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GLUT - to swallow

GNARL - to snarl

GOOD-DEED - indeed

GOOD-DEN - good-evening, contracted from 'Good-even'

GORBELLIED - corpulent

GOURD - a species of game of chance

GOUT - a drop

GOVERNMENT - discretion

GRACIOUS - abounding in grace Divine

GRAINED - engrained

GRAMERCY - int grand mercy, much thanks

GRANGE - the farmstead attached to a monastery

GRATILLITY - used ridiculously for 'gratuity'

GRATULATE - to congratulate

GRAVE - to bury

GREASILY - grossly

GREEK - a bawd

GREEN - immature, fresh, unused

GREENLY - foolishly

GREET - to weep

GRIZE - a step

GROSSLY - palpably

GROUNDLING - one who sits in the pit of a theatre

GROWING - accruing

GUARD - decoration

GUARD - to decorate

GUARDAGE - guardianship

GUINEA-HEN - the pintado, a cant term

GULES - red, a term in heraldry

GULF - the throat

GUN-STONE - a cannon ball

GUST - taste, relish

GYVE - to fetter

H

HA' - shortened form of "have"

HABITUDE - condition of the body

HACK - to become cheap or vulgar (really of uncertain meaning, used in Wiv 2152)

HAGGARD (1) - a wild hawk

HAGGARD (2) - unprincipled; wild (adv)

HAG-SEED - seed or offspring of a hag

HAI, HAY - a thrust in fencing Rom 2427

HAIR - course, order, grain

HALBERD - battle-axe fastened to a long pole

HALCYON - a bird The Elizabethans believed that the halcyon had the power to calm the sea - hence the term "halcyon days"

HALF-CAPS - a hat tipped slightly as a greeting

HALF-CHEEK - side-face

HALF-FACE - thin face

HALF-KIRTLE - jacket; petticoat

HALF-PART - half

HALFPENCE - little pieces

HALF-SUPP'D - half-satisfied

HALF-SWORD - within half the length of a sword

HALF-WORLD - hemisphere

HALIDOM - holiness, salvation, Christian fellowship

HALL - an open space to dance in

HALLOWMAS - All Hallows' Day

HAP - chance, fortune

HAPPILY - accidentally

HANDSAW - perhaps a corruption of Heronshaw; a hern

HARDIMENT - defiance, brave deeds

HARLOCK - charlock, wild mustard

HARRY - to annoy, harass

HAUGHT - haughty

HAUNT - company

HAVING - property, fortune

HAVIOUR - behavior

HAY - a term in fencing

HEADBOROUGH - a parish officer (an officer for the church) having the same functions as a petty police constable

HEADY - violent, headlong

HEAT - of 'to heat,' heated

HEBENON - henbane

HEFT - a heaving

HEFT - furnished with a handle

HELM - to steer, manage

HENCE - henceforward

HENCHMAN - a page or attendant

HENT - to seize, take

HERMIT - a beadsman, one bound to pray for another

HEST - command

HIGH - used in composition with adjectives to heighten

HIGHT - called

HILD - held

HILDING - a paltry fellow

HINT - suggestion

HIREN - a prostitute with a pun on the word 'iron'

HIT - to agree

HOISE - to hoist, heave up on high

HOIST - hoisted

HOLP - to help; helped

HOME - to the utmost

HONEST - chaste

HONESTY - chastity

HONEY-STALKS - the red clover

HOODMAN-BLIND - the game now called blindman's-buff

HORN-MAD - probably, 'harn-mad,' that is, brain-mad

HOROLOGE - a clock

HOT-HOUSE - a brothel

HOX - to hamstring

HUGGER-MUGGER - secresy

HULL - to drift on the sea like a wrecked ship

HUMOROUS - fitful, or, perhaps, hurried

HUNT-COUNTER - to follow the scent the wrong way

HUNTS-UP - the name of a song used in hunting

HURLY - noise, confusion

HURTLE - to clash

HURTLING - noise, confusion

HUSBANDRY - frugality

HUSWIFE - woman who manages a household

I

ICE-BROOK - an icy-cold brook

I'FECKS - int in faith, a euphemism

IGNOMY - ignominy

IMAGE - representation

IMBARE - to bare, lay open

IMMEDIACY - close connexion

IMMOMENT - unimportant

IMP - to graft to splice a falcon's broken feathers

IMP - a scion, a child

IMPAWN - to stake, compromise

IMPEACH - to bring into question

IMPEACH - impeachment

IMPEACHMENT - cause of censure, hindrance

IMPERCEIVERANT - duff of perception

IMPETICOS - to pocket

IMPORTANCE - importunity

IMPORTANT - importunate

IMPORTING - significant

IMPOSE - imposition, meaning command or task imposed

IMPOSITIONS - command

IMPRESE - a device with a motto

IMPRESS - to compel to serve

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