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intend, purpose; VA., 587: pretend; L., 121.

intendment, intention, purpose; see note, VA., 222.

intituled, given rightful title to any possession or privilege; L., 57.

invention, imagination, imaginative faculty; VA., Dedic., 5: ingenuity, inventiveness, L., 225: a design, plan, idea; L., 1302.

jar, contention, quarrel; cf. Spenser, Faerie Queene, II. ii. 26; VA., 100.

key-cold, see note, L., 1774.

kind, nature; L., 1147, 1242: natural; L., 1423.

laund, an open space in a forest, a clearing; VA., 813. let, hinder, oppose; L., 328: cease, forbear, L., 10: hindrance; L., 646.

livelihood, liveliness; cf. All's Well, I. i. 58; VA., 26. lour, to frown, look sullen; VA., 75, 183.

lure, a contrivance used to recall hawks, consisting of a bunch of feathers to resemble a bird, to which was attached a long cord or thong; VA., 1027.

margent, margin (of a book), in which was the commentary on the text itself; commentary; L., 102.

mark, goal; PP., 63.

mate, thwart (as in "

check-mate"); VA., 909.

meed, reward; VA., 15; L., 132.

mend, amend (cf. L., 578); VA., 478.

miss, wrong-doing, misdeed; VA., 53.

moe, more; L., 1479, 1615.

mot, a device, motto; L., 830.

mover, living creature, cf. Coriolanus, I. v. 5; VA., 368. muset, an opening in a hedge; see note, VA., 683.

nill (=ne will), will not; PP., 188.

o'erworn, worn out, decrepit; VA., 135: out-worn, spent; cf. outwore the night" (VA., 841); VA., 866.

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orts, fragments of food left over from a meal, refuse scraps, cf. Troilus and Cressida, V. ii. 158; L., 985.

overfly, fly beyond; cf. "overshoot" (VA., 680); VA., 324. oversee, see note, L., 1205.

overseen, betrayed into a fault or blunder, deluded or taken advantage of; L., 1206.

owe, to possess, own; L., 1803:

under obligation to pay,

owe; VA., 411; see note, L., 82., etc.

pale, pallor; VA., 589; L., 1512.

palfrey, “a saddle-horse for ordinary riding as distinguished from a war-horse.' New Eng. Dict.; VA., 384. parling, speaking; cf. the use of the verb in Marlowe's Hero and Leander: "These lovers parled by the touch of hands (1st Sestiad, v. 185); L., 100.

passenger, traveler; VA., 91.

pelt, to throw out angry words; L., 1418.

pencill'd, painted; pencil originally meant a fine brush; L., 1497.

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pikes, sharp points; cf. the account of the hedgehog in Batman vppon Bartholome (1582), Lib. XVIII, cap. 62: 'And for roughnesse and sharpnesse of the pricks and pikes he is called Hirenacius or Hiricius, and hath as Aristotle saith, pikes instead of haire"; VA., 620. pine, languish; L., 795: starve (intr.), L., 905, 1115; starve (tr.), VA., 602.

pioner, one of a body of soldiers whose duty it was to dig the trenches and prepare the roads for the army; L.,

1380.

pith, physical vigor; VA., 26. plaits, folds; L., 93.

plausibly, approvingly; L., 1854.

precedent (Qq. president), outward sign, indication, evidence; VA., 26; L., 1261.

precurrer, forerunner; PT., 6.

presently, immediately; L., 1007.

press, a throng, crowd; L., 1408.

prevent, anticipate, forestall; VA., 471.

prone, lit., flat; fig., tending toward what is base, groveling; L., 684.

purl, to curl; L., 1407.

qualified, tempered, moderated; L., 424.

rank, swollen, raging; VA., 71.

rate, berate, chide; VA., 906; L., 304.

receipt, that which has been received, contents; Coriolanus, I. i. 116; L., 703.

regard, observant attention; L., 277, 305, 1400. relent, melt, dissolve; VA., 200; L., 1829.

relief, sustenance; VA., 235.

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relier, one who relies upon some one or something; L.,

639.

remorse, pity, tenderness of heart; VA., 257; L., 269. renying, the act of renouncing; PP., 250.

repeal, recall from banishment; L., 640.

respect, deliberation, reflection; VA., 911; L., 201, 275. retiring, returning; see note, L., 962.

rigol (Fr. rigole), a ring or circle; cf. 2 Henry IV, IV. v. 36; L., 1745.

round, circle; L., 952: globe, cf. Antony and Cleopatra, V. i. 15; VA., 368.

sad, grave, serious; L., 277.

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seal-manual, signet; VA., 516.

senseless, insensible; VA., 211:

"unbodied, spiritual,

not subject to the senses," Furnivall; L., 820. silly, helpless, pitiable; PP., 123, 218, 257.

sith, since (conj.); VA., 762.

slip, counterfeit coin, as in Romeo, II. iv. 51; VA., 515.
sneap,
lit. check, restrain, and in a derived sense, deceive;
cf. Eng. Dial. Dict., under " snape"; L., 333.

sod, past tense of seethe; L., 1592.

sort, to fit, to make comformable to; L., 1221.

spill (the original sense), to destroy; L., 1801: to shed "(blood or tears); VA., 1167; L., 999, 1236.

spleen, sudden impulse; VA., 907.

spoil, despoil, plunder; L., 1172: destroy, ruin; L.,

951.

spring, a young shoot or bud; VA., 656: a copse, a growth
of shrubs and young trees; cf. Catholicon Anglicanum
(1483): "a Sprynge of wodde; virgultum; cf. also
Eng. Dial. Dict.; L., 950.
stain, see note, VA., 9.

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stalled, fastened, secured; cf. " head-stall,” in which this meaning of the word still survives; VA., 39; PP., 300. stillitory, a still, alembic; VA., 443.

suggest, inspire (an action); VA., 651: tempt; see note, L., 37; PP., 16.

surcease, cease; L., 1766.

surmise, reflection, thought; see note, L., 83, 1579.
suspect, suspicion; VA., 1010.

teen, pain; VA., 808.

tender, cherish, have regard to; L., 534.

threne, funeral song; PT., 49.

tires, pulls and tears; VA., 56.

toy, vb., to dally amorously; VA., 34, 106.

toy, sb., a bauble, a thing of no value; L., 214: an idle

conceit; PP., 337.

treatise, see note, VA., 774.

type, distinguishing mark, sign; L., 1050.

unadvised, unintentional; L., 1488.

uncouple, to loose hounds from their couples, so, to begin the chase, as in Titus Andronicus, II. ii. 3; VA., 674.unseasonable, out of the hunting season; L., 581. unsounded, unfathomed; L., 1819.

urchin, hedgehog; VA., 1105.

vail, lower, let fall; VA., 314, 956. vastly, like a waste; L., 1740.

waste, spend; see note, VA., 24.

wear (intr.), wear out; VA., 506; L., 560.

watch, keep awake; VA., 584.

water-galls, a second rainbow, or a fragment of a rainbow

said to prognosticate rainy weather; L., 1588.

welkin, sky; VA., 921; L., 116.

wilful, wishful, desirous; VA., 365; L., 417.

winks, shuts the eyes; VA., 90.

wistly, attentively; VA., 343; L., 1355; PP., 82.

wittily, cleverly, shrewdly; VA., 471.

wood, frantic, raving; VA., 740.

wot, knows; L., 1345; PP., 254.

wrack, wreck (especially shipwreck), ruin; VA., 454

(Qq), 558; L., 966 and 1451 (Qq).

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