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Q,a cue, as the signal for an actor to begin his part; ‘And took I not myQ?’ Barry, Ram-Alley, ii. 1 (W. Smallshanks); ‘And old men know theirQ’s, id., iii. 1 (O. Small.). Some say it stood for L.quando, when; i.e. the time when.
quab,a crude or shapeless thing. Ford, Lover’s Melancholy, iii. 3. 5. Low G.quabbe, a piece of fat flesh,quabbeln, to be flabby, quiver like a piece of fat or soft flesh; Du.quabbe, ‘the dewlap of a Rudder-beast hanging down under his necke’ (Hexham).
quacking cheat,a cant term for a duck. Middleton, Roaring Girl, v. 1 (Trapdoor). Seecheat(2).
quadlin,a kind of apple, a ‘codling’, mentioned among the July fruits in Bacon’s Essay 46, Of Gardens;quodling, B. Jonson, Alchem. i. 1 (Dol Common). Perhaps a corruption of ME.querdlyng, appul, ‘duracenum’ (Prompt.).
quadrate,a troop in a square formation; ‘The Powers Militant . . . in mighty Quadrate joyn’d’, Milton, P. L. vi. 62. L.quadratus, squared;quadratum, a square.
quail,the name of the bird, applied to a courtesan. Tr. and Cr. v. 1. 57; B. Jonson, Barth. Fair, iv. 3 (Ursula). See Nares. Cp. F.cailte coiffée, ‘une femme galante’ (Moisy, s.v. Quaille);cailles coyphées, women (Rabelais, iv. 23);caille coiffée, ‘a woman’ (Cotgr.).
quail,to curdle, coagulate; ‘I quayle as mylke dothe,je quaillebotte’, Palsgrave; ‘This mylke is quayled’, id.; Phillips, Dict., 1706. In prov. use in E. Anglia and adjacent counties, see EDD. (s.v. Quail, vb.2). ME.quaylynas mylk or odyrlyk lykowre, ‘coagulo’ (Prompt. EETS. 363). F.cailler, to curdle, to coagulate (Cotgr.), OF.coailler(Oxf. Ps. cxviii. 70); L.coagulare; cp. Ital.quagliare(coagulare, to curd or curdle (Torriano)). Seequarle.
quail,to lose courage; ‘My heart drops blood, and my false spirits Quaile’, Cymbeline, v. 5. 149; ‘Their hearts began to quaile’, Holland, Livy, xxxvi. 9. 924. Afig.sense ofquail(to curdle), see above. Cp. Ital.quagliare(cagliare), ‘aggrumare’;per met.‘mancar d’animo, venir meno’ (Fanfani, s.v. Cagliare).
quail(a trans. use of above), to cause to quail, to depress the heart with fear or dejection; ‘He meant to quail and shake the orb’, Ant. and Cl. v. 2. 85; Mids. Night’s D. v. 292 (Pyramus); Spenser, F. Q. i. 9. 49; Beaumont and Fl., Laws of Candy, i. 2 (Cassilane); Kyd, Cornelia, iv. 1. 243.
quail-pipe boot,a boot having a wrinkled appearance. Middleton, Blurt, Mr. Constable, ii. 1 (Truepenny); with reference to the E. version of the Romaunt of the Rose, 7261: ‘Highe shoes . . . That frouncen [are wrinkled] lyke a quaile-pipe.’
quaint,skilled, clever; ‘The quaint Musician’, Tam. Shrew, iii. 2. 149; skilfully designed, ‘A quaint salad’, Shirley, Traitor, iv. 2; beautiful, elegant, Milton, Samson Ag. 1303; Much Ado, iii. 4. 22; dainty, fastidious, prim, Spenser, F. Q. iii. 7. 10. OF.cointe, ‘instruit’ (Bartsch), Med. L.cognitus, ‘sciens’ (Ducange). Cp. O. Prov.coinde,cointe, ‘joli, gracieux, aimable’ (Levy).
quaisy;seequeazy.
quality,profession, occupation. Merry Wives, v. 5. 44; Hamlet, ii. 2. 363; Fletcher, Love’s Cure, ii. 1 (Metaldi).
quar,a ‘quarry’, a heap of dead men. Phaer, Aeneid ix, 526. See Dict. (s.v. Quarry, 2).
quarelet,a small square; ‘The quarelets of pearl’ (referring to a girl’s teeth), Herrick, The Rock of Rubies, and the Quarrie of Pearls, 32. Seequarrel.
quarle,a ‘quarrel’, cross-bow bolt. Spenser, F. Q. ii. 11. 33. See Dict. (s.v. Quarrel, 2).
quarle,to curdle, coagulate. Tourneur, Rev. Trag. iv. 4. 8. Seequar(r(2).
quar(r,a stone-quarry. B. Jonson, Magn. Lady, i. 1 (Sir Moth); Drayton, Pol. i. 119. In prov. use (EDD.). See Dict. (s.v. Quarry, 1).
quar(r,to coagulate; ‘It keepeth the mylke from quarring and crudding in the brest’, Lyte, Dodoens, ii. 74. 246 (NED.). In prov. use in Worc., Hants., Somerset, Devon (EDD.). Seequarle.
quarrel,a square, or diamond-shaped piece of glass, in a window; ‘A quarrell of glasse’, Puttenham, Arte of Poesie, bk. ii, ch. 11, ed. Arber, p. 106; Beaumont and Fl., Nice Valour, iii. 1 (Galoshio). ‘Quarrel’ is in prov. use in various parts of England for a pane of glass, esp. a diamond-shaped pane, see EDD. (s.v. Quarrel, sb.1), and NED. (s.v. Quarrel, sb.13).
quarron,the body; the belly (Cant); ‘To comfort the quarron’, Brome, Jovial Crew, ii. 1 (Song);Quaromes, a body, Harman, Caveat, p. 82. The same word ascarrion, a carcass; ‘Old feeble carrions’, Jul. Caesar, ii. 1. 130. See NED.
quart,quarter, fourth part. Spenser, F. Q. ii. 10.14. L.quartus, fourth.
quart d’écu;seecardecu.
quartile,a quartile aspect, a quadrature, denoting the position of two planets which are 90 degrees apart. Hawes, Pastime of Pleasure, chap. xxxvi, st. 12; Dryden, Palamon, i. 500.
quass,to drink copiously. Gascoigne, Fruites of Warre, st. 87. Low G.quasen,quassen, to devour, swallow (Lübben).
quat,a pimple;fig.applied contemptuously to a young person. Webster, Devil’s Law-case, ii. 1 (Ariosto); Othello, v. 1. 11. ‘Quat’, meaning a pimple, is in prov. use in the Midlands, also in Hants. (EDD.).
