_Amaimon and Barbason_ (M. W. ii. 2, 1 II. IV. ii. 4, II. V. ii. 1), names of fiends of which little is known. The dominion of the former was said to be on the north part of the infernal gulf. _Ancient_, ensign, ensign-bearer. It is the French _enseigne_ with the usual paragogic _t_. _And if_, _an if_, _an_. These are all used for _if_. The first is the original form, framed perhaps after _etsi_. _Anon._ Probably a corruption of _in one_, sc. minute. _Aroint._ This unusual word is generally regarded as an interjection equivalent to _avaunt!_ but it may be an indicative, with an ellipsis of _I_, and so be a corruption of _averrunco_. _Arras_ (so called from the town of that name), tapestry for covering the walls of rooms. It was fixed on wooden frames a little distance from the wall; hence people could go behind it. (Much Ado, i. 3, M. Wives, iii. 3, 1 H. IV. ii. 4, _et alib._) _Arthur's Show_ (2 H. IV. iii. 2), an exhibition of archery by a toxophile society, whose members, fifty-eight in number, appeared in the characters of the Knights of the Round Table. In it Sir Dagonet was the King's Fool. _Away_ i.e. _on way_. "She never could away with me" (2 Hen. IV. iii. 2) is, she could not go on the way (_i.e._ agree) with me. _Backarè_ (Tam. of Shr. ii. 1). The phrase to which it seems to belong is "Backarè, quoth Mortimer to his sow." "Ah, sir! _Backarè!_ quod Mortimer to his sowe." Ralph Roist. Doist, i. 2. "Shall I consume myself, to restore him now? Nay, _Backaré!_ quoth Mortimer to his sow." Heywood, Epig. "_Backaré!_ quoth Mortimer to his sow; Went that sow back at his bidding, trow you?" Id. ib. "The masculine gender is more worthy than the feminine; therefore, Licio, _backarè_." (Lyly, Mydas, i. 2). In all these places it is evidently assumed that the derivation is from _back_; but it may be that _Bigarrée_, Brindle, was the name Mortimer had given his sow. _Baffle_ (_baffoler_, _bafouer_, Fr.), a part of the ceremony of degrading a knight. It is described by Spenser, F. Q. vi. 7.27. _Banquet_ or _Banket_. This in general answered to the present _dessert_, and it was usually served in another room, or in an arbour (2 H. IV. v. 3). It consisted of fruits, sweetmeats, etc. It also answered to our supper after a ball (H. VIII. i. 4, R. and J. i. 5), and was used sometimes for a feast in general. By a "running banquet" (H. VIII. i. 4, v. 3) seems to have been meant a hasty meal, a snatch, as it were, of food. _Basilisco_ (K. John, i. 1), a character in the old play of Soliman and Persida. _Baked meat_ (Rom. and Jul. iv. 4), meat-pie. In Webster's White Devil we have "You speak as if a man Should know what fowl is coffin'd in a _bak'd meat_ Afore it is cut up."