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A, prefix, compounded with the gerundial infinitive, as in a-hanging, 405. [A.-S. an, in or on, as in a-broad, a-float, &c.]

Addition, s., title, 315, 353, 405.
Afeard, adj., afraid, 279.

Affront, v. t., confront, meet, 323.
Aidant, adj., helpful, 399. Comp. alle-
giant, King Henry VIII., Part ii., line
418.

Alack, interj., exclamation of sorrow, 392. For alas, as in lack-a-day. Amiss, s., a misfortune, 337.

An, conj., if, 277, 296, 320. [A form of and, which in O. E. often means if, and indicates that its clause is to be taken with the other. So, but sometimes means unless, implying that its clause is excluded.]

Anchor, s., an anchoret, a hermit, 329. [O. E. ancre, a nun; Gr. ȧva-xwpéw, I retire.]

Annoyance, s., hurt, injury, 366. [N. Fr. annoyer; Fr. nuire, to hurt; Lat. ad, and noceo, I injure.] Apoplexed, adj., paralyzed, 333. Arbitrement, s., arbitrament, decision, 401. [Lat. arbiter, a judge.] Aroint, interj., begone, 394. [Derived variously from Goth. ar, aer, go, hynt, behind; from It. rogna, the mange; and from Lat. averrunco, to avert.] Arrant, adj., shameless, infamous; lit. vagabond, wandering, 319, 325. [Lat. errant-is, from errare, to wander.] Attent, adj., attentive, 311.

Ban, s., à curse; lit. a proclamation, 330. [A.-S. bannan, to publish.] Bated, part., yielded, allowed, 340. [E. abate, to lower; Fr. battre, to strike down.]

Bay, v. t., to bark at, 292. [Fr. abbayer, It. baiare, to bark as a dog.]

Beaver, 8., the movable part of a helmet

covering the mouth, and enabling the wearer to drink, 312. [O. Fr. bèvere, a drinker; from Lat. bibere, to drink.] Become, v. t., to befit, 274. [A.-S. ge

cweman, to satisfy; Ger. be-quemen, to accommodate. The ge is the A.-S. augment; O. E. y in y-clept. This is a different word from become, to come to be; A.-S. be-cuman.] Beholding, adj., indebted; for beholden, 287. [A.-S. ge-healden.] See Become. Belike, adv., likely, 291. [A.-S. gelic; Dut. gelyk; Ger. gleich.] See Become. Benison, s., a blessing, 380. [Fr. benisson; Lat. benedictio.] Its opposite is malison,

a curse.

Besort, v. t., to suit, agree with, 384.

[Be- and sort, to classify or arrange; from Fr. sorte; Lat. sors, sortis, lot.] Beware, v. t., to avoid, take heed of: generally intr. followed by of, 272. [A.-S. ge-warenian; waer, wary.] See Become.

Bilboes, s., fetters, or a bar of iron with

fetters attached to it, for coupling mutineers, 339. [Bilboa, in Spain, where they were made.]

Blazon, s., revelation, 317. [Fr. blasonner, to explain the devices of heraldry.] Bodements, s., portents, forebodings, 365. [A.-S. bódian, to announce; from bód, a command.]

Boot, s., recompense, 405.

[A.-S. bót,

amends; bétan, to amend.] Bootless, adj., useless, 405. [Ib.] Bootless, adv., uselessly, 282. [16.] Bore, s., importance, weight; lit. the calibre of a gun, 338. [A.-S. borian, to pierce.]

Botch, v. t., to patch, put clumsily together; lit. to swell up, 336. [E. boss, a protuberance, a stud on a shield; It. bozza; Fr. bosse.]

Bourn, s., boundary, confines, 324. [Fr. borne.]

Brainsickly, adv., irresolutely, with a | Distract, adj., for distracted; mad, 294. distempered mind, 360.

Cadent, adj., falling, 385. [Lat. cado, I fall.]

Cap-a-pe, adv., from head to foot, 311. [Fr. cap-a-pie.]

