Fiue hundred pointes of good husbandrie
Pricking, 67/16, _v._ embroidering, doing fancy work.
Pride, 19/12, _s._ excessive richness. "The ground having his _pride_
abated in the first crop"--G. Markham.
Prie, 35/15, _s._ privet.
Prim, 15/42, _s._ another name for the "privet;" called also "primwort."
Prime, 14/3, _s._ the time of the new moon, as change is the time of
the full moon.
Prime grass, 35/18, _s._ earliest grass. See footnote 10, p. 84.
Priuie, 10/12, _adj._ aware, acquainted.
Priuie, 15/42, _s._ privet. _Ligustrum vulgare_.
Procureth, 64/3, _v. pr. t._ contrives, brings about.
Promooters, 64/11, _s. pl._ informers.
Prooue, 46/1, _v. imp._ try, have some experience of.
*Prouision, 4, foresight. Lat. _providere_.
*Pullein, 37, Pullen, 87/5, _s. pl._ poultry, fowls. "Pullayne,
poullane, _poullaille_."--Palsgrave. See also Pulter.
Pullet, 63/16, _s._ chicken.
Pulter, 21/9, _s._ fowl keeper or breeder. "_Poullailler, m._ a poulter
or keeper of pullaine."--Cotgrave.
Pultrie, 21/9, _s._ poultry.
Purkey Wheat, 19/17, maize.
Purloiners, 10/54, _s. pl._ thieves, pilferers. Spelt "_pro_loiners" in
edit. of 1577.
Purse penniles, 10/28, _adj._ a purse without a penny, empty pursed.
Purslane, 40/10, _s._ water purslane. _Portulaca domestica_.--Gerard's
Herball, ed. 1633. From _porcellus_, a little pig; the plant being a
favourite food of swine.
Put to, 10/30, _v._ place.
Puttocks, 38/33, _s. pl._ kites, hawks. "Puttok, bryd,
_milvus_."--Prompt. Parv. In 99/3 the meaning is, voracious fellows.
Q.
Quaile, 15/34, _v._ fail.
Quaile, 91/6, _s._ be shaken.
Quamier, 33/56, _s._ quagmire, bog. O. Eng. quavemire.
Queenes gilleflowers, 43/27, _s._ the Dame's Violet, also called
Rogue's or Winter gilliflower. _Hesperis matronalis_, L.
Queere, 114/6, _s._ choir. "Queere, _chorus_."--Cath. Anglicum.
Quickset, 18/33, _s._ quickset hedge.
Quick setted, 35/45, _pp._ enclosed with a quickset hedge.
Quieter, 63/22, _adv._ more easily, quietly.
Quight, 115/2, _adv._ completely, entirely.
Quite, 15/7, _v. pr. t._ requite, repay.
R.
Rabetstock, 17/20, _s._ a rabbet-plane, a joiner's tool for cutting
rabbets.
Rable, 22/17, _s._ crowd, number.
Rage, 114/35, _adj._ wild, dissipated.
Raise, 9/16, _v._ stir up.
Rampions, 40/12, _s._ rampion, _rapuntium_.--Gerard's Herball.
Ranke, 53/17, _adj._ strong, rank.
Ranker, 10/6, _s._ ill-feeling, quarrelling.
Raskabilia, 10/54, _s._ packs of rascals. Cf. Mid. Eng. _rascaille_.
"Rascalye, or symple puple, _plebs_."--Prompt. Parv.
Ratling, 19/34, _s._ the rattle.
Rawing, 16/25, _s._ the aftermath of a Meadow Water.--T.R. "Raweyne,
hey, _fenum serotinum_."--Prompt. Parv. See also Rowen.
Reame, 3/3, _s._ kingdom, country. O. Fr. _realme, reaume_.
Reasnable, 10/14, _adj._ fair, equitable, reasonable.
Reastie, 20/2, _adj._ rusty, rancid. "Reest as flesche,
_rancidus_."--Prompt. Parv. "I _reast_, I waxe ill of taste, as
bacon."--Palsgrave. See Wedgwood, s.v. Reasty.
Recken, 10/43, _v._ to compute, count.
Redele, page 3, _s._ riddle. "Rydel or probleme, _enigma_."--Prompt.
Parv. A.S. _rǽdelse_.
Reeded, 51/5, _pp._ thatched with reeds.
Reeding, 2/10, _s._ reading, study. A.S. _rédan_.
Reeke, 10/24, _v._ smoke. A.S. _rêcan_.
Refraine, 48/1, _v._ stop, prevent.
Rehersed, 45/1, _pp._ mentioned, named. Fr. _rehercer_, properly to go
over again like a harrow (Fr. _herce_) over a ploughed field.
Reisons, 34/21, _s. pl._ currants. "Raysouns of Corante."--Pegge's
Forme of Cury, ed. 1780, p. 16.
Relent, 23/11, _v._ become soft.
Rendrit, 24, _v._ = render it, _i.e._ return, requite it.
Rent, 55/7, _pp._ torn, plucked.
Rept, 18/43, _pp._ reaped, gained.
