to do a thing completely.

EFFEMINANCY, a Female
Softness.

EFFEMINATE, womanish,
tender, delicate, nice.

To EFFEMINATE, to make
womanish, or lascivious, to
soften by Ease and Pleasure.

EFFICACIOUS, effectual,
powerful.

EFFICACIOUSLY, effectu­
ally.

EFFICACY, Ability, Opera­
tion, Virtue, Strength, or Force.

EFFIGIES, an Image, Shape,
or Likeness, the Picture or
Statue of a Person.

EFFLUX, a running, or
flowing out.

EFFORT, strong Endeavour,
a forcible Attempt.

EFFUSION, a pouring out.

E.G. signifies exempli gratia, 
for Example.

EGBERT, the Name of the
first English Monarch.

An EGG, the Product of
Fowls, &c.

To EGG, to provoke, stir
up, or set on.

EGREGIOUS, famous, ex­
cellent, rare, remarkable.

EGREGIOUSLY, remarka­
bly.

EGRESS, a going forth.

EGYPTIANS, Natives of
Egypt; also Gypsies.

EJACULATION, a shooting
forth, a short Prayer poured out
with Fervency.

To EJECT, to cast, or throw
out.

EJECTION, a casting out.

EIGHT, VIII, 8 in Number.

EIGHTEEN, XVIII, 18.

EIGHTH, the eighth part of
a Thing.

EIGHTY, LXXX, 80.

EITHER, or.



EKE, also, likewise.

To EKE, to add to, to make
larger by another Piece.

ELABORATE, done with
Exactness and Pains.

An ELABORATORY, a 
Place to work in, properly for
a Chymist.

ELAPSED, fallen, or slid a­
way.

ELATED, puffed up, proud,
haughty.

To ELATE, to lift up, or
exalt.

ELBOW, part of the Arm

ELDER,
ELDAR, a Tree.

ELDEN-HOLE, a Hole in
Derbyshire, remarkable for its
Depth.

ELDER, more aged, or far­
ther in Years.

ELDEST, oldest

ELEANOR, a Name of
Women. 

ELEAZER, the Son of A­
aron.

ELECT, chosen, appointed.

The ELECT, the Faithful,
the elected Saints.

To ELECT, to chuse, or
make choice of.

ELECTION, Chusing, or
Choice.

ELECTIVE, belonging to
Election, or Choice.

ELECTOR, a Chuser.

ELECTORS, certain Princes 
of the Empire of Germany, who
have a Right of chusing the
Emperors. 

ELECTORATE, the Dignity
or Territory of an Elector of
the Empire.

ELECTORESS, the Wife of
an Elector.

ELECTUARY, a Composi­
tion in Medicine of the Thick­
ness of a Conserve. 

ELEEMOSYNARY, belong­
ing to Alms, freely given by
way of Alms.

ELEGANCE,
ELEGANCY, Fineness of 
Speech, Po­
liteness of Language.

ELEGANT, eloquent, hand­
some, fine, neat.

ELEGANTLY, eloquently,
handsomly.

ELEGY, a mournful Poem,
a Funeral Song

ELEMENTS, the Principles
of any Art, or Science

ELEPHANT, the largest,
strongest, and most intelligent
Creature of Four-footed Beasts

To ELEVATE, to lift, or
raise up, to make cheerful, or
merry.

ELEVATED, lifted up,
raised, cheerful.

ELEVATION, a lifting up,
an exalting.

ELEVEN, thus expressed in
Numbers, XI, 11.

ELF, a Fairy, a Hobgob­
lin, a Dwarf.

ELIGIBLE, fit, or deserving
to be chosen.

ELIHU, one of Job's Friends.

ELIJAH, 
ELIAS, a great Prophet.

ELIPHAZ, one of Job's
Friends.

ELISHA, a Prophet.

ELIXIR, a Medicine made
by strong Infusion. 

ELIZABETH, the Mother of
John Baptist.

ELK, a strong swift Beast.

ELL, a Measure containing
Three Feet and Nine Inches

ELM, a Tree, or the Wood
of it.

ELOCUTION, Utterance,
Delivery.

ELOGY, a Testimonial to
one's Commendation, or Praise.



ELOHIM, one of the Names
of God.

ELOI, my God.

To ELOPE, to leave a Hus­
band and dwell with another
Man, also to go away by
Stealth

An ELOPEMENT, a going
away from a Husband, &c.

ELOQUENCE, that has the
Gift of speaking well, or with
a good Grace.

ELSE, otherwise.

To ELUDE, to escape any
impending Danger, to shift off,
to wave.

ELVES, Fairies, Scarecrows
to affright Children.

ELUSIVE, evasive.

ELUSIVELY, evasively. 

ELUSORY, serving to elude,
or shift off.

ELY, a Place in Cambridge­
shire, Fifty-four Miles from
London.

ELYSIUM, the Paradise of
the Heathens.

To EMACIATE, to make
lean.

To EMANCIPATE, to set at
Liberty.

To EMASCULATE, to geld,
to enfeeble, or weaken.

To EMBALM, to prepare a
dead Body with Balm, Spices,
&c. to preserve it from Putre­
faction. 

An EMBALMING, the pre­
serving a dead Body from Pu­
trefaction.

To EMBARK, to go on Ship­
board, also to enter upon a
Design.

An EMBARKATION, a go­
ing or putting on Shipboard.

EMBARGO, a Stop, or Ar­
rest of Ships. 

To EMBARRASS, to pester,
clog, or encumber.

EMBASSADOR, one appoint­
ed to act for, and represent the
Person of a Prince.

EMBASSADRESS, an Em­
bassador's Wife.

EMBASSAGE,
EMBASSY, the Commis­
sion given
by a Prince or State, the Errand
an Embassador is sent upon. 

To EMBELLISH, to adorn,
or beautify.

EMBELLISHMENT, an Or­
nament, or setting off.

EMBER, a Coal of Fire, or
Cinder

EMBERDAYS, are the Wed­
nesdays, Fridays and Saturdays
in Ember-weeks, when they
formerly put Ashes upon their
Heads as a Sign of Humiliation.

EMBER-WEEKS, Four Sea­
sons in the Year, set apart for
Praying and Fasting.

To EMBEZEL,
To EMBEZZEL, to spoil, 
or waste,
to pilfer, or purloin.

An EMBLEM, the Represen­
tation of a moral Notion by a
Device

EMBLEMATICAL, of or
belonging to an Emblem. 

EMBLEMATICALLY, by
way of Emblem.

To EMBOSS, to adorn with
embossed Work.

EMBOSSED, raised with Fi­
gures, &c.

EMBOSSING, a sort of Sculp­
ture, where the Figure is raised
or sticks out from the Plane on
which it is cut.

To EMBOWEL, to take out
the Bowels.

To EMBRACE, to encom­
pass in one's Arms

To EMBROIDER, to work
Figures on Silk or Cloth with
Gold or Silver, Thread, &c.



EMBROIDERER, one who
works such Figures

EMBROIDERY, Works
wrought by an Embroiderer

To EMBROIL, to disturb,
confound, or set together by the
Ears.

EMBRYO, a Child in the
Womb

To EMBURSE, to restore,
or refund Money owing

EMENDATION, a Correct­
ing, or Amendment.

EMERALD, a precious Stone
of a Green Colour.

To EMERGE, to arise with
Difficulty or Surprize.

EMERGENCY, a Business of
Consequence, happening on a
sudden

EMERGENT, rising above
Water, also accidental, appear­
ing on a sudden.

EMERY, a sort of Stone
used to burnish or polish Metals

EMETICK, that provokes
Vomit.

EMINENCE,
EMINENCY, Excellency, 
high Degree,
or Quality: A Title given to
Cardinals.

An EMINENCE, a little Hill,
or rising Ground.

EMINENT, noted, famous,
excellent, high, renowned.

EMINENTLY, excellently.

EMISSARY, a Person sent to
observe the Motions of an Ene­
my, or to sound the Thoughts
of another, a Spy, a Scout.

EMISSION, a Sending
forth, a Casting out, a Shoot­
ing forth. 

To EMIT, to send forth, or
cast out.

EMMET, an Ant, or Pis­
mire.

EMOLLIENT, making soft,
pliant, loose.

EMOLUMENT, Advantage,
Profit.

EMOTION, a Stirring, or
Moving forth, a violent Mo­
tion of the Mind.

To EMPAIR, to injure, or
weaken.

To EMPANNEL, to set
down the Names of a Jury in a
Roll called the Pannel.

EMPEROR, a Sovereign
Prince, who bears Rule over
several Countries.

EMPHASIS, a strong Pro­
nunciation of a Word.

EMPHATICALLY, signifi­
cantly.

EMPERICK, a Mountebank,
or Quack.

To EMPLOY, to set one to
work, to make Use of

EMPRESS, the Wife of an
Emperor.

To EMPRISON, to cast into
Prison

EMPTILY, without Solidity,
weakly.

EMPTINESS, the being emp­
ty, or weak.

EMPTY, void, &c.

To EMPTY, to make void, &c.

To EMULATE, to vie with
one, to strive to exceed, or go
beyond another in any thing,
to envy or disdain

EMULATION, a striving to
excel, or go beyond another in
any thing, also envying, or
disdaining.

EMULSION, a physical
Drink made of the cold Seeds,
or Almonds.

To ENABLE, to make able, 
or capable.

To ENACT, to establish a
Law, to ordain, or decree.

To ENAMEL, to vary with
little Spots, to pain with mi­
neral Colours.



ENAMOURED, in Love
with

ENARRATION, a plain De­
claration, a Recital, or Re­
hearsal

To ENCHANT, to conjure,
or bewitch

ENCHANTMENT, Conju­
ration, Witchcraft

To ENCHASE, to set any
Thing in Gold, or Silver, &c.

To ENCIRCLE, to compass
about. 

To ENCLOSE, to include, or
shut in

To ENCOMBER, to trouble,
or vex

ENCOMBERMENT, Encum­
brance, Trouble, Distress.

ENCOMIUM, a Speech, or
Copy of Verses in praise of any
one.

To ENCOMPASS, to sur­
round, or stand about.

An ENCOUNTER, a Meet­
ing, a Fight.

To ENCOUNTER, to fight,
to engage in Fighting.

To ENCOURAGE, to ani­
mate, incite, or stir up.

ENCOURAGEMENT, an In­
ducement, a Reward, or Re­
compence. 

To ENCREASE, to grow,
to wax more and more.

To ENCROACH, to intrench
upon.

ENCROACHINGLY, by way
of Encroachment.

ENCROACHMENT, an un­
lawful Gaining upon the Rights
and Possessions of another.

To ENCUMBER, to em­
barrass, perplex, or trouble

ENCUMBRANCE, a Hin­
drance, a being involved

END, the last Part of a
Thing, the Conclusion.

To END, to conclude, to de­
sist, or finish.

To ENDAMAGE, to do Da­
mage, or Hurt.

To ENDEAR, to make dear
and beloved.

An ENDEARMENT, a En­
dearing, a Cause of Affection.

To ENDEAVOUR, to per­
form a thing according to
Ability

To ENDITE, to compose, or
form the Matter of a Letter, &c.

To ENDORSE, to write on
the Backside of a Bill, &c.

ENDORSEMENT, a Writing
on the Backside of a Bill, &c.

To ENDOW, to give one a
Dowry, to invest in the Right
to an Estate, Goods, &c.

ENDOWMENT, a natural
Gift, or Quality.

To ENDURE, to suffer, or
under go.

ENEMY, an Adversary, or
one who is against one.

ENERGY, Force, Efficacy.

To ENERVATE, to weaken,
or deprive of Strength.

ENERVATION, a Weak­
ning, or Enfeebling, an Un­
willingness of Action.

To ENFEEBLE, to make
weak.

To ENFORCE, to constrain,
or force, to do a thing.

To ENFRANCHIZE, to
make free.

To ENGAGE, to draw in, to
perswade, to pass one's Word
to, to take upon one's self, to
fight, or encounter.

ENGAGEMENT, a Tie or
Obligation, a Fight.

To ENGENDER, to beget, 
to breed.

An ENGINE, any mechanick
Instrument composed of Wheels,
Screws, &c. in order to raise or
sustain a Weight, &c.



ENGINEER, a Person skilled
in Fortification, Building, At­
tacking, or Defending Forts and
Castles, &c. also in making
Fireworks.

ENGLAND, since the Union
of Scotland, called Great Bri­
tain.

ENGLISH, belonging to Eng­
land.

To ENGLUT, to surfeit
one's self with any thing

To ENGRAFF, to Graff, or
Inoculate Trees, &c.

To ENGRAVE, to cut any
Figure in Wood or Metal.

To ENGROSS, to write a
rough Draught fair over, also
to buy up all of one Commo­
dity, in order to encrease the
Price. 

To ENHANCE, to advance,
or raise the Price of Things.

ENIGMATICAL, belonging
to a Riddle, or full of dark
Sentences.

ENIGMATICALLY, by way
of Riddle.

To ENJOIN, to bid, charge,
or order.

To ENJOY, to have the Use,
or Profit of.

ENJOYMENT, Enjoying,
Joy, Pleasure, Possession.

To ENLARGE, to amplify,
or make larger.

ENLARGEMENT, a making
large, a setting at Liberty, or
discharging out of Prison.

To ENLIGHTEN, to put
Light into, to make clear.

To ENLIVEN, to put Life
into, to make brisk and lively.

ENMITY, Hatred, Grudge,
Variance

To ENNOBLE, to make
Noble, to render more re­
nowned

ENOCH, the Son of Seth.

ENORMITY, Heinousness, 
high Misdemeanour.

ENORMOUS, out of Rule,
exceeding great, heinous.

ENORMOUSLY, heinously.

ENOUGH, sufficient

To ENQUIRE, to ask, or
seek after.

To ENRAGE, to put into a
Passion, to make mad.

ENRAGEDLY, furiously.

To ENRICH, to make rich

To ENROL, to enter into a
Roll.

ENSIGN, an Officer of Foot
Soldiers, who carries the Co­
lours.

To ENSTAL, to admit into
the Number, and create a Knight
of the Garter, &c.

ENSTALMENT, a Creating
of Knights, &c.

To ENSUE, to follow.

To ENTAIL, to make over
by Entail

To ENTANGLE, to involve
in Difficulties, to perplex.

To ENTER, to go into, to
set down

To ENTERCHANGE, to
change mutually

ENTERCOURSE, Com­
merce, or Freedom of Discourse
one to or with another.

To ENTERLACE, to lace
between.

ENTERLACING, intricate,
full of Windings and Turnings.

To ENTERLINE, to write
between the Lines.

ENTERPRIZE, an Attempt,
Undertaking, or Design.

To ENTERPRIZE, to un­
dertake, to take in Hand.

To ENTERR, to bury.

To ENTERTAIN, to re­
ceive, or accept; to treat, to
lodge, or maintain.

ENTERTAINING, Diverting.



ENTERTAININGLY, di­
vertingly. 

ENTERTAINMENT, Re­
ceiving, Treating, good Wel­
come.

To ENTHRAL, to bring in­
to Slavery.

To ENTHRONE, to place
upon the Throne.

ENTHUSIAST, one who
fancies himself divinely in­
spired.

ENTHUSIASTICAL, belong­
ing to Enthusiasm

To ENTICE, to draw in
cunningly, to tempt.

ENTICEMENT, an Enticing,
Allurement, &c.

ENTICINGLY, allureingly.

ENTIRE, complete, perfect,
whole.

ENTIRELY, completely,
wholly.

To ENTOMB, to bury in a 
Tomb.

ENTRAILS, the Inwards,
Guts, or Bowels, &c

To ENTRAP, to catch in a
Trap, to ensnare. 

ENTRANCE, Entry, or go­
ing in, Admittance.

To ENTREAT, to beg ear­
nestly, or beseech, to court
with fair Words

ENTREATINGLY, by way
of Supplication.

ENTREATY, Request, Sup­
plication, courting with fair
Words.

ENTRUSION, a violent En­
try into Lands or Tenements,
void of Possession, by him who
has no Right. 

ENTRY, Entring , or coming
in, a Passage, a formal Pro­
cession made by Princes, &c.

To make an ENTRY of Goods, 
is the passing the Bills through
the Hands of proper Officers,
also the setting down the Par­
ticulars of Trade in the Books
of Account.

To ENVELOP, to cover, to
fold, or wrap up, to hem in­
surround, or beset.

To ENVENOM, to infect
with Poison.

ENVIOUS, full of Envy.

ENVIOUSLY, invidiously.

To ENVIRON, to enclose,
encompass, or beset.

To ENUMERATE, to num­
ber, or reckon up.

ENUMERATION, a Num­
bering, a Summing up.

ENUNCIATION, Pronunci­
ation, or Utterance.

ENVOY, a Person of lower
Rank than an Ambassador, sent
by one Prince to another to
transact any Affair, a Resident.

To ENURE, to accustom to.

ENVY, an uneasy Passion
of the Mind at the Prosperity of
others.

To ENVY, to be uneasy at
another Success.

EPACT, is a Number which
denotes the Excess of the Solar
Year above the Lunar, and
thereby the Age of the Moon
may be found every Year.

EPHESUS, a City of Asia,
famous for the Temple of
Diana.

EPICK, a Poem written in
Heroick Verse.

An EPICURE, one given to
Excess of gluttony and Volup­
tuousness. 

EPICURISM, the Doctrine of
Epicurus, the Practice of an
Epicure.

EPICURUS, a famous Phi­
losopher at Athens.

EPIDEMICAL,
EPIDEMICK, common a­
mong all 
the People, universal. 



EPILEPSY, the Falling­
Sickness.

EPILOGUE, a Conclusion of
a Speech, also a Speech made at
the End of a Play.

EPIPHANY, the Feast cele­
brates Twelve Days after Christ­
mas, in Commemoration of the
miraculous Blazing -Star, which
conducted the Magicians to the
Place of Christ's Abode. 

EPISCOPACY, Church-Go­
vernment by Bishops.

EPISCOPAL, belonging to a
Bishop

EPISCOPATE, the Office of
a Bishop.

EPISTLE, a Letter.

EPISTOLAR, 
EPISTOLARY, belonging 
to a Letter,
or Epistle.

EPITAPH, an Inscription on
a Tomb.

EPITHET, a Word expres­
sing the Nature and Quality of
another Word to which it is
joined.

EPITOME, an Abridgment,
Abstract, or short Draught of
a Book.

To EPITOMISE, to make an
Epitome, or Abridgment of a 
Thing.

EPOCH,
EPOCHA, some remarkable
Occurence, from 
whence Nations date and mea­
sure their Computations of
Time, As from the Creation of
the World, the Birth of Christ,
&c.

EQUAL, like, even, just.

An EQUAL, one who is up
on a Level with another.

To EQUAL, to make equal,
to answer, to be agreeable to.

EQUALITY, a being equal, or
like, Agreeableness, Likeness.

To EQUALIZE, to make
Shares equal, to compare.

EQUALLY, alike, even.

EQUINOCTIAL, the Equi­
noctial-Line, or Equator, cal­
led by Sailors, the Line.

To EQUIP, to set forth, to
furnish, to provide with Neces­
saries.

EQUIPAGE, Provision of all
Things necessary for a Journey,
and is also used for a Coach and
Number of Footmen.

EQUITABLE, just, righte­
ous, reasonable.

EQUITY, the Virtue of
treating every Body according
to the Rules of Justice.

Court of EQUITY, is the
Court of Chancery, which mode­
rates the Rigour of Common
Law.

EQUIVALENT, of equal
Might, Valour, or Worth.

An EQUIVALENT, a Thing
of equal Value with another.

To EQUIVOCATE, to speak
doubtfully, to say one thing and
mean another

EQUIVOCATION, a double
Meaning.

To ERADICATE, to root
out, to pull up by the Roots,
to destroy utterly.

ERASED, scraped for scratch­
ed out

ERASMUS, a proper Name.

ERECT, raised, upright.

To ERECT, to raise, to set
up, to build.

ERECTION, a Raising, or
causing to stand upright.

ERMINE, a very rich Fur
worn by Princes, or Persons of
Quality.

ERNEST, a proper Name of
Men.

EROSION, a Gnawing, Eat­
ing away, or Consuming.

To ERR, to go out of the
way, to mistake.



ERRAND, a Message.

ERRANT, a Wandering, or
Straying out of the way.

ERRATA, Faults which e­
scape Correcting in Print.

ERRONEOUS, full of Er­
rors, or Mistakes.

ERROR, Mistake, Over­
sight, false Opinion.

ERUDITION, Learning,
Scholarship.

ERUPTION, an Issuing, or
Breaking forth with Violence.

ESAU, the Brother of Jacob.

ESCAPE, getting away from,
Flight.

To ESCAPE, to make one's
Escape, to get away.

To ESCHEW, to shun, or
avoid.

ESCUTCHEON, a Shield, the
Coat, or Field, on which Arms
are born.

ESPOUSALS, Betrothing,
Wedding, Marriage, the Ce­
remony used upon that Occasion.

To ESPOUSE, to betroth, to
take in Marriage, to wed, al­
so to adhere to, or embrace a
Party, Opinion, or Cause.

To ESPY, to perceive, or dis­
cover, to observe, or watch.

ESQUIRE, a Gentleman who
bears Arms, a Degree of Gen­
try next below a Knight.

ESSAY, Attempt, Proof, Trial.

To ESSAY, to make an
Essay, or Trial, to try.

ESSENCE, the Nature, Sub­
stance, and Being of a Thing,
without which it cannot exist.

ESSENTIAL, belonging to
Essence, absolutely necessary.

ESSEX, the County that lies
East of Middlesex.

To ESTABLISH, to make
firm, or sure; to fix, or settle.

ESTABLISHMENT, a Set­
tlement upon a Foundation. 

ESTATE, the Posture, or
Condition of Affairs, also Means,
Revenues, &c.

ESTEEM, Respect, Value,
Account, Reputation.

To ESTEEM, to value, to
make Account of, to believe,
to judge, to reckon.

ESTHER, a proper Name of
Women.

ESTIMABLE, worthy to be
esteemed, being of Value.

ESTIMATE,
ESTIMATION, the set 
Price, or
Value, Esteem, Prizing, or
Rating.

To ESTIMATE, to rate, or
Value; to appraise, or set a
Price upon a Thing.

ESTIMATOR, a Judge of
the Value of Things.

To ESTRANGE, to draw a­
way the Affections, to alienate,
to become strange.

ETERNAL, of infinite Du­
ration, which has no Beginning
or End.

ETERNITY, an infinite Du­
ration, without Beginning or
End, Everlastingness.

To ETERNIZE, 
To ETERNALIZE, to 
make
eternal.

ETHELBALD, the Name of
two Kings of this Nation.

ETHELWOLD, a Bishop of
Winchester, who founded an
Abbey at Abingdon.

ETHEREAL, belonging to
the Air. 

ETHICKS, Moral Philosophy.

ETYMOLOGICAL, belong­
ing to Etymology.

ETYMOLOGY, a Part of
Grammar which shews the De­
rivation of Words.

To EVACUATE, to empty,
void, or discharge.

EVACUATION, an Empty­
ing, &c.



To EVADE, to escape, to
shift off.

EVANGELICAL, belonging
to the Gospel, Gospel-like.

EVANGELIST, a Messenger
of good Tidings.

EVANGELISTS, the Penmen
of the Gospel.

To EVAPORATE, to breathe
or steam out, to dissolve into
Vapours.

EVAPORATION, a breath­
ing or steaming out.

EVASION, an Escape; also
a Shift, or Trick.

EVASIVE, crafty, deceitful.

EUCHARIST, the Sacra­
ment of the Lord's Supper so
called.

EVE, the Wife of Adam.

EVEN, equal, alike

EVENING, the Close of the
Day.

EVENT, the Issue, or Suc­
cess of Things

EVER, without End.

EVERARD, a proper Name
of Men.

EVERSION, an Overthrow­
Ing; Destruction, Overthrow.

EVERY, every one.

EUGENE, a proper Name
of Men.

EVIDENCE, Perspicuity,
Plainness.

An EVIDENCE, a Witness
against a Person accused

EVIDENT, apparent, plain,
manifest.

EVIL, Ill, Mischief, also a
Disease, the King's Evil.

EVIL Deed, an Ill Turn,
Trespass, mischievous, or hurt­
ful Act.

To EVINCE, to vanquish, to
overcome, to prove by Argu­
ment.

EVITABLE, that may be
avoided, or shunned.

To EVITE, to escape, or avoid.

EUNUCH, a gelded Man, 
one deprived of his Genitals.

EVOCATION, a Calling out
upon a Summons.

To EVOLVE, to turn over,
or unfold.

EUPHRATES, a famous Ri­
ver in Asia.

EUROPE, one fourth Part of
the World, chiefly inhabited
by Christians

EUROPEAN, belonging to
Europe.

EUSTACE, a proper Name.

EUSTOW, a Place in Bed­
fordshire.

EVULSION, a Plucking, or
Pulling out.

EUXINE, the Sea now called
the Black Sea.

An EWE, a Female Sheep.

EWER, a Vessel to hold
Water.

EXACT, perfect, punctual,
nice, strict.

To EXACT, to demand se­
verely, to require more than is
due.

EXACTION, an unreasonable
Demand

EXACTNESS, Care, Care­
Fullness, Diligence, Nicety, a
punctual Observation of the 
smallest Circumstances. 

EXACTOR, a Gatherer of
Taxes, an unreasonable or ri­
gid Demander.

To EXAGGERATE, to heap
up, to amplify, or enlarge in
Words.

To EXAGITATE, to disturb,
stir up, &c.

To EXALT, to raise, or lift
up, to praise greatly, to extol.

EXALTATION, a Raising,
or Lifting up, a Praising. 

EXALTED, raised, or lifted 
up, sublime, excellent.



EXAMINATION, an Exa­
mining, a Trial.

To EXAMINE, to search,
or inquire into, to canvas, or
sift. 

EXAMPLE, a Pattern, Co­
py, or Model; an Instance, or
Precedent, any thing propro­
sed to be imitated

To EXANIMATE, to deprive
of Life, to dispirit, to astonish.

To EXASPERATE, to pro­
voke, incense, anger, or vex.

EXASPERATION, an In­
creasing, or Provoking to Anger.

To EXCAVATE, to make
hollow.

To EXCEED, to go beyond,
to surpass.

EXCEEDING, which ex­
ceeds, extravagant, immoderate.

To EXCEL, to out do, to be
excellent in any respect.

EXCELLENCE,
EXCELLENCY, Eminency, 
Prehemi­
nence, also a Title of Honour
given to Embassadors or others

EXCELLENT, extraordina­
ry good and valuable, choice,
rare.

To EXCEPT, to take out of
the Numbers of others, to ob­
ject against, to put out of the
common Rule

EXCEPTION, an Exempt­
ing, a Clause of some Point re­
straining the Generality. 

To take EXCEPTION, to be
displeased at.

EXCEPTIONABLE, which
may be excepted against.

EXCESS, an Exceeding; Su­
perfluity, also a Debauchery,
Riot

EXCESSIVE, exceeding, be­
yond Bounds.

To EXCHANGE, to barter,
to truck one Thing for an­
other.

An EXCHANGE, a Place
where Merchants meet to
transact Affairs of Commerce.

EXCHANGE, a Changing,
Bartering, or Trucking one
Thing for another.

EXCHANGERS, they who
return Money beyond Sea by
Bills of Exchange.

EXCHEQUER, the Place
where the King's Cash is re­
ceived and paid.

EXCHEQUER COURT, a
Court of Record, where all
Cases relating to the Crown Re­
venues are determined, the
Prerogative Court of the Arch­
bishop of York.

EXCISABLE, that which
may be charged with the Duty
of Excise.

EXCISE, an Imposition laid
by Act of Parliament upon
Beer, Cyder, and other Li­
quors, &c.

EXCISION, a Cutting off,
or out.

To EXCITE, to stir up, to
provoke, to cause.

EXCITEMENT, a Stirring
up, &c.

To EXCLAIM, to cry out, to
call aloud, to rail against.

EXCLAMATION, an Out­
cry, or Calling out.

To EXCLUDE, to shut out,
or keep from.

EXCLUSION, a Shutting
out, a Debarring.

EXCLUSIVE, which has the
Force of Excluding. 

EXCLUSIVELY, in a man­
ner exclusive of, or not taking
in.

EXCLUSORY, that hath the
Power to exclude.

To EXCOMMUNICATE, to
turn out of the Communion of
the Church.



EXCOMMUNICATION, is a
Punishment inflicted by the
Church, or a Sentence pro­
nounced by an Ecclesiastical 
Judge, debarring an Offender
from the Sacraments and Civil
Privileges.

To EXCORIATE, to flea off
the Skin.

EXCORIATED, that hath
the Skin off.

EXCORIATION, is when
the Skin is rubbed off by any
Accident.

To EXCORTICATE, to pull
off the Bark of Trees, Roots,
&c.

EXCREMENT, Ordure,
Dregs, &c.

EXCRESCENCE,
EXCRESCENCY, that 
which
grows out of another Thing, as
a Knot upon a Tree, or Wen
upon human Body.

To EXCRUCIATE, to tor­
ment, vex, or put to Pain.

EXCURSION, an Invasion,
or Inroad, also a Digression,
or going from the Matter treated
of.

EXCUSABLE, that may be
excused.

EXCUSE, a Reason by which
we endeavour to justify an
Offence, or Fault committed.

To EXCUSE, to admit an
Excuse, to justify, to bear
With; to make an Excuse.

EXECRABLE, hateful, odi­
ous, detestable. 

To EXECRATE, to ban, or
curse.

EXECRATION, a Cursing,
a wishing Mischief to one, a
dreadful Oath, Imprecation, or
Curse.

To EXECUTE, to do, effect,
or perform; also to put to Death
by Authority.

EXECUTION, the Execu­
ting, or doing a Thing, the
Hanging, Burning, &c. of a
Malefactor.

EXECUTIONER, the com­
mon Hangman.

EXECUTIVE,
EXECUTORY, that which 
may be
done, or is able to do.

EXECUTOR, one who exe­
cutes or performs any Thing.
In Law, one appointed by a
Person's Last Will to dispose of 
a deceased Person's Estate, or
Substance.

EXECUTRIX, a Female
Executor.

EXEMPLARY, that serves
for an Example, worthy of Imi­
tation.

To EXEMPLIFY, to prove 
by Example

To EXEMPT, to free, or
discharge from.

EXEMPT, free from, privi­
leged.

An EXEMPT, an Officer in
the Guards, who commands in
the Absence of the Captain and
Lieutenant.

EXEMPTED, freed from,
privileged.

EXEMPTION, a Freedom
from, a Privilege.

EXERCISE, Labour, Pains,
Practice, also the Action of the
Body for Health's sake, like­
wise the Practice of a Soldier
handling Arms &c

To EXERCISE, to inure, 
to train up, to employ, to
practise.

EXERCISES, the Task of a
Scholar, or of a Student at the
University

To EXERT, to thrust out, 
or put forth, to use one's ut­
most Endeavour.



To EXHALE, to breathe, or
steam out, to send forth into
Fume, or Vapour.

EXHALATION, a Fume,
Steam, or Vapour.

To EXHAUST, to draw out,
waste, spend, or consume.

EXHAUSTED, wasted, em­
ptied

To EXHIBIT, to produce, or
shew.

To EXHILERATE, to make
merry, to cheer up.

To EXHORT, to encourage,
or incite

EXHORTATION, Encou­
ragement, Incitement.

EXIGENCE,
EXIGENCY, Need, Neces­
sity, Strait­
ness, Occasion.

EXIGENT, needy, poor, ne­
cessitous.

An EXILE, a Banished Person.

EXILE, Banishment.

To EXILE, to banish.

EXIMIOUS, famous, excel­
lent

To EXIST, to be, or have a
being.

EXISTENCE, Being, either
real or imaginary.

EXIT, going forth, depar­
ture, the going of an Actor off
the Stage, also Death.

To make one's Exit, to die.

EXODUS, a going or depart­
ing out, the Title of the second
Book of Moses.

To EXONERATE, to un­
load, or unburden, to discharge, 
or ease.

EXONERATION, an un­
burdening.

EXORABLE, easy to be in­
treated.

EXORBITANCY, Extrava­
gancy, Irregularity. 

EXORBITANT, extravagant, 
excessive.

EXORCISM, a casting out
of evil Spirits.

EXORCIST, one who casts
out Devils; a Conjurer.

To EXORCISE, to conjure
out, or lay evil Spirits.

EXOTICK, Foreign, Out­
landish.

To EXPAND, to stretch out,
to open.

EXPANSION, a Displaying, 
an Opening, a Spreading abroad.

To EXPATIATE, to wander
abroad, to enlarge upon a Sub­
ject.

To EXPECT, to look for, to
stay, to wait for.

EXPECTANCE,
EXPECTATION, a look­
ing, long­
ing, or waiting for.

EXPEDIENT, fit, convenient,
necessary

An EXPEDIENT, a Means,
Way, or Device.

To EXPEDITE, to dispatch,
or rid, to bring to pass.

EXPEDITION, Dispatch, or
Quickness in Business; a setting
out upon a Journey, Voyage,
or War

EXPEDITIOUS, quick, nim­
ble, that tends to Dispatch.

To EXPEL, to drive out.

EXPENCE, Cost, Charges.

To EXPEND, to spend or lay
out Money.

EXPENSIVE, which causes
Expense, costly; also that spend
lavishly.

EXPERIENCE, Knowledge,
or Skill gotten by Practice.

To EXPERIENCE, to try,
or find by Experience.

EXPERIENCED, essay'd,
tried, versed in, well skilled.

An EXPERIMENT, an Es­
say, Trial, or Proof

To EXPERIMENT, to make
an Experiment, to try.



EXPERIMENTAL, founded
upon Experience.

EXPERT, cunning, skilful,
dextrous, in his Art.

To EXPIATE, to atone, or
make Satisfaction for.

EXPIATION, a Satisfaction,
or Atonement.

EXPIATORY, which serves
to make Satisfaction.

EXPIRATION, a Breathing
Out; the End of an appointed
Time; also a giving up the
Ghost.

To EXPIRE, to be out, or
come to an End, to give up the
Ghost.

To EXPLAIN, to make plain,
or clear.

EXPLANATION, an Ex­
plaining, or making plain.

EXPLANATORY, which
serves to explain.

EXPLICABLE, that may be
explained.

EXPLICATION, the Ex­
plaining a Thing which is ob­
scure and doubtful, an Expo­
sition, or Interpretation.

To EXPLICATE, to unfold,
or explain.

EXPLICIT, plain, express,
formal.

To EXPLORE, to decry, or
cry down, to dislike absolutely.

EXPLOIT, a great Action, a
noble Deed, or Feat.

To EXPORT, to carry out,
to send Abroad over Sea.

EXPORTATION, a sending
beyond Sea.

To EXPOSE, to set abroad
to publick View, to hazard, or
venture, to make ridiculous.

EXPOSITION, an Interpreta­
tion, or Expounding.

EXPOSITOR, an Expounder,
or Interpreter.

To EXPOSTULATE, to ar­
gue, or reason the Case.

EXPOSTULATION, an ar­
guing, or reasoning the Case.

EXPOSTULATORY, serving
to expostulate.

To EXPOUND, to explain,
or unfold.

EXPRESS, clear, plain, ma­
nifest.

An EXPRESS, a Messenger sent
to give an Account, or an Ac­
count of any Action by Sea or 
Land.

To EXPRESS, to declare by
Word or Writing, to pro­
nounce, or utter

EXPRESSED,
EXPREST, declared, re­
presented, 
&c. Also pressed, squeezed, or
wrung out.

EXPRESSION, a manner of
Pronouncing, or Uttering, a
Word, or Phrase.

EXPRESSIVE, proper to
express.

EXPULSION, a Thrusting
or Driving out.

EXPULSIVE, having a
Power to expel, or drive out.

To EXPUNGE, to blot, cross,
or wipe out.

EXQUISITE, choice, cu­
rious, also exact, or carried
to the utmost Height.

EXTANT, standing out, that
is in being, or to be seen

EXTASY, a Trance, or
Swoon.

EXTEMPORE, on a sudden,
immediately, without Premedi­
tation.

To EXTEND, to stretch out,
to enlarge.

EXTENSION, a stretching
out, or enlarging.

EXTENSIVE, large, that
reaches far, serving to extend

EXTENT, the Compass of a
Thing in Length and Breadth, 
&c.



To EXTENUATE, to lessen,
to mitigate the Heinousness of a
Crime.

EXTENUATION, a Lessen­
ing, or Mitigating.

EXTERIOR, more outward.

To EXTERMINATE, to cast
or root out, to destroy utterly.

EXTERNAL, on the out side,
outward.

EXTINCT, quenched, put
out, dead, ceasing to be.

EXTINCTION, a Quench­
ing, or putting any thing out
that is burning.

To EXTINGUISH, to
quench, to put out, to abolish,
or destroy.

To EXTIRPATE, to root
out, or destroy, to pluck up by
the Roots.

EXTIRPATION, a Rooting
out, or Destroying.

To EXTOL, to praise great­
ly, to cry up.

To EXTORT, to wrest out,
or get by Force, Authority, or
Threat.

EXTORSION, 
EXTORTION, an unlawful 
and violent
wresting of Money, &c. from
any Man, Interest-Money larger
than the Law allows.

EXTORTIONER, one who
practises Extortion, a griping
Usurer.

To EXTRACT, to draw or
pull out, also to copy out.

An EXTRACT, a Copy or
Draught of a Writing, also
Birth, or Pedigree.

EXTRACTION, a Drawing
out, an Abridgment, also the
Descent from a certain Family.

EXTRANEOUS, that is of
another Country, foreign,
strange.

EXTRAORDINARY, be­
yond, or contrary to common
Order, or Fashion; unusual,
uncommon.

EXTRAVAGANCE,
EXTRAVAGANCY, La­
Vish­
ness, Prodigality, Impertinence.

EXTRAVAGANT, excessive,
expensive, prodigal, absurd,
foolish, idle.

EXTREME, last, or utmost;
very great. 

An EXTREME, the utmost
Bounds of a Thing, an Excess.

EXTREMITY, the End,
Brink, or utmost Bound of any
Thing; also Misery, Want, Ne­
cessity.

To EXTRICATE, to disen­
tangle, or disengage, to get out
of, to deliver.

To EXTRUDE, to thrust out.

EXUBERANCE, Abundance;
Plenty, Overflowing.

EXUBERANT, plentiful, a­
bundant.

To EXULT, to rejoice, ex­
ceedingly, to leap for Joy.

EXULTATION, a Leaping
or Dancing for Joy.

EYE, the Organ of Sight.

EYEBRIGHT, an Herb so
called.

EYEBROW, the upper part
of the Eyelid.

EZEKIEL, the Name of a
Prophet.

EZRA, a famous Scribe a­
mong the Jews.


F.
FA, one of the Notes in
Musick.

FABLE, a Story or Tale, de­
vised for the sake of Instruction.

To FABRICATE, to build,
frame, or invent.

A FABRICK, a Building.



FABULOUS, feigned, ficti­
tious, full of Lies or Stories.

The FACE, the Countenance,
Visage, Looks, Appearance;
also Condition, or State of
Affairs.

To FACE one, to stare or
look one in the Face.

FACETIOUS, pleasant, or
wittily merry.

To FACILITATE, to make
easy.

FACILITY, Easiness, Rea­
Diness; Courtesy, Gentleness.

FACT, Action, Deed.

FACTION, a Party, or Sect.

FACTIOUS, given to Fac­
tion, or Sedition.

FACTITIOUS, artificial,
counterfeit.

FACTOR, an Agent for a 
Merchant.

FACTORS, (in Arithmetick
are both the Numbers given to
be multiplied.

FACTORY, any Place be­
yond Sea where the Factors of
Merchants reside for the Conve­
niency of Trade.

FACULTY, Ability, or
Power to perform an Action,
Talent, Virtue, Reasoning, Me­
mory, Sense and Motion.

FACUNDIOUS, full of Elo­
quence.

FACUNDITY, Eloquence.

To FADDLE, to dandle, or
make much of.

Fiddle FADDLE, Trifling,
Trifles.

To FADE, to decay, as a
Flower or Colour does.

FAG END, the latter End of
Cloth, &c.

FAGOT, a Bundle of Sticks,
or Wood for Fuel.

To FAGOT a Person, to bind
him Hand and Foot.

To FAIL, to disappoint, to
frustrate, to offend, or do a­
miss.

FAILURE, a not performing
one's Promise or Engagement,
Bankruptcy.

To FAINT, to swoon, to
grow low spirited.

A FAINT, a feigned Action

FAIR, clear, beautiful, also
just, right.

A FAIR, an annual or gene­
ral Market for a City, Town,
&c.

FAIRNESS, Clearness, Beau­
tifulness, also honest Dealing.

A FAIRY, a little Hobgob­
lin, a Phantom.

FAITH, Belief, Credit, Pro­
mise.

FAITHFUL, Honest, Sincere,
Trusty.

The FAITHFUL, Believers
endued with a Saving Faith.

FAITHLESS, Unbelieving;
also Unfaithful, that breaks his
Trust.

FALCHION, a kind of short
Sword.

FALCON, a large sort of 
Hawk, a Piece of Ordnance.

FALCONER, one who looks
after Hawks.

To FALL, to tumble, or de­
scend downwards.

FALLACIOUS, Deceitful,
Crafty.

FALLACY, Deceit, a crafty
Device, Guile, or Fraud.

FALLIBLE, that may fail or
err, may deceive or be deceived.

FALLIBILITY, Deceivable­
ness.

FALLING-SICKNESS. See
EPILEPSY.

FALLOW Colour, a Deer's
Colour, a palish Red, like a
Brick half burn'd.

FALLOW Field, Land laid
up, or left untilled for some time.



To FALLOW, to prepare
Land by Plowing, long before
it is plowed for Sowing.

FALMOUTH, a Haven in
Cornwall.

FALSE, lying, untrue,
feigned, also treacherous.

FALSE CONCEPTION, a
Lump of shapeless Flesh, &c.
bred in the Womb

FALSE IMPRISONMENT, 
is a Trespass committed against
a Man by imprisoning him
without legal Cause

FALSIFICATION, a making
false, or not standing to one's
Word, a forging, a Sophisti­
cation

To FALSIFY, to forge or
counterfeit, to break one's
Word, to prove a thing to be
false

To FALTER, to stammer in
Speech, to stumble.

FAME, Report, also Repu­
tation, Renown.

FAMILIAR, intimately ac­
quainted with, free, common,
usual

A FAMILIAR, a Spirit sup­
posed to attend upon Wizards,
&c.

FAMILIARITY, a familiar
free way, also intimate Corre­
spondence. 

To FAMILIARIZE, to make
one's self familiar.

FAMILY, an Houshold, a
Stock of Kindred, Parentage,
Descent, &c.

FAMINE, a general Scarcity
of Provisions.

To FAMISH, to starve

FAN, an Instrument for win­
nowing Corn, also a thing used
by Women to cool themselves.

FANATICAL, belonging to
Fanaticism

FANATICISM, a pretended
Inspiration, Opinions or Tenets
of Fanaticks.

FANATICK, inspired, franc­
tick, possessed.

A FANATICK, one who
pretends to Inspirations and Re­
velations.

FANCY, Imagination.

FANGLES, new Whimsies.

FANGS, large Teeth like
Boar's Tusks.

A FANTASM, a Ghost, or
Apparition

FANTASTICAL,
FANTASTICK, conceit­
ed, hu­
moursome, whimsical

FANTASY, Fancy, Imagi­
nation, Humour, Whim.

FANTOME, a Spectre, a
Hobgoblin, or Spirit, a Chi­
mera, an idle Conceit.

FAR, distant, exceeding.

FARCE, a Droll, or mock
Comedy, less regular than a
Comedy.

FARCED, crammed, stuffed.

FARCES, Meat, Herbs, and
Spices, chop'd small for Stuffing.

FARCY, a Disease in Horses.

FARDINGALE, a Whalebone
Circle or Hoop, formerly worn
by the Ladies upon their Hips;
a sort of Hoop-Petticoat.

FARE, Money paid for Pas­
sage in a Hackney Coach, or by
Water.

To FARE, as How fare you?
How do you?

FARE, Diet, Cheer, Condi­
tion.

FARING, Living, Eating,
Travelling.

FARM, a House to which an
Estate belongs to be employed
in Husbandry.

FARMER, one who holds a
Farm.

FARNHAM, a Town in
Surry.



FARRIER, a Smith who
shoes and doctors Horses.

To FARROW, to bring forth
Pigs, as a Sow does.

To FARCE, to stuff out.

A FART, an Eruption of
Wind backward.

To FART, to break Wind
Backwards.

A FARTHING, the fourth
Part of a Penny.

To FASCINATE, to be­
witch.

FASCINATION, a Bewitch­
ing, Enchanting, or Charming.

FASCINE, a Fagot or Baven.

FASCINES, are small
Branches of Trees bound up in
Bundles, which mixed with
Earth serve to fill up Ditches,
make Breastworks, &c.

FASHION, Mode, Dress.

To FASHION, to form, or
shape, &c.

FASHIONABLE, according
to the Fashion, Modish.

FAST, firm, true.

To FASTEN, to make fast.

To FAST, to abstain from
Food.

A FAST, an Abstinence from
Food.

To FASTEN upon, to seize,
or lay hold on.

FASTIDIOUS, disdainful,
scornful.

FASTUOUS, proud, disdain­
ful

FAT, gross, full of Fat,
fruitful.

FAT, 
VAT, a large wooden Ves­
Sel containing eight
Bushels; also a Brewing Vessel.

FATAL, deadly, unfortunate, 
unlucky.

FATALITY, a being liable
to Fate; also Unavoidableness.

FATE, Destiny, that which
must happen or Necessity, God's
Providence, or Decreel; also
Death

FATED, ordered, or ap­
pointed by Fate.

FATHER, he that has begot
a Child

FATHERS, the Bishops of
the Primitive Church, the su­
periors of Monasteries, &c.

FATHERLESS, that has no
Father.

To FATHER, a thing upon one,
to impute it to one.

FATHERLY, like a Father.

FATHOM, a Measure of Six
Feet.

To FATHOM, to sound the
Depth of Water, to discover
one's Intentions.

FATIGABLE, that may be
tired.

To FATIGATE, to tire, or
make weary.

FATIGUE, Hardship, Toil,
Weariness.

To FATIGUE, to weary,
tire, or harrass

A FAULT, a Crime, an
Error.

To FAULTER, to fall, or
stumble.

FAVOUR, Kindness, good
Office, also a small Present, a
Knot of Ribbons given at a
Wedding, or Funeral.

To FAVOUR, to countenance,
to shew Favour to, to spare, or
ease, also to resemble, or be
like a Person.

FAVOURABLE, good, gra­
cious, gentle.

FAVOURITE, one who
enjoys the good Will of an­
other, a Darling, &c.

A FAWN, a Buck or Doe of
the first Year.

To FAWN upon, to flatter,
or sooth up.



To FAWN, to bring forth
young, as a Deer does.

FEAR, Apprehension of Evil,
Dread, Fright.

To FEAR, to affright, to
Terrify; also to be affrighted, to
dread.

FEASIBLE, that may be
done, or put in Execution.

FEAST, a Banquet, or
sumptuous Meal, also certain
times of Rejoycing on religious
Accounts.

FEAT, finical, odd, pretty.

A FEAT, a notable Action
or Deed.

A FEATHER, a Plume of a
Fowl

FEATHERLESS, unfledged, 
without Feathers.

FEATURE, a Lineament of
the Face.

FEBRIFUGE, a Medicine
which cures a Fever.

FEBRUARY, the second
Month of the Year.

FECULENCY, Dregginess,
also full of Dregs.

FECULENT, belonging to
Dregs, or Lees, full of Dregs.

FECUND, fruitful, plentiful.

FECUNDITY, Fruitfulness,
Plenty.

FEE, Reward, or Wages for
doing an Office.

FEEBLE, weak, languid. 

To FEED, to supply, or fur­
nish with Food, also to eat.

To FEEL, to use the Sense of
Feeling, to touch, or handle,
and to be sensible of.

FEGARY,
VAGARY, a Roving, or
roaming about.

To FEIGN, to pretend to
make a Shew of.

FEINT, Disguise, false Shew.

