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
Ure, _use, practice_, i. 378;
_to practise_, i. 153;
_interest_, xiv. 314
Utter, _outside_, i. 260
Vacabone, _vagabond_, iv. 63
Vade, _to go_, i. 424;
vii. 38;
_to fade_, _go away_, vi. 557
Vail, _to doff_, ix. 371;
_to lower_, xi. 55
Vailing, _bending_, xiv. 105
Vain, _fain_, iv. 79
Vair, _fair_, viii. 339
Valiancy, _valour_, _bravery_, v. 37;
viii. 322
Valter, _to falter_, iv. 219, 220
Valuation, _value_, iii. 264
Vantage, _advantage_, iii. 35
Vara, _very_, vi. 76
Vardingale, _farthingale_, vi. 434
Vast, _fast_, iii. 182;
iv. 218
Vat, _fat_, iv. 220
Vatten, _to fatten_, vi. 177
Vaulting-house, _a brothel_, vii. 436
Vaut, _fault_, iii. 313
Vay, _faith_, viii. 364
Vear, _fear_, viii. 339, 362
Veget, _lively_, xii. 293
Venereous, _unchaste_, xiv. 191
Veneys, _note_, xiii. 169
Vengeance, _terribly_, _very_, i. 405;
iv. 64
Venom, _venomous_, i. 297
Venter, _to venture_, i. 121:
iv. 57
Verament, _truly_, i. 421;
ii. 110
Verdit, _verdict_, ii. 177
Verity, _truth_, iii. 319
Vetch, _note_, xii. 132
Via, _away!_ x. 217
Viand, _sing_, i. 21
Vild, _vile_, v. 85;
vii. 296
Vill, _to fill_, viii. 338
Vilthy, _filthy_, iii. 176
Vired, _fired_, viii. 338
Virginal jacks, x. 346
Virtually, _powerfully_, xiv. 311
Visitants, _visitors_, xv. 61
Visitation, _visit_, xi. 13;
_plague_, xv. 327
Visnomy, x. 323
Vizarded, _concealed_, xiv. 256
Vlat, _flat_, viii. 344
Vocation, _trade_, xv. 132
Voider, _avoider_, i. 125;
_a basket for clearing the table_, xii. 112
Voiding knife, _note_, ix. 447
Voiding of, _avoiding of_, i. 34
Vool, _a fool_, iv. 219
Voolish, _foolish_, iv. 219
Vor, _for_, viii. 338
Vorbod (of God), _prohibition_, "God forbid," iv. 219
Vorty, _forty_, viii. 338
Vound, _found_, iv. 219
Vox, _fox_, iv. 75
Vriend, _friend_, iii. 313
Vull, _full_, viii. 344
Wade, _to go_, i. 67
Waesheal, _note_, xii. 285
Wage, _hire_, i. 247
Wage-pasty, _a term of abuse_, ii. 141
Wain-man, _waggoner_, v. 206
Wait, _to watch_, _be on guard_, i. 248
Waking, _watchful_, xi. 528
Walter, _to feel sick_, i. 365
Waltering, iv. 313
Wan, _won_, i. 385;
_did win_, xi. 472
Wanderers, _planets_, xi. 302
Wane, _waning_, xv. 46
Wanion, _curse_, vi. 196;
xiii. 158
Wannion, _curse_, iv. 121
Want, _to do without_, v. 350
Ward, _award_, vi. 166;
"lie at ward," _a term in fencing_, viii. 149
Wards, _spies_, xiii. 183
Ware, _be aware_, i. 169:
x. 8
Wark, _work_, i. 202;
ii. 195;
_to work_, i. 253
Warks, _works_, i. 7
Warling, _a slave_, x. 303
Warrantise, _warranty_, _guarantee_, iii. 139;
vii. 126;
_to warrant_, viii. 44, 301
Washen, _washed_, ii. 122
Washical, _what-do-you-call-it_, iii. 243
Wassail, _note_, xi. 487
Waste-good, _a spendthrift_, xii. 102
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