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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.

45.

SWINGED, Whipped; V. i. 130.

who

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.

TITHE (probably an

error for

"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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