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
Ensure, _to assure_, i. 62
Ensured, _plighted_, _affianced_, iii. 90
Enthronised, _enthroned_, xi. 485
Entituled, _entitled_, ii. 10
Entreat, _entreaty_, viii. 140
Entreative, ix. 341
Environ, _all round_, i. 6
Envy, _hatred_, x. 58;
xiii. 355
Ephemeris, xi. 320
Epitaph, _to write an epitaph_, xii. 506
Epitheton, _epithet_, v. 266
Epythite, _a beggar_, ix. 527
Equivalence, _an equivalent_, vi. 96
Ere, _before_, i. 31
Eremite, _a hermit_, xii. 231
Erewhile, _previously_, _formerly_, i. 32;
vii. 211
Errant, _arrant_, xi. 57
Erst, _before_, iv. 125
Eschew, _to avoid_, i. 89;
xii. 24
Eschieved, _achieved_, _gained_, i. 77
Espied, _discerned_, i. 78
Essay, _to try_, i. 181
Essex man, _a fool_, xiv. 361, 467
Estate, _state_, i. 7
Estridge, _an ostrich_, xiv. 41
Eterne, _eternal_, i. 11
Eternised, _made eternal_, v. 234
Evenness, _indifference_, _impartiality_, xiv. 200
Ever-each, _every_, v. 242
Everichone, {
Everychone, { _every one_, i. 38, 163 (_the note is wrong_)
Every deal, _every whit_, i. 33
Excuse, _defence_, ix. 494
Exigent, _exigency_, vi. 546;
xiv. 325;
xv. 78
Expectance, _expectation_, xi. 95;
xiv. 365
Explicate, _to explain_, iv. 236
Expound, _expounded_, i. 37
Express, _expression_, xv. 332
Expression, _a proverb_, xii. 262
Expulsed, _expelled_, i. 59
Extinct, _put out_, i. 375
Extirp, _to extirpate_, v. 226
Extromers, _astronomers_, i. 78
Exulcerate, _to form an ulcer_, xiv. 362
Eyen, }
Eyne, } _eyes_, i. 254;
iii. 217;
xii. 311
+Fable+, _lie_, i. 224;
_to lie_, i. 29;
_cajole_, i. 68;
_deceive_, i. 199
Fabler, _liar_, x. 47
Fablyng, _lying_, i. 78
Face, _pretence_, iii. 17
Face-physick, _a cosmetic_, xi. 133
Faces about, _changes_, xiii. 463
Facts, _deeds_, in. 66;
iv. 167
Fader, _a father_, xii. 99
Fadge, _to go_, _proceed_, _succeed_, vii. 418;
x. 230;
_do_, _suit_, x. 481
Fadock, _faggot_, vi. 77
Fagaries, _vagaries_, xiv 289
Fair, _beauty_, viii. 255
Fairings, viii. 225
Fall, _to come_, _fall out_, i. 852;
_cadence_, ix. 406
Fall (the French), x. 122
Famine, _hunger_, vii. 64
Famish (to), ii. 217
Famishment, _death by starving_, viii. 319
Fand, _found_, ii. 15
Fantastic show, _fancy_ (?), xii. 81
Fantasy, _fancy_, i. 7, 312
Far, _for_, vi. 71
Farcing, _stuffing_, ii. 236
Fardingale, ix. 426
Fare, _to go_, i. 251;
"fare fore," _to go before_, xiii. 154;
_to play_, ii. 115
Farfet, _farfetched_, xi. 401
Farforth, _far_, i. 207
Far-forth day, _late in the day_, ii. 312
Faring, _playing at dice_, ii. 115
Fat, _to fatten_, xii. 451;
"to feed fat" = _to fatten_, xi. 515
Fatting, _fattening,_ ix. 516
Faulted, _faulty_, x. 157
Favelle, _flattery_, i. 164
Favour, _look_, _appearance_, i. 78;
x. 340
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