Carouse, v. i., to drink (a health), 343. [Ger. rausch, intoxication; gerausch, noise.]

Censure, s., opinion, in a general sense,

328.

Century, s., a company of a hundred soldiers, 398.

Champain, s., an open country, 375. Chappy, adj., wrinkled, full of cracks,

352.

Chew, v. i., to reflect, ruminate, 274. [A.-S. ceowan, to chew; cú, a cow, the animal that chews the cud (what is chewed), the metaphor involved in Shakespeare's use of the word.]

Choler, s., anger; supposed formerly to arise from excess of bile, 292. [Gr. xóλn, bile.]

Choleric, adj., ill-humoured, 292, 380. [Ib.] Circumstance, s., ceremony, 319. Clepe, v. t., to call, name, 315. [A.-S. cleopian, clypian, to call; p. p. ge-clypode; whence y-clept (Chaucer), cleaped (Spenser), and clept (Shakespeare).] Cling, v. t., to wither, shrivel up, 368. [A.-S. clingan, to wither, pine.] Comfortable, adj., able to comfort, 385. Con, v. t., to learn; ken, know, 294. [A.-S. cunnian, to search into, prove; from cunnan, to know.]

Convince, v. t., to overpower, 358. [Lat.

con, and victus, conquered, from vinco.] Couching, s., obeisance, a fawning attitude, 282. [Fr. couchant, from coucher, to lie down.] Counterfeit, adj., imitated, as a portrait, 333.

Cow, v. t., to subdue with fear, 368.

Darkling, adv., in the dark, 383. Deboshed, part., debauched, drunken,

384.

Derogate, adj., for derogated; degraded,

385.

Dint, s., a stroke, 289. [A.-S. dynt; Sc. dunt.]

Disappointed, adj., unprepared; without receiving the appointments of the Church at death, 318.

Disquantity, v. t., to reduce in amount, 384.

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Doom, s., sentence, 377. [A.-S. deman, to judge. From doom comes doomsday, day of judgment; and O. E. doomsman, a judge.]

Dout, v. t., to extinguish, 339.

[E. do and out. Comp. doff=do off; don=do on; dup=do up.]

Down-gyved, adj., hanging down, like gyves, or fetters, 321.

Drizzle, v. t., to rain, or pour, 278. Durst, v. i., past of dare, 293, 377. [A.-S. dorste, 3rd per. sing. past of dear, I dare.]

Eager, adj., sharp, biting, 315; lit. sour, 318. [Fr. aigre, Lat. arer, sour.] Earnest, s., pledge, a small payment in advance as a guarantee of something promised, 353, 354. [O. Fr. arres, ernes; Lat. arrha; Sc. arles, money given in hand on the hiring of servants.] Ecstasy, s., madness, 325; distraction, 324; rapture. [Fr. extase; Gr. EkσTaσis, distraction, from ik, out, and cornμi, I stand.]

Espial, s., a spy, 323. [Fr. espion; Ger. spion.]

Fain, adv., gladly, 276. [A.-S. faegen, glad.]

Fantastical, adj., fanciful, unreal, 352,

354.

Fardel, s., a burden, 324. [It. fardello.] Favour, s., countenance, expression of face, 273, 356. The word applies first, to inward feeling, secondly, to the outward expression of feeling. Countenance also has both meanings.

Fell, s., scalp, 367; skin, 403. [A.-S. fell; Dut. vel; O. E. fel; Lat. pellis, the skin.]

Fell, adj., cruel, 285, 344. [A.-S. fell; O. Fr. felle, cruel. Comp. Sc. fell, determined, mettlesome.] Festinate, adj., speedy, 396. [Lat. festinatus, hasty.]

Fetch, s., an excuse, stratagem, 386. Flaw, s., a sudden emotion, 362. [Sw. flaga, a blast of wind.]

Flaw, s., a fragment, 390. [A.-S. floh; W. flaw, a splinter.]

Fond, adj., foolish, simple, 282, 401. [O. E. fonne, to be stupid; Sc. fond, to fondle.]

