Accompt:  agreement
affeered:  afraid
amazement:  confusion
Anon:  soon
Aroin thee:  go away, get lost
aught:  something
beldams:  hags
blanched:  pale
bodkin:  a dagger
brainsickly:  warped
carouse:  drink, to drink a toast
chastise:  nag, criticize, reprimand
cleave to:  stick to
credit:  belief
dignities:  honors
dispatch:  management
distempered:  diseased
ecstasy:  madness
enkindle:  encourage, tempt
ere:  before
fantastical:  imaginary, not real
fell:  deadly, evil
Fie:  shame on you
Fly:  flee, run away
fond:  foolish
forsworn:  gone against one’s word, sworn a falsehood
Gadooks!:  Holy Cow!
Gall:  bitterness
God dild us:  God reward us
God dild you:  God reward you
Grimalkin:  gray cat
haply:  perhaps
hence:  away, there
hent:  a cut with a sword
hold!:  Stop!
homely:  plain, simple
Hurlyburly:  a ruckus, a disturbance
husbandry:  economy as applied to housekeeping
in fine:  in short
kerns:  Irish soldiers
knave:  creep, untrustworthy person
knell:  a ringing of a bell to indicate a death
loose:  immoral
mammering:  hesitating
marry:  indeed
maw:  mouth
mettle:  strength
mettlesome:  troublesome
naught:  nothing
nigh:  near
nunnery:  convent or brothel
Odsbodkin!:  Holy Cow! (Literally, “God’s little body”)
owing to:  due to, because of
paddock:  toad
pageant:  a false show, a pretense
petard:  bomb
plight:  sorry condition, fate
Pray:  please
Prithee:  Please
probal to:  provable by
pronounce:  say, announce
proper:  handsome
protest:  declare publicly
rump-fed:  fat butt
runnion:  skag, mangy woman
salute:  greet
selfsame:  same
sevennight:  a week
snipe:  a person not worth consideration, a pain in the...
springe:  trap
Stand:  wait
Stay:  wait
stoup:  a two quart mug for ale or wine
Swounds!:  Holy Cow! (literally, “God’s wounds”)
tempest:  storm
the golden round:  crown
to charge:  to command
to credit:  to believe
to dally:  to have sex with, to fool around with
well bethought:  a good idea, a timely reminder
whence:  where
wherefore:  why
whitehearted:  cowardly
wholesome:  healthy, sensible
wight:  person
withal:  with
wrack:  ruin
 
 

 Abjects:  outcasts, servile persons
 Abram:  auburn
 Abrook:  to endure, to put up with
 Absolute:  resolved
 Acknown:  aware, cognisant of
 Acture:  performance
 Addition:  title, quality
 Affectioned:  affected
 Affined:  related
 Affront:  to confront, meet
 Agnize:  to acknowledge, confess
 Agood:  much
 Aim:  guess
 All amort:  completely dejected, depressed
 Allow:  to approve
 Allowance:  acknowledgement, approval
 Ancient:  ensign, standard bearer
 Angel:  gold coin, worth about 10 shillings
 Antic:  crazy
 Antick:  to make a fool of
 Apple-john:  a shriveled winter apple
 Argal:  therefore
 Argo:  therefore
 Articulate:  to make a treaty of peace, to set forth the articles of peace
 Assured:  betrothed
 Atone:  to reconcile, to agree
 Attorneyed:  done by proxy
 Attribute:  reputation
 Avail:  profit
 Avise:  to inform
 Awful:  with great regard for authority
 Awkward:  contrary

