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II, i, 22; Tim. IV, iii, 87. Daily fare. | Disabling, sb. disparagement. M. of V.

Tw. N. III, iii, 40.

Diet, v. t. to keep strictly, as by a certain regimen. Cym. III, iv, 179; A. W. V, iii, 219.

Dieter, sb. one who administers food in sickness. Cym. IV, ii, 52. Difference, sb. a mark of distinction in heraldry. M. A. I, i, 57; Ham. IV, v, 180. Difference of rank. Lear, I, iv, 88. Change of fortune. Lear, V, iii, 288. Variance, strife. Cor. V, iii, 201; J. C. I, ii, 40; 2 H. 4, IV, i, 181. Differency, sb. difference. Cor. V, iv,

11.

Diffidence, sb. distrust, suspicion. John, I, i, 65; Lear, I, ii, 141. Diffused, adj. wild, irregular. M. W. IV, iv, 53; H. 5, V, ii, 61. Digest, v. t. to vent, void, discharge. 1 H. 6, IV, i, 167. To suffer, condone. H. 8, III, ii, 53. To absorb. Lear, I, i, 127.

Digressing, pr. p. transgressing. R. 2, V,

iii, 66.

Digression, sb. transgression. Lucr. 202. L. L. L. I, ii, 112.

Dig-you-den, Give you good even. L. L. L. IV, i, 42.

Oth. I, iii,

Dilate, v. t. to relate in full. 153. Dildo, the burden of a song. W. T. IV, iv. 193.

Diminutives, sb. the smallest pieces of

coin. A. & C. IV, xii, 37. Dwarfs. T. & C. V, i, 32; A. & C. IV, xii, 37. Dint, sb. impression. V. & A. 354; J. C. III, ii, 194.

Direction, sb. leadership, military skill.
R. 3, V, iii, 16.
Directitude. A blunder for "discredit."
Cor. IV, v, 208.
Directive, adj. capable of being directed.
T. & C. I, iii, 356.
Directly, adv. clearly, undoubtedly. Oth.
II, i, 216; Cym. I, iv, 152. Straight-
forwardly. Cor. IV, v, 185. Imme-
diately. Cor. I, vi, 59.
Disable, v. t. to disparage. As, IV, i, 31,
V, iv, 72; 1 H. 6, V, iii, 67.

II, vii, 30.

Disanimate, v. t. to discourage. 1 H. 6, III, i, 183.

Disappointed, adj. unfurnished, unprepared. Ham. I, v, 77.

Disaster, v. t. to injure, disfigure. A. & C. II, vii, 16.

Disbench, v. t. to drive from a seat. Cor. II, ii, 69.

Disbranch, v. r. to tear away as a branch. Lear, IV, ii, 34.

Disburse, v. t. to pay out, to distribute. Lucr. 1203.

Discandy, v. i. to thaw. A. & C. III, xiii, 165, IV, xii, 22.

Discase, v. r. to unmask. Tp. V, i, 85. Undress. W. T. IV, iv, 623. Discernings, sb. powers of discernment, understanding. Lear, I, iv, 227. Discharge, v. t. to perform, as an actor his part. M. Nʼs D. I, ii, 82, IV, ii, 8; Cor. III, ii, 106. To dispel. W. T. II, iii, 11.

Discharge, sb. performance. Tp. II, i, 245; 2 H. 6, I, iii, 167.

Discipled, p. p. taught, trained. A. W. I, îì, 28.

Disclaim in. To disown. Lear, II, ii, 50.

Disclose, v. t. to hatch. Ham. V, i, 281. Disclose, sb. the chipping of the shell. Ham. III, i, 166.

Discomfit, sb. discomfiture, discouragement. 2 H. 6, V, ii, 86. Discomfort, sb. anxiety. 2 H. 4, I, ii, 98. v. t. to discourage. J. C. V, iii, 106. Discomfortable, adj. having no word of comfort, discouraging. R. 2, III, ii,

36.

Discommend, v. t. to disapprove. Lear, II, ii, 104.

Discontent, sb. a malcontent. 1 H. 4, V, i, 76; A. & C. I, iv, 39. Resentment. 1 H. 4, I, iii, 189.

Discontenting, adj. discontented. W. T. IV, iv, 524.

