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

Credit: 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]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$+To the tune of the New-Etigland psalm, hvggle duggle, ho ho ho, the devil he laught aloud. Rump Songs. HUGY, or HUGIE, for huge. Could not that happy hour Once, once have hapt, in which these hugie frames With death by fall might have oppressed me. jFerrex and Porrex, 0. PL, i, 139. A strong turret, compact of stone and rock, Hugy without, but horrible within. Tancred and Gism., 0. PL, ii, 213. And round about were portraid heere and there The hugie hosts, Darius and his power. His kings, princes, his peeres, and all his flower. Suckv. Mirr. Mag., p. 266. Wherewith they threw up stones of hugie waights into the ayre. Knolles, Hist, of Turks, p. 581. Bryden has used this word. See Todd. HUKE, or HUIK. A kind of mantle or cloke worn in Spain and the Low Countries. Huque, French ; huca, low Latin. See Minshew. As we were thus in conference, there came one that seemed to be a messenger in a rich hulce. Bacon’’s New Atalantis. Johnson has this instance ; I find the word also in the Muses’ Recreation: Heralds with hukes, hearing full hie, Cryd largesse, largesse, chevaliers tres hardy. Defiance to K. Arthur, Spc. But it is more correctly given in Percy’s Reliques, where the former line runs, And heraults in hewkes, hooting on high. Yol. iii, p. 26. That edition is said to be composed of the best readings in three different copies. [Used sometimes as a verb, to cloak.] tAnd yet I will not let it alone, but throw some light vaile of spotlesse pretended well-meaning over it, to hulce and mask it from publicke shame and obloquy. King’s Half e-penny worth of Wit, 1613, ded. -(-The women there are no fashion-mongers, but they keepe in their degrees one continuall habit, as the richer sort doe weare a liuicke, which is a robe of cloth or stuffe plated, and the upper part of it is gathered and sowed together in the forme of an English potlid, with a tassell on the top, and so put upon the head, and the garment goes over her ruffe and face if she please, and so downe to the ground, so that a man may meet his owne wife, and perhaps not know her from another woman. Taylor’s Workes, 1630. \Huke, a Dutch attire, covering the head, face, and all the body. Dunton's Ladies Dictionary, 1691. t'fhe German virgins, when they prepared to give meeting to their betrothed, and so to proceed to the conjugal ceremony, put on a streight or plain garment, such a one as they in some places call a huk, and over that a cloak without spot or stain, bearing a garland woven of vervain. Ibid. HULK. A ship, particularly a heavy one. Light boats sail swift, though greater hulks draw deep Tro. and Cress., ii, 3. As when the mast of some well-timber’d hulke Is with the blast of some outrageous storme Blown down, it shakes the bottom of the hulke. Spens. F. Q., V, xi, 29. fHULL. A shell; a cover. Folliculi vel retrimenta uvarum, Le marc. The kulkes, hulles, or skinnes of grapes, when their moisture is crushed and pressed out. Nomenclator. Gluma, Yarro .... La paille qui couvrele grain. The huike or Aw^wherin the corne lieth. Ibid. fTo HULL. To shell. Also cucumber seed chewed, or if it be hulled and beaten, and drunke with water, it helpeth greatly against thirst engendred through heateof the stomach. Bar rough's Method of Phy sick, 1624. Against the wind.—Take cummin-seed, and steep them in a sack 24 hours, dry them by the fire, and hull them, then take fennel seed, carraway seed, and annise seed, beat all these together, and take every morning half a spoonful in broth or beer fasting. The Countess of Kent's Choice Manual, 1676. To HULL. To float, by the effect of the waves on the mere hull, or body of a vessel. Mar. Will you hoist sail, sir? here lies your way. Vio. No, good swabber, I am to hull here a little longer. Twelfth N., i, 5. Thus hulling in The -wild sea of my conscience, I did steer Towards this remedy. Hen. Fill, ii, 4. That all these mischiefs hull with flagging sail. Noble Soldier, 1634. These are things That will not strike their topsails to a foist, And let a man of war, an argosy, Hull, and cry cockles. B. and FI. Philaster, v, 4. fHULL CHEESE. A cant name for a sort of ale. Hull cheese, is much like a loafe out of a brewers basket, it is composed of two simples, mault and water, in one compound, and is cousin germane to the mightiest ale in England. Taylor's Workes, 1630. HUM. A sort of strong liquor. Mr. Gifford thinks it was a mixture of ale or beer, and spirits. Car-men Are got into the yellow starch, and chimney sweepers To their tobacco, and strong waters, hum, Meath, and Obarni. B. Jons. Devil is an Ass, i, 1. Lord, what should I ail? What a cold 1 have over my stomach; would I’d some hum. B. and Ft. Wildgoose Chase, ii, 3. Notwithstanding the multiplicity of wines, yet there be stills and limbecks going, swetting out aqua vitae and strong waters, deriving their names from cinna- mon, balm, and aniseed, such as stomach-water, hurnm, &c. Heyviood’s Drunkard, p. 48, cited by Gifford. It is introduced in the Beggar’s Bush, ii, 1, among terms of the cant language, which, probably, was its origin. HUM-GLASSES. Small glasses, used particularly for drinking hum, as now liqueur-glasses; which proves the strength of the compound, whatever it was. They say that Canary sack must dance again To the apothecary’s, and be sold For physic in hum-glasses and thimbles. Shirley’s Wedding, ii. HUMBLE -BEE. A well-known insect. Mr. Todd has found humblinge in Chaucer, in the sense of humming, or rumbling, from which the word may well originate. See Bumble-bee i$