A
1. Acclumsid: numbed, clumsy.
2. Aceasecomic: One whose hair was never cut.
3. Acopon: A southing salve, poultice, or plaster to relieve pain.
4. Adam's Ale: A humorous term for water, the only drink for Adam and Eve.
5. Afterling: An inferior
6. Agrum: A swelling of the cheeks or mouth.
7. Agauw: To horrify, to cause shuddering.
8. Aimcrier: An applauder or encourager; the person who cried "Aim!: to encourage an archer; the one who stood near the target to report the results of each round.
9. Aletude: Obesity, bodily fatness.
10. Ataballes: Kettle-drums.
B
11. Back-slang: The technique of pronouncing words backwards.
12. Backstress: A female baker.
13. Barilla: A marine plant used in manufacturing soap.
14. Bawdreaming: Bawdy misbehavior.
15. Bedswerver: A person unfaithful to the marriage bed.
16. Beek: to bask in the sun or before a fire.
17. Bellibone: A lovely maiden, pretty lass.
18. Bell-penny: Money one saves for his own funeral.
19. Bellytimber: Food.
20. Blashy: Thin or weak, as applied to tea or beer.
21. Blob-tale: A tattle-tale or gossip.
22. Blonk: A large, powerful horse.
23. Blore: To cry out or bleat and bray like an animal.
24. Blutter: To blurt out.
25. Boose: A cow stall.
26. Brangle: To squabble or brawl.
27. Breedbate: A person or something that creates strife.
28. Bubble-bow: A lady's pocketbook.
29. Bugle-beard: A shaggy beard like buffalo hair.
30. Bulse: A package of diamonds or gold dust.
31. Butter-teeth: The two upper middle incisors.
C
32. Calliblephary: A coloring for eyelids.
33. Carked: Fretfully anxious.
34. Chair day: The evening of life, that time when a person is old and usually infirm but passes his time in ease and comfort.
35. Chinkers: money, coins.
36. Chitty-face: A person with a thin, pinched face; a term of contempt.
37. Corsned: The ordeal by bread, a medieval test to determine guilt. The accused was ordered to swallow an ounce of bread consecrated by a priest with an exorcism. If he went into convulsions he was pronounced guilty, but if he had not reaction he was proclaimed innocent.
38. Cosh: A small cottage, hut.
39. Crinet: A hair.
40. Cruck: Peasants lived in cruck houses. These had a wooden frame onto which was plastered wattle and daub, which was a mixture of mud, straw and manure.
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