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262 GLOSSARY
APPOINTMENT, equipment; 4.6.16 ASSUME, put or take on a garb,
APPREHENSION, (a) imagination, aspect or character. A technical
conception, (b) seizure, grasp; term of demonology for devils'
2. 2. 310; conception; 4. 1. 11 disguising themselves in the
APPROVE, (i) corroborate; 1. 1. 295 form of some dead person;
(ii) commend; 5. 2. 139 1. 2. 2443 1. 4. 72; 2. 2. 604;
APPURTENANCE, adjuncts; 2.2.374 3.4.160
ARGAL, a perversion of 'ergo' ASSURANCE, (a) security, (b) con-
(v. note); 5. 1. 12, 19, 48 veyance of land; 5. 1. 114
ARGUMENT, (i) the plot of a play; AT FOOT, closely (N.E.D. quotes
3. 2. 231; (ii) reason, cause of Cursor Mundi, 24031 (Cott.)
contention; 2. 2. 358 (with, a 'We folud ]?am to fote');
quibble on sense i); 4. 4. 54 4: 3- S3
ARITHMETIC OF MEMORY, mental ATTRIBUTE, reputation (cf. Trail.
arithmetic; 5. 2. 119 2. 3. 125 'Much attribute he
ARM (vb.), prepare; 3. 3. 24 hath'); 1. 4. 22
ARREST, staying order; 2. 2. 67 AUDIT, official examination of
ARTERE, artery. The old physiology accounts. Commonly used in
regarded the arteries as the ducts theol. sense of a solemn ren-
or channels of the ' vital spirits,' dering of account to God (cf.
not of the blood; 1. 4. 82 Matth. xxv. 19, Luke xvi. 2)5
ARTICLE, (i) part of a state docu- 3- 3- 82
ment; 1. 1. 94; 1. 2. 38; AUSPICIOUS, cheerful; 1. 2. 11
(ii) 'of great article' = of great
scope, of great importance (with BACK. Military term = rearguard,
a quibble on 'article' = item in body of supporters. N.E.D.
an inventory; v. note); 5. 2. 121 quotes Speed (1611) 'Scotland
ARTLESS, unskilful, without con- was a special backe or second to
trol; 4. 5. 19 King Henry'; 4. 7. 152
ASKANT, sidewise (N.E.D. quotes BAIT (sb.), food, refreshment
this passage as the only instance (v. note); 3. 3. 79
of the word as a prep.); 4. 7.165 BAKED MEATS, pies and other pastry;
ASSAY (sb.), (i) assault; 2. 2. 71; 1. 2. 180
(ii) trial, attempt; 3. 3. 69; BANDS, bonds, obligations; 1.2. 24;
'assayof bias'=indirect attempt. 3-2.IS8
A metaphor from bowls, lit. an BARBARY HORSE, or Barb. A well-
attempt to hit the jack by taking known breed in England at this
a winding course, which the bias time; 'a little horse but swift,
allows; 2. 1. 62 and...esteemed in the manage
ASSAY (vb.), challenge to a trial; for its ability to make a long
3.1. 14 career'; prob. a favourite with
AS'ES. Plural of (a) as, the con- Sh. (y. Si. Eng. ii. 408)5 5. 2.
ditional particle, (b) ass; 5. 2.43 151, 162
ASSIGNS, appendages. Affected; BARKED ABOUT, encrusted; 1. 5. 71
Osric is perhaps thinking of BARE, (a) unsheathed, (J>) mere;
'heirs and assigns'; 5. 2. 153 3. 1. 76