Selected Shakespeare Vocabulary

by Carl O. Nordling

(1,500 words listed alphabetically within each of 20 groups of subjects)

Law & jurisprudence

(special & unusual):

Accountant (legal)

Acquittance

Advocate

Advocation

Amerce

Appeach

Appealant

Arbitrement

Arrest

Atonement

Attorneys-general

Attorneyship

Audit

Bailiff

Bar (court)

Bench (court)

Bum-baily

Canon

Capiatulate

Case (jur.)

Censure (judgement)

Charter (of rights)

Client (lawyer’s)

Confiscate

Conveyance (legal)

Copy (copyhold)

Counsellor

Count (jur.)

Court-contempt

Court-hand

Court-word

Covenant

Culpable

Decree (law)

Deed (jur.)

Defendant (sued)

Disannul

Disinherit

Disproperty

Distrain’d

Double voucher

Enfeoff

Enfranchise

Enfranchisement

Enjoin (jur.)

Enrolled

Entail

Entitled

Equity (justice)

Exaction

Executor

Expulsion

Extent (jur.)

Extenuate (jur.)

Extenuation

Farm (jur.)

Fee-farm

Fee simple

Fine (mulct)

Felony

Forfeit

Forfeiture

Forswear

Franchise

Franchisement

Grand-juror

Grand-juryman

Gray’s Inn

Heir-apparent

Homicide

Impanneled

Impeach (jur.)

Iimpeachment

Impugn

Indenture

Indict

Indictment

Infringe

Inheritor

Inheritrix

Inhibited

Inhibition

Injunction (jur.)

Injurer (jur.)

Inns o’ court

Interest (legal)

Intergatories

Interrogatories

Intestate

Jointress

Jurisdiction

Juror

Justness

Law-day

Lawyer

Leet

Legacy

Legative

Letters-patents

Liege

Liege-man

Livery (legal)

Malefaction

Manual seal

Misprison

Mortgage

Non-payment

Non-performance

Non-regardance

Nonsuit

Oathable

Obliagation

Outlawry

Patent

Perjur’d note

Perpetuity

Plaintiff

Plea (jur.)

Praemunire

Precedent (jur.)

Pre-contract

Present (jur.)

Principal (jur.)

Privy coffer

Probation

Process-server

Proclamation (jur.)

Prosecute

Provost

Pugging

Purgation (jur.)

Questrist

Quid for que

Quiddit

Quiddity

Quietus

Quillet

Quirk

Recognizance

Record (legal)

Recovery (jur.)

Replication

Rest (arrest)

Salique law

Seal manual

Sealing day

Session

Shrievaltry

Solicitor (jur.)

Sophister

Statute

Subornation

Substitute

Suit (jur,)

Summoner

Surety

Temple Garden

Temple Hall

Tenement

Tenor (jur.)

Tenure

Term (at court)

Trial-day

Troth-plight

Uncharge

Unrightful

Usance

Usurp

Usurpation

Usury

Vacation

Vassalage

Vouch

Voucher

Warrantise

Warranty

Widowhood (legal)

Writ (legal)

 

Medicine (hum. & vet.):

(With no. of occurrences)

