Abraham-men, beggars who counterfeited lunacy (named after one of the wards in Bedlam)
amphibological, ambiguous
balloon, a kind of football
Bavarian chin, or poke, goitre
ceruse, white lead used as a cosmetic
cockney-like, effeminate
cushion dance, a lively, romping dance, in which a cushion figured
dizzard, a blockhead
ethnics, heathens, pagans
fox, to intoxicate
fustilugs, "a sluttish woman who smells rank"
gubber-tushed, with irregularly projecting teeth
Indy-bone, ivory
metoposcopy, the art of discovering character from the lines of the face, especially the forehead
morphew, a scurfy eruption
noise, a band (of musicians)
pickitivant, a pointed beard
salvatella, the vein that runs into the little finger
smell-feast, a parasite, sponger
theologaster, a petty or contemptible theologian
trenchmore, a lively, romping dance
urchin, a hedgehog
woolward, wearing wool next to the skin, for penance
Selected from the Glossary to The Anatomy of Melancholy (New York Review Books Classics)
by Robert Burton (1577 - 1630)
New York Review Books (2001)
Endomorphs of the world, look to woolward.
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