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a ( prep1 ) 1774 ( 1975 ) Abigail Adams Letter
to John Adams Sept. 14, 1774 in The Book of Abigail and John p. 72 The report
took here a fryday, and a Sunday a Soldier was seen lurking about the common.
OED2 Sense 8 obs. except certain archaic phrases,
last example 1721
a gig 1764 ( 1975 ) Abigail Adams Letter to
John Adams Apr. 19, 1764 in The Book of Abigail and John p.37 Who could have
believed that only a slight hint would have set thy imagination a gig in such a manner.
OED2 1797 only, but see slip Sanger 1782
atry 1585 ( 1981 ) Journal of the Leicester,
Oct. 22931, 1585, in Sir Francis Drake’s West Indian Voyage 158586 (Hakluyt Soc.
2nd. Ser. No. 148) p. 125 The winde being contrary we were compelled to ly attry.
OED2 1611
abbatied 1776 ( 1972 ) Minutes, Council of
War, Aug. 29, 1776, inNaval Documents of the American Revolution Vol.6 p. 350
Though our lines were fortified with strong redoubts, yet a great part of them
were weak, being abbatied with brush. OED2 lacks (abatised 1859 but see
slip 1777)
abbatised (abatised) 1777 ( 1780 ) Lieut. Gen. J.
Burgoyne A State of the expedition from Canada
appendix p. xxvii The body of his camp deeply
entrenched and abbatised.
OED2 1859 dict. ref., no cit.
There we made another Alt (p. 6) OED2 † 1622 (alt 1623 and 1624,
halt 1622)
amability 1785 ( 1959 ) Thomas Jefferson Letter
to Abigail Adams June 21, 1785 in The Adams
Jefferson Letters p.35 I would not give the polite, selfdenying, feeling, hospitable,
goodhumoured people of this country and their amability in every
point of view, for ten such races ... as those among whom you are. OED2 last
quot. 1659, 1775 dict. ref.
amain(e 1541 ( 1932 ) Roger Barlow A Briefe
Summe of Geographie
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. LXIX) p. 13 When thei see ony suche cloudys incontinent
thei must amayne ther sails. OED2 15931622
amberfish c 1625 ( 1882 ) Nathaniel Butler ? The
Historye of the Bermudaes
(Hakluyt Soc.1st. Ser. No. LXV) p. 7 Excellent fish ..the most of which being
vnknowen to our more northerly parts, haue lately gotten them names, either from their
shapes or conditions, as .. the delicate amber fish, from his tast and smell; angell fish;
cony fish, the smale yellowe tayle, from that naturall painteinge; the great grouper, from
his odde and strange gruntinge. OED2 1697
amok 1606 ( 1943 ) Edmund Scott An Exact Discourse
in The Voyage of Sir Henry Middleton to the Moluccas (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No.
LXXXVIII)
p. 171If any Javan have committed a fact worthy of death and that he be pursued by
any, whereby he thinketh hee shall die, he will presently draw his weapon and cry
Amucke, which is as much to say: I am resolved; not sparing to murther either man,
woman, or childe which they can possibly come at.
OED2 1663
angelfish c 1625 ( 1882 ) Nathaniel Butler? The
Historye of the Bermudaes
(Hakluyt Soc.1st. Ser. No. LXV) p. 7 Excellent fish ..the most of which being
vnknowen to our more northerly parts, haue lately gotten them names, either from their
shapes or conditions, as .. the delicate amber fish, from his tast and smell; angell fish;
cony fish, the smale yellowe tayle, from that naturall painteinge; the great grouper, from
his odde and strange gruntinge. OED2 1668
angulary 1755 John Smith The Printer’s
Grammar (facsimile ed. 1965) p. 137 We shall be enabled to make Flowerpieces of
oval, circulary, and angulary turns. OED2 1474 only
anhelous 1735 John Atkins A Voyage to
Guinea, Brazil, & the West Indies in his Majesty’s Ships, the Swallow and Weymouth
(facsimile reprint 1970) p. 142 The Sun heats and rarefies the Air exceedingly, in all
Latitudes within the Zodiack, (evident from the anhelous Condition it subjects most
Animals to in Calms). OED2 †1684
anker 1773 ( 1963 ) John Harrower The Journal of
John Harrower Dec. 8. 1773 Giving Mr. Ochonachie 1/2 Anker of butter which cost
me 10/6 Str. for my passage. In Shetland. Editor notes “ a dry measure, as an
anker of potatoes, onethird of a barrel. ..Edmonston .. Glossary .. Shetland Orkney
Dialect 1866” OED2 lacks this sense, unless = sense 3 †1597
annata 1613 ( 1928 ) Robert Harcourt A
Relation of a Voyage to Guiana (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. LX) p. 100 There is a
red Berry called Annoto, which being rightly prepared by the Indians, dyeth a perfect
and sure Orange tawny in silke. OED2 1682 (but see quot. specklewood
1619)
antes ( n ) 1810 ( 1951 ) John E. Caldwell A Tour
through Part of Virginia p. 38 Through the antes of the house, from N. to S. on the
cellar floor, is a passage of 300 feet long, leading to two wings or ranges of building
of one story, that stand equidistant from each end of the house. (Jefferson’s
Monticello) ? Not the antes of OED2
apart v 1541 ( 1932 ) Roger Barlow A Briefe Summe of
Geographie
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. LXIX) p. 83 Some hath opynion that ciapago and the ilond
doro that is by Java wch be aparted from the mayne lande 1500 leges toward gaticora
shuld be thei.
OED2 1563
apart v 1541 ( 1932 ) Roger Barlow A Briefe Summe of
Geographie
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. LXIX) p. 141 He .. aparteth from the aultar, goyng
backward litle and litle and never aparteth his eyes from the aultar.
OED2 1563 sense 2 1574
apart v 1541 ( 1932 ) Roger Barlow A Briefe Summe of
Geographie
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. LXIX) p. 145 The sacerdotes entres into the batttel
and aparteth the one from the other.
OED2 1563
apete (appete) 1694 ( 1866 ) “A gentleman” “ one
Stuart” Letter in Robert Calef (1700) More Wonders of the Invisible World (1866
ed. reprinted 1970) p.179 No man can apete Evil as Evil. OED2 †1685
apostrophize 1632 A. H. [Henry Hawkins]
Partheneia Sacra (facsimile ed. in English Recusant Literature 15581640 Vol.
81 1971) p. 4 And after al, shalt thou inuite him to Apostrophize with the Paragon
PARTHENES herself. OED2 1725
appearer 1776 ( 1972 ) John Bynoe Protest, Aug. 24,
1776, inNaval Documents of the American Revolution Vol.6 p. 296 And
Persevering in the said Protest the said Appearer hath hereunto set his hand the day
and Year first within written. (Before the Governor of Bermuda) OED2
sense 2 1863
appendix 1607 ( 1955 ) Dobsons Drie
Bobbes Ch. 3 p. 20 They concluded .. they would fasten to the appendix ouer the
Haberdashers doore, a paire of bulls hornes, with a pageant betwixt them, wherein they
caused to be painted a man in his shoppe selling hattes, and a Butcher in a parlour with
his wife. Apparently some more specific sense than in OED2
applaudity 1608 ( 1969 ) John Healey A true
relation .. (John Smith) in Jamestown Voyages under the First Charter (Hakluyt Soc.
2nd ser. cxxxvi)
p.166, 167 An vnskillful actor .. craues pardon for his rashnes, and in fine,
receiues a generall applauditie of the whole assemblie.
If worthy an applauditie, to reserve it to the Author. Introduction by I. H., identified by
Hakluyt Soc. editor OED2 1623
applejohn 1580 ( 1582 ) Instructions to
explorers of the Muscovy Co., in Divers Voyages Touching the Discouerie of America
(facsimile ed. 1966) p. I2 verso For banketing on Shipborde, persons of credite
..
The Apple John that dureth two yeeres to make showe of our fruites. OED2
1597
apply 1699 ( 1981 ) Edmond Halley Journal, Dec. 4,
1698, in The Three Voyages of Edmond Halley in the Paramore (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd ser.
vol. 156)
p. 145 This Morning the Moon Aplyed to a Starr in Virgo. OED2 cf.
sense 2a
appositive a 1571 ( 1963 ) William Bourne An
Almanacke and Prognostication for three yeares ..
in A Regiment for the Sea
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. CXXI) p. 70 The full moone is, when that the Sunne
and moone be appositiue. OED2 1693
appraisement 1590 ( 1959 ) in English
Privateering Voyages to the West Indies 15881595 (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. CXI)
p. 56 The appraisemente and valewacion of the good shippe called the Blacke Dogge
with here tacle and furniture and suche goodes as is in her. OED2 1642
apprizement 1783 ( 1975 ) Abigail Adams Letter
to John Adams, Nov. 11, 1783 in The Book of Abigail and John p. 370 It [part of a
farm] will sell for more than the apprizement. OED2 1605 only
approachability 1842 ( 1953 ) Abraham Lincoln
Temperance address, Feb. 22, 1842, in Collected works of Abraham Lincoln Vol.
I p. 272 Between these [preachers, lawyers, and hired agents] and the mass of
mankind, there is a want of approachability, if the term be admissible. OED2
1851 only
appropinquation 1553 ( 1988 ) William Baldwin
Beware the Cat 2nd part p. 31 I .. put off my left shoe, because of Jupiter’s
appropinquation; and laid the fox tail under my foot. (First published 1570.
Normalized spelling) OED2 1628
appui n 1688 ( 1974 ) George Etherege Letter Feb.
23, 1688, in Letters of Sir George Etherege
p. 181 In this alliance you seem to have had an equall regard to your Love and your
ambition. The daughter is the most beautifull object that you can sigh for, and the father
is the best appuy this can desire. OED2 sense 1 †1601
appui v 1688 ( 1974 ) George Etherege Letter Nov.
18, 1688, in Letters of Sir George Etherege
p. 253 That impertinent noisie Fool .. had the insolence to preach Burnets false Doctrine
that the Prince of Wales is suppos’d, appuying it with his Texts out of his late Memorial
forg’d under the name of the Protestants of England. OED2 dict. 1656, usage
1813
aprication 1881 ( 1887 ) Oliver W. Holmes Talk
concerning the human body and its management in
Pages from an Old Volume of Life 7th ed. p. 209 Very few persons seem to have a
due sense of the luxury and benefit of aprication, or immersion in the sunshine bath,
which every fair day will furnish gratuitously to all applicants. CHECK ORIGINAL DATE
1857 < >1881 OED2 1623 only; apricate 1858
arboret n2 1651 ( 1984 ) Thomas Vaughan
Lumen de Lumine in The Works of Thomas Vaughan
p. 306 We came out of our Arboret and Court of Bayes. OED2 †1612
Arches 1612 ( 1953 ) William Strachey The
Historie of Travell into Virginia Britania
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd Ser., No. CIII) p. 70 Muskeetoes (kyndes of Flyes, or byting Gnatts,
such as the Greeks called Scynipes, as yet in great swarmes within the Arches).
OED2 1626
armament 1775 ( 1964 ) Frederick Derry Letter, June
25, 1775 in Naval Documents of the American Revolution Vol. 1 p. 495 All the letters
agree in the account of an Universal armament. OED2 sense 4 1813
armistice 1687 ( 1974 ) George Etherege Letter
Feb. 12, 1687, in Letters of Sir George Etherege
p. 87 The French urge the Treating of a peace is part of the Execution of the Armistice.
OED2 dict. 1707; usage a1733
arning, harning 1767 ( 1914 ) Abraham Pereira
Mendes Letter, Nov. 1, 1767, in Commerce of Rhode Island 17261800 Vol.
1, p. 207 One of his Men .. fell from the topmast head struck on the Harning and fell
overboard.
This will inform you of my safe arrival .. without any accident except the los of Six
Sheep; they being over crouded in the Arnings.
(Henry Davenant letter, Nov. 6, 1773, p. 460) . ? OED2 lacks, unless = awning
arrivage 1674 ( 1988 ) John Josselyn Two Voyages
to New England p. 195
(1988 ed. as John Josselyn, Colonial Traveler p. 134) In September following my
Arrivage in the Massachusets about the twelfth hour of the eight day. OED2
†1627
arsheen 1566 ( 1891 ) Arthur Edwards
Letter, Apr. 26, 1566, in Hakluyt’s Principall Navigations (1589 ed.) inEarly Voyages
and Travels to Russia and Persia (Hakluyt Soc. Ser. 1, No. LXXXIII p. 391 Your
London reds are not to be sent hither, for they will not giue aboue 18. shaughes their
arshine. OED2 1734
Articles of war 1670 1671 ( 1683 ) Sir James Turner Pallas
Armata (facsimile ed. 1968) Bk. III Ch. ix p. 203 These reasons have given a just
rise to Military Laws, which ordinarily are called Articles of War. OED2 1716
artillerist 1776 ( 1968 ) Maj. Gen. William Heath
Memoirs, July 12, 1776, inNaval Documents of the American Revolution Vol.5
p. 1041 Several American artillerists were killed and wounded, by the bursting of
some of our own cannon. OED2 1778 (this is sense 2 1781)
asinego 1599 ( 1893 ) Thomas Dallam
Journal inEarly Voyages and Travels in the Levant
(Hakluyt Soc.1st. Ser. No. LXXXVI) p. 14 They have also great store of Camels,
assis, asnegoes, oxon, horsis, and some dromedaries. OED2 1606, sense
1 (lit.) 1634
asperous 1541 ( 1932 ) Roger Barlow A Briefe
Summe of Geographie
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. LXIX) p. 102 In this ilond thei gather moche blode of
dracons, it is a tree called draco, it groweth upon the serres very asperous and hie.
Barlow translated a Spanish book and sometimes simply anglicised Spanish
words (such as serres ). Possibly asperous also. OED2 1547
aspirate 1699 ( 1934 ) Lionel Wafer A New Voyage and
Description of the Isthmus of America
Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. LXXIII (reprint 1967) p. 110 Both [Gaelic and Darien
Indian] being spoken pretty much in the Throat, with frequent Aspirates. OED2
1725
assinuasion 1609 Robert Johnson Nova
Britannia, Offring most Excellent fruites by Planting in Virginia p.C1r How we can
warrant a supplantation of those Indians, or assinuasion into their right and
possessions. OED2 lacks, but cf. assinuate “corrupt form of insinuate 1742”
assurance 1618 William Cape The
Chronicle and Institution of the Order of .. S. Francis
(transl. of original of Marcos Da Silva) (facsimile ed. as English Recusant Literature
15581640 Vol. 357 1977)
p. 415 The fift degree [of perfection] is called asseurance because .. it expelleth
all feare out of the soule. OED2 sense 8b 1651 (Protestant)
asterise 1821 ( 1959 ) John Adams Letter to
Thomas Jefferson , Aug. 20, 1821 in The Adams
Jefferson Letters p. 574 Floyd is gone! You and Jay and Carrol are all who
remain. We shall all be asterised very soon. OED2 lacks
athumy (athymy) 1822 ( 1959 ) Thomas Jefferson
Letter to John Adams, June1,1822 in The Adams
Jefferson Letters p. 577 When all our faculties have left, or are leaving us, one
by one, sight, hearing, memory, every avenue of pleasing sensation is closed, and
athumy, debility and malaise left in their places. OED2 athymy 1853
dict., no quot.
attackable 1779 ( 1780 ) Lieut. Gen. J. Burgoyne
A State of the expedition from Canada
p. 58 Did it appear to you that wing of the
enemy was attackable?
OED2 1813
auditorship 1583 M. M. S. The Spanish
Colonie (transl. of de las Casas) (facsimile reprint 1966) p. F1 recto This man ..
was promoted to bee president of Mexico, and of all the provinces of new Spaine, and
there were promoted with him other tyrauntes, to the offices of Auditorshippes.
OED2 1779
OED2 lacks this sense
bastile 1775 ( 1939 ) Janet SchawThe Journal of a
Lady of Quality (3rd ed.) p. 219 I was vastly pleased to behold the noble buildings as
we sailed along the coast [of the Bay of St Ubes, Portugal], till I was informed by the
pilot, that they were, in general, bastiles — oh sound of horror and fear to a British ear.
OED2 ? sense 4 1790
bat n3 1758 ( 1951 ) George Washington Letter, July 3,
1758, in The Papers of Henry Bouquet
Vol. 2 p. 159 Leaving my Regimentals at this place .. — the Reduction of BatHorses
alone is sufficient to recommend it, for nothing is more certain than that less Baggage
will be requird. OED2 1793 for bat equines
batman 1566 ( 1891 ) Arthur Edwards
Letter, Apr. 26, 1566, in Hakluyt’s Principall Navigations (1589 ed.) inEarly Voyages
and Travels to Russia and Persia (Hakluyt Soc. Ser. 1, No. LXXXIII p. 388 Here
is at this time bought for England 11. packes of raw e silke, 25. and 26 batmans being
in euery packe. The batman being 7. li., which may be 6. li. and a halfe of English
waight. OED2 1599
bauble 1592 ( 1975 ) Thomas Cavendish The
Last Voyage of Thomas Cavendish 15911592 p. 94
(ms. p. 19 line 8) Some of the hare braine sailers begane to sweare .. that hee was a
Cowarde .. that durste not lande vppon a bable diche as they tearmed hit. OED2
sense 6 1606
bawman (bowman, batman) 1775 ( 1967 ) Edmund
Pendleton Letters and Papers Let. to W. Christian Nov. 13,1775
(Va. Hist. Soc.) Vol. I p.129 The committee do not approve of any Bawman, being
taken out of the Ranks. Editor footnotes “Pendleton misspelled the word ‘bowman,’
meaning batman.” and cites DAE bowman 1859. But “baw” is phonetic equivalent of
the French. OED 2 lacks
bawse (= balsa) 1628 Francis Fletcher
The World Encompassed by Sir Francis Drake
(facsimile reprint 1966) p. 55 Certain bawses made of Seales skins; of which two
being ioyned together of a iust length, and side by side, resemble in fashion or forme a
boate: they haue in either of them a small gutt, or some such thing blowne full of winde;
by reason whereof it floateth. OED2 lacks bawse ; balsa 1777
bay n5 1547 ( 1975 ) Account in Sidney
Ironworks Accounts 15411573
(Camden 4th Ser. Vol. 15) p. 63 For Repacions aboute the bay ..
iiii li v s v d. repacion =reparation OED2 sense 2 1581
bay ice 1819 Capt. John Ross A Voyage of
Discovery for the purpose of Exploring
Baffins Bay p. xxxv Bay Ice, newlyformed ice, having the colour of the water.
OED2 lacks as entry, but in 1853 quot. under young.
BeachlaMar 1891 ( 1987 ) Robert LouisStevenson
In the South Seas ii p. 12 (Hogarth Press ed.) An efficient pidgin, what is
called to the westward “BeachlaMar,” comes easily to the Polynesian. Periodical
pub. 1891; book pub. 1896 OED2 1911
beachlamar (bêchedemer) 1817 Amasa
Delano A Narrative of Voyages and Travel in the Northern and Southern
Hemispheres (facsimile ed. 1970)
Ch. IV p. 100 The trader would receive .. a great abundance of the beachlemar,
a kind of slug found every where on the shores of these islands, and which the Asiatic
epicures consider as a great luxury. OED2 has only French form for the
animal, and only secondary meaning of a jargon for the English form.
beam v 1817 Amasa Delano A Narrative
of Voyages and Travel in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres (facsimile ed. 1970)
Ch. XVII p. 306 They take off all the fat, and some of the lean with the skin [of a
seal], as the more weight there is to the skin the easier it will beam. OED2
sense 4 no quot. 1605< >1885
bearded 1755 John Smith The Printer’s
Grammar (facsimile ed. 1965) p. 11 The purchaser .. ought to take notice .. whether
it be well Bearded. OED2 bearded sense 5b listed, no quot.; beard sense 11e
1823
beat 1582 ( 1976 ) Richard MadoxDiary, July 10, 1582,
in An Elizabethan in 1582
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. 147) p. 151 We beat up and down and did no good.
OED2 sense 19a 1677, but see slip Jourdain 1608
beat v 1608 ( 1905 ) John Jourdain Journal, Oct. 29,
1608, in The Journal of John Jourdain, 16081617 (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. XVI)
(reprint 1967) p. 22 Not beinge able to double Cape Romania .. it was
resolved not to lye beatinge too and againe, but lett rise our tackes and beare up betwixt
Saint Lawrence and the mayne. OED2 sense 19a 1677, but see slip Madox
1582
beathing 1676 ( 1953 ) John Locke Feb. 16, 1676, in
Locke’s Travels in France p. 42 A wooden trident used in stables, the teeth set like our
prongs by beathing. OED2 †1591
becalm 1582 ( 1959 ) Edward Fenton Sea
Journal in The Troublesome Voyage of Captain Edward Fenton (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser.
No. CXIII) p.112 Becalmed all those twentie foure howers. OED2 sense
2a (literal) 1595; sense 2b (figurative) 1559
bedung 1615 ( 1934 ) in Peter Floris, his
Voyage to the East Indies in the Globe 16111615 (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. LXXIV)
(reprint 1967) p. 102 Pedra Branca being butt a rocke full of fowle and bedunged,
which causeth the toppe to bee white, whereof it beareth the name. OED2 1639
begin 1582 ( 1976 ) Richard MadoxDiary, Feb. 22,
1582, in An Elizabethan in 1582
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. 147) p. 89 The man .. began to his wyf but swapt al of. I
pledge you sir, quoth she, and going to fil more. OED2 sense 5 (= pledge or toast)
1628
beglerbeg c 1582 ( 1977 ) William Cecil, Lord
Burghley Notes, in S. A. SkilliterWilliam Harborne and the Trade with Turkey 1578
1582 p. 178 Tripoli .. — ther is a bassa that is chaunged every third yere, sent
from Constantinople, he is under ye beglierby of Aleppo. OED2 1594
begum 1617 ( 1899 ) Thomas . Roe Letter, Dec.
18, 1617, in The Embassy of Sir Thomas Roe to the Court of the Great Mogul
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No.I/2) (reprint 1967) p. 454 Wee had taken the ships and
their Company that offered to robb the Beagams junck. OED2 1634 (this
quot. in 1985 ed. of HobsonJobson)
bejade 1671 ( 1992 ) Henry More Letter, May 29,
1671, in The Conway Letters p. 333 I have been hugely bejaded with my former and
this sizour more than with any hackney, which is a vexation not [to] be understood by
any but those that are putt to it. OED2 sense 1 †1641
belay 1783 ( 1969 ) William Williams Mr. Penrose
The Journal of Penrose, Seaman p. 256 “Havast, take a turn there, and Belay
that, Messmate, if you please.”
Thus we finished or belay’d our argument for that time. OED2 sense 5c
1796
bell tent 1758 ( 1972 ) Gen. John Forbes Letter,
May 29, 1758, in The Papers of Henry Bouquet
Vol. 1 p. 379 All the Demands made from Col: Armstrong and Burds Regts. are to be
forthwith sent up to Carlisle except the Bell tents that I shall order to be provided.
OED2 1785
bellbuoy 1849 ( 1986 ) Herman Melville
Redburn ch. 27 Penguin ed. p.189 I soon learned from my ship
mates, that this was the famous BellBuoy, which is precisely what its name implies.
(Was a bellbuoy really as unfamiliar and remarkable in 1839 as the paragraph
implies?) OED2 1884; 1838 “bellboy (sic)” from the brief quote seems to really be
“boy”
belt 1644 ( 1944 ) George Cleeve Letter, Nov,
27, 1644, in Winthrop Papers Vol. 4 p. 434 Mr. Jurdin a ministar of Antichrist ..
Belteth out his blasfemise against the Churches of Christ in this land. OED2
sense 4c 1953
bender 1648 Bp. John Wilkins
Mathematicall magick; or, the wonders that can be
performed by mechanicall geometry
( in 1802 Works Vol. II p. 161)
These bows being somewhat like the long bows in use among us, were bent only by a
man’s immediate strength, without the help of any bender or rack. (spelling may be
modernized to 1802)
OED2 1684
bengal 1781 ( 1975 ) Abigail Adams Letter
to John Adams, Dec. 9, 1781 in The Book of Abigail and John p. 304 There are
some articles which come from India I should suppose would be lower priced than many
others bengalls, Nankeens, persian Silk and Bandano hankerchiefs. OED2
† last 1755 exc. hist.
benipped 1775 ( 1964 ) Vice Adm. Samuel Graves
Dispatch to Philip Stevens Jan. 15, 1775 in
Naval Documents of the American Revolution Vol. 1 p. 62 The Pilot ignorantly
anchored her at high Water in a spot where she had not Room to live afloat, and where
she was benipped four and twenty hours. OED2 lacks, but cf. nip sense
1d (nipped by ice)
berg 1819 Capt. John Ross A Voyage of
Discovery for the purpose of Exploring
Baffins Bay p.40 This berg had remained aground in the same place since last year.
OED2 1823
berogue 1772 ( 1914 ) Henry Cruger, Jr. Letter, Dec.
1, 1772, in Commerce of Rhode Island 17261800 Vol. 1, p. 422 They deceived me,
abused you, and berogued many. . OED2 †a1733 Here apparently “to act the
rogue” rather than “to call a rogue.”
beswaddle 1603 ( 1929 ) * The Batchelars
Banquet Ch. III p. 23 (orig. p. C1) I thinke I beswaddeld my maid in such
sort, that she will have small list to do so againe. *Anon. Editor (F. P. Wilson)
doubts attrib. to Dekker (as OED2), suggests Robert Tofte. OED2 sense 2 1598 dict.
only, no usage quot.
betel 1541 ( 1932 ) Roger Barlow A Briefe Summe of
Geographie
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. LXIX) p. 144 She eteth of a certen mete called betola,
wher wt she shalbe as insensible and feling no thing. OED2 1553
bezonion 1590 ( 1972 ) Sir Roger Williams A
Brief Discourse of Warre (p. B4v)
in The Works of Sir Roger Williams p. 13 The cowardlie besonions perceiuing our
resolution, before we could arriue within 3. miles of them, all their footmen ran away to
Lisborne. OED2 1592
bier 1779 ( 1780 ) Lieut. Gen. J. Burgoyne A
State of the expedition from Canada
p. 97 Different propositions were made for the
removing them
[the wounded], such as biers and handbarrows.
OED2 Sense 1 (for other than corpses) † < c1600, exc. hist.
The Blankets, a Resemblance hath
Of Mercy in the midst of Wrath. OED2 sense 4 1824
blare (v ) 1744 ( 1960 ) Benjamin Franklin An Account
of the New Invented Pennsylvanian FirePlaces in Papers of Benjamin F ranklin Vol.
2 p. 437 When you burn Candles near this FirePlace, you will find that the Flame
burns quite upright, and does not blare and run the Tallow down, by drawing toward the
chimney. OED2 sense 4. “To sweal, or melt away, as a Candle does. Bailey
1721 . Obs.o”
blast 1776 ( 1972 ) Daniel Joy Letter, Sep. 24, 1776,
inNaval Documents of the American Revolution Vol.6 p. 978 They intend to put
their Furnace out of Blast in 10 or 15 day. OED2 sense 4c 1780
blawly 1831 Mary Prince The History of Mary
Prince p. 10. Facsimile reprint in Six Women’s Slave Narratives (1988) We came
home at twelve; ate our corn soup, called blawly. (On Turk Island, West Indies)
OED2 lacks
blaze 1778 ( 1789 ) Thomas Anburey Travels
through the Interior Parts of America
in a Series of Letters (1969 facsimile ed.) Vol. II p.81 If a soldier comes the least
near them they level at him, and say. “I swear now, if you attempt to pass, I’ll blaze at
you.” (Continental soldiers)
(Dated letters appear concocted from recollections or notes, but should be reliable for
usage at date) OED2 has only “blaze away” 1826 DAE 1776
blazing iron 1777 ( 1789 ) Thomas Anburey
Travels through the Interior Parts of America
in a Series of Letters (1969 facsimile ed.) Vol. II p. 218 A New Englander riding in
the woods with his blazing iron (the term they give to a musket or gun). (Dated letters
appear concocted from recollections or notes, but should be reliable for usage at date)
OED I has only “blaze away” 1826 THIS QUOTE IN DAE
blemish 1606 ( 1943 ) Edmund Scott An Exact
Discourse in The Voyage of Sir Henry Middleton to the Moluccas (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd.
Ser. No. LXXXVIII)
p. 121Because hee never blemished at that, we thought that his handes and legges
had beene nummed with tying; wherefore wee burned him in the armes, shoulders and
necke.
OED2 sense 5 1530 only
blender 1622 ( 1848 ) The Observations
of Sir Richard Hawkins Knight, in his Voyage into the South Sea in The Hawkins’
Voyages
(2nd ed. date? Hakluyt Soc. Ser. 1, No. LVII, reprint date?) §lxi p. 306 A certaine
defence, made of foure or five inch planckes, of five foote high, and sixe foote broad,
running upon wheeles, and placed in such partes of the shippe as are most open.
These they name blenders. (Blinders ? But e for i is not attested in blind or
derivatives.) OED2 lacks
blind story 1793 ( 1966 ) Thomas Jefferson The
Family Letters of Thomas Jefferson to M. J. Randolph May 26, 1793 p. 119 We
have two blind stories here. The one that Dumourier has gone over to the Austrians.
The authority for this is an English paper. ..
We concluded the story fabricated.
Apparently means a false or unconfirmed ( or possibly unattributed) story. In any
case, OED2’s def. “ one without point” does not fit here (nor seem required by OED2’s
quots.)
blockade 1670 1671 ( 1683 ) Sir James Turner Pallas
Armata (facsimile ed. 1968) Bk. III Ch. xxiv p. 314 The third way to take Fortified
places, is by Siege, and it is twofold, either by not making approaches, which is called a
Blockade, or by approaching, and this is more properly called a Siege. OED2
1693
blockmaker 1776 ( 1968 ) John Hancock Letter, Mar. 7,
1776, inNaval Documents of the American Revolution Vol.4 p.218 Do be Carefull to
Engage good Blockmakers & let every Article be well Executed. A trade in ship
building. Block apparently in sense 5. OED2 lacks
bloom n2 1555 ( 1975 ) Building Account in
Sidney Ironworks Accounts 15411573
(Camden 4th Ser. Vol. 15) p. 121 Delyvered unto the hamerman iii blomes and a
halfe to be leed under the andvyld wayeng on hondred of yeren.
Ed. (D. W. Crossley) notes “Although the term is properly given to the product of
the bloomery hearth, .. in these documents it was used for the lump of wrought iron
produced in the finery hearth at the forge, before it was drawn out into bar under the
hammer.” OED2 no quot. a1000< >1674
bloomy 1582 ( 1976 ) Richard MadoxDiary, June
24, 1582, in An Elizabethan in 1582
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. 147) p. 149 So long as the north wynd blew yt was cooler
than yn Ingland, but now yt is blomy and hot. OED2 1620
blower 1617 ( 1971 ) Capt. William Keeling
Journal, Apr. 19, 1617, in The East India Company Journals of Capt. William
Keeling and Master Thomas Bonner, 16151617 p. 163 We brought our new
sailes to the yards, now expecting blowers. OED2 lacks this sense
blubber 1582 ( 1976 ) Richard MadoxDiary, July
23, 1582, in An Elizabethan in 1582
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. 147) p. 154 Hear we met with a number of things cauled
blubbers lyke unto red bryer bawles a handful stil under the water. OED2
sense 2 1602
blubber c 1613 ( 1881 ) Robert Fotherby? in
The Voyages of William Baffin (Hakluyt Soc. 1st. Ser. No.LXIII) p. 75 Another, who
stands either in the boat or upon the whale, cutts and scores the fatt, whch we call
blubber. OED2 sense 4 1664, but see slip 1601
bluejoint grass 1777 ( 1986 ) Abner Sanger
Journal, Aug. 2, 1777, in Very Poor and of a Lo Make,
The Journal of Abner Sanger p. 138 Thurston and I go to mowing down by the river.
We mow the bluejoint grass. New Hampshire OED2 lacks; DA and DARE
1832 (NH also)
blueback 1842 ( 1968 ) William Johnson Diary,
Mar. 9, 1842 in William Johnson’s Natchez
Vol I p. 376 Blue backs or Commercial money has Created a good deal of Excitement
to day. OED2 cf. sense 2 1869
blyter 1582 ( 1976 ) Richard MadoxDiary, July 1, 1582,
in An Elizabethan in 1582
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. 147) p. 149 Under ther bellys [of sharks] we fynd lytle
blyters of 6 ynches long which hath a flat holo head lyke a . . . so that you wold
ymagine his back to be his belly. Evidently describing a remora. ??
board 1582 ( 1959 ) Richard Madox in An Elizabethan
in 1582
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. 147) p. 292 Wee mett with a south wynd so that we were
constrayned to run fyrst upon one boord and after on an other. OED2 has
only board and board 1926, but see 1867 quot. under trip sense 4 and slip for Halley
1699
board 1699 ( 1981 ) Edmond Halley Journal, Sep. 21,
1698, in The Three Voyages of Edmond Halley in the Paramore (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd ser.
vol. 156)
p. 123 The wind being about W S W obliged us to make severall boards before
we got to our Anchoring place. OED2 has only board and board 1926, but
see 1867 quot. under trip sense 4 and slip for Madox 1582
boatswain 1828 Capt. William E. Parry
Narrative of an Attempt to Reach the North Pole p. 78 Today we saw only
one kittiwake, and a boatswain (lestris parasiticus). OED2 sense 2 1835
bobsled 1776 ( 1986 ) Abner Sanger Journal, Mar.
25, 1775, in Very Poor and of a Lo Make,
The Journal of Abner Sanger p. 92
I cut up the maple top that come off the bobsled. New Hampshire OED2
1839
bogtrotting ppla. 1696 ( 1951 ) Richard Bovet A Poem
Humbly presented to His most Excellent Majesty King William the Third Upon His most
Miraculous and Happy Preservation from that Barbarous Jacobitish Conspiracy to
Assasinate His Royal Person line 16
(in Richard Bovet Pandaemonium 1951 ed. p. 144) Of Hated Vagabonds, and
Bigotted Fools,
BogTrotting Ruffians, Mercenary Tools. OED2 1762; bogtrot v. 1734
(bogtrotter 1682)
boggle 1821 ( 1959 ) John Adams Letter to
Thomas Jefferson , Feb. 3, 1821 in The Adams
Jefferson Letters p. 572 After a total desuetude of 40 years I boggled and
blundered more than a young fellow just rising to speak at the bar. OED2
sense 4 1853
boggy 1582 ( 1935 ) Richard Hakluyt Divers
Voyages Touching the Discouerie of America (facsimile ed. 1966) p. K3 verso If the
soyles adioyning to such conuenient hauen and setling places be founde marshie and
boggie, then men skilful in draining are to be caried thither. OED2 1586
bolling c 1624 ( 1929 ) Grievances for
consideration by Parliament, Winthrop Papers Vol. 1 p 297 Noe owner or Farmor that
shall fell any tymber tree or Bowlyng for his own buildinges or reparacons but to plant 2
trees for euery one that he felleth .. and whosoeuer shall fell any tymber tree or
Bowlinge to sell, to plant 3 trees for euery one that he felleth. OED2 1691
boltrope 1615 ( 1971 ) Capt. William Keeling
Journal, Mar. 5, 1615, in The East India Company Journals of Capt. William
Keeling and Master Thomas Bonner, 16151617 p. 62 The boltrope of our
sprittsayle bonnet being too small brake and splitt the sayle. OED2 1626
bomber 1690 ( 1906 ) Samuel Pepys Memoires
Relating to the State of the Royal Navy of England
(reprinted 1971) p. 116 A List and State of the whole Royal Navy ..on the 18. day of
December 1688 ..
Bombers
FireDrake
Portsmouth
Salamander Portsmouth was in service in 1686, FireDrake and Salamander
added thereafter OED2 bomb sense 4a 1704; bomb ship 1695;
bomber (other senses) 1915
bonavist 1674 ( 1988 ) John Josselyn Two Voyages
to New England p. 74
(1988 ed. as John Josselyn, Colonial Traveler p. 53) Your Bonavis and Calavances
and the kidneybean. OED2 1700, but see quot. under yam 1657
bonder 1777 ( 1980 ) Abstract of bond,
Apr. 28, 1777, inNaval Documents of the American Revolution Vol.8 p. 458
Chase, Continental ship. Guns: 6 Crew: 20
Bond: $10,000. Captain: Benjamin Chew.
Bonders: Benjamin Chew, Stephen Steward OED2 lacks this sense
bonito 1541 ( 1932 ) Roger Barlow A Briefe
Summe of Geographie
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. LXIX) p. 149 Ther is another sort of fysshes called
bonytas, and be as bigge as a smal milwell, and thes swymmes alwaie a grete nomber
of them together in the reme of the water and baite upon the boladoros. Barlow
adapted a Spanish book and sometimes simply anglicised Spanish words, but here
appears to be drawing on his own experience (on Spanish ships). boladoros=flyingfish
OED2 1599 but see slip Madox 1582
bonito 1582 ( 1976 ) Richard MadoxDiary, June
17, 1582, in An Elizabethan in 1582 (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. 147) p. 143
Dyvers told us what plenty of bonettoes and dolphins we shold have al this way
but hytherto we smackt no byt of fresh fysh. OED2 1599 but see slip
Barlow 1541
booby 1628 ( 1914 ) Peter Mundy Journal in The
Travels of Peter Mundy, in Europe and Asia 16081667 Rel. IV (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser.
No. XXXV) Vol. 2 p. 16 Sondrey sorts of strange sea Fowle, among the rest a
Boobye, which, lighting on our Yardes, suffereth himselfe to be taken with Mens hands.
OED2 sense 2 1634
boodle 1828 John Neal Rachel Dyer
(facsimile ed. 1964) Ch. XIII p. 160 Here you men, I say! — Whose afeard among
the whole boodle
of you? OED2 1833 (Neal also)
booklike 1553 ( 1988 ) William Baldwin
Beware the Cat epistle dedicatory p. 3I have divided his oration into three
parts, and set the argument before them and an instruction after them, with such notes
as might be gathered thereof, so making it booklike. (First published 1570.
Normalized spelling) OED2 1839 only
boom a 1595 ( 1618 ) Sir Roger Williams The Actions
of the Lowe Countries p. Q4v
in The Works of Sir Roger Williams (1972) p. 144 There was nothing to defend
them, but a paultery bome; which God knowes, could neuer haue endured one push of
the smallest vessel. OED2 sense 3a 1645; but see slip Winthrop 1627
boom 1627 ( 1929 ) John Winthrop, Jr. Letter, Sep. 1627, in
Winthrop Papers Vol. 1 p 359 They have made a boome with mastes chained
together which lieth crosse that place where they shold go in so they must needes be
foul eyther of the shipes or that. (The English on the expedition to Rochelle) OED2
sense 3a 1645; but see slip Williams a1595
boom (v2 ) 1776 ( 1968 ) Lt. Col. Henry B. Livingston Letter,
May 21, 1776, inNaval Documents of the American Revolution Vol.5 p. 187 On
the West side the River is an Eminence that Commands a Long reach both up and
down the River if it should be thought Necessary to Boom Across I think it much more
practicable there. OED2 sense 2 1879
boor 1817 Amasa Delano A Narrative
of Voyages and Travel in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres (facsimile ed. 1970)
Ch. XXVII p. 548 The colony is divided into four classes, namely the people of Cape
Town who are chiefly in the commercial line; the vine cultivators..; the grain farmer and
the grazier. The two latter are called boors, and are a wretched set of slothful, indolent
men. OED2 sense 2b 1824
boot hose tops 1775 ( 1968 ) Lord Commrs.
Admiralty Orders, Dec. 15, 1775 inNaval Documents of the American
Revolution Vol.3 p. 424 Having given directions to the Navy Board to supply the Ship
you command with proper materials for giving her Boot hose tops; .. You are hereby
required and directed to cause Boot hose tops to be given her accordingly.
?? OED2 lacks
boottop 1705 ( 1927 ) Capt. Joseph TolsonLetter, Dec.
25, 1705, in The Papers of Thomas Bowrey Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. LVIII (reprint
1967) p. 258 I found my Ship to be in greate danger of the Worme which had already
touched her, although I had Given her two boote tops since
my departure from England. OED2 sense 2 verb 1724; noun 1768
borrow v2 1574 ( 1963 ) William Bourne A
Regiment for the Sea
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. CXXI) p. 272 There be againe some sandes and
daungers that there is no borrowing nor sounding of them, and those be neall or deepe,
harde vnto the sandes or daungers. OED2 1622, but see slip Davis 1605;
lacks vbln.
borrow ( v2 ) 1605 ( 1880 ) John Davis Mr. John Daves his
observations Voyaging from Acheane
to Tecoe and Priaman
in Voyages and Works of John Davis
(Hakluyt Soc.) p. 186
There is shold watt’r and bankes of stone, but you may borrow of
them with your lead in Seven fathoms. OED2 1622, but see slip bourne 1584
bosse (bossy or boss) 1772 ( 1975 ) John Adams
Letter to Abigail Adams May 1772 in The Book of Abigail and John p.51
I almost want to go and see the Bosse Calfs’s as often
as Charles does. OED2 bossy 1844 or possibly the Eng. dial. boss (1790) “ six
month calf” given under etymology of boss (n7 ), but not listed as headword.
bottlearsed, etc. 1755 John Smith The Printer’s
Grammar (facsimile ed. 1965) **Luckombe 1770/1 quots. in OED2 that should be
attributed to Smith:
Bottlearsed p. 11; Reglet p. 110; Scratched p. 70; Pigeonhole p. 113, 114;
Modelize p. 117; Separatrix p. 132; Retrogate p. 212; Quotation p. 134
bottlenose 1620 ( 1982 ) John Mason A
Briefe Discourse of the Newfoundland
in Newfoundland Discovered
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. 160) p. 94 The sea fowles, are Gulls white and gray,
Penguins, Sea Pigeons,
Ice Birds, Bottle noses, with other sortes strange in shape. OED2 sense 3
(puffin) 1678 only
OED2 has this quot. for icebird
bouge ( n1 ) 1684 ( 1989 ) Francis Howard
Proclamation concerning tobacco casks in Papers of Francis Howard, Baron
Howard of Effingham p.116 The gage by Act of the Assembly, being forty three
Inches in length, and twenty six Inches wide in the head, with a bouge proportionable.
OED2 sense 3 1741
bounce 1810 ( 1912 ) Margaret Van Horn Dwight
A Journey to Ohio in 1810 p. 54 The landlord & his wife were extremely clever
— they gave us a great many apples & some cherry bounce. OED2 lacks as
entry but see 1949 quot. for rum cherry under rum sense 3
bourgeois 1755 John Smith The Printer’s
Grammar (facsimile ed. 1965) We have .. between Longprimer and Brevier, Burjois.
(p. 30)
Burgeois is a Letter of an irregular Body.. By its name it seems to have first come from
France; and that it was dedicated to the Master Printers there. (p. 146)
OED2 1824
bowieknife 1836 ( 1968 ) William Johnson Diary,
Nov. 2, 1836 in William Johnson’s Natchez
Vol I p. 76 E. S. Drew a Bouye Knife and commenced cuting at him. OED2
1842 DA 1836
bowline 1582 ( 1976 ) Richard MadoxDiary, Apr. 5,
1582, in An Elizabethan in 1582
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. 147) p. 103 We sayld by the Bolyne, .. the wynd stiff
at west and northwest
westerly spreding al our sayl save the mayn and so kept our cowrse est northest.
OED2 sense 3 1625
bowman n2 1759 ( 1973 ) AshleyBowen
Autobiography in The Journals of Ashley Bowen (17281813) of Marblehead
(Publ. Colonial Soc. Massachusetts Vol. XLIV) p. 96
I said, “Bowman see your blunderbuss is ready and your poleaxe to cut our
moorings as occasion should serve!” Direct quote suggests dating by the incident
rather than the record (17811813) is safe.
Normalized spelling OED2 1829
bowsprit 1585 ( 1981 ) Journal of the
Tyger, Sep. 15, 1585, in Sir Francis Drake’s West Indian Voyage 158586 (Hakluyt Soc.
2nd. Ser. No. 148) p. 72 Theyr bolt spritt hapened to enter owre foresayle and to rent
the same all to peces. OED2 c form 1591
boy 1849 ( 1986 ) Herman Melville Redburn
ch.12 Penguin ed. p.111 In merchantships, a boy means a greenhand, a landsman
on his first voyage. And never mind if he is old enough to be a grandfather, he is still
called a boy ; and boys’ work is put upon him. OED2 lacks this sense
brace 1555 ( 1975 ) Building Account in Sidney
Ironworks Accounts 15411573
(Camden 4th Ser. Vol. 15) p. 157 John Hamond and to his servannt for on days
work ether of them in the settyng in of vi brasts for to hold up the wall in the forge
xviii d. OED2 sense 17a (1530) lacks variant.
brace n3 1615 ( 1934 ) in Peter Floris, his Voyage
to the East Indies in the Globe 16111615 (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. LXXIV) (reprint
1967) p. 1 We hade a man fall overboord, but .. there was by the diligence of Capt.
Hippon a brase caste unto him, who caught hold of the same. OED2 1626
brace n1 1817 Amasa Delano A Narrative
of Voyages and Travel in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres (facsimile ed.
1970)
Ch. XIII p. 234 In drifting in the night we had got within a mile of the breakers on
the eastern brace. At the mouth of the Hooghly R., Bay of Bengal ? OED2 †c1530
brack n2 1580 John Florio A Shorte and briefe
Narration of the Two Nauigations and Discoueries to the Northwest Partes called Newe
Fraunce
(transl. of J. Cartier) (facsimile ed. 1966) p. 11 We went along the said land about
tenne leagues, till we came to a Cape of redde lands, that is all craggie, within the
which, there is a bracke looking toward the North. OED2 “rare” c1530 and
Florio’s dict. 1598
branch 1580 John Florio A Shorte and briefe
Narration of the Two Nauigations and Discoueries to the Northwest Partes called Newe
Fraunce
(transl. of J. Cartier) (facsimile ed. 1966) p. 46 We found four or five branches, whyche
out of the river come into the Lake.
But in the said braunches .. OED2 sense 2a 1297 and 1603, cf. 2b [1624]
brand 1630 ( 1931 ) John Winthrop Journal, Dec. 27,
1630, in Winthrop Papers Vol. 2 . p. 271 I haue in all 15 Cowes .. whereof 5 are
my brothe[er] downings marked on the left horne with a brand of a ringe. OED2
sense 4d 1665
brand n 1674 ( 1988 ) John Josselyn Two Voyages to
New England p. 19
(1988 ed. as John Josselyn, Colonial Traveler p. 18) For a Brand to brand Beasts with
0 0 6 OED2 sense 5 1828
brash ice 1819 Capt. John Ross A Voyage of
Discovery for the purpose of Exploring
Baffins Bay p. xxxv Brash Ice, ice in a broken state, and in such small pieces,
that the ship can easily force through. OED2 1837
bravo 1775 ( 1968 ) Dr. Jonathan Boucher Letter, Nov.
27, 1775 inNaval Documents of the American Revolution
Vol.3 p. 394 As to their Arming, & all their boasted Pomp of War; I look upon it as a
mere Bravoe, intended only to alarm & intimidate England. OED2 sense 2
†1713
brawl n3 1632 A. H. [Henry Hawkins] Partheneia
Sacra (facsimile ed. in English Recusant Literature 15581640 Vol. 81 1971) p. 139
His vsual songs are certain Catches and Roundelayes he hath, much after the
manner of the French Braules. OED2 sense 2b c1600 only
breach 1595 ( 1940 ) Henry Roberts Lancaster
his Allarums inThe Voyages of Sir James Lancaster to Brazil and the East Indies 1591
1603 (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. LXXXV) p. 62 [Our generall] landed, leaping to
the waste in water, in the breach of the shoare. OED2 sense 2 1601 or (the
same?) sense 8 1624 and see slip Saris 1613.
breach 1613 ( 1900 ) John Saris Journal, Jan. 31,
1613, inThe Voyage of Captain John Saris to Japan, 1613 (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser.
No.V) (reprint 1967) p. 11 At lowe water you shall see a breach vpone it [a
shoal]. OED2 sense 8 1624 (if this is really distinct from sense 2 1601), but
see slip Roberts 1595
breaker 1605 ( 1880 ) John Davis Mr. John Daves his
observations Voyaging from Acheane
to Tecoe and Priaman
in Voyages and Works of John Davis
(Hakluyt Soc.) p. 188 There lyeth breakers neer both ye Islands. OED2
Sense 5 1684
breaking up plough 1752 ( 1974 ) Ebenezer
Parkman The Diary of Ebenezer Parkman Apr. 1, 1752
(American Antiquarian Soc.) p. 254
Rode to Mr. Gashetts about a breaking up Plough. For ploughing a new field.
Apparently pulled by fourteen
or more oxen. OED2 1781
breasthook 1704 ( 1927 ) Shipwright’s
contract in The Papers of Thomas Bowrey Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. LVIII (reprint
1967) p. 135 To have four breast hooks afore and a Crutch abaft, with seaven bolts in
each hook of a three Quarter bolt. OED2 1748
breeze v2 1582 ( 1976 ) Richard MadoxDiary, May 8,
1582, in An Elizabethan in 1582
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. 147) p. 131 The wynd cam up to the est but breesed
abowt with great uncertaynty. OED2 1809 (except vbln. 1682)
brickman 1612 Robert Johnson The
New Life of Virginea p.D2r The brickmen burnt their bricks. (RJ uses
brickemakers elsewhere) OED2 lacks
Bridgewater 1633 ( 1943 ) Francis Kirby Letter, Feb.
26, 1633, in Winthrop Papers Vol. 3. p. 141 I could not find any Bridgewater Cloth of
any colour but red. OED2 †1607
bridle 1776 ( 1976 ) James Warren Letter, Dec.
3, 1776, inNaval Documents of the American Revolution Vol.7 p. 356 Well made
Gun Locks, with what the English call good Bridles. OED2 1844
brief 1767 ( 1914 ) Abraham Pereira Mendes Letter,
Nov. 8, 1767, in Commerce of Rhode Island 17261800 Vol. 1, p. 212 The Small
Pox is very brief in Town, every week there is 5 or 6 Children buried with that terrible
disorder. . OED2 sense 5 dict. only, no usage quot.
brigade (v ) 1776 ( 1972 ) Maj. Francis Hutchinson Letter,
Aug. 8, 1776, inNaval Documents of the American Revolution Vol.6 p. 124 We
wait only being Joined by the Hessians, to do something of Consiquence, as soon as
they arrive & are Brigaded. OED2 1805
brigue 1690 CottonMather The Present
State of NewEngland
(facsimile ed. 1972) p. 3 Haman by his Brigues, had obtained from the Persian
Emperour, a Commission and Priviledg to require a more than common Reverence from
the Courtiers then about the Palace. OED2 sense 2 1701
brisken 1775 ( 1964 ) Berthon Brothers Letter
Feb. 18, 1775 in Naval Documents of the American Revolution Vol. 1 p. 402 Little
or no progress is made on the sale of our joint adventure of flour, but we hope that the
demand will brisken. OED2 1799, sense 2 (intr. ) 1876
Britainer 1778 ( 1789 ) Thomas Anburey
Travels through the Interior Parts of America
in a Series of Letters (1969 facsimile ed.) Vol. II p.42 “It will be with the first
Britainer,” (the name they give to Englishmen). (Massachusetts)
(Dated letters appear concocted from recollections or notes, but should be reliable for
usage at date) OED2 † <1709
Britonion 1778 ( 1789 ) Thomas Anburey
Travels through the Interior Parts of America
in a Series of Letters (1969 facsimile ed.) Vol. II p.222 “I swear I never saw any
thing so bloodthirsty as you Britonions be.” (Massachusetts)
(Dated letters appear concocted from recollections or notes, but should be reliable for
usage at date) OED2 lacks
brogue 1553 ( 1988 ) William Baldwin
Beware the Cat 1st part p. 13 With the rest of the hide they made each of
them laps to wear about their feet like brogues. (First published 1570. Normalized
spelling) OED2 1586
broke 1686 ( 1974 ) George Etherege Letter Aug.
26, 1686, in Letters of Sir George Etherege
p. 17 I have been these two Months little better than broke, and if my Lord Treasurer
does not consider me suddainly, I shall be declar’d a Banquerout. OED2 sense
3a 1716
brookite 1825 William Haidinger
Treatise on Mineralogy Vol. III p. 82 Brookite Lévy Ann. of Phil. Feb. 1825
Still a valid, and reasonably important, mineral species.
A modern def., modified from Gloss. of Geol.: “A brown, reddish, or sometimes black
mineral, the orthorhombic modification of TiO2”. OED2 1879
brow (n2 ) 1777 ( 1980 ) Lieut. George Burdon, R. N.
Letter, May 14 1777, inNaval Documents of the American Revolution Vol.8 p.
968 The Governor of which place [New Orleans], has made seizure of every English
Vessel, that had a Brow made from the vessel to the Shore. OED2 1867
brush away c 1648 ( 1898 ) William Bradford Of
Plimoth Plantation p. 128 (ms. p. 66) Neither had they any beding, .. nor
overmany cloaths, for many of them had brusht away their coats & cloaks at Plimoth as
they came. OED2 lacks this sense, whatever it is (sell?)
buckra 1774 ( 1939 ) Janet SchawThe Journal of a
Lady of Quality (3rd ed.) p. 108 Every Negro infant can tell you, that he owes this
happiness
[the Christmas holiday] to the good Buccara God, that he be no hard Master, but loves
a good black man as well as a Buccara man. Antigua, West Indies OED2 1794
DA 1736
buckshot 1775 ( 1966 ) Stephen Moylan Letter,
Oct. 19,1775 in Naval Documents of the American Revolution Vol.2 p. 517
The musket cartridges flint, the musket balls, & buck Shot, for which Col Glover
sent off an Express last evening. OED2 1776 DA Aug. 14, 1775
budgebarrel 1590 ( 1959 ) JamesRobinson
Inventory of the White Lion in English Privateering Voyages to the West Indies
15881595 (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. CXI) p. 76 Won bugd barrill of muskyt shot
won small barill of muskyt shot. Note budgebarrels were meant for powder, not shot.
OED2 1627, but see slip Saris 1607
budgebarrel 1613 ( 1900 ) John Saris Journal,
June 22, 1613, inThe Voyage of Captain John Saris to Japan, 1613 (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd.
Ser. No.V) (reprint 1967) p. 92 A Budge barrell of pouder standing hard by ..
which yf it had taken, had blowne vp the deck. OED2 1627, but see slip
Robinson 1590
budgerow c 1685 ( 1905 ) Thomas Bowrey A
Geographical Account of the Countries Round the Bay of Bengal (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd.
Ser. No. XII) (reprint 1967) p. 228 A Budgaroo or Pleasure boat, wherein the
English and Dutch Chiefe and Councill goe in State upon the water, in Use alsoe by the
Moors Grandees or Governours.
Also quoted in footnote:
If you have noe Budgrees with you ‘twill be necessary to bring 2 or 3 Purgoes downe for
the carriage of our necessarys. (1679)
You have done very well since your Factory Budgroe [is] out of repaire to keep our
Budgroe. 1682 OED2, HobsonJobson 1727
bulbul 1632 ( 1914 ) Peter Mundy Journal, Sep.
8, 1632, in The Travels of Peter Mundy, in Europe and Asia 16081667 Rel. VIII
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. XXXV) Vol. 2 p. 128 Our pastime of Cockfightinge is
not heere in use; only among young men and boyes they have certen small black birds
called bulbulls, and sometyme Quailes, which make some sporte. OED2,
Hobson Jobson 1784
bull 1687 ( 1940 ) Charles Morton
Compendium Physicae in Publ. Colonial Soc. Massachusetts Vol. XXXIII p.
171
(from 1697 transcription of 1687 ms., probably first
compiled c1680) In a Whistle .. if you blow Stronger (in the Same Stop) you
Immediately pass into an 8th above: and so does a Bull in roaring even to 2 or 3 8ths
Successively.Is this the English countryboy’s plaything (otherwise unrecorded in OED2)
that gave its name to the aboriginal Aust. bullroarer? Would this change pitch by
eighths? Do live bulls? ?
bully 1683 The Whores Rhetorick
(facsimile ed. 1979) p. 77 They will persevere in their liberality, to procure a secret
continuance of the amorous theft .. without fear of disturbance, or danger of the Bullies
rude visit, to make up an unwelcome second course. OED2 sense 4 1706
bully 1839 ( 1968 ) William Johnson Diary, Apr.
12, 1839 in William Johnson’s Natchez
Vol I p. 252 Took my Pistol and shot at the mark. I did not make any Bully shooting at
all, I thought. OED2 sense 2a 1844
bumbo 1743 ( 1993 ) William Moraley The
Infortunate p. 83, 105 Here’s Money, Sugar, fetch some Rum,
And when the Liquors made, I come ..
..I first fetched the Rum, made the Liquor, which was Bombo.
Half a Pint of Rum being mix’d with three Halfpints of Water or Small Beer, makes
Bombo. Pennsylvania or New Jersey OED2 1748
bunchberry 1828 John Neal Rachel Dyer
(facsimile ed. 1964) Ch. III p. 55The more brilliant ivoryplumbs or clustered bunch
berries rattled among the withered herbage. OED2 1845 (This quot. for ivory
plum )
I retourned to Dantzig .. in a Callais , which is a kind off an open Coache. (p. 101)
OED2 1666
calavance 1612 ( 1953 ) William Strachey The
Historie of Travell into Virginia Britania
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd Ser., No. CIII) p. 119 Their Beanes are little like a French beane, and
are the same which the Turks call Garnances. OED2 1620
calipash 1674 ( 1988 ) John Josselyn Two Voyages
to New England p. 39
(1988 ed. as John Josselyn, Colonial Traveler p. 30) Having taken off their shells (that
on their back being fairest, is called a Gally patch). OED2 1689 (and lacks
variant)
call 1776 ( 1968 ) Account, July 6, 1776,
inNaval Documents of the American Revolution Vol.5 p. 953 Cash paid John
Murdock for a Boatswains Call ............ 1.17..6 OED2 sense 6e 1769 probably
but not explicitly refers to a boatswain’s pipe, as indicated by 1963 quot. under bosun .
calmy 1582 ( 1976 ) Richard MadoxDiary, July 2, 1582,
in An Elizabethan in 1582
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. 147) p. 149 Very hote and qualmy. Madox spells “calm”
“qualme” OED2 sense 1 (literal) 1587
cam n1 1550 ( 1975 ) Building Account in Sidney
Ironworks Accounts 15411573
(Camden 4th Ser. Vol. 15) p. 97 Paid .. for makyng of the kames
vi d. Editor (D. W. Crossley) footnotes “cams (set in the wheel shaft to operate the
bellows).” OED2 1777
canbuoy 1613 ( 1900 ) John Saris Journal, Mar. 25,
1613, inThe Voyage of Captain John Saris to Japan, 1613 (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser.
No.V) (reprint 1967) p. 40 They vsed to rowe ouer our canboyes, and had lik to
haue sonke them. OED2 1626
canhook 1611 ( 1982 ) Inventory, in
Newfoundland Discovered
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. 160) p. 67 2 payre of Cann hookes. OED2 1626
canaut 1616 ( 1899 ) Thomas . Roe Journal, Nov.
2, 1616, in The Embassy of Sir Thomas Roe to the Court of the Great Mogul (Hakluyt
Soc. 2nd. Ser. No.I/2) (reprint 1967) p. 325 [His tentes] were walled in about halfe
an englishe mile in Compasse in form of a fort with diuers Coynes and bulwarckes, with
high Cannattes of a Course stuff made like arras, red on the outsyde. OED2
1625 (this quot. in 1985 ed. of HobsonJobson)
candy n3 1615 ( 1934 ) in Peter Floris, his Voyage
to the East Indies in the Globe 16111615 (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. LXXIV) (reprint
1967) p. 78 40 candi indigo att 80 Pa. the candi . R8 4300
OED2, HobsonJobson 1618
canhook 1777 ( 1976 ) Lieut. John TrevettJournal ,
inNaval Documents of the American Revolution Vol.7 p. 959 We had but one
gang cask of water on board, we had plenty of good rum and sugar, knowing that sailors
liked a sling or canhook, such bitter cold weather.
Date of journal not cited, but usage reflects 1777 date of event OED2 lacks
for a drink
cannibal 1541 ( 1932 ) Roger Barlow A Briefe
Summe of Geographie
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. LXIX) p. 166 Ther is from the ilond of the trinitie to
this lond of sent John 240 leges, and al thes other ylondes are betwene thes ij and thei
be all enhabited of a generation called canivales wch dothe ete one another.
(Barlow translated a Spanish book and sometimes simply anglicised Spanish
words)OED2 1553
cannipers 1776 ( 1976 ) Boston Gazette,
Dec. 16, 1776, inNaval Documents of the American Revolution Vol.7 p. 494 Will
be Sold at Vendue .. a chest of carpenter’s tools,consisting of saws, augr, caulking
irons, axes, hammers, mawls, cannipers,
plane &c. &c. OED2 †1725
cant n1 1621 ( 1982 ) Edward Winne A Letetre [sic]
Written by Captaine Edwarde Winne, in Newfoundland Discovered
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. 160) p. 254 I saw .. the pleasantest Sea Cant that euer
mine eyes beheld.
From Renoze to Cape Broyle .. the Sea Cant hereof being vneuen and hilly.
OED2 ? cf. sense 1 †c1400
canter n4 c 1595 ( 1899 ) Capt. Wyatt Narrative in The
Voyage of Robert Dudley to the West Indies (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No.III) p. 15
Our Generall sent away his two carvells before, that they should not be
mistrusted of the canters, of whome hee determined to replenish his victuall a fresh, if
possible hee might. OED2 a1642, and see slip Dudley 1600
canter n4 1600 ( 1899 ) Robert Dudley in
Hakluyt’s Voyages in The Voyage of Robert Dudley to the West Indies (Hakluyt Soc.
2nd. Ser. No.III) p.69 My last hope was to meete my lost ship, and withall to renue
my victuals vpon the Canthers, which are Portugal fishermen. OED2
a1642, but see slip Wyatt a1595
canter 1628 Francis Fletcher The
World Encompassed by Sir Francis Drake
(facsimile reprint 1966) p. 6 Wee lighted on 3. Spanish fishermen called Caunters,
whom we tooke with our new pinnace and caried along with us. OED2
a1642 (but see slip Wyatt a1595) and lacks this form
canting dog 1777 ( 1976 ) William Frost Letter, Feb.
8, 1777, inNaval Documents of the American Revolution Vol.7 p. 1141 I would
mention to yourHonours, (as necessary in loading the Ship) 2 Canting Dogs with Rings,
2 or 3 Iron Crows & 2 halling Dogs. OED2 lacks; cant dog 1850
canvas 1582 ( 1976 ) Richard Madox in An
Elizabethan in 1582
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. 147) p. 285 We spread more canvase & away wente
sheere. OED2 sense 3 1609
cap of the knee a 1689 ( 1991 ) Sir John Reresby
Memoirs of Sir John Reresby (2nd. ed.) p. 128 I found one Middleton, who
by God’s mercy did reduce it indifferently well, though not perfectly, the cap of the knee
being broaken. OED2 sense 10a 1767 (kneecap 1869)
Capharnaite 1611 Henry Fitz Simon The
Justification and Exposition of the Divine Sacrifice of the Masse (facsimile ed. in
English Recusant Literature 15581640 Vol. 108 1972) p. 343 Crueltie and
barbarietie might haue bene obiected to eate him in forme of raw fleash, as the
Capharnaits imagined. OED2 1656
capital 1615 ( 1934 ) in Peter Floris, his
Voyage to the East Indies in the Globe 16111615 (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. LXXIV)
(reprint 1967) p. 60 I gathered butt a small capitall, which att this present tyme, for want
of China and other commodities, cannot bee imployed to proffite. Use in various
passages seems to be either stock or funds.
The journal is a translation from the Dutch, with a number of “Dutchisms” noted by the
editor. Could this be another? OED2 sense 3 dict. def. 1611, use 16309
capitalist 1777 ( 1980 ) Sir George Grand Letter, Feb.
27, 1777, inNaval Documents of the American Revolution Vol.8 p. 617 He will be
able to find the right time to obtain some money from our Capitalists under reasonable
conditions. OED2 1792 (but see 1785 slip)
capitalist 1785 ( 1959 ) John Adams Letter to
Thomas Jefferson Sept. 25, 1785 in The Adams
Jefferson Letters p.75 The Bearer of this Letter Mr. Thomas Boylston, is one of the
clearest and most Solid Capitalists, that ever raised himself by private Commerce in
North America. OED2 1792 (but see 1777 slip)
capoc 1708 ( 1891 ) A New Voyage to the
EastIndies by Francis Legaut and his Companions in The Voyage of Francois Legaut
(Hakluyt Soc. Ser. 1, No. LXXXII Vol. 1 p. 65 About the Cabbage of the Plantane,
near the bottom of it and between the Stalks of its broad Leaves, is a sort of Cotton of a
Limon Colour, which all thro’ India is known by the name of Capoc.Editor notes
plantane is a mistranslation of lantane and probably refers to the fanpalm. Thus
Legaut’s capoc is not from the real kapok tree. In the def. of capoc did Simmons
assume erroneously it was real cotton? OED2 capoc 1750; kapok 1735
capsize 1783 ( 1969 ) William Williams Mr.
Penrose The Journal of Penrose, Seaman p. 107 The next matter was to examine
her bottom, and for this purpose we got her capsized on the beach.
