Volume 2

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].

  • Nares, Robert, 1753-1829.
Date:
1882
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    The bald head being uncovered, would make that appearance. See Bare. LARDARXE. A larder. Lardarium, low Latin. Then will I lay out all my lardarie Of cheese, of cracknells, curds, and clowted creame. Barnef eld’s Affectionate Shep., 1594. LARE. See Lair. fLARDING-STlCK. The practice here alluded to still prevails in France. Lardarium, quo coqui carnes configuntimmisso lardo Lardoire. A larding stick, wherewith cookes use to drawe lard through flesh. Nomenclator. LASK, s. A corruption of lax, a flux. Coles, and all the old dictionary- makers, have it. “A lax, dysenteria, &c. to have a lash, dysenteria labo- rare.” Coles. So also Cotgrave : “A laske, fluxe de ventre,” &c. So also Minsliew, Skinner, and Junius; and Howell, Lex. Tetr. But to come more particularly to the garden skirwort, if the juice thereof be dnmke with goat’s milke, it stayetli the fluxe of the belly called the laske. Phil. Holland’s Pliny, vol. ii, p. 41, c. That done, there came upon him such a laske, that it caused him, &c. Cavendish, L. of Wolsey. The polished red bark [of chesnuts] boyled and drunk, doth stop the laske, the bloody flixe, &c. Lanqham’s Garden of Health, 4to, 1633, p. 138, and passim. fLASKING, occurs as a sea-term. Which captaine Weddell perceiving, scarce being able to shun it, he called to the master, and tout him the purpose of the enemy, to avoyd which danger, he commanded the master to beare a little tasking to separate them further each from other, that he might have more roome to go betwrene them; the vice- admirall of the enemy seeing the James beare up so tasking, she likewise bore up with her. Taylor’s Workes, 1630. To LATCH. To catch, in a general sense. Thus, a latch to a door meant originally a catch to it; from Iseccan, Saxon. We now use the verb only as derived from that noun ; as, to fasten by the latch : but the old sense is said to be still current in the north. The first folio of Shake- speare has latch, in the following passage, where the subsequent edi- tions, before Capell’s, and the Vari- orum of 1813, had substituted catch; But I have words That would be howl’d out in the desert air, Where hearing should not latch them. Mach., iv, 3. Which, though it now sounds strangely, was probably the original word. Spenser, in his Shep. Kal., March, says that Cupid often latched the stones which were thrown at him (v. 93); and this is explained by E. XL “ caught.” Where latched occurs in Mids. N. Dr. the com- mentators (after Hanmer) explain it as from lecher, French, to lick or smear over; but, as no other instance of it in that sense has occurred, I should rather understand it, caught, or entrapped : But hast tbou yet latch’d the Athenian’s eyes With the love juice, as I did bid thee do? Act iii, scene 2. It is true the direction given had been, “anoint his eyes.” LATED. Arriving late, surprised by the night. We now say belated. The west yet glimmers with some streaks of day: Now spurs the lated traveller apace To gain the timely inn. Mach., iii, 3. See also Ant. and Cleop., iii, 9. It is cited also from Greene’s Orpha- rion. See Todd. fLATHE. An old north country term for a barn. The northern man writing to his neighbour may say, My lathe standeth neere thekirkegarth, for Mybarne standeth neere the church-yard. But if lie should write publikely, it is fittest to use the most knowne words. Coote’s English Schoolcmaster, 1632. LATTEN. An old word for brass; from laiton, or leton, French. Used also as an adjective. Ritson says it is “certainly tin” (Remarks on Shakespeare, p. 13) ; and Kersey’s Dictionary says, “ Iron tinned over,” which is exactly our plate-tin ; but that both are wrong, the following authorities show. Jonson uses it as answering to orichalcum, and so all the old dictionaries and vocabularies explain it. The etymology also points out the same. Laiton, says the French Manuel Lexique, “ Metal compose de cuivre rouge et de cala- mine,” which is brass. I combat challenge of this latten bilboe. Mer. IP. IV., i, 1. This is sneeringly said by Pistol of Master Slender, whom he means to call a base useless weapon, as one of brass would be. See Bilboe. The passage is perfectly clear, and re- quired neither the conjectures nor amendments of the commentators, after Theobald had restored it. The liau’boy not, as now, with latten bound, And rival with the trumpet for his sound. B. Jons. Transl. of Hor. Art of Poetry, p. 181.