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The Terrors of the Night
Glossary
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| bent on a head | rushing ahead |
| bill of parcels | catalogue |
| black saunt | discordant singing |
| bolings | bowlines |
| bonarobaes | courtesans |
| bosk | sketch |
| breaks with | confides in |
| buy wind | buy favours |
| cannot away with | cannot tolerate |
| chapmanable | saleable |
| chevala | ‘who goes there?’ (Qui va là?) |
| cog | cheat (at a game) |
| colourable | deceitful |
| conceits | thoughts |
| conycatching | deceptive |
| countervailment | compensation |
| crepundio | empty talker |
| displin | disciplined |
| disposition | at his disposal |
| emayle | enamel |
| exornations | embellishments |
| extraught | derived |
| foeculent | impure |
| gentilism | paganism |
| glick | jest |
| good big pop mouths | mouths suited to sharp yelling |
| incontinent | at once |
| a knot in a bulrush | trouble |
| linsey-wolsey | mixed up |
| lists | desires |
| make a coil | have a noisy conversation |
| make a shaft or bolt | make something definite |
| matachine | exotic sword dance |
| Molenax | Emeric Molyneux, a globe maker |
| Mounsier | Monsieur – the Duke of Anjou, who visited England in 1581 as a potential suitor of the Queen |
| pastance | food |
| Pater-Noster-while | the time it takes to say the Lord’s Prayer |
| poses | catarrh |
| potestates | spiritual powers |
| Queen-Hive | Queenshithe |
| riding snarl | slip-knot |
| serena | evening rain (considered harmful) |
| sinkapace | lively dance |
| skirts and outshifts | suburbs |
| standish | ink-stand |
| surprised | captured |
| table | writing tablet |
| Tittle est amen | conclusion |
| Tuns | Willem Tons, a painter |
| welt and gard | adorn and trim |
| worm in his tongue | a piece of cartilage thought then to be a parasite |
| yare | neat |
| y-clepped | called |