Fordo, v. t., to destroy, 321, 404, 405. [For, against, and do.] Gallow, v.t., to scare, terrify, 391.

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Impartment, s., communication, the thing imparted, 316.

Important, adj., importunate, 399. Incarnadine, v. t., to redden, to dye flesh-colour, 360. [Lat. in, and caro, carn-is, flesh.]

lystan, to desire; whence lust, desire in an indifferent sense.]

Marry, interj., By Mary, 276. Metaphysical, adj., supernatural, 355. [Gr. μerá, after, or above, and þúσɩs, nature.]

Methinks, v. i., it seems to me, 288. [A.-S. me, dat., to me; and thincan, to seem: a different word from thencan, to think, believe.]

Mettle, s., temper, spirit, 277. The same word as metal applied to the mind. [Gr. μετάλλον.]

Mutine, v. i., to mutiny, 333. [Fr. se mutiner, to riot; Lat. motus, from moveo, I move.]

Mutine, s., a mutineer, 339. [Ib.]

Napkin, s., handkerchief, 288.

[Fr.

nappe, a cloth, -kin, dim. suffix.] Needs, adv., of necessity, 336. [A.-S. nedes, nydes, adv., of necessity; genitive of neod, necessity.]

Nether, adj., lower, sublunary, 396. [A.-S.

nythera, lower; nyth-an, downwards; whence E. beneath.]

Nice, adj., minute, trivial, 291. [Fr. nais, silly.]

Nuncle, s., abbreviation of mine uncle, the familiar address of a fool to his master, 386, 391.

Occurrents, s., occurrences, incidents, 344. Interessed, part., allied, interested in the O'er-raught, v. t., for over-reached (past

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Let, v. t., to hinder, 316. [A.-S. lettan.] Lief, adv., willingly, soon, 273, 326. [A.-S. leof, dear, loved.]

Like, v. t., to please, 342. [A.-S. lician, gelician, to be pleased with, to please. In A.-S. and O. E. the verb is used unipersonally. A.-S. Me licath, it pleases me; (Chaucer) if you liketh, if it pleases you; mean you being datives.] Limbeck, s., an alembic, a still, 358. Lusty, adj., strong, vigorous, 273. [A.-S.

tense); overtook, 322. [A.-S. rahte, past of raecan, to reach.]

Old, s., a corruption of wold; a weald, or open country, 394. [A.-S. weald; Ger.wald, a forest.]

Ope, v. t., to open, 284, 316. Poetical form

of open.

Ope, adv., open, 276. Ib.

Or, prep., before, generally followed by

ever or e'er, 310, 311. Some editions have or ere, both of which words have the same meaning. But we have or ever in the English Bible: "And we, or ever he come near, are ready to kill him" (Acts xxiii. 15); i.e., before he ever come near. [A.-S. ar, ere, before; a different word from the conj. or. Comp. Sc. or, before, sooner, rather than:

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own; past tense, dht, whence E. ought, past of owe; which in O. E. meant also, to be obliged, to have to do a thing.]

Packs, s., leagues, parties, 402. [Ger. pack; Lat. pactus, from pango, fixed.] Shakespeare uses to pack in the sense of to practise unlawful confederacy; and packed, confederated.

Pall, v. i., to wane, fail, 339. [W. pallu, to fail.]

Pall, v. t., to cloak, conceal, 356. [A.-S.

pall, a cloak; Lat. palla.] Patter, v. i., to shuffle, trifle, 368. [Fr. poltroon, a coward; E. poltroon.] Peas-cod, s., a pea-cod, 383. [A.-S. pis-a, a pea, and codd, a bag or husk.] Perdy, interj., By God, 330. [O. E. pardie; Fr. par dieu.]

Pioneer, s., a pioneer, with special reference to his work in mining, 320. Porpentine, s., the porcupine, 317. Posset, v. i., to curdle, 318. [W. poset, curdled milk.]

Posset, s., a draught of wine and milk, 359. [Ib.]

