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