Discourse, sb. reasoning. Tw. N. IV, iii, 12; T. & C. II, iii, 168; V, ii, 140; Ham. IV, iv, 36. Discourse of reason

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the reasoning faculty, the power of | Disorbed, p. p. thrown out of its orbit or arguing from premises to conclusion. Ham. I, ii, 150. v. t. to describe. R. 2, V, vi, 10.

Discover, v. t. to reveal, disclose. Tw. N. II, v, 142; R. & J. III, i, 139; Tim. V, ii, 1.

Discoverer, sb. a scout. 2 H. 4, IV, i, 3. Discovery, sb. reconnoitring, the report of scouts. Mac. V, iv, 6; Lear, V, i, 53. Disclosure. Ham. II, ii, 293. Discoverer, guide, V. & A. 828. Disdain, sb. disgrace, ignominy. A. W. II, iii, 113.

Disdained, adj. disdainful. 1 H. 4, I, iii,

183.

Cor. I, iii, 105. sb. Lear, I, i, 174; 1

Disease, v. t. spoil. trouble, disorder. H. 6, II, v, 44. Disedge, v. t. to take off the edge of appetite. Cym. III, iv, 92. Disfurnish, v. t. to deprive. Tim. III, ii, 43; Two G. IV, i, 14.

Disgrace, sb. disfigurement. L. L. L. I, i, 3. v. t. to discredit. Sonn. lxxxix, 7. Disgracious, adj. wanting grace, unpleasing. R. 3, III, vii, 112, ÏV, iv, 177. Dishabited, p. p. dislodged. John, II, i, 220.

Dishonest, adj. unchaste. Tw. N. I, v, 41; H. 5, I, ii, 49.

Dishonesty, sb. unchastity. M. W. IV, ii, 118.

Dishonoured, adj. dishonourable. Cor.
III, i, 60; Lear, I, i, 228.
Disjoint, p.p. disjointed, out of joint.
Ham. I, ii, 20.

Dislike, v. t. to displease. R. & J. II, ii, 61; Oth. II, iii, 43. To express dislike. As, V, iv, 66; M. for M. I, ii, 17. sb. disagreeableness. 1 H. 4, V, i, 26. Disliken, v. t. to disguise. W. T. IV, iv,

642.

Dislimn, v. t. to efface, obliterate. A. & C. IV, xiv, 10.

Dismay, v. i. to be filled with dismay. 1 H. 6, III, iii, 1.

Disme, sb. a tenth. T. & C. II, ii, 19. Disnatured, adj. unnatural. Lear, I, iv, 283.

sphere. T. & C. II, ii, 46. Dispark, v. t. to destroy the enclosures of a park. R. 2, III, i, 23. Dispatch, v. i. to arrange, settle matters. A. & C. III, ii, 2. Dispatched, p. p. deprived, bereaved. Ham. I, v, 75.

Dispense with grant dispensation for, pardon. M. for M. III, ì, 136; Lucr. 1070, 1279, 1704; Sonn. cxii, 12. Obtain dispensation from. 2 H. 6, V, i, 181.

Dispiteous, adj. pitiless. John, IV, i,

34.

Disponge, v. t. to squeeze out as if from
a sponge. A. & C. IV, ix, 13.
Disport, sb. indulgence in pleasure.
Oth. I, iii, 271.

Dispose, sb. disposal. Two G. II, vii, 86;

John, I, i, 263. Disposition. T. & C. II, iii, 159; Oth. I, iii, 391. Dispose, v. i. to arrange, make terms. A. & C. IV, xiv, 123. Disposed, adj. in the humour for mirth. L. L. L. II, i, 249, V, ii, 466; Tw. N. II, iii, 78.

Disposer, sb. manager. T. & C. III, i, 86. Or it may be one who disposes or inclines others to mirth. See note. Disposition, sb. settlement, maintenance. Oth. I, iii, 236. Circumstance. T. & C. IV, i, 50. Ability, A. & C. II, vii, 7. Temper. Lear, I, i, 303, iv, 292.

Dispraise, v. t. to disparage. 1 H. 4, V, ii, 60.

Dispraisingly, adv. disparagingly. Oth. III, iii, 73.

Disproperty, v. t. to take away. Cor. II, i, 238.

Dispursed, p. p. disbursed. 2 H. 6, III, i, 117.

Disputable, adj. disputatious. As, II, v, 31.

