The B section of Robert Cawdrey's 1604 dictionary A Table Alphabeticall.

 

Not content with a mere transcription, I have also translated Cawdrey's 400 year old English into modern E2 English, through a process involving the OED, much research and many educated guesses.

The main entries may appear in as many as five parts :
          Original {Corrected} [Repaired] (Modern) <E2>

Original is exactly as it appears in Cawdrey.
Corrected fixes what I believe to be a typo.
Repaired swaps I with J, and U with V, as necessary for current alphabetic usage.
Modern gives the modern American spelling.
E2 removes plurals and verb endings and such, so it links to an existing node.

Each operation is performed on its left-hand neighbor. The results are omitted if nothing changed. Only the rightmost word is hard-linked.

A leading (f) indicates French origin, a leading (g) indicates Greek origin.

If an entry is marked with clueless, then my search for a modern version of the word has come up empty.

Please msg me with any corrections or suggestions.

See Also Main Entry, Introduction, A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I/J, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U/V

 

BAile (bail)
suretie, witnes
ballance (balance)
a paire of scales, or other thing
(f) balase (ballast)
grauell, wherewith ships are poysed to goe vpright: or weight
bang
beat
bankerupt (bankrupt)
bankerout, waster
banquet
feast
(g) baptisme (baptism)
dipping, or sprinkling
(f) band
company of men, or an assembly
baptist
a baptiser
barbarian
a rude person
barbell
a kind of fish
barbarie (barberry)
a kind of of fruite
barbarisme (barbarism)
barbarousnes, rudeness
(f) barke (bark)
small ship
barnacle
a kind of bird
barrester (barrister)
one allowed to giue counsell, or to pleade
barreter (barrator)
a contentious person, quarreller or fighter
(f) barter
to bargaine, or change
baud
whore
bauin [bavin]
a faggot, or kid
bashfull (bashful)
blush, or shamefast
(f) battrie (battery)
beating or striking
bay
a kind of tree
beadle
office
beagle
a kind of hound
beatitude
blessednes, happines
beldam
parent, or maister
bellona
the goddesse of warre
benediction
praysing or blessing
beneficiall (beneficial)
profitable
beneuolence [benevolence]
good will, or fauour
benigne (benign)
fauourable, curteous, gentle
benignitie (benignity)
gentlenes, or kindnes
(f) benisson (benison)
blessing
bequeath
giue
bereft
depriued, alone, voide, robd
besiedge (besiege)
compasse
betrothed
affianced, or promised in marriage
bewaile (bewail)
mone, complaine
(f) biere (bier)
a cophin wherein dead men are carried
(g) bigamie (bigamy)
twise maried, or hath had two wiues
billiment (biliment)
iewell, or garment
bipartite
deuided into two parts
bisket (biscuit)
bread
bishop
ouer-seer, or prelate
blase
report, publish, shew forth
(g) blaspheme
to speake ill of God
blattering
vaine babling
(f) blanch
to make white, or white lime
bleate (bleat)
cry
blisse (bliss)
ioy, or happines
(f) bonnet
hat, or cap
bob
beate
(f) bouge
stirre, remoue from a place
boate (boat)
ship
braule (brawl)
wrangle
(g) brachygraphie (brachygraphy)
short writing
(f) bragard (braggart)
fine, trim, proude
(f) brandish
to shake a sword
breuitie [brevitie] (brevity)
shortnes
brickle, brittle
easiely broken, lymber
(f) brigand
a theefe, or robber by the highway side
(f) brigandine
coate of defence
(f) brigantine
a small ship
brothell (brothel)
keeper of a house of baudry
brooch
iewell
(f) bruite (brute)
report, noyse
buggerie (buggery)
coniunction with one of the same kinde, or of men with beasts
bugle
glasse
buglasse (bugloss)
a kind of herbe
bullyon (bullion)
coyne
(f) burgesse (burgess)
a head man of a towne

 

See Also Main Entry, Introduction, A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I/J, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U/V

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