We got down into the Cabbin where we found everything all gone to leeward and
capsised in a confused manner. (p. 155) OED2 1788
capuccio 1582 ( 1959 ) Richard MadoxDiary, Aug.
18, 1582, in An Elizabethan in 1582
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. 147) p. 167 3 sylly Portingales .. one a sage old man in a
capuchio of black moccado. OED2 1596
The Dutch marchants shewed themselves to us, looking pale, and desired our Generall
for Gods sake to rescue the caracole that came after us. also: caricole p. 33
carricole p. 34
carycole p. 39
carrycole p. 43 OED2 lacks Extensive treatment in HobsonJobson
caracoa
caratch 1635 ( 1907 ) Edward Grimston The
History of the Imperiall Estate of the Grand Seigneurs inThe Travels of Peter Mundy , in
Europe and Asia 16081667 (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. XVII) Vol. I p. 186 The
Tribute called in Turkie Charay, which is levied upon the Jewes in Constantinople, after
the rate of a Sequin for everie male Childe. OED2 1682
caravan c 1582 ( 1977 ) William Cecil, Lord
Burghley Notes, in S. A. SkilliterWilliam Harborne and the Trade with Turkey 1578
1582 p. 178 Nota a Caravan is a Consort of Merchantes travellyng togither With
a nombre of Cammells not under ye nombre of xxxiii. Cammells goyng thrugh ye desert
of arabia. OED2 1599
careen v 1613 ( 1905 ) John Jourdain The Journal
of John Jourdain, 16081617 (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. XVI) (reprint 1967) p.
242 The Trade beeinge alsoe within the two little ilandes where the shipps weere
careeninge. OED2 sense 2b (intr. ) 1667
career 1609 ( 1905 ) John Jourdain Journal, Sep.
3, 1609, in The Journal of John Jourdain, 16081617 (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. XVI)
(reprint 1967) p. 118 But the sea beeinge highe, and the shipp fetching such
careers from side to side that the boate dare not to come neare shipp, for fear of
splittinge her. ? Doesn’t fit any sense of career (or careen)
carenage (careenage) 1776 ( 1972 ) Valentine Morris
Letter, Aug. 4, 1776, inNaval Documents of the American Revolution Vol.6 p.
45 An American Vessell .. was at Souffnir bay in St Lucie, and in that Bay and the
Carenage were from ten to twelve other Americans. As OED2 indicates, a French
West Indian usage; quot. perhaps belongs in [ ]. OED2 1794
cariole (carriole) 1776 ( 1789 ) Thomas Anburey
Travels through the Interior Parts of America
in a Series of Letters (1969 facsimile ed.) Vol. I p.142 The carioles are fashioned
after different devices, to imitate birds and beasts. ( horsedrawn sleds at Montreal)
(Dated letters appear concocted from recollections or notes, but should be reliable for
usage at date) OED2 Sense 2 1808; DAE dogsled 18068, horse sled 1809
“ [carioles]” appears in quot. for runner from part of same sentence!
carioling 1776 ( 1789 ) Thomas Anburey
Travels through the Interior Parts of America
in a Series of Letters (1969 facsimile ed.) Vol. I p.140 Among the principal
[winter amusements of Montreal] is that of carioling upon the ice. (Dated letters
appear concocted from recollections or notes, but should be reliable for usage at date)
OED I 1884 (presumably for sense 1 rather than 2 of cariole )
carrick 1639 ( 1925 ) Peter Mundy The Travels
of Peter Mundy, in Europe and Asia 16081667 Rel. XXXI (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No.
LV) Vol. 4
p. 35 The great Royall Sovereigne .. steered by takles on the Tiller, as Carrickes,
directed From aloft by a truncke, wherein the voice is conveyed to them below.
Meaning ? OED2 only carrick bend 1819, carrick bitts 1847
carryall 1809 Capt. LemuelRoberts
Memoirs (facsimile reprint 1969) p. 70 It being now near day light, we
perceived the trains and carryalls began to move. unhyphenated on p. 71
(recounting events in Canada in winter of 1778) OED I Sense b, no quot.
carvel 1541 ( 1932 ) Roger Barlow A Briefe Summe of
Geographie
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. LXIX) p. 153 It is as a skynne and hathe many small
strenges hanging by it underwater and above it is like a iij cornered saile and therefore
we named them caravelas. Barlow adapted a Spanish book and sometimes simply
anglicised Spanish words, but here appears to be drawing on his own experience (on
Spanish ships). OED2 OED2 sense 2c 1688 (or 1657?) but see slip Madox 1582
carvel 1582 ( 1976 ) Richard MadoxDiary, July 10, 1582,
in An Elizabethan in 1582
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. 147) p. 151 We saw now and than lyke purple bladders
swym on the sea, which our men cawled carvels, tellyng us that they wold sting sore.
OED2 sense 2c 1688 (or 1657?) but see slip Barlow 1541
carvel 1636 ( 1919 ) Peter Mundy Journal , May 18,
1636, inThe Travels of Peter Mundy, in Europe and Asia 16081667 Rel. XXI (Hakluyt
Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. XXXV) Vol. 3 p. 27 Strange Sea Snailes, termed Carvells. .. Wee
saw a great many shell fish, or sea snailes, like those on land, having at the mouth off
the shell a lump of white tough Froth like Jelly, by which it swymmeth or floateth.
OED2 sense 2b listed, no quot.
case 1553 ( 1988 ) William Baldwin Beware the
Cat 2nd part p. 26 Hunters .. gave me .. the fox’s whole body (except the case).
(First published 1570. Normalized spelling) OED2 sense 4a a1569
case 1581 ( 1959 ) Henry Ughtred & Martin Frobisher
in The Troublesome Voyage of Captain Edward Fenton (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser.
No. CXIII) p. 20 The sayd Henry Ughtred ys to gyve at his charges so much yacht
planke ready sawed as wyll case or sheathe the sayd shipp. OED2 cf. sense
2a 1702
caseation 1653 ( 1964 ) Sir Thomas Browne Letter,
Sep. 27, 1653, in The Works of Sir Thomas Browne Vol. IV p. 289 Asses or
mares milk may bee used, for it containeth much whay & is unapt for caseation.
OED2 1866
casern 1698 ( 1927 ) Thomas Bowrey Diary,
May 31, 1698, in The Papers of Thomas Bowrey Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. LVIII
(reprint 1967) p. 16 All round next the Walls is Caserns for the Souldiers. At Dunkirk
OED2 dict. 1696 usage 1703
cash n2 1606 ( 1943 ) Edmund Scott An Exact Discourse
in The Voyage of Sir Henry Middleton to the Moluccas (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No.
LXXXVIII)
p. 111 When cashys were cheape and ryalls deare, wee could not vent a peece of stuffe
at halfe the value wee did at our first comming.
OED2 1699 (except Port. form caixa )
cast iron 1543 ( 1975 ) Account in Sidney
Ironworks Accounts 15411573
(Camden 4th Ser. Vol. 15) p. 51 Receyvyd by the sayd henry for Caste Iron for
the Castell
vii li ii s iiii d.
OED2 1664
Castilian 1583 M. M. S. The Spanish
Colonie (transl. of de las Casas) (facsimile reprint 1966) It woulde haue been worth
unto the king euery yeere more then three Millions of Castillans. (p. A4 verso)
The great wedge of Golde, like unto a great loafe, weying three thousande, five
hundreth Castillans. (P. B1 recto) OED2 1526 only ( for coin, not weight)
castrametation 1670 1671 ( 1683 ) Sir James Turner Pallas
Armata (facsimile ed. 1968) Bk. III Ch. xx p. 285 The subject of this [chapter] is the
orderly disposing and giving a due proportion of ground to every Regiment, Troop and
Company of Horse and Foot, whereon to pitch their Tents, or build their Huts .., this is
called Castrametation. OED2 1679
castrum 1672 ( 1964 ) Sir Thomas Browne Letter,
Aug. 24, 1672, in The Works of Sir Thomas Browne Vol. IV p. 374 I am glad you
have been so observant as to take notice of the Roman Castrums in those parts.
OED2 1836
cat 1578 ( 1589 ) Anthony Parkhurst Letter
inHakluyt’s Principall Navigations ( facs. ed. 1965)
p. 675 As touching the kindes of fish besides Cod, there are Herrings, Salmons,
Thornebacke, Plase, or rather wee should call them Flounders, Dog fish, and another
most excellent of taste called of us a Cat. In Newfoundland OED2 cat sense4b
1705; catfish 1620
cat 1582 ( 1959 ) Edward Fenton Sea Journal
in The Troublesome Voyage of Captain Edward Fenton (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No.
CXIII) p. 120 The Edwarde havinge brooke her Catt in fyshinge her Ancour.
OED2 sense 7 1626
cathook 1582 ( 1976 ) Richard MadoxDiary, May 1,
1582, in An Elizabethan in 1582
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. 147) p. 128 In waying this day we broke owr
Cathooke but had duble shifte. OED2 has def. but no quot. Cat sense 7
1626, but see slip Fenton (captain of Madox’s ship) 1582
catagraph 1612 ( 1953 ) William Strachey The
Historie of Travell into Virginia Britania
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. No. Ser., No. CIII) I present here to your Lordship the first
Catagraph or Draught .. out of my Iournall or diary bookes. (p. 3)
May this Catagraph, or Portrayture following, serve to expresse the presentement of this
great king Powhatan. (p. 61) OED2 dict. only 1656
catering 1775 ( 1966 ) Francis Lightfoot Lee Letter,
Nov. 20, 1775 in Naval Documents of the American Revolution Vol.2 p. 1086 Our
cutters have taken two more of their caitering Vessels one loaded with wood, the other
with provisions. OED2 1923
catnaghene, cattagena 1620 ( 1982 ) John
Mason A Briefe Discourse of the Newfoundland
in Newfoundland Discovered
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. 160) p. 94 The Beastes are .. Foxes, Beauers,
Catnaghenes excellent, Otteres, and a small beast like a Ferret whose excrement is
Muske.
Cattagena’s and Otters, whose couerings wee preserue as fitting presents for greater
persons. (Letter of N. H., in Richard Whitbourne Discourse and discovery of New
foundland 1622 (ibid. p. 205) ??
caucas (caucus) 1763 ( 1961 ) John Adams Diary
Feb. 1763 Adams Papers Diary and Autobiog.raphy Vol I p. 238 This day
learned that the Caucas Clubb meets at certain Times in the Garret of Tom Daws.
Captn. Cunningham says they have often solicited him to go to these Caucas.
First quot. is in OED2 but with spelling “corrected” by earlier editor of Diary
cazzelteer 1777 ( 1980 ) Charles Herbert
Journal, May 30, 1777, in A Relic of the Revolution (1847)
p. 41 or 42, inNaval Documents of the American Revolution Vol.8 p. 880 As we
were discharged yesterday, and the boat did not come for us, we were put upon what
they call cazzelteer, and only draw half a pound of bread and a quart of milk. In a
British Naval prison. Perhaps a phonetic spelling, but of what? OED2 lacks
cementcopper 1776 John Seiferth
Metallurgic Chymistry [translated from the German of
C. E. Gellert by John Seiferth] p. 272 Cementcopper , so called .. is produced in
Hungary and other places from springs and other waters containing a coppersolution
made by nature. OED2 1881 glossary
centenier 1670 1671 ( 1683 ) Sir James Turner Pallas
Armata (facsimile ed. 1968) Bk. I Ch. ii p. 6 Cyrus .. had Myriarchs .. Chiliarchs ..
and Centeniers, who were Captains of hundreds. OED2 sense 1 †1602
Centurist 1611 Henry Fitz Simon The
Justification and Exposition of the Divine Sacrifice of the Masse (facsimile ed. in
English Recusant Literature 15581640 Vol. 108 1972) p. 255 The Centurists, and
Caluin , although they doe not tearme S. Peter Antichrist, yet as they might, they
calumniat his person. OED2 1636
ceraceous 1687 ( 1940 ) Charles Morton
Compendium Physicae in Publ. Colonial Soc. Massachusetts Vol. XXXIII p. 55
(from 1697 transcription of 1687 ms., probably first
compiled c1680) The Bodyes that refuse a Mixture with water are all fatty Subsances
.. and all Cerasious, and Recinous bodyes; as beeswax, Pitch, Tar, etc. OED2
1768
chafery 1555 ( 1975 ) Building Account in
Sidney Ironworks Accounts 15411573
(Camden 4th Ser. Vol. 15) p. 142 John Collyan for the dressyng of the chafery
bellowes xx d. OED2 1663
chain 1592 ( 1955 ) Ralph Lane inThe Roanoke Voyages
15841590 (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. CIV) Vol. 1 p. 230 I haue beene enformed,
that in the Tyger, when Sir Richard Greenfild went to people Virginia, a Sharke cut off
the legge of one of the companie, sitting in the Chaines, and washing himselfe.
OED2 sense 14b 1720
chair 1739 ( 1974 ) Ebenezer Parkman The Diary of
Ebenezer Parkman June 29, 1739
(American Antiquarian Soc.) p. 65 I found Mrs. Pierpont and Mr. Earl who were
come up in a Chair. OED2 sense 11 1753
chair ( v ) 1749 ( 1974 ) Ebenezer Parkman The Diary of
Ebenezer Parkman Oct. 2 1749
(American Antiquarian Soc.) p. 204 Dark chairing home in the Evening.
OED2 lacks this sense (chair n sense 11 1753)
chaise roulant 1690 ( 1963 ) William Fitzhugh
Letter to Nicholas Hayward, July 10, 1690 in William Fitzhugh and his
Chesapeake World p.271Discoursing also with him of the Conveniency of a Coach or
Collash for this Country, he perswaded me to send for a Chaise Roulant, as he calls it
which I can no other ways English, than by calling it a Running Chair. (“He” was a
French emigrant) OED2 chaise 1701
change 1716 ( 1972 ) John Fontaine Journal
Apr. 17, 1716 p. 96 The Indian women bind their children to a board .. There is .. a
piece cut out behind so that all that the child doth falls from him and he is never dirty nor
never wants to be changed. OED2 sense 1e, of a baby 1922
changeable 1780 ( 1975 ) Abigail Adams Letter
to John Adams, May 1, 1780 in The Book of Abigail and John p.257 Send me 12
Ells of black and white striped Lutestring or changeable. OED2 sense 5a
(as noun) listed undated, no quot.
changing ppla. 1684 ( 1951 ) Richard Bovet
Pandaemonium , or the Devil’s Cloyster 5th Reln. p. 114 The suspected
agent .. asked her to lend her a piece of small changing money. OED2
lacks this sense; change n. sense 7a 1691
channel bolt 1776 ( 1972 ) Capt. W. A. Halsted Hutchinson
Letter, Sep. 19, 1776, inNaval Documents of the American Revolution Vol.6 p.
903 Had the Gale continued twenty four hours longer, I will venture to assert that we
should not have had a Mast standing, for both the main and fore Channel Bolts work’d
out in such a manner, that I myself hauled one of the main ones out by hand.
OED2 has def., no quot.
chaodical 1651 ( 1984 ) Thomas Vaughan
Lumen de Lumine in The Works of Thomas Vaughan
p. 313 In the first Matter, the Divine Wisdome is collected in a Generall Chaodicall
Center. OED2 1693
charter (v ) 1775 ( 1968 ) Journal, North
Carolina Prov. Council, Dec. 21, 1775 inNaval Documents of the American Revolution
Vol.3 p. 200 Resolved That Whitmill Hill Esquire be empowered to charter one or more
Vessels. OED2 no quot. 1425<>1795; sense 3 1806
charter 1776 ( 1968 ) Charter party,
inNaval Documents of the American Revolution Vol.3 p. 915 If the Sloop is taken
or Lost, no Charter money is to be paid. OED2 sense 2d (attrib. ) 1922
chasseur 1777 ( 1986 ) Gen. Sir William Howe Letter,
June 3, 1777, inNaval Documents of the American Revolution Vol. 9 p. 11
Arrived .. the Anspach Troops, 432 german Recruits, and 51 German Chasseurs
on the 3d Instant. (Probably fits def. of jaeger rather than chasseur ) OED2 1796
chasseur 1777 ( 1780 ) Lieut. Gen. J. Burgoyne
A State of the expedition from Canada
appendix p. xxvi The German reserve, consisting of the
Brunswic chasseurs, lightinfantry, and grenadiers.
OED2 1796
chatterbox 1758 ( 1951 ) Col. Adam Stephen Letter,
Aug. 8, 1758, in The Papers of Henry Bouquet Vol. 2 p. 342 This Moment Mr
Chatter Box arrivd with the Cherokees. OED2 1774
chawbuck v 1630 ( 1914 ) Peter Mundy Journal, Nov.
27, 1630, in The Travels of Peter Mundy, in Europe and Asia 16081667 Rel. V (Hakluyt
Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. XXXV) Vol. 2 p. 63 One of our Caphila .. would gett a Course
before, and there stand as though he were sett there for a watchman, makeinge manye
of the poore people pay Jaggat for their Carts, but beinge found out, hee was soundly
chawbacked. OED2, HobsonJobson 1682
cheese 1775 ( 1966 ) Minutes,
Pennsylvania Comm. of Safety, Oct. 11,1775 in Naval Documents of the American
Revolution Vol.2 p.405 4 Chests Powder
10 Round Shot
..
4 Cheeses of Wadd OED2 sense5b. “Applied to various objects shaped like a
cheese”
1859
chevaux de frise 1775 ( 1966 ) Joseph Quincy
Letter, Oct 31, 1775 in Naval Documents of the American Revolution Vol.2 p.
661 The People here have made Machines to be sunk in the Channel of Delaware
River. Three Rowes of them are placed in the River, with large Timbers barbed with
Iron. They are Frames of Timber sunk with Stone — Machines very proper, for our
Channel in the Narrows. Doctr Franklin says they may be made in the form of a
Chevaux de Frise and used to great advantage. These “machines,” individually
and the entire barrier, were generally referred to as chevaux de frise (variously and
wondrously misspelled). OED2 lacks use for underwater construction.
chiaus 1581 ( 1977 ) William Harborne
Letter, June 9, 1581, in S. A. SkilliterWilliam Harborne and the Trade with Turkey 1578
1582 p. 157 The chaouse.., whoe frendlie with his secretaire and drogeman
retorning me, Certefied that I was under his protexion. OED2 1599, but see slip
Sanderson 1594
chiaus 1594 ( 1931 ) John Sanderson in The
Travels of John Sanderson
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. LXVII) p. 82 In Constantinople ar resident:
..
Chahouses, that is officers or sargients belonging to his courts 1600 OED2
1599 but see slip Harborne 1581
chicha 1699 ( 1934 ) Lionel Wafer A New Voyage and
Description of the Isthmus of America
Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. LXXIII (reprint 1967) p. 91One use they put the Flower to is
to mix it with Water in a Calabash, and so drink it off. .. This mixture they call Chicha,
which I think signifies Maiz. They make a drink also of their Maiz, which they call
ChichahCopah, for Copah signifies Drink. (Further description of latter makes it the
usual fermented chicha) OED2 1760
chicken pox 1689 ( 1989 ) Jayne Methwould Letter to F.
H., 5 Feb. 1689 in Papers of Francis Howard, Baron Howard of Effingham p. 404
My Deare Neeces perfect recoveryes who have both been ill of the Chicken pox.
OED2 172738
choir 1777 ( 1980 ) inNaval Documents of the
American Revolution Vol.8 I now have a fine Choir of Under Officers many of
whom do not want to leave the Ship. (Letter, Capt. William Coit, Apr. 10, 1777, p. 310)
My Council of Safety .. have therefore Appointed Seth Harding to be Capt in your Stead
with a proper Choir of Officers.
(Letter, Gov. Jonathan Trumbull, Apr. 11, p. 320) In the letter of
dismissal, at least, certainly not a jocose usage. OED2 lacks use for group of
Naval Officers
chop n1 a 1571 ( 1963 ) William Bourne An
Almanacke and Prognostication for three yeares ..
in A Regiment for the Sea
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. CXXI) p. 94 The Sea doth alwayes lift the shippe vp
and down, and the least chop of a sea causeth a man to committe errour. OED2
sense 8 1858
chop v2 1582 ( 1976 ) Richard MadoxDiary, July 9, 1582,
in An Elizabethan in 1582
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. 147) p. 150 The wynd cam somwhat westerly .. but anon
chopt into the sowth agayn. OED2 sense 6 a1642
chop 1612 ( 1905 ) John Jourdain Journal, Dec. 21,
1612, in The Journal of John Jourdain, 16081617 (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. XVI)
(reprint 1967) p. 239 Presentlie we chopt to an anchour all sailes standinge.
OED2 sense 8c 1633
chop n5 1810 ( 1912 ) Margaret Van Horn Dwight A
Journey to Ohio in 1810 p. 49 He thinks himself a gentleman of the first chop.
OED2 sense 4a 1823
chopstick 1637 ( 1919 ) Peter Mundy Journal ,
Aug. 11, 1637, inThe Travels of Peter Mundy, in Europe and Asia 16081667 Rel. XXIV
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. XXXV) Vol. 3 p. 194 Then broughtt they us some
henne cutt in smalle pieces and Fresh porcke Don in like Manner, giving us Choppsticks
to eat our Meat,
butt wee knew not how to use them, soe imployed our Fingers. OED2 1699
chorizo 1767 ( 1914 ) Isaac Pereira Mendes
Letter, Apr. 10, 1767, in Commerce of Rhode Island 17261800 Vol. 1, p. 198
The Beefs Tongues and Chorisas, all landed at Kingston, and have given
directions for the sale. Apparently shipped from Rhode Island to Jamaica. OED2
1846
choyne 1684 ( 1989 ) Francis Howard Letter
to P. P. Howard, 19 Feb. 1684 in Papers of Francis Howard, Baron Howard of
Effingham p. 52 Haveing had a good Choyne of Beef for Dinner. ? OED2
lacks. Could this be chyne = chine ?
churl 1609 ( 1905 ) John Jourdain The Journal of John
Jourdain, 16081617 (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. XVI) (reprint 1967) p. 69 The
indico which was there could not be bought for lesse then 80 rials of eight the churle.
OED2 lacks, but see slip Keeling 1616
churl 1616 ( 1971 ) Capt. William Keeling Journal, Jan.
29, 1616, in The East India Company Journals of Capt. William Keeling and Master
Thomas Bonner, 16151617 p. 125 We recd down to Swallee 204 churles (or bales
rather) of indico. Editors (Michael Strachan and Boies Penrose) footnote 182: “The
churl or bundle was the unit by which indigo was sold. The weight of a churl varied
between about 125 and 150 pounds. OED2 lacks, but see slip Jourdain 1609
chute 1776 ( 1976 ) Maj. Charles Stuart Letter, Nov. 29,
1776, inNaval Documents of the American Revolution Vol.7 p. 325 We
proceeded through HellGate (a place so called from a considerable chute which
renders the passage very dangerous). (Hell gate is a tidal channel — no change in
water level) OED2 1805
chymification 1687 ( 1940 ) Charles Morton
Compendium Physicae in Publ. Colonial Soc. Massachusetts Vol. XXXIII p.
130
(from 1697 transcription of 1687 ms., probably first
compiled c1680) The 2d Concoction is Chymification, (or the making of Chyme).
OED2 1826
cippus c 1675 ( 1972 ) John Aubrey
Observations Ch. II, in John Aubrey Three Prose Works
p. 319The soil here is a fine red sand, so that the cippus of the graves is by the wind
and playing of the boyes quickly equated with the other ground. The cippus clearly
marks a grave, but would seem here the mound rather than the stone. OED2
sense 2 1708
circularness 1574 ( 1963 ) William Bourne A
Regiment for the Sea
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. CXXI) p. 248 If the two shippes were a league
asunder, then the water by his circulernesse shuld be .22. ynches hygher than the leuell
in the middle betweene both the shippes. OED2 1662 only
circulary 1755 John Smith The Printer’s
Grammar (facsimile ed. 1965) p. 137 We shall be enabled to make Flowerpieces of
oval, circulary, and angulary turns. OED2 †a1734
clacker 1780 ( 1975 ) John Adams Diary, Jan.
6, 1780 in The Book of Abigail and John p.250 The company dance [the
fandango], with each a pair of clackers in his or her hand. The Clackers are two Pieces
of Wood, cut handsomely enough, which they have the art to rattle in their Hands to the
Time of the Drum. OED2 has no 18c. quot. and do not include castanets
clam 1819 Capt. John Ross A Voyage of
Discovery for the purpose of Exploring
Baffins Bay p. cxxxv Description of a MACHINE for taking up Soundings from the
Bottom of any Fathomable Depth; invented by Captain JOHN ROSS, His Majesty’s Ship
Isabella, and called by him, A DEEP SEA CLAMM. OED2 sense 2d 1821
clap 1699 ( 1981 ) Edmond Halley Journal, Dec. 6,
1698, in The Three Voyages of Edmond Halley in the Paramore (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd ser.
vol. 156)
p. 146 Being near the Lat of Cape Frio I clapt upon a Wind fearing to fall to the
Southards of as the wind now Stands. OED2 lacks, but cf. sense 10
clarigold 1632 A. H. [Henry Hawkins]
Partheneia Sacra (facsimile ed. in English Recusant Literature 15581640 Vol.
81 1971) p. 138 The nightingal .. that hath for Lyre the litle Clarigal, or Organ
of his throat. OED2 †1592 (and lacks variant)
clear 1616 ( 1971 ) Thomas Bonner Journal, Apr.
23, 1616, in The East India Company Journals of Capt. William Keeling and Master
Thomas Bonner, 16151617 p. 209 Abour 9 aclocke we had a little clere and sawe
that we had brought the pointe of Sumatra est 1/2 northerly from us. OED2
sense 6a 1694
clear 1621 ( 1957 ) Virginia Company Instructions
to the Governor ... in The Three Charters of the Virginia Company of London (Va.
350th Anniv. Celebration Corp.) p. 125 Choice timber as clear walnutt.
OED2 Sense 20b (free of branches , knots &c.) 1642
clench 1700 ( 1981 ) Edmond Halley Journal, Apr.
29, 1700, in The Three Voyages of Edmond Halley in the Paramore (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd
ser. vol. 156)
p. 188 Heaving the Anchor out of the ground our Cable broke with in a Few
Fathom of the Clench. OED2 Sense 2 1804
clew n 1615 ( 1971 ) Capt. William Keeling Journal, May
20, 1615, in The East India Company Journals of Capt. William Keeling and Master
Thomas Bonner, 16151617 p. 76 The rope[s] of our spritt saile clewes both brake
together in the night hazarding saile, yard and men. OED2 sense 7 1627
clew v 1635 Capt. Luke Foxe Northwest Fox or
Fox from the Northwest Passage
(Facsimile ed. 1965) p. 199 Wee clewd up all sailes and drive a leag. in 18 houres.
OED2 sense 3a a1745
cliffedppla. c 1588 ( 1981 ) Map text, in Sir Francis
Drake’s West Indian Voyage 158586 (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. 148) Plate III(c)
A valley between two hills, and the hills being cliffed on both sides of the said
valley. OED2 1853
clinch n 1618 William Cape The Chronicle and
Institution of the Order of .. S. Francis
(transl. of original of Marcos Da Silva) (facsimile ed. as English Recusant Literature
15581640 Vol. 357 1977)
p. 321 On the side where the pointes of the nayle were clinched, there was such
a space betweene the superiour part of the hand, and the tourned clinch of the nayle,
that betweene the same one might putt in a finger. OED2 sense 1 1632
clincher 1635 Capt. Luke Foxe Northwest
Fox or Fox from the Northwest Passage
(Facsimile ed. 1965) p. 43 Captaine Davis his 3. Voyage, Northwest, 1587.
From Dartmouth with 3 Shippes, the Elizabeth, the Sunneshine, and a Clincker called
the Hellen of London. (Check if from Hakluyt or Purchas) HAKLUYT OED2 sense
6 1678
clincher 1636 ( 1943 ) Hugh Peters Letter, in Winthrop
Papers Vol. 3 p. 228 For the nayles at Salem there are diuers very much rusted,
and so are the clinchers. OED2 sense 2 1725
cloacal 1611 Henry Fitz Simon The
Justification and Exposition of the Divine Sacrifice of the Masse (facsimile ed. in
English Recusant Literature 15581640 Vol. 108 1972) p. 301 He was to preach
the cloacal doctrine of Luther, who neuer had but deuils and excrements in his mouth.
OED2 1656 dict., 1854 usage
clock v2 1625 ( 1877 ) from Purchas Pilgimes
Vol. I, in The Voyages of Sir James Lancaster, Kt. to the East Indies (Hakluyt Soc. Ser.
1,
No. LVI) p. 64 Their speech is wholly uttered through the throate, and they clocke
with their tongues in such sort, that .. the sharpest wit among us could not learne one
word of their language. Refers to Hottentots’ click, on 15914 voyage OED2
sense 3 no quot. 1553< >1871
clogged 1783 ( 1975 ) Abigail Adams Letter
to John Adams, Nov. 11, 1783 in The Book of Abigail and John p. 370 The estate is
some cloged in concequence of a numerous family. OED2 clog sense 3 has
an estate clogged with legacies 1647, but lacks absolute usage of ppla.
closure 1686 ( 1911 ) CottonMather Diary of
Cotton Mather Feb. 12, 1686
Vol. I p. 122 I had an Opportunitie, most publickly to invite men, unto such
Closures with the Lord Jesus Christ, as I myself had privately been practicing for many
years. OED2 sense 6 † 1668
cloveboard 1543 ( 1975 ) Account in Sidney
Ironworks Accounts 15411573
(Camden 4th Ser. Vol. 15) p. 55 For makinge of Shyppeborde and Clove borde
lxviii s. OED2 1561
club v 1582 ( 1976 ) Richard MadoxDiary, Jan. 8, 1582,
in An Elizabethan in 1582 (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. 147) p. 73 We went a clubbyng
owt of al howses in the town, some, abowt 400, with drome, bagpipe and other melody.
OED2 cf. sense 7 1651; vbln. ( in any sense) c1645
club 1739 ( 1742 ) William Stephens Mar. 2, in A
Journal of the Proceedings in Georgia
Vol. 1 p. 426 (facsimile reprint 1966) The Fellow resisting and struggling, and by
clubbing his Piece, attempting to knock down any of them who stood most in
Opposition. OED2 sense 2 1808; but see slip Greene 1777
club ( v ) 1775 ( 1976 ) Gen. Nathanael Greene Letter
to Jacob Greene June 1775 in The Papers of General Nathanael Greene Vol. I p. 85
Several companies had clubbed their muskets in order to march home. See
slip for clubbed 1777.
Sense here is apparently figurative. OED2 sense 2 1808 (only for actual use of
firearm as a club)
And see slip Stephens 1738
clubbed 1777 ( 1789 ) Thomas Anburey
Travels through the Interior Parts of America
in a Series of Letters (1969 facsimile ed.) Vol. I p. 330 With their arms clubbed,
which is always considered to be a surrender as prisoners of war. (Dated letters
appear concocted from recollections or notes, but should be reliable for usage at date)
See slip for club 1775 OED2 clubbed 1724 club sense 5 1808 ( better def.
would be “to hold in reversed position, for use as a club or to indicate surrender or
refusal to fight.”)
cluck 1632 A. H. [Henry Hawkins] Partheneia
Sacra (facsimile ed. in English Recusant Literature 15581640 Vol. 81 1971) p. 174
Her yong are no sooner hatched, but she presently clucks them with her wings,
least the cold or sharper ayre should hurt them.Could this be a word related to cleck
and clutch 2, rather than a sense of the onomatopoeic cluck ? OED2 lacks this
sense, but 1659, and perhaps 1481, quots. under sense 2 seem to match this rather
than the def. given.
clueline 1590 ( 1959 ) JamesRobinson Inventory of
the White Lion in English Privateering Voyages to the West Indies 15881595 (Hakluyt
Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. CXI) p. 76 The fore boulinges the lyftes the clulines.
OED2 1627
clump 1776 ( 1968 ) New York Gazette , May 6,
1776, in Naval Documents of the American Revolution Vol.4 p. 1382 The
Roebuck and the other Man of War came into our Road on Tuesday with two Sloops,
one looks like a Bermudian Vessel, the
other a Clump. ? OED2 lacks
clunchfisted 1637 ( 1883 ) Thomas Morton New
English Canaan p. 148 They are as proper men for feature and limbes as can be
found ..longe handed they are, (I never sawe a clunchfisted Salvadge among them).
OED2 1644 (only in figurative sense)
coaling 1547 ( 1975 ) Account in Sidney
Ironworks Accounts 15411573
(Camden 4th Ser. Vol. 15) p. 62 Item for the colyng of Mli lodes of coles
lvii li xviii d ob. OED2 1602
coating 1776 ( 1972 ) Willing, Morris & Co.
Letter , Sep. 14, 1776, inNaval Documents of the American Revolution Vol.6
p. 824 We wou’d wish nearly the whole Amount to Consist of Woolen Goods fit for
Winter Ware, Blankets, Cloths chiefly Coarse, Coatings, Flannels. OED2 1802
cob c 1624 ( 1929 ) Grievances for
consideration by Parliament, Winthrop Papers Vol. 1 p 297 Whosoeuer shall lopp or
cobb, any trees or tymber trees .. shall lie in the howse of Correction, and vnder the
orders of the howse, vntill the next Justice doe remytte him. OED2 lacks. Is this
literal basis for fig. v2 184778?
cobble 1809 Capt. LemuelRoberts
Memoirs (facsimile reprint 1969) p. 16 He had gone up instead of down
the river, which led him on to a severe cobble of a mountain. (Western Massachusetts)
OED2 lacks; DARE NEast “a rounded hill” 1887
cobby 1582 ( 1959 ) Richard MadoxDiary in The
Troublesome Voyage of Captain Edward Fenton (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. CXIII) p.
163 Captain Ward was aboard us & had a cobbey. he catcht our lord & carried hym
home & hanged hym on ye shrowds, so had we good sport. Editor (E. G. R. Taylor)
footnotes “The verb ‘to cob’, or give a cobby, in nautical parlance meant ‘to strike on the
buttocks.’ “ OED2 lacks, but see slip Cooke a1628 and cf. cob n8 1828
cobby a 1628 ( 1926 ) John Cooke in R. C. Temple The World
Encompassed and Analogous Contemporary Documents p. 148 It chanced John
Bruer, the trumpet, to goo aborde the Pelycane, where, for that he had bene longe
absent, the company offered hym a Cobbey, amonge the whiche Mastar Dowghty ..
laynge his hond on his buttoke, which perceyved of John trumpet, he began to swere
wounds and blud. Date? 1580< >1628OED2 lacks, but see slip Madox 1582 and cf.
cob n8 1828
cock v2 1641 ( 1942 ) Sir Simon D’Ewes The Journal
of Sir Simon D’Ewes (Nov. 3, 1641) p. 74 Setting a Pistoll to his breast with the
cocke upp hee gave fire but the pistoll went not offe wherupon hee coked it againe and
gave fire the second time but by Gods wonderfull providence it went not offe then
neither. OED2 sense 2 (I presume) 1649
cock n6 1683 The Whores Rhetorick
(facsimile ed. 1979) p. 158 The make of his Cloaths; the adjusting of his Sword
knot and Cravat string, .. the foretop of his Peruque, and if you please, the cock or
sitting of his Hat. OED2 1711
cockling 1617 ( 1971 ) Capt. William Keeling
Journal May 24, 1617, in The East India Company Journals of Capt. William
Keeling and Master Thomas Bonner, 16151617 p. 166 Very much wind & a
cokling sea. OED2 sense 2 1628
coco 1541 ( 1932 ) Roger Barlow A Briefe Summe of
Geographie
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. LXIX) p. 107
Here thei have a frute of a certaine kynd of palmes called cocus, it is bigge and
yelo thei make of it wyne and it is also good to ete. (Barlow translated a Spanish
book and sometimes simply anglicised Spanish words. I don’t know here)OED2 1555
coco de mer 1615 ( 1971 ) Capt. William Keeling
Journal, July 23, 1615, in The East India Company Journals of Capt. William
Keeling and Master Thomas Bonner, 16151617 p. 91 The coast on the insyde of
St. Lawrence from the latd of 16 to 13 is the best countrey in this world for harbours: ..
much amber greece, coro du mar, gold. The editors footnote coro du mar as “coral”,
but I suspect Keeling’s secretary (or the modern editors?) simply misread coco (“coral
of the sea” makes no sense). Sir Thomas Roe records the same as “coker of the sea”.
Note Roe’s “The Pilott of the Iunke spake Portiguse.” OED2 lacks, but see slips Roe
1615 and Enc. Brit. 1911
coco de mer 1615 ( 1899 ) Thomas . Roe Journal, July
21, 1615, in The Embassy of Sir Thomas Roe to the Court of the Great Mogul
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No.I/2) (reprint 1967) p. 22 The Pilott of the Iunke, called
MalimAbrimme, spake Portiguse, and toulde me on the Sowth side of St. Lawrance
ther was store of Amber greese, and Cokar of the Sea. OED2 see slips
coco de mer Keeling 1615 and Enc. Brit. 1911
coco de mer 1910 Encyclopedia
Britannica 11th ed. V. 6, p. 631 COCO DE MER or DOUBLE COCONUT, a palm,
Lodoicea Seychellarum, which is native to the Seychelles Islands. The former name is,
I believe, more common than the latter. OED 2 lacks See slips Keeling 1615 and Roe
1615
cocoa 1684 ( 1989 ) Francis Howard Letter to P. P.
Howard, April 1684 in Papers of Francis Howard, Baron Howard of Effingham p.80
You must bring the white wrought bed and have that new lined and handsomely
fitted up, with a Cocoa quilt of that Colour. OED2 1707, sense 3b (color)
1894 (chocolate as color 1771)
? or is “that colour” white, and cocoa a material?
cocoon 1676 ( 1953 ) John Locke June 8, 1676, in
Locke’s Travels in France p. 99 I opend a cocon of a silkworm that began to work on 3
June, and found all his work done and him turned into an aurelia. OED2 1699
coffee 1615 ( 1899 ) Thomas . Roe Journal, Aug. 24,
1615, in The Embassy of Sir Thomas Roe to the Court of the Great Mogul (Hakluyt
Soc. 2nd. Ser. No.I/2) (reprint 1967) p. 32 Ther was prouided .. for drink water and
Cohu, blake liquor taken as hotte as may be endured. OED2 has this quot.
modified (spelled cahu ) from a 1665 edition.
coherent n 1606 Barnaby Rich Faultes
Faults, and nothing else but Faultes
(facsimile ed. 1965) p. 31 recto Democritus, Crisippus, with the rest of their coherents
.. referre the originall of the worlde to a litle Nothing. OED2 sense Ba dict.
only 1598
colibri 1674 ( 1988 ) John Josselyn Two Voyages to
New England p. 100, 188
(1988 ed. as John Josselyn, Colonial Traveler p. 71, 130) The Colibry, Viemalin, or
rising and waking Bird, an emblem of the Resurrection, and the wonder of little Birds.
Gilliflowers thrive exceedingly there and are very large, the Collibuy or hummingBird is
much pleased with them. The editor (P. J. Lindholdt) notes OED antedate and explains
emblem ref.
(Also numerous bird names not in OED2, discussed by editor) OED2 1740
collective c 1496 John Stanbridge Accedence
(facsimile ed. as English Linguistics 15001800
No. 134) p. Aiiij A nowne collectyf is yt nowne yt in the synguler numbre sygnyfyeth
a multytude. OED2 sense 3a (the earliest sense) 1520
colluvies 1642 John Goodwin Anti
Cavalierisme p. 2 Facsimile in 1935 (reprinted 1965) Tracts on Liberty in the Puritan
Revolution
Vol. II p. 222 That Colluvies, that heap, or gathering together of the scum, and
drosse, and garbage of the Land, that most accursed confederacy .. of Jesuits and
Papists, and Atheists. OED2 1647
colocassia (colocasia) 1694 ( 1977 ) Note
(to Dr HansSloane) in The Correspondence of the Three William Byrds of Westover,
Virginia p. 171 From Mr. Byrd ..
There is one head of colocassia or the Aegyptian beane of Parkinson. It grows
plentifully here in marshes and bears a beautiful flower about July. OED2 1829
comb 1582 ( 1976 ) Richard MadoxDiary, May 19,
1582, in An Elizabethan in 1582
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. 147) p. 134 Not so much as a boy felt any correction
more than .. John Hawdle whom the master combd over for losyng his sownding lead.
OED2 cf . sense 3 1596
comfortable 1819 Capt. John Ross A Voyage of
Discovery for the purpose of Exploring
Baffins Bay p.238 One comfortable ....... L 0 1 8 OED2 1835
(Audubon 1826)
committee 1583 ( 1940 ) Articles of the
Muscovy Co. in The Voyages and Colonising Enterprises of Sir Humphrey Gilbert
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. LXXXIII) ( reprint 1967) p. 365 The Comittyes [seven
names]
Pointes sett downe by the Comities appointed in the behalfe of the companie to conferre
with Mr Carleill upon his intended discoverie and attempte in the northerne partes of
America. also Comitties and Committies. OED2 sense 1b 1587 , not Muscovy
equiv. of sense 2c
committee 1604 ( 1943 ) Company
Instructions in The Voyage of Sir Henry Middleton to the Moluccas (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd.
Ser. No. LXXXVIII) p. 177 A COMMISSION sett down by us, the Governour, the
Deputie, and Comitties of the East India Company.
OED2 sense 1c 1681
committee 1612 Robert Johnson The
New Life of Virginea p. C3v Sir Thomas Dales letter to the Committies. SEE
1613 Crashawe slip
Term appears to be used (at least informally) in the Virginia as well as the East India
Co. OED2 cf. sense 1c 1681 and see slip 1604
committee 1776 ( 1976 ) Massachusetts Board of War
Minutes, Nov. 20, 1776, inNaval Documents of the American Revolution Vol.7
p. 217 Resolv’d, That, a Committee be appointed to engage a Captain to Command said
Sloop. — That Mr Gray be this Committee. (and three other oneman committees)
OED2 sense 1a † 1623
commode a 1685 ( 1974 ) George Etherege Letter
Dec. 24, 1685, in Letters of Sir George Etherege
p. 17 [Here was a Countess of Nostitz..] Good Company met at her howse, and she
had a little Ombre to entertaine ‘em. A more comode Lady, by what i heare, never kept
a Bassett in London. OED2 sense 2 1722
commode ( v ) 1685 ( 1989 ) Francis Howard Letter
to W. Blathwayt, 6 June 1685 in Papers of Francis Howard, Baron Howard of Effingham
p. 211 My rent and fitting of my house to my use hath cost me over £200 this yeare, and
must yet cost me more, for my family can not be commoded as the Virginia houses
generally ar. OED2 cf. sense a 1658
common v 1553 ( 1988 ) William Baldwin
Beware the Cat argument p. 5 It was not comical to make either speechless
things to speak or brutish things to common reasonably. (First published 1570.
Normalized spelling) OED2 sense 2b †1562
companion n2 1742 ( 1743 ) Capt. Christopher Middleton
in A Vindication of the Conduct of Captain Christopher Middleton (facsimile
reprint 1967) p. 106 The Quarterdeck to be made flush with the present main Deck, by
having a slight one laid over the former, and a Companion Way thereupon made to go
down into the Steerage; the former Passage thereto being not only inconvenient but
very dangerous for Persons coming from below to go forwards, when the Capston is in
use, as Capt. Middleton by sad Experience found, being jamm’d between the End of a
Capston Bar and the Companion. OED2 companion 1762 companionway
1840
comparer 1633 ( 1894 ) Rev William Watts Appendix to
Thomas James The Strange and Dangerous Voyage in The Voyages of Captain Luke
Foxe and Captain Thomas James (Hakluyt Soc. 1st ser. No. LXXXIX) p. 622 Qui
habet Aristotelum, habet Bibliothecam, is truer of him than of the Great Comparer.
Who was the Great Comparer, worth a library? Pliny? OED2 1645
comparison c 1496 John Stanbridge Accedence
(facsimile ed. as English Linguistics 15001800
No. 134) p. A verso How many degrees of comparyson ben ther? Thre .. Posityf,
comparatif & superlatyf. OED2 sense 8 1530, but see 1447 quot. under
superlative.
compassionate v 1589 I. B. The Copy of
a Letter, Lately Written by a Spanishe Gentleman .. (facsimile ed. in English Recusant
Literature 15581640 Vol. 81 1971) p. 25 Beeing gouerned by a woman, your
case muste be the more capable of pittie, seeing that men naturally are giuen, to
compassionate that sexe. OED2 1598
competency 1749 ( 1974 ) Ebenezer Parkman The
Diary of Ebenezer Parkman Oct. 21, 1749
(American Antiquarian Soc.) p. 205 Some Competency of Turnips rais’d and cutt by
ourselves. OED2 sense 2 †a1734 (mostly for abstracts)
complacency 1632 A. H. [Henry Hawkins]
Partheneia Sacra (facsimile ed. in English Recusant Literature 15581640 Vol.
81 1971) p. 96 God himself takes such complacencie in the Rainebow, that when
he is in the highest point of his iust choler, if he cast but his eye thervpon, he is
suddenly appeased. OED2 1643
comprehensor 1632 A. H. [Henry Hawkins]
Partheneia Sacra (facsimile ed. in English Recusant Literature 15581640 Vol.
81 1971) p. 88 Certain it is, that from the beginning of his Conception, he was truly
a comprehensour; and yet in his way, and a true viatour. See the a1710 quot, and
the 1660 Watson quote under viator. OED2 1653
comrie 1595 ( 1940 ) Henry Roberts Lancaster
his Allarums inThe Voyages of Sir James Lancaster to Brazil and the East Indies 1591
1603 (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. LXXXV) p. 68 This batell finished .. our generall
.. cryed out of cowardice of those baser groomes, his followers, perswading himself that,
if they had stood with them, the honor of this comrie had beene theirs. ?
OED2 lacks. Editor (Sir William Foster) notes the verb cumray .
con v2 1606 ( 1877 ) Capt. John Knight Journal, June 14,
1606, in The Voyages of Sir James Lancaster .. and the Voyage of Captain John
Knight (Hakluyt Soc. Ser. 1, No. LVI) p. 289 We cuned the ship with our ores tyll
noone. .. From satordaye at noone tyll mydnyght we gyded our shipp to the westward
amongst the ise with our ores. Appears to mean something like “steer carefully”
rather than “direct the steering.” OED2 1626
concave v a 1617 ( 1899 ) Thomas . Roe Journal in
The Embassy of Sir Thomas Roe to the Court of the Great Mogul (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd.
Ser. No.I/2) (reprint 1967) p. 12 Theyr howses are but one matt concaued like an
Ouen. OED2 1652
concio 1740 ( 1974 ) Ebenezer Parkman The
Diary of Ebenezer Parkman Oct. 28, 1740
(American Antiquarian Soc.) p. 85 Ministers meeting at my house. .. I deliver’d a
Concio on 1 Cor. 2, 9. EP uses commonly for discourse at Ministerial Association
meetings.
= Concio ad clerum OED2 lacks as entry, but see under clerum and deanship
and cf. concion
concord c 1496 John Stanbridge Accedence
(facsimile ed. as English Linguistics 15001800
No. 134) p. Bv How many Concordes of Gramer ben there? Fyve. .. The fyrste
betwene the nomynatyf case & the verbe. OED2 1530
condensation 1576 ( 1940 ) Sir Humphrey
Gilbert A discourse of a discoverie for a new passage to Cataia in The Voyages and
Colonising Enterprises of Sir Humphrey Gilbert (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. LXXXIII)
( reprint 1967) p. 145 The Tides, and courses of the sea, are maintained by their
interchangeable motions: as freash rivers are by springes, and ebbing and flowing, by
rarefaction and condensation. OED2 1603
conformitan 1637 ( 1943 ) Brampton Gurdon Letter,
Apr. 11, 1634, in Winthrop Papers Vol. 3 p. 386 I will now informe yow of our new
conformetans in this dyesses. OED2 †1622
congresswater 1834 ( 1951 ) William A. Caruthers
The Kentuckian in NewYork Vol. 1 v p. 82 Headache, thirst, soda and
congresswater in the morning. OED2 1865; DA 1833
conjugation c 1496 John Stanbridge Accedence
(facsimile ed. as English Linguistics 15001800
No. 134) p. unnum. (Aiiij +8 = Aviii ?) How knowest the fyrst coniugacyon? For he
hath an a long byfore the re in the infinityf mode of the actif voyce or in the imperatyf
mode of the passyf voyce (as amare ). My italics for clarity OED2 a1528
conjunctive c 1496 John Stanbridge Accedence
(facsimile ed. as English Linguistics 15001800
No. 134) p. unnum. (Aiiij +8 = Aviii ?) How knowest the Coniuntyf mode? For he
ioyneth a verbe to hym or is Joyned to a nother. And thyse wordes folowynge woll serue
to the coniuntyf mode: Si quis quoque tam & licet atque priusque. OED2 1581,
sense 3c 17306
consectary 1632 T. T. The Whetstone of
Reproof
(facsimile ed. as English Recusant Literature 15581640 Vol. 361 1977) preface p.
a2 verso He citeth indeed greate tropes of authors in pretense of his positions,
some of which are true Catholike writers, but others .. manifestly knowen to be his
consectaries. OED2 lacks; not consectary (= corollary) of OED2
consign 1777 ( 1780 ) Lieut. Gen. J. Burgoyne
A State of the expedition from Canada
appendix p. xx
It is consigned to the NewEngland colonies to furnish
supplies of men and provisions.
OED2 †sense 11 (= assign) 1704 only (of a person)
consignee 1775 ( 1966 ) Gen. George Washington Letter,
Dec. 7, 1775 in Naval Documents of the American Revolution Vol.2 p. 1322 James
Anderson the Consignee & part owner of the ship Concord & Cargo. OED2
1789
construe c 1496 John Stanbridge Accedence
(facsimile ed. as English Linguistics 15001800
No. 134) p. Aiiij The comparatyf degree .. may be construed with an ablatyf case.
OED2 sense 2 1530
conte (coontah) 1791 ( 1792 ) William Bartram
Trav. Carolina p. 239 ** [quot. continues] : this is prepared from the root of
the China briar (Smilax pseudoChina). This and other quots. show that the cycad of
the OED2 def. is only one plant (and probably not the original) from which the foodstuff
was obtained.
contemplator 1612 ( 1969 ) T. Abbay inProc.
Virginia.. p. A2v in Jamestown Voyages under the First Charter (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd ser.
cxxxvi) p.376 If any can resolue this doubt it is .. not such mercinary
contemplators, that only bedeck themselues with others plumes. OED2
sense 3 1624
contingent 1757 ( 1972 ) Col. Henry Bouquet Letter,
Aug. 6, 1757, in The Papers of Henry Bouquet
Vol. 1 p. 130 South Carolina beginning only to raise it’s Contingent, our Forces in this
Province are very inconsiderable. OED2 sense 5b 1796
contradictoriness a 1700 ( 1866 ) Robert Calef More
Wonders of the Invisible World (1866 ed. reprinted 1970) p. 117 You must be
sensible of their apparent contradictoriness to the rest. OED2 1730
contranitence 1687 ( 1940 ) Charles Morton
Compendium Physicae in Publ. Colonial Soc. Massachusetts Vol. XXXIII p. 47
(from 1697 transcription of 1687 ms., probably first
compiled c1680) Antiparistasis, (a Greek compound word, hansomly Signifying,
natures Struggle, or contranitence against what dos oppos it). OED2 1731
dict., no usage quot.
contretemps 1776 ( 1968 ) Gov. Josiah Martin Letter,
Feb. 13, 1776, inNaval Documents of the American Revolution Vol.3 p. 1267 I
appointed them a Rendezvous .. on the 15th instant: but .. I hardly believe they will
appear so soon; which I shall rather think fortunate, as neither troops, or arms are yet
arrived; and that there is some reason to apprehend a Contretems, from Captain
Evelyn’s account of the decampment of Mr. Lee, with a body of the Rebels from Boston.
OED2 sense 2a 1802
contristate v 1611 Henry Fitz Simon The
Justification and Exposition of the Divine Sacrifice of the Masse (facsimile ed. in
English Recusant Literature 15581640 Vol. 108 1972) p. 321 O my Defender,
directer, and faithful counsellour, suffre me not to be lead into that danger by which I
may at any time contristat the and much lesse be abandoned by the.
OED2 dict. 1616, usage 1626
contrive 1785 ( 1959 ) Thomas Jefferson Letter
to John Adams Dec. 11,1785 in The Adams
Jefferson Letters p.106 Pray contrive the enclosed letter to Colo. Monroe. It must not
pass through the hands of the English post officers. OED2 Sense 7 †1701
controvertist 1632 T. T. The
Whetstone of Reproof
(facsimile ed. as English Recusant Literature 15581640 Vol. 361 1977) p. 358
The writings of the ancient Fathers .. are full of the same doctrine as in our
Catholike Controvertists.
OED2 1655
conundrum 1612 ( 1953 ) William Strachey The
Historie of Travell into Virginia Britania
Hakluyt Soc. (2nd . No. CIII) p. 74 Others weare a dead ratt tyed by the taile, and
such like conundrums. OED2 lacks use for an object (but cf. sense 5 1817)
convention 1777 ( 1780 ) Lieut. Gen. J. Burgoyne
A State of the expedition from Canada
appendix p. lxxx declares his post untenable; and
says, if this convention is not signed, he apprehends there will be considerable
desertion.
The surrender agreement at Saratoga, referred to in OED2 earliest cit.
forconvention Sense 8 b. ( 1780) is here referred to as such on the day of its adoption
(Oct. 15, 1777).
convention ( attrib. ) 1778 ( 1789 ) Thomas Anburey
Travels through the Interior Parts of America
in a Series of Letters (1969 facsimile ed.) Vol. II p.250 The Congress has passed
a resolve, to march the Convention army from the State of Massachusets to
Charlottesville, in the province of Virginia. (Dated letters appear concocted from
recollections or notes, but should be reliable for usage at date) OED2 lacks attrib.
use of sense 8b
conventment 1691 ( 1915 ) anon A Modest
and Impartial Narrative of several Grievances ..
in Narratives of the Insurrections 16751690 p. 325 Our Lieutenant Governour
and conventment were consulting for the more orderly quiet and peaceful Governing this
their Majesties Province. Convention (sense 4) used for same body elsewhere in
text. OED2 1547 only, with different sense.
conversion 1686 ( 1906 ) Shipwrights’
Resolutions at a Navy Office conference, in Samuel Pepys Memoires Relating to the
State of the Royal Navy of England (1690) (1906 ed. reprinted 1971) p. 43 The
general Waniness, want of Breadth at the Topend, and ill method of Conversion of our
English Plank. OED2 sense 12 ba c1850
convite n 1541 ( 1932 ) Roger Barlow A Briefe
Summe of Geographie
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. LXIX) p. 142 The prestes called braminios .. dothe
apoint the daie of the convite or feast. OED2 as a verb 1568
conyfish c 1625 ( 1882 ) Nathaniel Butler ? The
Historye of the Bermudaes
(Hakluyt Soc.1st. Ser. No. LXV) p. 7 Excellent fish ..the most of which being
vnknowen to our more northerly parts, haue lately gotten them names, either from their
shapes or conditions, as .. the delicate amber fish, from his tast and smell; angell fish;
cony fish, the smale yellowe tayle, from that naturall painteinge; the great grouper, from
his odde and strange gruntinge. Not the conyfish of OED2 1721 (= burbot)?;
see slip Munday 1656
conyfish 1656 ( 1936 ) Peter Mundy Journal,
June 7, 1656, inThe Travels of Peter Mundy , in Europe and Asia 16081667 (Hakluyt
Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. LXXVIII) (reprint 1967) Vol.V p. 85 Connyfish .. a smalle fish,
admirably beautified with various collours, having some teeth rightt before like a conny,
therefore soe named. On Ascension I. Not the conyfish of OED2 1721 (=
burbot); see slip c1630
coolish 1700 ( 1981 ) Edmond Halley Journal, Jan.
19, 1700, in The Three Voyages of Edmond Halley in the Paramore (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd
ser. vol. 156)
p. 155 This day the Wind being at S W b S we begin to feel it coolish.
OED2 Sense 2 1759
cooperate 1775 ( 1966 ) Gen. George Washington Letter,
Sep. 8, 1775 in Naval Documents of the American Revolution Vol.2 p.46 It is to
know whether, in your judgement, we cannot make a successful attack upon the Troops
in Boston, coöperated by an attempt upon their Liones at Roxbury (Via intermediate
published source – diaeresis is suspect) OED2 lacks participial usage
copper c 1613 ( 1881 ) Robert Fotherby? in
The Voyages of William Baffin (Hakluyt Soc. 1st. Ser. No.LXIII) p. 59 This tubb
containeth as much blubber as will serue one of the coppers at one boiling.
OED2 sense 3a 1667
Coptic 1650 ( 1984 ) Thomas Vaughan Magia
Adamica in The Works of Thomas Vaughan p. 191 I find it onely in the Coptic
Character, but our Founts wanting that Letter, I must give it to you in the Greeke.
OED2 1678
Corahism 1669 Nathaniel Morton New
Englands Memoriall (facsimile ed. 1937) p. 183 He [John Wilson †1667] then told
them, That he divers times, and long feared these sins .. 3. Corahism. This latter he
did explain thus; viz., when people rise up, as Corah, against their Ministers or Elders,
as if they took much upon them, when indeed they do but Rule for Christ, and
according to Christ, yet (saith he) it is nothing for a Brother to stand up and oppose
without Scripture or Reason, the Doctrine and Word of the Elder, saying [I am not
satisfied ] &c. OED2 1702
cord 1543 ( 1975 ) Account in Sidney
Ironworks Accounts 15411573
(Camden 4th Ser. Vol. 15) p. 58 Cordes of woodd Remaining
viC. Wood was
measured by the cord throughout these accounts. OED2 sense 9a 1616
cordage 1582 ( 1976 ) Richard Madox in An
Elizabethan in 1582
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. 147) p. 279 Some of the saylers complayned that she had
not that shifte of cabling and cordage, as to the length of hir viage and greatness of hir
burden was convenient. OED2 sense a (literal) 1598; sense 2 (transf. ) 1490
LATTER VERY DOUBTFUL
cordy 1581 ( 1963 ) William Bourne An
Almanacke and Prognostication for x. yeeres ..
in A Regiment for the Sea
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. CXXI) p. 399 If that the skie aloft bee kordy, or looke
rocky, then Southerly windes and fayre weather. OED2 1611
cornue 1651 ( 1984 ) Thomas Vaughan
Lumen de Lumine in The Works of Thomas Vaughan
p. 344 Certaine large Furnaces, and those crown’d with Cornues of Glasse.
OED2 1672 only
correctress 1606 Barnaby Rich Faultes
Faults, and nothing else but Faultes
(facsimile ed. 1965) p. 19 recto A good conscience is the Correctresse of our
affections. OED2 dict. 1611; usage 1763
corvée 1777 ( 1780 ) Lieut. Gen. J. Burgoyne
A State of the expedition from Canada
appendix p. liii
There are but two modes of procuring horses and carriages for the service,
supposing the country is not to furnish them upon corvées; the one is by purchasing of
horses upon the account of the government, the other by contract.
(cf. p. 10 cit.)
OED2 1340, then 1794 not in sense of forced requisition
OED2 1340, then 1794 (the work, not the workers)
Whereas Emmanuell Downing, Esqr., hath brought over, at his great charges, all things
fitting for takeing wild foule by way of duck coy.
(Records of Mass. 1. 236, in footnote, undated but presumably same year) OED2
decoy 1625 duckoy 1679
decoy v 1652 ( 1907 ) Robert Bargrave inThe
Travels of Peter Mundy , in Europe and Asia 16081667 (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No.
XVII) Vol. I p. 216 [In Bulgaria] I could note litle but the strange abundance of
Chattering Magpies and of scolding women to which Exercise theyr Language helps
much and tis probable those mimick birds are decoyd hither by the Delight they have in
the Musique. OED2 1660
decrepit (n ) 1705 ( 1915 ) Thomas Mathews
TheBeginning, Progress and Conclusion of Bacon’s Rebellion in Virginia in
Narratives of the Insurrections
16751690 p. 19 March’d out .. leaving 3 or 4 Decrepits in the Fort. OED2
1578 and dial. 1887
deep v 1764 ( 1964 ) John Byron Journal, Nov. 18, 1764, in
Byron’s Journal of his Circumnavigation (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd Ser., No. CXXII) p. 33
We suddenly shoaled our water from 13 to 7 fm. & presently after deeped our
water from 17 to 42 fm. OED2 lacks this sense
defalcation 1586 ( 1981 ) Financial account,
in Sir Francis Drake’s West Indian Voyage 158586 (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. 148)
p. 55 Against the which: Abatement and defalcation . . . [for] charges susteyned and
defrayed. OED2 sense 1b 1622
defectious 1672 ( 1992 ) Henry More Letter, Apr. 6, 1672,
in The Conway Letters p. 356 Both the Episcopall party and the Fanaticall .. are but
unskillfull combatants or strangely defectious if they can not keep down Popery, by the
best kind of weapons of a spirituall warfare. OED2 sense 2 ? OED2 †1630
demission n1 1632 A. H. [Henry Hawkins]
Partheneia Sacra (facsimile ed. in English Recusant Literature 15581640 Vol.
81 1971) p. 12 In this GARDEN ENCLOSED are certain risings to be seen of Hils in
eleuations of mind, and Valleys againe in depressions and demissions of the same
mind. OED2 a1638
demonstrative c 1496 John Stanbridge
Accedence (facsimile ed. as English Linguistics 15001800
No. 134) p. unnum. (Aiiij +6 = Avii ?) How knowest a Pronowne demonstratyf? For
by hym is some thyng shewed.
OED2 sense 3 1520
demurity 1669 Nathaniel Morton New
Englands Memoriall (facsimile ed. 1937) p. 157 They [Quakers] placed their
Justification upon their Patience and Suffering for their opinions, and on their righteous
life, and retired demurity, and affected singularity both in word and gesture. OED2
no quots. 1483< >1704
den 1690 ( 1927 ) Shipwright’s contract in
The Papers of Thomas Bowrey Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. LVIII (reprint 1967) p. 88
To make a Denn in the Midships to be compleately finished with Joyners and
painters worke. On a 14ton yacht OED2 cf. sense 3b 1837
deneboulstone 1687 ( 1940 ) Charles Morton
Compendium Physicae in Publ. Colonial Soc. Massachusetts Vol. XXXIII p. 116
(from 1697 transcription of 1687 ms., probably first
compiled c1680) The best [slate] is denebouls[t]one of a Greenish blew, rings like
Glass, and lyes on an house hundreds of years without rotting or mouldering.
?
deponent c 1496 John Stanbridge Accedence
(facsimile ed. as English Linguistics 15001800
No. 134) p. Bi verso How knowest a verbe deponent? For he hath a lettre of the
passyf & sygnyficacyon of ye actyf. OED2 1528
depose 1655 ( 1984 ) Thomas Vaughan
Euphrates in The Works of Thomas Vaughan p. 541If any ordinary stone
stands long but in common water, there sticks to it a certain limositie, which the water
deposeth. OED2 sense 1c 1758
depositary 1779 ( 1780 ) Lieut. Gen. J. Burgoyne
A State of the expedition from Canada
appendix p. vii
The expeditious conveyance of provision and stores from Quebec and the
several other depositaries.
OED2 Sense 2 (=depository) 1797
We fownd the great whyte dragon tree whose sap floyeth lyke mylk in the wild spurg, is
just as viscows as glew and after groeth to gume.
(p. 165) Sierra
Leone Is this the dragontree of OED2 1611 ?
dram v 1735 John Atkins A Voyage to Guinea,
Brazil, & the West Indies in his Majesty’s Ships, the Swallow and Weymouth (facsimile
reprint 1970) p. 158 The Success of a Voyage depends .. Thirdly, in dramming
well with English Spirits, and conforming to the Humours of the Negroes. OED2
sense 2 1770
drawl 1585 ( 1981 ) Journal of the Leicester,
Nov. 19, 1585, in Sir Francis Drake’s West Indian Voyage 158586 (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd.
Ser. No. 148) p. 142 The wordes being publikly pronounced and [it being] openly
knowne that my Captayne only did not agree to these oathes, he thought himselfe not a
littell touched in reputation, wherefore .. he did charge him openly .. of the great abuse
offered him by this his manner of Drawling. ? Defaming by innuendo? ? Doesn’t fit
any sense of OED2 drawl (1597)
drift 1751 John Bartram Observations ..
Made by Mr. John Bartram in his Travels from Pensilvania .. (facsimile ed. 1966) p. 18
An Island .. the higher end sandy, from the drift left there by the floods.
OED2 sense 10a 1839
drift net 1715 ( 1972 ) John Fontaine Journal Feb.
3, 1715 p. 62 They have also drift nets for catching of bait. (Newfoundland
fishery) OED2 1848
driftwood 1606 ( 1877 ) Capt. John Knight Journal, May
25, 1606, in The Voyages of Sir James Lancaster .. and the Voyage of Captain John
Knight (Hakluyt Soc. Ser. 1, No. LVI) p. 284 This forenoone we sawe much sea
tange and rock weed.
This day we sawe much rockweed and drift wood. OED2 1633
driller n2 1670 1671 ( 1683 ) Sir James Turner Pallas Armata
(facsimile ed. 1968) Bk. I Ch. iv p. 10 Our Modern Drillers, when they command the
Macedonian countermarch, they say, By the Right or Left hand Countermarch.
