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Glossary from The Complete Moby(tm) Shakespeare

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EAGER
sour; Harsh; Biting
EANLING
a yeanling, a lamb
EAR
to plough
ECHE
to eke out
EFT
ready, convenient
EISEL
vinegar
ELD
old age
EMBOSSED
swollen into protuberances; Covered with foam
EMBOWELLED
disembowelled, emptied
EMBRASURE
embrace
EMINENCE
exalted station
EMPERY
empire
EMULATION
jealousy, mutiny
EMULOUS
jealous
ENCAVE
to place oneself in a cave
END
'Still an end,' continually for ever
ENFEOFF
to place in possession in fee simple
ENGINE
a machine of war
ENGLUT
to swallow speedily
ENGROSS
to make gross or fat
ENGROSSMENT
immoderate acquisition
ENKINDLE
to make keen
ENMEW
to shut up, as a hawk is shut up in a mew
ENSCONCE
to cover as with a fort
ENSEAMED
fat, rank
ENSHIELD
hidden
ENTERTAIN
encounter; Experience
ENTERTAINMENT
treatment; A disposition to entertain a proposal; Service
ENTREATMENTS
interviews
EPHESIAN
a toper, a cant term
EQUIPAGE
attendance
EREWHILE
a short time since
ESCOT
to pay a man's reckoning, to maintain
ESPERANCE
hope, used as a war-cry
ESPIAL
a scout or spy
ESTIMATION
conjecture
ESTRIDGE
ostridge
ETERNE
eternal
EVEN
coequal; to equal
EXAMINE
to question
EXCREMENT
that which grows outwardly from the body; and has no sensation like the hair or nails; Any outward show
EXECUTOR
an executioner
EXEMPT
excluded
EXERCISE
a religious service
EXHALE
to hale or draw out; to draw the sword
EXHIBITION
allowance, pension
EXIGENT
death, ending
EXION
ridiculously used for 'action.'
EXPECT
expectation
EXPEDIENCE
expedition, undertaking; Haste
EXPEDIENT
expeditious, swift
EXPIATE
completed
EXPOSTULATE
to expound, discuss
EXPOSTURE
exposure
EXPRESS
to reveal
EXPULSE
to expel
EXSUFFICATE
that which has been hissed off, contemptible
EXTEND
to seize
EXTENT
a seizure
EXTERN
outward
EXTIRP
to extirpate
EXTRACTING
distracting
EXTRAUGHT?††??a ?Ί??e
part. extracted, descended
EXTRAVAGANT
foreign, wandering
EXTREMES
extravagance of conduct; Extremities
EYAS
a nestling hawk
EYAS-MUSKET
a nestling of the musket or merlin, the smallest; species of British hawk
EYE
a glance, oeillad; a shade of colour, as in shot silk
EYNE
eyes
FACINOROUS
wicked
FACT
guilt
FACTIOUS
instant, importunate
FACULTY
essential virtue or power
FADGE
to suit
FADING
a kind of ending to a song
FAIN
glad; gladly
FAIR
beauty
FAITOR
a traitor
FALL
to let fall
FALLOW
fawn-coloured
FALSE
falsehood
FALSING
deceptive
FAMILIAR
a familiar spirit
FANCY
FANCY-FREE
untouched by love
FANG
to seize in the teeth
FANTASTIC
a fantastical person
FAP
drunk
FAR
farther
FARCED
stuffed
FARDEL
a burden
FARTUOUS
used ridiculously for ' virtuous.'
FAST
assuredly, unalterably
FAT
dull
FAVOUR
countenance; Complexion; Quality
FEAR
the object of fear; to affright
FEARFUL
subject to fear, timorous
FEAT
dexter?††??a ?Ί??eous, to make fine
FEATER
comp. degree. more neatly
FEATLY
nimbly, daintily
FEATURE
beauty
FEDERARY
confederate
FEEDER
agent, servant
FEE-GRIEF
a grief held, as it were, in fee-simple, or the; peculiar property of him who possesses it
FEERE
a companion, husband
FEHEMENTLY
used ridiculously for 'vehemently.'
FELL
the hide
FENCE
art or skill in defence
FEODARY
one who holds an estate by suit or service to; a superior lord; hence one who acts under the; direction of another
FESTER
to rankle, grow virulent
FESTINATELY
quickly
FET
fetched
FICO
a fig
FIELDED
in the field of battle
FIG
to insult
FIGHTS
clothes hung round a ship to conceal the men; from the enemy
FILE
a list or catalogue; to defile; To smooth or polish; To make even
FILL-HORSE
shaft-horse
FILLS
the shafts
FILTH
a whore
FINE
end; to make fine or specious
FINELESS
endless
FIRAGO
ridiculously used for 'Virago.'
