Orbity:

Loss, or want of parents or children.

Amort:

In the state of the dead; dejected; depressed; spiritless.

"How many fares my Kate? what, sweeting, all amort?"

-Shakespeare: Taming of the Shrew.

Deglutition:

The act or power of swallowing

Fleer:

(1) To mock; to gibe; to jest with insolence and contempt.

"Do I, like the female tribe, think it well to fleer and gibe?

-Swift

(2) To leer; to grin with an air of civility.

"How popular and courteous; how they grin and fleer upon every man they meet!

-Burton, On Melancholy

Pudder:

A tumult; a turbulent and irregular bustle.

Latitant

Delitescent; concealed; lying hid.

This is evident in snakes and lizards, lattitant many months of the year, which containing a weak heat in a copious humidity, do long subsist without nutrition.

- Browne

Gride:

To cut; to make way by cutting. A word elegant but no longer in use.

So sore
The griding sword, with discontinuous wound,
Pass'd through him!

-Milton's Paradise Lost, b. vi.

Ruth:

Mercy; pity; tenderness; sorrow for the misery of another.

All ruth, compassion, mercy he forgot.

-Faifax

Cade:

Tame; soft, delicate; as a cade lamb, a lamb bred at home.

To cade: To breed up in softness

Humorist

(1) One who conducts himself by his own fancy; one who gratifies his own humour.

(2) One who has violent and peculiar passions.

Incony

(1) Unlearned; artless

(2) In Scotland it denotes mischievously unlucky: as he's an incony fellow. This seems to be the meaning in Shakespeare.

"O my troth, most sweet jests, most incony vulgar wit,
When it comes so smoothly off.

-Shakespeare.

Annats:

First fruits; because the rate of first fruits paid of spiritual livings, is after one year's profit.

- Cowell

Improve:

To disprove.

"Though the prophet Jeremy was unjustly accused, yet doth not that improve any thing I have said.

-Whitgift

Clancular:

Clandestine; secret; private; concealed; obscure; hidden.

Higgler:

One who sells provisions by retail.

Sapid:

Tasteful; palatable; making powerful stimulation upon the palate.

"Thus camels, to make water sapid, do raise the mud with their feet."

-Browne's Vulgar Errors.

Exanimous:

Lifeless; dead; killed.

Assured:

Immodest; viciously confident.

Rascalion:

One of the lowest of people.

That proud dame
Us'd him so like a base rascalion,
That old pig - what d'ye call him - malion.
That cut his mistress out of stone,
Had not so hard a hearted one one.

-Hudibras, p.i

Grammaticaster:

A mean verbal pendant; a low grammarian

Frouzy:

(A cant word.) Dim; foetid; musty.

"Petty coats in frouzy heaps."

-Swift

Detort:

To wrest from the original import, meaning or design.

Ouphe:

A fairy; a goblin.

"Nan Page and my little son, we'll dress
Like urchins, ouphes, and fairies, green and white."

-Shakespeare

Bane:

Poison.

Eame:

Uncle: a word still used in the wilder parts of Staffordshire.

Politician:

A man of artifice; one of deep contrivance.

"If a man succeeds in any attempt, though undertook with never so much rashness, his success shall vouch him a politician, and good luck shall pass for deep contrivance; for give on any one fortune, and he shall be thought a wise man."

-South

Provocative:

Anything which revives a decayed or cloyed appetite.

Action-taking:

Accustomed to resent by means of law; litigious.

Defoedation:

The act of making filthy; pollution.

Baste:

To beat with a stick.

Lutarious:

Living in mud; of the color of mud.

Cropsick:

Sick with depletion; sick with excess and debauchery.

Overcloy:

To fill beyond satiety.

"A scum of Britons and base lackey peasants,
Whom their o'er-cloyed country vomits forth
To desperate adventures and destruction."

-Shakespeare

Oppidian:

A townsman; an inhabitant of a town.

Hourglass:

Space of time. A manner of speaking rather affected than elegant.

"We, within the hourglass of two months, have won one town, and overthrown great forces in the field."

-Bacon

Joll:

To beat the head against anything; to clash with violence.

"The tortoises envied the easiness of frogs, 'till they saw them jolled to pieces and devoured for want of a buckler."

-L'Estrange

Periergy:

Needless caution in an operation; unnecessary diligence.

Mordacious:

Biting; apt to bite.

Nimmer:

A thief; a pilferer.

Lop:

A flea.