FELDIFARE, a kind of
Bird.

FELICITY, Happiness, Bles­
sedess.

To FELL, to strike or
down.

FELLMONGER, one who
deals in Sheep Skins, and parts
the Wooll from the Pelts.

FELLOW, a Companion, an
Equal.

FELLOWSHIP, Company,
Partnership, the Place of a
Member of a College at the
University.

FELO DE SE, one who com­
mits Felony by laying violent
Hands upon himself.

FELON, a painful Swelling
of the Finger.

FELON, a malefactor, who
commits Felony.

FELONY, a capital Crime in
divers Particulars; as Murder,
Theft, Sodomy, Rapes, &c.

FELT, Wooll used in ma­
king Hats, &c. also a Hat made
of such Stuff.

A FELUCCA, a sort of Sea
Vessel, or Ship.

FEMALE, of the She Kind.

FEMININE, that is of the
Female Kind.

A FEN, moorish Ground.

A FENCE, a Hedge, or In­
closure.

To FENCE, to fight with
Swords, &c.

FENCER, a Sword Player.

FENDER, an Iron to set be­
fore a Fire-Grate.

FENNEL, an Herb.

FENNY, full of Fens.

FERACITY, Fruitfulness.

FERDINANDO, a Name of
Men.

FERMENT, Leaven, or
Yest, that which puffs up by
Leaven, also a Commotion of
Mind.

To FERMENT, to puff up,
to work as Beer and Ale does,
&c.



FERMENTATION, a Fer­
menting, or Working.

FERN, a wild Plant, com­
mon in barren Places.

FEROCITY, Fierceness,
Cruelty.

FERREL, a Piece of Iron
or Brass, to be put on the End 
of a Cane, &c.

FERRET, a little Creature
like a Weasel, used in Catching
Rabbits, also a sort of Rib­
bon.

To FERRET, to search out
narrowly, to force out, also to
harrass, or teize.

FERRY, a Place where
Horses and Coaches are conveyed
over a River.

FERTILE, Fruitful, abun­
dant, plentiful.

FERTILITY, Fruitfulness,
Plenty.

To FERTILISE, to make
Fruitful.

FERVENCY, Earnestness,
Warmth, Heat, Vehemency,
Zeal.

FERVENT, hot, vehement,
eager, zealous.

FERVID, fervent, hot.

FERULA, a flat wooden In­
strument for the Chastisement
of Boys.

FERVOUR, Heat, Warmth
of Spirit.

To FESTER, to purify, or
wrankle.

FESTIVAL, merry, jocund, 
pleasant, belonging to an Ho­
liday, or Festival.

A FESTIVAL, a Solemnity,
or Day of Rejoicing.

To FETCH, to go to bring a
Thing.

A FETCH, a Subtilty, a sly
Pretence to deceive a Person.

FETID, Stinking, or smelling
ill.

FETLOCK, the Hair that
grows behind on a Horse's Feet.

FETTERS, Irons to put up­
on the Legs of Malefactors or
Cattle.

To FETTER, to put Chains
upon the Feet, &c.

A FEUD, inveterate Grudge,
deadly Hatred, Enmity.

FEVERFEW, an Herb good
against Fevers.

FEVER, an inordinate Mo­
tion of the Blood, with great
Heat and Thirst.

A FEW, a small Number.

FEWEL, 
FUEL, Coals, Wood, or
any Thing to 
burn.

To FIB, to say false, to lye, 
a softer Expression or Lying.

FIBRES, Threads, or very
small Strings of the Muscles,
Veins, Plants, Roots, &c.

FIBROUS, full of Fibres.

FICKLE, inconstant, varia­
ble, given to Change

FICTION, a Device, or In­
vention, a Lye, or feigned Story

FICTITIOUS, fabulous,
feigned, dissembled, counterfeit.

FIDDLE, a musical Instru­
ment

FIDDLER, one who plays
on the Fiddle.

FIDELITY, Faithfulness,
Honesty, Integrity.

To FIDGE about, to be con­
tinually moving up and down.

FIE, an Interjection, deno­
ting some Dislike.

FIELD, a Piece of Ground
for Tillage, or Meadow.

FIELD Pieces, small Cannon
carried with an Army in the 
Field

FIEND, an Evil Spirit, a
Fury, a Devil.

FIERCE, cruel, stern.

FIFTEEN, VX, 15.



A FIG, a Fruit; also a Dis­
ease in Horses.

A FIGHT, a Battle, Com­
bate, Duel, or Engagement.

To FIGHT, to battle, com­
bate, or engage with Weapons.

FIGURATIVE, belonging
to, or spoken by way of Figure.

FIGURE, Fashion, Shape,
or Representation.

To FIGURE, to represent, to
draw Figures upon.

FILAMENTS, small Threads.

FILBERDS, the best sort of
small Nuts.

To FILCH, to steal slily. 

A FILE, a Tool to work Iron
with, &c.

To FILE, to work with a 
File.

A FILE, a Wire, &c. to
string loose Papers upon, also
a Sword without Edges, with a
button at the Point.

A FILE, a Military Term
a Row of Soldiers standing one
behind or below another.

To FILE off, to fall off from
marching in a large Front.

FILIAL, of a Son.

To FILL, to make full, to
saturate

FILLEMOT, a Colour like
that of a faded Leaf.

FILLET, a Hair Lace, or
Ribbon to tie up Hair.

FILLET of Veal, the fleshy
part of the Leg adjoining to the
Loin

FILLETS of a Horse, are the 
foreparts of the Shoulder next
the Breast.

FILLIGRANE,
FILLEGREAN, a sort of 
wrought
Work in Gold or Silver, like
Threads, or Grains. 

FILLIP, a Toss of any thing
with one's Finger, or Nail.

FILLY, a Mare Colt.

FILM, a Skin, or Scum on
the Surface of Mineral Waters

A FILTER, a Charm, an
Allurement, a Love-Potion

To FILTER, to strain through
Cloth, or Paper.

FILTH, Dirt, Soil, &c.

FILTRATION, a Straining
a Liquor through Paper.

A FIN, a Fin of a Fish, a
Quill, or Wing.

FINAL, last, that concludes,
or makes an End.

FINANCES, the Treasures,
or Revenues of the French King,
the Exchequer. 

FINANCIER, an Officer of
the Finances

A FINCH, a Bird of several
sorts, as Goldfinch, Chaffinch,
&c

To FIND, to recover what
was lost, to discover what could
not be found before, to know
by Experience.

FINE, spruce, handsome,
excellent, pure, slender.

A FINE, a Penalty in Money
for a Crime, also a formal Con­
veyance of Land before a Judge;
also a Sum of Money paid for
Lands, &c. lett by Lease.

To FINE, to set a Fine upon,
or to pay a Fine, also to purge,
or clear from Dregs.

FINERY, Gallantry, fine
Attire, or Dress.

FINGER, a Member of the
Hand.

To FINGER, to handle, or
take hold of.

FINGER'S Breadth, a Measure
of two Bailey Corns in Length.

FINICAL, spruce, neat, af­
fected.

FINIS See FINAL, it sig­
nifying the same.

To FINISH, to end, to make
an end.



FINITE, that which has cer­
tain Limits set to its Power,
Extent and Duration.

FIR. See FIRR.

FIRE, one of the Four Ele­
ments.

To FIRE, to set on fire, to
discharge Fire Arms; to grow
hot and fiery.

A FIRE-SHOVEL, an In­
strument belonging to a Fire­
Hearth. 

A FIRKIN, a Measure con­
taining Eight Gallons of Ale,
and Nine of Beer.

FIRM, fast, hard, solid, con­
stant, steddy.

FIRMAMENT, the Heaven
of the fixed Stars; or that Space
which is arched over us in the
Heavens.

FIRMNESS, a being firm,
or hard; also Solidity, Steddi­
ness, Constancy, Resolution. 

FIRR, a Firr Tree, Wood,
Deal.

FIRST, Prime, Original,
Chief.

FIRST FRUITS, the Profits
of every Spiritual Living for
one Year, given to the King.

FIRSTLING, the young Cat­
tle first brought forth

A FISH, a Water Animal.

A FISHERMAN, one who
catches Fish

FISHERY, the Art or Trade 
of Fishing.

To FISK, to run about hasti­
ly and heedlessly. 

The FIST, the Hand clenched.

A FISTULA, a narrow hard
Ulcer difficult to Cure.

A FITCH, a Pulse. See
VETCH.

FITS, Conflicts between the
Disease and Nature.

To FIX, to stick, fasten, or
Settle, to set, or appoint.

FIXED STARS, are such as
never change their Positions
with respect to each other.

FIZGIG, a Dart to strike Fish
with, also a Top for Boys, an
idle Gossip.

To FIZZLE, to break wind
backwards without Noise.

FLABBY, limber, moist,
soft, slippery.

FLACCED, drooping, wither­
ing.

A FLAGG, a Banner usually
set out on the tops of Masts,
&c.

To FLAG, to decay, grow
limber, to wither.

FLAGELLET, a musical
Pipe.

FLAGITIOUS, very wicked,
villainous.

FLAGON, a large drinking
Pot.

FLAGRANCY, a being all
in a Flame, burning, or glit­
tering, an ardent Desire, Ear­
nestness.

FLAGRANT, burning fla­
ming, blazing, glittering, very
hot, eager, earnest, also evi­
dent, manifest, notorious.

FLAIL, an Instrument to
thrash Corn with.

To FLAIR,
To FLARE, to sweal, or
melt away
fast, as a Candle does, &c.

FLAKE, a small Flock of
Snow, also a thin Scale of Ice,
or other Thing.

FLAKY, in Flakes, or thin
Slices

A FLAM, an idle Story, a
Sham, or Put-off. 

FLAMBOROUGH-HEAD, a
Town in Yorkshire.

FLAMBOY, a Torch.

FLAME, the most subtle
Part of Fire.



To FLAME, to blaze out in­
to a Flame.

FLANK, a Side.

FLANNEL, a sort of Wool­
len Cloth

To FLAP, to strike with the
Hand, or Fly-flap, as Butchers
do, also to be limber, to hang
down like the Brims of a Hat

A FLAP, the Edge of a Thing
hanging down.

To FLARE, in one's Eyes, to
stare one in the Face.

A FLASH, a sudden Blaze, as
of Lightning, &c. a Spurt.

To FLASH, to blaze out sud­
denly, also the Dashing of
Water.

FLASHY, having lost the
Savour, vain, frothy.

A FLASK, a sort of Bottle,
as for Florence Wines.

A FLASKET, a sort of Basket.

FLAT, broad, spreading.

FLATBURY, a Town in
Worcestershire. 

FLATLY, plainly, positively.

FLATS, Shallows in the
Sea, Sandbanks, Shelves

To FLATTEN, to make
Broader and thinner.

To FLATTER, to praise ex­
cessively, to sooth up, coax, or
wheedle.

FLATTERY, Fawning,
Wheedling.

FLATULENT, windy, or
breeding Wind

To FLAUNT, to give one's
self Airs, bluster, strut, or look
big, to take State upon one.

FLAVOUR, a pleasant Re­
lish.

A FLAW, a Defect in pre­
cious Stones, &c

FLAX, a Plant.

A FLEA, an Insect.

FLEA bitten Colour, White
spotted with darkish Red Spots.

To FLEA, to flay, or strip
off the Hide

FLEAM, an Instrument to
bleed Horses with

FLEDGE, 
FLEDGED, well covered 
with Feathers,
as young Birds are when they
begin to fly.

A FLEECE, a Flock of
Wooll, or so much as comes off
one Sheep, also a Ram.

To FLEECE one, to strip,
or spoil one of his Goods,
Money, &c

To FLEER, to cast a dis­
dainful or saucy Look.

A FLEET, a Number of Ships
together in Company

The FLEET, a Prison in
London.

FLEET, swift.

FLEETING, panting or fa­
ding away.

FLEMINGS, Natives, or
Inhabitants of Flanders.

FLESH, the muscular Part
of an Animal Body.

FLESHLY, Carnal, given to
the Flesh.

FLEW, a smaller sort of Net
for Fishing.

FLEXIBLE, that may be
bent, pliant, tractable, easy to
be persuaded.

FLEXION, bending, or
bowing.

FLEXURE, a Crooking,
Bending, or Bowing.

FLIGHT, a Flying, Escape,
also a sprightly Expression.

FLIMSY, limber, thin,
slight.

To FLINCH, to start, draw
back, give over, to desist.

To FLING, to throw, or hurl.

FLINT, a Flint Stone.

FLIP, a sort of Sailor's Li­
quor, made with Ale, Brandy,
and Sugar.



FLIPPANT, nimbled tongued,
merry, brisk and airy.

A FLIRT, a sorry Baggage,
a light Housewife.

To FLIRT, to banter, or
jeer.

To FLIT, to remove from
Place to Place.

A FLITCH, a Side, com­
monly of Bacon.

FLITTER, a Rag, or Tatter.

FLIXTON, a Town in Suf­
folk. 

A FLOAT, (of a Fishing­
Line) the Cork or Quill, that
floats upon the Water

To FLOAT, to swim to and
again upon the Water.

FLOATS, Pieces of Timber
joined together for conveying a
Burden down a River with the
Stream.

FLOCK, a Company of
Sheep.

A FLOCK-BED, a Bed filled
with Flocks of Wooll.

To FLOG, to whip or
Scourge

FLOOD, an Inundation, or
Overflowing of Water, the
Flowing of the Sea, the first
coming in of the Tide.

FLOOR, the Area, or Sur­
face of a Room.

A FLORENTINE, a sort of
baked Tart, or Pudding.

FLORENTINES, Natives of
Florence.

FLORID, Flourishing, or
adorned with Flowers

A FLORID Discourse, a Dis­
course full of Rhetorick, in
which a great deal of Eloquence
is displayed

FLORIST, one who is skil­
led and delights in Flowers.

To FLOUNCE, to jump in,
to roll about the Water, to be
in a Toss or Fume with Anger.

A FLOUNDER, a sort of
flat Fish.

FLOUNDRING, Rustling,
or making a Noise with its Fall.

To FLOURISH, to prosper,
to be in vogue, or Esteem.

To FLOURISH, in Writing,
to adorn it with ornamental
Strokes, &c

A FLOURISH, an Ornament
in Discourse, Musick, Writing,
&c.

A FLOURISH, a Vaunt,
Boast, or Brag.

To FLOUT, to mock, or
jeer

To FLOW, to run like Water.

FLOWERS, the Offspring or
Plants.

To FLOWER, to blossom
like Trees, to mantle like
Drink

FLOWER DE LUCE, a
Flower borne in the Arms of
France.

FLOWERED, wrought with
Flowers.

To FLUCTUATE, to float,
to be tossed to and fro in the
Water, to be wavering, or un­
certain in Opinion.

FLUCTUATING, Floating,
wavering in Mind.

FLUE, the Down of a Rab­
bet, or little Feathers sticking
to Clothes. 

A FLUE, a small Winding
of a Chimney, &c. carried up
the main Chimney

FLUENCY, Readiness of
Speech, Volubility of Tongue

FLUENT, ready or eloquent
in Speech.

FLUID, that easily flows,
or runs, like Water

FLUKE, a sort of Insect.

FLUMMERY, a sort of Jelly
made of Oatmeal.



A FLURT, an insignificant
Person

To FLURT, to throw out
of the Mouth, like Spittle.

FLUSH, a Red Colour in
the Face, also a term at Cards
when they are all of a Suit.

FLUSH of Money, full of
or abounding with Money.

FLUSHED, encouraged, put
in heart, elated with Success

A FLUSHING, a Redness in
the Face on a sudden

To FLUSH, to redden on a
sudden, to elevate or transport
a Person.

FLUSTERED, somewhat in
Disorder or Confusion.

A FLUTE, an Instrument of
Wind Musick.

FLUTED, in Architecture
channelled, or wrought in form
of a Gutter. 

To FLUTTER, to try to fly,
to fly about.

FLUX, a Flood, or Tide,
also a Looseness of the Belly.

To FLY, to move with
Wings, like Birds.

A FLY, an Insect.

FLY-CATCHER, a small
Creature in America, which
clears a Place of Flies, and o­
ther Vermin.

FLYING-FISH, a Fish that
has Wings.

FLYING-TYGER, an Insect
in America, spotted like a Tyger.

"flying-tyger" not found in OED.



To FOAM See FOME.

To FOB one off, to give one
the Trouble of coming often to
no purpose, to put off with
fair Words

A FOB, a small Pocket.

FODDER, any sort of Meat
for Cattle.

FODDER,
FOTHER, of Lead, 19 C.
and half, or 2000 l.
At the Mines, 1250 l. among
the Plumbers of London 1950 l.

To FODDER Cattle, to give
them Hay, Straw, &c. to eat,
or lie on.

A FOE, an Enemy.

FOETUS, the Young of all
Kinds of Creatures, before
which Time it is called an
Embryo.

FOG, a Mist, a gathering of
Vapours.

FOH, an Interjection of Dis­
daining.

A FOIBLE, one's weak or
blind Side.

To FOIL, to overthrow, or
overcome, also to set off to
Advantage.

A FOIL, an Instrument to
fence with, a Fall upon the
Knees in Wrestling, also a
Sheet of thin Tin, to be laid
on the Back of a Looking­
glass, also Leaf Gold

To FOIST, to put a Thing
in a Book, &c. that is not ge­
nuine, to forge

A FOLD, a Place to put
Sheep in, a Sheepfold, also a
Plait in a Garment.

To FOLD, to plait or double
up.

A FOLD-NET, a sort of Net
to catch small Birds in the
Night.

A FOLE, a young Colt.

FOLIO, a Book is said to
be so when a Sheet makes but
two Leaves

FOLK, People

FOLLY, Defect of Under­
standing, Silliness. 

To FOLLOW, to come after.

FOME, Froth

To FOME, to froth at the
Mouth, or as Waters do upon a
great Fall

To FOMENT, to cherish,
or comfort by warm Remedies,
to abet, or encourage.



FOND, passionately desirous
of, vainly affecting.

To FONDLE, to pamper, or
make much of

FONT, a Place, a Bason in
a Church for Baptizing, a com­
plete Set of Letters for Printing.

FOOD, Sustenance, Victuals.

A FOOL, a silly ignorant
Person, an Idiot

A FOOT, a Member of the
Body, also the Bottom of a
Hill, Wall, &c. Likewise
Twelve Inches in Measure. 

A FOOTMAN, one who walks
on Foot, a Lacquey.

A FOOTSTEP, the Impres­
sion or Track of the Feet

To be on the same FOOT, to
be under the same Circumstances.

FOP, a fantastical Fellow, 
one overnice in his Dress,
Speech, or Behaviour.

FOPPERY, Fantasticalness,
Foolery.

FOR, a Term used in giv­
ing a Reason

To FORBEAR, to desist from,
or let alone.

To FORBID, to prohibit, to
countermand

FORCE, Constraint, Violence,
Might, Strength.

To FORCE, to oblige, to
take by Force, to compel, to
ravish.

FORCES, an Army, or con­
siderable Body of Soldiers

FORCIBLE, prevailing,
Strong, violent

FORD, a shallow Place in a 
River.

FORDABLE, which may be
forded, or waded over.

To FOREBODE, to presage,
divine, foretell; to prohibit.

To FORECAST, to consider,
or contrive beforehand.

FORE-FATHERS, Prede­
cessors. 

FOREIGN, Outlandish,
Strange; not to the Purpose

FORE-LAND, a Point of
Land jetting out into the Sea.

FORE-LOCKS, the Hair of
the Head before.

To FORESEE, to see before
hand.

FORESIGHT, the seeing a
Thing before it comes to pass.

FORESKIN, the Skin which
covers the Head of the Yard

To FORESTALL, to buy or
bargain for any thing before it
is brought to Market, in order
to sell it at a higher Price.

FORE-TEETH, the Teeth
growing before.

FOREST, a large Wood,
to hold the King's Game.

FORESTER, a Keeper of a
Forest

To FORFEIT, to lose Estate,
Goods, Employment, &c. for
neglect of Duty, or for a Crime
committed.

A FORFEIT, a Default, Fine,
or Penalty.

FORFEITABLE, liable to be
forfeited.

FORFEITURE, the Trans­
gressing of a Penal Law, or ra­
ther the Effect of it.

A FORGE, a Place where a
Smith heats his Irons; a large
Furnace where Iron-Ore is
melted

To FORGE, to hammer like
a Smith, to contrive, or frame,
to counterfeit.

A FORGER, a Worker at a
Forge, a Counterfeiter, a Con­
triver.

FORGERY, a Counterfeiting,
a Cheat, or Falshood. 

To FORGET, to let slip
one's Memory

To FORGIVE, to pass by a
Fault, to quit a Debt, &c.



FORGIVENESS, Pardon for
a Fault.

A FORK, an Instrument for
several Uses.

FORK-FISH, a kind of
Thornback.

FORLORN, forsaken, deso­
late, afflicted, miserable, lost,
despairing.

FORM, Fashion, Figure,
Shape, Manner.

To FORM, to shape, or make,
to contrive, or devise.

FORMAL, belonging to
Form, also punctual, affected,
precise. 

FORMALITY, Ceremony,
Affectation, Preciseness.

FORMALITIES, Robes worn
by the Magistrates of a City and
Corporation, &c. upon solemn
Occasions.

FORMATION, a Fashioning,
or Framing.

FORMIDABLE, dreadful, to
be feared, terrible, frightful.

FORMOST, the first, going
in the Front.

FORMS, long Seats, or
Benches to set on

FORMULARY, a Book of
Forms, or Precedents; the Style
and Manner of Proceeding in
Law, the Form of an Oath.

FORNICATION, the Act of
Uncleanness between single Per­
sons.

FORNICATOR, a Whore­
monger

FORRAGE, Provision of Hay,
Oats, Straw, &c. especially in
War. 

To FORRAGE, 
To go a FORRAGING, to 
ride
about a Country, to get Forrage.

To FORSAKE, to leave, or
quit.

FORSOOTH, an Intersection
of Disdain, or Derision, also a 
Title of Respect and Submission
used by a Servant to a Mistress,
&c.

To FORSWEAR, to swear
falsly.

FORT, a strong Hold, or
Castle, of small Extent.

FORTH, abroad, or out.

FORTHWITH, presently,
quickly.

FORTIFIABLE, that is ca­
pable of being fortified.

FORTIFICATION, the Art
of Strengthning a Place, so that
a small Number of Men with­
in, may be able to defend them­
selves against a large Number
without.

To FORTIFY, to strengthen, 
to make strong, or fense in a
regular manner.

FORTITUDE, Courage, Va­
lour, Stoutness, Prowess.

FORTRESS, a general Term
for all Places fortified by Nature
or Art.

FORTUITOUS, happening
by Chance, casual, accidental.

FORTUNATE, lucky, hap­
py, &c.

FORTUNE, Adventure, or
Chance, what happens by
Chance, Luck, also Estate,
Goods, Settlement in the World,
&c.

FORWARD, ready, strait
on, before.

To FOSTER, to nourish,
cherish, or bring up.

A FOSTER CHILD, a Child
brought up by one who is not
his Father.

FOUL, filthy, nasty, full of
Dirt.

To FOUL, to make filthy, or
unclean, &c.

FOULNESS, a Foreland in
Essex, where there is Plenty of
Fowls.



FOULNESS, Filthiness, Na­
stiness, Uncleanness

To FOUND, to build, settle,
or establish, also to cast Metals.

FOUNDATION, the lowest
part of a Building, the ground
Work of a Thing.

A FOUNDER, one who
builds, or endows a Church or
a College, &c. also a Caster of
Metals

To FOUNDER a Horse, to
spoil him with hard Riding or
Working.

To FOUNDER a Ship, is
when she sinks by an extraordi­
nary Leak which fills her with
Water.

FOUNDLING, an Infant ex­
posed and left in a Place, and
found there.

FOUNDERING in Horses, a
Disease, causing Humours to
settle in the Feet.

Chest FOUNDERING in 
Horses, a Disease, discovered by
their often seeking to lie down,
and stradling with their Fore­
legs. 

FOUNTAIN, a Spring, a
Place where Water breaks out
of the Earth.

A FORUM, a Table, a Seat
to set on at School

A FOWL, a Bird.

A FOWLER, a Hunter, or
Catcher of Fowls.

To FOWL, a hunt Fowls.

A FOX, a Beast of Chace.

To FOX one, to make him
drunk.

FOY, a Treat given to
Friends by one who is going a
Journey.

To FOYL in Husbandry, to
fallow Land in the Summer and
Autumn.

FRACTION, Dissension, or
Strife among Parties. In Arith­
metick, a broken Number.

FRACTURE, is the Break­
ing of a Bone, &c.

FRAGIL, frail, brittle, apt
to break.

A FRAGMENT, a broken
Piece, or part of a Thing, al­
so imperfect Sentences mention­
ed by one Writer, and not to be
found in the Original quoted.

FRAGRANCY, Sweetness of
Smell

FRAGRANT, of a sweet and
pleasant Smell.

FRAIGHT, 
FREIGHT, the Burden,
Lading, or Mer­
chandise that a Ship carries,
also Money paid for such Car­
riage.

To FRAIGHT a Ship, to fur­
nish a Ship with Lading

FRAIL, a Basket of Raisins 
or Figs, &c. about Seventy-five
Pounds

FRAILTY, Weakness of
Nature, Brittleness.

To FRAME, to form, to
create, to contrive, to build.

A FRAME, a Figure, or
Form; the Supporters of a
Chair, or Table, &c. the Out­
work of a Clock, &c.

FRANC, a French Livre,
worth One Shilling Six Pence
Sterling.

FRANCHISE, Liberty, Free­
Dom; a particular Privilege
belonging to a City or Corpo­
ration.

FRANCES, the proper Name
of Women.

FRANCIS, the proper Name
of Men.

FRANCISCANS, an Order
of Friars, founded by St. Francis
in Italy.

FRANGIBLE, that may be
broke

FRANK, free, generous, o­
pen-hearted, bountiful.



FRANKS, a People who for­
merly inhabited part of Germany.

FRANKINCENSE, Incense
burnt freely upon an Altar.

FRANTICK, that has a
Frenzy, mad, distracted.

FRAPPISH, peevish, cross.

FRATERNAL, belonging to
a Brother.

FRATERNITY, a Brother­
hood, a Company of Men en­
tered into a Bond, or Society.

FRATRICIDE, the Killing
of a Brother

FRAUD, Deceit, Guile, Cun­
ning, Cheat, Cousenage.

FRAUDULENCY, Deceit­
fulness, Craftiness, Knavery 

FRAUDULENT, crafty,
cunning, deceitful

FRAY, a Fight, Scuffle,
Quarrel

A FREAK, a mad Action, a
Maggot, a Whimsy

FREAKISH, whimsical,
magotty.

FREAM, Land worn out of
heart

FRECKLES, a kind of red­
dish, or dusky Pustules on the
Hands and Face

FREDERICK, a proper
Name of Men.

FREE, at Liberty, out of
Slavery

To FREE, to make free, or
deliver

FREEDOM, Liberty, En­
franchisement.

FREEHOLD, is the actual
Possession of Lands and Tene­
ments in Fee

FREEHOLDERS, who en­
joy Freehold, so called, because
they hold Lands, &c. by a per­
petual Right to them and their
Heirs for ever.

FREELY, readily, with
Freedom.

FREEMAN, of a City, Cor­
poration, or Company, &c.

FREESTONE, a sort of Stone
used in Building

FREEZ, a sort of coarse
Woollen Cloth.

To FREEZE, to congeal as
Ice

FRENCH, belonging to
France, or the Language of that
Nation.

FRENCH-BEANS, a sort of
Pulse

FRENCH-MARIGOLD, a
Flower.

FRENCHIFIED, in the French
Mode, Fashion, or Interest.

FRENSY,
FRENZY, a sort of Mad­
ness, or Dotage.

FREQUENCY, the frequent
or often doing a thing.

FREQUENT, that happens
often, usual, common.

To FREQUENT, to haunt,
to resort to, or visit often, to
keep company with.

FRESH, new, brisk, lively.

To FRET like Cloth, to wear
out.

To FRET, to be vexed, or
chafe in Mind.

A FRET, a Fume, or Heat of
Passion.

FRETFUL, given to fret,
peevish.

FRETTED, vexed, discom­
posed, ruffled in Mind, also
worn out.

FRIBBLING, captious, im­
pertinent, triflng.

FRICASSEY, a Dish of fried
Meat, as Rabbits, &c.

FRICATION,
FRICTION, a Rubbing,
or Chafing

FRIDAY, the sixth Day of
the Week.

Good FRIDAY, the Friday be­
fore Easter.



A FRIEND, one who acts
kindly toward a Person.

FRIENDLESS, a destitute of
Friends.

FRIENDLY, kindly.

FRIER, a Monk, or reli­
gious Person.

A FRIGATE, a small Man of
War.

FRIGID, cold, impotent.

FRIGIDITY, Coldness, Im­
potency.

To FRIGHT, to put into a
Fright.

To FRILL, to tremble, or
shiver with Cold.

To FRISK, to leap or jump
up and down.

A FRITTER, a small Pan­
cake

FRIVOLOUS, of no Account
or Value, vain, slight, trifling.

FRISE. See FREEZ

To FRIZZLE, to curl or
crisp the Hair.

A FROCK, a Garment to
wear over other Apparel, to
keep it clean.

A FROG, an amphibious
Creature; also a Frush upon a
Horse's Foot. 

FROLICK, jocund, gay,
merry, full of play.

To be FROLICK, to be mer­
ily disposed.

A FROLICK, a merry Prank,
a Whim.

FROLICKSOM, full of Fro­
licks.

FRONT, the Forehead, the
upper part of the Face, also the
foremost Rank of an Army.

FRONTIERS, the Limits or
Borders of a Country or Pro­
vince.

FRONTINIACK, a sort of
luscious rich French Wine.

FRONTISPIECE, the Fore­
front of a Building, the Title,
or first Page of a Book.

FRONTLET, a Dress for the
Forehead.

FROPPISH. See FRAPPISH.

FROST, a Congelation of
Water, and other Liquids, by
Cold.

FROSTY, Freezing.

FROTH, the Spume of fer­
mented or liquid Things.

FROWARD, peevish, fret­
ful, surly

To FROWN, to knit the
Brows, to wrinkle the Forehead,
&c.

FROWY,
FROWZY, musty, ill­
scented. 

To FRUCTIFY, to bring
forth Fruit, to make fruitful,
prosper, or thrive.

FRUGAL, sparing, thrifty.

FRUGALITY, Sparingness,
Thriftiness, good Husbandry. 

FRUIT, the Product of the
Earth from Trees, Plants, &c.
also Profit on Goods, Rent, &c.

FRUITAGE, all manner of
Fruit.

FRUITERER, one who deals
in, or sells Fruit.

FRUITION, Enjoyment, ob­
taining.

FRUMENTY,
FRUMETY, a sort of Po­
tage made
with Wheat, Milk, Sugar,
Spice, &c.

FRUM, plump, fat, jolly.

To FRUMP, to flout, jeer,
or mock, to taunt, or snub.

FRUSH, the tender part of a
Horse's Heel near the Hoof.

To FRUSTRATE, to de­
ceive, disappoint, or make
void.

FRY, the Spawn of young
Fish, a Multitude, a Company.

To FRY, to dress Victuals
over the Fire in a Frying-pan.

A FUB, a little fat Child.

To FUDDLE, to drink till
one is tipsey, or drunk.



To FUDGEL, to make a
Shew of doing something to no
Purpose, to trifle.

FUGACITY, apt to fly, or
pass away.

A FUGITIVE, a Deserter, a
Runaway

To FULFIL, to accomplish,
to perform.

FULGENT, Shining, Glit­
tering.

FULGID, bright, shining.

FULHAM, a Town near
London, on the Border of the
Thames

FULL, replete, filled with.

FULNESS, Plenty, Abundance.

FULLY, to the full, suffici­
ently

A FULLER, one who fulls,
mills, or scours Cloth

FULLERS EARTH, a sort
of Earth which scours like
Soap

To FULMINATE, to thun­
der out, to strike with a Thun­
derbolt, to blast.

FULSOM, nasty, noisom
distasteful, luscious.

To FUMBLE, to handle a
Thing aukardly. 

A FUME, a Smoke, or
Steam.

To FUME, to smoke or steam

FUMIGATION, a Perfuming
with the Smoke of sweet
Wood, &c

To FUMIGATE, with Sur­
geons to salivate by Smoke. 

FUNCTION, the Exercise,
Execution, or Performance of
some Charge, Duty, or Office.

FUND, Land, or Soil, also
a Bank of publick Money, or
publick Security.

FUNDAMENT, the Breech,
Buttock, or Seat of the Body

FUNDAMENTAL, of a
Foundation, Principal, Chief.

FUNDAMENTALS, the
fundamental Principles; the
main Points of an Art or
Science.

FUNEBROUS, mournful,
sad, doleful.

FUNERAL, belonging to a
Funeral.

A FUNERAL, a Burial.

FUNEST, deadly, mortal.

FUNGOUS, full of Holes,
like a Mushroom, spungy.

A FUNK, a rank strong
Smell, particularly of Tobacco.

A FUNNEL, an Instrument
to convey Liquors into a Vessel;
also the upper part of a Chimney.

FURBELOE, a plaited Trim­
ming for Women's Petticoats,
&c.

To FURBISH, to polish, to
make bright.

A FURBISHER, a Polisher.

FURIES, three imaginary
Fiends of Hell.

FURIOUS, fierce, mad, ra­
ging.

To FURL, to wrap up and
bind a Sail close to the Yard.

FURLONG, the eighth part
of a Mile.

FURLOUGH, a Licence
granted by an Officer to a Sol­
dier, to be absent from his
Duty.

FURMETY. See FRUMEN­
TY.

A FURNACE, a Kiln for
Brewing, and other Uses.

To FURNISH, to provide,
or supply with.

FURNITURE, Utensils,
whatsoever is requisite to fur­
nish a House.

FURR, the Skin of several
wild Beasts, used for Warmth or
Ornament.

To FURR, to line with
Furr, also to grow rough and 



clammy, like the Tongue in a
Fever.

FURRIER, one who deals
in Furrs.

FURROW, a Trench, or
Drain for moist Land.

FURTHER, beyond.

FURY, Rage, Frenzy, Madness.

FURZ, a sort of prickly
Broom used for Fuel.

FUSEE, a Musket; also that
part of a Watch about which
the Chain or String is wound.

FUSILIER, a Foot Soldier
armed with a Fusee.

FUSTIAN, a bumbaste,
swelling and affected Style in
Writing. 

FUSTICK, a sort of Wood
used by Dyers, brought from
Barbadoes.

FUSTY, that has a rank
Smell, stinking. 

FUTURE, that is to come,
or be hereafter.

FUTURITY, the Time to
come.

To FUZZ, to ravel, or run
out.

FY, an Interjection of dis­
like.


G.
To GABBLE, to talk fast, to
prate, or prattle, to chat,
or chatter.

GABIONS, Baskets about
Four or Five Foot Diameter,
and Five or Six Foot high,
which being filled with Earth
are placed upon the Batteries,
&c.

GABLOCKS, false Spurs for
Fighting-Cocks.

GABRIEL, a proper Name
of Men

To GAD, to ramble, rove,
range, or straggle about.

GADDING, rambling, or
roving about.

GAD-FLY, an Insect that
bites Cattle; also called a Gad­
Bee.

GAFF, an Iron Hook to pull
great Fish into a Ship, also
a false Spur for a Fighting-Cock.

GAGE, a Rod to measure
Casks with.

To GAGE,
To GAUGE, to measure
with a Gage,
to know the Contents of a Vessel.

GAGER,
GAUGER, an Officer em­
ployed in Gaug­
ing.

A GAGG, an Instrument put
into the Mouth, to keep it from
shutting.

GAINESS, 
GAIETY, Chearfulness,
Gallantry, Fi­
nery.

GAIN, Profit, Lucre. 

To GAIN, to get, or win.

GAINFUL, profitable, ad­
vantageous.

To GAINSAY, to deny, to
contradict, to speak against.

GAINSBOROUGH, a Town
in Lincolnshire.

To GAINSTAND, to resist,
to oppose.

GALE, a Blast of Wind.

GALEN, a famous Physician.

GALL, the Bile, one of the
Humours of the Body; also a
Fret or Sore.

To GALL, to fret or rub off
the Skin, to teeze, or vex.

GALLNUT, a Fruit grow­
ing on an Oak, use to make
Ink with.

GALLANT, fine, civil, ac­
complished, genteel, brave.

A GALLANT, a Lover, a
Spark, a Sweetheart.

GALLANTNESS, 
GALLANTRY, Intrigue, 
or A­
mour, courteous Behaviour,
Gentleness, Bravery, Valour.

GALLEON, a larger sort of
Galley.



GALLERY, a kind of Bal­
cony that surrounds a Building,
or a Passage, leading to several
Apartments in a great House.

GALLEY, a Sea Vessel with
Oars.

GALLICAN, belonging to
France, or to the French Nation.

GALLICISM, a French Idiom,
or speaking after the manner of
the French.

GALLIGASKINS, a sort of
wide Breeches used by the In­
habitants of Gascoign in France.

GALLIMAFRY, a Hotch­
potch of all sorts of Meats.

GALLIOT, a small Galley
designed for Chase.

GALLON, a Measure con­
taining Four Quarts.

To GALLOP, to ride fast.

A GALLOP, the swiftest Pace
of a Horse.

GALLOSHES, Leather Cases,
or Clogs worn over Shoes.

GALLOWS, a Frame of
Wood on which Malefactors
are hanged.

GALLS, See GALL.

GAMALIEL, a Jewish Rabbi,
Tutor to St. Paul.

GAMBADOES, a sort of
Leathern Boot fixed to the Sad­
dle, and serves for a Stirrup.

GAMBOLS, Games, or tum­
bling Tricks played with the
Legs, certain Sports used a­
bout Christmas Time.

GAME, a Play, Sport, or
Diversion.

To GAME, to play, sport, &c.
Also to play upon, to decide.

GAMMON, a Thigh, Ham,
or Shoulder.

GANDER, a Male Goose.

GANG, a Company of Men
going the same way, a Crew.

To GANG, to go

GANGRENE, the Corrup­
tion of a Part attended with
Blackness and Mortification.

GANTLET,
GAUNTLET, an Iron 
Glove.

GANTLOPE, a Town in
Flanders, also an usual Punish­
ment among Soldiers, invented 
there.

To run the GANTLOPE, to
run through a Company of Sol­
diers making a Lane, with each
a Switch in his Hand, to scourge
the Criminal.

GAOL, a Poison.

GAOL-DELIVERY, the
clearing a Prison of Prisoners.

A GAP, an open Place in a
Wall or Hedge.

To GAPE, to open the Mouth
wide, also to open.

GARB, Attire, Dress, &c.

GARBAGE, Guts, Entrails, &c.

GARD. See GUARD.

GARDEN, a Plot of Ground
furnished with Variety of Plants,
Flowers, &c.

GARDINER, a Dresser of a
Garden.

GARGARISM, a liquid Me­
dicine to cleanse the Throat.

To GARGARIZE, to gargle,
to wash the Throat or Mouth.

GARGET, a mortal Disease
in Cattle.

To GARGLE, to wash the
Throat or Mouth with Liquor.

GARLAND, an Ornament
for the Head made of Flowers.

GARLICK, a Plant.

GARMENT, any Vestment.

GARNET, a sort of Car­
buncle Stone, so called from its
red Colour, like to that of the
Seed of a Pome-granate.

To GARNISH, to adorn, to
set off, also to furnish.

GARNISH, a Fee paid by
Prisoners, at their first entrance 
into Gaol, Money spent on their
Fellow Prisoners. 



GARNITURE, Furniture of
a Chamber, &c Trimming.

GARRET, the uppermost
Floor of a House.

GARRISON, a Place of De­
fence, into which Soldiers are
put, also the Soldiers who de­
fend it.

GARRULOUS, talkative,
prating.

GARTER, a Band to tie up
the Stockings.

GARTER King at Arms, the
Chief of the three Kings at Arms.

Order of the GARTER. See
KNIGHTS of the Garter.

GASCOYNS, the inner part
of the Thigh of a Horse.

A GASH, a deep Cut.

To GASH, to cut.

To GASP, to gape for Breach.

A GASP, a panting for Breath.

GASTLY, frightful, looking
like a Ghost.

A GATE, an Entrance into a
City, Palace, &c.

GATE, a Motion or Posture
of the Body in Walking.

To GATHER, to collect, or
pick up, also to crop.

GAUDY, affectedly Gay and
Fine.

GAY, of a merry and plea­
sant Temper, also fine, neat, 
spruce

To GAZE, to stare, look a­
bout for earnestly

GAZETTE, a News Paper

GAZETTEER, a Writer or
Publisher of Gazettes.

GEAR, Stuff, Attire, Ap­
parel, also Harness for Draught
Horses or Oxen.

To GELD, to cut out the
Stones of a male Animal.

A GELDING, a gelt Horse.

GELLY, Liquor or Meat
boiled thick

GELT,
GELLED, castrated, having
the Stones cut out.

A GEM, a Jewel.

GENEALOGIST, one skil­
led in the Method of describing
Pedigrees.

GENEALOGICAL, belonging
to Genealogy.

GENEALOGY, a Description
of the Stock, Lineage, or Pedi­
gree of any Person or Family.

GENERAL, common, of all
kinds and sorts.

A GENERAL, the Com­
mander of an Army, also the
principal Governour of a reli­
gious Order

GENERALISSIMO, the su­
preme Commander in chief of
an Army

GENERALITY, the Whole,
or greatest Part

To GENERATE, to engen­
der, or beget.

GENERATED, begotten, or
produced.

GENERATION, the Pro­
duction of any Thing in a na­
tural Way.

GENEROSITY, Liberality,
Nobleness of Mind.

GENEROUS, free, bounti­
ful, of a noble Mind or Blood.

GENESIS, the first Book of
Moses, containing the History of
the Creation.

GENET, a kind of Spanish
Horse

GENEVA, a sort of Strong
Water distilled from Juniper
Berries

GENIAL, festival, joyful,
merry, pertaining to Marriage.

GENITAL, generative, ser­
ving to Generation

GENITALS, the Privy Parts
of a Male.

GENITING, a sort of Apple

GENIUS, a good or evil
Angel or Spirit, supposed to at­
tend every Person, also a Man's
Nature, Fancy, or Inclination



GENTEEL, neat, fine, gal­
lant, having the Air and Car­
riage of a Gentleman.

GENTEELNESS, genteel Car­
riage.

GENTIL, a kind of Maggot
or Worm.

GENTILES, among the Jews
all were Gentiles, who were not
of the Twelve Tribes, but now
those are called Gentiles who do
not profess Christ.

GENTILITY, the Quality
and Degree of a Gentleman.

GENTLE, mild, tame, civil,
obliging.

GENTLEMAN, a Person of
good or honourable Extraction

GENTRY, the Order or Rank
of Gentleman, which have al­
ways borne a Coat of Arms.

GENUINE, natural, true.

GEOFFERY, a Christian
Name.

GEOGRAPHER, one who is
skilled in Geography.

GEOGRAPHICAL, belong­
ing to Geography.

GEOGRAPHY, a Description
of the whole Globe of the Earth,
or known Habitable World.

GEOMETRICAL, belonging
to Geometry.

GEOMETRICIAN, one skil­
led in Geometry.

GEOMETRY, the Art of
measuring the Earth, or any
Distances or Dimensions upon
it

GEORGE, a proper Name
of Men.

GERARD, a Christian
Name.

A GERMAN, a Native of
Germany.

To GERMINATE, to branch,
sprout out, bud, or blossom.

GESTATION, a carrying,
or bearing, also the Time which
a Child is in the Womb of the
Mother.

To GESTICULATE, to use
much Gesture

GESTICULATION, a Re­
presentation of a Person by Ge­
stures or Postures, the using too
much Gesture in Speaking.

GESTURE, the Behaviour
or Motion of the Body.

To GET, to obtain.

GEWGAWS, Trifles, or
Play Things for Children.

GHIRKINS, a small pickled
Cucumber.

GUITTAR, a musical Instru­
ment formerly much used by the
Italians and French.

GHIZZARD, the Bag under
the Throat or Craw of a Fowl.

A GHOST, the Spirit of a
Person deceased.

GHOSTLY, spiritual.

A GIANT, a Person of un­
common Size or Stature.

GIBBERISH, nonsensical
Talk.

A GIBBET, a Gallows for
the Execution of Malefactors.

To GIBE, to jeer, mock, or
flout.

GIBLETS, the Offals or En­
trails, &c. of a Goose.

GIDDY, vertiginous, unset­
tled in Mind, rash, inconsiderate.

A GIFT, a Token, Gratuity,
Present, Endowment. 

A GIG, a wanton Woman.

GIGUE, a Jigg, a brisk or
lively Movement of Time in
Musick.

GIGANTICK, Giant-like,
belonging to Giants, big-body'd.

GIG-MILL, a Mill for the
Fulling of Woollen Cloth.

GIG, a sort of Top made of
Horn, for Boys to play with.

To GIGGLE, to laugh out
wantonly or sillily.



GILBERT, the proper Name
of Men

GILD-HALL,
GUILD-HALL, the chief 
Hall of the
City of London.

GILES, a proper name of
Men.

GILL, a Measure containing
a Quarter of a Pint, also the
Herb Alehoof. 

GILLIFLOWER, a Flower
of a grateful Scent

GILLINGHAM, a Village in
Dorsetshire

GILLS of a Fish, Openings
on the side of the Head.

GIN, a Snare, or Trap, al­
so an Engine for lifting up great
Guns

GINGER, an Indian Root of
a hot Quality

GINGERLY, tenderly, soft­
ly, gently

To GINGLE, to make
a tingling Noise like lit­
tle Bells, to use Words which
have a chiming or affected
Sound

GIPSIES, a Crew of pilfering
Stragglers, who pretend to tell
Fortunes

To GIRD, to bind round a­
bout, to tie up close

GIRDERS, main Beams go­
ing a cross the Floor of a House

GIRDLE, a Band, Ribbon,
or Thong to bind about the
Loins

GIRL, a young Maid

GIRTH, a Girdle buckled un­
der a Horse's Belly.

To GIVE, to bestow, afford,
produce, &c

GLAD, joyful, merry

To GLADDEN, to make
glad, to exhilerate

GLADIATOR, a Prize­
fighter, a Fencer, or Sword­
player.

To GLAIR, to rub over with
Gold.

GLANCE, a Cast with the
Eye, an Allusion, a Reflection,
also a Glittering like a Lance

To GLANCE, to glance with
the Eye, to reflect upon curso­
rily, to allude to, also to glitter
like a Lance

A GLAND, a Flesh Kernel.

GLANDERS, a Disease in
Horses, a Running at the Nose

GLANDULOUS, full of
Glands, or Kernels.

To GLARE, to over dazzle,
to stare intently upon.

GLASS, a transparent Sub­
stance, artificially made of Flint,
Sand, Ashes, &c

GLASTENBURY, a Town
in Somersetshire.

To GLAVER, to sooth up,
or flatter

GLAVERING, flattering
Words.

To GLAZE, to glass or gloss
over, to work with Glass, also
to polish.

GLAZIER, a Workman who
glazes or works Glass Windows.

To GLEAM, to shine, or cast
Beams of Light.

To GLEAN, to pick up
scattered Ears of Corn after
reaping

GLEBE, a Clod of Earth,
also a Sulphur used by Fullers.

GLEBE LAND, that Land
belonging to a Parsonage, be­
sides the Tithes

A GLEET, a thin Matter
running out of Ulcers, also the
Venereal Disease.

GLENTWORTH, a Town 
in Lincolnshire.

GLIB, slippery, smooth.

To GLIDE, to flip down ea­
sily, gently, &c.



To GLIMMER, to begin to
appear by degrees, as the Light
at day-break.

A GLIMMERING, a glanc­
ing or trembling of Light.

A GLIMPSE, a Flash, or
Beam of Light

To GLISTEN, 
To GLISTER, to shine, to
be bright, 
or sparkling.

A GLISTER, See CLISTER

To GLITTER, the same as
Glister

To GLOAR, to look a-skew

A GLOBE, a round solid Bo­
dy, every Part of whose Sur­
face is equally distant from a
Point within, called the Cen­
ter. The Celestial Globe is an
artificial Representation of the
Heavens, the Terrestrial of the
Earth.