FIRE-DRAKE
Will o' the Wisp
FIRE-NEW
with the glitter of novelty on, like newly-; forged metal
FIRK
to chastise
FIT
a canto or division of a song; A trick or habit
FITCHEW
a polecat
FIVES
a disease incident to horses
FLAP-DRAGON
raisins in burning brandy
FLAP-JACK
a pan-cake
FLAT
certain
FLATNESS
lowness, depth
FLAW
a gust of wind; sudden emotion, or the cause of it; to make a flaw in, to break
FLECKED
spotted, streaked
FLEET
to float; To pass away; to pass the time
FLEETING
inconstant
FLESHMENT
the act of fleshing the sword, hence the; first feat of arms
FLEWED
furnished with hanging lips, as hounds are
FLIGHT
a particular mode of practising archery
FLIRT-GILL
a light woman
FLOTE
wave, sea
FLOURISH
an ornament; to ornament, disguise with ornament
FLUSH
fresh, full of vigour
FOIL
defeat, disadvantage
FOIN
to fence, fight
FOISON
plenty
FOND
foolish, foolishly affectionate
FOOT-CLOTH
a saddle-cloth hanging down to the ground
FOR
for that, because
FORBID
accursed, outlawed
FORBODE
forbidden
FORCE
to stuff, for 'farce.'
FORCED
falsely attributed
FORDO
to kill, destroy; To weary
FOREIGN
obliged to live abroad
FOREPAST
former
FORESLOW
to delay
FORFEND
to forbid
FORGETIVE
inventive
FORKED
horned
FORMAL
regular, retaining its proper and essential; characteristic
FORSPEAK
to speak against
FORSPENT
exhausted, weary
FORTHRIGHT
a straight path; forthrights and meanders,; straight paths and crooked ones
FORWEARY
to weary, exhaust
FOSSET-SELLER
one who sells the pipes inserted into a vessel; to give vent to the liquor, and stopped by a; spigot
FOX
a sword; a cant word
FOX-SHIP
the cunning of the fox
FRAMPOLD
peevish, unquiet
FRANK
the feeding place of swine
FRANKED
confined
FRANKLIN
a freeholder, a small squire
FRAUGHT
freighted
FRAUGHTAGE
freight
FRAUGHTING
to fraught. loading or constituting the; cargo of a ship
FRESH
a spring of fresh water
FRET
the stop of a guitar; to wear away; To variegate
FRIEND
to befriend
FRIPPERY
an old-clothes shop
FROM
prep. contrary to
FRONT
to affront, oppose
FRONTIER
opposition
FRONTLET
that which is worn on the forehead
FRUSH
to break or bruise
FRUSTRATE
frustrated
FUB OFF
to put off
FULFILL
to fill full
FULL
complete
FULLAM
a loaded die
FULSOME
lustful
FURNISHED
equipped
FURNITOR
furnitory, an herb
GABERDINE
a loose outer coat, or smock frock
GAD
a pointed instrument, a goad; Upon the gad, with impetuous haste, upon the spur; of the moment
GAIN-GIVING
misgiving
GAIT
going, steps
GALLIARD
a kind of dance
GALLIASSE
a kind of ship
GALLIMAUFRY
a ridiculous medley
GALLOW
to scare
GALLOWGLASS
the irregular infantry of Ireland, and the; Highlands of Scotland
GAMESTER
a frolicsome person; A loose woman
GARBOIL
disorder, uproar
GARISH
gaudy, staring
GARNER
to lay by, as corn in a barn
GAST
frightened
GAUDY
festive
GAZE
an object of wonder
GEAR
matter of business of any kind
GECK
a fool
GENERAL
the generality, common people
GENERATIONS
children
GENEROSITY
noble birth
GENEROUS
noble
GENTILITY
good manners
GENTLE
gentlefolk; noble; to ennoble
GENTRY
complaisance, conduct becoming gentlefolk
GERMAN
akin; Appropriate
GERMEN
seed, embryo
GEST
period
GIB
a he-cat
GIFTS
talents, endowment
GIGLOT
a wanton girl
GILDER
a coin of the value of 1s. 6d. or 2s
GILT
money; State of wealth
GIMMAL
double
GIMMOR
contrivance
GING
gang
GIRD
to gibe; a sarcasm or gibe
GLEEK
to scoff; a scoff
GLOSE
to comment; hence, to be garrulous
GLUT
to swallow
GNARL
to snarl
GOOD-DEED
indeed
GOOD-DEN
good-evening, contracted from 'Good-even.'
