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Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547–1616). Don Quixote, Part 1.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.

Glossary

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Herd, herdsman.
  • Hight, was called.
  • Hippogriff, griffin.
  • His, its.
  • 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.
  • Jennet-wise, the stirrups short, the legs trussed up.
  • Journey, day’s fight.
  • Kenned, knew.
  • Kennel, dogs.
  • Key-cold, cold as a key.
  • Laughsome, ready to laugh.
  • Leasings, lies.
  • Lecture, reading.
  • Let, hindrance.
  • Links, torches.
  • 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.
  • Neeze, sneeze.
  • North, lode-star.
  • Nousled, nourished, nursed.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Quader, square with, fit in.
  • Quick, alive.
  • Quitasoll, parasol.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Umbrills (quitasoles), parasols.
  • Unhappiness, ill-luck, awkwardness.
  • Unhappy, awkward.
  • Underprop, support.
  • Untaxing, without taxing.
  • Untowardly, crossly.
  • Vent (rastrear), v. discover.
  • Vent (venta), tavern.
  • Viewed, examined.
  • Virtue, curative quality.
  • Want, be lacking.
  • Warder-house, pantry.
  • Warner, beadle.
  • Welted, quilted.
  • Winches, sharp turns.
  • Wistly, wistfully.
  • Wood, mad.
  • Wreathings, windings.