A glossary of Tudor and Stuart words, especially from the dramatists

by Walter W. Skeat

Transcriber’s Notes

The book cover image was made by the transcriber and is placed in the public domain.

The original spelling has not been modified, with the exception that the capitalisation of Midlands has been made consistent.

Punctuation is largely reproduced as in the original. End-of-line hyphens have been removed to rejoin words as appropriate, but other hyphenation is as in the original. Punctuation has been added silently is a small number of places where it is obviously missing as a result of a typesetting or printing error.

The references to EETS. are to the Early English Text Society publications.

While it is not stated in this book, it is inferred that it follows the practice of the Oxford English Dictionary in which:

• * indicates a word or form not actually found, but of which the existence is inferred,
• † signifies an obsolete word,
• [...] in a quotation, it surrounds an editorial insertion,
• [...] while around an entire quotation, it indicates a quotation is relevant to the development of a sense but not directly illustrative of it.

. . . obtained from the OED web site.

Hyperlinks have been added to cross-references, except in the few cases where the word could not be found.

[End of A Glossary of Stuart and Tudor Words, by Walter William Skeat, edited by Anthony Lawson Mayhew]