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do way!forbear! Surrey, A Song, 21; in Tottel’s Misc., p. 219.

dob-chick,a dab-chick, a small diving bird,Podiceps minor. Drayton, Pol. xxv. 80; speltdop-chick, Chapman, tr. of Odyssey, xv. 686. ‘Dob-chick’ is in common prov. use in many parts of England (EDD.).

docket,the fleshy part of an animal’s tail. Greene, James IV, i. 2 (Slip). Dimin. ofdock, in the same sense. See NED. (s.v. Dock, sb.21).

doctor,a false die; loaded so as to fall only in two or three ways. A slang term; a ‘doctored die’, Shadwell, Squire of Alsatia, i. 1 (Hackum); Cibber, Woman’s Wit, i (NED.).

dodder,to tremble or shake from frailty; ‘Dodder grasses . . . so called because with the least puff or blast of wind it doth as it were dodder and tremble’, Minsheu, Ductor.

doddered:phr.doddered oak, decayed with age; ‘Dodder’d oak’, Dryden, tr. Persius, Sat. v. 80; Virgil, Past. ix. 9; ‘Doddered oaks’, Palamon and Arc., iii. 905; Pope, Odyssey, xx. 200. ‘Doddered’ is in prov. use in the north country in the sense of old, decayed, trembling: ‘Adodderedold man’, see EDD. s.v. Dother, vb.11 (1)).

dodkin,a little doit; a coin of very small value. Lyly, Mother Bombie, ii. 2 (end). Du.duytken, dimin. ofduyt, a doit (Hexham). See NED.

doff,a repulse, a ‘put off’. Wily Beguiled, in Hazlitt’s Dodsley, ix. 276.

dog,to follow after; ‘To dog the fashion’, B. Jonson, Ev. Man out of Humour, iv. 6 (Macilente).

dogbolt,a contemptible fellow, mean wretch. Fletcher, Span. Curate, ii. 2 (Lopez); Wit without Money, iii. 1. 32. As adj., worthless, base, Butler, Hud. ii. 1. 40. The orig. sense was (probably) a crossbow-bolt, only fit for shooting at a dog; see NED.

dog-leach,a dog-doctor; a term of reproach. Fletcher, Mad Lover, iii. 2 (Memnon).

doily,the name of a cheap stuff. Dryden, Kind Keeper, iv. 1; ‘doily stuff’, Vanbrugh, Provoked Wife, iv. 4 (Lady Fanciful). See Dict.

dole,portion in life; ‘Happy man be his dole’ (i.e. may happiness be his portion), Merry Wives, iii. 4. 68; Butler, Hud., pt. i, c. 3. 638.

dole, dool,grief, mourning, lamentation. Spenser, Shep. Kal., Feb., 155; F. Q. iv. 8. 3. Speltdewle, Sackville, Induction, st. 14. In prov. use in Scotland and the north of England, see EDD. (s.v. Dole, sb.2). OF.dol,deul, sorrow; see Bartsch (s.v. Duel). Seeduill.

dole(landmark); seedool.

dolent,a sorrowing one, a sufferer. Calisto and Melibaea, in Hazlitt’s Dodsley, i. 82. L.dolens, grieving.

doly,doleful, sad; ‘In doly season’, Wounds of Civil War, in Hazlitt’s Dodsley, vii. 170; ‘This dolye chaunce’, Stanyhurst, tr. of Aeneid, bk. ii (ed. Arber, p. 57). Seedole(grief).

domineer,to revel, feast; to live like a lord. Tam. Shrew, iii. 2. 226; B. Jonson, Every Man, ii. 1. 76 (Downright).

dommerar, dummerer,a begging vagabond who feigns to be dumb. Fletcher, Beggar’s Bush, ii. 1. 9. See Harman, Caveat, p. 57; ‘Dummerers, Abraham men’, Burton, Anat. Mel. (ed. 1896), i. 409.

Dondego,a Spaniard; short for ‘Don Diego’. Webster, Sir T. Wyatt (Brett), ed. Dyce, p. 198. SeeDiego.

done, donne,to do. Spenser, F. Q. iii. 1. 28; vi. 10. 32. ME.doon,don, to do;done,doon, ger. (Chaucer). OE.dōn, to do.

donny,somewhat ‘dun’, or brownish. Skelton, El. Rummyng, 400. See NED. (s.v. Dunny, adj.1).

donzel, donsel,a squire, a page, youth. B. Jonson, Alchemist, iv. 4. 20; Beaumont and Fl., Philaster, v. 4 (Captain). Ital.donzello, ‘a damosell, page, squire, serving-man’ (Florio). Med. L.domicellus,domnicellus(Ducange); dimin. of L.dominus, lord. See Dict. (s.v. Damsel).

dool, dole, dowle,a boundary-mark; ‘With dowles and ditches’, Golding, Metam. i. 136; fol. 3 (1603); ‘They pullid uppe the doolis’, Paston Letters, i. 58. Low G.dōle,dōl, a boundary-mark (Koolman). ‘Dool’ is in common prov. use in this sense in the north country, see EDD. (s.v. Dool, sb.21).

dool;seedole(grief).

door:phr.to keep the door, to be a pandar. Middleton, A Fair Quarrel, iv. 4 (Trimtram).Door-keeper, a bawd; id., The Black Book, ed. Dyce, vol. iv, p. 525.

dop,a dip, duck, low bow. B. Jonson, Cynthia’s Revels, v. 2 (Crites); to dip, duck, dive, bob; Dryden, Epilogue to the Unhappy Favourite, 2.

dop,to baptize. God’s Promises, in Hazlitt’s Dodsley, i. 318. Du.doopen, to dip, baptize (Sewel).

dopper, doper,a (Dutch) Anabaptist; ‘This is adopper(old ed.doper), a she Anabaptist’, B. Jonson, Staple of News, iii. 1 (Register); News from the New World (Factor). Du.dooper, a dipper, baptizer (Sewel).

dor,scoff, mockery. Phr.to give the dor, to make game of, B. Jonson, Cynthia’s Revels, v. 2;to receive the dor, to be marked, Beaumont and Fl., Lover’s Progress, i. 1. 29. Icel.dār, scoff.

dor,to make game of, Beaumont and Fl., Wildgoose Chase, iv. 1. 15. Icel.dārato mock, make sport of.