GLOBOUS, 
GLOBULAR, round as a 
Globe

GLOBULETS, little Globes.

GLOBULOUS, of Globules,
or little Globes.

GLOCESTER, a Bishop's See.

GLOOMY, dusky, dark,
cloudy

GLORIFICATION, a Glori­
fying, admitting to the State of
eternal Glory.

To GLORIFY, to give Glory,
Praise, &c. to put among the
Blessed

GLORIOUS, full of Glory,
famous

GLORY, Honour, Renown,
Reputation, or the Joys of
Heaven, the Majesty of God
considered with his divine Per­
fections

A GLORY, those Beams of
Light usually drawn about the
Head of our Saviour, Saints,
&c

To GLORY, to brag or boast.

A GLOSS, a Lustre or Bright­
ness set upon Silk, &c. also a
Comment or Exposition.

A GLOSSARY, a Dictionary
to explain Words, especially
such as are obscure and bar­
barous.

GLOSSOGRAPHER, a Wri­
ter of a Glossary.

GLOSSOGRAPHY, the Art
of writing a Glossary.

A GLOVE, a Covering for
the Hand.

To GLOUT, to frown, to
look sourly.

To GLOW, to grow hot, or
red.

GLOW-WORM, an Insect
that shines in the dark

GLUE, a sticky Composition
to join Boards together, &c.

To GLUT, to over-charge.

A GLUT, Over-Plenty, an
Abundance.

To GLUTINATE, to glue,
or stick together

GLUTINOUS, that sticks
like Glue, clammy.

GLUTTED, a satiated, filled.

A GLUTTON, a greedy
Eater.

GLUTTONY, immoderate
Eating and Drinking.

GNAT, a stinging Fly.

GNATSNAPPER, a Bird.

To GNAW, to bite off.

A GNOMON, the Stilepin or
Cock of a Dial, the Shadow
whereof pointeth out the Hours.

To GO, to walk, move, &c

GOAD, a Staff pointed with
sharp Iron, to drive Cattle with.

GOAL, the End of a Race,
also a Prison, or Jail.

A GOALER, a Jailor.

To GOAR, to piece or bore
with a Horn, as a Ball, &c.
does.



A GOAT, a Beast.

A GOATHERD, a Keeper
or Feeder of Goats.

GOAT MILKER,
GOAT SUCKER, a kind of 
Bird like
an Owl.

A GOB, a Mouthful, a large
Piece of Meat.

To GOBBLE, to eat greedily.

GOBLET, a large Drinking­
Cup of a round Figure, with
Feet and Handles.

GOBLINS, evil Spirits, Bug­
bears, or Hobgoblins.

GODARD, a proper Name.

GODFATHER, a Man that
is Surety to a Child in Baptism.

GODMOTHER, a Woman
Surety. 

GODFREY, a proper Name.

GODMANCHESTER, a
Town in Huntingtonshire.

GODRICK, a proper Name.

GODWIN, a proper Name.

GODWINSANDS, Sands on
the Coast of Kent.

GOGMAGOG, a British Gi­
ant, said to be Twelve Cubics
high, whose Image stands in
the Guildhall of London.

GOGMAGOGS Leap, a steep
Rock in Cornwall.

To be a GOG for a Thing, to
be eagerly bent upon it

GOGGLE eyed, having full
rowling Eyes.

GOLD, the most valuable and
most weighty of Metals.

GOLDEN, belonging to, or
of the Colour of Gold.

GOLDEN FLEECE, the Fi­
gure or a Ram gilt with Gold

GOLDEN NUMBER, a Num­
ber beginning with One, and in­
creasing till it comes to Nine­
teen, and then begins again;
which is used to find the Change,
Full, and Quarters of the Moon.

GOLDEN RULE, the Rule 
of Three in Arithmetick.

GOLDENY, the Fish called
Gilthead.

GOLDING, an Apple,

GOLDEN, a Fish.

GOLDSMITH, a Worker or
Seller of Gold and Silver Place,
&c.

GOLGOTHA, a Place near
Jerusalem, full of the Bones of
Malefactors. 

GOME, the black and oily
Grease of a Cart Wheel.

GONDOLE, a Venetian
Wherry.

GONORRHEA, a Disease, 
called the Running of the
Reins.

GOOD, honest, just, &c.

GOODLY, fair, fine, spruce.

GOODMAN, a Country Term
for the Master of a Family. 

GOODNESS, Honestly, Just­
ness, &c.

GOOGE, a Tool for boaring
Holes.

GOOSE, a Fowl well known,
also a Taylor's Iron to press
Seams with.

GOOSEBERRIES, a Fruit
well known.

GORDIAN KNOT, a Knot
which Alexander the Great not
undoing , after several Trials,
cut in with his Sword. 

GORE, a triangular Piece
sewed into a Garment to wi­
den it; also clotted or corrupt
Blood.

To GORE, to push with the
Horn, as a Bull, &c does.

To GORGE, to fill, glut, or
cram.

GORGEOUS, costly, gallant,
stately.

GORGET, a Woman's Neck­
dress, also a Neckpiece of Plate,
worn by the Officers of Foot
Soldiers.

To GORMANDISE, to eat
greedily, or gluttonously.



GORMANDISE, Gluttony.

GOSHAWK, a Bird of Prey.

GOSLING, a young Goose,
also a sort of Substance grow­
ing upon a Nut Tree.

GOSPEL, a Title given to
the Four first Books of the New
Testament

GOSSIP, a Godfather or God­
mother in Baptism.

A GOSSIPING, a merry
Meeting of Gossips at a Womans
Lying-in.

GOTHAM, a Village in Not­
tinghamshire.

GOTHS, a People whose
Country bordered upon Denmark
and Norway.

To GOVERN, to rule, ma­
nage, look to, take care of.

GOVERNABLE, that may
be governed

GOVERNANTE, a Gover­
ness who is entrusted with the
Education of a Person of Qua­
lity's Child.

GOVERNMENT, Rule, Do­
minion, the Province or Place
governed, the Form and Man­
ner of Governing.

A GOVERNOR, a Ruler, or
Commander.

GOURD, a Plant of the Na­
ture or a Melon.

GOURDY LEGS, a Disease
in Horses.

GOURNET, a Bird.

GOUT, a painful Disease in
the Feet, Legs, &c.

GOUTY, troubled with the
Gout, also clumsy, ill made.

A GOWN, a long Garment.

To GRABBLE, to handle un­
towardly, or wantonly, also to
feel in muddy Places

GRACE, Favour, Goodwill,
Agreeableness, general Air. In
Divinity, the Mercy of God in
the Redemption of Mankind.

GRACEFUL, handsome,
comely.

GRACELESS, void of Grace,
impious, very wicked

THE GRACES, they were 3,
Aglais, Euphrosyne, and Thalia.

To GRACE, to set off hand­
somly.

GRACIOUS, full of Grace,
favourable.

GRADATION, a going Step
by Step.

GRADUAL, that is done, or
comes by degrees.

A GRADUATE, one who
has taken a Degree in the Uni­
versity.

GRAFF, a Graff or Scion.

To GRAFF, to inoculate, or
plant a Graff or Scion on an­
other Stock

To GRAFT. See GRAFF.

GRAIN, all sorts of Corn;
also the smallest Weight used in
England.

Grain COLOUR, Red or Pur­
ple dyed with the Grain called
Cocheneal.

GRAINED, that which has
Grains, or Kernels

The GRAIN of any thing, 
is that way the Strings or Fibres
run.

Against the GRAIN, against
the Inclination of the Mind.

GRAINS OF PARADISE, 
the Plant called Cardamom.

GRAMMAR, the Art of
Speaking and Writing truly;
also a Book containing the
Rules of that Art

GRAMMARIAN, one who
is skilled in or teaches the
Grammar.

GRAMMATICAL, belong­
ing to the Art of Grammar.

GRAMPLE, a Sea Fish.

GRAMPUS, a Fish like a 
Whale, but less.



GRANADIER, a Soldier
which throws Granadoes.

A GRANADO, a little hol­
low Ball of Iron filled with
Powder, fired with a Fusee at
the Touch-hole, which, when
the Fire comes to the Hollow of
the Ball, bursts to pieces.

GRANARY, a Place where
Corn is kept, a Store-house for
Corn.

GRANATE, a shining trans­
parent gem of a yellow Red,
a kind of Hyacinth.

GRAND, great, vast, chief.

GRAND-CHILD, the Child
of one's Child, either Son or
Daughter.

GRANDEE, a Nobleman of
Spain or Portugal.

GRANDEUR, Greatness,
Magnificence, Power, Dignity,
State.

GRAND SEIGNOUR, a Title
given to the Emperor of the
Turks

GRANDSIRE, a Grandfa­
ther.

GRANGE, a great Farm
which has Barns, Stables, &c.
necessary for Husbandry

To GRANT, to allow, give,
bestow, &c.

A GRANT, in Law, a Gift
in Writing or such a Thing as
cannot be passed by Word of
Mouth.

GRANTED, the Person to
whom a Grant is made

GRANTOR, the Person who
makes a Grant

A GRAPE, a Berry of a
Vine.

GRAPHICAL, curiously de­
scribed or wrought, done to
the Life; perfect, exact.

To GRAPPLE, to grasp, or
lay hold on, to contend, or
strive earnestly with

To GRASP, to enclose in the
Hand, to take hold on with the
Hand, to seize on.

To GRASP at, to endeavour
strongly to obtain.

A GRASIER, one who grazes
or fattens Cattle.

GRASS, Herbage for Cattle.

GRASSHOPPER, an Insect
well known

To GRATE, to scrape or
crumble to Powder.

GRATEFUL, willing to ac­
knowledge a Favour received,
also agreeable, pleasant.

GRATES, a sort of Iron
Lattices, a Frame of Iron Bars,
&c. to make a Fire in.

GRATIFICATION, a Re­
ward, or Amends for some piece
of Service done, also a Present,
or Gift.

To GRATIFY, to do one a
good Turn, to recompense, or
require.

GRATING, rough, hard,
disagreeable

GRACIOUS, favourable,
kind, civil, courteous.

GRATIS, freely, for nothing,
without Reward

GRATITUDE, Gracefulness,
Thankfulness

GRATUITOUS, done volun­
tarily, freely, without Reward.

GRATUITY, a free Gift, or
Reward.

GRAVE, that has a com­
posed Countenance, serious.

GRAVESEND, a Port in
Kent.

A GRAVE, a Hole dug in the
Earth to bury the Dead

To GRAVE, to engrave.

GRAVEL, the larger and
stoney sort of Sand, also Sand
in the Bladder or Kidneys of a
human Body.

To GRAVEL, to lay Walks
with Gravel, also a puzzle,
perplex, or nonplus.



GRAVELY, with a grave Air.

GRAVELLING, a Distemper
in Horses

GRAVER, a graving Tool

A GRAVER, a graving Tool,
an Engraver

GRAVID, big with Child.

To GRAVITATE, to weigh

GRAVITATION, a weighing.

GRAVITY, Graveness, so­
berness, Seriousness, also the
natural Tendency of all Bodies
to the Earth.

GRAY, a sort of an Ash Co­
lour

GRAY, a wild Beast called a
Badger.

To GRAZE, to feed on Grass;
also to glance, pass slightly on
the Ground, as a Bullet does.

A GRAZIER, one that deals
in, breeds, and fattens Cattle for
Sale

GREASE, fat, chiefly that of
the Inwards of an Animal.

To GREASE, to dawb or
smear with Grease

GREASE MOLTEN, a Di­
stemper in a Horse, when his Fat
is melted by over hard labour

GREAT, large, huge, might­
ty, noble

GREAT SEAL, the King's
principal Seal for sealing of
Charters, Commissions, &c. u­
sed by the Lord-Chancellor, or
Keeper.

GRECIAN, one born in
Greece, also one skilled in the
Greek Tongue.

GRECISM, the Idiom or Pro­
priety of the Greek Tongue.

GREEDY, very covetous, or
eager of

GREEK, the Language of
the Grecians.

GREEN, the Colour of Herbs
or Leaves of Trees

GREEN CLOTH, the Compt­
ing-House of the King's Hous­
hold.

GREEN FINCH, a Singing
Bird.

GREEN HOUSE, a Garden­
house for the Preservation of
choice Greens, which will not
bear the Cold.

GREENWICH, a Port in
Kent, where there is an Hospi­
tal for Sailors.

To GREET, to salute

GREETING, a familiar Sa­
lutation. 

GREGORIAN STYLE, a
Reckoning of Time made by
Pope Gregory, called the New
Style.

GREGORY, a proper Name
of Men.

GRESHAM COLLEGE, the
House of Sir Thomas Gresham in
Bishopsgate-Street, now made a
College for the Advancement of
Learning.

GREUT, the earthy part of
that which Miners dig up, ha­
ving no Mine or Oar in it.

GREYHOUND, a slender
hunting Dog.

GRIDIRON, an Utensil for
broiling Meat

GRIEF, Sorrow, Affliction,
Trouble or Mind, &c

GRIEVOUS, causing Grief,
also troublesome, burdensome,
painful

GRIFFIN, a fabulous Crea­
ture

GRIG, the smallest sort of
Eel.

GRILL, a kind of small
Fish.

GRIM, fierce and crabbed of
Countenance.

GRIMACE, a wry Face, ei­
ther in scorn or contempt of a
Person, or by reason of Pain,
also Hypocrisy, Dissimulation.

To GRIME, to smut or dawb
with Soot or Filth.



GRIMSBY, a Town in Lin­
colnshire.

To GRIN, to shew the Teeth,
to laugh contemptuously.

To GRIND, to break small
with a Mill.

The GRINDERS, the great
Teeth of an Animal that break
the Meat in chewing.

GRINDLE-STONE, a kind 
of whitish gritty Stone.

A GRIPE, a Handful.

To GRIPE, to hold fast in
the Fist; to seize, or lay fast
hold on, to squeeze hard with
the Hand, also to twinge or
wring the Guts.

A GRIPE, a covetous, tena­
cious, oppressive Usurer.

The GRIPES, a Wringing
or Twisting of the Bowels.

GRISLED, hoary, grey­
headed.

GRISLY, hideous, frightful
to behold, rough, ugly, also
speckled with Black and White.

GRISSEL, a light Flesh-Co­
lour in Horses, also the Name
of a Woman.

GRIST, Corn Ground, or fit
for Grinding.

GRISTLE, a Cartilage

GRIT, the Dust of Stones,
Metal, &c

To GROAN, to fetch deep
or hard Sighs

A GROAN, a deep Sigh.

A GROAT, a Coin, in Value
Four-Pence.

GROATS, Oats hulled, great
Oatmeal

GROCERS, one of the
Twelve Companies in London,
trading in foreign Fruits, Spices,
&c.

GROCERY, Goods sold by
Grocers; also small Money, as
Farthings and Halfpence.

GROGRAM, Stuff made of
Silk and Hair.

The GROIN, the Part be­
tween the Belly and Thighs.

A GROOM, one who looks
after Horses.

GROOM-PORTER, an Of­
ficer of the King's Court, who
has the Direction of Games

GROOM OF THE STOLE, 
an Officer who takes care of the
King's Wardrobe.

GROOVE, a Channel cut in
Wood, Stone, &c. a Passage in
Lead Mines

To GROPE, to feel unto­
wardly.

GROPING, a manner of
Fishing, by putting one's Hands
in Water Holes, and tickling
the Fish by the Gills.

GROSS, thick, fat, dull,
foul.

A GROSS, Twelve Dozen.

GROTTO, a Cave, or Den.

GROTESK WORK, antique
Work in Painting or Carving.

A GROVE, a Little Wood,
also a kind of Mine.

GROVELING, lying on the
Face, or with the Face to the
Ground.

To GROUL, to grumble, or
mutter.

GROUND, the Earth, Pave­
ment, the Bottom.

GROUND-ANGLING, 
a Fishing under Water without
a Float.

"Ground-angling" antedates earliest OED entry (1835).



GROUND-IVY, the herb
Alehoof.

To GROUND, to a­
ground, to establish, to found an
Opinion upon

GROUNDLESS, that has no
Foundation.

GROUNDLING, a Fish that
keeps at the Bottom of the
Water.

GROUNDS, the Principles of
any Art or Science, the Settling
or Dregs of Drink, Reasons.



GROUNDSEL, the Thres­
hold of a Door, also an Herb

GROUT, the great or large
Oatmeal.

To GROW, to increase, to
thrive, to flourish

To GROWL, to make a Noise
like an angry Dog.

To GRUB, to root or dig up
Trees, to muddle in the Dirt.

GRUB, a sort of Maggot,
also a Dwarf, or short Fellow

To GRUBBLE, 
To GROBBLE, to search or 
feel all o­
ver or about.

To GRUDGE, to think much
of, to envy one a thing

A GRUDGE, secret, Hatred, 
ill Will.

GRUEL, Pottage made of
Oatmeal and Water. 

GRUFF, churlish, dogged,
morose

GRUM, grim-faced, sour­
looked

To GRUMBLE, to mutter
between the Teeth.

To GRUNT, to make a noise
like a Hog.

GRYFFITH, a proper Name
of Men.

GUARANTEE, a Person
who is agreed upon to see Ar­
ticles performed between Princes

GUARD, Defence, Protec­
tion.

GUARDIAN, one who has
the Care of any Person or
Thing

To GUESS, to conjecture.

A GUESS, a Conjecture.

A GUEST, a Person invited
to, or received at a Feast, a
Stranger at an Inn.

To GUGGLE, to make a
Noise like a narrow-mouthed
Bottle while it is emptying.

To GUIDE, to direct, or con­
duct in the Way.

GUIDON, the Standard of
a Troop, also the Standard
Bearer.

GUILD-HALL. See GILD­
HALL

GUILDER, a Dutch Coin,
One Shilling and Ten Pence in
Value.

GUILDFORD, a Town in
Surry.

GUILT, a Consciousness of
having committed a Crime, or
Fault

GUILTINESS, a being liable
to suffer for a Crime

GUILTLESS, Innocent, free
from a Crime charged with.

GUILTY, culpable, proved
to have committed a Crime

GUIMAD, a Fish peculiar to
the River Dee in Cheshire, and
the Lake Pemble Meer.

GUINEA, a Gold Coin of
Twenty-one Shillings in Value.

GUIST, Custom, Carriage,
Mode, Fashion.

GUITARRE, a musical In­
strument, now out of use.

GULCHIN, a little Glutton.

GULF,
GULPH, a part of the Sea
that runs between
two Lands.

Sea GULL, a kind of Bird.

GULL, a Breach in the Bank 
of a River.

To GULL, to cheat, defraud,
or cozen, &c.

GULLET, the Passage from
the Mouth of the Stomach
through which the Aliments
pass

To GULLY, to make a Noise
in drinking

GULLY-HOLE, a Place at
the Grate, for the Entrance of
the Water into the common
Shore

To GULP, to swallow down
with a Noise.



GUM, a congealed tough
Juice running out of Trees, &c.
also a Distemper in Fruit Trees.

The GUMS, the Flesh cover­
ing the Jaw-bone, wherein the
Teeth are set.

A GUN, a Fire-Arm, or
Weapon of Defence of several
sorts, &c.

GUN-POWDER, a Compo­
sition of Saltpetre, Brimstone and
Small-Coal Dust, first invented
by Bartholdus Schwarts.

GUN-POWDER-TREA­
SON-DAY, a Festival kept on
the Fifth of November, in Com­
memoration of the Delivery of
King James I and the States of
the Realm from the Gun­
powder Plot.

A GUNNER, an Officer who
takes Charge of the Ordnance
and War-like Stores, and di­
rects the Management of them
in a Fight.

GUNNERY, an Art shewing
how to level, charge, mount and
discharge great Guns, Mortal­
pieces, &c.

To GUSH, to pour or run out
on a sudden, and with Force

GUSSET, a Piece of Cloth put
into Shirts or Smocks, &c

GUST, a sudden Blast, or Puff
of Wind.

A GUST, a Taste, or Relish.

GUTS, the Bowels

GUTTA SERENA, A Distem­
per in the Eye, when it looks
clear and yet is blind.

GUTTER, a Canal, or Rain­
Spout for Water.

GUY, a proper Name

To GUZZLE, to drink gree­
dily, to tipple

To GYBE, to joke, or banter.

GYRATION, a turning
round.


H.
HAAK, or HAKE, a sort of
dried Fish

HABEAS CORPUS, a Writ
which a Man imprisoned may
have out of the King's-Bench,
to remove him, to answer the
Cause there

HABERDASHER, a Seller of
small Wares, as Hats, &c

To HABIT, to attire, or dress,
also to accustom one's self to

HABIT, the Constitution of
the Body, Use, or Custom,
Dress, Attire.

HABITABLE, that may be
inhabited.

HABITATION, a Dwelling­
place, or Dwelling.

HABITUAL, grown to a Ha­
bit by long Use, customary

HABITUATED, that is
grown into a Habit by long Use,
or is accustomed to a Thing

HABNAB, rashly, at a Ven­
ture.

A HACH, a Dish of minced
Meat, a Hash.

To HACK, to hew, or cut

An HACK, a common Hack­
ney-Horse

To HACKLE, to cut small

HACKNEY, a Town about
Three Miles from London.

HADDOCK, a sort of Codfish.

HÆMORRAGE, a Flux of
Blood

HÆMORRHOIDES, the Piles

A HAFT, the Handle of a
Knife, &c.

An HAG, a Witch

HAGGAI, the Name of a
Prophet.

HAGGESS, a sort of Pudding
made of Liver, Lights, &c.

To HAGGLE, to stand hard
in Buying, to cut unhandsomly.



HACKWORTHINGHAM, a
Town in Lincolnshire.

HAIL, a known Meteor, al­
so ail Health.

HAILSTONES, small Glo­
bules of the Meteor Hail.

HAINOUS, odious, hateful,
horrid, outrageous.

HAINOUSNESS, Odiousness,
&c.

HAIR, a flexible Substance
growing out of the Skin.

HAIRS-BREADTH, among
the Jews reckoned the Forty­
eighth part of an Inch.

HALBARD,
HALBERD, an offensive
Weapon well 

HALCYON, a Bird called a
King's-Fisher, which breeds on
the Sea-shore.

To HALE, to pull, or drag.

HALEDON, a Place in Nor­
thumberland.

HALL, a large Room at the
Entrance into a House, a pub­
lick Building belonging to a So­
ciety, also a Pleading-Place, or
Court of Justice.

HALLELUJAH, praise ye the
Lord.

HALLIBUT, a Fish like a
Plaice. 

To HALLOW, to consecrate,
to set a-part for Divine Service.

To HALLOO, to set on, or
incite a Dog.

To HALT, to go lame, or
crippled, also to stand still, to
discontinue a March.

An HALTER, a Rope to tie
about the Neck of a Horse, or a
Malefactor. 

HALYSTON, a Place in Nor­
thumberland.

HAM, one of the three Sons of
Noah.

HAM, the Leg and Thigh of 
a Hog

HAMLET, a little Village,
Division of a Town, or Suburbs
of a City into Precincts, as the 
Tower Hamlets.

A HAMMER, a Tool used
by most Mechanicks

HAMMOCKS, little Hanging
Beds on Ship-board.

A HAMMER, a sort of large
strong Basket.

To HAMPER, to entangle,
to perplex.

HAMPSHIRE, a County in
the South-west Part of England.

HAMPTON, a Town in Mid­
dlesex on the River Thames,
where is a stately Palace built
by Cardinal Wolsey.

HANCH, the Hip, a part of
the Body.

HAND, a Member of the
Body, the Index of a Clock,
Watch, &c.

To HAND, to pass a Thing
by hand from one to another.

HAND BREADTH, a Mea­
sure of Three Inches, in the
Height of a Horse, Four Inches.

HANDFUL, as much as can
be grasped in the Hand.

HANDICRAFT, a working
Trade.

HANDKERCHER, 
HANDKERCHIEF, an U­
tensil
for wiping the Face, &c.

HANDSPEEK,
HANDSPIKE, a sort of
wooden Le­
ver for moving heavy Things.

HANDLE, a Part of any In­
strument or Vessel to be held in
the Hand.

To HANDLE, to hold, or feel
with the Hand, also to treat of.

HANDSOME, comely, beau­
tiful, also becoming.

HANDY, ready with the
Hand.

HANDY WORK, Work done
by the Hand.



To HANG, to suspend, or
hang upon

HANGER, a broad short
crooked Sword

HANGERS, Irons to hang a
Pot upon.

HANGINGS, Linings or Cur­
tains for Rooms, of Arras, Ta­
pestry, &c.

HANGMAN, an Executioner

HANK, a Skeen of Thread
or Silk.

A HANK, a Habit, Custom,
or Prosperity of Mind.

To HANKER, to covet after,
to be very desirous of.

HANNAH, a Woman's Name.

HANSEL, the Money taken
upon the first Part of Goods sold
in a Morning

HANS TOWNS, certain free
Towns in Germany, as Ham­
burgh, Lubec, &c

To HAPPEN, to fall out.

HAPPY, prosperous, blessed.

HAPSE, a Catch, or Bolt of
a Door.

HARANGUE, an Oration or
Speech much in Publick.

To HARANGUE, to make
a Speech in Publick.

To HARRASS, to tire, to
weary out, to disquiet, to ruin a
Country by continual Inroads.

HARBINGER, an Officer of
the Court, who provides Lodg­
ing in Princes Progress.

HARBOROUGH, a Town in
Leicestershire so called from its
producing Plenty of Oats

HARBOTTLE, a Town in
Northumberland. 

HARBOUR, a Station where
Ships may ride safe at Anchor,
also a Lodging, Shelter, or Place
of Refuge.

To HARBOUR, to entertain,
to lodge, to receive.

HARD, close, compact, diff­
icult.

To HARDEN, to grow or
make hard

HARDY, bold, daring, stout,
patient of Labour and Weather

An HARE, an Animal well
known

HAREBRAINED, giddy,
heedless.

HARE-LIP, a Lip cloven,
or parted, like that of a Hare

To HARE, to hurry, or put
into Confusion.

HARIER, a sort of Hunting-­
Dog.

HARLOT, a Whore, a Por­
stitute

HARM, Hurt, Damage, Mis­
chief.

To HARM, to hurt, da­
mage, &c.

HARMONIOUS, full of Har­
money, agreeable, melodious

HARMONY, Melody, a due
Proportion of Sounds, Agree­
ableness, mutual Agreement

HARNESS, the Furniture for
a House to a Coach or Waggon

To HARNESS, to accoutre,
to dress with Harness.

HARP, a musical stringed
Instrument

To HARP, to play upon the
Harp.

To HARP on the same String, 
to insist on a particular Mutter,
to mention a thing over and over.

A HARPER, one who plays
upon the harp.

HARPING-IRONS, Irons to
strike great Fish with, barbed
like an Arrow at one End, and
having a Rope fastened to the
other

HARPSICHORD, a musical
Instrument.

HARROW, a Drag with
Iron Teeth, to break the Clods
of Earth after Ploughing

To HARROW, to break the
Clods of Earth, &c.



HARSLET,
HASLET, the Liver, 
Heart, and 
Lights of a Hog.

HARSH, sharp, tart, severe

A HART, a Stag of Five
Years old

HARTICHOKE. See ARTI­
CHOKE.

HARTLEPOOL, in the Bi­
shoprick of Durham.

HARVEST, the Time for
reaping Corn.

HARWICK, a Haven in Essex.

HASEL TREE,
HASLE TREE, a Nut­
Tree.

An HASP, a sort of Fastning
for a Door, Window, &c

HASSOCK, a Bass, or Cu­
shion made of Rushes, to kneel
upon in Churches

HASTE, Expedition, Speed,
Hurry.

To HASTEN, to quicken,
press, push on.

HASTINGS, Fruit early ripe,
also green Pease, or Peacecods.

HASTINGS, a Haven in
Sussex.

HASTY, done in haste, sud­
den, quick, hurrying, soon
angry, passionate.

A HAT, a covering for the
Head

A HATCH, a Half-Door, a
Vessel or Place to lay Grain in,
a Trap to catch Weesels, &c

To HATCH, to breed Young
by sitting upon Eggs, also to
contrive, or plot.

A HATCH, a Brood of young
Birds

A HATCHEL,
A HITCHEL, a Tool to 
dress Flax,
Hemp, &c

HATCHES, Flood-gates in a
River, to stop the Current of the
Water

A HATCHET, a little Ax.

HATCHMENT, the marshal­
ling of several Coats of Arms in
an Escutcheon; also an Escut­
cheon over a Door where a Per­
son died.

To HATE, to bear ill Will to.

HATFIELD, a Town in Essex.

To HAVE, to possess, to hold,
to enjoy.

HAVEN, an Entrance of the
Sea at the Mouth of a River, a
Harbour for Ships.

HAVERING, a Town in
Essex.

HAUGHTINESS, Pride,
Loftiness.

HAUGHTY, proud, lofty,
elated

HAUNCH, that part of the
Body which is between the Ribs
and the Thighs.

To HAUNT, to go often to a 
Place.

A HAUNT, a Place frequently
resorted to, a Habit, or Custom.

HAVOCK, a Waste, Spoil,
great Slaughter, Destruction.

HAUTBOY, a musical Wind­
Instrument.

An HAW, a sort of Berry,
the Fruit of the White Thorn.

A HAWK, a Bird of Prey.

To HAWK, to go a Fowling
with Hawks, also to spit or
spawl.

HAWKERS, Pedlars who go
about the Country selling Goods.

HAWM, the lower part of the
Straw after the Ears are cut off.

HAY, Grass cut and dried.

HAYWARD, a Keeper of the
common Herd of Cattle of a
Town.

HAZARD, Chance, Peril; al­
so a Play with Dice so called.

To HAZARD, to run risque, 
to venture.

HAZARDOUS, full of ha­
zard, dangerous.

A HAZE, a thick Fog, or
Rime.



HAZY, thick, foggy, rimy.

A HEAD, that part of the
Body which contains the Brain,
the Top of a Tree, &c.

To HEAD to behead, to cut
off the Head, to put a Head on
any thing, to lead on, to be the
Ringleader of a Party

HEADBOROUGH, an Officer
subordinate to a Constable.

HEADPIECE, Armour for
the Head, a Helmet.

HEADY, head-strong, stub­
born.

HEADY LIQUORS, strong,
which are apt to get into the
Head

To HEAL, to cure a Wound,
Sore, &c.

HEALING, curing, restoring
Health.

HEALTH, Soundless of
Body, or Constitution.

HEAM, the same in Beasts as
the after-burden in Women.

An HEAP, a Pile of Things
laid one upon another.

HEAPED, piled up.

To HEAP UP, to lay or pile
one upon another.

To HEAR, to receive a Sound
by the Ear, to examine a Cause
as a Judge does

The HEARING, the Sense of
receiving Sounds, &c

To HEARKEN, to listen, to
give ear to.

A HEARSE, a covered or close
Waggon, to carry dead Corps in.

HEART, the most noble part
of the Body.

To HEARTEN, to animate,
encourage, or put into heart, to 
strengthen.

HEART-BURNING, a Pain
in the Stomach, also a Grudge,
or Spleen against a Person

HEART of a Tree, the mid­
dle part of it.

HEARTY, healthy, lusty,
lively, also cordial, sincere.

HEARTS EASE, an Herb.

An HEARTH, the Floor or
Pavement of a Chimney.

HEAT, one of the Four pri­
mary Qualities

To HEAT, to warm, to make
hot.

HEATH, a sort of wild Shrub,
or a Plain covered with it

HEATH-COCK,
HEATH-POWT, a Bird of 
the Game

HEATH-ROSE, a Flower

HEATHENS, Pagans, Idola­
ters, Worshippers of false Gods

To HEAVE, to lift up, also
to swell, or rise as Dough does.

HEAVE OFFERINGS, the 
First-Fruits given to the Priests
of the Jews.

HEAVEN, the Firmament,
or Abode of heavenly Beings.

HEAVY, weighty, also sad,
melancholy.

HEBDOMADAL, weekly.

To HEBETATE, to make
dull or blunt.

HEBRAISM, an Idiom of
the Hebrew Language.

A HECKLE, an Instrument
to dry Flax with.

HECTICK, consumptive.

A HECTOR, a bullying, va­
pouring Fellow.

To HECTOR, to vapour,
vaunt, or bully.

An HEDGE, a Fence about
Lands

HEDGE-HOG, an Animal
covered all over with sharp
Bristles.

An HEDGE SPARROW, a
Bird.

To HEED, to beware, mind,
or observe.

HEEDFUL, careful, or wary.

A HEEL, the back part of 
the Foot.



HEFT, the Heaviness or
Weight of any thing.

HEGIRA, a Term in Chro­
nology, signifying the Turkish
Account of Time, which begins
from Mahomet's Escape from the
city of Mecca.

An HEIFER, a young Cow.

HEIGHT, the Tallness of any
thing

HEIR, he who by Will suc­
ceeds in the right of the Testator. 

HEIRESS, a Female Heir.

HELENA, a beautiful Lady
of Greece, who was the Occasion
of the Destruction of Troy.

St. HELENSHEAD, a Place
in Ireland

HELL, the State of the Dead,
or the Residence of damned
Spirits

HELLEBORE, a Plant.

HELL HOUND, a Fiend or
outrageous Devil, a very im­
pious or wicked Person.

HELL-KETTLES, certain
Pits full of Water in the County
of Durham

HELLESPONT, a narrow
Sea, or Streight of Constantinople.

HELM, a Piece of Timber put
into the Rudder of a Ship or
Boat, to guide or steer it.

HELMET, a Headpiece, or
Armour for the Head.

HELP, Aid, Assistance.

HELTER SKELTER, con­
fusedly, disorderly, violently.

HELVE, the Handle of a
Hatchet, Ax, &c.

HELVETICK BODY, the Re­
publick of Switzerland, consist­
ing of Thirteen Cantons. 

A HEM, an Edge or outmost
Part of Cloth, also the Edge
turned down and sewed.

To HEM in, to enclose, sur­
round, or encompass.

To HEM a Person, to call a
Person by crying Hem to him.

HEMISPHERE, half a Globe
or Sphere; so much of the Hea­
vens as is visible above the
Horizon.

HEMLOCK, a poisonous Plant.

HEMORRHOIDS, a Disease 
in the Fundament called the Piles.

HEMP, coarse Flax.

HENBANE, a poisonous Herb.

A HEN, a Female Fowl.

HENCEFORWARD, after
this time.

HEN-HEARTED, timorous,
cowardly.

HEN-PECKED, is commonly
applied to a Man who is go­
verned by his Wife.

HENGSTON-HILL, a Place
in Cornwall, formerly famous
for Tin Mines.

HENRY, a Christian Name.

HENSHAW, a Village in
Cheshire.

HEPATICK, belonging to the
Liver.

HEPS,
HIPS, the Fruit of the
Blackthorn Shrub.

HEPTARCHY, a Government
of Seven Kings, as that of the
Saxon Kings in England.

HERALD, an Officer at Arms,
whose Duty is to proclaim War
or Peace, or is employed by the
King in Martial Messages. They
are Judges and Examiners of
Gentlemens Coats of Arms, mar­
shal all Solemnities at the Coro­
nations of Kings, and Funerals
of Princes, &c.

HERALDRY, the Art of
Blazoning Coats of Arms.

An HERB, a Name common
to all Plants

HERBAGE, is the Fruit of the
Earth, provided by Nature for
Cattle.

HERBAL, a Book giving an 
Account of the Name, Nature
and Use of Plants, or Herbs.



HERBALIST, one who is
skilled in the Nature and Virtues
of Plants.

HERBERT, a Christian and
Surname.

HERBOSE, grassy, full of
Herbs

HERCULEAN, belonging to
Hercules, a famous antient Hero.

HERCULES's Pillars, two
Pillars said to be erected by Her­
cules, one at Cadix in Spain, the 
other at Ceuta in Africa.

HERD, a Company of Cattle
or of wild Beasts.

HERDSMAN, a Keeper of
Cattle.

HERE, in this Place.

HEREAFTER, after this
time.

HEREDITARY, belonging
to Inheritance or Succession, that
which passes from Family to Fa­
mily, or from one Person to an­
other by a natural Succession.

HEREDITARY Diseases, such
which Children derive from
their Parents.

HEREFORD, the Name of a
City, a Bishop's See.

HERESY, an Opinion con­
trary to the fundamental Points
of Religion

HERETICAL, belonging to
Heresy. 

An HERETICK, one who
holds heretical Opinions, or is
tainted with Heresy.

HERITAGE, Inheritance by
Lot or Succession

HERMAN, a proper Name of
Men.

HERMAPHRODITE, one
who has the Genital Parts of
both Sexes.

HERMIT, a solitary Monk,
or a Person devoted to religious
Solitude.

HERMITAGE, the Place
where a Hermit lives

HERN, a large Fowl.

HERNERY, a Place where
Herns breed

HERNIA, a Rupture

HEROD, A King of Jerusalem

HERODIANS, a Sect of Jew­
ish Hereticks who took Herod
for the Messiah.

HERO, a great and illustrious
Person, a Person of Valour and
Renown among the Antients.

HEROICAL,
HEROICK, noble, great,
excellent, be­
longing to a Hero.

HEROINE, a Woman Hero.

HEROISM, the Actions of a
Hero.

HERON, a sort of large
Water-Fowl.

HERRING, a Fish.

HERTFORD, a County Town

To HESITATE, to doubt, to
be uncertain what to do, to
stammer or faulter in Speech.

HESITATION, a Doubting,
an Uncertainty, a Faultering in
Speech.

HETERODOX, differing in
Sentiments or Opinion from the
Generality of Mankind.

HETEROGENEOUS, of a dif­
ferent Nature, Kind, or Quality

To HEW, to cut Stones or
Timber.

HEW, 
HUE, Form or Colour, Ap­
pearance.

HEXAM, a Town in Nor­
thumberland, formerly a Bishop's
See.

HEZEKIAH, a King of Ju­
dah

HIBERNIAN, an Irishman

HICKUP,
HICKCOUGH, a Convulsive
Motion of 
the Stomach.

HICKWELL,
HICKWAY, 
a Bird, called
also a Wood
pecker.

A HIDE, the Skin of a Beast.



HIDEBOUND, a Disease in
Horses and Cattle when the Skin
cleaves to their Sides.

HIDEOUS, dreadful, fright­
ful, terrible.

HIERARCHY, Church Go­
vernment.

HIEROGLYPHICKS, cer­
tain mysterious Characters of
Creatures, or Letters used among
the Egyptians, whereby they kept
their Policy and Ethicks Secret.

HEIROM, Jerom, one of the
antient Fathers of the Church.

HIGHAM, a Town in Sussex.

HIGH, tall, lofty.

A HIGLER, one who buys
Poultry in the Country, and
brings it to Town to sell.

HILDEBERT, a proper Name.

HILL, a rising or high Ground.

HILLOCK, a little Hill.

HILT, the Handle of a Sword, 
&c

HIND, a Female Stag of the 
third Year

To HINDER, to let, stop, or
hinder.

HINDERANCE, an Impedi­
ment.

A HINGE, an Iron Device on
which a Door turns.

To HINT, to give a brief or
short Account of a thing

A HIP, the upper part of the 
Thigh

HIPPOCRATES, a famous
Physician.

To HIRE, to take a thing to
use for a Price agreed upon with
the Owner.

HIRE, the Price or Wages of
a thing hired

HIS, of or belonging to him.

To HISS, to imitate the His­
sing of a Serpent by way of
Contempt

HISSING, a Noise like that
of a Serpent

HISTORIAN, one that is
versed in or writes History.

HISTORICAL, belonging to
History.

HISTORIOGRAPHER, a
Writer of History, an Historian.

To HIT, to strike.

To HITCH, to wriggle, or
move by Degrees.

HITHE, a little Port, for
landing, loading or unloading
Goods, as Queenhithe, also one
of the Five Ports in the County
of Kent.

HISTORY, a Narration, or
Relation of things as they are,
or Actions as they did pass.

HITHER, to this Place.

HITHERWARD, toward this
Place.

A HIVE, a Receptacle for
the preserving of Bees.

HOARSE, having a rough
Voice.

HOARY, grey headed, co­
vered with hoar Frost.

HOB, a Clown, or Country
Fellow.

To HOBBLE, to limp or go
lame.

HOBBY, a sort of Hawk,
that preys upon Doves, Larks,
&c

HOBGOBLIN, imaginary
Apparitions, Spirits, Fairies

HOCK, the small Part of a
Gammon of Bacon, also old
Rhenish Wine.

HOCUS POCUS, a Juggler; 
one who shews Tricks by Slight
of Hand, also the Practice itself.

A HOD, a sort of tray for
carrying Morter, in use with
Bricklayers

HO, an interjection of calling.

HODGE PODGE, a Dish of
Meat cut to pieces, and stewed
with several sorts of Things to­
gether.



A HOG, a Swine, a wild
Boar in the second Year.

HOGLOUSE, an Insect.

HOGAN MOGAN, a Title of
the States of the United Pro­
vinces

HOGOO, a high Savour or
Relish, also a Stink, or noi­
some offensive Smell.

HOGSHEAD, a Vessel con­
taining Sixty-three Gallons of
Liquid.

HOIDEN, a rampant, ill­
bred, clownish Wench

To HOIST, to have or lift
up.

To HOLD, to lay hold on,
keep, or retain.

HOLD of a Ship, that Part
between the Keelson and the
Lower Deck, where the Goods,
Stores, &c. are laid up.

A HOLDFAST, an Iron Hook
in shape of the Letter S fixed in
a Wall, to support it, also a
Joyner's Tool.

To HOLD Water, is to stop
a Boat by a particular way of
turning the Oar.

HOLDERNESS, a Place in
Yorkshire.

A HOLE, a hollow Place.

HOLLAND, a Place in Lin­
colnshire.

HOLLAND, a Province of
the United Netherlands.

To HOLLOW, to make hol­
low.

HOLLY TREE, a Shrub that
is green Winter and Summer.

HOLM, a Hill, or fenny 
Ground encompassed with little
Brooks.

HOLM CASTLE, a Place in
Surry.

HOLMPIER-POINT, a Place
in Nottinghamshire.

HOLSTERS, Leathern Cases
for Pistols.

HOLYBUT, a Sea Fish.

HOLYHOCK, a kind of Gar­
den Mallow, a Flower.

HOLY, sacred, divine

HOLY-ROOD-DAY, a Festi­
val observed Ten Days before
Whitsuntide, upon account of
our Saviour's Ascension.

HOMAGE, that Submission
which is owing to a King, or
any Superior.

HOME, House, or Place of
Abode.

HOMELY, unadorned, not
handsome, mean, coarse.

HOMER, a famous Greek Poet.

HOMEWARD, towards home.

HOMICIDE, Man-slaughter

HOMILY, a plain Discourse
made to People, to instruct them
in Religion.

HOMOGENEOUS, such
Things are of the same Kind,
Nature, and Properties.

HONE, a fine sort of Whet­
stone for Razors.

HONEST, good, just, virtuous.

HONESTY, Sincerity, Up­
rightness, &c. also the Name of
a Flower.

HONEY, a sweet liquid Sub­
stance made by Bees.

HONEY-COMB, the Wax
containing the Honey.

HONEY-MOON, the first
Month of Matrimony.

HONEY-SUCKLE, Wood­
bind.

HONORABLE. See HO­
NOURABLE.

HONOUR, Respect, or Re­
verence paid to one, Esteem,
Reputation. 

To HONOUR, to respect, to
reverence.

To HONOUR a Bill of Ex­
change, is to pay it in due time.

HONOURABLE, worthy, or
possessed of Honour, noble



HONOURARY, belonging to
Honour, done or conferred upon
any one upon account of Ho­
nour

HONY soit qui maly pense 
i.e. Evil be to him that evil
thinks, the Motto of the most
noble Order of the Knights of
the Garter.

A HOOD, a Covering for the
Head.

HOOF, a Part of a Horse's Foot

HOOK, a bent Piece of Iron
to hang Things upon.

HOOKED, crooked, bending

A HOOP, a Circle to bind a 
Barrel, &c.

To HOOT, to make a Noise
like an Owl.

To HOP, to leap upon one Leg.

HOPS, an Ingredient to keep
Beer from being sour

HOPE, Expectation, Trust,
Affiance. 

HOPEFUL, giving Hope of a
future good Behaviour.

HOPEFULNESS, affording
Ground of Hope.

HOPELESS, without Hope.

HOPPER, a Wooden Trough
belonging to a Corn-Mill.

HOPPER-ARSED, one whose
Backside Stands out more than 
ordinary

To HORD, to lay up Money,
&c.

A HORD, Money, &c. laid up.

HOREHOUND, an Herb.

HORIZON, a great Circle of
the Sphere, which divides the
upper Hemisphere from the
lower, which is hid from our
Sight.

HORIZONTAL DIAL, is one
whose Plane is parallel to the
Horizon.

A HORN, a defensive Wea­
pon of an Ox, Ram &c

HORN CHURCH, a Town 
in Essex

HORN-FLY, an Insect in A
merica.

A HORNET, a sort of Fly.

HORRIBLE, hideous, fright­
ful, ghastly. 

HORRID, terrible, dread­
ful, heinous

HORROUR, Dread, Fright,
shivering for Cold.

A HORSE, a Beast well
known.

HORSHAM, a Town in Sussex.

HORSEMANSHIP, the Art of
Riding Horses.

HORSTED, a Village in Kent.

HORTATION, an exhorting.

A HOSE, a Stocking.

HOSANNA, i.e., save we be­
seech thee, a solemn Acclama­
tion used by the Jews in the Feast
of Tabernacles.

HOSPITABLE, that uses Ho­
spitality, friendly, courteous.

HOSPITAL, an House erected
out of Charity for the Entertain­
ment or Relief of the Poor,
Sick, Indigent, or aged People.

HOSPITALITY, the Enter­
taining and Relieving Strategies.

An HOST, an Innkeeper, or
Landlord, also an Army.

The HOST, the consecrated
Bread at the Communion among
the Roman Catholicks.

HOSTAGE, a Person left as a
Surety for the Performance of
the Articles of a Treaty.

HOSTELERS, Innkeepers.

HOSTESS, the Mistress of an
Inn.

HOSTILITY, Enmity, Hatred,
the State or Practice of Enemies.

HOSTLER, a Groom, who
looks to the Stables in an Inn.

HOT, the Contrary of Cold,
also eager, passionate.

HOT-BEDS, Beds made in
Wooden Frames with fresh Horse
Dung, and covered with Glasses.

HOT-COCKLES, a Play.



A HOVEL, a Shelter for Cat­
tle, made with Hurdles, &c.

To HOVER, to flutter, to fly
over, also to shiver with Cold.

A HOUND, a hunting Dog;
also a kind of Fish.

An HOUR, the Twenty-fourth
Part of a Natural Day.

HOUSE, a Home, a Place of
abode.

HOUSELEEK, an Herb grow­
ing on the Sides of Houses, or
on Walls.

HOUSHOLD, a Family.

HOUSHOLDER, the Master
of a Family.

HOUSWIFE, a Woman pru­
dent in the Management of do­
mestick Affairs

HOUSWIFRY, prudent Ma­
nagement of domestick Affairs

HOUSING, a Horse-cloth
worn behind the Saddle.

HOW? by what Means? af­
ter what Manner?

A HOW,
A HOE, a Tool used by
Gardiners to cut 
up Weeds

To HOWL, to cry like a 
Wolf or Dog.

HOWLET, a Night Bird.

HOXTON, a Town in Sussex.

HOY, a small Bark.

HUBBUB, a Tumult, or Up­
roar.

HUCKLE-BONE, the Hip­
bone.

HUCKLE-BACK'D, having a
Bunch on the Back, Crump­
shouldered.

HUCKSTER, a Seller of
Provisions by Retale.

A HUDDLE, a Bustle, Dif­
order, Confusion

To HUDDLE, to put things
on after a confused manner.

HUE, Colour, Countenance.

HUE AND CRY, a Pursuit
of a Highwayman.

A HUFF, a swaggering Fel­
low, a Bully.

To HUFF, to puff or blow;
also to swagger, rant, or va­
pour, to affront

HUFFING, vapouring, af­
fronting.

HUGE, large, vast, great, high.