Aesculapus 2

Agitation 2

Ague 10

Agued 1

Ague-proof 1

Alchymist 1

Alchymy/Alcumy 3

Aloe 1

Anatomize 3

Anatomy 5

Anoint 21

Antidote 2

Apoplexy 3

Apothecary 4

Appliance 7

Application 1

Balm 3

Balmy 3

Balsam/Balsamum 2

Bedlam 7

Bile (boil) 3

Bladder 4

Blain 1

Blister 8

Botchy 1

Bots (vet.) 3

Bubukle 1

Bump 1

Cancered 6

Cantherizing 1

Carbuncle 1

Carbuncled 1

Carduus Benedictus 1

Cast the gorge 1

Cast the water 1

Cataplasm 1

Catarrh 1

Chirurgeonly 1

Choler 2

Cholic 2

Cicatrice 4

Circumcised 1

Clyster-pipe 1

Coloquintida 1

Confection 2

Conserve (med.) 1

Consumption 4

Contagion 7

Contagious 11

Convulsion 1

Cordial (med.) 1

Core (ulcler) 2

Corn (med.) 2

Corrosive 2

Corruption (med.) 9

Cough 6

Crafty-sick 1

Cramp 8

Crazy (decrepit) 1

Cripple 7

Crutch 16

Cure 70

Cureless 3

Curer 2

Cyme (senna) 1

Death tokens 1

Diet (medical) 20

Dieter 1

Digestion/Disgestion 6

Disease (illness) 50

Diseased 10

Disgorge 4

Distemper 11

Distemperature 6

Distill 15

Distillation 2

Distillment 1

Doctor (med.) c. 50

Dram 17

Drench 3

Dropsied 1

Dropsy 2

Drug (vet.) 2

Ecstacy (med.) 5

Empiric (quack) 1

Empiricutic 1

Endamagement 1

Epilepsy 1

Faint (swoon) 8

Falling sickness 1

Fancy-sick 1

Fashions (farcy, vet.) 1

Fester 3

Fever 28

Feverous 4

Fever-weakened 1

Fistula 1

Fit (med.) 18

Fives (vives, vet.) 1

French crown 3

Fumiter 2

Galen (pers. name) 5

Gall (the bile) 3

Gangrened 1

Gash (wound) 11

Glanders (vet.) 1

Good-year 5

Goose of Winchester 1

Gout 5

Gouty 3

Gravel (med.) 3

Green-sickness 4

Gum (rheum) 2

Halt (lame person) 1

Hebenon 1

Hectic 1

High-gravel blind 1

Hippocrates 1

Hoar leprosy 1

Holy-thistle 1

Horse-drench 1

Hysterica passio 1

Illness 1

Impost(h)ume 3

Incision 6

Infect (med.) c. 40

Infection 24

Infectious 7

Infirm 2

Infirmity 6

Infusion 3

Injury (med.) 1

Insanie 1

Jaundice 2

Kibe 4

King’s evil 1

Knob (med.) 1

Lampass (vet.) 1

Lazar 2

Lazar-like 1

Leech (medicus) 1

Leper 1

Lepersy 3

Lelprous 1

Lethargied 1

Lethargy 5

Liquor (med.) 1

Maim 4

Malady 15

Malady of France 1

Malignant 7

Mandragora 2

Mandrake 2

Mangy (scabby) 1

Measles 1

Medice (physician) 1

Medicinable 3

Medicinal 1

Medicine 27

Melancholy 76

Mineral (poison) 2

Mixture (med.) 3

Mose in the chine 1

Mountebank 6

Mummy (med.) 2

Murrain /Murrion 3

Neapolitan bone-ache 1

Neeze (sneeze) 1

Palsy 6

Paracelsus (person)1

Parmaceti 1

Past-cure 1

Pearl (med.) 1

Pestiferous 2

Pestilence 13

Pestilent 7

Phtisic, see Tisick

Physic (med.) 29

Physical (med.) 2

Physician 23

Pia mater 3

Pill (medicine) 2

Pin and web 1

Plague (med.) c. 50

Plague-sore 1

Plaguy 1

Plantain leaf 1

Plaster (med.) 2

Pocky 1

Poisonous 13

Potion 6

Poultice (cataplasm) 1

Powdring tub 1

Pox 23

Prescription (med.) 5

Preservative 1

Purgation (med.) 1

Purgative 1

Purge (med.) 4

Purger 1

Qualm 4

Qualmish 1

Quat 1

Queasiness 1

Quotidian tertian 1

Rankle 2

Receipt (med.) 3

Red murrain 1

Red pestilence 1

Red plague 1

Reins (kidneys) 1

Relapse (med.) 1

Relief 14

Remedy 70

Restorative 2

Rheum 15

Rheumatic 1

Rheumy 1

Rhubarb 1

Rim 1

Roynish 1

Rupture 2

Salt rheum 1

Salve 10

Sand-blind 1

Sapego/Suppego 2

