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Glossary

132 Topics

  • A
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  • H
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  • L
  • M
  • N
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  • U
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  • X
  • Y
  • Z

A

  • Apposition Day
  • Assizes

B

  • Bavin
  • Beaver
  • Benevolence
  • Bewpers
  • Black
  • Bloat
  • Bombazine
  • Boot
  • Bottomry
  • Breach
  • Brick bats
  • Busse

C

  • Calico
  • Call-book
  • Camlott/Camelott/Camlet
  • Candle auction
  • Candle/Caudle
  • Canon
  • Catch
  • Cellar
  • Cerecloth
  • Chaldron
  • Chamber
  • Chine
  • Chouse
  • Churching of women
  • Cistern
  • Clyster
  • Codlin
  • Collation
  • Collops
  • Comfiture
  • Conventicle
  • Counter/Compter
  • Coxcomb
  • Cuddy

D

  • Deals
  • Demorage
  • Doxy
  • Dredger
  • Dry money

E

  • Eastland
  • Electuary
  • Escutcheons

F

  • Fanfarroon
  • Ferrandin
  • Filbert
  • Forsooth
  • Frost

G

  • Galley
  • Gavelkind
  • Gorget
  • Grapnel / Grapple
  • Groom-Porter

H

  • Handsel
  • Hector
  • House of office

J

  • Jack

K

  • Keep a quarter
  • Kersey
  • Knees

L

  • Leads
  • Levett
  • Lignum vitae
  • Lingua Franca
  • Link
  • Lustring

M

  • Moire
  • Mole
  • Mond
  • Morning draught
  • Moyre

N

  • Newsbooks

O

  • Ordinary

P

  • Paragon
  • Pink
  • Pinner
  • Plate
  • Plate/Plat
  • Pollard
  • Pratique
  • Presence chamber
  • Prize goods

Q

  • Quest House
  • Quire

R

  • Rhodomontado
  • Rood (unit)
  • Rope ground
  • Rota Club

S

  • Salt eel
  • Sarcenet
  • Sasse
  • Say
  • Scallop
  • Scare-fire
  • Shag
  • Skellum
  • Slops
  • Spoon
  • Standish
  • Stempiece
  • Stops
  • Stoveing
  • Strong water

T

  • Tabby
  • Tally
  • Tampion ("Tamkin")
  • Term (Legal period)
  • Ticket
  • Tierce
  • Tilt
  • Touse
  • Traineband
  • Transire
  • Trapan, Trepan
  • Trencher
  • Trillo
  • Truckle bed
  • Turquoise

V

  • Variorum
  • Victualling
  • Volary

W

  • Waistcloth
  • Ward
  • Wassail, Wassell
  • Waytes
  • Whitster
  • Wigg
  • Woolwich stone

Y

  • Yare

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