dorado,name of a species of fish; ‘TheDorado, which the English confound with the Dolphin, is much like a Salmon’, J. Davies, tr. Mandelslo (ed. 1669, iii. 196); a wealthy person, ‘A troop of these ignorant Doradoes’, Sir T. Browne, Rel. Med., pt. ii, § 1. Span.dorado, ‘a fish called a Dory, or Gilt head, an enemy to the Flying Fish’ (Stevens);dorar, to gild; L.deaurare. See Stanford.

dorp,a village. Drayton, Pol. xxv. 238, 298; Dryden, Hind and Panther, iii. 6. 11. Du.dorp, a village. See Dict. (s.v. Thorp).

dorre,applied to species of bees or flies; a bumble-bee; a drone-bee;fig.a drone, a lazy idler; ‘Gentlemen which cannot be content to live idle themselfes, lyke dorres’, Robynson, More’s Utopia (ed. Arber, 38). OE.dora, ‘atticus’ (Epinal Gl., 119); cp. ‘Adticus, feld beo, dora’ in Cleopatra Glosses (Voc. 351. 22). See NED. (s.v. Dor, sb.1).

dorser;seedosser.

dortour,a sleeping room, bedchamber. Spenser, F. Q. vi. 12. 24. ME.dortour(Chaucer, C. T.D.1855). Norm. F.dortur(Moisy), OF.dortoir, Monastic L.dormitorium(Ducange).

dosser,a basket, pannier. Merry Devil, i. 3. 142; Jonson, Staple of News, ii. [4.] (Almanac); speltdorser, Beaumont and Fl., Night-Walker, i. 1 (Lurcher). An E. Anglian word for a pannier slung over a horse’s back (EDD). ME.dosser, a basket to carry on the back (Chaucer, Hous F. 1940). F.dossier, ‘partie d’une hotte qui s’appuie sur le dos de celui qui la porte’ (Hatzfeld).

dotes,endowments, good qualities. B. Jonson, Sil. Woman, ii. 2 (Cler.); Underwoods, c. 25. L.dotes, pl. ofdos, an endowment.

dottrel, dotterel,a pollarded tree; also used attrib.; ‘Old dotterel trees’, Ascham, Scholemaster, bk. ii (ed. Arber, p. 137); ‘A long-set dottrel’, Stanyhurst, tr. of Aeneid, iv. 465. ‘Dotterel’ is used in this sense near Oxford, and in the south Midlands (EDD).

double reader,a lawyer who is going through a second course of reading; ‘I am a bencher, and now double reader’, B. Jonson, Magnetic Lady, iv. 1 (Practice); ‘Men came to besingle readersat 15 or 16 years standing in the House [Inn of Court] andread doubleabout 7 years afterwards’, Sir W. Dugdale, Orig. Jur., 209 (Glossary to Jonson).

doubt,i.e.’doubt, a shortened form ofredoubt, a fortification. Chapman, tr. of Iliad, xii. 286.

doucepere,an illustrious knight or paladin. Spenser, F. Q. iii. 10. 31; orig. only used in the pl.: ME.dozepers(douzepers), the twelve peers or paladins of Charlemagne. Anglo-F.li duze per(Ch. Rol. 3187). See NED. (s.v. Douzepers).

dough;seedow.

dought,to make afraid, Fletcher, Bonduca, i. 2 (Suctonius). Seedout.

douse,to strike violently; ‘To death with daggersdoust’ (also wrongly,dounst, in ed. 1587), Mirror for Magistrates, Henry VI, st. 4. In prov. use in the north country (EDD.).

douse,a sweetheart. Tusser, Husbandry, § 10. 7. F.douce, fem. ofdoux, sweet; L.dulcis.

dout,fear; Spenser, F. Q. iii. 12. 37. OF.doute, fear.

dow,to thrive; ‘He’ll never dow’ (i.e. he’ll never do well), Ray, North C. Words, 13; speltdough, to be in health, Heywood, The Fair Maid, ii. 1 (Clem). ‘Dow’ is in prov. use in the north, meaning to thrive, prosper, also, to recover from sickness (EDD.). ME.dowe, pr. s. 1 p., am able to do (Wars Alex. 4058). OE.dugan, to be able, to be vigorous (see Wright, OE. Gram. § 541).

dowcets,the testicles of a deer. Beaumont and Fl., Philaster, iv. 2 (1 Woodman); B. Jonson, Sad Sheph., i. 6. In old cookery booksdowsetwas the name of a sweet dish. F.doucet, dimin. ofdoux, sweet. See NED. (s.v. Doucet), and cp.dulcet.

dowe,‘dough’. Lyly, Endimion, i. 2 (Tellus); ‘A lytell leven doth leven the whole lompe of dowe’, Tyndale, Gal. v. 9.

dowl(e,soft fine feathers. Tempest, iii. 3. 65 (see W. A. Wright’s note). In prov. use in the S. Midlands for down or fluff (EDD.). ME.doule, a down-feather (Plowman’s Tale, st. 14). See Notes on Eng. Etym.

dowle,seedool.

dowsabell,a sweetheart. A name, used as a term for a sweetheart. Com. of Errors, iv. 1. 110; London Prodigal, iv. 2. 73. F.douce-belle, L.dulcibella, sweet and fair.

doxy,a vagabond’s mistress. (Cant.) Winter’s Tale, iv. 2. 2; Fletcher, Beggar’s Bush, ii. 1 (Prigg). See Harman, Caveat, p. 73; where the sing. form isdoxe.

drabler, drabbler,an additional piece of canvas, laced to the bottom of a bonnet of a sail. Greene, Looking Glasse, iv. 1 (1328); p. 134, col. 2; Heywood, Fortune by Land and Sea, iv. 1 (Y. Forrest); vol. vi, p. 416. Fromdrabble, to wet; from its position. Cp. E. Fris.drabbeln, to stamp about in the water (Koolman). See EDD. (s.v. Drabble).

dragon,the name of a stage in the fermentation for producing the elixir. B. Jonson, Alchem. ii. 1 (Surly).

drake,a dragon. Peele, An Eclogue Gratulatory, ed. Dyce, p. 563. ‘Drake, dragon’, Levins, Manipulus. OE.draca, L.draco, Gk. δράκων.

drane,a drone. Sir T. Elyot, Governour, bk. i, c. 2, § 3; Skelton, Against the Scottes, 172. ME.drane, ‘fucus’ (Prompt.). The pronunc. of drone in Somerset, Devon, and Cornwall (EDD.). OE.drān(drǣn).

drapet,a cloth, a covering. Spenser, F. Q. ii. 9. 27. Cp. Ital.drappetto, dimin. ofdrappe, cloth.