OED2 sense 2a 1830
drive out 1755 John Smith The Printer’s
Grammar (facsimile ed. 1965) p. 154 The foregoing Scheme .. shews, How one
Letter gets in upon another in width, from Greatprimer to Brevier; and .. How one Letter
drives out from another, from Brevier to Greatprimer. Apparent meaning: to set type so
that the copy occupies more space. OED2 lacks
driver boom 1776 ( 1968 ) Journal, H.M.S. Isis,
Apr. 23, 1776, inNaval Documents of the American Revolution Vol.4 p. 1212 Every
Sail in the Ship Set, with a water Sail made out of the mizen Top gallt sail, Sett on the
Driver boom. OED2 1794
drogher 1777 ( 1980 ) Capt. Cornelius White Letter,
May 15, 1777, inNaval Documents of the American Revolution Vol.8 p. 971 Them
seas are almost alive with privateers, taking every vessell that passes without Convoy,
they have even taken a number of the Passage Boats & Droggers. (West Indies) OED2
1782
The people are so zealously bent to believe the story, as I had like to have been
imbroglid for disputing of it. (p. 247) OED2 n. 1750; lacks verb
emergement 1670 1671 ( 1683 ) Sir James Turner Pallas
Armata (facsimile ed. 1968) Bk. III Ch. xix p. 284 The Encamping of an Army for
some considerable time .. though it be not very ordinary, yet it hath been, and may be
occasion’d by several accidents and emergements. OED2 a1734 only
encounter 1585 ( 1981 ) Journal of the
Leicester, Nov. 2, 1585, in Sir Francis Drake’s West Indian Voyage 158586 (Hakluyt
Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. 148) p. 129 The strength of her great beames gave such an
incounter to the shott that it rebounded a pikes length from her. Encounter in
all OED2 senses is a mutual occurrence, rather than resistance, as here.
end for end 1582 ( 1959 ) Richard MadoxDiary, Sep.
4, 1582, in An Elizabethan in 1582
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. 147) p. 179 The Edward by neglegyns let fawl a fayr anchor
and cable with a sunken boy, which being not turned on the bytts brok the stopper and
ran owt end for end. OED2 end sense 19a 1627
endemial 1668 ( 1964 ) Sir Thomas Browne Letter,
Dec. 21, 1668, in The Works of Sir Thomas Browne Vol. IV p. 37 Some endemiall &
proper diseases there may bee in those parts where you are also. OED2 1672
(Browne also)
endsman 1786 ( 1959 ) John Adams Letter to
Thomas Jefferson Jan. 19, 1786 in The Adams
Jefferson Letters p.116 It is but lately that the English have taken any [Sperma Coeti
Whales], and they are able to take them now, only with our Skippers, Oarsmen, and
Endsmen. ? OED2 lacks
energumen 1693 ( 1866 ) CottonMather Another
Brand Pluckt out of the Burning in Robert Calef (1700) More Wonders of the Invisible
World (1866 ed. reprinted 1970) p. 26 In token of their being Listed for the Service of
the Devil, and upon their denying to do it,, they were dragoon’d with a thousand
Preternatural Torments, which gave no little terror to the beholders of these unhappy
Energuments. OED2 1706
enfire 1592 ( 1966 ) Henry Chettle KindHarts Dreame
in Elizabethan and Jacobean Quartos
p. 9 This folly raging vniuersally, hath infired me, to write the remembrance of my
deceased frends. OED2 sense 2 1596; spelling a1661 only
engagedness 1809 Capt. LemuelRoberts
Memoirs (facsimile reprint 1969) p. 29 Being all engagedness to
discover the occasion of the cannonade. OED2 † <1763
ensigncy 1765 Henry Timberlake Memoirs
p. 2 In the year 1758 .. a new regiment was raised .. to be commanded by the Hon.
William Byrd, Esq; from whom I received an ensigncy. OED2 1767
envoy 1788 ( 1991 ) David Humphrey David Humphreys’
“Life of General Washington , with GW’s “Remarks “ p.37 As improvement is known
to be his passion, he receives envoys of rare seeds & results of new projects, from
every quarter. OED2 lack sense of “things sent.”
epaulet 1776 ( 1972 ) Continental Marine Committee
Minutes , Sep. 5, 1776, inNaval Documents of the American Revolution Vol.6
p. 716 Uniform of the Marine Officers .. Silver Epaulett on the right Shoulder
OED2 1783
epicene c 1496 John Stanbridge Accedence
(facsimile ed. as English Linguistics 15001800
No. 134) p. Aiiij verso What nownes ben of the epycene gendre? Nownes of smal
byrdes whose dyscrecion of kynde may not lyghtly be knowen. OED2
c1528
eruscation 1789 Thomas Anburey
Travels through the Interior Parts of America
in a Series of Letters (1969 facsimile ed.) Vol. II p. 346 The eruscations and
flashes of lightning incessantly followed
each other. OED2 “Ignorantly used for CORUSCATION” 1693
escorte (escort) 1777 ( 1986 ) (David Murray) Lord
Stormont Letter, Aug. 20, 1777, inNaval Documents of the American Revolution
Vol. 9 p. 580 My Instructions were to press His Excellency for immediate
Departure of those Privateers without Convoy, or Escorte, of any kind. (Reporting
on a conversation in French, so possibly a French word.) OED2 sense 1b 1914
escritore (escritoire) 1695 ( 1963 ) William
Fitzhugh Letter to Col. Henry Hartwell, 1695 in William Fitzhugh and his
Chesapeake World p. 341
Your Care & kindness .. is thankfully receiv’d about the Escritore, but I had one
last year come into me according to my mind for price & goodness. OED2 1706
espial a 1595 ( 1618 ) Sir Roger Williams The Actions
of the Lowe Countries p. C1
in The Works of Sir Roger Williams (1972) p. 66 Count Charles Maunsfelt had
with him a vigilant politicke companion, which his father ( the olde Foxe) had foysted into
the seruice of the Duke D’Alua, only to aduertise him and his sonne of their
proceedings. This espyall ranne to Charles into a tennisCourt. OED2 lacks
this form, and use for an individual.
esplanade 1670 1671 ( 1683 ) Sir James Turner Pallas
Armata (facsimile ed. 1968) Bk. III Ch. xxv p. 329 He should destroy all the Suburbs
.. by which he conceives an Enemy may be shelter’d, or make his approaches more
easie. And this he should do betimes, that before an Enemies arrival all within two
hundred paces of the Counterscarp, may be an Esplanad. Sense 1b seems more
basic (and now anterior) to the more precise 1a. OED2 1681
espouse 1618 William Cape The
Chronicle and Institution of the Order of .. S. Francis
(transl. of original of Marcos Da Silva) (facsimile ed. as English Recusant Literature
15581640 Vol. 357 1977)
The saying of the Espouse: Consider me not nor do not admire that I am black,
because the sunne hath taken away my collour. (p. 142)
S. Clare .. was such an Espouse of IESVS CHRIST as each one knoweth.
(p. 323) OED2 sense 1 †1603
estafette 1758 ( 1951 ) Gen. John Forbes Letter,
June 6, 1758, in The Papers of Henry Bouquet
Vol. 2 p. 39 The Estaffetts ought to be fixed at their different stages. OED2
1792
estancia c 1595 ( 1959 ) Report of
Cumberland’s seventh voyage in English Privateering Voyages to the West Indies 1588
1595 (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. CXI) p. 249
An Eastancha is as it were a Country villadge, where the great men have their
servants and Slaves to keepe their Cattle make their Cassada bread dress their Ginger
and their fruites keep their Powltry and divers other services. (also East Anchour
!) OED2 1704
estrange 1607 ( 1955 ) Dobsons Drie
Bobbes Ch. 1 p. 8 Sir Thomas not a litle estranging at the newes, beckened to
the Carremen to stay the vnloading of their cartes. OED2 cf. sense 6 1658
only (in passive)
etang 1676 ( 1953 ) John Locke Mar. 24, 1676, in Locke’s
Travels in France p. 61 The sea formerly washed the walls of it, but is now removed
a league from the towne, & there remains only a little Estang that comes up to the walls,
which is navigable only to very litle boats. OED2 1845; estang 1673 looks
like it could be this also, rather than the OED2 def.
ett (airt?) 1541 ( 1932 ) Roger Barlow A Briefe
Summe of Geographie
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. LXIX) p. 82 The wynd blowis vi monethes of the yere in
one ett and vi moneths in an other. Editor (E. G. R. Taylor) footnotes airt .
There’s no reason for Scoticisms or Northernisms in Barlow. OED2 lacks this form (if
it’s the right word)
euonimus (euonymus) 1694 ( 1977 ) Note
(to Dr Han Sloane) in The Correspondence of the Three William Byrds of Westover,
Virginia p. 171 From Mr. Byrd ..
The euonimus with scarlettseedvessells grows here near water. OED2 1767
evagation 1607 ( 1955 ) Dobsons Drie
Bobbes Ch. 15 p. 100 For after that he was hanckeled in so great extremity, he
directed letters to his vnckle, certifieing him of his lamentable case craueing pardon for
all his former euagations. OED2 cf. sense 3 1638, but here more
reprehensible behavior.
everlasting 1735 John Atkins A Voyage to
Guinea, Brazil, & the West Indies in his Majesty’s Ships, the Swallow and Weymouth
(facsimile reprint 1970) p. 27 There is one Curiosity I found in theirGardens called
the everlasting Flower, never fading after gathered, or indiscernably in many Years; the
Herb is like Sage growing, and the Flower like Camomil. (Madeira) OED2 sense
4a 177284
exclusionist a 1689 ( 1991 ) Sir John Reresby
Memoirs of Sir John Reresby (2nd. ed.) p. 187 My Lord Cavendish was
there, and some other persons of quality, who were all of the opinion that this Parliament
(consisting most of the exclusianists that were of the former Parlaments) would not last
long. Refers to a dinner on Sept, 4, 1679, the year of the Exclusion bill. OED2
sense b 1756
exomphalos 1735 John Atkins A Voyage to
Guinea, Brazil, & the West Indies in his Majesty’s Ships, the Swallow and Weymouth
(facsimile reprint 1970) p. 49 The Men are welllimbed clean Fellows, flattish
nosed, and many with Exomphalos’s, the effect of bad Midwifry, or straining in their
Infancy to walk. OED2 175464
expect n 1595 ( 1940 ) Henry Roberts Lancaster
his Allarums inThe Voyages of Sir James Lancaster to Brazil and the East Indies 1591
1603 (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. LXXXV) p. 58 But contrary to our expect .. not
fiftie leauges from our own coast wee lost theSalomon and the Virgine. OED2
1597
expediate 1635 Capt. Luke Foxe Northwest
Fox or Fox from the Northwest Passage
(Facsimile ed. 1965) p. 171
His Maiesty .. appointing them two to expediate forward the enterprize.
Admit I come from Hambrough or the Easterne sea to expediate a Voyage. (p. 267)
The book was not well edited or proofed, so these could be errors. OED2 1605,
1623 as errors for expedite.
explorator 1810 ( 1951 ) John E. Caldwell A
Tour through Part of Virginia p. 35 The almost exhausted strength of the
explorator may here be recruited. (Visitor to caverns) OED2 cf. sense 2 1844
expugnable 1541 ( 1932 ) Roger Barlow A Briefe
Summe of Geographie
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. LXIX) p. 39
Calyce is a towne under the kyng of Englande so strongelie fortifyed with al
engynes of warre and men of armes that it is expugnable. OED2 1570 has
the opposite meaning
extramission 1687 ( 1940 ) Charles Morton
Compendium Physicae in Publ. Colonial Soc. Massachusetts Vol. XXXIII p.
161
(from 1697 transcription of 1687 ms., probably first
compiled c1680) The Manner of Seeing (not as it Seams to be) by Extramission or
Sending forth Rayes, or Spirits from the Eye to the Object .. but by Introception (or
receiving inward) of Lightsom rayes. OED2 †16734
exult (n ) 1698 ( 1915 ) anon Loyalty Vindicated from
the Reflections of a Virulent Pamphlet in Narratives of the Insurrections
16751690 p. 375 The exults of joy, that truth and honesty will now have their turn.
OED2 lacks
F 1641 ( 1925 ) Peter Mundy The Travels of Peter
Mundy, in Europe and Asia 16081667 Rel. XXXIII (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. LV) Vol.
4
p. 104
Hee had one Named a Barretone, itt beeing a base violl with an addition of Many
wire strings, which run From end to end under the Finger board, through the F belly of
the Instrument, which are to bee strucke with the thumbe of the stopping hand.
OED2 sense 1b 1836
fabricate 1775 ( 1975 ) Abigail Adams Letter
to John Adams Nov. 27, 1775 in The Book of Abigail and John p.113 I wish I knew
what mighty things were fabricating. OED2 does not note intransitive usage,
but 1796 quot. for fabricating ( ppln ) is similar.
fac 1755 John Smith The Printer’s Grammar
(facsimile ed. 1965) p. 120 A Fac shall not touch the letters under it. OED2
1840 only
facture 1567 ( 1891 ) Letter from the
Russia Company to their agents in Early Voyages and travels to Russia and Persia
(Hakluyt Soc. Ser. 1, No. LXXXIII p. 223 If you send vs any two copies whether it
be bo[o]k, envoice or ffacture, they wounderfullie varie one from another, which herafter
must be amended. OED2 sense 3 1858 dict. “= invoice. A Fr. sense: perh.
never used in Eng.”
fair v 1612 ( 1881 ) John Gatonby Journal, June 20,
1612, in The Voyages of William Baffin (Hakluyt Soc. 1st. Ser. No.LXIII) p. 16 (via
Churchill’s Voyages 1732) The weather faired, and our general caused our great
pinnace to be made ready. OED2 sense 1b 1836
fairtrader 1783 ( 1969 ) William Williams Mr.
Penrose The Journal of Penrose, Seaman p. 296 “It is my opinion they are Pirates,
as Nunez says the War is over some time.”
“No, no,” said he, “ they are what you may call Fair Traders, and we can purchase some
Flour of them.” OED2 fair trade sense1b 1774, fairtrader sense c 1884
(or 1824?)
falinge 1612 ( 1953 ) William Strachey The
Historie of Travell into Virginia Britania
Hakluyt Soc. (2nd . No. CIII) p. 71 The better sort vse large mantells of divers
skyns, not much differing from the Irish falinges. Ed. of 1849 ed. footnotes
“fallaing or falluing, Celtic for a cloak or mantle.” OED2 lacks
fall 1622 Edward Waterhouse A
Declaration of the State of the Colony in Virginia
(facsimile ed. 1970) p. 5 The Does of their Deere .. yeeld two Fawns at a fall or birth.
OED2 sense 4 1796
fall aboard 1585 ( 1981 ) Journal of the
Tyger, Sep. 15, 1585, in Sir Francis Drake’s West Indian Voyage 158586 (Hakluyt Soc.
2nd. Ser. No. 148) p. 71 The wynde beinge so badd and the shipe in travers, it
hapend the Minion to fawle aborde of us.
OED2 aboard sense 2d 1604
fall down 1582 ( 1976 ) Richard Madox in An
Elizabethan in 1582
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. 147) p. 281 Our Anchors were wayed, and we fel down with
a tyde to Cawshot. OED2 sense 85c 1598
fallable 1555 ( 1975 ) Account in Sidney
Ironworks Accounts 15411573
(Camden 4th Ser. Vol. 15) p. 195 xiiii acres fallable woode in Mr Tuftons wood at
lxiii s iiii d the acre
xliiii li vi s viii d. OED2 lacks
a. corresponding to fall 51c; fellable 1581
familistical 1638 ( 1944 ) Hugh Peter Letter, Oct. 10,
1638, in Winthrop Papers Vol. 4 p. 84 Our churches flourish, and the more so by
some late familisticall errors intruded by Satan: and truly troubles we must look for on all
hands. OED2 familistic 1643; familistical 1653
familistical 1749 ( 1974 ) Ebenezer Parkman The
Diary of Ebenezer Parkman June 29, 1749
(American Antiquarian Soc.) p. 197 He desir’d [a fast] on account of his two sons ..
and two Dauters likewise, who had fallen into very gross, familistical Errors.
OED2 † 1702
fancied 1651 ( 1984 ) Thomas Vaughan
Lumen de Lumine in The Works of Thomas Vaughan
p. 305 It was fansied with white and Silver Ribbands. OED2 sense
2b 1709
fare n1 1773 ( 1973 ) AshleyBowen Journal, Apr. 4,
1773, in The Journals of Ashley Bowen (17281813) of Marblehead (Publ. Colonial Soc.
Massachusetts Vol. XLV) p. 338
This day came in two first fare men, one well fished and one with the loss of two
of her hands. Normalized spelling OED2 sense 1b †1530
fatigue party 1776 ( 1972 ) Brigade Major Peter Scull
Orderly book, Aug. 28, 1776, inNaval Documents of the American Revolution
Vol.6 p. 335 The Batteau Masr is ordered to take a FatigueParty and proceed
immediately to collect all the Oars from the different Incampmts, and places where they
are scattered. OED2 1840
fay 1704 ( 1927 ) Shipwright’s contract in
The Papers of Thomas Bowrey Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. LVIII (reprint 1967) p. 133
The Wales to be each of them seaven Inches broad and five Inches In and Out
and to be faid One upon the Other. OED2 sense 4 1748
fearnaught (fearnought) 1759 ( 1994 )
Invoice, Dec. 6, 1759 in “Worthy Partner” The Papers of Martha Washington p.
18 Invoice of Sundries Shipt by James Gildart ..
2 pieces Fearnaught No No 5.........................@23/ 2. 6. 0
2 pieces Do No 6..............................................@37/ 3. 14. 0 OED2
177284
fearnought 1765 ( 1964 ) John Byron Journal, Mar. 11,
1765, in Byron’s Journal of his Circumnavigation (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd Ser., No. CXXII) p.
75 I distributed two Bales of Fearnought amongst the two Ships Crews (Officers as
well) which will make them good warm jackets. OED2 177284
fedifragy 1670 1671 ( 1683 ) Sir James Turner Pallas
Armata (facsimile ed. 1968) Bk. III Ch. xxvi p. 345 Nor did Leo the tenth, Bishop of
Rome enslave himself to his promise made most solemly to the Dukes of Urbino and
Ferrara : The Bloody Tenet, No Faith to be kept to Hereticks, could not excuse this
fedifragy. OED2 lacks; fedifragous †1651
feeting 1716 ( 1972 ) John Fontaine Journal
Sep. 6, 1716 p. 106 We see when we were over the mountains the feeting of
several Elks and Buffaloes and their beds. (apparently = tracks) OED2 lacks
fender 1614 ( 1881 ) Robert Fotherby in
The Voyages of William Baffin (Hakluyt Soc. 1st. Ser. No.LXIII) p. 81 (from Purchas
Pilgrimes 1625) We .. made fenders of an old cable, which was hung ouer the ships
sides to keepe the ice from piercing of her plankes. OED2 sense 2b 1626
fet 1582 ( 1976 ) Richard Madox in An Elizabethan
in 1582
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. 147) p. 279 They must come withyn a hundred leagwes of
this place to fet a wynd to cary us unto the Cape of good Hope. OED2 =
fetch sense 10b 1630
fewm 1582 ( 1976 ) Richard MadoxDiary, Aug. 14,
1582, in An Elizabethan in 1582
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. 147) p. 164 We found dyvers fewms of oliphants in the
soyl. OED2 lacks, but see fewmand 1637
fial (fayal) 1687 ( 1989 ) Capt. Thomas Allen
Answer to charges in Papers of Francis Howard, Baron Howard of Effingham
p. 352 No European Goods must pay Custome to your Country here but
Rum, Fial, or Madera. (Editor footnotes “Fayal , a type of brandy produced by the
inhabitants of the Azores island of that name.”) OED2 lacks
fid 1590 ( 1959 ) Inventory of the White Lion
in English Privateering Voyages to the West Indies 15881595 (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser.
No. CXI) p. 77 4 fydes 4 fydhammers. OED2 1615
fiddlefaddle 1582 ( 1976 ) Richard MadoxDiary, May
11, 1582, in An Elizabethan in 1582
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. 147) p. 132 I fownd that al was nothing else but only
the fydle fadle superfynes of Capten Skevingtons curiosytye. OED2 sense B
(adj. ) 1617
fife rail 1781 ( 1916 ) Rear Adm. Thomas
Graves Report to Admiralty, 14 Sept. 1781, Enc. A
in Graves Papers p. 70 (facsimile reprint 1968) The plankshier, fife rails, blocks
&c. on the quarterdeck, all shot away. OED2 17211800 dict., 1804 quot. This
appears to be sense a, as in Smyth 1867.
fight 1589 ( 1940 ) Edward Hayes In Hakluyt’s
Principall Navigations in The Voyages and Colonising Enterprises of Sir Humphrey
Gilbert (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. LXXXIII) ( reprint 1967) p. 409 The Frigate
was prepared with her nettings & fights. OED2 sense 5 1598
figure c 1496 John Stanbridge Accedence
(facsimile ed. as English Linguistics 15001800
No. 134) p. Aiiij verso How many fygures ben there? thre. which, iij? Symple,
Compounde & decompounde. Symple as (magnus) Compounde as (magnanimus.
Decompounde as, magnanimitas. OED2 sense 22a 1669
fin c 1613 ( 1881 ) Robert Fotherby? in The
Voyages of William Baffin (Hakluyt Soc. 1st. Ser. No.LXIII) p. 59 His finnes (which
wee call whale bone in England) doe growe, and are wholie included within his spacious
mouth. OED2 sense 2d 1634
finalization 1783 ( 1915 ) Wiliam TonkinLetter, Mar.
11, 1783, in Commerce of Rhode Island 17261800 Vol. 2, p. 172 The finalization of
my Partnership .. gives me an opportunity to address you seperately. OED2
1952 (in sense of completion rather than termination)
finicking 1842 ( 1953 ) Abraham Lincoln
“Rebecca Letter” Aug. 27, 1842, in Collected works of Abraham Lincoln Vol. I
p. 295 Married women, finickin about, trying to look like galls. (satire in semiliterate rural
style) OED2 1857
firepike 1590 ( 1959 ) JamesRobinson Inventory of
the White Lion in English Privateering Voyages to the West Indies 15881595 (Hakluyt
Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. CXI) p. 75 3 fyer pickes. OED2 1630
fireward 1735 ( 1960 ) Benjamin Franklin In
Pennsylvania Gazette Feb. 4, 1734/5 in Papers of Benjamin F ranklin Vol. 2 p. 14
In Time of Fire, they are commanded by Officers appointed by Law, called
Firewards. Refers to Boston. Editor’s footnote suggests firewards were appointed
there in 1712.OED2 1763
firkin 1566 ( 1975 ) Account in Sidney
Ironworks Accounts 15411573
(Camden 4th Ser. Vol. 15) 12 verkins of stele at 6 li le verkin L72–00–0
(p.227)
Coles .. spent to make lvii firkins of Steele at iii Lodes to a firkin.
(p. 230)
Steele .. solde by Thomas Dan xvii firkins i burden v Sheaffe di.
(p. 231) Editor
(D. W. Crossley) “although apparently used as a standard of measure, it is not clear
what weight it represented.” Estimates of
6 cwt. or more certainly exceed the capacity of a standard firkin. Could there
possibly have been a werkung that the German steelmasters used – nothing to do with
the 89 gall. barrel?
firkin 1775 ( 1846 ) Isaac SenterJournal Nov. 3, 1775
(Hist. Soc. Penna.), p. 23
(facsmile reprint 1969) The poor Canadian peasants .. served out firkin butter and
hot bread. (On Arnold’s expedition in Quebec. Journal was clearly reworked before
author’s death in 1799, but this looks like onthespot usage.) Appears to be some more
specific sense than OED2
firman 1612 ( 1934 ) Capt. Thomas Best
Journal, Oct. 21, 1612, in The Voyage of Thomas Best to the East Indies, 161214
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. LXXV) (reprint 1967) p. 32, 33 Articles agreed upon .. to
be confirmed by the Great Magolls seale and firma. (p. 32)
The Governor of Amedevar hath graunted unto us to write to the Greate Magoll to have
the halfe per cento abated; the answere whereof wee shall receive, togeather with the
Kings firma, within the compasse of forty dayes (p. 33)
Firma in the agreement is clearly firman (as discussion in correspondence
thereon demonstrates, but the preceding comment in the Journal suggests that in Best’s
mind it has something to do with firma = signature. OED2 1616 HobsonJobson
1614
firmer 1759 ( 1994 ) George Washington Invoice, in
“Worthy Partner” The Papers of Martha Washington p. 90 1 dozn firmers
1 Do gouges
1 morticing chizzels OED2 1823
fish 1582 ( 1959 ) Edward Fenton Narrative in
The Troublesome Voyage of Captain Edward Fenton (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. CXIII)
p. 106 Fished for an ancour and Cable of thedwarde Bonaventure Lost in cominge to
ancour. OED2 sense 2 1655
fish v2 1582 ( 1959 ) Edward Fenton Sea Journal
in The Troublesome Voyage of Captain Edward Fenton (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No.
CXIII) p. 90 Tooke downe our maintopmaste and fished it. OED2 1626
fish 1582 ( 1959 ) Edward Fenton Sea Journal
in The Troublesome Voyage of Captain Edward Fenton (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No.
CXIII) p. 120 The Edwarde havinge brooke her Catt in fyshinge her Ancour.
OED2 sense 5d 1769
fish n2 1582 ( 1959 ) Edward Fenton Narrative in
The Troublesome Voyage of Captain Edward Fenton (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. CXIII)
p. 106 Begann to frame the fishes for our mainmast. OED2 1666
fish n2 and v2 1612 ( 1934 ) Capt. Thomas Best
Journal, Feb. 27, 1612 , in The Voyage of Thomas Best to the East Indies, 1612
14 (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. LXXV) (reprint 1967) Having fithed our maine
yarde .. sett out maine saile againe. (p. 3)
Then did 3 or 4 of our fiches of our maine maste breake. (p. 16)
It was concluded for the better to make a newe yarde, and with the oulde to fiche our
maine maste. (p. 16) After one use of fithed
(which could be a transcription error), Best uniformly uses fiche. Does this support
etym. from French fiche ? OED2 lacks this form.
fish room 1775 ( 1966 ) Log, H.M.S.
Mercury Sep. 8, 1775 in
Naval Documents of the American Revolution Vol.2 p. 54 Stowed Som of the Iron
Ballast in the After hold and Fish Room. OED2 1815, dict. ref. only
fishgig 1582 ( 1959 ) John Walker Diary in The
Troublesome Voyage of Captain Edward Fenton (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. CXIII) p.
203 C. Hawkins caste a fishgigge in into hym [a crocodile] under the hynder leg.
OED2 1642
fizzler 1582 ( 1959 ) Richard MadoxDiary, Aug. 16,
1582, in An Elizabethan in 1582
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. 147) p. 166 Hereon was demaunded what was a fyzeler &
why privy taleberers wer called fyzelers. To this was answered that as he which fyzeleth
doth stink worse then a playn farter & doth also lead many into suspition because yt is
not knoen whence the fyst cometh. This is OED2 single word quot. from
ms., but deserves full quot.
(bunt n2 sense 2b quot. from anon. ms. can be refd. to p. 168 here also)
flagstaff 1612 ( 1982 ) John Guy Journal, Nov. 8,
1612, in Newfoundland Discovered
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. 160) p. 76 We call Flagstaffe Harbour, because we fownd
theare the flagstaffe throwen by the savages away. Earlier “they did take our white
flag with them in the Canoa.” OED2 1613
flake n1 1578 ( 1935 ) Anthony Parkhurst Letter in The
Original Writings & Correspondence of the Two Richard Hakluyts (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd.
Ser. No. LXXVI) ( reprint 1967) p. 124 We shold further more, yf this land wer
inhabyted, kepe people fysshynge halfe the yere .. for ther would be saved the tyme we
spend in .. makyng of flakes and other dryinge places. OED2 sense 2b 1623
flake 1607 ( 1955 ) Dobsons Drie Bobbes
Ch. 8 p. 63 Dobson ..stole foorth into a place where the Hens sit vpon a fleake,
whither he ascended, pulling vp the ladder after him. Durham OED2 lacks this
sense
flake 1837 ( 1968 ) William Johnson Diary, June
1, 1837 in William Johnson’s Natchez
Vol I p. 190 He was about to Flake him and did attempt to Jump the counter after him.
The old woman .. abuses me a good deal for giving Moses a Small flaking for runing
and hallowing in the Street .. I whiped Bill too as he was One of the Party. (Aug. 7 p.
187) Mississippi, USA OED2 sense 6 AngloIrish 1841
flam 1775 ( 1976 ) Gen. Nathanael Greene
General Greene’s Orders Aug. 2, 1775 in The Papers of General Nathanael Greene
Vol. I p. 104 There attendence will be Notified by the Beat of Drum, their [three] Rols
and Nine flams. OED2 1796
flame 1749 ( 1974 ) Ebenezer Parkman The Diary of
Ebenezer Parkman Mar. 6, 1749
(American Antiquarian Soc.) p. 186 Mr. Daniel Hardy was in a Sudden Flame at my
House, because I offer’d to return him a bad5/ Bill which I had took of him. OED2
lacks this sense.
flank over 1857 ( 1953 ) Abraham Lincoln
Speech to Jury, Sept. 22, 1857, in Collected works of Abraham Lincoln Vol. II p.
420 How was it that the Afton, with all her power, flanked over from the channel to the
short pier without moving one inch ahead? OED2 lacks combination or
sense of “move sideways”
flash n2 1542 1543 ( 1975 ) Building Account in Sidney
Ironworks Accounts 15411573
(Camden 4th Ser. Vol. 15) p. 43 Item the said Jhon Adams had for rammyng of
the flasshe of the fornace ii s viii
d.
Item the said Jhon had for digyng of the cross trenche of the said flasshe
xii d.
Editor (D. W. Crossley) glosses “A wooden trough crossing a dam, bringing water
to feed a waterwheel.” (p. 36) OED2 sense 13 176874
flat 1582 ( 1976 ) Richard MadoxDiary, Apr. 1, 1582,
in An Elizabethan in 1582
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. 147) p. 100 We .. weyd anchor but the west wynd
grew flat and scant so that we wer dryven ageyn to more in the same place.
OED2 sense 6c ( as “flat calm” only) 1649
flat 1683 ( 1963 ) William Fitzhugh Letter to
John Cooper, Mar.10,1682/3 in William Fitzhugh and his Chesapeake World p. 138
As soon as your Ship Arrives she may be taking in Tob[acc]o. her whole loading
certain, the Distance the Tobo. lies at small so that two or three flatts will presently load
her, & by that means save Sloop hire. ( WF spells with single t in 1687 letter) OED2
sense C9a 1749 (But see slip for 1715 quot.)
flat 1718 ( 1972 ) John Fontaine Journal Apr. 25,
1718 p. 124 Wecame as close the land as we could and stuck an oar in the
mud, and tied our flat to it. (Virginia)
OED2 sense C9a 1749 (but see slip for 1683 quot.)
flat (v2 ) 1809 Capt. LemuelRoberts Memoirs
(facsimile reprint 1969) p. 34 As thick of pock as he could be, but all flatted, and the
man
extremely sick. (recounting occurence in 1776) OED2 sense 4a † <1725
flat calm c 1595 ( 1899 ) Capt. Wyatt Narrative in The
Voyage of Robert Dudley to the West Indies (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No.III) p. 52
Between soden gustes, dertie foggs, flatt calmes, and the settinge of head seas
in soe darke a night within soe straight and dangerous a passage, it gave occasion of
little sleep unto our watchful Generall. OED2 sense 6c 1651
flatiron 1744 ( 1960 ) Benjamin Franklin An
Account of the New Invented Pennsylvanian FirePlaces in Papers of Benjamin F
ranklin Vol. 2 p. 438 You .. may boil the TeaKettle, warm the FlatIrons, heat
Heaters, keep warm a Dish of Victuals by setting it on the Top, &c., &c., &c.
OED2 1810
flawy 1777 ( 1986 ) Abner Sanger Journal, Jan. 30,
1777, in Very Poor and of a Lo Make,
The Journal of Abner Sanger p. 128
Cold, raw, squally, flawy clouds and snow from the east. New Hampshire
OED2 sense 2 Webster’s 1828; usage 1881
flax v 1778 ( 1986 ) Abner Sanger Journal, Mar. 18,
1778, in Very Poor and of a Lo Make,
The Journal of Abner Sanger p. 189
Afternoon I go to flaxing for Israel Houghton. .. Eb Washburn comes and flaxes
in afternoon after school. New Hampshire OED2 sense 2 1866; DA 1849; DARE
1839: all in fig. sense only
fleet v1 1585 ( 1981 ) Journal of the Leicester,
Oct. 17, 1585, in Sir Francis Drake’s West Indian Voyage 158586 (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd.
Ser. No. 148) p. 121 We stoke [struck?] our for saile to fleett our tyes & put out
our
topgallant saile. OED2 sense 12 1769, but see slip Middleton 1742
fleet 1606 ( 1877 ) Capt. John Knight Journal, June 2,
1606, in The Voyages of Sir James Lancaster .. and the Voyage of Captain John
Knight (Hakluyt Soc. Ser. 1, No. LVI) p. 286 This day we sawe manye black byrds
like willocks flyinge in fleets or companys together. No obvious northern dial. in this
journal. OED2 sense 2 of birds 1810; “ may be a northern pronunc. of flight.”
fleet v1 1742 ( 1994 ) Capt. Christopher Middleton
Journal, May 28, 1742, in Voyages to Hudson Bay in Search of a Northwest
Passage 17411747 Vol. I
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd ser. Vol. 177) p. 169 Fleeted our Rigging, tarr’d and tallow’d
our lower Masts and Rigging. OED2 sense 12 1769, but see slip 1585
flitch 1758 ( 1951 ) Harry Gordon Estimate for
building bateaus, Sep. 20, 1758, in The Papers of Henry Bouquet Vol. 2 p. 529
Six Men in two Days turns off a Battoe 24 Feet long 1 Man to flitch Knees — 1
Sawyer for Plank. OED2 flitch n. 1823, v. 1875
flitter 1553 ( 1988 ) William Baldwin Beware the
Cat 2nd part p. 31 A crow .. fell down the chimney over my head, whose
flittering in the fall made such a noise that .. I thought the devil had been come. (First
published 1570. Normalized spelling) OED2 sense 1 1563
floatation 1776 ( 1968 ) Capt. Charles Douglas
Orders, July7, 1776, inNaval Documents of the American Revolution Vol.5 p.
927 You are hereby Authorized to acquiesce in her being taken down to within two
streaks of her present line of floatation. OED2 1806
floe 1608 ( 1983 ) Examination of Lancelot
Booker, inThe English New England Voyages 16021608 (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No.
161) p. 462 There hapened much fowle weather & great floes of Ise wherewith the
said shipp was much endangered and hurte for as he sayethe the force of the Ice one
night struck in a pece of a planck of the said shipp. ? That this is flow (especially in
the plural) or is a real two century predate seem equally unlikely alternatives. And if a
ship’s cooper did say “floe”, would a court clerk know how to spell it? OED2 1817
flogger 1683 The Whores
Rhetorick (facsimile ed. 1979) p. 148 I will only advise thee to be extream reserved
before the old Flogger;
for that he is the most jealous Animal of the whole creation. Refers to an old and
impotent lover, exact sense unclear. OED2 1708
flood wood 1809 Capt. LemuelRoberts
Memoirs (facsimile reprint 1969) p. 16 Coming now to some flood wood,
in a narrow passage, which I concluded he could not possibly pass without observing
me. (Western Massachusetts)
OED2 1839; DAE distinguishes wood brought down by a flood per se (1796) and the
resultant mass (1822) latter the sense here.
floodwood 1782 ( 1986 ) Abner Sanger Journal, Aug.
24, 1782, in Very Poor and of a Lo Make,
The Journal of Abner Sanger p. 433
I go to dragging old floodwood out of the sawmill creek. New Hampshire
OED2 1839 CHECK DA
Florence flask 1744 William Smith A
New Voyage to Guinea (facsimile ed. 1967) p. 30 They [calabashes] are shap’d like
Florence Flasks. OED2 1762, but see slip Franklin 1744
Florence flask 1744 ( 1960 ) Benjamin Franklin
An Account of the New Invented Pennsylvanian FirePlaces in Papers of
Benjamin F ranklin Vol. 2 p. 422 Take any clear Glass Bottle (a Florence Flask
stript of the Straw is best). OED2 1762, but see slip Smith 1744
flote 1581 ( 1959 ) in The Troublesome
Voyage of Captain Edward Fenton (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. CXIII) p.8That which
doth load one of the great caraks wylbe suffycent to lade all the flote. (concerning
eight ships to be sent to the East Indies) ? OED2 lacks ?= flota 1690
flotilla 1776 ( 1972 ) Commodore Charles Douglas
Letter, Oct. 10, 1776, inNaval Documents of the American Revolution Vol.6 p.
1193 General Carleton did on Tuesday Evening or yesterday morning find our flotilla in
readiness to go in quest of that of the Rebels. OED2 1801 first quot. for clearly
nonSpanish boats
flour (v ) 1776 ( 1968 ) Gen. Benedict Arnold Letter, Jan.
11, 1776 inNaval Documents of the American Revolution Vol.3 p. 732 There was
not eight Thousand Bushells of Wheat and no Conveniency for flouring it. OED2
1828 (Webster)
flower 1713 JamesWatson The History of the
Art of Printing (facsimile ed. 1965)
pref. p. 9 You’ll see .. a vast Variety of curiously cut HeadPieces, Finis’s, Blooming
Letters, Factotum’s, Flowers, &c. OED2 sense 7 1718 (quot. under blooming
piece )
flower 1755 John Smith The Printer’s Grammar
(facsimile ed. 1965) p. 135 Flowers are cast to all the Regular Bodies of Letter,
from Greatprimer to Nonpareil. Apparently a decorative device (not necessarily a
botanic flower) cast in metal (or the printed result on the page), as opposed to head
pieces cut in wood. OED2 lacks See quot. Watson 1713
flown sheet c 1613 ( 1881 ) Robert Fotherby? in
The Voyages of William Baffin (Hakluyt Soc. 1st. Ser. No.LXIII) p. 59 So
befriended witha fresh gale of winde that wee sailed to the north end of the iland with a
flowen sheat. OED2 1625, but see slip Keeling 1617
flown sheet 1617 ( 1971 ) Capt. William Keeling
Journal, Apr. 3, 1617, in The East India Company Journals of Capt. William
Keeling and Master Thomas Bonner, 16151617 p. 162 Having steered since the
line to 4d: NW, and since as neere as we could lie wth a flowne sheate from WNW: to
NW: and N:. OED2 1625, but see slip Fotherby c1613
flummuck (flummox) 1834 ( 1951 ) William A.
Caruthers The Kentuckian in NewYork Vol . I ii p. 29 Flummuck me if I
ever want to be so fixed again. OED2 1837
fluss 1776 John Seiferth Metallurgic
Chymistry [translated from the German of
C. E. Gellert by John Seiferth] p. 194 The remainder constitutes an alcaline salt,
partly from the saltpetre, partly from the tartar, which, in the art of assaying has the
name of whitefluss.
If to one part of nitre, two, or even three, parts of tartar are taken, .. it is of a black
colour, and then called the blackfluss. OED2 † rare 1683 only
flutter 1726 ( 1974 ) Ebenezer Parkman The Diary of
Ebenezer Parkman July 8, 1726
(American Antiquarian Soc.) p. 14 I was in a flutter and could write but four lines.
OED2 sense 2a 1742
flyaway 1774 ( 1939 ) Janet SchawThe Journal of a
Lady of Quality (3rd ed.) p. 60 We could only observe a thing resembling a great
black cloud. The Captain swore that he believed after all it was only Cape Fly Away.
OED2 sense Bb 1867 dict., no usage quot.
flyland 1635 Capt. Luke Foxe Northwest
Fox or Fox from the Northwest Passage
(Facsimile ed. 1965) p. 187
This morning the Sun shewed himselfe, through Flyland, and the Southwind
drave away the vapours, which fully satisfied our mistaking of land the last evening.
OED2 lacks, but cf. flyaway sense Bb 1867
flyer 1776 ( 1968 ) Comm. of Secret Corr. Cont.
Congress Orders, July7, 1776, inNaval Documents of the American Revolution
Vol.5 p. 1015 We expect the Dispatch will be a Flyer. OED2 sense 2a
1795
flying fox 1655 ( 1936 ) Peter Mundy Journal,
Nov. 3, 1655, inThe Travels of Peter Mundy , in Europe and Asia 16081667 (Hakluyt
Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. LXXVIII) (reprint 1967) Vol.V p. 59 Here are allso very large
battes, as in most parts of India.. The forepart hath the shape and collour, and the
whole body the strong sentt of a fox, so that they may rather bee termed (and not unfitly)
flying foxes. OED2 1759
fogbank 1635 Capt. Luke Foxe Northwest
Fox or Fox from the Northwest Passage
(Facsimile ed. 1965) p. 72 He put forth for Groenland, and thought he saw land, but it
prooved a fog banke. Pricket’s account of Hudson’s last voyage Check source)
OED2 1659
foot 1777 ( 1976 ) Bartholomew JamesBoston
Independent Chronicle , Jan. 23, 1777, inNaval Documents of the American Revolution
Vol.7 p. 1024 She is entirely loaded with English Goods of all Kinds, the Foot of
her Invoice is upwards of 40,000 l. sterling. OED2 sense 21a †1712
forced a 1595 ( 1618 ) Sir Roger Williams The
Actions of the Lowe Countries p. I1
in The Works of Sir Roger Williams (1972) p. 102 They thought good to mounte
certaine Culverings on a forced hilI
(I meane made with mens hands). OED2 sense 4 1622
forefoot 1617 ( 1905 ) John Jourdain Journal, May
14, 1617, in The Journal of John Jourdain, 16081617 (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. XVI)
(reprint 1967) p. 346 We had sight of two sailes to the windeward of us, standinge
with our forefoot. OED2 sense 2 1644
forefoot 1582 ( 1959 ) Edward Fenton Sea
Journal in The Troublesome Voyage of Captain Edward Fenton (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser.
No. CXIII) p.119 Had some conference towching our goinge through the Straights of
Magalan, seing we understoode of the Spanishe fleet beinge there .. aswell to supplie
our wantes as to forefoote all such messengers as happelie they might sende into the
Sowth sea to intelligence of our cominge thither. OED2 lacks (= forestall
in some sense?)
forgeman 1555 ( 1975 ) Building Account in
Sidney Ironworks Accounts 15411573
(Camden 4th Ser. Vol. 15) p. 146 Payd to the forgemen for the new makyng of a
horste for to hold the homer helve in the forge v
s. OED2 1621
former 1593 ( 1959 ) Appraisement of the
Golden Dragon in English Privateering Voyages to the West Indies 15881595 (Hakluyt
Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. CXI) p. 231 xxiiij old latten cartradges & v formers of wood
xxs
OED2 1644
foujdar 1631 ( 1914 ) Peter Mundy Journal in
The Travels of Peter Mundy, in Europe and Asia 16081667 Rel. VII (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd.
Ser. No. XXXV)
Vol. 2 p. 73 A Fousedarre is a Captaine of 2 or 3000 horse with 5 or 6000 foote, more
or lesse accordinge to the place where hee is sent, appoynted of purpose to keepe that
part of the Countrey quiet. OED2, HobsonJobson 1683
foul 1606 ( 1969 ) Examination concerning
damage to the Susan Constant in Jamestown Voyages under theFirst Charter (Hakluyt
Soc. 2nd ser. cxxxvi) p. 59 The said shippes were foule one of the other.
OED2 sense 18 1627
foumart 1582 ( 1976 ) Richard MadoxDiary, Feb.
22, 1582, in An Elizabethan in 1582
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. 147) p. 88 We went to the theater to se a scurvie play set
owt al by one virgin which ther proved a fyemarten with owt voice so that we stayd not
the matter. OED2 lacks this variant ( if this is foumart sense 1b)
found (ppl. a ) 1776 ( 1976 ) Providence Gazette,
Nov. 2, 1776, inNaval Documents of the American Revolution Vol.7 p. 18 Will
be sold .. the Ship Belle Burthen 300 Tons, well found; together with her Cargo.
OED2 sense 2 1793
founday 1547 ( 1975 ) Account in Sidney
Ironworks Accounts 15411573
(Camden 4th Ser. Vol. 15) p. 62 Payd to the founder and filler for (blank ) foundes and
(blank ) dayes at xiii s the foundy and iis iii d the day .. xl li xiiii s viii d.
Peter the fownder for iiii foundeis and v dais endyd the xxiiith of January
xxxii s. ( 1550, p. 92)
xvi foundies wherin is cast comonlie one foundie with another viii Tonne
( 1568, p. 246) OED2 1674 only
fount n2 1650 ( 1984 ) Thomas Vaughan Magia
Adamica in The Works of Thomas Vaughan p. 191 I find it onely in the Coptic
Character, but our Founts wanting that Letter, I must give it to you in the Greeke.
OED2 1683
foxfire 1775 ( 1966 ) Dr. Benjamin Gale Letter, Nov.
9, 1775 in Naval Documents of the American Revolution Vol.2 p.955 In the
barometer and on the needles of the compass is fixed foxfire, i.e. wood that gives light
in the dark. (David Bushnell’s submarine) OED2 no quot. between 1483 and 1824
franion 1553 ( 1988 ) William Baldwin
Beware the Cat 3rd part p. 50 She and her franion had broke their fast with
capons, hot venison, marrow bones, and all other kinds of dainties. (First published
1570. Normalized spelling) OED2 1571
fraulein 1686 ( 1974 ) George Etherege Letter
Apr. 29, 1686, in Letters of Sir George Etherege
p. 17 Now sparkling in the Frawleins hair. ** Quot. in OED2 with corrected
spelling and dated a1689
free 1612 ( 1969 ) Proc. Virginia.. p. 30 in
Jamestown Voyages under the First Charter (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd ser. cxxxvi) p. 401
With great labour wee kept her from sinking by freeing out the water.
OED2 1627
freetrader 1638 ( 1919 ) Peter Mundy The Travels
of Peter Mundy, in Europe and Asia 16081667 Rel. XXVII (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No.
XXXV) Vol. 3 p. 337 Here came in alsoe a Dutch vessell, a Freetrader likewise.
OED2 1698
freestone 1687 ( 1940 ) Charles Morton
Compendium Physicae in Publ. Colonial Soc. Massachusetts Vol. XXXIII p. 116
(from 1697 transcription of 1687 ms., probably first
compiled c1680) There is a rough [slate] of freet stone body Commonly Used for
Covering about Oxford.
Lump stones that Split not thin but break any way; such are the Spar, flint, freet stone.
Morestone .. Shaped handsomly by the peck: as freet stone by the Chyzall.
? OED2 lacks t variant (which seems phonologically unlikely if the original
word really was free )
freighter 1617 ( 1907 ) LevantCompany Court book,
June 25, 1617, inThe Travels of Peter Mundy in Europe and Asia 16081667 (Hakluyt
Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. XVII) Vol. I p. 168 Towardes her charges of demourage in staying
there the fraighters shall paie to the owners of the said shipp over and above the fraight
agreed upon by the Charter party 10 s. OED2 1622, but see slip 1602 (file
OED97)
French leave 1671 ( 1992 ) Henry More Letter, July
14, 1671, in The Conway Letters p. 339 I remember the French fashion was at
Paris when I was there with your Ladiship, to slinke out of the Roome taking no leave
and therefore giving no disturbance. Quot. deserves a place in [ ]. OED2 1771
French work 1677 ( 1915 ) John Berry & Francis
Morrison A True Narrative of the Rise, Progresse, and Cessation of the Late
Rebellion in Virginia in Narratives of the Insurrections 16751690 p. 131 Bacon ..
orders a French worke to be cast up. All this night was spent in falling of Trees, Cutting
of Bushes and throwing up Earth, that by the help of the moone light they had made
their French before day. OED2 lacks
fret n2 1630 ( 1931 ) John Winthrop Misc note in
Journal, in Winthrop Papers Vol. 2 . p. 279 for making Saltpeter,
..
Let it boyl a frett, vntill the liquor be again able to congeale. OED2 apparently
sense 5 1664
fribble 1774 ( 1957 ) Philip V. FithianJournal &
Letters of PVF Sep. 20, 1774 p. 193 Among the many womanish Fribbles which our
little Misses
daily practice. OED2 sense 2 1832
frigate 1708 ( 1891 ) A New Voyage to
the EastIndies by Francis Legaut and his Companions in The Voyage of Francois
Legaut (Hakluyt Soc. Ser. 1, No. LXXXII Vol. 1 p. 83The Frigat is blackish, and about
the bigness of a Duck. OED2 sense 3 1738
friscal 1650 ( 1984 ) Thomas Vaughan The Man
Mouse in The Works of Thomas Vaughan p. 241 Come about again Jackape, you
must show me another friscal. OED2 †1622
frisk 1651 ( 1984 ) Thomas Vaughan The Second
Wash in The Works of Thomas Vaughan
p. 396 Once more you fall to your Friscks. OED2 sense 2 1665
frith 1565 ( 1891 ) Anthony Jenkinson Letter in
Early Voyages and Travels to Russia and Persia (Hakluyt Soc. Ser. 1, No. LXXXIII p.
168 Passing by Holly Iland, toward the fryth, in one of the quenes Maiesties shipps, ..
I have thought yt good to advertyze your Lordship of my arryvall .. meaning to lye of and
on betwyxt Holy Iland and the mowth of the sayd fryth. OED2 1600
frizzle ( v2 ) 1836 Capt. GeorgeBack Narrative of the
Arctic Land Expedition p. 91 The successful hunters .. lounging on their elbows, to
watch the frizzling of a rich marrow bone. OED2 1839
frostsmoke 1748 Henry Ellis A Voyage to
Hudsons Bay by the Dobbs Galley and California (facsimile ed. 1967) p. 172 In the
Winter, there arises a very thick Vapour, commonly called
Frost Smoak ; this Vapour Freezing is driven by the Wind in the
Form we see it. OED2 1774
frowzled 1774 ( 1957 ) Philip V. FithianJournal &
Letters of PVF Aug. 24, 1774 p. 177 He is the other in a frowsled Wig. OED2
1808
fugue 1632 A. H. [Henry Hawkins] Partheneia
Sacra (facsimile ed. in English Recusant Literature 15581640 Vol. 81 1971) p. 146
Now seeme you to heare a Tenour voice, then a Counter, & a Counteralt
following and chasing one another with certain fugnes [sic with inverted letter].
OED2 fuge 1597, modern form 1667
fulmineous 1665 ( 1964 ) Sir Thomas Browne
Account of a Thunderstorm in The Works of Sir Thomas Browne Vol. III p. 240
The like fulmineous fire kild a man in Erpingham church by Aylisham.
OED2 1727
fumigate 1777 ( 1980 ) Lds. Commr. Admiralty
Sailing orders, May 2, 1777, inNaval Documents of the American Revolution
Vol.8 p. 811 So soon as the Ship you command shall have been fumigated & be in
other respects in a proper condition for the Sea. OED2 sense 1 1781
funky 1774 ( 1957 ) Philip V. FithianJournal & Letters of
PVF July 4, 1774 p. 129 The weather is warm, funky, very damp. OED2 1784
not quite in this sense.
fur (or furred) 1594 ( 1959 ) John Yonge Deposition in
English Privateering Voyages to the West Indies 15881595 (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No.
CXI) p. 255 The said French shippe was furred on the sides with planckes from the
stem before till within two yardes of the sterne. OED2 lacks sense of v. or ppl.
corresponding to furring sense 3a 1622
fusticwood 1618 ( 1989 ) Customs book,
Dartmouth, inEnglish and Irish Settlement on the River Amazon 15501646 (Hakluyt
Soc. 2nd Ser., No. 171) p. 189 Viginti tres ends fusticke wood il os od.
OED2 sense 3 1630
gain n3 1612 ( 1953 ) William Strachey The Historie
of Travell into Virginia Britania
Hakluyt Soc. (2nd. Ser., No. CIII) p. 78 Howses .. like gardein arbours .. made yet
handsomely enough, though without strength or gaynes. ? OED2 n3 sense
2a 1848. Editors of 1st (1849) & 2nd Hakluyt ed. think so.
gain (n3 ) 1755 ( 1974 ) Ebenezer Parkman The Diary of
Ebenezer Parkman Nov. 7, 1755
(American Antiquarian Soc.) p. 297 Mr. Zebulon Rice hews Sleepers and Mr.
Eleazar Pratt Sets em
into the Gains. SEE SLIP STRACHEY 1612 OED2 sense 2a 1848
gall 1581 ( 1963 ) William Bourne An
Almanacke and Prognostication for x. yeeres ..
in A Regiment for the Sea
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. CXXI) p. 400 If there bee any galles or peeces of
circles neere the Sunne, it betokeneth no good weather. OED2 haswater
gall 1594, weathergall 161335,
windgall 1823, but lacks simple gall.
gallomany (gallomania) 1812 ( 1959 ) Thomas
Jefferson Letter to John Adams, June 28, 1812 in The Adams
Jefferson Letters p.308 Compleat emancipation from Anglomany, Gallomany, and all
the manias of demoralized Europe. OED2 gallomania 1877 gallomaniac
1819
gallooned 1698 ( 1963 ) William Fitzhugh Letter
to John Cooper, July 26, 1698 in William Fitzhugh and his Chesapeake World p. 367
A pair women’s gallooned shoes. OED2 1831
gallows 1704 ( 1927 ) Shipwright’s
contract in The Papers of Thomas Bowrey Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. LVIII (reprint
1967) p. 133 To fix a Capstern and Gallows at the forcastle and main Mast.
OED2 sense 5b 1769
gam v 1851 1852 ( 1981 ) Herman Melville Annotations
photographically reproduced in T. F. Heffernan Stove by a Whale p. 190 We spoke
another Nantucket craft and gammed with her. OED2 sense 2 1890 (gamming
Melville 1851)
gammoning 1776 ( 1968 ) Journal, H.M.S
Syren, Mar. 9, 1776, inNaval Documents of the American Revolution Vol.4 p. 304
The Gammoning of the Bowsprit being gone employed securing it.
OED2 1833
gammot 1612 ( 1953 ) William Strachey The
Historie of Travell into Virginia Britania
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd Ser., No. CIII) p. 108 A knife (made with the Splinter of a Reed which
he will make as sharpe as a Surgeons Gammot). OED2 1585 only (exc.
dict.)
ganch 1600 ( 1931 ) John Sanderson Letter in The
Travels of John Sanderson
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. LXVII) p. 191 We have seene the trator Ussine Bassa
upon the gaunch .. having one of his armes and a legge broke, and carried bound to a
crosse of wood with two candles burning in the flech of his shoulders. OED2
16256
ganja c 1685 ( 1905 ) Thomas Bowrey A
Geographical Account of the Countries Round the Bay of Bengal (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd.
Ser. No. XII) (reprint 1967) p. 77 Gangah is brought from the Island Sumatra
and is oftentimes Sold here [Coromandel] at Very high rates. It is a thing that
resembleth hemp Seed and groweth after the Same mannar. OED2 1800
garbler 1582 ( 1959 ) in The
Troublesome Voyage of Captain Edward Fenton (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. CXIII) p.
34 Those that are appointed to go in the shipps besyde the Marrinors
..
a Jewiler
A Garbler
A distillor of freshe water OED2 1592
garboard 1612 ( 1905 ) John Jourdain Journal,
Nov. 20, 1612, in The Journal of John Jourdain, 16081617 (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser.
No. XVI) (reprint 1967) p. 237 The seelinge of the shipp broken upp to finde
where the water came in, which was neere the garbar streeke in the starne shuttes.
OED2 1626
garrigue 1677 ( 1953 ) John Locke Feb. 26, 1677, in
Locke’s Travels in France p. 125 Between Zizian and Pezenas the ground much broken
into irregular scatterd hills and full of Garigues, i.e. uncultivated ground with trees
nothing but ilex coccifera, rosmary, lavender & some such uselesse plants among
stones. OED2 1896
Garrisonian (sb2 ) 1855 Dr. James M’Cune
Smith (Introduction to) Frederick Douglass My Bondage and my Freedom
1994 Library of America ed. p. 128 He fell among the Garrisonians a glorious
waif to those most ardent reformers. OED II 1863, DA 1844 as adj.
gas ( v ) a 1683 ( 1989 ) Francis Howard Letter to P. P.
Howard in Papers of Francis Howard, Baron Howard of Effingham p.457 I
never see any person in greater paine then when she griped, and so sick in her
stomack, that it is not for me to relate, she gases much, and blood hath come from her
in her stooles. undated 1673< >1683 ? gas (n ) sense 1e “vapours
generated in the stomach or intestines” 1882 seems incredible here, but if not that,
what?
gasp 1746 ( 1974 ) Ebenezer Parkman The Diary of
Ebenezer Parkman Sep. 8, 1746
(American Antiquarian Soc.) p. 142 Neighbor Tomlin desired me to go to Mr
Chamberlins to See his little son who was near his End, they fear’d. I went, but he had
gasp’d. OED2 lacks intransitive use for gasping one’s last.
gaudy 1582 ( 1976 ) Richard MadoxDiary, June 27,
1582, in An Elizabethan in 1582
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. 147) p. 148 Capten Skevington was hear also with a great
compaynt agaynst his master with gawdy words, for every Jack sayth, I am a gentilman.
OED2 sense 3b 1647
geason c 1625 ( 1882 ) Nathaniel Butler ? The
Historye of the Bermudaes
(Hakluyt Soc.1st. Ser. No. LXV) p. 232 Timber, which in a short time (if wasted as
heretofore) must needs fall out very short and geason. OED2 †1610 (exc. 1674
dial. dict.)
gelatine a. 1687 ( 1940 ) Charles Morton
Compendium Physicae in Publ. Colonial Soc. Massachusetts Vol. XXXIII p. 90
(from 1697 transcription of 1687 ms., probably first
compiled c1680) It appears that the matter [of comets] is transparent, whether it be
Gelatine, or Christalline is the next inquiry; If Gelatine, and drawn to one place from
elsewhere .. then the Supposal must be that the Jelly is Coagulated out of the Steams
raised above the attraction of the Earth. OED2 1713
gentilical 1616 ( 1899 ) Thomas . Roe Journal,
Dec.7, 161, in The Embassy of Sir Thomas Roe to the Court of the Great Mogul
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No.I/2) (reprint 1967) p. 361 A delicat groue .. full of little
Temples and alters of Pagods and Gentilicall Idolatrye. OED2 †1600
gentilical 1632 T. T. The Whetstone of
Reproof
(facsimile ed. as English Recusant Literature 15581640 Vol. 361 1977) p. 46
Images of Christ and his saints, and due honour of them, are [not] prohibited by
that precept among Christians, but onely a gentilicall
or idolatrous vse of pictures or grauen images of false Gods. OED2 †1600
get in 1755 John Smith The Printer’s Grammar
(facsimile ed. 1965) p. 154 The foregoing Scheme .. shews, How one Letter gets
in upon another in width, from Greatprimer to Brevier; and .. How one Letter drives out
from another, from Brevier to Greatprimer. Apparent meaning: to set type so that
the copy occupies less space.
(Scheme shows lines of type of different size with from 58 to 110 characters) OED2
get 68g Setting close appears to be only one means of getting in; here being
accomplished by changing letter size.
gig n1 1782 ( 1986 ) Abner Sanger Journal, Oct. 9,
1782, in Very Poor and of a Lo Make,
The Journal of Abner Sanger p. 447
He is in a gig to trade by swapping lots of land. New Hampshire
OED2 cf. 1876 Yorkshire dial. cit. under sense 6b; also see slip agig Adams
1764
gin 1740 ( 1742 ) William Stephens Mar. 26, in A
Journal of the Proceedings in Georgia
Vol. 2 p. 325 (facsimile reprint 1966) The Cotton is .. so full of seeds, that it can not
be cleaned by the ordinary Way of a Gin, not by any other Means than picking out with
Fingers. OED2 sense 10 1796
gin v2 1776 ( 1976 ) St. George TuckerLetter, Dec. 10,
1776, inNaval Documents of the American Revolution Vol.7 p. 440 On my
Arrival here [Turks Island] I met with some exceedingly good ginned Cotton.
OED2 sense 2 1789; ppl. a. 1883
gingili 1541 ( 1932 ) Roger Barlow A Briefe Summe of
Geographie
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. LXIX) p. 134
Thei use to oynt them wt an oile called Jenjoli for to make them more blacke.
OED2 1704
gipsy 1592 ( 1966 ) Henry Chettle KindHarts Dreame
in Elizabethan and Jacobean Quartos
p. 63 My Father was the cunningst Iugler in all the countrey, my mother a Gipsie.
OED2 ß form 1600
girl v 1780 ( 1986 ) Abner Sanger Journal, July 22,
1778, in Very Poor and of a Lo Make,
The Journal of Abner Sanger p. 219
Joseph gives me an account of his and Dodge’s girling of it at major Willard’s.
New Hampshire OED2 sense 2 1787
gladdy a 1634 ( 1914 ) Peter Mundy TheTravels
of Peter Mundy, in Europe and Asia 16081667 Rel. V (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No.
XXXV) Vol. 2 p. 37 There are two sorts of Birds that use them that I sawe, the one like
a Glady, th’other like a lynett. (Describing a Indian weaverbird’s nest)
Mundy was from Cornwall. OED2 1859
glade 1635 Capt. Luke Foxe Northwest Fox or
Fox from the Northwest Passage
(Facsimile ed. 1965) p. 194
The flood faceing of the winde, had choaked all the East end, so their being one
glade or cleere betweene the shoare and the Channell ice, we plide it up therein for 2 or
3 miles. OED2 sense 2b 182832 (but see slip Roberts 1809)
glade 1809 Capt. LemuelRoberts Memoirs
(facsimile reprint 1969) p. 13 The deer seeing me jumped out of the glade onto the
ice,
and ran across the river. OED2 sense 2b quotes 1828 32 Webster “In New
England, an opening in the ice of rivers or lakes”. DAE 1698
(author is New Englander)
But see slip Fox 1635
glance 1612 ( 1969 ) Proc. Virginia.. p.20
in Jamestown Voyages under the First Charter (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd ser. cxxxvi) p.392
Smith .. glaunced in the eies of Powhatan many Trifles. OED2 lacks
sense of “flashing before”
glandering 1585 ( 1981 ) Journal of the
Leicester, Oct. 23, 1585, in Sir Francis Drake’s West Indian Voyage 158586 (Hakluyt
Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. 148) p. 125 The winde at N, a smale glandering gale. Editor
(M. F. Keeler) glosses “increasing or swelling.” Did she perhaps only make a guess
based on the “swelling” in the definition of glanders ? OED2 lacks
glare 1700 ( 1981 ) Edmond Halley Journal, Jan. 26,
1700, in The Three Voyages of Edmond Halley in the Paramore (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd ser.
vol. 156)
p. 158 (and Feb. 1 p. 163) Latitude by Accot. 49.37’ which I find to be near the
truth by a glare of the Sunn taken 5 Minutes before noon.
It proved foggy, and continued so till this day at noon, when by a clear glare of Scarce
1/4 of an hour we saw the Island. OED2 lacks this sense
glare 1777 ( 1986 ) Abner Sanger Journal, Feb. 8,
1777, in Very Poor and of a Lo Make,
The Journal of Abner Sanger p. 130
This day is some rainy and freezes to a glare ice, extreme. Slippery going.
“Glare ice “ is common present U. S. usage for smooth slippery ice on the
ground, roadway, etc.; not to my knowledge used for ice on a body of water. OED2
sb. 1854, a. 1859 (I doubt a. 1856 is this word); DARE 1832
glassing 1688 ( 1963 ) William Fitzhugh Letter
to Nicholas Hayward, June 1,1688 in William Fitzhugh and his Chesapeake World
p.246 I am glad to hear by you of my Brother’s health .. for I find by your’s that large
glassing does not take up so much of his time now. OED2 lacks sense of
drinking.
glory c 1675 ( 1972 ) John Aubrey Observations Ch.
VI, in John Aubrey Three Prose Works
p. 336 The glory of ones shadow on the downs, when the sun shines.
OED2 sense 9c cf. quot. 1823
Gloucester 1750 ( 1974 ) Ebenezer Parkman The
Diary of Ebenezer Parkman July 6, 1750
(American Antiquarian Soc.) p. 219 I bought Two Cheeses, one Glocester (of Old
England) the other RhodeIsland. OED2 1802
glow 1783 ( 1969 ) William Williams Mr. Penrose
The Journal of Penrose, Seaman p. 301 We had no more to do than laying our
Bread on that hearth well heated, and then Whelving the large yabba Oven over it,
covering
the Whole with a Glow of coals occasionally. OED2 cf. sense 1a 1827
gnatcatcher 1836 Capt. GeorgeBack
Narrative of the Arctic Land Expedition p. 505 Yellowtailed Gnatcatcher
(Setophaga ruticella ) OED2 1883
gnoffe 1626 ( 1628 ) Philip Nichols Sir Francis
Drake Revived (2nd ed.) in Documents concerning Enlgish Voyages to the Spanish
Main 15691580 (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. LXXI, 1932 , reprint 1967) p. 315 The
rich Gnuffe Pezaro. OED2 has other quots. from this book, some dated 1626, others
1593, both dates justifiable. OED2 † 1610
goard 1776 ( 1972 ) Independent Chronicle
Boston , Oct. 31, 1776, inNaval Documents of the American Revolution Vol.6 p. 1470
Will be Sold by Public Vendue .. 2 Tierces and 84 Goards Aloes (From sale of
prizes, appears to be a standard unit for aloes) ? OED2 lacks
Goddemmee (Goddamnme) 1785 ( 1959 )
Thomas Jefferson Letter to Abigail Adams July 7, 1785 in The Adams
Jefferson Letters p.37 What mischeif is this brewing anew between Faneuil hall and
the nation of Goddemmees? OED2 no quots. between 1431 and 1830
gog 1775 ( 1966 ) Rev. Samuel DeaneLetter, Nov. 4,1775
in Naval Documents of the American Revolution Vol.2 p.877 The Militia is call’d
in, and they with part of the soldiery are gog to throw up some breastworks tonight.