To HUGG, to embrace.

HUGGER MUGGER, pri­
vately, clandestinely

HUGH, a proper Name

HUGUENOTS, a Nickname
given to the Protestants in France
by the Papists.

HULK, a great broad Ship.

HULL, the Chaff of Corn,
the Cod of Pulse, also the
main Body or Bulk of a Ship
without her Rigging.

HUMAN, belonging to Man­
kind, also affable, courteous,
gentle, mild.

HUMANIST, one who is
skilled in human Learning.

HUMANITY, Manhood, the
Nature and Condition of a Man,
Gentleness, Courtesy, Affability,
Mildness.

To HUMANIZE, to civil­
lize, to make tractable, gentle,
mild.

HUMBER, a River in the
North of England

HUMBLE, lowly minded,
modest

To HUMBLE, to bring down.

HUMBLE, part of a Deer's
Entrails.

HUMFREY, a proper Name.

HUNGERFORD, a Town in
Berkshire

HUMID, damp, moist, wet.

HUMIDITY, Dampness,
Moisture

HUMILIATION, a being
humbled.

HUMILITY, Meekness, Low­
liness, Humbleness, Submission



To HUM, to make a Noise
like a Bee

HUMOUR, Moisture, Juice;
also Temper of Mind, Fansy,
Whim

HUMOURIST, one full of
Humours, Whimsies, or Con­
ceits, a fantastical or whimsical
Person.

HUMOUROUS, belonging to
Humours, fantastical, whimsical.

HUMERSOM, peevish, diffi­
cult to please.

To HUNCH, to give a Thrust
with the Elbow.

HUNCH-BACK'D, crooked­
back'd

HUNDRED, in Figures 100,
a Century, also a particular
Part of a Shire or County.

HUNGARY, a Kingdom so
called.

HUNGER, a craving of the
Stomach for Food.

To HUNGER, to be hungry.

HUNGRY, craving after
Food

HUNKS, a Miser, a covetous
niggardly Wretch.

HUNSDEN, a Town in He­
refordshire. 

To HUNT, to chase wild
Beasts, also to search after.

A HUNTER, one who chases
wild Beasts. 

HUNTINGTON, the County
Town of that Shire.

HURDLES, Osier Twigs, &c.
wattled together to make Sheep­
folds

To HURL, to fling, or cast
with a whirling Motion.

HURLY-BURLY, Tumult,
Uproar, or Crowd of People.

HURRICANE, a violent
Storm of Wind.

To HURRY, to hare, hasten
over much, make great haste.

HURT, a Wound, Harm, In­
jury, Damage.

To HURT, to wound, in­
jure, damage.

HUSBAND, a Wife's Con­
sort.

HUSBANDMAN, one em­
ployed in Husbandry.

HUSBANDRY, the Art of
tilling and improving Land,
also Management of Expenses.

To be HUSH, to cease talking,
crying, &c.

A HUSK, the Coat of Corn,
Grain, Seed, &c.

HUSSARS, Hungarian Horse­
men

HUSSY, a Name given to a 
Woman by way of Contempt.

HUSTINGS, a principal and
antient Court of Common Pleas,
held before the Lord Mayor and
Court of Aldermen.

HUSWIFE, a Manager of
houshold Affairs.

A HUT, a small Cottage, or
Hovel, also a Soldier's Lodge in
the Field.

A HUTCH, a Place or Vessel
to lay Corn in, also a Wooden
Cage, or Device to keep Rab­
bits; also a Trap to catch
Vermin.

HUZZA, a loud Acclamation.

To HY, to make haste.

HYACINTH, a Flower of a
purple Colour, also a precious
Stone.

HYBERNAL, belonging to
the Winter

HYDROGRAPHY, the Art of
making Sea Charts, giving an
Account of the Tides, Bays,
Gulphs, Creeks, Rocks, Sands,
Shoals, Promontories, Harbours,
&c.

HYDROMEL, Mead; a De­
coction of Water and Honey.

HYDROPICAL, belonging to,
or troubled with a Dropsy. 

HYEMAL, belonging to the 
winter.



HYGROMETER, an Instru­
ment to measure the Moisture of
the Air.

HYMN, a spiritual Song or
Psalm.

HYPOCHONDRIACK, trou­
bled with the Spleen or Me­
lancholy.

HYPOCRISY, Dissimulation, 
Counterfeit, Deceit.

HYPOCRITE, a Dissembler.

HYPOCRITICAL, belonging
to a Dissembler, or Hypocrite.

HYPOTHESIS, a Supposi­
tion.

HYSSOP, an Herb.

HYSTERICK PASSION, Fits
of the Mother, a Disease in wo­
men.

HYTH,
HYTHE, a little Haven or
Port, to load and
unload Goods at, as Queen­
Hythe, &c.


I.
To JABBER, to speak hasti­
ly and indistinctly, to talk
Gibberish.

JACENT, lying along.

JACINTH, a precious Stone
of a blewish Colour

JACK, the Nickname for
John.

A JACK, an Engine to roast
Meat, also a Device to pull off
Boats, also a Leathern Vessel
for Drink; likewise a Fish. In
Bowling, the Mark bowled at.

JACKAL, a black shag­
haired Beast who hunts out for
the Lion's Prey.

JACKET, a Waistcoat, or
short under Coat.

JACOB, the Father of the
Twelve Patriarchs.

JACOBITES, a Name given
to the Partisans of King James.

JACOBUS, a Gold Coin
stamped by King James I cal­
led a Broad-piece, and valued at
Twenty-three Shillings.

A JADE, a bad Horse which
will not go without Spurring,
also a lewd Woman, a Strumpet.

To JAGG, to notch, or make
rugged.

JAGGED, notched, rugged.

JAGGING-IRON, an Instru­
ment used by Pastry-Cooks.

JAIL. See GOAL.

JAKES, a House or Office, a
necessary House.

JAMAICA, a famous Island
in America

JAMS,
JAMBS, the Side-posts of a
Door.

JAMES, a proper Name of
Men.

JANE, a proper Name of 
Women

To JANGLE, to differ, or be
at variance, to contend in
Words

JANIZARIES, the Foot­
Guards of the Grand Seignior;
also certain Officers at Rome who
revise the Pope's Bulls.

JANSENIST, one who fol­
lows the Opinion of Jansenius.

JANTY,
JAUNTY, ramping, wan­
ton.

JANUARY, the first Month
of the Year, so called from
Janus.

To JAPAN, to varnish upon
Wood, &c.

JARGON, Gibberish, Fusti­
an Language, Pedlars French.

To JARR, to quarrel, or
fall out. In Musick, to disa­
gree in Sound.

A JARR, a Quarrel, or Fal­
ling-out; also an Earthen Vel­
sel for Oil, containing from
Eighteen to Twenty-six Gallons.



A JARR, as the Door stands
a jarr

JASMIN, a Shrub bearing
a fragrant Flower

JASPER, a precious Stone,
of a green Colour, with red
Veins, and of other Colours.

JAVELIN, a Dart, or Half­
Pike used in War by the 
Antients.

JAUNDICE, a Disease caused
by the Overflowing of the Gall.

To JAUNT, to trot trudge
about.

A JAUNT, a tedious, fa­
tiguing, troublesome Walk.

JAWS, the Bones in which
the Teeth are fixed.

A JAY, a Bird.

JAZEL, a sort of precious
Stone of a blew Colour.

ICE, a hard transparent Bo­
dy, formed by some liquid
Matter congealed.

ICH DIEN, a Motto Belong­
ing to the Prince of Wales's
Arms, signifying, I serve.

IDEA, the Image or Repre­
sentation of any thing conceiv­
ed in the Mind.

IDENTICAL,
IDENTICK, the same.

IDENTITY, the Sameness of
a Thing

IDIOM, the peculiar Phrase
or Expression in any Language.

IDIOT, a natural Fool, a
Changeling.

IDLE, slothful, sluggish,
lazy.

IDOL, an Image or Statue
representing some false Deity.

IDOLATER, a Worshipper
of Idols

IDOLATROUS, given to the
worship of Idols.

IDOLATRY, Idol-worship.

To IDOLIZE, to be extreme­
ly fond of, to doat upon.

JEALOUS, afraid of hav­
ing a Rival, tender of.

JEALOUSLY, Suspicion, Mis­
trust.

To JEER, to laugh at, or
ridicule.

JEHOAHAZ, a King of
Judah.

JEHOSHAPHAT, a King of
Judah.

JEHOVAH, the most sacred
Name of God, signifying, who
is, who was, and is to come.

JEHU, a Captain, who was
anointed King by Elisha.

JEJUNE, barren, dry, empty
in Style.

JELLY, Broth which stand­
ing till it is cold grows tough,
and resembles Ice.

JENNETS, Spanish or Bar­
bary Mares

JENNY WREN, a fine Song
Bird

To JEOPARD, to hazard.

JEOPARDY, Danger, Ha­
zard, Risk.

JEREMIAH, a Prophet of
the Jews.

JERGUER, an Officer of the
Custom-house, who oversees the
Waiters.

To JERK, to lash; also to
pull or twitch suddenly.

JERKIN, a short upper Coat.

JEROBOAM, the first King
of the Ten Tribes of Israel.

JERSEY, the finest Wooll,
separated from the rest by 
Combing.

JERUSALEM, the chief Ci­
ty in Judah.

JERUSALEM ARTI­
CHOKES, a Plant like Po­
tatoes.

JESSAMIN, a Shrub bearing
sweet scented Flowers.

JESSE, the Father of King
David.



A JEST, a merry witty Con­
ceit.

To JEST, to talk wittily or
jocosely. 

JESUITS, Religious of the
Society of Jesus.

JESUITICAL, belonging to
the Jesuits.

JESUS, the Name of our
blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus
Christ.

JET, a sort of black light
and brittle Stone.

JETHRO, the Father in-law
of Moses.

JEWEL, a precious Stone.

JEWELLER, one who deals
in Jewels and precious Stones.

JEWISH, belonging to the
Nation of the Jews.

JEWS, the People of Judæa
and their Posterity.

JEWS-TRUMP, an Instru­
ment of Musick.

IGNEOUS, fiery.

IGNIS FATUUS, a fiery
Meteor called Will with a Whisp,
or Jack with a Lanthern

IGNOBLE, of mean Birth,
base, vile.

IGNOMINIOUS, disgraceful,
dishonourable, reproachful

IGNOMINY, Disgrace, In­
famy, Discredit, Dishonour.

IGNORAMUS, a Term used
by the Grand Jury, when the
Evidence in criminal Causes is
defective, or too weak to make
good a Presentment.

IGNORANCE, want of Know­
ledge.

IGNORANT, unlearned, il­
literate, that knows nothing of
the Matter.

A JIG, a kind of Dance.

JIG BY JOWL, very close
together.

"jig by jowl" not found as an entry in OED, but see "cheek by jowl" and "cheek," n., 5a, quotation of 1719.



JILL, half a Quarter of a 
Pint, also a Doxy.

A JILT, a lewd Woman, who
cheats or disappoints one.

To JILT, to deceive one's Ex­
pectation, especially in Love.

IKENHILD-STREET, one
of the Four famous Roman High­
ways, leading from Southampton
to Timmouth.

A ILET-HOLE. See OYLET­
HOLE.

ILIADS, the Title of Homer's
Poem, whose Subject is the de­
struction of Troy, which was
called Ilium.

ILLABORATE, done or
made without Labour or Pains.

ILLAUDIBLE, not worthy
of Praise.

ILLEGAL, contrary to Law.

ILLEGALITY, Unlawful­
ness

ILLEGITIMATE, unlaw­
ful, also unlawfully, or basely
born, a Bastard.

ILLIBERAL, ungenerous,
base, ungenteel.

ILLIBERALITY, Meanness
of Spirit, Niggardliness. 

ILLITERATE, unlearned

To ILLUDE, to play upon,
to mock, to jeer.

To ILLUMINATE, to en­
lighten, to set off.

ILLUMINATION, an en­
lightning.

ILLUSION, a Mocking, or
Scorning; a Sham, or Cheat,
a false Representation.

ILLUSIVE, deceitful.

To ILLUSTRATE, to make
clear and evident, to explain

ILLUSTRATION, a making
clear and evident.

ILLUSTRIOUS, eminent,
famous, noble, renowned.

IMAGE, a natural or artifi­
cial Representation or Likeness
of a Thing, a Picture or Statue.



IMAGINABLE, that may be
imagined, or conceived in the
Mind.

IMAGINARY, not real, fan­
tastick, that which subsists only
in the Mind or Imagination.

IMAGINATION, is that Fa­
culty by which things are paint­
ed in the Mind, as if we actu­
ally saw them with his Eyes;
Conceit, Fancy, Thought.

To IMAGINE, to conceive,
to think, or suppose, to fansy.

To IMBALM, to prepare a
dead Body with Drugs and Spices,
in order to preserve it.

IMBARGO, a stop or stay of
Shipping by publick Authority.

To IMBARK, to go on
board a Ship, to put on Ship­
board, to engage in Business.

IMBARKATION, a putting
on Ship-board

IMBECILLITY, Weakness,
Feebleness, a State of Languor
or Decay.

To IMBELLISH, to adorn,
grace, or beautify

IMBELLISHMENT, Orna­
ment.

To IMBEZZLE, to consume,
to waste things committed to
one's Charge, to pilfer.

IMBEZZLEMENT, a wast­
ing

To IMBIBE, to suck, or
drink up, to receive by Edu­
cation

To IMBITTER, to make bit­
ter, to exasperate, or provoke.

To IMBOLDEN, to make
bold, to encourage.

To IMBOSS, to raise with
Bosses, or Bunches.

IMBOSSING, a sort of Carv­
ing, or Engraving, when the
Figures rise above the Plane on
which it is made.

To IMBROIDER, to make
Flowers and other curious Work
with a Needle upon Cloth,
Silk, &c.

IMBROIDERY, Imbroidered
Work.

To IMBROIL, to cause Broils
or Quarrels, to put into Confu­
sion, to disorder.

To IMBRUE, to moisten, or
wet, to soak, or steep, to im­
brue one's Hands in Blood, is to
commit Murder

To IMBUE, to season the
Mind with good Principles, as
Virtue, Learning, &c

To IMBURSE, to put into
Stock of Money.

IMBURSEMENT, Expenses.

IMITABLE, that may be i­
mitated.

To IMITATE, to follow an­
other's Example, to do the
same according to a Pattern.

IMITATION, imitating.

IMITATOR, a Man who i­
mitates

IMMACULATE, without
Spot or Stain, unspotted, spotless.

IMMANUEL, a Name of
Christ, signifying, God with us.

IMMATERIAL, that con­
sists of no Matter or Body, also
of little moment or consequence.

IMMATURE, unripe, not
come to Perfection.

IMMATURITY, Unripeness.

IMMEDIATE, that which
follows without any thing com­
ing between, that presently fol­
lows.

IMMEDIATELY, presently,
directly, just now.

IMMEDICABLE, not to be
healed or cured, incurable.

IMMEMORABLE, not to be
remembered.

IMMEMORIAL, which is
out of mind, of beyond the Me­
mory of Man.



IMMENSE, large, huge, vast,
exceeding, great, unmeasurable.

IMMENSITY, Unmeasura­
bleness, Vastness, Infiniteness

IMMENSURABLE, unmea­
surable

To IMMERGE, to dip, or
plunge into.

IMMERGED, dipped, or
plunged into

To IMMERSE, to plunge or
dip over Head and Ears

IMMERSION, a Dipping, or
Plunging, the sinking of any
Body in a Fluid.

IMMETHODICAL, without
due Method or Order, confused

IMMINENT, approaching,
at hand, ready to come upon 
us, hanging over our Heads.

To IMMIT, to put or squirt
into

IMMOBILITY, Unmoveable­
ness, Stedfastness.

IMMODERATE, excessive,
beyond Bounds.

IMMODEST, without Mo­
desty, wanton.

IMMODESTY, Wantonness,
Unmannerliness.

To IMMOLATE, to offer Sa­
crifice.

IMMOLATION, a Sacrific­
ing, or Offering.

IMMORAL, of depraved or
bad Morals, contrary to good
Manners.

IMMORALITY, Corruption
of Manners, Lewdness, Pro­
faneness, Debauchery.

IMMORTAL, that never dies,
everlasting

To IMMORTALIZE, to
make immortal.

IMMORTALITY, a never
dying, a living for ever, ever­
lasting.

IMMOVEABLE, which can­
not be moved, unmoveable.

IMMOVEABLY, in such a
manner as not to be moved.

IMMOVEABLE FEASTS, 
Festivals which constantly fall
upon the same Day of the Month,
though they vary in the Day of
the Week.

IMMUNITY, Freedom, Li­
berty, Privilege, Exemption
from Duty.

To IMMURE, to shut up be­
tween two Walls.

IMMUSICAL, not harmoni­
ous, not musical.

IMMUTABILITY, Un­
changeableness, Constancy.

IMMUTABLE, unchangea­
ble, constant.

IMP, a familiar Spirit, a
Demon.

To IMPAIR, to diminish, to
make worse, to weaken.

To IMPALE, to enclose, or
fence about with Stakes, to
drive a Stake through a Male­
factor.

IMPANNEL, See EMPAN­
NEL.

IMPARITY, Inequality, Un­
evenness

To IMPART, to give part to
another, to communicate, or
deliver one's Mind.

IMPANNEL, void of Parti­
ality, just, upright. 

"Impannel" not found in this sense in OED either under "impannel" or "empanel". 



IMPARTIALITY, a being
impartial, Disinterestedness.

IMPASSABLE, that cannot
be passed through.

IMPATIENCE, Uneasiness of
Mind under Sufferings, also
Hastiness, or Passion.

IMPATIENT, that has no
Patience, cholerick, hasty, un­
quiet. 

To IMPEACH, to accuse and
prosecute for Felony or Treason.

IMPEACHMENT, Accusation
or Information against one.



To IMPEDE, to hinder, let,
or stop.

IMPEDIMENT, Hindrance,
Disturbance, Obstruction

To IMPELL, to drive or
thrust forward, also to force.

To IMPEND, to hang over
one's Head, as Dangers of Judg­
ments

IMPENETRABLE, not to be
pierced through, or dived into,
that cannot be discovered, or
fathomed.

IMPENITENCE, a want of
Repentance, a continuing in sin­
ful Courses.

IMPENITENT, who does not
repent, or is not sorry for his
Sins, or Faults.

IMPERCEPTIBLE, not to be
perceived.

IMPERFECT, not perfect, or
complete, unfinished, faulty.

IMPERFECTION, the want of
something requisite or suitable to
the Nature of a Thing, Defect.

IMPERFORABLE, not to be
bored through. 

IMPERIAL, belonging to an
Emperor or Empire

IMPERIALISTS, the Sub­
jects or Forces of the Emperor
of Germany.

IMPERIOUS, commanding,
lordly, haughty. 

IMPERTINENCE, Extrava­
gance, Foolery, Nonsense.

IMPERTINENT, not to the
Purpose, absurd, silly.

An IMPERTINENT, a trou­
blesome, foolish, or silly Person

IMPERVIOUS, unpassable,
where there is no Passage.

IMPETUOUS, violent, ra­
pid, vehement, raging, boister­
ous

IMPIETY, Ungodliness, Wick­
edness, Irreligion.

IMPIOUS, ungodly, profane,
wicked.

IMPLACABLE, not to be
appeased, or pacified.

To IMPLANT, to fix, or
fasten in the Mind.

IMPLAUSIBLE, unlikely to
recommend.

IMPLEMENTS, all Things
necessary in any Trade, or about
a House, as Tools, Furniture,
&c.

IMPLICIT, tacitly under­
stood, intricate, following by
consequence.

IMPLICIT FAITH, a Belief
grounded upon the Judgment or
Authority of others.

To IMPLORE, to beg ear­
nestly, to beseech.

To IMPLY, to contain, de­
note, or signify.

IMPOLITE, unpolished, rude,
coarse, rough.

IMPOLITICK, contrary to
the Rules of Policy, imprudent,
unwise.

IMPORT, Sense, or Meaning.

To IMPORT, to bring Goods
into a Port, also to concern, or
signify.

IMPORTANCE, moment,
weight, consequence, concern­
ment

IMPORTANT, weighty, of
great moment or concern, ma­
terial

IMPORTATION, the bring­
ing in of Merchandizes from fo­
reign Countries.

IMPORTUNANCY, 
IMPORTUNITY, an eager 
pressing
or urging, hard Dunning.

IMPORTUNATE, trouble­
some, wearying with too fre­
quent Requests, very urgent.

To IMPORTUNE, to press,
or sue for earnestly, to request
often.

To IMPOSE, to enjoin, to
lay a Tax, to put upon, also to
cheat.



IMPOSITION, a laying an
Injunction; a deceiving, also
an Assessment

IMPOSSIBILITY, that which
cannot be done.

IMPOSSIBLE, that is not
possible, or cannot be done.

IMPOST, a Tax, or Tribute,
but especially that received by
a Prince or State for Goods im­
ported.

IMPOSTOR, a Cheat, a De­
ceiver, a false Pretender.

To IMPOSTHUMATE, to
grow into an Imposthume.

IMPOSTURE, Cheat, Cozen­
age, Deceit.

IMPOTENCE,
IMPOTENCY, Weakness, 
want of Po­
wer, or Strength, a natural De­
fect which hinders Generation.

IMPOTENT, unable, weak,
infirmed, maimed

To IMPOVERISH, to make
poor

IMPOVERISHMENT, a be­
ing made poor.

To IMPOWER, to vest one
with Power, to enable one to
act.

IMPRACTICABLE, that
cannot be done.

To IMPRECATE, to curse,
to call down Mischief upon, to
wish evil to.

IMPRECATION, a Cursing,
or calling down Mischief upon
another.

IMPREGNABLE, that can­
not be taken by Force.

IMPREGNATE, being with
Child, or great with Young.

To IMPREGNATE, to get
with Child, to make fruitful

IMPRESS, a Print, Stamp,
or Image.

To IMPRESS, to print,
stamp, or make an Impression
upon, to compel to enter into
publick Service.

IMPRESSION, a Stamp,
Mark, or Print. Of Books, that
Number which is printed off at
the same time.

IMPRIMIS, first of all, in
the first place

To IMPRINT, to fix a thing
in one's Mind, or in any matter.

To IMPRISON, to put in
Prison, or Gaol.

IMPRISONMENT, Confine­
ment, Imprisoning.

IMPROBABILITY, an Un­
likeness to be true, or what
cannot be proved.

IMPROBABLE, unlikely,
which has no likelihood to be
true

IMPROBITY, Dishonesty,
Knavery

IMPROPER, unfit, inconve­
nient, unseasonable

To IMPROPRIATE, to em­
ploy the Revenues of a Church­
Living to his own Use.

IMPROPRIATION, the Act
of Impropriating, also a Par­
sonage in the Hands of a Lay­
man, or which descends by In­
heritance.

IMPROPRIETY of Speech, is
when a Writer or Speaker does
not use proper and significant
Expressions.

IMPROVEABLE, that may
be improved or made better

To IMPROVE, to make bet­
ter, to promote or advance, to
make a Progress in Arts and
Sciences.

IMPROVEMENT, bettering,
progress, an advancing of Pro­
fits, a thriving, a benefiting in
any kind of Profession

IMPROVEMENT, who does
not forecast or foresee, unheed­
ful.

IMPRUDENCE, Indiscretion,
Unadvisedness, a want or Pre­
caution or Foresight into things



IMPRUDENT, inconsiderate,
unadvised, unwise.

IMPUDENCE, Shamelessness,
Sauciness.

IMPUDENT, shameless,
saucy, graceless.

IMPUDICITY, Immodesty,
Lewdness, Obscenity.

IMPULSE, a Thrusting,
Pushing, or Driving forward,
an Inforcement, Motion, Per­
swasion. 

IMPULSION, a thrusting for­
ward, or driving on, a Con­
straining

IMPUNITY, a being free,
or exempt from Punishment.

IMPURE, unclean, filthy,
lewd.

IMPURENESS, Uncleanness.

IMPURITY, Uncleanness,
Filthiness, Lewdness.

IMPUTATION, which is
imputed to another, or the Act
itself

To IMPUTE, to attribute, or
ascribe to, also to charge, or
lay the Blame upon one.

INABILITY, an Incapacity,
or not being able or capable.

INACCESSIBLE, not to be
come at.

INACTION, Inactivity.

INADVERTENCE,
INADVERTENCY, a not 
suffici­
ency observing, a want of Heed
or Care.

INAFFABLE, not courteous,
unpleasant in Conversation

INAMIABLE, unlovely, not
deserving Love.

INAMOURED, fallen in
Love with.

INANIMATE, lifeless, dead,
without Life or Soul.

INAPPLICABLE, not capable
of being applied to.

INARABLE, not to be
ploughed.

INARTICULATE, undis­
tinct, confused, not articulate.

INARTIFICIAL, without
Art, unworkmanlike, artless.

INAUDIBLE, not to be
heard.

INAUGURATION, an In­
stallment, &c.

INAUSPICIOUS, unlucky,
ill boding.

To INCAMP, to pitch Tents,
or build Huts upon a Spot of
Ground chosen for that Purpose.

INCAMPMENT, the Lodg­
ing of an Army in the Field.

INCAPABLE, not capable,
unable, unfit.

INCAPACIOUS, not fit, or
large enough to contain a thing.

To INCAPACITATE, to
render incapable, to put out of
Capacity.

INCAPACITY, the not ha­
ving Parts, or Qualities suffi­
cient to do or receive a thing.

To INCARCERATE, to im­
prison.

INCARNATE DEVIL, a
Devil in human Shape, a de­
vilish Person.

INCARNATION, an assu­
ming or taking Flesh

An INCENDIARY, a Setter
of Houses on Fire, a Sower of
Division and Strife. 

To INCENSE, to inflame, or
stir up to Anger.

INCENSE, a rich Perfume
for sacred Uses.

An INCENTIVE, an Incite­
ment, or Motive, a stirring
up

INCERTITUDE, Uncertain­
ty, Doubtfulness.

INCESSANT, continual,
without ceasing. 

INCEST, Carnal Copulation,
or Marriage with one too nearly
related



INCH, the twelfth Part of a
Foot.

To INCHAIN, to put in
Chains.

To INCHANT, to bewitch,
or charm

INCHANTER, a Conjurer,
Sorcerer, Wizard

INCHANTMENT, a Charm,
or Spell

INCHANTRESS, a Witch,
or Sorcerers.

To INCHASE, to set in Gold
or Silver, &c.

INCIDENT, happening to,
or falling out occasionally.

An INCIDENT, a particular
Event, or Circumstance attend­
ing a Matter.

To INCIDE, to cut or divide.

To INCIRCLE, to encompass,
or surround

INCISION, a Cutting, or 
Lancing.

INCITATION, a stirring up,
or provoking.

To INCITE, to stir up, to
egg on

INCITEMENT, Inducement,
or Motive.

INCIVIL, unmannerly,
clownish, rude

INCIVILITY, Unmannerli­
ness, Rudeness.

INCLE, a sort of Tape.

INCLEMENCY, Unmerciful­
ness, Unpitifulness. 

INCLINABLE, inclining to,
prone, apt.

INCLINATION, a bowing
downward, a natural Disposition
to a Thing, Proneness, Aptness

To INCLINE, to bow, or
bend to, to lean towards

To INCLOSE, to shut in, to
fence about, to surround with
a Wall, Bank, &c.

INCLOSURE, a Place in­
closed, or fenced in

To INCLUDE, to take in,
to comprehend, to contain.

INCLUSIVE, that compre­
hends, or takes in.

INCOGNITO, unknown,
without Attendants or Marks of
Distinction.

INCOHERENT, that does
not suit or agree well together.

INCOHERENCE, a Disagree­
ment, or not suiting well to­
gether.

INCOMBUSTIBLE, that can­
not be burnt, or consumed by
Fire.

INCOME, Rent, Revenue,
Profit.

To INCOMMODE, to cause
an Inconvenience, to prejudice,
or hurt

INCOMMODIOUS, unprofit­
able, unfit, troublesome, offen­
sive.

INCOMMUNICABLE, that
cannot be made common, or
imparted to others.

INCOMMUTABLE, not lia­
ble to Change, not to be changed.

INCOMPACT, not close
fastened or joined together.

INCOMPARABLE, without
compare, matchless, excellent.

INCOMPASSIONATE, void
of Pity.

INCOMPATIBLE, disagree­
ing, not enduring, or consisting
one with another.

INCOMPETENCY, Insuffici­
ency, Inability.

INCOMPETENT, insufficient,
uncapable, improper, unfit.

INCOMPLETE, not com­
plete, not finished

INCOMPOSURE, Confusion,
Disorder.

INCOMPREHENSIBILITY, 
a being incomprehensible or un­
conceiveable. 



INCOMPREHENSIBLE, not
to be comprehended or con­
ceived

INCONCEIVEABLE, not to
be conceived or imagined

INCONGRUITY, Disagree­
ableness, Unfitness.

INCONGRUOUS, unfit, dis­
agreeable

INCONNECTION, a Defect
in joining of Things together,
want of Coherence.

INCONSIDERABLE, of
small account, not worthy of
regard.

INCONSIDERATE, unad­
vised, rash.

INCONSIDERATION, want
of Thought.

INCONSISTENCE,
INCONSISTENCY, a not 
agree­
ing, suiting, or comporting

INCONSISTENT, not consist­
ent, agreeable, or suitable to

INCONSOLABLE, not to be
comforted.

INCONSTANCY, Unsteddi­
ness, Changeableness.

INCONSTANT, fickle, wa­
vering, uncertain.

INCONTESTIBLE, indispu­
table, undoubted.

INCONTINENCY, not ab­
staining from unlawful Desires,
lustful Inclinations, Intempe­
rance

INCONTINENT, that has
no Government of himself, un­
chaste, intemperate, loose.

INCONVENIENCE,
INCONVENIENCY, Trou­
ble,
Difficulty, Disturbance.

INCONVENIENT, not con­
venient, troublesome.

INCONVERSABLE, unsoci­
able, not fit for Conversation

To INCORPORATE, to em­
body, to admit into a Society,
to mix together.

INCORPORATE, imbodied
together.

INCORPORATION, an uni­
ting one Body, or Thing, with
another.

INCORPOREAL, having no
Body, bodiless. 

INCORRECT, not correct,
faulty.

INCORRIGIBLE, past Cor­
rection, obstinate, that cannot
be reclaimed.

INCORRUPT, uncorrupted,
untainted.

INCORRUPTIBLE, not sub­
ject to Corruption, or Decay,
also that cannot be bribed

To INCOUNTER, to fight
with, to join in Battle.

To INCREASE, to grow, or
cause to grow, to inlarge.

INCREASE, not made, or
created.

INCREDIBILITY,
INCREDIBLENESS, a be­
ing
incredible, or past Belief

INCREDIBLE, that is not
to be believed, surpassing Belief.

INCREDULITY, Unbelief,
Unaptness to believe.

INCREDULOUS, hard of
Belief, who will not believe.

INCREMENT, increase, Im­
provement, a growing bigger

To INCROACH, to hook in,
to impose upon

INCROACHMENT, an Im­
position.

To INCULCATE, to repeat
and insist upon a thing often

INCULPABLE, unblameable.

INCUMBENT, lying upon

An INCUMBENT, one who
is in present Possession of a 
Living.

To INCUMBER, to crowd,
to stop, to clog, to hinder.

INCUMBERANCE, a Hin­
derance, Clog, or Stoppage.

To INCUR, to run upon or
into, to fall under.



INCURABLE, that cannot
be cured

INCURIOUS, careless, neg­
ligent.

INCURSION, an Inroad of
Soldiers into an Enemy's Country.

To INDANGER, to expose
to Hazard or Danger.

To INDEAR, to gain or
cause Affection, to make dear
and beloved

INDEARMENT, that which
gains Love, or an endeared
Affection

INDEBTED, in debt to,
owing.

INDECENCY, Unbecoming­
ness

INDECENT, unbecoming,
unhandsome, unbefitting.

INDECORUM, Unseemli­
ness, unhandsome Carriage.

INDEFATIGABLE, unwea­
ried, that cannot or will not be
wearied.

INDEFEASIBLE, that can­
not be defeated or made void

INDEFINITE, without
Bounds, unlimited.

INDELIBLE, that cannot be
cancelled or blotted out.

To INDEMNIFY, to save,
or bear harmless

INDEMNITY, a being saved
harmless

INDEMONSTRABLE, that
cannot be proved or demon­
strated.

To INDENT, to notch.

INDENTED, notched.

INDENTURE, a Writing
indented at the Top, containing
an Agreement between two or
more Persons.

INDEPENDENCY, not de­
pending upon another, Abso­
luteness.

INDEPENDENT, that has
no Dependence upon any one.

INDEPENDENTS, Dissenters
who allow of no Dependence
upon a national Church.

INDETERMINATE, unde­
termined, undecided, unlimited.

INDEVOTION, want of Re­
ligion, Irreligion. 

INDEX, a Token, or Mark,
to shew or direct to, as the
Hand of a Clock, &c. also a
Table of the Contents of a Book.

INDIA, a large Country in
Asia

To INDICATE, to shew, or
discover

INDICATION, a Shewing,
a Sign, or Symptom.

INDIGO, a blue Stone brought
out of India, used in Dying,
Painting, &c.

To INDICT, to impeach, to
accuse, to prefer a Bill against
an Offender in due course of
Law.

INDICTABLE, that may be
indicted, or prosecuted. 

INDICTMENT, an Accusa­
tion of those who have com­
mitted any illegal Trespass.

INDIFFERENCE,
INDIFFERENCY, Uncon­
cerned­
ness, not caring for.

INDIFFERENT, of little or
no Concern, pretty good, or
passable, that has no Affection,
or Love for.

INDIGENCE, Need, Poverty,
Want.

INDIGENT, needy, poor,
wanting.

INDIGESTED, not digested,
confused, out of Order. 

INDIGESTIBLE, which can­
not be digested.

INDIGESTION, a want of
Digestion, or Rawness of the
Stomach.

INDIGNATION, Anger,
Wrath, Passion.



INDIGNITY, unworthy U­
sage, Affront, Baseness, Infamy,
Disgrace.

INDIGO. See INDICO.

INDIRECT, not upright, un­
fair, unhandsome, &c

INDISCERNIBLE, that can­
not be discerned, or perceived.

INDISCREET, unwise, un­
wary, unadvised.

INDISCRETION, want of
Discretion, or Judgment.

INDISPENSABLE,
INDISPENSIBLE, that 
cannot
be dispensed with, but is of ab­
solute Necessity, and admits of
no Excuse

To INDISPOSE, to make un­
fit, or uncapable.

INDISPOSITION, Alteration
of Health, Illness, a being dis­
ordered

INDISPUTABLE, not to be
questioned, or disputed.

INDISSOLVABLE, that can­
not be dissolved.

INDISTINCT, confused, dis­
ordered.

INDISTINGUISHABLE, not
to be distinguished

INDISTURBANCE, Freedom
from being disturbed

To INDITE, to compose, or
dictate the matter of a Letter,
or other Writing.

INDIVIDUAL, the same,
one only, not to be divided.

INDIVISIBLE, which can­
not be divided.

INDOCIBLE,
INDOCILE, that cannot be
taught, dull, 
blockish

INDOCILITY, an Unaptness
to learn

INDOLENCE, a being in­
sensible of Pain or Grief, Lazi­
ness.

INDOLENT, careless, supine,
lazy

To INDORSE, to write upon 
the Back of Deeds, Notices, &c.

INDORSEMENT, the Wri­
ting upon the Back of a Convey­
ance, Obligation, &c.

To INDOW, to bestow a
Dower, to settle Rents, or Re­
venues upon.

INDUBITABLE, not to be
questioned, past all Doubt.

To INDUCE, to lead, to per­
suade.

INDUCEMENT, a Motive
to a Thing

INDUCTED, admitted to the
Possession of an Ecclesiastical 
Living.

To INDUE, to qualify, sup­
ply, or furnish.

To INDULGE, to be fond,
or make much of, to allow.

INDULGENCE, Fondness,
Gentleness, Aptness to bear with;
also Pardon and Forgiveness.

INDULGENT, tender heart­
ed, gentle, fond, kind.

INDULTO, an Impost laid
by the King of Spain on all
Commodities imported by the
Galleons.

INDURABLE, that may be
endured, or born.

To INDURE, to bear, or
suffer, to last, or continue.

INDUSTRIOUS, laborious,
pains-taking, diligent.

INDUSTRY, Pains-taking,
Labour, Diligence

INEFFABLE, unspeakable,
not to be uttered, or expressed.

INEFFECTIVE,
INEFFECTUAL, that has 
no effect,
fruitless, vain.

INEFFICACIOUS, of no Ef­
ficacy, Force, or Virtue.

INEQUAL, unequal, uneven,
unlike.

INEQUALITY, Unequalness,
Unevenness, Unlikeness

INERRABLE, that cannot
err.



INESTIMABLE, which can­
not be sufficiently valued.

INEVITABLE, not to be a­
voided

INEXCUSABLE, not to be
excused.

INEXHAUSTED, not drawn
out, or emptied

INEXHAUSTIBLE, which
cannot be drawn out, or emp­
tied. 

INEXORABLE, that is not
to be intreated or persuaded

INEXPEDIENT, not conve­
nient or fit

INEXPERIENCE, want of
Experience

INEXPERIENCED, that has
no Experience.

INEXPLICABLE, that can­
not be explained

INEXPRESSIBLE, beyond
Expression, unutterable.

INEXTINGUISHABLE, not 
to be extinguished.

INEXTRICABLE, that
which one cannot rid himself,
or get out of, not to be disen­
tangled.

INFALLIBILITY, an Im­
possibility to be deceived, a Fa­
culty of never erring. 

INFALLIBLE, that cannot
err, or be deceived, never fail­
ing.

INFAMOUS, of evil Report,
scandalous, base

INFAMY, Disgrace, Discre­
dit, Reproach, Shame.

INFANCY, Childhood.

INFANT, a young Child.

INFANTA'S, all the Daugh­
ters of the King of Spain and
Portugæl, except the Eldest, who
is called Princesa.

INFANTRY, the Foot Sol­
diers of an Army.

To INFATUATE, to make
foolish, or besot, to bewitch.

INFATUATION, a besotting, 
&c.

INFAVOURABLE, not to
be favoured.

To INFECT, to communi­
cate Corruption, or Poison, to
another, to corrupt, or taint

INFECTION, the mannerof
communicating a Disease by
Particles flying from a corrupted 
Body, a Plague, Corruption.

INFECTIOUS, apt to in­
fect, tainting, catching.

To INFEEBLE, to weaken,
to make feeble.

INFELICITY, Unhappiness.

To INFER, to conclude, to
draw a Consequence.

INFERENCE, Conclusion,
Consequence.

INFERNAL, belonging to
Hell, hellish, low, nethermost. 

INFERTILE, barren, un­
fruitful.

To INFEST, to annoy, or
trouble.

INFIDEL, a Heathen, or one
who believes nothing of the
Christian Religion.

INFIDELITY, Unbelief, the
State of an Unbeliever, also In­
constancy, Unfaithfulness, Dis­
loyalty.

INFINITE, without End,
that has no Bounds, boundless,
endless.

INFINITY, Endlessness, Un­
measurableness.

INFIRM, weak, feeble, cra­
zy, sickly

INFIRMARY, an Apartment
for sick People in an Hospital

INFIRMITY, Sickness,
Weakness, Feebleness

To INFIX, to fix or fasten into.

To INFLAME, to enrage, in­
cense, or put into a Passion, al­
so to increase.



INFLAMEABLE, apt to
catch or take Fire.

INFLAMMATION, a Red­
ness of the Skin with Heat and
Pain

INFLEXIBLE, which cannot
be bent or bowed, not to be pre­
vailed upon or persuaded.

INFLEXION, a bending,
turning, winding.

To INFLICT, to dash, or
strike against, to lay a Punish­
ment upon

INFLICTION, a laying a Pu­
nishment upon, a Smiting.

INFLUENCE, a flowing in­
to, a sending forth Power or
Virtue, the Power of a Superior
over an Inferior.

To INFLUENCE, to sway,
to have Power over.

INFLUX, a flowing or run­
ning into.

To INFORCE, to prevail
upon by force of Argument, to
strengthen.

To INFORM, to give notice,
to tell, to teach, instruct, or
make acquainted with.

INFORMATION, a making
known, Telling, Advice, Instruc­
tion, an Accusation, or Charge,
brought against one.

INFORMER, one who in­
forms in a Court of Judicature,
or before a Magistrate, against
such as transgress the Law.

INFORTUNATE, unhappy,
unlucky

To INFRANCHISE, to make
a Freeman, to incorporate into
a Society.

INFRACTION, a breaking in.

INFREQUENT, that seldom
happens, rare, uncommon.

To INFRINGE, to break a
law or Custom.

INFRINGEMENT, a Viola­
tion, Breach, &c.

To INFUSE, to pour in or
into, to soak, or steep, to en­
due with, to inspire.

INFUSION, a Pouring in.

To INGENDER, to beget,
produce, or breed

INGENIOUS, quick witted,
full of Wit or Invention.

INGENUITY,
INGENUOUSNESS, Free­
dom,
Frankness, Sincerity.

INGENUOUS, frank, free,
open, plain, sincere.

INGENY, Genius, natural
Disposition.

INGINEER, an Artist in for­
tifying and attacking of For­
tresses

INGLORIOUS, base, disho­
nourable

INGOT, a Wedge of Gold or
Silver.

To INGRAFT, to set a Shoot
in the Stock of a Tree, to im­
plant, imprint, or fix.

INGRATE, ungrateful, un­
thankful.

To INGRATIATE one's self, 
to endeavour to gain the Good­
Will of another.

INGRATITUDE, Ungrate­
fulness, Unthankfulness

INGREDIENT, one of the
Things put into a compound
Medicine.

INGRESS, an Entrance upon,
or going into.

To INGROSS, to write over
the Draught of a Deed in fair
and large Characters.

To INGROSS, to buy up all
of a Commodity, to forestall.

To INHABIT, to live or
dwell in a Place. 

INHABITABLE, not habita­
ble, also habitable, or that may
be dwelt in.

INHABITANT, one who lives
or dwells in a Place.



INHERENT, sticking fast in,
cleaving, abiding in.

To INHERIT, to get by In­
heritance or Possession.

INHERITANCE, a Perpetu­
ity of Right in Lands and Te­
nements to a man and his Heirs.

INHERITRIX, a Female
Heir.

INHERITOR, a Male Heir.

To INHIBIT, to prohibit, or
forbid.

INHOLDER, one who keeps
an Inn, an Innkeeper

INHOSPITABLE, not given
to Hospitality; discourteous, un­
civil, rude.

INHUMAN, void of Huma­
nity, barbarous, cruel, savage.

INHUMANITY, Barbarity,
Cruelty, Unkindness, Incivility.

To INHUME, to bury, or
interr. 

To INJECT, to cast or squirt
in.

INJECTION, a casting or
squirting in

INIMITABLE, that cannot
be imitated. 

To INJOIN, to require, to
lay upon

INIQUITY, want of Equity,
Injustice, Wickedness.

INITIAL, beginning.

To INITIATE, to instruct in
the first Principles of any Art or
Science, to admit into any Or­
der or Faculty, to begin.

INJUDICIAL, not according
to Judgment.

INJUDICIOUS, void of Judg­
ment or Discretion

INJUNCTION, an enjoining,
Command, or Order.

To INJURE, to abuse, in­
damage, or wrong.

INJURIOUS, hurtful, offen­
sive, wrongful, against Right 
and Law.

INJURY, Abuse, Offence,
Wrong.

INJUST, wrongful, offensive.

INJUSTICE, an unjust Act,
unfair or hard dealing.

INK, Liquor for Writing.

INLAND, situate upon the
main Land, or in the Heart of a
Country far from the Sea.

To INLARGE, to make large,
to discourse at large upon a
Subject.

To INLAY, to set pieces of
Wood or Metal curiously toge­
ther.

INLET, an Entrance. or Pas­
sage into

To INLIGHTEN, to give
light to.

To INLIST, to enter into the
List of Soldiers.

INLISTED, entered as a Sol­
dier.

INMATE, a Lodger.

INMOST, most inward.

INN, a publick House for the
Entertainment of Travellers.

INNATE, inbred, natural.

INNAVIGABLE, that cannot
be sailed on.

INNER, inward.

INNERMOST, the most in­
ward.

INNOCENCE,
INNOCENCY, Guiltlessness, 
Purity of 
Soul, Harmlessness.

INNOCENT, guiltless, in­
offensive, harmless, silly, simple.

An INNOCENT, a half-wit­
ted Person, an Idiot.

INNOCENTS-DAY, the 28th
of December, observed in Memo­
ry of Herod's Cruelty to innocent
Children.

INNOVATION, a bringing
in of new Customs or Opinions,
Change, Alterations.

INNOXIOUS, hurtful.



INNS OF COURT, Four
Houses, or Colleges, for the
Entertainment of Students in
Law, viz. Grays-Inn, Lincolns­
Inn, the Inner and Middle Tem­
ples, to which was added the
Out Temple.

INNS IN CHANCERY, 
Houses appointed for young Stu­
dents in Law, Eight in Number,
viz. Bernard's, Clement's, Clifford's,
Furnival's, Lion's, New, Staples,
and Thavy's Inn. 

INNUMERABLE, number­
less, not to be numbered

INOBSERVABLE, not to be
observed, unworthy Observation

To INOCULATE, to graft
in the Bud.

INOCULATION, is the
grafting of the Bud of one Fruit
Tree into the Stock of another.

INOFFENSIVE, that gives
no Offence, harmless.

INOFFICIOUS, backward in
doing any good Office, discour­
teous, disobliging.

INORDINATE, out of Order,
extravagant, immoderate.

INQUEST, Search, Inquiry,
esoecially that made by a Jury;
also the Jury itself. 

INQUIETUDE, Disquiet,
Restlessness, Unquietness

INQUIRABLE, that may be
inquired about, or searched into.

To INQUIRE, to ask, or
demand, to examine, or inquire
into.

INQUIRY, Search, asking,
&c

INQUISITION, a diligent 
Search, or strict Examination,
also a cruel Tribunal erected in
Portugal and Spain for the Trial
of Hereticks.

INQUISITIVE, desirous to
know every thing, curious,
prying

INQUISITOR, a Sheriff, a
Coroner, also the Judge of the
Spanish Inquisition.

To INRAGE, to put into a
Rage, to make mad.

To INRICH, to make rich,
to adorn, to imbellish

INROAD, the Invasion of a
Country by Enemies.

To INROL, to set down in a 
Roll, to record.

INROLLMENT, an inrolling.

INSATIABLE, that cannot
be satisfied with Meat or Drink,
&c

INSATIATE, not satisfied,
unsatisfied

INSATIETY, Unsatiableness.

To INSCRIBE, to write in
or upon.

INSCRIPTION, a Title,
Name, or Character written or
engraved over any thing.

INSECT, any small living
Creature that creeps or flies, as
Worms, Flies, &c.

INSECURE, not secure, un­
safe.

INSENSIBILITY, Senseless­
ness, Foolishness.

INSENSIBLE, void of Sense.

INSEPARABLE, not to be
separated, or parted.

To INSERT, to put or bring
in.

INSERTION, a putting,
planting, or grafting in.

INSERVICEABLE, unser­
viceable.

INSIDIOUS, insnaring, trea­
cherous, deceitful.

INSIGHT, hint, light, know­
ledge of a Matter.

INSIGNIFICANCY, Unpro­
fitableness, Vanity, of little Con­
sideration.

INSIGNIFICANT, that sig­
nifies nothing, inconsiderable.



To INSINUATE, to intimate, 
to give a Hint of, also to wind
or screw one's self into Favour.

INSINUATION, a winding
one's self in by degrees, an In­
timation or slight Touch of a
Thing. 

INSINUATIVE, apt to insi­
nuate, engaging.

INSIPID, having to Taste or
Relish, unsavoury, In Discourse,
flat and dry

INSIPIDITY, Unsavouriness, 
Flatness.

To INSIST, to stand much
upon, courage, to be instant.

To INSLAVE, to make a
Slave or Drudge of

To INSNARE, to draw into
a Snare.