 Baby:  doll
 Baccare:  go back
 Back-trick:  a backwards jump in dancing
 Baffle:  to disgrace
 Bale:  evil, mischief
 Ballow:  cudgel, club
 Ban:  a curse
 Band:  bond
 Bank:  to sail along the banks of
 Bare:  to shave
 Basilisk:  a serpent whose glance turns people to stone; a large cannon
 Bate:  fighting
 Bate:  to abate, to weaken
 Bawbling:  trivial, insignificant
 Baw-cock:  a fine fellow
 Beadsman:  one hired to pray for another
 Bear in hand:  to decieve with false hopes
 Becoming:  graceful
 Beetle: a mallet
 Beetle-headed: stupid
 Behave: to control
 Behest: command
 Behove: suits, is appropriate to
 Bench-hole: the hole of a privy
 Beshrew: to curse (but not used seriously)
 Besort: to fit, to suit
 Bestraught: distraught
 Beteem: to permit, grant
 Biggen: a nightcap (a literal one, not a drink)
 Bilbo: a spanish rapier
 Bilboes: stocks used for punishment on ships
 Bisson: dim sighted
 Blank: the white mark in the center of a target
 Bank: to blanch
 Blistered: padded, puffed out
 Blood-boltered: clotted with blood
 Blowse: a coarse beauty
 Bob: a sharp rap, a joke
 Boggle: to swerve, to hesitate
 Bolt: to sift, to refine
 Bombard: a leather skin for wine or liquor
 Bona-robas: flashily dressed sluts
 Boot: profit
 Bots: small worms in horses
 Brabble: quarrel, brawl
 Brabbler: a brawler
 Brach: a female hound
 Braid: treacherous, lying
 Braid: to chastise, to yell at
 Brain: to think of
 Broken mouth: a mouth missing some teeth
 Buckle: to fight with hand to hand
 Bugbear: a monster, a terrifying thing
 Bully: an arrogant, swaggering person
 Bully-rook: a swaggering cheater
 Bung: a pickpocket

 Caitiff: slave, wretched person
 Callet: a drab, a trull
 Capable: sensible,aware of, able to possess
 Carlot: a peasant
 Case: the skin of an animal
 Cashiered: discarded, discharged from service without pay
 Catlings: catgut strings for musical instruments
 Cautel: deceit, trick
 Censure: opinion, judgment (usually negative)
 Certify: to inform, to make certain of
 Channel: gutter
 Chapless- without jaws
 Chapfallen: depressed
 Check: to rebuke, to stop
 Choppy: chapped
 Chuff: a boor, an obnoxious person
 Cipher: to figure out, to decipher
 Citizen: a person of the town, an effeminate fellow
 Cittern: guitar
 Clack dish: a begging bowl
 Clapper-claw: to beat, to thrash
 Clepe: to call, to name
 Closely: secretly
 Codding: lecherous
 Codling: an unripe apple; also slang for testicles
 Cot: to cheat
 Collection: inference
 Colt: to make a fool of
 Complexion: temperament
 Composition: agreement, consistancy
 Con: to study, to learn
 Condolement: grief, lamentation
 Confound: to waste, to destroy
 Consent: agreement, plot
 Constant: consistent
 Constantly: firmly, surely
 Conster: to construe, to interpret
 Convince: to overcome
 Cope: to encounter
 Corky: age shrivelled
 Costard: an apple, slang for the head
 Cote: to meet with, to pass on the way
 Cot-quean: a man who occupies himself with women’s business
 Court holy-water: flattery
 Cross-row: alphabet
 Cullion: a lower class man
 Curst: bad tempered
 Customer: a prostitute

 Daff: to take off, to thrust aside
 Dash: a mark of disgrace
 Debosht: debauched
 Defeat: to destroy
 Dern: secret, dismal
 Determinate: decided upon
 Diminutives: the smallest coins
 Doubt: fear, apprehension
 Down-gyved: hanging down
 Drumble: clumsy or slow
 Dry-beat: to beat
 Dudgeon: a dagger handle
 Dup: to open

 Eche: to eke out
 Eftest: readiest
 Eftsoons: immediately
 Egal: equal
 Egally: equally
 Eisel: vinegar
 Elf: to tie hair into knots
 Embarquemnet: restraint, hindrance
 Embowelled: emptied, exhausted
 Emulation: jealous competition, rivalry
 Enlargement: freedom, libarty
 Enseamed: defiled, dirty, fouled with semen
 Ensear: to wither, to dry up by heat
 Entreatment: invitation
 Escot: to pay for
 Espial: a spy
 Expiate: to terminate
 

 Fadge: to succeed, to suit
 Faitor: an evil doer
 Fap: drunk
 Fardel: a burden
 Fat: sweating
 Favour: appearance
 Fee: worth, value
 File: list
 File: to defile, to dirty
 Fitchew: a skunk
 Flirt-gill: a trivial wench
 Fobbed: cheated, tricked
 Fordo: to undo, to destroy
 Forslow: to delay
 Forspeak: to speak out against
 Fox: a broadsword
 Fracted: broken
 Frush: to bruise, to beat
 Fubbed off: put off with execuses
 Fullams: fixed dice

 Gadge: to pledge
 Gaingiving: misgiving
 Gallows-bird: a person who deserves to be hanged
 Garboil: commotion, uproar
 Geck: fool
 Generous: noble
 Gib: an old tom-cat
 Giglot: slut
 Gird: scoff, jest
 Glib: to geld
 Gnarling: snarling
 Gorbellied: fat bellied

