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
Bluebottle, _a liveried servant_, ix. 471
Bluster, _to blow_, xii. 219
Bob, _a blow_, iv. 81;
vii. 168;
_to strike_, iv. 121;
vii. 456, 490;
_taunt_, iv. 81;
vii. 309;
_to send away empty_, xi. 435.
Bob (for eels), xii. 166
Bobb'd, _beaten, baffled_, x. 358;
_tricked_, xiii. 129
Bode, _to portend_, viii. 47
Bodkin, _a dagger_, vii. 335
Body politic, xii. 230
Bold, _to encourage_, i. 182
Boll, _bowl_, i. 179
Bombard, _a drinking-vessel_, xi. 24;
_a piece of ordnance_, i. 370
Bomfay, _by my faith_, iii. 272
Bonable, _abominable_, iii. 212
Bona robas, _note_, ix. 530
Bone, "a bone in your hood," ii. 169, 170
Bonerly, bonnerly, _debonairly_, _mannerly_, i. 243, 250
Bones, _dice_, xiii. 124;
"make no bones," _make no delay_, i. 398
Bongrace, }
Boongrace, } _a bonnet_, _hood_, i. 203;
vi. 466
Boon, _good_, ix. 147
Boon sparks, _fine fellows_, xii. 270
Boot, _remedy_, _medicine_, i. 84
Boots, _avails_, xi. 81
Bord, _jest_, _game_, iii. 78
Borrels, _peasants_, xii. 567
Borrow, _to preserve, save, secure_, i. 269; ii. 120
Botkin, _a dagger_, ii. 301
Bots, _worms_, ii. 300;
x. 491;
_venereal disease_, vi. 257
Bottle, _a bundle_, xi. 22;
vi. 176;
vii. 208;
"bite bread out of a bottle," i. 411
Bottom, _a vale_, i. 371;
x. 247;
_foundation_, i. 17
Bonget, _cask, bucket_, iv. 72
Bought, _redeemed_, i. 141
Bounce, _to beat_, iii. 218;
_bang_, ix. 263
Bound, _boon_, iv. 143
Bounty, _goodness_, i. 248
Bountyhood, _bounty_, viii. 36
Bow, _to bend_, i. 77
Bowr, "ball and bowr," i. 247
Bowyer, _a maker of bows_, viii. 152;
xiii. 60
Box, _note_, xii. 121
Boying, _playing the boy_, ii. 211
Brachs, _shelves_, _shoals_, i. 185
Brachygraphy, _shorthand_, viii. 41
Brag, _fine_, ii. 108, 336;
iii. 209;
vi. 394
Brainpan, _skull_, vii. 309
Brangled, _encumbered_, x. 228
Brast, _burst_, i. 148, 252
Brave, _fine_, _well dressed_, iii. 28;
iv. 81;
x. 125
Bravely, _finely_, xiii. 129
Bravery, _finery_, ix. 17;
x. 125
Brawl (=broll), _brat_, _child_, iii. 201
Brawn, _muscle_, ii. 209
Brawnfallen, _chapfallen_, v. 207
Bray'd, _pounded_, xi. 333
Break up, _to open_, vii. 132
Breast, _breath_, _voice_, i. 353;
iii. 61
Breech, _to flog, whip_, viii. 21;
x. 282;
xi. 148
Bren, _to burn_, i. 12, 54, 58, 211
Breviates, _briefs_, x. 166
Brewis, _broth_, vii. 218;
x. 478
Brigand (harness), i. 251
Briggen (irons), i. 402
Brims, _top of a hill_, i. 371;
_fierce_, iii. 138
Brocket, _a hart of two years_, ix. 148
Broderd, _embroidered_, iv. 243
Broideries, _embroideries_, x. 199
Brokage, xiv. 314
Broke (=broken), _spoken with_, iv. 483
Broken beer, xii. 228
Broken-bellied, _ruptured_, xii. 215
Brook, _to endure_, xi. 456
Broom, _rushes, twigs of broom_, i. 65
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