GLOSSARY.
Abettance, support, encouragement.
Abye, to pay the penalty of, to atone for.
Adjected, appended, added.
Albe, a long white linen robe worn by priests.
Ariette, a little song.
Arquebusier, a soldier armed with an arquebuse, an early form of musket.
Assoilzied, pardoned.
Astucious, astute, shrewd, cunning.
Baaren-hauter, a nickname for a German private soldier.
Ban, an imperial edict; the laws of the Empire.
Ban-dog, a large fierce dog.
Barbed, clad in armour.
Beauffet, a sideboard.
"Blink out of," to evade, to escape.
Bordel, a brothel.
Botargo, the roe of the mullet or tunny, salted and dried.
Brache, a kind of sporting dog.
Bretagne, Brittany.
Broad-piece, an old English gold coin.
Bruit, rumour.
"Buon campagna," open country.
Caravansera, an inn.
Carbonado, a piece of meat or game, seasoned and broiled.
Caviare, the roe of the sturgeon pickled in salt.
Chaffron, chamfron, the armoured frontlet of a horse.
Chalumeau, a reed or pipe made into an instrument of music.
Coif, a woman's headdress.
Corso, the chief street or square in an Italian town.
"Côte roti," wine grown on a sunny slope.
Dalmatic, dalmatique, a long ecclesiastical robe.
Debonair, affable, courteous.
Dishabille, undress, negligent dress.
Dorf, a village.
Ducat, an old gold coin, worth about 9s. 4d.
Entrechat, a caper.
Fadge, to succeed, to turn out well.
Galilee, a porch or chapel beside a monastery or church, in which the monks received visitors, where processions were formed, penitents stationed, and so forth.
Gear, business, affair; property.
Geierstein, vulture-stone.
Grave, a count.
Gutter-blooded, of the meanest birth.
Hagbut, a musket.
Halidome, on my word of honour.
Hypocaust, a stove, heating apparatus.
Jongleur, a minstrel-poet of Northern France.
Lauds, a daily service of the Roman Catholic Church.
Los, praise.
Morgue, the proud, disdainful look of a superior to an inferior.
Morisco, a Moor of Spain.
Pardoner, a licensed seller of papal indulgences.
Pavin, a stately Spanish dance.
Pennoncelle, a little flag fixed to a lance.
Peste! plague on't!
Piastre, a silver coin, worth 4s.
Plump, a clump, collection.
"Poz element," a German oath.
Questionary, a pedlar of relics or indulgences.
Rebeck, an instrument resembling the violin.
Reiter, a horse-soldier.
Rhein-Thal, the valley of the Rhine.
Ritter, a knight.
Rote, a kind of harp, played by turning a wheel.
Samite, a textile made of gold cloth or satin.
"Sapperment der Teufel!"—a German oath.
Schwarz-reiter, a German mercenary horse-soldier.
"Sibylline leaf," the oracular or precious saying.
Stadtholder, the emperor's deputy in ancient Westphalia.
Stell, to mount or plant (a cannon).
Strick-kind, the child of the cord—the prisoner on trial before the Vehmic Tribunal.
Stube, a sitting-room, a public room.
Talliage, a subsidy, a tax.
"Tiers état," the third estate, or representatives of the people.
Turnpike-stair, a spiral or winding staircase.
Vambrace, the piece of armour that covered the forearm.
Violer, a player on a viol, a kind of violin.
Visard, a mask to cover the face.
Wass-ail, ale or wine sweetened and flavoured with spices.
Wassel-song, a drinking or carousing song.
Welked, marked with protuberances or ridges.
Yungfrau, Jungfrau, a young girl.
Yung-herren, Jung-herren, Junker, the sons of a German minor noble.
Zechin, a Venetian gold coin, worth from 9s. to 10s.