The numbers refer to the pages of the first edition, and refer to an occurrence of the word, but not necessarily to the only occurrence of it. Should the inquirer fail to find any word, he should consult the Notings.

A.

• Abhominable. He always uses the “h” as did Holofernes, Gab. Harvey, etc., from the false derivation “ab homine”.
• Abrenunciation, 440. A word used probably, as Richardson suggests, as a stronger form of renunciation. It was used as a technical for the renunciation of the devil and all his works in the baptisms of the Roman Catholic Church.
• Accloied, 79. As cloyed = encumbered, satiated.
• Achate, 297. The more Latinate form of agate (achates).
• Acyron, 371. Greek unauthorised.
• Addicted, 298. Joined or attached to.
• A doo, 475. The “a” = at in this and like words was then frequently printed apart, or according to them—a part.
• Ægyptians, 197. Gypsies.
• Alligations, 239. Spells, or the like, bound to one’s arm, etc.
• Anatomie, 430. A skeleton.
• Apparentlie, 511. Clearly, evidently.
• Appensions, 239. Spells, or the like, hung about one.
• Applicable, 582. Able to be applied.
• Appointed, 415. Dressed in order, or conformably, as we still use the word appointments.
• Appose, 51. Our pose.
• Aqua composita, 316. See note.
• Assotted, 5. Adsotted; our besotted.
• Astonnied, 309. Astonished in the original sense, i.e., astounded, or so lying in a swoon, that she lay as dead.
• Avoid, 240, 493. To void or empty, either “make void” or “void from”. This use is as early at least as Trevisa, or circa 1397.
• Axes, 232. The French AccÈs. Hence in Sussex and the North = agues. But I am told that in Kent it bears the secondary sense of aches.

B.

• Bables, 166. Toys, trifling childish things.
• Baggage tode, 377. A foul tode. The epithet is now only used of an ill-conditioned woman of low degree.
• Bat, 380. A staff.
• Bedstaffe, 79. The Johnson-Nares explanation is, I believe, wrong. With Miss Emma Phipson, I rather take it to be a staff to summon attendance, a substitute for the modern bell still used by invalids and others. Cf. Ev. M. in his Humour, i, 4. It has been also suggested that it is the staff used to beat up the bed, etc.
• Become. Used as then in 126, 158, 323, 329, as equivalent to “gone to”. Cf. 3 Henry VI, ii, 1, 9, 10. And in a law of Henry VIII (ann. 33, ch. 8) are the words “where things lost or stolen should be become”, when it speaks of the acts of magicians, fortune-tellers, etc.
• Beetle-head, 66. = Our hammer-headed fellow, a beetle being such a hammer or rammer as paviors now use and so call.
• Bench whistlers, 528. Idle, sottish fellows, who spend their time on ale-benches rather than seek occupation, and whistling from want of thought or occupation. A then-known phrase.
• Bewraieth, 69, and frequent. Betray. Also, though a different word and not in Scot, to befoul. In 328 the verb is used thus: “the thing shall be so well and perfectly done, that a stranger, though he handle it, shall not bewraie it” [i.e., discover the fraud either to himself or others].
• Biggin, 471. Fr. bÉguin. Cf. Cotgrave. Properly, according to Minsheu, a child’s [close] covering for the head or cap. Also generally a close or skull cap; here, as in Sh., 2 Henry IV, iv, 4, used for a night-cap.
• Bile, 203. A boil.
• Blisse, 157, ad fin. Being opposed to “cursse” seems = blessing.
• Boolted, 480. A miller’s, etc. technical for sifted.
• Bowt, 337, 347. This (or bout) and bight are still nautical for the bending, or loop, of a rope. Scot uses it for the loop, or bending, of any thing.
• Bowze, 268. Boughs.
• Bucklers, laie down the, A iii. Submit, own themselves defeated. The origin of this and similar phrases is unknown. From the words “Clypeus salvus in Cic.” and “Clypeum abjicere”, it may be from the usages of classic times,—or it may be mediÆval.
• Bugges, 288. Frightful and unnatural appearances, as in bugbears, a now equivalent word.
• Bulbeggers, B 2. Terrifying goblins. I see no difficulty in the derivation from Bul, a bull, or bull’s face, it being terrifying enough, especially when, enraged or mad, it is directly opposed to you; and a bulbegger is an over-bold beggar, etc.
• Bum card. I believe a card slightly longer or wider than the rest, so that the trickster, etc., may distinguish it.
• Bum leaf. A leaf similarly distinguished.
• By and by, 460. Immediately. Elsewhere he thus translates Wier’s “mox” and “statim”.

