Glossary from The Complete Moby(tm) Shakespeare
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- NAPKIN
- a handkerchief
- NATURAL
- an idiot
- NAYWARD
- towards denial
- NAYWORD
- a catch-word, by-word
- NEB
- the beak
- NEELD
- a needle
- NEIF
- hand
- NEPHEW
- a grandson
- NETHER-STOCKS
- stockings
- NEXT
- nearest
- NICE
- foolish
- NICK
- score or reckoning; to brand with folly
- NIGHTED
- black as night
- NIGHT-RULE
- nightly solemnity
- NINE MEN'S MORRIS
- a place set apart for a Moorish dance by; nine men
- NINNY
- a fool, jester
- NOBILITY
- nobleness
- NOBLE
- a coin, worth 6s. 8d
- NODDY
- a dolt
- NONCE
- for the nonce, corrupted from 'for then once,'; for the occasion
- NOOK-SHOTTEN
- indented with bays and creeks
- NOURISH
- a nurse
- NOVUM
- a game at dice
- NOWL
- head
- NUTHOOK
- a hook for pulling down nuts, hence a thief;
- O
- a circle
- OAR
- to row as with oars
- OBSEQUIOUS
- behaving as becomes one who attends funeral; obsequies
- OBSEQUIOUSLY
- funereally
- OBSTACLE
- ridiculously used for 'obstinate.'
- OCCUPATION
- persons occupied in business
- OCCURENT
- an incident
- OD'S BODY
- | 'Od's in these
- OD'S HEARTLINGS
- | and all similar; | exclamations is
- OD'S PITTIKINS
- | a euphemism
- OD'S PLESSED WILL
- | for 'God's.'
- OEILLIAD
- an amorous glance
- O'ERPARTED
- having too important a part to act
- O'ER-RAUGHT
- overreached; overtasked
- OFFERING
- challenging
- OFFICE
- benefit, kindness; use, function
- OLD
- a cant term for great, as we say fine, or pretty
- ONCE
- some time
- ONEYER
- a banker. A doubtful word
- OPE
- open
- OPEN
- plain; Public; to give tongue as a hound
- OPERANT
- active
- OPINIONED
- used ridiculously for pinioned
- OPPOSITE
- adversary
- OPPOSITION
- combat
- OR
- before
- ORDER
- measures
- ORDINANCE
- rank, order
- ORGULOUS
- proud
- ORT
- leaving, refuse
- OSTENT
- show, appearance
- OSTENTATION
- show, appearance;
- OUNCE
- a beast of prey of the tiger kind
- OUPHE
- a fairy
- OUSEL-COCK
- the blackbird
- OUT
- all out, fully
- OUT-LOOK
- to face down
- OUTWARD
- not in the secret of affairs; outside
- OWE?††??a ?º??e
- to own
- PACK
- to practise unlawful confederacy; a number of people confederated
- PADDOCK
- a toad
- PAID
- punished
- PALABRAS
- words, a cant term, from the Spanish
- PALE
- to enclose
- PALL
- to wrap as with a pall
- PALLED
- impaired
- PALMER
- one who bears a palm-branch, in token of having; made a pilgrimage
to Palestine
- PALMY
- victorious
- PARCELLED
- belonging to individuals
- PARD
- the leopard
- PARITOR
- an apparitor
- PARLE
- talk, parley
- PARLOUS
- perilous; keen, shrewd
- PARTED
- endowed, gifted
- PARTIZAN
- a pike
- PASH
- the face; to strike violently, to bruise, crush
- PASS
- to practise; To surpass expectation
- PASSANT
- a term of heraldry, applied to animals; represented on the shield
as passing by at a trot
- PASSING
- surpassingly, exceedingly
- PASSION
- to have feelings
- PASSIONATE
- to suffer
- PASSY-MEASURE
- a kind of dance
- PASTRY
- the room where pastry was made
- PATCH
- a mean fellow
- PATCHED
- dressed in motley
- PATCHERY
- trickery
- PATH
- to walk
- PATHETICAL
- affected, hypocritical
- PATIENT
- to make patient, to compose
- PATINE
- the metal disc on which the bread is placed in; the?††??a ?º??e
administration of the Eucharist
- PATTERN
- to give an example of; Afford a pattern for
- PAUCA VERBA
- few words
- PAUCAS
- few, a cant word
- PAVIN
- a dance
- PAX
- a small image of Christ
- PAY
- to despatch
- PEAT
- a term of endearment for a child
- PEDASCULE