Enodation:

(1) The act of untying a knot.

(2) Solution of a difficulty.

Bouse:

To drink lavishly; to tope.

Lusk:

Idle; lazy; worthless.

Alluminor:

One who colours or paints upon paper or parchment; because he gives graces, light and ornament, to the letters or figures coloured.

-Cowell

Seely:

(1) Lucky, happy.

(2) Silly; foolish; simple.

-Spenser

Balneary:

A bathing room.

Lazar:

One deformed and nauseous with filthy and pestilential diseases.

Cog:

(1) To flatter; to wheedle; to sooth by adulatory speeches.

(2) To obtrude by falsehood.

"Fustian tragedies, or insipid comedies, have, by concerted applauses, been cogged upon the town for masterpieces."

-Dennis

Garboil:

Disorder; tumult; uproar.

-Hanmer

Conycatch:

To catch a cony, is, in the old cant of thieves, to cheat; to bite; to trick.

Recreant

Cowardly; meanspirited; subdued; crying out for mercy; recanting out of fear.

"Thou Must, as a foreign recreant, be led With manacles along our street."

-Shakespeare

Jackalent:

A simple sheepish fellow.

Nugacity:

Futility; trifling talk or behavior.

Foreswat, forswart:

Spent with heat.

Meeting-house:

A place where dissenters assemble to worship.

Lag:

(1) The lowest class; the rump; the fag end.

"The rest of your foes, O gods, the senators of Athens, together with the common lag of people, what is amiss is in them, make suitable for destruction."

-Shakespeare, Timon of Athens.

Procerity:

Talness; height of stature.

"We shall make attempts to lengthen out the human figure, and restore it to its ancient procerity."

-Addison

Doughbaked:

Unfinished; not hardened to perfection; soft.

For when, through tasteless flat humility,
In doughbak'd men some harmlessness we see,
'Tis but his phlegm that's virtuous, and not he.

-Donne

Keen:

To sharpen. An unauthorized word.

Meretricious:

Whorish; such as is practiced by prostitutes; alluring by false show.

Pernicious:

(2) Quick. An use which I have found only in Milton, and which, as it produces ambiguity, ought not to be imitated.

Part incentive reed Provide,
pernicious with one touch of fire.

-Milton

Gullcatcher:

A cheat; a man of trick; one who catches silly people.

Antilogy:

A contradiction between any words and passages in an author.

Micher:

A lazy loiterer, who skulks about in corners and by-places, and keeps out of sight; a hedge-creeper.

-Hamner.

Mich or Mick is still retained in the cant language for an indolent, lazy fellow.

Bombycinous:

Silken; made of silk.

Arrode:

To gnaw or nibble.

Scuddle:

To scuddle. To run with a kind of affected haste or precipitation. A low word.

Affabulation:

The moral of a fable.

Quaffer:

To quaffer. (A low word, I suppose formed by chance.) To feel out. This seems to be the meaning.

"Ducks, having larger nerves that come into their bills than geese, quaffer and grope out their meat the most."

- Derham

Idiotism:

Peculiarity of expression; mode of expression peculiar to a language.

"Scholars sometimes in common speech, or writing, in their native language, give terminations and idiotisms suitable to their native language unto words newly invented."

-Hale

Gibbe:

Any old worn-out animal.

Correption:

Objurgation; chiding; reprehension; reproof.

Dandiprat:

A little fellow; an urchin: a word used sometimes in fondness, sometimes in contempt.

Cento:

A composition formed by joining scrapes from other authors.

"If any man think the poem a cento, our poet will but have done the same in jest which Boileau did in earnest."

-Advertisement to Pope's Dunciad.

Flit:

To remove. To migrate. In Scotland it is still used for removing from one place to another at quarter day, or the usual term.

Clung:

Wasted with leanness; shrunk up with cold.

Crab:

It is used by way of contempt for any sour or degenerate fruit; as a crab cherry, or a crab plum.

Mountebank:

A doctor that mounts a bench in the market, and boasts his infallible remedies and cures.

"She, like a mountebank, did wound
And stab herself with doubts profound.
Only to shew with how small pain
The sores of faith are cur'd again."

-Houdibras, p.i.

Hist:

An exclamation commanding silence.

Leasy:

Flimsy; of weak texture.

Kicksy-wicksey:

A made word in ridicule and disdain of a wife.

-Hanmer

Dormitory:

A burial place.

Gloze:

(1) Flattery; insinuation.

