TABLE a tablet, note-book

TABLE-BOOK note-book

TABLES the game of backgammon A note-book

TABOUR a small side-drum

TABOURER a player on the tabour

TABOURINE tambourine, drum

TAG the rabble

TAINT tainted

TAINTURE defilement

TAKE to infect, blast, bewitch

TAKE IN to conquer

TAKE OUT to copy

TAKE UP to borrow money, or buy on credit To make up a quarrel

TAKING infection, malignant influence

TAKING UP buying on credit

TALE counting, reckoning

TALL strong, valiant

TALLOW-CATCH a lump of tallow

TANG twang, sound

TANG to sound

TANLING anything tanned by the sun

TARRE to excite, urge on

TARRIANCE delay

TARTAR Tartarus

TASK to tax Challenge

TASKING challenging

TASTE to try

TAWDRY-LACE a rustic necklace

TAXATION satire, sarcasm

TAXING satire

TEEN grief

TELL to count

TEMPER to mix

TEMPERANCE temperature

TEMPERED mixed

TEND to attend to

TENDER to hold, to esteem To have consideration for

TENT to probe as a wound

TENT a probe for searching a wound

TERCEL the male of the goshawk

TERMAGANT a ranting character in old plays

TESTED pure, assayed

TESTERN to reward with a tester, or six-pence

THARBOROUGH a constable

THEORICK theory

THEWES sinews, muscles

THICK rapidly

THICK-PLEACHED thickly intertwined

THIRD-BOROUGH a constable

THOUGHT anxiety, grief So 'to take thought' is to give way to grief

THRASONICAL boastful

THREE-MAN BEETLE a wooden mallet worked by three men

THREE-MAN-SONG-MEN singers of glees in three parts

THREE-PILE three-piled velvet

THRENE lament

THRID thread, fibre

THROE to put in agonies

THRUM the tufted end of a thread in weaving

THRUMMED made od coarse ends or tufts

TICKLE ticklish

TIGHT nimble, active

TIGHTLY briskly, promptly

TIKE a cur

TILLY-VALLY int. an exclamation of contempt

TILTH tillage

TIMELESS untimely

TINCT stain, dye

TIRE attire, head-dress

TIRE to tear as a bird of prey Hence, metaphorically, to feed

TIRE to attire, dress

TANG twang, sound

TOD to yield a tod of wool

TOKENED marked with plague spots

TOKENS plague spots

TOLL to exact toll To pay toll

TOO TOO excessively

TOPLESS supreme, without superior

TOUCH touchstone for testing gold Trait An acute feeling

TOUCHED pricked

TOUSE to pull, drag

TOWARD nearly ready

TOWARDS nearly ready

TOYS trifles, foolish tricks

TRADE beaten path

TRANECT a ferry

TRANSLATED transformed

TRASH to cheque, as a huntsman his hounds

TRAVAIL labour, toil

TRAY-TRIP an old game played with dice

TREACHERS traitors

TREATIES entreaties

TRENCHED carved

TRICK technically, a copy of a coat of arms; hence, any peculiarity which distinguishes voice or feature

TRICK to dress up

TRICKED blazoned

TRICKING ornament

TRICKSY elegantly quaint

TRIPLE third

TROJAN a cant word for a thief

TROL-MY-DAMES the name of a game; also called pigeon-holes

TROTH-PLIGHT betrothed

TROW to trust, think

TRUE honest

TRUNDLE-TAIL a long-tailed dog

TUCKET-SONANCE a flourish on the trumpet

TUNDISH a funnel

TURLYGOOD a name adopted by bedlam-beggars

TURN to modulate

TWANGLING twanging

TWIGGEN made of twigs, wicker

TWILLED Retained by woven branches

TWINK a twinkling

TWIRE to peep, twinkle