Saucer (med.) 1

Scabs 1

Scald/Scall 4

Scar 12

Sciatica 3

Scotch (cut) 3

Scurvy 29

Sea-sick 2

Senna, see Cyme

Serpigo, see Sapego

Shaking fever 1

Sick-fallen 1

Sickliness 1

Sickly 20

Sickness 53

Simple (med.) 4

Sleeping potion 1

Sneeze, see Neeze

Spavin (vet.) 2

Spital 1

Spital-house 1

Spleen 33

Sprawl 1

Springhalt (vet.) 1

Staggers (vet.) 4

Start (fit) 7

Stomach-qualmed 1

Sullens 1

Surgeon 17

Surgery 5

Syrup 2

Taint 1

Tetter 2

Tinct 1

Tisick (phtisic) 1

Token (med.) 3

Tokened 1

Toot-ache 3

Tooth-drawer 1

Tremor cordis 1

Tub 2

Tub of infamy 1

Tub-fast 1

Ulcer 2

Ulcerous 3

Unction 2

Uncurable 2

Urinal 1

Urine 3

Venom-mouthed 1

Venomous 5

Venomously 2

Vives, see Fives

Wart 14

Waxen (hiccup?) 1

Web and pin 1

Wen (excrescence) 1

Whelk 1

White death 1

Winchester goose 2

Wind-pipe 1

Windgalls (vet.) 1

Yellows (vet.) 1

 

Games, plays: outfit

& technical terms:

Ace 2

All hid *

Ames-ace 1

Ball *

Bandy 1

Barley-break 1

Base (prison base) 1

Bias (at bawls) 12

Bias-drawing 1

Billiards 1

Blank (the aim) 5

Bo-peep 1

Bowl (game, boll) 5

Bowler 1

Bowling 2

Bowls 3

Card of ten 1

Career (race ground) 3

Cast (at dice) 3

Chace (at tennis) 1

Cherry-pit 1

Cog (at cards) 7

Cogging 3

Cooling card 1

Counter-check (chess) 1

Country base 1

Course (race) *

Deck (of cards) 1

Deuce-ace 1

Dice 10

Dicer 1

Die (dice) 4

Fast and loose 2

Flap-dragon 1

Football 2

Fullam (false dice) 1

Game 23

Gamester 3

Gaming 2

Gig (top) 2

Gourd (false dice) 1

Handy-dandy 1

Hazard (dice) 1

Heat (at a race) 1

Hid-fox 1

Hoodman 1

Hoodman-blind 1

Jack (at bawls) 1

Jack-a-lent 2

Juggler 4

Just (tilt) 1

Leap-frog 1

Loggats (skittles) 1

Lot (drawn) 6

Lottery 3

Main (at hazard) 2

Main chance (at haz.) 2

Match (game) *

Mistress (at bowls) 1

Muss 1

Nod/Noddy (cards) 2

Novum (-quinque) 1

Odds 2

Olympian Games 1

Pack’d cards 1

Palter (at cards) 5

Paris ball (tennis) 1

Parish-top 1

Pawn (at chess) 1

Pip (at bone-ace) 1

Player 1

Playfellow 9

Play-fere 1

Prick (at bowls) 1

Primero 2

Prize *

Prizer 1

Pushpin (blowpoint) 1

Quaint mazes (game) 1

Quintain 1

Quoit 2

Race (running) 3

Racket 2

Rest (at primero) 6

Rub (at bowls) 5

Rubbing (at bowls) 1

Set (match) 4

Shove-groat 1

Shovel-board 1

Span-counter 1

Sport *

Sporting-place 1

Stake (in hazard) 1

Swoop-stake 1

Tables 1

Tennis 3

Tennis-ball 2

Tenniscourt 1

Throw (at dice) 1

Tick-tack 1

Tilt 3

Tilter 2

Tilt-yard 2

Top (toy) 2

Tournament 1

Tourney 2

Tray-trip 1

Trey (at dice) 1

Troll-my-dames 1

Two and thirty 1

Up-cast (at bowls) 1

Vie (at cards) 1

Wager 2

Wairligig 1

Wild-goose chase 1

Wild mare (see-saw) 1

 

Musical instruments:

Bagpipe 4

Base-viol 1

Bone (mus. instr.) 1

Bugle (horn) 1

Chip 1

Cittern 1

Cymbal 1

Drone (bass-pipe) 1

Drum 91

Fiddle 3

Fife 3

Flute 6

Harp 4

Hoboy 1

Horn (mus.) 14

Hornpipe 1

Instrument (mus.) 29

Kettle-drum 1

Lincolnshire bagpipe 1

Lute 18

Organ (mus.) 6

Pipe (mus.) 14

Psaltery 1

Rattle 1

Rebeck 1

Recorder (mus.) 4

Sackbut 1

Tabor 9

Taborin 2

Tongs 1

Trump (trumpet) 2

Viol 2

Viol-de-gamboys 1

Virginal (spinet) 1

Wezand (wind-instr.) 1

Whistle 3

Wind-instrument 1

Wry-necked fife 1

 

 

