Loss-exposure. W. T. ii. 3, n.

Poor thing, condemn'd to loss!

Lost-caused to be lost. T. N. ii. 2, n.

That, methought, her eyes had lost her tongue. Lots to blanks-the whole number to a proportion. Cor. v. 2, n.

It is lots to blanks

My name hath touched your ears. Louvre. H. F. ii. 4, i.

He'll make your Paris Louvre shake for it. Love-used as the queen of love. C. E. iii. 2, n. Let lore, being light, be drowned if she sink. Lover-mistress. M. M. i. 5, n.

Your brother and his lover have embrac'd. 'Lover's Complaint,' ballad of. O. iv. 3, i. She had a song of willow.

Lovers-companions, friends. T. N. K. v. 4, n.
Lead your lady off;

And call your lovers from the stage of death,
Whom I adopt my friends!

Lowted-treated with contempt. H. 6, F. P. iv.

3, n.

And I am lowted by a traitor villain. Lozel-one that has cast off his own good and welfare. W. T. ii. 3, n.

Lozel, thou art worthy to be hang'd,

That wilt not stay her tongue.

Lucilius, capture of,-from North's • Plutarch.' J. C. v. 4, i.

Kill Brutus, and be honour'd in his death.

Lucrece, seal of. T. N. ii. 5, i.

The impressure her Lucrece.

Lucrece, Shakspere's. Cy. ii. 2, i.

Our Tarquin thus

Did softly press the rushes.

Lucy family, arms of

M. W. i. 1, i.

The luce is the fresh fish; the salt fish is an old

coat.

Ludlow Castle. R. T. ii. 2, i.

Me seemeth good, that, with some little train, Forthwith from Ludlow the young prince be fet. Lud's town. Cy. iii 1, i.

The fam'd Cassibelan, who was once at point (O giglot fortune!) to master Cæsar's sword, Made Lud's town with rejoicing fires bright. Luke's iron crown. R. T. iv. 1, i.

Were red-hot steel, to sear me to the brain. Lunatics, treatment of. T. N. iii. 4, i.

We'll have him in a dark-room, and bound. Lupercalian feast,-from North's Plutarch.' J. C. i. 2, i.

Our elders say, &c.
Lurch'd. Cor. ii. 2, n.

And, in the brunt of seventeen battles since,
He lurch'd all swords o' the garland.

Lush. T. ii. 1, n.

How lush and lusty the grass looks!

Lustick-lusty. A. W. ii. 3, n.

Par. Here comes the king.

Lafeu. Lustick, as the Dutchman says. Lutestring. M. A. iii. 2, i.

His jesting spirit, which is now crept into a lutestring.

Lydgate's description of Priam's palace. Luc. n.

And little stars shot from their fixed places, &c. Lyly's Euphues and his England,' passage from. H. F. i. 2, i.

So work the honey-bees.

Mankind-woman with the roughness of a man. Cor. iv. 2, n.

Sic.

Are you mankind? Vol. Ay, fool: Is that a shame ? Manner. L. L. L. i. 1, n.

The manner of it is, I was taken with the masser. Manner, taken with the-taken with a stolen thing in hand. H. 4, F. P. ii. 4, n. (See L. L. L. i. 1, .) Thou stolest a cup of sack eighteen years ago, and wert taken with the manner. Manners-morals. A. L. iii. 2, n.

If thou never saw'st good manners, then thy manners must be wicked.

Mansions, old mode of building. H. E. v. 2, i.
At a window above.

Mantua, notice of. R. J. v. i.

March-pane- almond-cake. R. J. i. 5, n.

Good thou, save me a piece of march-pane.

Mark-used as an interjection. O. ii. 3, n.

He hath devoted and given up himself to the contemplation,-mark,-and devotement of her parts and graces.

Marlowe's Passionate Shepherd. M. W. iii. 1, i.
To shallow rivers, to whose falls.
Marlowe's 'Hero and Leander,' lines from. A. L.
iii. 3, i.

