ADJ.
imagined, imaginary ...1533 obs., chiefly Scot.
 
VERB
to imagine ...1563 obs.
 
ETYMOLOGY
adj.: from Latin imaginatus pa. pple. of imaginare to imagine
vb.: from Latin imaginat-. ppl. stem of imaginare + -ate
 
FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1533 - see Example below
 
EXAMPLE
"...The faderis war sa commovit for this tressoun, recentlie imaginate, that howbeit thay decernit afore..."
 
From: Livy's History of Rome
Translated from the Latin of Titus Livius
By John Bellenden, 1533
 
SOURCES
• A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles,
James Murray, 1887-1933
• The Century Dictionary and Encyclopedia,
William Dwight Whitney, 1889
 
 

ADJ.
having a black mouth;
fig. using foul or scurrilous language; abusive, foul-mouthed;
slanderous, calumnious
 
ETYMOLOGY
from 'black' + -mouthed
 
FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1595 - 'wherein though blackemouthed enuie'
 
From: Polimanteia, or, The Meanes Lawfull and Vnlawfull, to Judge of the Fall of a Common-wealth, against the Friuolous and Foolish Coniectures of this Age
By: William Covell, 1595
 
EXAMPLE
"...and cannot looke on a blacke coate, (as these blacke mouthed hell-hounds terme them) with a patient eye; ..."
 
From: Pauls Crowne of Rejoycing
By: Thomas Granger, 1616
 
SOURCES
• A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles,
James Murray, 1887-1933
• A Supplementary English Glossary, O. Davies, T. Lewis, 1881
• The Imperial Dictionary of the English Language,
Rev. John Ogilvie, 1847-1850
• Webster's International Dictionary of the English Language,
Noah Porter, 1895
• The English Dialect Dictionary, Joseph Wright, 1898-1905
• Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present,
​John S. Farmer, W.E. Henley, 1891-1902

ADJ.
merry with liquor; slightly intoxicated ...1612 sl. obs.
 
ETYMOLOGY
from tip (n.) intoxicating liquor (obs.) + -merry
(possibly shortened from tipple)
 
FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1612 - See Example below
 
EXAMPLE
"...They complained that no one would be a witness against drunkards, 'because the most part love these cup companions,' and they described one man as unfit to keep an alehouse 'because he will be tipmirrie himself..."

From: A report (dated 1612) in Historical Manuscripts Commission in Various Collections (Burford)
 
SOURCES
• A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles,
​James Murray, 1887-1933

also:
GATHER UP THE CRUMBS,
PICK UP ONE'S CRUMBS
 
VERB
to 'pick up' or recover one's strength or health; to improve in condition ...1588 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
 
FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1588 - See Example below
 
EXAMPLE
"...which by little and little our men beganne to gather vp their crums and to recouer some better strength..."
 
From: Anthony Ingram in:
The Principal Nauigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoueries of the English Nation
By: Richard Hakluyt, 1588
 
SOURCES
• A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, James Murray, 1887-1933
• A Dictionary of English Phrases, Albert M. Hyamson, 1922

ADJ.
growing white; inclining to white; whitish; waxing white, like the morning ...1657 obs. rare
 
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin candicantem pr. pple. of candicare to be whitish or white
 
 FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1657 - see Example below
 
EXAMPLE
"...small cups, with candicant flowers..."
 
From: A Medicinal Dispensatory: Containing the Whole Body of Physick
Composed by the Illustrious Renodæus, Chief Physician to the Monarch of France,
Translated by Richard Tomlinson of London, Apothecary, 1657
 
SOURCES
• A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles,
James Murray, 1887-1933
• Dictionary of Early English, Joseph Shipley, 1955
• A Standard Dictionary of the English Language, Isaac K. Funk, 1908
• A Complete Dictionary of the English Language, Thomas Sheridan, 1790
• Webster's International Dictionary of the English Language,
​Noah Porter, 1895

NOUN
a spouse or companion who is a hindrance ...a1843 nonce word
 
ETYMOLOGY
from hinder vb. + -mate
after 'helpmate'
 
FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
a1843 - See Example below
 
EXAMPLE
"There are hindermates as well as helpmates in marriage."
 
From: Common-place Book
Robert Southey, a1843
 
SOURCES
• A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles,
​James Murray, 1887-1933
• Dictionary of Early English, Joseph Shipley, 1955

NOUN
1. a tennis court-keeper's boy ...1500-20 obs.
2. a snack or lunch, a slight repast; a piece of bread eaten at noon
...1789 Sc.
3. a disappointment, rebuke, etc. ...1801 Sc.
4. a small, undergrown, neat person ...1808 Sc.
5. a piece of wood, stone, or bone used in the game of 'shinty'
(a team game played with sticks and a ball) ...1818 Sc.
6. a quantity of snuff made up in a ball-shaped or cylindrical form;
a small roll of tobacco ...1825 Sc.
7. a pert, forward, smart boy; a trifling little person; an insignificant person;
a wicked, mischievous, or impertinent child; a precocious child ...1833 Sc.
8. a sharp blow ...1865 Sc.
9. a knickknack, a small ornament ...1928 Sc. 
 
ETYMOLOGY
for definition 1: apparently from French naquet 'the boy that serues, or stops the ball ...at tennis'
 
for definition 2: variation of nocket, of obscure origin
 
FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
a1500 - See Example below
 
EXAMPLE
"Sa mony rakkettis, sa mony ketche-pillaris,
Sic ballis, sic nackettis, and sic tutivillaris."
 
From: The Poems of William Dunbar
William Dunbar, 1500-20
 

NOUN
one who fears or has an aversion to a crowd ...1867 rare
 
ETYMOLOGY
from Greek okhlos crowd, mob
+ phobos fearing + -ist
 
FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1867 - See Example below
 
EXAMPLE
"The Easter Trip of Two Ochlophobists." (title),
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, July, 1867
 
SOURCES
• A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles,
James Murray, 1887-1933
• The Century Dictionary and Encyclopedia,
​William Dwight Whitney, 1889-1891

ADJ.
sumptuous, as in feasting; costly; magnificent ...1623 obs.
 
ETYMOLOGY
from late Latin dapaticus sumptuous
from dapem feast
 
FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1623 - The English Dictionarie or an Interpreter of Hard English Words, Henry Cockeram
"Dapatical meates, daintie meates"
 
EXAMPLE
"...Esurient, crapulous, cuttles, or cuddens dapatical, are constipated on a consutile bassock."
 
From: A Treatise on Telegraphic Communication,
Naval, Military, and Political
By: John MacDonald, 1808
 
SOURCES
• The English Dictionarie or an Interpreter of Hard English Words, Henry Cockeram 1623
• An Universal Etymological English Dictionary, Nathan Bailey, 1737
• Glossographia Anglicana Nova, or, A Dictionary Interpreting such Hard Words....., Thomas Blount, 1656
• A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, James Murray, 
​1887-1933
• Dictionary of Early English, Joseph Shipley, 1955

NOUN
one who appears great by contrast with the insignificance of all those around him; a man who appears big because his companions
are so small ...1607
 
ETYMOLOGY
from Triton, God of the sea, and Minnow, a tiny fish
 
FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1607 - See Example below
 
EXAMPLE
"Heare you this Triton of the Minnowes?"
 
From: The Tragedy of Coriolanus
By: William Shakespeare, 1607
 
SOURCES
• A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles,
​James Murray, 1887-1933
• Dictionary of Idiomatic English Phrases, James Main Dixon, 1891