- a pedant, schoolmaster
- PEER
- to peep out
- PEIZE
- to balance, weigh down
- PELTING
- paltry
- PERDU
- lost
- PERDURABLE
- durable
- PERDY
- a euphemism for Par Dieu
- PERFECT
- certain; to inform perfectly
- PERIAPTS
- charms worn round the neck
- PERJURE
- a perjured person
- PERSEVER
- to persevere
- PERSPECTIVE
- a telescope, or some sort of optical glass
- PEW-FELLOW
- a comrade
- PHEEZE
- to comb, fleece, curry
- PIA-MATER
- the membrane covering the brain, the brain; itself
- PICK
- to pitch, throw
- PICKED
- chosen, selected
- PICKERS
- (and stealers), the fingers, used ridiculously
- PICKING
- insignificant
- PICKT-HATCH
- a place noted for brothels. Merry Wives; of Windsor
- PIED
- motley-coated, wearing the motley coat of a; jester
- PIELED
- shaven
- PLIGHT
- pitched
- PILCHER
- a scabbard
- PILL
- to pillage
- PIN ?††??a ?º??e
- a malady of the eye; The centre of a target
- PINFOLD
- a pound, a place to confine lost cattle
- PIONED
- digged
- PLACKET
- a petticoat-front
- PLAIN SONG
- a simple air
- PLAITED
- intricate
- PLANCHED
- made of boards
- PLANTATION
- colonizing, planting a colony
- PLAUSIVE
- plausible
- PLEACHED
- interwoven
- POINT
- a lace furnished with a tag by which the; breeches were held
up
- POINT-DE-VICE
- faultless
- POISE
- balance; Doubt
- POLLED
- bare
- POMANDER
- a perfumed ball
- POMEWATER
- a kind of apple
- POOR-JOHN
- a herring
- POPINJAY
- a parrot
- PORT
- pomp, state; a gate
- PORTABLE
- bearable
- PORTANCE
- conduct, behavior
- POSSESS
- to inform
- POTCH
- to push violently
- POTENT
- a potentate
- POUNCET-BOX
- a box for holding perfumes
- POWER
- forces, army
- PRACTISE
- wicked stratagem
- PRACTISANT
- a confederate
- PRANK
- to dress up
- PRECEPT
- a justice's summons
- PRECIOUSLY
- in business of great importance
- PREGNANCY
- fertility of invention
- PREGNANT
- fertile of invention; Ready; Obvious
- PRENOMINATE
- to name before?††??a ?º??ehand, to prophesy
- PRE-ORDINANCE
- old-established law
- PRESENCE
- the presence-chamber; High bearing
- PREST
- ready
- PRETENCE
- design
- PRETEND
- to portend; To intend
- PREVENT
- to anticipate
- PRICK
- the mark denoting the hour on a dial; to incite; To choose by
pricking a hole with a pin opposite the name
- PRICK-SONG
- music sung in parts by note
- PRICKET
- a stag of two years
- PRIDE
- heat
- PRIG
- to steal
- PRIME
- rank, lecherous
- PRIMER
- more-important
- PRIMERO
- a game at cards
- PRINCIPALITY
- that which holds the highest place
- PRINCOX
- a coxcomb
- PRISER
- a prize-fighter
- PROCURE
- to bring
- PREFACE
- interj. much good may it do you
- PROFANE
- outspoken
- PROGRESS
- a royal ceremonial journey
- PROJECT
- to shape or contrive
- PROMPTURE
- suggestion
- PRONE
- ready, willing
- PROOF
- strength of manhood
- PROPAGATE
- to advance, to forward
- PROPAGATION
- obtaining
- PROPER-FALSE
- natural falsehood
- PROPERTIED
- endowed with the properties of
- PROPERTIES
- scenes, dresses, &c. used in a theatre;
- PROPERTY
- to take possession of
- PROPOSE
- to supp?††??a ?º??eose, for the sake of argument; To converse;
conversation
- PROROGUE
- to defer
- PROVAND
- provender
- PROVISION
- forecast
- PUCELLE
- a virgin, the name given to Joan of Arc
- PUDENCY
- modesty
- PUGGING
- thieving
- PUN
- to pound
- PURCHASE
- to acquire, win; ain, winnings
- PUT
- to compel
- PUTTER-ON
- an instigator
- PUTTER-OUT
- one who lends money at interest
- PUTTING-ON
- instigation
- PUTTOCK
- a kite
- QUAIL
- to faint, be languid, be afraid; to cause to quail
- QUAINT
- curiously beautiful