Resdue, 48/19, _s._ residue, remainder. Fr. _résidu_. Lat. _residuum_.
Respe, 15/27, Respies, 44/12, _s._ Raspberries.
Respit, 70/4, _s._ rest, respite.
Restfull, 106/2, _adj._ full of rest, resting.
Retcheles, 10/23, _adj._ reckless, careless. A.S. _recceleas_.
Reuengement, 9/18, _s._ revenge.
Rew, 45/18, _s._ rue.
Rife, 98/1, _adj._ abundant, common.
Rifle, 17/14, _s._ "a rifle or ruffle is no more than a bent stick
standing on the butt of a sithe-handle."--T.R. Now called a _bale_.
Rigging, 16/37, _pr. p._ making free with, knocking about.
Rigs, 15/37, _v. pr. t._ make free with.
Ringle, 33/54, _v. imp._ ring, put rings through the snouts.
Ringling, 16/32, _v._ ringing of swine to prevent their tearing up the
ground.
Riping, 37/7, ripening.
Rikes, 53/10, _s. pl._ ricks. A.S. _hreac_, a heap.
Rise, 40/5_a_, _s._ rice.
Rishes, 75/6, _s. pl._ rushes. A.S. _risce_. Lat. _ruscum_.
Riuet, 19/16, _s._ bearded wheat. "Dog-wheat, a bearded species, called
in Mark-lane, _rivets_."--Forby.
Rode, 57/36, _s._ harbour.
Roinish, 102/1, _adj._ mean, rough, coarse. Fr. _rogneux_. "The roynish
clown."--Shakspere, As You Like It, ii. 2.
Roister like, 98/3, blustering. "They ruffle and _roist_ it out."
Harrison's Eng. ed. F. J. Furnivall, New Shakspere Soc. Pt. I, p.
77. "This is the very _royster_ that gagg'd and bound me, Sir."--The
Reformation, 1673.
Rokat, 40/13, _s._ garden rocket. Fr. _roquette. Eruca
sativa_.--Gerard's Herball, ed. 1633.
Roong, 15/29, _pp._ have rings put through their noses to prevent them
from tearing up the ground.
Roperipe, 92/3, _s._ one old enough to be flogged. "Deserving of
hanging."--Howell, 1660.
Roste, 63/19, _s._ rule the roste = domineer, have the sway. According
to Richardson equivalent to "_rule the roost_," an expression of which
every farm yard would supply an explanation.
Rottenly, 18/11, _adj._ rich, crumbly.
Roule, 17/8, _s._ a rule, measure.
Roules, 10/54, _v._ roll in, bring in.
Rowe, 36/12, _s._ row, a rowe = in a row.
Rowen, 57/25, aftermath of mown meadows. "_Rowen_ is a field kept up
till after Michaelmas, that the corn left on the ground may sprout into
green."--Bailey's Dict. See Rawing above, and Rawings in Ray's Gloss.
Rowleth, 46/15, _v. pr. t._ roll. O. Fr. _roler_, Ger. _rollen_, from
Lat. _rotulare_.
Rubstone, 17/14, _s._ a sandstone for a scythe. "The rub or buckle
stone which husbandmen doo occupie in the whetting of their
sithes."--Harrison, Description of England, Pt. 2, p. 64.
Rudenes, 2/9, _s._ want of refinement, plainness, homeliness.
Ruffen, 98/3, _s._ ruffian, scoundrel.
Runciuall peas, 41/9, _s. pl._ marrow-fat peas. Supposed to be derived
from Span. _Roncesvalles_, a town at the foot of the Pyrenees, where
gigantic bones of old heroes were pretended to be shown; hence the name
was applied to anything of a size larger than usual.
Runnagate, 77/17, runaway. "White-livered _runagate_."--Shakspere,
Richard III. iv. 4.
Runt-wood, page 84, footnote 8, _s._ stumps of underwood. "Neither
young poles nor old runts are suitable for building."--Holland.
Rydgis, 16/9, _s. pl._ ridges.
S.
Sad, 17/12, _adj._ disappointed, vexed.
Saddle, 35/37, _s._ the saddle, riding. We still say "a saddle horse,"
"a cart horse," meaning a horse for riding or carting.
Saile, 114/23, _s._ sail, beare low saile = to live humbly
or economically. "Than bear so _low a sail_, to strike to
thee."--Shakspere, 3 Hen. VI. v. 1. Cf. also 3 Henry VI. iii. 3.
Sallets, 40/1, _s. pl._ salads.
Sallow, 22/26, _s._ a species of willow. A.S. _salig_.
Salue, 4/2, _s._ ointment, salve.
Sampire, 40/6, _s._ samphire. _Crithmum marinum_.--Gerard's Herball,
1633.
"Half way down,
Hangs one that gathers _samphire_, dreadful trade."
--Shakspere, Lear, iv. 6.
Sauer, 10/10, _s._ scent, inkling.
Sauer, 77/3, a person to look after and see that things are not wasted.
Sauerie, 39/35, _s._ savoury. Fr. _savorée_. Lat. _satureja_.
Sauerlie, 9/3, _adj._ frugal, gained by saving.