Pother, 8., bustle, confusion, 391. [A corruption of powder; Sc. pouther.] Puissant, adj., powerful, 281. [Fr. puissant, It. possente, Lat. potens, able.] Pursy, adj., bloated, swelled out, 335. [Fr. poussif, broken-winded, from pousser, to push; Lat. pulso, from pello, pulsum, to beat.]

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Rapt, adj., absorbed, transported, 354, 355. [Lat. raptus, p. p. of rapere, to seize. Akin to this is A.-S. reafian, to seize; whence rob, reave, bereave.] Rascal, adj., mean, vile, 293. [A.-S. rascal, a lean, worthless deer.] (See As You Like It, Act iii., Scene 3, line 58.) Ratsbane, s., poison, 393. [E. rat, and A.-S. bána, a killer, death. Comp. Hebenon.]

Ravel, v. t., to twist, entangle, 359. [Dut. rafelen.]

Reck, v. t., to care for, attend to, 313.

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[A.-S. récan, to estimate; hence to regard.]

Rede, s., advice, 313. [A.-S. raed, speech, counsel; and -réd, suffix, as in Aethel-réd, noble in counsel.] Remediate, adj., remedial, 399. [Fr. remède, Lat. remedium, remedy.] Remember, v. t., to remind, 383. Remotion, s., removal, withdrawal, 386. Repeal, v. t., to recall from exile, 282. [Fr. rappeler; Lat. re, and appellare, to call.]

Reverbs, v. t., re-echoes, reverberates, 377. [Lat. reverberare, to strike back.] Rive, v. t., to tear asunder, to rend, 293, 392. [Dan. rive, to tear; A.-S. reaf-ian, to seize, to destroy.]

Rood, s., the cross, 332. [A.-S. ród.] Rouse, s., a carousal, a drinking-bout, 315. [Ger. rausch, intoxication.] See Carouse.

Rub, s., obstruction, difficulty, 324. [Ger. reiben; Gr. Tpißw.]

Sans, prep., without, 333. [Fr. sans, Lat. sine, without.]

Saws, s., maxims, axioms, 319. [A.-S. sagu, a saying, tale, or speech, from secgan, to say.]

Sconce, v. t., for ensconce, to conceal, 331.

[Dut. schantze, a rampart; Ger. schanzen, to fortify.]

Sewer, s., an attendant at table, 356. [O. E. sew, to follow; O. Fr. sewir; Lat. sequi; whence E. sue, suit, suite.] Shealed, adj., shelled, emptied, 383. [A.-S. ascealian, to empty, to shell; Sc. scale, to empty.]

Shent, adj., hurt, confounded, 331. [A.-S. scendan, to reproach; O. E. shend.] Shoon, s., shoes, 337. [A.-S. sceon, plur. of sceo, a shoe; Sc. shune (u pronounced as in French).]

Simples, s., drugs not mixed or compounded, 399.

Simular, adj., counterfeit, simulated, 391.
Single, adj., feeble, 354.
Sith, conj., since, 378, 389. [A.-S. síd,
late.]

Sleave, s., floss, unspun silk, 359.
Sliver, s., a splint, a branch split off, 339;

sliver'd, split, is used in Macbeth, Activ., Scene 1, line 28. [A.-S. slífan, to split.] Smatch, s., flavour, smack, 300. [A.-S smaic; Ger. schmats, and schmacke, a smack.]

Smilets, s., little smiles, 397. [E. smile, and dim. suffix, -let.]

Soliciting, s., solicitation, encouragement,
stirring up, 354.

Sooth, adj., true, 368. [A.-S. sód, truth.]
Spongy, adj., bibulous, like a sponge,

358.

Springe, s., a gin, a snare in which the

bird is caught when it springs, 343.
Stare, v. i., to become stiff, 297. [A.-S.
starian, Ger. starren, to be stiff. E.

[Fr.

time taken to count three, 378.
trois, Lat. tres, three.]
Tristful, adj., sad, sorrowful, 332. [Fr.
triste; Lat. tristis.]

Tropically, adv., figuratively, in a trope,
330. [E. trope, Gr. Tрóños, a figure of
speech, from Tрéπш, I turn.]

