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A GLOSSARY OF WORDS

Grammatical Usage and Pronunciation

A, II. iii. 111, 182, 20, etc., he; II. iii. 181, of; a-many, III. vii. 77, IV. iii. 106, many; John, IV.

11. 209.

Absolute, III. vii. 28, perfect; Mer.
Wives, III. iii. 56.
Accept, V. ii. 87, acceptance (?).
Accomplishing, IV. Pro. 14, equip-
ping, finishing.

Accompt, I. Pro. 18, account, total.
Accord, II. ii. 89, agree; 2 Hen.
VI, III. i. 280.

Act, I. ii. 194, practice, working. Action, I. ii. 119, three syllables. Addiction, I. i. 60, inclination. Addrest (addressed), III. iii. 60, prepared; 2 Hen. ÍV, IV. iv. 7. Admiration, II. ii. 111, astonish

ment.

Adulation, IV. i. 261, five syllables.

Advance, II. ii. 195, raise; 1 Hen. VI, I. vi. 3. Advantages, IV. i. 291, is beneficial to; singular by confusion, because of the intervening pesant.

Adventures, IV. i. 123, hazards. Advice, II. ii. 46, consideration. Advis'd (advised), I. ii. 258, cautious, considerate. Afear'd (afeard), IV. i. 146, afraid, used interchangeably; I Hen. IV, II. iv. 360. Affiance, II. ii. 130, confidence ; 2 Hen. VI, III. i. 77. After, IV. ii. 68.

All-, Epil. 2, IV. Pro. 40, intensive prefix.

Ancient, II. i. 4, ensign, officer next below lieutenant; I Hen. IV, II. iv. 25.

And (an), IV. vii. 141, 173, if.
Annoy, II. ii. 105, hurt.

Another, I. ii. 118, the other.

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Approbation, I. ii. 24, five syllables; ratification.

Apt, II. ii. 89, ready; Jul. Cæs., III. i. 183.

Argument, III. i. 24, vii. 38, subject of disagreement or conversation.

Armed, I. ii. 198, two syllables. As, II. iv. 24, as though. Aspect, III. i. 12, always accented on second syllable in Sh. Assayes (assays), I. ii. 156, attacks; Ham. II. ii. 79. Assured, IV. iii. 91, three syllables.

Astonisht (astonished), V. i. 40, stunned. Atchievement

(achievement),

III. v. 63, conquest, winning a battle.

Athwart, V. Pro. 11, across. Attaint, ÍV. Pro. 41, infection. Aunchient, III. v. 13, 19, V. i. 19, ancient, ensign, the officer next below lieutenant; Oth., I. i. 35, ii. 59.

Avaunt, III. ii. 19, begone! John, IV. iii. 83.

Awk-ward (awkward), II. iv. 95, unfair.

Backe returne (back-return), V. Pro. 43, a compound verbal noun. Balles (balls), I. ii. 290, V. ii. 21, eyeballs.

Balme (balm), IV. i. 267, consecrated oil; 2 Hen. IV, IV. v. 128. | Banqu'rout (bankrupt), IV. ii. 51, bankrupt, impoverished. Barre (bar), V. ii. 31, tribunal. Bate, III vii. 116, flap the wings, a term of falconry. Battaile (battle), IV. Pro. 11, army; battailes, IV. iii. 77, battalions.

Bawcock, III, ii. 23, IV. i. 49, a term of endearment always masculine.

Become, I. ii. 12, IV. ii. 48, grace. Before breach (before-breach), IV. i. 175, compound verbal noun, former breaking; cf. backe-returne. Beguiling, IV. i. 167, deceiving, seducing.

Bend up, III. i. 19, strain, as a bow; bending, Epil. 3, assiduous. Bent, V. ii. 20, turning in a certain direction, aim; Cymb., I. i. 19. Beshrew, V. ii. 229, a mild imprecation.

Bestow yourself, IV. iii. 76, take your place; Ham. III. i. 37. Betrothed, II. iv. 118, three syllables.

Bever (beaver), IV. ii. 52, helmet with movable front. Blood, II. ii. 136, passion, impulse. Bloodie (bloody), II. iv. 57, fierce. Bolt, III. vii. 126, a blunt arrow, used in killing birds, and by professional fools; As You, V. iv. 69. Bonnet, IV. i. 215, hat or cap; Rich. II, I. iv. 32.