quat,to oppress. Lyly, Euphues, p. 44. In prov. use in Wilts. and Somerset, meaning to squeeze, crush, see EDD. (s.v. Quat, vb. 3).
quat,the act or state of squatting. A hunted leveret is ‘put to the dead quat’, Webster, White Devil (ed. Dyce, p. 31).
quaternion,a set of four. B. Jonson, Cynthia’s Revels, v. 3 (Cupid); Milton, P. L. v. 181;Bible, Acts xii. 4. L.quaternio(Vulgate).
quayd,quieted, appeased; ‘Therewith his sturdie courage soone was quayd’, Spenser, F. Q. i. 8. 14. Seeaccoy.
queach,a dense growth of bushes, a thicket. Golding, Ovid’s Metam. i. 4; Chapman, tr. of Odyssey, xix. 610; id., Hymn to Pan; Coote’s English Schoolemaster; Howell, Londinop. 382;queachie, bushy, Golding, Metam., To Reader. See Nares. An E. Anglian word for a small plantation of trees or bushes, a ‘spinney’ (EDD.). ME.queche, a dense growth of bushes (Merlin, ed. Wheatley, iii. 540).
queachy,swampy, boggy; ‘Queachy fens’, Drayton, Pol. ii. 396; iv. 65; xvii. 384;quechy, Heywood, Brazen Age, ii. 2 (Wks. iii. 190). ‘Queechy’ is in prov. use, see EDD. (s.v. Queachy, adj.11).
queam;seequeme.
queat,‘quiet’; ‘Bequeat’, Warner, Alb. England, bk. i, c. 6, st. 73; bk. iii, ch. 14, st. last but one. Not uncommon. Seeunqueat.
queave,to palpitate; ‘I left himqueavingand quick’ (i.e. palpitating and alive), Puttenham, Arte of E. Poesie, bk. iii, c. 19 (ed. Arber, p. 223); ‘Quycke and queaving’, life and palpitation, Gascoigne, Grief of Joy (ed. Hazlitt, ii. 289). See NED. (s.v. Quave).
queazy,squeamish, fastidious, nice. Dryden, Epil. to Don Sebastian, 16; speltquaisie, Ascham, Toxophilus (ed. Arber, p. 40);queasie, unsettling the stomach, causing nausea, Lyly, Euphues (Arber, 44); ‘Quaisy as meate or drinke is,dangereux’, Palsgrave.
†quebas,the name of an obsolete card-game. Etherege, She Would if she Could, iii. 3 (Lady Cockwood). Not found elsewhere.
queching;seequetch.
†quecke,a knock, a whack; ‘If I fall, I catch aquecke, I may fortune to break my neck’, Interlude of Youth, in Hazlitt’s Dodsley, ii. 8. Not found elsewhere.
queest;seewoodquist.
queint,pp.quenched. Spenser, F. Q. ii. 5. 11; ‘The coals . . . that be quent’, Sir T. Wyatt (Wks., ed. Bell, p. 200). ME.queynt(Chaucer, C. T.A.2321), pp. ofquenche, to quench (id., Tr. and Cr. iii. 846). See Dict.
quellio,a Spanish collar or neck-band. Ford, Lady’s Trial, ii. 1 (Guzman);quellio ruff, a Spanish ruff, Massinger, City Madam, iv. 4 (Luke). Span.cuello, neck, collar, ruff (Stevens); L.collum, neck.
quelquechose,a delicacy; the same word askickshaws. Marston, Malcontent, i. 1. 161 (Malevole); ‘Fricandeaux, short, skinless, and dainty puddings, or Quelkchoses, made of good flesh and herbs chopped together, then rolled up into the form of Liverings, &c., and so boiled’, Cotgrave. F.quelque chose, something. See Dict. (s.v. Kickshaws).
queme,to please. Spenser, Shep. Kal., May, 15;queam, pleasure, Warner, Alb. England, bk. xii, ch. 60, st. 32. ME.queme, to please (Chaucer, Tr. and Cr. v. 695);queme, pleasure, satisfaction (Cursor M. 1064); see Dict. M. and S. OE.cwēman,gecwēman, to please.
quent;seequeint.
quere,the ‘choir’ of a church. Morte Arthur, leaf 430*, back, 22; bk. xxi, c. 12; Skelton, Colyn Cloute, 396. ‘Queer’ is in prov. use for choir in the north country (EDD.). ME.quere,queer(Wyclif, Ps. lii. 1; cl. 4). Norm. F.quers, nom.;cuer, acc., ‘chœur’ (Moisy). See Dict. (s.v. Choir).
†querke:phr.to have the querke of the sea(?), Harrison, Desc. of England, bk. ii, ch. 19 (ed. Furnivall, p. 310).
querpo:phr.in querpo, in a close-fitting dress or doublet, without a cloak; ‘To walk the streets in querpo’, Fletcher, Love’s Cure, ii. 1. 2; cp. Butler, Hudibras, iii. 3. 201. Span.en cuerpo, lit. ‘in the body’; hence, half dressed. See Stanford (s.v. Cuerpo). Seecuerpo.
querre, at the,(probably) on the cross, at a cross-stroke; ‘Sir Francis.My hawk killed too.Sir Charles.Ay, but ’twas at the querre, Not at the mount, like mine’, Heywood, A Woman killed, i. 3. Cp. Low G.vor queer, across. See Dict. (s.v. Queer).
querry,an ‘equerry’. Beaumont and Fl., Noble Gentleman, v. 1 (Marine); ‘Querries, Persons that are conversant in the Queen’s Stables; and have charge of her Horses’, Phillips, Dict., 1706. See Dict. (s.v. Equerry).
quest,to seek after, search about, like a dog after game. Otway, Soldier’s Fortune, iv. 3. 2. Also, to give tongue, like a hound at the sight of game, B. Jonson, Gipsies Metamorphosed (Townshead). ‘To quest’ is in prov. use in various parts of England, of dogs in the sense of seeking for game, and of breaking out into a bark at the sight of the quarry; see EDD. F.quester, ‘to quest, hunt; to open, as a dog that seeth, or findeth of his game’ (Cotgr.).
quest,an inquiry; a body of men summoned to hold an inquiry. Gascoigne, Works, i. 37; ‘Crowner’s quest law’, Hamlet, v. 1. 24. See Dict. (s.v. Inquest).
quest-house,the house at which the inquests in a ward or parish were commonly held, the chief watch-house in a parish. Middleton, Anything for a Quiet Life, i. 1 (W. Camlet).