drasty,worthless, rubbishy; ‘Drasty sluttish geere’, Hall, Sat. v. 2. 49; ‘Drasty ballats’, Return from Parnassus, i. 2 (Judicioso). In several places theshas been misprinted asf; the error originated with Thynne, who, in 1532, twice substituteddraftyfordrastyin the Prologue to Melibeus: ‘Thy drasty spectre’ (C. T.B.2113); ‘Thy drasty ryming’ (id. 2120); see NED. OE.dræstig, ‘feculentus’ (Voc. 238. 20).

draw-cut,done by drawingcutsor lots. Stanyhurst, tr. of Virgil, Aeneid i, 515. Seecut(1).

drawer,a waiter at a tavern. Merry Wives, ii. 2. 165; Romeo, iii. 1. 9. One whodrawsliquor for guests.

drawer-on,an incitement to appetite. Massinger, Guardian, ii. 3 (Cario).

drawlatch,lit. one who lifts a latch; a sneaking thief. Jacob and Esau, ii. 3 (Esau).

dray,a squirrel’s nest. Drayton, Quest of Cynthia, st. 51; [The squirrel] ‘Gets to the wood, and hides him in his dray’, W. Browne, Brit. Pastorals, bk. i, song 5. A prov. word in general use (EDD.).

drazel,a slattern, slut. Butler, Hud. iii. 1. 987. The word is in use in the south of England, in Sussex and Hampshire, see EDD. (s.v. Drazil).

dread,an object of reverence or awe. Milton, Samson, 1473; ‘Una, his deare dreed’, Spenser, F. Q. i. 6. 2.

drent,drowned. Spenser, F. Q. ii. 6. 49; v. 7. 39. ME.dreint(dreynt), pp. ofdrenchen, to drown (Chaucer, Bk. Duchess, 148).

drere,grief, sorrow, gloom. Spenser, F. Q. i. 8. 40; ii. 12. 36. Hence,drerihed, sadness, id., Muiopotmos, 347;dreriment, Shep. Kal., Nov., 36.

dresser.The signal for the servants to take in the dinner was the cook’s knocking on the dresser, thence called the cook’s drum (Nares); ‘When the dresser, the cook’s drum, thunders’, Massinger, Unnat. Combat, iii. 1 (Steward); ‘The dresser calls in (Knock within, as at dresser)’, Heywood, Witches of Lancs., iii. 1 (Seely); vol. iv, p. 206; ‘Hark! they knock to the dresser’, Brome, Jovial Crew, iv. 1 (end).

dretched,pp., vexed or disturbed by dreams. Morte Arthur, leaf 402. 31; bk. xx, c. 5. OE.dreccan, to vex.

dretchyng of swevens,vexation by dreams. Morte Arthur, leaf 430*. 7; bk. xxi, c. 12.

drib,to let fall in drops or driblets, to dribble out. Dryden, Prologue to The Loyal Brother, 22. Cp. prov. ‘drib’, a drop, a small quantity of liquid (EDD.).

dricksie,decayed; as timber; ‘A drie and dricksie oak’, Puttenham, Eng. Poesie, bk. iii, c. 19; p. 252. SeeDroxyin EDD.; andDrixin NED.

drink,to smoke tobacco. Middleton, Roaring Girl, ii. 1 (Laxton). A common expression. See Nares.

drivel,a drudge, a servant doing menial work; ‘A Drudge, or driuell’, Baret (1580); Spenser, F. Q. iv. 2, 3; ‘A dyshwasher, a dryvyll’, Skelton, Against Garnesche, 26. Speltdrevil, Tusser, Husbandry, § 113. 12. ME.drivil, a drudge, a menial (see Prompt. EETS., note no. 588); cp. Du.drevel, ‘a scullion, or a turnspit’ (Hexham). See NED.

droil,a drudge, a menial. Beaumont and Fl., Wit at Several Weapons, ii. 1. 19; Brome, New Acad. ii, p. 40 (Nares). See Prompt. EETS. (note no. 588).

droil,to drudge. Speltdroyle, Spenser, Mother Hubberd, 157. Hencedroil, drudgery, Shirley, Gentlemen of Venice, i. 2.

drollery,a puppet-show; a puppet; a caricature. Tempest, iii. 3. 21; Fletcher, Valentinian, ii. 2 (Claudia); Wildgoose Chase, i. 2. 21; 2 Hen. IV, ii. 1. 156. F.drôlerie, ‘waggery; a merry prank’;dróle, ‘a good fellow, boon companion, merry grig, pleasant wag; one that cares not which end goes forward or how the world goes’ (Cotgr.).

dromound,a large ship, propelled by many oars. Morte Arthur, leaf 82, back, 30; bk. v, c. 3 (end). Anglo-F.dromund(Rough List), OF.dromon, Med. L.dromō(Ducange), Byzant. Gk. δρόμων, a large ship; cogn. with Gk. δρόμος, a racing, a course.

drone,to smoke (a pipe); ‘Droning a tobacco-pipe’, B. Jonson, Sil. Woman, iv. 1; Ev. Man out of Humour, iv. 3.

dronel, dronet,a drone; ‘That dronel’, Appius and Virginia, in Hazlitt’s Dodsley, iv. 151; ‘Like vnto dronets’, Stubbes, Anat. Abuses, To Reader (ed. Furnivall, p. xi).

dropshot:phr.at dropshot; ‘I’ll do no more at dropshot’ (i.e. I’ll do no more in the character of an eaves-dropper, or where one can beshotwithdrops), Beaumont and Fl., Mad Lover, iii. 6 (end).

drossel,a slattern, a slut. Warner, Albion’s England, bk. ix, ch. 47, st. 12. A north Yorkshire word (EDD.). Seedrazel.

drouson;‘Boiling oatemeale . . . with barme or the dregges and hinder ends of your beere barrels makes an excellent pottage . . . of great vse in all the parts of the West Countrie . . . called by the name of drouson potage’, Markham, Farewell, 133 (EDD.); ‘Drowsen broath’, London Prodigal, ii. 1. 42. OE.drōsna, lees, dregs.

droye,a servant, a drudge. Speltdroie; Tusser, Husbandry, § 81. 3; Stubbes, Anat. Abuses (ed. Furnivall, 78).

droye,to drudge, Gascoigne, Steel Glas, 664.

druggerman,a ‘dragoman’, interpreter. Dryden, Don Sebastian, ii. 1 (Emperor); [Pope, Donne’s Sat. iv. 83]. See Dict. (s.v. Dragoman); also Stanford.

