ABONE, (1) v. (4.-N.) To make good or seasonable; to ripen; to dispatch quickly. (2) prep. Above. (3) adv. Well. And a good swerde, that wolde byte abone. Sir Gawayne, p. 217. ABOOD, past tense of abide. Waited; expected; remained. And Cornelie abood hem with hise Cosyns and necessarie frendis that weren clepid togidre. Wickliffe's New Testament, Acts x. ABOON, prep. Above; overhead. North. ABOORD, adv. From the bank. As men in summer fearles passe the foord, Which is in winter lord of all the plaine, And with his tumbling streames doth beare uboord The ploughmans hope and shepheards labour vaine. Spenser's Ruines of Rome, 1591. ABOOT, part. p. Beaten down. Skinner. ABOOVE, pret. Above. West. ABORE, part. p. Born. Somersetsh. ABORMENT, S. An abortion. Topsell's History of Four-Footed Beasts, 1607. We have aborsment in Higins' Nomenclator, and abort in Florio, ed. 1611. ABORT, v. (Lat.) To bring forth before the time. ABOUN, prep. Above. They said that songe was this to sey, Tundale's Visions, p. 158. By God and Seynte Mary, myn abouré. MS. of 15th cent. ABOUT, adv. (1) In a circle. It is used by Shakespeare in the sense of to work! as in Hamlet, ii, 2, "about, my brains!" i. e. brains, go to work." 66 (2) prep. Near, in the dialect of ABOUTEN, adv. About. Chaucer. A smith's great forging hammer. ABOUT-WARD, adv. Near. ABOUYE, V. (4.-S.) To bow. Rob. Glouc. ABOUZTE, part. past of abie. Or it schalle sone been abouzte. ABOVEN, prep. Above. bow. (2) v. To avow; to maintain. In blood he stode, ich it abowe, (3) prep. Above. ABOWED, part. p. Daunted; ashamed. Cockeram. ABOWEN, prep. Above. ABOWES, 8. (4.-N.) Probably for aboures, or avoures, patron saints. God and Seinte Mary, and Sein Denis also, And alle the abowes of this churche, in was ore ich am i-do. Rob. Glouc., p. 475. ABRADE, v. (Lat. abrado.) To rub, or scrape off. ABRAHAM-COLOUR, ABRAHAM-COLOURED. Supposed to be auburn. "A goodly, long, thick, Abrahamcolour'd beard," occurs in Blurt Master Constable, 1602. Abram-coloured. See Where is the eldest son of Priam, That Abraham-colour'd Trojan. Soliman and Perseda, 1599. ABRAHAM-MEN. The slang name of a class of beggars in the sixteenth century. Nares thinks the phrase "to sham Abraham" has some connection with it. An Abraham-man is he that walketh bare-armed, and bare-legged, and fayneth hymself mad, and caryeth a packe of wool, or a stycke with baken on it, or such lyke toye, and nameth himself poore Tom. Fraternitye of Vacabondes, 1575. His helpe extends farre and neere to fugitive raga-muffins, under the signe of impotent soldiers, or wandring Abraham-men: but his helpe proves the maintenance of their function, because it proves his owne, by occasion: for being received as a secretary to the counsell of vagrants, hee conceales much idle property, in advantage of himselfe and countrymen, not of the commonwealth. Stephens's Essays and Characters, 1615. ABRAHAM'S BALM, S. An old name for a species of willow. Bullokar, English Expositor, 1641. Cockeram explains it as "a willow in Italy that brings forth agnus castus like pepper." ABRAIDE, v. (from A.