questmongers,men who made a business of conducting inquiries, Bacon, Henry VII (ed. Lumby, p. 192). ME.questmongeres(P. Plowman, B. xix. 367).
questuary,profitable, money-making. Middleton, Family of Love, v. 1 (Glister); Sir T. Browne, Vulgar Errors, bk. iii, c. 13, § 4. L.quaestuarius, relating to gain;quaestus, gain.
quetch, quitch,to move, stir, wince; ‘He dare nat quytche’, Palsgrave; ‘The Lads of Sparta of Ancient Time were wont to be Scourged upon the Altar of Diana, without so much as Queching’, Bacon, Essay 39; ‘He could not move, nor quich at all’, Spenser, F. Q. v. 9. 38; ‘They dare not queatche’, Gosson, School of Abuse, p. 35. ME.quytchyn, ‘moveo’ (Prompt.); OE.cweccan, ‘movere’ (Matt. xxvii. 39).
quibible,(perhaps) a pipe or whistle; ‘Time . . . to pype in a quibyble’, Skelton, The Douty Duke of Albany, 389.
quiblin,a trick. Eastward Ho, iii. (1or2) (Security); B. Jonson, Tale of a Tub, iv. 1 (end); ‘A quirk or a quiblin’, id., Barth. Fair, i. 1 (Littlewit); id., Alchemist, iv. 4. 728 (Face). See Dict. (s.v. Quibble).
quich;seequetch.
quiddit,a subtle shift, law-trick. Hamlet, v. 1. 107 (fol.); Heywood, The Fair Maid, v. 2. 3.
quiddle,to trifle, to discourse in a trifling way; ‘Set out your bussing base, and we will quiddle upon it’, Damon and Pithias; in Hazlitt, iv. 81. In common prov. use from Worc. to Cornwall in the sense of acting in a fussy manner about trifles; see EDD. (s.v. Quiddle, vb.1).
quight;seequite.
quile;seequoil(e.
quillet,a sly trick, cavil. L. L. L. iv. 3. 288; Fletcher, Woman’s Prize, iv. 1. 16.
quillity,a quibble, cavil. Stanyhurst, tr. of Aeneid, ii. 75. Cp. Ital.quilità,quillità, ‘a quillity’ (Florio).
quinch,to stir, to wince, flinch, start. Spenser, View of the State of Ireland, p. 670, col. 1 (Globe edition).Not a quinch, not a start, not a jot, ‘I care not a quinche’, Damon and Pithias, in Hazlitt’s Dodsley, iv. 28.
quintell;‘A Quintaine or Quintell, a game in request at marriages, when Jac and Tom, Dic, Hob and Will, strive for the gay garland’, Minsheu, Ductor; Herrick, A Pastorall Sung to the King, 4;quintil, Quarles, Sheph. Orac. vi (NED.).
quip,to taunt. Spenser, F. Q. vi. 7. 44; to assail with sarcasm, Greene, Verses from Cicero, 5, ed. Dyce, p. 311; to be sarcastic, Lyly, Euphues (ed. Arber, p. 206).
quire,a throng, company. Spenser, F. Q. vi. 8. 48. Seequere.
†quirily,quiveringly (?). Stanyhurst, tr. of Aeneid, i. 220. Not found elsewhere.
quit,to requite. Webster, White Devil (ed. Dyce, p. 5); Beaumont and Fl., v. 1 (Antinous). Seequite.
quitch;seequetch.
quite, quight,to free, release. Spenser, F. Q. i. 8. 10; to repay, requite, id., i. 10. 67;quite, id., i. 1. 30; i. 8. 26, 27; i. 10. 15, 37. ME.quyte, to requite, repay (Chaucer); see Dict. M. and S. Med. L.quietare,quitare, ‘pacificare, dimittere’;quietus,quitus, ‘absolutus, liber’ (Ducange).
quite-claim,to acquit, free. Spenser, F. Q. vi. 2. 14.
quite-claim,to acquit, free. Spenser, F. Q. vi. 2. 14.
quittance,to requite, repay. 1 Hen. VI, ii. 1. 14; Greene, Orl. Fur. ii. 1 (499); Sacripant (p. 95, col. 2).
quitter-bone,an ulcer on the coronet of a horse’s foot. B. Jonson, Barth. Fair, ii. 1 (Knockem); ‘Sete, the quitter-bone; a round and hard swelling upon the cornet (between the heel and quarter) of a horse’s foot’, (Cotgrave).
quitture,a purulent discharge from a wound or sore. Chapman, tr. of Iliad, xiv. 7; xxiv. 374. ME.quytere(Wyclif, Job ii. 8);whytowre(Prompt.). Anglo-F.quyture(Bozon), OF.cuiture, smarting, matter from a boil;cuire, to smart, lit. to cook, roast, &c.; L.coquere.
quiver,active, quick, rapid. 2 Hen. IV, iii. 2. 301; Turbervile, The Lover to Cupid, st. 18;quiverly, actively, Gillespie, Eng. Pop. Cerem. (NED.). OE.cwiferlīce, actively.
quoil(e,a noisy disturbance, a ‘coil’. R. Harvey, Pl. Perc. (ed. 1860, p. 30); Culpepper, Eng. Physic, 255;quile, Lord Cromwell, i. 1. 7. See NED. (s.v. Coil, sb.2).
quondam,once upon a time; hence, one who has formerly held an office, one who has ceased to perform duties; ‘He wyll haue euerye man a quondam as he is; as for my quondamshyp’, &c, Latimer, 4 Sermon bef. King, ed. Arber, p. 108. L.quondam, formerly.
quook,quaked;pt. t.ofquake. Spenser, F. Q. vi. 6. 30. ME.quok, quaked (Chaucer, C. T.A.1576); but the regular pt. t. isquaked(e(P. Plowman, B. xviii. 246); OE.cwacode, pt. t. ofcwacian.
quote,to note, set down in writing. L. L. L. ii. 246; Fletcher, Woman’s Prize, iv. 1 (Petronius).
quoth, quoathe,to faint; ‘He, quothing as he stood’, Golding, Metam. v. 71; fol. 56 (1603); vii. 859; fol. 92. Seecoath.
quot-quean,seecot-quean.
quoying,‘coying’, blandishing; ‘Were they living to heare our newe quoyings . . . they would tearme it (the old wooing) foolish’ (Lyly, Euphues, ed. Arber, 277). Seecoy.
