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• • Table

  • a tablet, note-book

  • Table-book

  • note-book

  • Tables

  • the game of backgammon
    A note-book

  • Tabour

  • a small side-drum

  • Tabourer

  • a player on the tabour

  • Tabourine

  • tambourine, drum

  • Tag

  • the rabble

  • Taint

  • tainted

  • Tainture

  • defilement

  • Take

  • to infect, blast, bewitch

  • Take In

  • to conquer

  • Take Out

  • to copy

  • Take Up

  • to borrow money, or buy on credit
    To make up a quarrel

  • Taking

  • infection, malignant influence

  • Taking Up

  • buying on credit

  • Tale

  • counting, reckoning

  • Tall

  • strong, valiant

  • Tallow-catch

  • a lump of tallow

  • Tang

  • twang, sound

  • Tang

  • to sound

  • Tanling

  • anything tanned by the sun

  • Tarre

  • to excite, urge on

  • Tarriance

  • delay

  • Tartar

  • Tartarus

  • Task

  • to tax
    Challenge

  • Tasking

  • challenging

  • Taste

  • to try

  • Tawdry-lace

  • a rustic necklace

  • Taxation

  • satire, sarcasm

  • Taxing

  • satire

  • Teen

  • grief

  • Tell

  • to count

  • Temper

  • to mix

  • Temperance

  • temperature

  • Tempered

  • mixed

  • Tend

  • to attend to

  • Tender

  • to hold, to esteem
    To have consideration for

  • Tent

  • to probe as a wound

  • Tent

  • a probe for searching a wound

  • Tercel

  • the male of the goshawk

  • Termagant

  • a ranting character in old plays

  • Tested

  • pure, assayed

  • Testern

  • to reward with a tester, or six-pence

  • Tharborough

  • a constable

  • Theorick

  • theory

  • Thewes

  • sinews, muscles

  • Thick

  • rapidly

  • Thick-pleached

  • thickly intertwined

  • Third-borough

  • a constable

  • Thought

  • anxiety, grief
    So 'to take thought' is to give way to grief

  • Thrasonical

  • boastful

  • Three-man Beetle

  • a wooden mallet worked by three men

  • Three-man-song-men

  • singers of glees in three parts

  • Three-pile

  • three-piled velvet

  • Threne

  • lament

  • Thrid

  • thread, fibre

  • Throe

  • to put in agonies

  • Thrum

  • the tufted end of a thread in weaving

  • Thrummed

  • made od coarse ends or tufts

  • Tickle

  • ticklish

  • Tight

  • nimble, active

  • Tightly

  • briskly, promptly

  • Tike

  • a cur

  • Tilly-vally

  • int. an exclamation of contempt

  • Tilth

  • tillage

  • Timeless

  • untimely

  • Tinct

  • stain, dye

  • Tire

  • attire, head-dress

  • Tire

  • to tear as a bird of prey
    Hence, metaphorically, to feed

  • Tire

  • to attire, dress

  • Tang

  • twang, sound

  • Tod

  • to yield a tod of wool

  • Tokened

  • marked with plague spots

  • Tokens

  • plague spots

  • Toll

  • to exact toll
    To pay toll

  • Too

  • excessively

  • Topless

  • supreme, without superior

  • Touch

  • touchstone for testing gold
    Trait
    An acute feeling

  • Touched

  • pricked

  • Touse

  • to pull, drag

  • Toward

  • nearly ready

  • Towards

  • nearly ready

  • Toys

  • trifles, foolish tricks

  • Trade

  • beaten path

  • Tranect

  • a ferry

  • Translated

  • transformed

  • Trash

  • to cheque, as a huntsman his hounds

  • Travail

  • labour, toil

  • Tray-trip

  • an old game played with dice

  • Treachers

  • traitors

  • Treaties

  • entreaties

  • Trenched

  • carved

  • Trick

  • technically, a copy of a coat of arms; hence,
    any peculiarity which distinguishes voice or
    feature

  • Trick

  • to dress up

  • Tricked

  • blazoned

  • Tricking

  • ornament

  • Tricksy

  • elegantly quaint

  • Triple

  • third

  • Trojan

  • a cant word for a thief

  • Trol-my-dames

  • the name of a game; also called
    pigeon-holes

  • Troth-plight

  • betrothed

  • Trow

  • to trust, think

  • True

  • honest

  • Trundle-tail

  • a long-tailed dog

  • Tucket-sonance

  • a flourish on the trumpet

  • Tundish

  • a funnel

  • Turlygood

  • a name adopted by bedlam-beggars

  • Turn

  • to modulate

  • Twangling

  • twanging

  • Twiggen

  • made of twigs, wicker

  • Twilled

  • Retained by woven branches

  • Twink

  • a twinkling

  • Twire

  • to peep, twinkle