C.

• Carter, 478. Used, as in “carter’s logic”, for a dull-witted ignoramus, much in the sense in which we depreciatingly use costermonger. Carter’s logic is not the logic of physical persuasion, but the ergo of the first gravedigger in Hamlet.
• Castrell, 302. Kestrel, Tinunculus. The hovering hawk, a wild kind not tamable, that frightens other hawks (possibly by its loud, ringing voice), and whose effigy was placed near doves, etc., to deter other hawks. Hence, probably, arose the fable spoken of in the text.
• Cautelousness, 469. Artful caution.
• Censure, A viii. Sentence, or judgment.
• Chapman, 485. Generally the seller, but also, as here, the buyer; he that chaps or cheapens.
• Choine cough, 211. Chin-cough, the hooping-cough.
• Choler, 205. One of the supposed four humours. The compound humour generated in the liver was divided into two parts, one going to the blood, the other to the gall, as this choler or bile. It differed from melancholy, or black bile, for the reservoir of this was the spleen. Cf. Batman on Barth., iv, 10, and v, 39.
• Circumstance, 24. Elsewhere, as 75, used for round-about or superfluous means. Here it has a greater ill-meaning—a round-about statement that would evade declaring the truth.
• Clam, 208. To stick on; various dialects.
• Claweth, 67. Scratcheth (where he itcheth), pleaseth, and therefore flattereth. Cf. the proverb, “Claw me, claw thee”, or “K. me, K. thee”, a polite abbreviation, which, I think, betokens the odious origin of the phrase.
• Clubhutchins, 372. Old Kentish, now, I believe, almost obsolete, for a plain, rough countryman.
• Coate card, 335. Our court card.
• Cold prophet, B ii. v. 170. One whose prophecies are far from the mark, just as children at play are hot or cold, when near or far from the thing sought. Others say that cold, as in Chaucer = col.
• Commend, 134. Commit to, in the sense of giving, entrusting, or setting forth for his examination. Latinate.
• Complexion, 461. The four complexions or dispositions were supposed to be due to the excess of (1) blood, (2) phlegm, (3) choler, (4) melancholy. Here it is used more generally for disposition.
• Compline, 393. Part of the Romish even-song (Cotgrave), which, said just after sunset, completes the offices of the day.
• Conceipts, 326. Merry or strange tricks.
• Cone, 227. I found, I forget where, “to cone findere”, hence marginal note.
• Confirmed, 429. Apparently “made firm”; placed or stationed together, each in his fixed place.
• Constellation. Is sometimes used in old books, seemingly as denoting the co-ordination or coposition of the heavenly bodies (as regards one another) at any particular time. It was from these constellations that nativities were calculated.
• Constreineth. In its primary or literal sense of drawn together.
• Contagion of weather, 269. For = against.
• Convenient (with). Coming together with, agreeing with.
• Convented, 16. Brought together with (i.e., before) the judge, or other.
• Convinced, 70, 131. Overcome.
• Corrupt, 16. Corrupted; the “ed” being assimilated by, or made to coalesce with, the “t”. Cf. note, p. 441.
• Countrie, A iiii. Used, as occasionally then, for county.
• Cousen, A vii. v. Used then as a term implying relationship of any kind, or simply between royal personages as a term of courtesy and friendliness.
• Credit, 498. Belief; we should say crediting, etc.
• Croslet, 357. A crucible.
• Crosse of a coin, 388. The reverse bore a cross. Now called the tail in “heads or tails”.
• Curious, 333. As frequently in those days, “curiosus”, full of care, careful; those who would inquire carefully or curiously into the matter.
• Cushion, missed the, 490. Nares says it evidently alludes to archery: an unsupported guess, and not, I think, a probable one. More likely the reference is to some game, such as a variant of stool ball, or possibly to the cushion dance. Or it may simply mean missed his seat.

