Office-business. T. i. 1, n.

A plague upon this howling! they are louder

than the weather, or our office.

Officers of night-night guard. O. i. 1, n.

And raise some special officers of night.

Offices of a mansion. R. S. 1. 2, i.

Unpeopled offices.

Offices-rooms of hospitality. T. Ath. ii. 2, n.
When all our offices have been oppress'd
With riotous feeders.

Old news-rare news. T. S. iii. 2, n.

Master, master! news, old news.

Old coil-great bustle. M. A. v. 2, n.

Yonder 's old coil at home.

Old-faced ancient-old patched-up standard. H. 4, F. P. iv. 2, n.

Ten times more dishonourable ragged than an old-faced ancient.

Old utis-extreme merriment. H. 4, S. P. ii. 4, n. By the mass, here will be old utis.

Old-wold. L. iii. 4, n.

Swithold footed thrice the old.

Omen-portentous event. H. i. 1, n.

As harbingers preceding still the fates,
And prologue to the omen coming on.

Omens and prodigies,-from North's Plutarch.'
J. C. i. 3, i.

A common slave, &c.

'On a day.' L. L. L. iv. 3, i.

And be not jealous on me, gentle Brutus. Once this once for all, C. E. iii. 1, n.

Once this,-Your long experience of her wisdom.

Once-once for all. M. A. i. 1, n.

"T is once thou lovest.

Once-sometimes. H. E. i. 2, n.

What we oft do best,
By sick interpreters, once weak ones, is
Not ours, or not allow'd.

One-pronounced on. G. V. ii. 1, n.

Val. Not mine; my gloves are on.

Speed. Why, then this may be yours, for this is but one.

Oneyers. H. 4, F. P. ii. 1, n.

Burgomasters and great oneyers.

Opal-gem whose colours change when viewed in different lights. T. N. ii. 4, n.

Thy mind is a very opal. Open room. M. M. ii. 1, n.

It is an open room, and good for winter.
Ophelia's songs, music of. H. iv. 5, i.

How should I your true love know,
From another one?
Opinion-reputation. H. 4, F. P. v. 4, n.
Thou hast redeem'd thy lost opinion.
Opinion-reputation. T. N. K. iii. 6, n.

Might breed the ruin of my name's opinion.

Opposite with of a different opinion. T. N. ii. 5, n. Be opposite with a kinsman.

Opposite-adversary. M. M. iii. 2, n.

Or you imagine me too unhurtful an opposite.

Or-gold in heraldry. Luc. n.

Virtue would stain that or with silver white. Or e'er-before, sooner than. T. i. 2, n.

I would

Have sunk the sea within the earth, or e'er It should the good ship so have swallow'd. Or e'er-before. J. iv. 3, n.

Two long days' journey, lords, or e'er we meet. Orbs-fairy-rings. M. N. D. ii. 1, n.

And I serve the fairy queen,

To dew her orbs upon the green. Order-rule, canon of ecclesiastical authority. H. v. 1, n. Her death was doubtful; And, but that great command o'ersways the order, She should in ground unsanctified have lodg'd.

Ordnance. H. 4, F. P. ii. 3, i.

Of basilisks, of cannon, culverin.

Orgulous-proud. T. C. Prologue, n.

The princes orgulous, their high blood chaf'd. Ostent-display. M. V. ii. 2, n.

Use all the observance of civility,

Like one well studied in a sad ostent
To please his grandam.

Ouphes-goblins. M. W. iv. 4, n.

Like urchins, ouphes, and fairies.

Out of all whooping-beyond all measure. A. L. íit.

2, n.

I would be loth to have you overflown with a honey bag.

Oversee this will. Luc. n.

Thou, Collatine, shalt oversee this will. Overture for the wars. Cor. i. 9, n.

May these same instruments, which you pro

fane,

As the parasite's silk!

Let them be made an overture for the wars!

O id's Metamorphoses,' passage in. W. T. iv. 3, i. O Proserpina!

For the flowers now that frighted thou lett' st fall

From Dis's waggon.

Ow'd-owned. R. T. iv. 4, n.

The slaughter of the prince that ow'd that

crown.

P.

Pack (v.)-contrive, arrange. T. And. iv. 2, n.
His child is like to her, fair as you are:
Go pack with him, and give the mother gold.
Packings-intrigues. L. iii. 1, n.

Either in snuffs and packings of the dukes.
Paddock-toad. H. iii. 4, n.

For who, that 's but a queen, fair, sober, wise
Would from a paddock, from a bat, a gib,
Such dear concernings hide?

