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MOONISH - inconstant

MOP - nod

MORISCO - a Moor

MORRIS-PIKE - Moorish-pike

MORT - death; sound of the horn signalling the slaughter of game

MORT-DU-VINAIGRE - a ridiculous oath

MORTAL - fatal, deadly

MORTIFIED - ascetic

MOSE - a doubtful word, applied to some disease

MOTION - solicitation

MOTION - a puppet

MOTIVE - one who moves

MOTLEY - or the many-coloured coat of a fool

MOTLEY-MINDED - foolish

MOUSE-HUNT - a weasel

MOW - to make grimaces

MOY - imaginary name of a coin in Hen V

MUCH - approximately

MUNITION - military stores

MURE - a wall

MURRAIN - plague

MUSCADEL - strong sweet wine

MUSET - a gap in a fence or shrub

MUST - a scramble

MUTINE - to mutiny

MUTINE - a mutineer

MYRMIDON - from the warlike race of Thessaly

N

NAPKIN - a handkerchief

NATURAL - an idiot

NAYWARD - towards denial

NAYWORD - a catch-word, by-word

NEB - the beak

NEELD - a needle

NEIF - hand

NEPHEW - a grandson

NETHER-STOCKS - stockings

NEXT - nearest

NICE - foolish

NICK - score or reckoning

NICK - to brand with folly

NIGHTED - black as night

NIGHT-RULE - nightly solemnity

NINE MEN'S MORRIS - a place set apart for a Moorish dance

NINNY - a fool, jester

NOBILITY - nobleness

NOBLE - a coin, worth 6s 8d

NODDY - a dolt

NONCE - for the nonce, corrupted from 'for then once,'

NOOK-SHOTTEN - indented with bays and creeks

NOURISH - a nurse

NOVUM - a game at dice

NOWL - head

NUTHOOK - a hook for pulling down nuts, hence a thief

NUZZLING, pr p nosing

O

O - a circle

OAR - to row as with oars

OBSEQUIOUS - behaving as becomes one who attends funeral

OBSEQUIOUSLY - funereally

OBSTACLE - ridiculously used for 'obstinate'

OCCUPATION - persons occupied in business

OCCURENT - an incident

OD'S BODY - God's body

OEILLIAD - an amorous glance

O'ERPARTED - having too important a part to act

O'ER-RAUGHT - overreached

OFFERING - challenging

OFFICE - benefit, kindness

OLD - a cant term for great

ONCE - some time

ONEYER - a banker A doubtful word

OPE - open

OPE - to open

OPEN - plain

OPEN - to give tongue as a hound

OPERANT - active

OPINIONED - used ridiculously for pinioned

OPPOSITE - adversary

OPPOSITION - combat

OR - before

ORDER - measures

ORDINANCE - rank, order

ORGULOUS - proud

ORT - leaving, refuse

OSTENT - show, appearance

OSTENTATION - show, appearance

OUNCE - a beast of prey of the tiger kind

OUPHE - a fairy

OUSEL-COCK - the blackbird

OUT - all out, fully

OUT-LOOK - to face down

OUTWARD - not in the secret of affairs

OUTWARD - outside

OWE - to own

P

PACK - to conspire; a gang

PACK - to depart; load

PADDOCK - a toad

PAID - punished

PALE - to enclose

PALL - to cover as with a pall

PALLED - impaired

PALLIAMENT - white gown of a Roman official

PALMER - one who bears a palm-branch

PALMY - victorious

PARCELLED - belonging to individuals

PARD - the leopard

PARITOR - an apparitor

PARLE - talk

PARLOUS - perilous

PARTED - endowed, gifted

PARTIZAN - a pike

PASH - the face

PASH - to strike violently, to bruise, crush

PASS - to practice

PASSANT - a term of heraldry, applied to animals

- represented on the shield as passing by at a trot

PASSING - surpassingly, exceedingly

PASSION - to have feelings

PASSIONATE - to suffer

PASSY-MEASURE - a kind of dance

PASTRY - the room where pastry was made

PATCH - a mean fellow

PATCHED - dressed in motley

PATCHERY - trickery

PATH - to walk

PATHETICAL - affected, hypocritical

PATIENT - to make patient, to compose

PATINE - the metal disc on which the bread is placed

PATTERN - to give an example of

PAUCA VERBA - few words

PAUCAS - few, a cant word

PAVIN - a dance

PAX - a small image of Christ

PAY - to despatch

PEAT - a term of endearment for a child

PEDASCULE - a pedant, schoolmaster

PEER - to peep out

PEIZE - to balance, weigh down

PELTING - paltry

PERDU - lost

PERDURABLE - durable

PERDY - a euphemism for Par Dieu

PERFECT - certain

PERFECT - to inform perfectly

PERIAPTS - charms worn round the neck

PERJURE - a perjured person

PERSEVER - to persevere

PERSPECTIVE