R
rabate, rabbate,to rebate, remit, take away; ‘I rabate a porcyon’, Palsgrave, Puttenham, Eng. Poesie, bk. iii, ch. 25 (ed. Arber, p. 310);rabbate, diminution, Puttenham, iii. ch. 11; p. 173. F. ‘rabatre, to abate, remit, give back’ (Cotgr.). Seerebate(2).
rabbit-sucker,a very young rabbit; one that still sucks. 1 Hen. IV, ii. 4. 480; Lyly, Endimion, v. 2 (Sir Tophas).
rabbling,disorderly; ‘Rabbling wretch!’, Appius and Virginia, in Hazlitt’s Dodsley, iv. 143. See NED.
rablement,a rabble, noisy crowd. Spenser, F. Q. i. 6. 8.
race,to rase, scrape. Ascham, Toxophilus, pp. 108, 118; Chapman, tr. of Iliad, iv. 158; to tear, to tear away, Morte Arthur, leaf 36, back, 1; bk. i, c. 23; to slash, tear violently, id., leaf 119, back, 22; bk. vii, c. 17; to erase, to alter a writing by erasure, ‘This indenture is raced’, Palsgrave. See NED. (s.v. Race, vb.3).
rache;seeratch.
rack,a neck of mutton. B. Jonson, New Inn, i. 1 (Host); Lyly, Mother Bombie, iii. 4 (Dromio); How a Man may choose, iii. 3 (Aminadab). In prov. use in various parts of the British Isles (EDD.).
rack,a mass of driving clouds. Hamlet, ii. 3. 506. Also, as vb., to drift, to move as a driving cloud; 3 Hen. VI, ii. 1. 27; Edw. III, ii. 1. 4; Dryden, Three Political Prologues, ii. 33.
rack,to move quickly; said of deer and horses; ‘His rain-deer, racking with proud and stately pace’, Peele, An Eclogue Gratulatory (ed. Dyce, p. 562). Cp. Swed. dial.rakka, to go quickly, to run hither and thither (Rietz).
rack and manger, at,with plenty of food, in the midst of abundance, in luxury; ‘Kept at rack and manger’, Warner, Alb. England, bk. viii, ch. 41, st. 46. The phrase, ‘To live at rack and manger’ (i.e. to live with heedless extravagance), is in common prov. use, see EDD. (s.v. Rack, sb.516 (2)).
rad,agreed upon after consultation; ‘Which judgement strayt was rad’, Mirror for Mag., Northfolke, st. 21. Pp. ofrede, to take counsel together. See NED. (s.v. Rede, vb.15). Seerede.
raft,reft, bereft. Spenser, Shep. Kal., Aug., 14. See NED. (s.v. Reave, vb.1).
ragman-roll,a list, catalogue; ‘I did what I cowde Apollo to rase out of her ragman rollis’, Skelton, Garl. Laurell, 1490. ME.rolle of ragman, a catalogue, Towneley Myst. xxx. 224;rageman, the name of a game of chance played with a written roll having strings attached to the various items contained in it, one of which the player selected or ‘drew’ at random; see Gower, C. A. viii. 2379, and the interesting note by G. C. Macaulay;rageman, the name given to a statute (4 Edward I), appointing justices to hear and determine complaints of injuries done within 25 years previous; see NED. (s.v. Ragman, 2).
ragmans rew,a rhapsody, rigmarole; ‘A ragmans rewe . . . So do we call a long jeste that railleth on any persone by name’, Udall, tr. of Apoph., 245; a list, ‘Ragmanrew,series’, Levins, Manip.
rahate,‘to rate’, scold. Udall, tr. of Apoph., Diogenes, §§ 22, 34.
raile, rayle,to roll, flow, trickle. Spenser, F. Q. i. 6. 43; ii. 8. 37; Visions of Bellay, 155; Fairfax, tr. of Tasso, iv. 74.
railed,fastened in a row; ‘Railed in ropes, like a team of horses in a cart’, Bacon, Henry VII (ed. Lumby, p. 130); Ford, Perkin Warbeck, iii. 1 (Oxford). OF.reiller; L.regulare, to put in order.
rain, rean,a furrow between the ridges in a field. Speltraine, Fitzherbert, Husbandry, § 13. 7;rayne, id., 7. 20;reane, id., 21. 15. In general prov. use, see EDD. (s.v. Rean). Icel.rein, a narrow strip of land, esp. one left unploughed between fields.
raine, rayne,realm, dominion; also region. Spenser, F. Q. v. 5. 28; id., iii. 4. 49; vi. 2. 9. See Dict. (s.v. Reign).
rakehell,a thorough scoundrel; a debauchee or rake; ‘The King of rake-hells’, Bacon, Hen. VII (ed. Lumby, p. 165); ‘Vaultneant,pendart,pendereau, a rakehel, a rascal that wil be hangd’, Nomenclator, 1585 (Nares); ‘Pendard, a rake-hell, crack-rope, gallow-clapper’, Cotgrave.
rakel,impetuous, headstrong; ‘Rakyl,insolens’, Levins, Manip.; ‘Rackle’ (or ‘Rakel’) is in common prov. use in the north country in the sense of rash, violent, headstrong (EDD.). ME.rakel, rash, hasty (Chaucer, Tr. and Cr. i. 1067; iii. 1437).
ramage,said of hawks: having left the nest and begun to fly from branch to branch; hence, wild, untamed, shy; said also of animals and persons; ‘Take a sperhauke ramage’, Caxton, G. de la Tour, A viii (NED.); Turbervile, The Lover to a Gentlewoman, st. 10. Norm. F.ramage, ‘sauvage, farouche’ (Moisy); Rom. type,ramaticum, deriv. of L.ramus, a branch.
ramp,a bold vulgar girl. Middleton and Dekker, Roaring Girl, iii. 3 (Trapdoor); Cymbeline, i. 6. 134; Lyly, Sapho, iii. 2 (Song).
ramp,to creep or crawl on the ground; see NED. ME.rampe: ‘A litel Serpent . . . Which rampeth’ (Gower, C. A. vi. 2230). F.ramper, ‘to creep, crawl’ (Cotgr.).
ramp,to raise the forepaws in the air (usually said of lions); ‘A rampynge and roarynge lyon’, Great Bible, 1539, Ps. xxii. 13 (so in Prayer Book); ‘The ramping lion’, 3 Hen. VI, v. 2. 13. ME.rampe; ‘He goth rampende as a leoun’ (Gower, C. A. vii. 2573). Anglo-F.ramper; ‘lioun rampant’ (Gower, Mirour, 2267). Seeraump.
rampallian,a ruffian, scoundrel; a term of abuse. Beaumont and Fl., Honest Man’s Fortune, ii. 2 (Orleans); City Gallant, in Hazlitt’s Dodsley, xi. 197; applied to a woman, 2 Hen. IV, ii. 1. 65; S. Rowlands, Greenes Ghost (NED.).