(New England) OED2 † 1673
goglet 1632 ( 1914 ) Peter Mundy Journal, Aug. 30,
1632, in The Travels of Peter Mundy, in Europe and Asia 16081667 Rel. VIII (Hakluyt
Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. XXXV) Vol. 2 p. 114 Gurgaletts are curious, fine, thin, earthen potts
to drinck cool water with. OED2 1698, HobsonJobson 1648
gogs heart 1607 ( 1955 ) Dobsons Drie
Bobbes Ch. 10 p. 70 Nay gogs heart, I will teach thee a tricke for that.
OED2 lacks as entry but see under jug 1569
goose shot 1622 Edward Waterhouse
Appendix to A Declaration of the State of the Colony in Virginia
(facsimile ed. 1970) Provisions necessary ..
For one man ..
Sixty pound of shot or lead, Pistoll and Goose shot. OED2 1659
goosewing 1617 ( 1905 ) John Jourdain Journal,
Jan. 29, 1617, in The Journal of John Jourdain, 16081617 (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No.
XVI) (reprint 1967) p. 337 Much wind, thatt were faine to lye a trye with a gouse
wing of the mayne course. OED2 sense 2 1626
grain 1541 ( 1932 ) Roger Barlow A Briefe Summe of
Geographie
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. LXIX) p. 177 Thei have had graynes of golde that
hath weid vij or viij weight.
OED2 sense 7d 1613
gram n1 1669 ( 1905 ) Factory record inA
Geographical Account of the Countries Round the Bay of Bengal (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd.
Ser. No. XII) (reprint 1967) p. 121 (in footnote) The Gram which wee desired
seeing you could not do it by the Blackamoor, wee must bee content to waight your
better oppertunity. OED2 1702
grannyknot 1849 ( 1986 ) Herman Melville
Redburn ch. 24 Penguin ed. p.174 I tied my reefpoint as quickly and
expertly as the best of them; never making what they call a ‘grannyknot ‘. OED2
granny’sknot 1853; grannyknot dict. 1905, quot. 1932
grapple v 1582 ( 1976 ) Richard MadoxDiary, July
23, 1582, in An Elizabethan in 1582
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. 147) p. 154 The master went into the boat and grapeled at
300 fadom and sayd that the current did set ful eastwards. OED2 cf. sense 1b
(but trans .) 1583
grappling 1582 ( 1959 ) Edward Fenton Sea
Journal in The Troublesome Voyage of Captain Edward Fenton (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser.
No. CXIII) p. 94 The Master at Middaye went in the Boote to sownde and founde
grownde at 350 fathom by Letting fall a smale Ancour or graplinge. OED2 sense
3b 1626
grass 1675 ( 1893 ) Dr. John Covel Journal inEarly
Voyages and Travels in the Levant
(Hakluyt Soc.1st. Ser. No. LXXXVI) p. 181 On the east side the towne runs a
greate dry grasse, as big as the Divils ditch at Newmarket, in which are several
fountaines, yet standing, of excellent water. At the lower end .. it is crost with an
aquaeduct of 96 paces long (the distance from edge to edge of the grass). OED2 lacks
grass with the apparent meaning of “watercourse.” It seems unlikely this was elliptical
for “grasscovered expanse”, or a foreign word, which Covel (not the editor, I hope)
always italicized. ??
grasshopper 1776 ( 1968 ) Major Griffith Williams
Letter, June 23, 1776, inNaval Documents of the American Revolution Vol.5 p.
693 Lieut. Dunbar .. was order’d to take post to the Right of the62d Regimt & some
other Troops that were form’d near a Wood, & a Mill in front, with two Grasshoppers
(which I hope I never shall see any more with Rifle or 3 poundrs, but in the hands of the
Enemy or at Woolwich).
? Some sort of emplacement or temporary fortification? OED2 lacks.
grated ppl. a. 2 1522 ( 1924 ) Robert Langton
The Pilgrimage of Robert Langton p. 27 There is saynt Mathy the appostle
and Luke ye evangelyst buryed. And there is a grated tombe where in they were
brought thyder. At Padua OED2 1786
greasy 1767 ( 1965 ) Capt. Samuel Wallis Log,
Apr. 11, 1776, in Carteret’s Voyage Round the World 17661769 (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd
Ser., No. CXXIV) p. 38 The weather coming on thick and Dirty, we were all of the
Opinion that we had nothing to do but get an offin as soon as possible, for the Sea
Raising fast and the weather Greasy, that the Ship could not weather Terra del Fuego
on One Tack. OED2 sense 6d a1825
greffier 1553 ( 1988 ) William Baldwin
Beware the Cat 3rd part p. 37 You, his greffier and chief counselor, My Lord
Grisard, with Isegrim and Polnoir your assistants. (First published 1570.
Normalized spelling) OED2 1590
grimacer a 1799 ( 1846 ) Isaac SenterJournal Oct. 25,
1775 (Hist. Soc. Penna.), p. 16
(facsmile reprint 1969) Here sat a number of grimacers — melancholy aspects who
had
been preaching to their men the doctrine of impenetrability and
nonperseverance. (Journal was clearly reworked — 1799 was author’s death) OED2
1810
Grimalkin 1553 ( 1988 ) William Baldwin
Beware the Cat 1st part p. 11 “Commend me unto Titton Tatton and to Puss
thy Catton, and tell her that Grimalkin is dead.” Editors (W. A. Ringler, Jr. M.
Flachmann) note “This is the first known occurrence of the name, probably a coinage of
Baldwin’s from ‘grey malkin’, a grey female demon.” (First pub. 1570) OED2 1605
gripple a 1690 CottonMather The Present
State of NewEngland
(facsimile ed. 1972) p. 12 Our extreamest Poverty should not hinder our Liberality,
When God and His People are to be served with what we have: Whatever Simplicity the
Wity and Crafty and Gripple Holdfasts of the World, may imagine in it. OED2
† a1677, except archaizing and dial.
groggy 1782 ( 1986 ) Abner Sanger Journal, Aug.
9, 1782, in Very Poor and of a Lo Make,
The Journal of Abner Sanger p. 426
Temple gets groggy and lays out in .. pasture. Next day “He don’t come with
grog nor dinner”, so sense 1 OED2 1770 glossary, 1801 sailor’s lang.
groll 1632 T. T. The Whetstone of
Reproof
(facsimile ed. as English Recusant Literature 15581640 Vol. 361 1977) appendix p.
32 Such obscure grolles as neyther his predecessors, as I thinke, did euer cite by
reason of their small authority. Bastwick and T. T. were at opposite ends of the
religious spectrum, so whatever groll meant, it wasn’t a piece of sectarian slang. OED2
1637 only, “App. peculiar to Bastwick.”
groppo 1632 A. H. [Henry Hawkins]
Partheneia Sacra (facsimile ed. in English Recusant Literature 15581640 Vol.
81 1971) p. 143 She devids, she gargles, & hath her Groppo, the trills, and the like.
OED2 lacks as entry, but see 1842 quot. under gruppetto.
ground tier 1775 ( 1966 ) Journal, H.M.S.
Lizard, Nov. 20, 1775 in Naval Documents of the American Revolution Vol.2 p. 1077
Employd breaking up the Ground Tier & Starting the Water upon Deck.
OED2 1820
grouper c 1625 ( 1882 ) Nathaniel Butler ? The
Historye of the Bermudaes
(Hakluyt Soc.1st. Ser. No. LXV) p. 7 Excellent fish ..the most of which being
vnknowen to our more northerly parts, haue lately gotten them names, either from their
shapes or conditions, as .. the delicate amber fish, from his tast and smell; angell fish;
cony fish, the smale yellowe tayle, from that naturall painteinge; the great grouper, from
his odde and strange gruntinge. “Grouper” < his grunting? OED2 1697
grubbing hoe 1775 ( 1966 ) Capt. Bernard
Romans Letter, Nov. 8,1775 in Naval Documents of the American
Revolution Vol.2 p. 937 1–8 mauls
1–16 pickaxes
1–8 grubbing hoes (still common U.S.; I believe =mattock) OED2 lacks DA 1727
guard 1541 ( 1932 ) Roger Barlow A Briefe Summe of
Geographie
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. LXIX) p. 32 Everie xv daies the guardes chaunge an houre.
OED2 sense 12 1574
gudget 1670 1671 ( 1683 ) Sir James Turner Pallas
Armata (facsimile ed. 1968) Bk. III Ch. xvii p. 271 In the time of Henry the Great [IV
of France]. .. A Gudget or Boy was allowed to serve two Soldiers. JT was Scottish,
and allowed occasional Scoticisms into his book. OED2 †1651
guestrope 1609 ( 1905 ) John Jourdain Journal, Sep.
3, 1609, in The Journal of John Jourdain, 16081617 (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. XVI)
(reprint 1967) p. 119 But the gas roape that the boate was made faste withall,
stroke me overboard. OED2 1623 and lacks this form
Guinea wheat 1585 ( 1955 ) Ralph Lane Letter, Sep.
8, 1585, inThe Roanoke Voyages 15841590 (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. CIV) Vol. 1 p.
213 A kinde of Gynneye wheate founde here growynge and vsualle, yt yealdethe
bothe corne, and suger. OED2 1598, but see slip Hariot 1589
Guinea wheat 1588 Thomas Hariot A
briefe and true report of the new found land of Virginia
p. C1 The same in the West Indies is
called Mayze : English men call it Guinney wheate or Turkie wheate , according to the
names of the countreys from whence the like hath beene brought. OED2 1598,
but see slip Lane 1585
guineacock, guineahen 1572 ( 1589 ) Henry Hawkes
inHakluyt’s Principal Navigations (facs. ed. 1965) p. 546 ThisCitie [Mexico] is
very well prouided .. with all manner of victuals, as fruits, flesh and fish, bread hennes
and capons, Guinie cocks and hennes, and all other foule. =turkey OED2
guineacock 1577; guineahen 1578 (unclear whether these are real guineafowl or
turkeys)
gum 1729 ( 1977 ) William Byrd II Letter to Peter
Collinson, June 25, 1729 in
The Correspondence of the Three William Byrds of Westover, Virginia p. 409 I
shoud likewise be glad of some choice kinds of plumbs and pears, the first of which are
apt to gumm, and cast their fruit before ‘tis ripe. OED2 sense 3a 1784
gunfiring 1775 ( 1964 ) Vice Adm. Samuel Graves
Narrative Apr. 20, 1775 in Naval Documents of the American Revolution Vol. 1
p.148 After gunfiring in the Evening no Boat was to pass till day light. OED2
gunfire sense 1a 1801
gunnery 1777 ( 1954 ) Ebenezer Hazard
Journal in Virginia Mag. of Hist. and Biog. LXII, 404Went to see the Gunnery,
as it is called. .. About 20 Musquets, complete with Bayonets, are made here in a
Week. OED2 lacks sense of “ gun factory.”
gunny 1706 ( 1927 ) Invoice, Feb. 15, 1706, in
The Papers of Thomas Bowrey Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. LVIII (reprint 1967) p. 264
Gunnys 60 ps. 7 8 –
Gunny bags 20 2 – – OED2; HobsonJobson 1711
gurrah 1706 ( 1927 ) Invoice, Feb. 15,
1706, in The Papers of Thomas Bowrey Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. LVIII (reprint 1967)
p. 264 Gurrahs 20 ps. 20 – – OED2 1727
gurry 1776 ( 1976 ) Massachusetts Board of War
Minutes, Dec. 25, 1776, inNaval Documents of the American Revolution Vol.7
p. 595 The President Reported .. that he also purchased a quantity of Lumber, Oyl &
Gurry; Some Cod fish, & pickled fish. ? cf. OED2 gurry 4 (1850), but this is
unlikely to be purchased for ship’s stores.
Guserat (Gujarati) 1605 ( 1880 ) John Davis Mr.
John Daves his observations Voyaging from Acheane
to Tecoe and Priaman
in Voyages and Works of John Davis
(Hakluyt Soc.) p. 187 There cometh every yeare a Guserat with Cotton cloth.
OED2 c1607 HobsonJobson c1605
gutter n2 c 1628 ( 1982 ) Equipment list in
Newfoundland Discovered
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. 160) p. 248 4 splyttinge knyves and 4 gutters 6s
OED2 1780 (the person, lacks sense of the instrument)
gutter 1855 ( 1947 ) Raffaello Carboni Eureka
Stockade vii p. 32 (Dolphin Book ed.) Whenever the gutter, 120 feet below,
took it into its head to bestir and hook it, the faithful shepherds would not rest until they
were .. six score feet from “bang on the gutter.” OED2 sense 1c 1856
hack 1835 ( 1953 ) Act of Illinois legislature, in
Collected works of Abraham Lincoln Vol. I p. 35 Said road shall be marked .. in
the timbered land by hacks, and blazes upon the trees. OED2 (and DAE)
1887 This quote and the 1887 suggest hack is not equivalent to blaze, but is perhaps a
cleared swath?
hackbolt c 1602 ( 1983 ) Gabriel Archer in
PurchasPilgrimes (1625) Vol. 4 pp. 164757,
inThe English New England Voyages 16021608
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. 161) p. 121 We saw many Birds .. as Pettrels,
Cootes, Hagbuts, Pengwins, Murres, Gannets, Cormorants, Guls, with many else in our
English Tongue of no name. OED2 1843
(quot. in OED2 for murre only)
hackmatack 1777 ( 1986 ) Abner Sanger Journal, Feb.
13, 1776, in Very Poor and of a Lo Make,
The Journal of Abner Sanger p. 130 Afternoon I go and get some hackmatack gum.
New Hampshire OED2, DA, DARE 1792
hair’s breadth 1776 ( 1972 ) Capt. John Paul Jones
Letter , Sep. 4, 1776, inNaval Documents of the American Revolution Vol.6 p.
684 Our “Hairs breadth Scape” & the Saucy manner of making it must have mortified
him not a little. OED2 sense c attrib. 1841
half stocks (stock) 1788 ( 1990 ) Thomas
Jefferson Memorandums on a Tour .. reprinted in Public and Private Papers
by TJ Library of America p. 305 They might be had in any number to go to
America, and settle lands as tenants on half stocks or metairies. OED2
doesn’t seem to fit any sense of stock listed.
halfdeck 1588 ( 1959 ) Deposition in
English Privateering Voyages to the West Indies 15881595 (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No.
CXI) p. 45 The master called uppe the company uppon the half decke. OED2
1626
halfhill 1749 ( 1974 ) Ebenezer Parkman The
Diary of Ebenezer Parkman June 10, 1749
(American Antiquarian Soc.) p. 197 Began to halfHill the Indian Corn.
My Young Men are at their halfhilling today. (June 13) OED2, DA, DARE
lack. See slip Sanger 1775
halfhill 1781 ( 1986 ) Abner Sanger Journal, July
5, 1781, in Very Poor and of a Lo Make,
The Journal of Abner Sanger p. 366
I begin to halfhill the corn that the Willises weeded for me.
Afternoon I come home late and hoe some on my halfhilling. (July 6) Editor (L. K.
Stabler) glosses “Piling soil around the stalks, while pulling weeds.” But why “half”?
Parkman sometimes recorded hilling a few weeks after halfhilling. OED2, DA, DARE
lack. See slip Parkman 1749
halfleg 1633 ( 1894 ) Capt. Thomas JamesThe
Strange and Dangerous Voyage in The Voyages of Captain Luke Foxe and Captain
Thomas James (Hakluyt Soc. 1st ser. No. LXXXIX) p. 509 The snow by this time was
halfelegge high. OED2 1752 (U.S.)
hallucinate 1632 T. T. The Whetstone of
Reproof
(facsimile ed. as English Recusant Literature 15581640 Vol. 361 1977) p. 36He
proueth nothing but doth onelie hallucinate betweene trueth and falsehood.
OED2 sense 2 1652
hallucination 1632 T. T. The
Whetstone of Reproof
(facsimile ed. as English Recusant Literature 15581640 Vol. 361 1977) p. 253
Notwithstanding his other allucinations, he expresselie mantaines
[the septenarie number of the Sacraments] as other diuines doe. Dropped h could
be one of many printer’s errors; see T. T. slip hallucinate. OED2 1646; sense 1
a1652
hamberline 1776 ( 1968 ) Indenture, May 1,
1776, in Naval Documents of the American Revolution Vol.4 p. 1362 1 coil of
thread ratline spun yarn, in proportion for the whole; house line; marline; 1 doz.
hamberline, white. OED2 1793 (see slip Hambro’ line 1776)
Hambro’ line 1776 ( 1968 ) New
England Chronicle, May 23, 1776, inNaval Documents of the American Revolution
Vol.5 p.217 Inventory of the cargo of the abovementioned prize ship ..
Hambro’ line, skeins, 50. OED2 1793 (see slip hamberline 1776)
hamleteer 1642 ( 1942 ) Sir Simon D’Ewes The
Journal of Sir Simon D’Ewes (Jan. 10, 1641/2)
p. 398 Hee had received information touching the Tower of London; viz. That the
Hamleters who were the ordinarie warders weere discharged or made useless.
Then weere certaine Hameletters called in who informed us of some of some of the
canoneers in the Tower to be dangerous men. Footnote: “Verney (142) notes ‘The
hamliteers are not suffered to come into the tower.’” (Ralph Verney Notes of
Proceedings in the Long Parliament ) OED2 defines simply as “an inhabitant of a
hamlet” but see 1825 quot. “Overcoming a feeble opposition from the Tower
Hambleteers.”
hammock 1541 ( 1932 ) Roger Barlow A Briefe
Summe of Geographie
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. LXIX) p. 152 Ther beddes thei calle hamacas, thei be
made of coton after a net facion, and the one ende is tied with a corde at a post and the
other ende at another post and so hangeth above grounde. Barlow adapted a Spanish
book and sometimes simply anglicised Spanish words, but here appears to be drawing
on his own experience (on Spanish ships). OED2 1555
handicraftman 1541 ( 1932 ) Roger Barlow A
Briefe Summe of Geographie
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. LXIX) p. 139
Other be ower the handicraftmen to see that thei make true stuff and occupie
true wares.
OED2 1551
hang out for 1776 ( 1976 ) Cumberland DuganLetter, Nov.
8, 1776, inNaval Documents of the American Revolution Vol.7 p. 90 As to a
Master I immagin you wont get your Choice of an undoubted good man, without you
give the Consignment, which they all seem to hang out for here. OED2 lacks
phrase; cf. hold out for which OED2 also lacks as entry but uses in definition of
militant..
hangdog 1779 ( 1986 ) Abner Sanger Journal,Sep.
23, 1779, in Very Poor and of a Lo Make,
The Journal of Abner Sanger p. 366
I .. put hangdogs on my Jew’s Harp stack. Editor (L. K. Stabler) glosses
“Weights suspended on ropes over a pile or a hay stack.”
New Hampshire OED2, DA, DARE lack.
hank 1777 ( 1976 ) Eliphalet Roberts Letter, Feb.
24, 1777, inNaval Documents of the American Revolution Vol.7 p. 1278 We stood on
about one mile below fort trumbull & then put about & made three hanks & the wind
Camb on fresh after the first two trips. OED2 has only hank for hank (cf. slip
for board 1699)
hankle 1607 ( 1955 ) Dobsons Drie
Bobbes Ch. 15 p. 100 For after that he was hanckeled in so great extremity, he
directed letters to his vnckle, certifieing him of his lamentable case craueing pardon for
all his former euagations. OED2 1621
happen out 1728 ( 1974 ) Ebenezer Parkman The
Diary of Ebenezer Parkman Feb. 23, 1728
(American Antiquarian Soc.) p. 30 It was a Sad time to be abroad in, the Snow
being very deep and great Danger if happening out of the path. OED2
lacks; happen in etc. mostly in American quotes
hard 1777 ( 1980 ) South Carolina Navy Board
Orders, May 6, 1777, inNaval Documents of the American Revolution Vol.8 p.
921 Hawl the Brigantine Notre Dame upon the Hard, and have her Bottom well
scrub’d. OED2 sense B4 1838
hard hack 1809 Capt. Lemuel Roberts
Memoirs (facsimile reprint 1969) p. 91 I could not see the [raccoon] on
the saplin, (which was a witch hazel or hard hack,) as he had hidden himself in its top.
OED2 1832 (Spiraea); DAE 1814 (Spiraea or Dasiphora )
Could either of these grow tall enough to hide a coon in its top? Witch hazel
(Hamamelis) does. (Author is New Englander)
harness tub 1776 ( 1968 ) Inventory of prize
sloop, Apr. 30, 1776, inNaval Documents of the American Revolution Vol.4 p.1337
1 Harness Tub with Beef & Pork. OED2 entry only, no quot. Harness
cask 1818
harpingiron c 1588 ( 1981 ) Map text, in Sir
Francis Drake’s West Indian Voyage 158586 (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. 148) Plate
VII(b) They [dolphin fish] are caught most commonly by our mariners, with harping
Yrons of [or?] fisgigs. OED2 1596
haul 1780 ( 1975 ) John Adams Letter to Abigail
Adams , Sept. 4, 1780 in The Book of Abigail and John p. 270 The French and
Spaniards have at length, made a hall as the saying is of 40 or 50 ships at once from
the English. OED2 sense 3 1776 (Abigail Adams as haul , without apology)
haulster, halster (hawser) 1606 ( 1969 )
Examination concerning damage to the Susan Constant in Jamestown Voyages
under the First Charter (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd ser. cxxxvi) p. 56, 57 They called for a
haulster to make fast to the cable so to lengthen
yt out.
The said company of the Phillipp and Francys did cast and fasten a halster vppon a
Carvell that lay thereby. OED2 lacks spellings with “t.”
hawk’sbill 1655 ( 1936 ) Peter Mundy Journal,
Aug. 3, 1655, inThe Travels of Peter Mundy , in Europe and Asia 16081667 (Hakluyt
Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. LXXVIII) (reprint 1967) Vol.V p. 38 Our Master’s mate, with a
fishguig strooke a smalle tortoise, called haukesbilld tortoises. OED2 1657
hayseed 1849 ( 1986 ) Herman Melville
Redburn ch. 5 Penguin ed. p.68 He laughed out with a great
guffaw, and said there must be
hayseed in my hair. OED2 sense 1b 1894
haysel 1636 ( 1943 ) Robert Ryce Letter, Sep.
9, 1636, in Winthrop Papers Vol. 3 p. 305 The grasse was so burned vp, that at
our vsual hayseele wee had lytle or no grasse to cutt or to feede our catle. From
England. Recipient, and probably sender, was from Suffolk. OED2 16745
head sea c 1595 ( 1899 ) Capt. Wyatt Narrative in The
Voyage of Robert Dudley to the West Indies (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No.III) p. 52
Between soden gustes, dertie foggs, flatt calmes, and the settinge of head seas
in soe darke a night within soe straight and dangerous a passage, it gave occasion of
little sleep unto our watchful Generall. OED2 sense 74 1627
headmatter 1756 ( 1914 ) Henry Lloyd Letter, May 3, 1756,
in Commerce of Rhode Island 17261800 Vol. 1, p. 67 Mr. Rotch of Nantucket is
now here and offers me Head Matter, .. to be delivered at New Port, and will take the
Oyl from which the Head Matter is extracted in part of pay either at the price of Oyl
when the Head matter is deliver’d, or as it shall be when he receives it. OED2
1791
headpiece 1713 JamesWatson The History
of the Art of Printing (facsimile ed. 1965)
pref. p. 9 You’ll see .. a vast Variety of curiously cut HeadPieces, Finis’s, Blooming
Letters, Factotum’s, Flowers, &c. OED2 sense 7 1718 (quot. under blooming
piece )
headpiece 1776 ( 1976 ) Capt. John F. Williams
Letter, Nov. 4, 1776, inNaval Documents of the American Revolution Vol.7 p.
31 Accidentally jibed on the Main boom & broke him off 6 feet from the Mast at the
same time Carried away part of our Head piece. OED2 sense 6d 1794
headstick 1713 JamesWatson The History
of the Art of Printing (facsimile ed. 1965) p. 63
[ AContemplation upon the Mystery of Man’s Regeneration in Allusion to the
Mystery of Printing]
The HeadSticks are thy Majesty;
The FootSticks, Christ’s Humility. OED2 sense 3 1841 But see quot. sidestick
1683
heartburning 1582 ( 1976 ) Richard MadoxDiary,
June 7, 1582, in An Elizabethan in 1582 (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. 147) p. 143
Rumatique I was and exceding costyve, and trubled with hartburning which be
appendixes of the sea. OED2 sense 2 1591
New Hampshire OED2, DA, DARE lack
homogeneous 1635 ( 1943 ) Nathaniel Ward Letter,
Dec. 24, 1635, in Winthrop Papers Vol. 3 p. 216 We .. had neede to be strong and
of a homogeneous spirit and people, as free from dangerous persons as we may.
OED2 1641
hone 1783 ( 1969 ) William Williams Mr. Penrose
The Journal of Penrose, Seaman p. 285 [We heard deep and sad groans] He
has been very amiss or on some long journey thus to begin his hones after so great a
length of time. OED2 lacks noun corresponding to hone v2
honey( v ) 1746 ( 1974 ) Ebenezer Parkman The Diary of
Ebenezer Parkman Sep. 19, 1746
(American Antiquarian Soc.) p. 142 Took up our old Hive of Bees which was pritty
well Honey’d. OED2 lacks this sense
honeybird 1817 Amasa Delano A
Narrative of Voyages and Travel in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres (facsimile
ed. 1970)
Ch. XXVII p. 557 There is a little brown bird of the species of the cuckoo, called by
the farmers the honey bird, from its pointing out and conducting people to the nests of
bees, by a chirping and whistling noise. OED2 sense 3 1850
hoodend 1817 Amasa Delano A
Narrative of Voyages and Travel in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres (facsimile
ed. 1970)
Ch. XIV p. 251 I directed the carpenters to open the work at the places which were
most likely to be decayed, such as under the lower port sills, the water ways, the false
stem, the hooden ends.
I found .. the hooden ends opened more than two inches wide.
(p. 252) =
“hoodend end” ? OED2 1867
hoodwink 1608 ( 1969 ) Edward Maria Wingfield
Discourse in Jamestown Voyages under the First Charter (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd ser.
cxxxvi) p.214 I doo not hoodwinck my carriage in my self love, but freely and
humblie submit it to your grave censures. OED2 sense 3 1610
hook n 1615 ( 1899 ) Thomas . Roe Journal, Sept.. 15,
1615, in The Embassy of Sir Thomas Roe to the Court of the Great Mogul (Hakluyt
Soc. 2nd. Ser. No.I/2) (reprint 1967) p. 38 Wee were enclosed with a hooke of the
same sand in 8 fadome water. OED2 sense 9, comparable use 1670. See
slip Roes 1615 hook n.
hook v 1615 ( 1899 ) Thomas . Roe Journal, Sept.. 16,
1615, in The Embassy of Sir Thomas Roe to the Court of the Great Mogul (Hakluyt
Soc. 2nd. Ser. No.I/2) (reprint 1967) p. 40 It is veary daingerous for those that
knowe it not to fall amonge [the sandes], and veary difficult to gett out, beeing hooked
in 3 wayes, though there is 6 or 7 fadom water ouer the Southermost end of them.
OED2 lacks this sense. See slip Roes 1615 hook n.
hookah 1638 ( 1919 ) Peter Mundy The Travels
of Peter Mundy, in Europe and Asia 16081667 Rel. XXIX (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No.
XXXV) Vol. 3 p. 384 The tabacco growing here, which they Draw Throug the
water as in India, their hucka beeing the end off an horne with a short pipe or cane.
(On Madagascar) OED2 1763
hookman 1735 ( 1960 ) Benjamin Franklin In
Pennsylvania Gazette Feb. 4, 1734/5 in Papers of Benjamin F ranklin Vol. 2 p. 14
Pulling down burning Timbers by the Hookmen. OED2 lacks this sense.
Hoolee 1632 ( 1914 ) Peter Mundy Journal in
The Travels of Peter Mundy, in Europe and Asia 16081667 Rel. XV (Hakluyt Soc.
2nd. Ser. No. XXXV) Vol. 2 p. 219 There is Hoolee of the Hindooes used in the
same manner as Shrovetide is in Fraunce, by eating, drinckeing, feasteinge, playinge,
throweinge sweete oyles and water with redd powder on that againe. OED2
1687, HobsonJobson 1671
horn book 1778 ( 1975 ) John Adams
Autobiography May 27 , 1778 in The Book of Abigail and John p.215 Mr.
Franklin keeps a horn book always in his Pockett in which he minuted all his invitations
to dinner. Not the child’s hornbook or primer of OED2. Perhaps an ivory
memorandum book such as Jefferson purchased in Paris in 1786.
horse v 1635 Capt. Luke Foxe Northwest Fox or
Fox from the Northwest Passage
(Facsimile ed. 1965) p. 167
He was horst with a current .. above 1 d. & 30 m. OED2 sense 5
1698
horse market 1817 Amasa Delano
A Narrative of Voyages and Travel in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres
(facsimile ed. 1970)
Ch. XXIV p. 467 While crossing a horse market ( a sailor’s phrase for a rough
irregular sea, the waves rising all in a heap, occasioned by two tides meeting,) the water
rushed so rapidly into the boat, that in less than two minutes she sank like a stone.
OED2 lacks; cf. horse sense 24b 1833
horsemussel 1541 ( 1932 ) Roger Barlow A
Briefe Summe of Geographie
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. LXIX) p. 132
In the cost thei fynde many orient perlys. Thei be found in certein shelfysshes
like horsemuskles.
OED2 1626
horsing 1582 ( 1976 ) Richard MadoxDiary, Aug.
6, 1582, in An Elizabethan in 1582
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. 147) p. 161 We perceaved a horsing eb that set to east
north east. OED2 lacks this sense. Cf. horse ( v) sense 5 1698
hortulan 1660 ( 1964 ) John EvelynLetter, Jan. 28,
1660, in The Works of Sir Thomas Browne Vol. IV p. 275 I would have not onely the
elogies and effigie of the antient and famous Garden Heroes, but a society of the
Paradisi Cultores , persons of antient simplicity, paradisean and hortulan saints.
The hortulane pleasures, these innocent, pure, and usefull diversions. OED2
1664 (Evelyn also)
hosiery 1776 ( 1972 ) Robert Morris Letter , Sep.
12, 1776, inNaval Documents of the American Revolution Vol.6 p. 794 Put onboard
of each as many Dry Goods, say Woolens, Linens, Tin, Copper, Hosiery &c &c.
OED2 1790
hotspur peas 1754 ( 1974 ) Ebenezer Parkman
The Diary of Ebenezer Parkman Apr. 2, 1754
(American Antiquarian Soc.) p. 273 Prepar’d Beds in the Garden two long Beds for
Hotspur Peas. OED2 hotspur sense 2 † 170712
howel 1759 ( 1994 ) George Washington Invoice, in
“Worthy Partner” The Papers of Martha Washington p. 89 1 Cowper’s Taper bitt
..
1 do Round Shave
1 Do Howell OED2 dict. refs. only 1846
huer 1656 ( 1936 ) Peter Mundy Journal, June 7,
1656, inThe Travels of Peter Mundy , in Europe and Asia 16081667 (Hakluyt Soc.
2nd. Ser. No. LXXVIII) (reprint 1967) Vol.V p. 84 There is another sortt called
hewers, beecause they ly hovering over the water to descry their prey, as our country
hewers in the West stand on the hills to discerne the pilchard. Identified by editor’s
consultant as “Ascension Island frigate bird (Fregata aquila )” OED2 lacks for bird
hug 1776 ( 1972 ) Journal Mass. Sloop
Warren, Sep. 17, 1776, inNaval Documents of the American Revolution Vol.6 p. 880
We Hug’d our wind. OED2 sense 4 1824
hull to 1754 J. Robertson Elements of
Navigation p. 560 A ship is seen hull to , when her upperworks just disappear. (hull
down is the usual term, but Robertson was not likely to be wrong) OED2 lacks this
sense.
hum 1650 ( 1984 ) Thomas Vaughan Magia
Adamica in The Works of Thomas Vaughan p. 165 I desire not their Hum but their
patience. OED2 sense 2b 1653
humbo 1777 ( 1986 ) Abner Sanger Journal, Apr.
7, 1777, in Very Poor and of a Lo Make,
The Journal of Abner Sanger p. 138 I tend the kettles of humbo or sap for Tilly
Howe.
Before sunrise I come up to get Mother’s strainer to strain humbo.
(Apr. 8 p. 139) New
Hampshire OED2, DA lack; DARE 1895 (NH also)
hummock 1602 ( 1983 ) John Brereton A Briefe and
True Relation of the Discouerie of the North Part of Virginia inThe English New England
Voyages 16021608 (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. 161) p. 145 The land somewhat
low, certeine hummocks or hilles lying into the land. OED2 c form 1608
hungar 1601 ( 1931 ) John Sanderson Letter in The
Travels of John Sanderson
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. LXVII) p. 218
Your mony mad, cleare of all chargis, of the hungers, copper, and ten kersies is
1315 d[uca]ts gould. OED2 1606 sense 2 1650
Hungary 1676 ( 1953 ) John Locke Feb. 29, 1676, in
Locke’s Travels in France p. 53 Rosemary flowers for making the Queen of Hungary’s
water in great plenty already. OED2 1698
hurdle, hurdlein 1860 Francis GaltonThe
Art of Travel
3rd ed. p. 74 If sheep or other cattle be hurdledin near the house, the
nuisance of flies, &c., becomes almost intolerable. (p. 74)
When sheep, &c., are long hurdled at night, near the same encampment, the nuisance
of flies and ticks becomes intolerable.
(p. 199)
(Galton’s preferred method of enclosing sheep was to use bushes to make what
he calls a kraal or I suppose, hurdles.) OED2 has hurdling out and off, but not so
specific a sense of penning as here.
hurlfooted 1817 Amasa Delano A
Narrative of Voyages and Travel in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres (facsimile
ed. 1970)
Ch. XXIV p. 469 I had the greatest reason to be concerned about my brother
William,
as he was but a youth and born hurlfooted, which inconvenience still remained with
him. OED2 1749 only
hurricanehouse 1783 ( 1969 ) William Williams
Mr. Penrose The Journal of Penrose, Seaman p. 46 In the foretop was a small
Hurricane house for the Captain of the Top to sleep in. OED2 1818
hurst 1555 ( 1975 ) Building Account in Sidney
Ironworks Accounts 15411573
(Camden 4th Ser. Vol. 15) p. 146 Payd to the forgemen for the new makyng of a
horste for to hold the homer helve in the forge v
s. OED2 sense 4 1825
husband 1615 ( 1881 ) William Baffin in The
Voyages of William Baffin (Hakluyt Soc. 1st. Ser. No.LXIII) p. 111 The ship being in
redines, upon the 15th daye of March came aboard Mr. John Wolstenholme, esquire,
one of the cheefe aduenturers, and with him Mr Allwyn Carye (husband for the voyage).
OED2 cf. sense 4b 173036
husker 1750 ( 1974 ) Ebenezer Parkman The
Diary of Ebenezer Parkman Oct. 23, 1750
(American Antiquarian Soc.) p. 225 I expect Huskers at Night. OED2 1780
(EP’s diary also)
hustling 1776 ( 1972 ) David Murray(Lord Stormont)
Letter, Aug. 21, 1776, inNaval Documents of the American Revolution Vol.6 p.
560 That Beaumarchais should be recommended as an active hustling Man, and
ready for this or any similar business I can easily conceive. OED2 ppla. 1871;
closest sense of hustle (v) is sense 2e “N. Amer. slang 1887”
hydragogue 1650 ( 1984 ) Thomas Vaughan Magia
Adamica in The Works of Thomas Vaughan p. 162 Now so dull am I, and so short of
Syllogismes, those strange Pumpes, and Hydragogues, which lave the Truth ex Puteo,
like Water. In some mechanical rather than OED2’s medical sense ? OED2 1653
hydrant 1810 ( 1951 ) John E. Caldwell A
Tour through Part of Virginia p. 14 They have an excellent supply of water
conveyed through the streets
in pipes, and rising as in Philadelphia, by means of hydrants. OED2 1828
Webster, 1839 quot. ; DA 1806 in Phila.
hypochondrium 1669 ( 1989 ) William Walwyn
Physick for Families in The Writings of William Walwyn
p. 513A great palpitation of the heart, which appeared also in her right Hypocondrium.
OED2 1696
icicle 1742 ( 1994 ) Capt. Christopher Middleton in
Philosophical Transactions, XLII, pp. 15771, reprinted in
Voyages to Hudson Bay in Search of a Northwest Passage 17411747 Vol. I (Hakluyt
Soc. 2nd ser. Vol. 177) p. 230 The Fogs and Mists that are brought here from the
Polar Parts, in Winter, appear visible to the naked eye in Icicles innumerable,
as small as fine Hairs or Threads, and pointed as sharp as Needles. OED2
sense 2b †1737
iguana 1541 ( 1932 ) Roger Barlow A Briefe
Summe of Geographie
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. LXIX) p. 175 Ther is another sort of them called
yaguanas and be as bigge as the lagartus, and thei have a round hedde and from the
forehed to the tail upon his backe ther goeth a rydge of sharpe prickes stonding up very
grislie. (Barlow translated a Spanish book and sometimes simply anglicised Spanish
words)OED2 1555
immethodicalness 1744 ( 1974 ) Ebenezer Parkman
The Diary of Ebenezer Parkman Mar. 15, 1744
(American Antiquarian Soc.) p. 94 The Immethodicalness of their paper of
Complaints. OED2 1661 and a1690 only
impensely 1681 ( 1911 ) CottonMather Diary of
Cotton Mather Dec. 25, 1681
Vol. I p. 46 Do I not impensely desire to live unto the glorious God?
OED2 1657 only
imperative c 1496 John Stanbridge Accedence
(facsimile ed. as English Linguistics 15001800
No. 134) p. unnum. (Aiiij +8 = Aviii ?) How knowest the Imperatyf mode? For he
byddeth or commaundeth. OED2 1530
imperial 1784 ( 1975 ) John Adams Letter to
Abigail Adams, July 26, 1784 in The Book of Abigail and John p. 391 Let it [a
coach] be large and strong, with an Imperial. OED2 sense B4 1794
imputrible 1632 A. H. [Henry Hawkins]
Partheneia Sacra (facsimile ed. in English Recusant Literature 15581640 Vol.
81 1971) p. 174 A peece of workmanship without peer, erected by the Divine
Wisedome, imputrible Arck, incorruptible vessel. OED2 †1607
inborn 1583 M. M. S. The Spanish
Colonie (transl. of de las Casas) (facsimile reprint 1966) p. N1 recto The inbornes
of the countrey were reduced to suche of an extremitie, that there were founde great
numbers dead of famine in the high wayes. OED2 1609 (except c1000) and
lacks use as substantive.
incompassible 1611 Henry Fitz Simon The
Justification and Exposition of the Divine Sacrifice of the Masse (facsimile ed. in
English Recusant Literature 15581640 Vol. 108 1972) p. 245 God is spiritual, not
corporeal, .. incompassible, without al mvtation, or passion. Not incompassible
of OED2 163056
inconsutile 1522 ( 1924 ) Robert Langton The
Pilgrimage of Robert Langton p. 38 At Argentyn southwarde from thens [Paris] is
the cote inconsutyll of our lorde. Argentyn = Argenteuil. “Seamless” or “unsewn” for
Jesus’ legendary (extraBiblical, I believe) robe fits etym. and OED2 c1450 quot.
1657 quot. I suspect is a malapropism (although I can’t say for what).
OED def. is clever, but really makes no sense, unless in is an
intensive rather than a negative, which seems unlikely.
incontradictable 1612 ( 1969 ) T. Abbay inProc.
Virginia.. p.10 in Jamestown Voyages under the First Charter (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd ser.
cxxxvi) p.385 ** [ =1624 Smith quot. (final words spelled “il conceipts.”)]
OED2 1624
incruental 1611 Henry Fitz Simon The
Justification and Exposition of the Divine Sacrifice of the Masse (facsimile ed. in
English Recusant Literature 15581640 Vol. 108 1972) Epistle Dedicatory p.i3
Tertullian, Origen, S. Augustin, and other Fathers being timorouse and vnwilling
to diuulgat the secret mysteries of this incruental propitiation for sinne.
OED2 1674; incruent 1624
inculpatory 1831 Tho. Pringle The History
of Mary Prince p. 34 (in suppl. by ed.)
Facsimile reprint in Six Women’s Slave Narratives (1988) I leave the preceding letter
to be candidly weighed by the reader in opposition to the inculpatory allegations of Mr.
Wood. OED2 1837
indelible 1607 ( 1955 ) Dobsons Drie
Bobbes Ch. 10 p. 69 I will procure vs indeleable respect amongst the vulgar sort.
OED2 sense d a1631
Indian 1649 ( 1947 ) Martha Johanna Lyon Letter, Mar.
23, 1648, in Winthrop Papers Vol. 5 p. 323 My husband .. eats Indian that I might
eat whet. OED2 sense B3 1651
Indian 1777 ( 1975 ) Abigail Adams Letter to
John Adams Mar. 8, 1777 in The Book of Abigail and John p.169There is such a
demand for Indian and Rye, that a Scarcity will soon take place in the Country. Tis now
next to impossible to purchase a Bushel of Rye. OED2 lacks 18c. quot. for sense
B3
Massachusetts OED2, DA 1811
Jerusalem oak 1708 ( 1977 ) William Byrd II Letter
to Hans Sloane, Sep. 10, 1708 in
The Correspondence of the Three William Byrds of Westover, Virginia p. 266 In
another paper is a seed of the Jerusalem oak as we call it, which kills worms better
than any wormseed I ever heard of.
The plant you mention under the name of Jerusalem oak is the botrys ambroscoides
mexiocana of Casper Bauhine & other herbarists.
(Hans Sloane, Dec. 7, 1709 p. 272) OED2 lacks
as entry but in 1770 quot. under wormseed. DA lacks.
jet d’eau 1677 ( 1953 ) John Locke Aug. 25, 1677, in
Locke’s Travels in France p. 164 There rises a sheaf of water made of 173 jet d’eaux
joynd close together in a bunch, besides severall other great jet d’eaux of great bores
rising high. At Versailles OED2 1706
jigg, gigg (jig) 1760 ( 1961 ) John Adams Diary
Nov. 1760 Adams Papers Diary and Autobiog.raphy Vol I p.172A Market Girl whom
he asked to let him jigg her? answered by asking what is that? What good will that do?
He replied it will make you fat!
Pray be so good then says the Girl as to Gigg my Mare. She’s miserably lean.
OED2 lacks (undoubtedly omitted in 1850 edition by JA’s grandson)
cf. jigajig sense 2 1896
jigger n1 1768 ( 1973 ) AshleyBowen Journal, Mar. 12,
1768, in The Journals of Ashley Bowen (17281813) of Marblehead (Publ. Colonial Soc.
Massachusetts Vol. XLIV) p. 174
At noon fixed part of a small mainsail for a jigger. Normalized spelling OED2
sense 2d 1860
jimberjawed 1834 ( 1951 ) William A. Caruthers
The Kentuckian in NewYork Vol. 1 xviii p. 195 Some .. pushed out the
under jaw, like a person who (to use a Southern term) is jimber jawed. OED2
184860, DA 1830
JohnBullism 1791 ( 1972 ) Fanny Burney Letter,
Aug. 13, 1791, in The Journal and Letters of Fanny Burney Vol. 1 p. 8 We were now
touched to shake off a part of the John Bullism that had encrusted us, & ask them
[French travellers] to our sitting Room, to drink Tea. OED2 1796 (FB also)
joint 1869 ( 1994 ) William Henry Jackson Diary
June 28, 1869 in Mike Foster Strange Genius,
the Life of F. V. Hayden p. 169 In the evening had to go around to Madame
Cleveland’s [brothel] & was much surprised to see Dr. Hayden.. He acted like a cat in a
strange joint. OED2 sense 14 1877 (and dubious 1821)
joint grass 1775 ( 1846 ) Isaac SenterJournal Oct. 11,
1775 (Hist. Soc. Penna.), p. 10
(facsmile reprint 1969) Made an exceedingly luxurious bed with the blue joint grass,
which this river land produces in great plenty, not less than five or six feet high. (On
Arnold’s expedition in northern Maine. Journal was clearly reworked before author’s
death in 1799, but this looks like onthe spot usage.) OED2 1790
Jolly Roger 1783 ( 1969 ) William Williams Mr.
Penrose The Journal of Penrose, Seaman p. 225 We happened to mention the
word dross, meaning the Money those Sons of Jolly Roger had buried. OED2
1785 (dict.); 1883 (use)
jollyboat 1634 ( 1914 ) Peter Mundy Journal in
The Travels of Peter Mundy, in Europe and Asia 16081667 Rel. XIX (Hakluyt Soc.
2nd. Ser. No. XXXV) Vol. 2 p. 317 Haveing tryed the Currant sundrie tymes with
our Jolly boate. OED2 172741
jolt 1582 ( 1976 ) Richard MadoxDiary, Apr. 13, 1582,
in An Elizabethan in 1582
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. 147) p. 108 A sea comyng yn to hym fel upon the
orlop so deep that every jowlt he lay in the water crying for help. OED2 1599
(sense 2 1632)
journalizing 1791 ( 1972 ) Fanny Burney Journal, Oct.
, 1791, in The Journal and Letters of Fanny Burney Vol. 1 p. 72 Though another
Month has begun since i left my dearest of Friends, I have had no Journalising spirit.
OED2 1796
Judasly a 1638 John Lilburne A Worke of
the Beast p.12 Facsimile in 1935 (reprinted 1965) Tracts on Liberty in the Puritan
Revolution
Vol. II p. 14 [Chillington] did that which hee did against mee for pvrchasing his owne
liberty which hee hath by such Judasly meanes gott and obtained. OED2 a1626
only
jugulate 1651 ( 1984 ) Thomas Vaughan The
Second Wash in The Works of Thomas Vaughan
p. 393 This thou doest call a jugulating Objection, thou objecting Jugler.
OED2 dict. 1623, usage 1677
junkbottle 1741 ( 1973 ) AshleyBowen Letter, 1809,
in The Journals of Ashley Bowen (17281813) of Marblehead (Publ. Colonial Soc.
Massachusetts Vol. XLIV) p. 10
He looking earnest at me, said, “You are a knowing Dog! You may fill me a junk
bottle of rum!” Direct quote suggests dating by the incident rather than the record
is safe. Speaker was an R N midshipman, in a Massachusetts harbor.
Normalized spelling OED2 1805
jurymast 1593 ( 1959 ) Appraisement of the
Golden Dragon in English Privateering Voyages to the West Indies 15881595 (Hakluyt
Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. CXI) p. 230 The hull of the said shipp beinge .. without eany
mastes savinge a bad foremaste & a Jewry mast. (Spelling can’t have any etym.
significance, could it?) OED2 1616, but see slip 1590
jutt (jut) n2 1774 ( 1957 ) Philip V. FithianJournal &
Letters of PVF Mar. 18, 1773 p. 80 There is a beautiful Jutt .. eighteen feet long, &
eight Feet deep from the wall which is supported by three tall pillars. OED2
lacks arch. sense but cf. sense 1 1786
kedge 1606 ( 1969 ) Orders for the Council in
Virginia in Jamestown Voyages under theFirst Charter (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd ser. cxxxvi)
p. 53 Take her Sails and Anchors A Shore all but a Small Kedge to ride by. Editor
footnotes “Miscopied by scribe as ‘ledge.’ “ OED2 1769 (kedger 1626)
kedgeree 1630 ( 1914 ) Peter Mundy Journal in
The Travels of Peter Mundy, in Europe and Asia 16081667 Rel. V (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd.
Ser. No. XXXV) Vol. 2 p. 27 Ordinarilie wee have dopeage and Rice, Kercheere,
and achare or pickled Manges. OED2 1662
keg (v ) 1776 ( 1789 ) Thomas Anburey Travels
through the Interior Parts of America
in a Series of Letters (1969 facsimile ed.) Vol. I p.193 “I’ll keg myself for six
months “ ... it is a cant word that the soldiers have among them, when they wish to
refrain from liquors, they take an oath that for such a limited time they will not touch any
spirits whatever. (British army)
(Dated letters appear concocted from recollections or notes, but should be reliable for
usage at date) OED I lacks this sense
kennel 1607 ( 1955 ) Dobsons Drie
Bobbes Ch. 14 p. 89 He went to a painter in the citie, and procured him to draw at
large
and in liuely colours, a kennell of Foxes, marching in array of battaile.
OED2 sense 2b 1641
kern v 1578 ( 1589 ) Anthony Parkhurst Letter
inHakluyt’s Principall Navigations (facs. ed. 1965)
p. 676I finde salte kerned on the rockes in nine and fortie [degrees of lat.]. OED2
sense 2 1600
killick 1630 ( 1931 ) John Winthrop Journal, Dec. 22,
1630, in Winthrop Papers Vol. 2 . p. 272 The winde ouerblewe so muche at n: w:
as they were forced to come to a Killick at 20. fath. ** Quot. in OED2, with spelling
modernized to 1825
killing 1836 Capt. GeorgeBack Narrative of the
Arctic Land Expedition p. 283 Nor was it without the most laborious, or, as they
called it, killing exertion, that [the boat] was at length hauled to a shelter. (“they” were
Canadian boatmen) OED2 sense 2d 1850
kimono 1637 ( 1919 ) Peter Mundy Journal ,
Aug. 11, 1637, inThe Travels of Peter Mundy, in Europe and Asia 16081667 Rel. XXVI
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. XXXV) Vol. 3 p. 270 The said weomen when they are
within Doores wear overall a Certaine large wide sleeved vest called Japan kamaones
or kerimaones, because it is the ordinary garment worne by Japoneses, there beeing
Many Dainty ones broughtt From thence off died silke.In Portuguese households in
Macao ? = kimono OED2 1886 or karamo a different Japanese word?
king penguin 1817 Amasa Delano A
Narrative of Voyages and Travel in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres
(facsimile ed. 1970)
Ch. XV p. 262 The king penguin is as large as a goose, walks erect, its legs
projecting directly out behind; it stands upright, and at a distance resembles a man.
OED2 1885
kingcrab 1612 ( 1953 ) William Strachey The
Historie of Travell into Virginia Britania
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd Ser., No. CIII) p. 128 There be twoo sorts of SeaCrabbes, and the
one our people call a king Crabb, and they are taken in Shoall waters from the Shoare
a dozen at a tyme hanging one vpon anothers tayle, they are of a Foote in length and
half a foote in breadth, having many leggs and a long tayle, the Indians seldome eate of
this kynd. OED2 1698
kingfish 1735 John Atkins A Voyage to
Guinea, Brazil, & the West Indies in his Majesty’s Ships, the Swallow and Weymouth
(facsimile reprint 1970) p. 208 The Sea gives them [Barbadians] plenty of flying Fish,
Dolphins, Barricuda and King Fish. (Madeira) OED2 sense 4a 177284
kiosk 1599 ( 1893 ) Thomas Dallam Journal
inEarly Voyages and Travels in the Levant
(Hakluyt Soc.1st. Ser. No. LXXXVI) p. 78 Close to the sea sid Dothe stande a
prittie fine litle buldinge which theye cale a Cuske, made for a bancketing house.
OED2 1625
kipnet 1611 ( 1982 ) Inventory, in
Newfoundland Discovered
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. 160) p. 67 1 dozen of kipp nett irons hookes, leades,
lynes. OED2 1622
kitatega 1776 ( 1972 ) Providence Gazette,
Oct. 26, 1776, inNaval Documents of the American Revolution Vol.6 p. 1233 Two
carriages, one a Phaeton, the other a Kitatega. (referred to a chaise elsewhere) ?
OED2 lacks
kite 1777 ( 1986 ) Capt. Hector McNeill Letter, July
21, 1777, inNaval Documents of the American Revolution Vol. 9 p. 305 As the
Hancock & Fox had Engag’d with all their small kites out, they were both in the most
helpless condition at the end of the Action. OED2 sense 5a 1856
knitchel 1670 1671 ( 1683 ) Sir James Turner Pallas
Armata (facsimile ed. 1968) Bk. III Ch. xxiv p. 317 Fascines .. are bundles or
knitchels of the twigs and smaller branches of Trees, in every one whereof there should
be Stones to make them sink, they should be six or seven foot long. JT was Scottish,
and allowed occasional Scoticisms into his book. OED2 150020 and 1901 dial.
dict.
knoll 1776 ( 1968 ) Journal, H.M. Sloop Otter,
Mar. 8, 1776, inNaval Documents of the American Revolution Vol.4 p. 272 At 5
found the Ship to strike, found her on one of the Knowles
10 foot water. OED2 sense 1b 1867 dict. ref. only
knurly 1758 ( 1961 ) John Adams Diary Dec. 3,1758
Adams Papers Diary and Autobiog.raphy Vol I p.60 He is like a little nurley ill
natured Horse in OED2 but with spelling “corrected” by 1850 editor
kosher 1779 ( 1915 ) David Lopez, Jr. Letter, May 3,
1779, in Commerce of Rhode Island 17261800 Vol. 2, p. 57 Mr. Mendes
promised to forward some Goods from Tafts Tavern for old Mr. Trevett which with the
wine and a bb. of Cosher Beef he engaged to send us may probably make a load
sufficient to induce a Teamster to come down. OED2 1851
krang (kreng) 1819 Capt. John Ross A
Voyage of Discovery for the purpose of Exploring
Baffins Bay p.71 The remains are turmed adrift to be devoured by the birds, being
termed Krang by the sailors. OED2 krang 1835 (under kreng); crang
(why separate entry?) 1821
lachryma Christi c 1603 ( 1972 ) Thomas Rogers
Leicester’s Ghost stanza 77, line 534 p. 26 What if I dranke nothing but
Liquid Gold,
Lachryma Christi, pearle resolved in wyne. Lactrina Cristall in 1641 printing;
Lactirmia Christi in ms. Scribal error corrected by editor.
EDITOR SUPPLIES AUTHORSHIP AND DATE. OED2 has 9 quots. attributed to
Parsons a1610 OED2 167081
lachrymy 1632 A. H. [Henry Hawkins]
Partheneia Sacra (facsimile ed. in English Recusant Literature 15581640 Vol.
81 1971) p. 139 Sometimes againe he will be in a melancholie dump, and strik such
Notes, as Dowland himself neuer strock, in al his Plaints and Lachrymies. OED2
lacks
lader 1776 ( 1968 ) New York Comm. of Safety
Minutes, Jan 24, 1776, inNaval Documents of the American Revolution Vol.3
p. 957 It is also in the power of the laders of such vessels to lade other produce.
OED2 ?obs. last quot. 1755
lady in the lobster 1687 ( 1940 ) Charles Morton
Compendium Physicae in Publ. Colonial Soc. Massachusetts Vol. XXXIII p.
130
(from 1697 transcription of 1687 ms., probably first
compiled c1680) Lobsters ..have by nature given to them teeth in the Stomack
(commonly called the lady in the lobster). “I shall sitt like the Lady of the Lobster”
1653 in The Letters of Dorothy Osborne to William Temple (1928) p. 42, with a footnote
to Herrick Hesperides 1648 OED2 sense 10 1704
lancespesade 1670 1671 ( 1683 ) Sir James Turner Pallas
Armata (facsimile ed. 1968) Bk. III Ch. xi p. 218 Lancespesate is a word deriv’d
from the Italian, Lance spesata, which signifies a broken or spent Lance. .. When a
Gentleman of a Troop of Horse .. had broke his Lance on the enemy, and lost his horse
in the Scuffle, he was entertained .. by a Captain of a Foot Company as his Comerade,
till he was again mounted. .. In a short time our Monsieur Lancespesata .. was forc’d to
descend .. and became the Corporals Companion. .. But when the Caporal grew
weary of the comradeship of his Lancespesata he made him officiate under him and for
that had some allowance of pay more than the common Soldier.
An etymology, for whatever it’s worth.
landscape 1637 ( 1883 ) Thomas Morton New
English Canaan p. 122 The riches of which Country I have set forth in this abstract
as in a Landskipp, for the better information of the Travellers. OED2 sense 4g
16816
langrage 1593 ( 1959 ) Appraisement of the
Golden Dragon in English Privateering Voyages to the West Indies 15881595 (Hakluyt
Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. CXI) p. 231 lxij crosse barre shott xj langringe shott & CCxx
rounde shott more of iron we valewe together iijli ijs
Note per slips that variants of both forms (langrage langrel ) go back to 16c.
OED2 1769
langrel 1590 ( 1959 ) James Robinson
Inventory of the White Lion in English Privateering Voyages to the West Indies
15881595 (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. CXI) p. 75 400 Round shot 140 crossebar
shot 30 langerill shot. OED2 1627, but see slips Wyatt 1596 and Scott 1605
langrel c 1595 ( 1899 ) Capt. Wyatt Narrative in The
Voyage of Robert Dudley to the West Indies (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No.III) p. 59
[He] toke out of the rome good store of powlder of rownde shott, of langrell shot,
gads of steele for dice shott and crossbarrs.
OED2 1627, but see slip Scott 1606 and Robinson. 1590
langrel 1606 ( 1943 ) Edmund Scott An Exact
Discourse in The Voyage of Sir Henry Middleton to the Moluccas (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd.
Ser. No. LXXXVIII)
p. 139Our men being busie every day making of chain, langrell and crossbar shot.
OED2 1627, but see slips Wyatt 1595 and Robinson 1590
langrel 1615 ( 1971 ) Capt. William Keeling
Journal, June 20, 1615, in The East India Company Journals of Capt. William
Keeling and Master Thomas Bonner, 16151617 p. 85 Wehave recd from the
Hope .. 11 langwell demicullverin shott. OED2 1627, but see slips Robinson
1590, Wyatt 1595 and Scott 1606. Does this variant suggest any etym.?
lannut 1775 ( 1846 ) Isaac SenterJournal Nov. 8,
1775 (Hist. Soc. Penna.), p. 25
(facsmile reprint 1969) Canadian mechanicks at work making scaling ladders,
lannuts &c.
Ladders, lannuts &c were in readiness for crossing. (Nov. 13, p. 26)(On Arnold’s
expedition in Quebec. Journal was clearly reworked before author’s death in 1799, but
this looks like onthespot usage.) ?? OED2 lacks
lantern 1639 ( 1925 ) Peter Mundy The Travels
of Peter Mundy, in Europe and Asia 16081667 Rel. XXXI (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No.
LV) Vol. 4
p. 35 Shee hath 5 greatt lanthornes. In the biggest may stand 12 or 13 men. “The
great Royall Sovereigne “ OED2 Sense 3c “Some part of a ship.” Pepys diary 1661
only (the same? Soverayne )
lanx c 1675 ( 1972 ) John Aubrey Observations Ch.
VI, in John Aubrey Three Prose Works
p. 353 Mr Potter of Kilmanton his hive of Bees being set in the lanx of a pair of
scales, found, that in summerdays they gatherd about half a pound a day. OED2
1857
lanyard 1734 William Snelgrove A
New Account of some parts of Guinea and the SlaveTrade (facsimile ed. 1971) p. 169
The Negroes endeavoured to get their Cutlaces from them, but the Lineyards
(that is the Lines by which the handles of the Cutlaces were fastned to the Mens Wrists)
were so twisted in the Scuffle, that they could not get them off. OED2 lacks
variant
lapel 1776 ( 1972 ) Continental Marine Committee
Minutes , Sep. 5, 1776, inNaval Documents of the American Revolution Vol.6
p. 715 Resolved That the Uniform of the Officers in the Navy of the United States be as
follows.
Captains Blue Cloth with Red Lappels, Slash Cuff, Stand up Collor. OED2
1789
large v 1582 ( 1976 ) Richard MadoxDiary, July 15, 1582,
in An Elizabethan in 1582
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. 147) p. 152 The wynd somwhat larged toward the
sowthwest. OED2 sense 3 1622
large 1591 ( 1964 ) Giles Fletcher The Russe
Commonwealth Ch. 11 in The English Works of Giles Fletcher the Elder p. 211 The
Emperours of Russia giue the name of counsellour to diuers of their chiefe Nobilitie,
rather for honors sake, then for any vse they make of them about their matters of state.
These are called Boiarens without any addition, and may be called Counsellours at
large. For they are seldome or neuer called to any publique consultation. OED2
sense 5f 1625
largeness a 1617 ( 1899 ) Thomas . Roe Journal in
The Embassy of Sir Thomas Roe to the Court of the Great Mogul (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd.
Ser. No.I/2) (reprint 1967) p. 7 They loose in Easteringe by the advantage of the
lardgnes of the generall wyndes sometymes 200 or 300 leauges. OED2
lacks sense pertaining to large a, sense15
lasher 1635 Capt. Luke Foxe Northwest Fox or
Fox from the Northwest Passage
(Facsimile ed. 1965) p. 235 I heard the Cable run forth, and wee had all much
adoe to bring the shippe to a bitter, before it was out, end for end. Now you shall
understand, that the anchor had Cadged a great while, when comming to take (a
sudaine) hold, broke the two Lashers of our Stoppers. OED2 sense 3
1669
lasting 1776 ( 1976 ) Boston
Independent Chronicle , Nov. 7, 1776, inNaval Documents of the American Revolution
Vol.7 p. 72 Will beSold a Auction ..45 Pieces fig. Lastings. OED2 1782
latch v 1617 ( 1971 ) Thomas Bonner Journal, Feb.
14, 1617, in The East India Company Journals of Capt. William Keeling and Master
Thomas Bonner, 16151617 p. 159 We saw the Iland having from Soldania steered
NW: 1/2 Wlie; but we surelye latched n[orther]lie for we came into its lattd 60 l[eague]s
short thereof to the eastward. OED2 lacks; noun 1687 only, but see slip
Keeling 1617
latch n2 1617 ( 1971 ) Capt. William Keeling Journal in
The East India Company Journals of Capt. William Keeling and Master Thomas Bonner,
16151617
p. 53 Lett noe man expect an exact reckoning of the shipps traverse in respect of my
not watching and therby not seeing the shipp’s latches in her steridge. OED2
1687 only, but see slip latch v. Keeling 1617
lather v 1687 ( 1940 ) Charles Morton
Compendium Physicae in Publ. Colonial Soc. Massachusetts Vol. XXXIII p. 55
(from 1697 transcription of 1687 ms., probably first
compiled c1680) The best [waters] be Smooth, light, without Smell, tast or Collour;
Such will laver well with Soap. OED2 has v variant of n. and v. only referring
to horses.
launcet (lancet) 1777 ( 1986 ) Inventory of
North Carolina Brig King Tammany, July 2, 1777, inNaval Documents of the American
Revolution
Vol. 9 p. 205 Gunners stores ..
45 Launcets (Such inventories usually list spears ) OED2 sense 1b †1752
lazaret 1599 ( 1893 ) Thomas Dallam
Journal inEarly Voyages and Travels in the Levant
(Hakluyt Soc.1st. Ser. No. LXXXVI) p. 19 All Those which doo com out of any
parte of Turkie, havinge not a letter of healthe from some Venition or Ittalion, muste
remayne ether a borde the ship, or in the prison which they do cale the lazarett, for ten
Dayes. OED2 1611
lazaret 1809 ( 1973 ) AshleyBowen Letter in The
Journals of Ashley Bowen (17281813) of Marblehead (Publ. Colonial Soc.
Massachusetts Vol. XLIV) p. 10 He ordered me to open our lazarets scuttle.
Recounting events of 1741
Normalized spelling OED2 sense 3 1892
lazaretto 1704 ( 1927 ) Shipwright’s
contract in The Papers of Thomas Bowrey Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. LVIII (reprint
1967) p. 134 To make sixteen Cabbins, and Cradles if desired, with Lockers
Convenient, and a Lazaretto. OED2 sense 3 1711
leak 1777 ( 1980 ) Gov. Thomas Johnson Letter,
Apr. 1, 1777, inNaval Documents of the American Revolution Vol.8 p.245 It
might be done with an affected Secrecy and just so much leaked out as to lead to the
Conclusion that they were to be put on board a French Fleet. OED2 sense 1b
1832
lecture 1582 Richard Hakluyt Divers
Voyages Touching the Discouerie of America (facsimile ed. 1966) p. ¶3 verso Nowe
if God shoulde put into the head of any noble man to contribute other twentie pounde, to
make this lecture a competent liuing for a learned man, the whole realme no doubt
might reape no small benefite thereby. OED2 sense 4c 1615
leewardness 1612 ( 1969 ) Proc. Virginia.. p.16
in Jamestown Voyages under the First Charter (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd ser. cxxxvi) p.389
** [ =1624 Smith quot. (but leewardness so spelled)] Editor footnotes “Despite
the authority of the OED, which takes the word literally, the editor suggests nothing more
specific is intended than that the ship fell short of arriving.” OED2 1624
leveller 1852 ( 1953 ) Abraham Lincoln
[Testimony, Dec. 1852], in Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln Vol. II p. 171
Witness has been a civil engineer since 1835, and employed on theUtica and
Canojoharie Railroad, firstly as rodman and leveller. OED2 sense 1f 1860
libel 1775 ( 1966 ) Adm. SamuelGraves Letter, Sep.
