The Poetaster eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 208 pages of information about The Poetaster.

The Poetaster eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 208 pages of information about The Poetaster.

In-mate, resident, indwelling.

Innate, natural.

Innocent, simpleton.

Inquest, jury, or other official body of inquiry.

Inquisition, inquiry.

Instant, immediate.

Instrument, legal document.

Insure, assure.

Integrate, complete, perfect.

Intelligence, secret information, news.

Intend, note carefully, attend, give ear to, be
occupied with.

Intendment, intention.

Intent, intention, wish.

Intention, concentration of attention or gaze.

INTENTIVE, attentive.

INTERESSED, implicated.

Intrude, bring in forcibly or without leave.

Invincibly, invisibly.

Inward, intimate.

IRPE (uncertain), “a fantastic grimace, or contortion
of the body:  (Gifford).”

Jack, Jack o’ the clock, automaton figure that strikes the hour; Jack-a-lent, puppet thrown at in Lent.

Jack, key of a virginal.

JACOB’S staff, an instrument for taking altitudes and
distances.

Jade, befool.

Jealousy, jealous, suspicion, suspicious.

Jerking, lashing.

Jew’s trump, Jew’s harp.

Jig, merry ballad or tune; a fanciful dialogue or light comic act introduced at the end or during an interlude of a play.

Joined (joint)-stool, folding stool.

JOLL, jowl.

JOLTHEAD, blockhead.

Jump, agree, tally.

Just year, no one was capable of the consulship until
he was forty-three.

Kell, cocoon.

Kelly, an alchemist.

KEMB, comb.

KEMIA, vessel for distillation.

Kibe, chap, sore.

Kilderkin, small barrel.

Kill, kiln.

Kind, nature; species; “do one’s—­,” act according
to one’s nature.

Kirtle, woman’s gown of jacket and petticoat.

Kiss or drink afore me, “this is a familiar expression, employed when what the speaker is just about to say is anticipated by another” (Gifford).

Kit, fiddle.

Knack, snap, click.

Knipper-doling, a well-known Anabaptist.

Knitting cup, marriage cup.

Knocking, striking, weighty.

Knot, company, band; a sandpiper or robin snipe (Tringa canutus); flower-bed laid out in fanciful design.

KURSINED, KYRSIN, christened.

Laboured, wrought with labour and care.

Lade, load(ed).

Lading, load.

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