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INCARNARDINE - to dye red

INCENSED - incited, egged on

INCH-MEAL - by inch-meal, by portions of inches

INCLINING - compliant

INCLINING - inclination

INCLIP - to embrace

INCLUDE - conclude

INCONY - fine, delicate

INCORRECT - ill-regulated

IND - India

INDENT - to compound or bargain

INDEX - a preface

INDIFFERENT - ordinary

INDIGEST - disordered

INDITE - to invite

INDUCTION - introduction, beginning

INDURANCE - delay

INFINITE - infinite power

INGRAFT - to engraff, engrafted

INHABITABLE - uninhabitable

INHERIT - to possess

INHOOPED - penned up in hoops

INKLE - a kind of narrow fillet or tape

INLAND - civilized, well-educated

INLY - inward

INLY - inwardly

INQUISITION - enquiry

INSANE - that which causes insanity

INSCONCE - to arm, fortify

INSTANCE - example

INTEND - to pretend

INTENDING - regarding

INTENDMENT - intention

INTENTIVELY - attentively

INTERESSED - allied

INTERMISSION - pause, delay

INTRENCHMENT - not capable of being cut

INTRINSE - intricate

INTRINSICATE - intricate

INVENTION - imagination

INWARD - an intimate friend

INWARDNESS - intimacy

IRREGULOUS - lawless, licentious

ITERATION - reiteration

J

JACK - a mean fellow

JACK-A-LENT - a puppet thrown for fun at Lent

JACK-AN-APES - Jack o' lantern

JACK GUARDANT - a jack in office

JADE - to whip, to treat with contempt

JANUS - two-headed

JAPE - rude joke

JAR (1) - the ticking of a clock

JAR (2) - to tick as a clock

JAUNCE - to prance

JERKIN - sheriff's coat

JESS - a strap of leather

JEST - to tilt in a tournament

JET - to strut

JOHN-A-DREAMS - a daydreamer

JOURNAL - daily

JOVIAL - appertaining to Jove

JUDICIOUS - critical

JUMP - to agree

JUMP - hazard

JUMP - exactly, nicely

JUSTICER - a judge, magistrate

JUT - to encroach

JUTTY - a projection

JUTTY - to jut out beyond

JUVENAL - youth, young man

K

KAM - crooked

KECKSY - hemlock

KEECH - a lump of fat

KEEL (1) - to skin

KEEL (2) - cool

KEEP - to restrain

KEISAR - Emperor

KENNEL - to restrain

KERN - the rude foot soldiers of the Irish

KIBE - a chilblain

KICKSHAW - a made dish

KICKSY WICKSY - a wife, used in disdain

KILN-HOLE - the ash-hole under a kiln

KIND - nature

KINDLE - to bring forth young; used only of beasts

KINDLESS - unnatural

KINDLY - natural

KIRTLE - a gown

KNAP - to snap, crack

KNAVE - a boy; serving-man

KNOT - a figure in garden beds

KNOW - to acknowledge

L

LABRAS - lips

LACED-MUTTON - a courtesan

LAG - the lowest of the people

LAG - late, behindhand

LAKIN - ladykin, little lady, an endearing term applied

LAND-DAMN - perhaps to extirpate

LAPSED - taken, apprehended

LARGE - licentious, free

LARGESS - a present

LASS-LORN - deserted by a mistress

LATCH - to smear

LATED - belated

LATTEN - made of brass

LAUND - lawn

LAVOLTA - a dance

LAY - wager

LEAGUE - besieging army

LEASING - lying

LEATHER-COATS - a kind of apple

LEECH - a physician

LEER - countenance, complexion

LEET - a manor court

LEGE - to allege

LEGERITY - lightness

LEIGER - an ambassador resident abroad

LEMAN - a lover or mistress

LENTEN - meagre

L'ENVOY - the moral at the end of a tale

LET - to hinder

- to binder

LET - hindrance

LETHE - death

LEVEL - to aim

LEVEL - that which is aimed at

LEWD - ignorant, foolish

LEWDLY - wickedly

LEWDSTER - a lewd person

LIBBARD - a leopard

LIBERAL - licentious

LIBERTY - libertinism

LICENCE - licentiousness

LIEF - dear

LIFTER - a thief

LIGHT O' LOVE - a tune so called

LIGHTLY - easily, generally

LIKE - to please

LIKE - to liken, compare

LIKE - likely

LIKELIHOOD - promise, appearance

LIKING - condition

LIMBECK - an alembick, a still

LIMBO - or Limbo patrum, the place where good men under

LIME - bird-lime

LIME - to entangle as with bird-lime

LIMN - to draw

LINE - to cover on the inside

LINSTOCK - a staff with a match at the end

LIST - a margin, hence a bound or enclosure

LITHER - lazy

LITTLE - miniature

LIVELIHOOD - appearance of life

LIVERY - a law phrase, signifying the act of delivering

LIVING - lively, convincing

LOACH - a fish so called