D.

• Dangerous of, 146. Fearful of [showing], or, as some say it is in Chaucer, shy.
• Detected, 27. Uncovered.
• Determination, 153. Termination, or ending.
• Detracting, 94. Drawing out, spinning out.
• Dilection. A choosing, preferring, loving.
• Diriges, 439. Dirges; a word derived from the Latin dirige.
• Disagreeable to, 98. Disagreeing with, differing from.
• Dish, laid in my, 130. For me to chew upon.
• Dismembred, 313. There being no talk of the members of an animal being taken away, I take it that he means diversely membered from what it was naturally, as was the serpent with “manie legs”.
• Dizzards, 291. Evidently fool or blockhead. That it was a name for the vice or fool of a play is by no means a proof of its prater or diseur origin, for he was not so much a prater as a funny lout who bore himself apishly, and “moved his body as him list”. Rather cognate to dizzy.
• Donee, 148. Noted as an early use of the word.
• Doubt in, 482; doubted, 6. Two excellent examples of the then frequent use of these words for fear and feared.
• Duplex s. s., 282. Should have been duplicis, but the writer probably thought that this would be liable to a misrendering. S[piritus] S[ancti] is of course meant.

E.

• Eager, 249. Sour; French, aigre, as in vinegar.
• Earnest pennie, 542. The small sum given as part payment in earnest that, or as assurance that, the bargain had been made.
• Embossed, 316. [Spoken of glasses in “perspective” devices.] Convex (?).
• Enabled, 164. Made able, strengthened.
• Eversed, 316. [As under Embossed.] Possibly concave (?).
• Exchange, 218. To change or transform.
• Excourse, 43. Lat. excursus, outgoing.
• Expend, 444. Hang, or rather weigh out.
• Experiment, 82. Trial, or mode of proof; the verb is similarly used.
• Exsufflation, 440. In Roman Catholic baptism the devil is rejected by exsufflando (blowing him away) and by abrenunciation (the renouncing) of him and his works.
• Extermination, 485. A driving out beyond the boundary or terminus.
• Eybitten, 64. “Master Scot in his Discovery telleth us, That our English people in Ireland, whose posterity were lately barbarously cut off, were much given to this Idolatry in the Queen’s time, insomuch that there being a Disease amongst their Cattel that grew blind, being a common Disease in that Country, they did commonly execute people for it, calling them eye biting witches” (A Candle in the Dark, by Th. Ady, M.A., 1656, p. 104). Scot did not tell him this, but the explanation prevents erroneous guesses.

F.

• Fautor, 528. (Lat.) Favourer, supporter.
• Fetches, 110. Devices, ruses, trickeries.
• Fitten, 538. Make fit.
• Flawed, 57. Flayed.
• Foine, 257. A rapier, or, more generally, the thrust (or parry) made by a rapier. But see note on passage.
• Fond, 204. Foolish, as commonly then.
• Footed, 340. A rather awkward way of describing a box with two covers (opposite one another) and double-bottomed.
• Foreslowed, 365. Slowed overmuch, i.e., omitted at times. So we have other words in fore—foregrown, etc. Forespoken, has been said to be a compound of our fore, meaning bespeak or predict (Rich.). But it is not to predict, but to do. Hence, I rather take it as equal to speak over-much against, i.e., bewitch.
• Frote (A. N.). To rub.

G.

