Volume 1

A glossary, or, Collection of words, phrases, names, and allusions to customs, proverbs, etc., which have been thought to require illustration, in the works of English authors, particularly Shakespeare, and his contemporaries / [Robert Nares].

  • Robert Nares
Date:
1882
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    About seaven of tlie clocke marched forward the light peeces of ordnance, with stone and powder. Hulinsh., p. 947. GURMOND. A glutton; from the French, gourmand. And surely, let Seneca say what hee please, it might very well be that his famous gurmond [Apicius] turned his course unto this country. Healde’s Disc, of New. W., B i, ch. 5. The word occurs often afterwards. GURNET, or GURNARD. A fish of the piper kind, of which there are several species ; the gray, the red, the streaked, &c. ; all, as well as the piper itself, comprised under the genus trigla of Linnaeus. It was probably thought a very bad and vulgar dish when soused, or pickled ; hence, sous'd gurnet was a common term of reproach. 11 1 he not asham’d of my soldiers, I am a sous’d gurnet. 1 Hen. IV, iv, 1. Thou slialt sit at the upper end, punk !—punk! you sous’d gurnet! Honest Wh., 0. PI., iii, 290. Out, you sous’d gurnet, you wool-fist! begone, I say, and bid the players dispatch, and come quickly Wily Beguiled, Prol., Origin of Dr., iii, 294. To GUST. To taste; seldom used; from gust, subst. Sicilia is a—so-forth. ’Tis far gone When I shall gust it last. Winter’s T.,\, 2. j*GUSTFULL. Tasteful; pleasant. We find that a stumble makes one take firmer footing, and the base suds which vice usetli to leave behind it makes vertue afterward far more gustfull,- no know- ledg is like that of contraries. HoveeU’s Familiar Letters, 1650. f GUTLING. “ Guttlings, bellie gods, gulones.” Wit hats’ Dictionaries ed. 1608, p. 291. -MiUT-PUDDING. A sausage. Farcimen, Varro. Intestinum concisa minutim carne similive fartura oppletum. aAAds. Boudin, saucisse, ou andouille. A gut pudding. Nomenclator. fGUT-VEXER. A fiddler. Peace, varlets, scoundrels! Get out of my sight, you unlucky gut-vexers. The Wizard, a Flay, 1640, MS. To GYBE, for to GIBE, q. v.; so also the substantive. Both are errone- ously so spelt sometimes, in the modern editions of Shakespeare; hence, in Fluellin’s Welch pronun- ciation, gypes. He was full of jests, and gypes, and knaveries, and mocks. Hen. V, iv, 7- GYMMAL. See Gimmal. GYRE. A circle; from gyrus, Latin. A word at present very little, if at all, in use; formerly very common. It is found in the writings of Dryden. In gambols and lascivious gyres Their time they still bestow. Drayt. Muses’ Elys., p. 1447. And then down stooping with an hundred gires. His feet he fixed on mount Cephalon. Lingula, O. PL, v, 140. When there might be giv’n All earth to matter, with the gyre ot heav’n. Browne’s Brit. Past., ii, 4, p. 127. To GYRE. To turn round; from the substantive. Which from their proper orbs not go. Whether they gyre swift or slow. Drayt. Eel., 2, p. 1390. GYVES, or GIVES. Fetters. A word little used, but hardly obsolete, at least in poetry. If you will take upon you to assist him, it shall redeem you from your gyves. Meas. for Meas., iv, 2. Lay chain’d in gives, fast fetter’d in his bolts. Tancred and Gismunda, O. PL, ii, 213. It occurs verv often in the Two Noble Kinsmen, and is there always gives. To GYVE. To fetter; from the noun. I will gyve thee in thine own courtship. Othello, ii, 1. H. fHA. Often used as an abbreviation of have, and sometimes printed ha'. And I may have my will, ile neither ha poore sclioller nor souldier about the court. Day’s Ile of Gulls, 1633. I Fid. For me, sister! ha’ you found out a wife for me ? ha’ you ? pray speak, ha’ you ? Brome’s Northern Lass. HABBE OR NABBE. Have or have not, hit or miss, at a venture; quasi, have or n'ave, i. e., have not; as nill for will not. The citizens in their rage imagining that every post in the cburche had bin one of their souldyers, shot hubbe or nabbe, at random. Holinshed, Hist, of Ireland, F 2, col. 2. Hab-nab is the same, which Blount and Skinner derive rightly from the Saxon habban to have, and nabban, not to have; as, ’Tis hab-nab whether he will gain his point or not. Glossogr. With that he circles draws and squares, With cyphers, astral characters, Then looks ’em o’er to understand ’em, Although set down hab-nab, at random. Hudibr., II, iii, 987. I put it Ev’n to your worship’s bitterment, hah nab; I shall have a chance o’ the dice for’t I hope, Let them e’en run. B. Jons. Tale of a Tub, iv, 1. As they came in by hob, nab, so will I bring them in a reckoning at six and at sevens. Heywood, cited by Todd. Hob or nob, now only used convivially to ask a person whether he will have a glass of wine or not, is most evi- dently a corruption of this; in proof of which Shakespeare has used it to mark an alternative of another kind : And his incensement at this moment is so implacable.