Advowtry |
Adultery |
Animalia |
Animals (L.) |
Arsie-versie |
Upside-down |
Aruspicy |
Prophesying, fortune-telling |
Bachrach |
Wine from Bacharach, in Germany |
Bavin |
A bundle of firewood |
Boutefeu |
Arsonist or (literal or metaphorical) firebrand |
Cacodaemon |
An evil Spirit |
Caldes'd |
Cheated |
Calendae |
The 1st or 2nd of the month |
Calleche |
A carriage with two wheels and a folding hood |
Camelion |
A giraffe |
Camisado |
An attack by night, during which the attackers wore shirts
over their armour so they could recognise one another |
Cane & Angue pejus |
Worse than a dog or a snake (L.) |
Caperdewsie |
The stocks |
Capoch'd |
Pulled off the hoods |
Caprich |
A caprice |
Carbonading |
Thrashing, beating |
Carroch |
A stately or luxurious carriage |
Catasta |
The stocks |
Cawdie |
A military cadet |
Cawdle |
Soup or gruel |
Ceruse |
White lead used as a cosmetic |
Champaign |
Champagne wine |
Champain |
Countryside |
Chous'd, choust, chows'd |
Cheated |
Chowse |
A cheat's victim |
Classis |
The elders and pastors of all the Presbyterian congregations
in a district |
Coincidere |
To come together (L.) |
Congees |
Bows, curtseys |
Conster |
Construe, explain |
Conventicle |
Secret or illegal religious meetings |
Covins |
Conspiracies |
Cucking-stool |
A stool to which a malefactor (often an unfaithful wife) was
tied, to be exposed to public ridicule, or ducked in a pond or
river. |
Curship |
The title of being a cur -- pun on "worship" |
Curule |
An ivory chair used as a mayor's throne |
Deletory |
That which wipes out or destroys |
Deodand |
In English law an article which had caused a man's death was
ordered by the court to be a forfeited as a deodand (Ad Deo
dandum - to be given to God). Before the reformation it or its
value was given to the Church; afterwards to the local
landowner. |
Dewtry |
A stupefying drink made from the Indian thorn-apple
fruit. |
Dialectico |
A philosophical point of argument |
Dictum factum |
No sooner said than done (L.) |
Disparo |
To separate (L.) |
Donzel |
A young page or squire |
Drazel |
A slut |
Ducatoon |
An Italian silver coin, worth about 6 shillings. |
Ejusdem generis |
Of the same kind (L.) |
Enucleate |
To explain the meaning of |
Ex parte |
On behalf of (L.) |
Exaun |
A religious establishment not under the authority of the
local bishop |
Fadging |
Fitting |
Feme-covert |
A woman under the protection of a husband ( a legal
term) |
Ferk |
Beat, whip |
Festina lente |
Make haste slowly (L.) |
Fingle-fangle |
A whimsical or fantastic idea |
Fother |
A cart-load |
Fulhams |
Loaded dice |
Ganzas |
The birds which the hero of a popular romance harnessed to
take him to the moon |
Genethliack |
A caster of horoscopes |
Geomancy |
Divination by interpreting the patterns of lines drawn at
random on the ground or on paper. |
Gleave |
A spear or halberd |
Granado |
A grenade |
Grilly'd |
Grilled |
Grincam |
Syphilis |
Guep |
Go on! -- said to a horse or as an expression of
derision. |
Habergeon |
A chain-mail shirt |
Haut-gousts |
Tasty things |
Headborough |
A constable |
Hiccius Doctius |
A nonsense word used by jugglers, conjurers etc., hence, any
kind of trick or dishonest dealing |
Hight |
Called, named |
Hoccamore |
Wine from Hochheim, in Germany |
Horary |
Hourly |
Huckle |
The hip |