Music, musicians, etc.:

Accord (mus.) 1

Air (mus.) 10

Bagpiper 2

Ballad 10

Ballad-maker 3

Base/Bass (sound) 5

Blast 4

Broken music 1

Cadence 1

Calves’-gut 1

Canton 1

Canzonet 1

Care-tuned 1

Carol 2

Catch (song) 6

Catling 1

Change 3

Chanson 1

Chaunting 1

Chip (mus.) 1

Choir (singers) 2

Cittern-head 1

Clang 1

Clangor 1

Cliff (clef) 5

Concord (mus.) 6

Consort (consert) 2

Crotchet 2

Dildo 1

Derry 2

Descant 1

Diapason 1

Discord (mus .) 7

Ditty 9

Division (mus.) 3

Down (burden) 2

Drummer 1

Ducdame 4

Dulcet 6

Dump 3

Fa 2

Fading (burden) 1

Fall (mus.) 1

Fancy (mus.) 2

Feigning (mus.) 1

Fiddler 3

Fiddle-stick 2

Fit (of song) 1

Flourish 3

Fret 3

Gamouth 5

Ground (tune) 2

Harmonious 2

Harmony (euphony) 21

Harper 1

Holding (of a song) 1

Horsehair 1

Hunt’s up 1

Hymn 9

Ill-tuned 1

Jack (mus.) 1

Jar (mus.) 5

Jig (mus.) 2

Jig-maker 1

Light o’love 2

La 2

Lady (burden) 2

Laud (hymn) 1

Lay (song) 7

Lute-case 1

Lute-string 1

Key (mus.) 7

Madrigal 1

Mean (tenor) 4

Measure (mus.) 2

Melody 9

Melodious 10

Mi 4

Minum 1

Minstrel 8

Mnstrelsy 3

Mort (flourish) 1

Motion (tuning) 3

Music 177

Musical 8

Musician 11

Mood (mus.) 1

New-tuned 1

Noise (mus.) 5

Note (mus.) 36

Out-breast 1

Peg 1

Piper 2

Plain-song 2

Play *

Point (mus.) 2

Prick-song 1

Quire 2

Re 1

Recheat 1

Record (sing) 2

Rest (pause) 3

Sad-tuned 1

Set (mus.) 1

Sharp 1

Sing 190

Singer 4

Singing-man 1

Sol-fa 1

Song 76

Song-man 1

Soundpost 1

Still-discordant 1

Stop (mus.) 5

Strain 5

String 11

Stringless 1

Taborer 2

Three-man-song-men 1

Time (measure) 13

Treble (sound) 3

Triplex 1

Troll (sing) 1

Trumpet (trumpeter) 2

Tucket 1

Tune 75

Tuneable 2

Tuner 1

Unmusical 1

Unstringed 1

Untunable 2

Untuned 2

Ut 2

Ventage 1

Warble (song, sing) 3

Well-tuned 2

Wheel (refrain) 1

Wind up 1

Wiry 1

Wrest (for tuning) 1

 

Dances, dancers, etc.:

Back-trick (caper) 1

Bergomask 1

Bout (turn) 1

Brawl 1

Canary 3

Caper (leap) 3

Change (a tour) 1

Cinque-pace 2

Coranto 3

Dancing-rapier

(ornament) 1

 

Dancing-school 1

Footing (a dance) 1

French brawl 1

Galliard 4

Hay (dance) 1

Heel (verb) 4

Hobby-horse (part

in a dance) 2

Jig (dance) 3

Lavolt/Lavolta 2

Light o’ love 1

Measure (dance) 5

Morisco (dancer) 1

Morris 6

Morris-dance 1

Nine men’s morris 1

Passy measure 1

Pavin 1

Roundel (dance) 1

Scotch jig 2

Sink-a-pace 1

Upspring 1

Walk (tour in

masquerade) 2

 

Horses:

Barbary 2

Barbary horse 2

Breeder (mare) 1

Cheval 1

Coach-fellow 1

Colt 8

Courser 1

Crop-ear 1

Curtal 1

Cut (horse) 3

Dun 1

Fill-horse 1

Filly foal 1

Fore-horse 1

Gelding 4

Hackney 1

Horse 306

Jade 29

Jennet 2

Malt-horse 1

Mare 8

Nag 2

Pack-horse 3

Palfrey 6

Post (horse) 7

Post-horse 3

Roan 4

Stalking-horse 1

Steed 36

Sumpter 1

Trotting-horse 1

Weed 1

 