rampier,a ‘rampart’, protecting bank of earth. Bacon, Henry VII (ed. Lumby, p. 165). Hence,rampired, fortified, Timon, v. 4. 47. See Dict.
rampion,a species of bell-flower,Campanula Rapunculus. Tusser, Husbandry, § 40. 12; Drayton, Pol. xx. 60. F.raiponce, ‘rampions’ (Cotgr.). Thesoframpionshas been taken for the plurals, and accordingly dropped.
ranch,to tear, to cut. Chapman, tr. of Iliad, v. 856; Drayton, tr. of Aeneid, xi. 1184. ‘Ranch’ in E. Anglia means to scratch deeply and severely (EDD.).
rand,a strip or slice of meat; ‘Rands and sirloins’, Fletcher, Wildgoose Chase, v. 2 (Belleur); ‘Giste de bœuf, a rand of beef, a longe and fleeshy peece, cut out from between the flanke and buttock’ (Cotgrave). Still in use in E. Anglia, see EDD. (s.v. Rand, sb.16).
randon:in phr.at randon, with rushing force. Spenser, F. Q. ii. 4. 7; Shep. Kal., May, 46. OF.randon, force, impetuosity, the swiftness of a violent stream; hence F.aller à grand randon, ‘to go very fast’ (Cotgr.). Seeraundon.
randon,to go about at will. Ferrex and Porrex, i. 2 (Arostus); ii. chorus, 2. F. ‘randonner, to run swiftly, violently’ (Cotgr.); see H. Estienne, Précellence, 187.
rangle,to rove, to wander. Mirror for Mag., Burdet, st. 36; Turbervile, The Lover to a Gentlewoman, st. 2. Cp. the Somerset phrase ‘a rangle common’, see EDD. (s.v. Rangle, vb.22).
rank,strongly, furiously. Spenser, F. Q. ii. 3. 6; iv. 5. 33. In Cheshire a wasp’s nest is said to be ‘rank’, where the wasps are numerous and angry (EDD.). ME.rank, froward (Havelok, 2561). OE.ranc, renders the Vulgate ‘protervum’ (Ælfric, Deut. xxi. 18).
ranpick,partially decayed, bare of leaves. Drayton, Pol. ii. 205; Barnfield, Affect. Sheph. 27 (NED.). In Cheshire ‘rampick’ (in Warw. ‘ranpike’) means a tree beginning to decay at the top; a young tree stripped of boughs and bark (EDD.).
rap,to affect with rapture, to transport, ravish with joy. Cymbeline, i. 6. 51; B. Jonson, Every Man out of Humour, i. 1. A back-formation fromrapt(1).
rap and rend,to snatch up and seize, to take by force, acquire. Dryden, Prol. to Disappointment, 54; Butler, Hud. ii. 2. 789;rappe and rende, Roy, Rede Me (ed. Arber, 74). ME.rape and renne(Chaucer, C. T.G.1422). See EDD. (s.v. Rap, vb.3(1) and (5)), and Dict. (s.v. Rap, 2).
rapt,caught up (like Elijah). Milton, P. L. iii. 522; vii. 23; affected with ecstasy, Macbeth, i. 3. 57 (and 142); Spenser, F. Q. iv. 9. 6. L.raptus, seized, snatched.
rapt,to carry away, to transport, enrapture. Daniel, Civil War, vii. 96; Drayton, Pol. xiii. 411; Chapman, tr. of Odyssey, xii. 84; Sylvester, Du Bartas, ii. 4. 1. The verb is formed from the pp., see above.
rapture,the act of carrying off as prey or plunder; ‘Spite of all the rapture of the sea’, Pericles, ii. 1. 161; the condition of being carried onward, ‘Our Ship . . . ’gainst a Rocke . . . her keele did dash With headlong rapture’, Chapman, tr. of Odyssey, xiv. 428; the act of carrying off a woman, Dekker, Fortunatus (Wks., ed. 1873, i. 151).
rare,early. ‘Rare and late’, Chapman, tr. of Odyssey, vi. 422. Still in prov. use in the south and south-west counties, see EDD. adj.2. Seerear.
rascal,a lean deer not fit to hunt. As You like It, iii. 3. 58; Beaumont and Fl., Knt. of the B. Pestle, iv. 5 (Ralph); Turbervile, Hunting, c. 28; p. 73. See Nares.
rash,to strike like a boar, with a glancing stroke, to tear with violence. B. Jonson, Ev. Man out of Humour, iv. 4 (Fastidious Brisk); Spenser, F. Q. iv. 2. 17. See NED. (s.v. Rash, vb.21).
rash,to tear, pull, drag. Surrey, tr. of Aeneid, iv, l. 826; Dryden, tr. of Aeneid, ix. 1094. See NED. (s.v. Rash, vb.3).
ratch,a dog that hunts by scent. Skelton, Magnyfycence, 592. Still in use in the north country, see EDD. sb.4. ME.ratche, hownde, odorinsecus’ (Prompt.). OE.ræce(B. T.); related to Icel.rakki, a dog.
ratches,a mass of scudding clouds; ‘From all the heauen the ratches flies’, Phaer, Aeneid v, 821 (L.nimbi).
rathe,early; ‘The rathe morning’, Drayton, Robert, Duke of Normandy, 8; Milton, Lycidas, 142; ‘The rather lambs’ (i.e. the lambs born in the earlier part of the year), Spenser, Shep. Kal., Feb., 83;rathe, soon, id., Dec, 98; ‘All to rathe’ (all too soon). Sir T. Wyatt, The Lover waileth (Wks., ed. Bell, 98). Still in use in various parts of the British Isles (EDD.). ME.rathe, early, soon;rather, sooner, more willingly (Chaucer). OE.hræð, quick,hraðe, quickly.
raught,reached;pt. t.andpp.ofto reach. L. L. L. iv. 2. 41; Hen. V, iv. 6. 21; 2 Hen. VI, ii. 3. 43. Still in prov. use, see EDD. (s.v. Reach, vb.13).
raump,to ramp, rear up; said of a lion. Morte Arthur, leaf 170. 30; bk. ix, c. 1. Seeramp(3).
raundon,force, violence, impetuosity, great haste. Morte Arthur, leaf 55. 37; bk. iii, c. 9; id., leaf 338. 15; bk. xvi, c. 8. Seerandon.
raven:in phr.raven’s bone, the gristle on the ‘spoon’ of the brisket of a deer; given to the crows. B. Jonson, Sad Shepherd, i. 2 (Robin). Also calledraven’s morsel, Turbervile, Hunting, 42. 129.
