- 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]. Ειδωλον, 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.