Dead shepherd! now I find thy saw of might; Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?' Marseilles-pronounced as a trisyllable. A. W. iv. 4, n.

His grace is at Marseilles; to which place We have convenient convoy. Martians, house of the, from Plutarch. Cor. ii. 3, i. What stock he springs of.

Martlemas-11th of November. H. 4, S. P. ii. 2, n. And how doth the martiemas, your master? Masks. G. V. iv. 4, i.

Sun-expelling mask.

Masks. R. J. i. 1, i.

These happy masks, that kiss fair ladies' brows, Being black, put us in mind they hide the fair. Master person. L. L. L. iv. ii. n.

Good morrow, master person.

Master of fence. M. W. i. 1, i.

At sword and dagger with a master of fence. Mastick. T. C. i. 3, n.

When rank Thersites opes his mastick jaws. Mated-made senseless. C. E. iii. 2, n.

Not mad, but mated; how, I do not know. Mated-amated, dismayed. M. V. i. n.

My mind she has mated, and amaz'd my sight. Mated confounded. V. A. n.

Her more than haste is mated with delays. Material fool-fool with matter in him. A. L. ii. 3, n. A material fool!

Mates-destroys, confounds. H. 6, S. P. iii. 1, n. For that is good deceit

Which mates him first that first intends deceit. Maund-basket. L. C. n.

A thousand favours from a maund she drew.

May-day. M. N. D. i. 1, i.

To do observance to a more of May.

Mazes. T. iii. 3, i.

Here's a maze trod, indeed,

Through forthrights and meanders.

Meal'd-compounded. M. M. iv. 2, n.

Were he meal'd

Nay, he can sing

A mean most meanly. Means-tenors, intermediate voices. W. T. iv. 2, i. Means and basses.

Means-resources, powers, capacities. L. iv. 1, n.
Full oft 't is seen

Our means secure us; and our mere defects
Prove our commodities.

Meant love-meant as love. R. J. iii. 5, n.

But thankful even for hate, that is meant love. Measure-grave dance. L. L. L. v. 2, n.

To tread a measure with you on this grass. Measure. R. J. i. 4, i.

We'll measure them a measure. Measures-solemn dances. J. iii. 1, n.

Clamours of hell, be measures to our pomp. Measures-grave dances. V. A. n.

Teaching decrepit age to tread the measures.

Medicine potable. H. 4, S. P. iv. 4, n.

Other less fine in carat is more precious,
Preserving life in med'cine potable.

Medea, Ovid's invocation of. T. v. 1, i
Ye elves of hills.

VOL. XII.

Meeds-merits. H. 6, T. P. ii. 1, n.

Each one already blazing by our meeds. Meet-even. M. A. i. 1, n.

He'll be meet with you, I doubt it not. Meiny-retinue, attendants. L. ii. 4, n.

They summon'd up their meiny, straight took

horse.

Mendicancy, laws for the suppression of. L. iiL 4, i.

Whipped from tything to tything, and stocked, punished, and imprisoned.

Menial servants and porters of Italy. R. J. iv. 4, i.
Enter servants with spits, logs, and baskets.
Merchant-merchant-vessel. T. ii. 1, n.

The masters of some merchant, and the merchant,
Have just our theme of woe.

Merchant, used in opposition to gentleman. R. J. ii. 4, i.

What saucy merchant was this?

Mercy-reference to Ecclesiasticus. M. V. iv. 1, i
The quality of mercy is not strain'd.
Mere-sole, unmixed, absolute. M. M. v. 1, n.
Upon his mere request.

Mere-absolute. H. E. iii. 2. n.

To the mere undoing

Of all the kingdom. Mere-entire. O. ii. 2, n.

Certain tidings now arrived, importing the mere perdition of the Turkish fleet. Mere-absolute, certain. P. iv. 3, n.

Seldom but that pity begets you a good opinion, and that opinion a mere profit. Mere-absolute. T. N. K. ii. 2, n.

