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
Cinque, _term in dancing_, ii. 91
Cinque-pace, _name of a dance_, xi. 478
Clang, _withered_, i. 269
Clap dish, }
Clapperjaw, } _a chatterer_, viii. 446;
xi. 274
Clap hands, xi. 42
Cary (wine), i. 24
Clave, _did cleave_, i. 147
Claw, _to scratch_, x. 122
Clean, _quite_, _altogether_, i. 25, 213
Clear, _quit_, v. 379;
_clearness_, vii. 118
Clenchpoop, _a fool_, vi. 256
Clepe, _to call_, i. 245
Cleped, _called_, i. 200;
viii. 347, 394
Clept, _called_, vi. 515
Clerk, _a scholar_, i. 6, 7;
iii. 190;
_a parson_, xii. 112
Clerkish, _learned_, ii. 9
Clerks (St Nicholas'), _thieves_, xiii. 15
Cling, _to embrace_, xvi. 22;
(?), x. 22.
Clip, _to embrace_, ii. 180;
ix. 254;
x. 173;
xiii. 182
Clock, _to cluck_, ix. 480
Cloister, _to imprison_, xiv. 190
Close, _secret_, viii. 64;
xi. 61
Closely, _secretly_, viii. 62;
xi. 306
Closeness, _secrecy_, xiv. 213
Clotter'd, _clotted_, vii. 82
Cloudy, _gloomy_, xi. 485
Clout, _to patch_, i. 183;
_a patch_, iii. 181;
_centre of a target_, xi. 249;
_used contemptuously of clothes_, xv. 114
Clouted, _clothed_, xi. 197
Clownical, _clownish_, xi. 237
Clubbish, _blockish_, ii. 192
Clutchfist, _a miser_, xii. 238
Clyppen, _to call_, xii. 241
Coals (to carry), _to bear injury_, viii. 417
Coat, _escutcheon_, viii. 296
Cobblestones, _pebblestones_, iii. 210
Cock, _God_, iii. 71
Cock and pie (by), _an oath_, v. 274
Cock's, _God's_, i. 155
Cockatrice, xiii. 500, _note_
Cocker'd, _pampered_, xi. 254
Cockerill, _a little cock_, _a term of contempt_, iv. 68
Cockering, _indulgence_, iii. 8
Cocking, _cock-fighting_, xi. 364
Cockle, vi. 46
Cockney, i. 403;
_a pet_, viii. 360
Cocksure, x. 309
Cod's, _God's_, iv. 221
Coddled, xv. 216
Cog, _to cheat_, vi. 257;
viii. 416;
x. 497;
_to flatter, deceive_, viii. 157;
_falsity_, viii. 134
Cogfoist, _a cheat_, ix. 239
Cogging, _cheating_, ix. 238
Coggled, _swallowed_ (?), ii. 215
Coifs, xi. 181
Coil, _cuff_, iii. 130;
_noise_, iii. 124;
x. 123
Coil'd, _torn_, iv. 232
Coistrell, viii. 339
Coll, _name of a dog_, iii. 8
Collar, "yeoman of the collar," _prisoners' chains_, i. 157
Collaud, _to praise_, xi. 235
Collet, _part of a ring in which a stone is set_, x. 18
Colloge, _to talk_, xi. 256
Collop, _a slice_, v. 334
Colphise, _to beat_, _buffet_, iv. 60
Come off, _to pay dearly for_, ix. 185
Comen, _come_, i. 202
Commandment, _committal_, vi. 488
Commendadore, xiii. 521
Commerce, _intercourse_, xiv. 198
Commix, _to mix_, i. 11, 12
Commodious (to), _according (to)_, ii. 271;
_fit, proper_, ii. 318
Commodity, _interest_, iii. 52
Common, _to commune_, vi. 33
Commutative, _exchangeable_, xv. 240
Compact, _compacted_, viii. 76
Companion, _equal, fellow_, vi. 179;
x. 119
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