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MISPRISED, fometimes it fignifies miftaken, from the Fresci verb mefprendre: fometimes undervalued or difdained, from the French verb mépriser.

A MISPRISION, a mistake.
MODERN, common, ordinary, vulgar.
A MOLDWARP, a mole.

A MOME, (Vol. 1. 408.) a dull ftupid blockhead, a stock, a poź, This owes its original to the French word Momon, which fignifs; the gaming at dice in masquerade, the custom and rule of which is that a ftrict filence is to be obferved: whatsoever fum one ftakes, ¦ another covers, but not a word is to be spoken: from hence ab comes our word Mum! for filence.

MULLD, (Vol. 6. 167.) foften'd and difpirited as wine is wha burnt and fweeten'd. Lat Mollitus.

A MUMMER, (Vol. 5. 111.) a Masker.
Mafquerading. Fr. Momerie.

MUMMERIE,

A MURE, (Vol. 1. 133. and Vol. 3. 445.) a Wall. Lat. Marai. MURK, Darkness. MURKY, dark.

A MUSKET, a male hawk of a fmall kind, the female of which is the fparrow-hawk: fo that Eyas Musket (Vol. 1. 255.) is a young unfledg'd male hawk of that kind. Fr. Mouchèt.

A MUSS, (Vol. 5. 346.) a fcramble.

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NAYWARD, "to th' nayward, " (Vol. 2. 530.) to the fide of denial, towards the faying Nay.

A NAY-WORD, (Vol. 2. 456.) the fame as By-word: a word of contempt; also a word fecretly agreed upon, as among soldiers, for the distinguishing friends from foes.

A NEAFE or NEIFE or NEIVE, a fist.

A NEB, (Vol. 2. 518.) the Bill or Beak of a bird.

NICK, (Vol. 1. 192.) Jeft, Mockery. Thence the word Nickname from the Brit. Niq. See Diction. de Trevoux.

A NOLE, (Vol. 1. 105.) a Noddle.

OEILIADS, (Vol. 3. 81.) Glances. Fr. Oeillades.

An OPAL, (Vol. 2. 460.) a precious ftone reflecting almost all colours. Fr. Opale. Lat. Opalus.

ORGILLOUS, (Vol. 6. Prol. to Tr. and Cre) Proud. Fr. Orgueilleux.

OR TS, fcraps, fragments, leavings.

OSPREY, (Vol. 5. 174.) the Sea-Eagle, of which it is reported, that when he hovers in the Air, all the fish in the water underneath turn up their bellies and lie ftill for him to feize which he pleases. One of the names of this bird is Offraga, from which by cor

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An OSTENT, a fhew, an outward appearance. Lat. Oftentus. To OVERWEEN, to reach beyond the truth of any thing in thought especially in the opinion of a man's felf.

OUPHE, the fame as Elfe, from which it is a corruption, a Fairy, a Hobgoblin.

OUPHEN, Elfish, of fairy-kind.

An OUZLE, a blackbird.

OUCHES, (Vol. 3. 405.) Boffes or Buttons of Gold. The word is mention'd in an old Statute of Hen. 8 made against excess in apparel, it is also ufed by Chaucer and Spencer.

To OWE is very frequently used for, Poffefs; to be the Owner of: especially where the Author would imply an abfolute right or property in the thing poffefs'd.

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A PADDOCK, a toad.

PALABRAS, (Vol. 1. 493.) o' my word.
Pocas Palabras. (Vol. 2. 255.) few words.

Span. Dò Palabra.

A PALLIAMENT, (Vol. 5. 395.) a Robe. Ital. Paliamento.
A PANTALOON, (Vol. 2. 204.) a man's garment anciently worn,
in which the breeches and stockings were all of a piece. Fr. Pantalon.
A PANTLER, the officer in a great family who keeps the bread.
Fr. Panetier.

To PARAGON, to compare. Fr. Paragonner: alfo, to equal, (Vol. 6. 463.)

A PARAGON, a compleat Model or Pattern.

A PARATOR, the fame as Apparator or Apparitor: an officer belonging to the Spiritual Courts, who carries fummons and ferves proceffes.

TO PARGET, (Vol. 5. 379.) to daub or plaifter over.

PARTLET, (Vol. 2. 540.) a name given to a Hen: the original fignification being a ruff or band or covering for the Neck.

A PASH, (Vol. 2. 517.) a kifs. Span. Paz. La paz de Judas is a phrafe with the Spaniards, by which they exprefs treachery.

