Pump

To pump:

To examine artfully by sly interrogatories, so to draw out any secrets or concealments.

Splash

To daub with dirt in great quantities.

Admurmuration

The act of murmuring, or whispering to another.

Right

An expression of approbation:

"Right, cries his lordship, for a rogue in need
To have a taste, is insolence indeed:
In me 'tis noble, suits my birth and state."

-Pope

Agonistes

A prize-fighter; one that contends at any public solemnity for a prize. Milton has so stiled his tragedy, because Sampson was called out to divert the Philistines with feats of strength.

Accost

To accost:

To speak first; to address, to solute.

"You mistake, knight: accost her, front her, board her, woo her, assail her."

-Shakespeare

Foist:

To insert by forgery.

Orgillous:

Proud; haughty.

Proverb

To proverb. Not a good word.

(1) To mention a proverb.

"Am I not sung and proverb'd for a fool
In ev'ry street; do they not say, how well
Are come upon him in his deserts?"

-Milton's Agonistes.

(2) To provide with a proverb.

Ouch of a Boar:

The blow given by a boar's tusk.

Argute

Subtle;
(1) witty; sharp.
(2) Shrill

Palmer:

A pilgrim: they who returned from the holy land carried branches of palm.

Palmer Worm:
A worm covered with hair, supposed to be so called because he wanders all over plants.

Ruse

Cunning; artifice; little stratagem; trick; wile; fraud; deceit. A French word neither elegant or necessary.

Conservative:

Having the power of opposing diminution or injury.

Liking:

(Perhaps because plumpness is agreeable to sight.)
Plump; in a state of plumpness

Maggot

Whimsy; caprice; odd fancy.

She pricked his maggot, and touched him in the tender point; then he broke out into violent passion.

-Arbuthnot

Merry Andrew

A buffoon; a zany; a jack-pudding.

"He would be a statesman because he is a buffoon; as if there went no more to the making of a counsellor than the faculties of a merry-andrew or tumbler."

-L'Estrange

Increpate:

To chide, to reprehend.

Reticense:

Concealment by silence

Macaroon:

A coarse, rude, low fellow; whence macaronick poetry, in which the language is purposely corrupted.

Like a big wife, at sight of lothed meat,
Ready to travail; so I sigh and sweat,
To hear this macaroon talk in vain.

-Donne

Pervicacious

Spitefully obstinate; peevishly contumacious.

"May private devotions be efficacious upon the mind of one of the most pervicacious young creatures!"

Clarissa

Peat:

A little fondling; a darling; a dear play thing. It is now commonly called pet.

Glance

To Glance:

To censure by oblique hints.

"It was objected against him that he had written verses wherein he glanced at a certain reverend doctor, famous for his dulness."

-Swift.

Opinion

to Opinion:

To opine; to think. A word out of use and unworthy of revival.

"It is opinioned, that the earth rests as the world's centre; while the heavens are the subject of the universal motions.

-Glanville, Scepsis, c. xi

Tarantula:

An insect whose bite is only cured by musick.

Nestegg:

An egg left in the nest to keep the hen from forsaking it.

"Books and money laid for shew,
Like nesteggs, to make clients lay."

-Hudibras

Excise

A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid.

Excise,
"With hundred rows of teeth, the shark exceeds,
And on all trades like Cassawar she feeds."

-Marvel

Logomachy

A contention in words; a contention about words.

Catcal:

A Squeaking instrument, used in the playhouse to condemn plays.

Clapperclaw

To tongue-beat; to scold.

Protervity

Peevishness; petulance

Bespawl:

To daub with spittle.

Obstupefaction

The act of inducing stupidity, interruption of the mental powers.

Convince

To convict; to prove guilty of.

"O seek not to convince me of a crime,
Which I can ne'er repent, nor can you pardon"

Dryden

Mucker

To mucker:

To scramble for money; to hoard up; to get or save meanly: a word used by Chaucer, and still retained in conversation

Meacock

An uxorius or effeminate man.

Buzzard

A degenerate or mean species of hawk.

Illaqueate

To entangle, to entrap; to ensare.

Expletive

Something used only to take up room; something of which the use is only to prevent a vacancy.

"Oft the ear the open vowels tire, While expletives their feeble aid do join."

Pope: Essay on Criticism

Grum

Sour; surly; severe. A low word

Lown

A scoundrel; a rascal:

"King Stephen was a worthy peer,
His breeches cost him but a crown,
He thought them six pence all too dear,
And therefore call'd the taylor lown".

-Shakespear

Bear-Garden

A word used in familiar or low phrase for rude or turbulent: as, a bear-garden fellow; that is, a man rude enough to be a proper frequenter of the bear-garden. Bear-garden sport, is used for gross inelegant entertainment.

