If your hawk is bad-weathered, that is, will not fit on your fist when the wind blows, but hales, and beats, and hangs by the jeſſes, ſhe has an ill habit of the worſt kind.

The use he [Socrates] made of his domestic trial may be profitably remembered by any that have a Xanthippe to deal with.

He tried to jew me out of my money.

a small diamond , that was cut or polished, but foul or flawy, as jewellers term it