Rider’s outfit:

Bit 5

Bow (yoke) 1

Bridle 3

Calkin 1

Caparison 4

Chain *

Collar 2

Couple *

Crupper 3

Curb (bridle) 7

Foot-cloth 3

Furniture *

Girth 4

Goad 1

Harness 1

Head-stall 1

Hobnail 2

Horse-shoe 1

Jess 1

Muzzle 3

Pack-saddle 1

Rein 19

Riding-rod 1

Rowel 2

Rowel-head 1

Saddle 11

Saddle-bow 1

Snaffle 1

Spur *

Stirrup 5

Switch 1

Teder (tether) 1

Thong 1

Trace 1

Yoke 37

 

Dogs:

Bandog 1

Beagle 2

Bitch 2

Bloodhound 1

Bobtail tike 1

Brach 6

Canis 1

Chien 1

Cur 46

Cur of Iceland 1

Curtal dog 3

Cut (dog) 1

Demi-wolf 1

Ditchdog 1

Dog 190

Greyhound 13

Grim-hound 1

Hound 40

House-keeper 1

Hound of Sparta 1

Hunt-counter 1

Hunter 1

Iceland dog 1

Jackdog 1

Long-tail 1

Lym (lyam) 2

Mastiff 4

Mongrel/Mungril 6

Mongril cur 1

Mungrel bitch 1

Nightdog 1

Puppy 7

Puppydog 2

Puppy greyhound 1

Shoug 1

Spaniel 9

Spartan dog 1

Squirrel (a dog) 1

Tike 1

Trundle-tail 1

Watchdog 1

Water-rug (dog) 1

Water-spaniel 1

Whelp (pup) 2

 

Other domestic animals:

Ass (animal) c. 30

Beef (animal) 5

Biddy (chicken) 1

Boar-pig 1

Bull 23

Bull-calf 8

Bullock 2

Calf 18

Capon 12

Cat 41

Chantileer (cock) 2

Chick 1

Chicken 7

Chuck (chicken) 1

Cock 23

Cockerel 1

Cow 8

Duck 15

Eanling 1

Ewe 15

Falcon 11

Gib (cat) 2

Goat 16

Goose (tame) 11

Gosling 2

Heifer 2

Hen 9

Hog 8

Kitten 1

Lamb 53

Mule 8

Mutton (sheep) 4

Ox 18

Pig 8

Ram 8

Sheep 44

Sow 3

Steer 2

Swine 12

Tercel (hawk) 1

Turkey 3

Veal (calf) 1

 

Game (Europ. mammals):

Bawd (hare) 1

Boar 37

Buck 11

Coney 4

Deer 44

Doe 9

Dog-fox 1

Fawn 2

Fox 36

Hare 23

Hart 11

Hind (deer) 7

Kid-fox 1

Pricket (buck) 6

Rabbit 3

Rabbit-sucker 1

Rascal (deer) 5

Roe (deer) 6

Sorel (buck) 3

Stag 8

Venison (deer) 2

Vixen 1

Wat (hare) 1

 

Food: prepared,

baked, etc.:

Apple-tart 1

Bacon 1

Baked-meats 2

Banbury cheese 1

Batch 1

Beef 9

Biscuit 2

Bread 26

Brawn 5

Broth 1

Brown bread 1

Bull-beeves 1

Butter 8

Cake 9

Carbonado 2

Caudle 3

Caviary 1

Cheese 13

Cheese-paring 1

Chine 3

Chewet 1

Cobloaf 1

Coffin (pastry) 1

Collop 1

Crumb 2

Crust 3

Curds 3

Custard-coffin 1

Fish (food) 7

Fish-meal 1

Flap-jack 1

Flesh (food) 8

Fool (custard) 1

Gammon 1

Ginger-bread 1

Gravy 1

Gruel 1

Halfpenny loaf 1

Hell-broth 1

Hodge-pudding 1

Keech 2

Leaven 1

Loaf 2

Meat 70

Mess (food) 2

Mutton (food) 4

Neat’s foot 1

Neat’s tongue 1

Oatcake 1

Ox-beef 1

Pancake 2

Paste 3

Pepper-gingerbread 1

Pettitoes 1

Pickle-herring 1

Pie (food) 11

Plum-broth 1

Plum-porridge 1

Poor John 2

Pork 2

Porridge 8

Pudding 8

Rasher 1

Red herring 1

Roast 1

Roast meat 1

Sallad 8

Salt-fish 1

Sauce 11

Sop 5

Spoon-meat 1

Stock-fish 4

Toast 4

Toast-and-butter 1

Tripe 1

Veal 2

White bread 1

White herring 1

Viands 8

Wafer-cakes 1

Warden pie 1

 

