Acheron | [pron: 'akeron] Underworld abyss and river, which souls of the dead must cross |
approacher | one who approaches |
bachelor | unmarried person [man or woman] |
bachelor | young man |
beached | having a beach, shingly, sandy |
bone-ache, Neapolitan | [pain in the bones from Naples] syphilis, venereal disease |
bribed | stolen, thieved, poached |
broached | newly begun, freshly started |
buy | betray, exploit, treat treacherously |
carriage | loop attached to a belt for holding a sword |
Charon | [pron: 'kairon] guardian of the Underworld; ferryman who carried the souls of the dead across the River Acheron |
coacher | [Q variant of torcher, unclear meaning] coach, chariot |
course | sail attached to the lower yards of a sailing ship |
dishonestly | treacherously |
dominie | teacher, schoolmaster |
empleached, impleached | entwined, intertwined, interwoven |
endeared | attached in honour, bound by affection |
even-pleached | with branches evenly layered |
expiate | reached, fully arrived |
faith-breach | breach of faith, treason, treachery |
false | treacherous, traitorous, perfidious |
false-heart | false-hearted, treacherous |
falsehood | disloyalty, treachery, faithlessness |
falsely | treacherously, deceitfully, dishonestly |
Fates | trio of goddesses who control human destiny: Atropos (‘the inflexible’) cuts the thread of life allotted and spun by Lachesis (‘the distributor’) and Clotho (‘the spinner’) |
fraudful | fraudulent, treacherous, deceitful |
Goodwins | Goodwin Sands; treacherous sands for shipping off the Kent coast |
guile | cunning, deceit, treachery |
guiled | treacherous, deceiving, full of guile |
hanger | loop or strap attached to a sword belt, from which a sword may be hung |
Hector | son of Priam, married to Andromache; the bravest Trojan, who led out their army to battle |
high-stomached | proud, haughty, stubborn |
humoured | expressing a particular disposition; lying, treacherous |
ill-annexed | badly added, adversely attached |
impartial | indifferent, disinterested, detached |
impleached | entwined, intertwined, interwoven |
ingraft | closely attached, associated [with] |
jess | [falconry] short strap fastened to a hawk's legs [to which the leash is attached] |
knavery | treachery, trap, trickery |
linen | pale, pallid, bleached |
loose | marksman not attached to a company |
master | teacher, schoolmaster |
mustachio | moustached, bewhiskered |
mustachio | moustache |
Neapolitan bone-ache | [pain in the bones from Naples] syphilis, venereal disease |
parrot-teacher | chatterer, babbler, empty talker |
pedagogus | [Latin] teacher |
pedant | teacher, schoolmaster |
perfidious | treacherous, unfaithful, disloyal |
pleached | intertwined, folded, bound together |
pleached | with hedges made of interlaced branches |
practice | trickery, treachery |
pride | highest point reached by a bird of prey before swooping down |
resort | visits, visitings, approaches |
shent | [from earlier verb ‘shend’] blamed, rebuked, reproached |
slippery | fickle, treacherous, uncertain |
stomacher | piece of clothing used by women under their bodice to help cover the chest |
subtle | tricky, deceptive, treacherous |
subtly | deceitfully, treacherously, deceptively |
tender | fond of comfort, attached to the easy life |
thick-pleached | thickly hedged, with hedges made of closely interlaced branches |
traitorly | traitorous, treacherous |
treacher | traitor, deceiver, cheat |
treacherously | despicably, contemptibly, in a cowardly manner |
treason | treachery, betrayal, deceitfulness |
trustless | treacherous, untrustworthy, unreliable |
unattainted | dispassionate, detached, unprejudiced |
unattempted | untempted, unseduced, unapproached |
unpartial | impartial, detached, neutral |
whitster | linen-bleacher, whitener of clothing |
wringing | aches and pains |