INSOCIABLE, not sociable, 
unfit for Society or Conversation

INSOLENCE,
INSOLENCY, Impudence,
Sauciness, 
Haughtiness

INSOLENT, saucy, bold,
proud.

INSOLVENCY, the Condition
of one who is not able to pay
his Creditors.

INSOLVENT, not able to pay.

To INSPECT, to look nar­
rowly into, to oversee.

INSPECTION, Overseeing,
Insight, looking on or into

INSPECTOR, an Overseer.

INSPIRATION, an inspiring,
or breathing into, also the hea­
venly Grace which fills the
Soul with extraordinary and 
supernatural Gifts.

To INSPIRE, to put into
one's Head, to prompt, to en­
due, or fill with. 

INSTABILITY, Unsteadfast­
ness, Unsteddiness.

INSTABLE, inconstant, un­
certain.

To INSTAL, to put in posses­
sion of an Office, Order, or
Benefice.

INSTALLATION,
INSTALLMENT, the Act 
of In­
stalling.

INSTANCE, Entreaty, Re­
quest, also Model, Example,
Proof.

To INSTANCE, to bring
or produce an Example.

INSTANT, eager upon a
Thing, earnest, pressing, pre­
sent, near at hand.

An INSTANT, a short Mo­
ment, a Portion of Time so
small that it cannot be divided

To INSTIGATE, to egg or
set on, to provoke to

INSTIGATION, a stirring
up to, putting on, Encourage­
ment, Incitement to.

INSTIGATOR, an Encou­
rager, an Abettor.

To INSTILL, to pour in by
Drops, to infuse Principles, or
Notions.

INSTINCT, a natural Bent
or Inclination to a Thing, that
Disposition in any Creature
which by its peculiar Forma­
tion it is naturally endowed
with.

To INSTITUTE, to enact,
decree, appoint, or ordain, to
establish, or found.

INSTITUTION, Establish­
ment, Appointment, also In­
struction, Education, or Train­
ing up.

To INSTRUCT, to teach,
train, or bring up.

INSTRUCTION, Teaching,
Education; Order, or Precept. 

INSTRUCTIVE, apt to in­
struct

INSTRUMENT, a Tool to 
do any Work with, also a pub­
lick act or Deed drawn up be­
tween two or more Parties.



INSTRUMENTAL, belong­
ing to an Instrument; also ser­
viceable, or contributing to.

INSUCCESSFUL, that has no
good Success, unfortunate.

INSUFFICIENCY, Inabili­
ty, Incapacity.

INSUFFICIENT, not suffi­
cient, uncapable.

To INSULT, to affront, de­
mineer, vapour, or crow over.

An INSULT, an Abuse, Af­
front, Outrage, Assault, Onset. 

INSUPERABLE, not to be
conquered or overcome.

INSUPPORTABLE, not to be
born with or endured.

INSURANCE, Security gi­
ven to make good the Loss of
Ships, Goods, Houses, &c. in
Consideration of a Sum of Mo­
ney paid in Hand.

To INSURE, to engage to
make good any thing that is in
danger of being lost, to pay the
Premium of such Insurance.

INSURMOUNTABLE, that
cannot be overcome by Labour
and Industry. 

INSURRECTION, a rising a­
gainst, a popular Tumult, an
Uproar.

To INTANGLE, to twist to­
gether, to perplex, or confound.

INTEGRITY, Honesty, Up­
rightness, Sincerity.

INTELLECT, the Faculty of
the Soul, which is commonly
called the Understanding.

INTELLECTUALS, the
Power and Property of the Un­
derstanding.

INTELLIGENCE, Know­
ledge, Understanding, Corre­
spondence held in foreign Coun­
tries, Advice, or News.

INTELLIGENT, understand­
ing, well knowing, perceiving.

INTELLIGIBLE, to be un­
derstood, or apprehended. 

INTEMPERANCE, immode­
rate Desires, Excess.

INTEMPERATE, immode­
rate, &c.

To INTEND, to design, or
purpose, to mean.

INTENT, 
INTENTION, Meaning, 
Purpose, De­
sign.

To INTERCEDE, to come
between, to be a Mediator, to
intreat, to use his Interest in
behalf of another. 

To INTERCEPT, to take up
by the way, to prevent.

INTERCESSION, an intreat­
ing in behalf of another.

INTERCESSOR, one that
intercedes, a Mediator.

To INTERCHANGE, to ex­
change between Parties.

INTERCHANGEABLY, mu­
tually, or by Turns.

INTERCOURSE, mutual
Correspondence, Commerce, or
Traffick.

To INTERDICT, to prohibit
or forbid, to suspend, to exclude
from partaking of the Sacra­
ments.

To INTERESS,
To INTEREST, to concern,
to engage.

INTEREST, Use for Money
lent.

To INTERFERE, to hit, or
fall foul of one another, to clash.

INTERIM, in the mean while.

To INTERLACE, to twist
one with another, to insert, or
put in among.

To INTERLARD, to lard,
or stuff lean Meat with fat.

To INTERLEAVE, to put
blank Paper between the Leaves
of a Book.

To INTERLINE, to write
between two Lines.

INTERLOCUTION, a
speaking between, or while an­
other is speaking.



To INTERLOPE, to inter­
cept or disturb the Commerce
of a Company.

An INTERLUDE, that which
is sung or presented between
two Acts in a Play.

To INTERMEDDLE, to
concern one's self in another's
Business.

INTERMEDIATE, that is
or lies between.

To INTERMINGLE, to min­
gle among or with.

INTERMISSION, a break­
ing, or leaving off for a while,
Discontinuance, ceasing.

To INTERMIT, to leave off
for a while.

To INTERMIX, to be be­
tween or among.

INTERMIXTURE, a min­
gling between or among others.

INTERNAL, that is within,
inward.

To INTERPOSE, to put in
or between, to intermeddle in a 
Business.

INTERPOSITION, an In­
terposing.

To INTERPRET, to ex­
pound, or explain; to translate.

INTERPRETATION, an
Exposition, Explanation, Trans­
slation.

INTERPRETER, an Ex­
pounder, &c.

To INTERR, to bury, or
lay under Ground.

INTERMENT, a Burial, a
putting under Ground.

To INTERROGATE, to ask
a Question, to demand.

INTERROGATION, a Que­
stion, or Demand.

An INTERROGATORY, an
Interrogation, or Examination

To INTERSPERSE, to scat­
ter, or sprinkle here and there

INTERSPERSED, scattered,
or sprinkled here and there.

INTERVAL, a Space be­
tween, a Distance, Pause, Re­
spite.

To INTERVENE, to come
between, to come in unlooked
for

INTERVIEW, a Meeting of
great Persons, a Sight of one
another.

To INTERWEAVE, to
weave with, mingle among.

INTESTATE, a Person dy­
ing without a Will.

INTESTINE WAR, a Civil
War.

INTESTINES, the Entrails,
or Bowels, the inward Parts or
a living Creature.

To INTHRAL, to inslave,
to bring into Bondage.

To INTHRONE, to set upon
the Throne.

To INTICE, to allure, or
draw in cunningly, to tempt.

INTICEMENT, an alluring,
a drawing in.

INTIMACY, strict Friend­
ship. great Familiarity.

An INTIMATE, a dear or
familiar Friend.

To INTIMIDATE, to give to
understand

INTIMATION, a Hint, sig­
nifying, or secret declaring.

To INTIMIDATE, to put in
Fear, frighten, dishearten.

INTIRE, complete, perfect,
whole.

To INTITLE, to give a Ti­
tle, Right, or Claim to, to
make, or write a Title for a
Book.

INTOLERABLE, not to be
born or endured, unsufferable.

To INTOMB, to put into a
Tomb, to bury.

To INTOXICATE, to poison,
or make drunk, to bewitch.

INTRACTABLE, ungovern­
able, unruly.



To INTRAP, to catch in a
Trap, to insnare.

To INTREAT, to ask hum­
bly, to suplicate.

INTREATY, a submissive
asking, a Supplication.

To INTRENCH, to fortify
with a Trench, or Rampart,
also to incroach upon, to usurp.

INTRENCHMENT, a Work
which defends a Post against the
Attacks of an Enemy.

INTREPID, fearless, un­
daunted, resolute.

INTREPIDITY, Fearlessness,
Undauntedness, Courage.

INTRICACY, Intanglement,
Difficulty, Perplexity.

INTRICATE, intangled, per­
plexed.

INTRIGUE, a cunning De­
sign, Plot, or secret Contri­
vance. 

To INTRIGUE, to plot, or
cabal. 

INTRINSICK, 
INTRINSICAL, inward, 
occult, se­
cret, also real, genuine.

To INTRODUCE, to bring,
or lead in

INTRODUCTION, a leading
in, or introducing; also a Pre­
face to a Book, Discourse, &c.

INTRODUCTIVE, serving
to introduce.

INTRODUCTORY, by way
of Introduction, serving to in­
troduce.

To INTRUDE, to thrust one's 
self rudely into Company or
Business

INTRUDER, he that in­
trudes

INTRUSION, an intruding,
or thrusting one's self into
Company.

To INTRUST, to put in trust
with

To INVADE, to attack, or 
set upon.

INVALID, infirm, weak;
also of no Force, which does
not stand in Law.

An INVALID, a person
wounded and disabled in War,
and unfit for any farher Service.

To INVALIDATE, to wea­
ken, to make void.

INVALIDITY, the being in­
Valid; the Nullity of any Act
or Agreement.

INVARIABLE, unchangea­
ble, stedfast, constant.

INVASION, an Inroad, or
Descent upon a Country.

An INVECTIVE, Railing,
sharp virulent Words or Ex­
pressions.

To INVEIGH, to speak bit­
terly against one.

To INVEIGLE, to allure, en­
tice, or deceive by fair Words.

To INVENOM, to poison, to
infect.

To INVENT, to find out, to
contrive, or devise.

INVENTION, a finding out;
also a Contrivance, or Device.

INVENTOR, a Finder out,
Contriver, Deviser. 

INVENTORY, an Account
or Catalogue of the Goods and
Chattels of a Person deceased.

INVERSION, a turning the
Inside out.

To INVERT, to turn upside
down, or inside out, to turn the
contrary way.

To INVEST, to put into
Possession of Lands, Tenements,
&c. also to instal with any Dig­
nity of Honour.

To INVESTIGATE, to trace,
or find out by Steps, to search,
or inquire diligently into

INVESTITURE, a putting
into Possession of an Estate

INVETERATE, confirmed by
long Use, grown into Custom,
waxed old.



INVIDIOUS, hated, odious,
envied, or envious

To INVIGORATE, to in­
spire with Vigour, Life and
Spirit.

INVINCIBLE, not to be over­
come, or conquered

INVIOLABLE, not to be vi­
olated, or broken

To INVIRON, to compass,
or surround.

INVISIBLE, not to be seen.

INVITATION, a Bidding,
or Inviting.

To INVITE, to desire, or
bid one to come, as to a Feast,
&c

To INUNDATE, to overflow.

INUNDATION, an Over­
flowing of Water, a Flood.

To INVOCATE,
To INVOKE, to call up­
on.

INVOCATION, a calling up­
on, a crying for Help.

INVOICE, a particular Ac­
count of the Value, Custom,
Charges, &c. or any Goods sent
by a Merchant to his Corre­
spondent in another Country.

To INVOLVE, to wrap, or
fold in, to engage, to entangle.

INVOLUNTARY, unwil­
ling, contrary to one's Will.

To INURE, to use, to ac­
custom.

INVULNERABLE, not to
be wounded.

INWARD, on the Inside.

JOAN, a proper Name of a
Woman.

JOB, a Man renowned for
Patience

To JOBE, to chide, to repri­
mand

A JOB, a small piece of Work.

A JOBBERNOWL, a Block­
head.

A JOCKEY, one who ma­
nages and deals in Horses.

JOCOSE, given to jesting;
merry, pleasant.

JOCULAR, a jocose, pleasant,
merry.

To JOG, to shove, or shake.

JOHN, a proper Name of
Men.

To JOIN, a knit, or unite
together, to add to.

A JOINT, a Place where one
Thing or Member is added to
another.

JOINTURE, a Maintenance
allotted or joined to the Wife,
in Consideration of the Dowry
she brought her Husband.

To JOINTURE a Wife, is to
make a Jointure, or Settlement.

JOISTS, pieces of Timber,
which are framed into the
Girders or Sommers of a House.

To JOIST, to take in Cattle
to feed for Hire.

To JOKE, to jest, or droll.

A JOKE, a Jest, or Droll.

JOLLITY, a Gaiety, Mirth,
good Humour.

To JOLT, to shake, or toss
up.

A JOLT-HEAD, a Person hav­
ing a great Head.

JOLLY, brisk, lively, merry.

JONAH, the Name of a Pro­
phet.

JONATHAN, the Son of
King Saul.

IONIC ORDER, the Form
Of a Pillar in Architecture.

JONQUIL, a Flower.

JORDAN, a River of Judah.

JOSEPH, a Son of Jacob.

JOSIAH, a pious King of
Judah.

JOSHUA, a Governor of the
Israelites.

To JOSTLE, to thrust, or
push with the Elbows.

JOT, a Tittle, a Point.

JOVIAL, a pleasant, jolly merry.



JOURNAL, a Diary, or Day­
Book

JOURNEY, travel by Land.

JOURNEYMAN, properly
one who works by the Day,
but now, one who works under
a Master.

A JOWL, a Head of Salmon,
&c

JOWLER, Dog's Name

JOY, Gladness, Mirth, Plea­
Sure.

JOYCE, a proper Name of
Women.

JOYFUL, full of Mirth or
Joy.

JOYLESS, destitute of Joy.

JOYOUS, merry, cheerful

IPSWICH, a Sea-Port in
Suffolk.

IRE, Anger, or Wrath.

IRELAND, the westermost
Island in Europe.

IRKSOME, troublesome, te­
dious.

IRON, a very porous Metal.

To IRON, to make Linen,
&c smooth with a heated Iron,
also to put Fetters on a Male­
factor.

IRONMONGER, a Dealer in
Iron.

IRONICAL, spoken by way
of Railery.

IRRATIONAL, void of Rea­
son, unreasonable.

IRRECONCILEABLE, that
cannot be reconciled.

IRRECOVERABLE, not to
be recovered, or gotten again.

IRREGULAR, not regular,
disorderly, unruly.

IRREGULARITY, going
out of Rule, Disorderliness.

IRRELIGION, want of re­
ligion, Ungodliness.

IRRELIGIOUS, without Re­
ligion, ungodly.

IRREMEDIABLE, not to be
remedied, desperate, helpless.

IRREPARABLE, that can­
not be repaired.

IRREPROACHABLE, not to
be reproached, or charged with
any Fault

IRREPROVABLE, not to be
reproved, blameless.

IRRESISTIBLE, that cannot
be resisted or withstood.

IRRESOLUTE, unresolved,
uncertain with Course to take.

IRRESOLUTION, Uncer­
tainty, Unresolvedness, Sus­
pence, want of Courage

IRRETRIEVABLE, not to
be retrieved or recovered.

IRREVERENCE, want of
Reverence for sacred Things and
holy Persons.

IRREVERENT, that shews
no Reverence or Respect.

IRREVOCABLE, not to be
revoked or recalled.

To IRRITATE, to provoke
to Anger, to incense, or urge.

IRRUPTION, a breaking in­
to by Force or Violence, an In­
road.

ISAAC, the Son of Abraham.

ISABELLA, a proper Name
of Women.

ISCARIOT, the Sirname of
Judas.

ISHMAEL, Abraham's Son by
Hagar.

ISICLE, a Drop of Water
frozen.

ISINGLASS, a sort of Fish
Glue, used in Physick, and in
clearing Wines.

IRIS, the River Ouse in Wilt­
shire, which meeting with the
River Thame is called Thamisi.

ISLAND, a Piece of Land.
surrounded on all Sides by the
Sea or River

ISLE, an Island.

ISLINGTON, a Village near
London.



ISLIP, a Town in Oxford­
shire, famous for the Birth of
Edward the Confessor

ISRAEL, a Name given to
the Patriarch Jacob.

ISSACHAR, a Son of Jacob
by Leah.

ISSUE, a Passage, or Out­
let, an Event, or End

To ISSUE, to stream, or
spring forth, to come out, to
publish, or disperse abroad, al­
so to disburse. 

ISTHMUS, a small Neck of
Land joining the Peninsula to
the Continent.

IT, that Thing.

ITALIAN,
ITALICK, belonging to
Italy, also a
Letter in Print which stands
leaning.

ITALY, a famous Country
in Europe

ITCH, a Disease of the Skin.

ITCHING, pricking, smart­
ing. 

An ITEM, a Caution, or
Warning, also an Article of an
Account.

ITINERANT, travelling, or
journeying

An ITINERARY, a Journal,
an Account of the Occurrences in
a Journey, or Voyage.

JUBILE,
JUBILEE, a Year of re­
joicing celebra­
ted every Fiftieth Year among the
Jews, in Commemoration of
their Deliverance out of Egypt.
Among Christians, a Solemnity
first instituted by Pope Boniface
VIII. in the Year 1300, who
ordained it to be kept every
Hundredth Year, and Sextus IV.
every Twenty-fifth Year

JUCUNDITY, Mirth, Plea­
santness

JUDAH, the eldest Son of
Jacob.

JUDÆA, a Country in Syria,
in the Lesser Asia, which was
inhabited by the Jews.

JUDAISM, the Religion, Cu­
stom, or religious Rites of the 
Jews

JUDGE, an Officer appointed
to execute Justice in civil or
criminal Cases.

To JUDGE, to try or deter­
mine Causes, also to make Judg­
ment of, or determine in the
Mind.

JUDGMENT, the discerning
Faculty, Reason, Opinion, Pru­
dence.

The JUDGMENTS of God, 
are those remarkable Punish­
ments which he inflicts upon
People for their Sins and Trans­
gressions.

JUDICATURE, a Judge's
Place or Office.

A Court of JUDICATURE, 
an Assembly of Judges and other
Officers, for the trying and de­
termining Causes.

JUDICIOUS, endued with
good Judgment or Reason, ra­
tional, discreet.

A JUG, an earthen Pot or
Pitcher to hold Drink.

To JUGGLE, to play the
Hocus Pocus, to shew Tricks by
Slight of Hand, to act clande­
stinely. 

JUGGLING, shewing of
Tricks.

JUGULAR, belonging to the
Throat.

JUICE, Moisture, Gravy.

JUICELESS, without Juice.

JUICINESS, abounding with
Juice.

JUICY, a full of Juice.

JULAP,
JULEP, a liquid Medicine
of a pleasant Taste.

JULIAN YEAR, a Space of
Time consisting of 365 Days
Six Hours, so called from Ju­



lius Cesar, who reformed the
Roman Calendar.

JULIUS CESAR, the first
Emperor of the Romans.

JULY, the Fifth Month of the
Year reckoning from March, so
named in honour of Julius Cesar.

To JUMBLE, to mingle, to
confound, to shake.

To JUMP, to leap.

A JUMP, a Leap, also a
short Coat, also a sort of Bo­
dice for Women.

JUNCTO,
JUNTO, a Meeting of Men
to sit in Coun­
cil, also a Cabal, or Faction.

JUNCTURE, a joining toge­
ther, also an Instant, Nick, or
Moment of Time, the present
Posture or State of Affairs.

JUNE, the Sixth Month of
the Year.

JUNCTIN, a small Apple,
which ripens first

JUNIOR, younger in Age or
Standing, in any Profession or
Faculty.

JUNIPER TREE, a Shrub.

To JUNKET, to entertain
one another with Banquets, or
Treats

JUNKETS, any sort of de­
licious Fare to feast or make
merry with.

JUNO, a Heathen Goddess.

IVORY, the Elephant's Tooth.

JUPITER, a Heathen God,
also one of the Seven Planets.

JURDEN, a great Chamber­
pot.

JUROR, one of the Jury
sworn

JURY, is either Twelve, or
Twenty-four Men.

JUST, righteous, reasonable,
fit

JUSTICE, Equity, Reason­
ableness, Right, Law.

JUSTICE of the Common Pleas, 
is a Lord by his Office, and with
his Assistants determines all Ci­
vil Causes between common
Persons

JUSTICE of the King's Bench, 
is a Lord by his Office, and
Chief Justice of England, who
heads and determines all Pleas of
the Crown

JUSTICES of the Peace, are
such as are appointed by the
King's Commission, to maintain
the Peace in the Counties where
they live.

Lords JUSTICES of the King­
dom, are Persons deputed to be
Regents during the King's Ab­
sence.

JUSTIFIABLE, that may be
justified

JUSTIFICATION, a Clear­
ing, Justifying.

To JUSTIFY, to clear one's
self, to make one's Innocence
appear, to verify, to prove,
maintain, or make good.

JUSTINIAN, a Roman Em­
peror, who was famous for
causing the Civil Law to be
collected into a Body, called the
Pandects and Code.

To JUSTLE, to shake, jog,
shove

JUSTNESS, the Exactness or
Regularity of any Thing, but
especially in Matters of Language
or Thought.

To JUT OUT, to stand out
beyond the rest

JUVENILE, youthful,
sprightly, brisk.

IVY, a Plant which twines
about Trees, and fastens upon
Walls.


K.
KALENDAR, an Ephemeris,
or Almanack, to eshew the
Days of the Month.



To KAW, to make a Noise
like a Jackdaw, also to fetch
one's Breath with much difficul­
ty, to gape for Breath.

A KAY,
A KEY, a Place to land, or
ship off Goods; a
Wharf.

To KECK, to make a Noise
in the Throat, occasioned by a
difficulty in Breathing.

KECKS, dry hollow Stalks.

KEEL, a Vessel for Liquors
to stand and cool in.

KEEL-HALING, a Punish­
ment of Malefactors at Sea, by 
letting them down with Ropes,
and drawing them underneath
the Ship's Keel.

KEELING, a kind of Fish.

KEEN, sharp, that cuts well.

To KEEP, to retain, pre­
serve, nourish, observe, look
to, &c.

KEEPER of the Great Seal, is
a Lord by his Office, and one
of the King's Privy-Council, 
his Authority is much the same
as that of the Lord-Chancellor.

KEEPER of the Privy-Seal, 
is a Lord by his Office, through
whose Hands pass all Charters
signed by the King before they
come to the Great Seal, and also
some Deeds which do not pass
the Great Seal at all.

A KEG,
A KAG, a Vessel for Stur­
geon, Salmon,
and other pickled Fish.

KEMBO, as to set one's Arms
a Kembo, is to set each Hand
upon each Hip, or else oblique­
ly, or athwart.

To KEN, to know, to spy
out at a distance

KENELM, a King of the
English Saxons

KENNEL, a Water Course,
a Hut for a Dog, a Fox Earth or
Hole, also a Place for a Pack
of Hunting Dogs.

KENT, the South-eastern
County of England.

KERCHIEF, a sort of Linen
Dress formerly worn by Women
on their Heads.

KERNEL, the eatable part
of a Nut, or of the Stone of any
Fruit.

KERSEY, a coarse Woollen
Cloth.

A KETCH, a Vessel having
only a Mizen and Main-mast.

A KETTLE, a Vessel to boil
in, made of Brass or other Metal.

A KEY, an Instrument to
open a Lock: Of a Book, an Ex­
plication of Persons or Things,
which are so expressed as not
to be easily understood.

KIBE, a Chilblain, occasion­
ed by Cold.

To KICK, to strike with the
Foot.

KICK-SHAWS, French Ra­
goos, or Sauces, also Tarts,
Jellies, or such like Victuals.

A KID, a young Goat.

To KIDNAP, to entice or
steal away Children.

KIDNAPPER, a Person who
makes it his Business to decoy
Children or young Persons, to
send them to the Plantations.

KIDNEY, a Part of an Ani­
mal, which separates the Urine
from the Blood.

KIDNEY-BEANS, a Pulse
well known.

KILDERKIN, a liquid Mea­
sure containing Eighteen Gallons.

To KILL, to deprive of Life.

KILL,
KILN, a Furnace to burn
Chalk for making
Lime, for burning Bricks or
Tiles, a Place for drying Malt
or Hops.

KIMBOLTON, a Town in
Huntingtonshire.

KIN, related.

KIND, benevolent.



A KIND, a Species, a Sort.

To KINDLE, to bring forth
Young, especially Rabbits; also
to cause to light or burn.

KINDRED, Persons of the
same Blood or Descent.

KINE, all sorts of Cows.

KING, a Sovereign Prince,
or Chief Ruler.

KINGAPPLE, an excellent
Fruit.

KING AT ARMS, an Offi­
cer at Arms, who has the Pre­
eminence over the Society,
whereof there are Three, Gar­
ter, Norroy and Clarencieux, 
of whom Garter is the prin­
cipal

KING's BENCH, a Court in
Westminster-hall, where the
Kings of England formerly sat
in Person The Lord Chief Ju­
stice of England is President of
it at present, who has Three
Justices for his Assistants, who
decide criminal Matters, and
Pleas of the Crown.

KING's DELF, a great Ditch,
dug by King Canutus in Hunting­
tonshire.

KING's EVIL, a Disease, the
Gift of Curing, which is ascrib­
ed to the Kings and Queens of
England, as derived from Ed­
ward the Confessor.

KINGSFISHER, a Bird so
called

KINGDOM, one or more
Countries subject to a sovereign
Prince.

KINGSTON, a Town in Sur­
rey upon the River Thames.

To KINK, it is spoken of
Children when their Breath is
long stopped by Crying.

KINSFOLK, Persons related
by being descended from the
same Family.

KINSMAN, a Male Relation.

KINSWOMAN, a Female
Cousin.

A KINTAL, a Weight of a­
about an Hundred Pounds, more
or less according to the Use of
different Nations.

KIRK, a Church.

To KISS, to salute with a
Kiss.

A KISS, a Salute with the
Lips.

KIT, an Abbreviation for
Christopher, also a Pocket Violin.

KITCHEN, a Room where
Meat is dressed, &c.

Clerk of the KITCHEN, an
Officer in the House of the King,
or Nobleman, whose Business it
is to buy Provisions.

KITE, a Bird of Prey.

KITLING,
KITTEN, a little young 
Cat.

To KLICK, to stand at a Door
and call in Customers, as Shoe­
makers, &c

A KLICKER, one who klicks
at a Shoe-maker's, &c.

To KLICK, to make a Noise
with a Pair of Sheers in cut­
ting.

A KNACK, a particular Skill
or Faculty, also the Top of a
Thing.

To KNACK, to snap with
one's Fingers.

To KNAP, to snap or break
asunder

KNAPSACK, a leathern Bag,
in which Soldiers carry their
Necessaries.

KNAVE, formerly only a
Servant, or Lacquey, now a
crafty deceitful Fellow, a Cheat.

KNAVERY, the Practice of
a Knave, deceitful Dealing.

KNAVISH, fraudulent, dis­
honest, waggish.

KNAVISHNESS, Dishonesty,
Waggishness. 



To KNEAD, to work Meal
into Dough.

A KNEE, the Joint of the
Leg and Thigh.

To KNEEL, to bear one's
self upon the Knees.

KNELL, a Passing-Bell, the
ringing of a Bell at the Depar­
ture of a dying Person.

KNICK KNACKS, Curiosities
valued more for Fancy than
real Use.

KNIFE, an Instrument to
cut Victuals with.

KNIGHT, a Title of Ho­
nour bestowed by the King, on
such as he thinks fit to distinguish
from the common Class of Gen­
tlemen, of which there are se­
veral Orders.

KNIGHTS Batchelors, is the
lowest but most ancient Order.

KNIGHTS of the Round Ta­
ble, made by King Arthur, said
to be the most antient in the
World.

KNIGHTS Bannerets, Knights
made in the Field by cutting off
the Point of their Standard, and
making it a Banner.

KNIGHTS Baronets, an Or­
der erected by King James I.

KNIGHTS of the Bath, an
Order of Knights created with­
in the Lists of the Baths, who
bathed themselves, and used se­
veral religious Ceremonies, the
Night before their Creation.

KNIGHTS of the Garter, an
Order of Knighthood instituted
by King Edward III They are
also called the Knights of St.
George.

Poor KNIGHTS of Windsor, 
Twenty-six old Soldiers, &c. 
depending upon the Order of the
Garter, and so called because the
Seat of this College is in Wind­
sor Castle.

SCOTCH Knights. 
KNIGHTS of St. Andrew, an
Order of Knighthood established
by Archaicus King of the Scots,
A.C. 809. called also Knights
of the Thistle.

KNIGHTS of the Shire, Two
Knights or other Gentlemen of
worth, chosen to serve in Par­
liament for Shires or Countries,
by the Freeholders of Great
Britain.

KNIGHTS Errant, certain
fabulous wandering Knights,
such as Don Quixote, &c. whose
wonderful Exploits are related
in Romances.

KNIGHTS Marshal, Officers
who have Jurisdiction and Cog­
nizance of all Transgressions
within the King's House and
Verge. 

KNIGHTS of the Post, Per­
sons who for Hire will swear
any thing. 

To KNIT, to make Knots.

KNIT-STOCKINGS, were
first brought into England by
W. Ryder, A.D. 1564. from
Italy. Wove-Stockings first
devised by W. Lee of St. John's
College, Cambridge, A.D. 1599.

A KNOB, a Knot upon a Tree
or any thing.

KNOBBY, having many
Knobs.

To KNOCK, to hit, or strike
upon.

To KNOW, to understand.

KNOWLEDGE, Understand­
ing, or Acquaintance with.

To KNUB,
To KNUBBLE, to beat 
with the
Fist or Knuckles.

KNUCKLE, the outward
middle Joint of the Fingers.

KYRIE Eleeson, i.e. Lord have
mercy upon us; a Form or solemn
invocation used in the Popish 
Liturgy.



L.
L. 50 in Latin Numbers.

LABORATORY, a Chy­
mist's Workhouse.

LABORIOUS, painful, pains­
taking.

LABORIOUSNESS, the ta­
king Pains

LABOUR. Pains, Toil, Tra­
vel, Work, Travail in Child­
bed.

To LABOUR, to work, to
take pains, to endeavour ear­
nestly

LABOURER, one that does
drudgery Work.

LABYRINTH, a Maze, a
Place with many Windings and
Turnings, so that a Man once
entered cannot find his way out

To LACE, to tie, fasten, or
join with a Lace, also to edge
or border Garments with Lace.

LACE, a Line of Silk, Thread,
&c also a Border, or Edging.

To LACERATE, to tear, or
pull in pieces.

To LACK, to be in want, to
be deficient.

LACKER, a sort of Varnish.

LACKEY, a Page, Footman,
or Footboy.

LACONICK, concise, brief.

LAD, a Boy

LADDER, a Machine to get
up to high Places.

LADE, a Passage of Water;
the Mouth of a River.

To LADE, to load; also to
Empty Water, or any other Li­
quor, out of a Vessel with a
Ladle. 

LADLE, a Kitchin Utensil,
for lading Pottage, Water, &c.

LADY, a Person of Quality's
Wife or Daughter.

LADY-COW, an Insect, a
kind of Beetle.

To LAG, to loiter, to stay
behind.

LAKE, a red Colour used in
Painting.

A LAKE, a large Space full
of Water encompassed by dry
Land, and having no Commu­
nication with the Sea.

To LAM, to strike, or beat.

A LAMB, a Sheep under a
Year old.

LAMBERT, a proper Name.

LAMKIN, a young or little 
Lamb.

LAMBSKINIT, a certain
Game at Cards.

LAME, maimed, or enfeebled
in the Limbs

LAMENESS, a Weakness or
Hurt in some Limb.

To LAMENT, to bewail,
weep, or mourn

LAMENTABLE, to be la­
mented, doleful

LAMENTATION, a Lament­
ing, a mournful Complaint.

LAMMAS DAY, the first of
August, so called because the
Priests used to get their Tithe­
Lambs on that Day.

A LAMP, a Light made with
Oil in a proper Vessel.

LAMPERS, a Disease in
Horses when the Throat is
swelled.

LAMPOON, a drolling Poem
or Pamphlet, in which some
Person is treated with Reproach
or abusive Language. 

To LAMPOON, to expose one
to ridicule in a Lampoon, Li­
bel, or Satire.

LAMPRY, a kind of Fish.

LANCASTER, the Shire
Town of the County.

To LANCE, to cut with a
Lancet.

A LANCE, a Spear.

LANCELOT, a Man's Name.



LANCET, a Surgeon's Instru­
ment used in Bleeding.

To LANCH, to put a Ship or
Boat a float out of a Dock.

To LANCH OUT, to be ex­
travagant in Discourse or Ex­
penses

LAND, Ground, in opposition
to Water

To LAND, to come on Shore
from a Boat or Ship

LAND-CRAB, a Fish.

LANDGRAVE, one who has
the Government of a Province
in Germany

LANDLORD, a Proprietor,
or Owner of Lands or Tene­
ments.

LAND-MARK, a Boundary
set up between Lands

LANDSKIP, a View or Pro­
spect of a Country so far as the
Eye will carry.

LANDRESS, a Washer-wo­
man.

LANDRY, a Place where
Linin is washed

A LANE, a narrow Street or
Passage, a narrow Pass for Sol­
diers.

LANGUAGE, Tongue, or
Speech.

LANGUID, languishing,
faint, weak

To LANGUISH, to grow
faint or weak; to droop, to
fall away.

LANK, slender, slim; also
limber, that hangs flat down.

LANTERN,
LANTHORN, a Device to 
carry a
Light in.

LAP, the Knees of a Person
sitting.

To LAP UP, to wrap up.

To LAP, to lick up with
the Tongue.

A LAPIDARY, one who po­
lishes or works in Stones, a
Jeweller.

To LAPIDATE, to stone to
Death

A LAPPET, a Skirt, or
hanging part of a Garment.

LAPPY, drunk, in Liquor

"Lappy" not found in OED.



LAPWING, a Bird so called
from lapping its Wings.

LARBOARD, the Left-hand
Side of a Ship.

LARCENY, is a wrongful
taking away of another Man's
Goods, with a Design to steal
them

Great LARCENY, is when
the Goods stolen exceed the
Value of One Shilling

Petty LARCENY, when un­
der the Value of a Shilling

LARCH-TREE, a lomy kind
of Tree growing in Larissa

LARD, the Fat of a Hog's
Belly melted

To LARD, to stick small
Slices of fat Bacon into any
Meat.

A LARDER, a Place where
Victuals are kept.

A LARDING-PIN, an In­
strument to lard Meat with

LARGE, broad, extensive,
wide, great.

A LARK, a Singing Bird.

LASCIVIOUS, wanton in Be­
haviour, lustful

LACIVIOUSNESS, Wanton­
ness.

To LASH, to whip, or
scourge

LASK, loose in the Belly.

LASSITUDE, Weariness, a
Heaviness of the Limbs.

LAST, the hindmost.

A LAST, a Form to make
Shoes on.

LAST, a Burden, or certain
Weight or Measure, as of Pitch,
&c. Twelve Barrels, of Corn
Ten Quarters, of Hides Twelve
Dozen.



To LAST, to abide, continue,
to endure.

LASTING, continuing, en­
during, wearing a long time.

A LATCH, a fastening of a 
Door.

LATCHET, a part of a Shoe,
by which it is fastened.

LATE, behind in Time.

LATEST, hindmost in Time.

LATENT, lying hid.

LATERAN, one of the Pope's
Palaces in Rome.

LATEWARD, of the latter
Season.

LATH, a thin Piece of cleft
Wood, a Turner's Instrument.

A LATHER, Water well
mixed with Soap till it froths.

LATIN, the Language an­
tiently spoken in Rome.

LATINIST, one skilled in
Latin.

LATITUDE, Breadth, Large­
ness, Wideness.

LATITUDE of a Place, is
its Distance from the Equator
either North or South,

LATITUDINARIANS, they
who take too great a Liberty in
point of Religion.

LATTEN, Iron tined over.

LATTICE, a Window made
of Lathwork.

LAUD, Praise, Commenda­
tion

LAUDABLE, worthy of
Praise, commendable.

LAVENDER, an Herb

To LAUGH, an Action well
known.

LAUGHTER, the Act of
Laughing.

To LAVISH, to be lavish of,
to waste, or squander away.

LAVISH, profuse, wasteful,
prodigal, extravagant

LAUNDRESS. See LAN­
DRESS.

LAUREAT, crowned with
Laurel.

Poet LAUREAT, the King's
Poet.

LAUREL, a Shrub that is
Ever-green.

LAW, a certain Rule direct­
ing and obliging a rational Crea­
ture in Moral Actions.

LAW OF ARMS, the allow­
ed Rules and Precepts concern­
ing War.

LAWS OF NATURE, those
Laws by which all Bodies are
governed in their Actions upon
each other.

LAWLESS, that is without
Law, disorderly, irregular.

LAWN, a great Plain in a
Park, or between two Woods,
also a sort of fine Linen Cloth.

LAX, loose, slack, spacious,
large.

LAY, a Song, or Poem.

LAY LAND, fallow Land that
lies untilled.

To LAY, to put or place.

LAYMAN, one who follows
a secular Employment, or who
has not entered into holy Orders.

LAYSTALL, a Place to lay
Dung, Soil, or Rubbish in.

LAYER, a Channel or Bed in
a Creek, where small Oysters are
thrown to breed. In Gardening,
a young Spout covered with
Mould, in order to raise its Kind.

LAZY, slothful, sluggish, idle.

A LEACHER a lustful Per­
son, a Whoremonger.

LEACHEROUS, lustful, libi­
dinous. 

LEACHERY, Lustfulness, Lust.

LEAD, a heavy, coarse, and
fusible Metal.

LEADEN-HALL, a noble
antient Building in London,
where are great markets for
Hides and Leather.



To LEAD, to conduct.

A LEAF, the Product , or
cloathing of Trees and Plants.

A LEAGUE, three Miles;
also a Covenant or Agreement,
but more especially a Treaty of 
Alliance between Princes and
States.

LEAH, Jacob's first Wife.

LEAK, a Hole or Chink
through which Water gets into
a Ship.

To LEAK, to run out of a
Vessel through some Hole or
Chink.

LEAKY, full of leaking
Places, so that a Vessel lets out
some of the Liquor it contained,
or a Ship lets the Water in.

LEAN, poor in Flesh.

To LEAN, to rest against,
stay upon, to incline.

LEANNESS, the being poor
in Flesh.

To LEAP, to jump.

A LEAP, a Jump, also a
Device to catch Fish in

LEAP YEAR, so called be­
cause of its leaping a Day more
than common, which happens
every fourth Year, for once in
Four Years the Six Hours above
the 365 Days in a Year being ad­
ded together, make a whole Day.

To LEARN, to receive In­
struction, in Arts and Sciences,
to get Intelligence.

A LEARNER, one who is 
instructed.

LEARNING, Skill in Lan­
guages or Sciences.

LEASE, a letting of Lands or
Tenements to another for a
Rent reserved.

To LEASE, to glean, or pick
up scattered Corn

A LEASH, as of Hares, Par­
tridge, &c three in Number, a
Brace, two.

LEAST, the smallest.

LEASURE,
LEISURE, Opportunity,
convenient or
vacant Time

LEATHER, Hides of Beasts
dressed, tanned, &c.

LEAVE, Licence, Liberty.

To LEAVE, to forsake, to
depart from.

To give LEAVE, to permit

LEAVEN, a Piece of Dough
salted and soured, to ferment
and relish the whole Lump, Yest.

LEAVER, a Bar of Iron or
Wood, to lift or bear up a
Weight. 

LECTURE, a Reading, an 
Instruction given by a Master to
his Scholars; also a Discourse
upon any Text of Scripture,
Art or Science; a Sermon.

LECTURER, a Reader of
Lectures in publick Schools, &c.
also a Minister who preaches in 
the Afternoon, having no Bene­
fit besides the Free Gift of the 
People.

A LEDGE, a sort of Border.

LEDGER, a chief Book in
which every Man's particular
Accounts, as also of every sort
of Goods bought and sold, are
distinctly placed.

LEEDS, a Town in Yorkshire.

LEEK, a Pot Herb

To LEER, to cast a cunning
or wishful Look.

LEES, the Dregs of Wine, &c.

LEET, a Law-day.

LEG, the lower Part of the
Bodies of Animals, serving for
Support and Motion.

LEGACY, a Gift bequeathed
by a Testator in his Will.

LEGAL, lawful, according
to Law.

LEGALITY, Lawfulness, A­
greeableness to the Law.



LEGATE, an Ambassador
sent by the Pope to a foreign
Prince.

LEGATEE, a Person who
has a Legacy left him in a Will.

LEGERDEMAIN, Slight of
Hand; Cousenage, juggling
Tricks.

LEGIBLE, that may be read,
easy to read.

LEGISLATIVE, having Au­
thority to make or give Laws.

LEGISLATOR, a Lawgiver.

LEGISLATURE, the making
of Laws, or Power which makes
them.

LEGITIMACY, lawful,
rightful, also born in lawful
Wedlock.

To LEGITIMATE, to make
or declare natural Children Le­
gitimate, to qualify with such
Conditions as are according to
Law.

LEICESTER, a County Town.

LEMSTER, a Town in He­
refordshire.

To LEND, to grant the Use
of to another.

LENGTH, the Extent, from
End to End.

To LENGTHEN, to make
longer.

LENITY, Mildness, Softness,
Gentleness, Calmness.

LENT, a set time for Fasting
and Abstinence, Forty Days be­
fore Easter.

LEONARD, a Name of Men.

LEOPARD, a wild Beast.

LEOPOLD, a proper Name
of Men.

LEPER, a leprous Man or
Woman.

LEPROSY, a dry white Scab
or Scurf whereby the Skin be­
comes scaly, like a Fish.

LEPROUS, afflicted with a
Leprosy.

LESS, not so much.

LESSON, a Portion to be
read, or heard.

LESSEE, he to whom a Lease
is granted.

LESSOR, he who grants a
Lease.

LEST, lest that.

To LET, to hinder; also to
permit.

LETCHERY, Lustfulness, or
Proneness to Lust.

A LETCHER, a lustful Person.

LETHARGY, a Disease in
the Head which inclines a Person
to sleep continually

LETICE, a proper Name of
Women.

LETTER, a Character, such
as those of the Alphabet, an
Epistle sent to one.

LETTER OF ATTORNEY, 
a Writing authorising an Attor­
ney, or any Friend, to act in
one's stead.

LETTERS OF LICENCE, 
Deeds under the Hands and Seals
of Creditors, granted to a Man
who has failed, giving a longer
time for Payment.

LETTERS PATENT, open
Writings sealed with the Great
Seal of England

LETTER FOUNDER, one
who casts Letters or Types for
Printers.

LETTERHEAD, marked with
Letters

LETTICE, a Garden Herb.

LEVANT, the East, or eas­
tern Countries, especially those
bordering on the Mediterranean
Sea.

LEVEE, the time of one's 
Rising.

LEVEL, even, plain, flat.

LEVEL, a Carpenter's Instru­
ment.



Water LEVEL, an Instru­
ment used by Surveyors and In­
gineers, to find the true Level
for conveying Water. 

To LEVEL, to make level,
plain, and even.

LEVELLERS, People who
would have all Things in com­
mon. 

LEVERET, a young Hare.

LEVI, Jacob's third Son.

LEVIATHAN, a Whale.

To LEVIGATE, to make
plain and smooth.

LEVITE, one of the Tribe
of Levi.

LEVITICUS, so called from
its treating of the Office of the
Levitical Order.

LEVITY, Lightness, or the
Want of Weight in a Body, when
compared to one that is heavier

To LEVY, to raise, gather, or
collect.

A LEVY, a Raising, a Col­
lection

LEWD, wicked, wanton, de­
bauched, riotous.

LEWIS, a proper Name of
Men.

LEXICON, a Dictionary, or
a general Collection of the
Words of any Language.

LIBEL, a little Book, a scan­
dalous and invective Pamphlet.

To LIBEL one, to set forth
Libels against one, to defame, 
or slander one.

LIBELLOUS, of the Nature
of a Libel, abusive, slanderous.

LIBERAL, bountiful, gene­
rous, free, also honourable,
genteel

LIBERALITY, Bountiful­
ness, Generosity.

LIBERTINE, one of a loose
and debauched Life and Princi­
ples, a dissolute and lewd Liver.

LIBERTY, Freedom, Uncon­
finement.

LIBIDINOUS, full of Lust,
incontinent, sensual.

LIBRARY, a Study, or Place
where Books are kept.

LIBYA, that part of the World
commonly called Africa.

LICENCE, Liberty, Permis­
sion, Leave.

A LICENTIATE, one who
has full Power to practise any
Art of Faculty.

LICENTIOUS, loose, lewd,
disorderly.

LICHFIELD, a Bishop's See 
in Staffordshire.

To LICK, to take up with
the Tongue.

LICKORISH,
LIQUORISH, a Shrub 
which has a
sweet Root; also loving Dain­
ties, tid Bits, or sweet Things.

To LIE, to tell a Lie, or an
Untruth; to speak falsly, also
to lie along.

LIEGE, is sometimes taken
for Sovereign Lord, and at others
for one that pays Homage to him.

LIEGE LORD, is he who ac­
knowledges no Superior, a So­
vereign Prince, also the chief
Lord of the Fee. 

LIEGE PEOPLE, are the
Subjects of a King, Queen, or
State.

A LIER,
A LIAR, a Teller of Lies 
or Untruths

In LIEU, instead of, in the
Room or Place.

LIEUTENANCY, the Office
of Lieutenant.

LIEUTENANT GENERAL, 
the Commander next to the
General.

LIEUTENANT COLONEL, 
an Officer next in Post to the
Colonel.

LIEUTENANT of Horse or
Foot, is next to the Captain, and
commands in his absence.



LIFE, the Duration of an
Animal, also Sprightliness, Spi­
rit, Mettle.

LIFEGUARD, the Body
Guard of a King or Prince.

LIFELESS, without Life,
dull, stupid.

To LIFT, to raise, or heave.

A LIFT, a helping to lift up.

LIGHT, that which is not
heavy, also quick, nimble, ac­
tive, small, trifling, fickle, al­
so the Sensation which arises
from seeing any bright Object. 

To LIGHT, to get off Horse­
back.

To LIGHT upon, to fall or
settle upon, to meet by chance,
to happen.

To LIGHTEN, to make
Lighter; also to send forth
Flashes of Lightening.

LIGHTENING, a Meteor.

A LIGHTER, a large Vessel
to carry Goods in by Water.

LIGHTS, the Lungs of an
Animal.

LIGNEOUS, belonging to
Wood, woody.

To LIKE, to approve of.

To LIKEN, to make like, to
compare with

LIKELIHOOD, Probability.

LIKELINESS, Comeliness, 
Probability

LIKENESS, Resemblance, or
being like.

LILY, a Flower.

LIMB, a part of the Body,
a Member.

LIMBECK, a Still, a distilla­
tory Vessel.

LIMBER, supple, pliable.

In LIMBO, in Prison.

LIME, Chalk burnt for Mortar.

To LIME, to plaister, to daub
with Lime. 

To LIME,
To LINE, to couple, as 
Dogs do.

A LIME, a small Lemon.

LIME TWIG, a Twig daub­
ed with Bird-Lime, a Device to
catch Birds.

A LIMIT, a Bound, Bound­
dary, or Border.

To LIMIT, to set Limits or
Bounds to, to confine, to stint.

LIMITATION, a limiting,
stinting, or setting of Bounds.

To LIMN, to paint in Wa­
ter Colours, also to paint to the
Life in Oil, Creons, &c

LIMNER, a Painter in Water
Colours; also who paints to the
Life.

LIMON,
LEMON, a well known 
Fruit

LIMONADE, a cooling Li­
quor made of Lemons, Water,
and Sugar.

LIMP, supple, limber

To LIMP, to halt, or go
lame.

LIMPID, pure, clear, trans­
parent.

LINCH-PIN, an Iron Pin
which keeps on the Wheel to
the Axle-tree of any sort of
Carriage

LINCOLN, a Bishop's See.

LINCOLN COLLEGE, a Col­
lege in Oxford.

LINCOLNS-INN, one of the
Inns of Court for Students of the
Law.

LINE, a Row of Words in
Writing or Printing; also the
twelfth part of an Inch.

To LINE, to put a thing on
the inside of another: In Ma­
sonry, to case a Wall with Stone.

LINEAGE, Race, Stock, Pe­
digree

LINEAL, that goes in a
Right Line.

