every man in his humour-第26部分
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Y; polished and shining SLOPS; large loose breeches SLOT; print of a stag's foot SLUR; put a slur on; chear (by sliding a die in some way) SMELT; gull; simpleton SNORLE; 〃perhaps snarl as Puppy is addressed〃 (Cunningham) SNOTTERIE; filth SNUFF; anger; resentment; 〃take in ;〃 take offence at SNUFFERS; small open silver dishes for holding snuff; or receptacle for placing snuffers in (Halliwell) SOCK; shoe worn by comic actors SOD; seethe SOGGY; soaked; sodden SOIL; 〃take ;〃 said of a hunted stag when he takes to the water for safety SOL; sou SOLDADOES; soldiers SOLICIT; rouse; excite to action SOOTH; flattery; cajolery SOOTHE; flatter; humour SOPHISTICATE; adulterate SORT; company; party; rank; degree SORT; suit; fit; select SOUSE; ear SOUSED (〃Devil is an Ass〃); fol。 read 〃sou't;〃 which Dyce interprets as 〃a variety of the spelling of 'shu'd': to shu is to scare a bird away。〃 (See his Webster; p。 350) SOWTER; cobbler SPAGYRICA; chemistry according to the teachings of Paracelsus SPAR; bar SPEAK; make known; proclaim SPECULATION; power of sight SPED; to have fared well; prospered SPEECE; species SPIGHT; anger; rancour SPINNER; spider SPINSTRY; lewd person SPITTLE; hospital; lazar…house SPLEEN; considered the seat of the emotions SPLEEN; caprice; humour; mood SPRUNT; spruce SPURGE; foam SPUR…RYAL; gold coin worth 15s。 SQUIRE; square; measure; 〃by the ;〃 exactly。 STAGGERING; wavering; hesitating STAIN; disparagement; disgrace STALE; decoy; or cover; stalking…horse STALE; make cheap; common STALE; approach stealthily or under cover STALL; forestall STANDARD; suit STAPLE; market emporium STARK; downright STARTING…HOLES; loopholes of escape STATE; dignity; canopied chair of state; estate STATUMINATE; support vines by poles or stakes; used by Pliny (Gifford) STAY; gag STAY; await; detain STICKLER; second or umpire STIGMATISE; mark; brand STILL; continual(ly); constant(ly) STINKARD; stinking fellow STINT; stop STIPTIC; astringent STOCCATA; thrust in fencing STOCK…FISH; salted and dried fish STOMACH; pride; valour STOMACH; resent STOOP; swoop down as a hawk STOP; fill; stuff STOPPLE; stopper STOTE; stoat; weasel STOUP; stoop; swoop=bow STRAIGHT; straightway STRAMAZOUN (Ital。 stramazzone); a down blow; as opposed to the thrust STRANGE; like a stranger; unfamiliar STRANGENESS; distance of behaviour STREIGHTS; OR BERMUDAS; labyrinth of alleys and courts in the Strand STRIGONIUM; Grau in Hungary; taken from the Turks in 1597 STRIKE; balance (accounts) STRINGHALT; disease of horses STROKER; smoother; flatterer STROOK; p。p。 of 〃strike〃 STRUMMEL…PATCHED; strummed is glossed in dialect dicts。 as 〃a long; loose and dishevelled head of hair〃 STUDIES; studious efforts STYLE; title; pointed instrument used for writing on wax tablets SUBTLE; fine; delicate; thin; smooth; soft SUBTLETY (SUBTILITY); subtle device SUBURB; connected with loose living SUCCUBAE; demons in form of women SUCK; extract money from SUFFERANCE; suffering SUMMED; term of falconry: with full…grown plumage SUPER…NEGULUM; topers turned the cup bottom up when it was empty SUPERSTITIOUS; over…scrupulous SUPPLE; to make pliant SURBATE; make sore with walking SURCEASE; cease SUR…REVERENCE; save your reverence SURVISE; peruse SUSCITABILITY; excitability SUSPECT; suspicion SUSPEND; suspect SUSPENDED; held over for the present SUTLER; victualler SWAD; clown; boor SWATH BANDS; swaddling clothes SWINGE; beat
