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Title:  The academy of armory, or, A storehouse of armory and blazon containing the several variety of created beings, and how born in coats of arms, both foreign and domestick : with the instruments used in all trades and sciences, together with their their terms of art : also the etymologies, definitions, and historical observations on the same, explicated and explained according to our modern language : very usefel [sic] for all gentlemen, scholars, divines, and all such as desire any knowledge in arts and sciences / by Randle Holme ...
Author: Holme, Randle, 1627-1699.
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Boung, a Purse.Borde, a shilling.Half a Borde, six pence.Bugher, a Cur Dog.Bleating Cheat, a Sheep.Ben Fakers, counterfeiters of Passes and Seals. Good makers.Belly Cheat, an Apron.Bowse, Drink.Bowsing Ken, an Ale-house.Bene, good.Benar, better.Beneship, very good fellowship.Bufe, a Dog.Buffar, Dog-like.Bing a wast, get you hence.Bing, go or come.Crash, eat.Crashing cheat, Teeth.Cuffin Quier, a Justice of Peace.Cackling cheat, a Cock, Hen, or Capon.Cheat, a stollen thing; but the word Cheat joined to others, hath then a variable signification, a Nab cheat, a Hat, or Cap, &c.Canke, a Dumb Man.Crackmans, Hedges.Clapperdogion, a Beggar born.Cloyers, Thieves, Purloyners.Cannikin, the Plague.Cleymes, sores on the body.Cassan, Cheese.Cove, or Cofe, Coffin or Cuffin, a Man, a Fellow.Coves, Fellows, Rogues.Caster, a Cloak.A Commission, a Shirt.Chates, the Gallows.To cly the Ierk, to be Whipt.To Cut, to speak.To Cut bene, to speak gently.To Cut bene Whiddes, to speak good words.To Cut quier Whiddes, to give evil Language.To Cant, to speak.To Couch a Hogshead, to lye down asleep.Cly, Haunt, Molest.Cramp-ring, Shackles, Bolts.Confeck, Counterfeit.Cackling, Prating, Talking.Dimber Damber, a pretty Rascal.Dommere, a Madman, a Bedlam.Drawers, Hosen.Dudes, Cloaths.Darkmans, the Night.Deusea-vile, the Country.Dub the Giger, open the Door.Dell, a Trull, a Drab.Dine, Spite, Malice.Doxie, Sweet-heart, Chuck, Whore.Dock agen, do it again.Fambles, Hands.Fambling cheat, a Ring.Ferme, Hole, Cave, or hiding place.Flagg, a Groat.Filch, Steal or Rob. a Staff.Filchers, Stealers.Faker, maker.Glasiers, Eyes.Gan, a Mouth.Gage, a Quart Pot.Grannam, Corn.Gybe, a Writing.Glimmer, Fire.Gigger, a Door.Gentry Mort, a Gentlewoman.Gentry Cofes Ken, a Noble Mans House.Grunting cheat, a Pig.Grunters, Pigs.Harman-Beck, a Constable.Harmans, the Stocks.Heave a Bough, rob a Booth.Hearing cheats, the Ears.Ierke, a Seal.Ierk't, Sealed.Iybe, a License.Iague, a Ditch.Iocky, a Mans Yard.Ken, a House.Kinchin, little, or Kitchin-coes, little Rogues.Lage of Duds, a Buck of Cloaths.Libberdge, a Bed.Lowre, Money.Lap, Butter-Milk or Whay.Libkin, a House to ly in. Lodging.Lage, Water.Light-mans, the day.Long lib, long lying, last end.Lib, ly, lye down.Mynt, Gold.A Make, an half-penny.Margery Prater, a Hen.Mawnding, Asking.Mawnd, Beg.To Mill, to Steal.Mill a Ken, Rob a House.Mort, a Woman, a Punk.Mawnders, Rogues, Beggars.Muffeling Cheat, a Napkin.Nosegent, a Nun.Niggling, accompanying with a Woman.Nip, cut.Nab, head.Nab cheat, a Hat.Nase Nabs, Red Noses, Drunkards.Prat, a Buttock, Thighs.Peck, Meat.Poplar, Pottage.Prancer, an Horse.Prig, to Ride.prigging, riding.Patrico, a Priest.Priggers, Robbers, Stealers, High-way Men.Pad, a way.Pannam, Bread.Pallyards, Beggars.Pratling cheat, the Tongue.Quaromes, a body.Quarrons.Quier cuffing, a Justice of Peace, a naughty Fellow, a Churl.Ruyer Ken, the Jayl, a Naughty House.Quier, cruel, naught.Quacking cheat, a Duck, a Calf, or Sheep.Red-shanks, Mallards, Drakes.Ruff-peck, Bacon.Roger, or Tib of the Buttry, a Goose.0