Unaneled, adj., without extreme unction,
318. [A.-S. un, not, and on-aelan, to
anoint with oil; from ael, ele, oil.]

stark and starve are connected with the
same root.]
Stithy, s., a smithy, the place for the stith, Unbated, adj., unblunted: applied to foils
or anvil, 328.

Strucken, part., stricken, or struck, 280.
[A.-S. astrican, to smite.]
Sumpter, s., a burden-bearer, an attend-
ant on the baggage, 389. [Lat. sumptus,
from sumo, I take.]

Supervise, s., perusal; lit. looking over,
240. [Lat. super, over, and visus, seen;
from sidere, to see.]

Suppliance, s., occupation, that which is
supplied to fill up the time, 313.
Surcease, s., arrestment, stoppage of a
suit in transitu, 356. [Fr. sursis, delay;
surseoir, to put off.]

Swound, v. i., to swoon, 343. [A.-S. as-
wunian.]

Tell, v. t., to count, 312. [A.-S. tellan, Ger.

zählen, to number, tell.]
Temperance, s., temperateness, coolness,

400.

Tender, s., tendance, care, 383. [Lat.
attendere, to bend (the mind) to; E. at-
tend.]

Tender, v. t., to care for, 336. [Ib.]
Tender-hefted, adj., finely strung, deli-
cately fitted, 388,-where it refers to the
soul being finely adjusted to the body,
as a frame or handle. [O. E. heft, a
handle.]
Tetter, s., a skin disease, scab, 318.
teter, Lat. teter, loathsome.]
Thrift, s., frugality, saving, 311, 329.
thrif, care; Dan. trives, to prosper; E.
thrive and thrifty.]

[A.-S.

[Ic.

Thwart, adj., crooked, perverse, 385.
[A.-S. thweor, perverse.]

Tide, s., course, or flow, 284. [A.-S. tid,
Ger. zeit, time.]

Tinct, s., taint, dye, 333. [Lat. tinctus,
p. p. of tingere, to dye; E. tinge.]
Trammel, v. t., to catch up, as in a net,
356. [Fr. tramail, a net.]

Trice, s., a minute space of time; lit. the

without buttons on the points, 343. For
un-abated, not lessened or moderated in
deadly force.

Underling, s., an inferior, a creature,
274. [A.-S. under, and dim. suffix -ling.]
Unhouseled, adj., without receiving the
sacrament, 318. [A.-S. un, not, and husel,
the sacrament; Lat. hostia, a victim.]
Untented, adj., unsearched, not probed
(as a wound), 385; from tent, to probe.

Varlet, s., a servant, used contemptu-
ously; a valet, 388. [O. Fr. varlet; Lat.
vassalus, a servant, vassal.]

Vaunt-courier, s., a forerunner, 391. [Fr.
avant-courier.]

Venge, v. t., to avenge, 396. [Fr. venger,
Lat. vindicare, to avenge.]

Wake, v. i., to carouse, 315; lit. to keep
the festival accompanying a wake or vigil.
[A.-S. wacian, to watch.]

Wassail, s., carousal, 315, 358; lit. health-
drinking. [A.-S. wes, imperative of wesan,
to be; and hál, healthy.]
Weal, s., the state, the commonwealth,
383. [A.-S. waela, prosperity; wel, well.]
Whiles, conj., whilst, 275, 313, 355. [A.-S.
hwil, time; tha hwile the, as long as.
Comp. Sc. whiles, sometimes.]
Withal, prep., an emphatic form of with,
327, 352, 355, 360. [E. with and all;
usually an adverb besides.
As a prep.
it follows its object.]
Would, v. i., am desirous, 273.

Yearn, v. i., to grieve, to be vexed, 281.
[A.-S. geornian, to desire: hence to
yearn means-(1) to desire earnestly;
(2) to feel that anxiety which accom-
panies longing. Earnest is from the same
root.]

Yond, adj., yonder, 275. [A.-S. geond,
through.]

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