drum:phr.Jack Drum’s entertainment, ill-treatment, esp. by turning a man out of doors, Heywood, ii. 2 (Sencer).To sell by the drum, to sell by auction; in North’s Plutarch, Octavius, § 11 (in Shak. Plut., p. 255, n. 3); hence,by the dromme(by the drum), in public, Warner, Albion’s England, bk. ix, c. 53, st. 31.

drumble,to be sluggish, Merry Wives, iii. 3. 156; a sluggish, stupid person, Appius and Virginia, in Hazlitt’s Dodsley, iv. 118. A dull, inactive person is called a ‘drummil’ in Warwickshire. A person moving lazily about is said to ‘drumble’ in Cornwall (EDD.). Norw.drumla, to be drowsy; Swed.drummel, a blockhead.

drumslade, dromslade,a drum; ‘Dromslade, suche as Almayns use in warre,bedon’, Palsgrave. Also speltdrumslet; Golding, Metam. xii. 481; fol. 149, bk. (1603). Du.trommelslag(G.trommelschlag), the beat of a drum.

drumsler,a drummer. Kyd, Soliman, ii. 1. 224, 241. A form corrupted fromdrumslager, once in use to mean ‘drummer’. Du.trommelslager, a drummer (Sewel). See above.

dry-fat,a cask, case, or box for holding dry things, not liquids; ‘A dry-fat of new books’, Beaumont and Fl., Elder Brother, i. 2 (Brisae);dry-vat, Dekker, Shoemakers’ H., v. 2 (Firk). See Dict. (s.v. Vat).

dry-foot:phr.to draworhunt dry-foot, to track game by the mere scent of the foot. Com. Errors, iv. 2. 39; B. Jonson, Every Man, ii. 2 (Brainworm).

Du cat-a whee,God preserve you! Beaumont and Fl., Custom of the Country, i. 2 (Rutilio); Monsieur Thomas, i. 2. 8;Dugat a whee, Middleton, A Chaste Maid, i. 1 (Welshwoman). WelshDuw cadw chwi, God preserve you!

dub,a stroke, blow;Lydian dubs, soft taps, like soft Lydian music;Phrygian dubs, hard blows, like loud Phrygian music. Butler, Hudibras, ii. 1. 850.

ducdame,a word in the burden of a song. In As You Like It, ii. 5. 56. Doubtless a coined word, and admirably defined by Shakespeare as ‘a Greek invocation to call fools into a circle’; which I accept as it stands.

duce.Used in interjectional and imprecatory phrases; ‘I wonder where a duce the third is fled’, Roger Boyle, Guzman, i; ‘Who a duce are those two fellows?’ id., ii; ‘Who a duce is here by our door?’ (Socia), Echard, Plautus (ed. 1694, 13); Centlivre, Busie Body (ed. 1732, 41).

duceis the same word asdeuce, an E. form of F.deux, two. The orig. sense of ‘a duce’ was exclamatory, signifying, ‘Oh! ill-luck, thedeuce!’—two being a losing throw at dice. The formducecame to us immediately from a Low G. dialect—dûs, found in MHG.; cp. G. ‘was der Daus!’ (what the deuce!). See Dict. (s.v. Deuce).

dudder,to tremble, quake, shake. Ford, Witch of Edmonton, ii. 1 (Cuddy). ‘Dudder’ is a prov. word in various parts of Scotland and England, see EDD. (s.v. Duther). Seedodder.

dudgeon,the hilt of a dagger made of a kind of wood called dudgin (dudgeon). Macbeth, ii. 1. 46. ME.dojoun, or masere (Prompt., ed. Way, 436).

dudgeon,the same word as the one above, used attrib. in the sense of plain, homely; since adudgeonwas regarded as a common sort of haft; ‘I am plain and dudgeon’, Fletcher, Captain, ii. 1 (Jacomo); ‘I use old dudgeon’, phrase, id., Queen of Corinth, ii. 4 (Conon).

dudgeon-dagger,a dagger with a hilt made of ‘dudgeon’. Beaumont and Fl., Coxcomb, v. 1 (Curio);dudgin dagger, Kyd, Soliman, i. 3. 160. Shortened todudgeon, Butler, Hudibras, i. 1. 379.

Dugat a whee;seeDu cat-a whee.

duill,to grieve, sadden, make sorrowful; ‘It duills me’, B. Jonson, Sad Sheph. ii. 1 (Maudlin). Cp. F.deuil, grief. Seedole.

duke,a name for the castle or rook, at chess; ‘Dukes? They’re called Rooks by some’, Middleton, A Game at Chess, Induct. 54; Women beware, ii. 2 (Livia).

Duke Humphrey, to dine with,to go without dinner; ‘He may chaunce dine with duke Homphrye tomorrow’, Sir Thos. More, iv. 2. 361. One who had no prospect of a dinner would walk in St. Paul’s, under the pretence of going to see Duke Humphrey’s monument there; on the chance that he might meet there some acquaintance who would invite him. But Duke Humphrey was actually buried at St. Albans (see Stowe’s Survey, ed. Thoms, 125). Cp. Mayne, City Match, iii. 3 (Plotwell and Timothy). See Nares.

dulcet,the dowcet of a stag. Stanyhurst, tr. of Aeneid, i. 219. A latinized form; seedowcets.

dumbfounding,a stupefying; said to mean a rough amusement in which one person struck another hard and stealthily upon the back; ‘That witty recreation, called dumbfounding’, Dryden, Prologue to the Prophetess, 47. See EDD. (s.v. Dumbfounder).

dummerer;seedommerar.

dump,a fit of abstraction or musing; ‘I dumpe, I fall in a dumpe or musyng upon thynges’, Palsgrave; ‘Lethargic dump’, Butler, Hudibras, i. 2. 973; a fit of melancholy, ‘In doleful dump’, id., ii. 1. 85; a plaintive melody or song, Two Gent. iii. 2. 85; used of a kind of dance, ‘The devil’s dump had been danced then’, Fletcher, Pilgrim, v. 4 (Roderigo).

dunny,somewhat ‘dun’, or dusky brown. Skelton, El. Rummyng, 400. A north-country word (EDD.). Seedonny.

