Samuel Pepys

Baize

A new black baize waistcoat lined with silk.

Baste

One man was basted by the keeper for carrying some people over on his back through the waters.

Brave

It being a brave day, I walked to Whitehall.

Buckle

Buckled with the heat of the fire like parchment.

The Dutch, as high as they seem, do begin to buckle.

Club

We dined at a French house, but paid ten shillings for our part of the club.

Coach

The commanders came on board and the council sat in the coach.

Discommend

A compliance will discommend me to Mr. Coventry.

Discompliance

A compliance will discommend me to Mr. Coventry, and a discompliance to my lord chancellor.

Doze

I was an hour . . . in casting up about twenty sums, being dozed with much work.

Fell

I am so fell to my business.

Ferrandine

I did buy a colored silk ferrandine.

Fiddle

Talking, and fiddling with their hats and feathers.

Forsooth

The captain of the “Charles” had forsoothed her, though he knew her well enough and she him.

Fox

I drank . . . so much wine that I was almost foxed.

Foy

He did at the Dog give me, and some other friends of his, his foy, he being to set sail to-day.

Friz

With her hair frizzed short up to her ears.

Frostbite

My wife up and with Mrs. Pen to walk in the fields to frostbite themselves.

Fusty

A melancholy, fusty humor.

Ill-tempered

So ill-tempered I am grown, that I am afraid I shall catch cold, while all the world is afraid to melt away.

Imprest

The clearing of their imprests for what little of their debts they have received.

News

There cometh a news thither with his horse.

Punch

I . . . did hear them call their fat child punch, which pleased me mightily, that word being become a word of common use for all that is thick and short.

Salt

I out and bought some things; among others, a dozen of silver salts.

Scout

So we took a scout, very much pleased with the manner and conversation of the passengers.

Slug

His rendezvous for his fleet, and for all slugs to come to, should be between Calais and Dover.

Slut

Our little girl Susan is a most admirable slut, and pleases us mightily, doing more service than both the others.

Spoon

We might have spooned before the wind as well as they.

Treasonous

The treasonous book of the Court of King James.

Whisk

My wife in her new lace whisk.