 Hackney: a loose woman
 Harlot: lews, base
 Helpless: useless, not helping
 Hilding: a menial, a drudge
 Honest: chaste
 Honesty: chastity
 Hot-house: a brothel
 Hugger-mugger: secretly

 Imbossed: swollen
 Imposition: command
 Incontinent: immediate
 Index: introduction
 Infest: to vex, trouble
 Irregulous: lawless

 Jar: to tick
 Jowl: to hit, to dash

 Keech: a lump of fat or tallow
 Ken: perception, knowledge, sight
 Kin: nature
 Knack: a pretty triffle

 Laboursome: elaborate, involved
 Laced mutton: a highter class floozy, a courtesay
 Latch: to catch
 Leasing: lying, falsehood
 Length: delay
 Lewd: vile, base
 Liberal: licentious, dirty minded
 Line: to draw, to paint
 List: imperative form of Listen
 Lob: a lout
 Lym: a bloodhound

 Maggot-pie: magpie
 Mate: to bewilder, to confuse
 Material: full of matter
 Mazzard: skull, head
 Mell: to meddle
 Metheglin: an alcoholic beverage made of fermented honey water
 Miching: sneaking
 Minikin: small, pretty
 Mirable: admirable
 Misdread: fear of evil
 Misprison: mistake
 Misthink: to misjudge
 Modern: commonplace, trite
 Mome: blockhead, dolt
 Month1s mind: an intense desire, yearning
 Moralize: to explain, to interpret
 Mortal: deadly
 Mortified: deadened, insensitive
 Mow: a grimace, a face
 Mulled: flat, insipid, flavorless
 Murdering piece: a canon loaded with chain shot
 Muse: to wonder
 Mystery: professional skill, professional knowledge

 Nayword: password
 Neeze: to sneeze
 Night-rule: revelry, partying
 Nott-pated: short haired

 Oathable: capable of taking an oath
 Odd: unnoticed
 Ort: remnant, scrap, garbage
 Owe: to own, possess

 Pajock: peacock (a contemptuous name)
 Partisan: a pike
 Pash: head
 Passionate: emotional
 Patch: a fool
 Patchery: trickery
 Pawn: to pledge
 Peevish: silly, childish
 Pelting: paltry, trivial
 Period: end, conclusion
 Pheeze: to beat, to torment
 Phraseless: indescribable
 Pick: to pitch, to throw
 Pin-buttock: skinny butt
 Plausive: persuasive, pleasing
 Plurisy: an over abundance
 Polled: clipped, made bare
 Porpentine: porcupine
 Pottle: a tankard, a two shilling measure of drink
 Practice: plot
 Pregnant: clever, quick witted
 Pretence: project, scheme
 Prig: a thief
 Proface: much good may it do you!
 Proper-false: handsome and treacherous
 Pugging: thieving
 Punk: strumpet
 Puzzle: a dirty strumpet

 Quaintly: cleverly, ingeniously
 Quat: a pimple, a zit
 Quatch-buttock: flat butt
 Quean: wench, hussy
 Queasy: squeamish
 Quell: murder
 Quicken: to give life to, to enliven

 Ramps: wanton strumpets
 Rebate: to make dull, to dull
 Rede: counsel, advice
 Reechy: smoky, grimy
 Renege: to deny
 Resty: idle, lazy
 Rid: to do away with
 Rival: companion
 Round: straight forward, blunt
 Rudesby: a rude fellow

 Srubbed: scrubby, paltry
 Secure: without care, confident
 Sharked up: gathered indiscriminately
 Sheep-biter: a malicious creep
 Sooth: truth
 Stale: a prostitute
 Stead: to help

 Tag: rabble
 Tender: to hold dear
 Tent: to probe, to question
 Tetter: an eruption of the skin
 Thrall: a slave
 True-penny: an honest fellow

 Umber: brown color
 Unclew: to unwind, to undo
 Unconfirmed: inexperienced, untried
 Unhappy: unlucky
 Unhouseled: without recieving sacrament, without last rites
 Unkind: unnatural
 Unseminared: deprived of seed or virility
 Unsifted: untried, inexperienced

 Waft: to beckon
 Wag: to move, to stir
 Welkin: the blue, the sky
 Wise-woman: a witch
 Wreakful: vengeful

 Yare: ready, nimble
 Yarely: readily, quickly
 Yearn: to grieve