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Bussy D'ambois and the Revenge of Bussy D'ambois · George Chapman — chapter 88 of 92 · ~144 words · public domain

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=giddinesse=, foolhardiness.

=glorious=, swelling, boastful.

=Gordian=, Gordian knot.

=graduate=, rise by steps.

=grasse=, graze.

=hackster=, a prostitute's gallant or protector.

=haie=, a boisterous country dance.

=heartlesse=, cowardly.

=humourous=, full of humours, variable in temper.

=idols=, images, counterfeits.

=ill-favour'd=, of unpleasant appearance.

=impe=, piece out. Used, originally, in hawking, of the process of grafting new feathers on a maimed wing.

=implide=, variant of employed.

=inennerable=, indescribable.

=informed=, moulded, fashioned.

=ingenuous=, discerning; used mistakenly for ingenious.

=injurious=, insulting.

=innative=, native.

=intelligencers=, spies.

=jealousie=, suspicion.

=jet=, strut.

=jiggs=, farces, jocular performances.

=last=, a certain weight or quantity of goods. In the case of powder, it represented twenty-four barrels.

=let=, hinder, prevent.

=limit=, limitation.

=lucerns=, hunting dogs. Used in the same sense by Chapman in trans. of Iliad, XI, 417. The usual meaning of the word is lynx.

=mall'd=, beaten with a mall or mallet, crushed.

=manlessly=, inhumanly.

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