Glossary.
Letter T
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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 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 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