I see two comforts rising, two mere blessings. Mered-marked, limited. A. C. iii. 11, n. At such a point. When half to half the world oppos'd, he being The mered question.

Merely-absolutely. T. i. 1, n.

We are merely cheated of our lives by drunk

ards.

Metal of India. T. N. i. 5, n.

How now, my metal of India.

Metaphysical-supernatural. M. i. 5, n.

All that impedes thee from the golden round,
Which fate and metaphysical aid doth seem
To have thee crown'd withal.

Methinks, already. W. T. v. 3, n.

Would I were dead, but that, methinks, already— What was he that did make it? Mettle-temper, disposition. T. N. v. 1, n. So much against the mettle of your sex. Mew'd-term of falconry. R. J. iii. 4, n.

To-night she 's mew'd up to her heaviness. Micher-truant. H. 4, F. P. ii 4, n.

Shall the blessed sun of heaven prove a micher? Miching mallecho. H. iii. 2, n.

Marry, this is miching mallecho; it means mischief.

Middleton's Witch.' M. iv. 1, i.

Black spirits, &c.

Might. M. N. D. v. 1, n.

Noble respect takes it in might, not merit. Might-power. P. P. n.

Let reason rule things worthy blame,

As well as fancy, partial might.

Mile end. A. W. iv. 3, n. (See H. 4, S. P. iii. i.)

He had the honour to be the officer at a place there called Mile-end.

Mill sixpences. M. W. i 1, i

Seven groats in will sixpences.

Milton, notice of a passage in. R. J. ii. 3, i

The earth, that's nature's mother is her tomh Mimic-actor. M. N. D. iii. 2, n.

And forth my mimic comes.

Mine enemy. R. S. i. 3, n.

Norfolk, so far as to mine enemy.

2 M

4, n.

Decrepit miser! base, ignoble wretch! Miscreate-spurious. H. F. i. 2, n.

With opening titles miscreate, whose right Suits not in native colours with the truth. Misprising-undervaluing. M. A. iii. 1, n. Disdain and scorn ride sparkling in her eyes, Misprising what they look on. Miss-amiss, fault. V. A. n.

He says she is immodest, blames her miss. Missingly-missing him. W. T. iv. 1, n.

But I have, missingly, noted he is of late much

retired from court.

Mistaken-misapprehended. H. E. i. 1, n.

I am sorry

To hear this of him; and could wish he were Something mistaken in 't. Mo-more Luc. n.

Why should the private pleasure of some one Become the public plague of many mo? Mo-more. L. C. n.

Found yet mo letters sadly penn'd in blood. Mobled-muffled up. H. ii. 2, n.

The mobled queen.

Mock-water. M. W. ii. 3, n.

Ah monsieur Mock-water.

Model-thing formed, or fashioned. R. S. iii.

show,

How far a modern quill doth come too short.
Modo and Mahu. L. iii. 4. i.

The prince of darkness is a gentleman;
Modo he 's called, and Mahu.

Moiety. H. 4, F. P. iii. 1, n.

Methinks, my moiety, north from Burton here,
In quantity equals not one of yours.

Moiety small portion, share. L. i. 1, n. (See H. 4, F. P. iii. 1, n.)

Curiosity in neither can make choice of either's moiety.

Moiety-portion. Luc. Dedication.

But a superfluous moiety.

Moiety-portion. So. xlvi. n.

And by their verdict is determined

The clear eye's moiety, and the dear heart's

Monarch of the north. H. 6, F. P. v. 3, n. You speedy helpers, that are substitutes Under the lordly monarch of the north, Appear.

Monaicho. L. L. L. iv. 1, i.

A Monarcho.

Monopolies in the reign of Elizabeth. L. i. 4, i.
If I had a monopoly out, they would have part

on 't.
Montagues and Capulets, badges of. R. Ji. 1, i.
Here comes of the house of the Montagues.
Montanto-term of the fencing-school. M. A. i. 1, a.
Is signior Montanto returned from the wars ?
Month's mind. G. V. i. 2, n.

