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Glossary

accessary, an accomplice; L., 922: participant, L., 1658. adjunct, consequent, necessarily connected, cf. King John, III. iii. 57; L., 133.

adulterate, adulterous; L., 1645.

advised, deliberate; L., 1849.

advisedly, attentively; VA., 457, L., 1527 : with deliberate purpose, carefully, L., 180, 1816.

allow, approve; L., 1485. anatomized, analyzed; L., 1450.

answer, to discharge (a debt), to pay (an obligation); L., 83.

appaid, pleased; L., 914.

argue, show, demonstrate; L., 65.

askance, adv., with averted look; VA., 342.

askance, vb., cause to look askance, turn aside; L., 637.

balk, let slip, fail to seize; L., 696.

ban, to curse,; L., 1460; VA., 326.

bane, destruction, death, cf. Troilus and Cressida; IV. ii.

98; VA., 372.

barn, to store, as in a barn; L., 859.

bate-breeding,

quarrel-breeding; cf. 2 Henry IV,

II. iv. 271 and Merry Wives, I. iv. 12; VA., 655. bateless, that cannot be bated or blunted; L., 9. battery, breach, see note, VA., 426.

battle, martial array, line; VA., 619.

bay, see note, VA., 877.

beguiled, deceived; PP., 402: concealed or disguised by guile; L., 1544.

beldam, strictly, a grandmother, but used of any aged woman; L., 953, 1458.

belied, proved false; L., 1533.

bewray, to expose a person by revealing something to his
discredit; L., 1698; PP., 352.

bias, habitual course or direction; PP., 61.

blast, blight, cause to wither; VA., 1142: be blighted;
L., 49.

blunt, rough, harsh, unsparing; VA., 884; L., 1398:
uncultivated, rude, L., 1504: clumsy, awkward; L.,
1300.

boll'n, swollen (with anger or exertion); L., 1417.

break (in a special sense), to go into bankruptcy; still
used in a similar sense of banks and financial institu-
tions; VA., 336.

by and by, straightway; VA., 347; L., 1292.

cabin, a dwelling or lodging; VA., 1038; PP., 183: the
den or hole of a beast, VA., 637.

cabinet, diminutive of cabin, q.v.; VA., 854; L., 442.
cavil, to complain, to find fault; L., 1025, 1093.

champaign, open, level; L., 1247.

cipher, decipher; L., 811: disclose; L., 207, 1396.

cite, arouse, excite; PP., 195.

clepe, call; VA., 995.

clip, embrace; VA., 600; PP., 148, 156.

close, enclose; L., 761.

coast, approach, make one's way towards a person, cf.
Spenser's Daphnaida, 39; VA., 870.

comfortable (in an active sense), cheering; L., 164.

compact (preterite participle, Lat. compactus), composed;
VA., 149; L., 1423.

compacted, firmly and closely joined; L., 530.

compass'd, curved, rounded; VA., 272.

complexion, see note, VA., 215.

conduct, guide, conductor; L., 313.

construe, interpret; L., 324; PP., 188. convertite, a convert; L., 743.

cope, encounter; VA., 888; L., 99.

copesmate, companion; L., 925.

cross, thwart, oppose (cf. crosses, L., 912; PP., 257); L., 286, 968.

curtal, having the tail cut short; PP., 273.

daff, thrust aside; PP., 183.

danger, power, see note, VA., 639.

date, the time during which something lasts, duration, term of life; L., 26, 935, 1729.

deathsman, executioner; as in Drayton's Matilda, ed. 1596, stanza 138; L., 1001.

deface, outshine by contrast; PP., 90, cf. Greene's Friar Bacon, xvi, 48.

defeature, disfigurement; VA., 736.

defy, dislike; PP., 167.

descant, warble, sing; see note, L., 1134: discourse; PP., 184.

desperate, hopeless; VA., 336, 765: reckless, VA., 556: greatly agitated; L., 219.

digression, deviation from virtue, transgression; L., 202. dint, impression; VA., 354.

discovery, disclosure; VA., 828, L., 1314.

disgrace, adverse fortune (without moral connotation); PP., 36.

dispense with, condone; L., 1070 (see note), 1279, 1704. dive-dapper, dabchick; VA., 186.

doom, sentence; L., 1849.

dump, a mournful or plaintive melody or song; L., 1127.

effect (only in singular), result, consequence; VA., 800, 1132; L., 532.

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effects (only in plural), execution, realization; L., 353: action, working; L., 251: outward manifestation, sign; VA., 605; L., 1555.

enchanting, charming; VA., 247: deluding; L., 1521. enfranchising, freeing; VA., 396.

engine, instrument, implement; see note, VA., 367. engirt, surround, enclose; VA., 364; in a military sense, besieged; L., 221, 1173.

enraged, inflamed with passion, cf. Much Ado, II. iii. 104; V A., 29.

entertain, keep up, maintain; L., 1514: (of time) occupy, fill up; L., 1361: admit, give favorable reception to, VA., 969; L., 1629.

extenuate, disparage the importance of, make light of; VA., 1010.

fall, to let fall, cf. Richard II, III. iv. 104; L., 1551. fault, see note, VA., 694.

fear, to frighten, cf. 3 Henry VI, V. ii. 2; VA., 1094. fence, ward off, repel; L., 63.

fine, put an end to; L., 936.

fire, eject forcibly; PP., 28.

flaw, a sudden gust of wind, a squall; VA., 456.

fond, foolish; L., 1094.

force, to attach force or importance to; L., 1021.

fraughted, stored, filled; PP., 270.

fret, consume; VA., 767; L., 648: chafe, VA., 75.

frets, bars placed on the finger-board of stringed instruments to regulate the fingering; L., 1140.

froward, perverse, uncomplaisant; VA., 562, 570; PP., 56, fulfilled, filled full; L., 1258.

gage, a pledge, pawn; L., 1351. gender, race, kind; PT., 18,

giddy, whirling; L., 952.

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gorge, the crop of a bird of prey (a falconry term); VA., 58. graff, the earlier form of modern " graft," a shoot or scion inserted in another stock; L., 1062.

grave, engrave; VA., 376.

grin, to display the teeth, usually as an indication of pain or anger; cf. Faerie Queene, Book V. iv. stanza 37; VA., 459.

gripe, a vulture, as in Gorbuduc, II. i. 114; L., 543.

grisly, of terrifying appearance, grim, ghastly; L., 926. groom, a servant; L., 671, 1334, 1345, 1632, 1645; a rustic person; see note, L., 1013.

gross, monstrous, flagrant (of actions); L., 1315: material, perceptible to the senses; L., 1655: dense, thick, VA., 150.

hap, good fortune; as in Daniel's Complaint of Rosamond, v. 235; L., 42.

heartless, lacking heart or courage, frightened; L., 471, 1392. helpless, affording no help, powerless to help; VA., 604; L., 1027, 1056.

hild, preterite of "hold," see note, L., 1257.

his, its (as often in Shakespeare); VA., 359, 756, 960, 1132, 1140; PT., 16.

imaginary, of the imagination, as in Henry V, Prol. 18; VA., 597 (see note): of the nature of an image or representation; L., 1422.

imposition, commandment, injunction; L., 1697. imposthume, abscess; VA., 743.

indenting, zigzagging; cf. As You Like It, IV. iii. 113; VA., 704.

insinuate with, ingratiate; VA., 1012.

insult, exult arrogantly; cf. use of "insulter” (VA., 550); L., 509.

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