Dispute, v. t. to discuss, reason upon.
W. T. IV, iv, 392; Mac. IV, iii, 220;
R. & J. III, iii, 63.
Disquantity, v. t. to diminish. Lear, I,
iv, 248.

Disseat, v. t. to unseat, dethrone. Mac.

V, iii, 21.

Dissemble, v. r. to disguise oneself.

N. IV, ii, 5.

Dissembly.

Tw.

Blunder for "assembly."

M. A. IV, ii, 1. Dissipation, sb. dispersal, dissolution. Lear, I, ii, 141.

Dissolution, sb. melting. M. W. III, v, 103; Lucr. 355.

Dissolve, v. t. to separate, cut off. A. W. I, ii, 66; M. W. V, v, 211. To melt in tears. Lear, V, iii, 203. Distain, v. t. to stain, defile. Per. IV, iii, 31; R. 3, V, iii, 322; T. & C. I, iii, 241. In C. of E. II, ii, 145, the word "distain'd" requires the unusual sense of "unstained."

Distance, sb. hostility, variance. Mac. III, i, 115.

Distaste, v. i. to be distasteful. Oth. III, iii, 331. v. t. to make distasteful. T. & C. II, ii, 123. Cf. IV, iv, 47. To loathe. T. & C. II, ii, 66. Distasteful, adj. repulsive. Tim. II, ii,

211.

Distemper, sb. disturbance of mind. H. 5,

II, ii, 54; Ham. II, ii, 55, III, ii, 294. Distemper, v. t. to disturb. Tw. N. II, i, 4. Distempered, p. p. disturbed. John, III, iv, 154. Disordered. 2 H. 4, III, i, 41. Ill-humoured, discomposed. John, IV, iii, 21; Tp. IV, i, 145. Ham. III, ii, 294. Distemperature, sb. disorder of body. C. of E. V, 1, 82. Disturbance of mind. M. N's D. II, i, 106; R. & J. II, iii, 40; Per. V, i, 27. Discomposed appearance. 1 H. 4, V, i, 3. Distempering, adj. intoxicating, disturbing. Oth. I, i, 100.

Distilled, p. p. melted. Ham. I, ii, 204. See M. N's D. I, i, 76 n.

Distilment, sb. distillation. Ham. I, v, 64.

Distinction, sb. discrimination. T. & C. III, ii, 26.

Distinctly, adv. separately. Tp. I, ii, 200; Čor. III, i, 206, IV, iii, 41. In

due order, with discrimination. Cor. III, i, 206.

Distinguishment, sb. distinction. W. T. II, i, 86.

Distracted, adj. inconstant. Ham. IV, iii, 4.

Distractions, sb. divisions, detachments.
A. & C. III, vii, 76.
Distrain, v. t. to seize, take possession of.
R. 2, II, iii, 131; 1 H. 6, I, iii, 61.
Distraught, adj. distracted, mad. R. 3,
III, v, 4; R. & J. IV, iii, 49.
Distressful, adj. gained by misery and
toil. H. 5, IV, i, 266.

Disvalue, v. t. to depreciate. M. for M.
V, i, 219.

Disvouch, v. t. to contradict. M. for M. IV, iv, 1.

Dive-dapper, sb. a didapper, dabchick, little grebe. V. & A. 86. Diverted, p. p. turned from its natural course. As, II, iii, 37. Dividable, adj. separated, divided. T. & C. I, iii, 105. Dividant, adj. separate, different, divisible. Tim. IV, iii, 5. Divided, p. p. separated. T. & C. IV,

v, 69. Division, sb. variation. 1 H. 4, III, i, 210; R. & J. III, v, 29. Schism. Lear, I, ii, 130. Divorcement, sb. divorce. Oth. IV, ii, 159.

Divulged, p. p. published, proclaimed. Tw. N. I, v, 244. Well divulged = of good repute.

Dizzy, adj. causing dizziness. Lear, IV, vi, 12.

Dizzy-eyed, adj. blinded, as if by giddiness. 1 H. 6, IV, vii, 11.

Do, v. t. to consume, destroy. V. & A. 749 ("done"). See also the phrases, Do him dead = put him to death. 3 H. 6, I, iv, 408. Do to death put to death. M. A. V, iii, 3; 2 H. 6, III, ii, 179. Do me right give me satisfaction; by fighting. M. A. V, i, 145; or drinking. 2 H. 4, V, iii, 72. See Oth. II, iii, 88, 90. Do in slander infect with slander. M. for M. I, iii, 43.