• Gissard, 528. A goose-herd.
• Graffing, 290. A form, an older form, of “grafting”, and so the verb graff.
• Griphes, 202. Vultures here, though in some authors it is the griffin or dragon.
• Gudgins, 257. Gudgeons. This fish is a bait, and is easily caught. From this latter circumstance it is here, as frequently, and as in Shakespeare, used for a fool.

H.

• Hagging, went to, 25. I suppose went to perform her part or duty as a witch. From hag-ridden, hag-tracks, and hag-worn, hag seems to have been used as a synonyme for wicked or witch.
• Haggister, 82. Kentish for the magpie.
• Hailed, 196. Haled, hauled.
• Hair, against the, 9. Contrary to the inclination, a phrase which might readily be drawn as to other animals, but which, I think, arose from dressing a horse.
• Hair, hang her up by the, 257. Seems from the word “utterly” to have been used metaphorically for make away with. Perhaps because Absalom was, and is popularly supposed to have so died; or possibly from this it was a civiller synonyme for being hung.
• Hallowe, 316. Hollow.
• Handle, 368. Used in one instance for to go about, or carry on, in a good sense; in the second, as to make a passive instrument of, as the monkey when he used the cat’s paw for the hot chestnuts.
• Heeles, by the, 65. Arrested and confined him, because offenders were often put for safety into the stocks.
• Hickot, 242. Hiccough.
• Ho, 501. Our “woa”.
• Honestie, 81. Chastity. Frequently used of mental as well as bodily chastity. We still speak in this sense of an “honest woman”.
• Hot, 255. Preterite of hit. An old, and also frequent, Kentish form of the past in many verbs.
• Houseled, be, 265. Receive the Eucharist.
• Hugger mugger, 433. An early example, explained by “secretlie”; but it also means, I think, as a consequence of the secrecy, in a hurried, tumbling, indecorous fashion.
• Hundreth, 338. A then common variant for hundred.

I.

• Idol, 390. ??d????, similitude.
• Illuded, 69. Cozened, deceived.
• Impugnable, 492. Not able to be imposed. This ——able form not in our dictionaries.
• Incestuous, 124. In Latinate sense, full of pollution.
• Indifferent (freq.). Impartial.
• Infirnalles, 426. Used as s.
• Insensible, 216. Without sense or meaning.
• Intend, 430. Attend.
• Intermedled, 490. Intermingled.
• Intricate, Entangle.
• Inversed, 316. Qy., inverted or turned upside down. But several of these terms I cannot explain.
• Irremissable, 70. Not able to be sent away, remitted or forgiven.

J.

• Jamme (of a window), 91. The jamb, supporter, or side-post of, here, a window.
• Jetting, a, 265. Jet, to fling, strut, etc., from the Fr. jeter, and though I have not found a similar phrase, it seems here used in the sense of having a fling, or a spree.
• John, Sir, 265. Cf. note.
• Jollie, 197, 273. We find its use in Scot, explaining, as it were, how the French joli, pretty, became our jolly, as in the phrase, “a pretty fellow”. Sometimes, as in the last phrase, it seems to have a somewhat lowering sense. In 273 he seems called jollie because he drank.
• Jumpe with, 492. Equally or exactly with.
• Jurat, 258. One sworn to administer justice, a magistrate or sheriff.

K.

• Knable, 346. To nibble.

L.

• Lane, 340, 357. From the latter reference I gather that it = layer.
• Lapidaries, 295. Early use.
• Learne a lewd man, 359. Chaucer, to teach.
• Leaze (asses), 264. Sense pretty evident, but I know not the word. Qy., same as lees, or leese, losings or leavings.
• Lewd, Lewdness, 19, 358, 359, (Chaucer) 8, etc. Sometimes ignorant; sometimes in a similar sense as lay, opposed to clerkly or learned; sometimes wicked or nefarious. Lewdness, in 8, seems to equal uselessness, or doing nothing for their living.
• Limitors, 88. Chaucer, Begging friars, because their limits were appointed.
• Loose, lose. These spellings are used interchangeably in this work, but, I think, are spelled the more frequently as they now are. Cf. Than and Then. Naught and Nought.