30, 1775 in Naval Documents of the American Revolution Vol.2 p. 252 In all cases
of Seizures where the Cargo or Hull can not be libelled with a tolerable Prospect of
being condemned, it is best to allow the Vessel to be unladen and the Cargo sold for the
Owners. OED2 sense 3b 1805
libel (n ) 1776 ( 1968 ) Legal noticeNew England
Chronicle, July 4, 1776, inNaval Documents of the American Revolution Vol.5 p. 908
Libels are filed before me in Behalf of the Officers, Marines and Mariners of the
Continental armed Vessels, Hancock, Lee, Lynch, Warren and Franklin, against the
Ship named the Lord Howe. (Term similarly used in dozens of claims during this
war in Admiralty Courts for judgement of prizes as legally taken) OED2 lacks sense
corresponding to libel (v ) sense 3b
Libertyman 1845 ( 1953 ) Abraham Lincoln Letter
to W. Durley, Oct. 3, 1845 , in Collected works of Abraham Lincoln Vol. I p. 347 I was
not aware of your being what is generally called an abolitionist, or, as you call yourself, a
Libertyman. OED2, DAE lack
lima bean 1783 ( 1969 ) William Williams
Mr. Penrose The Journal of Penrose, Seaman p. 115 They went down to
their boats and brought up to us .. about half a peck of Lima beans. OED2 1819
limberly ( adv ) 1849 ( 1986 ) Herman Melville
Redburn ch. 60 Penguin ed. p. 389
The sea was strewn with stuffed bedticks, that limberly floated
on the waves.
. OED2 1891
lime v 1735 John Atkins A Voyage to Guinea,
Brazil, & the West Indies in his Majesty’s Ships, the Swallow and Weymouth (facsimile
reprint 1970) p. 24 They are almost all limed, a Preservative against the excesive
Heats of the WestIndies, where they are for the most part transported by us, aand
where no other Wine keeps as well. (Madeira) OED2 sense 5a 1598 only
limosity 1652 ( 1984 ) Thomas Vaughan Aula
Lucis in The Works of Thomas Vaughan p. 461 All these things have a lumpish,
ineffectual outside, but inwardly they are full of a subtil, vital limositie impregnated with
fire. (see Vaughan slip depose ) OED2 dict. 1656; no usage quot.
linhay 1637 ( 1919 ) Peter Mundy The Travels of Peter
Mundy, in Europe and Asia 16081667 Rel. XXIII (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. XXXV)
Vol. 3
p. 132
Houses at Achein ..
Their living is in the upper roomes, the lower lying open like a lynny. Mundy was from
Cornwall OED2 1695
lipper v1 1635 Capt. Luke Foxe Northwest Fox or
Fox from the Northwest Passage
(Facsimile ed. 1965) p. 201
This smooth Sea hath a small set from the West, with lippering rising and falling.
OED2 1513 (Scot.) and 1853 only
liquorsome 1650 ( 1984 ) Thomas Vaughan The
ManMouse in The Works of Thomas Vaughan p. 245 You have something to
prove it, a Liquorsome Desire that I have to be thought some great man in the world .
And why a Liquorsome desire?
Doe I desire some Liquor, when I desire Greatnes ? Apparently quoting and mocking
H. More’s Observations of the same year OED2 1656 (H. More)
lisp ( n ) 1749 ( 1974 ) Ebenezer Parkman The Diary of
Ebenezer Parkman Apr. 12, 1749
(American Antiquarian Soc.) p. 194 Of this he had writ me a Line .. but which I had
never receiv’d nor knew one Lisp of till I got to Sudbury. see slip for lisp (v) OED2
lacks this sense.
lisp ( v ) 1754 ( 1974 ) Ebenezer Parkman The Diary of
Ebenezer Parkman Aug. 28, 1754
(American Antiquarian Soc.) p. 280 We act an odd part towards each other afraid
of lisping the least word of our uneasiness. see slip for lisp (n) OED2 lacks this
sense.
litch 1612 ( 1953 ) William Strachey The Historie
of Travell into Virginia Britania
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd Ser., No. CIII) p. 75 Cordage, which they make of their naturall
hemp and flax .. preserving the whole yeare great Litches or bundells of the same to be
vsed vpon any occacion. OED2 †1609
lob 1670 ( 1992 ) Henry More Letter, Sep. 15, 1670, in
The Conway Letters p. 307 His [Henry Nicolas’] conceit of himself, that he was
the highest illuminated man in the world that ever was or could be (as Hobbes takes
himself to be the lob of philosophers). ?? All OED2 senses of lob are neutral
or pejorative.
lobbered 1849 ( 1986 ) Herman Melville
Redburn ch. 6 Penguin ed. p. 76
A sort of thick lobbered gravy, which I afterward learned was boiled out of the salt
beef used by the sailors. (cf. lob n2 sense 5 and loblolly ) OED2 lacks
London particular 1789 ( 1962 ) Alexander Hamilton
Report on Public Credit in Papers of Alexander
Hamilton Vol. VI p. 102 Duties.. upon every gallon of Madeira Wine, of the quality of
London particular, thirtyfive cents. Upon every gallon of other Madeira wine, thirty
cents. OED2 particular sense 7a(a) 1807 (only 7a(b) (=fog) under London )
long oyster c 1650 ( 1936 ) Peter Mundy inThe
Travels of Peter Mundy , in Europe and Asia 16081667 (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No.
LXXVIII) (reprint 1967) Vol.V p. 7 Longoisters, like lobsters butt bigger. In list
of shellfish of Cornwall OED2 def., no quot.
long togs 1849 ( 1986 ) Herman Melville
Redburn ch. 6 Penguin ed. p.126 My shore clothing, or ‘long togs ‘
as the sailors call them. OED2 dict. ref., no quot.
longer v 1755 ( 1973 ) AshleyBowen Journal, in
The Journals of Ashley Bowen (17281813) of Marblehead (Publ. Colonial Soc.
Massachusetts Vol. XLIV) p. 43
As we were so long in loading after longering that on our passage we ship a sea
and upset all our fish that was longered. Normalized spelling
(Apparently the delay in loading resulted in a February sailing and winter seas) OED2
lacks verb corresponding to longer n2
look down 1809 ( 1968 ) Roger Lamb Journal of
Occurrences during the Late American War
(facsimile reprint) p. 61 Such a powerful force, as would look down all
opposition,
and effectuate submission, without bloodshed. OED2 look sense 33e 1812
losh 1582 ( 1959 ) Richard MadoxDiary, Aug. 23,
1582, in An Elizabethan in 1582
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. 147) p. 173 We saw .. 2 loses of a brown color with short
tayles and rownd flat horns as byg as 3 yer old bullocks, very grosse and fat. Sierra
Leone Editor (E. S. Donno) glosses “oxen.”
Madox didn’t see an elk in Africa, but then he had probably never seen one anywhere
else either. A buffalo, perhaps? ? OED2 losh (=elk) 1583.
lot (v ) 1686 ( 1977 ) William Byrd Letter to Perry &
Lane, Nov. 10 ,1686 in
The Correspondence of the Three William Byrds of Westover, Virginia p. 65 I have
been mighty unhappy in the Negro’s by Capt. James, Mr. Hartwell stopping the ship at
towne, Mr. Peter Perry Mr. Harrison & himselfe lotted them there, & kept the ship 3 or 4
days in bitter cold weather; all that had the small pox (it seems) happened into my lott.
OED2 sense 7 1709
louis d’or 1675 ( 1953 ) John Locke Dec. 26, 1675, in
Locke’s Travels in France p. 8 A bird they call passer solitarius .. that sing very well
.. The owner of this asked 3 Luidors for it. OED2 1689
lower case 1713 JamesWatson The History
of the Art of Printing (facsimile ed. 1965) p. 62
[ AContemplation upon the Mystery of Man’s Regeneration in Allusion to the
Mystery of Printing]
Make, O make our Souls and Senses,
The Upper and the Lower Cases.
OED2 lacks as entry (see sort 1839) See slip Smith 1755
lower case 1755 John Smith The Printer’s
Grammar (facsimile ed. 1965) p. 50 The Lower Case Sorts consist of
Common, or Small letters—Points—Spaces,
and Quadrats. OED2 lacks as entry (see sort 1839) See slip Watson 1713
loyalist 1681 ( 1963 ) William Fitzhugh Letter
to Henry Hartwell, June 19 ,1681 in William Fitzhugh and his Chesapeake World p.
95 Mind Mr. Clayton to provide Institutions for our intended Society, & to take care
that none be admitted therein but Loyalists, & then I don’t question, but we shall
continue in order & obedience as Loyalists. Editor’s footnote: “ Presumably WF
refers to a society of lawyers. ..
By ‘Loyalists’ he may mean supporters of the Stuarts..” But surely
this would not have been in question in 1681. Virginia politics of the time (Bacon’s
rebellion 1676) would seem to offer enough scope for loyalty vs. disloyalty. OED2 1685
ludificate c 1680 ( 1915 ) anon TheHistory of
Bacon’s and Ingram’s Rebellion, 1676
in Narratives of the Insurrections 16751690 p. 93 Counting it no sin to Ludificate
those for there good, that had been deceved by others to there hurt. OED2 dict.
refs. only, no quot.
lumber 1789 ( 1962 ) Joseph Whipple Letter
to A. H., Dec. 19,1789, in Papers of Alexander
Hamilton Vol. VI p. 22 Lumber* [footnote] a general term given here [New
Hampshire] to all our products of Wood when in a raw or unmanufactured State, Vizt,
Pine & Oak Boards, plank and timber, Staves, Hoops, Shingles, &c.
OED2 has usage, but not precise def.
lumber port 1809 Capt. LemuelRoberts
Memoirs (facsimile reprint 1969) p. 76 I crept out of the lumber port,
reaching a fender ..., on this fender I hung and reaching the rope that held the boat,
drew her up under the port. recounting events in 1778 OED2 1838
lump v 1828 John Neal Rachel Dyer (facsimile ed.
1964) Ch. V p. 70 I will say that much, afore I stop, Mr. Sheriff Berry, an’ (dropping his
voice) if you don’t like it, you may lump it. OED2 sense 2 1833
lurch n3 1773 ( 1973 ) AshleyBowen Journal, Nov. 22,
1773, in The Journals of Ashley Bowen (17281813) of Marblehead (Publ. Colonial Soc.
Massachusetts Vol. XLV) p. 371
As two lads, servants of Mr. Joseph Abbot, were arriving at sea on board his
schooner a sudden lurch of the schooner they both fell overboard and were drownded.
Normalized spelling OED2 1819, but see slip Hutchinson 1776
lurch (n3 ) 1776 ( 1972 ) Capt. W. A. Halsted Hutchinson Letter,
Sep. 19, 1776, inNaval Documents of the American Revolution Vol.6 p. 903 Every
lee Lurch that she took we had the disagreeable prospect, of seeing the upper Works of
the Forecastle carried away with the Anchors. (Confirms OED2 suggestion that lurch
originated from leelurch ) OED2 1819, but see slip Bowen 1773
lurch (n3 ) 1792 Jeremy Belknap The
Foresters, An American Tale (facsimile ed. 1969) She had a strange lurch for
embroidered petticoats and high waving plumes. (p. 22)
In the family of Roger Carrier there seemed to be a predominant lurch for knavery. (p.
180) OED2 sense 2 1854
lusty 1609 Robert Johnson Nova
Britannia, Offring most Excellent fruites by Planting in Virginia p. B4v The soile is
strong and lustie of it [sic ] own nature. OED2 sense 5d 1601 only
macaroni penguin 1817 Amasa Delano
A Narrative of Voyages and Travel in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres
(facsimile ed. 1970)
Ch. XV p. 262 The macaroni penguin .. has a number of long fibres or feathers,
resembling the long hairs around the mouth of a cat, giving it a macaroni look, from
which it takes its name. OED2 sense 3 1838
Mackintosh 1828 Capt. William E. Parry
Narrative of an Attempt to Reach the North Pole p. 72
The bag being made of Mackintosh’s waterproof canvas, the cocoa did not suffer
the slightest injury. OED2 1836 (attrib. rather than possessive form)
mackintosh 1860 Francis GaltonThe Art of
Travel
3rd ed. p.53 Macintosh, of the sort that suits all climates, is invaluable
stuff
to an explorer. OED2 Sense 3 (the material) 1880
macrometer 1819 Capt. John Ross A
Voyage of Discovery for the purpose of Exploring
Baffins Bay p. xviii A list of instruments .. Hydrometer, by Jones. .. One dip
micrometer, invented by Dr. Wollaston, by ditto. .. One macrometer, ditto, ditto, ditto.
OED2 1825
magnale 1674 ( 1988 ) John Josselyn Two Voyages
to New England p. 91
(1988 ed. as John Josselyn, Colonial Traveler p. 65) Thus much for these magnals
among the Creatures of God to be wondered at. OED2 †1665
mahwa 1632 ( 1914 ) Peter Mundy Journal, Aug.
24, 1632, in The Travels of Peter Mundy, in Europe and Asia 16081667 Rel. VIII
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. XXXV) Vol. 2 p. 96 A litle without the Towne .. wee past by
some howses, where they made Rack of Mowa, a kinde of fruite in this Countrie.
OED2 1684
mailing 1630 ( 1931 ) Edward Smith Bill, Mar. 5,
1630, in Winthrop Papers Vol. 2 . p. 216 For corde and porterege: Mallinge and
carringe 00.00.06 OED2 †1578
makeshift 1766 ( 1964 ) John Byron Journal, Mar. 25,
1766, in Byron’s Journal of his Circumnavigation (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd Ser., No. CXXII)
p. 140The Tamar steered well with it, but as this Machine is at best only a make Shift, &
not calculated for bad weather .. I gave Capt. Cumming Orders to run down to Antigua,
there to heave down & get his rudder hung again. OED2 180212
malbehaviour 1758 ( 1951 ) George Washington
Letter, July 16, 1758, in The Papers of Henry Bouquet
Vol. 2 p. 222 The Malbehaviour of our Indians gives me great concern. OED2
†1736
malace c 1673 ( 1972 ) John Aubrey
Observations Ch. VII, in John Aubrey Three Prose Works
p. 357 By the Severneside at Worcester, in a malace when no wind stirres els
where, is constantly a fine fresh brize of wind. OED2 1623 dict. only, no usage
found.
manioc 1541 ( 1932 ) Roger Barlow A Briefe
Summe of Geographie
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. LXIX) p. 154 Ther chief brede is made of a certeine
rote called mandioc.Barlow adapted a Spanish book and sometimes simply anglicised
Spanish words, but here appears to be drawing on his own experience (on Spanish
ships). OED2 1568
marbleize 1849 ( 1986 ) Herman Melville
Redburn ch.30 Penguin ed. p.206
A timedarkened, mossy old book, in marbleized binding, much resembling verd
antique. OED2 1875
mare’s tail 1581 ( 1963 ) William Bourne An
Almanacke and Prognostication for x. yeeres ..
in A Regiment for the Sea
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. CXXI) p. 399 If that the skie aloft bee full of long
streames like vnto Horses and Mares tayles, that is a token of great Southerly windes to
followe. Still a simile rather than a transferred sense?
OED2 sense 2 1775
mariaglass 1776 John Seiferth Metallurgic
Chymistry [translated from the German of
C. E. Gellert by John Seiferth] p. 12 Plasterspar or selenite .. When it splits
easily, it is called maria glass, in German spiegel stein. OED2 1896 dict.
only
marksman 1606 ( 1969 ) Orders for the
Council in Virginia in Jamestown Voyages under theFirst Charter (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd ser.
cxxxvi) p. 52 Whensoever any of Yours Shoots before them be sure that they be
Chosen out of your best Markesmen. OED2 1660
marl 1617 ( 1971 ) Capt. William Keeling Journal, Jan.
8, 1617, in The East India Company Journals of Capt. William Keeling and Master
Thomas Bonner, 16151617 p. 159 I trimmed [cloth pieces] & repacked them in the
same chest, covered it with canvas, marled and m[ar]ked it with the Comps m[ar]ke.
OED2 sense 2 1704
marling spike (marlinspike) 1715 ( 1972 ) John
Fontaine Journal Jan. 3, 1715 p. 55 We see some birds we call
marling spikes, murs and rake bats. OED2 sense 2 1867, gloss. and dict.
only
maroon 1734 William Snelgrove A
New Account of some parts of Guinea and the SlaveTrade (facsimile ed. 1971) p. 197
These having been with one Captain Moody, a famous Pirate, some months
before, in a Brigantine, which sailed very well, and took the Rising Sun, they were
morooned by him, (as they call it) that is forced on board that Ship, and deprived of that
share of the Plunder; taken formerly by the Brigantine. Events in 1719 OED2 cf.
sense 2, but here on another ship rather than an island.
marshalsea 1586 ( 1981 ) Journal of the
Leicester, Jan. 10, 1586, in Sir Francis Drake’s West Indian Voyage 158586 (Hakluyt
Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. 148) p. 151 Whilst we were there [Cartagena], there wear 30 or 40
souldiours committed to the Marshalsy for contempt and disobedyence to there captens.
An extreme case of OED2 sense 2 (1657) “prisons elsewhere than in
London” ?
Martinist a 1595 ( 1618 ) Sir Roger Williams The
Actions of the Lowe Countries p. C1
in The Works of Sir Roger Williams (1972) p. 66 Diuers brawles and bickerings fell
out in Antwerpe, betwixt them of the religion, the Martinists, and Papists. (“The
religion” = Calvinism) OED2 cf. sense 2 1751
maskall 1541 ( 1932 ) Roger Barlow A Briefe
Summe of Geographie
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. LXIX) p. 108 The people .. have botes made of one
tree so brode that a tonne maskall maye lie init Editor (E. G. R. Taylor) footnotes “A tun
maskall was a wine measure.” (Barlow translated a Spanish book and sometimes
simply anglicised Spanish words. I don’t know here) OED2 lacks
masquenongez (maskinonge) 1789 Thomas
Anburey Travels through the Interior Parts of America
in a Series of Letters (1969 facsimile ed.) Vol. I p. 274 Great quantities and
variety of fish; sturgeon, black bass, masquenongez, pike.
OED2 1796 and lacks this spelling
massoola 1615 ( 1934 ) in Peter Floris, his
Voyage to the East Indies in the Globe 16111615 (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. LXXIV)
(reprint 1967) p. 8 There laye a greate shippe att roade with dyvers masulls and
boates. OED2 1685 HobsonJobson 1678
masting vbl.n.2 1543 ( 1975 ) Account in Sidney
Ironworks Accounts 15411573
(Camden 4th Ser. Vol. 15) p. 50 Money received for pannage ..
For the mastynge of one sowe and iii shotts iii s iii d. OED2 def. “The action of
producing mast” does not fit either quot. Better: 1543 “Allowing mast” 1760
“Feeding on mast” OED2 1760
matchcoat 1612 ( 1969 ) Capt. John Smith A Map of
Virginia in Jamestown Voyages under the First Charter (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd ser. cxxxvi)
p.331 Matchcores. Skins, or garments. The Algonquin language of Virginia is certainly
more relevant for etym. than the Odjibwa word given in OED2
mathe 1605 JamesRosier ATrue Relation of the Most
Prosperous Voyage .. (p. 2 of unpaged text), inThe English New England Voyages
16021608 (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. 161) p. ?? The sounding was some small
blacke perrie sand, some reddish sand, a match or two, with small shels called Saint
James his Shels. Editors (D.B and A. M.Quinn) footnote match is a printer’s error for
mathe. This is in the Channel approaches, where Bourne notes mathey ground. OED2
†1523 (except Scottish), but see slipmathey Bourne a1571
mathey adj. a 1571 ( 1963 ) William Bourne An
Almanacke and Prognostication for three yeares ..
in A Regiment for the Sea
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. CXXI) p. 91 Then if you be at .60. or .64 fadomes,
you shall fynde small sande and mathey grounde, and you shalbe neare the Coaste of
Uishaunt. OED2 lacks; mathe †1523 (except Scottish), but see slip mathe
Rosier 1605
mawkishness 1669 ( 1893 ) Dr. John Covel
Journal inEarly Voyages and Travels in the Levant
(Hakluyt Soc.1st. Ser. No. LXXXVI) p. 102 The higher anyone sit within the ship,
the motion of it affects him the more, and cause his giddinesse and mawkishnesse to
be the greater. OED2 1727
maze 1781 ( 1975 ) Abigail Adams Letter to
John Adams, Aug. 1, 1781 in The Book of Abigail and John p.295 We are here looking
upon each other in a mere maze. OED2 sense 3a † exc. dial , last non dial.
1722
mazing vbln. 1592 ( 1975 ) Thomas Cavendish The
Last Voyage of Thomas Cavendish 15911592 p. 84
(ms. p. 15 line 29) This mishappe was noe smale a maseinge to me & all the
Company. OED2 1600 only
medicament v 1764 ( 1975 ) John Adams Letter to
Abigail Adams Apr. 17 , 1764 in The Book of Abigail and John p. 34 Five persons
.. are starved and medicamented with the utmost severity. OED2 1823
melissa 1553 ( 1988 ) William Baldwin
Beware the Cat 2nd part p. 27 The flesh I washed clean and put in a pot, and
with white wine, Mellisophillos or Melissa (commonly called balm). (First published
1570. Normalized spelling) OED2 a1593
membermug 1794 ( 1986 ) Abner Sanger
Journal, July 26, 1794, in Very Poor and of a Lo Make,
The Journal of Abner Sanger p. 515 1 member mug
............................................................9d
but being cracked in three places on the brim there must be
abatement of 3d toward the member mug. OED2 1699, 1785 gloss., no
usage quot.
Merlinchair 1791 ( 1972 ) Fanny Burney Journal, Aug.
, 1791, in The Journal and Letters of Fanny Burney Vol. 1 p. 43 Lady Spencer had
sent to her Hous for her Merlin’s Chair; he would let no one but himself lift her into it.
OED2 1835
mesquite 1572 ( 1589 ) Henry Hawks inHakluyt’s
Principall Navigations (facs. ed. 1965) p. 547 Another tree which they call Miskito : it
beareth a fruite like unto a peasecod marveilous sweete. OED2 1759
mess (v ) 1609 ( 1957 ) Virginia Council Instruccions
orders and constituccions ... to Sir Thomas Gates in The Three Charters of the
Virginia Company of London (Va. 350th anniv. Celebration Corp.) p. 65 Let them
eate together at seasonable howers in some publique place, beinge messed by sixe or
five to a messe. OED2 Sense 2 1627 (and should not be restricted to ships’
companies)
metairie 1788 ( 1990 ) Thomas Jefferson
Memorandums on a Tour .. reprinted in Public and Private Papers by TJ
Library of America p. 305 They might be had in any number to go to America,
and settle lands as tenants on half stocks or metairies. OED2 1817
metallurgic 1776 John Seiferth Metallurgic
Chymistry [translated from the German of
C. E. Gellert by John Seiferth] Metallurgic Chymistry. Being a System of Mineralogy
in General, and of all the Arts arising from this Science. [title]
OED2 1778 (metallurgical 1812)
middling 1775 ( 1966 ) Purdie’s Virgina
Gazette , Sep. 29, 1775 in Naval Documents of the American Revolution Vol.2 p. 241
After rifling the passengers trunks, they went off, taking with them a middling of
bacon. OED2 sense 4 1777
midsummermen c 1688 ( 1972 ) John Aubrey
Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme Ch. XIII, in John Aubrey Three Prose
Works p. 214 The mayds (especially the Cookemayds and Dayrymayds) would
stickup in some chinkes of the joists or &c: Midsommermen, which are slips of Orpins.
OED2 1755
miff 1776 ( 1976 ) Gen. Nathanael Greene Letter
to Gov. N. Cooke July 22, 1776 in The Papers of General Nathanael Greene Vol. I p.
260 General Sullivan has got mift at General Gates new appointment. OED2
1797
migniardize 1683 The Whores
Rhetorick (facsimile ed. 1979) p. 212 You must not sit idle like a lazy statue, but be
still imployed in diverting the losing Gamester in dallying, mignardizing, and a thousand
wanton expressions of love. OED2 †a1670
militate c 1603 ( 1972 ) Thomas Rogers
Leicester’s Ghost stanza 241, line 1684 p. 67 If I had wrought my gratious
Queens perdition,
For whome both Heaven and Earth did militate. EDITOR SUPPLIES AUTHORSHIP
AND DATE. OED2 has 9 quots. attributed to Parsons a1610 OED2 1625
millionaire 1786 ( 1990 ) Thomas Jefferson
Observations on Démeunier’s Manuscript reprinted in Public and Private
Papers by TJ Library of America
p. 260 The poorest laborer stood on equal ground with the wealthiest millionaire.
OED2 1828
mimicable 1686 ( 1928 ) William Petty Letter, Apr. 8,
1686, in The Petty—Southwell Correspondence (reprinted 1967) p. 188 He readily
picks out the genius, words, action, voice and tone of any mimicable man, and can turne
his to sample them. OED2 1955
mina n2 1620 ( 1914 ) Robert Hughes Letter, Oct. 6,
1620, in The Travels of Peter Mundy, in Europe and Asia 16081667 (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd.
Ser. No. XXXV) Vol. 2 p. 373 A cupall of prattlinge birds called mynnas which wee
have bought to bee sent to the Company. OED2 1769, Hobson Jobson
1703, but see slip Mundy 1632
mina n2 1632 ( 1914 ) Peter Mundy Journal, Sep. 2,
1632, in The Travels of Peter Mundy, in Europe and Asia 16081667 Rel. VIII (Hakluyt
Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. XXXV) Vol. 2 p. 120 They carrie from him to the Kinge some 10 or
12 Moynas, a bird of Bengala, which learneth to speake very plaine, in Coulour and
Forme like a blackbird, but thrice as bigge. OED2 1769, Hobson Jobson
1703, but see slip Hughes 1620
minar 1631 ( 1914 ) Peter Mundy Journal, Nov. 27,
1630, in The Travels of Peter Mundy, in Europe and Asia 16081667 Rel. VII (Hakluyt
Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. XXXV) Vol. 2 p. 72 I went to take the ayre about the Towne, and
at one side thereof were many Munaries or little turrets with many mens heads round
about it, made into mortar. It is built of purpose, in forme like a Pigeon howse, not
exceeding 3 or 4 yards in height and soe many more in compasse. OED2 1665
mince 1820 ( 1959 ) John Adams Letter to Thomas
Jefferson , Jan. 20, 1820 in The Adams
Jefferson Letters p. 560 The meaning of the Ancient Philosophers concerning
the first Principles, or Elements of Matter which they reduce down to particles, so nice
and mince as to become geometrical points. OED2 lacks
ministerialist 1775 ( 1966 ) Gen. Horatio Gates Letter,
Dec. 5, 1775 in Naval Documents of the American Revolution Vol.2 p. 1283 The
Ships belonging to the Ministerialists Slip’d their Cables. OED2 1793
minorship 1765 Henry Timberlake Memoirs
p. 2 After my minorship was elapsed. OED2 1892 dict., no quot.
mirabilarian 1684 ( 1951 ) Richard Bovet
Pandaemonium , or the Devil’s Cloyster Ch. viii p. 90 Now the
Mirabilarians, as St. Augustine calls them, are abroad. OED2 1624 only
(as adj. )
misaccident 1621 ( 1957 ) Virginia Company
Instructions to the Governor ... in The Three Charters of the Virginia Company
of London (Va. 350th Anniv. Celebration Corp.) p. 114 In case of the death or
other misaccidents of the chief heads
of those Colonies. OED2 1623
miss stays 1622 ( 1848 ) The Observations
of Sir Richard Hawkins Knight, in his Voyage into the South Sea in The Hawkins’
Voyages
(2nd ed. date? Hakluyt Soc. Ser. 1, No. LVII, reprint date?) §ii p.95 What with
the chapping sea, and what with the tide upon the bow, she mist staying, and put us in
some danger, before we could flatt about. OED2 under miss sense 5b
1691 (same phrase under
stay sense 2b 1758)
mode c 1496 John Stanbridge Accedence
(facsimile ed. as English Linguistics 15001800
No. 134) p. unnum. (Aiiij +7 = Avii verso?) How many modes ben there? v. .. The
Indycatyf, Imperatyf, optatyf, coniunctyf & the Infinytif. OED2 sense 2a 1520
mohur 1678 ( 1905 ) inA Geographical
Account of the Countries Round the Bay of Bengal (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. XII)
(reprint 1967) p. 148 (in footnote) One John Vander Vall .. in the night opened a
scrittore of Mr. Nedhams and stole out 25 or 26 gold Mohurs. OED2 1696
HobsonJobson 1690
mokaddem 1609 ( 1905 ) John Jourdain Journal, Sep.
5, 1609, in The Journal of John Jourdain, 16081617 (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. XVI)
(reprint 1967) p. 124 There came the Mocadan or constable of that circuite to us,
demandinge us what wee weare. OED2 1634, but see slips Roe 1615 and
Keeling 1615
mokaddem 1615 ( 1899 ) Thomas . Roe Journal, Sep.
25, 1615, in The Embassy of Sir Thomas Roe to the Court of the Great Mogul
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No.I/2) (reprint 1967) p. 45 The Generall dealt with the
Makadow of Swally. OED2 1634, but see slips Keeling 1615 (this quot. in
Hobson Jobson 1985 ed.) and Jourdain 1609
mokaddem 1615 ( 1971 ) Capt. William Keeling
Journal, Sep. 21, 1615, in The East India Company Journals of Capt. William
Keeling and Master Thomas Bonner, 16151617 p. 108 The Mukadem of Swallee
and his brother came aboord me. OED2 1634 but see slips Roe 1615 and
Jourdain 1609
moll 1590 ( 1959 ) JamesRobinson Inventory of the
White Lion in English Privateering Voyages to the West Indies 15881595 (Hakluyt
Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. CXI) p. 75 17 muskettes 22 calivers 39 bandeleris 11 flaps 5
tuchboxes
18 musket moles 6 dussen mussket arowes. OED2 sense 3 1596 only
monition 1776 ( 1968 ) New York Journal ,
July 18, 1776, inNaval Documents of the American Revolution Vol.5 p. 1128 The
petition therefore prayed that the Judge would issue a monition against him and all other
persons concerned in the seizure and detention, &c. citing them to appear at a certain
day, and answer to the complaint against their conduct respecting the said sloop.
OED2 sense 3c 1840
monkey jacket 1819 Capt. John Ross A
Voyage of Discovery for the purpose of Exploring
Baffins Bay p.238 One Flushing monkey jacket ....... L 0 10 9
OED2 1830
moonteeth (monteith) 1701 ( 1963 ) William
Fitzhugh Will in William Fitzhugh and his Chesapeake World
p. 382
I Give to my son Henry Fitzhugh my Silver Moonteeth Bason which I brought out
of England. OED2 lacks spelling
moor 1831 Mary Prince The History of Mary Prince
p. 23. Facsimile reprint in Six Women’s Slave Narratives (1988) They tie up slaves
like hogs — moor* them up like cattle.
*A West Indian phrase: to fasten or tie up OED2 lacks the sense.
morbid 1683 The Whores
Rhetorick (facsimile ed. 1979) p. 109 A morbid smooth skin is one of Venus ‘s chief
attributes. OED2 sense 3 172752
morning room 1784 ( 1975 ) Abigail Adams
Letter to E. S. Shaw , July 29, 1784 in The Book of Abigail and John p. 393
The dining room and the morning room were the most elegant
of any I have seen. OED2 1816
morrisdancer 1735 John Atkins A Voyage to
Guinea, Brazil, & the West Indies in his Majesty’s Ships, the Swallow and Weymouth
(facsimile reprint 1970) p. 2 We saw those Appearances in the Sky called Capra
saltantes, by the Sailors MorriceDancers; they are Streams of Light that suddenly
shoot into one another, and disappear for a Minute or two. OED2 sense bb
1755
mosquito 1572 ( 1589 ) Henry Hawks inHakluyt’s
Principall Navigations (facs. ed. 1965) p. 545 This towne [Vera Cruz, New Spain] is
inclined to many kinde of diseases, by reason of the great heat, and a certaine gnat or
flie which they call a Muskito, which biteth men and women in their sleepe; and as
soone as they are bitten, incontinently the flesh swelleth as though they had bene bitten
with some venemous worme. Hakluyt’s marginal index: Musquito OED2 1583
mosquito fleet 1776 ( 1968 ) Isaac Smith Letter, June
26, 1776, inNaval Documents of the American Revolution Vol.5 p. 750 Had we the
Rd Island ships joynd with Our Misceter fleet might probably give a good Account of
them. OED2 1804
mothery 1690 ( 1977 ) William Byrd Letter to
Arthur North, Aug. 8, 1690 in
The Correspondence of the Three William Byrds of Westover, Virginia p. 134 I have
sent otherways for my wine .. most of the clarett sent this year being allready utterly
spoild vizt. dead sower and mothery. OED2 1709
motte 1550 ( 1975 ) Building Account in Sidney
Ironworks Accounts 15411573
(Camden 4th Ser. Vol. 15) p. 88; p. 127, 132 (1555)For xxi corddes di of old mottes
viis ii d.
For vi yarddes of a beche motte in parkwood at iiiid the yarde ii s.
For the cottyng of xxvii cordes of great beche motts in park wood
at vi d the cord xiiis vi d.
Contrasted with cutting of “smale wode” at v s iiiid per a score of cords;
equivalent (or contrasted?)with cutting “great wode” at v d
the cord. ??
mountaineer 1599 ( 1893 ) Thomas Dallam
Journal inEarly Voyages and Travels in the Levant
(Hakluyt Soc.1st. Ser. No. LXXXVI) p. 29 We should finde a man caled a
mountaineard.
We espied a great companye .. of the afore sayde mountayneares. OED2 1611
mousefall 1607 ( 1955 ) Dobsons Drie
Bobbes Ch. 15 p. 92 Dobson suggesting all occasions he could aduise on, to bolt
forth the truth, at last catched the Cat in the Mousefall. Durham
Hyphen is at line end. OED2 no quot. c1440< >1866
mow v2 1790 1792 ( 1976 ) John Fitch Autobiography p. 31
I had to go on the haymow and mow the hay brought home the night before.
Connecticut OED2 †1764
moy 1774 ( 1914 ) Stocker and Warton Letter, Mar.
12, 1774, in Commerce of Rhode Island 17261800 Vol. 1, p. 487 Salt was very low
selling at 1$700r per Moy which contains from 16 1/2 to 18 bushels. At Lisbon.
OED2 ”Sc. A measure used for salt; ? a bushel.” †1538 (but see slip Baudin
1788)
moy 1788 ( 1915 ) F. Baudin Letter, June 6, 1788,
in Commerce of Rhode Island 17261800 Vol. 2, p. 370 Our salt Season has
begun pretty favourable and if we have two months of fair weather without interruption
that Comodity now at L. 370 per 28 Moys may come down to L. 300 or L. 320. .. A Moy
of Salt nigh equal to one English tun. Ile de Ré, France OED2 ”Sc. A measure
used for salt; ? a bushel.” †1538 (but see slip Stocker and Warton 1774)
muggy 1749 ( 1974 ) Ebenezer Parkman The
Diary of Ebenezer Parkman July 11, 1749
(American Antiquarian Soc.) p. 198 Some Hay has laid out till tis almost rotten it
being a very muggy growing season. Appears to be transitional between
OED2 sense 1 (mouldy dict. 1731) and sense 2 (hot and humid 1746)
mulatto 1776 ( 1976 ) Connecticut
Gazette, Nov. 15, 1776, inNaval Documents of the American Revolution Vol.7 p. 106
A Libel .. against the ship Clarendon .. and also against her Cargo, consisting of
.. 33 Planks of Mahogany, 11 Planks of Molatto Wood .. (The Clarendon sailed
from Jamaica, so probably a Central American wood) OED2 cf. Mulatto tree 1876
mullah 1609 ( 1905 ) John Jourdain The Journal
of John Jourdain, 16081617 (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. XVI) (reprint 1967) p.
91 His mullao or preist standinge by spake to him in his eare. OED2 1613
mullock 1855 ( 1947 ) Raffaello Carboni
Eureka Stockade ix p. 37 (Dolphin Book ed.) Crossing the holes, up to
the knees in mullock. OED2 sense 2a 1864
multitudinary 1790 ( 1962 ) Richard Peters Lettter
to A. H., Jan. 25, 1790 in Papers of Alexander
Hamilton Vol. VI p. 209 These Things will happen in multitudinary Bodies. (refers
to State Legislature) OED2 rare0 1846 dict.
murderee 1841 ( 1953 ) Abraham Lincoln Letter
to Joshua F. Speed, June 19, 1841, in Collected works of Abraham Lincoln Vol. I p.
255 Fisher, the supposed murderee. OED2 1920
murre 1578 ( 1589 ) Anthony Parkhurst Letter
inHakluyt’s Principall Navigations (facs. ed. 1965)
p. 676There are Sea Guls, Murres, Duckes, wild geese, and many other kinds of
birdes. In Newfoundland OED2 1602
muscovado 1614 ( 1989 ) Customs book,
Portsmouth, inEnglish and Irish Settlement on the River Amazon 15501646 (Hakluyt
Soc. 2nd Ser., No. 171) p. 153 Fortie and one Chestes of muscavado sugers cont
eleven thouzand and three hundred weight net valor. OED2 1642
muzzle v 1635 Capt. Luke Foxe Northwest
Fox or Fox from the Northwest Passage
(Facsimile ed. 1965) p. 186
There is another way which is to muzzell the ship, with a peece of ice close to his
stem and bowes the ice, being so swifted, the ship is to drive it, with head saile.
I made loose and stood along in small sailes until this day 10, moosling my ship with the
foresaile. (p. 222) OED2 sense 6 1697
nailrod 1849 ( 1986 ) Herman Melville
Redburn ch. 54 Penguin ed. p. 358
Two sticks of nailrod tobacco.
The nailrods they cut as evenly as possible. OED2 sense 2 1886
Nair 1541 ( 1932 ) Roger Barlow A Briefe Summe of
Geographie
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. LXIX) p. 143 When the king or any of thes braminios
or nayres wch be gentilmen dieth. OED2 1582
Nantuckois 1788 ( 1990 ) Thomas Jefferson
Observations on the WhaleFishery reprinted in Public and Private Papers by
TJ Library of America p.54 The Nantuckois then were the only people who
exercised this fishery. (Observations were directed toward France, but this doesn’t
seem reason enough for apparent French form used throughout) OED2 lacks;
Nantucketer 1858
narrow 1585 ( 1981 ) Journal of the
Leicester, Nov. 17, 1585, in Sir Francis Drake’s West Indian Voyage 158586 (Hakluyt
Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. 148) p. 137 The narrowes betwext these hills shuld rather prove it
a trench artificially made. OED2 cf. sense B2b 1716
natural 1845 ( 1968 ) William Johnson Diary,
Feb. 26, 1845 in William Johnson’s Natchez
Vol 2 p. 518 I received by the Princess to night One natural for a Lady, Price Ten
Dollars. WJ was a barber and hairdresser.OED2 sense 8 1724 only
naturalist 1611 Henry Fitz Simon The
Justification and Exposition of the Divine Sacrifice of the Masse (facsimile ed. in
English Recusant Literature 15581640 Vol. 108 1972) p. 89 [The Jews] as
naturalists of euery contry wher they are, speake no other language peculiar to them
selues.
OED2 sense 4 1631 only
naufrage 1617 ( 1899 ) Thomas . Roe Letter, Aug.
30, 1617, in The Embassy of Sir Thomas Roe to the Court of the Great Mogul
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No.I/2) (reprint 1967) p. 407 Howeuer charitye now Pittyes
their estate of Nawfrage. OED2 sense b 1623 dict.; 1635 quot.
navel timbers (navel) 1817 Amasa
Delano A Narrative of Voyages and Travel in the Northern and Southern
Hemispheres (facsimile ed. 1970) Ch. I p. 23 Green wood should never be
used in a vessel, especially above the navel timber heads. OED2 1626 and
1627 only
necessary 1684 ( 1989 ) Francis Howard Letter
to P. P. Howard, May1684 in Papers of Francis Howard, Baron Howard of Effingham
p.107 Let him be well fitted with lining, shooes, and necessarys for here is none to be
bought, but at excessive rates. ? seems to be something more specific than
OED2 senses. Cf. unmentionables etc., although this is before the era of euphemism.
needle 1522 ( 1924 ) Robert Langton The
Pilgrimage of Robert Langton p. 27 There is saynt James bote of stone .. Also his
nedyll for pylgrymes to crepe thorow. At Padron near Santiago de Campostela,
Spain. OED2 cf. sense 6b 1617
neem 1632 ( 1914 ) Peter Mundy Journal, Aug. 8,
1632, in The Travels of Peter Mundy, in Europe and Asia 16081667 Rel. VIII (Hakluyt
Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. XXXV) Vol. 2 p. 84 The Sort of Trees are Neeme (like to Ashe),
Peeplee (like great Peare trees), Dhaca and Bhurr.
OED2 1824, Hobson Jobson 1813
nerve 1699 ( 1981 ) Royal Soc. Journal Book,
July 19, 1701, in The Three Voyages of Edmond Halley in the Paramore (Hakluyt Soc.
2nd ser. vol. 156) p. 289 A branch of a Barbado’s fig tree which having many Nerves
or long fibers which falling downward hang so that they touch the ground .. was
presented by Mr. Hally. OED2 lacks this sense
new v 1620 ( 1882 ) Nathaniel Butler Letter, in (c1625)
The Historye of the Bermudaes (c1625)
(Hakluyt Soc.1st. Ser. No. LXV) p. 215 Findinge scarce two peeces seruiceable, I
haue newed and renewed all of them with substantiall carriages, and remounted the
peeces. OED2 †1555
newsroom 1810 ( 1951 ) John E. Caldwell A
Tour through Part of Virginia p. 12 The advantage of an excellent newsroom,
where the most
respectable papers on the continent are taken. OED2 1817
nib 1692 ( 1864 ) Report of examination in
Records of Salem Witchcraft
(reprint 1972) Vol. I p. 147 As for Susanna Martine whose breast in ye morning seach
appeared to vs very full: ye nibbs fresh and starting. OED2 lacks this sense.
niceness 1609/ 1610 ( 1957 ) Virginia Council
Instructions, orders and constitucions ... to Sir Thomas West in The Three
Charters of the Virginia Company of London (Va. 350th Anniv. Celebration Corp.) p.
73 Proceede rather as a counsellor then as a judge; that is to saie, rather uppon the
right and equitie of the thing in demaunde then uppon the nicenes and letter of the lawe.
OED2 Closest to sense 5b 1677
niggishness 1553 ( 1988 ) William Baldwin
Beware the Cat 3rd part p. 52 A lord whose cruelty, study, craft, cunning,
niggishness, folly, waste, and oppression she had declared. (First published 1570.
Normalized spelling) OED2 1563
nominated 1632 ( 1914 ) Peter Mundy Journal, Nov.
14, 1632, in The Travels of Peter Mundy, in Europe and Asia 16081667 Rel. VIII
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. XXXV) Vol. 2 p. 135 This place is very auncient and
nominated but now decayed. OED2 sense 2 1642
noria 1633 ( 1914 ) Peter Mundy Journal in The
Travels of Peter Mundy, in Europe and Asia 16081667 Rel. XVI (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd.
Ser. No. XXXV) Vol. 2 p. 228 The water .. is drawne .. by that which wee in Spaine
call Noraies. OED2 1792
nuke 1553 ( 1988 ) William Baldwin Beware the
Cat 2nd part p. 28 I perceived that my brain (chiefly the nuke memorative) was
marvelously well purged. (First published 1570. Normalized spelling) OED2
sense 2 1562
nylghau 1633 ( 1914 ) Peter Mundy Journal in
The Travels of Peter Mundy, in Europe and Asia 16081667 Rel. XVI (Hakluyt Soc.
2nd. Ser. No. XXXV) Vol. 2 p. 230 Nilgaues, a kind of deere as high as a good
Colte or Mule with short hornes. OED2 1770
oakweb 1663 ( 1936 ) Peter Mundy inThe
Travels of Peter Mundy , in Europe and Asia 16081667 (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No.
LXXVIII) (reprint 1967) Vol.V p. 161 One sort of these are termed hidocantheros or
water beetles (as I found in a large booke treating of nothing but insects..) .. in forme like
an oakweb.
Mundy was from Cornwall. OED2 1711
oblique c 1496 John Stanbridge Accedence
(facsimile ed. as English Linguistics 15001800
No. 134) p. Aiij verso The comparatyf degree .. may be construed with an ablatyf
case .. or with a nother oblique case. OED2 sense 5a 1530
obliviable 1615 ( 1971 ) Capt. William Keeling
Journal, Feb. 15, 1615, in The East India Company Journals of Capt. William
Keeling and Master Thomas Bonner, 16151617 p. 53 I recd. that extreamlie
unkind l[ett]re from Sr. Tho. Smith, never obliviable. OED2 lacks
obliviscence 1764 ( 1975 ) John Adams Letter
to Abigail Adams Apr. 11, 1764 in The Book of Abigail and John p. 26 If I could but
enjoy my Retreat in silence and solitude, there would be nothing wanting but
Obliviscence of your Ladyship, to make me as Happy as a Monk in a Cloyster.
OED2 1774
obstanding, notobstanding 1632 T. T.
The Whetstone of Reproof
(facsimile ed. as English Recusant Literature 15581640 Vol. 361 1977) Not
obstanding some erre in this by ignorance neuerthelesse as yet ther is none that openly
contradicts that which the whole world doth beleeve.
(p. 521)
Notobstanding the knight .. would seem to have brought forth some great & strange
noueltie to the world: yet in veritie there is nothing .. which hath not been long since
examined and confuted. (appx. p. 4) T. T. uses
not obstanding (usually as two words) where notwithstanding would be expected.
cf. Latin nihil obstat OED2 lacks
October 1708 ( 1900 ) Eben. Cook The Sotweed
Factor p. 17, in Early Maryland Poetry (Maryland Hist. Soc., Fund Publ. 30) p. 27
For Planters Cellars you must know,
Seldom with good October flow. OED2 1709
off and on 1582 ( 1976 ) Richard Madox in An
Elizabethan in 1582
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. 147) p. 279 When the next day we had shot of the Nyeldes,
a southwest wynd aryzing put us in agayne to the Wyght wher we contynued plying of
and one, sometymes at Yarmowth and sometymes at the Cows for the space of twenty
days. (Nyeldes = Needles) OED2 sense 2 a1608
offerture 1687 ( 1963 ) William Fitzhugh Letter
to Thomas Clayton , Apr. 8, 1687 in William Fitzhugh and his Chesapeake World
p.227 Sir according to your desire I have once again made you other Offertures, if you
like any or either of them, give but timely & speedy notice. OED2 † 1684
office 1785 ( 1959 ) John Adams Letter to Thomas
Jefferson Mar. 20, 1785 in The Adams
Jefferson Letters p.19 I asked if he would do us the favour to convey a letter for us
through the french consul. He said he could not do this himself, because it was not in
his department, but if we would make an office of it he would communicate it to the
Marquis de Castries. OED2 lacks this sense. Is it a French usage?
offward 1582 ( 1959 ) Richard MadoxDiary in The
Troublesome Voyage of Captain Edward Fenton (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. CXIII) p.
172 Our general wch had cast to the offard west north west. OED2 1600
(and lacks form without w ); see slip 1586
offward n 1586 ( 1981 ) Journal of the
Leicester, Feb. 5, 1586, in Sir Francis Drake’s West Indian Voyage 158586 (Hakluyt
Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. 148) p. 155 The Admiral was hard aborde the shore so he tackte
to the offerd agayne. OED2 1600 (and lacks form without w ); see slip
Madux 1582
oke (oka) 1586 ( 1931 ) John Sanderson in The
Travels of John Sanderson
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. LXVII) p. 133 We gave them also advise to send
cochinillo, which is at ten d[uca]ts per oke. OED2 1625
olive 1628 ( 1929 ) John Winthrop Letter, Mar. 18,
1627/8 in Winthrop Papers Vol. 1 p 383 For the stuffe for the Goundes you may buy it
of some Oliffe coullour or such like. OED2 sense B 1634
open 1574 ( 1963 ) William Bourne A Regiment
for the Sea
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. CXXI) p. 272 Those markes [be] very slowe and
asketh some distance in sayling to open and shette them, which are neere together
vpon the lande. OED2 sense 8 1748, but see slip Madox 1582
open v 1582 ( 1976 ) Richard MadoxDiary, Apr. 15, 1582,
in An Elizabethan in 1582
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. 147) p. 110 We ran upon the sowest bord til we cam
within 4 myle of the Marget which opened with ther whyt clyfs and the church of St.
Johnes. OED2 sense 8 1748, but see Bourne 1574
ophthalmic 1650 ( 1984 ) Thomas Vaughan Magia
Adamica in The Works of Thomas Vaughan p. 167 Did he not praescribe a Plaster
of Figs for Hezekiah, and to use your own term, an Ophthalmic for Tobit ? OED2
sense B 1653
oppugnation 1774 ( 1964 ) Gov. John Wentworth
A Proclamation by the Governor [of New Hampshire] in
Naval Documents of the American Revolution Vol. 1 p. 41 Whereas several Bodies of
Men .. did also force from the Ramparts of said Castle and carry off sixteen Pieces of
Cannon, and other military Stores, in open Hostility and direct Oppugnation of his
Majesty’s Government. (Did JW consult some Civil War book on how to respond to
insurrection?) OED2 sense 1 last 1654
optative c 1496 John Stanbridge Accedence
(facsimile ed. as English Linguistics 15001800
No. 134) p. unnum. (Aiiij +8 = Aviii ?) How knowest ye Optative mode? For he
wylleth or desyreth. OED2 1530
opticon 1632 A. H. [Henry Hawkins]
Partheneia Sacra (facsimile ed. in English Recusant Literature 15581640 Vol.
81 1971) p. 84 If perhaps some new Galilaeus should deuise and frame us other
spectacles or opticons to see with, we are in danger to find out yet some new Starres
and Heauens never dreamed of before. OED2 lacks
organ 1776 ( 1968 ) Journal, H.M.Sloop Raven,
May 13, 1776, inNaval Documents of the American Revolution Vol.5 p.82 She
[schooner] had 6 Swivels and 6 Organs with small Arms and
8 Men. OED2 sense 6 † 1769 quot. Latter (and presumably this) refer to a multi
barreled gun resembling organ sense 2, whereas quots. 1548 1729 appear based on a
more general use of organ cf. sense 7.
orlopian a 1828 ( 1976 ) Bartholomew JamesJournal ,
inNaval Documents of the American Revolution Vol.7 p. 658 Several of my
messmates were immediately ordered on board .. and as some of our orlopian
manouevres were not a little various, I shall mention a few of them. (presumably a
nonceword) OED2 lacks
oronoko 1681 ( 1963 ) William Fitzhugh Letter
to John Cooper, Apr 4, 1681 in William Fitzhugh and his Chesapeake World p. 87
You’ll find the Invoice of eight hhds. of Oronoko Tob[acc]o. Later uses
Oroonoko, Aronoko, Aronoco also. OED2 1706 ( but Aranoko in 1688 quot.
under sweetscented )
orrechion 1584 1585 ( 1955 ) anon. Notes for the
guidance of Raleigh and Cavendish, inThe Roanoke Voyages 15841590 (Hakluyt Soc.
2nd. Ser. No. CIV) Vol. 1 p. 132 What maner of forte I would haue I would haue it a
pentangell in this manner.. The Collionsides or ocrechons, large and longe.
OED2 1589
ostrege c 1624 ( 1929 ) Grievances for
consideration by Parliament, Winthrop Papers Vol. 1 p 307 Many of very meane sort
and condicion whoe haue presumed of this generous skill of falkenry .. doe adventure
vpone the contrye nere adioyneing to give exercise to theire Ostreges. OED2
lacks. Basis for, or backformation from, ostreger ?
out post 1789 ( 1962 ) Benjamin Lincoln Letter
to A. H., Dec. 1,1789, in Papers of Alexander
Hamilton Vol. VI p. 2 The people in that county [Lincoln, Dist. of Maine] are little
acquainted with the bank bills therefore they might with more ease be imposed upon
besides no real good will arise from receiving them in
those out posts. OED2 sense 2 1802
outchamber 1798 ( 1966 ) Thomas Jefferson The
Family Letters of Thomas Jefferson to M. J. Eppes
Mar. 7, 1798 p. 157 We are sure however of the Outchamber for you, and the
Study for myself, and will not be long in getting a cover over some room for
your sister. OED2 †165466
outset 1776 ( 1968 ) Joseph Williams Letter,
May 3, 1776, in Naval Documents of the American Revolution Vol.4 p. 1389 The
two vessels whole Outsets will be About Two thousand Pounds
Lw Money. OED2 sense 3b †1766
outshot 1765 ( 1914 ) Henry Cruger, Jr. Letter, Oct.
4, 1765, in Commerce of Rhode Island 17261800 Vol. 1, p. 126 Have sent 20 Tons
of the best, and 20 Tons of the 2d hemp call’d out shott; it is the method of the Rope
Makers here to mix it; and pass it all for the 1st, by way of hint for your guideance.
. OED2 ppla. sense 3 1794
overhaul v 1769 ( 1973 ) AshleyBowen Journal, Feb.
23, 1769, in The Journals of Ashley Bowen (17281813) of Marblehead (Publ.
Colonial Soc. Massachusetts Vol. XLIV) p. 203 I received two pair of old shrouds
from Colonel Lee, schooner Hawk , to overhaul.
Began to overhaul a foresail for brig Africa. (May 24, p. 211) Clearly the current
U. S. (not British?) meaning “renovate”or “thoroughly renovate” (a process consequent
to OED2’s sense 2). OED2 lacks this sense for v. or for corresponding n.
Normalized spelling
overrule 1582 ( 1976 ) Richard Madox in An
Elizabethan in 1582
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. 147) p. 291 According to the pylots speache the master
was overruled. OED2 sense 3 1591
overskip 1612 ( 1969 ) Proc. Virginia.. p.
78 in Jamestown Voyages under the First Charter (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd ser. cxxxvi) p.
439 If in the search of those Countries, wee had hapned where wealth had beene, we
had surely had it, .. but if we haue overskipped it, we will not envy them that shall
chance to finde it. OED2 lacks sense of “overlook”
overslack 1582 ( 1959 ) Richard MadoxNarrative in
The Troublesome Voyage of Captain Edward Fenton (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. CXIII)
p. 65 Our generall, whose care was .. noe good opportunytye shold be overslacked.
OED2 lacks; cf. slack sense 1b
overture 1689 ( 1915 ) anon. Declaration of the
reasons and Motives For the Present Appearing in Arms ... in Narratives of the
Insurrections 16751690 p. 311 The first News of the great Overture and happy
Change in England. OED2 sense 8 † 1633
oyster(v ) 1775 ( 1966 ) Petition of Delaware River
Pilots, Sep., 1775 in Naval Documents of the American Revolution Vol.2 p.165 Your
Petitioners humbly pray that they may be allowed to Fish or Oyster for theSupport of
their Families. OED2 18..
paddle 1612 ( 1982 ) John Guy Journal, Oct. 27,
1612, in Newfoundland Discovered
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. 160) p. 71 They have two kind of oares, one is about
fower foote long of one peece of firre, the other is about 10 foote long.. The shorte one
they use as a paddle, & thother as ane oare. OED2 sense 2 1624, but see
slip Strachey 1612
paddle 1612 ( 1953 ) William Strachey The
Historie of Travell into Virginia Britania
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd Ser., No. CIII) p. 81 In steed of oares they vse paddles and sticks
with which they will row faster than we in our bardges. OED2 sense 2 1624, but
see slip Guy 1612
paddle v2 1676 A True Account of
the Most Considerable Occurrences that have happened in the Warre between the
English and the Indians in New England (facsimile reprint in King Philip’s War
Narratives 1966) p. 3 Many got into canoes to paddle away, but the paddlers being
shot, the Canoes overset with all therein. OED2 1677
paddler n2 1676 A True Account of
the Most Considerable Occurrences that have happened in the Warre between the
English and the Indians in New England (facsimile reprint in King Philip’s War
Narratives 1966) p. 3 Many got into canoes to paddle away, but the paddlers being
shot, the Canoes overset with all therein. OED2 1799
Paddy 1776 ( 1928 ) Nicholas Cresswell Sep. 14,
1776, in The Journal of Nicholas Cresswell
(2nd ed.) p. 161 [“An Irish Tailor metamorphised into a Captn. and an Irish
Blacksmith his lieutenant.”] My companions rank Paddys. OED2 1780
pageant 1607 ( 1955 ) Dobsons Drie
Bobbes Ch. 3 p. 20 They concluded .. they would fasten to the appendix ouer the
Haberdashers doore, a paire of bulls hornes, with a pageant betwixt them, wherein they
caused to be painted a man in his shoppe selling hattes, and a Butcher in a parlour with
his wife. OED2 cf. sense 1d 1557 only
palmetto 1582 ( 1976 ) Richard MadoxDiary, Aug.
14, 1582, in An Elizabethan in 1582
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. 147) p. 164 We saw the palmito tre which doth also gro at
Cape Mownt. Yt is nothing but a monstruos cane whose pyth is lyke smal rush candles
with half pills on them. As yt groeth up so do the loer leaves faul and the top is a bush of
leaves lyke unto segs. Sierra Leone OED2 1583
palter 1582 ( 1976 ) Richard MadoxDiary, Apr. 16, 1582,
in An Elizabethan in 1582
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. 147) p. 111 The men .. stole a bad vessel and after
boording a Flemyng changd with hym and so had paltred up 3 barrels of bysket, a barrel
or 2 of candels, 30 flytches of bacon, 16 barels of good duble bear. OED2 lacks
this sense; cf. sense3b 1611 (but intrans.)
or 4 1625
pamper 1574 ( 1963 ) William Bourne A
Regiment for the Sea
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. CXXI) p. 141 Suche is the Diuill in the harte of man,
pampering mans hart so with pryde to thinke he hath no fellow. OED2
sense 1c 1576
panch 1622 ( 1848 ) The Observations of Sir
Richard Hawkins Knight, in his Voyage into the South Sea in The Hawkins’ Voyages
(2nd ed. date? Hakluyt Soc. Ser. 1, No. LVII, reprint date?) §xxxvi p. 215 They
put one difficultie, that with the fall or pitch of the anchor in hard ground, with his waight
he would cut the halser in sunder on the head; for prevention whereof, we placed a
panch, as the mariners terme it, upon the head of the anchor, with whose softnesse this
danger was prevented. OED2 1626
pangeran 1606 ( 1943 ) Edmund Scott An Exact
Discourse in The Voyage of Sir Henry Middleton to the Moluccas (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd.
Ser. No. LXXXVIII)
p. 129There was a Pangran, or gentleman, which had a house and ground.
OED2 1817
pannel (or pannell) 1789 Thomas
Anburey Travels through the Interior Parts of America
in a Series of Letters (1969 facsimile ed.) Vol. II p. 412 Waggoners, who, when
night approaches, after they have unharnessed the horses, fed them, pannelled them,
and tying a bell around their necks, turned them loose in the woods to graze.
? Unlikely to be the putting on a rough saddle of OED2
parallax 1574 ( 1963 ) William Bourne A
Regiment for the Sea
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. CXXI) p. 239 The paralex of the Moone, whiche the
semidiametre of the earth doth cause, by the neerenesse of the Moone vnto the earth.
In 3rd. ed. (1580) Bourne spells paralax. OED2 1612
parbuckle v 1783 ( 1969 ) William Williams Mr.
Penrose The Journal of Penrose, Seaman p. 137 They .. had been at the labour of
parbuckleing it [a barrel] into the canoa. OED2 1831; parbuckling vbl. n. 1859
parcelling 1766 ( 1973 ) AshleyBowen Journal, Sep.
20, 1766, in The Journals of Ashley Bowen (17281813) of Marblehead (Publ. Colonial
Soc. Massachusetts Vol. XLIV) p. 144
Cut and tarred 10 yards of parceling for Colonel’s house. Editor suggests
parceling was used for flashing or weatherstripping. Bowen was a shiprigger, so this is
clearly Naut..
Normalized spelling OED2 sense 4b 1769
parole 1758 ( 1951 ) Col. Henry Bouquet
Orderly Book, June 19, 1758, in The Papers of Henry Bouquet Vol. 2 p. 657
Parole Kensington. The parole was given at each day’s orders. OED2 sense
2 1777
parrottoed 1764 ( 1975 ) John Adams Letter to
Abigail Adams, May 7,1764 in The Book of Abigail and John p. 42 A sixth
Imperfection is that of Walking, with the toes bending inward. This Imperfection is called
Parrottoed, I think, I know not for what Reason. OED2 1849
Parsee 1609 ( 1905 ) John Jourdain Journal, Sep.
6, 1609, in The Journal of John Jourdain, 16081617 (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. XVI)
(reprint 1967) p. 128 In this towne are manie of a strange kinde of religion called
Parsyes. OED2 1615
parthenian 1632 Henry Hawkins Partheneia
Sacra (facsimile ed. in English Recusant Literature 15581640 Vol. 81 1971) subtitle
Contrived al to the Honour of the Incomparable Virgin Marie Mother of God; for
the pleasure and devotion especially of the Parthenian Sodalitie of her Immaculate
Conception. OED2 dict. 1656, usage 1892
particularize 1592 ( 1966 ) Henry Chettle KindHarts
Dreame in Elizabethan and Jacobean Quartos
p.16 I will particularize the difference betweene the abused times among you reputed,
and the simplicity of the daies, wherein I lived. OED2 sense 2 1593
partitive c 1496 John Stanbridge Accedence
(facsimile ed. as English Linguistics 15001800
No. 134) p. unnum. (Aiiij +2 = Av ?) Of after a nown substantyf, verbe substantyf,
nowne partytyf, nowne distributyf, comparatyf or superlatyf is ye signe of ye genytyf
case. My ital. and modified punct. for clarity OED2 1520
partner 1582 ( 1959 ) Edward Fenton Sea
Journal in The Troublesome Voyage of Captain Edward Fenton (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser.
No. CXIII) p. 107 This fallinge owt grew by neglectinge the serche of my mainmast
periched in the partners. OED2 sense 5 1608
party 1777 ( 1780 ) Lieut. Gen. J. Burgoyne A
State of the expedition from Canada
appendix p. lxxxi I had no other party to take (and a hard
party it was).
OED2 Sense 15 (= course decided on) † <1760
As the Church is Named St Paules, soe Doe they stile themselves Paulists, as Paules
Disciples in imitating or Following him in his Function. At Macao OED2 1678
pavilion 1818 ( 1990 ) Thomas Jefferson
Report of Commisioners for Univ.Virginia reprinted in Public and Private Papers
by TJ Library of America
p. 132It should consist of distinct houses or pavilions, arranged at proper distances on
each side of a lawn ..; in each of which should be a lecturing room, with from two to four
apartments .. these pavilions should be united by a range of dormitories. There
may be some component of OED2 sense 7a, but is closer to sense 7b 1858
payable 1819 Capt. John Ross A Voyage of
Discovery for the purpose of Exploring
Baffins Bay p.71 The fish .. measured fortysix feet in length .. and was considered
by the Greenlandmen a payable fish. OED2 sense 3 1859 (only as a mining
term)
peag 1644 ( 1944 ) Benedict Arnold Letter, Feb. 14,
1644, in Winthrop Papers Vol. 4 p. 442 He then told mee that the peag was sent
me as a token of love and Freindship. OED2 1649 DA 1648
Peak stone 1634 ( 1943 ) John Winthrop Letter, May
22, 1634, in Winthrop Papers Vol. 3 p. 168 I praye bringe me a paire of mill stones
peake stones seaven foote broade and of thicknesse answerable. OED2 1707
(Peak grinding 1659)
peasecod 1737 ( 1960 ) Benjamin Franklin Poor
Richard, 1738 an Almanack unpaged, verso of title (facs. in The Complete Poor
Richard Almanacs, 1970,
p. 122) What a peasecods! cannot I have a little Fault or two, but all the Country
must see it in print! OED2 sense b †1652
Every man pel mel and spent his mowth with as smal discretion for hym self as
attendance for the hearer. (June 2, 1582 p. 142)
OED2 1st quot. cf. sense 2 1594; 2nd sense 1 1596 (with intrusive
“and”) or verb 1606 (in present for past tense)?
pemmican 1613 ( 1982 ) Henry Crout Letter, in
Newfoundland Discovered
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. 160) p. 85 They gaue vs ech of vs some of ther penycan
which had been dried which it did eat very well. “They” were Beothuks, but there is no
indication of conversation other than by “signes and Tokins.” Pemmican is considered
a Cree or Chippewa word — also some Atlantic Algonquin language? OED2 1801
(variant pannican 1827), but see slip 1743
Pennsylvania(n) fireplace 1744 ( 1960 ) Benjamin
Franklin An Account of the New Invented Pennsylvanian FirePlaces in
Papers of Benjamin F ranklin Vol. 2 p. 421 An Account of the New Invented
Pennsylvanian FirePlaces [title]
To avoid the several Inconveniences, and at the same time to retain all the Advantages
of other fireplaces, was contrived the PENNSYLVANIA FIREPLACE now to be described.
[p. 429] OED2 lacks
penstock n1 1542 1543 ( 1975 ) Building Account in
Sidney Ironworks Accounts 15411573
(Camden 4th Ser. Vol. 15) p. 44 Item delivered unto them for the whele and the
pentstock of the said fornace of nayles xi li xix d ob.
OED2 1607
pent c 1675 ( 1972 ) John Aubrey Observations Ch.
