A Glossary of Archaic Words and Phrases
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- Abridgment: miniature
- Absurd: stupid, unpolished
- Abuse: cheat, deceive
- Aculeate: stinging
- Adamant: loadstone
- Adust: scorched
- Advoutress: adulteress
- Affect: like, desire
- Antic: clown
- Appose: question
- Arietation: battering-ram
- Audit: revenue
- Avoidance: secret outlet
- Battle: battalion
- Bestow: settle in life
- Blanch: flatter, evade
- Brave: boastful
- Bravery: boast, ostentation
- Broke: deal in brokerage
- Broken: shine by comparison
- Broken music: part music
- Cabinet: secret
- Calendar: weather forecast
- Card: chart, map
- Care not to: are reckless
- Cast: plan
- Cat: cate, cake
- Charge and adventure: cost and risk
- Check with: interfere
- Chop: bandy words
- Civil: peaceful
- Close: secret, secretive
- Collect: infer
- Compound: compromise
- Consent: agreement
- Curious: elaborate
- Custom: import duties
- Deceive: rob
- Derive: divert
- Difficileness: moroseness
- Discover: reveal
- Donative: money gift
- Doubt: fear
- Equipollent: equally powerful
- Espial: spy
- Estate: state
- Facility: of easy persuasion
- Fair: rather
- Fame: rumor
- Favor: feature
- Flashy: insipid
- Foot-pace: lobby
- Foreseen: guarded against
- Froward: stubborn
- Futile: babbling
- Globe: complete body
- Glorious: showy, boastful
- Humorous: capricious
- Hundred poll: hundredth head
- Impertinent: irrelevant
- Implicit: entangled
- In a mean: in moderation
- In smother: suppressed
- Indifferent: impartial
- Intend: attend to
- Knap:knoll
- Leese: lose
- Let: hinder
- Loose: shot
- Lot: spell
- Lurch: intercept
- Make: profit, get
- Manage: train
- Mate: conquer
- Material: business-like
- Mere-stone: boundary stone
- Muniting: fortifying
- Nerve: sinew
- Obnoxious: subservient, liable
- Oes: round spangles
- Pair: impair
- Pardon: allowance
- Passable: mediocre
- Pine-apple-tree: pine
- Plantation: colony
- Platform: plan
- Plausible: praiseworthy
- Point device: excessively precise
- Politic: politician
- Poll: extort
- Poser: examiner
- Practice: plotting
- Preoccupate: anticipate
- Prest: prepared
- Prick: plant
- Proper: personal
- Prospective: stereoscope
- Proyne: prune
- Purprise: enclosure
- Push: pimple
- Quarrel: pretext
- Quech: flinch
- Reason: principle
- Recamera: retiring-room
- Return: reaction
- Return: wing running back
- Rise: dignity
- Round: straight
- Save: account for
- Scantling: measure
- Seel: blind
- Shrewd: mischievous
- Sort: associate
- Spial: spy
- Staddle: sapling
- Steal: do secretly
- Stirp: family
- Stond: stop, stand
- Stoved: hot-housed
- Style: title
- Success: outcome
- Sumptuary law: law against extravagance
- Superior globe: the heavens
- Temper: proportion
- Tendering: nursing
- Tract: line, trait
- Travel: travail, labor
- Treaties: treatises
- Trench to: touch
- Trivial: common
- Turquet: Turkish dwarf
- Under foot: below value
- Unready: untrained
- Usury: interest
- Value: certify
- Virtuous: able
- Votary: vowed
- Wanton: spoiled
- Wood: maze
- Work: manage, utilize