Booke (book), IV. vii. 78, register.
Boote (boot), I. ii. 199, use, profit;
2 Hen. VI, IV. i. 15.
Bootlesse (bootless), III. iii. 25,
uselessly.

Bottomes (bottoms), III. Pro. 14,
vessels; Mer. of Ven., I. i. 46.
Boulted (bolted), II. ii. 140, sifted.
Bound, V. ii. 147, make curvet.
Bow, I. ii. 19, bend, warp.
Brave, III. Pro. 7, fine in appear-

ance.

Bravely, IV. iii. 77, making a fine show.

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Buffet, V. ii. 146, box.
Bully, IV. i. 52, dashing fellow;
Mer. Wives, I. iii. 4, 8.
Burnet, V. ii. 53, an herb.
Buryed (buried), III. iii. 10, three
syllables.

But, II. ii. 139, except.
Buxome (buxom), III. vi. 28,
fresh, lively, only here in Sh.
By and by, II. ii. 3, presently, soon;
1 Hen. IV, I. ii. 40.

Callice (Calais), III. vi. 143, stress on second syllable. Calmie, custure me, IV. iv. 6, imitation of an Irish song. Carefull (careful), IV. i. 237, caretaking.

Carranto's (corantos), III. V. 35, lively dances; Tw. Night, I. iii.

120.

Carreeres (careers), II. i. 120, sallies of wit.

Carry coales (coals), III. ii. 45, pocket insults.

Case, III. ii. 4, set of four.
Caskes (casques), I. Pro. 14, hel-

mets.

Casted, IV. i. 25, cast, discarded. Caveto, II. iii. 50, Latin for 'take

care.

Chaces, I. ii. 274, games of tennis.

Challenger, II. iv. 105, claimant. Charged, I. ii. 291, two syllables; accountable. Chauntries (chantries), IV. i. 310, chapels. Chearely (cheerly), II. ii. 195,

cheerfully; Hen. IV, V. iv. 50. Christome (christom) child, II.

iii. 12, child dying when less than

a month old. Chrystals (crystals), II. iii. 51,

eyes.

Chuck, III. ii. 24, chicken, a term of endearment; Tw. Night, III. iv. 116.

Civil, I. ii. 204, well-governed. Clap hands, V. ii. 136, clasp hands in betrothal; Wint. Tale, I. ii.

128.

Close, I. ii. 186, chord, union. Cold, I. ii. 119, unmoved. Comes o're (o'er), I. ii. 275, reminds; cf. Oth., IV. i. 24. Commings (comings) in, IV. i. 250, incomes.

Companies, I. i. 61, companions. Complement, II. ii. 137, outward appearance: Oth., I. i. 69. Compound, IV. vi. 36, come to

terms.

Condemned, IV. Pro. 24, three syllables.

Condition, IV. i. 240, iii. 70, four syllables; IV. iii. 70, rank; conditions, IV. i. 112, qualities. Confounded, III. i. 16, wasted; IV. v. 5, lost, ruined. Congreeing, I. ii. 186, harmonizing.

Congreeted, V. ii. 35, greeted each other.

Conne (con), III. vi. 74, learn by heart; As You, III. ii. 267. Conscience, I. ii. 85, three syllables; IV. i. 124, real opinion. Consent, I. ii. 185, harmony; II. ii. 25, agreement. Consideration, I. i. 33, meditation. Consigne (consign), V. ii. 95,

agree.

Constraint, II. iv. 107, compulsion, use of force. Contemplation, I. i. 69, observation, study.

Contrariously, I. ii. 211, in contrary ways. Contrived, IV. i. 167, deliberate. Convey'd (conveyed), I. ii. 79, passed off.

Corporall (corporal), I. i. 19, bodily, manual. Couch, IV. ii. 44, lie, crouch. Counterfeit, V. i. 69, dissembling. Couple a gorge, II. i. 69, coupe la gorge, cut the throat.

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Coursing, I. ii. 148, marauding. Cousin, I. ii. 7, a title of courtesy used especially by princes; I Hen. IV, III. i. 6.

Couze (coz), IV. iii. 38, cousin. Cowarded, II. ii. 77, made cow

ardly; a verb occurring only here. Crasing (grazing), IV. iii. 116, passing their mark.