TABERD; emblazoned mantle or tunic worn by knights and heralds TABLE(S); 〃pair of ;〃 tablets; note…book TABOR; small drum TABRET; tabor TAFFETA; silk; 〃tuft…taffeta;〃 a more costly silken fabric TAINT; 〃 a staff;〃 break a lance at tilting in an unscientific or dishonourable manner TAKE IN; capture; subdue TAKE ME WITH YOU; let me understand you TAKE UP; obtain on credit; borrow TALENT; sum or weight of Greek currency TALL; stout; brave TANKARD…BEARERS; men employed to fetch water from the conduits TARLETON; celebrated comedian and jester TARTAROUS; like a Tartar TAVERN…TOKEN; 〃to swallow a ;〃 get drunk TELL; count TELL…TROTH; truth…teller TEMPER; modify; soften TENDER; show regard; care for cherish; manifest TENT; 〃take ;〃 take heed TERSE; swept and polished TERTIA; 〃that portion of an army levied out of one particular district or division of a country〃 (Gifford) TESTON; tester; coin worth 6d。 THIRDBOROUGH; constable THREAD; quality THREAVES; droves THREE…FARTHINGS; piece of silver current under Elizabeth THREE…PILED; of finest quality; exaggerated THRIFTILY; carefully THRUMS; ends of the weaver's warp; coarse yarn made from THUMB…RING; familiar spirits were supposed capable of being carried about in various ornaments or parts of dress TIBICINE; player on the tibia; or pipe TICK…TACK; game similar to backgammon TIGHTLY; promptly TIM; (?) expressive of a climax of nonentity TIMELESS; untimely; unseasonable TINCTURE; an essential or spiritual principle supposed by alchemists to be transfusible into material things; an imparted characteristic or tendency TINK; tinkle TIPPET; 〃turn ;〃 change behaviour or way of life TIPSTAFF; staff tipped with metal TIRE; head…dress TIRE; feed ravenously; like a bird of prey TITILLATION; that which tickles the senses; as a perfume TOD; fox TOILED; worn out; harassed TOKEN; piece of base metal used in place of very small coin; when this was scarce TONNELS; nostrils TOP; 〃parish ;〃 large top kept in villages for amusement and exercise in frosty weather when people were out of work TOTER; tooter; player on a wind instrument TOUSE; pull; read TOWARD; docile; apt; on the way to; as regards; present; at hand TOY; whim; trick; term of contempt TRACT; attraction TRAIN; allure; entice TRANSITORY; transmittable TRANSLATE; transform TRAY…TRIP; game at dice (success depended on throwing a three) (Nares) TREACHOUR (TRECHER); traitor TREEN; wooden TRENCHER; serving…man who carved or served food TRENDLE…TAIL; trundle…tail; curly…tailed TRICK (TRICKING); term of heraldry: to draw outline of coat of arms; etc。; without blazoning TRIG; a spruce; dandified man TRILL; trickle TRILLIBUB; tripe; any worthless; trifling thing TRIPOLY; 〃come from ;〃 able to perform feats of agility; a 〃jest nominal;〃 depending on the first part of the word (Gifford) TRITE; worn; shabby TRIVIA; three…faced goddess (Hecate) TROJAN; familiar term for an equal or inferior; thief TROLL; sing loudly TROMP; trump; deceive TROPE; figure of speech TROW; think; believe; wonder TROWLE; troll TROWSES; breeches; drawers TRUCHMAN; interpreter TRUNDLE; JOHN; well…known printer TRUNDLE; roll; go rolling along TRUNDLING CHEATS; term among gipsies and beggars for carts or coaches (Gifford) TRUNK; speaking…tube TRUSS; tie the tagged laces that fastened the breeches to the doublet TUBICINE; trumpeter TUCKET (Ital。 toccato); introductory flourish on the trumpet TUITION; guardianship TUMBLE; a particular kind of dog so called from the mode of his hunting TUMBREL…SLOP; loose; baggy breeches TURD; excrement TUSK; gnash the teeth (Century Dict。) TWIRE; peep; twinkle TWOPENNY ROOM; gallery TYRING…HOUSE; attiring…room