I see you have a month's mind to them.
Monument of the victory. H. 6, S. P. iv. 3, n.
This monument of the victory will I bear.
Mood-caprice. A. W. v. 2, n.

I am now, sir, mud-died in fortune's mood.
Moods-manner.
H. i. 2, n.

Together with all forms, moods, shows of grief. Moon-used in the sense of month. P. P. n.

To spite me now, each minute seems a mOOR,
Moor-ditch. H. 4, F. P. i. 2, i.

The melancholy of Moor-ditch.
Moors in Venice. O. i. 1, i.
The thick lips.

Moralize-comment. V. A. n.

Unlike myself thou hear'st me moralize. Moralize (v.)-interpret. Luc. ».

Nor could she moralize his wanton sight. More gratulate-more to be rejoiced in. M. M. v.

1, n.

There's more behind that is more gratulate. More and less-great and small. H. 4, S. P. i.

1, n.

And more and less do flock to follow him. More and less-greater and less. M. v. 4, 2. Both more and less have given him the revolt. Morisco. H. 6, S. P. iii. 1, n.

I have seen him Caper upright like a wild morisco. Morning's love. M. N. D. iii. 2, î.

I with the morning's love have oft made sport. Morning, description of, in Venus and Adonis." R. J. iii. 5, 1.

It was the lark, the herald of the morn.

Morris-dance.

A. W. ii. 2, i.

A marris for May-day.

Morris-pike-pike of the Moors.

C. E. iv 3, n.

He that sets up his rest to do more exploits with his mace than a morris pike.

Mort o' the deer-note of the hunter's horn at the death of the deer. W. T. i. 2, n,

And then to sigh, as 't were
The mort o' the deer.

Mortal in folly-extremely foolish. A. L. ii. 4, ≈. As all is mortal in nature, so is all nature in love mortal in folly.

Mortal-deadly. O. ii. 1, n.

As having sense of beauty do omit

Their mortal natures, letting go safely by
The divine Desdemona.

Mortal-deadly. V. A. n.

Like to a mortal butcher, bent to kill.

Mortified man-hermit, one indifferent to the concerns of the world. M. v. 2, n.

For their dear canses

Would, to the bleeding and the grim alarm,
Excite the mortified man.

Mortise-hole of one piece of timber fitted to receive

the tenon of another. O. ii. 1, n.

What ribs of oak, when mountains melt on

them,

Can hold the mortise?

Mot-motto. Luc. n.

And Tarquin's eye may read the mot afar. Motion-puppet-show. G. V. ii. 1, n.

O, excellent motion! O, exceeding puppet!
Motion-puppet show. W. T. iv. 2, .
A motion of the Prodigal Son.
Motion-dumb show. Luc. n.

For then the eye interprets to the ear
The heavy motion that it doth behold.

Motions-impulses. H. E. i. 1, n.

(Whom from the flow of gall I name not, but

From sincere motions.)

Motions. H. iii. 2, n. (See G. V. ii. 1, n.)

N.

I could interpret between you and your love, if I could see the puppets dallying.

Motley-fool. So, cx. n.

Alas, 't is true, I have gone here and there, And made myself a motley to the view. Mount-Mount Misenum. A. C. ii. 4, n.

We shall,

As I conceive the journey, be at the Mount
Before you, Lepidus.

Mounted-term of falconry. H. F. iv. 1, n.

His affections are higher mounted than ours.

Mowes-mouths. H. ii. 2, n.

Those that would make mowes at him.

Moys. H. F. iv. 4, n.

Fr. Sol. O, pardonnez moy.

Pist. Say'st thou me so? is that a ton of moys?

Much Orlando-a great deal of Orlando. A. L. iv.

Muscovites, costume of. L. L. L. v. 2, i.
And are apparell'd thus,-

Like Muscovites, or Russians.

Muse (v.)-wonder. H. 6, S. P. iii. 1, n.

I muse my lord of Gloster is not come.

Music-a source of discord amongst the commentators upon Shakspere. M. V. v. 1, i.