Craber

The poor fish have enemies enough, besides such unnatural fisherman; as otters, the cormorant, and the craber, which some call the water-rat.

Walton's Angler

Hop

A place where meaner people dance.

Policy

A warrant for money in the publick funds.

Guttler

A greedy eater.

Fatigate

to fatigate:

To weary; to fatigue; to tire; to exhaust with labour; to oppress with lassitude

Bit

As much meat as is put into the mouth at once.

Lorel

An abandoned scoundrel.

Obsolete

Finesse

Artiface; strategem: an unnecessary word which is creeping into the language.

Case

In ludicrous language, a condition with regard to leanness, or health.

"For if the sire be faint, or out of case,
He will be copy'd in his famish'd race"

Dryden's Virgil.

Conundrum

A low jest; a quibble; a mean conceit: a cant word.

"Mean time he smoaks, and laughs at a merry tale,
Or pun ambiguous, or conundrum quaint.

-Phillips

Stickle

(1) To take part with one side or other.

(2) To contest; to altercate; to contend rather with obstinancy than vehemence.

(3)To trim; to play fast and loose; to act a part between opposites.

Demure

Grave; affectedly modest: it is now generally taken in a sense of contempt.

"So cat, transfrom'd, sat gravely and demure
"Till mouse appear'd, and thought himself secure.

-Dryden

Cant:

(1) A corrupt dialect used by beggars and vagabonds.

(2) A particular form of speaking peculiar to some certain class or body of men.
"I write not always in the proper terms of navigation, land service, or in the cant of any profession.
-Dryden.

(3) A whining pretension to goodness, in formal and affected terms.

(4) Barbarous jargon.

(5) Auction.

Bilingsgate

(A cant word, borrowed from Bilingsgate in London, a place where there is always a crowd of low people, and frequent brawls and foul language.) Ribaldry; foul language.

"There stript, fair rhet'rick languish'd on the ground, and shameful bilingsgate her robes adorn."

-Dunciad b. iv.

Tillyfally

A word used formerly when anything said was rejected as triffling or impertenant.

"Tillyfally, sir John, never tell me; your ancient swaggerer comes not in my doors."

-Shakespeare

Disciplinarian

A follower of the presbyterian sect, so called for their perpetual clamor about discipline.

Leer

A laboured cast of countenance.

"Damn with faint praise, concede with civil leer.

-Pope

Confident

Bold to a vice; elated with false opinion of his own excellencies; impudent.

Farce

A dramatick representation written without regularity, and stuffed with wild and ludicrous conceits.

Addle

Originally applied to eggs, and signifying such as produce nothing, but grow rotten under the hen; thence transferred to brains that produce nothing.

"After so much solitariness, fasting, or long sickness, their brains were addle, and their bellies as empty of meat as their heads of wit"

-Burten, On Meloncholy

Shrew

A peevish, malignant, clamorous, spiteful, vexatious, turbulent woman. (It appears in Robert of Gloucester, that this word signified anciently any one perverse or obstinate of either sex.)

"Every one of them, who is a shrew in domestik life, is now become a scold in politiks."

-Addison, Freeholder.

Shrewmouse

A mouse of which the bite is generally supposed to be venomous, and to which vulgar tradition assigns such malignity, that she is said to lame the foot over which she runs. I am informed that all these reports are calumnious, and that her feet and teeth are equally harmless with those of any other little mouse. Our ancestors however looked on her with such terrour, that they are supposed to have given her name to a scolding women, whom for her venom they call a shrew.

Roach

A roach is a fish of no great reputation for his dainty taste: his spawn is accounted much better than any other part of him: he is accounted the water sheep, for his simplicity and foolishness.

Jade

A sorry woman. A word of contempt noting sometimes age, but generally vice.

A young woman: in irony and slight contempt.

"You see now and then some handsome young jades among them: the sluts have very often white teeth and black eyes."

-Addison

Job

A low word now much in use... A low mean lucrative busy affair. Petty, piddling work; a piece of chance work.

"No cheek is known to blush, nor heart to throb, Save when they lose a question, or a job."

-Pope

Abode

To foretoken or foreshow; to be a prognostic, to be ominous. It is taken, with its derivatives, in the sense either of good or ill.

Anticipation

Opinion implanted before the reasons of that opinion can be known.

Asperse

Bespatter with censure or calumny.

Fribbler

A Trifler. One who professes rapture for the woman, and dreads her consent.

Lowthoughted

Having the thoughts with-held from sublime or heavenly meditations; mean of sentiment; narrow mindedness.

Barrator

A wrangler, and encourager of lawsuits.

"Will it not reflect as much on thy character, Nic, to turn barrator in thy old days, a stirrer up of quarrels amongst thy neighbors." -Arbuthnot