Hakluyt

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Barricade

The further end whereof [a bridge] was barricaded with barrels.

Black

They have their teeth blacked, both men and women, for they say a dog hath his teeth white, therefore they will black theirs.

Bodied

A doe . . . not altogether so fat, but very good flesh and good bodied.

Breviate

I omit in this breviate to rehearse.

Coast

The Indians . . . coasted me along the river.

Comfortment

The gentle comfortment and entertainment of the said embassador.

Communicate

Subjects suffered to communicate and to have intercourse of traffic.

Complement

To exceed his complement and number appointed him which was one hundred and twenty persons.

Contract

We have contracted an inviolable amity, peace, and lague with the aforesaid queen.

Conversation

All traffic and mutual conversation.

Copple

A low cape, and upon it a copple not very high.

Customer

The customers of the small or petty custom and of the subsidy do demand of them custom for kersey cloths.

Daintiness

The daintiness and niceness of our captains

Damageable

That it be not damageable unto your royal majesty.

Depeach

As soon as the party . . . before our justices shall be depeached.

Disgorge

This mountain when it rageth, . . . casteth forth huge stones, disgorgeth brimstone.

Feminine

They guide the feminines toward the palace.

Forfeiture

Under pain of foreiture of the said goods.

Grapple

The gallies were grappled to the Centurion.

Inclosure

Within the inclosure there was a great store of houses.

Ingenious

A man . . . very wise and ingenious in feats of war.

Parallel

Revolutions . . . parallel to the equinoctial.

Permute

Bought, trucked, permuted, or given.

Rummage

They might bring away a great deal more than they do, if they would take pain in the romaging.

Rummager

The master must provide a perfect mariner, called a romager, to range and bestow all merchandise.

Trinket

Sailing always with the sheets of mainsail and trinket warily in our hands.