M.

• Martinists. Those who followed Martin Mar-Prelate.
• Masse cake, 270. As shown by Wier, the Roman Catholic wafer used in the celebration of the mass.
• Meane stuff, 499. Not mean in our sense, but middle or midway, as explained in the line before. Sacrifices of frankincense are a mean between sacrifices of the mind and those of cattell. So mean sense, 60, is used for ordinary or middling sense.
• Meere, A ii. v.. Unmixed, therefore pure.
• Melancholie. See note, p. 182.
• Mends, 373. Our ’mends, or amends, or rather requital.
• Merchant, B ii, 368. Dealer or go-between, without reference to commodities or goods.
• Miser, 160 (bis). Latinate, a wretched one.
• Moralitie, 308. The underlying meaning, as in the Moralities.
• Morrowmasse, 232. See note.

N.

• Nall, a, 335. An awl.
• Nameles finger, 273. See note.
• Namelie. By name, and therefore especially.
• Naught and Nought. Either is spelled as itself or as the other.
• Neezing, 201. Sneezing.
• Nephue, 557. This use of nephew as grandson was then the rule, just as was the French neveu, and the Latin nepos. Cf. Minsheu, Cotgrave, Baret, etc. Grand-child is used by Cotgrave, but hardly appears to have been in use. Sh. uses grandam, etc., tolerably frequently, but grand-child only once, in Coriolanus, and grandson, etc., never.
• Netherstocke, 84. Stocking.

O.

• Obeie, s., 380.
• Obscure, 380. “Leone obscurior & turpis”, Wier; i.e., he appears specie angelica, but not white, but darker than a lion, and filthy.
• Occupy, 77; ——ied, 415. See note.
• Onely, 114. A good example of the position then commonly given to the word in a sentence. He does not mean that this is the only work of God, but the work of God only.
• Orient, 297. This word was then oddly used. An orient pearl was so called by the Romans because it was large, and large pearls generally came from the East. So here, easterly seems to be used as an equivalent for hot. The eastern regions being in his astronomy nearer the sun’s rising, they were hotter,—a false explanation of a true fact.
• Orizons, 41. Orisons.
• Other. Frequently here, as contemporarily, used for others.
• Overtaken, 324. Here, surprised. But in another passage it is deceived.

P.

• Pack, 339. Agreement, and though not a mere variant of it, pact.
• Paire of cards, 335. Our pack. So a pair-royal is composed of three aces, kings, etc.
• Palme, 268. See note.
• Passible, 496. Passable, able to pass away, temporary.
• Peevishness, 483. Foolishness. Greene seems sometimes to use the adjective for perverse or rascally, Planetomachia, 40, 22—95, 18, etc., ed. Grosart.
• Perbreake, 310, or Parbreak. Vomit.
• Perceived, 131. Seen through, truly understood.
• Periapts, 230. Cf. text. ?e??apt?, I bind, wrap around, attach to.
• Perish, 407. Causal sense, make to perish.
• Perspective, 315, etc. Not our perspective, but the arrangement of glasses and mirrors so as to show other things than you expect to see, etc.
• Perspicuous, A v. Perspicacious.
• Philosophie, did, 454. See note.
• Pile, 385. Pile and crosse = our heads and tails.
• Pioners. Diggers. The word is now confined to military diggers.
• Pitie, 369. Verb used in causal sense.
• Plashes, water, 64. Pools, puddles.
• Plumme, 238. Was this word then used in this way? Scot was not too squeamish. Cf. “etish”, p. 246, etc.
• Podware, 223. Agricultural produce producing pods.
• Points, 341. Tags or tying laces.
• Pollusions, 447. Pollutions.
• Practive, 326, marg. Able to practise readily, practised.
• Pregnancy, 358. Ability to conceive or understand.
• Pregnant, 75. Able to become pregnant.
• Prelacies, 390. Wier’s prÆlaturÆ seems to have been used by him generally, but Du Cange makes it specific as the office of a dean, and Holyokes Rider as that of an archdeacon.
• Present, 238. Immediate.
• Prest, in, 360. In readiness, therefore in loan, in advance.
• Pretended, 474. Latinate, set forth. Under 20 this is its main meaning, but the sentence shows how it came to mean our pretend.
• Prevent, 417. Latinate, come or go before. Its lapse into our sense is well shown in 30.
• Progeny, 32. Offspring. Noted because Shakespeare and others sometimes used it as progenitors.
• Proposeth, 361. Setteth forth.
• Proprieties, 210, 303. Properties. So Trevisa on Barthol. 1379 (t. page, I think).
• Prove, 255. Proved, 21. Try, attempt.
• Purchase, 430. Obtain. The same usage (found in other authors) shows that the thieves’ cant ridiculed in Shakespeare was but an appropriation of this.