To PASH, to dash.

A PELT, a Skin or Hide. Lat. Pellis.

PELTING, (a pelting Village, a pelting Farm) has the fame fenfe as beggarly. There is a rot among Sheep, particularly call'd the Pelt-rot; which is, when the Sheep from poverty and ill keeping first lofe their wool and then dye.

PERDY, (Vol. 3. 45) an oath. Fr. par Dieu.

PERIAPTS, (Vol. 4. 76.) Amulets: charms worn as prefervatives
against difeafes or mischief. Gr. spidπle, pro amuleto appendo,
Steph.

A PET, a lamb taken into the House, and brought up by hand; a
Cade-lamb.

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A PETAR, (Vol. 6. 393.) a kind of little Cannon filled with powder,
and used for the breaking down the gates of a town, and for coun
termining. Fr. Petard.

PICKED, fharp, fmart. Fr. Piquè.
PIGHT, pitch'd, placed, fixed.

A PILCHER, (Vol. 6. 271.) a furr'd gown or cafe, any thing
lined with furr.

PIN, (Vol. 3. 62.) a horny induration of the membranes of the Eye.
A PIX, (Vol. 3. 516.) a little cheft or box wherein the confecrated
Hoft is kept in Roman-Catholick-Countries. Lat. Pixis.
PLANCHED GATE, (Vol. 1. 352.) a Gate of boards.
To PLASH, (Vol. 1. 8.) to reduce into order the largest and mot
riotous plants in a hedge by cutting deep into their bodies to make
them bend down, and then interweaving them with the lower parts
of the hedge. The original and true word is to Pleach by vulga
ufe pronounced Plafh.

To PLEACH, to twift together, to interweave.

POINT-DEVICE, (Vol. 2. 217.) exact to the greateft nicety.
Fr. A points devifés: the expreffion is ufed by Chaucer.
POLL D, (Vol. 5. 166.) fhaven.

POMANDER, (Vol. 2. 584.) a little round ball of Perfumes. Fr.
Pomme d'Ambre.

POM WATER, (Vol. 2. 118.) a very large apple.

A PRECISIAN, (Vol. 1. 230.) one who profeffes great fanctity,
a ghoftly father, a fpiritual guide.

PRIME, (Vol. 6. 498.) prompt; from the Celtique or British Pris.
PRIMERO, a game at Cards. Span. Primera.

A PRISER, (Vol. 2. 191.) a Prize-fighter.

PROFACE, (Vol. 3. 460) much good may do you! Ital. Prefaccia, To PROPEND, (Vol. 6. 40.) to lean more, to incline more favourably. Lat. Propendeo.

PROPERTIES, a term much ufed at the Playhouses for the habits and implements neceffary for the reprefentation; and they who furnish them are called Property-Men. This feems to have arifen from that fenfe of the word Property, which fignifies a Blind, a Tool, a Stalking Horse.

A PUTTOCK, a Kite.

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A QUAB, (Vol. 6. 527.) a Gudgeon (Gobio capitatus. Skin.) and
a gudgeon is often ufed in a figurative fenfe for a soft easy fool ready
to fwallow any bait laid for him.

To QUAIL, to droop, to languish, to faint.
QUATCH, (Vol. 2. 363.) fquat or flat.

QUEAZY, (Vol. 3. 33.) fickifh, naufeating.

A QUELL, (Vol. 5. 485.) a murderous conqueft. In the common acceptation to quell fignifies to fubdue any way, but it comes from a Saxon word, which signifies to kill.

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A QUERN, a churn; also a mill.

QUESTES, (Vol. 3. 78.) lamentations. Lat. Queftus.

A QUESTANT or QUESTER, one who goes in queft of any thing. QUILL, (" deliver our fupplications in quill," Vol. 4. 104) this may be fuppofed to have been a Phrafe formerly in ufe, and the fame with the French en quille, which is faid of a man, when he stands upright upon his feet without ftirring from the place. The proper fenfe of Quille in French is a Nine-Pin, and in fome parts of England Nine-Pins are still call'd Cay's, which word is used in the Statute 33. Hen. 8. c. 9. Quille in the old British language alfo fignifies any piece of wood fet upright.

QUILLETS, quibbles, querks, fubtleties.

QUIPS, (Vol. 1. 190.) gibes, flouts.

