The Discoverie of Witchcraft - Reginald Scot

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. Περιαπτω, 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.

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

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.

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.

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.