Dispatch

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