(2) Specious show; gloss.

Ructation:

A belch arising from wind and indigestion.

Aversation:

Hatred; abhorrence; turning away with detestation.

"Hatred is the passion of defiance, and there is a kind of aversation and hostility included in its essence."

-South

Indigitate:

To point out; to show.

Volubility:

The act or power of rolling.

Volubility, or aptness to roll, is the property of a bowl, and is derived from its roundness.

-Watt's Logic.

Conjobble:

To concert; to settle; to discuss. A low cant word.

"What would a body think of a minister that should conjoble matters of state with tumblers, and confer politicks with tinkers?"

-L'Estrange

Barratry:

The practice or crime of a barrator: foul practice in law.

Flasher:

A man of more appearance of wit than reality.

Pamper:

To glut; to fill with food; to saginate; to feed luxuriously.

Leman:

A sweetheart: a gallant; or a mistress.

-Hammer

Cynick:

A philosopher of the snarling or currish sort; a follower of Diogenes; a rude man; a snarler; a misanthrope.

Scaramouch:

A buffoon in motley dress.

Dragoon:

To persecute by abandoning a place to the rage of soldiers.

Pat:

Fit; convenient; exactly suitable either as to time or place. This is a low word, and should not be used but in burlesque writings.

The never saw two things so pat,
In all respects, as to this and that.

-Hudibras, p.ii

Mugient:

Bellowing.

Gossip:

(1) One who answers for the child in baptism.

(2) A tippling companion.

(3) One who runs about tattling like a woman at a lying-in.

Proficuous:

Advantageous; useful.

It is very proficuous, to take a good large dose.

-Harvey

Cautelous:

(1) Cautious; wary; provident.

(2) Wily; cunning, treacherous.

Afterclap:

Unexpected events happening after an affair is supposed to be at an end.

Cough:

A convulsion of the lungs, vellicated by some sharp serosity. It is pronounced coff.

Malthorse:

It seems to have been, in Shakespeare's time, a term of reproach for a dull dolt.

-"Mome, malthorse, capon, coxcomb, idiot, patch."

- Shakespeare

Obvention:

Something happening not constantly and regularly, but uncertainly; incidental advantage.

Gavel:

A provincial word for ground.

Handsel:

To use or do anything the first time.

Nocent:

(1) Guilty; criminal.

(2) Hurtful, mischievous.

Hen-hearted:

Dastardly; cowardly; like a hen. A low word.

Miserable:

Culpably parsimonious; stingy.

Develop:

To disengage from something that enfolds and conceals; to disentangle; to clear from its covering.

"Take him to develop, if you can,
And hew the block off, and get out the man."

-Dunciad

Assistant:

Sometimes it is only a softer word for attendant.

"The pale assistants on each other star'd
With gaping mouths for issuing words prepar'd"

-Dryden

Girn:

Seems to be a corruption of grin. It is still used in Scotland, and is applied to a crabbed, captious, or peevish person.

Farce:

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

Lurch:

(1) To devour; to swallow greedily.

"Too far off from great cities may hinder business; or too near lurcheth all provisions, and maketh everything dear."

-Bacon's Essays.

(2) To defeat; to disappoint. A word now only used in burlesque. (From the game lurch.)

(3) To steal privily; to filch; to pilfer.

Oberration:

The act of wandering about.

Compliment:

An act, or expression of civility, usually understood to include some hypocrisy, and mean less than it declares.

Serene:

A calm damp evening.

To serene:

(1) to calm; to quiet.

(2) To clear; to brighten. Not proper.

(3) Take care.

"Thy muddy bev'rage to serene, and drive
Precipitant the baser ropy lees."

-Phillips

Fascinate:

To bewitch; to enchant; to influence in some wicked and secret manner.

Bedash:

To bemire by throwing dirt; to bespatter; to wet with throwing water.

Snip:

A share; a snack. A low word.

"He found his friend upon the mending hand which he was glad to hear, because of the snip that he himself expected upon the dividend."

- L'Estrange

Amuser:

He that amuses, as with false promises. The French word is always taken in an ill sense.

Peeler:

A robber; a plunderer.

"Ye otes with her sucking a peeler is found,
Both ill to the maister and worse to some ground."

-Tusser

Lob:

(1) Any one heavy, clumsy, or sluggish.

(2) Lob's pound; a prison. Probably a prison for idlers, or sturdy beggars.

(3) A big worm.