The man that hath no music in himself. Music to hear. So. viii. n.

Music to hear, why hear'st thou music sadly? Musicians. R. J. iv. 4. i.

Nor on him put

The napless vesture of humility.
Nashe's Life of Jacke Wilton.' H. E. i. 3, n.
Of fool, and feather.

Nature's productions, philosophy of the use or abuse of. Cy. i. 6, i.

Whiles yet the dew 's on ground, gather those flowers.

Nature's copy. M. iii. 2, n.

But in them nature's copy 's not eterne. Nautical knowledge of Shakspere. T. i. 1, i. Boatswain, &c.

Needless-needing not. A. L. ii. 1, n.

First, for his weeping into the needless stream. Neelds-needles. M. N. D. iii. 2, n.

Have with our neelds created both one flower. Neeld-needle. Luc. n.

And griping it, the neeld his finger pricks. Ne'er the near-never the nearer. R. S. v. 1, n.

Weep thou for me in France, I for thee here; Better far off, than near, be ne'er the near. Neif-fist. M. N. D. iv. 1, n.

Give me your neif. Neif-fist. H. 4, S. P. ii. 4, n. iv. 1, n.)

(See M. N. D.

Sweet knight, I kiss thy neif. Nephew-term used generally for a relative. H. 6, F. P. ii. 5, n.

Plan.

Declare the cause

My father, earl of Cambridge, lost his head. Mor. That cause, fair nephew, that imprison'd

me.

Nephews-grandsons. O. i. 1, n. (See R. T. iv. 1, n.)
You'll have your nephews neigh to you.
Nether-stocks-stockings. L. ii. 4, n.

When a man is over-lusty at legs, then he wears wooden nether-stocks.

New made-regenerate. M. M. ii. 2, n.

And mercy then will breathe within your lips
Like man new made.

News from Scotland,' passage from. M. i. 3, i.
But in a sieve I'll thither sail.

Next-nearest. A. W. i. 2, n.

And I speak the truth the next way. Nice-affected. A. L. iv. 1, n.

Nor the lady's [melancholy] which is nice. Nice-weak. H. 4, S. P. i. 1, n.

Hence therefore, thou nice crutch.
Nice-slight. R. J. iii. 1, n.

Bade him bethink
How nice the quarrel was.
Nice-trivial. R. J. v. 2, n.

The letter was not nice, but full of charge
Of dear import.
Nick-reckoning. G. V. iv. 2, n.

He loved her out of all nick.
Nicks him like a fool. C. E. v. 1, n.

His man with scissars nicks him like a fool. Niece-grand-daughter. R. T. iv. 1, n.

Who meets us here? my niece Plantagenet. Night rule-night revel. M. N. D. iii. 2, n.

What night-rule now about this haunted grove. Nightly gulls him with intelligence. So. lxxxvi. n. He, nor that affable familiar ghost Which nightly gulls him with intelligence. Nights of the early summer of the north of Europe. H. i. 1, i.

But, look, the Nile, rise of the.

They take the

morn, &c.

A. C. ii. 7, i.

flow o' the Nile, &c.

Nine worthies. L. L. L. v. 2, i.

Pageant of the nine worthies.

Nine men's morris. M. N. D. ii. 2, i.

The nine men's morris is filled up with mud.

One that is a prisoner nine years old. Nine moons wasted-nine months unemployed. O. i. 3, n.

For since these arms of mine had seven years' pith,

Till now some nine moons wasted, they have us'd
Their dearest action in the tented field.
No poynt-the double negative of the French.
L. L. L. ii. 1, n.

Biron. Will you prick 't with your eye?
Rosaline. No point, with my knife.

No more-say no more. T. i. 2, n.

Nobody. T. iii. 2, i.

The picture of Nobody.

Noise-band of musicians. H. 4, S. P. ii. 4, n.

And see if thou canst find out Sneak's noise; mistress Tear-sheet would fain have some music.

