_Kind_ = nature, race, birth, species; natural, etc.; _kindly_ = as by
birth and kinship, natural, filial, gentle, genial, human and humane.
_Known_ = made known.
_Languor_ = to languish.
_Learn_ = teach.
_Let_, "_letten_" = hinder (letted).
_Like (it liketh him, meliketh)_ = to suit, be similar to the desire,
to be pleasing (Amos iv. 5). _Liking_ = pleasure, pleasance.
_Likeness_ ("without any likeness") = comparison.
_May, might,_ often for _can_ and _could_ of modern usage.
_Mean_ = to think, say, signify, intend; to have in one's mind.
_Mean, means_ = medium, intermediary thing, or person, or communication.
_Mind_ = feeling, memory, sympathetic perception or realisation.
_Mischief_ = hurt, injury, harm.
_Mights_ = powers, faculties.
_Morrow_ = morning.
_Moaning_ = sorrowing.
_Naked_ = simple, single, plain, by itself.
_Needs_ = of need; it _behoveth needs_ = is incumbent through necessity.
_Oweth_ = ought, is bound by duty or debt.
_One_ (oned, oneing) = to make one, unite.
_Over_ = upper.
_Overpassing_ = exceeding; the _overpassing_ = the Restoration,
the heavenly Fulfilment of the Company of souls made _more_ than
conquerors; the Supernal Blessedness.
_Pass_ = to die.
_Passing_ = surpassingly.
_Regard, in regard of_ = in respect of, comparison with. _Regard_ =
look, sight.
_Ready_ = prepared; _readily_ = quickly.
_Sad_ = Sober ("sad votaress," Milton, _Comus_), originally "firm"
("rype and sad corage," Chaucer: _The Clerkes Tale_, 164).
_Say_ = tell.
_Skilfully_ = discerningly, with practical knowledge and ability.
_Slade_ = a steep, hollow place; a ravine.
_So far forth_ = to such a measure.
_Solemn_ = festal, as of a yearly feast, stately, ceremonial.
_Sooth_ = very reality, that which _is; soothly, soothfastly_.
_Speed_ = prospering, furtherance, profit.
_Stint_ ("stinten") = to cease.
_Stirring_ ("stering") = moving, prompting, motion.
_Substantial_ and _sensual_, relating respectively (in the writer's
psychology) to the _Substance_ or higher self, and the soul inhabiting
the body on earth, called by her the _Sensualite_, and in chap. lvii.
_the sensual soul; cf._ Genesis i. 27, with ii. 7.
_Tarry_ = to vex, delay.
_Touch_ (a) = an instant. _Touching_ = influence.
_Trow_ = believe.
_Unknowing_ = ignorance; _unmade_ = not made.
_Ween_ = suppose, expect, think.
_Will; He will_ = He willeth that. _Wilfully_ = with firm will,
resolutely.
_Wit_ to know by perception, to experience, find, learn. Knowledge
knows: _Wisdom wits_.
_Worship_ = honour, praise, glory.
_Wretch_ = a poor, a mean creature of no account.
[THE END.]
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