SOUL, "with special s.," i. e. with special liking; I. i. 18.
SPARE, forbear to offend; II. iii. 33.
SPLAY, (so first Folio; Steevens
"spay"), to castrate; II. i. 255. STAGE, to make a show of; I. i. 69.
STAGGER, waver, hesitate; I. ii. 177.
STARKLY, stiffly, as if dead; IV. ii. 74.
STAYS UPON, waits for; IV. i. 47. STEAD, be of service to; I. iv. 17. STEAD UP, to supply; III. i. 268. STEW, cauldron; V. i. 323.
STORY, Subject of mirth; I. iv. 30. STRAITNESS, strictness; III. ii. 289.
STRICTURE, strictness; I. iii. 12. SUCCEED, inherit; II. iv. 123. SUFFERANCE, suffering; III. i. 80. SWEAT; the plague was popularly known as "the sweating sick- ness"; I. ii. 84. SWEETNESS, Self-indulgence; II. iv.
SWINGED, Whipped; V. i. 130.
TAX, accuse; II. iv. 79. TEMPORARY MEDDLER, one meddles with temporal matters; V. i. 145.
TERMS; "the technical language
of the courts. An old book called Les Termes de la Ley was in Shakespeare's days, and is now, the accidence of young students in the law" (Black- stone); I. i. 11. TICKLE, unstable; I. ii. 185. TICK-TACK, a sort of backgam- mon (used equivocally); I. ii. 204.
TILTH, tillage; I. iv. 44.
"tilth"); IV. i. 76. TOUCHES, Vices; III. ii. 25. TOUSE, pull, tear; V. i. 315. TRADE, custom, established habit; III. i. 149.
TRANSPORT, remove from one world to another; IV. iii. 77. TRICK, fashion; V. i. 514. TROT, a contemptuous name, ap- plied properly to an old woman; III. ii. 54.
TRUMPETS, trumpeters; IV. v. 9. TUB, the sweating-tub, used as a cure for certain diseases; III. ii. 62. TUN-DISH, funnel; III. ii. 194.
UNFOLDING, releasing from the fold or pen; IV. ii. 227. UNGENITURED, (?) impotent (per- haps "unbegotten"); III. ii. 196.
UNGOT, not begotten; V. i. 142. UNPITIED, unmerciful; IV. ii. 14. UNPREGNANT, unready, inapt; IV. iv. 23.
UNSHUNNED, inevitable; III. ii. 62.
UNSISTING, probably a misprint (in Folios 1, 2, 3) for "insist- ing" (the reading of Fol. 4), i. e. "persistent"; IV. ii. 95. UNTRUSSING, "untying the points or tagged laces which attached the hose or breeches to the doublet"; III. ii. 203. UNWEIGHING, injudicious; III. ¡¡. 158.
USE, practices long countenanced by custom; I. iv. 62.
USE, interest, probably with a secondary sense of "exertion"; I. i. 41.
VAIL YOUR REGARD, lower your look; V. i. 20.
VAIN, "for v." in vain, to no
purpose; II. iv. 12.
VANTAGE, "denies thee v.," i. e. "will avail thee nothing"; V. i. 422.
VASTIDITY, vastness; III. i. 69. VEIL FULL PURPOSE, to cover his
full p.; IV. vi. 4.
VIEWLESS, invisible; III. i. 124. VIRTUOUS, beneficial; II. ii. 168. VOICE, "in my v.""in my name"; I. ii. 193. VOUCH, affirmation; II. iv. 156. VULGARLY, publicly; V. i. 160.
WARP, deviate; I. i. 15.
WARPED, crooked, wry, unnatural; III. i. 142.
WEAR, fashion; III. ii. 83.
WEEDS, "weed is a term still com
monly applied to an ill-conditioned horse" (Collier); emendations proposed: "steeds," "wills"; I. iii. 20.
WHO which; I. ii. 203. WIDOW, to give as jointure; V. i. 433.
WILDERNESS, wildness; III. i. 142. WOODMAN, one who hunts female game; IV. iii. 175. WRONG, "done myself w.," i. e. "put myself in the wrong"; I. ii. 45.
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