ravin,to snatch with violence, to devour greedily; Meas. for M. i. 2. 133; Cymbeline, i. 6. 49;Bible, Gen. xlix. 27; Ps. xvii. 12, margin; ‘Rapinare, to ravin, to rob, to snatch’ (Florio);raven, to have a ravenous appetite for, Dryden, Hind and P., iii. 964; id., Wild Gallant, iv. 2;ravine, prey, booty, ‘The Lion . . . filled his holes with pray, and his dens with ravine’, Nahum ii. 12 (Vulgate,rapina); ravenous, ‘I met the ravin lion’, All’s Well, iii. 2. 120. See Dict. (s.v. Raven, 2).
ray,‘array’, due order. Spenser, F. Q. v. 2. 50; v. 11, 34; an array, line, rank, ‘Thirteen rayes of horsemen’, Udall, tr. of Apoph., Alexander, § 5. See Dict. (s.v. Array).
ray,to defile. Spenser, F. Q. ii. 1. 40; vi. 4. 23; Tam. Shrew, iii. 2. 54. Foraraye; ‘I araye or fyle with myer,j’emboue’, Palsgrave. ‘Ray’ is still in use in Lanc. and Yorks. in this sense, cp. the proverb, ‘It’s an ill bird that rays its own nest.’
ray, cloth of,a kind of striped cloth. Peele, Edw. I. (ed. Dyce, p. 390, col. 2). Cp. F.raie, a streak, stripe; O. Prov.rega, ‘sillon’ (Levy); Med. L.riga, a stripe,rigatus, striped (Ducange). Seerockray.
rayon,a ray, beam. Spenser, Visions of Bellay, Pt. II, st. 2, 1. 7. F.rayon, a ray.
raze,to slash, slit. Hamlet, iii. 2. 288; Turbervile, Trag. T., 279 (NED.).
read;seerede.
reading,advice. Field, Woman a Weathercock, i. 1 (Nevill). Seerede.
ready:in phr.to make ready, to dress oneself; ‘You made yourself half ready in a dream’, Webster, Devil’s Law-case, ii. 1 (Sanitonella); ‘She must do nothing of herself, not eat . . . make her ready, unready, Unless he bid her’, Beaumont and Fl., Woman’s Prize, i. 1 (Tranio). Seeunready.
reaks, reeks,pranks, riotous practices. Gascoigne, Looks of a Lover forsaken, 13 (Works, i. 49); Heywood, Eng. Traveller, ii. 1 (Clown); Urquhart’s Rabelais, iii. 2; ‘Faire le Diable de Vauvert, to play monstrous reaks’, Cotgrave (s.v. Diable); ‘The heart of man in prayer is most bent to play reakes in wandering from God’, Boyd, Last Battel, 731 (Jamieson). ‘Reak’ (or ‘reik’) is an old Scottish word for a trick or prank. Seerex.
re-allie,to form (plans) again. Spenser, F. Q. vii. 6. 23.
realm,region; pron. likeream(of paper), and quibbled upon. B. Jonson, Every Man in Hum. v (Clement); Marlowe, Jew of Malta, iv. 4 (Ithamore).
reame,a kingdom, realm. Spenser, F. Q. iii. 5. 53; iv. 8. 45; Daniel, Civil Wars, i. 82;reme, Skelton, Against the Scottes, 156. ME.reame(P. Plowman, A. v. 146);reme(Chaucer), Anglo-F.realme(Rough List); see Dict. M. and S. (s.v. Rewme).
reaming,stretching out in threads; ‘Reaming wooll’, Herrick, Widdowes Teares, st. 5. Cp. ‘reamy’, stringy, used of bread, in the west country, see EDD. (s.v. Ream, vb.26 (2)).
rear,early. Shadwell, Squire of Alsatia, i. 1 (Lolpoop). A Kentish pronunciation ofrare. See EDD. (s.v. Rare, adj. 2). Seerare.
rear,insufficiently cooked. Middleton, Game at Chess, iv. 2. 21. In gen. prov. use in England and America (EDD.). OE.hrēr, half-cooked, underdone (Sweet).
reare,to lift; hence, to carry off, take away. Spenser, F. Q. iv. 6. 6. Also, to direct upwards, Milton, P. R. ii. 285.
reasty,rancid, esp. used of bacon which has become yellow and strong-tasting through bad curing.Reastie, Tusser, Husbandry, § 20. 2. OF.resté, that which is left over, hence, stale, cp. Bibbesworth, in T. Wright’s Vocab., 155:chars restez= E.resty flees(i.e. reasty flesh).Reastyis still in general prov. use in England (EDD.).
rebate,to beat back. Greene, Orl. Fur. i. 1. 87; iii. 2 (884); p. 90, col. 2; p. 101, col. 1. F.rabatre(Cotgr.).
rebate,to blunt. Meas. for M. i. 4. 60; Otway, Don Carlos, iii. 1 (King); Chapman, tr. Iliad, xxiv. 585; Dryden, Pal. and Arc. iii. 502. Seerabate.
rebato, rabato,a collar-band, or ruff, which turned back upon the shoulders. Much Ado, iii. 4. 6; Dekker, Satiromastix (Works, 1873, i. 186); B. Jonson, Cynthia’s Revels, iv. 1 (Phantaste); ‘Porte-fraise, a Rebato or supporter for a Ruffe’, Cotgrave (ed. 1611).Rebato-wire, a wire for stiffening a ‘rebato’, Yorkshire Tragedy, i. 32; Heywood, A Woman killed, v. 2. 8. F.rabat, ‘a Rabatoe for a woman’s ruff, also, a falling band’ (Cotgr.).
rebeck,an early form of the fiddle. Sir T. Elyot, Governour, bk. i, c. 20, § 11; Milton, L’Allegro, 94. O. Prov.rebec, alsorebeb(Levy). See Dict.
rebeck,to beckon back, recall, reclaim; said of a hawk. Heywood, A Woman killed, i. 3 (Sir Charles).
rebelling,a ‘ravelin’ (in a quibble). Heywood, Eng. Traveller, ii. 1 (Clown). Span.rebellin, a ‘ravelin’ in fortification (Stevens). See Dict.
reboil,to bubble up again. Sir T. Elyot, Governour, bk. ii, c. 7, § 10;reboyled, made to boil again; Skelton (ed. Dyce, vol. i, p. 209). F. ‘rebouiller, to boil once more;rebouillonner, to bubble’ (Cotgr.). Cp. Med. L.rebullire, ‘recandescere’ (Ducange).