- QUAKE
- to cause to quake or tremble
- QUALIFY
- to moderate
- QUALITY
- those of the same nature; Rank or condition
- QUARREL
- a suit, cause
- QUARRY
- game, a heap of game
- QUART D'ECU
- a quarter crown
- QUARTER
- the post allotted to a soldier
- QUAT
- a pimple; used in contempt of a person
- QUEASY
- squeamish, unsettled;
- QUELL
- murder
- QUENCH
- to grow cool
- QUERN
- a hand-mill
- QUEST
- enquiry, search, inquest, jury
- QUESTRIST
- one who goes in search of another
- QUICK
- so far gone in pregnancy that the child is; alive
- QUICKEN
- to come to life
- QUIDDIT
- | a subtle question
- ?††??a ?º??eQUIDDITY
- |
- QUILLET
- quidebet, a subtle case in law
- QUINTAIN
- a post for tilting at
- QUIP
- sharp jest, a taunt
- QUIRE
- to sing in concert
- QUIT
- to requite, respond; past tense of the verb to quit, quitted
- QUITANCE
- requital
- QUIVER
- active
- QUOTE
- to note
- RABATO
- a ruff
- RABBIT-SUCKER
- a weasel
- RACE
- breed; inherited nature
- RACK
- wreck; to enhance the price of anything; To drive as clouds
- RAG
- a term of contempt applied to persons
- RAKE
- to cover
- RAPT
- transported with emotion
- RAPTURE
- a fit
- RASCAL
- a lean deer
- RASH
- quick, violent
- RATE
- opinion, judgment; to assign, to value; To scold
- RATOLORUM
- a ludicrous mistake for Rotulorum
- RAUGHT
- past tense of reach
- RAVIN
- ravenous; to devour
- RAWLY
- inadequately
- RAWNESS
- unprovided state
- RAYED
- arrayed, served
- RAZED
- slashed
- REAR-MOUSE
- the bat
- REBATE
- to deprive of keenness
- REBECK
- a three-stringed fiddle
- RECEIPT
- money received
- RECEIVING
- capacity
- RECHEAT
- a point of the chase to call back the hounds
- RECORD
- to sing
- RECORDER
- a flute
- RECURE
- to cure, recover
- RED-LATTICE
- suitable to an ale-house, because ale-houses; had commonly red
lattices
- RED-PLAGUE
- erysipelas
- REDUCE
- to bring back
- REECHY
- smoky, dirty
- REFELL
- to refute
- REFER
- to reserve to
- REGIMENT
- government
- REGREET
- a salutation; to salute
- REGUERDON
- requital
- RELATIVE
- applicable
- REMEMBER
- to remind
- REMORSE
- pity
- REMORSEFUL
- full of pity, compassionate
- REMOTION
- removal
- REMOVED
- sequestered, remote
- RENDER
- to describe you; account
- RENEGE
- to renounce, to deny
- REPAIR
- to renovate, comfort
- REPEAL
- to reverse the sentence of exile. Two; Gentlemen of Verona
- REPROOF
- confutation
- REPUGN
- to resist
- REQUIEM
- mass for the dead, so called because it begins; with the words,
Requiem eternam dona eis, Domine
- RESOLVE
- to satisfy; To dissolve
- RESPECT
- consideration
- RESPECTIVE
- respectful, thoughtful; corresponding
- RESPECTIVELY
- respectfully
- RETAILED
- handed down
- RETIRE
- retreat; to draw back
- REVERB
- to echo
- REVOLT
- a rebel
- RIB
- to enclose as within ribs RID
- to destroy
- RIFT
- to split; a split
- RIGGISH
- wanton
- RIGOL
- a circle
- RIPE
- drunk
- RIVAGE
- the shore
- RIVAL
- a partner
- RIVALITY
- equal rank
- RIVE
- to fire
- ROAD
- the high road, applied to a common woman
- ROISTING
- roistering, violent
- ROMAGE
- unusual stir
- RONVON
- a term of contempt applied to a woman
- ROOD
- the crucifix
- ROOK
- a cheater
- ROPERY
- roguery
- ROPE-TRICKS
- tricks such as are played by a rope-dancer
- ROUND
- to whisper; To become great with child; to finish off; a diadem;
unceremonious
- ROUNDEL
- a dance or song
- ROUNDURE
- an enclosure
- ROUSE
- carousal
- ROYNISH
- mangy
- RUBIOUS
- ruddy
- RUDDOCK
- the redbreast
- RUSH
- to push
- RUSHLING
- rustling
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