Food: sweetmeat:

Candy 1

Caraways 1

Cates 2

Comfect 1

Conserves 3

Custard 1

Custard-coffin 1

Dainties 4

Delicates 1

Eringo 1

Flap-dragon 2

Fool *

Jelly 3

Junkets 1

Kissing-comfits 1

Marchpane 1

Perfections 1

Sugar-candy 1

Sweetmeats 2

 

Food: fruit & vegetables:

Almond 1

Apple 13

Apple-John 4

Apricock 2

Bean 1

Bilberry 1

Blackberry 3

Cabbage 1

Cherry 12

Chesnut 3

Codling 1

Coloquintida 1

Crab (apple) 3

Currant 1

Damson 1

Date (fruit) 4

Dewberry 1

Dogberry (as name) 1

Fennell 3

Fico/Fig/Figo 11

Filbert 1

Gooseberry 1

Grape 11

Hazel-nut 2

Hip (fruit) 1

Leather-coat (fruit) 1

Leek 18

Lettuce 1

Locust (fruit) 1

Medlar 6

Mulberry 1

Nettle 1

Onion 4

Orange 2

Parsley 1

Parsnip 2

Pea 2

Pear 6

Peascod 6

Pig-nut 1

Pippin 2

Plum 4

Pomegranate 2

Pomewater 1

Poprin 1

Potato 2

Prune 4

Pumpion 1

Quince 1

Radish/Redish 2

Raisin 1

Rhubarb 1

Squash 3

Strawberry 3

Sweeting 1

Turnip 1

Vegetives 1

Walnut 1

Warden 1

Wort (colewort) 1

 

Food: spices, etc.:

Aloe 1

Camomille 1

Clove 1

Eysel 2

Fennel 3

Garlic 4

Ginger 6

Honey 38

Hyssop 1

Marjoram 2

Mustard 3

Nutmeg 3

Ppper 1

Peppercorn 1

Pickle 2

Saffron 4

Salt 44

Salt-petre 1

Sugar 15

Sweet marjoram 2

Syrup 2

Tine/Thyme 5

Vinaigre/Vinegar 4

Wormwood 5

 

Food: wine, liquor

& malt liquor:

Ale 13

Aqua-vitae 6

Barley-broth (ale) 1

Bastard (wine) 1

Beer 5

Bottle-ale 2

Brewage 1

Brown bastard 1

Burdeaux stuff 1

Canary 2

Caudle 2

Charneco 1

Claret wine 1

Double beer 1

Juice of grape 1

Liquor 1

Madeira 1

Malmsey 1

Metheglin 2

Milk of Burgundy 1

Muscadel 1

Nectar 4

Pipe-wine 1

Posset 3

Red wine 1

Rhenish 4

Sack (wine) c. 35

Sherris 4

Sherris sack 1

Small beer 4

Tickle-brain 1

White bastard 1

Wine 82

Wort (beer) 1

 

Weapons (& armour):