LINEAMENT, the Feature
or Proportion of the Face.

LINEAR, belonging to a Line.

LINEN, Cloth made of Flax.

LING, a sort of Salt-fish.



To LINGER, to be tedious,
or long a doing; to loiter, to
droop, or languish.

LINGUIST, a Person skil­
ful in Tongues and Languages.

LINK, a part of a Chain,
also a Torch of Pitch, &c.

To LINK, to join, or tie to­
gether.

LINN REGIS,
LYNN REGIS, a Town in 
the County 
of Norfolk.

LINNET, a singing Bird.

LINSEED, Flax Seed.

LINSEY WOOLSEY, Cloth
made of Linen and Woollen
mixed together.

LINT, Linen scraped fine for
the Use of Surgeons.

LINTEL, the Headpiece, or
upper Post of a Door or Window

LION, a Beast of Prey.

LIONEL, a proper Name of
Men.

LIP, the upper or lower part
of the Mouth

To LIQUIFY, to make li­
quid, to dissolve, to melt.

LIQUID, that which has its
Parts fluid and in Motion, as
Water, &c.

LIQUOR, any thing that is
liquid, Drink, Juice, Water, &c.

To LISP, to falter in Speech,
to clip Words.

LIST, a Roll containing the
Names or Numbers of Persons;
also a Border of Cloth.

To LIST, to raise Men for the
Army, to enter them in the List
of Soldiers.

To LISTEN, to hearken.

LISTLESS, having no Desire
for a thing, careless, regardless.

LITANY, a general Suppli­
cation or Prayer.

LITERAL, belonging to Let­
ters, also according to the Letter.

LITERAL FAULT, a Letter
more or less misplaced, &c.

LITERATE, learned, a Man
of Letters

LITERATURE, Knowledge
in Letters, Learning, &c.

LITHOTOMIST, an Operator
that cuts for the Stone.

LITIGIOUS, one that de­
lights in going to Law, quarrel­
some, contentious, wrangling.

LITTER, the Straw that is
spread under Cattle to lie down
upon, also the Brood of a Beast
brought forth at once; also a
sort of Carriage like a large Se­
dan, born by Horses or Mules.

LITURGY, publick Service;
a Form of publick Prayer.

To LIVE, to enjoy Life.

LIVELY, brisk, gay, airy,
vivacious.

LIVER, one of the noble
Parts of the Body.

A White LIVERED Fellow, a
malicious, designing Fellow.

LIVERY, a Suit of Clothes
of different Colour and Trim­
mings, worn by Gentlemens
Servants.

LIVERY STABLES, publick
Stables, where Horses are let to
Hire.

LIVERYMEN, such Men of
a Company or Corporation, who
have a Right to wear a Livery­
Gown upon a solemn Occasion.

LIVID, black and blue

LIVRE, Twenty Pence.

LIZARD, a creeping Crea­
ture of a green Colour.

LO, behold

LOACH, a small fresh Water
Fish.

LOAD, a Burden, or Weight.

LOADSTONE, a Stone which
draws Iron to it, and directs
Sailors in their Voyages at Sea.

To LOAD, to lay on a Bur­
den, also to distress.

A LOAD of Hay, about 2000
Pound; or Timber 50 Foot.



A LOAF, a Portion of Bread
of different Sizes.

LOAM,
LOME, grafting Clay, Mor­
tar made of Clay 
and Straw.

LOAN, a thing lent, a lend­
ing of Money; also Interest of
Money.

To LOATH, to nauseate.

LOBCOCK, a foolish Fellow.

LOBBY, a kind of Passage, 
Room, or Gallery.

LOBSTER, a Shell Fish.

LOCAL, belonging to place.

LOCK, an Instrument to make
a Door fast

LOCK of Hair, a Parcel or
parting of Hair, of Wooll, a
small Parcel

LOCK, an Infirmary for the
Cure of pocky People

LOCKET, a little Lock of a
Gold Chain or Necklace

LOCUST, an Insect.

LOCUTION, Phrase, or man­
ner of Speech.

A LODGE, a Hut, or Apart­
ment for a Porter of a Gate.

To LODGE, to lay up, to
take up Lodging in.

LODGER, one who hires a
Room or Apartment in another's
House

LODGING, an Apartment to
lodge in

LOFTINESS, Height, Haugh­
tiness, Pride.

LOFTY, high, haughty,
proud, high minded.

LOG, the Trunk of a Tree,
or Stump of Wood for Fuel.

LOGGERHEAD, a Block­
head, a stupid or foolish Person.

LOGICIAN, one who is skil­
led in Logick.

LOGICK, the Art of Think­
ing, Reasoning, or making a
right Use of the rational Faculty.

LOINS, the lower part of the
Back near the Hips, the Waiste.

To LOITER, to delay, to
stay behind.

To LOLL, to lean, or lie upon.

LOLLARDS, a Name of In­
famy bestowed on the Followers
of Wickliff, or certain Church
Reformers in England in the time
of K. Edward III. and Henry V.

LOMBERHOUSE, a House
in which several sorts of Goods
are taken as Pawns, also where
they are exposed to Sale.

LOMBARD-STREET, a Street
near the Royal-Exchange, London.

LONDON, the Metropolis of
Great Britain, founded before the
City of Rome, walled by Constan­
tine the Great, no ways inferior
to the greatest in Europe for
Riches and Extent.

LONDON-BRIDGE, a noble
Bridge built of Stone, upon Nine­
teen Arches a-cross the River
Thames, adorned with stately
Buildings making a Street, and
not to be paralleled in the
whole World.

LONG, of great Extent in
Length

LONGBOAT of a Ship, the
largest Boat belonging to it.

LONG of you, it is your Fault.

A LONGING, an earnest de­
siring.

LONGITUDE, the Length
of any thing that is measurable,
as Time, Place, Motion, &c. In
Navigation, the Distance of a
Ship, or Place, East or West.

LONGITUDINAL, length­
ways.

A LOOF OFF, at a distance.

To LOOK, to see.

LOOKING-GLASS, a Glass
which reflects Objects.

A LOOM, the Frame a Wea­
ver works upon or in.

LOON, an idle, lazy, good
for nothing Fellow, also a
Bird in New England, like a 



Cormorant, that can scarce go,
much less fly, and makes a Noise
like a Sow Gelder's Horn.

LOOP, a Noose in a Rope
which will slip, also an Orna­
ment for a Button-Hole.

LOOSE, slack, not tight, not
bound up, also loose in Morals,
at Liberty.

To LOOSEN, to unbind, let
Loose; to move a thing that is 
fixed.

LOOSENESS, Laxity of Bo­
dy, Depravity of Morals.

To LOP, to cut off the Tops
of Trees.

LOQUACIOUS, full of Talk,
prating.

LOQUACITY, Talkativeness. 

LORD, a Title of Honour,
sometimes given to those who
are Noble by Birth or Creation,
sometimes, by Courtesy of Eng­
land, to the Sons of Dukes and
Marquesses, and sometimes to
Persons honourable by their Em­
ployments

LORDLINESS, Haughtiness,
Pride, Stateliness.

LORDLY, haughty, proud,
stately.

LORDSHIP the Title, Juris­
diction, or Manor of a Lord

LORIMERS,
LORINERS, a Company of
Artificers in
London, who make Bits for
Bridles, Spurs, and such like
Iron Wares for Horses

LORIOT, a Bird, that being
only looked upon by one who
has the Yellow Jaundice, cures
the Person, and dies itself.

To LOSE, to suffer Loss.

LOT, Abraham's Brother.

LOT, a Portion of a Thing
divided into Parts, Chance,
Fortune.

To Cast LOTS, to determine a
Doubt by Loss.

To pay Scot and LOT, to pay
such Charges and Parish Duties
as House-keepers are liable to.

LOTH, unwilling; as, I am
loth, I have no Mind to; am
unwilling.

To LOTHE,
To LOATH, to nauseate, to
abominate.

LOTHING, nauseating, ha­
ting.

LOTHSOME, nauseous, hate­
ful.

LOTION, a Washing.

LOTTERY, a sharing of Lots
by Chance.

LOUD, sounding, noisy.

LOUDNESS, Noisiness.

LOVE, Kindness, Friendship,
a Passion.

To LOVE, to have an Af­
fection for.

LOVER, an endeared Friend,
a Sweetheart

LOVELY, amiable, deserving
to be beloved.

LOUSE, a small Insect which
infects Mankind.

To LOUSE, to hunt or catch
Lice.

LOUSINESS, a being infest­
ed with Lice, Meanness.

LOUSY, infested with Lice,
of a mean Condition.

LOUVRE, a stately Palace in
the City of Paris.

LOW, humble, mean, not
high.

To LOW, to make a Noise,
to bellow like an Ox or Cow.

A LOWING, a crying like
an Ox or Cow.

LOW BELLER, one that goes
a Fowling with a Light and Bell.

LOWLINESS, Humility,
Humbleness

LOWNESS, the not being
high, Meanness.

LOWN, a dull heavy headed
Fellow.

"Lown" not found in this sense in OED.





To LOWR, to look sour or
grim, to begin to be over-cast
with Clouds.

LOYAL, honest, trusty, faith­
ful.

LOYALTY, Fidelity, or
Faithfulness; especially to a
Sovereign Prince.

LOZENGES, a Medicine
made into small Pieces, to be
held or chewed in the Mouth.

LUBBER, a Drudge, a lazy
Drone.

LUBRICOUS, slippery, un­
certain

LUCY, a proper Name of
Women.

LUCID, clear, bright, shining.

LUCIFER, a chief of the
Devils, the Prince of the Air,
also the Morning Star.

LUCK, Chance, Fortune.

LUCRE, Gain, Advantage,
Profit.

LUCUBRATION, a Study­
ing, or Working by Candle-light.

LUDGATE, one of the wes­
tern Gates of the City of Lon­
don, so called from King Lud,
who built it.

LUDICROUS, trifling, light,
childish.

LUES VENEREA, the French
Pox.

To LUG, to pull, hale, or
pluck.

LUGS, the Ears, Poles to
measure Land with.

LUGGAGE, a heavy Weight,
or Burden.

LUKE, one of the Four E­
vangelists.

LUKEWARM, between hot
and cold, also indifferent, care­
less

To LULL, to entice to sleep,
by singing or other Allurements.

LULLABY, a Nurse's allu­
ring a Child to sleep.

LUMBER, old household Stuff,
useless and of small Value.

LUMINARIES, Lights,
Lamps, the Sun and Moon so
called by way of Eminence.

LUMINOUS, full of Light,
bright.

A LUMP, a Mass, whole
Bulk, also the Name of a Fish.

LUMPISH, heavy, dull; also
in Lumps.

LUNACY, Frenzy, or Mad­
ness, happening according to the
Course of the Moon.

LUNATICK, attacked with
Lunacy, distracted, mad.

LUNAR, belonging to the
Moon.

The LUNGS, that Part of an
Animal which is the Instrument
of Respiration.

LUPINES, a sort of Pulse.

To LURCH, to lie hid

LURCHER, one who lies
upon the Lurch or the Catch;
also a kind of hunting Dog.

LURCHING, lying upon the
Catch, or in wait.

To LURE, to allure, entice,
or decoy.

A LURE, a Decoy, or Allure­
ment.

To LURK, to lie hid.

LUSCIOUS, over sweet, cloy­
ing

LUSCIOUSNESS, Over­
Sweetness.

LUST, Concupiscence, un­
lawful Passion or Desire, also a
natural Desire.

To LUST, to desire, or have
an Inclination to.

LUSTFUL, full of Lust, lea­
cherous

LUSTFULNESS, Leacher­
ousness.

LUSTRE, Brightness, Shi­
ning, Gloss.



LUSTRING, a glossy Silk
called Lute String.

LUSTY, strong, hale, health­
ful.

LUTE, a musical Instrument.

To LUTE, to cover, or stop
up with Loam or Clay.

LUTHER, the first Reformer
in Germany, who wrote against
the Errors of the Church of Rome.

LUTHERANS, the Followers
of Luther

LUXURIANT, abundant,
running out exceedingly, wanton,
riotous.

LUXURIOUS, riotous, gi­
ven to Excess or Debauchery,
wanton.

LUXURIOUSNESS,
LUXURY, all Su­
per­
fluity and Excess of carnal Plea­
sures; Riotousness, Sensuality.

LYDIA, the proper Name of
a woman.

LYE, a composition of Ashes
and Water to wash or scour with.

To tell a LYE, to affirm what 
is false. See To LIE.

LYNX, a wild Beast of the
Nature of a Wolf.

A LYRE, a Harp.


M.
M In Latin Numbers, signi­
fies a Thousand.

MACE, a sort of Spice; also
an Ensign of Honour carried
before a Magistrate.

To MACERATE, to make
lean, or bring down in Flesh,
also to steep, or soak.

To MACHINATE, to con­
trive, or devise, to plot, or
hatch. 

MACHINATION, a contriv­
ing, or plotting, a Device, or
Plot.

MACHINE, an Engine com­
posed of several Parts set toge­
ther by mechanical Art, to raise
or stop the Motion of Bodies.

MACKAREL, a Sea Fish,
well known.

To MACULATE, to stain,
or defile with Spots.

MAD, deprived of Reason,
furious.

MADAM, a Title of Honour
formerly given to Women of
Quality only.

MADAMOISELLE, a Title
given in France to the Wives and
Daughters of Gentlemen.

MADRID, the capital City in
Spain.

MADRIGAL, an Air or Song,
also a particular kind of vocal
Musick for several Voices, for­
merly very much in request.

MAGAZINE, a Storehouse
for Arms and Ammunition of
War.

MAGDALENE, a proper
Name of Women.

MAGDALENE-COLLEGE, in
Oxford, also one of the same
Name at Cambridge

MAGGOT, a kind of Worm.

MAGOTTY, full of Maggots,
whimsical.

MAGICAL,
MAGICK, belonging to
the magick Art

MAGICK, the Black Art,
dealing with familiar Spirits

MAGICIAN, a Wizard, Sor­
cerer, or Conjurer. 

MAGISTERIAL, a Master­
like, imperious, haughty

MAGISTRACY, the Office
and Dignity of a Magistrate

MAGISTRATE, an Officer of
Justice, or of Civil Government.

MAGNA CHARTA, the great
Charter containing the Sum of
all the Laws of England.



MAGNANIMITY, Greatness
of Mind, Courage.

MAGNET. See LOADSTONE.

MAGNETICAL,
MAGNETICK, belonging 
to the
Magnet, or Loadstone.

MAGNIFICENCE, a Large­
ness of Soul in receiving and
managing great Things, Gran­
dure, State, Greatness.

MAGNIFICENT, that lives
in great State, stately, noble.

To MAGNIFY, to make
Things seem bigger than they
really are, to cry up, or praise
highly.

MAGNITUDE, Greatness,
Bigness, Largeness.

MAHOMET, a noted Arabian
Impostor, who introduced the
Turkish Religion contained in
the Alchoran.

MAHOMETISM, the Reli­
gion contrived by Mahomet.

MAID, 
MAIDEN, a Virgin, a
young or unmar­
ried woman, also a Fish.

MAIDENHEAD, Virginity;
also a Town in Berkshire so called.

MAIDSTONE, a Town in
Kent

MAJESTICAL,
MAJESTICK, full of Ma­
jesty, no­
ble, stately.

MAIL, an Iron Ring for Ar­
mour, also a kind of Portman­
teau, or Trunk to travel with.

Coat of MAIL, a sort of de­
fensive Armour.

To MAIM, to cut off a Limb,
to wound or hurt

MAIMED, having lost a
Limb, hurt, or wounded.

MAIN, chief, or principal;
also the Middle of the Sea or
Land, also Might, or Power.

To throw a MAIN, to play
with a Box and Dice.

MAIN Body of an Army, that
Body which marches between
the Vanguard and the Rear­
guard, or that which in a Camp
lies between the two Wings.

MAINMAST of a Ship, is a
long Piece of round Timber
standing in the Middle of a Ship.

MAINSAIL, the Sail belong­
ing to the Mainmast.

MAIN-TOPMAST, a Mast
that is one half the Length of
the Mainmast.

MAIN-TOPGALLANT­
MAST, is half the Length of
the Topmast.

MAINYARD, the Yard be­
longing to the Mainmast.

MAINPRIZE, one who is
Bail, Pledge, or Security for an­
other.

To MAINTAIN, to give a
Livelihood to, to keep in re­
pair, to uphold, to make good
a thing affirmed.

MAINTAINABLE, which
may be maintained.

MAINTAINER, an Uphold­
er, one who provideth for, or
supporteth another. 

MAINTENANCE, Food and
Necessaries of Life, also Sup­
port, Protection, Defence.

MAJOR, greater, bigger.

MAJOR-GENERAL, an Of­
ficer next in Command to the
General and Lieutenant-General.

MAJOR DOMO, the Steward
of a great Man's House, a Ma­
ster of the Houshold.

MAJOR of a Regiment, the
next Officer to a Lieutenant­
Colonel.

MAJORITY, the greater
Number of Part, also one's be­
ing at Age.

MAIRMAID, See MER­
MAID.

To MAKE, to cause, form,
or frame.



To MAKE FAST, to bind, or
tie.

MALACHI, one of the Lesser
Prophets.

MAL-ADMINISTRATION, 
Misdemeanor in publick Em­
ployment.

MALADY, a Disease, Sick­
ness.

MALAGA. Wine of Malaga 
in Spain.

MALANDERS, a Disease in
the Fore-legs of a Horse.

MALAPART, saucy, impu­
dent.

MALDON, a Town in Essex,
Thirty-two Miles from London.

MALE, the Male Kind.

MALE-CONTENT, discon­
tented, dissatisfied, disaffected.

MALEDICTION, an evil
speaking, or cursing.

MALEFACTOR, an evil Do­
er, an Offender.

MALEVOLENCE, Ill-will,
Hatred, Spite.

MALEVOLENT, one that
bears Ill-will, or Spite.

MALICE, Ill-will, Grudge,
or Spite.

MALICIOUS, full of Malice,
spiteful.

MALIGN, mischievous, bent
on Mischief

MALIGNANCY, malignant
Nature or Quality.

MALIGNANT, hurtful, mis­
chievous.

MALIGNANT DISEASE, an
epidemical Distemper generally
attended with Spots and Erup­
tions. 

MALIGNITY, Hurtfulness,
Mischievousness, Grudge, Ill­
will.

MALL, a Place to play at
Pall-mall.

Pall MALL, a Play.

MALLARD, a wild Drake, or
Male Duck.

MALLEABLE, that may be
hammered out, and will spread
being beaten.

MALLET, a sort of wooden
Hammer.

MALLOWS, an Herb.

MALMSBURY, a Town in
Wiltshire, Seventy-four Miles
from London.

MALMSEY, a luscious sort
of Wire.

MALPASS, a Town in Che­
shire, 130 Miles from London

MALT, Barley soaked and
dried, in Order to make Drink.

MALSTER, one who makes
or deals in Malt. 

MALVERSATION, ill Con­
versation, Prevarication, Mis­
demeanour in an Office.

MAMMA, my Mother.

MAMMACK, a Fragment,
Piece, or Scrap.

MAMMON, the God of
Wealth.

MAN, a Creature endued with
Reason.

To MAN, to furnish with
Men.

A MAN OF WAR, a Ship
of War.

MANACLES, Hand-Fetters,
of Cuffs.

To MANACLE, to bind with
Handcuffs, or Fetters

To MANAGE, to order, or
handle, to rule or govern, to
husband.

MANAGEMENT, Managing
or Ordering, Conduct.

MANASSEH, Joseph's Eldest
Son.

MANCHESTER, a Town in
Lancashire, 137 Miles from
London.

MANDATE, a judicial Com­
mand of a King or his Justices,
to have any thing done for dis­
patch of Justice.



MANDRAKE, a Plant whose
Root sometimes resembles the
Parts of a Man, having the Qua­
lity of causing Sleep.

MANDY THURSDAY, the 
Thursday before Easter.

MANE of a Horse, the long
Hair hanging down a Horse's
Neck.

MANGE, a Scab on Dogs, &c.
an infectious and filthy Disease
in Horses.

MANGER, a sort of Trough
for Horses to eat Corn out of.

To MANGLE, to cut, rend,
or tear in Pieces, to maim, or
wound.

MANGO, an East-Indian
Fruit.

MANGY, troubled with the
Mange.

MANHOOD, Bravery, Cou­
rage. 

MANIFEST, apparent, clear,
evident, plain.

To MANIFEST, to reveal,
to declare, to make plain, to
publish

MANIFESTATION, a ma­
king manifest, &c.

MANIFESTO, an Apology,
or publick Declaration of a
Prince or State; an Edict or
Decree.

MANIFOLD, a great many.

MANNA, a delicious Food
which distilled from Heaven for
the Support of the Israelites,
also a sort of fat Dew in a
Morning upon the Leaves of
Mulberry Trees in hot Countries,
used as a gentle Purge.

MANNER, Fashion, Way,
Custom, Usage.

MANNERS, Behaviour, good
or bad; Rules for Behaviour,
Conversation, &c.

MANOUR, the Rule and Go­
vernment a Man has over those
who hold within his Fee.

MANSFIELD, a Town in
Nottinghamshire, 98 Miles from
London.

MANSION, an abiding or
dwelling Place, also the Seat of
the Blessed in Heaven; also a
Mansion-house.

MANSLAUGHTER, is the
unlawful killing a Man without
prepense Malice. 

MANSLAYER, one guilty
of Manslaughter.

MANTLE, a kind of Cloke,
or long Robe.

To MANTLE, to flower, to
smile like Drink, &c.

MANTLE TREE, a Piece of
Timber laid cross the Head of a
Chimney.

MANTUA GOWN, a lose
Gown worn by Women.

MANUAL, belonging to or
performed by the Hand.

A MANUAL, a Pocket Book.

MANUFACTURE, any sort
of Commodity made by the
Work of the Hands.

To MANUFACTURE, to
make or work up with the
Hands.

MANUFACTURED, worked
or made by the Hands.

To MANURE, to till the
Ground, to labour it with the
Hands.

MANURE, Dung, &c. used
for fattening the Ground.

MANUSCRIPT, a Book or
Copy writ with the Hand.

MANY, a great Number.

MAP, a Representation of the
Earth, or some part of it, on a
plain Superficies.

MAPLE, a sort of Tree.

MARAUDING, ranging a­
bout for Plunder.

MARBLE, a sort of fine
Stone very hard and solid.

To MARBLE, to paint or
stain like Marble.



MARCH, the third Month in
the Year in common Compu­
tation.

To MARCH, to go, to set
forward, as an Army does.

A MARCH, the going for­
ward of an Army.

MARCHIONESS, a Mar­
quis's Lady.

A MARE, a Female Horse.

A MARMAID. See MER­
MAID.

MARGARET,
MARGARY, a proper 
Name of 
Women

MARGIN, the Brink or Brim
of any Thing, also the outer­
most part of the Leaves of a
book, where nothing is printed.

MARGINAL, belonging to
the Margin.

MARGRAVE, a kind of 
Dignity in Germany, answering
to our Marquis.

MARIGOLD, a Flower.

MARINE, belonging to or
serving at Sea.

MARINER, a Seaman or
Sailor.

MARINES, Soldiers who
serve on board a Ship.

MARJORAM, an Herb.

MARITIME, belonging to
or near the Sea.

A MARK, a Note, Character,
&c. set upon a Thing, a Sign,
or Token; also a White or Aim
to shoot at; also a Silver Coin
formerly valued at Thirty Shil­
lings, now generally taken for
Thirteen and Four Pence.

MARK, a proper Name of
Men.

To MARK, to set a Mark
upon a Thing in order to know
it again; to take notice; to
mind.

MARKET, a Place where
Provisions or other Goods are
sold.

Clerk of the MARKET, an
Officer whose Business is to keep
a Standard of all Weights and
Measures.

MARKETABLE, that is fit to
be sold or uttered at Market.

MARL, a kind of fat Earth
cast upon Land to make it
fruitful.

MARLBOROUGH, a Town
in Wiltshire, 62 Miles from
London.

MARLOW, a Town in Buck­
inghamshire, 26 Miles from
London.

MARMADUKE, a proper
Name.

MARMALET,
MARMALADE, a Sweet­
meat made
of Quinces or other Fruit.

MARMOSET, a kind of black
Monkey with a shaggy Neck.

MARMOTTE, a Creature like
a Rabbit in the Alps in Italy.

MARQUESS, 
MARQUIS, a Nobleman 
next in Dig­
nity to a Duke.

MARQUISATE, a Marquis­
ship, or the Jurisdiction of a 
Marquis.

To MARR, to spoil, to de­
face, to corrupt.

MARRIAGE, a civil Con­
tract, by which a Man and
Woman are joined together.

MARRIAGEABLE, that is of
Age fit to marry.

MARROQUIN, a sort of
Skin dressed in Sumack, and
much used by Bookbinders.

MARROW, a soft fat Sub­
stance contained in the hollow
of the Bones.

To MARRY, to join or be
joined in Wedlock.

A MARSH, a Fen, or boggy
Ground

MARSHALL, was antiently
no other than Master of the
Horse, but now several consider­



able Officers bear this Name, as
Earl Marshal, &c.

MARSHALSEY, the Seat or
Court of the Marshal for the
Prison of Southwark.

MARTIAL, warlike, va­
liant, belonging to War.

MARTIN, a proper Name of
Men.

MARTIN,
MARTINET, a Bird like a 
Swallow.

MARTINGAL, a Thong of
Leather fastened at one End to
the Girts under the Belly, and at
the other to the Musroll, to
prevent a Horse's rearing.

MARTLEMAS,
MARTINMAS, a Festival 
of St. Mar­
tin, observed on the eleventh of
November.

MARTLET, a kind of Bird.

MARTYR, one who bears
Witness to the Truth of the
Christian Religion at the Ex­
pense of his Life.

MARTYRDOM, the Pain or
Death which a Martyr undergoes.

To MARTYR, to make one
suffer Martyrdom.

To MARVEL, to wonder, or
admire at.

MARY, a Christian name of
Women.

MASCULINE, that is of the
Male Kind.

MASH for a Horse, a Compo­
sition of Water, Bran, &c.

To MASH, to break, bruise,
or squeeze to pieces.

MASK, a Covering for the
Face, a Vizard.

MASLIN, Corn mixed, as
Wheat and Rye.

MASON, a Workman who
builds with Stone

MASONRY, Mason's Work,
Stone Work

MASQUERADE, a Company
of Persons having Masks on, and
dancing or discoursing together.

MASS, a Heap, or Lump of
any thing.

The Popish MASS, is part of
the Liturgy, or Church Service,
among the Roman Catholicks.

MASSACRE, a Butchery, or
Slaughter, made on People not
in a Condition to help them­
selves.

To MASSACRE, to butcher
in a barbarous manner.

MASSIVE, 
MASSEY, solid, weighty.

MAST, the Fruit of wild
Trees, as Oak, Beach, wild
Chestnuts, &c

A MAST of a Ship, one of
those round Pieces of Timber
which are set upright on the
Deck, to which the Yards, Sails,
Tackle, &c. are fastened.

MASTER, a Governor, Head,
Teacher, one skilled in any
Art or Science. A Title of se­
veral Officers, a Masters of
the Horse, of the Ceremonies, &c.

To MASTER, to make one's
self Master of, to get the bet­
ter of.

MASTERPIECE, a most ex­
act, or excellent Piece of Work­
manship in any Art.

MASTERLESS, which has
no Master, head-strong.

MASTERLY, a Master-like.

MASTERSHIP, the Quality
and Dignity of a Master.

MASTERY, Authority, Po­
wer, Command, Conquest, Vic­
tory.

A MASTIF, a sort of great
Dog. 

MAT, Rushes wove together.

MATCH, an Agreement, or
Contract, a Trial of Skill, al­
so an Equal, also a sort of
Rope made on purpose for the
firing of Guns.



To MATCH, to pair or
couple, to marry, to be like.

MATCHABLE, that may be
matched, or coupled, also that
may be equalled.

MATCHLESS, that cannot be
Equaled; incomparable.

MATE, a Companion, or
Assistant.

MATERIAL, consisting of
Matter; also being of some
Concern or Moment, of great
Consequence.

MATERIALS, Tools, or
Stuff proper for the making or
doing any thing.

MATERNAL, belonging to
a Mother.

MATHEMATICAL,
MATHEMATICK, be­
Long­
Ing to the Mathematicks.

MATHEMATICKS, a Sci­
ence relating to the Measure of
Magnitudes, &c.

MATRICIDE, a Murderer of
his or her Mother.

MATRIMONIAL, belonging
to Matrimony.

MATRIMONY, Wedlock,
Marriage.

MATRON, a grave motherly
Woman, also the chief Nurse in
an Hospital.

MATTED, wrought or co­
vered with Mats; spoken of
Hair when it is entangled and
clotted together.

MATTER, the Stuff any
thing is made of; a Cause, or
Occasion, also a Thing, or Bu­
Siness; also what is discharged 
from a Sore. 

MATTHEW, a Christian
Name of Men.

MATTHIAS, a proper Name
of Men.

MATTINS, Morning-Prayers;
also one of the canonical Hours
in the Church of Rome.

MATTOCK, a Tool to grub
up Roots of Trees, &c.

MATTRESS, a kind of Quilt
filled with Wool, Cotton, &c.

To MATURATE, to ripen,
to hasten.

MATURE, ripe, come to its
full Growth, or Perfection.

MATURITY, Ripeness of
Fruit or Years, the Arrival of
any thing to its just Degree of
Perfection.

MAUD, a Name of Women.

To MAUDLE, to besot, or
put out of Order, as drinking
strong Liquors does in a Morn­
ing.

MAUDLIN, half drunk, tip­
sy, &c.

MAUGRE, in spite of, or
whether one will or no.

MAVIS, a kind of Thrush,
a Bird.

To MAUL, to bang, or beat
soundly.

To MAUNDER, to grumble,
or mutter.

MAURICE,
MORRICE, a proper Name 
of Men.

MAW, the Ventricle of the
Stomach.

MAWKISH, sick at the
Stomach.

MAWKS, a dirty nasty Slut.

MAXIM, a Proposition, or
Principle, in any Art of Science,
generally received, grounded up­
on Reason, and not to be denied.

MAXIMILIAN, a proper
Name of Men.

MAY, the fifth Month of the
Year.

MAY BUG-FLY, an Insect.

MAYOR, the chief Magi­
strate of a City or Corporation.

MAYORALTY, the Office
and Dignity of a Mayor.

MAYORESS, a Mayor's Wife.



MAZARINE BLUE, a deep
Blue Colour.

MAZE, Astonishment, Per­
plexity.

A MAZE in a Garden, a Place
made with artificial Turnings
and Windings.

MEAD, a Drink made of
Honey and Water, also a
Meadow.

MEADOW, Land that
yields store of Grass for Hay or
Pasture.

MEAGRE, lean, thin, scraggy.

MEAL, the Flower of Corn

A MEAL, a sufficient Portion
of Food for one eating

MEALY MOUTHED, over
modest in Speech, bashful.

To MEAN, to intend, or
resolve, to signify, or under­
stand.

MEAN, common, vulgar,
low, poor, indifferent, pitiful.

MEAN, the Middle between
two Extremes.

MEANS, Methods, Ways,
Devices; also Wealth, or
Estate.

MEASLES, a cutaneous Dis­
sease

MEASUREABLE, that may
be measured, moderate.

MEASURE, some certain
Quantities fixed and agreed upon,
whereby to estimate the Quanti­
ty, Length, Breadth, Thickness,
or Capacity of Things.

To MEASURE, to take the
Dimension of any Thing

MEASURES, Ways, Means,
Purposes.

MEAT, Flesh, Provisions of
any sort.

MEAZLED, full of Meazles,
Spots, or Blotches.

MEAZLES. See MEASLES.

MECHANICAL,
MECHANICK, belonging to the Me­
Chanicks; also pitiful, mean,
base.

A MECHANICK, a Handi­
craftsman

The MECHANICKS, a Ma­
thematical Science that treats of
Motion, also such Handicrafts
in which the Labour of the
Hands is necessary, as well as
the Study of the Brain.

MECHANISM, mechanick
Power.

MEDAL, a piece of Metal
stamped upon some extraordi­
nary Occasion.

To MEDDLE, to concern
one's self with

MEDIATE, that which is in
the Middle

To MEDIATE, to procure by
one's Means, to act the Part of a
Mediator

MEDIATION, an interceding,
or intreating in any one's be­
half.

MEDIATOR, a Manager be­
tween two Parties, an Intercessor. 

MEDICAMENT, a Medicine,
or physical composition

MEDICASTER, a Quack, a
pedling Physician.

MEDICINAL, belonging to
Physick, physical.

MEDICINE, the Art of Phy­
sick, also a physical Remedy.

MEDIOCRITY, Competency,
Indifferency.

To MEDITATE, to muse,
ponder, or think upon.

MEDITATION, thinking
pausing, or musing upon.

MEDITERRANEAN SEA, 
so called because it lies between
the Three great Continents of
Europe, Asia, and Africa.

MEDLAR, a Fruit which is
grateful to the Stomach, but is
not ripe till it be rotten.



MEDLEY, a Mixture of odd
Things.

MEDLEY,
MIDGLEY, a Town in York­
shire.

MEDWAY, a River in Kent.

MEEK, mild, gentle, quiet,
not easily provoked

MEEKNESS, Easiness of Tem­
per, Gentleness.

MEEN, 
MIEN, the Countenance
the Air of the Face.

MEER, downright, arrant

To MEET, to come together.

MEET, fit, apt

To MEET, to measure.

MEETER, Rhime, Verse, or
Measure.

MEGRIM, a Pain in the Tem­
ples and Forepart of the Head.

MELANCHOLY, sad, pen­
sive, dull, sullen

MELCHISEDECK, a Priest 
and King of Salem.

To MELIORATE, to mend,
or make better.

MELLOW, soft by being ripe.

MELODIOUS, full of Melo­
dy, musical.

MELODY, Harmony, a Mix­
ture of musical Sounds delight­
ful to the Ear.

To MELT, to make hard
Bodies liquid or fluid.

MELTON MOWBRAY, a
Town in Leicestershire, 75 Miles
from London.

MEMBER, a Limb of the
Body, which grows from it like
Branches from the Trunk of a
Tree.

MEMOIRS, remarkable Ob­
servations.

MEMORABLE, worthy of
Remembrance, famous, notable.

MEMORANDUM, a short
Note, or Token, for the better
Remembrance of a Thing.

MEMORIAL, that which
serves to put one in mind of a
Thing.

A MEMORIAL, a Writing
delivered by a publick Minister
of State about part of his Ne­
gotiation.

MEMORY, the Faculty of
remembering Things past.

To MENACE, to threaten, to
swagger.

MENACE, a Threat, a hard
Word.

To MEND, to become better
in health, to reform in Manners;
also to repair a Thing worn or
damaged. 

MENDICANT, begging, a
Beggar.

MENDICITY, Beggarliness.

MENIAL, belonging to the
Houshold, as menial Servants.

MENOW, a little fresh Wa­
ter Fish.

MENSURABLE, that may
be measured.

To MENSURATE, to mea­
sure.

MENTAL RESERVATION, 
a seeming to declare one's Mind,
but concealing one's real Mean­
ing at the same time.

MENTION, a speaking of,
or naming.

To MENTION, to take no­
tice of, to speak of, to name.

MEPHIBOSHETH, a Son of
Jonathan.

MERCANTILE, Merchant­
like, belonging to Merchants.

MERCENARY, greedy of
Gain, that may be hired, that
may be corrupted for the sake of
Profit.

MERCER, one who deals in
wrought Silks, &c.

MERCERY, Mercers Goods
or Wares.

To MERCHANDISE, to deal
as a Merchant, to trade, or
traffick.

MERCHANDISE, Goods, or
Commodities or trade with.



MERCHANT, a Trader, or
Wholesale Dealer.

MERCHANTMAN, a trading
Ship.

MERCHANTABLE, that is
fit to be uttered or sold.

MERCURIAL, full of Mer­
cury, ingenious, lively.

MERCURY, a Heathen God,
also the Name of a Planet, also
Quicksilver

MERCY, Pity, Compassion.

MERIDIAN, belonging to
Noon.

MERIT, Desert, Worth, Ex­
Cellency; also Demerit, or ill
deserving. 

To MERIT, to deserve, to
be worthy of Reward or Pu­
nishment.

MERITORIOUS, deserving,
full of Desert. 

MERLIN, a sort of Hawk.

MERMAID, a Sea Monster,
having the upper parts like a
Woman, and the lower like a
Fish.

MERRIMENT, a Merry­
making, Jollity.

MERRINESS, Chearfulness,
Briskness.

MERRY, chearful, frolick,
jocund. 

MERRY WINGS, a Fly in
Barbadoes very troublesome in
the Night. 

MERTON, a Town in Surry.

MESCH-FAT, a mashing
Vessel for Brewing.

MESLING, Corn that is
mixed, as Wheat and Rye, &c.
to make Bread.

MESS, a Portion of Food for
one or more Persons.

MESSAGE, an Errand.

MESSENGER, one who goes
between Party and Party, to de­
liver Business, or carry Dis­
patches.

MESSIAH, the Name and
Title of our Lord and Saviour
Jesus Christ. 

MESSUAGE, a dwelling
House with some Land adjoin­
ing, as Garden, Orchard, &c.
with other Conveniencies.

METAL, a compact body
bred in the Bowels of the Earth,
as Gold, Silver, Copper, Tin,
&c.

METALLINE, belonging to,
or partaking of the Nature of
Metals.

METALIST, one who works
in the Mines, or is skilled in the
Knowledge of Metals.

To METAMORPHIZE, to
change from one Form or Shape
to another.

METAMORPHOSIS, a
changing of one Shape into an­
other.

METAPHOR, a Figure in
Rhetorick, by which we put a
strange and remote Word for a
proper one, by reason of its
Resemblance to the Thing spo­
ken of, as smiling Meadows, &c.

METAPHYSICKS, that part
of Philosophy which treats of
Forms in general abstracted from
Matter. 

A METEOR, certain imper­
fectly mixed Bodies consisting
of Vapours drawn up into the
middle Region of the Air, and
exhibited indifferent Forms, of
which sort is Ignis Fatuus. 

METER, Measure, or Verses
made by Measure.

METHEGLIN, Drink made of
Water, Herbs, Honey, Spice, &c.

METHOD, is the placing of
Things in their natural Order,
so as to be easiest understood or
retained. 

METHODICAL, belonging to,
or agreeable to Order and Method.



To METHODIZE, to bring
into good Order or Method.

METHUSELAH, the longest
Liver of all Mankind.

METROPOLIS, the chief
City of a Province or Kingdom.

METROPOLITAN, belong­
ing to a Metropolis.

A METROPOLITAN, an
Archbishop, so called because his 
See is in the Metropolis of a
Province, which Title is given
to the Archbishop of Canterbury.

METTLE, Vigour, Life,
Sprightliness.

MEW, a Bird, a Sea-Mew.

To MEW, to cry like a Cat;
to cast the Horns as a Stag
does.

MEZZO TINTO, a particular
way of engraving Pictures on
Copper Plates, by Punching and
Scraping. 

MICAIAH, the Name of a
Prophet

MICE, the Plural of Mouse.

MICHAEL, the Name of an
Archangel, also of Men.

MICHAELMAS, the Festival
of St. Michael the Archangel,
observed on the Twenty-ninth
of September.

MICROCOSM, a little World,
i.e. the Body of a Man so call­
led, as a kind of Compendium
of the greater.

MICROSCOPE, an optical
Instrument, which magnifies
any Object extremely, by Means
of which the smallest Things
may be discerned. 

MIDDLE, the midst.

MIDDLEMOST, in the midst.

MIDDLING, indifferent, the
Means between two Extremes.

MIDDLETON, a Town in
Dorsetshire.

MIDRIFF, a Skin which
parts the Heart and Lungs from
the lower Belly.

MIDSHIPMEN, Officers who
assist on all Occasions, both in
stowing and rumaging the Hold,
and Sailing the Ship.

MIDSUMMERDAY, the Fe­
stival of St. John the Baptist, ob­
served on the Twenty-fourth of
June.

MIDWALL, a Bird which
eats Bees.

MIDWIFE, one who delivers
Women with Child.

MIGHT, Power, Ability.

MIGHTY, powerful.

MILCH, giving Milk; as,
milch Cows.

MILD, soft, gentle, easy.

MILDEW, a sort of Dew,
which falls on Wheat, Hops, &c.
and hinders its Growth by its
clammy Nature, unless it be
washed off by the Rain, also
Spots on Cloth.

MILDEWED, corrupted with
Mildew, also spotted or stained.

MILDRED, a proper Name
of Women.

MILE, the Distance of 1000
Paces, or 5280 English Feet, of
Eight Furlongs. 

MILES, a Christian Name of
Men.

MILITANT, combating,
fighting, as, the Church Mili­
tant, is the Church here on
Earth, subject to Trials, Com­
bats, and Temptations.

MILITARY, belonging to
Soldiers, or War, warlike.

MILITIA, a certain Number
of the Inhabitants of a City or
Country, formed into Regiments
for the Defense of it.

MILK, Food well known.

To MILK, to press out Milk
from a Cow's Udder.

MILKEY WAY, a Circle in
the Heavens, consisting of an
infinite Number of small Stars
invisible to the naked Eye.



MILL, an Engine for grind­
ing.

A MILLER, one who grinds
Corn, &c.

MILLENER, a Seller of
Ribbons, Gloves, &c.

MILLERS-THUMB, a small
River Fish.

MILLET, a Plant so called
from its large Number of small
Seeds

MILLING, Grinding, or
Working in a Mill.

MILLION, the Number of
Ten hundred Thousand.

MILT, the Spleen; also the
soft Row of Fishes.

MILTON, a Town in Kent,
Thirty-seven Miles from Lon­
don, also the Surname of a fa­
mous English Poet.

A MIMICK, one that coun­
terfeits the Gestures, Counte­
nance, or Behaviour of others;
a Buffoon, a Jester on the Stage,
a Writer of Lampoons, or short
Jests

To MINCE, to cut small.

The MIND, the Reason, or
rational Part of the Soul.

To MIND, to observe, to
take Notice of.

To put in Mind, to admonish,
to warn. 

MINDLESS, thoughtless, re­
gardless. 

MINE, of or belonging to me.

A MINE, a Portion of
Ground dug for finding of Me­
tals, Coals, &c. also a Hole
filled with Gunpowder.

To MINE, to dig the Earth
hollow, and fill it with Gun­
powder. 

MINERS, Men who work in
Mines.

MINERAL, belonging to or
partaking of the Nature of
Minerals.

MINERALS, hard Bodies
dug out of Earth or Mines.

MINERVA, the Goddess of
Wisdom.

To MINGLE, to mix, or
blend together.

In MINIATURE, in small, a
drawing of Pictures in a small
compass, a Painting in Water 
Colours.

MINION, a Darling, or Fa­
vourite; also a sort of great Gun.

MINISTER, an Attendant,
or Waiter, an Assistant. (Of the
Gospel) a Clergyman, whose
Office is to attend the Service of
God. (Of State) one entrusted
by the Prince with the Admini­
stration of the Government

To MINISTER, to officiate,
to serve.

MINISTERIAL, of a Mini­
ster of Church or State.

MINISTERY,
MINISTRY, Service, or 
Charge in a­
ny Employment, but used more
especially for the priestly Functi­
on, or that of a Minister of State.

MINNEKEN, a nice Dame,
a mincing Lass.

MINNEKENS, fine Pins used
by Women in dressing; also a
sort of small Catgut Strings for
Violins.

MINOR, one under Age, or
more properly an Heir Male, or
Female, before they come to the
Age of Twenty-one Years.

MINORITY, Nonage, or a
being under Age.

MINSTER, a Monastery, or
conventual Church.

MINSTREL, a Player on a
Musical Instrument, a Fidler or
Piper.

MINT, the Place where the
King's Coin is made.

To MINT, to coin Money.

MINUTE, small, little.



A MINUTE, the Sixtieth Part
of an Hour.

To MINUTE, to draw a
rough Draught, or enter short
Notes for Memorandums.

MINX, a proud Girl.

MIRACLE, a Work per­
formed by the Almighty Power
of God, or some Intelligent A­
gent, superior to Man.

MIRACULOUS, belonging
to a Miracle.

MIRE, Dirt, Mud.

MIRINESS, full of Dirt, or
Mud.

MIRROUR, a Looking­
glass.

MIRTH, Joy, Merriment.

MIS, a Particle implying
some Defect or Error.

MISACCEPTATION, a
wrong Understanding or Appre­
hension of any Thing.

MISADVENTURE, the Kil­
ling a Man partly by Negligence,
and partly by Chance, as by
throwing a Stone carelesly, or
shooting an Arrow.

MISADVICE, wrong, or
mistaken Advice.

To MISAPPREHEND, not to
understand rightly.

To MISBEHAVE, to behave
one's self ill.

MISBEHAVIOUR, ill Con­
duct.

MISCARRIAGE, Folly, ill
Behaviour, ill Success in Busi­
ness, also the untimely bring­
ing forth a Child.

To MISCARRY, to bring
forth a Child before the Time,
not to succeed.

MISCELLANEOUS, mixed
together, without Order.

MISCELANY, a Collection
of several different Matters.

MISCHANCE, an unhappy
Event.

MISCHIEF, Hurt, Damage.

MISCHIEVOUS, doing Mis­
chief, injurious.

MISCHIEVOUSNESS, Inju­
riousness, Hurtfulness. 

MISCONSTRUCTION, a
Misconstruing, or making an ill
Construction.

To MISCONSTRUE, to in­
terpret amiss, to put an ill
Meaning upon.

MISCREANT, an Infidel, an
Unbeliever, also a base minded
Person.

MISDEED, a Crime, a Fault.

MISDEMEANOUR, a beha­
ving one's self ill, an Offence, 
or Fault.

A MISER, a covetous Wretch.

MISERABLE, wretched, un­
fortunate; base, niggardly, pi­
tiful. 

MISERY, Wretchedness, Mis­
fortune, Trouble.

MISFORTUNE, unhappy
Fortune, ill Luck.

A MISHAP, a Mischance.

To MISINTERPRET, to
give a wrong Sense of; to in­
terpret amiss.

MISH MASH, a confused
Heap, or Mixture of Things.

To MISLE, to rain small.

To MISMANAGE, to act im­
prudently.

MISMANAGEMENT, ill
Conduct

To MISPEND, to waste.

To MISPLACE, to print
wrong.

To MISRECKON, to reckon
wrong

To MISREPRESENT, not
to represent fairly, to give a
false Character of.

MISREPRESENTATION, a
Representing wrong.

MISRULE, Misgovernment,
Disorder.



MISS, a young Gentlewo­
man, also a kept Mistress, a
Lady of Pleasure. 

To MISS, to deviate, or err
from, also to know the Want
of any thing.

MISSION, a sending.

MISSIONARIES, Persons
sent, commonly spoken of
Christian Priests sent convert
the Pagans to Christianity.

A MIST, a Condensation of
Vapours, commonly called a Fog.

A MISTAKE, an Error

To MISTAKE, to take a
thing wrong, to err

MISTRESS, the Mistress of a
House, a Sweetheart, a kept
Mistress.

A MISTRUST, a Suspicion,
Jealousy

To MISTRUST, to suspect

To MISUNDERSTAND, to
take a thing wrong.

To MISUSE, to make a
wrong Use of.

MITE, a little Worm breed­
ing in Cheese, a small Coin a­
bout the third part of a Farthing.

To MITIGATE, to pacify,
or appease; to allay, assuage,
or ease

MITIGATION, a remitting
the Severity of a Decree, or
Punishment.

MITRE, a Bonnet, or Tur­
ban, Attire for the Head, worn
by Bishops

MITRED, wearing a Mitre.

MITTENS, a sort of Glove
without Fingers.

MITTIMUS, a Warrant from
a Justice of Peace for sending a
Criminal to Prison.

To MIX, to mingle.

MIXT, mingled.

A MIXTURE, a mingling of
several Things together.

To MIZZLE, to rain in ve­
ery small Drops.

MOAT, a standing Pool, or
Pond, a Ditch encompassing a
Mansion House or Castle

MOAT, 
MOTE, a small Body, such
as plays in the 
Beams of the Sun.

