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
Reject, _rejected_, i. 213
Remit, _to condone_, xi. 474
Remorseless, _pitiless_, ix. 504
Ren, _to run_, ii. 253
Renne, _to run_, i. 181, 246, 395;
iii. 70
Renowm, _renown_, iv. 338
Rent, i. 199
Rented, _rent_, _distracted_, ix. 133
Repass, _a term used in legerdemain_, x. 306
Reprefe, _reproof_, i. 120
Resolute, vii. 487
Resolution, i. 12
Resolve, _to make one acquainted with the resolution of another_,
vii. 45;
_to dissolve_, vii. 46
Resolved, _dissolved_, xi. 62
Respective, _respectful_, vii. 396;
x. 342
Respire, _to revive_, xi. 67
Respite, _delay_, i. 103, 106
Rest, _stake_, xi. 363
Rested, _arrested_, i. 178
Resty, _restive_, vi. 32
Retchless, _reckless_, ii. 196
Retire, _retirement_, xiv. 312
Retrograde, _recreant_, x. 95
Reuth, _pity_, xii. 286
Reve, _to rive_, ii. 271
Revel, _sport_, _fun_, i. 371
Reven, _to rob_ (?), i. 252
Revengement, _revenge_, vii. 162
Rever, _robber_, viii. 155
Reverent, _reverential_, xi. 143
Revert, _to turn back_, xi. 476
Rew, _row_, i. 262
Rewarding, _a reward_, i. 63
Rewhayre, _require_, vi. 71
Rheuming, _ruminating_ (?), ix. 152
Rib, _wife_, xii. 214
Ribald, _prostitute_, i. 82
Ribble-rabble, _nonsense_, viii. 110
Riches (_singular_), i. 8
Rid, _rode_, v. 343
Ridder, _deliverer_, i. 216
Rig, _strumpet_, iii. 215
Righting, _setting right_, xv. 13;
xv. 55
Rightwiseness, _righteousness_, i. 100
Rim, _verge_, _degree_, x. 22
Rine, _rind_, _cane_, i. 246;
ix. 244
Riot, _extravagance_, xii. 101
Ria, _branch_ (_of a tree_), i. 252
Rise-again, _a rising again_, i. 286
Roarer, _a bully_, _swaggerer_, xi. 139;
xii. 102
Rock, _distaff_, i. 65
Rode, _ridden_, x. 118
Roguery, _wantonness_, xii. 241
Roil, _to roam_, iii. 91
Roister, _roisterer_, iii. 307;
viii. 340
Roisters, _roisterers_, iii. 307, 320
Roisting, _roistering_, ii. 300;
iii. 348;
viii. 360
Romth, _space_, iii. 207
Ront, _runt_, _a term of abuse_ (?), viii. 366
Rood, _cross_, i. 26, 137;
ii. 36
Rood-tree, _cross_, i. 253
Roomer, "to cry roomer," _a nautical term_, x. 253
Roper, _ropemaker_, ii. 16
Rosary, _a place where roses grow_, x. 186
Rosy, _blushing_, xi. 306
Rot, _to destroy_, vii. 314
Rotten, _a rat_, iii. 216
Rought (= rout), _to roar_, _snore_, i. 270
Round, _to whisper_, v. 10;
ix. 365, 436;
_to encircle_, xiii. 184
Rounding, _whispering_, iii. 78
Roundly, _plainly_, xi. 471
Rouse, _to praise_, iii. 59
Rout, _company_, i. 260;
_to assemble_, iii. 137
Rowt, _to appear_ (_in arms?_), i. 256
Rub, _a term used by bowlers_, xi. 55
Rubbers, "a rubbers," _a game of whist_, vii. 272
Ruddock, _redbreast_, iv. 72
Rudeness, _fault_, i. 294
Ru'd, _pitied_, xii. 370
Ruffle, _to swagger_, i. 402;
_to brandish_, i. 407
Ruffler, _a swaggerer_, i. 395
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