GLOSSARY
| Advowtry | Adultery |
| Animalia | Animals (L.) |
| Arsie-versie | Upside-down |
| Aruspicy | Prophesying, fortune-telling |
| Bachrach | Wine from Bacharach, in Germany |
| Bavin | A bundle of firewood |
| Boutefeu | Arsonist or (literal or metaphorical) firebrand |
| Cacodaemon | An evil Spirit |
| Caldes'd | Cheated |
| Calendae | The 1st or 2nd of the month |
| Calleche | A carriage with two wheels and a folding hood |
| Camelion | A giraffe |
| Camisado | An attack by night, during which the attackers wore shirts over their armour so they could recognise one another |
| Cane & Angue pejus | Worse than a dog or a snake (L.) |
| Caperdewsie | The stocks |
| Capoch'd | Pulled off the hoods |
| Caprich | A caprice |
| Carbonading | Thrashing, beating |
| Carroch | A stately or luxurious carriage |
| Catasta | The stocks |
| Cawdie | A military cadet |
| Cawdle | Soup or gruel |
| Ceruse | White lead used as a cosmetic |
| Champaign | Champagne wine |
| Champain | Countryside |
| Chous'd, choust, chows'd | Cheated |
| Chowse | A cheat's victim |
| Classis | The elders and pastors of all the Presbyterian congregations in a district |
| Coincidere | To come together (L.) |
| Congees | Bows, curtseys |
| Conster | Construe, explain |
| Conventicle | Secret or illegal religious meetings |
| Covins | Conspiracies |
| Cucking-stool | A stool to which a malefactor (often an unfaithful wife) was tied, to be exposed to public ridicule, or ducked in a pond or river. |
| Curship | The title of being a cur -- pun on "worship" |
| Curule | An ivory chair used as a mayor's throne |
| Deletory | That which wipes out or destroys |
| Deodand | In English law an article which had caused a man's death was ordered by the court to be a forfeited as a deodand (Ad Deo dandum - to be given to God). Before the reformation it or its value was given to the Church; afterwards to the local landowner. |
| Dewtry | A stupefying drink made from the Indian thorn-apple fruit. |
| Dialectico | A philosophical point of argument |
| Dictum factum | No sooner said than done (L.) |
| Disparo | To separate (L.) |
| Donzel | A young page or squire |
| Drazel | A slut |
| Ducatoon | An Italian silver coin, worth about 6 shillings. |
| Ejusdem generis | Of the same kind (L.) |
| Enucleate | To explain the meaning of |
| Ex parte | On behalf of (L.) |
| Exaun | A religious establishment not under the authority of the local bishop |
| Fadging | Fitting |
| Feme-covert | A woman under the protection of a husband ( a legal term) |
| Ferk | Beat, whip |
| Festina lente | Make haste slowly (L.) |
| Fingle-fangle | A whimsical or fantastic idea |
| Fother | A cart-load |
| Fulhams | Loaded dice |
| Ganzas | The birds which the hero of a popular romance harnessed to take him to the moon |
| Genethliack | A caster of horoscopes |
| Geomancy | Divination by interpreting the patterns of lines drawn at random on the ground or on paper. |
| Gleave | A spear or halberd |
| Granado | A grenade |
| Grilly'd | Grilled |
| Grincam | Syphilis |
| Guep | Go on! -- said to a horse or as an expression of derision. |
| Habergeon | A chain-mail shirt |
| Haut-gousts | Tasty things |
| Headborough | A constable |
| Hiccius Doctius | A nonsense word used by jugglers, conjurers etc., hence, any kind of trick or dishonest dealing |
| Hight | Called, named |
| Hoccamore | Wine from Hochheim, in Germany |
| Horary | Hourly |
| Huckle | The hip |
| Hugonots | French Calvinists |
| Hypocondries | The upper abdomen, between the breastbone and the navel |
| Id est | That is (L.) |
| Idem | The same (L.) |
| Illation | Inference, deduction |
| In eodem subjecto | Thrown together in the same place (L.) |
| In querpo | Naked |
| Jobbernol(e) | A thick head or blockhead |
| Jure divino | By God's law (L.) |
| Langued | Heraldic term meaning, with a tongue of a particular colour e.g. langued gules - with a red tongue |
| Lathy | Thin, like a lath |
| Linsey-woolsey | A cloth of mixed wool and linen threads |
| Linstock | A stick for holding a gunner's match |
| L'Ombre | A card game |
| Longees | Lunges |
| Lustrations | Ceremonials of ritual purification by washing |
| Mainprize | To stand surety for someone |
| Manicon | A plant (deadly nightshade) or its extract, believed to cause insanity when taken. |
| Manto | Mantua, a kind of woman's loose gown |
| Martlet | A swallow or martin |
| Mazzard | The head |
| Meazle | A spot or pustule |
| Mira de lente | Wonderfully slow (L.) |
| Mordicus | With the teeth (L.) |
| Morpion | A crab-louse |
| Mundungus | Bad tobacco |
| Nare olfact | Nostril (L.) |
| Neat (noun) | A calf or cow |
| Negatur | It is denied (L.) |
| Nimmer | A petty thief |
| Omnibus nervis | With every sinew (L.) |
| Oppugn | Attack or fight against |
| Orcades | The Orkneys |
| pacquet-male | Large wallet |
| Padder | A thief |
| Pari Libra | Equally (L.) |
| Pathic | Passively homosexual |
| Pernicion | Total ruin |
| Petronel | A short carbine or large pistol |
| Picqueer | Skirmish or quarrel |
| Pigsney | A term of endearment for a woman, "darling" |
| Plus satis | More than enough (L.) |
| Poesie | Poetry |
| Pullen | Poultry |
| Punese | A bed-bug |
| Pursy | Rich |
| Quarteridge | A tax or payment due quarterly |
| Quatenus | So far as (it is) (L.) |
| Quillets | Verbal points or quibbles |
| Rampiers | Ramparts |
| Rationalia | Thinking creatures (L.) |
| Rochet | A bishop's white gown or surplice |
| Satis | Enough |
| Sault | Jump |
| Scire facias | To know the appearance of (L.) |
| Sedes Stercoraria | Filthier seat (L.) |
| Seisin | A token of ownership, formally handed over when property is sold. |
| Shanker | A venereal sore, chancre |
| Slubberdegullion | A dirty, slovenly person |
| Soland geese | Barnacle geese (Branta leucopsis) |
| Staffier | A footman |
| Stentrophonick | Loud, as from a megaphone |
| Stum | A mixture of wine and grape juice |
| Suggill'd | Beaten severely |
| Sui juris | Independently (L.) |
| Swound | A swoon |
| Synodical | Arising from or of the nature of a synod - a meeting of bishops etc. of the Anglican Church |
| Tantundem dat tantidem | So much of that gives so much of this = they are exactly the same (L.) |
| Tarsel | A male falcon |
| Theorbo | A kind of lute with two necks |
| Totidem verbis | In just as many words (L.) |
| Trapes | Tripes |
| Trepan | To trap |
| Trigon | A set of 3 signs of the Zodiac at 120-degree angles to each other |
| Tussis pro crepitu | A cough for a fart (L.) |
| Velis & remis | By sail and oar (L.) |
| Veni, Vidi, Vici | I came, I saw, I conquered (L.) |
| Versal | Universal |
| Videlicet | That is, viz. (L.) |
| Vitiligation | Argument, quarrelling |
| Vizard | A mask or disguise |
| Welkin | The sky |
| Whiffler | A ceremonial guard who cleared the way for a mayor or other official |
| Whinyard | A short sword |
| Ycleped | Named |
| Yerst | Erst, formerly |