Dogged:

Sullen; sour; morose; ill-humoured; gloomy.

Fustilarian:

A low fellow; a stinkard; a scoundrel. A word used by Shakespeare only.

"Away, you scullian, you rampallian, you fustilarian: I'll tickle your catastrophe."

-Shakespeare's Henry IV, p. ii

Phiz:

The face, in a sense of contempt.

"His hair was too proud, and his features amiss,
As if being a traitor had altered his phiz."

-Stepney

Cicurate:

To tame; to reclaim from wildness; to make tame and tractable.

Snicker:

To laugh slily, wantonly, or contemptuously; to laugh into one's sleeve.

Absonous:

Absurd, contrary to reason.

Inmate:

Inmates are those that be admitted to dwell for their money jointly with another man, though in several rooms of his mansion-house, passing in and out by one door.

-Cowell.

Dilucidate:

To make clear or plain: to explain; to free from obscurity.

Atter:

Corrupt matter. A word much used in Lincolnshire.

Anthropophaginian:

A ludicrous word, formed by Shakespeare from anthropophagi, for the sake of a formidable sound.

"Go, knock, and call; he'll speak like an anthropophaginian unto thee; knock I say."

-Shakespeare The Merry Wives of Windsor

Urchin:

(1) A hedge-hog.

(2) A name of slight anger to a child.

Scurrilous:

Grossly opprobrious; using such language as only the licence of a buffoon can warrant; loudly jocular; vile; low.

Fub:

A plump chubby boy.

Kingsevil:

A scrofulous distemper, in which the glands are ulcerated, commonly believed to be cured by the touch of the king.

Tory:

(A cant term, derived, I suppose, from an Irish word signifying a savage.) One who adheres to the antient constitution of the state, and the apostolical hierarchy of the church of England, opposed to a whig.

"The knight is more a tory in the country than the town, because it more advances his interest."

-Addison.

Paraphernalia:

Goods in the wife's disposal.

Linguacious:

Full of tongue; loquacious; talkative.

Irregular:

Not being according to the laws of virtue. A soft word for vitious.

Exantalate:

(1) To draw out.

(2)To exhaust; to waste away.

Fit:

A paroxysm or exacerbation of any intermittent distemper.

It is used without an epithet of discrimination, for the hysterical disorders of women, and the convulsions of children; and by the vulgar for the epilepsy.

Distiller:

One who makes and sells pernicious and inflammatory spirits.

Punster:

A quibbler; a low wit who endeavors at reputation by double meaning.

Chouse:

To cheat; to trick; to impose upon.

Mushroom:

An upstart; a wretch risen from a dunghill; a director of a company.

"Mushrooms come up in a night, and yet they are unsown; and therefore such as are upstarts in state, they call in reproach mushrooms."

-Bacon's Natural History.

Insult:

The act of leaping upon any thing. In this sense it has the accent on the last syllable: the sense is rare.

"The bull's insult at four she may sustain,
But after ten from nuptiles rites refrain"

-Dryden's Virgil.

Regrate:

To offend; to shock.

"The clothing of the tortoise and viper rather regrateth than pleaseth the eye."

-Derham's Physico-Theology.

(2) To engross; to forestal.

"Neither should they buy any corn, unless it were to make malt thereof; for by such engrossing and regrating, the dearth, that commonly reigneth in England, hath been caused."

-Spencer.

Qualm:

A sudden fit of sickness; a sudden seizure of sickly languor.

Blench:

To hinder; to obstruct.

Nomancy:

The art of divining the fates of persons by the letters that form their name.

Grease:

To bribe; to corrupt with presents.

"envy not the store
Of the grease'd advocate that grinds the poor."

-Dryden; Persius

Wiffle:

To move inconstantly, as if driven by a puff of wind.

Aloof:

It is applied to things not properly belonging to each other.

"Love's not love,
When it is mingled with regards that stand
Aloof from th' entire point."

-Shakespeare's King Lear.

Egestion:

The act of throwing out the digested food at the natural vents.

Immanity:

Barbarity; savageness

Genial:

That which contributes to propagation.

"Creator Venus, genial pow'r of love
The bliss of men below and gods above!"

-Dryden's Fables.

Anatocism:

The accumulation of interest upon interest; the addition of interest due for money lent, to the original sum. A species of usury generally forbidden.

Flatter:

(1) To sooth with praises; to please with blandishments; to gratify with servile obsequiousness; to gain by false compliments.