Sauin, 45/22, _s._ savin. _Juniperus sabina_, Linn.
Sawsie, 114/35, _adj._ saucy, impudent.
Saxefrage, 44/13, _s._ saxifrage. Lat. _saxifraga_, from _saxum_, a
rock, and _frango_, to break, being supposed to disintegrate the rocks,
in the crevices of which it grows, and thence to dissolve stone in the
bladder. Called in Scotland _Thirlstane_, which has the same meaning.
Scaberd, 102/2, _s._ scabbard.
Scamble, 51/7, _v._ scramble for.
Scant, 56/52, _adj._ scarce, wanting.
Scant, 114/24, _adv._ scarcely. So in Bacon's "Table of Coulers," I.
"The Epicure that will _scant_ indure the Stoic to be in sight of him."
Cf. also Romeo and Juliet, i. 2.
Scanted, 2/14, _adj._ limited, stinted, grudged. Cf. also note E317.
Scape, 97/1, _v._ escape, get off.
Scare, 56/13, _v. imp._ drive away.
Scotch, 33/17, _v. pr. t._ cut, hew.
Scoutwatch, 10/19, _s._ watch, guard.
Scowles, 10/23, _v. pr. t._ scowls, frowns, is ill-tempered.
Scrall, 49/_c, v. pr. t._ crawl. "To scrall, stir, _motito_"--Coles'
Lat. Dict. "And the river shall _scral_ with frogs."--Wiclif, Exodus
viii. 3.
Scrauling, 49/9, _pr. p._ crawling.
Scruplenes, page 4, _s._ scruples, scrupulousness. Lat. _scrupulus_, a
little stone such as may get into a traveller's shoe and distress him;
hence, a source of doubt or distress.
Sea holie, 40/17, _s._ sea-hulfer, sea-holm; a plant of the genus
_Eryngium_ (_E. maritimum_). A.S. _hulfer_, holly.
Sealed, 17/18, _adj._ certified, stamped.
Seame, 21/2, _s._ a quarter of corn. A.S. _seam_.
Secresie, 9/20, _s._ secrets, private concerns.
Sedge collars, 17/12, _s. pl._ collars made of sedge or reeds.
Seede, 51/12, _v._ obtain seed from.
Seede cake, 90/7, "a festival so called at the end of wheat-sowing in
Essex and Suffolk, when the village is to be treated with seed cakes,
pasties, etc."--Warton.
Seeith, 19/41, _v. imp._ boil.
Seeke, 10/24, _v._ seek, "their dinners to seeke" = their dinners have
to be sought, i.e. are lacking.
Seelie, 48/21, _adj._ silly, simple. A.S. _sælig_. O. L. Ger. _salig_.
Seene, 95/1, _adj._ practised, experienced.
"Its a schoolmaster
Well _seen_ in music."
--Shakspere, Taming of Shrew, i. 2.
Seene, 106/16, _v. pt. t._ appeared. Lat. _visus est_.
Seeth, 78/5, _v. imp._ boil.
Seeue, 17/3, _s._ sieve, sifter.
Seggons, 85/6, _s. pl._ poor labourers. "_Seg-head_, a
blockhead."--Craven Cf. _Segger_, Chester Plays, ii. 51.
Sell, 114/21, _s._ cell, abbey.
Semsters, 86/7, _s. pl_ needlewomen, seamstresses. A.S. _seamestre_.
Seruice-trees, 34/24, _s. pl._ more correctly spelt _Servise-tree_,
from Lat. _cervisia_, its fruit having from ancient times been used for
making a fermented liquor, a kind of beer.
Seruiture, 99/1, _s._ servant, attendant.
Set, 36/25, _v. imp._ plant round, set.
Set, 35/45, _s._ the young shoots.
Setteth, 10/60, _v. pr. t._ risks. "Setteth his soule upon sixe or on
seauen" = "risks his soul on the cast of a die."
Seuer, 15/40, _v. imp._ separate, sort.
Seuerall, title, _adj._ inclosed land, divided into fields by fences.
L. Lat. _separalis_.
Sewe, 15/17, _v. imp._ drain. Cf. sewer. Welsh, _sych_, dry. Cf. Lat.
_siccus_. See Pegge's Kenticisms.
Shackles, 17/21, _s. pl._ shackles. A.S. _scacul_. Dutch, _schakel_, a
link of a chain.
Shack time, 16/30, _s._ the time during which the shaken-out grain
remains on the ground after harvest. "_Shack_, Norfolk, a general
common for hogs, from the end of harvest till seed time. To go at
_shack_, to go at large."--Coles' Dict. 1676. Brockett's Glossary
gives: "_Shack, shak,_ to shed, or shake, as corn in harvest. Then
_shack-fork_, a shake-fork." "_Shacking-time_, the season when malt is
ripe."--Kersey's Eng. Dict. 1715. Wedgwood (Eng. Etym.) says: "Shack
is the shaken grain remaining on the ground when the gleaning is over,
the fallen mast (Forby). Hence to _shack_, to turn pigs or poultry into
the stubble field to feed on the scattered grain. _Shack_, liberty of