Glossary + 

Advowtry + 

Adultery. + 

Animalia + 

Animals. + 

Arsie-versie + 

Upside-down. + 

Aruspicy + 

Prophesying, fortune-telling. + 

Bachrach + 

Wine from Bacharach, in Germany. + 

Bavin + 

A bundle of firewood. + 

Boutefeu + 

Arsonist or (literal or metaphorical) firebrand. + 

Cacodaemon + 

An evil Spirit. + 

Caldes’d + 

Cheated. + 

Calendae + 

The 1st or 2nd of the month. + 

Calleche + 

A carriage with two wheels and a folding hood. + 

Camelion + 

A giraffe. + 

Camisado + 

An attack by night, during which the attackers wore shirts over their armour so they could recognise one another. + 

Cane et angue pejus + 

Worse than a dog or a snake. + 

Caperdewsie + 

The stocks. + 

Capoch’d + 

Pulled off the hoods. + 

Caprich + 

A caprice. + 

Carbonading + 

Thrashing, beating. + 

Carroch + 

A stately or luxurious carriage. + 

Catasta + 

The stocks. + 

Cawdle + 

Soup or gruel. + 

Ceruse + 

White lead used as a cosmetic. + 

Champaign + 

Champagne wine. + 

Chous’d, choust, chows’d + 

Cheated. + 

Chouse + 

A cheat’s victim. + 

Classis + 

The elders and pastors of all the Presbyterian congregations in a district. + 

Coincidere + 

To come together. + 

Congees + 

Bows, curtseys. + 

Conster + 

Construe, explain. + 

Conventicle + 

Secret or illegal religious meetings. + 

Covins + 

Conspiracies. + 

Cucking-stool + 

A stool to which a malefactor (often an unfaithful wife) was tied, to be exposed to public ridicule, or ducked in a pond or river. + 

Curship + 

The title of being a cur⁠—pun on “worship.” + 

Curule + 

An ivory chair used as a mayor’s throne. + 

Deletory + 

That which wipes out or destroys. + 

Deodand + 

In English law an article which had caused a man’s death was ordered by the court to be a forfeited as a deodand (Ad Deodandum⁠—to be given to God). Before the reformation it or its value was given to the Church; afterwards to the local landowner. + 

Dewtry + 

A stupefying drink made from the Indian thorn-apple fruit. + 

Dialectico + 

A philosophical point of argument. + 

Dictum factum + 

No sooner said than done. + 

Disparo + 

To separate. + 

Donzel + 

A young page or squire. + 

Drazel + 

A slut. + 

Ducatoon + 

An Italian silver coin, worth about 6 shillings. + 

Ejusdem generis + 

Of the same kind. + 

Enucleate + 

To explain the meaning of. + 

Ex parte + 

On behalf of. + 

Exaunt + 

A religious establishment not under the authority of the local bishop. + 

Fadging + 

Fitting. + 

Feme-covert + 

A woman under the protection of a husband (a legal term) + 

Ferk + 

Beat, whip. + 

Festina lente + 

Make haste slowly. + 

Fingle-fangle + 

A whimsical or fantastic idea. + 

Fother + 

A cartload. + 

Fulhams + 

Loaded dice. + 

Ganzas + 

The birds which the hero of a popular romance harnessed to take him to the moon. + 

Genethliack + 

A caster of horoscopes. + 

Geomancy + 

Divination by interpreting the patterns of lines drawn at random on the ground or on paper. + 

Gleave + 

A spear or halberd. + 

Granado + 

A grenade. + 

Grilly’d + 

Grilled. + 

Grincam + 

Syphilis. + 

Guep + 

Go on!⁠—said to a horse or as an expression of derision. + 

Habergeon + 

A chain-mail shirt. + 

Haut-gouts + 

Tasty things. + 

Headborough + 

A constable. + 

Hiccius Doctius + 

A nonsense word used by jugglers, conjurers etc., hence, any kind of trick or dishonest dealing. + 