MOB, the giddy Multitude,
or tumultuous Rabble; also a
Woman's Night-Cap.

MOBBISH, acting like the
Mob

MOBILITY, Power, or Apt­
ness to move or be moved, Move­
ableness, a Mob, or Rabble. 

To MOCK, to deride, to scoff,
or laugh at, to flout

MOCKERY, Derision. 

MOCKING, Banter, Jesting,
&c.

MOCKING BIRD, a Bird in
Virginia which imitates the
Notes of all it hears

MODBURY, a Village in De­
vonshire, 170 Miles from London.

MODE, Way, Manner, Fa­
shion, or Garb, &c.

MODEL, an original Pattern,
the Shape or Design of any thing
in little.

To MODEL, to frame accord­
ing to Model, to fashion.

MODERATE, temperate, so­
ber, which does not exceed.

To MODERATE, to allay,
qualify, or temper, also to go­
vern, or set Bounds to.

MODERATION, Temper­
ance, Discretion, Government.

MODERATOR, a Decider of
Controversy, an Umpire at a
Disputation. 

MODERN, new, of late Date.

MODESTY, Sobriety, Dis­
cretion, Shamefacedness.

MODEST, bashful, sober,
grave, discreet in Behaviour.

MODICUM, a small Matter.

MODISH, agreeable to the
Mode or Fashion.



To MODULATE, to sing, or
make a Harmony.

MOGUL, the Emperor of
India.

MOHAIR, a sort of Stuff.

MOIDORE, a Portugal Gold
Coin valued at Twenty-seven
Shillings.

MOIETY, the half of any
thing.

To MOIL, to labour, or
work with Might and Main, to
drudge.

MOIST, wettish, damp

MOISTURE, Wetness, Damp­
ness, &c.

MOLD, See MOULD.

MOLASSES, the refuse Syrup
in boiling of Sugar, Treacle, 
also a Spirit drawn from Treacle
so called.

MOLE, a Rampart, Pier, or
Fence against the fence of the
Sea.

A MOLE, a little Creature,
that lives under Ground, also a
Spot upon the Skin.

MOLE, a River in Surrey, so
called because it makes its Pas­
sage under Ground, and thereby
mixes with the Water of the
Thames.

MOLESEY, a Place in Surrey.

To MOLEST, to disturb, vex,
trouble, or disquiet. 

MOLESTATION, a vexing,
disquieting, or putting to Trou­
ble.

To MOLLIFY, to make soft,
supple, or tender.

MOLOCH, the God of the
Amorites, to whom they sacri­
ficed their Children in the Val­
ley of Tophet. 

MOLOSSES. See MOLASSES.

MOLTEN, melted, or cast.

MOMENT, an Instant, the
least part of Time that can be
assigned.

MOMENTARY, that lasts but
for a Moment.

MONARCH, a single Go­
vernour.

MONARCHICAL, belonging
to a Monarch, or Monarchy.

MONARCHY, the Govern­
ment of a State by a single Person,
kindly Government.

MONASTERY, a Convent,
or Cloister, a College of Monks
or Nuns.

MONASTICAL,
MONASTICK, belonging to a Monk
or Abbey.

MONDAY, the second Day of 
the Week

To MONE, to grieve, or la­
ment; to bewail.

MONEY, a Piece of Metal
stamped with the Effigies of a
Prince, or Arms of State, which
makes it current

MONEYED, well stored with
Money.

MONGER, signified formerly
a Merchant, but is now added
to several Trades, as Cheese­
monger, Fishmonger, &c. a
Trader, or Dealer. 

MONGREL, a Creature got
by two Kinds.

MONITION, a Warning, or
Admonition

MONITOR, an Admonisher,
Warner, or Overseer of Man­
ners in Schools.

MONITORY, belonging to
Admonition, or Warning.

MONK, one that lives in a
Monastery.

MONKFISH, a sort of Fish
resembling a Monk's Cowl

MONKEY, a Creature well
known.

MONMOUTH, the County
Town of Monmouthshire,100
Miles from London.



To MONOPOLIZE, to engross
all a Commodity into one's own
Hands.

MONOPOLY, the buying any
Commodity up, so that none can
sell or gain by it but one Person,
or Partners in Company.

MONOSYLLABLE, a Word
that has but one Syllable.

MONSOONS, periodical 
Winds in the Eastern Sea, which
blow half a Year one way, and
the other half on the opposite
Points.

MONSTER, any thing contra­
try to the common Course of Na­
ture, a mishapen living Creature. 

MONSTROUS, of or like a
Monster, prodigious, excessive.

MONTGOMERY, the County
Town of Montgomeryshire, 120
Miles from London

MONTSORREL, a Market
Town in Leicestershire, 83 Miles
from London.

MONTETH, an escalloped
Bason, to cool Glasses in. 

MONTH, the Space of Twen­
ty eight Days, in which the
Moon compleats her Course.

Calendar MONTH, a Month
not of an equal Number of Days;
but such as are set down in the
Almanack. 

MONUMENT, a Memorial
for future Ages; a Tomb, Sta­
tue, Pillar, &c. raised in Me­
mory of some famous Person,
or Action.

The MONUMENT, a stately
Pillar erected near London-bridge,
in remembrance of that dreadful
Fire which happened the second
of September, 1666.

MOOD, Humour, Temper,
Disposition. 

MOON, one of the Seven
Planets, being the secondary
Planet of the Earth, in whose
Motion there are vast Irregu­
larities.

MOON-EYED, that can see
better by Night than Day.

MOON-EYES, a Disease in
Horses.

MOOR, a Native of Mauri­
tania in Africa, a Blackmoor.

MOOR, a Heath, or barren
Space of Ground; but is now
commonly taken for a Marsh, or
Fen.

MOORGATE, a North-Gate
of the City of London.

MOORHEN, a Water Fowl.

To MOOR, a Sea Term is
to lay out the Anchors, so as is
most Convenient for the safe ri­
ding of a Ship.

MOOSE, an American Beast as
big as an Ox, slow of Foot, and
headed like a Buck.

A MOP, a Utensil for washing
of Houses.

To MOPE, to become stupid,
or sottish; also to make so.

MORAL, belonging to Man­
ners or Civility, or the Conduct
of Human Life.

A MORAL, the Application 
of a Fable to Mens Lives and
Manners.

MORALS, Moral Philosophy,
the Doctrine of Manners, Prin­
ciples, Designs, or Inclinations.

MORALIST, one skilled in,
or a Professor of Morality.

MORALITY, Moral, Princi­
ples, also an Art giving Rules 
concerning Manners, Behaviour,
and the Regulations of the Ac­
tions of Men.

To MORALIZE, to give the
moral Sense, to make moral
Reflexions.

MORASS, a moorish Ground,
a Marsh, a Fen, or Bog.



MORBID, diseased, corrupt,
infectious.

MORBIFICK, causing Sick­
ness, or Diseases.

MORDECAI, Queen Esther's
Guardian.

MORE, a greater Quantity.

MORGAN, a Christian and
Surname.

MORIBUND, ready to die,
in a dying Condition.

MORN,
MORNING, the first Part 
of the Day,
or the Time of the Sun's Rising.

MOROSE, surly, peevish,
dogged.

MOROSENESS, Frowardness,
Peevishness, Unwillingness to be
pleased

MORPHEW, a kind of white
Scurf upon the Body, or tawny
Spots upon the Face.

MORRIS DANCE, an antick
Dance performed by Five Men
and a Boy dressed in a Girl's
Habit.

A MORSEL, a Bite, a little
Piece.

MORTAL, liable to Death,
deadly, or bringing Death.

MORTALITY, the State of
Things subject to Death; also
the Havock made by pestilential 
Diseases.

MORTAR, a Vessel to pound
Things in.

MORTER,
MORTAR, Lime and Sand
mixed together 
for Building.

MORTGAGE, a Pawn of
Lands and Tenements, or any
thing moveable bound for Mo­
ney borrowed, to be the Credi­
tor's for ever, if the Money be
not paid at the Day agreed 
upon.

MORTGAGEE, the Party to
whom any thing is mortgaged.

MORTAGER, the Party
who has made a Mortgage.

MORTIFICATION, a ma­
king dead or mortifying, Trou­
ble and Vexation which falls
upon a Man by Disappointment,
&c. In Surgery, Loss of Life,
natural Heat and Sense of a
Limb.

To MORTIFY, to make, or
grow dead.

MORTLACK, a Village in
Surrey by the River Thames.

MOSAICK WORK, a curious
Work wrought with Stones of
all Colours, artificially set toge­
ther upon a Wall or Floor, so
as to present a Variety of
Flowers, Fruits, &c.

MOSCHETTO, a stinging
Fly, very troublesome in the
West Indies.

MOSES, a Prophet and Ruler
of the Jews.

MOSK,
MOSQUE, a Temple, or
Church among 
the Turks.

MOSS, a kind of spungy or
downy Substance growing up­
on Trees, &c

MOSSY, full of Moss, or
Down.

MOST, the greatest.

MOTE, an Assembly, or
Meeting, a Court of Judicature.
Hence Wardmote.

MOTH, a Fly which eats
Cloths.

MOTHER, a Woman who
has brought forth a Child

MOTHER OF PEARL, a
Shell which contains the Pearl­
Fish.

MOTHER OF WINE, &c. 
the Mouldiness or Dregs or Wine,
Beer, Ale, &c.

MOTHER TONGUES, are
such as seem to have no De­
pendence upon one another, as
Greek, Latin, German, &c.

MOTION, the Act of a na­
tural Body which moves or stirs 



itself; also an Inclination, or
Disposition; a Proposal, or
Overture.

To MOTION, to propose a
thing.

MOTIONLESS, deprived of
Motion, without Motion.

A MOTIVE, a moving or
forcible Argument or Reason, an
Incitement.

MOTLEY, mixed; as a mot­
ley Colour

MOTTO, a Word, or short
Sentence, put to an Emblem or
Device, or the Coat of Arms of
the Nobility and Gentry.

To MOVE, to stir, to stir up, or
on, to affect or work upon.

MOVEABLE, that may be
moved, also that varies in time.

MOVEABLE FEASTS, are
those which happen on the same
Day of the Week, and yet vary
in the Day of the Month, as
Easter, Whitsuntide, &c

MOVEABLES, personal Goods
or Estate.

MOVEMENT, Motion, mo­
ving.

A MOVEMENT, those Parts
of a Clock, Watch &c. which
are in Motion, and answer the
End of the Instrument.

MOVER, that which moves
and gives Motion.

MOULD,
MOLD, Earth mixed with 
Dung, also a
Form in which any thing is cast;
also the Hollowness in the upper
part of a Child's Head.

To MOULD, to cast in a
Mould

To MOULD Bread, to work
the Dough with the Hand, and
make Loaves of it.

MOULD, Mouldiness.

To MOULDER, to crumble
into Dust, to consume, or waste
away.

MOULDINESS, Hoariness,
occasioned by Moisture, and long
keeping.

MOULDINGS, Ornaments in
Wood or Stone.

MOULDY, hoary with Moul­
diness.

To MOULT,
to MOULTER, to shed the 
Feathers,
as Birds do.

MOUND, a Hedge or Bank, a
Rampart or Fence. 

To MOUND, to secure with
a Mound, to fence about.

MOUNT, a Mountain, or
Hill, a Walk raised on the Side
of a Garden above the Level of
the rest of a Plot.

To MOUNT, to go or get up.

MOUNTAIN, a vast Heap of
Earth raised to a great Height
by Nature or Art.

MOUNTAINOUS, full of
Mountains, hilly.

MOUNTEBANK, a Quack,
a Pretender in Physick.

To MOURN, to lament, to
bewail, to grieve.

MOURNFULL, sad, sorrow­
ful, abounding with Grief.

MOURNFULNESS, Sorrow­
fulness

MOURNING, grieving, la­
menting, also black Clothes
worn upon the Death of a Re­
lation.

MOUSE, a small Creature in­
festing Houses.

MOUTH, part of the Body
of a living Creature.

To MOUTH, to speak after a
clownish or contemptuous man­
ner.

To MOW, to cut Hay or Corn.

MOWER, one who cutteth 
Grass with a Scythe. 

MUCH, a great Quantity,
many.

MUCK, Dung.



MUCK-HILL, a Dunghill.

MUCK-WORM, a covetous
Person.

MUCKENDER, a Handker­
chief.

MUCOUS, snotty, slimy.

MUD, Wet Filth, or Mire. 

To MUDDLE, to root out
with a Bill, as Geese and Ducks
do; also to make tipsey, or
half drunk.

A MUFF, a Case of Fur to
put the Hands in, in cold wea­
ther.

To MUFFLE, to wrap up the
Mouth or Face with Clothes.

MUFFLER, a Piece of Cloth
to be tied under the Chin.

MUFTI, the Priests of the
Mahometan Religion.

A MUG, a Cup to drink out of.

MULBERRY, a Fruit well
known.

MULCT, a Penalty, or Fine
of Money, an Amercement.

MULE, a Beast engendered
by an Ass and a Mare, or a she
Ass and a Horse.

MULETIER , a Driver of
Mules.

To MULL WINE, to make
it hot, and season it with Spice
and Sugar.

MULLAR, the Stone which is
held in the Hand in grinding of
Colours.

MULLEN, an Herb.

MULLET, a sort of Fish.

MULTIFORM, of divers or
many Shapes.

MULTIPLIABLE, that may 
be multiplied. 

MULTIPLICAND, the Num­
be proposed to be multiplied. 

MULTIPLICATION, the Act
of multiplying, or increasing.

MULTIPLICATOR, the
Number that multiplieth.

To MULTIPLY, to increase,
to grow more.

MULTITUDE, a great Num­
ber of Persons or Things.

MUM, a strong Liquor brought
from Brunswick in Germany

To MUMBLE, to mutter, or
growl, also to chew aukwardly.

MUMMY, the Substance of
dead Bodies formerly embalmed
and brought from Egypt.

To MUMP, to bite the Lip
like a Rabbit, to spunge upon,
to beg.

MUMPER, a genteel Beggar

MUMPISH, angry, and si­
lent withal. 

To MUNCH, to chew.

MUNDANE, worldly, or be­
longing to the World. 

To MUNDIFY, to make
clean, or purify.

MUNDUNGUS, any thing
having an ill Scent.

MUNICIPAL, enjoying, or
belonging to the Freedom of a
City

MUNICIPAL LAWS, such
as are enjoyed by the Inhabitants
of a free Town or City.

MUNIFICENCE, Liberality,
Bountifulness.

MUNIFICENT, bountiful,
liberal.

To MURDER,
To MURTHER, to kill 
with Malice,
Purpose, Design.

MURDERER
MURTHERER, one who 
has com­
mitted Murder.

To MURE UP, to wall up.

A MURMUR, a humming
Noise of People discontented,
the purling of Brooks and
Streams

To MURMUR, to grumble
or mutter.

MURMURING, muttering,
repining, also the purling of
Brooks and Streams.

MURRAIN, a wasting Dis­
ease among Cattle, the Rot.



MUSCADEL, 
MUSCADINE, a rich sort 
of Wine.

MUSCADINE, a sort of Grape
smelling of Musk

MUSCAT, a large Pear, ripe
in August.

MUSCLE, a Shell Fish, also
the fleshy Part of human Body
serving for Motion. 

MUSCULAR, of, or belong­
ing to the Muscles, raw-boned.

To MUSE, to pause, study,
or think upon.

A MUSE, a melancholy Fit,
or a brown Study

The MUSES, Nine imaginary
Deities

MUSEUM, a Study or Li­
brary; also a College, or pub­
lick Place, for the Resort of
learned Men.

MUSHROOM, an imperfect
Plant of a spungy Substance, 
which grows to Perfection on a
sudden. 

MUSICAL, belonging to
Musick.

A MUSICIAN, a Person skil­
led in Musick.

MUSICK, one of the Seven
Sciences, which considers the
Nature of Sound, in order to
make a delightful Harmony.

MUSING, a pausing, or
thinking upon.

MUSK, a Perfume growing
in a little Bag of an Indian
Beast, like a Roe, or wild Goat.

MUSQUET, the commonest
and most convenient sort of
Fire Arms for Soldiers.

MUSQUETEER, a Soldier
armed with a Musket

MUSQUETOON, a Blunder­
buss, a short Fun of a large
Bore, carrying small Bullets.

MUSROLL, the Noseband of
a Horse's Bridle.

MUSSELIN,
MUSLIN, a fine sort of 
Cotton Linen
Cloth, brought from India, &c.

MUSSULMAN, a Title which
the Mahometans take to them­
selves.

MUST, it behoves, there is
need.

MUST, sweet Wine newly
pressed from the Grapes.

MUSTACHES, that part of
the Beard growing upon the
Upper-Lip, Whiskers.

MUSTAPHIS, Doctors, or
Prophets, Men of great Learn­
ing among the Turks.

MUSTARD, a Sauce made
of a Seed of the same Name, of
a Sharp and biting Quality.

To MUSTER, to take a Re­
view of military Forces, in
order to take account of their
Numbers, Conditions, Accoutre­
ments and Arms.

MUSTER ROLLS, Lists of
the Soldiers in every Troop,
Company, Regiment, &c.

MUSTINESS, a being musty.

MUSTY, of a stale mouldy
Scent.

MUTABILITY, Changeable­
ness, Inconstancy.

MUTABLE, changeable, or
subject to Change.

MUTE, dumb, speechless.

MUTINEER, a seditious Per­
son, one engaged in a Mutiny.

MUTINOUS, seditious, apt
to revolt.

MUTINY, Sedition, a Re­
volt from lawful Authority, e­
specially among Soldiers.

To MUTINY, to rise up in
Arms in an Army.

To MUTTER, to speak con­
fusedly between the Teeth.

MUTTERING, grumbling.

MUTTON, the Flesh of Sheep.

MUTUAL, a like on both
Sides, interchangeable, making
equal Returns.



MUZZLE, a Halter to tie a­
bout the Nose of a Horse; the
Mouth of a Gun; a Device of
Leather, to put about the Mouth
of a Dog.

To MUZZLE, to cover, or
secure the Mouth with a Muzzle.

MYRIAD, the Number of
10 Thousand.

MYRRH, an Arabian Gum
from the Myrrh Tree.

MYRTLE, a kind of Shrub.

MYSTERIOUS, full of My­
stery, obscure.

MYSTERY, a thing conceal­
ed, a secret not easy to be com­
prehended, also an Art or Trade.

MYSTICAL, belonging to a
Mystery.

MYTHOLOGY, the History
of fabulous Deities and Heroes of
Antiquity, and the Explanation
of the Mysteries of the old Pa­
gan Religion.


N.
To NAB, to surprise, to take
one napping, to arrest, al­
so to cog a Dye.

NAG, a young or little Horse.

NAIL, the Nail of a Man's
Hand; also a Measure, the six­
teenth part of a Yard, also an
Iron Pin.

To NAIL, to fasten with
Nails.

To NAIL Cannon, is to drive
an Iron Spike into the Touch­
hole, by which means the Can­
non is rendered unserviceable for
the present.

NAKED, unclothed, bare

NAME, the Appellation of
any thing.

NAMELESS, without a
Name, not named.

NAMELY, to wit, that is to
say.

NAP, the hairy or shaggy
part of woollen Cloth.

A NAP, a short Sleep.

NAPE, the hinder part of the
Neck.

NAPLES, a City of Campania.

NAPPY ALE, pleasant and 
strong Ale.

NARRATION, a Relation of
any particular Action or Cir­
cumstances.

A NARRATIVE, a Relation,
or Recital.

NARRATIVE, declarative,
expressive.

NARROW, of small Breadth.

NARROWNESS, the being
of small Breadth.

NASTINESS, Filthiness, Slut­
tishness.

NASTY, filthy, sluttish. 

NATHANIEL, a proper
Name of Men.

NATION, a People; also a
Country.

NATIONAL, that which con­
cerns or belongs to a whole
Nation.

NATIVE, belonging to one's
Birth-place, natural, inbred.

A NATIVE, one born in a
certain Place, or who lives where
he was born.

NATIVITY, Birth, or the
being born in the Time and
Place.

NATURAL, belonging to, or
proceeding from Nature, also
easy, free, unaffected.

NATURAL DAY, the space
of Twenty four Hours.

NATURAL YEAR, one en­
tire Revolution of the Sun, com­
prehending the Space of 365
Days, and almost Six Hours

A NATURAL, a Changeling,
a Fool.

A NATURALIST, one skil­
led in natural Philosophy.



To NATURALIZE, to ad­
mit into the Number of natural
Subjects.

NATURE, a peculiar Dispo­
sition of Parts in some particular
Body, the Essence of any thing
with its Attributes.

NAVAL, belonging to a Ship 
or Navy.

NAVE, that Part in the
middle of a Wheel, where the
Spokes are fixed.

NAVEL, a Part on the mid­
dlw of the Belly.

NAUGHT, bad, wicked, lewd.

NAUGHTINESS, Badness,
Wickedness, Lewdness.

NAUGHTY, wicked, lewd.

NAVIGABLE, Water where
Ships may pass, that will bear a
Ship or Boat.

NAVIGATION, the Art of
Sailing

NAVIGATOR, a Sea Tra­
veller, a Sailor

To NAUSEATE, to have
an Inclination to vomit, to loath
or abhor, to be disgusted at

NAUSEOUS, going against
one's Stomach, making ready to
vomit, loathsome.

NAUSEOUSNESS, Loath­
someness

NAVY, a Fleet, or Company
of Ships.

NAZARENES, a Name gi­
ven our Saviour Christ and his
Disciples, from the Town of
Nazareth.

NAZARITES, a Sect among
the Jews.

NAY, no, nor.

NEAP, scanty, deficient.

NEAP TIDES, the Tides in
the second and last Quarter of the
Moon, not so high as the Spring
Tides.

NEAR, nigh to, hard by.

NEARNESS, the being near
to.

NEATS, all kind of Beeves,
as Ox, Cow, Steer, or Heifer. 

NEAT, clean, trim, cleanly,
and rightly dressed, clever.

NEATS LEATHER, Leather
made of the Hide of an Ox, or
Cow.

NEATNESS, Cleanliness,
Spruceness, Pureness.

NEBUCHADNEZZAR, a 
King of Babylon.

NECESSARIES, Things use­
ful for human Life.

NECESSARY, needful, una­
voidable, indispensible.

To NECESSITATE, to force,
to compel.

NECESSITOUS, indigent,
needy, poor.

NECESSITY, indispensible­
ness, the State of a Thing that
must needs be, also Distress,
Need, Poverty, Extremity. 

The NECK, the Part of the
Body between the Head and the
Shoulders.

NECROMANCER, a Con­
jurer, Magician, or Wizard.

NECROMANCY, Conjura­
tion.

NECTAR, a pleasant Liquor,
feigned by the Poets to be drank
by the Gods.

NECTARIN, a sort of smooth
Peach

NEICE, the Daughter of a 
Brother, or Sister.

NEED, Necessity, Want.

NEEDFUL, necessary, useful.

NEEDINESS, Want, Poverty.

NEEDLESS, useless, unneces­
sary

NEEDY, poor, indigent.

NEEDLE, a small Tool to
sew withal

NEEDLE of a Mariner's Com­
pass, an Iron Wire touched with
a Beadstone

NEEDS, by Constraint, or
Compulsion, as I needs must.



St. NEEDS, a Town in Hun­
tingtonshire.

NEGATIVE, denying, or
gain-saying, also denying a Pro­
position, or Expression.

NEGLECT, Omission, Dis­
regard, want of Care

To NEGLECT, not to regard,
to slight, to let slip.

NEGLIGENCE, Disregard,
Carelessness, Remissness

NEGLIGENT, careless, neg­
lectful, slack in Business.

To NEGOTIATE, to trade,
or traffick, to transact, or
manage.

NEGOTIATION, a Merchan­
dizing, or Trafficking, also the
Management of publick Treat­
ties and Affairs, also a Con­
cern, or Treaty managed.

NEGOTIATOR, a Manager
of Affairs.

NEGRO, a Blackmoor, or
black Slave.

NEHEMIAH, a Prophet, and
Ruler of the Jews.

To NEIGH, to make a Noise
like a Horse

NEIGHBOUR, one who
dwells, or is seated near another.

NEIGHBOURHOOD, a Place
near to that one lives in, also
the whole Body of Neighbours

NEIGHBOURING, adjoin­
ing, bordering upon.

NEIGHBOURLY, as becomes
a Neighbour, friendly.

NEITHER, not one of the two.

NEPHEW, the Son or a Bro­
ther or Sister

NERVE, a whitish round
Vessel, which conveys the Ani­
mal Spirits to all parts of the
Body for their Sense and Motion.

NERVOUS, sinewy, strong,
lusty, also in an Argument so­
lid and weighty.

NEST, a little Lodgment in
which Birds hatch and breed
their Young; also a Harbour
for Thieves and Pirates

To NESTLE, to shift and
shuffle up and down, as restless
and uneasy.

A NESTLING, a young Bird,
newly fledged, and taken from
the Nest.

NESTOR, a King of Pylos,
famous for Eloquence, who is
said to have lived 300 Years.

A NET, a Device for Catch­
ing Fish, Birds, &c.

NETHER, lower.

NETHERLANDS, the Low
Countries of Flanders, Holland,
and Zealand.

NETHERMOST, the lower­
most.

NETTLE, a stinging Herb.

To NETTLE, to sting with
Nettles, also to nip, bite, teaze,
or vex.

NEVER, not ever.

NEUTRAL, neither the one
or the other, of no Party or Side.

To be NEUTER, is to be of
neither Party or Side.

NEUTRALITY, a not siding
with either Party, Indifferency.

NEW, fresh, of late Days, of
little standing, never used or
worn before.

NEWBURY, a Town in Berk­
shire, 47 Miles from London

NEWCASTLE, a Seaport
Town in Northumberland, 202
Miles from London.

NEWENDON, a Town in Kent.

NEWS, fresh intelligence or
Affairs, Tidings.

NEWPORT, a Town in the
Isel of Wight, and in other Places.

NEXT, the nighest to.

To NIBBLE, to bite a little
by degrees. 

NICE, curious, render, scru­
pulous, exact, subtile

NICINE CREED, a particu­
lar Confession of Faith drawn



up by the Clergy of the Council
of Nice

NICETY, Coyness, Daintiness,
Curiosity, Exactness, Subtilty.

NICETIES, Dainties, nice
Ways or Points, Criticisms.

NICHE, a Cavity in a Wall
or Building, to place a Statue in.

NICHOLAS, a proper Name
of Men

To NICK, to do a thing in
the very point of Time, to hit
upon exactly; to notch.

A NICKNAME, a comical or
odd Name given to a Person, in
Drollery or Derision

NIDGET, a Ninny, or mere
Fool

NIGGARD, a covetous, sor­
did, griping Person.

NIGGARDLINESS, a being
niggardly.

NIGGARDLY, sordid, very
covetous.

NIGH, near, hard by.

NIGHT, the Time when the
Sun is under the Horizon.

NIGHTINGALE, a fine sing­
ing Bird. 

NIGHT-HAWK, a Bird.

NIGHT-MARE, a Distemper
caused by undigested Humours
stopping the Passage of the Ani­
mal Spirits, so that the Body
cannot move

NIGHTRAIL, a short Cloke
of Linnen worn by Women in
their Chambers.

NIGHT RAVEN, a Bird, a
sort of an Owl.

NIGHTSHADE, an Herb

To NILL, to be unwilling, to
be loth to do

NILLING, unwilling.

NIMBLE, active, quick, ready.

NIMBLENESS, Activity,
Briskness.

NINCOMPOOP,
NINCUMPOOP, a mere 
Blockhead,
Sot, or Fool.

NINE, the Number IX, 9.

NINETY, XC, 90.

NINNY, a silly, soft Wretch,
apt to be made a Fool on.

To NIP, to pinch.

A NIP, a Pinch, the sharp
part of a Pin.

NIPPERS, a Pair of Pincers.

NIPPLE, the Teat of a Wo­
man's Breast.

NITRE, a Salt abounding
with Volatile Spirits.

NITROUS, full of Nitre, or
of the Nature of Nitre.

Spirit of NITRE, a very sharp
corrosive Liquor, drawn from
Saltpetre.

NOAH, a proper Name of
Men.

To NOBILITATE, to make
noble, or famous.

NOBILITY, the Quality or
Degree of a Nobleman; Noble­
ness of Birth, the whole Body
of Noblemen, Fame, Reputa­
tion, Renown. 

NOBLE, great, renowned,
generous and free, costly, state­
ly, above the common People.

A NOBLE, an antient Coin,
valued at Six Shillings and Eight
Pence.

A NOBLE, a Nobleman, a
Person of Honour, as a Duke,
Marquis, Earl, &c.

NOBLE PARTS, the Brain, 
Heart, &c.

NOBLENESS, Nobility, or
the State of a Nobleman.

NOCENT, guilty of some
Crime; hurtful, mischievous.

NOCTURNAL, belonging to
the Night, nightly.

A NOD, a Motion with the
Head

To NOD, to make a Sign by
the Motion of the Head, also to
sleep.

NODDLE, the Head.

A NODDY, a silly Fellow



A NODE, a Knot, or Noose.

A NOGGIN, a little Piggin.

NOISE, a great Sound, Strife,
Squabble.

NOISOME, loathsome, stink­
ing, nasty.

NOISOMNESS, Loathsom­
ness, Nastiness, Filthiness.

NOLENS VOLENS, whether
one will or no.

To NOMINATE, to name,
to appoint, to propose one as
fit to bear an Office.

NOMINATION, a naming,
or appointing.

NONAGE, all the Time of a
Man's Age under Twenty-one in
some Cases, and Fourteen in o­
thers, as Marriage

NON-APPEARANCE, a De­
fault in not appearing before a
Court of Judicature.

NON COMPOS MENTIS, sig­
nifies, first, an Idiot born, se­
condly, one who by Accident has
lost his Memory and Understand­
ing, thirdly, a Lunatick,
fourthly, a Drunkard

NON-CONFORMIST, one
who does not conform to the
Church of England.

NONPARIEL, that has no
Equal, not to be paralleled.

NONPLUS, an Extremity be­
yond which a Man cannot go

NONSUIT, a renouncing, or
letting fall a Suit by the Plaintiff.

NOOK, a Corner

NOON, Midday.

NOOSE, a sliding Knot of a 
Cord; also a Snare, or Gin.

To NOOSE, to ensnare.

NOR, neither.

NORMANS, the People of
Normandy in France.

NORTH, one of the Cardinal
Points or the Compass

NORTHAM, a Town in
Northumberland.

NORTH-STAR, a fixed Star
near the Pole.

NORTHUMBERLAND, a
Northern County of England.

NORWICH, a City and Sea­
port in Norfolk 93 Miles from
London.

The NOSE, the external
Organ of Smelling.

NOSTRILS, the breathing
Holes of the Nose.

NOT, an Adverb of denying.

NOTABLE, singular, re­
markable, extraordinary.

NOTARY, a Scribe, or
Scrivener, who takes short
Draughts of Contracts, &c.

NOTARY PUBLICK, a
Scrivener who publickly wit­
nesses Deeds, &c. to make them
authentick Abroad.

NOTCH, a Dent, or Nick.

NOTE, a Mark, Remark, or
Explication, set in the Margin
of a Book, also a short Writing
containing an Account of Busi­
ness, Credit, Esteem, Repute

A NOTE in Trade, a Writing
under a Man's Hand, by which
one Man engages to pay another
a Sum of Money.

NOTES, Remarks, Memoran­
dums, especially in Shorthand.

To NOTE, to observe, to take
notice of, to remark.

NOTHING, not any thing.

NOTICE, Knowledge, Obser­
vation, Advice, Information.

To NOTIFY, to make known,
to give to understand.

NOTION, a Conception, or
Idea in the Mind.

NOTIONAL, of or belonging
to Notions.

NOTORIOUS, publickly,
known, manifest, plain.

NOTTINGHAM, the County
Town of Nottinghamshire, 87
Miles from London.

NOTWITHSTANDING, ne­
vertheless



NOVEL, new, new fangled.

NOVELS, little Romances.

NOVELTY, the State of that
which is new, Newness, Inno­
vation, or Change

NOVEMBER, the ninth Month
from March.

NOUGHT, not at all, no­
thing, nothing worth

NOVICE, a new Beginner in
any Art of Profession, a raw,
unexperienced, or unskilled Per­
son.

NOUN, the first Part of
Speech, denoting the Name of a
Thing.

To NOURISH, to feed, to
keep, or maintain.

NOURISHMENT, Food
which turns to the Substance of
the Body.

NOW, at this time.

NOXIOUS, hurtful, mischie­
vous, offensive.

NOXIOUSNESS, Hurtfulness,
offensiveness.

To NUBBLE. See to KNUB­
BLE.

To NUDDLE along, to walk
carelesly, poking down the Head.

NUDE, naked.

NUDITY, Nakedness.

NUKE, the hinder part of
the Head, the Noddle.

NULL, void, of no Effect.

NULLED, made void.

NULLITY, the being null,
void, and of no Effect.

NUMBER, a Collection of
Units.

To NUMBER, to count, or
reckon.

Golden NUMBER, a Period
of Nineteen Years, at the End
of which the Sun and Moon come
to the same Station as before.

NUMERABLE, that may be
numbered.

NUMERAL, of or belonging
to Numbers.

To NUMERATE, to count,
or number.

NUMERICAL, belonging to
Number, also particular, indi­
vidual.

NUMEROUS, abounding in
Number, manifold.

NUN, a Virgin that has
bound herself by Vow, to a
single and chaste Life in a Mo­
nastery.

NUNCHION, an Afternoon's
Repast.

NUNCIO, the Pope's Am­
bassador.

NUNCUPATIVE, called, na­
med, expresly declared by Word
of Mouth.

NUNNERY, a Cloister of
Nuns.

NUPTIAL, belonging to a
Wedding, or Marriage.

NUPTIALS, Wedding, or
Marriage.

A NURSE, one who takes
care of sick Persons, Children,
&c.

To NURSE, to take care of,
to nourish, feed, &c.

NURSERY, the Room where 
Children are nursed, the Person
nursed, also a Plot of Ground
for raising Trees and Plants.

To NURSEL, to encourage,
to uphold

NUSANCE, Annoyance; as
when a man does any thing up­
on his own Ground, to the Da­
mage of his Neighbours.

NUT, a sort of Fruit; the 
Worm of a Screw, also part of
an Anchor, Cross-Bow, &c.

NUTMEG, a Spice well
known.

NUTRIMENT, Nourishment,
Food.

NUTRITION, nourishing. 

NUTRITIVE, apt to nou­
rish, or that serves for nourish­
ing



To NUZZLE, to hide the
Head, as a Child does in the
Mother's Bosom.

NYMPH, a Goddess of Wa­
ters, Rivers, Springs and Lakes,
Fresh or River Water.


O.
O. An Interjection of Calling.

OAF, a Fool, or silly
Fellow.

OAFISH, foolish, silly

OAFISHNESS, Foolishness,
Silliness.

OAK, one of the Mast-bear­
ing Trees.

OAKHAM,
OAKUM, old Ropes un­
twisted, and
pulled out into loose Hemp, for
the Calking of Ships.

OAR,
ORE, Metal unrefined, as
it is mixed with the
Earth of the Mine

OARS, Instruments used in
Rowing Boats, also a Boat
rowed by two Persons.

OATMEAL, Meal, or Flower
made with Oats.

OATHS, a sort of Grain.

OATH, a Swearing, or af­
firming a thing by Swearing.

OAZY GROUND, soft, slimy
or muddy Ground.

OAZINESS, Sliminess, Mud­
diness.

OBADIAH, a proper Name of
Men.

To OBAMBULATE, to walk
about.

OBDURATE, hardened, ob­
stinate.

OBEDIENCE, Dutifulness,
Submission, Subjection.

OBEDIENT, dutiful, sub­
missive.

OBEISANCE, a Congee, or
low Bow.

To OBEY, to be obedient, or
dutiful, to submit.

OBJECT, any thing proposed
to Sight, or any other Sense,
also Subject, or Matter.

To OBJECT, to make an Ob­
jection, to oppose, to urge a­
gainst.

OBJECTION, a Difficulty
raised against a Proposition.

OBJECTOR, one who op­
poses, or brings an Argument a­
gainst.

OBLATION, an Offering,
more especially that offered by
religious Persons to the Church,
for pious Uses, also a Toll, or
Subsidy.

OBLECTATION, a Recrea­
tion, Delight, Pleasure.

To OBLIGATE, to bind, or
tye.

OBLIGATION, Duty, En­
gagement, Tye, a Bond, or
Writing obligatory.

OBLIGATORY, is of Force
to oblige, binding.

To OBLIGE, to bind, con­
strain, or engage, also to do a
Kindness, or good Turn.

OBLIGING, civil, courteous,
kind.

OBLIQUE, crooked, awry.

OBLIQUITY, Crookedness,
going aslaunt.

To OBLITERATE, to blot
out, to raze out of the Memory.

OBLITERATION, a blotting
out, a cancelling, an abolishing.

OBLIVION, Forgetfulness

OBLONG, that is of a Figure
commonly called a long Square.

OBLOQUY, a speaking evil
against, Backbiting, Slandering.

OBNOXIOUS, liable, subject
to, properly liable to be punish­
ed for Offences

OBSCENE, filthy, unclean,
unchaste, lewd, smutty.



OBSCENITY, unclean Speech,
or Action, Bawdry, Ribaldry.

OBSCURE, dark, gloomy,
difficult to be understood, private,
retired, base, mean

To OBSCURE, to darken, to
make unintelligible; to cloud,
or drown the Merit of another.

OBSCURITY, Darkness, Dif­
ficulty in being understood, al­
so a retired Life.

OBSEQUIES, Funeral Rights
or Ceremonies

OBSEQUIOUS, ready to o­
bey, dutiful, careful to please,
submissive.

OBSEQUIOUSNESS, Readi­
ness to oblige, Complaisance

OBSERVABLE, fit, easy or
worthy to be observed.

OBSERVANCE, Perform­
ance, also Respect, Regard.

OBSERVANT, having Re­
gard to, respectful.

OBSERVATION, an Observ­
ing, Noting, a Note, or Remark.

OBSERVATOR, an Observer
of People's Manners, also a Mo­
nitor in a School.

To OBSERVE, to keep, to
follow a Rule, Law, &c. to
take notice of, to consider.

OBSOLETE, grown old, or
out of Use.

OBSTACLE, Hindrance, Bar,
Let

OBSTINANCY, Stubbornness, 
a Fixedness in maintaining an
Opinion, Wilfulness. 

OBSTINATE, wilful, reso­
ute, stubborn.

To OBSTRUCT, to stop up,
hinder.

OBSTRUCTION, Stoppage,
Hindrance.

To OBTAIN, to succeed in the
Pursuit of a Thing, to get, or
gain.

To OBTRUDE, to thrust or
force in or upon, to impose.

OBTRUSION, a thrusting in
or upon.

OBTUSE, blunt, having a
dull Edge.

To OBVERT, to turn back,
or against.

To OBVIATE, to prevent, or
hinder.

OBVIOUS, easy to be per­
ceived or understood, plain,
common.

OCCASION, Season, conve­
nient or Fit Time to do any
thing, also Cause, Reason, Ne­
cessity, or Want.

OCCASIONS, Affairs, Con­
cerns.

OCCASIONAL, belonging to
Occasion, also casual.

OCCIDENT, the West.

OCCULT, hidden, secret.

OCCUPATION, Business,
Employ, a Trade

OCCUPIER, one who occu­
pieth, or possesseth.

To OCCUPY, to fill, or take
up a Space, to be seized, or in
Possession of, to deal, or trade.

To OCCUR, to meet, to come
in the way, to offer, or present
itself

OCCURRENCE, a casual Ad­
venture, Rencounter, or Con­
junction of Affairs; also News.

OCEAN, that vast Collection
of Water, or Sea, which sur­
rounds the Globe of the Earth

OCEANOUS, belonging to
the Ocean.

OCKHAM, a Town in Surrey.

OCKLEY, a Village in Surrey.

OCTAGON, a Figure of Eight
Angles and Sides.

OCTAVE, in Musick a 8th,
or an Interval of Eight Sounds.

OCTAVO, a Book is so cal­
led when a Sheet is folded in
Eight Leaves

OCTOBER, the eighth Month
of the Year from March.



OCULAR, belonging to the
Eyes, or Sight.

OCULAR Demonstration, that
Proof we have of a thing by see­
ing it done before our Eyes.

OCULIST, one skilled in cu­
ring the Disease of the Eyes.

ODD, an uneven Number.

ODDNESS, Unevenness in
Number, Unusualness.

ODE, a Poem sung to the Harp,
or a Copy of Lyrick Verses.

ODIOUS, hateful, heinous.

ODIOUSNESS, the being o­
dious, Hatefulness.

ODIUM, Hatred, Grudge,
Blame.

ODORIFEROUS, bearing
Odours, or Perfumes.

ODOROUS, that has a sweet
Scent, or Smell

ODOUR, Scent, or Smell,
any sweet Perfume. 

OECONOMIST, one who go­
verns or rules a Family, a
Steward.

OECONOMY, the ordering a
House or Family, also Fruga­
lity, good Husbandry.

OF, belonging to.

OFF, from

OFFAL, Refuse, or Dross. 

OFFALS, Garbage, or Frag­
ments of Meat.

OFFCHURCH, a Town in
Warwickshire.

OFFSETS, young Shoots
which spring and grow from
Roots that are tuberous and
bulbous

OFFENCE, Trespass, Fault,
Injury, Wrong, Scandal.

To OFFEND, to sin against,
to commit a Fault, to hurt, or
injure, to displease.

OFFENSIVE, displeasing,
hurtful, injurious; also fit to
attack an Enemy. 

OFFENSIVE, the being of­
fensive, or injurious.

To OFFER, to present, to
tender, to propound, to bid.

OFFERING, a Sacrifice, or
any thing offered to God or Men.

OFFICE, the Duty expected
from one, a Place or Employ­
ment, also a good or ill Turn.

An OFFICE, a Place where
any Business is managed.

OFFICER, one who is in an
Office.

Field OFFICERS, such as have
Command over a whole Regi­
ment.

General OFFICERS, such as
have Command over a consider­
able Body of Military Forces

Subaltern OFFICERS, Lieu­
tenants, Ensigns, and Cornets. 

Warrant OFFICERS, such as
have no commission from the
King, but are appointed by
Colonels and Captains.

To OFFICIATE, to do the
Duty belonging to one's Office

OFFICIOUS, ready to do one
a good Office, serviceable, very
obliging.

OFFICIOUSNESS, ready to
assist, Obligingness.

OFFSPRING, that which is
sprung of or produced by ano­
ther, as Children, Fruit, &c.

OFT,
OFTEN, frequently.

OG, King of Bashan

To OGLE, to look hard at
commonly) to look amorously
at.

OIL, the Juice of Olives, &c.

OIL BEETLE,
OIL CLOCK, an Insect 
which sends
forth a great Quantity of its
Sweat.

OILET HOLE, 
EILET HOLE, a Hole in a 
Garment
wherein a Point is put.

OINTMENT, an Unguent

OISTER, a Shell-Fish well
known.



OKER, a Mineral.

OKHAM, Tow, or Flax, to
drive into the Seams of Ships.

OLD, Stricken in Years, stale, 
worn.

OLEAGINOUS, oily, par­
taking of the Nature of Oil.

OLIO, a rich Dish of Soop
made of Beef, Veal, Mutton,
Fowls, &c.

OLIVE, a Stone Fruit which
yields vast plenty of Oil.

OLIVE BIT, a sort of Bit for
Horses.

OLIVER, a proper Name of
Men.

OMBRE, a Spanish Game at
Cards.

OMEGA, the last Letter of
the Greek Alphabet; also used
for the End of any thing.

OMEN, a Sign, or Token of
good or bad Luck.

OMER, a Hebrew Measure,
about three Pints and Half.

OMINOUS, ill-boding, or
portending ill Luck.

OMISSION, a neglecting, or
letting a thing pass.

To OMIT, to pass over, to
take no notice of, to leave out.

OMNIPOTENT,
OMNIPOTENCY, almighty 
Power,
Almightiness.

OMNIPOTENT, almighty,
all-powerful.

OMNIPRESENCE, a being
present in all Places.

OMNIPRESENT, that is eve­
ry where present.

OMNISCIENCE, the Know­
ledge of all things.

OMNISCIENT, knowing all
things.

OMRI, a King of Israel.

ON, upon.

ONE, I. 1.

To ONERATE, to burden, or
load.

ONION, a well known Root.

ONLY, singular, no more
than one.

ONSET, an Attack.

ONWARD, forward.

ONYX, a precious Stone.

OOZY, moist, wet, plashy.

OPACOUS,
OPAKE, shady, obsure, 
dark; that is
not transparent. 

To OPEN, to unfold, ex­
ose, explain.

OPEN, plain, clear.

OPEN ARSE, a Medlar, a
Fruit.

OPERA, a sort of musical
Entertainment upon the Stage or
Theatre.

To OPERATE, to work, to
effect, to bring to pass.

OPERATION, a labouring,
or working.

OPERATOR, a Workman;
also a Mountebank.

OPERATOR for the Teeth, one
skilled in cleaning and drawing
of Teeth, and making artificial
ones.

OPEROSE, laborious, that
costs much Pains.

OPINION, Mind, Thought,
Belief, Esteem, Judgment.

OPINIONATED, wedded to
his own Opinion, self-willed.

OPIUM, the Juice which
distills from the Heads of black
Poppies in Greece, Egypt, &c.

OPPONENT, one who main­
tains a contrary Argument in the
Schools, or opposes in Disputa­
tion. 

OPPORTUNE, convenient, 
seasonable.

OPPORTUNITY, convenient
Time, or Occasion.

To OPPOSE, to set against,
to put in Competition, to with­
stand, or thwart.

OPPOSITE, over-against,
contrary.



OPPOSITION, Contrariety,
Disagreement, Hindrance, Stop.

To OPPRESS, to lie heavy
upon, to over-burden, to crush
by Authority and Violence.

OPPRESSION, over-burden­
ing, crushing by Authority.

OPPRESSIVE, apt to oppress.

OPPRESSOR, he that op­
presses.

OPPROBRIOUS, reproachful,
injurious.

OPPROBRIUM, Shame, Dis­
grace.

To OPPUGN, to fight against,
to oppose, to reject, or confute 
an Opinion.

OPTICK, belonging to the
Sight.

OPTICKS, a Science which
treats of the Sight in general.

OPTION, Choice, a Liberty
of accepting or refusing a Thing.

OPULENCY, Wealth, Riches.

OPULENT, wealthy, very
rich.

OR, either.

ORACLE, an ambiguous or
obscure Answer, which the Hea­
then Priests gave to the People
about Things to come, making
them believe that God spoke by
their Mouths

ORAL, delivered by the
Mouth or Voice.

ORANGE, a well known
Fruit.

ORANGERY, a sort of Per­
fume, also a Place where Orange­
Trees are kept.

ORANOCO, a sort of To­
bacco.

ORATION, a Discourse, or
Speech, pronounced in publick

ORATOR, an eloquent
Speaker, or Pleader.

An ORATORY, a private
Chapel, a Place set apart for
Prayer.

ORB, a hollow Sphere.

ORBIT, the Course in which
any Planet moves.

ORCHARD, a Piece of
Ground inclosed, and planted
with Fruit Trees.

ORCHESTRE, a Place where
the Chorus danceth, or where
Musicians sit.

To ORDAIN, to command,
to appoint, to confer holy Orders.

ORDER, a disposing Things
in their proper Place; Custom,
or Manner; Rule, or Discipline.

ORDER of Battle, the Dispo­
sition of an Army before it be­
gins to engage the Enemy.

ORDERS in general, signify
all that is commanded by supe­
rior Officers, and is sometimes
only taken for the Word.

ORDERLY, acting according
to rule, regular.

ORDINANCE, a Decree,
Statute or Law, also Artillery,
great Guns.

ORDINARY, common, usu­
al, indifferent, mean.

An ORDINARY, a Victual­
ling-House where Persons may
eat.

ORDINATION, the Act of
ordaining, or putting into holy
Orders.

ORDURE, Filth, the Dung
of Man or Beast.