Q.

• Question be made, 25. Torture applied.
• Quezie, 239. Squeamish, apt to vomit.
• Quick, 415. Live, springing, running.

R.

• Rank, 279. Thick, full, abundantly fertile.
• Rath, 441, Early.
• Reall, sometimes = Royal.
• Recount, 170. Qy., to say (or esteem), in reference to the spelling, etc.; or is it equal to account?
• Recreations, 93. Re-creations, creations over again.
• Reere banquet, 66 = a rere-supper, or eating and drinking after supper.
• Regiment, 378. Rule, as often then.
• Remorse, 171. Pity, as often then.
• Remove, 242. Used as our move, the joint being looked on as passive, and different from the moving power.
• Resiant, 476. Fr. reseant, resident, Cotgrave, who gives also the Engl. resiant.
• Resistance, 445. Not resistance of or from, but resistance [to God] proceeding from, or belonging to, spirituall iniquitie.
• Rest, 344. Remain, but here unusually used.
• Rish, 341. Rush.
• Roome, made, 275. Made way, i.e., gave opportunity.

S.

• Saccaring, etc., 95. Sacring, consecrating. The sacring bell is the bell rung at the time of consecrating and elevating the host.
• Safeguard, 51. A skirt or outside petticoat worn when riding.
• Scantling, 358. Dimension. Nautical; is properly dimensions of timber when reduced to its proper size, but sometimes the piece so reduced.
• Scot free, 71. Primarily, free from charge; secondarily, from punishment.
• Seelie, 35. Harmless, thence simple.
• Severall, 527. Separate.
• Shepens, 88. Stalls for cows. Some say also for sheep.
• Shouldered, A vi. v. Here, supported, as when one shoulders another for that purpose.
• Shrewdly, 79. Maliciously or keenly.
• Sinewes, 47, 241. Probably from the want of knowledge of anatomy, this was used both for our sinews, but more generally, I think, for nerves. We find it, certainly in this, and, I think, in both senses, in Batman, or rather Trevisa upon Barth., and for nerves in medical writers, as in Boord, and in the translation of Vigo. In 248, where “marrow” precedes, it is most probably = nerves. Wier in the same passage has “a nervis”.
• Sir John, 265, etc. See note.
• Sithens, 458. Since.
• Skils not, it, 335. It matters not.
• So. Frequently used where we use as.
• Sock a corpse, 42, 124. To sew a corpse in its winding sheet. Kentish.
• Sort, 374. Set, or company.
• Spie him, 46. Spy him out.
• Spoil a witch, 269. Injure a witch.
• Square, 410. Used for an unequal-sided parallelogram ?.
• Sterne, A iii. Used, as not unfrequently then, for helm.
• Sterven. Punished by any means, though not intentionally killed. Starved up, 124, is used for starved to death.
• Straught, 144. Our distraught.
• Strumpet, 145. Used as a term of reproach without reference to its sexual sense. So he uses incestuous.
• Success, 196, 197, 272. Event or sequel, whether bad or good. Hence we still speak of “good success”.
• Suffocate, 223. Qy., to choke with weeds.
• Suffrages, 434, 444. Du Cange (8). Prayers by which the help of God is implored.