GOOD-YEAR or GOOD-JER
a corruption of the French goujere; the; venereal disease
GORBELLIED
corpulent
GOURD
a species of game of chance
GOUT
a drop
GOVERNMENT
discretion
GRACIOUS
abounding in grace Divine
GRAINED
engrained
GRAMERCY
int. grand mercy, much thanks
GRANGE
the farmstead attached to a monastery, a; solitary farm-house
GRATILLITY
used ridiculously for 'gratuity.'
GRATULATE
to congratulate
GRAVE
to bury
GREASILY
grossly
GREEK
a bawd
GREEN
immature, fresh, unused
GREENLY
foolishly
GREET
to weep
GRIZE
a step
GROSSLY
palpably
GROUNDLING
one who sits in the pit of a theatre
GROWING
accruing
GUARD
decoration; to decorate
GUARDAGE
guardianship
GUINEA-HEN
the pintado, a cant term
GULES
red, a term in heraldry
GULF
the throat
GUN-STONE
a cannon ball
GUST
taste, relish
GYVE
to fetter
HACK
to become common
HAGGARD
a wild or unreclaimed hawk
HAG-SEED
seed or offspring of a hag
HAIR
course, order, grain
HALIDOM
holiness, sanctification, Christian fellowship;; used as an oath, and analogous to 'By my faith.'
HALL
an open space to dance in
HALLOWMAS
All Hallows' Day
HAP
chance, fortune
HAPPILY
accidentally
HANDSAW
perhaps a corruption of Heronshaw; a hern
HARDIMENT
defiance, brave deeds
HARLOCK
charlock, wild mustard
HARRY
to annoy, harass
HAUGHT
haughty
HAUNT
company
HAVING
property, fortune
HAVIOUR
behavior
HAY
a term in fencing
HEADY
violent, headlong
HEAT
of 'to heat,' heated
HEBENON
henbane
HEFT
a heaving; furnished with a handle: hence,; metaphorically, finished off, delicately formed
HELM
to steer, manage
HENCE
henceforward
HENCHMAN
a page or attendant
HENT
to seize, take
HERMIT
a beadsman, one bound to pray for another
HEST
command
HIGH
used in composition with adjectives to heighten; or emphasize their signification, as, high-; fantastical
HIGHT
called
HILD
held
HILDING
a paltry fellow
HINT
suggestion
HIREN
a prostitute. with a pun on the word 'iron.'
HIT
to agree
HOISE
to hoist, heave up on high
HOIST
hoisted
HOLP
to help; helped
HOME
to the utmost
HONEST
chaste
HONESTY
chastity
HONEY-STALKS
the red clover
HOODMAN-BLIND
the game now called blindman's-buff
HORN-MAD
probably, 'harn-mad,' that is, brain-mad
HOROLOGE
a clock
HOT-HOUSE
a brothel
HOX
to hamstring
HUGGER-MUGGER
secresy
HULL
to drift on the sea like a wrecked ship
HUMOROUS
fitful, or, perhaps, hurried
HUNT-COUNTER
to follow the scent the wrong way
HUNTS-UP
a holla used in hunting when the game was on; foot
HURLY
noise, confusion
HURTLE
to clash
HURTLING
noise, confusion
HUSBANDRY
frugality; Management
HUSWIFE
a jilt
ICE-BROOK
an icy-cold brook
I'FECKS
int. in faith, a euphemism
IGNOMY
ignominy
IMAGE
representation
IMBARE
to bare, lay open
IMMEDIACY
close connexion
IMMOMENT
unimportant
IMP
to graft. to splice a falcon's broken feathers; a scion, a child
IMPAWN
to stake, compromise
IMPEACH
to bring into question; impeachment
IMPEACHMENT
cause of censure, hindrance
IMPERCEIVERANT
duff of perception
IMPETICOS
to pocket
IMPORTANCE
importunity
IMPORTANT
importunate
IMPORTING
significant
IMPOSE
imposition, meaning command or task imposed; upon any one
IMPOSITIONS
command
IMPRESE
a device with a motto
IMPRESS
to compel to serve
INCAPABLE
unconscious
INCARNARDINE
to dye red
INCENSED
incited, egged on
INCH-MEAL
by inch-meal, by portions of inches
INCLINING
compliant; inclination
INCLIP
to embrace
INCLUDE
conclude
INCONY
fine, delicate
INCORRECT
ill-regulated
IND
India
INDENT
to compound or bargain
INDEX
a preface
INDIFFERENT
ordinary
INDIGEST
disordered
INDITE
to invite; To convict
INDUCTION
introduction, beginning
