A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 15Dodsley, Robert
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A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 15
Dodsley, Robert
English drama
Apaid, _pleased_, i. 175;
iii. 18
Apluck, _in pluck_, _lustily_, i. 146;
ii. 368
Apoplex, _apoplexy_, x. 182
Appair, _to impair_, i. 100
Appealed, _accused_, i. 70
Appetite, _desire_, ii. 47
Apply, _to apply one's self_, ii. 284
Appointed, _accoutred_, _equipped_, i. 376;
xii. 213
Apprehensive, _perceptive_, xii. 505
Approbate, _approved_, i. 7
Approve, _to prove_, x. 117
Arayed, {
Arrayed, { _defiled_, _soiled_, _disfigured_, i. 78, 178;
iii. 175;
_disconcerted_, ii. 119
Areadiness, _readiness_, iv. 234
Arear, _back_, i. 166
Argosies, _merchant ships_, xii. 100
Armipotent, _powerful in arms_, iii. 282
Aroom, _abroad_, i. 154
A-row, _in succession_, xv. 91
Arre, _to snarl_, viii. 44
Arride, _to please_, xiii. 445
Arsyversy, xii. 137
Articulated, _put down as articles of a treaty_, v. 67
Ascendant, _note_, xi. 309
Ashen, _ashes_, xii. 240
Asinigo, _a fool_, xiii. 519
Aslake, _to assuage_, i. 400
Aspect (of planets), vii. 185
Aspy, _to spy_, i. 156
Assail, _to essay_, ii. 241
Assay, _to essay, try_, i. 19; ii. 389
Assoil, _to remove doubts, explain_, i. 70, 75, 179;
vii. 169;
xv. 253
Assurance, security, xii. 153
Assure, _to make sure of_, x. 139
Astonied, _thunderstruck_, vii. 80;
ix. 570
At, _with_, x. 123
At odds, _at variance_, ix. 457
At one (with), _to reconcile to_, iii. 139
Atrust, _on trust_, x. 308
Attach, _to seize_, vii. 24, xii. 503
Attournment, x. 218
Aunt, _a bawd_, xiii. 70;
xiv. 448
Autocousticon, _note_, xi. 314
Ayenst, _against_, i. 149
Azimuth, _note_, xi. 326
Bab, _babe_, vi. 73
Babble, _to talk like a child, to prate_, i. 8
Babbling, _chattering_, i. 19
Baberlipped, _thick-lipped_, ix. 404
Bable, _bauble_, vii. 359
Backside, _backyard_, x. 341;
xi. 233;
_a house in the rear of another_, x. 341
Backster, _a female baker_, i. 424
Baconpig, v. 104
Bade, _an abode_, iv. 307
Badst, _invitedst_, viii. 290
Baffle, xii. 174;
xiv. 305
Balance, (_pair of_) _scales_, viii. 408
Bale (of dice), _pair_, xi. 221;
xii. 121
Balk, _beam of a house_, iii. 173
Balladising, _ballad-making_, viii. 258
Ban, _to curse_, iii. 181
Band, _bound_, ix. 569;
_bond_, iii. 361
Banding, _bandied_, vii. 116
Bandoliers, xii. 229
Bandy, _game at tennis_, ix. 381
Bane, _death_, v. 262
Banket, _a banquet_, i. 44;
ii. 82
Bankrout, _bankrupt_, x. 361
Bannerets, v. 213
Bannings, _curses_, viii. 315
Bare, _did bear_, i. 165
Barm, _yeast_, xii. 269
Barmuthes, _Bermudas_, xi. 137
Barmy, _yeasty_, ix. 110
Barnacles, _spectacles_, iv. 81
Barren (of), _devoid_ of, vii. 288
Barricado, _to barricade_, x. 260
Barrow gutlings, _a pig's guts_, x. 347
Base (at), _game of base_, viii. 400
Baseful, _low_, ix. 176
Bashaw, _pashaw_, v. 150
Basilisk, _a piece of ordnance_, x. 325
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