Hight + 

Called, named. + 

Hoccamore + 

Wine from Hochheim, in Germany. + 

Horary + 

Hourly. + 

Huckle + 

The hip. + 

Huguenots + 

French Calvinists. + 

Hypocondries + 

The upper abdomen, between the breastbone and the navel. + 

Id est + 

That is. + 

Idem + 

The same. + 

Illation + 

Inference, deduction. + 

In eodem subjecto + 

Thrown together in the same place. + 

In querpo + 

Naked. + 

Jobbernol(e) + 

A thick head or blockhead. + 

Jure divino + 

By God’s law. + 

Langued + 

Heraldic term meaning, with a tongue of a particular colour e.g. langued gules⁠—with a red tongue. + 

Lathy + 

Thin, like a lath. + 

Linsey-woolsey + 

A cloth of mixed wool and linen threads. + 

Linstock + 

A stick for holding a gunner’s match. + 

L’Ombre + 

A card game. + 

Longees + 

Lunges. + 

Lustrations + 

Ceremonials of ritual purification by washing. + 

Mainprize + 

To stand surety for someone. + 

Manicon + 

A plant (deadly nightshade) or its extract, believed to cause insanity when taken. + 

Mantua + 

A kind of woman’s loose gown. + 

Martlet + 

A swallow or martin. + 

Mazzard + 

The head. + 

Measle + 

A spot or pustule. + 

Mira de lente + 

Wonderfully slow. + 

Mordicus + 

With the teeth. + 

Morpion + 

A crab-louse. + 

Mundungus + 

Bad tobacco. + 

Nare olfact + 

Nostril. + 

Neat (noun) + 

A calf or cow. + 

Negatur + 

It is denied. + 

Nimmer + 

A petty thief. + 

Omnibus nervis + 

With every sinew. + 

Oppugn + 

Attack or fight against. + 

Orcades + 

The Orkneys. + 

pacquet-male + 

Large wallet. + 

Padder + 

A thief. + 

Pari Libra + 

Equally. + 

Pathic + 

Passively homosexual. + 

Pernicion + 

Total ruin. + 

Petronel + 

A short carbine or large pistol. + 

Picqueer + 

Skirmish or quarrel. + 

Pigsney + 

A term of endearment for a woman, “darling.” + 

Plus satis + 

More than enough. + 

Poesie + 

Poetry. + 

Pullen + 

Poultry. + 

Punese + 

A bedbug. + 

Pursy + 

Rich. + 

Quarteridge + 

A tax or payment due quarterly. + 

Quatenus + 

So far as (it is) + 

Quillets + 

Verbal points or quibbles. + 

Rampiers + 

Ramparts. + 

Rationalia + 

Thinking creatures. + 

Rochet + 

A bishop’s white gown or surplice. + 

Satis + 

Enough. + 

Sault + 

Jump. + 

Scire facias + 

To know the appearance of. + 

Sedes Stercoraria + 

Filthier seat. + 

Seisin + 

A token of ownership, formally handed over when property is sold. + 

Shanker + 

A venereal sore, chancre. + 

Slubberdegullion + 

A dirty, slovenly person. + 

Soland geese + 

Barnacle geese (Branta leucopsis) + 

Staffier + 

A footman. + 

Stentrophonic + 

Loud, as from a megaphone. + 

Stum + 

A mixture of wine and grape juice. + 

Suggill’d + 

Beaten severely. + 

Sui juris + 

Independently. + 

Swound + 

A swoon. + 

Synodical + 

Arising from or of the nature of a synod⁠—a meeting of bishops etc. of the Anglican Church. + 

Tantundem dat tantidem + 

So much of that gives so much of this = they are exactly the same. + 

Tarsel + 

A male falcon. + 

Theorbo + 

A kind of lute with two necks. + 

Totidem verbis + 

In just as many words. + 

Trapes + 

Tripes. + 

Trepan + 

To trap. + 

Trigon + 

A set of 3 signs of the Zodiac at 120-degree angles to each other. + 

Tussis pro crepitu + 

A cough for a fart. + 

Velis & remis + 

By sail and oar. + 

Veni, Vidi, Vici + 

I came, I saw, I conquered. + 

Versal + 

Universal. + 

Videlicet + 

That is, viz. + 

Vitilitigation + 

Argument, quarrelling. + 

Vizard + 

A mask or disguise. + 

Welkin + 

The sky. + 

Whiffler + 

A ceremonial guard who cleared the way for a mayor or other official. + 

Whinyard + 

A short sword. + 

Ycleped + 

Named. + 

Yerst + 

Erst, formerly. + 