Glossary
¶Adveur, opposite.Afflation, the act of blowing upon, or thestate of being blown upon.Agnized, acknowledged; recognized;learnt.
¶Backening, hindering.Besteads, profits.Bewraying, discovering, betraying.Bracks, female hounds; dogs that pursuetheir prey by the scent.Burgein, bud, put forth branches.
¶Cham pain, flat, open country.Charlemain, Charlemagne: Charles theGreat.Chuses, chooses.Cirque, a circle; an encircling cliff.Cittern, a musical instrument, like aguitar, but strung with wire insteadof gut.Closed, concealed; disguised ; contradicted.Cope, head-covering; summit; canopy.Curule-chair, among the Romans a chairof state reserved under the Republicfor officers of high dignity, hence called"curule magistrates."Cyon, scion.
¶Doddered, overgrown with dodder, orslender, twining, leafless parasites, involving and destroying the whole planton which they grow.Dispred, expanded.
¶Featly, dexterously; nimbly.Fardel, burden.Foison, outpouring; abundance.Foss, moat; ditch; depression; chasm.Frore, frozen; frosty.
¶Germain, related.Gleed, spark.Governance, the art of governing.Grot, grotto; crypt; hidden chamber.Gyres, circles.
¶Indurated, hardened; obdurate.
¶Jocund, cheerful; care-free.
¶Lea, meadow.Limn'd, painted; drawn; illuminated.List, Purg., c. 18, 1. 59, please; Purg., c.23,1. 48, listen to.Losel, a lazy vagabond; a scoundrel.
¶Nathless, none the less.
¶Omnific, all-creating.
¶Pallet, couch; resting place.Practic, practical skill; i. e., proof.Primy, flourishing; in its prime.Proem, preface; introduction.Propension, inclination.
¶Quaternion, composed of four, as in Purg.,33. 1- 3. the four virgins.Quatre, four.Quire, choir; company.Quiresters, choristers; singing birds.
¶Ramp, leap; spring; bound.Reaves, bereaves.Rere, rear; backward.Rereward, to the rear.Rivage, river bank; shore; coast.
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¶Septentrion, northern.Sheret, hurt; damaged.Sicklies, makes sick.Sigil-mark., seal; signature; an occult sign,mark, or character.Silh, since; afterwards.Sithence, since; seeing that.Swerd, sword.
¶Tent, prove; sound; tempt; try.Tetchy, peevish; irritable.Tilth, that which is tilled; or the act oftilling.Tinct, tinged; colored.Tourneying, competing (or turning, varying?).Transpicuous, transparent.Trinal, threefold.Trine, threefold.Twyfold, twofold.
¶Unweeting, unwitting; unconscious.Vaward, vanward; to the front.Vermeil dyed the mulberry, etc., the storyas told by Ovid in his Metamorphoses,the blood of Pyramis dyed the whitemulberry a dark tint or purple hue.Vermeil-tinctured, vermilion-tinged orrosy colored.Verrey, verry, same as vairi, a term inheraldry denoting green-tinctured.Visive, visual.
¶Wain, sub. Charles's wain—churl's orfarmer's wagon, the seven brighteststars of the constellation Great Bear,which has been called a wagon or"wain" since the time of Homer; v.,to carry.Waymenting, bewailing; lamentation.Whenas, when; whereas; while.Whilom, once; formerly.Wons, lives; dwells.