VI, in John Aubrey Three Prose Works
p. 348 Some land lying on the small pent of a hil facing the South. OED2
cf. 1760 quot.
pepper v 1612 ( 1934 ) Capt. Thomas Best
Journal, Nov. 29, 1612 , in The Voyage of Thomas Best to the East Indies, 1612
14 (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. LXXV) (reprint 1967) p. 35 By an hower wee had well
peperd him with some 56 greate shott. OED2 sense 4a c1644
peppering (vbl n. ) 1776 ( 1972 ) London
Chronicle, Oct. 1517, 1776, inNaval Documents of the American Revolution Vol.6 p.
315 We gave her a handsome peppering before she struck. OED2 a1814
(except 1580 otherwise undef. dict. transl. of poivrade )
pepperish 1605 John Davis Mr. John Daves his
observations Voyaging from Acheane
to Tecoe and Priaman
in Voyages and Works of John Davis
(Hakluyt Soc.) p. 188
You shall find 38 fath. watt’r w’th a fine pepperish Sand. OED2 1808 (fig.,
of pepperish temperament) See slip peppery Dodsworth 1615
peppery 1615 ( 1939 ) Edward Dodsworth in
TheVoyage of Nicholas Downton to the East Indies16141615 (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser.
No. LXXXII) (reprint 1967)
p. 46 We had grounde at twentie five fathome, a graye pepperie sand. OED2
1699 See slip pepperish Davis 1605
perfunctoriously 1632 A. H. [Henry Hawkins]
Partheneia Sacra (facsimile ed. in English Recusant Literature 15581640 Vol.
81 1971) p. 2 So mysterious and delicious an Obiect, requires not to be rashly
lookt vpon, or perfunctoriously to be slighted ouer. OED2 1652
perlustration 1632 A. H. [Henry Hawkins]
Partheneia Sacra (facsimile ed. in English Recusant Literature 15581640 Vol.
81 1971) p. 83 But what were al this but a meer extension and perlustration of the
mind only, wholy occupyed in measuring Intellectual Obiects? OED2 1640
Pernambuco 1577 ( 1977 ) John Hawkins
Estimate for a voyage to the Levant, in S. A. SkilliterWilliam Harborne and the
Trade with Turkey 15781582 p. 20 Ther shalbe loden here in Inglond .. 40 tonne of
brasyll caled farnandoboucke 600–0–0
OED2 1595
person c 1496 John Stanbridge Accedence
(facsimile ed. as English Linguistics 15001800
No. 134) p. unnum. (Aiiij +6 = Avii ?) How many persons ben there? Thre .. The fyrst
the seconde the thyrde. OED2 sense 8 1520
pester n 1612 ( 1894 ) Instructions to Capt.
Thomas Button The Strange and Dangerous Voyage in The Voyages of Captain Luke
Foxe and Captain Thomas James (Hakluyt Soc. 1st ser. No. LXXXIX) p. 637 We
holde it best for you to keepe to the Northerne side, as being most free from the pester
of ice. OED2 sense 1 †1614
petrel 1582 ( 1976 ) Richard MadoxDiary, June 19,
1582, in An Elizabethan in 1582
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. 147) p. 146 Yn the after noon a poydrel which is a lytle
black byrd cam to the ship, which M. Fayrwether sayd was a token of wynd. ?=
petrel. (South of the Canary Is.) OED2 petrel 1676 but see slip Munday 1636
petrel c 1602 ( 1983 ) Gabriel Archer in
PurchasPilgrimes (1625) Vol. 4 pp. 164757,
inThe English New England Voyages 16021608
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. 161) p. 121 We saw many Birds .. as Pettrels,
Cootes, Hagbuts, Pengwins, Murres, Gannets, Cormorants, Guls, with many else in our
English Tongue of no name. OED2 1676, but see slips Madox 1582 and
Munday 1638
(quot. in OED2 for murre only)
petrel 1638 ( 1919 ) Peter Mundy Journal , May 1,
1638, inThe Travels of Peter Mundy, in Europe and Asia 16081667 Rel. XXIX (Hakluyt
Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. XXXV) Vol. 3 p. 359 There Followed in our Wake sundry sea
ffowles as Pintados, Pettrells, Alcatrazes, etts.
Pittrells, the smallest Sea Fowle that useth the Ocean, seldome seene Neare land, like
unto a Swallow, Near off the Coullour and not much bigger. OED2 1676
pewit 1635 ( 1919 ) Peter Mundy The Travels of Peter
Mundy, in Europe and Asia 16081667 Rel. XX (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. XXXV) Vol.
3
p. 7 Hard by in these Cleaves breed a Certen sea fowle named Pewitts; many of
them from hence carried to London, where they are kept, fedd and used for dainties.
OED2 sense 2 1678
Philadelphian fireplace 1745 ( 1974 ) Ebenezer
Parkman The Diary of Ebenezer Parkman Dec. 2, 1745
(American Antiquarian Soc.) p. 128 First saw one of the Philadelphian Fireplaces.
=Franklin stove (invented c1740) See slip for Pennsylvania fireplace OED2
lacks (Philadelphian sense 3 1775). DA Philadelphia Fire Stove 1759
pice 1611 ( 1905 ) John Jourdain Journal, Jan. 28,
1611, in The Journal of John Jourdain, 16081617 (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. XVI)
(reprint 1967) p. 150 Wee mett a carravan of pisas, bound for Barampore to paye
the soldiars, with a guard of 100 horse for feare of robbinge. OED2 1615
pickle 1831 Mary Prince The History of Mary Prince
p. 10. Facsimile reprint in Six Women’s Slave Narratives (1988) We then shovelled
up the salt in large heaps, and went down to the sea, where we washed the pickle from
our limbs. (On Turk Island, West Indies) OED2 lacks this sense
piece c 1625 ( 1882 ) Nathaniel Butler ? The Historye
of the Bermudaes
(Hakluyt Soc.1st. Ser. No. LXV) p. 201 The eighth [Act] .. was for the redresse of a
common practice, in making an ordinary passage ouer mens corne and peeces of
tobacco. Bermuda Assembly 1620 Apparently West Ind. usage — see quots.
1796, 1808 (W. I.?) and slip Schaw 1774 — that deserves sep. from sense 2b
piece 1774 ( 1939 ) Janet SchawThe Journal of a Lady of
Quality (3rd ed.) p. 84 We walked through many cane pieces, as they term the
fields of Sugarcanes. Antigua. From other contemporary sources, apparently
used in West Indies for certain crops: potatoes, cane, etc. OED2 sense2b; see slip
Butler? c1625
piedàterre 1785 ( 1959 ) Thomas Jefferson Letter
to John Adams Nov. 27, 1785 in The Adams
Jefferson Letters p.103 We must acquiesce under such modifications as they may
think necessary for regulating this indulgence ... to get a piedàterre
in that country. OED2 1829
pike (v7) 1738 ( 1974 ) Ebenezer Parkman The Diary of
Ebenezer Parkman Sep. 2, 1738
(American Antiquarian Soc.) p. 51 Mr. Pannel and his son came again to
Thrashing and finish’d the Rye, Moss gathering up and pikeing the stalks.
Massachusetts OED2 [Eng.] dial. 1844
pilot bread 1776 ( 1968 ) Cumberland Dugan Letter,
June 7, 1776, inNaval Documents of the American Revolution Vol.5 p. 416 I
purpose bakeing in what we Call small fine keg Bread, & the common fine in Pilott bread
Size. That is, he will use small fine flour to make keg bread ( which is? — mentioned in
1788 pilot bread quot.) and common fine to make pilot bread. OED2 1788
pinang 1606 ( 1943 ) Edmund Scott An Exact
Discourse in The Voyage of Sir Henry Middleton to the Moluccas (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd.
Ser. No. LXXXVIII)
p. 173They have a certaine hearbe called bettaile .. and also a nutt called pinange;
which are both in operation very hott, and they eate them continually, to warme them
within and keepe them from the fluxe.
OED2 1662
pink 1615 ( 1939 ) Thomas Elkington Letter in
TheVoyage of Nicholas Downton to the East Indies16141615 (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser.
No. LXXXII) (reprint 1967) p. 202 Comodities fyttinge to bee sent for this place
yearly will be somm 200 cloathes; the most part stametts and Venice redds, the rest
yellowes, popingayes, grass greenes and pynk cullours. Presumably n5
OED2 1634 (although no adjectival use is noted) not the current pink a 1828
pique (v 1) 1701 ( 1977 ) William Byrd II Letter to Sir Robert
Southwell, July 17, 1701 in
The Correspondence of the Three William Byrds of Westover, Virginia p. 209 Here
we met Mr. Oesly a great master of the antiquitys of Essex, but peaks himself chiefly in
genealogy. OED2 sense 5 1705
pisterene 1773 ( 1957 ) Philip V. FithianJournal &
Letters of PVF Dec. 25, 1773 p. 40 A Bit is a pisterene bisected; or an English
sixpence. (Virginia) OED2 1774
pitcherhouse 1645 ( 1947 ) Brampton Gurdon
Letter, Apr. 12, 1645, in Winthrop Papers Vol. 5 p. 18 Thear are not
aboue 2 lisensed alhouses in all the hundred, yet to many picher housen, for which I
doo my indeuer to ponishe suche as can be proued. From Assington (Suffolk?) Not
the “ room in a great house” of OED2
placable 1607 ( 1955 ) Dobsons Drie
Bobbes Ch. 3 p. 25 Hee intreated the Habberdashers placable audience, till
sirThomas had made answer to his objection. OED2 sense 3 1611
planetical 1641 ( 1942 ) Sir Simon D’Ewes The
Journal of Sir Simon D’Ewes (Oct. 29, 1641) p. 53 I saied — That I hoped the
gentleman that had prophesied to us would prove but a tungol witegan as our ancestors
called ther planeticall prophets, and might be deceived in the issue. OED2 sense
2 1657
planter 1609 Robert Johnson Nova
Britannia, Offring most Excellent fruites by Planting in Virginia p.D4r Wee call
those Planters that goe in their persons to dwell there: And those Adventurers, that
adventure their money and go not in person. OED2 sense 3a 1620
planter 1609 ( 1957 ) Second Charter in
The Three Charters of the Virginia Company of London (Va. 350th anniv. Celebration
Corp.)
p. 42 Whether they goe in their persons to be planters there in the said
plantacion, or whether they goe not, but doe adventure their monyes, goods or chattels.
OED2 Sense 3a 1620
plateau 1785 ( 1959 ) Abigail Adams Letter
to Thomas Jefferson Dec. 20, 1785 in The Adams
Jefferson Letters p.108 I received my Plateau safe about ten days since.
OED2 1791
plotch c 1668 ( 1925 ) Major John Scott The Discription of
Guyana in Colonising Expeditions to the West Indies and Guiana, 16231667 (Hakluyt
Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. LVI) p. 136 The Natives as well as others are strangly troubled
with the Indian Pox which hath till of late yeares brake out in great plotches and Scabs,
which they use to dry up with the milkey quallity of a Crabo Tree produced from the
young twigs and Leaues. OED2 †1612
plum 1813 ( 1959 ) John Adams Letter to Thomas
Jefferson , Nov. 15, 1813 in The Adams
Jefferson Letters p. 402 But these Plumbs, Chariots, Colonelships, and
counsellorships are recorded and will never be forgotten. OED2 sense 4
1825
plumply 1776 ( 1968 ) Pennsylvania
Packet, Mar. 18, 1776, inNaval Documents of the American Revolution Vol.4 p. 400
The Otter sloop of war, and five tenders went up to Annapolis in quest of
provisions, which he requested by letter to the Governor, but was plumply refused by the
people. OED2 1786
plunge 1613 ( 1928 ) Robert Harcourt A
Relation of a Voyage to Guiana (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. LX) p. 111 Their iurney
by Sea .. was neere 100. Leagues: wherein .. they met with many dreadful plunges, by
reason of a high going sea, which breaketh vpon the flats and shoales. OED2
probably sense 4 1781, or else sense 2 1711.
ply 1582 ( 1976 ) Richard Madox in An Elizabethan
in 1582
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. 147) p. 279 When the next day we had shot of the Nyeldes,
a southwest wynd aryzing put us in agayne to the Wyght wher we contynued plying of
and one, sometymes at Yarmowth and sometymes at the Cows for the space of twenty
days. (Nyeldes = Needles) OED2 sense 5b 1595
pochon (puccoon) 1609 ( 1957 ) Virginia
Council Instruccions orders and constituccions ... to Sir Thomas Gates in The
Three Charters of the Virginia Company of London (Va. 350th anniv. Celebration
Corp.) p. 60 You shall finde a brave and fruiteful seat ... much more
abundant in pochon. OED2 1612
point 1628 Francis Fletcher The World
Encompassed by Sir Francis Drake
(facsimile reprint 1966) p. 39 The Moone was ecclipsed in Aries, and darkened
about three points, for the space of two glasses. OED2 sense 11 †1594
poke (n4) 1708 ( 1977 ) William Byrd II Letter to Hans
Sloane, Sep. 10, 1708 in
The Correspondence of the Three William Byrds of Westover, Virginia p. 266 There
is a paper of a root which I think very like jalop, we call the plant here poke, it bears a
purple berry which woud dye an admirable colour if we understood the right way of
fixing it.
The root you call poke is not jalap but the root of the solanum racemosum americanum
of Mr. Ray in his history of plants.
(Hans Sloane, Dec. 7, 1709 p. 272) OED2
sense 2a 1731 This quot. in DA
pole (v1 ) 1738 ( 1974 ) Ebenezer Parkman The Diary of
Ebenezer Parkman Aug. 12, 1738
(American Antiquarian Soc.) p. 50 Some Hand to help .. in poling and Carting the
remainder of the Hay from the Meadow. OED2 sense 1b Webster 1828
policy 1774 ( 1939 ) Janet SchawThe Journal of a Lady of
Quality (3rd ed.) p. 61 In the bosom of the hills stands a very noble house, round
which there is a great deal of fine laid out policy. OED2 sense 6c 1775
poliphant 1687 ( 1940 ) Charles Morton
Compendium Physicae in Publ. Colonial Soc. Massachusetts Vol. XXXIII p. 116
(from 1697 transcription of 1687 ms., probably first
compiled c1680) Exotick, forreign, or remote [stones] procured for speciall uses such
as .. the hone from Italy, the Poliphant from Cornwall, the firestone, etc. ??
not poliphant = polyphone of OED2
polyandrium 1612 ( 1953 ) William Strachey The
Historie of Travell into Virginia Britania
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd Ser., No. CIII) p. 126 The doggs of the Country are .. lik the Turkish
Iackals, keeping about the graues of the dead in the Comon Polyandrium or place of
Sepulture. OED2 1661
polymorphean 1611 Henry Fitz Simon The
Justification and Exposition of the Divine Sacrifice of the Masse (facsimile ed. in
English Recusant Literature 15581640 Vol. 108 1972) p. 343 Such wil sit in
dredful iudgement against our Polimorphean Christians, or such as fashion their religion
to al changeable humours for a princes contentment. OED2 dict. 1656, usage
1874 (polymorphous 1785)
pompholyx 1668 ( 1964 ) Sir Thomas Browne Letter,
Dec. 21, 1668, in The Works of Sir Thomas Browne Vol. IV p. 37 They say spelter ot
zinck is made in Germanie; from thence also pompholyx, Tutia, mysi, sori, zaffera &c.
OED2 1678
pone 3 1607 ( 1969 ) A relatyon ... written ... by
a gent. of ye Colony in Jamestown Voyages under the First Charter (Hakluyt Soc.
2nd ser. cxxxvi) p.90 He caused heere to be prepared for vs pegatewkApoan
which is bread of their wheat made made in Rolles and Cakes. [ ] quot. OED2
[ ] quot. 1615
poppet 1790 1792 ( 1976 ) John Fitch Autobiography p.
89 I got a piece of a ramrod of a gun and made the centres for my Poppets.
OED2 sense 5a 1875
porch 1748 ( 1974 ) Ebenezer Parkman The Diary of
Ebenezer Parkman Nov. 14, 1748
(American Antiquarian Soc.) p. 186 Mr. Batherick here to work upon my shed, or
back porch. OED2 sense 3c 1916
portable 1582 ( 1935 ) Richard Hakluyt
Divers Voyages Touching the Discouerie of America (facsimile ed. 1966) p. K
verso Commodities of the inland are not in great plentie to be brought to your handes,
without the ayde of some portable or Navigable ryver. OED2 sense 3 1600
portice 1777 ( 1780 ) Lieut. Gen. J. Burgoyne
A State of the expedition from Canada
appendix p. lxxx There was nothing now to be done but
to approach the town by sap,
to such a distance that the rampart might be brought within their portice.
Meaning? ? OED2 lacks
portlage (portledge) 1775 ( 1964 )
Contract for ship hire, in Naval Documents of the American Revolution Vol. 1
p.678 The good schooner, nam’d the Britaniae of the Portlage or Burthen of Eighty
Eight Tons. (Massachusetts) OED2 Naut. Amer. † 1775 (var. spellings, withe ori
not a ) = portage sense 4. Here = portage sense 3 † 1710
portraiture v 1559 anon. The Queenes
maiesties passage through the citie of London to Westminster the daye before her
coronacion (facsimile ed. 1959) p. Biiii recto Vpon the top or vppermost part of ye
said pageant, stoode the armes of England roially portratured with ye proper beastes to
vpholde the same. OED2 1580
Portuguese 1775 ( 1846 ) Isaac SenterJournal Nov. 4,
1775 (Hist. Soc. Penna.), p. 24
(facsmile reprint 1969) If the Indians .. will join us, we .. will give them one
Portuguese per month, two dollars bounty, and find them their provisions. (On Arnold’s
expedition in Quebec) ?? Would seem not to be the obsolete gold coin of OED2;
a joe or half joe might be reasonable pay.
possibilited 1612 ( 1989 ) W. S. A Funerall Elegye
line 500, facsimile in Donald W. Foster Elegy by W. S. , a Study in Attribution And
had the Genius which attended on him,
Been possibilited to keep him safe. Foster suggests this otherwise unattested word
points to
W. S. =Shakespeare, who favored participled nouns. OED2 lacks
postage 1565 ( 1975 ) Account in Sidney
Ironworks Accounts 15411573
(Camden 4th Ser. Vol. 15) p. 220 For postage of letters out of duchlande and
Inglande to Andwarpe
000–03–4.
OED2 1590
postiche 1638 ( 1919 ) Peter Mundy The Travels
of Peter Mundy, in Europe and Asia 16081667 Rel. XXIX (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No.
XXXV) Vol. 3 p. 385 Some allsoe, both Men and weomen, weare little
scullcappes woven like Mattes, others off Cotton, and one I saw with such an Anticke
beard postizo. (On Madagascar) OED2 1854
potfish 1645 ( 1989 ) John Bastwick A Just
Defence .. against the Calumnies of John Lilburne
p. 1617, quoted in The Writings of William Walwyn
p. 22 [Walwyn had] a set of teeth in his head, much like a Potfish, all staring and
standing some distance one from another, as if they had not been good friends.
OED2 1743
potatory 1632 T. T. The Whetstone of
Reproof
(facsimile ed. as English Recusant Literature 15581640 Vol. 361 1977) p. 131
Swinglius, Oecolampadius, or Bucer, or some other greater Doctour of that
potatorie Confraternitie. OED2 1834
potin n1 a 1682 ( 1964 ) Sir Thomas Browne Note on
Medals in The Works of Sir Thomas Browne Vol. III p. 257 After Alexander Severus
most peeces were of red copper or potin mixture. OED2 sense 2 1853
pounsell 1687 ( 1940 ) Charles Morton
Compendium Physicae in Publ. Colonial Soc. Massachusetts Vol. XXXIII p. 58
(from 1697 transcription of 1687 ms., probably first
compiled c1680) [Violent flow of water by pressure] of Other bodyes or powers, as
compressed Air, or pounsells which may have Weight as those at the Waterhouse at
Londonbridge. ??
powdermonkey 1669 ( 1893 ) Dr. John Covel
Journal inEarly Voyages and Travels in the Levant
(Hakluyt Soc.1st. Ser. No. LXXXVI) p. 129 Newes was brought in by one of our
powder monkey’s from the Top Mast head that there were five great ships a Head.
OED2 1682
pratique 1599 ( 1893 ) Thomas Dallam
Journal inEarly Voyages and Travels in the Levant
(Hakluyt Soc.1st. Ser. No. LXXXVI) p. 19 At the End of six dayes, we had proticke,
which is, Leve to com a shore. OED2 1609
precedently 1618 William Cape The
Chronicle and Institution of the Order of .. S. Francis
(transl. of original of Marcos Da Silva) (facsimile ed. as English Recusant Literature
15581640 Vol. 357 1977)
p. 56 If you desire to obserue our rule, and to conyoine your selfe with vs,
it is precedentlie necessarie that you depriue your selfe of what soeuer you haue in the
world. OED2 1624
precept 1776 ( 1972 ) Judge J. Brackett Letter,
Aug. 29, 1776, inNaval Documents of the American Revolution Vol.6 p. 343 I shall
in a day or two decree According to the Jury’s Verdict & Issue a Precept to the Sheriff to
sell and make distribution According to said Verdicts. (New Hampshire) OED2 sense
3 †176271
preconceive 1559 anon. The Queenes
maiesties passage through the citie of London to Westminster the daye before her
coronacion (facsimile ed. 1959) p. Aii verso This her graces louing behauiour
preconceiued in the peoples heades vpon these consideracions was then throughly
confirmed. OED2 1580
predy 1618 ( 1904 ) inEarly Dutch and English
Voyages to Spitsbergen (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. XI) (reprint 1967) p. 53 They
.. offred with weapons drawne to enter our shipp, she beinge all open and unpriddye.
Does the early occurrence of i form make the ship ready etym. even less
likely? OED2 lacks negative; predy 1625; form priddy 1867
presentens c 1496 John Stanbridge Accedence
(facsimile ed. as English Linguistics 15001800
No. 134) p. Bi verso How knowest the presentens? For he spekyth of ye tyme yt
is now. OED2 sense b 1530
presswork 1755 John Smith The Printer’s
Grammar (facsimile ed. 1965) p. 6 The Dutch .. have long since distinguish’d
themselves by neat
Presswork. OED2 1771
presscopy 1785 ( 1959 ) Thomas Jefferson Letter
to John Adams Aug. 6, 1785 in The Adams
Jefferson Letters p.37 I have retained a presscopy of this draught. OED2
1796
pressive 1680 ( 1988 ) Samuel Jeake June 28,
1680 in An Astrological Diary of the Seventeenth Century Samuel Jeake of Rye 1652
1699 p. 152 She was very pressive for me to take my leave of her Daughter that
night. Diary written from memoranda in 1694
OED2 lacks this sense
presumptory 1647 Joshua Sprigge
Anglia Rediviva IV viii p. 284 (facsimile ed. 1960) The Enemy in Worcester
returning a very high and presumptory Answer upon the Summons that was sent into
them. OED2 lacks; presumptorily 1681
pretensive 1632 T. T. The Whetstone of
Reproof
(facsimile ed. as English Recusant Literature 15581640 Vol. 361 1977) p. 105
The forme of seruice and administration of Sacraments vsed now in the
pretensiue reformed Churches. OED2 1640
preterimperfect c 1496 John Stanbridge
Accedence (facsimile ed. as English Linguistics 15001800
No. 134) p. Bi verso How knowest the preterimperfectens? For he spekyth of ye
tyme yt is lytle past without ony of thyse sygnes haue or had. My italics for clarity
OED2 1530
preterperfect c 1496 John Stanbridge
Accedence (facsimile ed. as English Linguistics 15001800
No. 134) p. Bi verso How knowest the preterperfectens? For he spekith of the
tyme yt is fully past with this sygnehad. My italics for clarity OED2 1534
preterpluperfect c 1496 John Stanbridge
Accedence (facsimile ed. as English Linguistics 15001800
No. 134) p. Bi verso How knowest ye preterpluperfectens? For he spekith of the
tyme yt is more than fully past with this sygnehad. My italics for clarity OED2 1530
prick v 1582 ( 1976 ) Richard MadoxDiary, Apr. 15, 1582,
in An Elizabethan in 1582
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. 147) p. 110 In rugh sease and rughe wynds comonly
the bigger ship goeth before but in smothe seas and with owt wynd, the lyght barks
pryck formost. OED2 lacks this sense, cf. sense 11
primitive c 1496 John Stanbridge Accedence
(facsimile ed. as English Linguistics 15001800
No. 134) p. unnum. (Aiiij +5 = Avi verso ?) Eyght [pronownes] ben primatives Ego
Tu Sui Ille Ipse Iste Hic & Is. OED2 sense 4a 1530
prince’s stuff 1787 ( 1976 ) anon. The
Adventures of Jonathan Corncob Ch. 14 p. 82 “Oh! my poor dear blue coat! my
best white dimity waistcoat! my new prince’s stuff breeches!” OED2 1814
prizer 1745 ( 1974 ) Ebenezer Parkman The Diary of
Ebenezer Parkman Apr. 16, 1745
(American Antiquarian Soc.) p. 115 The Prizers of the Personal Estate came.
OED2 sense 1 †1654
procrastinate 1612 ( 1969 ) Proc.
Virginia.. p. 54 in Jamestown Voyages under the First Charter (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd ser.
cxxxvi) p. 421 ** [= Smith 1624 quot. under procrastinating, except “this
procastinating” (with mispelling) for “ the procrastinating”] OED2 1613
procuratrix 1683 The Whores
Rhetorick (facsimile ed. 1979) p. 83 It is the custom in some of these [amorous
Inns] for the Lady Procuratrix to furnish the Whore also. Hardly OED2 “The
inmate who attends to the temporal concerns of a nunnery 1851” (Procuress 1712)
prodrome 1684 ( 1951 ) Richard Bovet
Pandaemonium , or the Devil’s Cloyster Ch. v p. 56 Aerial, or other
Prodigies .. by the most considerate men of all Ages have been acknowledged to be
the Prodroms of great Calamities, or Catastrophies. OED2 sense 1 †1651
prodromus 1641 ( 1942 ) Sir Simon D’Ewes The
Journal of Sir Simon D’Ewes (Oct. 20, 1641) p. 14 Seditious libels have ever been
accounted the Prodromi of desperate Actions. OED2 1645
profanism 1609/ 1610 ( 1957 ) Virginia Council
Instructions, orders and constitucions ... to Sir Thomas West in The Three
Charters of the Virginia Company of London (Va. 350th Anniv. Celebration Corp.) p.
73 Proceede in punishinge of all atheisme, prophanisme, popery and scisme by
exemplary punishment. OED2 rare1 1607
proleful c 1625 ( 1882 ) Nathaniel Butler ? The
Historye of the Bermudaes
(Hakluyt Soc.1st. Ser. No. LXV) p. 159 The Ilands are prolefull ynough euery waye,
and haue two haruests euery yeare.
These your prolefull islands. (1620 letter of Nathaniel Bacon
quoted p. 216) OED2 lacks; cf. prolific 1650
pronoun c 1496 John Stanbridge Accedence
(facsimile ed. as English Linguistics 15001800
No. 134) p. Avi verso How knowest thou a pronowne? For he is a parte of reason
declyned with case that is set for a propre name. OED2 1530
propugnation 1670 1671 ( 1683 ) Sir James Turner Pallas
Armata (facsimile ed. 1968) Bk. I Ch. iv p. 9 The Romans used all these Warlike
Engines at the expugnation and propugnation of Towns. OED2 †1647
prostrate 1639 ( 1944 ) Nathaniel Ward Letter, Mar.
10, 1639, in Winthrop Papers Vol. 4 p. 162 Advise throughly with the counsell
whether it will not be of ill consequence to send the Court business to the common
consideration of the freemen. I feare it will too much exauctorate the power of that
Court to prostrate matters in that manner. OED2 cf. sense 2b 1642 The
two quots. suggest some meaning more specific than the “fig. To overthrow” def. given.
protection 1596 ( 1964 ) Giles Fletcher Letter, June
30, 1596, in The English Works of Giles Fletcher the Elder p. 389 As toutching the
Blackmaile (which as they define it is nothing ells but a protection money, or a reward
pro clientela) they vtterly denye that they received any. OED2 protection
money 1923
provenue 1615 ( 1934 ) in Peter Floris, his
Voyage to the East Indies in the Globe 16111615 (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. LXXIV)
(reprint 1967) p. 112 All the tapés which wee lefte att Bantam were solde, and
the provenu for the 7[th] Voyage came to [figure omitted] R8. The journal is a translation
from the Dutch, with a number of “Dutchisms” noted by the editor. Could this be
another?
Tapés Javanese articles of clothing; R8 Reals. OED2 1640
prune 1606 ( 1943 ) Edmund Scott An Exact Discourse
in The Voyage of Sir Henry Middleton to the Moluccas (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No.
LXXXVIII)
p. 139Wee .. had our tuchboxes and pruning irons for ordinance in our hands; for if we
should [not?] have pruned our peeces, they would have cloyed, and so have fayled us
when wee should have need. Editor (Wm. Foster) footnotes pruning iron “Used for
cleaning out guns after firing.”
OED2 lacks? Is this v1 or v2?
psychomancy 1612 ( 1953 ) William Strachey
The Historie of Travell into Virginia Britania
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd Ser., No. CIII) p. 95 As the Grecian Nigromancers in their
Psychomantie did vse call vp spiritts. OED2 1652; sense 2 1684
puff 1638 ( 1944 ) Roger Williams Letter, ca June 14,
1638, in Winthrop Papers Vol. 4 p. 39 I see the vain and empty puff of all terrene
promotions. OED2 sense 6b †1606
pulque 1572 ( 1589 ) Henry Hawks inHakluyt’s
Principall Navigations (facs. ed. 1965) p. 548 The people of the Countrey [New Spain]
are .. given much to drinke both wine of Spaine and also a certeine kind of wine, which
they make with hony of Maguez, and rootes, and other things which they use to put into
the same. They call the same wine Pulco. OED2 1693
pump ship 1770 ( 1809 ) The Trial of the
British Soldiers of the 20th Regiment of Foot, for the Murder of Crispus Attucks .. [Court
transcript] (Facsimile reprint 1969) p. 24 I saw him again near the house, and
asked him what he was after;
he said he was pumping ship. OED2 sense 3b dict. 1788, use 1922
pumpbrake 1590 ( 1959 ) JamesRobinson Inventory of
the White Lion in English Privateering Voyages to the West Indies 15881595 (Hakluyt
Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. CXI) p. 77 2 pumpbrackes. OED2 a1625
pumping vbln. 1592 ( 1975 ) Thomas Cavendish The
Last Voyage of Thomas Cavendish 15911592 p. 58
(ms. p. 2v line 15) My Companye being growen weke and feble with Continuall
watcheing pumpeing and baylinge. OED2 1598
pumpkinwood 1781 ( 1986 ) Abner Sanger
Journal, Jan. 1, 1781, in Very Poor and of a Lo Make,
The Journal of Abner Sanger p. 335
We load a jag of pumpkinwood. New Hampshire OED2, DA lack; DA has
pumpkin pine 1809
pung n2 1775 ( 1986 ) Abner Sanger Journal, Feb. 13,
1775, in Very Poor and of a Lo Make,
The Journal of Abner Sanger p. 27
William Stanwood come at night with a horse pung of hayseed. New
Hampshire OED2 1840 DA 1825
punk (n3 ) 1687 ( 1965 ) John Clayton The Reverend John
Clayton (Virginia Hist. Soc.) p. 27 ** [ =c1707 quot.] Phil. Trans. 1739 clearly
dates letter as 1687 (OED2 has this date for exuberance in same quot.) OED2 lists
as c1707 (different quot. is 1705)
purposely 1585 ( 1981 ) Journal of the
Leicester, Nov. 2, 1585, in Sir Francis Drake’s West Indian Voyage 158586 (Hakluyt
Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. 148) p. 129 He sett saile agayne & .. put to the sea, the winde
beinge at that instant purposely vered southerly. OED2 sense 3 1560 only
puttock n2 1582 ( 1976 ) Richard MadoxDiary, July
24, 1582, in An Elizabethan in 1582
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. 147) p. 155 The mayn topmast was bloen down .. and
fawling to leeward dyd tear the mayn top much and hanged by the puttocks.
OED2 a1625
puttuck (piltock) 1774 ( 1963 ) John Harrower The
Journal of John Harrower Apr. 1. 1774 Catched a flying fish, it is much of the
sise and couler of a May puttuck. JH was a Shetlander. OED2 1793 and lacks this
form
puzzle v 1582 ( 1976 ) Richard MadoxDiary, July
22, 1582, in An Elizabethan in 1582
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. 147) p. 154 We had land one ech syde to leeward and
fownd our selvs so puzzeled that no man cold say where we wer. OED2 1595
puzzle 1635 Capt. Luke Foxe Northwest
Fox or Fox from the Northwest Passage
(Facsimile ed. 1965) p. 199 I pusled all this day amongst the ice. OED2
sense 2b 1817
pyracanth 1645 ( 1947 ) Robert Child Letter, Mar. 1,
1645, in Winthrop Papers Vol. 5 p. 11 I haue sent you .. some pyrocanthus trees.
OED2 1664
quare v 1636 ( 1992 ) Anne Conway Letter, Oct. 2/9,
1651, in The Conway Letters p. 38 I thinke the Grecians learned from them
[Egyptians] both naturall and morall philosophy onely they made it quare to their owne
religion. OED2 rare †1611
quarterstroke 1541 ( 1932 ) Roger Barlow A
Briefe Summe of Geographie
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. LXIX) p. 145 If thei shuld fyght iij daies together thei
wold never geve a foyne, but al quarter strokes at the hede and legges. OED2
1559
quartumvirate 1818 ( 1977 ) John Taylor Arator
Essay no. 8 p. 93 [Manufacturers, banks, bishops, feudal lords] England has
demonstrated the character of each member of this kindred quartumvirate.
OED2 1819
quat 1607 ( 1955 ) Dobsons Drie Bobbes
Ch. 3 p. 27 Goodman Goose was clean quatted, and not able to bring any further
proofe, departed a more knowne cuckolde than before. OED2 sense 1
†1590
quib n 1603 ( 1929 ) * The Batchelars Banquet
Ch. III p. 33 (orig. p. C4v) The Gossips come .. and gall him so to the quick with
their quibs and taunts, that his courage will be wholie quaild. *Anon. Editor (F. P.
Wilson) doubts attrib. to Dekker (as OED2), suggests Robert Tofte. OED2 sense 2
1656 only (and laters dicts.)
quine, yeen 1647 ( 1947 ) William Coddington Letter,
Apr. 20, 1647, in Winthrop Papers Vol. 5 p. 149
Letter, Oct. 14, 1648, in Winthrop Papers Vol. 5 p. 269 I intend to sell tenn ewes
most of them are as we calle them quine ewes, bringes two at a time, and few of them
ould.
They are all but sherings that is one yeare ould at last lambeing, and nowe yeening of
two, which is knowne by their teethe none of then haueinge aboue two brod teeth.
? OED2 lacks
quip 1687 ( 1940 ) Charles Morton
Compendium Physicae in Publ. Colonial Soc. Massachusetts Vol. XXXIII p.
164, 167
(from 1697 transcription of 1687 ms., probably first
compiled c1680) Air and a Rod struck swiftly through it, which makes a Quip.
A .. Distinction of Sound May be as to time Short, or Continued. Short as a Knock,
bounce, Quip, etc: when the impuls to the Air, and the appuls to the Ear is but one.
Could an otherwise unrecorded quip as a sound (presumably onomatopoeic) be
the primary meaning behind the common meaning “sharp or sarcastic remark” of OED2
(1532), rather than quip <quippy< L. quippe ?
quits (call it quits) 1858 ( 1953 ) Abraham
Lincoln Speech at Havana, Ill, Aug. 14, 1858, in Collected works of
Abraham Lincoln Vol. II p. 542 We will call it quits. OED2 1898 for phrase
(sense 2d.)
rack ( v3 ) 1813 ( 1966 ) John Selman Letter, Mar 18, 1813
in Naval Documents of the American Revolution Vol.2 p.633 I shipped a sea
which racked the Franklin, and set her leaking. OED2 sense 2c 1840
rade 1553 ( 1988 ) William Baldwin Beware the
Cat 3rd part p. 35Cynthia .. by means the neap abasing Thetis’ swollen face would
make her to cast beyond her those rades, which before the full the spring had caused
her to throw short. (First published 1570. Normalized spelling) OED2 1661 only,
for the rays of a starfish
radix 1818 ( 1990 ) Thomas Jefferson Report of
Commisioners for Univ.Virginia reprinted in Public and Private Papers by TJ Library
of America
p. 140[AngloSaxon] gives the radix of the mass of our language. OED2 sense
4 †1771; here refers to language more widely than individual words.
rake 1776 ( 1972 ) Brig. Gen. Benedict Arnold Letter, Aug.
31, 1776, inNaval Documents of the American Revolution Vol.6 p. 350 The Spitfire
Capt Ulmer .. could not Clear the Shore & was obliged to come to an Anchor again, &
rode out the Storm, tho exposed to the rake of Cumberland Bay. Arnold was not a
seaman, and perhaps should not be trusted for nautical terms (among other things).
OED2 lacks (cf. rake v1 sense 9a)
ralliance 1816 ( 1959 ) Thomas Jefferson Letter
to John Adams Aug. 9, 1816 in The Adams
Jefferson Letters p. 485 What a stand will it secure as a ralliance for the
reason and freedom
of the globe. OED2 1826 (also TJ)
ram v2 1647 ( 1947 ) William Coddington Letter, Oct.
14, 1648, in Winthrop Papers Vol. 5 p. 269 If yow desire to haue more whit sheepe
then blacke, then rambe your ewes with whit rambs. OED2 1688
rancheria c 1595 ( 1959 ) Report of
Cumberland’s seventh voyage in English Privateering Voyages to the West Indies 1588
1595 (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. CXI) p. 243
Which Rancheryas are the Pearle fishing places of the said Island [Margarita],
containeing Six or Seaven severall villages which they inhabitt for that purpose but not
above one of them at once. OED2 1600
rand n1 c 1752 ( 1852 ) Capt. William Coats The Geography of
Hudson’s Bay
(Hakluyt Soc. 1st. Ser. No. XI) p. 21 The tides are violently affected by those thick,
heavy, deep rands of ice, which distract them in all directions and in all gradations,
according to the bulk and depth they are immersed. OED2 sense 4 †1702
ranger 1831 Mary Prince The History of Mary
Prince p. 16. Facsimile reprint in Six Women’s Slave Narratives (1988) It was a
horrid thing for a ranger† to have sometimes to beat his own wife or sister.
†The head negro of an estate – a person who has the chief superintendance under
the manager. (On Antigua, West Indies) OED2 lacks the sense.
ranging timber 1750 ( 1916 ) JamesBirket Oct. 29,
1750, inSome Cursory Remarks Made by James Birket in His Voyage to North America
p. 46 They [New Yorkers] have also An Extensive trade to the West indies &ca ..
Lumber, of Sundry sorts as Boards, Plank, Joists, Staves & Heading, Shingles Hoops, &
Ranging Timber. OED2 1796 def.— “(?)”
rank hold 1830 ( 1962 ) Joseph P. Martin Narrative ..
reprinted as Private Yankee Doodle p.79 Our stomachs being empty the whiskey
took rank hold. OED2 Webster 1848, no quot.
rarefaction 1576 ( 1940 ) Sir Humphrey Gilbert
A discourse of a discoverie for a new passage to Cataia in The Voyages and
Colonising Enterprises of Sir Humphrey Gilbert (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. LXXXIII)
( reprint 1967) p. 145 The Tides, and courses of the sea, are maintained by their
interchangeable motions: as freash rivers are by springes, and ebbing and flowing, by
rarefaction and condensation. OED2 1603
rattan 1606 ( 1943 ) Edmund Scott An Exact Discourse
in The Voyage of Sir Henry Middleton to the Moluccas (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No.
LXXXVIII)
p. 157This tree wee digged up by the roots; which wee set in a frame, beeing made of
ratanes or carricke rishes, somewhat like a birds cage.
OED2 1660
rattan 1613 ( 1900 ) John Saris Journal, June 29, 1613,
inThe Voyage of Captain John Saris to Japan, 1613 (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No.V)
(reprint 1967) p. 94 I commaunded the boatswanes mates to bange the said
Fleming with a rotan. OED2 sense 2b 1660
rattletrap 1732 Benjamin Franklin Poor
Richard, 1733 an Almanack unpaged, verso of title (facs. in The Complete Poor
Richard Almanacks, 1970, p. 2) My Wife .. has threatened more than once to burn all
my Books and RattlingTraps (as she calls my Instruments). OED2 rattletrap
1766, lacks rattlingtrap
ravine 1779 ( 1780 ) Lieut. Gen. J. Burgoyne A
State of the expedition from Canada
p. 69
Q. Was the country, over which the army passed, intersected with a
deep ravine?
A. It was one of the deepest I ever saw.
OED2 sense 3 1781 (Geo. Washington)
We see some birds we call marling spikes, murs and rake bats.
(Jan. 3, 1715 p. 55) (Well
at sea, SW of Ireland) ?? OED2 lacks
receipt 1586 ( 1981 ) Journal of the
Leicester, Jan. 17, 1586, in Sir Francis Drake’s West Indian Voyage 158586 (Hakluyt
Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. 148) p. 155 These dayes was carried abourd the shippes good
store of wine and oyle & meale, and most of the small shippes did ride at receyt by the
key. OED2 sense 10 (only as stand at receipt )
reclamation 1775 ( 1968 ) Abraham Heyliger Letter,
Dec. 14, 1775 inNaval Documents of the American Revolution Vol.3 p. 106 This
my public reclamation .. of the aforesaid Schooner Nancy, with whatever she had on
board at the time of her being piratically carried away. OED2 sense 5 1787
recognosce 1670 1671 ( 1683 ) Sir James Turner Pallas
Armata (facsimile ed. 1968) Bk. III Ch. xv p. 261 When you send out a smaller part
for Intelligence, it must not be far, it is done when an enemy is near; these are to
discover, or as it is commonly called to recognosce. OED2 sense 3b 1637
only
recommend 1691 ( 1963 ) William Fitzhugh Letter
to Susanna Letten, Apr. 8, 1691 in William Fitzhugh and his Chesapeake World p.277
I receiv’d your letter wch. you are pleas’d to say was occasioned by the
Recommends of some friends of mine. (Although writing from Virginia to England,WF
did not use obvious Americanisms)
CHECK current Mormon usage “Temple recommend” OED2 1806 “ colloq. (orig.
U.S.)”
redshire a 1642 ( 1944 ) Sir Charles Coote Account of
his iron works, rewritten by John Winthrop Jr.,
in Winthrop Papers Vol. 4 p. 363 When it came vnder the hammer it would flye
extreamely, and hardly hold to make a bloome, and commonly was a rotten redshire,
and a staring coulshire, both in one barre without any intermixture of tuffnesse at all.
OED2 1665
reese 1638 ( 1944 ) Thomas Dudley Letter, Dec.
24, 1638, in Winthrop Papers Vol. 4 p. 86 I thancke you for your gammon of
bacon, the outsides whereof I was forct to cutt of, it smelt so restyly of the old Saxon
reesing. Old Saxon? OED2 reese 1784; lacks vbl. n.
reeve 1639 ( 1944 ) Richard Gibson Letter, Jan.
14, 1639, in Winthrop Papers Vol. 4 p. 96 Shee so behaved herselfe in the shipp ..
that the block was reaved at the mayne yard to have duckt her. OED2 1658;
reeving 1627
refractious 1633 ( 1894 ) Capt. Thomas JamesThe
Strange and Dangerous Voyage in The Voyages of Captain Luke Foxe and Captain
Thomas James (Hakluyt Soc. 1st ser. No. LXXXIX) p. 541 I haue seene the land
eleuated by reason of the refractious ayre, and neuerthelesse the Sunne hath risen
perfect round. OED2 a1691 only
refrigeratingppla. 1632 A. H. [Henry Hawkins]
Partheneia Sacra (facsimile ed. in English Recusant Literature 15581640 Vol.
81 1971) p. 21 These heats she tempers and extinguishes with the deawes of her
refrigerating grace. OED2 1633
regratulation 1638 ( 1944 ) William Tompson
Letter, May 25, 1638, in Winthrop Papers Vol. 4 p. 32 Noble Mr.
Winthroppes loue, and deare respecte is neglected of vs, and not so much as one of
Accomenticus sends him a paper schroule, in waye of acknowledgemente of his
faithfulnesse, or in the waye of regratulation or thankfulnesse. OED2 1650
regulator 1687 ( 1940 ) Charles Morton
Compendium Physicae in Publ. Colonial Soc. Massachusetts Vol. XXXIII p. 54
(from 1697 transcription of 1687 ms., probably first
compiled c1680) The Quantity or running water is to be measured by Velocity instead
of length in a determinate, and known breadth, and depth: this done by an Instrument
cal’d a Regulator (that is a long trough shuch as are at overshot mills). OED2
sense 2a 1702
Reichstag 1643 ( 1925 ) Peter Mundy The Travels
of Peter Mundy, in Europe and Asia 16081667 Rel. XXXV (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No.
LV) Vol. 4
p. 200 Hier [Warsaw] att present was held a Reichs Tag, a Parliamentt or an
assembly off the nobles about the states affaires. OED2 1867
reject 1675 ( 1893 ) Dr. John Covel Journal inEarly
Voyages and Travels in the Levant
(Hakluyt Soc.1st. Ser. No. LXXXVI) p. 182 Close to each joynt they have an
excellent mortar, .. made of unslaked lime and beaten brick, .. all slaked with linseed
oyle and mixt together, then they reject whist it is fresh made, otherwise it hardens
immediately. OED2 cf. sense 8c 1579 only
relative c 1496 John Stanbridge Accedence
(facsimile ed. as English Linguistics 15001800
No. 134) p. unnum. (Aiiij +6 = Avii ?) How knowest a Pronowne relatyf? For by hym
is some thyng shewed yt is sayd before. OED2 sense 1 (earliest sense) 1530
release 1541 ( 1932 ) Roger Barlow A Briefe
Summe of Geographie
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. LXIX) p. 102 A certene dewe clammy like honey ..
that stoured awaie it resteth hard white and pure as eny sugre and hath an excellent
swete release. OED2 1604 only
remarque (remark) 1701 ( 1977 ) William Byrd II
Letter to Sir Robert Southwell, July 26, 1701 in
The Correspondence of the Three William Byrds of Westover, Virginia p. 211 It has
been the less regret to us to tarry here [Norwich] so long, because tis a large city, and
affords a great many remarques. OED2 sense 4d rare †1678
reme n2 1541 ( 1932 ) Roger Barlow A Briefe Summe of
Geographie
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. LXIX) p. 149 Ther is another sort of fysshes called
bonytas, and be as bigge as a smal milwell, and thes swymmes alwaie a grete nomber
of them together in the reme of the water and baite upon the boladoros. OED2
a1300 only
remise 1770 ( 1914 ) Henry Cruger, Jr. Letter, Nov.
10, 1770, in Commerce of Rhode Island 17261800 Vol. 1, p. 350 I lately received
from Jamaica £100 Stg. in part of the £150 Bill I sent there to be recovered of the
Drawer on your Account. This remise is unfortunately noted for nonacceptance.
. OED2 sense 4 †1689
remount 1776 ( 1972 ) Philip Stephens Orders to
Adm. Howe, June 23, 1776, inNaval Documents of the American Revolution Vol.6 p.
434 Proceed & take under Convoy the Transports which carry .. the 16th Regt of Light
Dragoons; the Remount Horse for the 17th; And the Draught Horses for the Baggage &
Artillery of the army serving with Genl Howe. OED2 1781, attrib. 1812
remunerative 1849 ( 1986 ) Herman Melville
Redburn ch.47 Penguin ed. p.322Emigrant passengers, who as a cargo
are much more remunerative than crates and bales. OED2 sense 3 1859
remurmur 1611 Henry Fitz Simon The
Justification and Exposition of the Divine Sacrifice of the Masse (facsimile ed. in
English Recusant Literature 15581640 Vol. 108 1972) p. 224 As doggs to their
vomit, & hoggs to their myre they eftsoons returne to their remurmuring nature of
impugning agayne, and againe this point of religion. OED2 1697
renayed 1599 ( 1893 ) Thomas Dallam
Journal inEarly Voyages and Travels in the Levant
(Hakluyt Soc.1st. Ser. No. LXXXVI) p. 14 Thar be a greate number of Turks that
be but Renied cristians of all nations. OED2 †1590
rendezvous 1776 ( 1972 ) Capt. W. A. Halsted Hutchinson
Letter, Sep. 19, 1776, inNaval Documents of the American Revolution Vol.6 p.
903 The next Morning I opened my Rendezvous and found it to be for Halifax.
OED2 lacks sense of orders specifying rendezvous.
rendezvous 1777 ( 1976 ) Maryland Council of Safety
Letter, Jan. 9, 1777, inNaval Documents of the American Revolution Vol.7 p.
909 We .. are sorry to find so many of your men have left you, the only way to replace
them is to open a Rendezvous, and offer the same Pay and Terms in every respect, that
the Continent does. OED2 sense 1c †1771
renunciate 1728 ( 1974 ) Ebenezer Parkman The
Diary of Ebenezer Parkman Feb. 13, 1728
(American Antiquarian Soc.) p. 30 Mr. Flynt renunciated or openly declar’d Mr.
Greenwood Professor of Mathematicks. OED2 † sense 1 1686 only
reparatress 1632 A. H. [Henry Hawkins]
Partheneia Sacra (facsimile ed. in English Recusant Literature 15581640 Vol.
81 1971) Proem p. Aiiij Mother of God, Ladie of the World, and the true
Reparatresse of life. OED2 lacks; reparatrice 1402 only
repine 1740 ( 1974 ) Ebenezer Parkman The
Diary of Ebenezer Parkman July 24, 1740
(American Antiquarian Soc.) p. 81 The Seasonableness of the Rain may prevent
our meadow repining
for our hay. OED2 lacks this sense
replicate v 1676 ( 1964 ) Sir Thomas Browne Letter,
May 3, 1676, in The Works of Sir Thomas Browne Vol. IV p. 60 The gutts in birds
are replicated long wayes not transversely as in man. OED2 sense 3 1777
reply 1574 ( 1963 ) William Bourne A Regiment
for the Sea
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. CXXI) p. 254 Open the compasses agayne from the
center of the compas vnto the place that you do imagin to be the land, and then reply it
vnto the trunk of measure, you shall see howe many leagues you bee from the shore.
Apparently means “apply again.” The OED2 Bourne quote under sense 6 is less
clear to me, but seems to be the same, not at all the “folding back” of the OED2 def.
reshine 1611 Henry Fitz Simon The
Justification and Exposition of the Divine Sacrifice of the Masse (facsimile ed. in
English Recusant Literature 15581640 Vol. 108 1972) Our Illustrious Primat Peter
Lombard so cleerlie reshining euen in the Theatre of the world, if not aboue yet among
the brightest Prelats, for rare learning. (Epistle Dedicatory p.
a2v)
This Virgin (quoth S. Anselmus ) should reshine with that puritie, then which vnder God,
greater can not be comprehended. (p. 218) Anselmus: Virgo illa niteret. OED2
“To shine again”, but here, and in the three OED2 quots. with a fig. sense, the “again” is
not apparent.
restily 1638 ( 1944 ) Thomas Dudley Letter, Dec.
24, 1638, in Winthrop Papers Vol. 4 p. 86 I thancke you for your gammon of
bacon, the outsides whereof I was forct to cutt of, it smelt so restyly of the old Saxon
reesing. OED2 1611 dict. only
resultant 1609 ( 1957 ) Virginia Council
Instruccions orders and constituccions ... to Sir Thomas Gates in The Three
Charters of the Virginia Company of London (Va. 350th anniv. Celebration Corp.) p.
66 Whensoever you consult of any busines of importance, wee advise you ... to
heare every man his oppinion and objeccion, but the resultants out of them or your
owne determinacion what you intend to doe not to impart to any whatsoever, but to such
onely as shall execute it. OED2 lacks this sense.
Cf. “result “ sense 3 (= decision or resolution) 1647
retortive 1632 T. T. The Whetstone of
Reproof
(facsimile ed. as English Recusant Literature 15581640 Vol. 361 1977) subtitle
With .. a compendious retortive discussion of the misapplyed byway.
OED2 sense 3 1826
retraxit 1776 ( 1976 ) Connecticut General Assembly
Journal, Dec. 19, 1776, inNaval Documents of the American Revolution Vol.7
p. 520 Table of Fees ..
To the Clerk or Registrar ..
For a retraxit 0 . . 1 . . 0
OED2 †1768
reverberation 1541 ( 1932 ) Roger Barlow A
Briefe Summe of Geographie
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. LXIX) p. 12 The mydde region of the aire .. is destitute of al
causys of heate, upward it begynnyth where the heate of the fyer ceasseth, and
downeward where ceasseth the reverberation of the sonne beamys. OED2 sense
1b 146070
reverberation 1553 ( 1988 ) William Baldwin
Beware the Cat 2nd part p. 31 Noises sounded so shrill in my head by
reverberation of my ‘fined films, that the sound of them was so disordered and
monstrous that I could discern no one from other. (First published 1570.
Normalized spelling) OED2 sense 2b 1596 or 1c 1626
rice bird 1776 ( 1968 ) Capt. Andrew S. Hamond
Letter, June 10, 1776, inNaval Documents of the American Revolution Vol.5 p.
461 Most anxiously hoping that I may Soon hear you have reduced the Pride of (what
the Americans call the Carolinians) the Rice Birds. OED2 lacks use as
nickname. DA 1777
rider 1740 ( 1974 ) Ebenezer Parkman The Diary of
Ebenezer Parkman May 24, 1740
(American Antiquarian Soc.) p. 78 Mr.Daniel Warrin work’d for me .. getting Riders
for the Stone Wall. OED2 cf. sense 12d (riders for rail fence) 1836, DA 1788
(as v. 1760)
rifle 1758 ( 1972 ) Receipt, May 6, 1758, in
The Papers of Henry Bouquet
Vol. 1 p. 359 Carbines with Rifle Barrels, Steel Ramrods }
Screws, & Bayonets with Scabbards } ............. 16
Rifle Moulds ......................................................................... 16
[endorsed] Receipt for 16 Riffles. OED2 sense 2a 1770, but see slip
1644
rifled 1670 1671 ( 1683 ) Sir James Turner Pallas Armata
(facsimile ed. 1968) Bk. III Ch. x p. 209 In foreign places their shooting with
Firelocks and rifled Guns at Marks every Holyday, may make them good Firemen, and
good Marksmen, but doth not strengthen the nerves and arms of men as the Bow did.
OED2 1689
riflier (rifler) 1775 ( 1966 ) Eleazar Oswald
Journal, Sep. 25, 1775 in Naval Documents of the American Revolution Vol.2
p.200 Dispatch’d the three Companies of Rifliers with 45 days Provisions under
command of Captain Morgan. OED2 rifler 1776
ring (v2 ) c 1680 ( 1915 ) anon TheHistory of Bacon’s
and Ingram’s Rebellion, 1676
in Narratives of the Insurrections 16751690 A few such deales, or shuffles (call them
which you please) might quickly ring the cards, and game too, out of his hand. p. 57
What Arguments Grantham made use of, to ring the Sword out of Ingrams hand, to me
is not visable. p. 92 The writer was often a phonetic speller,
and this could well bewring .
It seems closest in sense, however, to OED2 ring v2 sense 13 (1812). (Could this
have been wring originally?)
ringer n1 1555 ( 1975 ) Building Account in Sidney
Ironworks Accounts 15411573
(Camden 4th Ser. Vol. 15) p. 123 Delyvered to the fornes ii ryngars waying halfe
a honderd and twynty poundes. ? Rather heavy for crowbars, or even hammers for
driving wedges. OED2 cf. sense 3
ringtail boom 1776 ( 1972 ) Journal
Mass. Sloop Tyrannicide, Aug. 23, 1776, inNaval Documents of the American
Revolution Vol.6 p. 280 We Carried away our topmast And ringtale boom.
OED2 sense 2 Attrib. 1794
rip 1759 ( 1961 ) John Adams Diary Adams
Papers Diary and Autobiog.raphy
Vol I p.97 Ripping, i. e., using the Words faith, Devil, I swear, damnable, &, displease
the Dr. OED2 sense 8a 1772
riprap a 1571 ( 1963 ) William Bourne An
Almanacke and Prognostication for three yeares ..
in A Regiment for the Sea
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. CXXI) p. 92 Betwene Folstayne and Bollayne, is a
banke that is called Ryppe Rappe, and lyeth in the midde waye betwene Piccardie and
Englande. OED2 sense 2 1669
ripsaw 1758 ( 1951 ) Col. Henry Bouquet
Equipment list, June 12, 1758, in The Papers of Henry Bouquet Vol. 2 p. 79
8 Rip Saws with files. OED2 1846
rippling 1582 ( 1959 ) Richard MadoxDiary, Aug.
3, 1582, in An Elizabethan in 1582
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. 147) p. 159 At supper we espied a ripling of the water.
OED2 1669
rockwater 1599 ( 1877 ) from Hakluyt
Voyages Vol. II, in The Voyages of Sir James Lancaster, Kt. to the East Indies
(Hakluyt Soc. Ser. 1,
No. LVI) p. 16 Nipar wine .. is .. in colour like vnto rocke water somewhat whitish.
Refers to 15914 voyage OED2 1603
rockweed 1606 ( 1877 ) Capt. John Knight Journal, May
24 & 25, 1606, in The Voyages of Sir James Lancaster .. and the Voyage of Captain
John Knight (Hakluyt Soc. Ser. 1, No. LVI) p. 284 This day we sawe much
rockweed and drift wood. OED2 1626
rode n2 1611 ( 1982 ) Inventory, in
Newfoundland Discovered
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. 160) p. 66 An ould kedger & 8 ould roades. OED2
1679
rodman 1852 ( 1953 ) Abraham Lincoln
[Testimony, Dec. 1852], in Collected works of Abraham Lincoln Vol. II p. 171.
Witness has been a civil engineer since 1835, and employed on theUtica and
Canojoharie Railroad, firstly as rodman and leveller. OED2 1853
rolling vbl. n2 1609 ( 1905 ) John Jourdain Journal, Jan.
22, 1609, in The Journal of John Jourdain, 16081617 (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No.
XVI) (reprint 1967) p. 49 Findinge a rowlinge to sea to come in out of the E. N.
E., we warped in aboute two cables length farther. OED2 sense 7 1632
rolling vbl. n.2 1687 ( 1940 ) Charles Morton
Compendium Physicae in Publ. Colonial Soc. Massachusetts Vol. XXXIII p.
167
(from 1697 transcription of 1687 ms., probably first
compiled c1680) Stroakes So Close and thick set togather that the hammer of the
Ear cannot fall down on the Anvill, after one before comes another Stroake home, this
may be perceived in the difference between the common beating and Rolling (as it’s
Cal’d) on a Drum. OED2 sense 8 1811 (roll n.2 sense 2 1688)
rolling 1842 ( 1953 ) Abraham Lincoln
Temperance address, Feb. 22, 1842, in Collected works of Abraham Lincoln Vol.
I p. 274 To have a rolling or raising, a husking or hoedown. OED2 1848
DA 1847
rondo 1844 ( 1968 ) William Johnson Diary, Jan.
15,16, 1844 in William Johnson’s Natchez
Vol 2 p. 473 Rondeau or Rondo is the Entire rage now. ..
Rondo, Rondo — to night P. Baker came up on them when they were playing and took
the man and all the money that was on the Table. OED2 sense 2 1859 DA
1849
roomy 1609 Robert Gray A Good
Speed to Virginia B3 (facsimile ed. 1937) So yt the portion which was first thought
to be roomie and large inough for them, is now too narrowe and little for them.
OED2 1627
roration 1632 A. H. [Henry Hawkins]
Partheneia Sacra (facsimile ed. in English Recusant Literature 15581640 Vol.
81 1971) p. 64 This roration or Deaw we speake of, was made in our Virginearth,
who being watered with Celestial Deaw, brings forth the Nazaraean flower.
OED2 1727 dict., no usage quot.
rosette 1639 ( 1925 ) Peter Mundy The Travels
of Peter Mundy, in Europe and Asia 16081667 Rel. XXXI (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No.
LV) Vol. 4
p. 49
For excellencies off art. .. In Westminster Abby, the like on the rossetts off the
Chappell. OED2 ? Sense 2a 1806
rote ( v2 ) 1795 ( 1959 ) John Adams Letter to Thomas
Jefferson Feb. 5, 1795 in The Adams
Jefferson Letters p.255 Those Republicans who delight in Rotations will be
gratified in all Probability, till all the Ablest Men in the Nation are roted out.
OED2 sense 2 no quot. 1697< >1806
rough n 1595 ( 1940 ) Henry Roberts Lancaster his
Allarums inThe Voyages of Sir James Lancaster to Brazil and the East Indies 1591
1603 (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. LXXXV) p. 69 Wee in the admirall, ryding a
foule and most bitter rough, were faine to shift for ourselves and put into the sea.
OED2 sense 5b 1633
round a 1595 ( 1618 ) Sir Roger Williams The Actions
of the Lowe Countries p. G2v
in The Works of Sir Roger Williams (1972) p. 92 The rest of his horsemen were in
three troupes, making Patroiles
(rounds we call it) from place to place round about the towne. OED2
sense 14 1598
rove n3 1582 ( 1959 ) William Hawkins in The
Troublesome Voyage of Captain Edward Fenton (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. CXIII)
500 Roves of Sugar. (p. 282)
Sugar was worth in Spirito Sancto 2 ducats the Roove. (p. 283)
OED2 1598
rove v2 1704 ( 1934 ) Nathaniel Davis in A New Voyage
and Description of the Isthmus of America
(Lionel Wafer) Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. LXXIII (reprint 1967) p. 159 He was out a
Roving on the Account, as the Jamaica Men call it, but it is downright Pirating, they
making their own Commissions on the Capstans. OED2 †1698
row v1 1606 ( 1877 ) Capt. John Knight Journal, June 13,
1606, in The Voyages of Sir James Lancaster .. and the Voyage of Captain John
Knight (Hakluyt Soc. Ser. 1, No. LVI) p. 289 It fell calme, and I losed and rew to the
westward with our oares. “Then we rowed and sayled” in same journal entry. OED2
pa. tense rewe †14c
rowan (n3 ) 1776 ( 1968 ) J W Stanly Invoice, Apr.11, 1776,
inNaval Documents of the American Revolution Vol.4 p. 776 15 ps Rowans 53
Ells in each
@ 12 Ps 180 . . — . . — OED2 † 1502 roan †
1696
royal 1777 ( 1780 ) Lieut. Gen. J. Burgoyne A
State of the expedition from Canada
appendix p. lxxx Lieutenant Glenie ... proposed a
conversion of the royals
(if I may use the expression) into howitzers.
( the parenthesis appears to apologize for “conversion”
rather than “royal”)
OED2 Sense B6 (=10d) (a type of mortar) 1790
We laboured in .. rubbishing our little Fort or Islet. OED2 lacks sense of
underbrush;
verb (in fig. sense only) 1953
ruffle shirt 1777 ( 1976 ) Pennsylvania
Evening Post , Feb. 17, 1777, inNaval Documents of the American Revolution Vol.7 p.
1222 Taken out of the Rising Sun beerhouse .. eight ruffle shirts. OED2 1830
runner 1684 ( 1977 ) William Byrd Letter to
Perry & Lane, Dec. 30 ,1684 in
The Correspondence of the Three William Byrds of Westover, Virginia p. 28 Shee
had a tedious passage hither, & by all reports is no runner. OED2 sense 6
1700
running 1710 ( 1977 ) William Byrd II Letter to
Hans Sloane, June 10, 1710 in
The Correspondence of the Three William Byrds of Westover, Virginia p. 275 This
comes by a running ship: but by our fleet I will endeavour to send you some raritys.
OED2 sense 12 1816
rusk 1589 Edward Hayes In Hakluyt’s
Principall Navigations ( facs. ed. 1965) p. 687 The Portingals .. did most
willingly and liberally contribute. Insomuch as we were presented .. with wines
marmalads, most fine ruske or bisket, sweet oyles and sundry delicacies. OED2
1595
rusty a3 1735 John Atkins A Voyage to Guinea,
Brazil, & the West Indies in his Majesty’s Ships, the Swallow and Weymouth (facsimile
reprint 1970) p. 77 This Advantage made him very rusty, upon what he called his Dues
from every body. OED2 sense 3 1815
rut n3 1582 ( 1976 ) Richard MadoxDiary, June 26,
1582, in An Elizabethan in 1582
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. 146) p. 147 Because the rut went somewhat hard a
shore, therfore they wold not bryng the boat a shore. OED2 1633 Note that
here and in at least 1820 quot., rut is the actual surf, not its noise.
sachemship 1645 ( 1947 ) Deed, Jan. 20,
1645, in Winthrop Papers Vol. 5 p. 4 I We Bucksham Cheif Sachem and Right Oner
of Tantiusques and all the Inland parts of the Country thereabouts have Granted and
Sold all that my said Sachemship and Country to John Winthrop Junier. OED2
1771
sack 1620 ( 1982 ) John Mason A Briefe
Discourse of the Newfoundland
in Newfoundland Discovered
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. 160) p. 96 The conueniency of transporting ..
commodities by shippes that goe sackes at ten shilling per tunne out, and thirtie
shillings home. Editor (G. T.Cell) footnotes “Ships going to the fishery in ballast.”
OED2 lacks, but has “sack ship Canad. Hist., a large vessel used for
transportation in the Newfoundland fisheries” 1732
sack 1775 ( 1964 ) Sir Charles Pratt (Lord Camden)
Debate in House of Lords, Mar. 16, 1775 in Naval Documents of the American
Revolution Vol. 1 p. 435 What are the 10,000 men you have just voted out to Boston?