T.

• Temper with them, 20. May be variant or error for tamper; may perhaps be our temper them, work them up fittingly, etc.
• Temporall, B v. Carnally or materially bodied.
• Tester, or Testor, 340. Sixpence.
• Testifie, 374. Not to testifie to, but to make themselves witnesses of.
• Than, then. See note, p. 158.
• Therefore, 528. On that account, or for that thing.
• Thomas, 233. Anyone, as John, or N. or M.
• Thropes, 88. Thorps or villages.
• Travel, A ii. Travel and travail were both so spelled.
• Treene, A vi. Tree-en, wooden.
• Trench master. He—says G. Markham, Soldier’s Grammar, p. 128—“hath command over all the pyoners ... and by his [the master general of the ordnance] directions seeth all manner of trenches cast up, whether it be for guard and inclosing of the campe, or for other particular annoyance to the enemye, or for the building of sconces or other defence or offence, as directions shall be given.” Grose, Mil. Antiq., i, 223-4, who adds, “This officer seems sometimes to have been stiled Devisour of the fortifications to be made.”
• Tried, 66, 211, 453. Proved, as gold is tried by touchstone, etc.
• Trish trash, 523. A reduplicate, and therefore emphatic, form.
• Tuition, 415. Defence. Lat. tuere.
• Turbinall, 316. Qy., top-shaped, from Lat. turbo.

U.

• Undermeales, 88. Intermediate meals after dinner, and thence, as here = in the afternoon.
• Unproper, 371.
• Untame, 252.

V.

• Vade, 169. Used contemporarily as fade, but generally as a strengthened or more emphatic form, as shown here by “utterly wither”.
• Valure, 130. Valour.
• Virtutes. Virtues, i.e., the order of angels so called. Pl. of Lat. virtus.
• Void = Avoid, and so Trevisa, 1397.

W.

• Wag, 324. Probably used in an ill sense, as a chatterer who makes himself conspicuous by his interference.
• Wax, 249. To increase and thence to grow, and to grow or become, whether the growth be increase or not.
• Wealth, A iii. Weal.
• Wheeking, 301. An onomatopÆic word.
• Where, 429. Whether.
• Whereas, 419. Whereat, at which.
• Whitmeats, 281. Milk-whitepots, custards, cheese-cakes, butter, cheese (Bailey). In fact, any thing or any dish made of milk. Lactucaria (Th. Cooper, Holyokes Rider).
• Wist, had I, 374. See note.
• Witch. Used by Scot and others for both wizards and witches, though the former word was known in English in 1582 (Witches at St. Osees, by W. W.). So used till at least 1670.
• Witchmonger. (a) Those who dealt with witches, as with wise women. (b) Those who sought them out for punishment.
• Wreath, 225. Translation of Lat. vertere, to wrest or twist violently.
• Wrote, 199. Wrought.

X.

• Xenophilus, 378. Wier’s Zenophilus. A friend suggests same as f????e???, a friend to strangers, hospitable. The difficulty is, what is such a one’s outwardly distinctive form?

Y.

• Yaw, 228. To go, or stray, out of their course. Now nautical only.
• Yer, A vii. Ere.

In almost the words of my circular, “I would gladly reprint the all but necessary continuation—though from an opposite point of view—James I’s small Counterblast, his Demonology, 80 pages in the 1603 edition—consulted by Shakespeare before writing his Macbeth—collating the editions from that of 1597 to the Bishop of Winton’s in 1616.” Should any reader of this also wish it, I would be glad to hear from him to that effect.

B. N.

Surrenden Lodge,
S. Norwood, London.