Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547–1616). Don Quixote, Part 1.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14. |
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| | Abased, lowered. |
| Aboard, v. approach, accost. |
| Address, direct. |
| Addressing, straightening. |
| Admire, astonish. |
| Admired, in a state of admiration. |
| Advertised, warned. |
| Affect, feel affection for. |
| Affront, encounter. |
| All and some, total, sum. |
| Allowed, approved. |
| Altisonant, high sounding. |
| Ambages, equivocal courses. |
| Anatomy, dissection. |
| Ancient, ensign, standard-bearer. |
| Animous, spirited. |
| Answerable, corresponding. |
| Antic, strange figure. |
| Antonomasia, the use of an epithet or title instead of a true name. |
| Apaid, pleased. |
| Apart, v. remove. |
| Argument, indication. |
| Arguments, proofs. |
| Artificial, constructed by rules of art. |
| Attending, awaiting. |
| Auctress, authoress. |
| Authorise (autorizar), do credit to, maintain the dignity of. |
| Aveer (encaminase), approach. |
| Avoided, discharged, emptied. |
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| Bait, v. attract. |
| Beadstones, the larger beads in a rosary. |
| Beaver, luncheon. |
| Beaver, lower part of a helmet. |
| Benefit, profit. |
| Be-thouing, talking as a superior to an inferior. |
| Bias, “set out of all bias,” disconcert. |
| Billing, caressing. |
| Bittor, bittern. |
| Bombase (algodones), a cotton texture. |
| Brabbles (pendencias), quarrels. |
| Brag, boast. |
| Break, open, communicate. |
| Bruit, noise, |
| Bucking, washing. |
| Bugles, wild oxen. |
| Bulks, great bodies. |
| Burden, chorus, undersong. |
| Burnished (flamante), brilliant, conspicuous. |
| Buyal, purchase. |
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| Camarades, comrades. |
| Canvassing, tossing in a blanket. |
| Capable, able to understand. |
| Capouch, hood or cape. |
| Careful, anxious. |
| Cavillous, apt to raise objections. |
| Cerecloth, waxed cloth. |
| Charily, carefully, jealously. |
| Cheapen, bargain for. |
| Clew, skein. |
| Close castle, a kind of helmet. |
| Cockering, feasting. |
| Coil, “keep a,” make a fuss. |
| Commark, district. |
| Commodity, convenience, opportunity, occasion. |
| Compassive (compasivo), sympathetic. |
| Conclude, finish off, destroy. |
| Confer, compare. |
| Confratriety, confraternity. |
| Cony catching, knavery. |
| Crackling, talkativeness. |
| Crowd, fiddle. |
| Curiosity (puntualidad), carefulness. |
| Curious, painstaking. |
| Curres, encounters. |
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| Damage, harm, trouble. |
| Debates, contests. |
| Debile, feeble. |
| Delicate, faint, feeble. |
| Depending, hung up, suspended. |
| Deputed (diputo), set down as, considered. |
| Detect, reveal. |
| Dight, array. |
| Dilate, defer, expound. |
| Disastrous (desdichada), suffering disaster. |
| Disgrace (desgracia), inconvenience, misfortune. |
| Disgustful, distasteful. |
| Disgusts, dislikes. |
| Disventures (disventuras), misadventures. |
| Dodkin (dos maravedis), a Dutch farthing. |
| Doit, a Dutch coin worth about a farthing. |
| Dolour, grief. |
| Drafts, designs. |
| Draughts, devices, tricks. |
| Drive, hurry on. |
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| Earnest, payment in advance. |
| Eftsoons, soon after. |
| Embosk (emboscasen), shelter, conceal. |
| Embushing, concealing. |
| Empannel, put pannels on an ass. |
| Emulated, regarded as a rival. |
| Encask, envelope. |
| Every foot (por momentos), continually. |
| Exigent, pitch, point demanding action. |
| Expect, await. |
| Exprobates, reviles, casts in the teeth. |
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| Facility, looseness. |
| Facinorous (facineroso), evil doing. |
| Farsed, stuffed. |
| Fauna, faun, wild creature. |
| File, thread. |
| Files (filos), edges. |
| Fluent, stream. |
| Fond, foolish. |
| Force, “of force,” of necessity. |
| Forced, stuffed. |
| Forcible, inevitable. |
| Foreslows itself, tarries. |
| Fortitude, luck. |
| Frequentation, resort, habitation. |
| Friskles, capers. |
| Frumps, flouts, insults, slaps. |
| Fulling mace, hammer for beating clothes clean. |
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| Gallimaufry, hodge-podge, hash. |
| Gamashoes, leggings. |
| Gard, trimming. |
| Gaudeamus, O be joyful. |
| Gittern, small guitar. |
| Gratify (agradecia), thank for. |
| Grossly, heavily. |
| Gusts (gusto), pleasures. |
| Gymnosophists, naked philosophers. |
| Gypson, gypsy. |
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| Herd, herdsman. |
| Hight, was called. |
| Hippogriff, griffin. |
| His, its. |