OREB, a Prince of the Mi­
dianites. 

ORGAN, the noblest of Musi­
cal Instruments used in Churches.

ORGANIST, one who plays
upon Organs.

ORIEL COLLEGE, a College
in the University of Oxford.

ORIENT, the East.

ORIENTAL, eastern, be­
longing to the East

ORIFICE, the Mouth, Entry
or Brim of any thing.



ORIGIN, the first Rise or
Source of a Thing, a Stock, or
Pedigree.

ORIGINAL, belonging to an
Original, primitive, first

An ORIGINAL, the first Be­
ginning or Rise of a Thing,
the first Draught or Pattern of
a Thing, the Derivation of a
Word, &c.

ORNAMENT, Beauty, Grace,
Finery, Set off, Rhetorical
Flourish.

ORPHAN, a fatherless and
motherless Child.

ORPINGTON, a Town in Kent

ORRERY, an astronomical
Machine for giving a clearer
Account of the solar System.

ORTHODOX, that is of a true
or right Opinion or Belief

ORTHOGRAPHICAL,
ORTHOGRAPHICK, be­
longing to Orthography.

ORTHOGRAPHY, the right
or true way of Writing, Spel­
ling, or Describing.

ORTOLAN, a delicate Bird.

OSIER, the red or Water
Willow.

OSMUND, a proper Name.

OSPREY, a Bird with a very
strong beak.

OSTENSIVE, that serves to
shew.

OSTENTATION, making
fair Shews outwardly, Vain­
glory, excessive Boasting, Brag­
ing, Vaunting.

OSTENTATOUS, set out
for Shew, vain-glorious.

OSTLER, one who takes care
of Horses in an Inn

OSTRICH, a large African
Fowl.

OSWALD, a King of Northum­
berland.

OSWESTRE, a Town in
Shropshire, 130 Miles from Lon­
don.

OTHER, another

OTHER-WHILE, ever and
anon, now and then.

OTHERWISE, in another
manner

OTTER, a sort of amphi­
bious Creature.

OTTOMAN, belonging to the
Turks.

OVAL, of the Shape of an Egg

OVEN, a hollow Place for
baking Bread in

OVER, placed upon, or a­
bove, beyond

To OVERACT, to act be­
yond one's Commission

To OVERBALANCE, to ex­
ceed in Weigh

To OVER BEAR, to prevail
over, oppress, or crush

OVER BOARD, into the Sea.

To OVERCAST, to grow
dark, or cloudy, to whip a
Seam, as Taylors do

To OVERCOME, to get the
better of, to bring under, to
subdue

OVERLAID, stifled, or
smothered.

To OVERLOOK, to look
over, to have an Eye upon, to
look after, to take no notice of,
to wink at, to look upon with
Contempt.

OVERPLUS, an Exceeding,
or something over and above.

To OVERPOISE, to out­
weigh

An OVER-REACH, a Strain, 
a Swelling of a matter Sinew of
a Horse.

To OVER-REACH, to hurt
one's self by reaching too far,
also to couzen, or cheat.

To OVERRUN, to out run,
run beyond, to invade every
where.

To OVERSEE, to have the 
Management of, to over-look,
or let pass.



To OVERSET, to overturn.

To OVERSHOOT, to shoot
beyond the Mark, to go too far
in any Business.

OVERT ACT, a plain Matter
of Fact, serving to prove a Design.

To OVERTAKE, to come up
to.

To OVERTHROW, to turn
topsey-turvey, to defeat, or
rout, to disappoint. 

OVER-THWART, a-cross,
from Side to Side

OVERTURE, an opening or
disclosing a Matter, also a piece
of Musick before the Scenes are
spoken in a Play

To OVERWHELM, to cover
over, to plunge, or sink in

St. Mary OVERY, a Street or
Parish in the Borough of South­
wark.

OUGHT, somewhat.

OUNCE, the sixteenth Part
of a Pound, Averdupois Weight,
the twelfth part of a Pound Troy.

OUNCLE, a Town in Nor­
thamptonshire, 54 Miles from
London

OUR, belonging to us.

OUT, without.

To OUT, to put out, to dis­
place.

To OUTBID, to bid more
than another.

To OUTBRAVE, to boast more
than another, to silence, or dash

An OUTCAST, a Person cast
off as forlorn

To OUTDO, to excel.

OUTER, outward.

OUTERMOST, most outward.

OUTLANDISH, foreign, of
another Land.

OUTLAW, deprived of the
Benefit of the Law, and the
King's Protection.

OUTLAWRY, is the Loss of
the Benefit of a Subject, and the
King's Protection.

OUTMOST, the outermost.

OUTRAGE, a grievous Inju­
ry or Affront, a violent Assault.

OUTRAGEOUS, cruel, fierce,
highly injurious, violent.

OUTWARD, to the Outside.

OUZE, a sort of miry Sedge.

OUZY, moist, wet, plashy.

To OWE, to be indebted to.

OWEN, a proper Name.

OWL, a well known night
Bird.

OWLER, one who conveys
Wooll, or prohibited Goods, by
night to the Sea side, to be ship­
ped off contrary to Law.

To OWN, to have the Property
of, to lay claim to, to confess

OWN, proper, belonging to.

OX, a Beast well known.

OXEYE, a little Bird, also
an Herb

OXFLY, an Insect.

OXFORD, the County Town
of Oxfordshire, famous for its
University, 47 Miles from
London.

OYER and Terminer, a special
Commission granted to certain
Judges, to hear and determine
criminal Causes.

OYES, hear ye, a Word used
by publick Cryers when they
make Proclamation of any thing.

OZIER, a sort of Willow Tree.


P.
P. Stands for Physick, as P.D.
Doctor of Physick.

PACE, a Step, a rate or man­
ner of going, also a Measure of
two Foot and a half, but a geo­
metrical Pace five Foot.

PACIFICATION, Peace-ma­
king, Mediation, or treating for
Peace.

PACIFICATOR, a Peace­
maker, a Mediator.



PACIFICK, making Peace,
appeasing

A PACK, a Bundle, or Parcel
of Commodities packed up, also
a Company.

PACK OF CARDS, a Set.

To PACK UP, to bundle up.

PACK OF WOOL, a Quantity
of about 240 Pound, a Horse
Load.

PACKER, one whose Business
or Trade is to pack up Goods

To PACK UP HIS AULS, to 
prepare to march off, to go a­
way in haste.

PACKET, a Bundle, or Parcel.

PACT, a Bargain, Covenant,
or Agreement

PAD NAG, a Horse that goes
easy.

To PAD, to travel on foot; al­
so to rob on Foot upon the Road.

A Foot PAD, one who robs on
foot upon the Road.

To PADDLE, to move the
Water with Hands and Feet.

PADDOCK COURSE, a Place
in a Park paled in, for Hounds
to run Matches in.

A PADLOCK, a Lock to hang
on the outside of a Door.

PADSTOW, a Town in Corn­
wall, 194 Miles from London.

PÆDAGOGUE, a School­
Master, an Instructor of Children.

PAGAN, a Heathen.

PAGANISM, the Principles 
and Practices of the Pagans.

PAGE, one side of the Leaf of
a Book, also a young Gentle­
man who waits on great Persons
at ceremonial Visits

PAGEANTRY, Pomp, Shew,
Ostentation, fine Appearance.

PAIL, a Milk Pail, a Vessel
to hold liquid Things in.

PAIN, Toil, or Labour of the
Body, Disquiet of Mind, Tor­
ment, Torture.

To PAIN, to affect with Pain.

PAINED, affected with Pain.

PAINFUL, causing Pain, la­
borious

PAINFULNESS, the being
affected with Pain.

To PAINT, to design, or
daub with Colours

PAINT, Colour for Painting.

PAINTER, one who paints.

PAINTING, the Art of re­
presenting things in their pro­
per Colours and Figures.

A PAIR, a Couple, Fellows, as
Gloves, &c.

PALACE, a Court or Mansion
House of a Prince.

PALATABLE, agreeable to
the Palate, pleasant to the Taste.

The PALATE, the Roof of
the Mouth, the Taste.

PALATINATE, the Country
or Seat of a Count Palatine, or
chief Officer in the Palace or
Court of an Emperor or Sove­
reign Prince

Elector PALATINE, one of
the Electors of Germany.

PALE, wan, whitely-looked.

PALENESS, Whiteness, Wan­
ness of Countenance, a weak or
faint Colour.

To grow PALE, to grow wan
or whitely.

A PALE, a Stake of Wood.

To PALE, to fence with Pales.

PALENESS, Wanness.

PALFRY, a Horse of State
for a Princess or great Lady, a
pacing Horse.

PALING, a sort of fencing
Work for Fruit Trees planted in
Fields.

PALISH, somewhat pale or 
wan.

PALLISADE, a Fence of
Pales.

To PALLISADE, to fence
with Pallisades.



A PALL, a Cloth of Velvet
that covers a Coffin at a Fune­
ral, also a long Robe worn by
the Knights of the Garret upon
solemn Occasions.

To PALL, to die, or grow
flat, as Liquors do, to dull, to
take off the Appetite.

PALLED, stale, also dead,
flat, without Spirit, as Wine,
Beer, &c.

PALLET, a thin low Bed.
Among Painters, a thin oval
Piece of Wood to hold their
Colours.

To PALLIATE, to disguise,
to colour, to cloak.

PALLID, pale, wan.

PALL-MALL, See PELL­
MELL.

PALM, a Palm, or Date
Tree

PALM-SUNDAY, so called,
because the People went on that
Day to meet our Saviour with
Boughs of Palm and Olive
Branches, when he entered Je­
rusalem, riding on an Ass

PALM, the inner part of the
Hand, the Measure of a Hand's
Breadth, three Inches.

To PALM, to juggle in one's
Hand, to cog, or cheat at Dice.

A PALMER, one that cheats
at Cards or dice by slight of
Hand

PALMISTRY, the Art of
telling Fortunes by certain Lines
and Marks on the Palms of the
Hand.

PALPABLE, that may be ea­
sily felt or perceived, manifest,
plain, evident.

PALPITATION, a Panting,
beating quick, or throbbing.

PALSEY, a Disease which 
causes a Privation of Sense, or
Motion, or both. Dead Palsey,
is when both Sense and Motion 
are lost.

To PALTER, to prevaricate,
to play fast and loose, to deal
unfairly.

PALTRINESS, Meanness,
Baseness.

PALTRY, pitiful, bad, sorry.

A PALTRY FELLOW, a
base sordid Fellow.

To PAMPER, to feed high,
to indulge.

PAMPHLET, a little stitched
Book

PAMPHLETEER, a Writer
of, and Dealer in Pamphlets

PAN, a Kitchen Vessel.

PANADO, a sort of Gruel.

PANCAKE, a Cake made in
a Pan.

PANDER, one who takes a
Bribe to hold his Tongue; a
Pimp, a Male Bawd.

PANE, a square of Glass,
Wainscot, &c.

PANEGYRICK, a Speech be­
fore a solemn Assembly; or an
Oration of Thanks and Praise to
a Prince, &c.

PANGS, violent Throws of
Pain, as Death, Travail of a 
Woman, &c.

PANNICK, as pannick Fear,
a sudden and distracting Fear,
without known Cause.

PANNEL, a Pane or Square
of Wainscot, &c. also a Saddle
for carrying Burdens on Horse­
back; also a Roll of Paper or
Parchment with the Names of
the Jurors returned by the
Sheriff.

PANNIER, a Dorser, or
Basket, to carry Bread on Horse­
back.

To PANT, to fetch one's
Breath short, to breathe quick.

PANTALOONS, a sort of
Garment worn formerly, con­
flicting of Breeches and Stockings
fastened together, and both of
the same Stuff.



PANTERS, Nets, or Toils
to catch Deer.

PANTHER, a fierce Beast

PANTRY, a Room, or Clo­
set where Bread and cold Meat
are kept.

PAP, a Teat, or Breast-Nip­
ple, also a Food for Infants

PAPA, the Pope, also a
Child's Name for Father.

PAPACY, the Pope's Digni­
ty, or Time of his Government.

PAPAL, belonging to the
Pope.

PAPER, a Substance made of
Rags whitened and ground in a
Mill

PAPIST, one that professeth
the Popish Religion.

PAPPOUS, downy, or full of
Down, soft, spungy.

PAR, equal.

PARABLE, a continued Si­
militude, or Comparison.

PARADE, great Shew, State.

PARADISE, a Place of Plea­
sure, the Garden of Eden.

PARADISE APPLE, a deli­
cious Fruit

PARADOX, a strange Senti­
ment, contrary to the common
Opinion, but yet true.

PARAGRAPH, a smaller
Section of a Book, where the
Line breaks off, or what
is comprehended between one
Break and another.

PARALLEL, equally, or e­
very where a-like

A PARALLEL, a Comparison
between Persons and Things one
with another.

PARALYTICAL, belonging
to, or sick of a Palsey.

A PARALYTICK, one trou­
bled with a Palsey.

PARAMOUNT, above all,
sovereign, or absolute.

PARAPET, a Wall, or Bal­
cony Breast high, about a Pillar
or Tower.

PARAPHRASE, the expres­
sing of a Text in plainer Terms,
more largely and better acco­
modated to the Readers Capacity.

To PARAPHRASE, to make
a Paraphrase or Comment upon.

PARAQUETTO, a small sort
of Parrot, a Bird.

PARASITE, a Smell-Feast
a Trencher Friend, a flattering
Spunger

To PARBOIL, to boil but in
part.

A PARCEL, Part, Portion,
Bundle.

To PARCEL, to divide into
Parcels.

To PARCH, to burn, or dry up.

PARCHMENT, Skins of
Sheep, &c. dressed for Writing.

PARDON, Forgiveness, espe­
cially that which God gives 
Sinners.

To PARDON, to forgive a
Fault.

PARDONABLE, that may
be pardoned.

To PARE, to cut off in thin
Slices.

A PARENT, a Father or
Mother.

PARENTAGE, Kindred,
Stock, Family.

PARIAN MARBLE, an ex­
cellent sort of white Marble.

PARIS, the chief City of
France.

PARISH, a Territory under
the Charge of a particular Priest.

PARISHIONER, an Inhabi­
tant of a Parish

PARITY, Equality, Evenness.

PARK, a Piece of Ground en­
closed, and stocked with wild
Beasts of Chace

PARLEY, a Conference with
an Enemy, about some Affair or
Proposal; also a talking with.

To PARLEY, to discourse or
confer with.



To beat a PARLEY, to give
the Signal of such a Conference
by Beat of Drum.

PARLIAMENT, the chief
Assembly or Council of the Na­
tion, met together to make or 
alter Laws.

PARLIAMENTARY, belong­
ing to, or agreeable to the Me­
thod of Parliament.

PARLOUR, a low Room to
receive Company

PARNEL, a wanton Wo­
man, an immodest Girl.

PAROCHIAL, of or belong­
ing to a Parish.

PAROLE, Speech, Word,
Saying.

PAROXYSM, the Access, or
Fit of an Ague.

PARRICIDE, the Murder of
a Father.

A PARROT, a Bird well
known.

PARSIMONIOUS, saving,
thrifty.

PARSIMONY, Sparingness,
Thriftiness, good Husbandry. 

PARSLEY, an Herb well
known.

PARSNIP, a well known
eatable Root.

PARSON, the Rector, or
Minister of a Parish.

PARSONAGE, a spiritual
Living, set apart for the Main­
tenance of the Minister of the
Church, also the Mansion or
dwelling House of a Parson

PART, a Piece of any Thing,
a Share, or Portion

To PART, to divide into
Parts, to separate.

To PARTAKE, to take part
of, or with.

A PARTAKER, a Sharer in.

PARTERRE, a Garden with
Knots or Figures, a Flower
Garden.

PARTIAL, biassed to one
Party or Interest.

PARTIALITY, a Siding too
much with a Party, a being
more on one Side than the other.

To PARTICIPATE, to part­
take of, to have a Share in.

PARTICIPATION, a taking
Share of.

PARTICLE, a small Part,
or little Parcel.

PARTICULAR, proper, pe­
culiar, singular, extraordinary,
intimate, familiar.

A PARTICULAR, an Inven­
tory of Goods, a particular Cir­
cumstance. 

PARTICULARITY, a singu­
lar Matter, a particular Humour

To PARTICULARIZE, to
enlarge upon Particulars, to give
a particular Account of.

PARTICULARLY, in par­
ticular. 

PARTISAN, a Favourer or
Abettor of a Party.

PARTITION, a parting,
sharing, or dividing, a Division.

PARTNER, one who takes
part, or is joined with another
in some Concern.

PARTNERSHIP, a joining
with some other Person in some
Affair or Concern.

PARTRIDGE, a dainty Fowl.

PARTY, a Person; also Side, 
Association, Faction.

To PARY, to put by a Thrust 
artificially in Fencing.

PASCHA, the Passover, a
Feast of the Jews, also the Fe­
stival of Easter.

PASCHAL, belonging to the
Jewish Passover, or Easter

To PASH, to dash together.

PASS, a Licence to travel, 
also a Thrust in Fencing. 

To PASS, to come or go
through, by or over, to be cur­
rent as Money, to spend Time



PASSABLE, that may be
passed over, also tolerable, in­
different.

PASSAGE, a going from one
Place to another, the Place
through which one goes, also a
Place in a Discourse or Book,
also an Event, or Chance

PASSENGER, one who tra­
vels by Land or Water.

PASSPORT, a Licence grant­
ed for the safe Passage of a Man
from one Place to another

PASSION, Affection, Trans­
port of Mind, Anger, Suffering

The PASSIONS, the Affections
of the Mind, as Love, Hatred, 
&c

PASSIONATE, hasty, poss­
essed with Passion, also affec­
tionate, fond, amorous

PASSIVE, apt to bear or 
suffer

PASSOVER, a Festival a­
mong the Jews, in Commemo­
ration of the Angel's passing by 
and sparing the Houses of the
Jews, when the First-born of
the Egyptians were slain.

PASTE, Dough kneaded for
Pies, &c a Composition for
sticking Things together.

PASTERN, the Hollow of a 
Beast's Heel; that part of a 
Horse's Foot under the Fetlock
to the Heel, also a Shackle for
a Horse

PASTIME, Sport, Recreation

PASTOR, a Shepherd, or
Herdsman; a Minister of the
Church.

PASTORAL, belonging to a
Shepherd, or Church Minister.

A PASTORAL, a sort of
Poem relating to Affairs be­
tween Shepherds and Shep­
herdesses. 

PASTRY, Work made of
Paste or Dough, also the Place
where Pastry Work is per­
formed.

To make PASTRY, to raise
Paste.

A PASTRY-COOK, a Raiser
of Paste.

PASTURABLE, that is fit or
serves for Pasture.

PASTURAGE, Pasture, or
Pasture Ground.

PASTURE, Land reserved for
the feeding of Cattle, also the
Feeding, or Feeding-place for
Deer.

To PASTURE, to put into
Pasture, to feed Cattle.

PAT, fit, suitable, to the
Purpose.

A PAT, a small Blow

A PATACOON, a Spanish
Coin valued at 4 s. and 8 d

PATCH, a Piece sowed upon
a worn out Garment.

To PATCH, to mend with
Patches

PATE, the Head.

PATENT, lying open.

PATENTEE, a Person to
whom the King has granted his
Letters Patent

PATENTS, Writings sealed
open with the Broad Seal of the
Kingdom

PATER NOSTER, the Lord's
Prayer.

PATERNAL, fatherly, be­
longing to a Father.

PATERNITY, Fatherhood, or
the Quality of a Father

PATH, a Track or beaten
way.

PATHETICK, moving the
Passions or Affections

PATIENCE, a Virtue ena­
bling to bear Afflictions and
Pains, with Calmness of Mind

PATIENT, enduring, suffer­
ing, which quietly bears Af­
flictions or Injuries.



PATLY, fitly, seasonably.

PATNESS, Fitness, Season­
ableness.

PATRIARCH, a chief Fa­
ther, or the first Father of a
Family or Nation. Among
Churchmen, a Dignity in the
Church above an Archbishop, of
which there were formerly Five,
viz. at Rome, Constantinople, A­
lexandria, Jerusalem, and An­
tioch.

PATRIARCHAL, belonging
to a Patriarch.

PATRIARCHATE, the State,
Dignity, or Jurisdiction of a 
Patriarch.

PATRICK, the proper Name
of a tutular Saint of Ireland.

PATRIMONY, an Inheri­
tance of Estate left by a Father
to his Son.

PATRIOT, a Father of his
Country, a publick Benefactor.

PATRIOTISM, the Acting
like a Father to his Country;
publick Spiritedness.

PATROL, a Night Watch of
about Five or Six Men com­
manded by a Serjeant, who are
sent from the Guard to walk in
the Streets, and prevent Disor­
er in a Garison.

To PATROL, to walk up
and down as before; also as the
Out-guards of an Army do upon
the Approach of an Enemy.

PATRON, a powerful Friend,
Protector, or Advocate.

PATRONAGE, Defence, Pro­
tection.

PATRONESS, a Female Pa­
tron.

To PATRONIZE, to protect,
or defend

PATTEN,
PATTIN, a sort of wooden
Shoe with an 
Iron Supporter.

PATTERN, a Model or Plan.

To PAVE, to lay a Way with
Stones.

A PAVIER, a Maker or
Mender of Pavements.

A PAVEMENT, a Causeway,
or paved Floor.

PAVILION, a Tent, or Ta­
bernacle of state.

PAUL, a proper Name.

St PAUL's, a stately Edifice,
the Cathedral Church of the
Diocess of London, first erected
by King Ethelbert in the Year
610, burnt by Lightning , and
rebuilt in 1087, destroyed again
in the Confragration of that City,
1666, and now rebuilt with
more Magnificence than before

PAUNCH, the Belly, Inte­
stines, or Guts of an Animal

PAUNTON, a Town in Lin­
colnshire.

PAUPER, poor, needy.

A PAUSE, a Rest, a Stop,
an Intermission.

To PAUSE, to make a Stop,
also to consider.

A PAW, the Foot of a wild
Beast.

To PAWN, to pledge.

A PAWN, a Pledge, also a
Term used in play.

A PAWNBROKER, one who
lends Money upon Goods

To PAY, to discharge a Debt,
also to beat.

PAYABLE, to be paid

PAY, Wages, Hire, Payment.

PAYMENT, paying, Pay.

PEA, a well known Pulse.

PEACE, Agreement, Rest,
Quietness.

PEACEABLE, peaceful, still,
quiet, calm.

PEACEABLY, in a peaceable
manner, quietly.

PEACEFUL, the being peace­
able, quiet, inoffensive.

PEACH, a delicious Fruit.



PEACOCK, a very fine
Bird.

PEAK, the sharp Point of
any Thing, the Top of an
Hill.

The Devil's Arse in the PEAK, 
a great unfathomable Hole in
Derbyshire

PEAKING, a puling sickly
Constitution, that does not
thrive

PEAL, a great Noise, parti­
cularly of Bells, or Thunder,
&c

PEAR, a well known Fruit.

PEARMAIN, a kind of
Apple

PEARCH,
PERCH, a Seat for Fowls
to rest upon;
also a Rod or Pole with which
Land is measured, containing
Sixteen Foot and a Half, also a
fresh Water Fish.

To PEARCH, to light, or sit
upon as Birds do.

PEARL, a Gem that is bred
in a Shell Fish.

PEASANT, a Countryman, a
Clown

PEASANTRY, the Country
People

PEASE, a Pulse well known.

PEASE COD, the Husk or
Shell of Peace, the Peace in the 
Shell

PEAT, a sort of Fewel dug
out of moorish Ground.

PEBBLES, Stones for Paving.

PECCAVI, as, I'll make him
my peccavi, i.e. I'll make him
acknowledge his Fault.

PECK, a dry Measure con­
taining Two Gallons.

To PECK, to strike with the
Bill, as Birds do.

PECULIAR, particular, sin­
gular, private, proper.

PECULARITY, Peculiarli­
ness.

PECULIARLY, particularly,
singularly. 

PECUNIARY, moneyed, or
full of Money.

PEDAGOGUE, an Instructor,
or Teacher of Youth.

PEDANT, a paltry School­
master, a conceited Pretender to
Scholarship.

PEDANTICK, that savours of
a Pedant, Pedant like.

PEDANTRY, the ridiculous
Way and Humour of a Pedant.

PEDDERTON, a Town in
Somersetshire

PEDESTAL, that part of a 
Pillar which serves to support
it.

PEDIGREE, Descent from
Ancestors, Stock, Race.

PEDLER, one who sells
small Wares about the Streets

PEDLING, small, trifling,
of little Value.

PEEK, a Grudge. See
PIQUE.

PELL, a sort of Shovel
to set Bread into an Oven; a
thin Board for carrying Pies,
&c.

PEEL, the Rind or Coat of
Fruit.

To PEEL, to pull or take off
the Rind of Fruit

To PEEP, to look through a
Hole; to grow out, as Herbs,
Horns, Teeth, &c

PEER, a Mole, or Ram­
part, raised in an Harbour to
break the force of the Sea.

To PEER, to leer, to peep at.

PEERS, the Nobles, or Lords
of Parliament.

PEERAGE, the Dignity of a
Peer.

PEERESS, a Peer's lady.

PEERLESS, that which has
no Equal, incomparable.



PEEVISH, fretful.

PEEVISHNESS, Fretfulness,
Crossness.

A PEG, a small Piece of
pointed wood for several Pur­
poses.

PELF, Wealth, Stock, Riches
unjustly heaped up, also paltry 
Stuff

PELICAN, a Water-Fowl.

PELL, the Skin of a
Beast.

PELLETS, little Balls.

PELLICLE, a little Skin.

PELLITORY, an Herb.

PELL MELL, confusedly, 
without Order.

PELT, the Skin of a Beast.

PELTMONGER, one who
deals in Skins.

To PELT, to throw Stones,
Snow-Balls, &c at a Person,
also to fret, or fume.

A PEN, a Quill cut to write
with, also a Fold for Sheep, or
a Coop for Fowl

PEN, a Village in Surrey.

To PEN, to write down.

To PEN UP, to inclose, or
shut up.

PENMAN, an Artist in fair
Writing.

PENAL, belonging to, or
inflicting Punishment.

PENALTY, a Fine imposed
by way of Punishment

PENANCE, any sort of Mor­
tification enjoined by the Romish
Priests.

PENCIL, a small Instrument
used by Painters to draw or
paint with

PENDANT, hanging, left
undecided.

PENDANTS, Jewels which
Women hang on their Ears

PENDANTS of a Ship, are
Streamers, or long Colours,
which are hung at the Head of
Masts.

PENDENNIS, a Castle in
Cornwall, built by Henry VIII.
in the Port of Falmouth.

PENDENT, hanging down.

PENDULUM, a Weight
hanging at the End of a String
of Wire, by the Vibrations of
which Time is measured; also
a Clock, Watch, or Movement,
whose Motions are regulated by
such a Device.

PENETRABLE, that may
be pierced, or dived into.

To PENETRATE, to get or
pierce into or through, to dive
into.

PENETRATION, a pene­
trating, or piercing into, a
Quickness of Wit.

PENINSULA, a Track of
Land surrounded with Water,
except in one place.

PENITENCE, Repentance,
Sorrow, or Contrition for
Sin.

PENITENT, repenting, be­
ing sorrowful for having com­
mitted a Sin.

PENITENTIAL, belonging
to Repentance.

A PENKNIFE, a small Knife
for making or mending of
Pens.

PENNY, a Coin of the
twelfth Part of a Shilling in
Value.

PENNY-POST, a Post Office
for conveying Letters to all
Part within the Bills of Mor­
tality.

PENNY WEIGHT, an Eng­
lish Troy-Weight containing
Twenty-four Grains

PENSION, a Salary, or year­
ly Allowance.

PENSIONARY, (in Holland)
the chief Minister in the Go­
vernment of each City



PENSIONER, one who re­
ceives a Pension, also one who is
maintained in a College or Hospi­
tal at the King's Expense

PENSIVE, sad, heavy, sor­
owful, thoughtful.

PENSIVELY, thoughtfully,
sorrowfully

PENT, shut up.

PENTATEUCH, the five
Books of Moses

PENTECOST, the Festi­
val of Whitsuntide. 

PENTHOUSE, a Shelter
over a Door or Window.

PENURIOUS, covetous,
niggardly, stingy

PENURY, extreme Want of
Necessaries. 

PEOPLE, the whole Body
of Persons who live in a Country,
or make up a Nation.

To PEOPLE, to stock with
People.

PEPPER, an Indian Spice.

To PERAMBULATE, to
walk through or about

To PERCEIVE, to discover, 
spy, or find out, to apprehend.

PERCEIVABLE,
PERCEPTABLE, that may 
be per­
ceived.

PERCEPTION, the per­
ceiving or having a clear and dis­
tinct Apprehension of Objects

PERCH, a Measure of 16
Foot and a half

PERCUSSION, a striking
or knocking

PERDITION, utter Ruin or
Destruction

PEREGRINATION, a tra­
velling in foreign Countries.

PERENNIAL, lasting all the
Year

PEREMPTORY, absolute,
express, final, determinate, positive.

PEREMPTORILY, posi­
tively, absolutely. 

PERFECT, compleat, en­
tire; accomplished, excellent.

To PERFECT, to make
perfect, to finish.

PERFECTION, Accomplish­
ment, Excellency, the State or
Condition of that which is per­
fect.

PERFIDIOUS, false,
treacherous, deceitful.

PERFIDY,
PERFIDIOUSNESS, Breach 
of Faith
or Trust, Falseness, Treachery.

To PERFORATE, to pierce
through.

PERFORATION, a boring
through.

To PERFORM, to do, to
fulfill, to bring to pass.

PERFORMANCE, a per­
forming, also Work done.

To PERFUME, to give a
sweet Scent to.

PERFUME, any thing that
sends forth a sweet Scent, as
Civet, Musk, &c also the
Scent itself.

PERFUMER, one who
makes or sells Perfumes.

PERHAPS, it may be so.

PERIL, Danger, Hazard.

PERILLOUS, dangerous, full
of Peril.

PERIOD, a perfect Sentence
or Close, a full Stop at the End 
of a Sentence.

PERIODICAL, belonging to,
or that has its Periods.

To PERISH, to go to ruin
or decay, to be cast away, to
be ruined, to die.

PERISHABLE, apt to pe­
rish or come to ruin

PERJURY, For-swearing,
taking a false Oath.

To PERJURE, to for-swear.

PERIWIG, a Cap of human
Hair, worn by Men.



PERIWINKLE, a Shell­
Fish with a wreathed Shell,
called a Sea-Snail.

To PERK up, to lift up the
Head, to look lively.

PERMANENT, durable,
continual, lasting.

To PERMIT, to allow, give
leave, or suffer

PERMUTATION, an Ex­
changing

To PERMUTE, to ex­
change

PERNICIOUS, destructive,
mischievous, very hurtful

PERPENDICULAR, 
is when a right Line so falls upon
another that leans no more one
way than it does another.

A PERPENDICULAR, a
Level, a Plumb-Line

To PERPETRATE, to ef­
fect, perform, go through with,
to commit a Crime.

PERPETUAL, continual,
uninterrupted, endless, everlast­
ing

To PERPETUATE, to
make perpetual, to cause a
Thing to abide or last for ever.

PERPETUITY, Continu­
ance, without Interruption, Ever­
lastingness, Endlessness

To PERPLEX, to entangle or
confound, to disquiet or trouble.

PERPLEXED, confounded,
troubled, also difficult, hard to
understand

PERPLEXITY, Doubtful­
ness, Irresolution, Trouble, An­
guish of Mind

PERQUISITES, all manner
of Profits, arising from an Office
or Place, besides the Revenue or
Salary. 

PERRY, Wine or Drink
made of Pears

PERUKE, see Periwig

To PERSECUTE, to op­
press, vex or trouble.

PERSECUTION, any unjust
or violent Oppression.

PERSECUTOR, an Oppres­
sor.

PERSEVERANCE, Con­
stancy, Firmness, Resolution to
abide in any Way of Living, or
in any Opinion

To PERSEVERE, to continue
or be stedfast in a Thing

To PERSIST, to abide, hold
on, to continue in an Opinion,
or any Action.

PERSISTANCE, persisting,
Continuance

PERSON, a Term individu­
ally applied to every Man or
Woman, also the outward Form
or Shape of the Body

To PERSONATE, to act
the Part of another Person

PERSONABLE, having a
good Mein or Presence. 

PERSONAGE, the same
with Person, but especially an
honourable Person.

PERSONAL, belonging to
Person.

PERSONAL Estate, any
moveable thing belonging to a
man alive or dead

To PERSONATE, to act
or represent a Person

PERSPECTIVE, is an Art
which gives Rules for the repre­
senting of Objects on a plain Su­
perficies after the same manner
as they would appear to our Sight
if seen through that Plane which
is supposed as transparent as
Glass

PERSPICACIOUS, quick
sighted, quick witted

PERSPICACITY, Quickness
of Sight or Apprehension.

PERSPICUITY, Clearness or
Plainness in Writing of Speaking.

PERSPICUOUS, that is so
clear or transparent as the Light 



may be plainly seen through it;
also easy to be apprehended,
plain

PERSPIRATION, a Breath­
ing or Streaming through.

To PERSPIRE, to sweat or
stream through the Pores.

To PERSUADE,
To PERSWADE, to con­
vince,
to satisfy, to advise, or put one
upon

PERSUASION, persuading;
also Advice, Opinion, Belief.

PERSUASIVE, apt to per­
suade.

PERSUASORY, apt to per­
suade.

PERT, brisk, lively, prag­
matical

To PERTAIN, to belong to,
or concern.

PERTINACIOUS, obstinate,
stubborn, wilful.

PERTINACIOUSLY, 
stiffly, obstinately.

PERTINACITY, Obstina­
cy, Stubbornness. 

PERTINENCE, Fitness, or
Suitableness.

PERTNESS, Briskness,
Liveliness.

PERTURBATION, Dis­
quiet, Disorder, Trouble of
Mind

PERTURBATOR, a Dis­
turber

To PERVADE, to go over
or through.

PERVERSE, froward, 
cross-grained

PERVERSELY, stubbornly,
crossly

PERVERSION, a Seducing,
Corrupting, Overthrowing, a
turning to a wrong Sense.

PERVERSENESS, Fro­
wardness, Crossness, Ill-nature,
Malice

To PERVERT, to turn up­
side down, to debauch, to se­
duce

PERVIOUS, passable, easy
to be passed through.

PERVIOUSNESS, the be­
ing passable

PERUSUAL, a Perusing or
Reading over

To PERUSE, to look or read
over. 

PERU, a Province in Ame­
rica.

PEST, a Plague or Pestilence,
a Bane, Ruin.

PESTHOUSE, a Hospital
for those who are sick of the
Plague.

To PESTER, to plague,
annoy, embarrass, or trouble.

PESTIFEROUS, bringing the
Plague or Pestilence, destructive,
deadly..

PESTILENCE, the Plague,
a Disease, arising from an Infect­
tion in the Air, attended with
Boils, Blotches, &c.

PESTILENT, plaguy, de­
structive, dangerous, mischie­
vous.

PESTILENTIAL, belonging
to or partaking of the Nature of
the Plague.

PET, Distaste or Displeasure.

To take PET,
To be in a PET, to be offend­
ed, to snuff 
at, to be angry.

PETER, one of the twelve
Apostles.

PETERBOROUGH, a Bi­
shop's See in Northamptonshire,
62 Miles from London

PETER Pence, a Tribute of
a Penny for every House given to
the Pope, by Ina King of the
West Saxons, A.C. 720

PETIT, petty, very small.

PETIT Treason, is when a
Servant kills his Master, a Wife
her Husband, a secular or reli­



gious Man his Prelate or Su­
perior.

PETITION, a Request or
Supplication by an Inferior to his
Superior

To PETITION, to present 
or put up a Petition.

PETITIONER, he or she
who puts up a Petition.

To PETRIFY, to turn or
grow into Stone

PETTICOAT, a Garment
worn by Women, reaching from 
the Waste down to the Feet.

PETTIFOGGER, an ig­
norant Lawyer.

PETTISH, apt to take pet
or be angry, froward, peevish.

PETTISHNESS, Peevish­
ness, stomachful,

PETTITOES, Pigs Feet,
Liver, &c.

PETTO, as to keep a thing
in Petto, is to keep it in one's
Breast. 

PETTY, little, small, in­
considerable.

PETULANCY, Sauciness,
Malapertness, Wantonness.

PETULANT, saucy, wan­
ton, malapert. 

PETULANTLY, wantonly,
malapertly

PEVETS, the Ends of the
Spindle in Wheel of a Watch or
Clock.

A PEW, a partition'd Seat in
a Church.

PEWET, a Bird, a Puet, a
Lapwing.

PEWTER, a white mixed
Metal well known.

PEWTERER, a Maker of
or Dealer in Pewter

PHÆNOMENA, Appea­
rances of Meteors, or any other
Signs in the Heavens.

PHANATICAL, of or be­
longing to a Phanatick.

PHANATICK, one that
pretends to Revelation and new
Lights, one that has vain Vi­
sions and Apparitions, now a
Dissenter from the established
Church is so called

PHANTASM, an Appariti­
on, a Vision, night Ghosts, an
idle Conceit.

PHANTASTICAL, full of
Farcies or Whims

PHANTASTICALLY, 
whimsically.

PHANTOM, an Apparition
or Ghost.

PHAROAH, a Title antiently
belonging to the Kings of Egypt

PHARISEES, a Sect of the
Jews who applied themselves to
the Study of the Law in the espe­
cial manner, pretending to more
Holiness than others

PHARMACY, that Part of
Physick, which teaches the
Choice and Preparations of Me­
dicines

PHEASANT, a Sort of
Bird well known to Sportsmen

PHIAL, a little Glass Bottle
corruptly called Vial.

PHILEMON, a proper
Name of Men

PHILECTUS, a proper
Name of Men.

PHILIBERT, a proper
Name of Women.

PHILIP, a Man's Name;
also a Gold Coin of Three Shil­
lings Value

PHILOLOGY, the Study of
Humanity, or Skill in the libe­
ral Arts or Sciences

PHILOMATH, a Lover of
Learning, or of the mathema­
ticks

PHILOSOPHER, one skilled
in the Study of Philosophy

PHILOSOPHICAL, belong­
ing to Philosophy



To PHILOSOPHIZE, to
play the Philosopher, to dispute
or argue like a Philosopher.

PHILOSOPHY, the Know­
ledge of Things natural and mo­
ral, grounded upon Reason and
Experience

PHILTER, a Medicine or
Charm to procure Love, a Love
Potion or Powder.

PHLEBOTOMY, opening
a Vein with a Lancet, to let
Blood from it.

PHLEGM, one of the Hu­
mours of the body

PHLEGMATICK, full of
or troubled with Phlegm.

PHLEME, an Instrument
used by Farriers in bleeding.

PHOENIX, a Bird in Ara­
bia of the Bigness of an Eagle,
which is reported to live 600
Years, and that there is but one
of them in the world at a
time

PHOSPHORUS, a Chymi­
cal Preparation kept in Water,
and being taken out of it and
exposed to the Air, takes fire of
itself. 

PHRASE, Expression or
Manner of Speech

PHRENETICK, belonging
to or troubled with the Frenzy.

PHRENSY, a Dotage with
a continued Fever, often accom­
panied with Madness.

PHTHISICK, a Shortness of
Breath, attended with a Fever
and a Cough

PHILLIS, a proper Name of
Women.

PHYSICAL, natural, be­
longing to natural Philosophy,
or the Art of Physick

PHYSICIAN, a Doctor, a
Professor of Physick

PHYSICK, is in general the
Science of all material Beings,
through commonly applied to the
Art of curing Diseases

PHYSIOGNOMY, an Art
which teaches to guess the na­
tures, Conditions, or Fortunes of
Persons, by a View of their
Faces, Body, &c. also the Face
itself.

PHYSIOLOGY, Physicks
or natural Philosophy.

PHYZ, the Countenance.

PIASTER, an Italian Coin
of about a Crown English in
Value.

PIAZZA, a broad open Place,
as a Market-place, &c also
corruptly the walk about it set
with Pillars. 

To PICK, to gather up as
Birds do Seeds, &c to gather by
little and little, to call or chuse 
out.

PICKADILLY, a Street near
St. James's built by one Higgins
a Taylor, who got his Estate
by making a fist of stiff Collar
in the Fashion of a Band, then
call'd Pickadelles, formerly much
in fashion

PICKAXE, an Instrument 
for digging

PICKET, is a sharp Stake
pointed with Iron, to mark out
the Ground and Angles of a For­
tification to take the Plan of it:
Also a game at Cards

PICKLE, several Sorts of
Brine made of Vinegar, Salt,
Spices, &c.

PICKLES, Fruits of Plants,
&c. pickled for Sauces

PICTURE, the Image or
Representation of a Person or
Thing, made in Painting or
Graving

To PIDDLE, to eat here and
there a Bit, also to stand tri­
fling.



PIE, a Dish of Meat or
Fruit baked in Paste, also a
Magpie, a Bird.

A PIECE, Part, Portion,
Slice; also a Pound Sterling or
twenty Shillings

PIECE of Eight, a Spanish
Coin worth about four Shillings
and Six-pence English.

PIED, spotted or speckled.

To PIERCE, to bore
through, or breach a Vessel.

PIETY, Godliness, Devotion,
natural Affection, Love to one's
Country or Parents.

A PIG, a young Swine.

PIGEON, a Fowl.

PIGGIN, a wooden Vessel
with a Handle for holding Li­
quids.

PIKE, a long Weapon for
a foot Soldier armed at the End
with a little Spear, also a River
Fish.

PILASTER, a kind of square
Pillar made to jut out of a 
Wall.

PILCHARD, a Sea Fish,
somewhat like a Herring, but
lesser.

PILE, a Heap of Wood, or
other things laid one above ano­
ther, also a Mass of Buildings.

PILES, a Disease in the Fun­
dament, the Hæmorrhoides

To PILFER, to steal Things
of small Value.

PILGRIM, one who tra­
vels into foreign Countries to visit
holy Places, to pay his Devotions
to the Relicks of dead Saints,
&c.

PILGRIMAGE, a Journey
for that Purpose.

PILL a sold Medicine made
of several Ingredients like a 
little Ball.

To PILLAGE, to plunder,
rifle, rob.

PILLAGE, plundering,
rifling, Robbery.

PILLAR, a sort of irregular
Column, one of the principal
things in which the Beauty of a 
Building conflicts.

PILLION, a kind of soft
Saddle for Women to ride upon.

PILLORY, a wooden Frame
or Engine, on which Cheats and
other Offenders stand, to be
Examples of publick Shame

PILLOW, a sort of Cushion
to lay one's Head on.

PILOT, a Person employ'd
to conduct Ships into Roads or
Harbours, over Bars and Sands,
&c also the Steers-man of a
Ship, who stands at the Helm,
and manages the Rudder.

PIMP, a Procurer of or an
Attendant upon Whores, &c.

To PIMP, to play the
Pimp

PIMPLE, a little Wheal.

A PIN, a small brass Uten­
sil for fastening on Cloaths in
dressing, also a Necessary for va­
rious other Uses.

To PIN, to shut in; also to
fasten on.

PIN and Web, a Hardness of
the Membrane of the Eye not
unlike a Cataract.

PINCERS, an Iron Instru­
ment for various Uses.

To PINCH, to nip hard with
the Fingers, to hurt as Shoes do;
also to reduce to Extremity, to
afflict

PINDARICK, a Sort of
Poetry in Imitation of Pindar

PINE, a Pine-tree.

To PINE, to languish to
consume or waste away with
Grief.

PINFOLD, a Place to pen
up Cattle in.



PINION, the Wing of a
Fowl, also the Nut or lesser
Wheel of a Clock or Watch,
that plays in the Teeth of ano­
ther.

To PINION one, to bind one's 
Hans or Arms fast

PINK, a Flower; also a Sort
of little sailing Ship; also a Sort
of yellow Colour.

To PINK, to wink with the
Eye, &c. also to cut Silk or
Cloth with Variety of Figures
in round Holes or Eyes.

PINNACE, a small Vessel
with a square Stern going with
Sails and Oars, and carrying
three Masts.

PINNACLE, the highest
Top of a great Building, figura­
tively, Eminence or Height.

PINT, an English Measure
for Liquors, two of which make a
Quart

PIONEER, a Labourer taken
up for the Service of an Army,
to level Ways, cast up Trenches,
and undermine Forts

PIONY,
PEONY, a Plant which
bears a fine red 
Flower.

PIP, a Disease in Poultry;
any Spot or Mark upon Cards

PIPE, a musical Instrument;
also a Reed, a Device to take
Tobacco in, also a Conduit or
Channel

A PIPE, a Measure of Wine
containing 162 Gallons.

PIPER, a Player on a Pipe.

PIPPIN, an excellent Apple
of various Sorts.

PIQUANT, sharp, biting
nipping

PIQUET,
PICKET, a certain Game 
at Cards

PIRACY, the Trade or
Practice of a Pirate.

PIRATE, one who lives by
robbing upon the Seas.

To PIRATE, to rob upon
the Sea.

PIRATICAL, belonging to
a Pirate

PISMIRE, an Ant, a very
small Creature.

To PISS, to void Urine.

PISS, Urine.

PISTOL, a small Sort of
Fire Arms

PISTOLE, a French or Spa­
nish Piece of Gold valued at
seventeen Shillings.

PIT, a Hole in the Ground,
a Well.

PIT fall, a sort of Gin or
Trap to catch Birds.

To PITCH, to do over with
Pitch or Tar.

PITCH, an oily bituminous
Substance well known.

To PITCH, to fix, as to
pitch a Tent or Camp; also to
pave.

A PITCH, an Iron Bar
with a picked End, a Crow;
also Stature or Height

To PITCH, to light upon;
also to set a Burden upon.

PITCHER, an earthen Ves­
sel with a handle to contain Li­
quors

PITCHFORD, a Spring ri­
sing in a private House in Shrop­
shire, upon which Pitch con­
tinually floateth.

PITCHFORK, an Instru­
ment used by Husbandmen.

PITH, the inward Part
or Marrow of the Tree, &c

PITHY, full of Pith or
Marrow, substantial, full of
good Matter.

PITIFUL, inclined to Pity,
compassionate, also woeful, sorry,
wretched. 

PITILESS, not to be moved
to Pity, merciless.



PITEOUS, sad, grievous, piti­
ful, wretched, woeful

PITY, Compassion, Concern
of Mind

PIVOT, a Piece of Iron like
a Top, set into the Sole or
Ring at the bottom of a Gate,
so as to bear it up, and give it
Motion

PIZZLE, the grisly Part of
the Penis of a Beast

PLACABLE, easy to be pa­
cified or appeased. 

PLACAERT, 
PLACART, a Proclama­
tion or Or­
dinance.

PLACE, Space or Room,
in which a Person or Thing is;
also Office, Employment

To PLACE, to order, to
dispose, to put, lay or set.

PLACID, gentle, mild, pa­
tient, quiet

PLACKET, the open Part
of a Woman's Petticoat.

PLAD, a Mantle worn by
the Highlanders in Scotland;
also a Sort of Stuff so called.

PLAGIARY, one who steals
other Mens Works, a Book
Thief, a Kidnapper

PLAGUE, a Disease com­
monly mortal; also Punishment,
Judgment, Scourge

To PLAGUE, to vex, to
tease, to torment

PLAIN, even, smooth,
without Ornament, clear, ma­
nifest, sincere, down right

A PLAIN, a flat Country;
a plain Field.

PLAINT, Complaint, La­
mentation

PLAINTIFF, one at whose
Suit a Plaint is made, a Com­
plainant.

A PLAISTER, a Medicine
spread upon Leather or Linnen,
to be laid upon a Sore or painful
Place.

To PLAIT, to lay in Plaits
or Folds.

PLAN, a Draught, Model
or Ground Plot, a Design or Pro­
ject of any Place on Work.

PLANE, a Joiner's Tool to
smooth Boards with. 

To PLANE, to make smooth
with a Joiner's Plane.

PLANE Tree, a tall Sort of
a Tree.

PLANET, a wandring Star
of which there are six Primary
ones, as Mercury, Venus, the 
Earth, Mars, Jupiter, and Sa­
turn

PLANETARY, belonging
to the Planets.