A QUINTAIN, (Vol. 2. 183.) a poft, or the figure of a Man fet up in Wood for the purpose of military exercifes, throwing darts, breaking lances, or running a tilt against it. Fr. Quintaine. To QUOTE, to understand, to interpret, to rate, to estimate.

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RABATO, (Vol. 1. 490.) an ornament for the Neck, a collar-band or kind of ruff. Fr. Rabat. Menage faith it comes from rabattre to put back, because it was at first nothing but the collar of the fhirt or shift turn'd back towards the fhoulders.

The RACK, (Vol. 5. 364. and Vol. 6. 363.) the course or driving of the Clouds.

RAIED, blotted, ftained, fouled: the fame as Beraied, which is the term more known of late days. Fr. Rayé.

RAUGHT, the fame as reached.

To RAVIN, to fnatch or devour greedily.

A RAZE of ginger, (Vol. 3. 298.) this is the Indian word for a bale, and mult be diftinguifh'd from Race, which fignifies a fingle root of ginger.

REAR-MICE or RERE-MICE, bats.

A RECHEATE, (Vol. 1. 453) a particular leffon upon the horn to call dogs back from the fcent; from the old French word Recet, which was used in the fame fenfe as Retraite.

RECHLESS or RECKLESS, regardlefs, negligent.

To RECK, to regard, to care.

REECHY or REEKY, fmoaky or foiled with fmoak; thence alfo fweaty or filthy with fweat.

REED, Leffon, doctrine, counsel.

REGUERDON, (Vol. 4. 45.) Recompence.

To RENEGE, (Vol 3. 39.) to renounce. Span. Renegár. RIBAULD, debauch'd, abandon'd, prostituted. Fr. Ribaud. RIBI, (Vol. 3. 310.) drink away! Italian. The imperative mood of Ribére which is the fame as Ribévere, to drink again.

RIGGISH,

RIGGISH, wanton.

RIGOL, (Vol. 3. 447.) a circle: from the Ital. Rigolo, which fig. nifies a little round wheel or trundle.

ROISTING, (Vol. 6. 41.) bluftering, fwaggering.

A ROOD, a Crofs.

A ROWSE, (Vol. 6. 328.) the fame as a Carowse.
ROYNISH, mangy, fcabby. Fr. Rogneux.

A RUDDOCK, (Vol. 6. 190.) a robin red breaft.
RUDESBY, (Vol. 2. 490.) rude companion, rude fellow !

A RUNNION, or RONYON, à fcabby or mangy man or woman. Fr. Rogneux and Rogneuse.

RUTH, Pity, compaffion.

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SACRING-BELL, (Vol. 4. 471.) the little bell, which is rung in the proceffion of the Hoft to give notice of its approach, or to call to fome holy office. From the French word Sacrer, to confecrate ar dedicate to the service of God.

SAD is frequently ufed for grave, fober, ferious.

To SAGG is (properly) to fink on one fide as weights do when they are not balanced by equal weights on the other.

A SALLET or SALADE, (Vol. 4. 176.) a helmet. Span. Celada. Fr. Salade.

SALTIER, (Vol. 2. 575.) a term in Heraldry, one of the Ordinaries in form of St. Andrew's crofs.

SANDED (Vol. 1. 122.) of a fandy colour, which is one of the colours belonging to a true blood-hound.

SAN DOMINGO, (Vol. 3. 462.) St. Dominick. Span.
SANS, without, a French word.

A SAW, a wife faying, a proverb.

'SAY, (Vol. 3. 100.) Effay. Fr. Essai.

To SCAN, to canvass, to examine, to weigh and confider well any bufinefs.

SCARFED, (Vol. 2. 31.) pierced or jointed clofe together; a term ufed by the Ship-builders.

SCATH, harm, mifchief. SCATHFUL, mischievous.
A SCONCE, a fort, a fortrefs; alfo, a man's head.

To SCOTCH, to hack, to bruife, to crush. Ital. Shiacciari.
SCROYLES, (Vol. 3. 128.) the difeafe call'd the King's evil.
Fr. Eferoüelles; here given as a name of contempt and abuse to the
men of Angiers; as we fometimes fcurrilously call men Scabs.
To SCUTCH, (Vol. 3. 427.) to fwitch, to whip, to scourge.
Ital. Scuticare.

SEAM, (Vol. 6. 46.) Tallow, Fat.

A SEA MALL, (Vol. 1. 38.) a kind of Gull, a bird haunting the

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