Dun’s in the mire(the horse is stuck in the mire), the name of a rustic game in which the players had to extricate a wooden ‘dun’ (a horse) from an imaginary slough. ‘Dun is in the mire’ became a proverbial phrase, so in Chaucer, Manciple’s Prologue, 5. ‘Dun’s i’ th’ mire’, Fletcher, “Woman-hater, iv. 2 (Pandar). The game is alluded to in Romeo, i. 4. 41. ‘If thou art Dun we’ll draw thee from the mire’, and in Hudibras, iii. 3. 110, ‘Your trusty squire, Who has dragg’d your dunship out o’ th’ mire’. See Brand’s Pop. Antiq. (under ‘Games’), and Gifford’s Ben Jonson, vii. 283 (Nares).

dun’s the mouse,the mouse is brown. A jocose phrase of small meaning; sometimes used after another has used the worddone; Romeo, i. 4. 40; London Prodigal, iv. 1. 16.

Dunstable, plain(a proverbial phrase), plain speaking. Witch of Edmonton, i. 2 (Old Carter). Cp. the proverb, ‘As plain as Dunstable highway’, Heywood’s Eng. Proverbs, 69, 136; ‘As plain as Dunstable road’, Fuller, Worthies, i. 114 (NED.). See Nares.

durance,confinement. L. L. L. iii. 1. 135; 2 Hen. IV, v. 5. 37; durableness, 1 Hen. IV, i. 2. 49. Cp. ‘As the tailor, that out of seven yards stole one and a half of durance’, i.e. durable cloth, Three Ladies of London, in Hazlitt’s Dodsley, vi. 344.

Durandell,a trusty sword. Greene, Orl. Fur. i. 1. 123. OF.Durendal, the name of the sword of Roland (Ch. Rol. 926). SeeDurindana.

duret,some kind of dance; ‘Galliards, durets, corantoes’, Beaumont, Masque at Gray’s Inn, stage direction (near the end).

duretta,a coarse stuff of a durable quality. Mayne, City Match, i. 5 (Timothy). Alsoduretto(NED.). Ital.duretto, ‘somewhat hard’ (Florio).

Durindana,the name of Orlando’s sword. B. Jonson, Ev. Man in Hum. iii. 1 (Bobadil); Beaumont and Fl., Lover’s Progress, iii. 3 (Malfort);Durindan, Faithful Friends, ii. 3 (Calveskin). Ital.Durindana(Ariosto); see Fanfani. The Italian name forDurendal, by which the famous sword of Roland is known in the old FrenchChansons de Geste. See Gautier’s note on ‘Durendal’ in his ‘Chanson de Roland’, l. 926, p. 90.

dust,to hurl, fling, cast with force. Chapman, tr. of Iliad, xvi. 544; xxi. 377. See EDD.

dust-point,a boys’ game in which ‘points’ were laid in a heap of dust, and thrown at with a stone; ‘Our boyes, laying their points in a heape of dust, and throwing at them with a stone, call that play of theirs Dust-point’, Cotgrave (s.v.Darde). Fletcher, Captain, iii. 3 (Clora); Drayton, Muses’ Elysium, Nymph, vi. (Melanthus).

Dutch widow,a cant term for a prostitute. Middleton, A Trick to Catch, iii. 3 (Drawer).

dutt,to dote; ‘Dutting Duttrell’ (i.e. doting dotterel), Edwards, Damon and Pithias; altered todoating dottrelin Hazlitt’s Dodsley, iv. 68; but see Anc. Eng. Drama, i. 88, l. 1.

dwine,to pine away; ‘He . . . dwyned awaye’, Morte Arthur, leaf 429*, back, 8; bk. xxi, c. 12;dwynd, withered, Stanyhurst, tr. of Aeneid, ii. 567 (ed. Arber, p. 61). In common prov. use in Scotland and the north of England (EDD.). ME.dwynyn awey, ‘evanesco’ (Prompt.). OE.dwīnan.

dybell,(probably) trouble, difficulty; ‘My son’s in Dybell here, in Caperdochy, i’ tha gaol’, 1 Edw. IV (Hobs), vol. i, p. 72. Perhaps the same word as ‘dibles’ (or daibles), an E. Anglian word for difficulties, embarrassments (EDD.).

e-,prefix, for the more usualy-(AS.ge-), prefixed to past participles. Exx.emixt, mixed, Mirror for Mag., Bladud, st. 9;etride, tried, id., Sabrine, st. 26.

eager,keen, sharp, severe. Hamlet, i. 4. 2; Chapman, tr. of Iliad, xi. 231.

eagre,a ‘bore’ in a river; an incoming tidal wave of unusual height. Dryden, Threnodia Augustalis, 132; speltagar, Lyly, Galathea, i. 1 (Tyterus). In prov. use in many forms:aiger,ager,eager,eygre,hygre, &c., in Yorks., Nottingham, Lincoln, and E. Anglia (EDD.). Seehigre.

eame;seeeme.

ean.Of ewes: to lamb, bring forth young, to ‘yean’, 3 Hen. VI, ii. 5. 36. Hence,Eaning-time, B. Jonson, Sad Shepherd, i. 2 (Robin). ‘To ean’ is in prov. use in various spellings in many parts of England from the north country to Devon (EDD.). ME.enyn, ‘feto’ (Prompt. EETS. 150); OE.ēanian, to yean. See Brugmann, § 671.

ear,to plough.Bible, Deut. xxi. 4; 1 Sam. viii. 12; Is. xxx. 24. In prov. use (EDD.). ME.ere(Chaucer, C. T.A.886), OE.erian. See Wright’s Bible Word-Book.

earn, erne,to grieve, to be afflicted with poignant sorrow and compassion. Hen. V, ii. 3. 3 (mod. edd.yearn); Julius C., ii. 2. 129;it earns me, Hen. V, iv. 3. 26; B. Jonson, Barth. Fair, iv. 6 (Overdo);earne, to yearn, Spenser, F. Q. i. 1. 3; i. 6. 25; i. 9. 18;erne, ii. 3. 46. ME.ȝernen, to yearn (P. Plowman), OE.geornan; see Dict. M. and S., p. 267.

earth,a ploughing. Tusser, Husbandry, § 35. 50. In prov. use in Suffolk, Hants., Somerset, see EDD. (s.v. Earth, sb.2). OE.erðfor WS.ierđ, a ploughing (Sweet), deriv. oferian, to plough, ‘to ear’; not the same word as OE.eorðe, earth.

easing,the eaves of the thatch of a house; ‘Under the easing of the house’, North, tr. of Plutarch, J. Caesar, § 16 (end); ‘Severonde, the eave, eaving or easing of a house’, Cotgrave. In gen. prov. use in various spellings, in Scotland and Ireland, and in England, in the north and Midlands to Shropsh. (EDD.). ME.esynge, ‘tectum’ (Cath. Angl.). Seeevesing.

eater,a servant. B. Jonson, Sil. Woman, iii. 2 (Morose).