Hugonots |
French Calvinists |
Hypocondries |
The upper abdomen, between the breastbone and the navel |
Id est |
That is (L.) |
Idem |
The same (L.) |
Illation |
Inference, deduction |
In eodem subjecto |
Thrown together in the same place (L.) |
In querpo |
Naked |
Jobbernol(e) |
A thick head or blockhead |
Jure divino |
By God's law (L.) |
Langued |
Heraldic term meaning, with a tongue of a particular colour
e.g. langued gules - with a red tongue |
Lathy |
Thin, like a lath |
Linsey-woolsey |
A cloth of mixed wool and linen threads |
Linstock |
A stick for holding a gunner's match |
L'Ombre |
A card game |
Longees |
Lunges |
Lustrations |
Ceremonials of ritual purification by washing |
Mainprize |
To stand surety for someone |
Manicon |
A plant (deadly nightshade) or its extract, believed to cause
insanity when taken. |
Manto |
Mantua, a kind of woman's loose gown |
Martlet |
A swallow or martin |
Mazzard |
The head |
Meazle |
A spot or pustule |
Mira de lente |
Wonderfully slow (L.) |
Mordicus |
With the teeth (L.) |
Morpion |
A crab-louse |
Mundungus |
Bad tobacco |
Nare olfact |
Nostril (L.) |
Neat (noun) |
A calf or cow |
Negatur |
It is denied (L.) |
Nimmer |
A petty thief |
Omnibus nervis |
With every sinew (L.) |
Oppugn |
Attack or fight against |
Orcades |
The Orkneys |
pacquet-male |
Large wallet |
Padder |
A thief |
Pari Libra |
Equally (L.) |
Pathic |
Passively homosexual |
Pernicion |
Total ruin |
Petronel |
A short carbine or large pistol |
Picqueer |
Skirmish or quarrel |
Pigsney |
A term of endearment for a woman, "darling" |
Plus satis |
More than enough (L.) |
Poesie |
Poetry |
Pullen |
Poultry |
Punese |
A bed-bug |
Pursy |
Rich |
Quarteridge |
A tax or payment due quarterly |
Quatenus |
So far as (it is) (L.) |
Quillets |
Verbal points or quibbles |
Rampiers |
Ramparts |
Rationalia |
Thinking creatures (L.) |
Rochet |
A bishop's white gown or surplice |
Satis |
Enough |
Sault |
Jump |
Scire facias |
To know the appearance of (L.) |
Sedes Stercoraria |
Filthier seat (L.) |
Seisin |
A token of ownership, formally handed over when property is
sold. |
Shanker |
A venereal sore, chancre |
Slubberdegullion |
A dirty, slovenly person |
Soland geese |
Barnacle geese (Branta leucopsis) |
Staffier |
A footman |
Stentrophonick |
Loud, as from a megaphone |
Stum |
A mixture of wine and grape juice |
Suggill'd |
Beaten severely |
Sui juris |
Independently (L.) |
Swound |
A swoon |
Synodical |
Arising from or of the nature of a synod - a meeting of
bishops etc. of the Anglican Church |
Tantundem dat tantidem |
So much of that gives so much of this = they are exactly the
same (L.) |
Tarsel |
A male falcon |
Theorbo |
A kind of lute with two necks |
Totidem verbis |
In just as many words (L.) |
Trapes |
Tripes |
Trepan |
To trap |
Trigon |
A set of 3 signs of the Zodiac at 120-degree angles to each
other |
Tussis pro crepitu |
A cough for a fart (L.) |
Velis & remis |
By sail and oar (L.) |
Veni, Vidi, Vici |
I came, I saw, I conquered (L.) |
Versal |
Universal |
Videlicet |
That is, viz. (L.) |
Vitiligation |
Argument, quarrelling |
Vizard |
A mask or disguise |
Welkin |
The sky |
Whiffler |
A ceremonial guard who cleared the way for a mayor or other
official |
Whinyard |
A short sword |
Ycleped |
Named |
Yerst |
Erst, formerly |