Angle, angling-line; V. ii. 66. An if, if; I. v. 177.

Annexment, appendage; III. iii. 21.

Anon, soon, presently; II. ii. 505.

Answer, reply to a challenge; V. ii. 169.

Answer'd, explained; IV. i. 16. Antic, disguised, fantastic; I. V. 172.

Antique, ancient; V. ii. 344. Apart, aside, away; IV. i. 24. Ape; "the famous ape," etc., a reference to an old fable

which has not yet been identified; III. iv. 193-196. Apoplex'd, affected with apoplexy; III. iv. 73. Appointment, equipment; IV. vi. 16.

Apprehension, conception, perception; II. ii. 319.

as if, as though, IV. v. 103; so, IV. vii. 159; namely, I. iv. 25.

'As' es, used quibblingly (Fo

lios, "Assis"; Quartos, as sir "); V. ii. 43. Aslant, across; IV. vii. 168. Assault; of general a.," incí

dent to all men; II. i. 35. Assay, trial, test; II. ii. 71. try; III. i. 14.

make a.," throng to the rescue; III. iii. 69.

Assays of bias, indirect aims (such as one takes in the game of bowls, taking into account the bias side of the bowl); II. i. 65.

Assigns, appendages; V. ii. 150. Assistant, helpful; I. iii. 3.

upon the legal sense of the word; V. i. 122. Attent, attentive; I. ii. 193. Attribute, reputation; I. iv. 22. Aught; "hold'st at a.," holds

of any value, values at all; IV. iii. 60.

Authorities, offices of authority, attributes of power; IV. ii. 17. Avouch, declaration; I. i. 57. A-work, at work; II. ii. 507.

From Whitney's Emblems, 1586. Bedded, lying flat, (?) matted; III. iv. 121.

Bed-rid, bed-ridden (Quartos 2-5, "bed-red"); I. ii. 29. Beetles, projects, juts over; I. iv. 71.

Behove, behoof, profit; V. i. 67. Bent, straining, tension (properly an expression of archery); II. ii. 30.

"to the top of my b.," to the utmost; III. ii. 393. Beshrew, a mild oath; II. i. 113. Besmirch, soil, sully; I. iii. 15. Bespeak, address, speak to; II. ii. 140.

Best; "in all my b.," to the utmost of my power; I. ii.

120.

Bestowed, placed, lodged; II. ii. 544

Beteem, allow, permit; I. ii.

141.

Bethought, thought of; I. iii 90.

Bilboes, stocks or fetters used for prisoners on board ship; V. ii. 6. (Cp. illustration.)

Board, address; II. ii. 170. Bodes, forbodes, portends; I. i. 69.

Blast in proof; "a metaphor taken from the trying or proving of fire-arms or cannon, which blast or burst in the proof" (Steevens); IV.

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vii. 155. Blastments, ences; I. iii. 42. Blazon; "eternal b.," publication of eternal mysteries (perhaps "eternal" infernal, or used "to express extreme abhorrence"); I. v. 21. Blench, start aside; II. ii. 623. Bloat (Quartos, "blowt"; Folios, "blunt"); bloated; III. iv. 182.

Blood, passion, IV. iv. 58; "b. and judgement," passion and reason, III. ii. 74. Blown, full blown, in its bloom; III. i. 165.

Bodkin, the old word for dagger; III. 1. 76. Bodykins, diminutive of body; "the reference was originally to the sacramental bread"; II. ii. 550.

"Bonnie Sweet Robin," the first words of a well-known song of the period (found in Holborne's Cittharn Schoole, 1597, etc.); IV. v. 187. Bore, calibre, importance of a question; IV. vi. 27.

Borne in hand, deceived with false hopes; II. ii. 67. Bound, ready, prepared; I. v. 6. was bound; I. ii. 90. Bourn, limit, boundary; III. i.

Capitol; "I was killed i' the C." (an error repeated in Julius Cæsar; Cæsar was killed in the Curia Pompeii, near the theatre of Pompey in the Campus Martius); III. ii. 109.

Card; "by the c.," with precision (alluding probably to the shipman's card); V. i. 144.

Carnal, sensual; V. ii. 384. Carouses, drinks; V. ii. 292. Carriage, tenor, import; I. i. 94. Carry it away, gain the victory; II. ii. 375.

Cart, car, chariot; III. ii. 162. Carve for, choose for, please; I. iii. 20.

Cast, casting, moulding; I. i. 73.

contrive; "c. beyond ourselves," to be over suspicious (? to be mistaken); II. i. 115. Cataplasm, plaster; IV. vii. 144. Cautel, deceit, falseness; I. iii. 15. Caviare; "a Russian condi

ment made from the roe of the sturgeon; at that time a new and fashionable delicacy not obtained nor relished by the vulgar, and therefore used by Shakespeare to signify anything above their comprehension' (Nares); II. ii. 455. Cease, extinction

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(Quartos, cesse"; Pope, “decease"); III. iii. 15.

Censure, opinion; I. iii. 69.

Centre, i.e. of the Earth; II. ii. 159.

Cerements, cloths used as shrouds for dead bodies; I. iv. 48.

Chameleon, an animal supposed to feed on air; III. ii. 98. Change, exchange; I. ii. 163. Chanson, song (used affectedly; not found elsewhere in Shakespeare; "pious chanson"; so Quartos; Folios, 66 pons Chanson"; "pans chanson"); II. ii. 436. Character, hand-writing; IV. vii. 53.

Character, write imprint; I. iii. 59.

Charge, expense, IV. iv. 47; load, weight, V. ii. 43. Chariest, most scrupulous; I. iii. 36.

Checking at; to check at," a term in falconry, applied to a hawk when she forsakes her proper game and follows some other (Quartos 2, 3,

the King at"; Quartos 4, 5, 6, 'liking not"); IV. vii. 63.

Cheer, fare; III. ii. 226. Chief, chiefly, especially; I. iii. 74.

Chopine, a high cork shoe; II.

ii. 444. (Cp. illustration.) Chorus, interpreter of the action of a play; III. ii. 252. Chough, a sordid and wealthy boor (chuff according to 'chattering crow");

some, V. ii. 88.

From a Venetian specimen engraved in Douce.

Cicatrice, scar; IV. iii. 62. Circumstance, circumlocution, detail; I. v. 127.

"c. of thought," details of thought which lead to a conclusion; III. iii. 83. Clapped, applauded; II. ii. 355Clepe, call; I. iv. 19. Climatures, regions; I. i. 125. Closely, secretly; III. i. 29. Closes with, agrees with; II. i.

45.

Coagulate, coagulated, clotted; II. ii. 482.

Cockle hat, a mussel-shell in the hat was the badge of pilgrims bound for places of devotion beyond sea; IV. v. 25. Coil; "mortal c.," mortal life, turmoil of mortality; III. i. 67.

Cold, chaste; IV. vii. 173. Coldly, lightly; IV. iii. 64. Collateral, indirect; IV. v. 206. Colleagued, leagued; I. ii. 21.