Armor 53

Arrow 20

Artillery 5

Ash (spear) 1

Basilisk (cannon) 1

Basket-hilt 1

Bat (waepon) 3

Battle-axe 1

Beaver 7

Bilbo 3

Bill (wapon) 8

Bird-bolt 3

Birding-piece 1

Blade (weapon) 5

Boar-spear 2

Bolt (arrow) 6

Bore (calibre) 1

Bow (weapon) c. 20

Bodkin (weapon) 1

Brace (weapon) 2

Breast-plate 1

Broadside 1

Brown bill *

Buckler 7

Bullet 12

Burgonet 4

Butt-shaft 2

Caliver 3

Cannon 22

Cannon-bullet 1

Carriage (hanger) 4

Casque 3

Chamber (weapon) 1

Chape 1

Charging-staff 1

Club (weapon) 17

Coat (armour) 7

Cock (of gun) 1

Corslet 2

Crest (helmet) 7

Cross-bow 2

Cudgel (weapon) 12

Cuisse 1

Culverin 1

Curtle-axe 2

Dagger 53

Dart (weapon) 11

Defence (armour) 1

Demi-cannon 1

Dudgeon 1

Elder-gun 1

Falchion 8

Flask 1

Foil (weapon) 9

Fox (weapon) 1

Forehand shaft 1

Gauntlet 5

Gorget 1

Grand-guard 1

Graves (greave) 1

Gun 8

Gun-stone 1

Halberd 3

Hanger 3

Harness 6

Hatchet 1

Headpiece 3

Helm (armour) 15

Helmet 15

Hilt 9

Iaculum 1

Iron *

Javelin 1

Lance 23

Lath (sword) 1

Lead (bullets) 2

Linstock 1
Long sword *

Mace (weapon) 5

Mail (armour) 1

Morris-pike 1

Mortar-piece 1

Munition 2

Musket 1

Murdering-piece 1

Ordnance/Ordinance 5

Partisan (weapon) 5

Petar 1

Pick-axe 1

Piece (weapon) 3

Pike (weapon) 12

Pilcher 1

Pistol (weapon) 6

Poinard (poninard) 1

Point *

Poll-axe 1

Proof *

Pummel 1

Rapier 29

Sallet 1

Scabbard 4

Scimitar 3

Sere (sear) 3

Shaft (arrow) 10

Sheath 5

Shield (weapon) 14

Shoulder-piece 1

Sight (of helmet) 1

Sling 2

Spear 11

Staff, -ves (weapon) 10

Sword 422

Sword-and-buckler 1

Sword-hilt 1

Targe (shield) 3

Target (shield) 2

Tool (weapon) 3

Trident 2

Trunceon 5

Tuck 2

Two-hand-sword 1

Vambrace 1

Visor 13

Victor-sword 1

Vizard 12

Weapon 68

Welsh hook 1

 

Fencing terms:

Alla stoccata 1

Answer *

At a guard *

Backsword man 1

Blade *

Bout 5

Cause *

Come in *

Dagger *

Defence *

Distance *

Dudgeon 1

Duellist 2

Duello 2

Escrimer (see scrimer)

Exchange *

Fall *

Fence *

Fencer 2

Fencing 4

Foil *

Foin 3

Foining 2

Hay (it.’thou hast’) 1

Measure *

Montant 1

Out of guard *

Pass *

Passado 3

Passage *

Punto reverso 1

Rapier 29

Reverse *

Scrimer 1

Stoccado/Stock 2

Stroke *

Stuck (stoccado) 2

Sword *

Sword-and-buckler *

Sworder *

Swordman *

Tap 1

Thrust *

Traverse 4

Tuck (rapier) 2

Unbated 2

Veney/Venue 2

Washing *

 

Ships and boats:

Admiral (ship) 1

Argosy 8

Barge 7

Bark (ship) 30

Boat 17

Bottom (ship) 4

Butt (boat) 1

Caddis 1

Carrack 1

Cock (boat) 1

Cockle 1

Crare 1

Ferry 2

Gallely 7

Gallias 1

Gondilo/Gundello 2

Hoy 1

Hulk 4

Keel (ship) 3

Land-carrack 1

Long-boat 1

Man-of-war 1

Merchant (ship) 2

Pinnace 3

Pirate (ship) 1

Raft 1

Sail (ship) 9

Ship 86

Smack 1

Trader (ship) 2

Traject 1

Vessel (ship) 20

 

 

Astronomy (incl. geodesy):

Almanac 4

Antipodes 5

Aries 1

Astronomer 1

Atronomical 1

Astronomy 1

Attraction (astr.) 1

Axle-tree (astr.) 1

Bear (Ursa major) 1

Cancer 120

Comet 7

Eclipse 12

Equinoctial 1

Equinox 1

Exhalation (meteor) 4

Fiery trigon 1

Luna 1

Mars (astr.) 1

Mercury (astr.) 3

Meteor 10

Moon 135

Northern star 1

North pole 1

Orb 19

Pavement (the sky) 1

Planet 17

Planeatary 2

Pole (Pole star) 1

Saturn (astr.) 1

Sectary astronomical 1

Spher (orbit) 16

Sphery 1

Star 134

Sun (singular) 259

Suns 12

Taurus 2

Tellus 5

Terra 5

Terrene 2

Terrestrial 2

Ursa major 1

Venus (astr.) 5

Virgo (astr.) 1

Zenith 1

Zodiac 2

 

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