-S. abradian.) (1) To awaken; to start up. Ipomydon with that stroke abrayde, And to the kynge thus he sayde. Ipomydon, 1149. When he espied the 'squire, therewith he abrayed and break himself loose, and took his sword in his hand, and ran to have slain that 'squire. Mlory, Hist. of K. Arthur, i, 419. Whan all to all I trust from vyce abrayed. Tho sche herd the angel voice, Legend of Seynt Mergrete, p. 115. (2) To upbraid. Bochas present felly gan abrayde (4) To apply one's self briskly to I abrayde, I inforce me to do a thynge. Palgrave. (5) To rise on the stomach with a feeling of nausea. North. (6) To excite; stir up. ABRAM. Naked. A cant word. "Abram cove" is an expression used amongst thieves, signifying a poor man, and also a strong thief. "Abram cove, naked or poor man." Coles' English Dictionary, 1677. See also Middleton's Works, iii. 32. ABRAM-COLOured. This phrase is used by Shakespeare in Coriolanus, ii. 3: "Our heads are some brown, some black, some abram, some bald, but that our wits are so diversly coloured." The folio of 1685 alters abram to auburn. See Abraham-coloured. ABRASE, V. (Lat.) To shave. This word occurs in Cockeram's English Dictionarie, 1639. (2) Part. p. Smoothed; shaved. The fourth, in white, is Apheleia, a nymph as pure and simple as the soul, or as an abrase table, and is therefore called Simplicity. Ben Jonson, ii, 366. ABREAD, adj. Unconfined; spread out; exposed. North. ABRED, part. p. Brought up. Somerset. How Troilus nere out of his witte abrede, ABREGGE, v. (A.-N.) To abridge; ABRENOUNCE, v. (Lat. abrenuntio.) ABREYDE. See Abraide. ABRIC, 8. Sulphur. Coles. ABRICOCK, An apricot. 1n Ge s. (from Fr. abricot.) ABRICOT, rard's Herbal it is spelt abre- Whose golden gardens seeme th' Hesperides to mock: As in no wise she could abridge his wo. Turberville's Tragicall Tales, 1587. ABRIDGEMENT, s. The word was used in Shakespere's time (see Mids. N. D., v, 1) to signify a dramatic performance; perhaps from the prevalence of the historical drama, in which the events of years were so abridged as to be brought within the compass of a play. In Hamlet, ii, 2, "Look where my abridgement comes," the sense is doubtful. But in a subsequent passage Hamlet calls the players "the abstract, and brief chronicles of the time." ABRIGGE, V. (1) To abridge. (2) To shield off. Alle myscheffes from him to abrigge. Lydgate. ABRIPTED, part. p. (Lat.) Ravished; stolen away. Cockeram. ABROACH,. (from A.-S. abræABROCHE can.) To tap; to set flowing. Chaucer and Lydgate. And rushing in amongst his foes, so hote a skirmish made, That every blowe sets blood abroach. Warner's Albion's England, 1592. Call all my servants, lay down all my meat to the fire, set all my hogsheads abroach. Shadwell, Bury Fair, 1689. (1) adj. Broad. Min ABROAD, ABRODE, sheu. >(2) adv. In pieces; asunder. Cornw. Away ; (3) adv. Abroad. North. North. ABRODIETICALL, adj. (from Gr. ἀβροδίαιτος.) “A daintie feeder, or delicate person." Minshew's Guide into Tongues, 1627. ABROKE, part. p. (1) One that has a rupture is said to be abroke. Kennett. (2) Torn. Hampsh. ABROKEN, part. p. Broken out; escaped. ABRON, adj. Auburn. A lustie courtier, whose curled head With abron locks was fairly furnished. Hall, Sat., b. iii, s. 5. ABROOD, adv. (1) Abroad. (2) Sitting, applied to a hen. ABROOK, V. To brook, endure, suffer. Shakespeare's Henry VI. ABRUPT, part. p. (Lat. abruptus.) Separated. ABRUPTION, S. (Lat.) A breaking ABSIST, v. (Lat.) To desist. ABSTINENT, adj. (Lat.) Abstemious. bring to an end waste; to eat up. destruction. absumo.) To by a gradual Absumption, Auburn. It is sometimes spelt abourne, as in the Triall of Witts, 1604. ABUSCHID, part. p. Ambushed. ABUSE, v. (4.