eath,easy. Spenser, F. Q. ii. 3. 40; Shep. Kal., Sept., 17; speltethe, id., July, 90. A north-country word, once much used in poetry (EDD.). ME.ethe, easy (Cursor M. 597), OE.ēaðe, easy,ēað(common in compounds).

eathly,easily. Peele, Order of the Garter, ed. Dyce, p. 587. Common in Scottish poetry (EDD.).

eaths,easily. Kyd, Cornelia, iii. 1. 130. Theshas an adverbial force.

eccentric,not concentric with; hence, disagreeing with. Bacon, Essay 23; an orbit not having the earth precisely in the centre (a contrivance in the Ptolemaic system of astronomy, for explaining the phenomena), id. 17.

eche,to ‘eke’, to make up a deficiency; ‘To eche it and to draw it out in length’, Merch. Ven. iii. 2. 23 (Qq 3, 4,eech). Cp. Northampton dialect, ‘My gown’s too short, I must eche it a bit’, see EDD. (s.v. Eke, vb. 3). ME.echen, to increase (Chaucer, Tr. and Cr. i. 887), OE. (Mercian)ēcan, WS.īecan, to increase.

edder,an adder. Morte Arthur, leaf 290. 11; bk. xi, c. 5; Skelton, Philip Sparowe, 78. ME.eddyr, an adder (Prompt. EETS. 142).

edder,fence-wood, osiers or rods of hazel, used for interlacing the stakes of a hedge at the top; ‘Edder and stake’, Tusser, Husbandry, § 33. 13;eddered, bound with edders, Fitzherbert, Husbandry, § 126. 7;edderynge, id. In gen. prov. use in Scotland and England; for various spellings see EDD.

eddish, edish,the aftermath or second crop of grass, clover, &c.; ‘Eddish, eadish, etch, ersh, the latter pasture or grass that comes after mowing or reaping’, Worlidge, Dict. Rust. (A.D.1681); Tusser, Husbandry, § 18. 4; stubble, ‘Eddish . . . more properly the stubble or gratten in cornfields’, Bp. Kennett (NED.). In gen. prov. use in England (EDD.). OE.edisc, ‘pascua’ (Ps. xcix. 3).

edge,to urge, encourage, stimulate. Bacon, Essay 41, § 5. The pronunc. ofegg(to incite) in use in various parts of England from Lancash. to Cornwall (EDD.). ME.eggen, to incite (Chaucer, Rom. Rose, 182), Icel.eggja.

edify,to build; ‘There was an holy chappell edifyde’, Spenser, F. Q. i. 1. 34; Mother Hubberd’s Tale, 660. F.edifier, to edifie, build (Cotgr.), L.aedificare.

effaut,forF fa ut, the full name of the musical noteF, which was sung tofaor toutaccording as it occurred in one or other of the hexachords (imperfect scales) to which it belonged (NED.). Buckingham, The Rehearsal, ii. 5 (Bayes). The first hexachord contained G (the lowest note), A, B, C, D, E (but not F); the second contained C, D, E, F, G, A, sung tout,re,mi,fa,sol,la, F being sung tofa; the third began with F, sung tout; so that F was sung tofaorut, and was called Ffa ut.

efficace,effectiveness, efficacy. Butler, Hud. iii. 2. 602. F.efficace, efficacy (Cotgr.), L.efficacia(Pliny).

efficient,creative or productive cause. Sir T. Browne, Rel. Medici, pt. 1, § 14; id., Vulgar Errors, bk. vii, c. 4, § 2.

egal,equal. Merch. Ven. iii. 4. 13 (F.);egally, equally, Richard III, iii. 7. 213;egalness, equality, Ferrex and Porrex, i. 2 (Philander). F.égal.

eggs:phr.to have eggs on the spit, to be busy; with reference to the old mode of roasting eggs; ‘I have eggs on the spit’, B. Jonson, Ev. Man in Hum. iii. 6. 47; see Wheatley’s note.

eggs:phr.to take eggs for money, to accept an offer which one would rather refuse. Winter’s Tale, i. 2. 161. (Fully explained by me in Phil. Soc. Trans., 1903, p. 146). Farmers’ daughters would go to market, taking with them a basket of eggs. If one bought something worth (suppose) 3s.4d., she would pay the 3s.and say—‘will you take eggs for money?’ If the shopman weakly consented, he received the value of the 4d.in eggs; usually (16th cent.) at the rate of 4 or 5 a penny. But the strong-minded shopman would refuse. Eggs were even used to pay interest for money. Thus Rowley has: ‘By Easter next you should have the principal, and eggs for the use [interest], indeed, sir.Bloodhound.Oh rogue, rogue, I shall have eggs for my money! I must hang myself’, A Match at Midnight, v. 1. See Nares (s.v. Eggs for Money).

eisel,vinegar; ‘I will drink potions of eisel’, Sh. Sonnets, cxi; spelteysel. Skelton, Now Synge We, 40. ME.esyle, ‘acetum’ (Prompt. EETS. 147, see note no. 661);aysel(Hampole, Ps. lxviii. 26). OF.aisil, vinegar (Oxford Ps. lxviii. 26).

ejaculation,a darting forth. Bacon, Essay 9, § 1.

E-la,the highest note in the old musical scale, sung to the syllablelain the old gamut; which began with G (ut) on the lowest line of the base clef, and ended with E in the highest space of the treble clef. Whoever sang a higher note than this was said to sing ‘above E-la’. Hence anything extreme was said ‘to be above E-la’. ‘Why, this is above E-la!’ Beaumont and Fl., Humorous Lieutenant, iv. 4 (Leontius; near the end). N.B. The old gamut was really founded on hexachords or major sixths; each hexachord contained six notes and comprised four full tones and a semitone, the semitone being in the middle, between the third and fourth note. The hexachords began (in ascending succession) upon the lower G, C, F, G (above F), C (still higher), F (above the last C), and G (above the last F). There were twenty notes in all; viz. G A B C D E F G A B C D E F G A B C D E; and each of the hexachords was sung to the same syllables,ut,re,mi,fa,sol,la. The highest hexachord contained the G A B C D E at the top of the scale; and as E was thus sung tola, it was called E-la. It had no other name, because it only occurred in the highest hexachord. In hexachords beginning with F the B was flat.

eld,to ail; ‘What thing eldeth thee?’ Thersites, in Hazlitt’s Dodsley, i. 414. Cp.aild, prov. pronunc. ofail(vb.): ‘He’s allus aildin’ (Worcestersh.);aildy, ailing, poorly, ‘I be very aildy to-day’ (Northampton); so in Beds.,testeJ. W. Burgon, see EDD. (s.v. Ail and Aildy). In Shropsh. they sayeldedforailed.

