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e trading vessel. =arguments=, proofs. =auchthor=, be the agent of. =autenticall=, legally valid. =avise=, intelligence. =bare=, bareheaded. =barks=, outer coverings. =basilisks=, fabulous reptiles, whose glance was supposed to be fatal. =battailia=, order of battle. =belly-gods=, gluttons. =brack=, breach. =brave=, =braverie=, fine, finery. =bumbast=, _n._, padding. =bumbasts=, _vb._, stuffs out. =case=, skin. =cast=, (1) _p. p._, cast off, disused; (2) _vb._, conjecture. =censure=, judge. =challenge=, claim. =characters=, outward symbols. =check(e) at=, (1) take offence at; (2) go in pursuit of. _Used technically of a hawk which turns aside from its proper quarry to follow inferior game._ =clear=, pure, innocent. =close=, secret. =coast=, travel in circuitous fashion. =colour=, pretence. =comfortable=, comforting. =companion=, base fellow. =conceit=, conception, thought. =confirm'd=, well-regulated. =consent=, sympathy. =contemptfull=, contemptible. =cries clinke=, strikes the favourable hour. =curious=, careful, scrupulous. =decent=, appropriate. =denizond=, naturalized. =designements=, arrangements. =discover=, reveal. =disparking=, turning park-land into plough-land. =emply=, imply. =encompast=, taken at a disadvantage. =enseame=, bring together, introduce. Cf. _Spens._ F. Q. IV, II, 35-6, _where the word_ = "includes," "contains together." =errant=, productive of wandering. =events=, issues. =exhale=, draw up, raise. =exhalations=, meteors (cf. _Jul. Caesar_, II, i, 44). =explicate=, unfold. =expugn'd=, taken by storm. =exquire=, find out. =facts=, deeds. =fautor=, patron. =fivers=, _variant of_ fibres. =fleerings=, sneers. =forfeit=, fault. =foutre=, an exclamation of contempt. =fray=, frighten. =giddinesse=, foolhardiness. =glorious=, swelling, boastful. =Gordian=, Gordian knot. =graduate=, rise by steps. =grasse=, graze. =hackster=, a prostitute's gallant or protector. =haie=, a boisterous country dance. =heartlesse=, cowardly. =humourous=, full of humours, variable in temper. =idols=, images, counterfeits. =ill-favour'd=, of unpleasant appearance. =impe=, piece out. _Used, originally, in hawking, of the process of grafting new feathers on a maimed wing._ =implide=, _variant of_ employed. =inennerable=, indescribab
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