receit,a place of refuge, alcove. Chapman, tr. of Odyssey, iv. 413; recess, haven, id., x. 122; a recess, place of ambush; Bacon, Hen. VII (ed. Lumby, p. 154). Anglo-F.recet, place of resort (Rough List); O. Prov.recet, ‘lieu où l’on se retire, retraite’ (Levy); Med. L.receptum(Ducange). Seerecheat.
rechate,the calling together of the hounds in hunting. Malory, Arthur, x. 52. As vb., to blow a ‘rechate’, to call together the hounds. Drayton, Pol. xiii. 122; Turbervile, Hunting, xl. 114 (NED.). OF.rachater(racheter); L.re+ Med. L.accaptare(Ducange); see NED. (s.v. Achate, vb.).
recheat,the series of notes sounded on the horn for calling the hounds together, Much Ado, i. 1. 251; Davenant, Gondibert, ii. 37. Anglo-F. and OF. (Picard),rechet, a retreat, hence, a note of retreat; O. Prov.recet, ‘retraite’ (Levy). Seereceit.
recheles,reckless, Fitzherbert, Husbandry, 7. 8. OE.reccelēas. Seeretchless.
rechlessness,carelessness, recklessness, B. Jonson, Magn. Lady, iv. 1; Article of Religion, 17 (in modern Prayer Books misspeltwretchlessness). ME.recchelesnesse(Chaucer, C. T.I.611).
reclaim,to call back;reclayme, Spenser, F. Q. v. 12. 9; a term in falconry, ‘I reclayme a hauke of her wyldnesse’, Palsgrave; to tame, Romeo, iv. 2. 47. Cp. F. ‘reclame, a Sohoe or Heylaw; a loud calling, whooting or whooping, to make a Hawk stoop unto the Lure’ (Cotgr.).
record,to sing, to warble; applied esp. to the singing of birds. Two Gent. v. 4. 6; Pericles, iv, Gower; Beaumont and Fl., Valentinian, ii. 1; Browne, Brit. Past. ii. 4. As sb. =recorder(see below), Puttenham, Eng. Poesie (ed. Arber, p. 79); Two Noble Kinsmen, v. 1. 142.
recorder,a kind of flageolet or small flute, so named because birds were taught to ‘record’ by it. Hamlet, iii. 2. 303. See Nares.
recoure,to regain, win again. Spenser, F. Q. iv. 9. 25; ‘I recure, I get agayne’, Palsgrave.
recoyle;seerecule.
recrayed,recreant; ‘He was a recrayd knyght’, Skelton, Against the Scottes, Epilogue, 26; A Replicacion, 45. Norm. F.recreire, ‘se dédire’ (Moisy); O. Prov.se recreire, ‘s’avouer vaincu’ (Levy); Med. L.recredere, to surrender oneself, as being defeated (Ducange).
recreance,Letters of Recreance, Letter from the Earl of Sunderland to Robert Harley, Dec. 31, 1705, see N. and Q. 11 S. vii. 505. F. ‘Lettres de récréance, qui se dit, soit des lettres qu’un Prince envoie à son Ambassadeur, pour les présenter au Prince d’auprès duquel il le rappelle; soit des lettres que ce Prince donne à un Ambassadeur, afin qu’il les rende à son retour au Prince qui le rappelle’, Dict. de l’Acad., 1762; ‘Recreance, a restoral, restitution; also, a delivery of possession’ (Cotgr.). Cp. O. Prov.recrezensa, ‘désistement’ (Levy).
recule,to retire, go back. Ascham, Toxophilus, p. 68; ‘I recule, I go back,je recule’, Palsgrave; Spenser, F. Q. v. 11. 47; Gascoigne, Fruites of Warre, st. 108;recoyle, to retreat. Spenser, F. Q. i. 10. 17;recuile, id., vi. 1. 20. See Dict. (s.v. Recoil).
†recullisance,a corrupt form ofrecognisance. Middleton, Mich. Term, iii. 4 (Shortyard). Seecullisen.
recure,to restore to health and vigour. Spenser, F. Q. i. 5. 44; 9. 2; 10. 24; as sb., recovery, Chapman, tr. of Iliad, i. 436; xviii. 60; Sackville, Induction, st. 49. Hence,recureless, without recovery, not to be recovered from, Chapman, tr. of Iliad, xvi. 446; irrecoverable; Greene, James IV, ii. 2 (987; Nano).
recuyell,a collection; ‘The Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye’ (the title of Caxton’s book); speltrecule, Skelton, Garl. of Laurell, 1187. Also, a reception, welcome, ‘The grete recuel that I have doon’, Caxton, Eneydos, xviii. 66. F. ‘recueil, a collection, also, a reception, welcome’ (Cotgr.); ‘recueil, accueil’ (Estienne).
red.Red lattice, a lattice-window painted red, to distinguish an ale-house. 2 Hen. IV, ii. 2. 86; cp. Merry Wives, ii. 2. 28.
rede, read,to advise. Spenser, F. Q. i. 10. 17; id., Mother Hub. 114; to discern, estimate, to take for something, Spenser, Ruins of Time, 633; id., F. Q. ii. 12. 70; vi. 2. 30. As sb.rede, counsel, advice. Hamlet, i. 3. 51. ME.rede, to advise;reed,rede, advice (Chaucer); OE.rǣdan;rǣd(Sweet). Seerad.
redintegrate,restored to a perfect state. Bacon, Henry VII (ed. Lumby, p. 42). L.redintegratus.
Red-shanks,a name applied to the Gaelic inhabitants of the Scottish Highlands and of Ireland, in allusion to the colour of the bare legs reddened by exposure; ‘Scottes and Reddshankes’, Spenser, State Ireland (Globe ed., 658, col. 2). [‘The red-shanks of Ireland’, Smollett, Humph. Clinker (Davies).]
redub, redoub,to repair, amend, requite. Sir T. Elyot, Governour, bk. i, c. 7, § 2; ‘O gods, redub them vengeaunce just’, Phaer, tr. of Virgil, bk. vi; Udall, tr. of Apoph., p. xvi, line 27; Socrates, § 47. Anglo-F.redubber, F. ‘radouber, to peece, mend’ (Cotgr.).
reduce,to bring back, recover. Shirley, Hyde Park, v. 1 (Mis. Carol); Court Secret, i. 1 (Manuel); Sackville, Induction, st. 9; Hen. V, v. 2. 63; Rich. III, v. 3. 36. L.reducere.
reek,a rick, stack. Middleton, The Witch, i. 2 (Hecate); Dryden, Meleager (from Ovid), l. 35. ‘Reek’ is the prov. pronunc. of rick in many parts of England, as well as in Ireland (EDD.). OE.hrēac, a hayrick.