Merely to save General Gage from the disgrace and destruction of being sacked in his
entrenchments. Presumably v 1; OED2 lacks fig. sense, but cf. sense 5b
18203
(and 1d 1969)
safetyvalve 1792 ( 1976 ) John Fitch Steamboat History
in Autobiography of John Fitch p. 195 The steam could not damage our works or
burst in our Boiler whilst the engine was at work, even if the safety valve was screwed
down fast. OED2 1815
sag 1585 ( 1981 ) Journal of the Leicester,
Nov. 3, 1585, in Sir Francis Drake’s West Indian Voyage 158586 (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd.
Ser. No. 148) p. 131 We were so becalmed that .. we shuld have been sagged
with the sea vppon the Lee shore. OED2 sense 5a 1628
sag v 1608 ( 1905 ) John Jourdain Journal, Sep. 19,
1608, in The Journal of John Jourdain, 16081617 (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. XVI)
(reprint 1967) p. 19 Haveinge a greate sea sagginge us to the shoare.
OED2 sense 5 1628
sag 1612 ( 1982 ) John Guy Journal, Nov. 14, 1612, in
Newfoundland Discovered
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. 160) p. 77 Perceiving that by reason of sagging in with the
smalnes of the winde we went to leewarde, we stoode out againe. OED2 sense
4a 1633 (sagging vbln. 1769) ; sense 5a (trans.) 1628, but see slip 1585
sag 1613 ( 1900 ) John Saris Journal, Apr. 13, 1613,
inThe Voyage of Captain John Saris to Japan, 1613 (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No.V)
(reprint 1967) p. 57 But little wynd, our shipp sagged in vpone the shoare.
OED2 sense 4a 1633
sagamore 1612 ( 1953 ) William Strachey The
Historie of Travell into Virginia Britania
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd Ser., No. CIII) p. 170 There came a Canoa vnto them, and in her a
Sagamo and 4. Saluadges, .. the sagamo called his nameSabenoa, and told vs how he
was Lord of the River of Sachadehoc. OED2 1613
sage 1774 ( 1957 ) Philip V. FithianJournal & Letters of
PVF Sep. 12, 1774 p. 189 A plain carriage, upper part black, lower Sage or Pea
Green. OED2 sense 5 1881
salaam v 1616 ( 1899 ) Thomas . Roe Letter, Jan.
17, 1615, in The Embassy of Sir Thomas Roe to the Court of the Great Mogul
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No.I/2) (reprint 1967) p. 113 The Turke, the last yeere sending
on Ambassage to entreate him not to assist the Persian, hee gaue him very harsh
entertainment, made him Salem to the ground. OED2 1693
sallier 1670 1671 ( 1683 ) Sir James Turner Pallas Armata
(facsimile ed. 1968) Bk. III Ch. xxv p. 330 A careful Enemy having Reserves to
attend all accidents, many times pursues the Sallyers so furiously in their retreat, that
the Beseiged are forc’d to shut their Gates against their own people. OED2
1685
sally 1683 ( 1911 ) CottonMather Diary of Cotton
Mather May 12, 1683
Vol. I p. 61 When I read or hear, anything of Importance, I would add a
pertinent Salley of Soul to Heaven upon it. (apparently a pious ejaculation
appropriate to the occasion, which CM was much exercised with) OED2 cf. sense 4
16.., 1710
saltbox 1775 ( 1986 ) Abner Sanger Journal, Feb.
28, 1775, in Very Poor and of a Lo Make,
The Journal of Abner Sanger p. 29
This evening El moves into his new saltbox house. New Hampshire OED2
sense 1c, DA 1876
salvator 1681 ( 1963 ) William Fitzhugh Letter
, June 1,1688 in William Fitzhugh and his Chesapeake World p. 244 A pair silver
Candlesticks .. One Silver Salvator plate Four silver porringers. (Reffered to as
salver following year and thereafter} OED2 lacks
samp 1633 ( 1943 ) John Winthrop Letter, Oct. 24,
1633, in Winthrop Papers Vol. 3. p. 141 Send a hogshead of meale and a sacke
of samp corne ready ground. OED2 1643
sample 1686 ( 1928 ) William Petty Letter, Apr. 8,
1686, in The Petty—Southwell Correspondence (reprinted 1967) p. 188 He readily
picks out the genius, words, action, voice and tone of any mimicable man, and can turne
his to sample them. OED2 sense 4 †1675
sarbacane 1684 ( 1951 ) Richard Bovet
Pandaemonium , or the Devil’s Cloyster Ch. vii p. 77
(quoting Brevint Saul at Endor 1674) Through a Pipe or Sarbutane, he conveyed so
dexterously this Oracle .. that Pope Coelestin took it, it seems, notwithstanding his
Infallibility, for an Angelical Warning. OED2 lacks this sense; cf. sense 2
1644 only, sense 1 1765
sarcocele a 1682 ( 1964 ) Sir Thomas Browne Letter
in The Works of Sir Thomas Browne Vol. IV p. 388 I am sorry this tumor falls out to
be a sarcocele or carnous rupture .. nor a simple sarcocele butt conjoyn’d with some
humorall tumor belowe the Dartos. OED2 1742
sargasso 1583 ( 1959 ) Edward Fenton Sea
Journal in The Troublesome Voyage of Captain Edward Fenton (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser.
No. CXIII) p. 143 Being in 18 degrees to the N of the Lyne we mett with a rock weede
much like to the Giniper with beeries on it which comes from the gulph of Mexico, which
the Portingalls call Sarragasse. OED2 1598
saucy 1782 ( 1975 ) John Adams Letter to Abigail
Adams, Oct. 12, 1782 in The Book of Abigail and John p. 331 I have sent you a
whole Piece of most excellent and beautiful Scarlet Cloth it is very Saucy.
OED2 lacks sense but cf. sassy hat 1862
saw 1592 ( 1966 ) Henry Chettle KindHarts Dreame
in Elizabethan and Jacobean Quartos
p. 12 On which [violl] (by his continuall sawing hauing left but one string) after his best
manner, hee gaue me a huntsvp. OED2 saw sense 2 c 1736; lacks
vbln. in this sense
sawyer 1784 ( 1990 ) Elizabeth House Trist Travel
diary, June 14, 1784, (p. 55) in Journeys in New Worlds p. 226 We observed the
channel on both sides to be bad on account of the fallen timber which rear their heads
above water and some of them being less steady than others. The force of the current
makes them bow, which has fix’d upon them the name of Sawyers. OED 1786
sawyer 1789 Thomas Anburey
Travels through the Interior Parts of America
in a Series of Letters (1969 facsimile ed.) Vol. I p. 452 *** OED2 quot. is fine,
but this is not a New Zealand beetle
in Virginia, USA! See DAE for probable entomol. identification.
scabshinned 1628 Francis Fletcher
The World Encompassed by Sir Francis Drake
(facsimile reprint 1966) p. 94 Great gunnes (the late inuention of a scabshind Frier
amongst vs in Europe). OED2 scabshin †1620
scale n7 1541 ( 1932 ) Roger Barlow A Briefe Summe of
Geographie
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. LXIX) p. 46 Hampton is a goodlie towne and .. when the
venetians had the trat of the spices in ther handes for then thei made there ther chief
scale, but sence that the king of portugal had the trat from calicout he removed the
scale into flandres at antwerpe. OED2 1613
John Hamond for on days labor in skopyng of the hamer whell.
Thomas Hamond for.. mendng of the skopes of the homer whell. OED2
sense 1c 1591; scooping vbl. n. 1841 (verb and
vbl. n. lack sense of “equipping with scoops.”
scope 1582 ( 1976 ) Richard MadoxDiary, June 19,
1582, in An Elizabethan in 1582
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. 147) p. 146 Our boat whch hytherto we have towed
at the stern beyng caried ageynst our poop with a sea brok hir star boord bow but
afterwards mended, she was towed agayn with more scope of rope. OED2
sense 11 1697
scope n2 c 1685 ( 1905 ) Thomas Bowrey A
Geographical Account of the Countries Round the Bay of Bengal (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd.
Ser. No. XII) (reprint 1967) p. 174 I lett dropp our best bore anchor, and veered
40 Fathoms of Cable out; I gave the Ship one Sheere, and let fall our Sheet anchor, and
veered out a considerable length or Scope of each. OED2 sense 11 1697
scot v 1690 ( 1988 ) Samuel Jeake Oath of Freeman of
the Corporation of Rye, July 2, 1690 in An Astrological Diary of the Seventeenth
Century Samuel Jeake of Rye 16521699 p. 203 My scots & lots of my goods &
chattells to the aforesaid Commonalty shall well and truly pay when I shall be thereunto
scotted or lotted. OED2 sense 2 c1750
Scotch prize 1759 ( 1973 ) AshleyBowen Journal, May
19, 1759, in The Journals of Ashley Bowen (17281813) of Marblehead (Publ. Colonial
Soc. Massachusetts Vol. XLIV) p. 68
The chase came up with us and took a Scotch prize of 7 guns. Normalized
spelling
OED2 1818
scotify 1651 ( 1984 ) H. M. Prefatory poem to
The Second Wash in The Works of Thomas Vaughan
p. 369 And yet he’s no Enthusiast, nor ally’d
To Independencie , but Scotified. OED2 1869
scowl n1 1794 ( 1986 ) Abner Sanger Journal,Jan. 13,
1794, in Very Poor and of a Lo Make,
The Journal of Abner Sanger p. 490
Clouds up, fog scowls on Monadnock all the afternoon. New Hampshire
Sanger is as flat and prosaic as they come— this should be local usage. OED2 sense
2 1648 and 1878, both appear poetic and figurative.
scrabblement 1671 ( 1965 ) Copy of a
Journal from Virginia .. in The Reverend John Clayton (Virginia Hist. Soc.) p. 73 [A
tree] cut with MA & several other scrabblements. 1671 journal copied by Clayton
and transmitted to Royal Soc. and read 1688 OED2 a1603 only (and sense differs)
scramble v 1749 ( 1988 ) Sworn information
of Samuel Marsh, in Henry Fielding A True State of the Case of Bosavern Penlez , in
Henry Fielding An Enquiry into the Causes of the Late Increase of Robbers and
Related Writings p. 54 As this Informant came up to him, and called out to him,
saying, Friend, here, come and take this Cap you have dropt , the said Man scrambled
up the rest of the Things, and ran away as fast as he could. OED 2 sense 1c
1822, but see slip Pendleton 1777
scramble 1777 ( 1967 ) Edmund Pendleton
Letters and Papers Let. to R.H. Lee Nov. 2,1777
(Va. Hist. Soc.) Vol. I p.233 A few Fishing boats scrambled up by the poor
dispised Americans. OED 2 sense 1c 1822, but see slip 1749
scratch 1830 ( 1962 ) Joseph P. Martin Narrative ..
reprinted as Private Yankee Doodle p.27 We had a considerable tight scratch with
about an equal number
of the British. (Continental army in American Revolutionary War) OED2
sense 8b 1840
scratchplatters 1774 ( 1963 ) John Harrower The
Journal of John Harrower Apr. 4. 1774 I supped on a dish called
Scratchplatters. It is made of biscuits broack small and soacked in water untill they are
soft, and then Winegar, oile, salt, and Onions cut small put to it, and supped with
spoons. (On shipboard.) OED2 lacks
scrawl 1593 ( 1964 ) Giles Fletcher Licia Sonnet
XXXIII l. 5 in The English Works of Giles Fletcher the Elder p. 98 [I wrote my sighs
and sent them to my love]
..
And thus reply’d: False Scrawle, untrue thou art,
To faine those sighes, that no where can be found. OED2 1693, but see slip
Howes 1633; verb 1611
scrawl 1633 ( 1943 ) Edward Howes Letter,
Aug. 5, 1633, in Winthrop Papers Vol. 3. p. 135 The Lord see that I am vnworthie
and vnfitt to come amonge you as yet, other wise then in some few scrawles of paper.
OED2 1693, but see slip Fletcher 1593
screw (n 3 ) 1775 ( 1964 ) William Shirreff Letter, May
29, 1775 in Naval Documents of the American Revolution Vol. 1 p. 558 Procure Hay
screws at any rate, and the whole should be carryed to a particular place most
convenient for that purpose as Also for Shiping
of it.
(WS was Qtr. Master Gen., British Army, writing from Boston to Nova Scotia asking for 3
or 4000 tons of hay. In light of “A store full of screwed hay” in a New England source
(Vol. 2 p. 883), could this be hay bales, leaving the name of this source and that of auth.
of OED2 quot. simply a strange coincidence?) ? OED2 1814 J. Shirreff Agric.
Shetld. “Orkney and Shetl. A small stack (of corn, hay or straw)”.
screwplate c 1648 ( 1898 ) William Bradford Of
Plimoth Plantation p. 287 (ms. p. 160) Some have seen them have their
scruplats to make scrupins them selves. OED2 1677
scribbling 1590 ( 1964 ) Giles Fletcher Letter, Nov. 7,
1590, in The English Works of Giles Fletcher the Elder p. 384 These scriblings I
am bold to offer to your Honours iudgement that you may censure the stile.
OED2 sense 2 1705
scruple 1581 ( 1963 ) William Bourne An
Almanacke and Prognostication for x. yeeres ..
in A Regiment for the Sea
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. CXXI) p. 374 The Sommer quarter of the yeere
beginneth the xi. day of June, at xii. a clocke xxvii min at midnight, at what time the
Sunne entreth the first scruple of Cancer. For most of the forty corresponding
events in the ten years, the sun enters the first point of the appropriate sign, for a few
the first scruple, for some the first minute, suggesting the terms were not very specific.
OED2 cf. sense 2b 1633
scud 1582 ( 1959 ) Richard MadoxDiary, July 20,
1582, in An Elizabethan in 1582
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. 147) p. 154 We .. bore agayn sowthsotheast with dyvers
scuds of rayn. OED2 sense 2b 1687
scuffle 1729 ( 1977 ) William Byrd II Letter to
Commrs. of Trade and Plantations, June 27, 1729 inThe Correspondence of the Three
William Byrds of Westover, Virginia p. 415 In many places we were forced to
scuffle through thickets. OED2 sense 3a 1784
seaadder c 1650 ( 1936 ) Peter Mundy inThe
Travels of Peter Mundy , in Europe and Asia 16081667 (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No.
LXXVIII) (reprint 1967) Vol.V p. 6 This fish by the common people is termed a
sea adder. In list of fishes of Cornwall OED2 sense 2 a1672
seacow 1656 ( 1936 ) Peter Mundy Journal,
Mar. 1, 1656, inThe Travels of Peter Mundy , in Europe and Asia 16081667 (Hakluyt
Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. LXXVIII) (reprint 1967) Vol.V p. 74 Our master gunner strucke
a monstrous fish with a harping iron, butt it brake away. Itt is named diversly: by some a
sun fish; by others a shovell mouthed; by others a sea cow; somewhat like a ray, near 10
feet in breadth betweene the end of his two finnes. Sketch identified as “the Sea
devil or devilfish, Mobula eregoodoo (Cantor)”
This suggests the name was popular , not a translation of the Greek as per 1722 quot.
OED2 sense 3 1722 only
seaparrot c 1613 ( 1881 ) Robert Fotherby? in
The Voyages of William Baffin (Hakluyt Soc. 1st. Ser. No.LXIII) p. 71 Upon this
land [Spitzbergen] ther be .. great store of white fowle, as cueluerduns, wilde geese, sea
pigeons, sea parots, willocks, stint, guls, and diuers others. OED2 1664
seapigeon c 1613 ( 1881 ) Robert Fotherby? in
The Voyages of William Baffin (Hakluyt Soc. 1st. Ser. No.LXIII) p. 71 Upon this
land [Spitzbergen] ther be .. great store of white fowle, as cueluerduns, wilde geese, sea
pigeons, sea parots, willocks, stint, guls, and diuers others. OED2 1620
seaswallow 1656 ( 1936 ) Peter Mundy Journal,
June 7, 1656, inThe Travels of Peter Mundy , in Europe and Asia 16081667 (Hakluyt
Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. LXXVIII) (reprint 1967) Vol.V p. 84 Pittrells flying and playing
to and fro, chirping like swallowes, beeing aboutt the same bignesse, shape and
coullour, soe that they may more fittly bee termed seaswallowes. Footnote: “Probably
a form of the whitefaced stormpetrel (Pelagodroma marina )” OED2 sense 2c
1647 dict. (not clearly this bird)
seaturn c 1595 ( 1959 ) Report of
Cumberland’s seventh voyage in English Privateering Voyages to the West Indies 1588
1595 (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. CXI) p. 252The Nexte Morneing they had the Sea
turne, they sett saile and came in and Anchored within Caliver shott of the Spanish
Shippes. OED2 1627
secation 1640 ( 1944 ) Edward Howes Letter,
May 12, 1640, in Winthrop Papers Vol. 4 p. 242 You may passe from any parte of
the Circumference to an other, without obstacle of Earth or secation of lynes.
OED2 1656
Like cozoning fellowes .. they theeuishly departed ..whilst she was gone to fill their shot
pot. (p. 76) OED2 1664
shotboard 1690 ( 1906 ) Samuel Pepys Memoires
Relating to the State of the Royal Navy of England
(reprinted 1971) p. 11 Thei r whole sides more disguis’d by Shotboards nail’d,
and Plaisters of Canvas pitch’d thereon (for hiding their Defects, and keeping them
above Water ). Hyphen at line end OED2 †1633
shroff 1615 ( 1939 ) Edward Dodsworth in
TheVoyage of Nicholas Downton to the East Indies16141615 (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser.
No. LXXXII) (reprint 1967)
p. 87 The Generall thoughte fittinge to sende me with a letter to the Nabab, ymportinge
of this unfriendlie intertainmente .. forbidinge the shroffes to chainge our monies into
that species. OED2 1618 HobsonJobson 1614 (as sarafe )
shrouding vbl. n.3 1768 ( 1973 ) AshleyBowen
Journal, July 9, 1768, in The Journals of Ashley Bowen (17281813) of
Marblehead (Publ. Colonial Soc. Massachusetts Vol. XLIV) p. 181 Received a suit of
rigging [from] Mr. Tedder for Mr. Man’s sloop, viz.. two stays, a coil of shrouding, two
coils of 3yarn spun yarn, and a small coil of twothread worming. Normalized spelling
OED2 1890 Here and elsewhere Bowen clearly means “material for shrouds”
Shrowsbury (Shrewsbury) cake a 1706 ( 1981 )
A Booke of Sweetmeats recipe 146 in Martha Washington’s Booke of
Cookery p. 313 To make Shrowsbury cakes. OED2 1728
shrub ( n2 ) a 1706 ( 1981 ) A Booke of Sweetmeats
recipe 265 in Martha Washington’s Booke of Cookery p. 391 To make shrub.
Take one quart brandy & a quart of white wine, & a quart of spring water. mix them
together then slice leamons, & put in with a pound of sugar. Stir .. OED2 1747
shuffle 1700 ( 1981 ) Edmond Halley Journal, Apr.
13, 1700, in The Three Voyages of Edmond Halley in the Paramore (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd
ser. vol. 156)
p. 183 We had very little Winds this 24h and for the most part Calme, Shuffling all
round the Compass. OED2 Sense 10b †1697
sift 1612 ( 1989 ) W. S. A Funerall Elegye line
143, facsimile in Donald W. Foster Elegy by W. S. , a Study in Attribution Some
.. haue stroue to win
Iustice by wrong; and sifted to imbane
My reputation, with a witlesse sinne. Foster glosses: “sifted to embane ] searched
out how to poison” OED2 presumably cf. sense 3c, but lacks construction sift to [verb]
significatrix n2 1694 ( 1988 ) Samuel Jeake July 22, 1675
in An Astrological Diary of the Seventeenth Century Samuel Jeake of Rye 16521699
p. 129 I observed a Significatrix in the 2nd house Venus directed to the very same
Promittor, to signify a Gift in Gold. Diary written from memoranda in 1694
Significatrix apparently used of feminine planets. OED2 †1653
silk grass 1588 Thomas Hariot A briefe and
true report of the new found land of Virginia
p. B1 Silke of grasse or grasse silke.
There is a kind of grasse in the countrey uppon the blades whereof there groweth very
good silke in forme of a thin glittering skin to bee stript of. OED2 1620
simile v 1635 Capt. Luke Foxe Northwest Fox or
Fox from the Northwest Passage
(Facsimile ed. 1965) p. 200
The land .. lay like a Ridge, or to Simily it, much like the Retyres, in the mouth of
the River of Saine in Normandie. OED2 1727
simple 1615 ( 1934 ) in Peter Floris, his
Voyage to the East Indies in the Globe 16111615 (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. LXXIV)
(reprint 1967) p. 87 I receyved a letter from Thomas Brette with simple newes, fyrste,
that they were come to a dead markett; secondly, that John Persons is growen
franticque. Editor (W. H. Moreland) suggests the obsolete sense 8. OED2
sense 8 †c1477
singe 1582 ( 1976 ) Richard MadoxDiary, May 8, 1582,
in An Elizabethan in 1582
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. 147) p. 131 Hear lost we agayn our tynker and a
carpenter and I know not whom els, so that I muse why the masters that wyth such
feloes have so oft byn synged wil suffer any to go ashore. OED2 lacks fig.
sense; cf. burn sense 14f 1655
sink 1723 ( 1974 ) Ebenezer Parkman The Diary of
Ebenezer Parkman Aug. 20, 1723
(American Antiquarian Soc.) p. 3 From this Hill we Sunk a little to a Country
House. OED2 lacks sense of simply descend
skid 1777 ( 1980 ) South Carolina Navy Board Letter,
Apr. 11, 1777, inNaval Documents of the American Revolution Vol.8 p.324 You’l
Receive Two Eighteen pounders (Carriage Guns to be Mounted on board the Galley you
are Building for this State, .. We think they may be fitted on Skids in such manner as to
point at least two points on Either Bow. OED2 sense 2c (?) 1782
skippish 1778 ( 1986 ) Abner Sanger Journal, Dec.
20, 1778, in Very Poor and of a Lo Make,
The Journal of Abner Sanger p. 222
A little girl is there, comes out by the little bars and looks skippish and airy.
OED2 1576 only
skit n2 1737 Benjamin Franklin Poor
Richard, 1738 an Almanack unpaged, verso of title (facs. in The Complete Poor
Richard Almanacks, 1970,
p. 122) I open’d it [the almanack], to see if he had not been flinging some of his
old Skitts at me. OED2 sense 2 dict. 1727, usage 1779
skulk 1775 ( 1966 ) Capt. Bernard Romans Letter,
Nov. 16, 1775 in Naval Documents of the American Revolution Vol.2 p. 1047 The
helping of the oxen is the finest skulking berth our laborers can find. OED2 sense
2c 1781
skulker 1783 ( 1969 ) William Williams Mr.
Penrose The Journal of Penrose, Seaman p. 270 He acted the downright Skulker
on board of a Man of War, alway at hand when anything was to bee shared.
OED2 sense 1b 1785 (dict.); 1826 (use)
skullcap 1638 ( 1919 ) Peter Mundy The Travels
of Peter Mundy, in Europe and Asia 16081667 Rel. XXIX (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No.
XXXV) Vol. 3 p. 385 Some allsoe, both Men and weomen, weare little
scullcappes woven like Mattes, others off Cotton, and one I saw with such an Anticke
beard postizo. (On Madagascar) OED2 1682
slack (or slackwater) 1609 ( 1905 ) John Jourdain
Journal, Sep. 5, 1609, in The Journal of John Jourdain, 16081617 (Hakluyt
Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. XVI) (reprint 1967) p. 124 There was newes that a
Portugall frigatt [was] comeing within the barre, which made us to make hast to rowe up
as farr as wee could, beinge nowe a slacke water. OED2 slack sense 5c
1670; slackwater 1769
slapping c 1776 ( 1968 ) The Yankeys
Return from Camp [Yankee Doodle ] broadside, inNaval Documents of the
American Revolution Vol.4 p. 26 He got him on his meeting clothes,
Upon a slapping stallion. OED2 sense 2a 1828
slash 1776 ( 1972 ) Continental Marine Committee
Minutes , Sep. 5, 1776, inNaval Documents of the American Revolution Vol.6
p. 715 Resolved That the Uniform of the Officers in the Navy of the United States be as
follows.
Captains Blue Cloth with Red Lappels, Slash Cuff, Stand up Collor.
OED2 sense 3b 1799
slatch 1613 ( 1905 ) John Jourdain Journal, May 19,
1613, in The Journal of John Jourdain, 16081617 (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. XVI)
(reprint 1967) p. 280 Haveinge a slatch of a faire winde wee went to our first
roade. OED2 sense 2b a1625
slatch 1783 ( 1969 ) William Williams Mr. Penrose
The Journal of Penrose, Seaman p. 171 Now, thinks I, this is a fair Slatch for me
to begin, beter late than never. OED2 †1769 (and lacks fig. use)
slaunt (slant) (n2 ) 1777 ( 1986 ) Capt. Joshua Rowley, R.
N. Letter, June 16, 1777, inNaval Documents of the American Revolution Vol. 9 p.
403 The Wind being Contrary to my return, I haul’d away to the Westward
in hopes of a favourable Slaunt. OED2 1823 and lacks this form
slaved 1735 John Atkins A Voyage to
Guinea, Brazil, & the West Indies in his Majesty’s Ships, the Swallow and Weymouth
(facsimile reprint 1970) p. 175 When we are slaved and out at Sea, it is commonly
imagined, the Negroes Ignorance of Navigation, will always be a Safeguard.
OED2 sense 2 1796 only
slaving 1735 John Atkins A Voyage to
Guinea, Brazil, & the West Indies in his Majesty’s Ships, the Swallow and Weymouth
(facsimile reprint 1970) p. 107 At Anamaboo our private Ships finish their Slaving,
few or none being got downward, till you reach Whydah. OED2 1862
sling (n5) 1777 ( 1976 ) Lieut. John TrevettJournal , inNaval
Documents of the American Revolution Vol.7 p. 959 We had but one gang cask
of water on board, we had plenty of good rum and sugar, knowing that sailors liked a
sling or canhook, such bitter cold weather.
They says, “make a sling, well to the northward,” I immediately told my shipmate Tom ..
to get the water, whilst I would get the rum and sugar ready. Date of journal not cited,
but usage reflects 1777 date of event.
“Northward” and “canhook” are mysterious, but suggest sling started as sailors’ slang.
OED2 1792
sloughy (a1 ) 1705 ( 1972 ) Sarah Kemble Knight
Journal p. 38 Had a pretty difficult passage .. by reason of the sloughy
ways then thawed by the Sunn. OED2 1724
smack n3 1640 ( 1925 ) Peter Mundy Journal, Sep.
26, 1640, inThe Travels of Peter Mundy, in Europe and Asia 16081667 Rel. XXXIII
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. LV) Vol. 4 p. 89
I tooke passage on a Smacke for Coningsberg. OED2 1684
smartticket 1743 Capt. Christopher Middleton
A Vindication of the Conduct of Captain Christopher Middleton (facsimile reprint
1967) p. 22 It is known how many of these poor Creatures .. are solliciting for Smart
Tickets, most of which will, I fear, be for ever unserviceable to their Country and to
themselves. OED2 1801
smoke 1611 ( 1989 ) Sir Thomas Roe Letter
inEnglish and Irish Settlement on the River Amazon 15501646 (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd Ser.,
No. 171) p. 153 I am now .. arrived at Port d’espagne in the Island of Trinidad,
where there are 15 sayle of ships freighting smoke, English French and Dutch.
OED2 sense 5 a(a) 1612
smokesail 1787 ( 1976 ) anon. The Adventures of
Jonathan Corncob Ch. 3 p. 18 Unfortunately our mizzentopgallent staysail bow
line,
and smokesail halyards were shot away. OED2 1805
smooth n 1609 ( 1905 ) John Jourdain Journal, Sep.
4, 1609, in The Journal of John Jourdain, 16081617 (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. XVI)
(reprint 1967) p. 122 Betwixt the breach wee perceyved a smooth, towards the
which we steered. OED2 sense 1c 1840
Smyrna 1640 ( 1944 ) Bill, May 28, 1640,
in Winthrop Papers Vol. 4 p. 242 42 li. of smirna raysons at 30s per C
00 11 03 OED2 1735
Smyrna 1776 ( 1976 ) Massachusetts Board of War
Minutes, Dec. 2, 1776, inNaval Documents of the American Revolution Vol.7 p.
346 Articles of the Julius Caesar ’s Cargo .. 77 Casks Smerneys (Another cargo list
has 77 casks of raisins) OED2 sense b 1845
snap 1840 ( 1968 ) William Johnson Diary, Feb.
7, 1840 in William Johnson’s Natchez
Vol I p. 277 I told Her that I came to get my Hog that she had and she then told me
that Mr Soria Bot the Hogs, and that the Hog was hers. .. — Oh what a palpaple snap.
OED2 sense 12e 1844
snow shoeing 1809 Capt. Lemuel
Roberts Memoirs (facsimile reprint 1969) p. 66 It was very heavy
snow shoeing. snowshoe (v ) OED2 1880; snowshoeing (vbl. n. ) OED2
1890, DAE 1882
so and so 1615 ( 1934 ) in Peter Floris, his
Voyage to the East Indies in the Globe 16111615 (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. LXXIV)
(reprint 1967) p. 39 Deceased Mr Thomas Smith, masters mate, an excellent
astronomer and seaman, whereby wee had a great losse, for the reste, God Hee
knoweth, are but so and so. OED2 sense B1 16556
solak 1594 ( 1931 ) John Sanderson in The Travels of
John Sanderson
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. LXVII) p. 82 In Constantinople ar resident:
..
Solacks, his footemen 300 OED2 1678
soldier money 1746 ( 1974 ) Ebenezer Parkman
The Diary of Ebenezer Parkman Dec. 17, 1746
(American Antiquarian Soc.) p. 146 My Sallery Should be that Money which pass’d
before the Soldier Money (in 1744) was made. (Massachusetts. 1744 was King
George’s War) Not soldier money of OED2
some 1603 ( 1929 ) * The Batchelars Banquet
Ch. I p. 7 (orig. p. A3v) We had no great store of household stuffe, but were fain to
buy it afterward by some and some, as God sent money *Anon. Ed. doubts attrib. to
Dekker (as OED2), suggests Robert Tofte. OED2 †1602
somewhat 1632 T. T. The Whetstone of
Reproof
(facsimile ed. as English Recusant Literature 15581640 Vol. 361 1977) preface p.
a3 verso I did soma’t doubt whether the knight could be so versed in our Roman
divines as .. the penner appeeres to be.
Our aduersarie yet somat more corruptedlie then before traduceth.
(p. 139)
OED2 b form (summat etc.) >18c dial. only
sordity 1632 A. H. [Henry Hawkins]
Partheneia Sacra (facsimile ed. in English Recusant Literature 15581640 Vol.
81 1971) p. 182 How then, O mysterious Hen, louest thou dust so wel, hating al
fowlnes and sordities so much? OED2 lacks
sortable 1686 ( 1963 ) William Fitzhugh Letter
to John Cooper, Apr 22, 1686 in William Fitzhugh and his Chesapeake World p. 196
I sold 13 .. 6 P Cent in goods sortable. (“..” in text, not my ellipsis) OED2
sense 3 1727
sounding 1582 ( 1976 ) Richard Madox in An
Elizabethan in 1582
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. 147) p. 279 Wher our admyral ship was in the Commision
called the Beare Galleon they thowght it wold be a name more sownding and
significative to cawl her the Galleon Leicester. OED2 sense 2a 1683
south (v ) 1700 ( 1981 ) Edmond Halley Journal, Jan. 19,
1700, in The Three Voyages of Edmond Halley in the Paramore (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd ser.
vol. 156)
p. 155 The wind Southing upon us we could make no better of it than a Correct
Course S 40 E. 69 Miles. OED2 Sense 2 1725
souther 1606 ( 1943 ) The Last East
Indian Voyage in The Voyage of Sir Henry Middleton to the Moluccas (Hakluyt Soc.
2nd. Ser. No. LXXXVIII) p.6 It began to be gustie weather and the wind to souther
upon us.
OED2 16289
span 1585 ( 1981 ) Journal of the Leicester,
Oct. 18, 1585, in Sir Francis Drake’s West Indian Voyage 158586 (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd.
Ser. No. 148) p. 122 We had two great gustes and showers of raine in so much yt
we tooke in our topsaile & sprittsaile and spanned hence before the sea. Is this v1 in
some sense cf. 7 or 8, or v2 meaning something like
“run with rigging spanned” in sense 4 (1781), or is it spoon ?
spanfull 1541 ( 1932 ) Roger Barlow A Briefe
Summe of Geographie
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. LXIX) He hath a grete foule nose his eyes very
spanfull and his face verie cruell. (p. 140)
A grete idoll of the figure of the devill made very spanfulle. (p. 142) Editor (E. G. R.
Taylor) footnotes “terrible.”
OED2 lacks
spangle 1608 ( 1969 ) Capt. John Smith A true
relation .. in Jamestown Voyages under the First Charter (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd ser. cxxxvi)
p.171 The rockes being of a grauelly nature, interlaced with many vains of glistring
spangles. OED2 sense 3 1611
spark 1637 ( 1883 ) Thomas Morton New English
Canaan p. 160 They lay their store in greate baskets (which they make of Sparke).
Footnote: “Spart,” Mr. [J. Hammond] Trumbull writes “was a northern English
name for the dwarfrush, and (as ‘spart’ in the glossaries) for osiers, and I guess,
Morton’s and Josselyns’s sparke is another form of that name.” OED2 lacks
sparrowbill 1627 ( 1929 ) Henry Winthrop Letter, Oct.
15, 1627, in Winthrop Papers Vol. 1 p 362 If you here of a ship that toucheyes here
than that you woold send me ouer .. 5 thousand of sparow billes. OED2 1629;
sparable a 1627
sparse 1786 ( 1991 ) George Washington in
David Humphreys’ “Life of General Washington , with GW’s “Remarks “ p.18 The
folly & consequence of opposing compact bodies to the sparse manner of Indian
fighting in the woods. OED2 sense closest to 2b 182832 or 3 1801
sparse 1818 ( 1990 ) Thomas Jefferson
Report of Commisioners for Univ.Virginia reprinted in Public and Private Papers
by TJ Library of America
p. 138A sparse population would not, within such a compass, furnish subjects sufficient
to maintain a school. OED2 sense 2b(a) 182832 Webster, 1841 quot.
spat 1775 ( 1986 ) Abner Sanger Journal, May 25,
1775, in Very Poor and of a Lo Make,
The Journal of Abner Sanger p. 45
Afternoon El and Farnum has a spat or wrangle with Ezra Davis
and Stanwood. New Hampshire OED2, DA 1804
spatter 1632 A. H. [Henry Hawkins]
Partheneia Sacra (facsimile ed. in English Recusant Literature 15581640 Vol.
81 1971) p. 144 Let them wind the Cornet, .. runne diuisions on the Harpsicon or
Virginals: Let them pay the Violin as much as they wil, spatter the Lute, touch the
Orpharion. Was there some list of elegant terms for playing different instruments, like
those for groups of animals or carving of meats? OED2 lacks this (rather far
fetched) sense
specklewood 1618 ( 1989 ) Customs
book, Dartmouth, inEnglish and Irish Settlement on the River Amazon 15501646
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd Ser., No. 171) p. 188 Centu octaginta quinq endes Speckled wood
xxxl os od. OED2 1619
speckstone 1776 John Seiferth Metallurgic
Chymistry [translated from the German of
C. E. Gellert by John Seiferth] p. 9 Speckstone (bacon stone) which is somewhat
transparent, hard, and variously coloured. OED2 1794
speculatist 1778 ( 1967 ) Edmund Pendleton
Letters and Papers Let. to W. Woodford June 27,1778
(Va. Hist. Soc.) Vol. I p.260 No Speculatist could be called incredulous, for
supposing it next to Impossible that we should so soon have brought our [financial]
affairs to their present promising Condition. OED 2 sense 2 1812
spell 1632 A. H. [Henry Hawkins] Partheneia
Sacra (facsimile ed. in English Recusant Literature 15581640 Vol. 81 1971) p. 262
Hercules had thought, he had set a spel to the world, when he set vp his Pillar
so, in the then vtmost Spanish Gades. OED2 lacks sense of “limit” for any
spell.
spelt n2 1612 ( 1953 ) William Strachey The Historie
of Travell into Virginia Britania
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd Ser., No. CIII) p. 79 By their howses, they haue sometymes A
Scaene or high Stage raised like a Scaffold, of small Spelts, Reedes, or dryed Osiers
covered with Matts. OED2 †1585
spence 1612 ( 1953 ) William Strachey The
Historie of Travell into Virginia Britania
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd Ser., No. CIII) p. 88 Their building having Commonly the dore
opening into the east, and
at the west end a Spence or Chauncell separated from the body of the Temple with
hollow wyndinges and pillers. Sense is of an inner chamber, no food storage
involved. OED2 cf. sense 2 (Sc. ) 1783
spicula 1748 Henry Ellis A Voyage to
Hudsons Bay by the Dobbs Galley and California (facsimile ed. 1967) p. 171 In the
Winter, the air is full of an infinite Number of icy Spicula. OED2 sense 1b
1783
spider catcher 1775 ( 1966 ) Elbridge Gerry Letter,
Dec. 4, 1775 in Naval Documents of the American Revolution Vol.2 p. 1262 The
late Act & Resolve for fitting out armed Vessels .. already animated the Inhabitants of
the Seaports who were unable to command much property, to write in Companies of
twenty or thirty Men & go out in Boats of 8 & 10 Tons Burthen which they call “Spider
Catchers.” (Massachusetts) OED2 sense 1 “ a vague term of abuse” last quot.
1711
spill n2 1687 ( 1940 ) Charles Morton
Compendium Physicae in Publ. Colonial Soc. Massachusetts Vol. XXXIII p. 53
(from 1697 transcription of 1687 ms., probably first
compiled c1680) The other end [of a logline] with all the length is round a rundle that
runs round a spill. OED2 sense 3 1730
spire 1738 ( 1974 ) Ebenezer Parkman The Diary of
Ebenezer Parkman May 25, 1738
(American Antiquarian Soc.) p. 47 Mr. Livermore put down the New Box .. into the
Pump, on the long Spire that it might work in the lower part of the Pump. OED2
spear n3 1729 has etym. given as var. of spire n3 (why not n2?), but spire itself
unattested in this sense.
spirketting 1690 ( 1906 ) Samuel Pepys Memoires
Relating to the State of the Royal Navy of England
(reprinted 1971) p. 10 Decays contracted in their Buttocks, Quarters, Bows, Thick
stuff without Board., and Spirkettings upon their Gundecks within. OED2
1769
spissy 1821 ( 1981 ) Owen Chase Narrative of the
Most Extraordinary and Distressing Shipwreck of the Whaleship Essex in T. F.
Heffernan Stove by a Whale p. 42 The night was spissy darkness itself; the sky
was completely overcast. OED2 †1683
spit 1615 ( 1971 ) Capt. William Keeling Journal, Sep.
13, 1615, in The East India Company Journals of Capt. William Keeling and Master
Thomas Bonner, 16151617 p. 105 All heerabout is oaze, except the very spitts of
sand.
The sholdest water lyes at a spitt from the s[ai]d so[uth] p[oi]nte of the wester sand. ..
Shun another spitt or shoald lying off the maine of Swalle. (Jan. 10, 1616 p. 122)
OED2 sense 6 1673
splitter (spilter) 1610 ( 1982 ) John Guy Letter, in
Newfoundland Discovered
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. 160) p. 63 For fishinge I thinke fitt that a ship of an
hundred and fiftie tunns were sent hether, with only thirtie fishermen and four Spilters,
there are here already eight that are fishermen, and one spilter. Journal, John Guy,
1612 (p. 74): The savages .. presented vnto him .. a spilting knife.
Nicholas Guy, c1628: The spilter and the header (p. 248) OED2 sense 1b 1623
Metathesis not in OED2
splot 1582 ( 1959 ) Richard MadoxDiary, Aug. 18,
1582, in An Elizabethan in 1582
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. 147) p. 167 His bad cote was noe more patcht than wer his
bare leggs splotted. OED2 lacks; splotty 1382, splotch 1601
spotted fever 1638 ( 1944 ) Thomas Dudley
Letter, Dec. 11, 1638, in Winthrop Papers Vol. 4 p. 86 There was one
heere to day of waymouth .. whoe reported that there are 60 persones sicke there of the
spotted feaver. OED2 sense 3a 1650
spout v 1599 ( 1893 ) Thomas Dallam Journal
inEarlyVoyages and Travels in the Levant
(Hakluyt Soc.1st. Ser. No. LXXXVI) p. 11 We saw 2 or 3 greate monstrus fishis or
whales, the which did spoute water up into the eayere, lyke as smoke dothe assend out
of a chimnay. OED2 sense 1b 1796, but see slip Fletcher 1628
spouting vbl. n. 1628 Francis Fletcher The
World Encompassed by Sir Francis Drake
(facsimile reprint 1966) p. 34 High and steepe grey cliffes, fulle of blacke starres,
against which the sea beating, sheweth as it were the spoutings of Whales.
OED2 spout sense1b 1796,but see slip Dallam 1599 ; vbl. n. (of whales 1796)
spray c 1648 ( 1898 ) William Bradford Of Plimoth
Plantation ch. 10, p. 101 (ms. p. 50) The weather was very could, & it frose so hard
as ye sprea of ye sea lighting on their coats, they were as if they had been glased.
In Nathaniel Morton’s New Englands Memoriall rewrite (1669), this was printed
spra.
OED2 spry 1621; spray 1726
spreckled 1611 Henry Fitz Simon The
Justification and Exposition of the Divine Sacrifice of the Masse (facsimile ed. in
English Recusant Literature 15581640 Vol. 108 1972) p. 15 The Altar is
spreckled with pretiouse stones.
OED2 no quot. 1535< >1786
springer n3 1687 ( 1940 ) Charles Morton
Compendium Physicae in Publ. Colonial Soc. Massachusetts Vol. XXXIII p. 58
(from 1697 transcription of 1687 ms., probably first
compiled c1680) This is the motion out through an hole .. in the End of a pipe turn’d
upwards .. whereby are made those springers in artificial fountains. OED2 1601
only (why not only a sense of n1?)
spuddle 1674 ( 1988 ) John Josselyn Two Voyages
to New England p. 116
(1988 ed. as John Josselyn, Colonial Traveler p. 83) They go out in a field or garden
with a Birchendish, and spudling the earth about the roots, for they lye not deep, they
gather their dish full
[of grubs]. OED2 sense 2 1805
spur rial 1582 ( 1976 ) Richard MadoxDiary, Jan. 4,
1582, in An Elizabethan in 1582 (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. 147) p. 72 My brother
gave me an ymperial rial and my sister a spur riol. OED2 1588
squadron 1618 William Cape The
Chronicle and Institution of the Order of .. S. Francis
(transl. of original of Marcos Da Silva) (facsimile ed. as English Recusant Literature
15581640 Vol. 357 1977)
p. 182 He saw on a tree a great nomber of birdes of diuers kindes, and hard by
them an other squadron. OED2 sense 6 (of nonmilitary persons) 1617,
( of things) 1668; never of birds or beasts.
squalidness 1628 Francis Fletcher The
World Encompassed by Sir Francis Drake
(facsimile reprint 1966) p. 66 Hence comes the generall squalidness and
barrennesse of the countrie. OED2 1727
squall n2 1755 ( 1935 ) Charlotte Brown Journal, Jan. 12,
1755, in Colonial Captivities, Marches and Journeys p. 170 A great Squall on Deck
between Mr. Cherrington and Capt. Browne, it began about the loss of some water
gruel. OED2 sense 2 1813
square 1612 ( 1905 ) John Jourdain Journal, May
6, 1612, in The Journal of John Jourdain, 16081617 (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. XVI)
(reprint 1967) p. 213 They were from this time forward soe crosse thone to the
other as yf they had bene enymies, yet still they conferd together, but alwaies att
square. OED2 sense 19 †1602
squid 1578 ( 1589 ) Anthony Parkhurst Letter in
Hakluyt’s Principall Navigations (facsimile ed 1965) p. 675 There are .. also a fish like
a Smelt which commeth on shore, and another that hath the like propertie, called a
Squid.
For the Squid, whose nature is to come by night as well as by day, I tell them I set a
candle to see his way. In Newfoundland OED2 1613
stack 1637 ( 1943 ) Brampton Gurdon Letter, Apr.
11, 1634, in Winthrop Papers Vol. 3 p. 386 The parson hearring him he and his
man cam feuryously[,] the on[e] with a pichforcke and the man with a hege stack.
After coum the man and gaue him a blou with the stacke but not so mortal. ?
OED2 apparently lacks
stack 1776 ( 1972 ) Gov. Jonathan Trumbull Letter,
Oct. 15, 1776, inNaval Documents of the American Revolution Vol.6 p. 1272 It will
by no means answer to build another Stack at that place as the Water will now but just
Answer. (Iron furnace, Connecticut) OED2 sense 5b 1825
stand up 1776 ( 1972 ) Continental Marine Committee
Minutes , Sep. 5, 1776, inNaval Documents of the American Revolution Vol.6
p. 715 Resolved That the Uniform of the Officers in the Navy of the United States be as
follows.
Captains Blue Cloth with Red Lappels, Slash Cuff, Stand up Collor. OED2
1812
standoff 1838 ( 1968 ) William Johnson Diary,
May 29, 1838 in William Johnson’s Natchez
Vol I p. 231 Mr Dumax and Mr Maxent had a fight Last night, One of the hardest Kind,
and they made a stand off for Neither of them got whiped. OED2 sense 3
1843
star fort 1777 ( 1780 ) Lieut. Gen. J. Burgoyne
A State of the expedition from Canada
appendix p. xxvii Upon the summit, which is Table Land,
was a star fort, made of pickets, and well supplied with artillery, and a large square of
barracks within it.
OED2 1704 dict. 1783 quot.
star shot 1776 ( 1972 ) Gov. Jonathan Trumbull
Letter, Oct. 11, 1776, inNaval Documents of the American Revolution Vol.6 p.
1219 We have the Round, but double headed, Chain Sliding and Starr Shot we have
none. OED2 sense 2 †1769 glossary only
steadable 1670 1671 ( 1683 ) Sir James Turner Pallas
Armata (facsimile ed. 1968) Bk. III Ch. xvii p. 271 In none of these three [cases]
can the Reserve be steedable if there be not ground for it to advance, to draw up, and to
fight.
In ancient times a General of an Army chose to stand where he pleas’d, and where he
though his presence could be most steadable.
(Bk. III Ch. xxii p. 305) JT
was Scottish, and allowed occasional Scoticisms into his book. OED2 †1656
steerage 1773 ( 1993 ) William Mylne Letter, Aug.
29, 1773, in Travels in the Colonies in
17731775 p. 14 I told him I wanted to go as a steerage passenger, and to know the
terms and accomodation I could have. OED2 sense 5 1804, steerage
passenger 1822
stell n6 1687 ( 1940 ) Charles Morton
Compendium Physicae in Publ. Colonial Soc. Massachusetts Vol. XXXIII p.
158
(from 1697 transcription of 1687 ms., probably first
compiled c1680) Every little bubble (a multitude of which makes froth) gives its Vivid
reflection (or stell) from one point as all Globular Polites doe; these Stells being set
togather appear to the Eye as one plain light. OED2 apparently n6 (1657
only); if so def. “? an outline” should be “a point of light”
stem v3 1582 ( 1959 ) Edward Fenton Sea Journal
in The Troublesome Voyage of Captain Edward Fenton (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No.
CXIII) p. 86 We waighed driving with thebb and cam thwarte Portland at vj in the
morninge and for want of winde ancored there to stempe the floode. OED2 sense
1 1593
stevedore 1776 ( 1976 ) John Langdon Invoice, Dec.
12, 1776, inNaval Documents of the American Revolution Vol.7 p. 455 Paid
Stevadore & Labourers Loading &c 54 . 10 . . 3 New Hampshire.
Singular suggests s. was the overseer of loading OED2 1788
stick v c 1648 ( 1898 ) William Bradford Of Plimoth
Plantation p. 282 (ms. p. 158) That which turned most to their profite, in time, was an
entrance into the trade of Wampampeake; .. though at first it stuck, & it was 2. years
before they could put of this small quantity. OED2 under sense 13b . “Of a
commodity etc.: Not to ‘go off’, to remain unsold,” but no quot.
stickweed 1708 ( 1977 ) William Byrd II Letter to
Hans Sloane, JSep. 10, 1708 in
The Correspondence of the Three William Byrds of Westover, Virginia p. 266 You
will find a paper of stickweed root (very common here) the green leaves of which never
fail to stop bleeding either at the nose or else where, provided they be frequently apply’d
to the part afffected. OED2 1800 (same plant?)
stiffen 1616 ( 1971 ) Capt. William Keeling
Journal, Mar. 14, 1616, in The East India Company Journals of Capt. William
Keeling and Master Thomas Bonner, 16151617 p. 132 I was all daye aboord the
last prize, getting out some baggs rice etc to stiffen the Dragon. OED2 1706
stingray 1612 ( 1969 ) Proc. Virginia.. p.
34 in Jamestown Voyages under the First Charter (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd ser. cxxxvi) p.
404 A Stingray very hurtfull. OED2 1624
stint 1688 ( 1989 ) Francis Howard Letter to W.
Blathwayt, 23 May 1688 in Papers of Francis Howard, Baron Howard of Effingham p.
384 The drought hath already stinted, and burnt up most of the plants.
OED2 sense 10 1735
stock 1731 ( 1914 ) Rowland Frye Letter, July 30,
1731, in Commerce of Rhode Island 17261800 Vol. 1, p. 24There are 1 M of Bricks
more than you order’d, but as you did not mention what sort they were to be, I first
shipped Grey Stocks. OED2 stock sense 15b 1738; grey stock 1793
stock v 1759 ( 1973 ) James Wilson Journal, July
23, 1759, in The Journals of Ashley Bowen (17281813) of Marblehead (Publ. Colonial
Soc. Massachusetts Vol. XLIV) p. 86
The carpenters employed stocking the best bower anchor. Normalized spelling
OED2 sense 2c 1769 (but implied in unstock 1726)
stockado 1590 ( 1972 ) Sir Roger Williams A
Brief Discourse of Warre (p D2v)
in The Works of Sir Roger Williams p. 21 If there be any riuer or passage by
water, they will bee sure to stop it with Forts, Artillerie, Stockathos, Pallisathos. “They”
are the Spaniards, whose terms RW apprently reproduced by ear. OED2 1609
stocking 1781 ( 1986 ) Abner Sanger Journal, July
12, 1781, in Very Poor and of a Lo Make,
The Journal of Abner Sanger p. 367
I to Widow Metcalf’s with my whitestocking roan. New Hampshire OED2
sense 4 1821
stodge 1675 ( 1893 ) Dr. John Covel Journal
inEarly Voyages and Travels in the Levant
(Hakluyt Soc.1st. Ser. No. LXXXVI) p. 247 A company of old gossips .. bring water
from the river and mix it and the clay together into a perfect pudding or stodge.
OED2 1825
stomach 1838 ( 1953 ) Abraham Lincoln Letter
to Mrs. O. H. Browning, Apr. 1, 1838, in Collected works of Abraham Lincoln Vol. I p.
117 This stomached me a little; for it appeared to me, that her coming so readily
showed that she was a trifle too willing. OED2 sense 2 †1675
stool v 1630 ( 1931 ) John Winthrop Misc note in
Journal, in Winthrop Papers Vol. 2 . p. 279 for making Saltpeter,
..
Let it stande in a Coole roome, where, in 2: or 3: dayes, it will stoole out like Icekles.
(sense suggested by editors) OED2 cf. sense 3 1789
stoolcrab c 1650 ( 1936 ) Peter Mundy inThe
Travels of Peter Mundy , in Europe and Asia 16081667 (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No.
LXXVIII) (reprint 1967) Vol.V p. 7 Longoisters, like lobsters butt bigger;
stoolecrabbes; oysters. In list of shellfish of Cornwall OED2 1880
stopper 1582 ( 1959 ) Richard MadoxDiary, Sep.
4, 1582, in An Elizabethan in 1582
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. 147) p. 179 The Edward by neglegyns let fawl a fayr anchor
and cable with a sunken boy, which being not turned on the bytts brok the stopper and
ran owt end for end. OED2 1626
story 1599 ( 1893 ) Thomas Dallam Journal
inEarlyVoyages and Travels in the Levant
(Hakluyt Soc.1st. Ser. No. LXXXVI) p. 20 We sawe upon a storie of the hill above
us a man goinge with a greate staffe on his shoulder. OED2 lacks sense of a
natural level on a hill; cf. sense 1b 1625
straggle 1582 ( 1976 ) Richard MadoxDiary, May
17, 1582, in An Elizabethan in 1582
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. 147) p. 134 The wynd straglyng abowt the east, we
set sayl. OED2 sense 1d 1588
straightsman 1669 ( 1893 ) Dr. John Covel
Journal inEarly Voyages and Travels in the Levant
(Hakluyt Soc.1st. Ser. No. LXXXVI) p. 102 Our convoy were, Capt. Robinson, in the
Greenwich, .. Capt. Wild, in the Assurance, .. withVirginia men, and some coasters
and streightsmen. OED2 1799
strain ( v 2 ) 1748 ( 1974 ) Ebenezer Parkman The Diary of
Ebenezer Parkman Feb. 22, 1748
(American Antiquarian Soc.) p. 173 They should quarrell with me not for suing and
straining upon them
in the Law. This is apparently strain =distrain (v2), probably used vaguely in
alliterative phrase. OED2 †1712
straining 1602 ( 1929 ) Adam Winthrop Diary, Dec.
17, 1602, in Winthrop Papers Vol. 1 p 78 I ridde to the Sessions at Bury to give evidence
against certein clothiers for strayning. OED2 strain v. sense 10e † c1560;
lacks vbl. n.
strand v2 1742 ( 1994 ) Capt. Christopher Middleton
Journal, May 8, 1742, in Voyages to Hudson Bay in Search of a Northwest
Passage 17411747 Vol. I
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd ser. Vol. 177) p. 165 Began to heave upon all our Purchasing
Tackles; stranded the Discovery’s Cable in three Places. OED2 sense 1
a1780
strange v 1635 Capt. Luke Foxe Northwest
Fox or Fox from the Northwest Passage
(Facsimile ed. 1965) p. 197
Here .. the Compasse doth almost loose his sensitive part not regarding his
magneticall Azimuth, .. but I should strange that the cold should benum it, as it doth us.
OED2 sense 7 1639
strappado 1607 ( 1955 ) Dobsons Drie
Bobbes Ch. 13 p. 84 This pregnant deuiser, who well merited the whip, and was
commanded to prepare his breech for the strappado. OED2 sense 2 1668
stretch 1582 ( 1976 ) Richard Madox in An
Elizabethan in 1582
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. 147) p. 289 Other harboroe than this they knew not til wee
shold come to the yle of Java, which was a long streche. (from the Plate River,
South America) OED2 cf. sense 6e 1661
stretcher 1585 ( 1955 ) Examination of
John Pavie, inThe Roanoke Voyages 15841590 (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. CIV) Vol.
1 p. 140 Tucker tooke uppe a stretcher and flonge yt at the said Hamedes, and
therewith strake the said John Stile on the head with such violence that he fell downe on
his face in the boate. Tucker was a Thames waterman, so stretcher sense 7
seems the likely weapon. OED2 sense 7 1609
string 1704 ( 1927 ) Shipwright’s
contract in The Papers of Thomas Bowrey Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. LVIII (reprint
1967) p. 132 To have One strake of two in[c]h plank for spirketting with a string in the
wast of two Inck plank, and to shut in the spirketting and string with inch and half deal.
OED2 sense 27 1711
string bean 1746 ( 1974 ) Ebenezer Parkman The
Diary of Ebenezer Parkman July 21, 1746
(American Antiquarian Soc.) p. 139 Mr. Ebenezer Chamblins Wife here with a
present of String Beans. OED2 1759
stroke 1629 ( 1931 ) Thomas Motte Letter, ca. June. 13,
1629, in Winthrop Papers Vol. 2 . p. 97 I would very gladly talke with Mr. White .. for I
haue many doubts and quaestions in the which I desier to be resolued and because he
hath a greate strooke in the plantation I suppose noe man so fitt to resolue me as he is.
OED2 sense 11b 1712
stun (n ) 1698 ( 1915 ) anon Loyalty Vindicated from
the Reflections of a Virulent Pamphlet in Narratives of the Insurrections
16751690 p. 375 It required some time to recover the damp and stunn given to
honest minds. OED2 1727
subside 1775 ( 1964 ) Jour., Provincial
Congress of Massachusetts, June 20, 1775, in Naval Documents of the American
Revolution
Vol. 1 p.724 The Report of the Committee on the expediency of establishing armed
Vessels, was considered. .. After debate, the matter was ordered to subside for the
present. OED2 lacks parliamentary usage, but cf. sense 4b
substantive c 1496 John Stanbridge Accedence
(facsimile ed. as English Linguistics 15001800
No. 134) p. A How knowe ye a nowne substantyf? For he may stande by hymself
without helpe of a nother worde. OED2 sense 2 1509, but see 1414 quot.
under adjective.
success 1755 John Smith The Printer’s
Grammar (facsimile ed. 1965) p. 85 In success of time, a Comma was added to the
infant Punctuation. OED2 sense 4a †1690
sucker 1748 Henry Ellis A Voyage to
Hudsons Bay by the Galley and California (facsimile ed. 1967) p. 186 At the
Mouths of the Rivers .. is a tolerable good Fish resembling a Carp, called a Sucker.
OED2 1772
suds 1809 Capt. LemuelRoberts Memoirs
(facsimile reprint 1969) p. 83 The froth stood on both sides of my mouth, like a
suds. (author uses some New England provincialisms could be one) OED2 lacks
“suds “ construed as a singular
suff 1699 ( 1981 ) Edmond Halley Journal, Jan.1,
1698, in The Three Voyages of Edmond Halley in the Paramore (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd ser.
vol. 156)
p. 95 I could not go on Shore here by reason of the great Suff of the Sea. OED2
†1687
sugar v 1776 ( 1986 ) Abner Sanger Journal, Apr. 3,
1776, in Very Poor and of a Lo Make,
The Journal of Abner Sanger p. 93
Daniel Kingsbury sugars off.
New Hampshire OED2, DA sense 3 1836
suit v 1781 1813 ( 1973 ) AshleyBowen Autobiography in
The Journals of Ashley Bowen (17281813) of Marblehead (Publ. Colonial Soc.
Massachusetts Vol. XLIV) p. 8
My father went asuiting to Mistress Hannah Harris, a fine rich widow.
Normalized spelling OED2 sense 5 †1749
sultry 1582 ( 1959 ) Richard MadoxDiary, Oct. 9, 1582,
in An Elizabethan in 1582
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. 147) p. 206 Yt was very sultry hote because ther was no
wynd stirryng. OED2 1594
sumatra 1638 ( 1919 ) Peter Mundy Journal ,
Jan. 11, 1638, inThe Travels of Peter Mundy, in Europe and Asia 16081667 Rel. XXVII
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. XXXV) Vol. 3 p. 320 What Sumatraes are.
..
Had much Raine, gusts and thicke weather, which our Portugalls said is usuall in these
parts att this tyme of the yeare. And because such weather is incidentt to the Ile of
Sumatra, therefore such gusts, etts. are here awaies by the Portugalls named
Sumatraes. OED2 sense 1b 1842, HobsonJobson 1711
superstructory a 1643 Thomas Goodwin et al.
An Apologeticall Narration p. 10 Facsimile in 1935 (reprinted 1965) Tracts on
Liberty in the Puritan Revolution
Vol. II p. 328 We found principles enough, not only fundamentall and essential to
the being of a Church, but superstructory also for the welbeing of it. OED2
1650
supplicating 1612 ( 1989 ) W. S. A Funerall Elegye
line 545, facsimile in Donald W. Foster Elegy by W. S. , a Study in Attribution
Vndoubtedly thou shouldst haue partage now,
Of life with mee, and heauen bee counted iust:
If to a supplicating soule, it would
Giue life a new. OED2 1649
surf 1633 ( 1894 ) Capt. Thomas JamesThe Strange
and Dangerous Voyage in The Voyages of Captain Luke Foxe and Captain Thomas
James (Hakluyt Soc. 1st ser. No. LXXXIX) p. 502 This Iland .. was nothing but
ledges of rocks and bankes of sand,
and there went a very great surfe on them. OED2 1685
surge n 1613 ( 1900 ) John Saris Journal, Mar. 25, 1613,
inThe Voyage of Captain John Saris to Japan, 1613 (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No.V)
(reprint 1967) p. 40 My pinnas ran aboard of them with such a surge as the
water came through hir sides. OED2 cf. sense 3 1748
surmullet c 1650 ( 1936 ) Peter Mundy inThe
Travels of Peter Mundy , in Europe and Asia 16081667 (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No.
LXXVIII) (reprint 1967) Vol.V p. 6 Gurnards, grey and red, turbut, great soles and
plaice; wrathes, smelts, mackrel and murghee .. thornebacke; ray, surmilletts and other.
In list of fishes of Cornwall OED2 a1672
swab 1582 ( 1976 ) Richard MadoxDiary, July 8, 1582,
in An Elizabethan in 1582
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. 147) p. 150 This day ther dyed with us Zachary the
swabbe. OED2 sense 2 1687 (swabber 1592)
swabble 1622 ( 1848 ) The Observations
of Sir Richard Hawkins Knight, in his Voyage into the South Sea in The Hawkins’
Voyages
(2nd ed. date? Hakluyt Soc. Ser. 1, No. LVII, reprint date?) §xvii p. 146 There was
three or foure inches of water upon the decke, which with scoops, swabbles, and
platters, they threw upon the fire , and so quenched it. OED2 lacks; swab 1659
swamp 1644 ( 1944 ) John Winthrop Letter,ca.
Sep. 1644, in Winthrop Papers Vol. 4 p. 492 The Timber is oak and pine, with some
elme and ashe in the swampes, which are not bogge as in Ireland but in the summer
they are dry and fine lande. This clarifies, to me at least, numerous 17c New
England references wherein swamps were sometimes wet underfoot and sometimes
merely thick woods.
swamp 1676 A New and Further
Narrative of the State of New England (facsimile reprint in King Philip’s War Narratives
1966)
verso of title page For the better Understanding some Indian Words, which are
necessarily used in the Following Narrative, the Reader is Desired to take Notice,
That a swamp signifies a Moorish Place overgrown with Woods and Bushes, but soft
like a Quagmire or Irish Bogg, over which Horse cannot at all, nor English Foot (without
great difficulty) passe. I presume the Indian assignment is erroneous, but this does
show the unfamiliarity of the word to the London public.
swamp
1613 ( 1934 ) Capt. Thomas Best Journal, July
3, 1613 , in The Voyage of Thomas Best to the East Indies, 161214 (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd.
Ser. No. LXXV) (reprint 1967) p. 62 In sight of Priaman .. it showinge with two
greate hie hills, makeinge a faire swampe or saddle between them both. (I’ve seen but
failed to record similar contemporary use for a valley, esp. on the island of St. Helena)
Is this the current swamp OED2 1624, although lacking any sense of wetness?
See slip Mason c1656
swanshot c 1648 ( 1898 ) William Bradford Of
Plimoth Plantation p. 287 (ms. p. 160) They have also their moulds to make
shotte, of all sorts, as muskett bulletts, pistoll bullets, swane & gose shote, & of smaler
sorts. OED2 1719
swarfy 1582 ( 1959 ) Richard MadoxDiary, Aug. 7,
1582, in An Elizabethan in 1582
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. 147) p. 161 The sowndyng was muddy sand, as a myxture
of whyt, red & swarfye. OED2 1602
swart 1613 ( 1900 ) John Saris Journal, Mar. 2, 1613,
inThe Voyage of Captain John Saris to Japan, 1613 (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No.V)
(reprint 1967) p. 25 Momerick, my swart, ran awaye againe. OED2 no
quot. between c1425 and 1867 dict. def.
sweal 1648 ( 1947 ) Roger Williams Our Candle
burnes out day and night we neede not hasten its end (by swaling) in vnnecessary
miseries. OED2 sense 3 1653
sweep 1582 ( 1959 ) John Walker Diary in The
Troublesome Voyage of Captain Edward Fenton (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. CXIII) p.
204 The viceadmiral wente wth the longe boat to sweepe for or cable & ancor but
myssed it. OED2 sense 17 1637
swipe 1582 ( 1959 ) Edward Fenton Sea Journal
in The Troublesome Voyage of Captain Edward Fenton (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No.
CXIII) p. 106 Swiped a freshe for the Edwardes Ancour & Cable but could not
find it. OED2 sense 3 1881 (= sweep sense 17 1637)
syce a 1634 ( 1907 ) Peter Mundy inThe Travels of
Peter Mundy , in Europe and Asia 16081667 (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. XVII) Vol. I
p. 43 Twentyone Janissaries for our safe Convoy, two sices or horsekeepers.
OED2 1653
sympeisometer 1819 Capt. John Ross A
Voyage of Discovery for the purpose of Exploring
Baffins Bay p. xix, p. cxxx One sympeisometer, invented by Aidey, Edinburgh.