Create, II. ii. 34, created, composed; for the form, cf. miscreate, I. ii. 21.

Cressive (crescive), I. i. 72, increasing.

Crowned, II. ii. 6, two syllables. Crush'd (crushed), I. ii. 179,

strained.

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Dalliance, II. Pro. 3, luxury, trifling.

Damnation, II. ii. 118, four syllables.

Damned, II. i. 58, ii. 167, two syllables.

Dare, IV. ii. 43, make to crouch in fear, a term of falconry; Hen. VIII, I. ii. 50.

Darnell (darnel), V. ii. 49, tares,
an ill-tasting weed.
Deare (dear), II. ii. 184, grievous;
deere, II. ii. 60, devoted; in-
tensive, as often; John, I. i. 270.
Defendant, II. iv. 11, defensive.
Defensible, III. iii. 52, capable of
offering resistance.
Defunction, I. ii. 63, death.
Defus'd (diffused), V. ii. 65, dis-
ordered.

Degree, IV. vii. 144, rank; 2 Hen.
IV, IV. iii. 7..
Deliver, III. vi. 169, say; 1 Hen.
IV, I. iii. 30.

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Discuss, III. ii. 61, explain. Dishonest, I. ii. 54, loose, immoral. Distemper, II. ii. 56, distress of mind.

Distressefull (distressful), IV. i. 277, hard-earned.

Doe (do), IV. i. 28, give; Jul. Cæs., IV. ii. 7; IV. iii. 29, cause; Tw. Night, V. i. 138, Tam. of Shr., V. ii. 205.

Dolphin (Dauphin), I. ii. 226, 251, etc., heir-apparent of France. Doubt (dout), IV. ii. 14, put out, quench.

Drench, III. v. 21, dish of meal and water; 1 Hen. IV, II. iv. 107.

Dresse (dress), IV. i. 11, prepare, equip Tro. & Cres., I. iii. 173. Duke, III. ii. 21, 23, leader.

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Earnest, II. ii. 172, earnest-money, preliminary payment to clinch a bargain.

Eech (eke) out, III. Pro. 38, complete.

Elder gunne (gun), IV. i. 203, pop-gun made of elder wood. Element, IV. i. 110, sky; 2 Hen. IV, IV. iii. 53.

Embassie (embassy), I. i. 103, ii. 246, message; John, I. i. 11. Embattail'd, IV. ii. 20, drawn up for battle; John, IV. ii. 210. Emperie (empery), I. ii. 231, sway, dominion.

Emptying, III. v. 8, out-pouring,

issue.

End, II. i. 1o, nothing more to be said; I Hen. IV, V. iii. 67. Enforced, IV. vii. 64, three syllables; sent with force. English, II. iv. 4, English com

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Enschedul'd (enscheduled), V. ii. 77, drawn up in writing. Enter (inter)-tissued, ÏV. i. 269, four syllables; interwoven. Erne yearn), II. ii. 4, grieve; cf. yernes, IV. iii. 34. Estate, IV. i. 104, state, condition. Even, II. i. 116, real truth. Even, V. ii. 46, evenly, smoothly. Evenly, II. iv. 101, directly; I

Hen. IV, III. i. 113. Exception, II. iv. 39, making objections; 1 Hen. IV, I. iii. 82. Executors, I. ii. 208, main stress on first syllable; executioners. Exhibiters, I. i. 82, those who

propose measures in Parliament. Expedience, IV. iii. 78, speed, haste; Rich. II, II. i. 297. Expedition, II. ii. 194, five syllables; movement, march. Eythers (either's), II. ii. 109, one another's.

Faculty, I. i. 72, latent power. Farsed, II. i. 270, two syllables; stuffed out.

Fatal and neglected, II. iv. 16, double expression for fatally (to us) neglected (by us).' Fat-brain'd (brained), III. vii.

38, dull, stupid; cf. fat-witted, 1 Hen. IV, I. ii. 5.

Favour, V. ii. 67, appearance; John, V. iv. 54.

Fear'd feared), I. ii. 160, frightened; 2 Hen. IV, IV. iv. 139. Fearefull (fearful), II. Pro. 28, feeling fear.

Fell, III. iii. 18, V. ii. 371, cruel. Femetary (fumitory), V. ii. 49, a plant.

