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Vast, sometimes for waste, dreary. Vaunt, the avant, what went

before, or the vanguard.

Vaward, the fore part.

Velure, velvet.

Venetian, admittance, a fashion Unbreathed, unexercised, un

admitted from Venice.

Venew, a bout at a fencing school. Uncape, a term in hunting, to Unrough youths, beardless youths. Warder, a guard or sentinel.

Vencys, venews.

Vent, rumour, materials for dis

course. COR.

Ventages, the holes of a flute.
Verbal, verbose. CYMB.
Verify, to hear witness. Cor.
Very, sometimes for immediate.
Vice, to draw or persuade.
Vice, a grasp. A mimick. HAM.
Vie, a term at cards, to brag.
Violenteth, probably rageth.
Virgin crants, maiden garlands.
Ger.

Virginal, a kind of spinnet.
Virginal, belonging to a virgin.

Virtuous, sometimes for salutifer

ous.

Vizament, advisement.

U.

Umber, a dusky, yellow-coloured earth.

Umbered, discoloured.

Unaneled, without extreme unction.

Unavoided, unavoidable. RIC. II. Unbarbed, bare, uncovered, beardless.

Unbated, i, e. sword, not blunted

as foils are. HAM.

Unbitted, unbridled.

Unbonnetted, without any addi

tion from dignities. Отн.

practised.

stop every hole before the fox

is uncaped, or turned out of the bag.

Uncharged, unattacked. TIM.

Атн.

Unclew, to unwind, to ruin. Uncoined, unrefined, unadorned. HEN. V.

Unconfirmed, unpractised in the ways of the world, not hardened.

Undercraft,

a phrase from

heraldry, to wear beneath the

crest.

Uneffectual, i.e. fire, shining without heat. HAM.

Unexpressive, inexpressible. As

YOU.

Ungenitured, not having genitals. Unhaired, unbearded, youthful. Unhappy, sometimes for mischievously waggish, unlucky. Unhoused, free from domestic

cares.

Unhouselled, without having the

sacrament.

Unmastered, licentious.
Unproper, common. Отн.
Unqualitied, unmanned.

Unquestionable, averse to convers

ation. As YOU.

Unrespective, inconsiderate.

Unrest, disquiet.

Wappened, probably decayed or

diseased.

Ward, defence, a phrase in the

art of defence.

MAC.

Unsisting, unresisting, or unfeeling. MEA. FOR MEA.

Unsmirched, clean, not defiled. Unsquared, as stones, unadapted to their purposes.

Unstanched, incontinent.

Untempering, not softening.

Untented, not probed, virulent.

Untraded, singular, not in com

mon use.

Warden, a species of large pear. Warn, sometimes to summons. Warp, to change from the natural state. As YOU.

Wassel, a kind of drink, or, intemperate drinking.

Wassel candle, candle used at feasts.

Waxen, to encrease.

Wuren, soft, yielding, easily obliterated.

Unvalued, invaluable. RICH. III. Web and the pin, diseases of the

Upspring, upstart.

Use and usance, sometimes for Wee, very little.

usury.

Utis, a merry festival.

Utterance, the extremity of de

fiance. CYMB. & MAC.

W.

Waft, to beckon. Com. ER. Well-a-near, well-a-day, lack-a

HAM.

Wage, sometimes to hire or reward, to fight.

Waist, between the quarter-deck and forecastle of a ship. TEM. Wan'd, probably for waned, decayed, or in the wane. ANT.

& CLE.

Wanned, pale, made wan. Wanton, sometimes for a man feeble and effeminate.

eye. LEAR.

Ween, to think or imagine.

Weigh, sometimes to value or

esteem.

Weird, prophetic.

Welkin, the sky.

Welkin-eye, blue eye.

day.

Wend, to go.
Westward-hoe, the name of a play

acted in Shakspeare's time. TWELFTH NIGHT. Wether, used for ram. Whelked, varied with protuberances; from whelks, protuberances, a small shell-fish. Whe'r, often for whether. Where, sometimes for whereas.

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Whifler, an officer who walked Woolvish, giving an idea of a wolf

in processions.

Whiles, until. TWELFTH NIG.

Whipstock, the carter's whip.
Whirring, hurrying away.
Whist, being silent. TEMP.
Whiting time, bleaching time.
Whitsters, bleachers of linen.
Whittle, a pocket clasp knife.
Whooping, measure and reckon-

ing. As Yoυ.

in sheep's clothing. Cor. Woolward, clothed in wool, or rather naked. Lov. LAB. Worts, the ancient name of all kinds of cabbage.

Wot, to know.
Wreck, resentment.

Wrest, an instrument for drawing up the strings of a harp; a help. TROIL. & CRES.

Wimpled, hooded, or veiled, from Wrested pomp, pomp obtained by wimple, a hood.

Winchester goose, a strumpet. The stews were formerly licenced by the bishop of Winchester. Winking-gates, gates hastily closed from fear of danger. Winnowed, sifted, examined.

Wis, to know.

violence.

Writhled, wrinkled. Wrought, worked, agitated. Wrying, deviating.

Y.

Yare, handy, nimble. TEMP. Yarely, readily, nimbly. TEMP.

Wish, sometimes to recommend Yearn, to grieve or vex.

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