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| Ignoring, being ignorant of. |
| Illiterate, wipe out. |
| Illude, deceive. |
| Illuded, frustrated. |
| Illustrate, render illustrious. |
| Imbosk, conceal. |
| Impertinent, unsuitable, inconvenient. |
| Impregned, burdened. |
| Imprese (impresa), device. |
| Impudency, unchastity. |
| Inceasable, incessant. |
| Incharge, burden. |
| Ingrateful, ungrateful. |
| Inhabitable, not habitable. |
| Intercur, intervene. |
| Intertexed, interwoven. |
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| Jennet-wise, the stirrups short, the legs trussed up. |
| Journey, day’s fight. |
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| Kenned, knew. |
| Kennel, dogs. |
| Key-cold, cold as a key. |
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| Laughsome, ready to laugh. |
| Leasings, lies. |
| Lecture, reading. |
| Let, hindrance. |
| Links, torches. |
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| Malet, mail, wallet. |
| Malign (maligno), evil spirit. |
| Marvedi, maravedi, the smallest Spanish coin, half a farthing. |
| Meddled, intermixed. |
| Minuity, small matter, detail. |
| Mochachoes, mustachios. |
| Mumpsimus, any one who has got hold of a wrong word (“Mumpsimus” instead of |
| “Sumpsimus” in the Mass), an ignorant person. |
| Murrey, mulberry coloured. |
| Mushrubs, mushrooms. |
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| Neeze, sneeze. |
| North, lode-star. |
| Nousled, nourished, nursed. |
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| Occurred, ran up. |
| Offend, ward off. |
| Opinion, reputation. |
| Oppugning, opposing. |
| Ordinary, “walked the ordinary” (habiendo paseado las acostumbradas), made the |
| rounds, i. e., been exhibited through the streets. |
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| Paragon with, rival. |
| Particular, in a private station. |
| Pash, blow. |
| Pawns, pledges. |
| Pensative (pensativo), pensive. |
| Period, limit, end. |
| Pie, magpie. |
| Pilled, robbed. |
| Pillow-bere, pillow-case, lady’s travelling bag. |
| Plain, lament. |
| Plumes, feathers of a bed. |
| Poor John, a coarse fish. |
| Portraited, depicted. |
| Posted off, put off. |
| Powdering, seasoning. |
| Presently, immediately. |
| Prevent, anticipate. |
| Prevention, prelude. |
| Price, esteem. |
| Pricked, rode hastily. |
| Propension, inclination, affection for. |
| Prosecuted (prosiguio), continued. |
| Provant, provender, food. |
| Proverb (pensamiento), design. |
| Publish, show abroad. |
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| Quader, square with, fit in. |
| Quick, alive. |
| Quitasoll, parasol. |
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| Raunching, tearing, clawing. |
| Reasons, arguments. |
| Rebec, small harp. |
| Reccheless, thoughtless. |
| Recchelessness, thoughtlessness. |
| Receivers, acknowledgments. |
| Reduce, bring back. |
| Resolution “in resolution” (en resolution), finally. |
| Respectlessness, absence of respect. |
| Restiness, obstinacy. |
| Rounded, whispered. |
| Rumour, noise, tumult. |
| Runagates, renegades. |
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| Seconding (segundar), repeating. |
| Securely, without anxiety. |
| Shot, bill, reckoning. |
| Sideling, sideways. |
| Skill, plan, reason. |
| Skinkers, hard drinkers. |
| Snaphances, springlocks. |
| Sort, issue in. |
| Squamy, scaly. |
| Staccado, stockade. |
| Stomach, pride. |
| Strait, narrow. |
| Succeeded, befallen, occurred. |
| Success, event. |
| Successes, experiences, issues, accidents. |
| Succory water, chicory-water. |
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| Tables, backgammon. |
| Tallage, tax. |
| Terms (termo), goal. |
| Thill, shaft. |
| Torment, judicial torture. |
| Tracts, drawing ropes. |
| Trance, swoon. |
| Trance (paso), plight. |
| Trances, passages, episodes. |
| Transversals, side strokes. |
| Travails, labours. |
| Treachour, traitor. |
| Trucks, a kind of billiards. |
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| Umbrills (quitasoles), parasols. |
| Unhappiness, ill-luck, awkwardness. |
| Unhappy, awkward. |
| Underprop, support. |
| Untaxing, without taxing. |
| Untowardly, crossly. |
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| Vent (rastrear), v. discover. |
| Vent (venta), tavern. |
| Viewed, examined. |
| Virtue, curative quality. |
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| Want, be lacking. |
| Warder-house, pantry. |
| Warner, beadle. |
| Welted, quilted. |
| Winches, sharp turns. |
| Wistly, wistfully. |
| Wood, mad. |
| Wreathings, windings. |
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