reeke,seaweed. Golding, Metam. xiv. 38 (L.algae). ME.wreke, of the sea, ‘alga’ (Prompt.). Icel.reki(vreki), seaweed drifted ashore.
reere,a loud noise, a shout. Golding, Metam. xiii. 876; fol. 165, l. 1 (1603); ‘Such a reare of thunder fell’, Hudson, Du Bartas, Judith, ii (NED. s.v. Rear). ME.rere, noise (R. Brunne, Chron. Wace, 10207). See NED. (s.v. Reere).
reez’d,rancid, as bacon. Marston, Scourge of Villainy, Sat. iii. 112. ME.reest, as flesche, ‘rancidus’ (Prompt.). See NED. (s.v. Reesed).
refel, refell,to refute. Meas. for M. v. 1. 94; Lyly, Alexander, ii. 2 (Alex.). L.refellere.
reflect,to turn back. Chapman, tr. of Iliad, ix. 190. L.reflectere(Cicero).
refocillation,a restorative. Middleton, A Mad World, iii. 2 (Pen. B.). L.refocillare, to warm into life again; often used in the Vulgate for the reviving of the spirit: ‘Reversus est spiritus ejus, et refocillatus est’, 1 Reg. xxx. 12 (1 Sam. xxx. 12).
reformado,a disbanded soldier; an officer left without a command (owing to the ‘reforming’ or disbanding of his company), but retaining his rank and receiving full or half pay; ‘A reformado saint’, Butler, Hud. ii. 2. 116; ‘The reformado soldier’, id., ii. 2. 648; B. Jonson, Every Man in Hum. iii. 5. Span.reformado, an officer on half-pay; fromreformar, to reduce in number; hence of troops, to discharge, disband (cp. Calderon, El Alcalde de Zalamea, ii. 33). See Stanford.
refuse me,may God reject me; once a very fashionable oath; ‘These wicked elder brothers, that swear refuse them’, Rowley, a Match at Midnight, i. 1 (Tim); ‘God refuse me’, Webster, White Devil, ed. Dyce, p. 7, col. 2 (Flamineo).
regals,pl., a small portable organ with one or two sets of reed-pipes played with one hand, while the other worked a small bellows. Puttenham, Eng. Poesie (ed. Arber, p. 79); Bacon, Sylva, § 172. Norm. F.regales, ‘espèce de petit orgue portatif’ (Moisy).
regalo,a dainty, a choice bit; ‘Servants laden with regalos and delicate choice Dainties’, Mabbe, tr. Life of Guzman, i. 1. 2; ‘Their markets are well furnish’d with all Provisions; witness theirSalsicceonly, which are aRegalofor a Prince’, R. Lassels, Voy. Italy (ed. 1698, p. 101); spelt (wrongly)regalio, Dryden, Wild Gallant, Epil., 12. Span. ‘regálo, a dainty; also, loving and kind entertainment;regalar, to make much of, to treat daintily’ (Stevens). See Stanford.
regiment,rule, sway, dominion. Ant. and Cl. iii. 6. 95; Marlowe, 1 Tamburlaine, ii. 7. 19. ME.regiment(Gower, C. A. vii. 915, 1245, 1702). Anglo-F.regiment(Gower, Mirour, 2615).
regorge,to swallow back again. Dryden, Sigismonda, 186.
regrater, regrator,a retailer, retail dealer.Regrators, pl., North, tr. of Plutarch, Octavius, § 15 (in Shak. Plut., p. 261);regratorsof bread-corn, Tatler, no. 118, § 10 (1709-10). ME.regratere(P. Plowman, C. iv. 82; see Notes, p. 61); Anglo-F.regratierandregratour(Rough List). Med. L.regratariusandregratator(Ducange).
reguerdon,requital, reward. 1 Hen. VI, iii. 1. 170; to reward, 1 Hen. VI, iii. 4. 23. ME.reguerdoun(Gower, C. A. v. 2368, as vb., iii. 2716). Anglo-F.reguerdon, reward,reguerdoner, to reward (Gower, Balades, xii. 2; xxiii. 3).
relate,to bring back again. Spenser, F. Q. iii. 8. 51.
relent,to slacken; ‘He would relent his pace’, Spenser, F. Q. ii. 11. 27; iii. 4. 49; iii. 7. 2; slackening, v. 7. 24; vi. 5. 20. F. ‘ralentir, to slacken’ (Cotgr.).
relent,to melt, to dissolve into water; ‘Se howe this snowe begynneth to relent agaynst the sonne’, Palsgrave; to become soft, Tusser, Husbandry, 63; to cause to melt, ‘Phebus dothe the snowe relente’, Hawes, Conv. Swearers, xl; hence,relentment, dissolution, Sir T. Browne, Urn Burial, i. § 7. Anglo-F.se relenter, to dissolve, melt (Gower, Mirour, 6603).
relide;seerely.
relief, releef,a term in hunting, when the dogs follow a new and unknown prey; ‘You must sound the releefe . . . your reliefe is your sweetest note . . . when your hounds hunt after a game unknowne’, Return from Parnassus, ii. 5 (Amoretto). See Nares, and NED. (s.v. Relief, sb.27c).
reliv’d,recalled to life, reanimated. Spenser, F. Q. i. 9. 52; iii. 8. 3;relyv’d, id., iii. 4. 35.
reluce, reluse,to shine brightly. Caxton, Hist. Troye, leaf 185. 12;reluysing, brightness, id., leaf 225, back, 9. F. ‘reluire, to shine . . .reluisant, shining, radiant’ (Cotgr.).
rely,to assemble, gather (soldiers) together, to rally; ‘He gathered his troopes, . . . he relieth the rankes’, Heywood, tr. Sal. Jug. War, 50 (NED.); ‘He caused them to stay and relie themselves’, Holinshed, Scot. Chron. (NED.); to join oneself, ‘And Blandamour to Claribell relide’, Spenser, F. Q. iv. 9. 26. ME.rely, to assemble, rally soldiers (Barbour, Bruce, iii. 34). F.relier, to bind; L.religare.
reme,to tear open; ‘Which seeme (as women use) to reme my hart, Before I come to open all my smart’, Mirror for Mag., Irenglas, st. 25. ‘Ream’ is in prov. use in the west country; EDD. (s.v. Ream, vb.22), cites from Exmoor Scolding, 1746, ‘Chell ream my Heart to tha’ (i.e. I’ll open my heart to thee). ME.ryme, to stretch (Wars Alex. 4931); OE.rȳman, to make clear space, enlarge;rūm, space.
reme;seereame.