A Glossary Of Archaic Words And Phrases

     Abridgment: miniature
     Absurd: stupid, unpolished
     Abuse: cheat, deceive
     Aculeate: stinging
     Adamant: loadstone
     Adust: scorched
     Advoutress: adulteress
     Affect: like, desire
     Antic: clown
     Appose: question
     Arietation: battering-ram
     Audit: revenue
     Avoidance: secret outlet
     Battle: battalion
     Bestow: settle in life
     Blanch: flatter, evade
     Brave: boastful
     Bravery: boast, ostentation
     Broke: deal in brokerage
     Broken: shine by comparison
     Broken music: part music
     Cabinet: secret
     Calendar: weather forecast
     Card: chart, map
     Care not to: are reckless
     Cast: plan
     Cat: cate, cake
     Charge and adventure: cost and
     risk
     Check with: interfere
     Chop: bandy words
     Civil: peaceful
     Close: secret, secretive
     Collect: infer
     Compound: compromise
     Consent: agreement
     Curious: elaborate
     Custom: import duties
     Deceive: rob
     Derive: divert
     Difficileness: moroseness
     Discover: reveal
     Donative: money gift
     Doubt: fear
     Equipollent: equally powerful
     Espial: spy
     Estate: state
     Facility: of easy persuasion
     Fair: rather
     Fame: rumor
     Favor: feature
     Flashy: insipid
     Foot-pace: lobby
     Foreseen: guarded against
     Froward: stubborn
     Futile: babbling
     Globe: complete body
     Glorious: showy, boastful
     Humorous: capricious
     Hundred poll: hundredth head
     Impertinent: irrelevant
     Implicit: entangled
     In a mean: in moderation
     In smother: suppressed
     Indifferent: impartial
     Intend: attend to
     Knap: knoll
     Leese: lose
     Let: hinder
     Loose: shot
     Lot: spell
     Lurch: intercept
     Make: profit, get
     Manage: train
     Mate: conquer
     Material: business-like
     Mere-stone: boundary stone
     Muniting: fortifying
     Nerve: sinew
     Obnoxious: subservient, liable
     Oes: round spangles
     Pair: impair
     Pardon: allowance
     Passable: mediocre
     Pine-apple-tree: pine
     Plantation: colony
     Platform: plan
     Plausible: praiseworthy
     Point device: excessively precise
     Politic: politician
     Poll: extort
     Poser: examiner
     Practice: plotting
     Preoccupate: anticipate
     Prest: prepared
     Prick: plant
     Proper: personal
     Prospective: stereoscope
     Proyne: prune
     Purprise: enclosure
     Push: pimple
     Quarrel: pretext
     Quech: flinch
     Reason: principle
     Recamera: retiring-room
     Return: reaction
     Return: wing running back
     Rise: dignity
     Round: straight
     Save: account for
     Scantling: measure
     Seel: blind
     Shrewd: mischievous
     Sort: associate
     Spial: spy
     Staddle: sapling
     Steal: do secretly
     Stirp: family
     Stond: stop, stand
     Stoved: hot-housed
     Style: title
     Success: outcome
     Sumptuary law: law against
     extravagance
     Superior globe: the heavens
     Temper: proportion
     Tendering: nursing
     Tract: line, trait
     Travel: travail, labor
     Treaties: treatises
     Trench to: touch
     Trivial: common
     Turquet: Turkish dwarf
     Under foot: below value
     Unready: untrained
     Usury: interest
     Value: certify
     Virtuous: able
     Votary: vowed
     Wanton: spoiled
     Wood: maze
     Work: manage, utilize

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