Webster and Tourneur - 1912 Author:John Webster Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: GLOSSARY Terms readily found in an unabridged dictionary, an encyclopedia, or a gazetteer are for the most part not included in this list. A, on. Accept... more »ed at, taken exception to. Accrue, to draw upon yourself. Acquaintance, knowledge. Adamant, loadstone. Affection, taste, fancy. Aim, guess. An, if. Anatomies, skeletons. Angel, a gold coin worth ten shillings. Apprehend, to consider. Apprehensive, quick of understanding. Apricock, variant of apricot. Arras-powder, probably orris-root powder. Arrest, to seize. Atomies, atoms. Attend, to give attention. Audit, final account. Auditory, audience. Bait, to harass. Ballassed, ballasted. Ballated, made the subject of ballads. Banditto, bandit. Banquerouts, bankrupts. Barriers, a tilting-match, tournament. Base-coined, misbegotten. Basilisk, see Cockatrice. Bate, to decline, fall away. Bedstaff, a staff used to spread out bedclothes. Bent, determined. Blackguard, the scullion who rode with the kitchen utensils. Blanks, blank-charter, something to which anything may be affixed, promise. Bloodshed, bloodshot. Blouze, a beggar's wench. Bowelled, disembowelled. Braches, bitch hounds. Brave, finely and splendidly dressed. Bravely, finely. Braver, more splendidly. Brawns, muscles, usually of the arms. Briarius, a hundred-handed giant. Bring, to accompany. Bring up, to bring in. Brize, the gadfly. Broad, unrestrained. Broke up, broke. Bumbasted, stuffed out. Burganet, a closs-fitting helmet. Bushing, flaring out in the form of a bush. Careening, lying over on one side, as a ship. Caroche, great coach. Carve, to make a gesture of compliment or understanding with hand or finger, usually at table while raising the g...« less