frampold,
disagreeable
franchise,
freedom, privilege
franchised,
free
frank,
unrestrained, generous, free; sty; to pen up in a sty
franklin,
yeoman
fray,
affray, skirmish; to frighten
free,
generous, magnanimous, innocent, untroubled; to absolve, banish
French crown,
French coin, baldness produced by venereal disease
frequent,
addicted, familiar
friend,
lover, mistress, relative
frieze,
coarse woollen cloth
frippery,
old-clothes’ shop
front,
forehead; face, foremost line of battle, beginning; to confront, oppose
frontlet,
band worn on forehead
froward,
perverse, wilful, rebellious
frush,
smash
fullam,
false dice
fulsome,
pregnant, loathsome, filthy
furnishings,
externals
furniture,
equipment, harness
fury,
rage, passion, poetic passion, goddess of vengeance
fustian,
coarse cloth, bombastic gibberish
gaberdine,
loose-fitting coat or cloak
gag,
prop open, or jerk open
gage,
pledge; to stake, bind, engage
gain-giving,
misgiving
Galen,
famous physician of second century
gall,
resentment, bitterness; to rub sore, chafe, graze, wound, harass, scoff
galliard,
lively dance
galliass,
large, heavy ship
galloglasses,
heavily-armed foot-soldiers of Ireland or the Western Isles
gallow,
frighten
gallows,
gallows-bird, one born (or deserving) to be hanged
gamut,
musical scale
garboil,
disturbance, quarrel
Gargantua,
large-mouthed giant in Rabelais
garland,
royal crown, glory
garnish,
dress; to adorn, equip
gaskins,
breeches
gaud,
plaything, showy ornament; to ornament
gear,
stuff, talk, matter, business
geck,
dupe
gender,
kind, sort, offspring; engender
generosity,
high birth
generous,
high-born
genius,
spirit, good or bad angel, embodied spirit
gentle,
of noble birth; to ennoble
gentry,
rank by birth, good breeding, courtesy
George,
jewel bearing figure of the saint, part of insignia of Order of the Garter
germen,
seed
gest,
deed, time allotted to stage of journey
gesture,
bearing
ghasted,
frightened
ghastness,
terror
ghastly,
spiritual
gig,
whipping-top
giglet,
wanton
gimmaled,
jointed, hinged
ging,
gang
gird,
gibe; taunt, besiege
glance
(at), hint at, cast a slight on
glass,
mirror, sand-glass
glaze,
stare
gleek,
gibe; to gibe, jest
glib,
castrate
gloss,
lustre
glut,
swallow
go,
walk
God-a-mercy,
thank God
God’s me,
God bless me
go
to! expression of disapproval, protest, or disbelief
goatish,
lustful
good,
financially sound, rich
good-brother,
brother-in-law
goodman,
husband, yeoman, master
goose,
smoothing iron
goose of Winchester,
prostitute
gorbellied,
fat-bellied
gore,
to defile, wound
gorge,
what has been swallowed
gorget,
piece of armour for the throat
Gorgon,
woman whose look turned the beholder to stone
gossip,
god-father or -mother, sponsor; make merry
gourd,
kind of false dice
gout,
drop
government,
control, self-command, evenness of temper
grained,
ingrained, showing grain of the wood, lined, forked
gramercy,
thank you
grange,
outlying farmhouse
gratify,
thank, reward, pay, do honour to
gratulate,
pleasing; greet, express joy at
gravel,
urinary crystals
greasily,
obscenely
grece,
step, stair, degree
gree,
agree
grief,
grievances
grieve,
vex, taunt
groat,
fourpenny piece
groundlings,
those who stood in the cheapest part of the theatre
grow,
be or become due
guard,
caution, border, trimming; to ornament
guidon,
pennant
guiled,
treacherous
guinea-hen,
prostitute
guise,
custom, habit
gules,
red (heraldry)
gull,
unfledged bird, dupe, fool, trick; to cheat
gummed,
stiffened with gum
gust,
taste, relish
Guy,
Guy of Warwick, slayer of the giant Colbrand
gyve,
fetter
habit,
dress, appearance
habitude,
temperament
hackney,
prostitute
haggard,
wild hawk
haggle,
to hack, gash
hag-seed,
child of a witch
hai,
home-thrust in fencing
hair,
kind, character
halcyon,
kingfisher
half,
partner
half-blooded,
of noble blood by one parent only
half-cheek,
profile
half-cheeked,
with a piece missing or broken on one side
half-face,
thin face
half-faced,
showing half the face
half-sword,
half a sword’s length
halidom,
holy relic
Hallowmas,
All Saints’ Day, I November
handfast,
firm hold, marriage contract
handicrafts,
artisans, workmen
handy-dandy,
choose which you please (in a children’s game)
haply,
perhaps, by chance
happiness,
handsomeness, appropriateness, opportunity
hardiment,
bold exploit
hardness,
difficult, hardship
harlot,
man or woman of promiscuous life
harlotry,
harlot, silly wench
hatch,
engrave, inlay, lower half of a divided door
hatchment,
memorial tablet with coat of arms
hautboy,
shawm, woodwind instrument, ancestor of the oboe
havoc,
devastation; cry havoc, give the signal to an army to plunder
hazard,
game at dice, chance, venture
head,
headland, topic, army
head borough,
parish officer
heap,
crowd
heavy,
important, dull, sluggish, sleepy, grievous
hectic,
wasting fever
Hector,
Trojan hero
Hecuba,
Queen of Troy, wife of Priam and mother of Hector
hedge-pig,
hedgehog
Helen,
most beautiful woman of her world, wife of the Greek Menelaus, carried off to Troy by Paris
Helicon,
mountain of Greece sacred to the Muses
hemp-seed,
gallows-bird, one born (or deserving) to be hanged
Hercules,
as a baby strangled two serpents; performed twelve great labours, including the obtaining of the golden apples of the Hesperides and the overcoming of Cerberus, the three-headed dog of the underworld
Hero,
see LEANDER
Hesperus,
the evening star
hest,
command
heyday,
excitement
high-crested,
proud
high-lone,
quite alone, without support
high-proof,
in the highest degree
high-stomached,
haughty
hight,
called
hilding,
contemptible, good-for-nothing, baggage
him,
male (dog)
hint,
occasion, reason, opportunity
hipped,
lame in the hip
hit,
succeed, agree
hive,
hive-shaped hat
hoar,
grow mouldy
hobby-horse,
figure of a horse used in morris dances, etc., buffoon, prostitute
holding,
consistency, burden of a song
holp,
helped
honest,
worthy, virtuous, chaste
honesty,
honour, decency, chastity
honour,
chastity
hoodman-blind,
blind man’s buff
horn,
the mark of a cuckold
horn-book,
child’s first reader
horn-mad,
ready to gore the enemy, enraged at being cuckolded
hose,
stockings, breeches
host,
lodge
hot-house,
brothel
housekeeper,
householder, watch-dog, stay-at-home
housekeeping,
hospitable running of the household
hox,
hamstring
hoy,
a small vessel
hugger-mugger,
secrecy
hull,
float, drift with sails furled
humorous,
moist, capricious, moody
humour,
moisture; bodily fluid supposedly composed of blood, phlegm, choler, and melancholy, the proportions determining personal temperament; temperament, mood, whim, caprice, inclination