[49.] A.S. ætwítan, twit; oðwítan, blame.
[50.] ‘prowl, proll, to seek for prey, from Fr. proie by the addition of a formative l, as kneel from knee.’ Wedgwood.
[51.] Louse is in English in 1530 ’Louse, a beest—pov. Palsgrave. And see the note, p. 19, Book of Quinte Essence.
[52.] To look sullen (?). Glowting round her rock, to fish she falls. Chapman, in Todd’s Johnson. Horrour and glouting admiration. Milton. Glouting with sullen spight. Garth.
[53.] Snytyn a nese or a candyl. Emungo, mungo. Prompt. Parv. Emungo, to make cleane the nose. Emunctio, snuffyng or wypynge of the nose. Cooper. Snuyt uw neus, Blow your nose. Sewel, 1740; but snuyven, ofte snuffen, To Snuffe out the Snot or Filth out of ones Nose. Hexham, 1660. A learned friend, who in his bachelor days investigated some of the curiosities of London Life, informs me that the modern Cockney term is sling. In the dress-circle of the Bower Saloon, Stangate, admission 3d., he saw stuck up, four years ago, the notice, “Gentlemen are requested not to sling,” and being philologically disposed, he asked the attendant the meaning of the word.
[54.] askew. Doyle, squint. Gloucestershire. Halliwell.
[55.] Codde, of mannys pryuyte (preuy membris). Piga, mentula. Promptorium Parvulorum.
[56.] Mowe or skorne, Vangia vel valgia. Catholicon, in P. P.
[57.] Ȝyxyñ Singulcio. Ȝyxynge singultus. P. P. To yexe, sobbe, or haue the hicket. Singultio. Baret. To yexe or sobbe, Hicken, To Hick, or to have the Hick-hock. Hexham.
[58.] ? shorewise, as shores. ‘Schore, undur settynge of a þynge þat wolde falle.’ P. Parv. Du. Schooren, To Under-prop. Aller eschays, To shale, stradle, goe crooked, or wide betweene the feet, or legs. Cotgrave.