INDURANCE
delay
INFINITE
infinite power
INGRAFT
to engraff, engrafted
INHABITABLE
uninhabitable
INHERIT
to possess
INHOOPED
penned up in hoops
INKHORN-MATE
a contemptuous term for an ecclesiastic, or man; of learning
INKLE
a kind of narrow fillet or tape
INLAND
civilized, well-educated
INLY
inward; inwardly
INQUISITION
enquiry
INSANE
that which causes insanity
INSCONCE
to arm, fortify
INSTANCE
example; Information; Reason, proof
INTEND
to pretend
INTENDING
regarding
INTENDMENT
intention
INTENTIVELY
attentively
INTERESSED
allied
INTERMISSION
pause, delay
INTRENCHMENT
not capable of being cut
INTRINSE
intricate
INTRINSICATE
intricate
INVENTION
imagination
INWARD
an intimate friend; intimate
INWARDNESS
intimacy
IRREGULOUS
lawless, licentious
ITERATION
reiteration
JACK
a mean fellow
JACK-A-LENT
a puppet thrown at in Lent
JACK GUARDANT
a jack in office
JADE
to whip, to treat ?††??a ?Ί??ewith contempt
JAR
the ticking of a clock; to tick as a clock
JAUNCE
to prance
JESS
a strap of leather attached to the talons of a; hawk, by which it is held on the fist
JEST
to tilt in a tournament
JET
to strut
JOURNAL
daily
JOVIAL
appertaining to Jove
JUDICIOUS
critical
JUMP
to agree; to hazard; hazard; exactly, nicely
JUSTICER
a judge, magistrate
JUT
to encroach
JUTTY
a projection; to jut out beyond
JUVENAL
youth, young man
KAM
crooked
KECKSY
hemlock
KEECH
a lump of tallow
KEEL
to skin
KEEP
to restrain
KEISAR
Caesar, Emperor
KERN
the rude foot soldiers of the Irish
KIBE
a chilblain
KICKSHAW
a made dish
KICKSY WICKSY
a wife, used in disdain
KILN-HOLE
the ash-hole under a kiln
KIND
nature
KINDLE
to bring forth young; used only of beasts
KINDLESS
unnatural
KINDLY
natural
KIRTLE
a gown
KNAP
to snap, crack
KNAVE
a boy; A serving-man
KNOT
a figure in garden beds
KNOW
to acknowledge
LABRAS
lips
LACED-MUTTON
a cour?††??a ?Ί??etesan
LAG
the lowest of the people; late, behindhand
LAKIN
ladykin, little lady, an endearing term applied to the Virgin Mary in the oath, 'By our lakin.'
LAND-DAMN
perhaps to extirpate; Hanmer thinks it means "to kill by stopping the urine"
LAPSED
taken, apprehended
LARGE
licentious, free
LARGESS
a present
LASS-LORN
deserted by a mistress
LATCH
to smear; To catch
LATED
belated
LATTEN
made of brass
LAUND
lawn
LAVOLTA
a dance
LAY
wager
LEAGUE
besieging army
LEASING
lying
LEATHER-COATS
a kind of apple
LEECH
a physician
LEER
countenance, complexion
LEET
a manor court
LEGE
to allege
LEGERITY
lightness
LEIGER
an ambassador resident abroad
LEMAN
a lover or mistress
LENTEN
meagre; That which may be eaten in Lent
L'ENVOY
the farewell or moral at the end of a tale or; poem
LET
to hinder; to binder; a hindrance
LETHE
death
LEVEL
to aim; that which is aimed at
LEWD
ignorant, foolish
LEWDLY
wickedly
LEWDSTER
a lewd person
LIBBARD
a leopard
LIBERAL
licentious
LIBERTY
libertinism
LICENCE
licentiousness
LIEF
dear
LIFTER
a thief
LIGHT O' LOVE
a tune so called
LIGHTLY
easily, generally
LIKE
to please; to liken, compare; likely
LIKELIHOOD
promise, appearance
LIKING
condition
LIMBECK
an alembick, a still
LIMBO
or Limbo patrum, the place where good men under; the Old Testament were believed to be imprisoned till; released by Christ after his crucifixion
LIME
bird-lime; to entangle as with bird-lime; To smear with bird-lime; To mix lime with beer or other liquor
LIMN
to draw
LINE
to cover on the inside; To strengthen by inner works
LINSTOCK
a staff with a match at the end of it used by; gunners in firing cannon
LIST
a margin, hence a bound or enclosure
LITHER
lazy
LITTLE
miniature