(2) To praise falsely.

(3) To please; to sooth. This sense is purely Gallick.

Runagate:

A fugitive; rebel; apostate.

Circumforaneous:

Wandering from house to house. As a circumforaneous fidler; one that plays at doors.

Adventure:

An accident; a chance; a hazard; an event of which we have no direction.

Parody:

A kind of writing, in which the words of the author or his thoughts are taken, and by a slight change adapted to some new purpose.

Droil

A drone; a sluggard.

Hector:

A bully; a blustering, turbulent, pervicacious, noisy fellow.

Stridulous:

Making a small noise.

Nag:

A paramour; in contempt.

"Your ribald nag of Egypt
Hoists sails, and flies."

-Shakespeare. Antony and Cleopatra.

Infatuate:

To strike with folly; to deprive of understanding.

Disparage:

To match unequally; to injure by union with something inferior in excellence.

Sneb:

To check; to chide; to reprimand

Oscitancy:

(1) The act of yawning.

(2) Unusual sleepiness; carelessness.

Beforehand:

In a state of accumulation. or so as that more has been received that expanded.

"Stranger's house is at this time rich, and much beforehand; for it hath laid up revenue these thirty seven years."

-Bacon

Brabble:

A clamorous contest; a squabble, a broil.

Travesty:

Dressed so as to be made ridiculous; burlesqued.

Whist:

A game at cards requiring close attention and silence.

Junket

To Junket:
To feast secretly; to make entertainment by stealth.

Slop:

Mean and vile liquor of any kind. Generally some nauseous or useless medicinal liquor.

to slop: to drink grossly and greedily

Weatherspy:

A star-gazer; an astrologer; one that foretels the weather.

"And sooner may a gulling weatherspy,
By drawing forth heav'n's scheme tell certainly,
What fashion'd hats or ruffs, or suits next year,
our giddy-headed antik youth will wear."

-Donne

Pass:

An order by which vagrants or impotent persons are sent to their place of abode.

Bragly:

Finely; so as it may be bragged.

bo:

A word of terror; from Bo, an old northern captain, of such fame, that his name was used to terrify the enemy.

Contrite:

(1) Bruised; much worn.

(2) Worn with sorrow; harrassed with the sense of guilt; penitent. In the books of divines contrite is sorrowful for sin, from the love of God and desire of pleasing him; and attrite is sorrowful for sin, from fear of punishment.

Bawdry:

Obscenity; unchaste language.

"I have no salt; no bawdry he doth mean; For witty, in his language, is obscene."

-B. Johnson

Bawd:
A procurer, or procuress; one that introduces men and women to each other, for the promotion of debauchey.

to bawd:
To procure; to provide gallants with strumpets.

"And in four months a batter'd harridan;
Now nothing's left, but wither'd, pale, and shrunk,
To bawd for others, and go shares with punk."

-Swift

Ambidexter:

A man who is equally ready to act on either side, in party disputes. This sense is ridiculous.

Dern:

(1) Sad, Solitary.

(2) Barbarous; cruel. Obsolete.

Contrition:

(1) The act of grinding; or rubbing to powder.

(2) Penitence; sorrow for sin: in the strict sense, the sorrow which arises from the desire to please God, distinguished from attrition, or imperfect repentance produced by dread of hell.

Magnality:

A great thing; something above the common rate.

Not used.

File

to file:

To foul, to sully; to pollute. This sense is retained in Scotland.

"His weeds, divinely fashioned,
All fil'd and mangl'd."

Chapman's Iliads. b. xvii

Beldam

An old woman; generally a term of contempt, marking the last degree of old age, with all its faults and miseries.

Chicane

The art of protracting a contest by petty objection and artifice.

"His attornies have hardly one trick left; they are at an end of all their chicane."

-Arbuthnot's History of John Bull.

Pother

To pother:

To make a blustering, ineffectual effort.

"He that loves reading and writing, yet finds certain seasons wherein those things have no relish, only pothers and wearies himself to no purpose.

-Locke

Embase

to embase:

(1) To vitiate; to depauperate; to lower; to deprave; to impair.

(2) To degrade; to vilify.

Cully

A man deceived or imposed upon; as by sharpers or a strumpet.

"Yet, the rich cullies may their boasting spare:
They purchase but sophisticated ware."

-Dryden.

Vastidity

Wideness; immensity. A barbarous word.

"Perpetual Durance, Through all the world's vastidity".

-Shakespeare