-N.) To deceive; to impose upon. Abusable, that may be abused, and abusage, abuse, were words employed in the 17th century. ABUSED, part. p. Fallen into abuse; become depraved. ABUSEFUL, adj. Abusive. Herefordsh. ABUSHEMENT, S. An ambush. ABUSHMENTLY, adv. In ambush. Huloet. ABUSION, 8. An abuse. Chaucer and Spenser. He presumeth and taketh upon hym in partie your estate royal in cailyng before bym into greate abusion of all your Jande, and derogacion of your highnes, whiche hath not been sene nor used in no dayes heretofore. Hall, Henry VI, fol. 62. ABUSIOUS, adj. Abusive. Thou abusious villaine! Taming of a Shrew, 1607. ABUT, conj. Sometimes used in the beginning of a sentence, where no more is really meant than would be expressed by the word but. North. ABUTTAL, 8. (A.-N.) A boundary. ABUYZE. See Abie. ABVERT, V. (Lat. abverto.) To turn away. Cockeram. ABVOLATE, V. (Lat. abvolo.) To Thane come of the oryente Morte Arthure. ABY, v. To abide; to feel the effect ABYYD. A form of abide, found in some early MSS. Ac, conj. (A.-S.) But. ACADEME, S. (Gr.) An academy. Love's Labour Lost. ACADEMY, 8. This word is used by Ben Jonson, and Beaumont and Fletcher, with the accent on the first syllable. ACAID, S. (A.-S. aced.) Vinegar. ACALE, adj. (from A.-S. acalian, to cool.) Cold. For blood may suffre blood, Piers Ploughman, p. 393. ACARNE, 8. (Lat. acarne.) The sea-roach. Kersey. 66 ACAS, adv. By chance ACASIAN, S. Acasian, that is jus of wodstone," Med. MS., 14th cent. ACASTE, V. (4.-S.) To cast away; to lose. The olde tre his vertu gan acaste. (2) To be cast away. ACATER, S. (4.-N. acater.) A ca terer; a purveyor. He is my wardrobe man, my acater, cook, Butler, and steward. Devil is an Ass, i, 2. 8. (A.-N.) Victuals; provisions purchased. ACATES, which see. cate, Whan I cam eerly or late, I pinched nat at hem in myn acate. Hoccleve, i, 180. Cotgrave, defining the term pittance, says, it imported "meat, food, acates, victual of all sorts, bread and drink excepted." The Mantuan, at his charges, him allow'th All fine acates that that same country bred. Harrington's drivst., xliii, 139. ACATRY, 8. (A.-N.) The place allotted for the provisions purchased for the king by his pur veyors. ACAUSE, conj. Because. Suffolk. ACAWMIN, part. p. Coming. So merset. ACAZE, prep. (4.-N.) Against. Rob. Glouc. ACCABLE, v. (Fr.) To press down. ACCAHINTS, 8. Accounts. Staffords. ACCENSED, part. p. (Lat.) Kindled. ACCEPCION, 8. (Lat.) Reception; acceptation. ACCERSE, v. (Lat. accerso.) To summon; call together. Wherfore the erle, consideryng that kyng Edward did dayly encrease hys power, as a runnyng ryver by goyng more and more augmented, thought it moste necessary for hym to geve him battayle with spede, and therupon accersed and called together lys army. Hall, Edward IV', fol. 26. ACCESS, S. Used by Shakespeare in Hamlet, ii, 1, accented on the first syllable. ACCESSE, S. (in Lat. accessus febris, the access of a fever.) A fever; or, more properly, the fit of an ague. For upon hym he had an note accesse, That daie by daie hym shoke full pitouslie. The Complaint of the Blacke Knight, 137. ACCESSIVELIE, adv. (Lat.) Accessorily; as an accessory. ACCIDAVY, 8. An affidavit. North. s. (accidia in medieval ACCIDIE,Lat., derived from the ACCIDE, Gr. áкndia,carelessness, sloth.) Indolence, sloth. He hadde an accidie, ACCIPITRA RY, s. (Lat. accipitrarius.) A falconer. ACCITE, ACITE, v. (Lat. accire.) To incite; also, to summon, or call. Shakespeare, 2 Henry IV, and Tit. And. We be all by the condycyon egall, now acyted for to appere unto suche and soo mervaylous jugement. The Ordynarye of Crysten Men, p. 320. |