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 (lawyers)
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
Distraind
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
Grays 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
Perjurd 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
Kings 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
Packd 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
Hunts up 1
Hymn 9
Ill-tuned 1
Jack (mus.) 1
Jar (mus.) 5
Jig (mus.) 2
Jig-maker 1
Light olove 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 mens 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
Riders 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
Neats foot 1
Neats 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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