Every Man in his Humour [61]
hussy, jade QUEASY, hazardous, delicate QUELL, kill, destroy QUEST, request; inquiry QUESTION, decision by force of arms QUESTMAN, one appointed to make official inquiry QUIB, QUIBLIN, quibble, quip QUICK, the living QUIDDIT, quiddity, legal subtlety QUIRK, clever turn or trick QUIT, requite, repay; acquit, absolve; rid; forsake, leave QUITTER-BONE, disease of horses QUODLING, codling QUOIT, throw like a quoit, chuck QUOTE, take note, observe, write down
RACK, neck of mutton or pork (Halliwell) RAKE UP, cover over RAMP, rear, as a lion, etc. RAPT, carry away RAPT, enraptured RASCAL, young or inferior deer RASH, strike with a glancing oblique blow, as a boar with its tusk RATSEY, GOMALIEL, a famous highwayman RAVEN, devour REACH, understand REAL, regal REBATU, ruff, turned-down collar RECTOR, RECTRESS, director, governor REDARGUE, confute REDUCE, bring back REED, rede, counsel, advice REEL, run riot REFEL, refute REFORMADOES, disgraced or disbanded soldiers REGIMENT, government REGRESSION, return REGULAR ("Tale of a Tub"), regular noun (quibble) (N.E.D.) RELIGION, "make -- of," make a point of, scruple of RELISH, savour REMNANT, scrap of quotation REMORA, species of fish RENDER, depict, exhibit, show REPAIR, reinstate REPETITION, recital, narration REREMOUSE, bat RESIANT, resident RESIDENCE, sediment RESOLUTION, judgment, decision RESOLVE, inform; assure; prepare, make up one's mind; dissolve; come to a decision, be convinced; relax, set at ease RESPECTIVE, worthy of respect; regardful, discriminative RESPECTIVELY, with reverence RESPECTLESS, regardless RESPIRE, exhale; inhale RESPONSIBLE, correspondent REST, musket-rest REST, "set up one's --," venture one's all, one's last stake (from game of primero) REST, arrest RESTIVE, RESTY, dull, inactive RETCHLESS(NESS), reckless(ness) RETIRE, cause to retire RETRICATO, fencing term RETRIEVE, rediscovery of game once sprung RETURNS, ventures sent abroad, for the safe return of which so much money is received REVERBERATE, dissolve or blend by reflected heat REVERSE, REVERSO, back-handed thrust, etc., in fencing REVISE, reconsider a sentence RHEUM, spleen, caprice RIBIBE, abusive term for an old woman RID, destroy, do away with RIFLING, raffling, dicing RING, "cracked within the --," coins so cracked were unfit for currency RISSE, risen, rose RIVELLED, wrinkled ROARER, swaggerer ROCHET, fish of the gurnet kind ROCK, distaff RODOMONTADO, braggadocio ROGUE, vagrant, vagabond RONDEL, "a round mark in the score of a public-house" (Nares); roundel ROOK, sharper; fool, dupe ROSAKER, similar to ratsbane ROSA-SOLIS, a spiced spirituous liquor ROSES, rosettes ROUND, "gentlemen of the --," officers of inferior rank ROUND TRUNKS, trunk hose, short loose breeches reaching almost or quite to the knees ROUSE, carouse, bumper ROVER, arrow used for shooting at a random mark at uncertain distance ROWLY-POWLY, roly-poly RUDE, RUDENESS, unpolished, rough(ness), coarse(ness) RUFFLE, flaunt, swagger RUG, coarse frieze RUG-GOWNS, gown made of rug RUSH, reference to rushes with which the floors were then strewn RUSHER, one who strewed the floor with rushes RUSSET, homespun cloth of neutral or reddish-brown colour
SACK, loose, flowing gown SADLY, seriously, with gravity SAD(NESS), sober, serious(ness) SAFFI, bailiffs ST. THOMAS A WATERINGS, place in Surrey where criminals were executed SAKER, small piece of ordnance SALT, leap SALT, lascivious SAMPSUCHINE, sweet marjoram SARABAND, a slow dance SATURNALS, began December 17 SAUCINESS, presumption, insolence SAUCY, bold, impudent, wanton SAUNA (Lat.), a gesture of contempt SAVOUR, perceive; gratify, please; to partake of the nature SAY, sample SAY, assay, try SCALD, word of contempt, implying dirt and disease SCALLION, shalot, small onion SCANDERBAG, "name which the Turks (in allusion to Alexander the Great) gave to the brave Castriot, chief of Albania, with whom they had continual wars. His romantic life had just been translated" (Gifford) SCAPE, escape SCARAB, beetle SCARTOCCIO, fold of paper, cover, cartouch, cartridge SCONCE, head SCOPE, aim SCOT AND
