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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    The hunt is up, the hunt is up, And now it is almost day; And he that’s a-bed with another man’s wife. It’s time to get him away. Acad, of Compl. In a third, referred to by Mr. Steevens, it is spiritualised. The expression - was common. Since arm from arm that voice doth us affray, Hunting tiiee hence with hunts-up to the day. Rom. and Jul., iii, 5. I love no cliamber-musick; but a drum To give me hunts-up. Four Prentices, 0. PL, vi, 472. Rowland, for shame, awake thy drowsy muse, Time plays the hunt’s-up to thy sleepy head. Drayt. Eel., iii, p. 1392. No sooner doth the earth her flowery bosom brave. At such time as the year brings on the pleasant spring, But hunts-up to the morn the feather’d sylvans sing. Drayt. Pol., xiii, p. 914. f A HUNTER’S MASS. A short mass, said in great haste, for hunters who were eager to start for the chase; hence used as a phrase for any hurried proceeding. A frier that was vesting himselfe to masse, a gentle- man pray’d him to say a hunter’s masse (meaning a briefe masse); with that the frier tooke his missall and turn’d it all over leafe by leafe, continuing so doing a good while, which the gentleman thinking long, at last said unto him, I pray you, father, dispatch; niethinkes you are very long a registring your missal ? Why, sir, answered the frier, you bespake a hunters’ masse, and in sooth I can finde no such masse in all my booke. Copley’s Wits, Fits, and Fancies, 1614. And this farre only I touch, that, when the conjured spirit appeares, which will not be while after many circumstances, long prayers, and much muttering and murmurings of the conjurers, like a papist prieste despatching a huntting masse—how soone, I say, he appeares. F. James’s Demonology. fHUNT-SPEAR. A hunting spear. Sister, see, see Ascanius in his pomp, Bearing his hunt-spear bravely in his hand. Dido Qiieen of Carthage, 1594. IIURDEN. Made of tow, or such coarse materials. What from the lmrden smock, with lockram upper bodies, and hempen sheets, to wear and sleep in holland. R- Brome’s New Acad., iii, p. 47. tThen bee [king Charles] returning to his chamber, sitting down by the fier side, we pulled of his shoes and stockings, and washed Ins feet, which were most sadly galled, and then pulled of likewaies his apparell and shirt, which was of liurden cloth, and put him one of Mr. Huddleston’s, and other apparell of ours. Account of K. Charles’s escape from Worcester. tEor she’s as good a toothless dame, As mumbleth on brown bread; Where thou slialt lie in hurden sheets, Upon a fresh straw bed. King Alfred and the Shepherd. HURDS. Another name for tow. Now that part [of the flax] which is utmost, and next to the pill or rind, is called tow or hurds, Holland’s Pliny, vol. ii, p. 4. 4 For I have harde olde liauswyves saye, that better is Marche hurdes, than Apryll flaxe, the reason appereth. Fitzherbert’s Husbandry. fTo HURKLE. To shrug. Another sadly fixing his eies on the ground, and hv.rclding with his head to his sholders, foolishly imagind, that Atlas being faint, and weary of his burthen, would shortly let the heavens fall upon his head, and break his crag. OpticJc Glasse of Humors, 1639. fHURLEBAT. A weapon, apparently a sort of dart or javelin. Aclis, aclidis, a kynde of weapon, used in olde tyme, as it wer an hurlebatte. Eliotes Dictionarie, 1559. Hurlebats having pikes of yron in the end, aclides. Withals’ Dictionarie, ed. 1608, p. 317- Laying about him as if they had beene fighting at hurlebats. Holland’s Ammiunus Marcel., 1609. HURLEWIND. Whirlwind; possibly the original word. And as oft-times upon some fearful] clap Of thunder, straight a hurlewind doth arise And lift the waves aloft, from Thetys’ lap Ev’n in a moment up into the skyes. Harringt. Ariost., xlv, 69. Like scatter’d down by howling Eurus blown. By rapid hurlwinds from his mansion thrown. Sandys, cited by Todd. HURLY. A noise, or tumult; from hurler, French ; also hurlu-burlu. That with the hurly death itself awakes. 2 Hen. IV, iii, 1. Methinks I see this hurly all on foot. John, iii, 4. Hurlu-burlu, which is not in the com- mon French dictionaries, is in the latest editions of the dictionary of the Academy, both as substantive and adjective. Explained “etourdi.” tBy happe if in this hurly barle with prince or king he met. A. Hall’s Homer, p. 18, 1581. +A hurly burly went through the house, and one comes and whispers the lady with the newes. Arinin, Nest of Ninnies, 1608. tWell, they fall out, they go together by the eares, and such a hurly burly is in the roome, that passes. Ibid. To HURRE. To growl or snarl like a dog. R is the dog’s letter, and hurreth in the sound. B. Jons. Engl. Gr. HURRICANO. Used for a water-spout, Ouragan, French. Not the dreadful spout Which shipmen do the hurricano call, Constring’d in mass by the almighty sun. Shall dizzy with more clamour Neptune’s ear In his descent. Tr. Cr., v, 2, You cataracts, and hurricanos, spout Till you have drench’d our steeples. Lear, iii, 2, And down the sliow’r impetuously doth fall. As that which men the hurricano call. Drayt. Mooncalf, p. 494, Menage says that ouragan is an Indian word. I find it written herocane in one pas- sage : Such as would have made tlieir party good against all assailants, had they not been dispersed and weakened by violent tempests; besides the unexpected herocane, which dashed all the endeavours of the best pilots. Lady Alimony, iv, 1. j'HURRY-WHORE. A contemptuous name for a common prostitute. And I doe wish with all my heart, that the superfluous number of all our hyreling hackney carryknaves, and hurry -ichor es, with their makers and maintainers, were there, where they might never want continual! imployment. Taylor’s WorTces, 1630. HURST. A wood. Saxon and low Latin. It occurs in many names of places, either singly or in composition,