Ferret, IV. iv. 27, worry as a ferret does its prey.

Fet, III. i. 21, fetched; cf. farre- | fet, 2 Hen. VI, III. i. 305. Fet-locke (lock), IV. vii. 84, hair growing behind the lower joint of a horse's leg.

Few, I. ii. 252, brief, few words; 1 Hen. IV, I. i. 128. Figge (fig), III. vi. 58, perhaps the same as figo, perhaps a poisoned fig.

Figo, III. vi. 56, IV. i. 64, a gesture of contempt or insult, made with the thumb and fingers. Find, I. ii. 77, trace. Finde find)-faults, V. ii. 277,

fault-finders.

Fret, IV. vii. 84, chafe; 1 Hen.
IV, II. ii. 4.

Friend, IV. v. 20, befriend.
From the answer of, IV. vii. 144,

above accepting a challenge from. Full fraught (full-fraught), II. ii. 142, fully endowed, perfect. Functions, I. ii. 189, three sylla

bles.

Galled, III. i. 15, two syllables; worn away; galling, I. ii. 156, harassing; galling at, V. i. 73, mocking.

Galliard, I. ii. 261, a lively dance; Tw. Night, I. iii. 120.

Garb, V. i. 75, style; Oth., II. i.

339.

Fits, II. iv. 14, befits. Fixed, IV. ii. 53, two syllables. Flesht (fleshed), II. iv. 56, trained Gentle, IV. iii. 70, make of the for hunting, like hounds fed with rank of gentleman. meat; 2 Hen. IV, I. i. 165; III. Gentles, I. Pro. 9, gentlefolk; Tam. 111. 12, fierce, blood-thirsty ; of Shr., III. ii. 90. Rich III, IV. iii. 7. Gesture, IV. Pro. 27, demeanour. Flexure, IV. i. 262, bending, bow- Giddy, Í. ii. 150, inconstant. ing. Gilt, II. Pro. 27, gold. Flouds (floods), I. ii. 50, waters, Girded, III. Pro. 29, encircled ; rivers; 1 Hen. IV, I. iii. 107. girding, I. ii. 157, encircling. Flower-de-luce, V. ii. 215, fleur-Gleaned, I. ii. 156, two syllabies;

de-lys, emblem of France; Wint. Tale, IV. iv. 147. Fluellen, III. ii. 54, three syllables, stress on the second, Fluell-en; the Welsh name Llewellen. Footed, II. iv. 155, landed, on foot; Lear, III. iii. 14. For, II. iv. 123, as for. Forced, IV. i. 306, two syllables. Fore, II. ii. 2, before; Hen. VIII, II. iv. 149. Fore-spent, II. iv. 41, completely past; cf. 2 Hen. IV, I. i. 47. Fox, IV. iv. 11, sword. Foyles (foils), IV. Pro. 52, fencing swords, fencers. France, II. Pro. 21, the king of France.

French, IV. iv. 71, Frenchman, French king; cf. English, II.

iv. 4. French crownes (crowns), IV. i. 231, coins of a certain value, and bald heads.

Freshly, IV. Pro. 41, adverb modifying the verb instead of an adjective (fresh) agreeing with the subject; cf. greenely, V. ii. 149, and As You, III. ii. 226.

stript of its men. Gleeking, V. i. 73, scoffing. Glist ring, II. ii. 120, shining. Gloze, I. ii. 45, gloss, interpret; Tro. & Cres., II. ii. 172. God before, I. ii. 316, I swear before God.

Godden, III. ii. 84, good evening; cf. John, I. i. 195.

Grace, II. Pro. 29, ornament. Grace, III. vi. 67, gain credit for; As You, I. i. 146.

Great belly, IV. vii. 49, a compound adjective; fitting a big belly.

Greenely (greenly), V. ii. 140, foolish; for the use of the adverb, cf. freshly, IV. Pro. 41. Groat, V. i. 58, silver fourpence. Grosse (gross), II. ii. 106, pal

pable; Hen. IV, II. iv. 221; IV. i. 289, dull, stupid. Grossely (grossly), II. ii. 110, evidently.

Guard on (guidon), IV. ii. 69, standard.

Gulfe (gulf), II. iv. 13, whirlpool. Gun-stones, I. ii. 290, stone cannon

balls.

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