elder,an elder-tree. It was an old belief that Judas Iscariot hung himself upon an elder. See L. L. L. v. 2. 610; B. Jonson, Ev. Man out of Humour, iv. 4 (Carlo). See P. Plowman, C. ii. 64 (Notes, p. 31).

elegant,foralicant,q.v. A Cure for a Cuckold, iv. 1. 18.

element,the sky. Julius Caes. i. 3. 128; Spenser, Shep. Kal., Feb., 116; Milton, Comus, 299. In common prov. use in the west country. A Somerset man describing a thunderstorm would say, ‘Th’ element was all to a flicker’ (EDD.).

elenche, elench,a logical refutation, a syllogism in refutation of an argument. Massinger, Emperor of the East, ii. 1 (Theodosius). Also, a sophistical argument, a fallacy; Bacon, Adv. of Learning, bk. ii, § xiv. 5. L.elenchus, Gk. ἔλεγχος, cross-examination.

elk,the wild swan, or hooper. ‘The Elk’, in the margin of Golding’s tr. of Ovid, Metam. xiv. 509; ‘In hard winters elks, a kind of wild swan, are seen’, Sir T. Browne (Wks. ed. 1893, iii. 313); ‘Swanne, some take thys to be the elke or wild swanne’, Huloet. Seeilke.

ellops,a kind of serpent. Milton, P. L. x. 525. Gk. ἔλλοψ, ἔλοψ, lit. ‘mute’, an epithet of fish (so Prellwitz); name for a certain sea-fish, probably the sword-fish or sturgeon, later, a serpent.

embase,to debase, lower. Spenser, F. Q. vi. 6. 20; Sonnet 82.

embassade,a mission as ambassador. 3 Hen. VI, iv. 3. 32; also, quasi-adv., on an embassy, Spenser, Hymn in Honour of Beauty, 251. F.embassade, an embassage; also an embassador accompanied with his ordinary train (Cotgr.).

embay,to bathe, drench, wet, steep. Spenser, F. Q. i. 10. 27; ii. 12. 60. Metaph., to bathe (oneself in sunshine); Muiopotmos, 200; to pervade, suffuse, F. Q. i. 9. 13.

embayed, imbayed,enclosed as in a bay; enveloped, engirt. Speltimbayed, enclosed; Capt. Smith, Works, ed. Arber, p. 333, l. 3;embayed, engirt, Stanyhurst, tr. of Aeneid, ii. 230.

embayle,to enclose, encompass. Spenser, F. Q. ii. 3. 27.

embezzle,to waste, squander; ‘His bills embezzled’, Dekker, Shoemakers’ Holiday, i. 1 (Lincoln); Sir T. Browne, Hydriotaphia, c. iii, § 7. See NED.

emboss,to ornament with bosses or studs, to decorate. Spenser, F. Q. iv. 4. 15; Shep. Kal., Feb., 67.

embost(of a hunted animal). A stag was said to beembossed(embost) when blown and fatigued with being chased—foaming, panting, unable to hold out any longer; ‘The boar of Thessaly Was never so emboss’d’, Ant. and Cl. iv. 11. 3; ‘The salvage beast embost in wearie chace’, Spenser, F. Q. iii. 1. 22. Metaph., ‘Our feeble harts Embost with bale’, i. 9. 29; Dekker, Shoemakers’ Holiday, ii. 4. 7. ME.embose, to plunge deeply into a wood or thicket (Chaucer, Dethe Blaunche, 353). OF.bos(bois), a wood. Seeimbost.

embost,encased, enclosed (as in armour); ‘A knight . . . in mighty armes embost’, Spenser, F. Q. i. 3. 24.

embowd,arched over. Spenser, F. Q. i. 9. 19.

embraid,to upbraid, taunt, mock. Sir T. Elyot, Governour, bk. i, c. 7, § 2; Tusser, Husbandry, § 112, st. 7. Cp. ME.breydynorupbraydyn, ‘Impropereo’ (Prompt. EETS. 64). OE.bregdan, to bring a charge (B. T. Suppl.), Icel.bregða, to upbraid, blame.

embrave,to embellish, decorate. Spenser, F. Q. ii. 1. 60.

embrew,to ‘imbrue’, cover with blood; ‘With wyde wounds embrewed’, Spenser, F. Q. iii. 6. 17; Hymn of Love, 13.

embrocata,a thrust in fencing. Marston, Scourge of Villany, Sat. xi. 57. Seeimbroccato.

eme,uncle. Spenser, F. Q. ii. 10. 47; spelteame, Drayton, Pol. xxii. 427. 848. A north-country word (EDD.). ME.eme, fadiris brodyr, ‘patruus’ (Prompt.), OE.ēam.

emeril,emery. Drayton, Pol. i. 53. F.emeril, emery (Cotgr.); OF.esmeril; Ital.smeriglio, deriv. of Gk. σμύρις, emery-powder.

emmarble,to convert into marble. Spenser, Hymn to Love, 139.

emmew,orenmew;errors forenew,q.v.

empair,to harm, injure. Spenser, F. Q. v. 11. 48; to become less, to be diminished, id., v. 4. 8. See Dict. (s.v. Impair).

empale,to surround, enclose. Sackville. Induction, st. 67.

emparlance,parley, talk. Spenser, F. Q. v. 4. 50. Cp. Norm. F.emparler, ‘parler, entretenir’, also ‘entretien’ (Moisy), O. Prov.emparlat, ‘éloquent’ (Levy).

empeach,to hinder. Spenser, F. Q. i. 8. 34; ii. 7. 15; ‘I empesshe, or let one of his purpose’, Palsgrave. F.empescher, ‘to hinder’ (Cotgr.); O. Prov.empedegar, ‘empêcher’ (Levy), Med. L.impedicare, ‘implicare’ (Ducange). Seeimpeach.

empery,dominion, rank of an emperor. Titus And. i. 1. 201; Hen. V, i. 2. 226. Norm. F.emperie(Moisy), L.imperium, empire.

empesshement,hindrance. Caxton, Hist. Troye, leaf 131. 29. Seeimpechement.

emprese,‘emprise’, enterprise, undertaking. Chapman, tr. of Iliad, xi. 257. See NED. (s.v. Emprise).