ULENSPIEGEL。 See Howleglass UMBRATILE; like or pertaining to a shadow UMBRE; brown dye UNBATED; unabated UNBORED; (?) excessively bored UNCARNATE; not fleshly; or of flesh UNCOUTH; strange; unusual UNDERTAKER; 〃one who undertook by his influence in the House of Commons to carry things agreeably to his Majesty's wishes〃 (Whalley); one who becomes surety for UNEQUAL; unjust UNEXCEPTED; no objection taken at UNFEARED; unaffrighted UNHAPPILY; unfortunately UNICORN'S HORN; supposed antidote to poison UNKIND(LY); unnatural(ly) UNMANNED; untamed (term in falconry) UNQUIT; undischarged UNREADY; undressed UNRUDE; rude to an extreme UNSEASONED; unseasonable; unripe UNSEELED; a hawk's eyes were 〃seeled〃 by sewing the eyelids together with fine thread UNTIMELY; unseasonably UNVALUABLE; invaluable UPBRAID; make a matter of reproach UPSEE; heavy kind of Dutch beer (Halliwell); 〃 Dutch;〃 in the Dutch fashion UPTAILS ALL; refrain of a popular song URGE; allege as accomplice; instigator URSHIN; URCHIN; hedgehog USE; interest on money; part of sermon dealing with the practical application of doctrine USE; be in the habit of; accustomed to; put out to interest USQUEBAUGH; whisky USURE; usury UTTER; put in circulation; make to pass current; put forth for sale
VAIL; bow; do homage VAILS; tips; gratuities VALL。 See Vail VALLIES (Fr。 valise); portmanteau; bag VAPOUR(S) (n。 and v。); used affectedly; like 〃humour;〃 in many senses; often very vaguely and freely ridiculed by Jonson; humour; disposition; whims; brag(ging); hector(ing); etc。 VARLET; bailiff; or serjeant…at…mace VAUT; vault VEER (naut。); pay out VEGETAL; vegetable; person full of life and vigour VELLUTE; velvet VELVET CUSTARD。 Cf。 〃Taming of the Shrew;〃 iv。 3; 82; 〃custard coffin;〃 coffin being the raised crust over a pie VENT; vend; sell; give outlet to; scent snuff up VENUE; bout (fencing term) VERDUGO (Span。); hangman; executioner VERGE; 〃in the ;〃 within a certain distance of the court VEX; agitate; torment VICE; the buffoon of old moralities; some kind of machinery for moving a puppet (Gifford) VIE AND REVIE; to hazard a certain sum; and to cover it with a larger one。
VINCENT AGAINST YORK; two heralds…at…arms VINDICATE; avenge VIRGE; wand; rod VIRGINAL; old form of piano VIRTUE; valour VIVELY; in lifelike manner; livelily VIZARD; mask VOGUE; rumour; gossip VOICE; vote VOID; leave; quit VOLARY; cage; aviary VOLLEY; 〃at ;〃 〃o' the volee;〃 at random (from a term of tennis) VORLOFFE; furlough
WADLOE; keeper of the Devil Tavern; where Jonson and his friends met in the 'Apollo' room (Whalley) WAIGHTS; waits; night musicians; 〃band of musical watchmen〃 (Webster); or old form of 〃hautboys〃 WANNION; 〃vengeance;〃 〃plague〃 (Nares) WARD; a famous pirate WARD; guard in fencing WATCHET; pale; sky blue WEAL; welfare WEED; garment WEFT; waif WEIGHTS; 〃to the gold ;〃 to every minute particular WELKIN; sky WELL…SPOKEN; of fair speech WELL…TORNED; turned and polished; as on a wheel WELT; hem; border of fur WHER; whether WHETSTONE; GEORGE; an author who lived 1544(?) to 1587(?) WHIFF; a smoke; or drink; 〃taking the ;〃 inhaling the tobacco smoke or some such accomplishment WHIGH…HIES; neighings; whinnyings WHIMSY; whim; 〃humour〃 WHINILING; (?) whining; weakly WHIT; (?) a mere jot WHIT