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Could not do withal = could not help | it. M. of V. III, iv, 72.

Doctrine, sb. learning. A. W. I, iii, 232. Document, sb. precept, instruction. Ham. IV, v, 175.

Doff, v. t. to put off. T. of S. III, ii, 96; John, III, ì, 128; Mac. IV, iii, 188. Dog-apes, sb. male apes. As, II, v, 23. Dog-fox, sb. a male fox. T. & C. V, iv,

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Dogged, adj. cruel, unfeeling. John, IV, i, 129, iii, 149; 2 H. 6, III, i, 158. Doit, sb. the German deut. The smallest piece of money, a half-farthing. Tp. II, ii, 31; M. of V. I, iii, 135; Cor. 1, v, 6, IV, iv, 17; A. & C. IV, xii, 37. Dole, sb. grief. Ham. I, ii, 13. Distribution. 2 H. 4, I, i, 169. Portion. W. T. I, ii, 163; T. of S. I, i, 135; M. W. III, iv, 63.

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Dolour, sb. used punningly in sense of the coin 'dollar" and of 'grief." Lear, II, iv, 53; Tp. II, i, 18-19. Grief. Mac. IV, iii, 8; T. & C. V, iii, 84.

Don, v. t. to put on.

Ham. IV, v, 50;

R. 2, III, i, 281. Ham. III, iv, 50;

A. & C. II, i, 33. Doom, sb. decision. The day of doom. Sonn. cxvi, 12. Doomed, p. p. decided. Cym. V, v, 420. Doomsday, sb. the day of death. R. 3, V, i, 12.

Dotant, sb. dotard. Cor. V, ii, 43. Double, adj. forked. M. N's D. II, ii, 9; III, ii, 72. Exceptionally strong. Oth. I, ii, 14. Double-fatal, adj. fatal in two ways, the leaves of the yew being poisonous and the wood used for bows as instruments of death. R. 2, III, ii, 117. Doubt, sb. fear, apprehension, 3 H. 6, IV, viii, 37; John, IV, i, 19, IV, ii, 102, V, vi, 44. v. t. to fear. Per. I, iii, 21; Oth. III, iii, 19; Lear, V, i, 6. Doubtfully, adv. ambiguously. Tim. IV, iii, 121.

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Dout, v. t. to put out, extinguish. H. 5,
IV, ii, 11; Ham, IV, vii, 192.
Dowlas, sb. coarse linen. 1 H. 4, III, iii,
68.

Dowle, sb. a small particle of plumage, down. Tp. III, iii, 65.

Down, adv. in bed. R. & J. III, v, 66, IV, v, 12.

Down-gyved, adj. hanging down about the ankle like fetters. Ham. II, i, 80. Down-roping, adj. dripping, like the discharge from the eyes and nostrils. H. 5, IV, ii, 48; cf. IÏI, v, 23. Doxy, sb. beggar's mistress. W. T. IV, iii, 2.

Drab, sb. a strumpet. Ham. II, ii, 582; M. for M. II, i, 222.

Drabbing, sb. haunting loose women. Ham. II, i, 26.

Drachma, sb. a Greek coin. Cor. I,

v, 5.

Draff, sb. refuse, dregs. M. W. IV, ii, 109; 1 H. 4, IV, ii, 34. Draught, sb. a jakes, privy. T. & C. V, i, 72; Tim. V, i, 100. Draw, v. t. to undraw, draw aside.

Lucr. 374; M. of V. II, ix, 1; Tw. N. I, v, 218. To withdraw. 2 H. 4, II, i, 145. To levy, concentrate. John, IV, ii, 118, V, ii, 113; 2 H. 4, I, iii, 109; Cor. II, iii, 250. To shoot. T. A. IV, iii, 3. To take, receive. M. of V. IV, i, 87. To draw ale. M. for M. II, i, 195. To quaff. Tp. II, ïï, 136.

M. W.

Drawer, sb. a tapster, waiter.
II, ii, 143; 1 H. 4, II, iv, 7.
Drawn, p. p. having the sword drawn.

Tp. II, i, 299; M. N's D. III, ii, 402. Drawn to head concentrated, mobilised. Cym. III, v, 25; Lucr. 1368. Drawn of heaviness emptied by sor row. Cym. V, iv, 164.