emprise,an undertaking, an enterprise. Spenser, Shep. Kal., Sept., 83; chivalric enterprise, martial prowess, Milton, P. L. xi. 642; ‘In brave poursuit of chevalrous emprize’, Spenser, F. Q. i. 9. 1. Norm. F.emprise, ‘entreprise’ (Moisy).

enaunter,lest by chance. Spenser, Shep. Kal., Feb., 200; May, 78; Sept., 161. ‘Anaunters’ is a north-country word, in the sense of ‘lest, in case that’ (EDD.). ME.enantyr;an aunter, in case that (P. Plowman, C. iv. 437); also,an aventure(id., B. iii. 279), see Dict. M. and S. (s.v. Aventure); Anglo-F.en+aventure, chance (Gower).

enbassement,dread, terror, ‘abashment’. Caxton, Hist. Troye, leaf 159. 25;enbaysshement, lf. 91. 31. Cp. ME.enbasshinge, bewilderment (Chaucer, Boethius 4, p. 1. 43).

enbolned,swollen, puffed up. Skelton, ed. Dyce, i. 207, l. 7 from bottom. Cp. ME.bolnyd, swollen (Wyclif, 1 Cor. v. 2).

enchase,to set (a jewel) in gold or other setting; usedfig.Spenser, F. Q. i. 12. 23; to engrave figures on a surface, Shep. Kal., August, 27; to shut in, enclose, M. Hubberd’s Tale, 626; Chapman, tr. Iliad, xii. 56; xix. 346.

encheason,occasion, reason. Spenser, Shep. Kal., May, 147. ME.encheson, ‘occasio’ (Prompt. EETS. 312), Anglo-F.enchesoun, occasion (Gower), Norm. F.acheisun, ‘raison, cause, motif’ (Moisy); L.occasio.

endlong,from end to end of, through the length of; ‘Endlong many yeeres and ages’, Holland, Livy, 921; right along, straight on, Dryden, Palamon, iii. 691. In prov. use in the north country (EDD.). ME.endelong, through the length of (Chaucer, C. T.F.992).

endosse,to inscribe. Spenser, F. Q. v. 11. 53; Colin Clout, 634; Palsgrave. Anglo-F.endosser, to endorse (Rough List); to write on the back of a document, deriv. of F.dos, L.dorsum, back.

endue,to endow; ‘God hath endued me with a good dowry’ (Vulg.Dotavit me Deus dote bona),Bible, Gen. xxx. 20; speltendew, Spenser, F. Q. i. 4. 51; ‘The King hath . . . endewed (the house) with parkes orchardes’, Act 31 Hen. VIII, c. 5. Seeindue.

endurance,also writtenindurance,patience; ‘Past the endurance of a block’, Much Ado, ii. 1. 248; imprisonment, durance, ‘I should have tane some paines to have heard you Without endurance further’, Hen. VIII, v. 1. 122 (the phrase is taken from Foxe’s account of Cranmer’s trial); ‘The indurance of their Generall’, Knolles, Hist. Turks, 1256 (NED.).

endure,to indurate, harden. Spenser, F. Q. iv. 8. 27. Norm. F.s’endurer, to harden oneself (Moisy).

eneled,anointed, as one who has received extreme unction. Morte Arthur, leaf 429*, back, 25; bk. xxi, c. 12; Caxton, Golden Legend, 337, see NED. (s.v. Anele).

enew(t. t. in hawking), to drive a fowl into the water; ‘Let her enew the fowl so long till she bring it to the plunge’, Markham, Countr. Content. (ed. 1668, i. 5. 32); ‘Follies doth enew (misprintedemmew, Ff.) As Falcon doth the Fowle’, Meas. for M. iii. 1. 91. Speltineawe, to plunge into the water, Drayton, Pol. xx. 284. Anglo-F.eneauer, to wet (Gower), Norm. F.ewe(F.eau), water. Seeinmew.

enewed;seeennewe.

enfeloned,made fell or fierce. Spenser, F. Q. v. 8. 48.

enfired,kindled, set on fire. Spenser, Hymn to Love, 169.

enform,to mould, fashion. Spenser, F. Q. v. 6. 3.

enfouldred,hurled out like thunder and lightning. Spenser, F. Q. i. 11. 40. OF.fouldre(F.foudre), Romanic typefolgere, L.fulgur, a thunderbolt.

enfounder,to drive in, to batter in. Caxton, Hist. Troye, leaf 216, back, 30; lf. 295, back, 25; to stumble, as a horse, to ‘founder’; ‘His horse enfoundred under hym’, Berners, Arth., 87 (NED.). F.enfondrer(un harnois), to make a great dint in an armour; also, to plunge into the bottom of a puddle or mire (Cotgr.).

enginous,ingenious. Hero and Leander, iii. 312; Chapman, tr. of Odyssey, i. 452. Cp. Scot,engine(ingine), intellect, mental capacity (EDD.). F.engin, understanding reach of wit (Cotgr.). L.ingenium, natural capacity. Seeingine.

engle;seeingle.

englin,the name of a Welsh metre. Drayton, Pol. iv. 181. W.englyn. The Note has:Englynsare couplets interchanged of sixteen and fourteen feet.

engore,to ‘gore’, wound deeply. Spenser, F. Q. ii. 8. 42.

engraile,to give a serrated appearance to; ‘I (the river Wear) indent the earth, and then I it engraile With many a turn’, Drayton, Pol. xxix. 380;engrail’d, variegated, ‘A caldron new engrail’d with twenty hues’, Chapman, tr. Iliad, xxiii. 761.

engrain,to dye ‘in grain’, or of a fast colour. Spenser, Shep. Kal., Feb., 131. See Dict. (s.v. Grain).

engrave,to bury. Spenser, F. Q. i. 10. 42; ii. 1. 60.

enhalse,to greet, salute. Mirror for Mag., Rivers, st. 58. Seehalse.

ennewe,to tint, shade; ‘With rose-colour ennewed’, Calisto and Meliba, in Hazlitt’s Dodsley, i. 62; ‘The one shylde was enewed with whyte’, Morte Arthur, leaf 55. back, 24; bk. iii, ch. 9 (end). Perhaps fr. F.nuer, to shade, tint (Godefroy), see NED.

enow,pl. form of ‘enough’; ‘Foes enow’, Milton, P. L. ii. 504; ‘Christians enow’, Merch. Ven. iii. 5. 24; ‘French quarrels enow’, Hen. V, iv. 1. 222. ME.ynowe: ‘Wommen y-nowe’ (Chaucer, Parl. Foules, 233), OE.genōge, pl. ofgenōg, enough.

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