GLOSSARY TO SHAKESPEARE'S WORKS .............................................................................. ABATE: v.t. to shorten. A Midsummer Night's Dream. To cast down. Coriolanus. To blunt. Richard III. ABATEMENT: sb. diminution. King Lear. ABIDE: v.i. to sojourn. Winter's Tale. v.t. to expiate (a corruption of 'Aby'). Julius Caesar. ABLE: v.t. to uphold. King Lear. ABRIDGEMENT: sb. a short play. Hamlet. ABROOK: v.t. to brook, abide. Henry VI Pt. 2. ABSEY-BOOK: sb. a primer. King John. ABSOLUTE: adj. positive, certain. Cymbeline; Hamlet. Complete. Tempest. ABUSE: v.t. to deceive. King Lear. ABUSE: sb. deception. Measure for Measure. ABY: v.t. to expiate a fault. A Midsummer Night's Dream. ABYSM: sb. abyss. Tempest. ACCITE: v.t. to cite, summon. Henry IV Pt. 2. ACCUSE: sb. accusation. Henry VI Pt. 2. ACHIEVE: v. to obtain. Henry V. ACKNOWN: p.p. 'to be acknown' is to acknowledge. Othello. ACQUITTANCE: sb. a receipt or discharge. Hamlet. ACTION-TAKING: adj. litigious. King Lear. ACTURE: sb. action. A Lover's Complaint. ADDITION: sb. title, attribute. All's Well That Ends Well; Troilus and Cressida. ADDRESS: v.r. to prepare oneself. Henry VI Pt. 2; Hamlet. ADDRESSED: part. prepared. Love's Labour's Lost. ADVANCE: v.t. to prefer, promote to honour. Timon of Athens. ADVERTISEMENT: sb. admonition. Much Ado About Nothing. ADVERTISING: pr.p. attentive. Measure for Measure. ADVICE: sb. consideration, discretion. Two Gentlemen of Verona; Measure for Measure. ADVISE: v. sometimes neuter, sometimes reflective, to consider, reflect. Twelfth Night. ADVISED: p.p. considerate. Comedy of Errors. ADVOCATION: sb. pleading, advocacy. Othello. AFEARED: adj. afraid. Merry Wives of Windsor. AFFECT: v.t. to love. Merry Wives of Windsor. AFFEERED: p.p. assessed, confirmed. Macbeth. AFFY: v.t. to affiance. Henry VI Pt. 2. To trust. Titus Andronicus. AFRONT: adv. in front. Henry IV Pt. 1. AGAZED: p.p. looking in amazement. Henry VI Pt. 1. AGLET-BABY: sb. the small figure engraved on a jewel. Taming of the Shrew. AGNISE: v.t. to acknowledge, confess. Othello. A-GOOD: adv. a good deal, plenteously. Two Gentlemen of Verona. A-HOLD: adj. a sea-term. Tempest. AIERY: sb. the nest of a bird of prey. Richard III. AIM: sb. a guess. Two Gentlemen of Verona. ALDER-LIEFEST: adj. most loved of all. Henry VI Pt. 2. ALE: sb. alehouse. Two Gentlemen of Verona. ALLOW: v. to approve. Twelfth Night. ALLOWANCE: sb. approval. Coriolanus. AMES-ACE: sb. two aces, the lowest throw of the dice. All's Well That Ends Well. AMORT: adj. dead, dejected. Taming of the Shrew. AN: conj. if. Much Ado About Nothing. ANCHOR: sb. an anchorite, hermit. Hamlet. ANCIENT: sb. an ensign-bearer. Henry IV Pt. 1. ANGEL: sb. a coin, so called because it bore the image of an angel. Merry Wives of Windsor. ANIGHT: adv. by night. As You Like It. ANSWER: sb. retaliation. Cymbeline. ANTHROPOPHAGINIAN: sb. a cannibal. Merry Wives of Windsor. ANTICK: sb. the fool in the old plays. Richard II. ANTRE: sb. a cave. Othello. APPARENT: sb. heir-apparent. Winter's Tale. APPEAL: sb. accusation. Measure for Measure. APPEAL: v.t. to accuse. Richard II. APPEARED: p.p. made apparent. Coriolanus. APPLE-JOHN: sb. a kind of apple. Henry IV Pt. 1. APPOINTMENT: sb. preparation. Measure for Measure. APPREHENSION: sb. opinion. Much Ado About Nothing. APPREHENSIVE: adj. apt to apprehend or understand. Julius Caesar. APPROBATION: sb. probation. Cymbeline. APPROOF: sb. approbation, proof. All's Well That Ends Well; Tempest. APPROVE: v.t. to prove. Richard II. To justify, make good. King Lear. APPROVER: sb. one who proves or tries. Cymbeline. ARCH: sb. chief. King Lear. ARGAL: a ridiculous word intended for the Latin ergo. Hamlet. ARGENTINE: adj. silver. Pericles. ARGIER: sb. Algiers. Tempest. ARGOSY: sb. originally a vessel of Ragusa or Ragosa, a Ragosine; hence any ship of burden. Merchant of Venice. ARGUMENT: sb. subject. Much Ado About Nothing. ARMIGERO: a mistake for Armiger, the Latin for Esquire. Merry Wives of Windsor. AROINT: v.r. found only in the imperative mood, get thee gone. Macbeth; King Lear. A-ROW: adv. in a row. Comedy of Errors. ARTICULATE: v.i. to enter into articles of agreement. Coriolanus. v.t. to exhibit in articles. Henry IV Pt. 1. ASK: v.t. to require. Henry VI Pt. 2. ASPECT: sb. regard, looks. Anthony and Cleopatra. ASPERSION: sb. sprinkling; hence blessing, because before the Reformation benediction was generally accompanied by the sprinkling of holy water. Tempest. ASSAY: sb. attempt. Measure for Measure. ASSAY: v.t. to attempt, test, make proof of. Merry Wives of Windsor. ASSINEGO: sb. an ass. Troilus and Cressida. ASSUBJUGATE: v.t. to subjugate. Troilus and Cressida. ASSURANCE: sb. deed of assurance. Taming of the Shrew. ASSURED: p.p. betrothed. Comedy of Errors. ATOMY: sb. an atom. As You Like It. Used in contempt of a small person. Henry IV Pt. 2. ATONE: v.t. to put people at one, to reconcile. Richard II. v.i. to agree. Coriolanus. ATTACH: v.t. to seize, lay hold on. Tempest; Comedy of Errors. ATTASKED: p.p. taken to task, reprehended. King Lear. ATTEND: v.t. to listen to. Tempest; Merchant of Venice. ATTENT: adj. attentive. Hamlet. ATTORNEY: sb. an agent. Richard III. ATTORNEY: v.t. to employ as an agent. Measure for Measure. To perform by an agent. Winter's Tale. AUDACIOUS: adj. spirited, daring, but without any note of blame attached to it. Love's Labour's Lost. AUGUR: sb. augury. Macbeth. AUTHENTIC: adj. clothed with authority. Merry Wives of Windsor. AVAUNT: int. be gone, a word of abhorrence. Comedy of Errors. AVE: int. the Latin for hail; hence acclamation. Measure for Measure. AVE-MARY: sb. the angelic salutation addressed to the Blessed Virgin Mary. Henry VI Pt. 2. AVERRING: pr.p. confirming. Cymbeline. AWFUL: adj. worshipful. Two Gentlemen of Verona. AWKWARD: adj. contrary. Henry VI Pt. 2. ................................................................................ BACCARE: int. keep back. Taming of the Shrew. BACKWARD: sb. the hinder part; hence, when applied to time, the past. Tempest. BALKED: p.p. heaped, as on a ridge. Henry IV Pt. 1. BALLOW: sb. a cudgel. King Lear. BALM: sb. the oil of consecration. Richard II; Henry VI Pt. 3. BAN: v.t. to curse. Rape of Lucrece. BANK: v.t. to sail by the banks. King John. BARM: sb. yeast. A Midsummer Night's Dream. BARN: sb. a child. Henry IV Pt. 1. BARNACLE: sb. a shellfish, supposed to produce the sea-bird of the same name. Tempest. BASE: sb. a game, sometimes called Prisoners' base. Cymbeline. BASES: sb. an embroidered mantle worn by knights on horseback, and reaching from the middle to below the knees. Pericles. BASILISK: sb. a kind of ordnance. Henry IV Pt. 1. BASTA: int. (Italian), enough. Taming of the Shrew. BASTARD: sb. raisin wine. Measure for Measure. BATE: v.i. to flutter, as a hawk. Henry IV Pt. 1. BATE: v.t. to except. Tempest. To abate. Much Ado About Nothing. BAT-FOWLING: part. catching birds with a clap-net by night. Tempest. BATLET: sb. a small bat, used for beating clothes. As You Like It. BATTLE: sb. army. Henry IV Pt. 1. BAVIN: sb. used as an adj. a piece of waste wood, applied contemptuously to anything worthless. Henry IV Pt. 1. BAWCOCK: sb. a fine fellow. Twelfth Night. BAY: sb. the space between the main timbers of the roof. Measure for Measure. BEADSMAN: sb. one who bids bedes, that is, prays prayers for another. Two Gentlemen of Verona. BEARING-CLOTH: sb. a rich cloth in which children were wrapt at their christening. Winter's Tale. BEAT: v.i. to flutter as a falcon, to meditate, consider earnestly. Tempest. BEAVER: sb. the lower part of a helmet. Henry IV Pt. 1. BEETLE: sb. a mallet. Henry IV Pt. 2. BEING: sb. dwelling. Cymbeline. BEING: conj. since, inasmuch as. Anthony and Cleopatra. BE-METE: v.t. to measure. Taming of the Shrew. BE-MOILED: p.p. daubed with dirt. Taming of the Shrew. BENDING: pr. p. stooping under a weight. Henry V. BENVENUTO: sb. (Italian), welcome. Love's Labour's Lost. BERGOMASK: adj. a rustic dance. A Midsummer Night's Dream. BESHREW: int. evil befal. Comedy of Errors. BESTRAUGHT: p.p. distraught, distracted. Taming of the Shrew. BETEEM: v.t. to pour out. A Midsummer Night's Dream. BETID: p.p. happened. Tempest. BEZONIAN: sb. a beggarly fellow. Henry IV Pt. 2. BIDING: sb. abiding-place. King Lear. BIGGEN: sb. a night-cap. Henry IV Pt. 2. BILBERRY: sb. the whortleberry. Merry Wives of Windsor. BILBO: sb. a sword, from Bilboa, a town in Spain where they were made. Merry Wives of Windsor. BILBOES: sb. fetters or stocks. Hamlet. BILL: sb. a bill-hook, a weapon. Much Ado About Nothing. BIN: ==been, are. Cymbeline. BIRD-BOLT: sb. a bolt to be shot from a crossbow at birds. Much Ado About Nothing. BIRDING: part. hawking at partridges. Merry Wives of Windsor. BISSON: adj. blind. Coriolanus. BLANK: sb. the white mark in the middle of a target; hence, metaphorically, that which is aimed at. Winter's Tale. BLENCH: v.i. to start aside, flinch. Measure for Measure. BLENT: p.p. blended. Merchant of Venice. BLOOD-BOLTERED: part. smeared with blood. Macbeth. BLOW: v.t. to inflate. Twelfth Night. BOARD: v.t. to accost. Taming of the Shrew. BOB: sb. a blow, metaph. a sarcasm. As You Like It. BOB: v.t. to strike, metaph. to ridicule, or to obtain by raillery. Troilus and Cressida; Othello. BODGE: v. to botch, bungle. Henry VI Pt. 3. BODIKIN: sb. a corrupt word used as an oath. 'Od's Bodikin,' God's little Body. Hamlet. BOITIER VERT: (French), green box. Merry Wives of Windsor. BOLD: v.t. to embolden. King Lear. BOLLEN: adj. swollen. Rape of Lucrece. BOLTED: p.p. sifted, refined. Henry V. BOLTER: sb. a sieve. Henry IV Pt. 1. BOLTING-HUTCH: sb. a hutch in which meal was sifted. Henry IV Pt. 1. BOMBARD: sb. a barrel, a drunkard. Tempest. BOMBAST: sb. padding. Love's Labour's Lost. BONA-ROBA: sb. a harlot. Henry IV Pt. 2. BOND: sb. that to which one is bound. King Lear. BOOK: sb. a paper of conditions. Henry IV Pt. 1. BOOT: sb. help, use. Taming of the Shrew. BOOT: v.t. to help, to avail. Two Gentlemen of Verona. BOOTLESS: adj. without boot or advantage, useless. Tempest. BOOTS: sb. bots, a kind of worm. Two Gentlemen of Verona. BORE: sb. calibre of a gun; hence, metaph. size, weight, importance. Hamlet. BOSKY: adj. covered with underwood. Tempest. BOSOM: sb. wish, heart's desire. Measure for Measure. BOTS: sb. worms which infest horses. Henry IV Pt. 1. BOURN: sb. a boundary. Winter's Tale. A brook. King Lear. BRACE: sb. armour for the arm, state of defence. Othello; Pericles. BRACH: sb. a hound bitch. Taming of the Shrew. BRAID: adj. deceitful. All's Well That Ends Well. BRAVE: adj. handsome, well-dressed. Tempest. BRAVE: sb. boast. King John. BRAVERY: sb. finery. Taming of the Shrew. Boastfulness. Hamlet. BRAWL: sb. a kind of dance. Love's Labour's Lost. BREAST: sb. voice. Twelfth Night. BREATHE: v.t. to exercise. All's Well That Ends Well. BREATHING: pr. p. exercising. Hamlet. BREECHING: adj. liable to be whipt. Taming of the Shrew. BREED-BATE: sb. a breeder of debate, a fomenter of quarrels. Merry Wives of Windsor. BREESE: sb. the gadfly. Anthony and Cleopatra. BRIBE-BUCK: sb. a buck given away in presents. Merry Wives of Windsor. BRING: v.t. to attend one on a journey. Measure for Measure. BROCK: sb. a badger, a term of contempt. Twelfth Night. BROKE: v.i. to act as a procurer. All's Well That Ends Well. BROKEN: p.p. having lost some teeth by age. All's Well That Ends Well. BROKEN MUSIC: the music of stringed instruments. Troilus and Cressida. BROKER: sb. an agent. Two Gentlemen of Verona. BROTHERHOOD: sb. trading company. Troilus and Cressida. BROWNIST: sb. a sectary, a follower of Brown, the founder of the Independents. Twelfth Night. BRUIT: sb. noise, report, rumour. Henry VI Pt. 3. BRUIT: v.t. to noise abroad. Macbeth. BRUSH: sb. rude assault. Henry VI Pt. 2; Timon of Athens. BUCK: sb. suds or lye for washing clothes in. Merry Wives of Windsor; Henry VI Pt. 2. BUCK-BASKET: sb. the basket in which clothes are carried to the wash. Merry Wives of Windsor. BUCKING: sb. washing. Merry Wives of Windsor. BUCK-WASHING: sb. washing in lye. Merry Wives of Windsor. BUG: sb. a bugbear, a spectre. Henry VI Pt. 3; Cymbeline. BULLY-ROOK: sb. a bragging cheater. Merry Wives of Windsor. BURGONET: sb. a kind of helmet. Henry VI Pt. 2. BURST: v.t. to break. Taming of the Shrew. BUSKY: adj. bushy. Henry IV Pt. 1. BUTT-SHAFT: sb. a light arrow for shooting at a target. Love's Labour's Lost. BUXOM: adj. obedient. Henry V. BY'RLAKIN: int. by our little Lady: an oath. A Midsummer Night's Dream. ................................................................................ CADDIS: sb. worsted galloon, so called because it resembles the caddis-worm. Winter's Tale. CADE: sb. a cask or barrel. Henry VI Pt. 2. CAGE: sb. a prison. Cymbeline. CAIN-COLOURED: adj. red (applied to hair). Merry Wives of Windsor. CAITIFF: sb. a captive, a slave; hence, a witch. All's Well That Ends Well. CALCULATE: v.t. prophesy. Julius Caesar. CALIVER: sb. a hand-gun. Henry IV Pt. 1. CALLET: sb. a trull. Othello. CALLING: sb. appellation. As You Like It. CALM: sb. qualm. Henry IV Pt. 2. CAN: v.t. to know, be skillful in. Hamlet. CANAKIN: sb. a little can. Othello. CANARY: sb. a wine brought from the Canary Islands. Merry Wives of Windsor. CANDLE-WASTERS: sb. persons who sit up all night to drink. Much Ado About Nothing. CANKER: sb. a caterpillar. Two Gentlemen of Verona. The dog-rose. Much Ado About Nothing. CANSTICK: sb. a candlestick. Henry IV Pt. 1. CANTLE: sb. a slice, corner. Henry IV Pt. 1. CANTON: sb. a canto. Twelfth Night. CANVAS: v.t. to sift: hence, metaphorically, to prove. Henry IV Pt. 2. CAPABLE: adj. subject to. King John. Intelligent. Troilus and Cressida. Capable of inheriting. King Lear. Ample, capacious. Othello. CAPITULATE: v.i. make a combined force. Henry IV Pt. 1. CAPOCCHIA: sb. a simpleton. Troilus and Cressida. CAPRICIO: sb. (Italian), caprice. All's Well That Ends Well. CAPRICIOUS: adj. lascivious. As You Like It. CAPTIOUS: adj. capacious. All's Well That Ends Well. CARACK: sb. a large ship of burden. Comedy of Errors. CARBONADO: sb. meat scotched for broiling. Henry IV Pt. 1. CARBONADO: v.t. to scotch for broiling. King Lear. CARD: sb. the taper on which the points of the compass are marked under the mariner's needle. Hamlet. CAREIRE: sb. the curvetting of a horse. Merry Wives of Windsor. CARKANET: sb. a necklace. Comedy of Errors. CARL: sb. a churl. Cymbeline. CARLOT: sb. a churl. As you Like it. CASTILIAN: sb. a native of Castile; used as a cant term. Merry Wives of Windsor. CASTILIANO VULGO: a cant term, meaning, apparently, to use discreet language. Twelfth Night. CATAIAN: adj. a native of Cathay, a cant word. Twelfth Night. CATLING: sb. cat-gut. Troilus and Cressida. CAUTEL: sb. deceit. Hamlet. CAUTELOUS: adj. insidious. Coriolanus. CAVALERO: sb. a cavalier, gentleman. Henry IV Pt. 2. CAVIARE: sb. the roe of sturgeon pickled; metaph. a delicacy not appreciated by the vulgar. Hamlet. CEASE: sb. decease. Hamlet. CEASE: p.p. put off, made to cease. Timon of Athens. CENSURE: sb. judgment. Henry VI Pt. 1. CENSURE: vt. to judge, criticise. Two Gentlemen of Verona. CENTURY: sb. a hundred of anything, whether men, prayers, or anything else. Coriolanus; Cymbeline. CEREMONY: sb. a ceremonial vestment, religious rite, or anything ceremonial. Julius Caesar; Macbeth. CERTES: adv. certainly. Othello. CESS: sb. rate, reckoning. Henry IV Pt. 1. CHACE: sb. a term at tennis. Henry V. CHAMBER: sb. a species of great gun. Henry IV Pt. 2. CHAMBERER: sb. an effeminate man. Othello. CHANSON: sb. a song. Hamlet. CHARACT: sb. affected quality. Measure for Measure. CHARACTER: sb. a letter, handwriting. King Lear. CHARACTER: v.t. to carve or engrave. Two Gentlemen of Verona; Hamlet. CHARACTERY: sb. handwriting. Merry Wives of Windsor. That which is written. Julius Caesar. CHARE: sb. a turn of work. Anthony and Cleopatra. CHARGE-HOUSE: sb. a free-school. Love's Labour's Lost. CHARLES' WAIN: sb. the constellation called also Ursa Major, or the Great Bear. Henry IV Pt. 1. CHARNECO: sb. a species of sweet wine. Henry VI Pt. 2. CHAUDRON: sb. entrails. Macbeth. CHEATER: sb. for escheator, an officer who collected the fines to be paid into the Exchequer. Merry Wives of Windsor. A decoy. Henry IV Pt. 2. CHEQUE: v.i. a technical term in falconry; when a falcon flies at a bird which is not her proper game she is said to cheque at it. Twelfth Night. CHEQUES: sb. perhaps intended for ethics. Taming of the Shrew. CHEER: sb. fortune, countenance. Tempest. CHERRY-PIT: sb. a game played with cherrystones. Twelfth Night. CHEVERIL: sb. kid leather. Romeo and Juliet. CHEWIT: sb. cough. Henry IV Pt. 1. CHILDING: adj. pregnant. A Midsummer Night's Dream. CH'ILL: vulgar for 'I will.' King Lear. CHIRURGEONLY: adv. in a manner becoming a surgeon. Tempest. CHOPIN: sb. a high shoe or clog. Hamlet. CHRISTENDOM: sb. the state of being a Christian. King John. Name. All's Well That Ends Well. CHRISTOM: adj. clothed with a chrisom, the white garment which used to be put on newly-baptized children. Henry V. CHUCK: sb. chicken, a term of endearment. Macbeth. CHUFF: sb. a coarse blunt clown. Henry IV Pt. 1. CINQUE PACE: sb. a kind of dance. Much Ado About Nothing. CIPHER: v.t. to decipher. Rape of Lucrece. CIRCUMSTANCE: sb. an argument. Two Gentlemen of Verona; King John. CITAL: sb. recital. Henry IV Pt. 1. CITE: v. to incite. Two Gentlemen of Verona; Henry VI Pt. 3. CITTERN: sb. a guitar. Love's Labour's Lost. CLACK-DISH: sb. a beggar's dish. Measure for Measure. CLAP I' THE CLOUT: to shoot an arrow into the bull's eye of the target. Henry IV Pt. 2. CLAW: v.t. to flatter. Much Ado About Nothing. CLEPE: v.t. to call. Hamlet. CLIFF: sb. clef, the key in music. Troilus and Cressida. CLING: v.t. to starve. Macbeth. CLINQUANT: adj. glittering. Henry VIII. CLIP: v.t. to embrace, enclose. Henry VI Pt. 2; Coriolanus; Othello. CLOUT: sb. the mark in the middle of a target. Love's Labour's Lost. COAST: v.i. to advance. V. & A. COBLOAF: sb. a big loaf. Troilus and Cressida. COCK: sb. a cockboat. King Lear. COCK: sb. a euphemism for God. Taming of the Shrew. COCK-AND-PIE: an oath. Merry Wives of Windsor. COCKLE: sb. tares or darnel. Love's Labour's Lost. COCKNEY: sb. a cook. King Lear. COCK-SHUT-TIME: sb. the twilight, when cocks and hens go to roost. Richard III. COG: v.i. to cheat, dissemble. Merry Wives of Windsor. COGNIZANCE: sb. badge, token. Henry VI Pt. 1. COIGN: sb. projecting corner stone. Macbeth. COIL: sb. tumult, turmoil. Tempest. COLLECTION: sb. drawing a conclusion. Hamlet. COLLIED: p.p. blackened. Othello; A Midsummer Night's Dream. COLOUR: sb. pretence. Love's Labour's Lost. COLOURABLE: adj. specious. Love's Labour's Lost. COLT: v.t. to defraud, befool. Henry IV Pt. 1. CO-MART: sb. a joint bargain. Hamlet. COMBINATE: p.p. betrothed. Measure for Measure. COMBINE: v.t. to bind. Measure for Measure. COMMODITY: sb. interest, profit. Merchant of Venice. COMMONTY: sb. used ludicrously for comedy. Taming of the Shrew. COMPACT: p.p. compacted, composed. A Midsummer Night's Dream. COMPARATIVE: adj. drawing comparisons. Henry IV Pt. 1. COMPARATIVE: sb. rival. Henry IV Pt. 1. COMPARE: sb. comparison. Troilus and Cressida. COMPASSIONATE: adj. moving comparison. Richard II. COMPETITOR: sb. one who seeks the same thing, an associate in any object. Two Gentlemen of Verona. COMPLEMENT: sb. accomplishment. Love's Labour's Lost. COMPLEXION: sb. passion. Hamlet. COMPOSE: v.i. to agree. Anthony and Cleopatra. COMPOSTION: sb. composition. Timon of Athens. COMPTIBLE: adj. tractable. Twelfth Night. CON: v.t. to learn by heart. A Midsummer Night's Dream. To acknowledge. All's Well That Ends Well. CONCEIT: sb. conception, opinion, fancy. Two Gentlemen of Verona. CONCUPY: sb. concubine. Troilus and Cressida. CONDITION: sb. temper, quality. Merchant of Venice; King Lear. CONDOLEMENT: sb. grief. Hamlet. CONDUCT: sb. escort. King John. CONFECT: v. to make up into sweetmeats. Much Ado About Nothing. CONFOUND: v.t. to consume, destroy. Henry IV Pt. 1; Coriolanus; Cymbeline. CONJECT: sb. conjecture. Othello. CONSIGN: v. to sign a common bond, to confederate. Henry IV Pt. 2. CONSORT: sb. company. Two Gentlemen of Verona. CONSORT: v.t. to accompany. Love's Labour's Lost. CONSTANCY: sb. consistency. A Midsummer Night's Dream. CONSTANT: adj. settled, determined. Tempest; King Lear. CONSTANTLY: adv. firmly. Measure for Measure. CONSTER: v.t. to construe. Twelfth Night. CONTEMPTIBLE: adj. contemptuous. Much Ado About Nothing. CONTINENT: sb. that which contains anything. King Lear; A Midsummer Night's Dream. That which is contained. Henry IV Pt. 2. CONTINUATE: adj. uninterrupted. Timon of Athens. CONTRACTION: sb. the marriage contract. Hamlet. CONTRARY: v.t. to oppose. Romeo and Juliet. CONTRIVE: v.i. to conspire. Julius Caesar. v.t. to wear away. Taming of the Shrew. CONTROL: v.t. to confute. Tempest. CONVENT: v.t. to convene, summon. Henry VIII. v.i. to be convenient. Twelfth Night. CONVERT: v.i. to change. Timon of Athens. CONVERTITE: sb. a convert. As You Like It. CONVEY: v.t. to manage. King Lear. To filch. Merry Wives of Windsor. CONVEYANCE: sb. theft, fraud. Henry VI Pt. 1. CONVICT: p.p. convicted. Richard III. CONVICTED: p.p. overpowered, vanquished. King John. A doubtful word. CONVINCE: v.t. to conquer, subdue. Cymbeline. CONVIVE: v.i. to feast together. Troilus and Cressida. CONVOY: sb. escort. All's Well That Ends Well. CONY-CATCH: v.i. to cheat. Taming of the Shrew. CONY-CATCHING: pr.p. poaching, pilfering. Merry Wives of Windsor. COOLING CARD: used metaphorically for an insurmountable obstacle. Henry VI Pt. 1. COPATAIN HAT: a high-crowned hat. Taming of the Shrew. COPE: v.t. to reward, to give in return. Merchant of Venice. COPPED: p.p. rising to a cop or head. Pericles. COPY: sb. theme. Comedy of Errors. CORAGIO: (Italian) int. courage! Tempest. CORAM: an ignorant mistake for Quorum. Merry Wives of Windsor. CORANTO: lively dance. Henry V. CORINTH: a cant term for a brothel. Timon of Athens. CORINTHIAN: sb. a wencher. Henry IV Pt. 1. CORKY: adj. dry like cork. King Lear. CORNUTO: (Italian) sb. a cuckold. Merry Wives of Windsor. COROLLARY: sb. a surplus. Tempest. CORPORAL: adj. corporeal, bodily. Measure for Measure. CORPORAL OF THE FIELD: an aide-de-camp. Love's Labour's Lost. CORRIVAL: sb. rival. Henry IV Pt. 1. COSTARD: sb. the head. Richard III. COSTER-MONGER: adj. peddling, mercenary. Henry IV Pt. 2. COTE: sb. a cottage. As You Like It. COTE: v.t. to quote, instance. Love's Labour's Lost. COTE: v.t. to come alongside, overtake. Hamlet. COT-QUEAN: sb. an effeminate man, molly-coddle. Romeo and Juliet. COUCHINGS: sb. crouchings. Julius Caesar. COUNT CONFECT: sb. a nobleman composed of affectation. Much Ado About Nothing. COUNTENANCE: sb. fair shew. Measure for Measure. COUNTERFEIT: sb. portrait. Merchant of Venice. A piece of base coin. Henry IV Pt. 1. COUNTERPOINT: sb. a counterpane. Taming of the Shrew. COUNTERVAIL: v.t. to counterpoise, outweigh. Romeo and Juliet. COUNTRY: adj. belonging to one's country. Othello; Cymbeline. COUNTY: sb. count, earl. Romeo and Juliet. COUPLEMENT: sb. union. Love's Labour's Lost; Sonnets. COURT HOLY-WATER: sb. flattery. King Lear. COVENT: sb. a convent. Measure for Measure. COVER: v.t. to lay the table for dinner. Merchant of Venice; As You Like It. COWISH: adj. cowardly. King Lear. COWL-STAFF: sb. the staff on which a vessel is supported between two men. Merry Wives of Windsor. COX MY PASSION: an oath, a euphemism for "God's Passion." All's Well That Ends Well. COY: v.t. to stroke, fondle. A Midsummer Night's Dream. v.i. to condescend with difficulty. Coriolanus. COYSTRIL: sb. a kestrel, a cowardly kind of hawk. Twelfth Night. COZEN: v.t. to cheat. Merchant of Venice. COZENAGE: sb. cheating. Merry Wives of Windsor. COZENER: sb. a cheater. Henry IV Pt. 1. COZIER: sb. a tailor. Twelfth Night. CRACK: v.i. to boast. Love's Labour's Lost. CRACK: sb. a loud noise, clap. Macbeth. A forward boy. Henry IV Pt. 2. CRACKER: sb. boaster. King John. CRACK-HEMP: sb. a gallows-bird. Taming of the Shrew. CRANK: sb. a winding passage. Coriolanus. CRANKING: pr.p. winding. Henry IV Pt. 1. CRANTS: sb. garlands. Hamlet. A doubtful word. CRARE: sb. a ship of burden. Cymbeline. CRAVEN: sb. a dunghill cock. Taming of the Shrew. CREATE: p.p. formed, compounded. Henry V. CREDENT: adj. creditable. Measure for Measure. Credible. Winter's Tale. Credulous. Hamlet. CREDIT: sb. report. Twelfth Night. CRESCIVE: adj. increasing. Henry V. CRESTLESS: adj. not entitled to bear arms, lowborn. Henry VI Pt. 1. CRISP: adj. curled, winding. Tempest. CROSS: sb. a piece of money, so called because the coin was formerly stamped with a cross. As You Like It. CROW-KEEPER: sb. one who scares crows. King Lear. CROWNER: sb. a coroner. Hamlet. CROWNET: sb. a coronet. A & C. CRY: sb. the yelping of hounds. A Midsummer Night's Dream. A pack of hounds. A Midsummer Night's Dream. A company, use contemptuously. Hamlet. CRY AIM: v.t. to encourage. King John. CUE: sb. the last words of an actor's speech, which is the signal for the next actor to begin. King Lear. CUISSES: sb. pieces of armour to cover the thighs. Henry IV Pt. 1. CULLION: sb. a base fellow. Taming of the Shrew. CUNNING: sb. skill. Taming of the Shrew. CUNNING: sb. skilful. Taming of the Shrew. CURB: v.i. to bend, truckle. Hamlet. CURRENTS: sb. occurrences. Henry IV Pt. 1. CURST: adj. Taming of the Shrew. CURSTNESS: sb. shrewishness. Anthony and Cleopatra. CURTAIL: sb. a cur. Comedy of Errors. CURTAL: sb. a docked horse. All's Well That Ends Well. CURTAL-AXE: sb. a cutlass. As You Like It. CUSTALORUM: a ludicrous mistake for Custos Rotulorum. Merry Wives of Windsor. CUSTARD-COFFIN: sb. the crust of a custard-pudding. Taming of the Shrew. CUSTOMER: sb. a common woman. Othello. CUT: sb. a cheat. Twelfth Night. 'To draw cuts' is to draw lots. Comedy of Errors. CYPRESS: sb. a kind of crape. Twelfth Night. ................................................................................ DAFF: v.t. to befool. Much Ado About Nothing. To put off; this seems to be a corruption of 'doff.' Much Ado About Nothing. DAMN: v.t. to condemn. Julius Caesar. DANGER: sb. reach, control, power. Merchant of Venice. DANSKER: sb. a Dane. Hamlet. DARE: v.t. to challenge. Henry VI Pt. 2. DARKLING: adv. in the dark. A Midsummer Night's Dream. DARRAIGN: v.t. to set in array. Henry VI Pt. 3. DAUB: v.t. to disguise. King Lear. DAUBERY: sb. imposition. Merry Wives of Windsor. DAY-WOMAN: sb. a dairy-maid. Love's Labour's Lost. DEAR: adj. dire. Timon of Athens. That which has to do with the affections. Richard II; Romeo and Juliet. Piteous. Titus Andronicus. Important. King Lear, DEARN: adj. lonely. Pericles. (Gower). DEBOSHED: p.p. debauched, drunken. Tempest. DECK: v.t. to bedew. This is probably a form of the verb 'to dag,' now a provincial word. Tempest. DECK: sb. a pack of cards. Henry VI Pt. 3. DECLINE: v.t. to enumerate, as in going through the cases of a noun. Troilus and Cressida. DECLINED: p.p. fallen. Troilus and Cressida. DEEM: sb. doom, judgment. Troilus and Cressida. DEFEAT: v.t. to undo, destroy. Othello. DEFEAT: sb. destruction. Much Ado About Nothing. DEFEATURE: sb. disfigurement. Comedy of Errors. DEFENCE: sb. art of fencing. Twelfth Night. DEFEND: v.t. to forbid. Much Ado About Nothing. DEFENSIBLE: adj. having the power to defend. Henry IV Pt. 2. DEFTLY: adv. dexterously. Macbeth. DEFY: v.t. renounce. Henry IV Pt. 1. DEGREES: sb. a step. Julius Caesar. DELAY: v.1. to let slip by delaying. Coriolanus. DEMERIT: sb. merit, desert. Othello. DEMURELY: adv. solemnly. Anthony and Cleopatra. DENAY: sb. denial. Twelfth Night. DENIER: sb. the 12th part of a French sol coin. Richard III. DENOTEMENT: sb. marking. Othello. Note or manifestation. Othello. DENY: v.t. to refuse. Timon of Athens. DEPART: sb. departure. Henry VI Pt. 2. DEPART: v.t. to part. Love's Labour's Lost. DEPARTING: sb. parting, separation. Henry VI Pt. 3. DEPEND: v.i. to be in service. King Lear. DERIVED: p.p. born, descended. Two Gentlemen of Verona. DEROGATE: p.p. degraded. King Lear. DESCANT: sb. a variation upon a melody, hence, metaphorically, a comment on a given theme. Two Gentlemen of Verona. DESIGN: v.t. to draw up articles. Hamlet. DESPATCH: v.t. to deprive, bereave. Hamlet. DESPERATE: adj. determined, bold. Romeo and Juliet. DETECT: v.t. to charge, blame. Measure for Measure. DETERMINE: v.t. to conclude. Coriolanus. DICH: v.i. optative mood, perhaps contracted for 'do it.' Timon of Athens. DIET: sb. food regulated by the rules of medicine. Two Gentlemen of Verona. DIET: v.t. to have one's food regulated by the rules of medicine. All's Well That Ends Well. DIFFUSED: p.p. confused. Merry Wives of Windsor. DIGRESSING: pr.p. transgressing, going out of the right way. Richard II. DIGRESSION: sb. transgression. Love's Labour's Lost. DIG-YOU-GOOD-DEN: int. give you good evening. Love's Labour's Lost. DILDO: sb. the chorus or burden of a song. Winter's Tale. DINT: sb. stroke. Julius Caesar. DIRECTION: sb. judgment, skill. Richard III. DISABLE: v.t. to disparage. As You Like It. DISAPPOINTED: p.p. unprepared. Hamlet. DISCASE: v.r. to undress. Winter's Tale. DISCONTENT: sb. a malcontent. Anthony and Cleopatra. DISCOURSE: sb. power of reasoning. Hamlet. DISDAINED: p.p. disdainful. Henry IV Pt. 1. DISLIMN: v.t. to disfigure, transform. Anthony and Cleopatra. DISME: sb. a tenth or tithe. Troilus and Cressida. DISPARK: v.t. to destroy a park. Richard II. DISPONGE: v.i. to squeeze out as from a sponge. Anthony and Cleopatra. DISPOSE: sb. disposal. Two Gentlemen of Verona. DISPOSE: v.i. to conspire. Anthony and Cleopatra. DISPOSITION: sb. maintenance. Othello. DISPUTABLE: adj. disputatious. As You Like It. DISPUTE: v.t. to argue, examine. Othello. DISSEMBLY: sb. used ridiculously for assembly. Much Ado About Nothing. DISTASTE: v.t. to corrupt. Troilus and Cressida. DISTEMPERED: adj. discontented. King John. DISTRACTION: sb. a detached troop or company of soldiers. Anthony and Cleopatra. DISTRAUGHT: p.p. distracted, mad. Richard III. DIVERTED: p.p. turned from the natural course. As You Like It. DIVISION: sb. a phrase or passage in a melody. Romeo and Juliet. DIVULGED: p.p. published, spoken of. Twelfth Night. DOFF: v.t. to do off, strip. Taming of the Shrew. To put off with an excuse. Othello. DOLT: sb. a small Dutch coin. Tempest. DOLE: sb. portion dealt. Merry Wives of Windsor; Henry IV Pt. 2. Grief, lamentation. A Midsummer Night's Dream. DON: v.t. to do on, put on. Titus Andronicus; Hamlet. DONE: p.p. 'done to death,' put to death. Henry VI Pt. 2. DOTANT: sb. one who dotes, a dotard. Coriolanus. DOUT: v.t. to do out, quench. Hamlet. DOWLAS: sb. a kind of coarse sacking. Henry IV Pt. 1. DOWLE: sb. the swirl of a feather. Tempest. DOWN-GYVED: adj. hanging down like gyves or fetters. Hamlet. DRAB: sb. a harlot. Winter's Tale. DRABBING: pr.p. whoring. Hamlet. DRAUGHT: sb. a privy. Titus Andronicus. DRAWN: p.p. having his sword drawn. Tempest. DRAWN: p.p. drunk, having taken a good draught. Tempest. DRIBBLING: adj. weak. Measure for Measure. DRIVE: v.i. to rush impetuously. Titus Andronicus. DROLLERY: sb. a puppet-show. Tempest. DRUMBLE: v.i. to dawdle. Merry Wives of Windsor. DRY: adj. thirsty. Tempest. DUC-DAME: perhaps the Latin duc-ad-me, bring him to me. As You Like It. DUDGEON: sb. a dagger. Macbeth. DULL: adj. soothing. Henry IV Pt. 2. DULLARD: sb. a dull person. Cymbeline. DUMP: sb. complaint. Two Gentlemen of Verona. DUP: v.1. to do up, Lift up. Hamlet. ................................................................................ EAGER: adj. sour. Hamlet. Harsh. Henry VI Pt. 3. Biting. Hamlet. EANLING: sb. a yeanling, a lamb. Merchant of Venice. EAR: v.t. to plough. All's Well That Ends Well. ECHE: v.t. to eke out. Pericles. (Gower). ECSTACY: sb. madness. Tempest. EFT: adj. ready, convenient. Much Ado About Nothing. EISEL: sb. vinegar. Hamlet; Sonnets. 3. ELD: sb. old age. Measure for Measure. EMBOSSED: adj. swollen into protuberances. As You Like It. Covered with foam. Anthony and Cleopatra. EMBOWELLED: p.p. disembowelled, emptied. All's Well That Ends Well. EMBRASURE: sb. embrace. Troilus and Cressida. EMINENCE: sb. exalted station. Macbeth. EMPERY: sb. empire. Henry V. EMULATION: sb. jealousy, mutiny. Troilus and Cressida. EMULOUS: adj. jealous. Troilus and Cressida. ENCAVE: v.r. to place oneself in a cave. Othello. END: sb. 'Still an end,' continually for ever. Two Gentlemen of Verona. ENFEOFF: v.t. to place in possession in fee simple. Henry IV Pt. 1. ENGINE: sb. a machine of war. Troilus and Cressida. ENGLUT: v.t. to swallow speedily. Timon of Athens. ENGROSS: v.t. to make gross or fat. Richard III. ENGROSSMENT: sb. immoderate acquisition. Henry IV Pt. 2. ENKINDLE: v.t. to make keen. Macbeth. ENMEW: v.t. to shut up, as a hawk is shut up in a mew. Measure for Measure. ENSCONCE: v.t. to cover as with a fort. Merry Wives of Windsor. ENSEAMED: p.p. fat, rank. Hamlet. ENSHIELD: p.p. hidden. Measure for Measure. ENTERTAIN: v.t. encounter. Henry V. Experience. Anthony and Cleopatra. ENTERTAINMENT: sb. treatment. Tempest. A disposition to entertain a proposal. Merry Wives of Windsor. Service. All's Well That Ends Well. ENTREATMENTS: sb. interviews. Hamlet. EPHESIAN: sb. a toper, a cant term. Merry Wives of Windsor. EQUIPAGE: sb. attendance. Merry Wives of Windsor. EREWHILE: adv. a short time since. As You Like It. ESCOT: v.t. to pay a man's reckoning, to maintain. Hamlet. ESPERANCE: sb. hope, used as a war-cry. Henry IV Pt. 1; Troilus and Cressida. ESPIAL: sb. a scout or spy. Henry VI Pt. 1. ESTIMATION: sb. conjecture. Henry IV Pt. 1. ESTRIDGE: sb. ostridge. Henry IV Pt. 1. ETERNE: adj. eternal. Macbeth. EVEN: adj. coequal. Hamlet. EVEN: v.t. to equal. All's Well That Ends Well; Cymbeline. EXAMINE: v.t. to question. All's Well That Ends Well. EXCREMENT: sb. that which grows outwardly from the body and has no sensation like the hair or nails. Love's Labour's Lost; Hamlet. Any outward show. Merchant of Venice; Winter's Tale. EXECUTOR: sb. an executioner. Henry V. EXEMPT: adj. excluded. Henry VI Pt. 1. EXERCISE: sb. a religious service. Richard III. EXHALE: v.t. to hale or draw out. Richard III. v.i. to draw the sword. Henry V. EXHIBITION: sb. allowance, pension. Two Gentlemen of Verona. EXIGENT: sb. death, ending. Henry VI Pt. 1. EXION: sb. ridiculously used for 'action.' Henry IV Pt. 2. EXPECT: sb. expectation. Troilus and Cressida. EXPEDIENCE: sb. expedition, undertaking. Anthony and Cleopatra. Haste. Richard II. EXPEDIENT: adj. expeditious, swift. King John. EXPIATE: p.p. completed. Richard III. EXPOSTULATE: v.t. to expound, discuss. Hamlet. EXPOSTURE: sb. exposure. Coriolanus. EXPRESS: v.t. to reveal. Winter's Tale. EXPULSE: v.t. to expel. Henry VI Pt. 1. EXSUFFICATE: adj. that which has been hissed off, contemptible. Twelfth Night. EXTEND: v.t. to seize. Anthony and Cleopatra. EXTENT: sb. a seizure. As You Like It. EXTERN: adj. outward. Othello. EXTIRP: v.t. to extirpate. Measure for Measure. EXTRACTING: adj. distracting. Twelfth Night. EXTRAUGHT: part. extracted, descended. Henry VI Pt. 3. EXTRAVAGANT: adj. foreign, wandering. Othello. EXTREMES: sb. extravagance of conduct. Winter's Tale. Extremities. Romeo and Juliet. EYAS: sb. a nestling hawk. Hamlet. EYAS-MUSKET: sb. a nestling of the musket or merlin, the smallest species of British hawk. Merry Wives of Windsor. EYE: sb. a glance, oeillad. Tempest. EYE: sb. a shade of colour, as in shot silk. Tempest. EYNE: sb.pl. eyes. Love's Labour's Lost. ................................................................................ FACINOROUS: adj. wicked. All's Well That Ends Well. FACT: sb. guilt. Winter's Tale. FACTIOUS: adj. instant, importunate. Julius Caesar. FACULTY: sb. essential virtue or power. Henry V. FADGE: v.i. to suit. Twelfth Night. FADING: sb. a kind of ending to a song. Winter's Tale. FAIN: adj. glad. Henry VI Pt. 2. FAIN: adv. gladly. King Lear. FAIR: sb. beauty. As You Like It. FAITOR: sb. a traitor. Henry IV Pt. 2. FAll: v.t. to let fall. Tempest. FALLOW: adj. fawn-coloured. Merry Wives of Windsor. FALSE: sb. falsehood. Measure for Measure. FALSING: adj. deceptive. Comedy of Errors. FAMILIAR: sb. a familiar spirit. Henry VI Pt. 2. FANCY: sb. All's Well That Ends Well. FANCY-FREE: adj. untouched by love. A Midsummer Night's Dream. FANG: v.t. to seize in the teeth. Timon of Athens. FANTASTIC: sb. a fantastical person. Romeo and Juliet. FAP: adj. drunk. Merry Wives of Windsor. FAR: adv. farther. Winter's Tale. FARCED: p.p. stuffed. Henry V. FARDEL: sb. a burden. Winter's Tale. FARTUOUS: adj. used ridiculously for " virtuous." Merry Wives of Windsor. FAST: adv. assuredly, unalterably. Measure for Measure; Henry VI Pt. 2. FAT: adj. dull. Henry IV Pt. 1. FAVOUR: sb. countenance. Measure for Measure. Complexion. Troilus and Cressida. Quality. King Lear. FEAR: sb. the object of fear. Hamlet. FEAR: v.t. to affright. Anthony and Cleopatra. FEARFUL: adj. subject to fear, timorous. Tempest. FEAT: adj. dexterous. Cymbeline. FEAT: v.t. to make fine. Cymbeline. FEATER: adv. comp. degree. more neatly. Tempest. FEATLY: adv. nimbly, daintily. Tempest. FEATURE: sb. beauty. Cymbeline. FEDERARY: sb. confederate. Winter's Tale. FEEDER: sb. agent, servant. As You Like It. FEE-GRIEF: sb. a grief held, as it were, in fee-simple, or the peculiar property of him who possesses it. Macbeth. FEERE: sb. a companion, husband. Titus Andronicus. FEHEMENTLY: adv. used ridiculously for "vehemently." Merry Wives of Windsor. FELL: sb. the hide. As You Like It. FENCE: sb. art or skill in defence. Henry VI Pt. 2. FEODARY: sb. one who holds an estate by suit or service to a superior lord; hence one who acts under the direction of another. Cymbeline. FESTER: v.i. to rankle, grow virulent. Coriolanus. FESTINATELY: adv. quickly. Love's Labour's Lost. FET: p.p. fetched. Henry V. FICO: sb. a fig. Merry Wives of Windsor. FIELDED: adj. in the field of battle. Coriolanus. FIG: v.t. to insult. Henry IV Pt. 2. FIGHTS: sb. clothes hung round a ship to conceal the men from the enemy. Merry Wives of Windsor. FILE: sb. a list or catalogue. Macbeth. FILE: v.t. to defile. Macbeth. To smooth or polish. Love's Labour's Lost. To make even. Henry VIII. FILL-HORSE: sb. shaft-horse. Merchant of Venice. FILLS: sb. the shafts. Troilus and Cressida. FILTH: sb. a whore. Timon of Athens. FINE: sb. end. Hamlet. FINE: v.t. to make fine or specious. Henry V. FINELESS: adj. endless. Othello. FIRAGO: sb. ridiculously used for 'Virago.' Twelfth Night. FIRE-DRAKE: sb. Will o' the Wisp. Henry VIII. FIRE-NEW: adj. with the glitter of novelty on, like newly- forged metal. Richard III. FIRK: v.t. to chastise. Henry V. FIT: sb. a canto or division of a song. Troilus and Cressida. A trick or habit. Henry VIII. FITCHEW: sb. a polecat. King Lear. FIVES: sb. a disease incident to horses. Taming of the Shrew. FLAP-DRAGON: sb. raisins in burning brandy. Love's Labour's Lost. FLAP-JACK: sb. a pan-cake. Pericles. FLAT: adj. certain. Henry IV Pt. 1. FLATNESS: sb. lowness, depth. Winter's Tale. FLAW: sb. a gust of wind. Henry IV Pt. 2. Metaph. sudden emotion, or the cause of it. Macbeth; Anthony and Cleopatra. FLAW: v.t. to make a flaw in, to break. Henry VIII. FLECKED: p.p. spotted, streaked. Romeo and Juliet. FLEET: v.i. to float. Anthony and Cleopatra. To pass away. Anthony and Cleopatra. v.t. to pass the time. As You Like It. FLEETING: pr.p. inconstant. Richard III. FLESHMENT: sb. the act of fleshing the sword, hence the first feat of arms. King Lear. FLEWED: adj. furnished with hanging lips, as hounds are. A Midsummer Night's Dream. FLIGHT: sb. a particular mode of practising archery. Much Ado About Nothing. FLIRT-GILL: sb. a light woman. Romeo and Juliet. FLOTE: sb. wave, sea. Tempest. FLOURISH: sb. an ornament. Love's Labour's Lost. FLOURISH: v.t. to ornament, disguise with ornament. Measure for Measure. FLUSH: adj. fresh, full of vigour. Anthony and Cleopatra. FOIL: sb. defeat, disadvantage. Tempest. FOIN: v.i. to fence, fight. Merry Wives of Windsor. FOISON: sb. plenty. Tempest. FOND: adj. foolish, foolishly affectionate. Othello. FOOT-CLOTH: sb. a saddle-cloth hanging down to the ground. Henry VI Pt. 2. FOR: conj. for that, because. Measure for Measure. FORBID: p.p. accursed, outlawed. Macbeth. FORBODE: p.p. forbidden. A Lover's Complaint. FORCE: v.t. to stuff, for 'farce.' Troilus and Cressida. FORCED: p.p. falsely attributed. Winter's Tale. FORDO: v.t. to kill, destroy. King Lear. To weary. A Midsummer Night's Dream. FOREIGN: adj. obliged to live abroad. Henry VIII. FOREPAST: adj. former. All's Well That Ends Well. FORESLOW: v.i. to delay. Henry VI Pt. 3. FORFEND: v.t. to forbid. Winter's Tale. FORGETIVE: adj. inventive. Henry IV Pt. 2. FORKED: adj. horned. Winter's Tale; Othello. FORMAL: adj. regular, retaining its proper and essential characteristic. Comedy of Errors; Anthony and Cleopatra. FORSPEAK: v.t. to speak against. Anthony and Cleopatra. FORSPENT: p.p. exhausted, weary. Henry IV Pt. 2. FORTHRIGHT: sb. a straight path; forthrights and meanders, straight paths and crooked ones. Tempest. FORWEARY: v.t. to weary, exhaust. King John. FOSSET-SELLER: sb. one who sells the pipes inserted into a vessel to give vent to the liquor, and stopped by a spigot. Coriolanus. FOX: sb. a sword; a cant word. Henry V. FOX-SHIP: sb. the cunning of the fox. Coriolanus. FRAMPOLD: adj. peevish, unquiet. Merry Wives of Windsor. FRANK: sb. the feeding place of swine. Henry IV Pt. 2. FRANKED: p.p. confined. Richard III. FRANKLIN: sb. a freeholder, a small squire. Cymbeline. FRAUGHT: p.p. freighted. Merchant of Venice. FRAUGHTAGE: sb. freight. Comedy of Errors. FRAUGHTING: pr.p. of v. to fraught. loading or constituting the cargo of a ship. Tempest. FRESH: sb. a spring of fresh water. Tempest. FRET: sb. the stop of a guitar. Taming of the Shrew. FRET: v.t. to wear away. Richard II; King Lear. To variegate. Julius Caesar. FRIEND: v.t. to befriend. Henry VIII. FRIPPERY: sb. an old-clothes shop. Tempest. FROM: prep. contrary to. Hamlet. FRONT: v.t. to affront, oppose. Anthony and Cleopatra. FRONTIER: sb. opposition. Henry IV Pt. 1. FRONTLET: sb. that which is worn on the forehead. King Lear. FRUSH: v.t. to break or bruise. Troilus and Cressida. FRUSTRATE: p.p. frustrated. Anthony and Cleopatra. FUB OFF: v.t. to put off. Henry IV Pt. 2. FULFILL: v.t. to fill full. Troilus and Cressida. FULL: adj. complete. Othello. FULLAM: sb. a loaded die. Merry Wives of Windsor. FULSOME: adj. lustful. Merchant of Venice. FURNISHED: p.p. equipped. Winter's Tale. FURNITOR: sb. furnitory, an herb. King Lear. ................................................................................ GABERDINE: sb. a loose outer coat, or smock frock. Tempest; Merchant of Venice. GAD: sb. a pointed instrument, a goad. Titus Andronicus. Upon the gad, with impetuous haste, upon the spur of the moment. King Lear. GAIN-GIVING: sb. misgiving. Hamlet. GAIT: sb. going, steps. Twelfth Night. GALLIARD: sb. a kind of dance. Twelfth Night. GALLIASSE: sb. a kind of ship. Taming of the Shrew. GALLIMAUFRY: sb. a ridiculous medley. Winter's Tale. GALLOW: v.t. to scare. King Lear. GALLOWGLASS: sb. the irregular infantry of Ireland, and the Highlands of Scotland. Macbeth. GAMESTER: sb. a frolicsome person. Henry VIII. A loose woman. All's Well That Ends Well. GARBOIL: sb. disorder, uproar. Anthony and Cleopatra. GARISH: adj. gaudy, staring. Richard III. GARNER: v.t. to lay by, as corn in a barn. Othello. GAST: p.p. frightened. King Lear. GAUDY: adj. festive. Anthony and Cleopatra. GAZE: sb. an object of wonder. Macbeth. GEAR: sb. matter of business of any kind. Merchant of Venice. GECK: sb. a fool. Cymbeline. GENERAL: sb. the generality, common people. Measure for Measure. GENERATIONS: sb. children. Winter's Tale. GENEROSITY: sb. noble birth. Coriolanus. GENEROUS: adj. noble. Measure for Measure. GENTILITY: sb. good manners. Love's Labour's Lost. GENTLE: sb. gentlefolk. Love's Labour's Lost. GENTLE: adj. noble. Tempest. GENTLE: v.t. to ennoble. Henry V. GENTRY: sb. complaisance, conduct becoming gentlefolk. Hamlet. GERMAN: adj. akin. Winter's Tale. Appropriate. Hamlet. GERMEN: sb. seed, embryo. King Lear. GEST: sb. period. Winter's Tale. GIB: sb. a he-cat. Hamlet. GIFTS: sb. talents, endowment. Merry Wives of Windsor. GIGLOT: sb. a wanton girl. Measure for Measure. GILDER: sb. a coin of the value of 1s. 6d. or 2s. Comedy of Errors. GILT: sb. money. Henry V. State of wealth. Timon of Athens. GIMMAL: adj. double. Henry V. GIMMOR: sb. contrivance. Henry VI Pt. 1. GING: sb. gang. Merry Wives of Windsor. GIRD: v.i. to gibe. Henry IV Pt. 2; Coriolanus. GIRD: sb. a sarcasm or gibe. Taming of the Shrew. GLEEK: v.i. to scoff. A Midsummer Night's Dream. GLEEK: sb. a scoff. Henry VI Pt. 1. GLOSE: v.i. to comment; hence, to be garrulous. Richard II. GLUT: v. to swallow. Tempest. GNARL: v.i. to snarl. Richard II; Henry VI Pt. 2. GOOD-DEED: adv. indeed. Winter's Tale. GOOD-DEN: int. good-evening, contracted from 'Good-even.' King John. GOOD-YEAR or GOOD-JER: sb. a corruption of the French goujere; the venereal disease. Merry Wives of Windsor. GORBELLIED: adj. corpulent. Henry IV Pt. 1. GOURD: sb. a species of game of chance. Merry Wives of Windsor. GOUT: sb. a drop. Macbeth. GOVERNMENT: sb. discretion. Henry VI Pt. 3. GRACIOUS: adj. abounding in grace Divine. Hamlet. GRAINED: adj. engrained. Hamlet. GRAMERCY: int. grand mercy, much thanks. Merchant of Venice. GRANGE: sb. the farmstead attached to a monastery, a solitary farm-house. Othello. GRATILLITY: sb. used ridiculously for 'gratuity.' Twelfth Night. GRATULATE: v.t. to congratulate. Titus Andronicus. GRAVE: v.t. to bury. Timon of Athens. GREASILY: adv. grossly. Love's Labour's Lost. GREEK: sb. a bawd. Twelfth Night. GREEN: adj. immature, fresh, unused. Richard III; Taming of the Shrew. GREENLY: adv. foolishly. Hamlet. GREET: v.i. to weep. Titus Andronicus. GRIZE: sb. a step. Twelfth Night. GROSSLY: adv. palpably. Henry V. GROUNDLING: sb. one who sits in the pit of a theatre. Hamlet. GROWING: pr.p. accruing. Comedy of Errors. GUARD: sb. decoration. Measure for Measure. GUARD: v.t. to decorate. Merchant of Venice. GUARDAGE: sb. guardianship. Othello. GUINEA-HEN: sb. the pintado, a cant term. Othello. GULES: adj. red, a term in heraldry. Timon of Athens. GULF: sb. the throat. Macbeth. GUN-STONE: sb. a cannon ball. GUST: sb. taste, relish. Twelfth Night. GYVE: v.t. to fetter. Othello. ................................................................................ HACK: v.i. to become common. Merry Wives of Windsor. HAGGARD: sb. a wild or unreclaimed hawk. Taming of the Shrew. HAG-SEED: sb. seed or offspring of a hag. Tempest. HAIR: sb. course, order, grain. Merry Wives of Windsor. HALIDOM: sb. holiness, sanctification, Christian fellowship; used as an oath, and analogous to 'By my faith.' Two Gentlemen of Verona. HALL: sb. an open space to dance in. R & J. HALLOWMAS: sb. All Hallows' Day. Two Gentlemen of Verona. HAP: sb. chance, fortune. Comedy of Errors. HAPPILY: adv. accidentally. Taming of the Shrew. HANDSAW: sb. perhaps a corruption of Heronshaw; a hern. Hamlet. HARDIMENT: sb. defiance, brave deeds. Henry IV Pt. 1. HARLOCK: sb. charlock, wild mustard. King Lear. HARRY: v.t. to annoy, harass. Anthony and Cleopatra. HAUGHT: adj. haughty. Henry VI Pt. 3. HAUNT: sb. company. Hamlet. HAVING: sb. property, fortune. Twelfth Night. HAVIOUR: sb. behavior. Merry Wives of Windsor. HAY: sb. a term in fencing. Romeo and Juliet. HEADY: adj. violent, headlong. Comedy of Errors. HEAT: p.p. of v.t. "to heat," heated. Merchant of Venice. HEBENON: sb. henbane. Hamlet. HEFT: sb. a heaving. Winter's Tale. HEFT: p.p. furnished with a handle: hence, metaphorically, finished off, delicately formed. King Lear. HELM: v.t. to steer, manage. Measure for Measure. HENCE: adv. henceforward. Henry IV Pt. 2. HENCHMAN: sb. a page or attendant. A Midsummer Night's Dream. HENT: v.t. to seize, take. Measure for Measure; Winter's Tale. HERMIT: sb. a beadsman, one bound to pray for another. Macbeth. HEST: sb. command. Tempest. HIGH: adv. used in composition with adjectives to heighten or emphasize their signification, as, high- fantastical. Twelfth Night. HIGHT: p.p. called. Love's Labour's Lost. HILD: pp. held. Rape of Lucrece. HILDING: sb. a paltry fellow. Cymbeline. HINT: sb. suggestion. Tempest. HIREN: sb. Qy. a prostitute. with a pun on the word "iron." Henry IV Pt. 2. HIT: v.i. to agree. King Lear. HOISE: v.t. to hoist, heave up on high. Henry VI Pt. 2. HOIST: p.p. hoisted. Hamlet. HOLP: p.p. of the v. to help; helped. King John. HOME: adv. to the utmost. Coriolanus; Cymbeline; King Lear. HONEST: adj. chaste. Othello. HONESTY: sb. chastity. As You Like It. HONEY-STALKS: sb. the red clover. Titus Andronicus. HOODMAN-BLIND: sb. the game now called blindman's-buff. Hamlet. HORN-MAD: adj. probably, 'harn-mad,' that is, brain-mad. Merry Wives of Windsor. HOROLOGE: sb. a clock. Othello. HOT-HOUSE: sb. a brothel. Measure for Measure. HOX: v.t. to hamstring. Winter's Tale. HUGGER-MUGGER: sb. secresy. Hamlet. HULL: v.i. to drift on the sea like a wrecked ship. Henry VIII. HUMOROUS: adj. fitful, or, perhaps, hurried. Romeo and Juliet. HUNT-COUNTER: v.i. to follow the scent the wrong way. Henry IV Pt. 2. HUNTS-UP: sb. a holla used in hunting when the game was on foot. Romeo and Juliet. HURLY: sb. noise, confusion. Taming of the Shrew. HURTLE: v.i. to clash. Julius Caesar. HURTLING: sb. noise, confusion. As You Like It. HUSBANDRY: sb. frugality. Macbeth. Management. Merchant of Venice. HUSWIFE: sb. a jilt. Coriolanus. ................................................................................ ICE-BROOK: sb. an icy-cold brook. Othello. I'FECKS: int. in faith, a euphemism. Winter's Tale. IGNOMY: sb. ignominy. Henry IV Pt. 1. IMAGE: sb. representation. Hamlet. IMBARE: v.t. to bare, lay open. Henry V. IMMEDIACY: sb. close connexion. King Lear. IMMOMENT: adj. unimportant. Anthony and Cleopatra. IMP: v.t. to graft. to splice a falcon's broken feathers. Richard II. IMP: sb. a scion, a child. Henry IV Pt. 2. IMPAWN: v.t. to stake, compromise. Henry V. IMPEACH: v.t. to bring into question. A Midsummer Night's Dream. IMPEACH: sb. impeachment. Comedy of Errors. IMPEACHMENT: sb. cause of censure, hindrance. Two Gentlemen of Verona. IMPERCEIVERANT: adj. duff of perception. Cymbeline. IMPETICOS: v.t. to pocket. Twelfth Night. IMPORTANCE: sb. importunity. Twelfth Night. IMPORTANT: adj. importunate. Comedy of Errors; King Lear. IMPORTING: adj. significant. All's Well That Ends Well. IMPOSE: sb. imposition, meaning command or task imposed upon any one. Two Gentlemen of Verona. IMPOSITIONS: sb. command. Merchant of Venice. IMPRESE: sb. a device with a motto. Richard II. IMPRESS: v.t. to compel to serve. Macbeth. INCAPABLE: adj. unconscious. Hamlet. INCARNARDINE: v.t. to dye red. Macbeth. INCENSED: p.p. incited, egged on. Richard III. INCH-MEAL: sb. by inch-meal, by portions of inches. Tempest. INCLINING: adj. compliant. Othello. INCLINING: sb. inclination. Hamlet. INCLIP: v.t. to embrace. Anthony and Cleopatra. INCLUDE: v.t. conclude. Two Gentlemen of Verona. INCONY: adj. fine, delicate. Love's Labour's Lost. INCORRECT: adj. ill-regulated. Hamlet. IND: sb. India. Tempest. INDENT: v.i. to compound or bargain. Henry IV Pt. 1. INDEX: sb. a preface. Richard III; Hamlet. INDIFFERENT: adj. ordinary. Hamlet. INDIGEST: adj. disordered. Sonnets. INDITE: v.t. to invite. Romeo and Juliet. To convict. Hamlet. INDUCTION: sb. introduction, beginning. Henry IV Pt. 1. INDURANCE: sb. delay. Henry VIII. INFINITE: sb. infinite power. Much Ado About Nothing. INGRAFT: part of v. to engraff, engrafted. Othello. INHABITABLE: adj. uninhabitable. Richard II. INHERIT: v.t. to possess. Two Gentlemen of Verona. INHOOPED: p.p. penned up in hoops. Anthony and Cleopatra. INKHORN-MATE: sb. a contemptuous term for an ecclesiastic, or man of learning. Henry VI Pt. 1. INKLE: sb. a kind of narrow fillet or tape. Winter's Tale. INLAND: adj. civilized, well-educated. As You Like It. INLY: adj. inward. Two Gentlemen of Verona. INLY: adv. inwardly. Tempest. INQUISITION: sb. enquiry. Tempest. INSANE: adj. that which causes insanity. Macbeth. INSCONCE: v.t. to arm, fortify. Comedy of Errors. INSTANCE: sb. example. Twelfth Night. Information. Henry IV Pt. 2. Reason, proof. Henry V; Merry Wives of Windsor. INTEND: v.i. to pretend. Taming of the Shrew. INTENDING: pr.p. regarding. Timon of Athens. INTENDMENT: sb. intention. Othello. INTENTIVELY: adv. attentively. Othello. INTERESSED: p.p. allied. King Lear. INTERMISSION: sb. pause, delay. Macbeth. INTRENCHMENT: adj. not capable of being cut. Macbeth. INTRINSE: adj. intricate. King Lear. INTRINSICATE: adj. intricate. Anthony and Cleopatra. INVENTION: sb. imagination. Macbeth. INWARD: sb. an intimate friend. Measure for Measure. intimate. Richard III. INWARDNESS: sb. intimacy. Much Ado About Nothing. IRREGULOUS: adj. lawless, licentious. Cymbeline. ITERATION: sb. reiteration. Henry IV Pt. 1. ................................................................................ JACK: sb. a mean fellow. Richard III. JACK-A-LENT: sb. a puppet thrown at in Lent. Merry Wives of Windsor. JACK GUARDANT: sb. a jack in office. Coriolanus. JADE: v.t. to whip, to treat with contempt. Henry VIII; Anthony and Cleopatra. JAR: sb. the ticking of a clock. Winter's Tale. JAR: v.i. to tick as a clock. Richard II. JAUNCE: v.i. to prance. Richard II. JESS: sb. a strap of leather attached to the talons of a hawk, by which it is held on the fist. Othello. JEST: v.i. to tilt in a tournament. Richard II. JET: i.i. to strut. Twelfth Night. JOURNAL: adj. daily. Cymbeline. JOVIAL: adj. appertaining to Jove. Cymbeline. JUDICIOUS: adj. critical. Merry Wives of Windsor. JUMP: v.i. to agree. Henry IV Pt. 1. v.t. to hazard. Cymbeline. JUMP: sb. hazard. Anthony and Cleopatra. JUMP: adv. exactly, nicely. Othello. JUSTICER: sb. a judge, magistrate. King Lear. JUT: v.i. to encroach. Richard III. JUTTY: sb. a projection. Macbeth. JUTTY: v.i. to jut out beyond. Henry V. JUVENAL: sb. youth, young man. Love's Labour's Lost. ................................................................................ KAM: adj. crooked. Coriolanus. KECKSY: sb. hemlock. Henry V. KEECH: sb. a lump of tallow. Henry VIII. KEEL: v.t. to skin. Love's Labour's Lost. KEEP: v.r. to restrain. Two Gentlemen of Verona. KEISAR: sb. Caesar, Emperor. Merry Wives of Windsor. KERN: sb. the rude foot soldiers of the Irish. Macbeth. KIBE: sb. a chilblain. Tempest. KICKSHAW: sb. a made dish. Henry IV Pt. 2. KICKSY WICKSY: sb. a wife, used in disdain. All's Well That Ends Well. KILN-HOLE: sb. the ash-hole under a kiln. Merry Wives of Windsor. KIND: sb. nature. Anthony and Cleopatra; Titus Andronicus. KINDLE: v.i. to bring forth young; used only of beasts. As You Like It. KINDLESS: adj. unnatural. Hamlet. KINDLY: adj. natural. Much Ado About Nothing. KIRTLE: sb. a gown. Henry IV Pt. 2. KNAP: v.t. to snap, crack. Merchant of Venice. KNAVE: sb. a boy. Julius Caesar. A serving-man. All's Well That Ends Well. KNOT: sb. a figure in garden beds. Richard II. KNOW: v.t. to acknowledge. Macbeth. ................................................................................ LABRAS: sb. lips. Merry Wives of Windsor. LACED-MUTTON: sb. a courtezan. Two Gentlemen of Verona. i. 1. LAG: sb. the lowest of the people. Titus Andronicus. LAG: adv. late, behindhand. Richard III; King Lear. LAKIN: n. ladykin, little lady, an endearing term applied to the Virgin Mary in the oath, " By our lakin." Tempest. LAND-DAMN: v.t. perhaps to extirpate; Hanmer thinks it means to kill by stopping the urine. Winter's Tale. LAPSED: p.p. taken, apprehended. Twelfth Night. LARGE: adj. licentious, free. Much Ado About Nothing. LARGESS: sb. a present. Taming of the Shrew. LASS-LORN: adj. deserted by a mistress. Tempest. LATCH: v.t. to smear. A Midsummer Night's Dream. To catch. Macbeth. LATED: p.p. belated. Anthony and Cleopatra. LATTEN: adj. made of brass. Merry Wives of Windsor. LAUND: sb. lawn. Henry VI Pt. 3. LAVOLTA: sb. a dance. Henry V. LAY: sb. wager. Othello. LEAGUE: sb. besieging army. All's Well That Ends Well. LEASING: sb. lying. Twelfth Night. LEATHER-COATS: sb. a kind of apple. Henry IV Pt. 2. LEECH: sb. a physician. Titus Andronicus. LEER: sb. countenance, complexion. As You Like It; Titus Andronicus. LEET: sb. a manor court. Othello. LEGE: v.t. to allege. Taming of the Shrew. LEGERITY: sb. lightness. Henry V. LEIGER: sb. an ambassador resident abroad. Measure for Measure; Cymbeline. LEMAN: sb. a lover or mistress. Henry IV Pt. 2. LENTEN: adj. meagre. Hamlet. That which may be eaten in Lent. Romeo and Juliet. L'ENVOY: sb. the farewell or moral at the end of a tale or poem. Love's Labour's Lost. LET: v.i. to hinder. Twelfth Night. v.t. to binder. Hamlet. LET: sb. hindrance. Henry V. LETHE: sb. death. Julius Caesar. LEVEL: v.i. to aim. Merchant of Venice; Richard III. LEVEL: sb. that which is aimed at. Henry VIII. LEWD: adj. ignorant, foolish. Richard III. LEWDLY: adv. wickedly. Henry VI Pt. 2. LEWDSTER: sb. a lewd person. Merry Wives of Windsor. LIBBARD: sb. a leopard. Love's Labour's Lost. LIBERAL: adj. licentious. Two Gentlemen of Verona; Othello. LIBERTY: sb. libertinism. Titus Andronicus. LICENCE: sb. licentiousness. Measure for Measure. LIEF: adj. dear. Henry VI Pt. 2. LIFTER: sb. a thief. Troilus and Cressida. LIGHT O' LOVE: sb. a tune so called. Two Gentlemen of Verona. LIGHTLY: adv. easily, generally. Comedy of Errors; Richard III. LIKE: v.t. to please. Richard III; King Lear. LIKE: v.t. to liken, compare. Henry VI Pt. 1. LIKE: adj. likely. Measure for Measure. LIKELIHOOD: sb. promise, appearance. Richard III. LIKING: sb. condition. Henry IV Pt. 1. LIMBECK: sb. an alembick, a still. Macbeth. LIMBO: or Limbo patrum, sb. the place where good men under the Old Test. were believed to be imprisoned till released by Christ after his crucifixion. All's Well That Ends Well; Henry VIII. LIME: sb. bird-lime. Tempest. LIME: v.t. to entangle as with bird-lime. Twelfth Night. To smear with bird-lime. Henry VI Pt. 2. To mix lime with beer or other liquor. Merry Wives of Windsor. LIMN: v.t. to draw. As You Like It. LINE: v.t. to cover on the inside. Cymbeline. To strengthen by inner works. Henry IV Pt. 1; Henry IV Pt. 2. LINSTOCK: sb. a staff with a match at the end of it used by gunners in firing cannon. Henry V. LIST: sb. a margin, hence a bound or enclosure. Twelfth Night; Henry IV Pt. 1. LITHER: adj. lazy. Henry IV Pt. 1. LITTLE: sb. miniature. Hamlet. LIVELIHOOD: sb. appearance of life. All's Well That Ends Well. LIVERY: sb. a law phrase, signifying the act of delivering a freehold into the possession of the heir or purchaser. Richard II. LIVING: adj. lively, convincing. Othello. LOACH: sb. a fish so called. Henry IV Pt. 1. LOB: sb. a looby. A Midsummer Night's Dream. LOCKRAM: sb. a sort of coarse linen. Coriolanus. LODE-STAR: sb. the leading-star, pole-star. A Midsummer Night's Dream. LOFFE: v.i. to laugh. A Midsummer Night's Dream. LOGGATS: sb. the game called nine-pins. Hamlet. LONGLY: adv. longingly. Taming of the Shrew. LOOF: v.t. to lull, bring a vessel up to the wind. Anthony and Cleopatra. LOON: sb. a low contemptible fellow. Macbeth. LOT: sb. a prize in a lottery. Coriolanus. LOTTERY: sb. that which falls to a man by lot. Anthony and Cleopatra. LOWT: sb. a clown. Coriolanus. LOWT: v.t. to treat one as a lowt, with contempt. Henry VI Pt. 1. LOZEL: sb. a spendthrift. Winter's Tale. LUBBER: sb. a leopard. Henry IV Pt. 2. LUCE: n. the pike or jack, a fresh-water fish. Merry Wives of Windsor. LUMPISH: adj. duff, dejected. Two Gentlemen of Verona. LUNES: sb. fits of lunacy. Winter's Tale. LURCH: v.t. to defeat, to win. Coriolanus. LURCH: v.i. to shift, to play tricks. Merry Wives of Windsor. LURE: sb. a thing stuffed to resemble a bird with which the falconer allures a hawk. Taming of the Shrew. LUSH: adj. juicy, luxuriant. Tempest. LUSTIG: adj. lusty, cheerful. All's Well That Ends Well. LUXURIOUS: adj. lascivious. Much Ado About Nothing. LUXURY: sb. lust. King Lear. LYM: sb. a limer or slow hound. King Lear. ................................................................................ MADE: p.p. having his fortune made. Twelfth Night. MAGNIFICO: sb. the chief magistrate at Venice. Othello. MAGOT-PIE: sb. a magpie, a pie which feeds on magots. Macbeth. MAIL: p.p. covered as with a coat of mail. Henry VI Pt. 2. MAIN-COURSE: sb. a sea-term. Tempest. MAKE: v.t. to do up, bar. Comedy of Errors. To do. Love's Labour's Lost; Richard III. MALKIN: sb. a familiar name for Mary; hence a servant wench. Coriolanus. MALLECHO: sb. mischief. Hamlet. MAMMERING: pr. p. hesitating. Othello. MAMMETS: sb. a woman's breasts. Henry IV Pt. 1. A doll. Romeo and Juliet. MAMMOCK: v.t. to break, tear. Coriolanus. MAN: v.t. to tame a hawk. Taming of the Shrew. MANAGE: sb. management. Tempest. MANDRAGORA: or Mandrake sb. a plant of soporiferous quality, supposed to resemble a man. Othello; Henry IV Pt. 2. MANKIND: adj. having a masculine nature. Winter's Tale. MARCHES: sb. frontiers, borders. Henry V. MARCHPANE: sb. a kind of sweet biscuit. Romeo and Juliet. MARGENT: sb. margin. Love's Labour's Lost. MARRY TRAP: int. an oath. Merry Wives of Windsor. MARTLEMAS: sb. the Feast of St. Martin, which occurs on the 11th of Nov. when the fine weather generally ends; hence applied to an old man. Henry IV Pt. 2. MATCH: sb. an appointment. Henry IV Pt. 1. MATE: v.t. to confound, dismay. Macbeth. MEACOCK: adj. tame, cowardly. Taming of the Shrew. MEALED: p.p. mingled. Measure for Measure. MEAN: sb. instrument used to promote an end. Two Gentlemen of Verona. MEAN: sb. the tenor part in a harmony. Two Gentlemen of Verona. MEAN: sb. opportunity, power. Henry VIII. MEASURE: sb. reach. Two Gentlemen of Verona. A stately dance. Much Ado About Nothing. MEAZEL: sb. a leper, spoken in contempt of a mean person. Coriolanus. MEDAL: sb. a portrait in a locket. Winter's Tale. MEDICINE: sb. a physician. All's Well That Ends Well. MEED: sb. reward, hire. Two Gentlemen of Verona. Merit. Henry VI Pt. 3. MEHERCLE: int. by Hercules. Love's Labour's Lost. MEINY: retinue. King Lear. MELL: v.i. to mix, to meddle. All's Well That Ends Well. MEMORISE: v.t. to cause to be remembered. Macbeth. MEPHISTOPHILUS: sb. the name of a familiar spirit. Merry Wives of Windsor. MERCATANTE: sb. (Italian), a foreign trader. Taming of the Shrew. MERELY: adv. simply, absolutely. Tempest. MESS: sb. a company of four. Love's Labour's Lost. METAPHYSICAL: adj. supernatural. Macbeth. METE-YARD: sb. measuring-wand. Taming of the Shrew. MEW UP: v.t. to confine. Richard III. MICHER: sb. a truant. Henry IV Pt. 1. MICKLE: adj. much. Comedy of Errors. MILL-SIXPENCE: sb. a milled sixpence. Merry Wives of Windsor. MINCE: v.t. to do any thing affectedly. Henry V. MINCING: adj. affected. Henry IV Pt. 1. MISCREATE: p.p. illegitimate. Henry V. MISDOUBT: v.t. to suspect. Henry VI Pt. 3. MISERY: sb. avarice. Coriolanus. MISPRISE: v.t. to despise. As You Like It. To mistake. A Midsummer Night's Dream. MISPRISION: sb. mistake. Much Ado About Nothing. MISSIVE: sb. messenger. Anthony and Cleopatra. MISTEMPERED: adj. angry. King John. MISTHINK: v.t. to think ill of. Henry VI Pt. 3. MISTRESS: sb. the jack in bowling. Troilus and Cressida. MOBLED: p.p. muffled. Hamlet. MODERN: adj. commonplace. King John. MODULE: sb. a model, image. King John. MOE: adj. and adv. more. Of frequent occurrence. MOIETY: sb. a portion. King Lear. MOME: sb. a stupid person. Comedy of Errors. MOMENTANY: adj. momentary. A Midsummer Night's Dream. MONTHS-MIND: sb. a monthly commemoration of the dead, but used ludicrously to mean a great mind or strong desire. Two Gentlemen of Verona. MOOD: sb. anger. Two Gentlemen of Verona. MOON-CALF: sb. a nick-name applied to Caliban. Tempest. MOONISH: adj. inconstant. As You Like It. MOP: sb. nod. Tempest. MORISCO: sb. a Moor. Henry VI Pt. 2. MORRIS-PIKE: sb. Moorish-pike. Comedy of Errors. MORT: sb. death, applied to animals of the chase. Winter's Tale. MORT-DU-VINAIGRE: int. (French), a ridiculous oath. All's Well That Ends Well. MORTAL: adj. fatal, deadly. Othello. Murderous. Macbeth. MORTIFIED: p.p. ascetic. Macbeth. MOSE: v.i. a doubtful word, applied to some disease in a horse. Taming of the Shrew. MOTION: sb. solicitation. Comedy of Errors. Emotion. Othello. MOTION: sb. a puppet. Two Gentlemen of Verona. MOTIVE: sb. one who moves. All's Well That Ends Well. That which moves. Troilus and Cressida. MOTLEY: adj. or sb. the many-coloured coat of a fool, or a fool. As You Like It. MOTLEY-MINDED: adj. foolish. As You Like It. MOUSE-HUNT: sb. a weasel. Romeo and Juliet. MOW: v.i. to make grimaces. Tempest. MOY: sb. a coin, probably a moidore. Henry V. MUCH: int. significant of contempt. Henry IV Pt. 2. MUCH: adj. used ironically. As You Like It. MURE: sb. a wall. Henry IV Pt. 2. MUST: sb. a scramble. Anthony and Cleopatra. MUTINE: v.i. to mutiny. Hamlet. MUTINE: sb. a mutineer. Hamlet. ................................................................................ NAPKIN: sb. a handkerchief. As You Like It. NATURAL: sb. an idiot. Tempest. NAYWARD: adv. towards denial. Winter's Tale. NAYWORD: sb. a catch-word, by-word. Merry Wives of Windsor. NEB: sb. the beak. Winter's Tale. NEELD: sb. a needle. A Midsummer Night's Dream. NEIF: sb. hand. A Midsummer Night's Dream. NEPHEW: sb. a grandson. Othello. NETHER-STOCKS: sb. stockings. King Lear. NEXT: adj. nearest. Henry IV Pt. 1. NICE: adj. foolish. Taming of the Shrew. NICK: sb. score or reckoning. Two Gentlemen of Verona. NICK: v.t. to brand with folly. Anthony and Cleopatra. NIGHTED: p.p. black as night. Hamlet. NIGHT-RULE: sb. nightly solemnity. A Midsummer Night's Dream. NINE MEN'S MORRIS: sb. a place set apart for a Moorish dance by nine men. A Midsummer Night's Dream. NINNY: sb. a fool, jester. Tempest. NOBILITY: sb. nobleness. Hamlet. NOBLE: sb. a coin, worth 6s. 8d. Richard II. NODDY: sb. a dolt. Two Gentlemen of Verona. NONCE: sb. for the nonce, corrupted from 'for then once,' for the occasion. Henry IV Pt. 1. NOOK-SHOTTEN: adj. indented with bays and creeks. Henry V. NOURISH: sb. a nurse. Henry VI Pt. 1. NOVUM: sb. a game at dice. Love's Labour's Lost. NOWL: sb. head. A Midsummer Night's Dream. NUTHOOK: sb. a hook for pulling down nuts, hence a thief. Merry Wives of Windsor. ................................................................................ O: sb. a circle. A Midsummer Night's Dream. OAR: v.t. to row as with oars. Tempest. OBSEQUIOUS: adj. behaving as becomes one who attends funeral obsequies. Hamlet. OBSEQUIOUSLY: adv. funereally. Richard III. OBSTACLE: adj. ridiculously used for 'obstinate.' Henry VI. OCCUPATION: sb. persons occupied in business. Coriolanus. OCCURENT: sb. an incident. Hamlet. OD'S BODY: interj. Henry IV Pt. 1 \ 'Od's in these OD'S HEARTLINGS: Merry Wives of Windsor. \ and all similar } exclamations is OD'S PITTIKINS: Cymbeline. / a euphemism OD'S PLESSED WILL: Merry Wives of Windsor. / for 'God's.' OEILLIAD: sb. an amorous glance. Merry Wives of Windsor. O'ERPARTED: p.p. having too important a part to act. Love's Labour's Lost. O'ER-RAUGHT: p.p. overreached. Comedy of Errors. overtasked. Hamlet. OFFERING: p.p. challenging. Henry IV Pt. 1. OFFICE: sb. benefit, kindness. All's Well That Ends Well. use, function. Henry V. OLD: adj. a cant term for great, as we say fine, or pretty. Merry Wives of Windsor; Macbeth. ONCE: adv. some time. Merry Wives of Windsor. ONEYER: sb. a banker. Henry IV Pt. 1. A doubtful word. OPE: adv. open. Comedy of Errors. OPE: v.i. to open. Henry VI Pt. 3. v.t. to open. Merchant of Venice. OPEN: adj. plain. Measure for Measure. Public. Henry VIII. OPEN: v.i. to give tongue as a hound. Merry Wives of Windsor. OPERANT: adj. active. Timon of Athens. OPINIONED: p.p. used ridiculously for pinioned. Much Ado About Nothing. OPPOSITE: sb. adversary. Twelfth Night. OPPOSITION: sb. combat. Cymbeline. OR: adv. before. Macbeth. ORDER: sb. measures. Comedy of Errors; Henry V. ORDINANCE: sb. rank, order. Coriolanus. ORGULOUS: adj. proud. Troilus and Cressida. ORT: sb. leaving, refuse. Timon of Athens. OSTENT: sb. show, appearance. Merchant of Venice. OSTENTATION: sb. show, appearance. Much Ado About Nothing; Coriolanus. OUNCE: sb. a beast of prey of the tiger kind. A Midsummer Night's Dream. OUPHE: sb. a fairy. Merry Wives of Windsor. OUSEL-COCK: sb. the blackbird. A Midsummer Night's Dream. OUT: adv. all out, fully. Tempest. OUT-LOOK: v.t. to face down. King John. OUTWARD: adj. not in the secret of affairs. All's Well That Ends Well. OUTWARD: sb. outside. Cymbeline. OWE: v.t. to own. Tempest. ................................................................................ PACK: v.t. to practise unlawful confederacy. Much Ado About Nothing; Taming of the Shrew. PACK: sb. a number of people confederated. Richard III. PADDOCK: sb. a toad. Macbeth. PAID: p.p. punished. Cymbeline. PALABRAS: sb. words, a cant term, from the Spanish. Much Ado About Nothing. PALE: v.t. to enclose. Anthony and Cleopatra; Henry V. PALL: v.t. to wrap as with a pall. Macbeth. PALLED: p.p. impaired. Anthony and Cleopatra. PALMER: sb. one who bears a palm-branch, in token of having made a pilgrimage to Palestine. Romeo and Juliet. PALMY: adj. victorious. Hamlet. PARCELLED: p.p. belonging to individuals. Richard III. PARD: sb. the leopard. Tempest. PARITOR: sb. an apparitor. Love's Labour's Lost. PARLE: sb. talk. Two Gentlemen of Verona. PARLOUS: adj. perilous. As You Like It. keen, shrewd. Richard III. PARTED: p.p. endowed, gifted. Troilus and Cressida. PARTIZAN: sb. a pike. Romeo and Juliet. PASH: sb. the face. Winter's Tale. PASH: v.t. to strike violently, to bruise, crush. Troilus and Cressida. PASS: v.i. to practise. Twelfth Night; King Lear. To surpass expectation. Merry Wives of Windsor. PASSANT: pr.p. a term of heraldry, applied to animals represented on the shield as passing by at a trot. Merry Wives of Windsor. PASSING: adv. surpassingly, exceedingly. A Midsummer Night's Dream. PASSION: v.i. to have feelings. Tempest. PASSIONATE: v.t. to suffer. Titus Andronicus. PASSY-MEASURE: sb. a kind of dance. Twelfth Night. PASTRY: sb. the room where pastry was made. Romeo and Juliet. PATCH: sb. a mean fellow. Tempest. PATCHED: p.p. dressed in motley. A Midsummer Night's Dream. PATCHERY: sb. trickery. Troilus and Cressida. PATH: v.i. to walk. Julius Caesar. PATHETICAL: adj. affected, hypocritical. As You Like It. PATIENT: v.r. to make patient, to compose. Titus Andronicus. PATINE: sb. the metal disc on which the bread is placed in the administration of the Eucharist. Merchant of Venice. PATTERN: v.t. to give an example of. Winter's Tale. Afford a pattern for. Measure for Measure. PAUCA VERBA: few words. Merry Wives of Windsor. PAUCAS: adj. few, a cant word. Taming of the Shrew. PAVIN: sb. a dance. Twelfth Night. PAX: sb. a small image of Christ. Henry V. PAY: v.t. to despatch. Henry IV Pt. 1. PEAT: sb. a term of endearment for a child. Taming of the Shrew. PEDASCULE: sb. a pedant, schoolmaster. Taming of the Shrew. PEER: v.i. to peep out. Romeo and Juliet. PEIZE: v.t. to balance, weigh down. King John; Richard III. PELTING: adj. paltry. Measure for Measure. PERDU: adj. lost. King Lear. PERDURABLE: adj. durable. Henry V. PERDY: int. a euphemism for Par Dieu. Comedy of Errors. PERFECT: adj. certain. Winter's Tale. PERFECT: v.t. to inform perfectly. Measure for Measure. PERIAPTS: sb. charms worn round the neck. Henry VI Pt. 1. PERJURE: sb. a perjured person. Love's Labour's Lost. PERSEVER: v. to persevere. Two Gentlemen of Verona. PERSPECTIVE: sb. a telescope, or some sort of optical glass. Twelfth Night. PEW-FELLOW: sb. a comrade. Richard III. PHEEZE: v.t. to comb, fleece, curry. Taming of the Shrew; Troilus and Cressida. PIA-MATER: sb. the membrane covering the brain, the brain itself. Twelfth Night. PICK: v.t. to pitch, throw. Henry VIII. PICKED: adj. chosen, selected. King John. PICKERS: (and stealers), sb. the fingers, used ridiculously. Hamlet. PICKING: adj. insignificant. Henry IV Pt. 2. PICKT-HATCH: sb. a place noted for brothels. Merry Wives of Windsor. PIED: adj. motley-coated, wearing the motley coat of a jester. Tempest. PIELED: p.p. shaven. Henry VI Pt. 1. PLIGHT: p.p. pitched. Troilus and Cressida. PILCHER: sb. a scabbard. Romeo and Juliet. PILL: v.i. to pillage. Timon of Athens. PIN: sb. a malady of the eye. King Lear. The centre of a target. Love's Labour's Lost; Romeo and Juliet. PINFOLD: sb. a pound, a place to confine lost cattle. Two Gentlemen of Verona. PIONED: p.p. digged. Tempest. PLACKET: sb. a petticoat-front. Winter's Tale. PLAIN SONG: sb. a simple air. Henry V. PLAITED: p.p. intricate. King Lear. PLANCHED: adj. made of boards. Measure for Measure. PLANTATION: sb. colonizing, planting a colony. Tempest. PLAUSIVE: adj. plausible. All's Well That Ends Well. PLEACHED: adj. interwoven. Much Ado About Nothing. POINT: sb. a lace furnished with a tag by which the breeches were held up. Henry IV Pt. 1. POINT-DE-VICE: adj. derived from the French, faultless. Twelfth Night. POISE: sb. balance. Measure for Measure. Doubt. King Lear. POLLED: p.p. bare. Coriolanus. POMANDER: sb. a perfumed ball. Winter's Tale. POMEWATER: sb. a kind of apple. Love's Labour's Lost. POOR-JOHN: sb. a herring. Tempest. POPINJAY: sb. a parrot. Henry IV Pt. 1. PORT: sb. pomp, state. Taming of the Shrew. PORT: sb. a gate. Henry IV Pt. 2. PORTABLE: adj. bearable. Macbeth. PORTANCE: sb. conduct, behavior. Coriolanus. POSSESS: v.t. to inform. Twelfth Night. POTCH: v.i. to push violently. Coriolanus. POTENT: sb. a potentate. King John. POUNCET-BOX: sb. a box for holding perfumes. Henry IV Pt. 1. POWER: sb. forces, army. Henry IV Pt. 2. PRACTISE: sb. wicked stratagem. Twelfth Night. PRACTISANT: sb. a confederate. Henry VI Pt. 1. PRANK: v.t. to dress up. Winter's Tale; Coriolanus. PRECEPT: sb. a justice's summons. Henry IV Pt. 2. PRECIOUSLY: adv. in business of great importance. Tempest. PREGNANCY: sb. fertility of invention. Henry IV Pt. 2. PREGNANT: adj. fertile of invention. Measure for Measure. Ready. Hamlet. Obvious. Measure for Measure. PRENOMINATE: v.t. to name beforehand, to prophesy. Troilus and Cressida. PRE-ORDINANCE: sb. old-established law. Julius Caesar. PRESENCE: sb. the presence-chamber. Henry VIII. High bearing. Merchant of Venice. PREST: adj. ready. Merchant of Venice. PRETENCE: sb. design. Winter's Tale. PRETEND: v.t. to portend. Henry VI Pt. 1. To intend. Macbeth. PREVENT: v.t. to anticipate. Julius Caesar. PRICK: sb. the mark denoting the hour on a dial. Romeo and Juliet. PRICK: v.t. to incite. Taming of the Shrew. To choose by pricking a hole with a pin opposite the name. Julius Caesar. PRICK-SONG: sb. music sung in parts by note. Romeo and Juliet. PRICKET: sb. a stag of two years. Love's Labour's Lost. PRIDE: sb. heat. Othello. PRIG: v.t. to steal. Winter's Tale. PRIME: adj. rank, lecherous. Othello. PRIMER: adj. more-important. Henry VIII. PRIMERO: sb. a game at cards. Henry VIII. PRINCIPALITY: sb. that which holds the highest place. Two Gentlemen of Verona. PRINCOX: sb. a coxcomb. Romeo and Juliet. PRISER: sb. a prize-fighter. As You Like It. PROCURE: v.t. to bring. Romeo and Juliet. PREFACE: interj. much good may it do you. Henry IV Pt. 2. PROFANE: adj. outspoken. Othello. PROGRESS: sb. a royal ceremonial journey. Hamlet. PROJECT: v.t. to shape or contrive. Anthony and Cleopatra. PROMPTURE: sb. suggestion. Measure for Measure. PRONE: adj. ready, willing. Cymbeline; Measure for Measure. PROOF: sb. strength of manhood. Much Ado About Nothing. PROPAGATE: v.t. to advance, to forward. Timon of Athens. PROPAGATION: sb. obtaining. Measure for Measure. PROPER-FALSE: sb. natural falsehood. Twelfth Night. PROPERTIED: p.p. endowed with the properties of. Anthony and Cleopatra. PROPERTIES: sb. scenes, dresses, &c. used in a theatre. Merry Wives of Windsor. PROPERTY: v.t. to take possession of. King John. PROPOSE: v.t. to suppose, for the sake of argument. Henry IV Pt. 2. To converse. Much Ado About Nothing. PROPOSE: sb. conversation. Much Ado About Nothing. PROROGUE: v.t. to defer. P & J. PROVAND: sb. provender. Coriolanus. PROVISION: sb. forecast. Tempest. PUCELLE: sb. a virgin, the name given to Joan of Arc. Henry VI Pt. 1. PUDENCY: sb. modesty. Cymbeline. PUGGING: adj. thieving. Winter's Tale. PUN: v.t. to pound. Troilus and Cressida. PURCHASE: v.t. to acquire, win. As You Like It. PURCHASE: sb. gain, winnings. Henry IV Pt. 1. PUT: v.t. to compel. Measure for Measure. PUTTER-ON: sb. an instigator. Henry VIII. PUTTER-OUT: sb. one who lends money at interest. Tempest. PUTTING-ON: sb. instigation. Measure for Measure. PUTTOCK: sb. a kite. Cymbeline. ................................................................................ QUAIL: v.i. to faint, be languid, be afraid. As You Like It. v.t. to cause to quail. Anthony and Cleopatra. QUAINT: adj. curiously beautiful. Tempest. QUAKE: v.t. to cause to quake or tremble. Coriolanus. QUALIFY: v.t. to moderate. Much Ado About Nothing. QUALITY: sb. those of the same nature. Tempest. Rank or condition. Measure for Measure; Henry IV Pt. 2. QUARREL: sb. a suit, cause. Henry VI Pt. 2. QUARRY: sb. game, a heap of game. Hamlet; Coriolanus. QUART D'ECU: sb. a quarter crown. All's Well That Ends Well. QUARTER: sb. the post allotted to a soldier. Timon of Athens. QUAT: sb. a pimple; used in contempt of a person. Othello. QUEASY: adj. squeamish, unsettled. Much Ado About Nothing; King Lear. QUELL: sb. murder. Macbeth. QUENCH: v.i. to grow cool. Cymbeline. QUERN: sb. a hand-mill. A Midsummer Night's Dream. QUEST: sb. enquiry, search, inquest, jury. Measure for Measure; Richard III; Hamlet. QUESTRIST: sb. one who goes in search of another. King Lear. QUICK: adj. so far gone in pregnancy that the child is alive. Love's Labour's Lost. QUICKEN: v.i. to come to life. King Lear. QUIDDIT: \ sb. a subtle question. Hamlet; Henry IV Pt. 1. QUIDDITY: / QUILLET: sb. quidebet, a subtle case in law. Love's Labour's Lost. QUINTAIN: sb. a post for tilting at. As You Like It. QUIP: sb. sharp jest, a taunt. Much Ado About Nothing. QUIRE: v.i. to sing in concert. Merchant of Venice. QUIT: v.i. to requite, respond. King Lear; Hamlet. QUIT: v.t. past tense of the verb to quit, quitted. Cymbeline. QUITANCE: sb. requital. Henry V. QUIVER: adj. active. Henry IV Pt. 2. QUOTE: v.t. to note. Romeo and Juliet. ................................................................................ RABATO: sb. a ruff. Much Ado About Nothing. RABBIT-SUCKER: sb. a weasel. Henry IV Pt. 1. RACE: Sb. breed; inherited nature. Tempest. RACK: sb. wreck. Tempest. RACK: v.t. to enhance the price of anything. Much Ado About Nothing; Coriolanus. v.i. To drive as clouds. Henry VI Pt. 3. RAG: sb. a term of contempt applied to persons. Timon of Athens. RAKE: v.t. to cover. King Lear. RAPT: p.p. transported with emotion. Macbeth. RAPTURE: sb. a fit. Coriolanus. RASCAL: sb. a lean deer. Julius Caesar. RASH: adj. quick, violent. Winter's Tale. RATE: sb. opinion, judgment. Tempest. RATE: v.t. to assign, to value. Anthony and Cleopatra; Cymbeline. To scold. Merchant of Venice. RATOLORUM: a ludicrous mistake for Rotulorum. Merry Wives of Windsor. RAUGHT: past tense of v. to reach. Henry V. RAVIN: adj. ravenous. All's Well That Ends Well. RAVIN: v.t. to devour. Macbeth. RAWLY: adv. inadequately. Henry V. RAWNESS: sb. unprovided state. Macbeth. RAYED: p.p. arrayed, served. Taming of the Shrew. RAZED: p.p. slashed. Hamlet. REAR-MOUSE: sb. the bat. A Midsummer Night's Dream. REBATE: v.t. to deprive of keenness. Measure for Measure. REBECK: sb. a three-stringed fiddle. Romeo and Juliet. RECEIPT: sb. money received. Richard II. RECEIVING: sb. capacity. Twelfth Night. RECHEAT: sb. a point of the chase to call back the hounds. Much Ado About Nothing. RECORD: v.t. to sing. Two Gentlemen of Verona. RECORDER: sb. a flute. Hamlet. RECURE: v.t. to cure, recover. Richard III. RED-LATTICE: adj. suitable to an ale-house, because ale-houses had commonly red lattices. Merry Wives of Windsor. RED-PLAGUE: sb. erysipelas. Tempest. REDUCE: v.t. to bring back. Richard III. REECHY: adj. smoky, dirty. Coriolanus. REFELL: v.t. to refute. Measure for Measure. REFER: v.r. to reserve to. Measure for Measure. REGIMENT: sb. government. Anthony and Cleopatra. REGREET: sb. a salutation. Merchant of Venice. REGREET: v.t. to salute. Richard II. REGUERDON: sb. requital. Henry VI Pt. 1. RELATIVE: adj. applicable. Hamlet. REMEMBER: v.t. to remind. Winter's Tale; Measure for Measure. REMORSE: sb. pity. Measure for Measure. REMORSEFUL: adj. full of pity, compassionate. Two Gentlemen of Verona. REMOTION: sb. removal. Timon of Athens. REMOVED: adj. sequestered, remote. Measure for Measure; As You Like It. RENDER: v.t. to describe you. As You Like It. RENDER: sb. account. Cymbeline. RENEGE: v.t. to renounce, to deny. Anthony and Cleopatra; King Lear. REPAIR: v.t. to renovate, comfort. All's Well That Ends Well. REPEAL: v.t. to reverse the sentence of exile. Two Gentlemen of Verona. REPROOF: sb. confutation. Henry IV Pt. 1. REPUGN: v.t. to resist. Henry VI Pt. 1. REQUIEM: sb. mass for the dead, so called because it begins with the words, Requiem eternam dona eis, Domine. Hamlet. RESOLVE: v.t. to satisfy. Henry VI Pt. 3. To dissolve. Hamlet. RESPECT: sb. consideration. Much Ado About Nothing. RESPECTIVE: adj. respectful, thoughtful. Merchant of Venice. RESPECTIVE: adj. corresponding. Two Gentlemen of Verona. RESPECTIVELY: adv. respectfully. Timon of Athens. RETAILED: p.p. handed down. Richard III. RETIRE: sb. retreat. Henry IV Pt. 1. RETIRE: v.t. to draw back. Richard II. REVERB: v.t. to echo. King Lear. REVOLT: sb. a rebel. King John. RIB: v.t. to enclose as within ribs. Merchant of Venice. RID: v.t. to destroy. Tempest. RIFT: v.i. to split. Winter's Tale. v.t. to split. Tempest. RIFT: sb. a split. Tempest. RIGGISH: adj. wanton. Anthony and Cleopatra. RIGOL: sb. a circle. Henry IV Pt. 2. RIPE: adj. drunk. Tempest. RIVAGE: sb. the shore. Henry V. RIVAL: sb. a partner. Hamlet. RIVALITY: sb. equal rank. Anthony and Cleopatra. RIVE: v.t. to fire. Henry VI Pt. 1. ROAD: sb. the high road, applied to a common woman (traviata). Henry IV Pt. 2. ROISTING: adj. roistering, violent. Troilus and Cressida. ROMAGE: sb. unusual stir. Hamlet. RONVON: sb. a term of contempt applied to a woman. Macbeth. ROOD: sb. the crucifix. Romeo and Juliet. ROOK: sb. a cheater. Merry Wives of Windsor. ROPERY: sb. roguery. Romeo and Juliet. ROPE-TRICKS: sb. tricks such as are played by a rope-dancer. Taming of the Shrew. ROUND: v.i. to whisper. Othello. To become great with child. Winter's Tale. v.t. to finish off. Tempest. ROUND: sb. a diadem. Macbeth. ROUND: adj. unceremonious. Macbeth. ROUNDEL: sb. a dance or song. A Midsummer Night's Dream. ROUNDURE: sb. an enclosure. King John. ROUSE: sb. carousal. Hamlet. ROYNISH: adj. mangy. As You Like It. RUBIOUS: adj. ruddy. Twelfth Night. RUDDOCK: sb. the redbreast. Cymbeline. RUSH: v.t. to push. Romeo and Juliet. RUSHLING: adj. rustling. Merry Wives of Windsor. ................................................................................ SACRIFICIAL: adj. reverent, as words used in religious worship. Timon of Athens. SACRING-BELL: sb. the little bell rung at mass to give notice that the elements are consecrated. Henry VIII. SAD: adj. serious. Two Gentlemen of Verona. SADLY: adv. seriously. Much Ado About Nothing. SADNESS: sb. seriousness. Romeo and Juliet. SAFE: v.t. to make safe. Anthony and Cleopatra. SAG: v.i. to hang down. Macbeth. SALT: adj. lascivious. Othello. SALT: sb. taste. Merry Wives of Windsor. SANDED: adj. marked with yellow spots. A Midsummer Night's Dream. SANS: prep. without. Tempest. SAUCY: adj. lascivious. All's Well That Ends Well. SAW: sb. a moral saying. Love's Labour's Lost. SAY: adj. silken. Henry VI Pt. 2. SAY: sb. assay, taste, relish. King Lear. SCAFFOLDAGE: sb. the gallery of a theatre. Troilus and Cressida. SCALD: adj. scurvy, scabby. Merry Wives of Windsor. SCALE: v.t. to weigh in scales. Coriolanus. SCALL: sb. a scab, a word of reproach. Merry Wives of Windsor. SCAMBLE: v.i. to scramble. Henry V. SCAMEL: sb. probably a misprint for sea-mel, sea-mew. Tempest. SCAN: v.t. to examine subtly. Othello. SCANT: v.t. to cut short, to spare. Merchant of Venice. SCANT: adj. scanty, short. Hamlet. adv. scarcely. Romeo and Juliet. SCANTLING: sb. a small portion. Troilus and Cressida. SCAPE: v.t. to escape. Much Ado About Nothing. SCAPE: sb. a sally. Measure for Measure. SCATHE: sb. injury. Henry VI Pt. 2. SCATHE: v.t. to injure. Romeo and Juliet. SCATHFUL: adj. destructive. Twelfth Night. SCONCE: sb. the head. Hamlet. SCOTCH: v.t. to bruise or cut slightly. Macbeth. SCRIMER: sb. a fencer. Hamlet. SCROYLE: sb. a scabby fellow. King John. SCULL: sb. a shoal of fish. Troilus and Cressida. SCURVY: adj. scabby; metaph. mean. Tempest. SEAL: v.t. to set one's seal to a deed; hence, to confirm. Coriolanus. SEAM: sb. fat. Troilus and Cressida. SEAMY: adj. showing the seam or sewing. Othello. SEAR: adj. scorched, withered. Macbeth. SEAR: v.t. to stigmatise. All's Well That Ends Well. SEARCH: v.t. to probe; hence, to apply a healing remedy. Two Gentlemen of Verona. SEATED: adj. fixed, confirmed. Macbeth. SECT: sb. a slip or scion. Othello. A political party. King Lear. SECURELY: adv. inconsiderately. Troilus and Cressida. SEEL: v.t. to close. Othello. SEELING: pr.p. closing, blinding. Macbeth. SEEMING: adv. seemly, becomingly. As You Like It. SEEMING: sb. outward manner and appearance. Winter's Tale. SEEN: adj. versed, instructed. Taming of the Shrew. SELD: adv. seldom. Troilus and Cressida. SELF-BOUNTY: sb. native goodness. Othello. SEMBLABLY: adv. alike. Henry IV Pt. 1. SENIORY: sb. seniority. Richard III. SENNET: sb. a flourish of trumpets. SEPULCHRE: v.t. to bury. Two Gentlemen of Verona. SEQUESTRATION: sb. separation. Othello. SERE: adj. dry. Comedy of Errors. SERJEANT: sb. a bailiff. Hamlet. SERPIGO: sb. a cutaneous disease. Measure for Measure. SERVICEABLE: adj. 'serviceable vows,' vows that you will do her service, or be her servant. Two Gentlemen of Verona. SETEBOS: sb. the name of a fiend. Tempest. SETTER: sb. one who watches travellers to give information to thieves. Henry IV Pt. 1. SEVERAL: sb. land which is not common but appropriated. Love's Labour's Lost. SHAME: v.i. to be ashamed. Coriolanus. SHAME: sb. modesty. Comedy of Errors. SHARDS: sb. shreds, broken fragments of pottery. Hamlet. SHARDS: sb. the wing cases of beetles; hence 'sharded,' Cymbeline; and 'shard-borne,' Macbeth. SHARKED: p.p. snatched up, as a shark does his prey. Hamlet. SHEEN: sb. brilliancy. A Midsummer Night's Dream. SHEER: adj. pure. Richard II Unmixed. Taming of the Shrew. SHENT: p.p. rebuked, blamed. Coriolanus. Hurt. Hamlet. SHERIFF'S-POST: sb. a post at the door of a sheriff, to which royal proclamations were fixed. Twelfth Night. SHIVE: sb. slice. Titus Andronicus. SHOT: sb. the reckoning at an ale-house. Two Gentlemen of Verona. SHOUGHS: sb. shaggy dogs. Macbeth. SHOULDERED: p.p. plunged. Richard III. SHOVEL-BOARD: sb. game played by sliding metal pieces along a board at a mark. Merry Wives of Windsor. SHREWD: adj. mischievous. All's Well That Ends Well. SHRIFT: sb. confession. Richard III. Absolution. Measure for Measure. SHRIVE: v.t. to confess. Merchant of Venice. SHRIVING-TIME: sb. time for confession. Hamlet. SHROUD: v.r. to enshroud oneself, cover oneself up. Tempest. SIDE-SLEEVES: sb. loose hanging sleeves. Much Ado About Nothing. SIEGE: sb. seat. Measure for Measure. Stool. Tempest. Rank. Hamlet. SIGHT: sb. an aperture in a helmet. Henry IV Pt. 2. SIGHTLESS: adj. invisible. Macbeth. Unsightly. King John. SIGN: v.i. to give an omen. Anthony and Cleopatra. SILLY: adj. simple, rustic. Cymbeline. SIMULAR: adj. counterfeit, feigned. Cymbeline. SINGLE: adj. feeble. Macbeth. SIR: sb. a title applied to a bachelor of arts at the Universities. Twelfth Night. SITH: conj. since. Two Gentlemen of Verona. SITHENCE: conj. since. Coriolanus. SIZES: sb. allowances. King Lear. SKAINS-MATES: sb. scapegraces. Romeo and Juliet. SKILL: v.i. to be of importance. Taming of the Shrew. SKILLESS: adj. ignorant. Tempest. SKIMBLE-SKAMBLE: adj. rambling, disjointed. Henry IV Pt. 1. SKINKER: sb. a drawer of liquor. Henry IV Pt. 1. SKIRR: v.i. to scour. Macbeth. SLACK: v.t. slacken. Othello. SLAVE: v.t. to turn to slavish uses. King Lear. SLEAVE: sb. floss-silk. Macbeth. SLEDDED: p.p. sledged. Hamlet. SLEIDED: p.p. untwisted, raw, applied to silk. Pericles. (Gower). SLEIGHTS: sb. artifices. Macbeth. SLICE: int. Merry Wives of Windsor. SLIPPER: adj. slippery. Othello. SLIPS: sb. a kind of noose, or leash. Henry V. A piece of base money. Romeo and Juliet. SLIVER: v.t. to slice. King Lear. SLIVER: sb. a slice. Hamlet. SLOPS: sb. loose breeches. Much Ado About Nothing. SLUBBER: v.t. to slur over. Merchant of Venice. SMIRCHED: p.p. smeared, soiled. Much Ado About Nothing. SMOOTH: v.t. to flatter. Pericles. SMOOTHED: p.p. flattered, fawned upon. Timon of Athens. SNEAP: sb. taunt, sarcasm. Henry IV Pt. 2. SNEAPED: p.p. pinched. Rape of Lucrece. SNEAPING: Love's Labour's Lost. SNECK-UP: int. go hang! Twelfth Night. SNUFF: sb. anger. Love's Labour's Lost. 'To take in snuff' is to take offence. SOFTLY: adv. gently. Winter's Tale; Hamlet. SOIL: sb. spot, taint. Hamlet. SOLICIT: sb. solicitation. Cymbeline. SOLIDARE: sb. a small coin. Timon of Athens. SOLVE: sb. solution. Sonnets. SOMETIMES: adv. formerly. Merchant of Venice. SOOTH: sb. truth. Winter's Tale. Conciliation. Richard II. SOOTH: adj. true. Macbeth. SOREL: sb. a buck of the third year. Love's Labour's Lost. SORRIEST: adj. most sorrowful. Macbeth. SORRY: adj. sorrowful, dismal. Comedy of Errors. SORT: sb. a company. A Midsummer Night's Dream. Rank, condition. Richard II. Lot. Troilus and Cressida. 'In a sort,' in a manner. Tempest. SORT: v.t. to choose. Two Gentlemen of Verona. v.i. to suit. Much Ado About Nothing. To consort. Henry IV Pt. 2. SOT: sb. fool. Cymbeline. SOUL-FEARING: adj. soul-terrifying. King John. SOWL: v.t. to lug, drag. Coriolanus. SOWTER: sb. name of a dog. Twelfth Night. SPECIALLY: sb. a special contract. Taming of the Shrew. SPED: p.p. settled, done for. Romeo and Juliet. SPEED: sb. fortune. Winter's Tale. SPERR: v.t. to bolt, fasten. Troilus and Cressida. SPIAL: sb. spy. Henry VI Pt. 1. SPILL: v.t. to destroy. King Lear. SPILTH: sb. spilling. Timon of Athens. SPLEEN: sb. violent haste. King John. Used of the lightning flash. A Midsummer Night's Dream. SPRAG: adj. quick. Merry Wives of Windsor. SPRING: sb. shoot, bud. Venus and Adonis. Beginning. A Midsummer Night's Dream; Henry IV Pt. 2. SPRINGHALT: sb. stringhalt, a disease of horses. Henry VIII. SPRITED: p.p. haunted. Cymbeline. SPURS: sb. roots of trees. Tempest; Cymbeline. SQUANDERED: p.p. scattered. Merchant of Venice. SQUARE: v.t. to quarrel. A Midsummer Night's Dream. SQUARE: sb. the front part of a woman's dress, stomacher. Winter's Tale. SQUARE: adj. equitable. Timon of Athens. SQUARER: sb. quarreller. Much Ado About Nothing. SQUASH: sb. an unripe peascod. Twelfth Night. SQUIER: sb. a square or rule. Love's Labour's Lost. SQUINY: v.i. to squint. King Lear. STAGGERS: sb. a disease in horses, attended with giddiness: hence any bewildering distress. Cymbeline. STAIN: v.t. to disfigure. Tempest. STALE: sb. a decoy. Tempest. A gull. Taming of the Shrew. A prostitute. Much Ado About Nothing. STALE: v.t. to make stale, deprive anything of its freshness. Troilus and Cressida. STAND UPON: to be incumbent on. Richard II. STANIEL: sb. an inferior kind of hawk. Twelfth Night. STARK: adj. stiff. Cymbeline. STARKLY: adv. stiffly. Measure for Measure. STATE: sb. a canopied chair. Twelfth Night. STATION: sb. attitude. Hamlet. Act of standing. Anthony and Cleopatra. STATIST: sb. a statesman. Cymbeline. STATUA: sb. a statue. Richard III. STATUE: sb. image, picture. Two Gentlemen of Verona. STATUTE: sb. security, obligation. Sonnets. STATUTE-CAPS: sb. woollen caps worn by citizens. Love's Labour's Lost. STAY: sb. a cheque. King John. STEAD: v.t. to profit. Tempest. STEELED: p.p. (a doubtful word) set or fixed. Rape of Lucrece; Sonnets. STERNAGE: sb. steerage, course. Henry V. STICKLER: sb. an arbitrator in combats. Troilus and Cressida. STIGMATIC: sb. a deformed person. Henry VI Pt. 2. STIGMATICAL: adj. deformed. Comedy of Errors. STILL: adj. constant. Titus Andronicus. STILL: adv. constantly. Tempest. STILLY: adv. softly. Henry V. STINT: v.t. to stop. Henry VIII. v.i. to stop. Romeo and Juliet. STITHY: sb. a smith's forge. Hamlet. STITHY: v.t. to forge. Troilus and Cressida. STOCCADO: sb. a stoccata, or thrust in fencing. Merry Wives of Windsor. STOCK: sb. a stocking. Taming of the Shrew. STOMACH: sb. courage, stubbornness. Tempest. Appetite, inclination. Tempest. STONE-BOW: sb. a cross-bow for throwing stones. Twelfth Night. STOUP: sb. a cup. Twelfth Night. STOUT: adj. strong, healthy. Timon of Athens. STOVER: sb. fodder. Tempest. STRACHY: sb. A word of doubtful meaning. Twelfth Night. STRAIGHT: adv. immediately. Hamlet. STRAIN: sb. lineage. Much Ado About Nothing. Disposition. Merry Wives of Windsor. STRAITED: p.p. straitened. Winter's Tale. STRANGE: adj. foreign. Love's Labour's Lost. Coy, reserved. Romeo and Juliet. Marvellous. Othello. STRANGENESS: sb. coyness, reserve. Troilus and Cressida. STRANGER: sb. foreigner. Henry VIII. STRAPPADO: sb. a kind of punishment. Henry IV Pt. 1. STRICTURE: sb. strictness. Measure for Measure. STROSSERS: sb. trowsers. Henry V. STUCK: sb. a thrust of a sword. Hamlet. STUCK IN: sb. corruption of stoccata. Twelfth Night. STUFF: sb. baggage. Comedy of Errors. Material, substance. Othello. STUFFED: p.p. filled, stored. Much Ado About Nothing. STY: v.t. to lodge as in a sty. Tempest. SUBSCRIBE: v.t. to yield. King Lear. v.i. to succumb. Troilus and Cressida. SUCCESS: sb. issue, consequence. Much Ado About Nothing. Succession. Winter's Tale SUCCESSIVE: adj. succeeding. Henry VI Pt. 2. SUCCESSIVELY: adv. in succession. Henry IV Pt. 2. SUDDEN: adj. hasty, rash. As You Like It. SUDDENLY: adv. hastily. Richard III. SUFFERANCE: sb. suffering. Measure for Measure. SUGGEST: v.t. to tempt, entice. All's Well That Ends Well. SUGGESTION: sb. temptation, enticement. Macbeth. SUITED: p.p. dressed. All's Well That Ends Well. SULLEN: adj. doleful, melancholy. King John. SUMPTER: sb. a horse that carries provisions on a journey. King Lear. SUPPOSE: sb. a trick, imposition. Taming of the Shrew. SUPPOSED: p.p. counterfeit. Taming of the Shrew. SURCEASE: v.i. to cease. Coriolanus. SURCEASE: sb. cessation, end. Macbeth. SURPRISE: v.t. to capture by surprise. Henry VI Pt. 3. SUR-REINED: p.p. over-worked. Henry V. SUSPECT: sb. suspicion. Richard III. SUSPIRE: v.i. to breathe. Henry IV Pt. 2. SWABBER: sb. a sweeper of the deck of a ship. Tempest. SWARTH: adj. black. King John; Titus Andronicus. SWARTH: sb. quantity of grass cut down by one sweep of the scythe. Twelfth Night. SWASHER: sb. swaggerer. Henry V. SWASHING: pr.p. dashing, smashing. Romeo and Juliet. SWATH: sb. The same as 'swarth.' Troilus and Cressida. SWATHLING: adj. swaddling. Henry IV Pt. 1. SWAY: v.i. to move on. Henry IV Pt. 2. SWEAR: v.t. to adjure. King Lear. SWEAR OVER: v.t. to out-swear. Winter's Tale. SWIFT: adj. ready, quick. Much Ado About Nothing. SWINGE-BUCKLER: sb. a bully. Henry IV Pt. 2. ................................................................................ TABLE: sb. a tablet, note-book. Hamlet. TABLE-BOOK: sb. note-book. Winter's Tale. TABLES: sb. the game of backgammon. Love's Labour's Lost. A note-book. Hamlet. TABOUR: sb. a small side-drum. Tempest. TABOURER: sb. a player on the tabour. Tempest. TABOURINE: sb. tambourine, drum. Troilus and Cressida. TAG: sb. the rabble. Coriolanus. TAINT: p.p. tainted. Henry VI Pt. 1. TAINTURE: sb. defilement. Henry VI Pt. 2. TAKE: v.t. to infect, blast, bewitch. Merry Wives; Hamlet. TAKE IN: v.t. to conquer. Anthony and Cleopatra; Coriolanus. TAKE OUT: v.t. to copy. Othello. TAKE UP: v.t. to borrow money, or buy on credit. Henry VI Pt. 2. To make up a quarrel. As You Like It. TAKING: sb. infection, malignant influence. King Lear. TAKING UP: sb. buying on credit. Henry IV Pt. 2. TALE: sb. counting, reckoning. Macbeth. TALL: adj. strong, valiant. Twelfth Night. TALLOW-CATCH: sb. a lump of tallow. Henry IV Pt. 1. TANG: sb. twang, sound. Tempest. TANG: v.t. to sound. Twelfth Night. TANLING: sb. anything tanned by the sun. Cymbeline. TARRE: v.t. to excite, urge on. King John. TARRIANCE: sb. delay. Two Gentlemen of Verona. TARTAR: sb. Tartarus. Henry V. TASK: v.t. to tax. Henry IV Pt. 1. Challenge. Richard II. TASKING: sb. challenging. Henry IV Pt. 1. TASTE: v.t. to try. Twelfth Night. TAWDRY-LACE: sb. a rustic necklace. Winter's Tale. TAXATION: sb. satire, sarcasm. As You Like It. TAXING: sb. satire. As You Like It. TEEN: sb. grief. Tempest. TELL: v.t. to count. Tempest. TEMPER: v.t. to mix. Cymbeline. TEMPERANCE: sb. temperature. Tempest. TEMPERED: p.p. mixed. Hamlet. TEND: v.t. to attend to. Henry VI Pt. 2. TENDER: v.t. to hold, to esteem. Tempest. To have consideration for. Two Gentlemen of Verona. TENT: v.t. to probe as a wound. Coriolanus. TENT: sb. a probe for searching a wound. Cymbeline. TERCEL: sb. the male of the goshawk. Troilus and Cressida. TERMAGANT: sb. a ranting character in old plays. Hamlet. TESTED: p.p. pure, assayed. Measure for Measure. TESTERN: v.t. to reward with a tester, or six-pence. Two Gentlemen of Verona. THARBOROUGH: sb. (corrupted from 'third-borough') a constable. Love's Labour's Lost. THEORICK: sb. theory. All's Well That Ends Well. THEWES: sb. sinews, muscles. Henry IV Pt. 2. THICK: adv. rapidly. Henry IV Pt. 2; Cymbeline. THICK-PLEACHED: p.p. thickly intertwined. Much Ado About Nothing. THIRD-BOROUGH: sb. a constable. Taming of the Shrew. THOUGHT: sb. anxiety, grief. Hamlet; Anthony and Cleopatra. So 'to take thought' is to give way to grief. Julius Caesar. THRASONICAL: adj. boastful. As You Like It. THREE-MAN BEETLE: sb. a wooden mallet worked by three men. Henry IV Pt. 2. THREE-MAN-SONG-MEN: sb. singers of glees in three parts. Winter's Tale. THREE-PILE: sb. three-piled velvet. Winter's Tale. THRENE: sb. lament. Phoenix and the Turtle. THRID: sb. thread, fibre. Tempest. THROE: v.t. to put in agonies. Tempest. THRUM: sb. the tufted end of a thread in weaving. A Midsummer Night's Dream. THRUMMED: p.p. made od coarse ends or tufts. Merry Wives of Windsor TICKLE: adj. ticklish. Measure for Measure. TIGHT: adj. nimble, active. Taming of the Shrew; Anthony and Cleopatra. TIGHTLY: adv. briskly, promptly. Merry Wives of Windsor. TIKE: sb. a cur. Henry V. TILLY-VALLY: int. an exclamation of contempt. Twelfth Night. TILTH: sb. tillage. Tempest. TIMELESS: adj. untimely. Richard II. TINCT: sb. stain, dye. Hamlet. TIRE: sb. attire, head-dress. Two Gentlemen of Verona. TIRE: v.i. to tear as a bird of prey. Henry VI Pt. 3. Hence, metaphorically, to feed. Cymbeline. TIRE: v.t. to attire, dress. Comedy of Errors. TANG: sb. twang, sound. Tempest. TOD: v.i. to yield a tod of wool. Winter's Tale. TOKENED: p.p. marked with plague spots. Anthony and Cleopatra. TOKENS: sb. plague spots. Love's Labour's Lost. TOLL: v.i. to exact toll. Henry IV Pt. 2. To pay toll. All's Well That Ends Well. TOO TOO: adv. excessively. Two Gentlemen of Verona; Hamlet. TOPLESS: adj. supreme, without superior. Troilus and Cressida. TOUCH: sb. touchstone for testing gold. Richard III. Trait. As You Like It. An acute feeling. Cymbeline. TOUCHED: p.p. pricked. Titus Andronicus. TOUSE: v.t. to pull, drag. Measure for Measure. TOWARD: adv. nearly ready. A Midsummer Night's Dream. TOWARDS: adv. nearly ready. Romeo and Juliet. TOYS: sb. trifles, foolish tricks. Henry IV Pt. 2. TRADE: sb. beaten path. Henry VIII. TRANECT: sb. a ferry. Merchant of Venice. TRANSLATED: p.p. transformed. A Midsummer Night's Dream. TRASH: v.t. to cheque, as a huntsman his hounds. Tempest; Othello. TRAVAIL: sb. labour, toil. Henry VI Pt. 1. TRAY-TRIP: sb. an old game played with dice. Twelfth Night. TREACHERS: sb. traitors. King Lear. TREATIES: sb. entreaties. Anthony and Cleopatra. TRENCHED: p.p. carved. Two Gentlemen of Verona. TRICK: sb. technically, a copy of a coat of arms; hence, any peculiarity which distinguishes voice or feature. King Lear; Winter's Tale. TRICK: v.t. to dress up. Henry V. TRICKED: p.p. blazoned. Hamlet. TRICKING: sb. ornament. Merry Wives of Windsor. TRICKSY: adj. elegantly quaint. Tempest. TRIPLE: adj. third. Anthony and Cleopatra. TROJAN: sb. a cant word for a thief. Henry IV Pt. 1. TROL-MY-DAMES: sb. Fr. trou-madame; the name of a game; also called pigeon-holes. Winter's Tale. TROTH-PLIGHT: adj. betrothed. Henry V. TROW: v.i. to trust, think. Henry VIII. TRUE: adj. honest. Cymbeline. TRUNDLE-TAIL: sb. a long-tailed dog. King Lear. TUCKET-SONANCE: sb. a flourish on the trumpet. Henry V. TUNDISH: sb. a funnel. Measure for Measure. TURLYGOOD: sb. a name adopted by bedlam-beggars. King Lear. TURN: v.t. to modulate. As You Like It. TWANGLING: pr.p. twanging. Tempest. TWIGGEN: adj. made of twigs, wicker. Othello. TWILLED: p.p. Tempest. Retained by woven branches. TWINK: sb. a twinkling. Tempest. TWIRE: v.i. to peep, twinkle. Sonnets. ................................................................................ UMBERED: p.p. stained, dark, as with umber. Henry V. UNANELED: p.p. without extreme unction. Hamlet. UNAVOIDED: adj. unavoidable. Richard III. UNBARBED: p.p. untrimmed. Coriolanus. UNBATED: p.p. unblunted. Hamlet. UNBOLT: v.t. to disclose. Timon of Athens. UNBOLTED: p.p. unsifted, unrefined. King Lear. UNBREATHED: p.p. unpractised. A Midsummer Night's Dream. UNCAPE: v.t. to throw off the hounds. Merry Wives of Windsor. UNCHARGED: p.p. undefended, applied to the gates of a city. Timon of Athens. UNCLEW: v.t. to unravel, undo. Timon of Athens. UNCOINED: p.p. unalloyed, unfeigned. Henry V. UNDERGO: v.t. to undertake. Timon of Athens. UNDERTAKER: sb. one who takes up another's quarrel. Twelfth Night. UNDER-WROUGHT: p.p. undermined. King John. UNEATH: adv. hardly. Henry VI Pt. 2. UNEXPRESSIVE: adj. inexpressible. As You Like It. UNFAIR: v.t. to deprive of beauty. Sonnets. UNHAPPILY: adv. censoriously. Henry VIII. UNHAPPY: adj. mischievous. All's Well That Ends Well. UNHATCHED: p.p. undisclosed. Othello. UNHOUSELED: p.p. without receiving the sacrament. Hamlet. UNIMPROVED: p.p. unreproved. Hamlet. UNION: sb. a pearl. Hamlet. UNJUST: adj. dishonest. Henry IV Pt. 1. UNKIND: adj. unnatural. King Lear. UNLIVED: adj. bereft of life. Rape of Lucrece. UNMANNED: p.p. untamed, applied to a hawk. Romeo and Juliet. UNOWED: p.p. unowned. King John. UNPREGNANT: adj. stupid. Measure for Measure. UNPROPER: adj. common to all. Othello. UNQUESTIONABLE: adj. not inquisitive. As You Like It. UNREADY: adj. undressed. Henry VI Pt. 1. UNRESPECTIVE: adj. inconsiderate. Richard III. UNSISTING: adj. unresting. Measure for Measure. UNSTANCHED: p.p. incontinent. Tempest. UNTEMPERING: adj. unsoftening. Henry V. UNTENTED: adj. unsearchable. King Lear. UNTRADED: adj. unused, uncommon. Troilus and Cressida. UNTRIMMED: p.p. spoiled of grace or ornament. Sonnets. UNTRUE: sb. untruth. Sonnets. UNVALUED: adj. invaluable. Richard III. UPSPRING REEL: sb. a boisterous dance. Hamlet. URCHIN: sb. the hedge-hog. Tempest. USANCE: sb. usury. Merchant of Venice. USE: sb. interest. Measure for Measure. UTIS: sb. riotous merriment, which accompanied the eighth day of a festival. Henry IV Pt. 2. UTTER: v.t. to expel, put forth. Much Ado About Nothing. UTTERANCE: sb. extremity. Macbeth; Cymbeline. ................................................................................ VADE: v.i. to fade. Passionate Pilgrim. VAIL: v.t. to lower. Measure for Measure. VAILING: pr.p. lowering. Merchant of Venice. VAINNESS: sb. vanity. Henry V. VALANCED: p.p. adorned with a valence or fringe; applied to the beard. Hamlet. VALIDITY: sb. value. All's Well That Ends Well. VANTAGE: sb. advantage. Two Gentlemen of Verona. VANTBRACE: sb. armour for the front of the arm. Troilus and Cressida. VARLET: sb. a servant, valet. Troilus and Cressida. VAST: sb. properly a waste-place, metaphorically, the dead of night. Tempest. A gulf. Winter's Tale. VASTIDITY: sb. immensity. Measure for Measure. VASTLY: adv. like a waste. Rape of Lucrece. VASTY: adj. vast, waste. Henry IV Pt. 1. VAUNT: sb. the van, that which precedes. Troilus and Cressida. VAUNT-COURIERS: sb. forerunners. King Lear. VAWARD: sb. the van, vanguard, advanced guard of an army. Henry V. Hence, metaphorically, the first of anything. A Midsummer Night's Dream. VEGETIVES: sb. herbs. Pericles. VELURE: sb. velvet. Taming of the Shrew. VELVET-GUARDS: sb. literally, velvet trimmings; applied metaphorically to the citizens who wore them. Henry IV Pt. 1. VENEW: sb. a bout in fencing, metaphorically applied to repartee and sallies of wit. Love's Labour's Lost. VENEY: sb. a bout at fencing. Merry Wives of Windsor. VENGE: v.t. to avenge. Henry V. VENTAGES: sb. holes in a flute or flageolet. Hamlet. VERBAL: adj. wordy. Cymbeline. VERY: adj. true, real. Two Gentlemen of Verona. VIA: int. off with you! Merry Wives of Windsor. VICE: v.t. to screw. Winter's Tale. VICE: sb. the buffoon in the old morality plays. Hamlet. VIE: v.i. to challenge; a term at cards. Anthony and Cleopatra. To play as for a wager. Taming of the Shrew. VIEWLESS: adj. invisible. Measure for Measure. VILLAIN: sb. a lowborn man. As You Like It. VINEWED: p.p. mouldy. Troilus and Cressida. VIOL-DE-GAMBOYS: sb. a bass viol. Twelfth Night. VIRGINALLING: pr. p. playing as on the virginals, a kind of a spinet. Winter's Tale. VIRTUE: sb. the essential excellence. Tempest. valour. King Lear. VIRTUOUS: adj. excellent. A Midsummer Night's Dream. Endowed with virtues. As You Like It. VIZAMENT: sb. advisement. Merry Wives of Windsor. VOLUBLE: adj. fickle. Othello. VOLUNTARY: sb. volunteer. King John. VOTARIST: sb. votary, one who has taken a vow. Measure for Measure. VULGAR: sb. the common people. Love's Labour's Lost. VULGAR: adj. common. King John. VULGARLY: adv. publicly. Measure for Measure. ................................................................................ WAFT: v.t. to wave, beckon. Hamlet. To turn. Winter's Tale. WAFTAGE: sb. passage. Troilus and Cressida. WAFTURE: sb. waving, beckoning. Julius Caesar. WAGE: v.t. to reward as with wages. Coriolanus. WAILFUL: adj. lamentable. Two Gentlemen of Verona. WAIST: sb. the middle of a ship. Tempest. WANNION: 'With a wannion'=='with a vengeance.' Pericles. WAPPENED: p.p. withered, overworn. Timon of Athens. WARD: sb. guard. Tempest. Prison. Henry VI Pt. 2. WARDEN: sb. a large pear used for baking. Winter's Tale. WARDER: sb. truncheon. Richard II. WARN: v.t. to summon. Richard III. WASSAIL: sb. a drinking bout. Anthony and Cleopatra. Festivity. Hamlet. WAT: a familiar word for a hare. Venus and Adonis. WATCH: sb. a watch light. Richard III. WATCH: v.t. to tame by keeping constantly awake. Othello. WATER-GALL: sb. a secondary rainbow. Rape of Lucrece. WATER-RUG: sb. a kind of dog. Macbeth. WATER-WORK: sb. painting in distemper. Henry IV Pt. 2. WAX: v.i. to grow. Henry V. WAXEN: v.i. perhaps, to hiccough. A Midsummer Night's Dream. WEALTH: sb. weal, advantage. Merchant of Venice. WEAR: sb. fashion. As You Like It. WEATHER-FEND: v.t. to defend from the weather. Tempest. WEB AND PIN: sb. the cataract in the eye. King Lear; Winter's Tale. WEE: adj. small, tiny. Merry Wives of Windsor. WEE: v.i. to think. Henry VI Pt. 1. WEED: sb. garment. Twelfth Night. WEET: v.t. to wit, know. Anthony and Cleopatra. WEIGH OUT: v.t. to outweigh. Henry VIII. WELKIN: sb. the sky. Merry Wives of Windsor. WELKIN: adj. sky-blue. Winter's Tale. WELL-LIKING: adj. in good condition. Love's Labour's Lost. WELL SAID: int. well done! Henry IV Pt. 2. WEND: v.i. to go. Measure for Measure. WESAND: sb. the wind-pipe. Tempest. WHELK: sb. a weal. Henry V. WHELKED: p.p. marked with whelks or protuberances. King Lear. WHEN: an exclamation of impatience. Taming of the Shrew. WHEN AS: adv. when. Sonnets. WHERE: adv. whereas. Henry VI Pt. 2; King Lear. WHERE: sb. a place. King Lear. WHIFFLER: sb. an officer who clears the way in processions. Henry V. WHILE-ERE: adv. a little while ago. Tempest. WHILES: adv. until. Twelfth Night. WHIP-STOCK: sb. handle of a whip. Twelfth Night. WHIST: adj. hushed, silent. Tempest. WHITE: sb. the centre of an archery butt. Taming of the Shrew. WHITELY: adj. pale-faced. Love's Labour's Lost. A doubtful word. WHITING-TIME: sb. bleaching time. Merry Wives of Windsor. WHITSTER: sb. bleacher. Merry Wives of Windsor. WHITTLE: sb. a clasp knife. Timon of Athens. WHOO-BUB: sb. hubbub. Winter's Tale. WHOOP: v.i. to cry out with astonishment. Henry V. Comp. As You Like It. WICKED: adj. noisome, baneful. Tempest. WIDOW: v.t. to give a jointure to. Measure for Measure. WIDOWHOOD: sb. widow's jointure. Taming of the Shrew. WIGHT: sb. person. Othello. WILD: sb. weald. Henry IV Pt. 1. WILDERNESS: sb. wildness. Measure for Measure. WIMPLED: p.p. veiled, hooded. Love's Labour's Lost. WINDOW-BARS: sb. lattice-work across a woman's stomacher. Timon of Athens. WINDRING: pr.p. winding. Tempest. WINTER-GROUND: v.t. to protect (a plant) from frost. Cymbeline. WIS: in the compound 'I wis,' certainly. Richard III. WISH: v.t. to commend. Taming of the Shrew. WISTLY: adv. wistfully. Richard II. WIT: sb. knowledge, wisdom. Merchant of Venice; Julius Caesar. WITHOUT: prep. beyond. A Midsummer Night's Dream. WITS: five, the five senses. Much Ado About Nothing. WITTOL: sb. a contented cuckold. Merry Wives of Windsor. WITTY: adj. intelligent. Henry VI Pt. 3. WOMAN-TIRED: adj. hen-pecked. Winter's Tale. WONDERED: p.p. marvellously gifted. Tempest. WOOD: adj. mad. Two Gentlemen of Verona. WOODCOCK: sb. a simpleton. Taming of the Shrew. WOODMAN: sb. a forester, huntsman. Cymbeline. A cant term for a wencher. Measure for Measure. WOOLWARD: adj. shirtless. Love's Labour's Lost. WORD: v.t. to flatter or put off with words. Antony and Cleopatra. To repeat the words of a song. Cymbeline. WORLD: 'To go to the world' is to get married. Much Ado About Nothing. So 'a woman of the world' is a married woman. As You Like It. WORM: sb. a serpent. Measure for Measure. WORSER: adj. worse. Tempest. WORSHIP: v.t. to honour. Henry V. WORTH: sb. wealth, fortune. Twelfth Night. WORTS: sb. cabbages. Merry Wives of Windsor. WOT: v.t. to know. Two Gentlemen of Verona. WOUND: p.p. twisted about. Tempest. WREAK: sb. vengeance. Coriolanus. WREAK: v.t. to avenge. Titus Andronicus. WREAKFUL: adj. revengeful, avenging. Timon of Athens. WREST: sb. an instrument used for tuning a harp. Troilus and Cressida. WRIT: sb. gospel, truth. Pericles. (Gower). WRITHLED: p.p. shrivelled. Henry VI Pt. 1. WROTH: sb. calamity, misfortune. Merchant of Venice. WRUNG: p.p. twisted, strained. Henry IV Pt. 1. WRY: v.i. to swerve. Cymbeline. ................................................................................ YARE: adj. ready. Used as an int., 'be' being understood. Tempest. YARELY: adv. readily. Tempest. Y-CLAD: p.p. clad. Henry VI Pt. 2. Y-CLEPED: p.p. called, named. Love's Labour's Lost. YEARN: v.t. to grieve, vex. Merry Wives of Windsor; Richard II. YELLOWNESS: sb. jealousy. Merry Wives of Windsor. YELLOWS: sb. a disease of horses. Taming of the Shrew. YEOMAN: sb. a sheriff's officer. Henry IV Pt. 2. YIELD: v.t. to reward. Anthony and Cleopatra. To report. Anthony and Cleopatra. YOND: adj. and adv. yonder. Tempest. ................................................................................ ZANY: sb. a clown, gull. Love's Labour's Lost. ÿ