RACK, neck of mutton or pork (Halliwell) RAKE UP, cover over RAMP, rear, as a lion, etc. RAPT, carry away RAPT, enraptured RASCAL, young or inferior deer RASH, strike with a glancing oblique blow, as a boar with its tusk RATSEY, GOMALIEL, a famous highwayman RAVEN, devour REACH, understand REAL, regal REBATU, ruff, turned-down collar RECTOR, RECTRESS, director, governor REDARGUE, confute REDUCE, bring back REED, rede, counsel, advice REEL, run riot REFEL, refute REFORMADOES, disgraced or disbanded soldiers REGIMENT, government REGRESSION, return REGULAR ("Tale of a Tub"), regular noun (quibble) (N.E.D.) RELIGION, "make -- of," make a point of, scruple of RELISH, savour REMNANT, scrap of quotation REMORA, species of fish RENDER, depict, exhibit, show REPAIR, reinstate REPETITION, recital, narration REREMOUSE, bat RESIANT, resident RESIDENCE, sediment RESOLUTION, judgment, decision RESOLVE, inform; assure; prepare, make up one's mind; dissolve; come to a decision, be convinced; relax, set at ease RESPECTIVE, worthy of respect; regardful, discriminative RESPECTIVELY, with reverence RESPECTLESS, regardless RESPIRE, exhale; inhale RESPONSIBLE, correspondent REST, musket-rest REST, "set up one's --," venture one's all, one's last stake (from game of primero) REST, arrest RESTIVE, RESTY, dull, inactive RETCHLESS(NESS), reckless(ness) RETIRE, cause to retire RETRICATO, fencing term RETRIEVE, rediscovery of game once sprung RETURNS, ventures sent abroad, for the safe return of which so much money is received REVERBERATE, dissolve or blend by reflected heat REVERSE, REVERSO, back-handed thrust, etc., in fencing REVISE, reconsider a sentence RHEUM, spleen, caprice RIBIBE, abusive term for an old woman RID, destroy, do away with RIFLING, raffling, dicing RING, "cracked within the --," coins so cracked were unfit for currency RISSE, risen, rose RIVELLED, wrinkled ROARER, swaggerer ROCHET, fish of the gurnet kind ROCK, distaff RODOMONTADO, braggadocio ROGUE, vagrant, vagabond RONDEL, "a round mark in the score of a public-house" (Nares); roundel ROOK, sharper; fool, dupe ROSAKER, similar to ratsbane ROSA-SOLIS, a spiced spirituous liquor ROSES, rosettes ROUND, "gentlemen of the --," officers of inferior rank ROUND TRUNKS, trunk hose, short loose breeches reaching almost or quite to the knees ROUSE, carouse, bumper ROVER, arrow used for shooting at a random mark at uncertain distance ROWLY-POWLY, roly-poly RUDE, RUDENESS, unpolished, rough(ness), coarse(ness) RUFFLE, flaunt, swagger RUG, coarse frieze RUG-GOWNS, gown made of rug RUSH, reference to rushes with which the floors were then strewn RUSHER, one who strewed the floor with rushes RUSSET, homespun cloth of neutral or reddish-brown colour
SACK, loose, flowing gown SADLY, seriously, with gravity SAD(NESS), sober, serious(ness) SAFFI, bailiffs ST. THOMAS A WATERINGS, place in Surrey where criminals were executed SAKER, small piece of ordnance SALT, leap SALT, lascivious SAMPSUCHINE, sweet marjoram SARABAND, a slow dance SATURNALS, began December 17 SAUCINESS, presumption, insolence SAUCY, bold, impudent, wanton SAUNA (Lat.), a gesture of contempt SAVOUR, perceive; gratify, please; to partake of the nature SAY, sample SAY, assay, try SCALD, word of contempt, implying dirt and disease SCALLION, shalot, small onion SCANDERBAG, "name which the Turks (in allusion to Alexander the Great) gave to the brave Castriot, chief of Albania, with whom they had continual wars. His romantic life had just been translated" (Gifford) SCAPE, escape SCARAB, beetle SCARTOCCIO, fold of paper, cover, cartouch, cartridge SCONCE, head SCOPE, aim SCOT AND