LIVELIHOOD
appearance of life
LIVERY
a law phrase, signifying the act of delivering; a freehold into the possession of the heir or; purchaser
LIVING
lively, convincing
LOACH
a fish so called
LOB
a looby
LOCKRAM
a sort of coarse linen
LODE-STAR
the leading-star, pole-star
LOFFE
to laugh
LOGGATS
the game called nine-pins
LONGLY
longingly
LOOF
to lull, bring a vessel up to the wind
LOON
a ?††??a ?Ί??elow contemptible fellow
LOT
a prize in a lottery
LOTTERY
that which falls to a man by lot
LOWT
a clown; to treat one as a lowt, with contempt
LOZEL
a spendthrift
LUBBER
a leopard
LUCE
n. the pike or jack, a fresh-water fish
LUMPISH
duff, dejected
LUNES
fits of lunacy
LURCH
to defeat, to win; to shift, to play tricks
LURE
a thing stuffed to resemble a bird with which; the falconer allures a hawk
LUSH
juicy, luxuriant
LUSTIG
lusty, cheerful
LUXURIOUS
lascivious
LUXURY
lust
LYM
a limer or slow hound
MADE
having his fortune made
MAGNIFICO
the chief magistrate at Venice
MAGOT-PIE
a magpie, a pie which feeds on magots
MAIL
covered as with a coat of mail
MAIN-COURSE
a sea-term
MAKE
to do up, bar; To do
MALKIN
a familiar name for Mary; hence a servant; wench
MALLECHO
mischief
MAMMERING
hesitating
MAMMETS
a woman's breasts; A doll
MAMMOCK
to break, tear
MAN
to tame a hawk
MANAGE
management
MANDRAGORA
or Mandrake a plant of soporiferous quality,; supposed to resemble a man
MANKIND
having a masculine nature
MARCHES
frontiers, borders
MARCHPANE
a kind of sweet biscuit
MARGENT
margin
MARRY TRAP
an oath
MARTLEMAS
the Feast of St. Martin, which occurs on the; 11th of Nov. when the fine weather generally ends;; hence applied to an old man
MATCH
an appointment
MATE
to confound, dismay
MEACOCK
tame, cowardly
MEALED
mingled
MEAN
instrument used to promote an end; the tenor part in a harmony; opportunity, power
MEASURE
reach; A stately dance
MEAZEL
a leper, spoken in contempt of a mean person
MEDAL
a portrait in a locket
MEDICINE
a physician
MEED
reward, hire; Merit
MEHERCLE
by Hercules
MEINY
retinue
MELL
to mix, to meddle
MEMORISE
to cause to be remembered
MEPHISTOPHILUS
the name of a familiar spirit
MERCATANTE
a foreign trader
MERELY
simply, absolutely
MESS
a company of four
METAPHYSICAL
supernatural
METE-YARD
measuring-wand
MEW UP
to confine
MICHER
a truant
MICKLE
much
MILL-SIXPENCE
a milled sixpence
MINCE
to do any thing affectedly
MINCING
affected
MISCREATE
illegitimate
MISDOUBT
to suspect
MISERY
avarice
MISPRISE
to despise; To mistake
MISPRISION
mistake
MISSIVE
messenger
MISTEMPERED
angry
MISTHINK
to think ill of
MISTRESS
the jack in bowling
MOBLED
muffled
MODERN
commonplace
MODULE
a model, image
MOE
and more. Of frequent occurrence
MOIETY
a portion
MOME
a stupid person
MOMENTANY
momentary
MONTHS-MIND
a monthly commemoration of the dead, but used; ludicrously to mean a great mind or strong desire
MOOD
anger
MOON-CALF
a nick-name applied to Caliban
MOONISH
inconstant
MOP
nod
MORISCO
a Moor
MORRIS-PIKE
Moorish-pike
MORT
death, applied to animals of the chase
MORT-DU-VINAIGRE
a ridiculous oath
MORTAL
fatal, deadly; Murderous
MORTIFIED
ascetic
MOSE
a doubtful word, applied to some disease; in a horse
MOTION
solicitation; Emotion; a puppet
MOTIVE
one who moves; That which moves
MOTLEY
or the many-coloured coat of a fool, or; a fool
MOTLEY-MINDED
foolish
MOUSE-HUNT
a weasel
MOW
to make grimaces
MOY
a coin, probably a moidore
MUCH
int. significant of contempt; used ironically
MURE
a wall
MUST
a scramble
MUTINE
to mutiny; a mutineer

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