Sympeisometer This instrument acts as a marine barometer, and is certainly not
inferior in its powers. OED2 lacks
synodist 1611 Henry Fitz Simon The
Justification and Exposition of the Divine Sacrifice of the Masse (facsimile ed. in
English Recusant Literature 15581640 Vol. 108 1972) p. 255 The said Sinodists,
..revoked the saied Article. “The late Calvinian Synod at Gap” Is there some
pejorative undertone? OED2 1626
syringe 1648 Bp. John Wilkins
Mathematicall magick; or, the wonders that can be
performed by mechanicall geometry
( in 1802 Works Vol. II p. 174) The windgun, which is charged by the forcible
compression of air, being injected through a syringe. (spelling may be modernized to
1802)
OED2 sense 1b 1659
tabby 1757 ( 1972 ) Gov. Henry Ellis Letter, June 24,
1757, in The Papers of Henry Bouquet
Vol. 1 p. 130 That [fort] at Frederica was built of a Composition of Lime called Tabby.
Georgia OED2 sense 6 1802
tackle v 1615 ( 1971 ) Thomas Bonner Journal,
June 4, 1615, in The East India Company Journals of Capt. William Keeling and Master
Thomas Bonner, 16151617 p. 181 So tackle of[f] till daye withe an eazie sayle.
OED2 sense 1c 1632
tackle 1777 ( 1986 ) Charterparty, June 28,
1777, inNaval Documents of the American Revolution Vol. 9 p. 184 The said
Schooner is tight Staunch and Strong and is and during the said Voyage shall be well
and Sufficiently Tackled and Apparrelled for such a Vessel and Voyage. OED2
sense 1a †1686
tail v 1636 ( 1919 ) Peter Mundy The Travels of Peter
Mundy, in Europe and Asia 16081667 Rel. XX (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. XXXV) Vol.
3
p. 17Shee unhappilye tayled on a banck on Tilbury side. OED2 sense 11
1725
tail soaken 1739 ( 1974 ) Ebenezer Parkman The
Diary of Ebenezer Parkman May 12, 1739
(American Antiquarian Soc.) p. 63 Youngest Calf being disorder’d and as we
judg’d Tail soaken, we cut off the End of His Tail. OED2 tail soaked 1776
takerup (taker up) 1834 ( 1953 ) Bill in
Illinois legislature on estrays, in Collected works of Abraham Lincoln Vol. I p. 27 Where
the valuation does not exceed Five Dollars, the property shall be vested in the takerup,
but when the valuation shall exceed Five Dollars, and no owner appears within the time
aforesaid, the property shall also be vested in the taker up. OED2 has 8
senses of taker up, but not “one who takes an estray”.
tang n2 1606 ( 1877 ) Capt. John Knight Journal, May 24,
1606, in The Voyages of Sir James Lancaster .. and the Voyage of Captain John
Knight (Hakluyt Soc. Ser. 1, No. LVI) p. 284 This forenoone we sawe much sea
tange and rock weed. OED2 dict. 1547, usage 1655
tang n2 1612 ( 1953 ) William Strachey The Historie
of Travell into Virginia Britania
Hakluyt Soc. (2nd. Ser., No. CIII) p. 71 When they sing they haue a delightful and
pleasant tang
in their voyces. OED2 1669 Def. says esp. an unpleasant tone.
tank 1609 ( 1905 ) John Jourdain Journal, Sep.7,
1609, in The Journal of John Jourdain, 16081617 (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. XVI)
(reprint 1967) p. 129 Wee came neere the walls of Suratt, neere unto a faire tanke
or sestron. OED2 c1616; HobsonJobson 1615
tarnal c 1776 ( 1968 ) The Yankeys Return from
Camp [Yankee Doodle ] broadside, inNaval Documents of the American
Revolution Vol.4 p. 26 And there was Captain Washington,
And gentlefolks about him,
They say he’s grown so tarnal proud,
He will not ride without ‘em. OED2 1790
tarrience 1691 ( 1915 ) William Stoughton et al.
A Narrative of the Proceedings of Sir Edmond Androsse and his Complices in
Narratives of the Insurrections 16751690
p. 247 Lengthening out his Tarrience in places so remote. OED2 lacks
tartane 1614 ( 1989 ) William Davies A
True Relation of the Travailes and Most Miserable Captivitie of William Davies ..
inEnglish and Irish Settlement on the River Amazon 15501646 (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd Ser.,
No. 171) p. 141 The Duke fitted a ship, a Tartane and a Frigot, .. disposing of them
into the West Indies. OED2 1621
taster 1674 ( 1988 ) John Josselyn Two Voyages to
New England p. 211
(1988 ed. as John Josselyn, Colonial Traveler p. 145) The Merchant to increase
his gains .. comes in with a walking Tavern,
.. coming ashore he gives them a Taster or two, which so charms them that for no
perswasions that their imployers can use will they go out to Sea .. till they are wearied of
drinking. OED2 sense 4 1826
taxation 1776 ( 1976 ) Memorial, Nov. 18,
1776, inNaval Documents of the American Revolution Vol.7 p. 198 The
difference between his said Bill and the Taxation thereof made by the Board of Treasury
is clearly appearing on the face of the Synopsis of both Accounts hereunto Subjoined.
OED2 sense 1 Obs., last (except hist.) 1622
taxiarch 1670 1671 ( 1683 ) Sir James Turner Pallas
Armata (facsimile ed. 1968) Bk. I Ch. v p. 13 A Sergeant in an old French or German
Company represents the Grecian Taxiarch. Note modern quots. promote taxiarch
from sergeant to colonel. OED2 1808
teamer 1775 ( 1968 ) William Bartlett Letter,
Dec. 11, 1775 inNaval Documents of the American Revolution Vol.3 p. 45 The Teamers
think the Price Stipulated by Our General Court not sufficient. OED2 1778
temper 1581 ( 1959 ) Michael Lok The doinges
of Captaine Furbisher in The Troublesome Voyage of Captain Edward Fenton (Hakluyt
Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. CXIII) p. 3 Beinge in a furyous humor of Tempier, he openly
revyled him with outrageous speaches. OED2 sense 9 1595 or 10 1628 (and
lacks spelling)
temporal 1612 ( 1969 ) Proc. Virginia.. p.
76 in Jamestown Voyages under the First Charter (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd ser. cxxxvi) p.
438 Those temporall proceedings to some maie seeme too charitable. (refers to
“temporizing with the Salvages” – temporizing sense 4) OED2 lacks this sense.
tendersided 1622 ( 1848 ) The Observations
of Sir Richard Hawkins Knight, in his Voyage into the South Sea in The Hawkins’
Voyages
(2nd ed. date? Hakluyt Soc. Ser. 1, No. LVII, reprint date?) §lxi p. 307 This race
building, first came in by overmuch homing in of our shippes, .. in my judgement, it
breedeth many inconveniences .. making them tender sided, and unable to carry sayle
in any fresh gaile of winde. OED2 has entry but no quot.; tender sense
10e 1722
tepidity 1618 William Cape The
Chronicle and Institution of the Order of .. S. Francis
(transl. of original of Marcos Da Silva) (facsimile ed. as English Recusant Literature
15581640 Vol. 357 1977)
p. 63 Feare that by our negligence and tepidity, we depriue ourselues of the
veritie of his holy spiritt. OED2 1631
testificant 1607 ( 1955 ) Dobsons Drie
Bobbes Ch. 3 p. 26 He .. shall also adduce the same Testificants, that were
witnesses against her in the Chancery. OED2 lacks; testifier 1611;
testificator 1730
tête du pont 1779 ( 1780 ) Lieut. Gen. J. Burgoyne
A State of the expedition from Canada
p. 71 A work called theTête du pont, which was
raised for the protection of the bridge.
also têtedupont (hyphens, no ital.) p.76 OED2 1794
therly 1666 ( 1992 ) Henry More Letter, Apr. 28, 1666, in
The Conway Letters p. 273 He is, I believe in a strait condition. I promised I would
write to your Ladiship in his behalf, that you might speak for him to my Lord. He look’t
methought something therly on’t. Editor footnotes: “Therly (usually therle or thirle ),
gaunt, lean, hungrylooking.” None of these are in OED2, and therly would seem to be
an adverb modifying “look’t.” ??
thick 1616 ( 1971 ) Thomas Bonner Journal, Apr.
19, 1616, in The East India Company Journals of Capt. William Keeling and Master
Thomas Bonner, 16151617 p. 207 The winde west withe muche rayne and gustye
wether and thicks. OED2 ? sense 7 1936
thick 1635 Capt. Luke Foxe Northwest Fox or
Fox from the Northwest Passage
(Facsimile ed. 1965) p. 129
The thick was cleered, and he see land to beare on him East. Button’s
voyage 1612 Check source) OED2 sense 7 1936
thickstuff 1690 ( 1906 ) Samuel Pepys Memoires
Relating to the State of the Royal Navy of England
(reprinted 1971) p. 10 Decays contracted in their Buttocks, Quarters, Bows, Thick
stuff without Board., and Spirkettings upon their Gundecks within. OED2
1748
thieves’ cat 1787 ( 1976 ) anon. The Adventures of
Jonathan Corncob Ch. 4 p. 24 An old sailor .. told me .. that when I had been flogged
half a dozen times with the thief’s cat, I should think nothing of such a tickling.
OED2 1805
thought n2 1590 ( 1959 ) JamesRobinson Inventory of
the White Lion in English Privateering Voyages to the West Indies 15881595 (Hakluyt
Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. CXI) p. 75 On[e] bots thought. OED2 1622, but se slip
Jourdain 1609
thought 1609 ( 1905 ) John Jourdain Journal, Sep.
4, 1609, in The Journal of John Jourdain, 16081617 (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. XVI)
(reprint 1967) p. 121 There fell a shower of raine, with a flawe of winde which
broke the thought which stayed the boats maste. OED2 1622, but see slip
1590
threadneedle 1635 Capt. Luke Foxe North
west Fox or Fox from the Northwest Passage
(Facsimile ed. 1965) p. 196 (misnumbered 193)
Wee thredneedles to the East, hopeing at further distance from the Ile, to get
cleare [of ice] into the South channell. OED2 1751 sense 2b 1895
thrift (n2 ) 1776 ( 1968 ) NewEngland Chronicle,
May 23, 1776, inNaval Documents of the American Revolution Vol.5 p. 217
Inventory of the cargo of the abovementioned prize ship ..
hammers with helves, sledge, 25; augurs with thrifts, 75. OED2 c1900 (and
defines as handle specifically for millbill)
throat disease, throat distemper 1740 ( 1974 )
Ebenezer Parkman The Diary of Ebenezer Parkman
(American Antiquarian Soc.) I went to the Funeral of of Two of Mr. Joseph Tainters
Children 4 others of his Children being at the Same Time sick .. and all of the Throat
Disease. Feb. 13, 1740 p. 74
I determined to repeat my sermon on .. Luke 12,40 .. on account of the terrible
Judgement of the Throat Distemper. July 29, 1740 p. 80 (Very prevalent this year;
EB uses “disease” in earlier and “distemper” in later entries) OED2 lacks. DA (t.
distemper ) c1772 (Boston) = ?diphtheria
throughlet 1635 Capt. Luke Foxe Northwest
Fox or Fox from the Northwest Passage
(Facsimile ed. 1965) p. 231 I put into a throughlet I named Hurins Throughlet, for
that hee upon the foreyard conducted in the Ship. Foxe uses frequently, for
passages from minor (as here) to a putative Northwest Passage. OED2 lacks
thwacking vbl. n. 1582 ( 1959 ) Richard MadoxDiary, Aug.
23, 1582, in An Elizabethan in 1582
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. 147) p. 173 In honowr of St. Bartholemew made a
thwacking bonyfyer. OED2 lacks this sense; cf. thwacker sense 2 1674 and
whacking 1806
thwart v 1613 ( 1905 ) John Jourdain Journal, July
1, 1613, in The Journal of John Jourdain, 16081617 (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. XVI)
(reprint 1967) p. 286 Wee weare by Gods providence safelie passed .. seeinge
nothinge but the high cliffs on both sides, towinge with our boate to keepe the shipps
head from thwarting. OED2 sense 1d 1809
tiburon 1541 ( 1932 ) Roger Barlow A Briefe
Summe of Geographie
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. LXIX) p. 153 Ther is another fyshe called tibron wch
is a grete fyshe wt a grete hede, and hath ij ordres of teethe one above another.
Barlow adapted a Spanish book and sometimes simply anglicised Spanish
words, but here appears to be drawing on his own experience (on Spanish ships).
OED2 1555
tide 1573 ( 1963 ) William Bourne Will, in A
Regiment for the Sea
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. CXXI) p. 435 If that anie of my two children that have
Tides do die without heyre, Then I wil that my Sonne Richard sholde have the tyde.
Editor (E. G. R. Taylor) explains (p. xvii), “The running of the public barges was
reserved to the citizens of Gravesend, and the ownership of a ‘Tide’, or place in the rota
of sailings was a valuable property which was passed on from father to son.” OED2
lacks this specialization of sense 8
tide v 1615 ( 1939 ) Samuel Squire Letter in TheVoyage
of Nicholas Downton to the East Indies16141615 (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. LXXXII)
(reprint 1967) p. 190 Tell the 15th daie we weare forced to tide it upp with contrary
windes. OED2 1627
till n1 1713 JamesWatson The History of the
Art of Printing (facsimile ed. 1965) p. 64
[ AContemplation upon the Mystery of Man’s Regeneration in Allusion to the
Mystery of Printing]
Our slavish Flesh let be the Till,
Whereon lay what Trash you will. OED2 sense 3 1888
timorist 1643 ( 1944 ) Francis Williams Letter,
May 9, 1643, in Winthrop Papers Vol. 4 p. 376 If I should camelion licke, change
my selfe to euery object, I might well be censured for a timorist. OED2
c1620 only
tingtang 1649 ( 1907 ) Edward Grimston inThe
Travels of Peter Mundy , in Europe and Asia 16081667 (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No.
XVII) Vol. I p. 220 The steeple a Wall, wherein two holes are cutt for two small ting
tang bells. OED2 1680, sense 2 (attrib.) 1777
tingible 1679 ( 1964 ) Sir Thomas Browne Letter,
Jan. 26, 1679, in The Works of Sir Thomas Browne Vol. IV p. 94 The nayles are also
of a substance tingible and outwardly colourable. OED2 dict. 1652; usage
1901
tobacconist 1632 T. T. The Whetstone of
Reproof
(facsimile ed. as English Recusant Literature 15581640 Vol. 361 1977) preface p.
a3 verso After the contents come once to be exactely discussed & discouered,
I persuade my selfe it will quikly loose its vndeserved credit, & then dubtlesse if the
leaues were larger it would ride poast to Tobaconistis, & grossers shops. Second i
probably one of many printer’s errors. OED2 sense 2 1657 (again Tobacconists and
Grocers as the destiny of worthless books); but see slip 1620
toddy 1609 ( 1905 ) John Jourdain Journal, Sep.7,
1609, in The Journal of John Jourdain, 16081617 (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. XVI)
(reprint 1967) p. 129 Our people havinge bene well refreshed with a kinde of
drinke of the pamita tree called taddy. OED2 160910; β form 1611
tolerator 1647 ( 1947 ) Hugh Peter Letter,ca. Apr, 1647,
in Winthrop Papers Vol. 5 p. 147I am no tolerator, but a peacemaker I would bee.
OED2 1706
tom cod 1740 ( 1974 ) Ebenezer Parkman The
Diary of Ebenezer Parkman July 1, 1740
(American Antiquarian Soc.) p. 80 We caught 13 Tom Codd. (In Boston Harbor)
OED2 1795
tooth 1607 ( 1955 ) Dobsons Drie Bobbes h.
3 p. 20 A Smith .. who bare some tooth against the poore Haberdasher.
OED2 lacks sense of “hostility.” See slip Fitz Simon 1611
tooth 1611 Henry Fitz Simon The Justification
and Exposition of the Divine Sacrifice of the Masse (facsimile ed. in English Recusant
Literature 15581640 Vol. 108 1972) p. 300 Sir George Carie then Lord Iustice
hauing a tooth against AdameLofts vpraided him with the reported infamie .. of his
intended reuolt.
OED2 lacks sense of “hostility.” See slip 1607
torrent 1632 T. T. The Whetstone of
Reproof
(facsimile ed. as English Recusant Literature 15581640 Vol. 361 1977) p. 147
A small number of writers against the whole torrent of the rest
cannot hinder the antiquitie or vniuersalitie, either of the doctrine
of transubstantiation, or any other point of faith. OED2 sense 2 1647
toryism 1775 ( 1966 ) Rev. Samuel DeaneLetter, Nov.
4,1775 in Naval Documents of the American Revolution Vol.2 p.878 Other fling
toryisms at us, and seen disposd that we shd suffer till we are brought to reason. (=
accusations of toryism) OED2 sense b 1777
touch 1704 ( 1927 ) Shipwright’s contract in
The Papers of Thomas Bowrey Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. LVIII (reprint 1967) p. 129
In Length by the keel from the touch of the sweep to the back of the maine post
to be sixty three foot. OED2 sense 23 1711
touch off 1809 Capt. Lemuel Roberts
Memoirs (facsimile reprint 1969) p. 78 One or at most two mouthfulls of
pork, which were cut as carefully, and touched off or alloted as critically, as if it had been
an immense treasure. OED2 lacks sense, although “touch off” 32a, does
have same element of exactness.
towze (touse) 1734 ( 1960 ) Benjamin Franklin
Poor Richard, 1735 an Almanack unpaged, January (facs. in The Complete
Poor Richard Almanacks, 1970, p. 55) Two or three Squeezes, and two or three
Towzes,
With 2 or 3 hundred Pound spent at their Houses,
Can never fail cuckolding two or three Spouses. OED2 1795 and lacks this
sense (cf. sense 1c of the verb)
trace n3 1595 ( 1972 ) Exchequer Account in The
Last Voyage of Drake & Hawkins (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. CXLII) p. 57
GARLIC
140 double trace at 10d a trace 5 16 8(Modernized by editor) OED2
sense 3b 1891
track v2 1698 ( 1927 ) Thomas Bowrey Diary, June
27, 1698, in The Papers of Thomas Bowrey Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. LVIII (reprint
1967) p. 63 Agreed with 2 Men for 36 Stivers each to goe with us to Gandt for to track
when we have Occasion. OED2 1727
trading lady 1683 The Whores
Rhetorick (facsimile ed. 1979) p. 73 The most convenient habitation for a Trading
Lady, is in a small convenient House of her own, rather than in lodgings. OED2
lacks this sense (but see prev. submitted slip Lawson 1709), trade n. sense 6c 1680,
trader sense 1b 1682
trail rope 1776 ( 1968 ) Pennsylvania Comm. of
Safety Minutes, Mar. 4, 1776, inNaval Documents of the American Revolution Vol.4
p.163 1 four pound Canon,
1 Carriage & Limber,
1 Traile Ropes,
1 Rammer & Sponge. OED2 sense b lacks quot.
train ( v ) 1783 ( 1975 ) John Adams Letter to Abigail
Adams, June 19, 1783 in The Book of Abigail and John p. 331 The definitive Treaty
may be signed in three Weeks: and it may as probably be trained on till Christmas.
OED2 sense 2a † 1652
trampoose 1743 ( 1993 ) William Moraley The
Infortunate p. 133 Nine days I was trampousing home. Across England, after
returning from America, but no evidence of this being an Americanism. OED2 1798,
but see slip Williams 1783
trampoose n 1783 ( 1969 ) William Williams Mr.
Penrose The Journal of Penrose, Seaman p. 287 Tired to death having been six
days on the Trampoose. OED2 verb 1798 (but see slip Moraley 1743); noun
1840
tranship 1775 ( 1964 ) Gov. PatrickTonyn Letter to
Lord Dartmouth Jan. 23, 1775 in
Naval Documents of the American Revolution Vol. 1 p. 71 Hides .. not to be landed
but Transhipt on board some Vessel going from thence to London. OED2 1792
transpass 1541 ( 1932 ) Roger Barlow A Briefe
Summe of Geographie
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. LXIX) p. 58
The hylle [Olympus] transpassed the region of the ayre. (Barlow translated a
Spanish book and sometimes simply anglicised Spanish words. I don’t know here)
OED2 sense 2 1626
transvection 1684 ( 1951 ) Richard Bovet
Pandaemonium , or the Devil’s Cloyster 3rd Reln. p. 106 What this manner of
Transvection was, which the boy spoke of, whether it were corporeal, or in a dream only,
I shall not dispute. OED2 sense 1 †1682
trash 1611 Henry Fitz Simon The Justification
and Exposition of the Divine Sacrifice of the Masse (facsimile ed. in English Recusant
Literature 15581640 Vol. 108 1972) p. 162 More beseeming had it been for M.
Rider all his life in VVigen to haue patched ould trashes (as ther they cal slippers) then
to blaspheme rashly such Godly deuotion for trash, which the ancient beleefe of
Christians .. had in so great regard. VVigen = Wigan, Lancs? OED2 sense 1b
doubtful c1350, Lancs. gloss. 1746,
usage 1885
trat (or tratt) 1541 ( 1932 ) Nicholas Thorne Letter
in A Briefe Summe of Geographie
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. LXIX) p. xlvThe sayd ship remayneth towards yor
supplyannt, the wyche is of to grete portage to tratt to bordyas .. to the wyche partys
yor beseecher here to fore toused to tratt.
OED2 Is this trade sense 6 1570? see slips fortrat n., and n. and v. 1541)
trat (or tratt) 1541 ( 1932 ) Roger Barlow A Briefe
Summe of Geographie
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. LXIX) p. 50
Along the west and sothern costes and part of the northe be many good cities
and townes and riche marchantes dwelling in them, and trattyth into many partes
boyonde the see. (Barlow translated a Spanish book and sometimes simply
anglicised Spanish words, but see slip 1533 OED2 Is this trade sense 6 1570?
see slip for 1533 and trat n.)
trat (or tratt) 1541 ( 1932 ) Nicholas Thorne Letter
in A Briefe Summe of Geographie
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. LXIX) p. xlvFor the increase of the tratt of yor sayd toune
of Brystow.
OED2 Is this trade sense 8 1555? see slips fortrat v., and n. and v. 1541)
trat, trate 1541 ( 1932 ) Roger Barlow A Briefe
Summe of Geographie
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. LXIX) p. 35
Here is al the trat of the shippys that comyth from calicut and malaca with spices.
In this citie be many riche marchantes and is of grete trat owt of al partes.
Rochel is a good towne of trate (p. 38) (Barlow translated a Spanish book and
sometimes simply anglicised Spanish words, but see slip 1533. OED2 Is this trade
sense 5 1555? see slip for trat v and 1533
traverse 1585 ( 1981 ) Journal of the
Tyger, Sep. 15, 1585, in Sir Francis Drake’s West Indian Voyage 158586 (Hakluyt Soc.
2nd. Ser. No. 148) p. 71 The wynde beinge so badd and the shipe in travers, it
hapend the Minion to fawle aborde of us. OED2 sense 12a 1594
traverse n 1615 ( 1971 ) Capt. William Keeling
Journal, June 10, 1615, in The East India Company Journals of Capt. William
Keeling and Master Thomas Bonner, 16151617 p. 80 We concluded the laying
her middle hatches of her middle orlope in the mast flatt, whose present much
roundnesse p[er]mitted not the traverse of her ordin[ance] there. OED2 lacks
this sense of noun, corresponding to sense 8a of verb (from 1622)
treater a 1689 ( 1690 ) Aphra Behn The Widow Ranter
Act II scene ii line 1 1993 ed. p. 43 This Madam Ranter is so prodigious a treater.
— oh! I hate a room that smells of a great Dinner. OED2 sense 3 1692
tree v 1828 Capt. William E. Parry Narrative of
an Attempt to Reach the North Pole p.112 We remarked .. a great deal of that
appearance which is called by our Greenland sailors the “treeing” of ice. It consists in
the ice being apparently raised by refraction. OED2 lacks sense
tregar 1636 ( 1943 ) Port book entry, July 8,
1636, in Winthrop Papers
Vol. 3 p. 288 4 yard broad perpetuanoes, 8 pieces of Tregar. OED2 1642
trestletree 1582 ( 1959 ) Richard MadoxDiary, Sep.
3, 1582, in An Elizabethan in 1582
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. 147) p. 179 The tresse trees of our mayn mast wer
cracked. OED2 a1625
triarian 1611 Henry Fitz Simon The
Justification and Exposition of the Divine Sacrifice of the Masse (facsimile ed. in
English Recusant Literature 15581640 Vol. 108 1972) Epistle Dedicatory p. a2v
Sathan and heretikes obseruing such good to Gods Church and ruine to heresie
to increase by recourse of these fortunat triarian champions. OED2 1642
tribe c 1625 ( 1882 ) Nathaniel Butler ? The Historye
of the Bermudaes
(Hakluyt Soc.1st. Ser. No. LXV) p. 77 He began to lay out the eight tribes in the
Maine, which were to consist of fiftie shares to a tribe, and fiveandtwenty acres to a
share.
He swore also certaine of the cheife men of the tribes to be baylies of the tribes. Like
“parish” (as they are now called in Bermuda), tribe was used for both the land and the
populace. OED2 sense 2e 1643
trillo 1632 A. H. [Henry Hawkins] Partheneia
Sacra (facsimile ed. in English Recusant Literature 15581640 Vol. 81 1971) p. 146
Oh terrene Philomel, thou art but a babler heer, with al thy trilloes. OED2
1651, trill 1649
trip 1615 ( 1899 ) Thomas . Roe Journal, Aug. 19,
1615, in The Embassy of Sir Thomas Roe to the Court of the Great Mogul (Hakluyt
Soc. 2nd. Ser. No.I/2) (reprint 1967) p. 28 All our Anchors tript, soe that wee were
putt off twice apeece. OED2 sense 11 1748
trip (n1 ) 1698 ( 1981 ) Edmond Halley Journal, Dec. 15,
1698, in The Three Voyages of Edmond Halley in the Paramore (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd ser.
vol. 156)
p. 93 The Admirall made a Trip to Windward the better to recover the Road of
Fonchiall. OED2 Sense 4 1700
tripartable 1634 ( 1943 ) Francis Kirby Letter, Apr.
11, 1634, in Winthrop Papers Vol. 3. p. 160 Put to account what Charge you haue
been at with the tripartable goods.
I think I haue sent you very neer the value of your third. OED2 tripartible
1860 dict. only
troll 1553 ( 1988 ) William Baldwin Beware the
Cat 2nd part p. 23 One cat .. trolled out so low and loud a bass. (First
published 1570. Normalized spelling) OED2 sense 10 1575
troll v 1603 ( 1929 ) * The Batchelars Banquet
Ch. III p. 22 (orig. p. B4v) The cups of wine have merily trolde about.
*Anon. Editor (F. P. Wilson) doubts attrib. to Dekker (as OED2), suggests
Robert Tofte. OED2 sense 7 1620
troll n 1687 ( 1940 ) Charles Morton
Compendium Physicae in Publ. Colonial Soc. Massachusetts Vol. XXXIII p. 27
(from 1697 transcription of 1687 ms., probably first
compiled c1680) Supposing [the Sun] to be created .. and then dropped in a troll,
.. it must there continue in the same troll it received when it was
first droped. OED2 sense 1 1705
tropicbird 1628 ( 1914 ) Peter Mundy Journal,
June 1628, in The Travels of Peter Mundy, in Europe and Asia 16081667 Rel. IV
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. XXXV) Vol. 2 p. 7 Wee also saw very whyte birds with one
or two longe feathers in their Tayles, seldome seene but betwene the two Tropicks,
therefore by Seamen Called Tropicque Birds. OED2 1681
trouncer 1686 ( 1928 ) Robert Southwell Letter,
July 24, 1686, in The Petty—Southwell Correspondence (reprinted 1967) p. 221
There is lesse danger of that Eruption which they call the ‘Wild Oates’ and being
seduced by young Trouncers, when he is already familiar with those of an other Orb.
OED2 c1630 only in possibly equivalent sense (unclear from quot.)
truck 1541 ( 1932 ) Roger Barlow A Briefe Summe of
Geographie
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. LXIX) p. 105 Thei gather moche golde and carie it to
the castle of the myne and selle hit to the portugales in truck of coper and clothes of
colours.
OED2 1553
truck 1585 ( 1589 ) The Tiger Journal, in
Hakluyt Principall Navigations (facsimile ed. 1965) p. 734 We began to builde a new
pinesse within the Fort, with the timber that we then felled in the countrey, some part
whereof we fet three myle up in the land, and brought it our Fort vpon trucks. John
White’s watercolor shows a log balanced on two pairs of wheels, apparently solid, but
large rather than small. If these are connected to form a vehicle (sense 3 1774), it is not
obvious. OED2 1611
truckmaster 1637 ( 1883 ) Thomas Morton
New English Canaan p. 307 [It was then agreed upon that there should be
one generall trade used within that Patent] Two truckmasters were chosen.
OED2 1694
truckage (n2 ) 1776 ( 1976 ) Account, Nov. 12,
1776, inNaval Documents of the American Revolution Vol.7 p. 118 To Storage of
159 hhd Sugar 1/10 7 .. 9 .. 0
To truckage of 66 hhd of the above to 1 .. 13 –
John Deshons Store OED2 1830
trucking 1776 ( 1968 ) Account, March ,
1776, inNaval Documents of the American Revolution Vol.4 p. 657 To cash paid
Samuel Hall for trucking Powder to Magazine. (New Hampshire; Mass. usage 1777 in
vol. 9 p. 136) OED2 1809
truckle 1687 ( 1940 ) Charles Morton
Compendium Physicae in Publ. Colonial Soc. Massachusetts Vol. XXXIII p. 39
(from 1697 transcription of 1687 ms., probably first
compiled c1680) We apply Oile or Grease to Wheeles, the Oily particles being round
do truckle under weight, as pease scattered on the floor may Give a man a fall.
OED2 lacks this sense, but cf. sense 4
trunkturtle 1674 ( 1988 ) John Josselyn Two Voyages
to New England p. 39
(1988 ed. as John Josselyn, Colonial Traveler p. 30) Of the SeaTurtles there be five
sorts, first the Trunckturtle which is biggest. OED2 1697
trunkmaster 1609 ( 1933 ) Virginia Council
Instruccions orders and constituccions ... to Sir Thomas Gates in Records of
the Virginia Company of London
Vol. III p. 20 One officer or two in every forte, whom you must onely appointe to
be truncmasters, may dispatch the whole busines of trade.
You must sett prises and values under which the trunckemr must not trade.
Over this truncemr. there must be appointed a cape merchant . OED I sense 6 of
“trunk” makes some sense here, but “truck master” (see slip 1637) for a corresponding
official in Massachusetts makes more.
Nevertheless, the three spellings suggest “trunk” was really intended, unless the ms.
was misread
trunnel PREVIOUSLY SUBMITTED SLIP 1705 ( 1947 )
R. Beverley History and Present State of Virginia p. 148 They make a
Dam of loose Stone ... quite across the River,
leaving One, Two, or more Spaces or Trunnels, for the
Water to pass thro’ ...
CORRECTION Beverley was paraphrasing J. Bannister a1692 (1970) who
wrote “one, two, or more pipes or tunnels for the water to pass” so trunnels could be
simply an error somewhere.
trysail 1751 ( 1916 ) JamesBirket Apr. 1, 1751, inSome
Cursory Remarks Made by James Birket in His Voyage to North America p. 72
Caught a booby on the try Sail gaff. OED2 1769
tuck 1606 ( 1943 ) Edmund Scott An Exact Discourse
in The Voyage of Sir Henry Middleton to the Moluccas (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No.
LXXXVIII)
p. 172The apparrell of the better sort is a tucke on their heads, and about their loynes a
faire pintado.
OED2 † 1582, but see slip Jourdain 1608
tuck 1608 ( 1905 ) John Jourdain Journal, Nov. 26,
1608, in The Journal of John Jourdain, 16081617 (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. XVI)
(reprint 1967) p. 27 The Kinge was apparrellled after the Turkish manner, with a
tucke upon his head. OED2 † 1582, but see slip Middleton 1606
tumbler 1682 ( 1964 ) Dorothy Browne Letter,
Feb. 13, 1682, in The Works of Sir Thomas Browne Vol. IV p. 212 Hee is in great
expechtion of a Tumbler you must send him for his popet show .. it is a wodin fellow that
turns his heles over his head. OED2 lacks (tumbler sense 6c 1850 does not
turn heel over head)
tundra 1591 ( 1964 ) Giles Fletcher The Russe
Commonwealth Ch. 20 in The English Works of Giles Fletcher the Elder p. 259 The
whole countrey in a manner is eyther lakes, or mountaines, which toward the Sea side
are called Tondro, because they are all of hard and craggy rocke. OED2 1841
Turkey wheat 1588 Thomas Hariot A
briefe and true report of the new found land of Virginia
p. C1 The same in the West Indies is
called Mayze : English men call it Guinney wheate or Turkie wheate , according to the
names of the countreys from whence the like hath beene brought. OED2 1598
turn 1740 ( 1974 ) Ebenezer Parkman The Diary of
Ebenezer Parkman Dec. 15, 1740
(American Antiquarian Soc.) p. 87 Mr. Bradish Sent his son Jonas to cutt Wood
for me, & he got down one Turn with my Oxen. EP uses for transport of one load of
wood or of hay OED2 sense 37c 1792
turn down 1777 ( 1976 ) Proposal for
uniforms by Continental Navy captains, Feb. 27, 1777, inNaval Documents of the
American Revolution Vol.7 p. 1303 Undress for Post Captains
the same as the Dress Coats, with this difference that undress Coats have Frock Backs
and turn down white Collars. OED2 1840
turtle 1586 ( 1955 ) Journal of the Primrose ,
inThe Roanoke Voyages 15841590 (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. CIV) Vol. 1 p. 308
[This c]owntrie is Indifferent frewtfulle and hathe good [store of] fisshe with land
Turtles & nice Frewtes & saxafrage. [damaged doc.] OED2 1657, but see slips
1591 etc.
turtle n2 1591 ( 1959 ) Stephen Mitchell Deposition in
English Privateering Voyages to the West Indies 15881595 (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No.
CXI) p. 132 Master Wattes shippes tooke ten shippes and frigottes as he remembreth
this laste sommer whereof two Frigottes were laden with turtells. OED2 1657
(seaturtle 1612), but see slips 1586, 1609
turtle n2 1609 ( 1905 ) William Revett Journal in The
Journal of John Jourdain, 16081617 (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. XVI) (reprint 1967)
p. 350 Wee fownde heere .. land turtles of so huge a bidgnes which men will thinke
incredible. (Land tortoises in the Seychelles) OED2 1657, but see slip Jourdain
1609, Mitchell 1591, anon. 1586
turtle n2 1609 ( 1905 ) John Jourdain Journal, Jan. 20,
1609, in The Journal of John Jourdain, 16081617 (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. XVI)
(reprint 1967) p. 45 Soe the boate retourned and brought soe many land tortells
as they could well carrie.
The tortells were good meate .. and so greate that eight of them did almost lade our
skiffe. (Land tortoises in the Seychelles) OED2 1657, but see slip Revett 1609 and
Mitchell 1591
turtling 1667 ( 1925 ) Major John Scott English
Dutch Treaty in Colonising Expeditions to the West Indies and Guiana, 16231667
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. LVI) p. 218 That ye Liberty of Fishing & Turtling upon ye
Bayes as before .. is permitted. OED2 1669
tuyeren5 1550 ( 1975 ) Account in Sidney
Ironworks Accounts 15411573
(Camden 4th Ser. Vol. 15) p. 96 Paid .. for ii plates one for the twerne and the
other for the shamyons
xxi d.
OED2 no quot. 1354< >1781, and lacks variant.
twang c 1625 ( 1882 ) Nathaniel Butler ? The Historye
of the Bermudaes
(Hakluyt Soc.1st. Ser. No. LXV) The Gouernour .. in a rage (with a couple of his
twang) departs the church. (p. 52)
He gaue out by himselfe and his twang that it was certainely knowen that the Gouernour
..resolued to forsake the Ilands. (p. 263) Editor glosses “cabal or party”
Apparently none of the four OED2 noun twang s
two decker 1776 ( 1968 ) Capt. Lambert Wickes
Letter, June 16, 1776, inNaval Documents of the American Revolution Vol.5 p.
569 There is now One two Decker, two Frigates, one Twenty Gun Ship & a sloop of
War Lying in Old Kiln Road. OED2 1791
tymp a 1642 ( 1944 ) Sir Charles Coote Account of his iron
works, rewritten by John Winthrop Jr.,
in Winthrop Papers Vol. 4 p. 364 This mine wrought so very hott in the furnasse
that it burnt the twire stones in an instant, tympe and hearth. OED2 164550
tympanitical 1679 ( 1964 ) Sir Thomas Browne Letter,
July 5, 1679, in The Works of Sir Thomas Browne Vol. IV p. 123 Her body growes
bigge & fares as though shee were Tympaniticall at least, & swells most below.
OED2 dict. 1656; usage 1772
ullage 1776 ( 1968 ) Inventory, June 22, 1776,
inNaval Documents of the American Revolution Vol.5 p. 812 Inventory of the
Cargo received out of the Ship George : 3 barrels and an ullage of flour. (apparently
means a partially emptied barrel) OED2 lacks this sense
unanswerableness 1681 ( 1911 ) CottonMather Diary
of Cotton Mather July 6, 1681
Vol. I p. 23 I sett myself this Evening, to examine my manifold
Unanswerableness to the Engagements that ly upon mee. OED2 sense 1 †
1677
unbale 1715 ( 1972 ) John Fontaine Journal Jan.
23, 1715 p. 60 I remained on board that night and unbaled all Mr. Binauld’s goods.
OED2 1752
unbunged 1698 ( 1909 ) John Fryer A New Account of
East India and Persia (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. XIX) (reprint 1967) Vol. 1 p. 60
Though [Thames water] stink like Puddlewater when opened first, and have a
Scum on it like Oil .. yet let it stand unbunged on the Deck twenty four hours, it recovers
its goodness. OED2 1731
unchristianable 1585 ( 1981 ) Journal of
the Leicester, Nov. 19, 1585, in Sir Francis Drake’s West Indian Voyage 158586
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. 148) p. 142 Certayne heathen and prophane
examples, bothe as fallse and as vnchristianable as could be. OED2 lacks;
christianable 1889
unclerkly 1849 ( 1986 ) Herman Melville
Redburn ch. 30 Penguin ed. p. 216
So different from the brief, pert, and unclerkly handbooks to Niagara and Buffalo
of the present day. OED2 1875
undeclined c 1496 John Stanbridge Accedence
(facsimile ed. as English Linguistics 15001800
No. 134) p. A Four [partis of reason] ben declynyd and foure ben undeclynyd ..
Adverbe, Coniunccyon, Preposicyon and Interieccyon. OED2 1530
undertow c 1752 ( 1852 ) Capt. William Coats The
Geography of Hudson’s Bay
(Hakluyt Soc. 1st. Ser. No. XI) p. 24 The undertow nales you fast, and all your
efforts are insufficient to disintangle you, and therefore the high and low water slacks
are what, with most safety, may be used. OED2 1817
unimproved 1759 ( 1994 ) George Washington Rental
accounts, in “Worthy Partner” The Papers of Martha Washington p. 104 There are
besides, belon[ging sev]eral unimproved Lotts in James Town. Apparently current
American sense of lacking “improvements”, i.e. buildings. OED2 sense 2 1781
unison 1800 ( 1966 ) Thomas Jefferson The
Family Letters of Thomas Jefferson to M. J. Randolph
Feb. 11, 1800 p. 184 He .. fixes his 3. unisons to the same screw. OED2
sense 1e 1820
unison string 1681 ( 1928 ) William Petty Letter,
Jan. 31, 1681, in The Petty—Southwell Correspondence (reprinted 1967) p. 85 We
are both Unison strings in the Love of our Wives; Wherfore you being struck, you may
easily beleive That I also tremble. OED2 1685
unlust 1582 ( 1976 ) Richard MadoxDiary, Apr.
15, 1582, in An Elizabethan in 1582
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. 147) p. 110 To avoyd the sycknes of the sea .. the
more exerse with reason the better, for yf you once fawl to lasynes or unlust than is the
scarby redy to catch you by the bones and wil shak owt every tooth in your head.
scarby Editor (E. S. Donno) suggests scarebabe or scurvy OED2 †1561 (?
sense 2 or 3)
unnational 1612 ( 1953 ) William Strachey The
Historie of Travell into Virginia Britania
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd Ser., No. CIII) p. 4 The many Mouthes of Ignoraunce, and
Sclaunder.. blast both this Enterprize, and the divoutest Labourers therein .. calling yt an
vnnationall, and vnlawfull vndertaking. OED2 1753
unprejudicedly 1643 Thomas Goodwin et al.
An Apologeticall Narration p. 3 Facsimile in 1935 (reprinted 1965) Tracts on
Liberty in the Puritan Revolution
Vol. II p. 310 We lookt upon the word of Christ as impartially, and unprejudicedly,
as men of flesh and blood are like to doe. OED2 1674
unrelish n 1666 ( 1992 ) Henry More Letter, Mar. 17,
1666, in The Conway Letters p. 269 There will be a Spiritt of Nature for all this, and
I think for anything that ever will be alleg’d to the contrary, or excogitated to evade the
unrelish of that principal. OED2 lacks (—ed 1593, —able 1606, —ing 1611,
—ness 1615)
unreprovableness 1690 CottonMather The
Present State of NewEngland
(facsimile ed. 1972) p. 29To Slight such aWarning from the meanest person in the
World, were a Dangerous Unreproveableness; but when such a Warning is given by a
Father, it has a particular Stamp of God upon it, and Wo to those that shall be
Disobedient thereunto. Apparent sense — perverse refusal to accept reproof OED2
lacks this sense
unresistable 1685 ( 1989 ) Francis Howard Order
about holding county courts in Papers of Francis Howard, Baron Howard of Effingham
p. 253 Avoid as much as possible may be Adjournments without finishing
the Docequett then before them unlesse impeded by unresistable Occasions.
OED2 †1672
unrifled c 1595 ( 1899 ) Capt. Wyatt Narrative in The
Voyage of Robert Dudley to the West Indies (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No.III) p. 13
The prisoners .. with whome he delt soe honorablie, causinge them to be sett
ashore unrifeled of the sailers and souldiers. OED2 1603
unrudder 1776 ( 1968 ) WilliamHenry Drayton
Letter, Mar. 5, 1776, inNaval Documents of the American Revolution Vol.4
p.205 The vessels in the ports of Savannah, ready to sail, contrary to the interest of
America, shall be forthwith unrigged and unruddered. OED2 unruddered ppla.
1804
unruly c 1496 John Stanbridge Accedence
(facsimile ed. as English Linguistics 15001800
No. 134) p. Aii Fyve nownes (bonus, malus, magnus, paruus & multus) that make
the comparatyf degree unruly. OED2 cf. sense 1c 1526, but lacks simple
meaning of “not according to rule.”
unsettle 1609 Robert Johnson Nova
Britannia, Offring most Excellent fruites by Planting in Virginia p. B2r We so
passed by their dwellings that inseating ourselues, wee sought not to unsettle them.
OED2 sense 2a 1651
unsizableness 1690 ( 1915 ) C. D. New
England’s Faction Discovered in Narratives of the Insurrections 16751690 p. 262
By reason of the unsizableness of their Guns and Shot, they were forced to beat
their Bullets into Slugs. OED2 1746
unsolvable 1688 ( 1974 ) George Etherege Letter
Aug. 30, 1688, in Letters of Sir George Etherege
p. 230 You still increase a debt I have long been unable to pay you, but I bear an honest
minde and am willing, according to an ancient Roman Law, to be your slave since I am
unsolvable. OED2 sense 1 1656 only
untraversable 1628 Francis Fletcher
The World Encompassed by Sir Francis Drake
(facsimile reprint 1966) p. 92 Two onely canons there they saw, and those at that
present vntrauersable because vnmounted. OED2 1856 and lacks sense of
traverse v. sense 8
upper case 1713 JamesWatson The History
of the Art of Printing (facsimile ed. 1965) p. 62
[ AContemplation upon the Mystery of Man’s Regeneration in Allusion to the
Mystery of Printing]
Make, O make our Souls and Senses,
The Upper and the Lower Cases.
OED2 lacks as entry (see sort 1839) See slip Smith 1755
upper case 1755 John Smith The Printer’s
Grammar (facsimile ed. 1965) p. 50 The Upper Case Sorts are,
Large Capitals—Small Capitals—Accented
Letters—Figures—References. OED2 lacks as entry (see sort 1839)
See slip Watson 1713
upper works 1754 J. Robertson Elements of
Navigation p. 560 A ship is seen hull to , when her upperworks just disappear.
Additional text indicates that the upper works are above the rail or the quarter.
OED2 definition (= deadwork) does not fit this (nor 1850 def. and other quots?)
upstir 1855 Frederick Douglass Frederick
Douglass My Bondage and my Freedom
1994 Library of America ed. p. 326 I am not a loser ... by the general upstir.
(runaway attempt and arrest fits OED’s “commotion
or disturbance”) OED2 1549 and 1550 cits., 19th C. Eng. dial. no cit.
vacation 1609 ( 1957 ) Virginia Council
Instruccions orders and constituccions ... to Sir Thomas Gates in The Three
Charters of the Virginia Company of London (Va. 350th anniv. Celebration Corp.) p.
68 In cases of death or other vacacion of the Governor. OED2 Appears to
be sense 9 (1860) or 7b (†1535)
[The prisoners] upon theire departure after theire Spanish fastion vayled theire bonnets
in the honour of our Generall. (p. 50) OED2 sense 1b 1599
vail 1622 ( 1848 ) The Observations of Sir
Richard Hawkins Knight, in his Voyage into the South Sea in The Hawkins’ Voyages
(2nd ed. date? Hakluyt Soc. Ser. 1, No. LVII, reprint date?) §ii p.95 I caused the
pilot to set sayle from Blackwall, and to vayle down to Gravesend. OED2
sense 7 †1598
Varinas c 1640 ( 1989 ) inEnglish and Irish
Settlement on the River Amazon 15501646 (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd Ser., No. 171) p. 434
Excellent Tobacco, comparable to the best Verina. OED2 1747
Venetian 1576 ( 1931 ) Oxford Convocation
decree, in Statuta Antiqua Universitatis Oxoniensis, ed. S. Gibson p. 403
(per footnote, in An Elizabethan in 1582 (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. 147) p. 88 [No
one] shal weare anie Scalions of Velvet, of Silke or of any other colour then black or any
Gascons or Venetians at all ether within the universitye or without under paine of
forfeyting xiiijs iiijd for the first time, and for the second time xxxvjs viiijd, and so toties
quoties. Gascon? OED2 sense 2a 1582
Vermonter 1777 ( 1947 ) Thomas Hughes Sept.
25, 1777 in A Journal by Thos: Hughes p. 17 It was a party of Vermonters that took
Ticonderoga and Crown Point. OED2 1787 DA 1778
vest 1612 ( 1934 ) Capt. Thomas Best Journal, Dec.
12, 1612 , in The Voyage of Thomas Best to the East Indies, 161214 (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd.
Ser. No. LXXV) (reprint 1967) p. 38 I dealt with the Govener of Madafeldebar ..
agreeinge with him to give him 100 mamodas and a vest.
I presented him a veste of stamell. (Dec. 21 p. 39) OED2 1613
vest 1628 ( 1929 ) John Winthrop, Jr. Letter, Dec. 26,
1627, in Winthrop Papers Vol. 1 p 417 My love .. which shall present itselfe to you not
in the colored habit of painted words but in the simple vest of true friendship.
OED2 sense 1c 1655
viceadmiral 1578 ( 1940 ) Shipping list in The
Voyages and Colonising Enterprises of Sir Humphrey Gilbert (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser.
No. LXXXIII)
( reprint 1967) p. 210 The Hope of Greneway Vice Admirall of clx Tunnes.
OED2 sense 2 1595
viliaco 1583 M. M. S. The Spanish
Colonie (transl. of de las Casas) (facsimile reprint 1966) p. P2 recto I have killed
with my dogs today, fifteene or twentie viliacoes. OED2 1599
viny 1630 ( 1931 ) John Winthrop Misc note in
Journal, in Winthrop Papers Vol. 2 . p. 280 To make gunnepowder
..
Your Sulphur must be that which is Called viny, havinge 1/4: of quicksilver putt to it in
the meltinge. ? OED2 lacks
virgin oil 1676 ( 1953 ) John Locke Feb. 10, 1676, in
Locke’s Travels in France p. 36 The oyle that runs at first presseing before the mixture
of water they call virgin oyle, which is better than the other. OED2 1719
viviparous 1699 ( 1981 ) Royal Soc. Journal
Book, July 26, 1701, in The Three Voyages of Edmond Halley in the Paramore (Hakluyt
Soc. 2nd ser. vol. 156) p. 292 Mr Hally shewd part of a Viviparous plant as he called
it, which grows by the Salt waterside called Guaparaira the Mangrove. OED2
sense 3 1777
vociferator 1774 ( 1957 ) Philip V. FithianJournal &
Letters of PVF Jan. 18, 1773 p. 57 Six, eight, ten or more would put their Heads
together and roar ..
– among the first of these Vociferators was a young Scotchman. OED2 1814
vogue 1590 ( 1972 ) Sir Roger Williams A Brief
Discourse of Warre (p. A3v)
in The Works of Sir Roger Williams p. 5
The more affable they shewe themselues vnto the multitude, the greater will be
their voges and loues. NOTE “Popular esteem” fits perfectly as the meaning of
voge in the OED2 quote from this book under 4a (which continues .. “they will be sure
to make them away with poyson or murther”). I see no basis for the interpretation
“Natural bent or capacity,” and suggest striking. OED2 sense 2a 1604
voiturin 1676 ( 1953 ) John Locke Jan. 7, 1676, in
Locke’s Travels in France p. 16 We paid our Voiturin 12 crowns apiece for horse &
provision from Lyons hither. OED2 1768
volt v 1609 ( 1905 ) John Jourdain Journal, July 27,
1609, inThe Journal of John Jourdain, 16081617 (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. XVI)
(reprint 1967) p. 106 The winde beeing at S. S. E. wee laye all daie volting to and
againe to passe the straits.
Here wee laye voltinge to and againe to double this pointe (p. 275)
Wee sett saile, and voltinge to and againe wee perceived thatt wee were driven to
leeward. (p. 278) OED2 volt v1?
volubility 1726 ( 1974 ) Ebenezer Parkman The
Diary of Ebenezer Parkman Sept. 5, 1726
(American Antiquarian Soc.) p. 17 I had a great variety of Contemplations of the
volubility of time. OED2 sense 4b †1699
vomiturient 1654 ( 1992 ) Henry More Letter, Apr. 24,
1654, in The Conway Letters p. 95 The very remembrance of him will make me
half sick, and as vomituriant at this knave Physicion as Alexander is reported to
have been at the sight of a corrupt judge. OED2 1666 only
vote 1632 A. H. [Henry Hawkins] Partheneia
Sacra (facsimile ed. in English Recusant Literature 15581640 Vol. 81 1971) p. 181
O what a thing it were to reckon vp the Temples & Chapels, & therin
the Votes, tables, & waxen images set vp as testimonies of her infinit cures!
OED2 lacks the sense of exvoto
wage 1613 ( 1928 ) Robert Harcourt A Relation of
a Voyage to Guiana (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. LX) p. 126 I .. gaue commandement
to the master of my shippe to wage a Pilot. OED2 sense 7b †1608
wait on 1609 ( 1957 ) Virginia Council
Instruccions orders and constituccions ... to Sir Thomas Gates in The Three
Charters of the Virginia Company of London (Va. 350th anniv. Celebration Corp.) p.
62 You must give order that your catle be kept in heards waited and attended on by
some small watch. OED2 Sense 4 (or similar) † <1605
walk 1589 ( 1981 ) A Summarie and True
Discourse of Sir frances Drakes West Indian Voyage in Sir Francis Drake’s West Indian
Voyage 158586 (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. 148) p. 262 The orange trees and
others, being set orderly in walkes of great length together. This predates English
settlement in the West Indies. Is walk perhaps a calque on some Spanish word? OED2
sense 10c 1793, but see slip Wafer 1699
walk 1699 ( 1934 ) Lionel Wafer A New Voyage and
Description of the Isthmus of America
Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. LXXIII (reprint 1967) p. 7 He would rise in the Night, and
go out by stealth to the Neighbouring Plantainwalk, and fetch a bundle of ripe ones
from thence. OED2 sense 10c 1793; see slip 1589
waniness 1686 ( 1906 ) Shipwrights’
Resolutions at a Navy Office conference, in Samuel Pepys Memoires Relating to the
State of the Royal Navy of England (1690) (1906 ed. reprinted 1971) p. 43 The
general Waniness, want of Breadth at the Topend, and ill method of Conversion of our
English Plank. OED2 lacks
warren 1765 Henry Timberlake Memoirs
p. 126 Their ideas were likewise greatly increased by the number of ships in the river,
and the warren at Woolwich. OED2 sense 5 1769
wase 1675 ( 1953 ) John Locke Dec. 20, 1675, in Locke’s
Travels in France p. 4 To light the coach in the dark mornings the postilion carried a
great bundle of wases before him which were our Flambeaux. OED2 in
this sense †1602
wash 1635 Capt. Luke Foxe Northwest Fox or
Fox from the Northwest Passage
(Facsimile ed. 1965) p. 60 They use but one oare, with a washe at both ends. (Hall’s
last voyage to Greenland, ca, 1608 Check if from Purchas) OED2 sense 16 1769
wassail v 1582 ( 1976 ) Richard MadoxDiary, Jan. 6,
1582, in An Elizabethan in 1582 (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. 147) p. 73 I supt at M.
Maiors and after wasseld with M. Brush the chamberlayn. OED2 sense 1 no
quot. c1300< >1686
watch 1776 ( 1972 ) Lds. Commrs. Admiralty
Orders to Capt. Cook, June 1776, inNaval Documents of the American
Revolution Vol.6 p. 403 The said Commissrs have thought it expedient to send out
for trial during your present intended Voyage, two Watch Machines which have been
made by Mr Kendal in consequence of their directions,
one of them, being a Copy of that made by the late Mr Harrison. OED2
sense 21c 1777 (without machine )
water 1810 ( 1951 ) John E. Caldwell A Tour
through Part of Virginia p. 24 The stream passing under it is called Cedar Creek; it
is a water of James’ river. OED2 lacks sense of tributary
water spout 1712 ( 1972 ) John Fontaine Journal
Nov. 1712 p. 42 We see several water spouts, one of which passed over our ship.
OED2 sense 3 1738
watercrane 1618 v Cape The Chronicle and
Institution of the Order of .. S. Francis
(transl. of original of Marcos Da Silva) (facsimile ed. as English Recusant Literature
15581640 Vol. 357 1977)
p. 377 In the citty of Capua, diuers children playing vpon the watercrane, one of
them by mischance fell into the riuer. OED2 1658 (but “An apparatus for
supplying water from an elevated tank” doesn’t seem quite right for either quot.)
wavel 1582 ( 1976 ) Richard MadoxDiary, Apr. 10, 1582,
in An Elizabethan in 1582
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. 147) p. 105 We fet home both our anchors in hope
to be goen but the wynd whyvelying on both syds the east grew so scant we cold not.
Editor (E. S. Donno) glosses “veering” ? OED2 wavel Sc. 1638 (sense 1
a1689) (No reason for Scoticism in Madox)
weak 1748 ( 1935 ) anon. The Journal of a Captive
17451748 in Colonial Captivities, Marches and Journeys p. 13 The Castor .. Hull’d
her in 2. places vizt. abaft the Mainmast and in the Weake of the Fore Topmast
backstay. ? OED2 weak sense B † 1692?
weather v 1582 ( 1976 ) Richard Madox in An
Elizabethan in 1582
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. 147) p. 284 We wer gote almost to the Sterte, which when
we cold not wether (the gale bloyng stif at the west) we turned to Dartmowth.
OED2 sense 3a c1595
weatherglass 1687 ( 1940 ) Charles Morton
Compendium Physicae in Publ. Colonial Soc. Massachusetts Vol. XXXIII p. 52
(from 1697 transcription of 1687 ms., probably first
compiled c1680) Thus are made Barometers or <merc> Weather Glasses now of
common Use. OED2 sense 2 1695
welling vbln2 1853 ( 1953 ) Bill in Illinois
legislature, in Collected works of Abraham Lincoln Vol. II p. 189 Said Company may
engage in the business of mining of coal, iron, clays, and other minerals; and of welling
for salt. OED2 1865
whanger n1 1779 ( 1846 ) Col. Ethan Allen Narrative of
Col. Ethan Allen’s Captivity 4th ed. (facsimile reprint 1987) p. 36 The combatants
were to discharge each a pocket pistol, and then to fall on with their iron hilted muckle
whangers. ? If a sword, specifying iron hilts seems strange. Combatants were
ship’s officers, at least one Scottish. OED2 quotes 1867 Smyth Sailor’s Wordbk.
“An old term for a large sword.”
wherry 1752 ( 1974 ) Ebenezer Parkman The
Diary of Ebenezer Parkman Jan. 4, 1752
(American Antiquarian Soc.) p. 249
Ebenezer to Mr. Thomas Axtell’s with a Whirry and brought home my piggs which
had been so long lost. OED2 sense 3 1881
whist n2 1632 A. H. [Henry Hawkins] Partheneia
Sacra (facsimile ed. in English Recusant Literature 15581640 Vol. 81 1971) p. 127
It is the Herald of Armes, that passeth freely to and fro, amid the holbards and
squadrons of pikes, and cryes but out: hold your hands, and al is whist. OED2
sense 2 Irish c1874
Whitechapel needle 1758 ( 1994 ) Martha Custis
(Washington) Invoice, in “Worthy Partner” The Papers of Martha Washington p. 27
5 hundered of the Best White Chappel sorted needles none Large. OED2
1774
widdle v2 1774 ( 1993 ) William Mylne Letter, Sep.
1, 1774, in Travels in the Colonies in
17731775 p. 41 Robinson is one of those beings that when they cannot widdle into
the management of great things takes up with small. Mylne was from Edinburgh OED2
1844
widow’s man 1777 ( 1986 ) Complement
of H. M. Brig Cabot, July 1, 1777, inNaval Documents of the American Revolution Vol.
9 p. 196 Widows Man 1
Seamen 50 OED2 widow 5b 1790
wigwam ( v ) 1754 ( 1974 ) Ebenezer Parkman The
Diary of Ebenezer Parkman Jan. 15, 1754
(American Antiquarian Soc.) p. 268 Daniel Williams and his Squaw, who are come
from Dudley to
wigwam among us. OED2 “nonceword” 1906.
willock 1606 ( 1877 ) Capt. John Knight Journal,
June 2, 1606, in The Voyages of Sir James Lancaster .. and the Voyage of Captain
John Knight (Hakluyt Soc. Ser. 1, No. LVI) p. 286 This day we sawe manye black
byrds like willocks flyinge in fleets or companys together. OED2 1631
wind up 1726 ( 1974 ) Ebenezer Parkman The
Diary of Ebenezer Parkman Aug. 15, 1726
(American Antiquarian Soc.) p. 16 They apprehended him (according to his own
phrase) near winding up. .. He dy’d about an hour after. OED2 wind sense
24d(b) 1740 (winding up affairs, not life)
winderly 1699 ( 1981 ) Edmond Halley Letter, Apr.
4, 1701, in The Three Voyages of Edmond Halley in the Paramore (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd
ser. vol. 156)
p. 280 It would have been scarce possible for a more winderly shipp than we, to
turn it to Southward.Halley complained “Our shipp being very indifferent to windward.”
OED2 lacks
winnard c 1650 ( 1936 ) Peter Mundy inThe
Travels of Peter Mundy , in Europe and Asia 16081667 (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No.
LXXVIII) (reprint 1967) Vol.V p. 8 In winter, wild geese, wild ducks, blackbirds,
thrush, velvares, wheenards, etts.In list of birds of Cornwall OED2 1880
winterer 1635 Capt. Luke Foxe Northwest
Fox or Fox from the Northwest Passage
(Facsimile ed. 1965) p. 250 Who[soever] is so pleased may set forth the
beginning of May .. with ship newly repaired, newly manned with fresh men, & untainted
with skurvie, cramp or cold paines, but more and better able to performe the enterprize,
then the winterer can be. OED2 1795
wiregrass 1790 1792 ( 1976 ) John Fitch Autobiography p.
31 It was stought grass that would produce near two tons to the acre and generally
what we call in New England wiregrass. In the year 1755 OED2 sense 1 1793
with (withe) 1777 ( 1980 ) Capt. Cornelius White
Letter, May 15, 1777, inNaval Documents of the American Revolution Vol.8 p.
971 I found the head of my foremast to be very Rotten & weak .. I took all the pains
to secure it .. that could be contrived with Iron Withs & holdings. (holding seems to
have some particular technical sense also) OED2 sense 4 1867 (Smyth Sailor’s
Wordbk.)
woolsack a 1687 ( 1940 ) Charles Morton
Compendium Physicae in Publ. Colonial Soc. Massachusetts Vol. XXXIII p.
100
(from 1697 transcription of 1687 ms., probably first
compiled c1680) The Woolsacks (as they are called) in August soon change their
Collour ( by access of more vapours) and pour down rain. OED2 lacks fig.
sense for cumulus clouds.
wrasse c 1650 ( 1936 ) Peter Mundy inThe
Travels of Peter Mundy , in Europe and Asia 16081667 (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No.
LXXVIII) (reprint 1967) Vol.V p. 6 Gurnards, grey and red, turbut, great soles and
plaice; wrathes, smelts, mackrel and murghee .. thornebacke; ray, surmilletts and other.
In list of fishes of Cornwall OED2 a1672
wry 1670 1671 ( 1683 ) Sir James Turner Pallas Armata
(facsimile ed. 1968) Bk. I Ch. iii p. 8 A Target .. the Souldier carried on his Back all
the time of his march; but when he was to fight, by a wry of his body, he made it fall on
his
left shoulder. OED2 sense 2 †1654
yabba 1783 ( 1969 ) William Williams Mr. Penrose
The Journal of Penrose, Seaman p. 133 I got one of the large Callabashes and
oiled it round, and then I palmed clay all round it without and by this means made a
huge ugly sort of Yabba. OED2 1889
Yankee 1779 ( 1846 ) Col. Ethan Allen Narrative of
Col. Ethan Allen’s Captivity 4th ed. (facsimile reprint 1987) p. 44 I found I had come
Yankee over him, and that the letter had gone to the identical person I had designed it
for. OED2 B (adj. ) 1781; “connotation of cleverness, cunning or cold
calculation” 1829
Yankee Doodle 1770 ( 1914 ) Benjamin Wright Letter,
June 2, 1770, in Commerce of Rhode Island 17261800 Vol. 1, p. 330 Should my
little family call on you Pray be bountifull, which will greately add to the many favours
allready conferred on Poor Old yankey dodle. . OED2 sense 2 1787
yawl 1641 ( 1925 ) Peter Mundy Journal, July 15,
1641, inThe Travels of Peter Mundy, in Europe and Asia 16081667 Rel. XXXIV
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. LV) Vol. 4 p. 128 Came a Yoholl, or smalle boate, with 4
Lapps or Finns. OED2 1670
yawn 1582 ( 1976 ) Richard MadoxDiary, Apr. 29, 1582,
in An Elizabethan in 1582
(Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. 147) p. 119 Ther was our general .. with others who
dyned after under a yawn on the barbican deck. OED2 lacks. I presume
=awning 1624 (but see slips Winter 1579 and Walker 1582)
yellow boy 1855 ( 1947 ) Raffaello Carboni
Eureka Stockade ii p. 24 (Dolphin Book ed.) In less than five minutes I
pounced on a little pouch the yellow boy was all there. OED2 lacks sense
of gold in native state
yellow ware 1775 ( 1964 ) Simon Pease Letter Apr. 27, 1775
in Naval Documents of the American Revolution Vol. 1 p.233 You will oblige me
in Letting me Know if 6 or 7 Crates of yellow ware woud sell at Providence. OED2
1785
yellowtail c 1625 ( 1882 ) Nathaniel Butler ? The
Historye of the Bermudaes
(Hakluyt Soc.1st. Ser. No. LXV) p. 7 Excellent fish ..the most of which being
vnknowen to our more northerly parts, haue lately gotten them names, either from their
shapes or conditions, as .. the delicate amber fish, from his tast and smell; angell fish;
cony fish, the smale yellowe tayle, from that naturall painteinge; the great grouper, from
his odde and strange gruntinge. OED2 1709
yoke 1789 Thomas Anburey Travels
through the Interior Parts of America
in a Series of Letters (1969 facsimile ed.) Vol. I p.83 The soil is covered with
maple, oak, beech, yoke, elm, hickory, and small cherrytrees. OED2 has yoke
tree (“olde time” name in 1585) and yokeelm
(from 1687 ) for hornbeam, but lacks uncombined form.
yuft 1641 ( 1925 ) Peter Mundy The Travels of Peter
Mundy, in Europe and Asia 16081667 Rel. XXXIV (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd. Ser. No. LV) Vol.
4
p. 152Moscovia: comodities
..
Yughtts or redd hides, an exceeding quantity. OED2 1799
yulelog c 1687 ( 1972 ) John Aubrey Remaines of
Gentilisme and Judaisme Ch. I, in John Aubrey Three Prose Works p. 134 In the
Westriding of Yorkshire on Christmas Eve at night they bring in a large Yulelog or
Christmas block and set it on fire. OED2 a1725
Zohar 1672 ( 1992 ) Henry More Letter, Feb. 5, 1672, in The
Conway Letters p. 351 He may observe whether in Zoar or any other of these
Cabbalisticall Bookes the ancient Cabbalists may seeme to speake to the sense that I
have given of these 2 Tables. OED2 1682