Drawn fox. A hunted fox, and therefore full of cunning. 1 H. 4, III, iii, 113. Dreadfully, adv. with dread or apprehension. M. for M. IV, ii, 135. Dress, v. t. to prepare, make ready. H. 5, IV, i, 10; T. & C. I, iii, 166. Dribbling, adj. used of an arrow weakly

Doubtless, adj. confident. 1 H. 4, III, ii, 20; John, IV, i, 130.

shot, not aimed point blank. M. for M. | I, iii, 2. Drift, sb. method, scheme. Two G. II, vi, 43; Ham. III, i, 1. Driving shower. John, II, i, 412.

Drive, v. i. to rush impetuously. T. A. II, iii, 64.

Drollery, sb. a puppet show. Tp. III, iii, 21. A humorous painting. 2 H. 4, II, i, 140.

Droplet, sb. a little drop, tear.

V, iv, 76.

Dross, sb. sensual indulgence.

cxlvi, 11.

Drouth, sb. thirst. V. & A. 544. III, prol. 8.

Tim.

Sonn.

Per.

Drovier, sb. drover. M. A. II, i, 172. Drowse, v. i. to grow drowsy. 1 H. 4, III, ii, 81.

Drugs, sb. drudges. Tim. IV, iii, 253. Drum. John Drum's entertainment is a good beating. A. W. III, vi, 33. Drumble, v. i. to be sluggish or awkward. M. W. III, iii, 130.

Dry, adj. thirsty, eager. Tp. I, ii, 112; T. of S. V, ii, 144. Insipid. Tw. N. I, iii, 72, v, 37.

Dry basting. Beating that does not draw blood. C. of E. II, ii, 73; cf. L. L. L. V, ii, 263.

Dry-beat, v. t. to thrash, cudgel. L. L. L. V, ii, 263; R. & J. III, i, 77, IV, V, 120. Dryfoot. To draw dryfoot is to follow the scent on dry ground. C. of E. IV, ii, 39.

Ducat, sb. a Venetian coin. See note on M. of V. I, iii, 1.

Ducdame, the burden of a song, which is probably intentional nonsense. As, II, v, 51, 54.

Dudgeon, sb. the handle of a dagger. Mac. II, i, 46.

Due, v. t. to give due to. 1 H. 6, IV, ii, 34.

Duello, sb. the duelling code. L. L. L. I, ii, 168; Tw. N. IÏI, iv, 291. Dull, adj. tending to produce dulness, soothing. 2 H. 4, IV, v, 2. v. t. to make dull, blunt. Ham. I, iii, 64.

Dullard, sb. a stupid, insensible person. Lear, II, i, 74; Cym. V, v, 265. Dumbed, p. p. silenced, made inaudible. A. & C. I, v, 50.

Dump, sb. a melancholy strain. Two. G. III, ii, 85; Lucr. 1127; R. & J. IV, v, 104; T. A. I, i, 391.

Dumps, sb. low spirits, melancholy. M. A. II, iii, 66; R. & J. IV, v, 124. Dun, sb. a dun horse. In R. & J. I, iv, 41, there is an allusion to a rustic game "dun's in the mire," in which a log of wood represented a horse in the mire, which had to be dragged out by the company.

Dunghill, sb. a common term of abuse. Lear, IV, vi, 245; John, IV, iii, 87. Dun's the mouse, a proverbial expression, the meaning of which is lost. R. & J. I, iv, 40.

Dup, v. t. to do ope, open. Ham. IV, v,

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EACH, at. Each joined to the other, end to end. Lear, IV, vi, 53. Eager, adj. sour, biting, acid. Ham. I, iv, 2, I, v, 69; Sonn. cxviii, 2; 3 H. 6, II, vi, 68.

Eagerly, adv. sharply. H. 8, IV, ii, 24. Ean, v. i. to yean, bring forth young, used of ewes. 3 H. 6, ÏÏ, v, 36. Eaning time, sb. the time for ewes to

yean or bring forth their young, M. of V. I, iii, 82; Per. III, iv, 6. Eanling, sb. a young lamb. M. of V. I, iii, 74.

Ear, v. t. to plough, till. A. W. I, iii, 43;
R. 2, III, ii, 212; A. & C., iv, 49
V. & A. ded. note, 4.
Earing, sb. ploughing. A. & C. I, îi,

108.

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