Noise-musie of the hautboys. M. iv. 1, n.

Why sinks that cauldron, and what noise is this? Non-payment-penalty for. V. A. n.

Say, for non payment that the debt should double Is twenty hundred kisses such a trouble? None for me-none on my part. R. S. i. 4, n. 'Faith, none for me.

Nonce-once, the one thing in question. H. 4, F. P. i. 2, n.

I have cases of buckram for the nonce.

Nook-shotten. H. F. iii. 5, n.

In that nook shotten isle of Albion.

Noontide prick-point of noon. Luc. n.

Ere he arrive his weary noontide prick. Nor here, nor here, nor what ensues. 2, n.

Cy. iii.

I see before me, man; nor here, nor here, Nor what ensues, but have a fog in them. Not thinking on-being forgotten. H. iii. 2, n. Or else shall he suffer not thinking on. Note-knowledge. L. fii. 1, n.

Sir, I do know you;

And dare, upon the warrant of my note,
Commend a dear thing to you.

Noted weed-dress known and familiar, through being always the same. So. lxxvi. n.

Why write I still all one, ever the same, And keep invention in a noted weed? Nott-pated-with the hair cut close. H. 4, F. P. ii. 4, n.

Wilt thou rob this leathern jerkin, crystal button, nott-pated, agate ring.

Nourish. H. 6, F. P. i. 1, n.

Our isle be made a nourish of salt tears. Novum-a game at dice. L. L. L. v. 2, n.

Abate a throw at novum, and the whole world again

Cannot prick out five such, take each one in his

vein.

dear lady. T. i. 2, n.

Bountiful Fortune,

Now my dear lady, hath many enemies
Brought to this shore.

Nowl-noll, head. M. N. D. iii. 2, n.

An ass's now! I fixed on his head.

Number'd-numerous, numberous

Cy. i. 7, n. And the twinn'd stones

Upon the number'd beach.

Number's altered-the number of the metrical feet

is altered. T. N. ii. 5, n.

What follows?-the number 's altered!

Numb'ring clock. R. S. v. 5, n.

I wasted time, and now doth Time waste me, For now hath Time made me his numb'ring clock. Nurture-education. A. L. ii. 7, n.

Yet am I inland bred,

And know some nurture.

Nuthook. M. W. i. 1, n.

If you run the nuthook's humour on me.
0.

Oaths upon the sword. H. i. 5, f.
Upon my sword.

Oberon and Titania. M. N. D. ii. 2, i.

Ill met by moonlight, proud Titania.
Objected proposed, suggested. H. 6, F. P. ii. 4, n.
Good master Vernon, it is well objected.
Obsequious-performing obsequies. H. 6, T. P.
ii. 5, n.

My sighing breast shall be thy funeral bell;
And so obsequious will thy father be.

Obsequious-funereal. H. i. 2, n.

And the survivor bound

In filial obligation, for some term
To do obsequious sorrow.

Obsequious-funereal. So. xxxi. n.

How many a holy and obsequious tear

Hath dear religious love stolen from mine eye? Obsequiously-performing obsequies. R. T. i. 2, s. While I awhile obsequiously lament

The untimely fall of virtuous Lancaster. Observed as they flew. L. C.n.

And had let go by

The swiftest hours observed as they flew. Obstacle-obstinate. H. 6, F. P. v. 4, n.

Fie Joan that thou wilt be so obstacle! Octavia and Octavius Cæsar, meeting of,-from North's Plutarch.' A. C. iii. 4, i.

A more unhappy lady, &c. Odd-even. O. i. 1, n.

At this odd-even and dull watch o' the night. O'erparted-not equal to a part. L. L. L. v. 2, n. A little o'erparted.

O'er-raught-over-reached. C. E. i. 1, n.

The villain is o'er-raught of all my money. O'er-look'd-enchanted. M. V. iii. 2, n.

Beshrew your eyes,

They have o'er-look'd me.
O'er-died-re-died. W. T. i. 2, n.

As o'er-died blacks.

But were they false