Padd ck-toad. M. i. 1, n.

Paddock calls.

Padua. T. S. i. 1, i.

Fair Padua, nursery of arts.

Pageants. G. V. iv. 4, i.

At Pentecost,

When all our pageants of delight were play'd. Painted cloth. A. L. iii. 2, i.

I answer you right painted cloth, from whence you have studied your questions. Painted cloth. Luc. n. (See A. L. iii. i.)

Who fears a sentence or an old man's saw Shall by a painted cloth be kept in awe. Paiocke-coin of about three farthings value. H. iii. 2, n. And now reigns here

A very, very-paiocke.

Pair of bases-armour for the legs. P. ii. 1, n. I yet am unprovided

Of a pair of bases.

Pale (v.)-impale, encircle. H. 6, T. P. i. 4, n. And will you pale your head in Henry's glory? Palliament-robe. T. And i. 2, n.

This palliament of white and spotless hue. Pap of hatchet. H. 6, S. P. iv. 7, n.

Ye shall have a hempen caudle then, and the pap of hatchet.

Papers (v.). H. E. i. 1, n.

And his own letter

(The honourable board of council out)
Must fetch him in he papers.

'Paradise Lost.' M. N. D. i. 1, i.

Ah me! for aught that ever I could read. Parcel gilt partially gilt. H. 4, S. P. ii. 1, n.

Thou didst swear to me upon a parcel-gilt goblet. Parish top. T. N. i. 3, i.

Till his brains turn o' the toe like a parish top. Parle-speech. G. V. i. 2, n.

That every day with parle encounter me. Parling-speaking. Luc. n.

But she, that never cop'd with stranger eyes, Could pick no meaning from their parling looks. Parlous-perilous. M. N. D. iii. 1, n.

By 'r lakin, a parlous fear.

Parlous-perilous. A. L. iii. 2, n.

Thou art in a parlus state, shepherd.

Parlous-perilous. R. J. i. 3, n.

It had upon its brow

A bump as big as a young cockrel's stone;
A parlous knock.

Part I had in Gloster's blood-my consanguinity to
Gloster. R. S. i. 2, n.

Alas! the part I had in Gloster's blood
Doth more solicit me, than your exclaims.

Part with-depart with. C. E. iii. 1, n.

In debating which was best, we shall part with neither.

Partake (v.)-take part. So. exlix. n.

Canst thou. O cruel! say I love thee not, When I, against myself, with thee partake? Partaker confederate. H. 6, F. P. ii. 4, n.

For your partaker Poole, and you yourself, I'll note you in my book of memory. Parted-shared. H. E. v. 2, n. Í had thought They had parted so much honesty among them. Particular-letter of detail. H. 4, S. P. iv. 4, n. Here at more leisure may your highness read; With every course, in his particular.

Parting of Antony and his friends,-from North's Plutarch.' A. C. iii. 9, i.

Friends, come hither.

Parthians. Cy. i. 7, i.

Or, like the Parthian, I shall flying fight.

Parts,-parties, party. H. 6, S. P. v. 2, n.
Reigns in the hearts of all our present parts.
Pash. W. T. i. 2, n.

Thou want'st a rough pash, and the shoots that
I have,

To be full like me.

Pass on-condemn, adjudicate. M. M. ii. 1, n.
What know the laws,

That thieves do pass on thieves?

Passage. A. W. i. 1, n.

O, that had! how sad a passage 't is ! Passed-surpassed. M. W. i. 1, n.

The women have so cried and shriek'd at it, that it passed.

Passed-was excessive. T. C. i. 2. n.

All the rest so laughed, that it passed.
Passes-passages. M. M. v. 1, n.

When I perceive your grace, like power divine,
Hath look'd upon my passes.

Passes-excels, goes beyond common virtues. T.
Ath. i. 1, n.

A most incomparable man; breath'd, as it

were,

To an untirable and continuate goodness:
He passes.

Passing-surpassing. H. 6, T. P. v. 1, ».

O passing traitor, perjur'd, and unjust! Passionate-given up to grief. J. ii. 2, n. She is sad and passionate.

Passy-measures pavin. T. N. v. 1, n.

Then he's a rogue and a passy-measures pavin; I hate a drunken rogue.

Patch-pretender. C. E. iii. 1, n.

Coxcomb, idiot, patch. Patch-fool. M. V. ii. 5, n.

The patch is kind enough.

Patch a quarrel. A. C. ii. 2, n.

If you 'll patch a quarrel,

As matter whole you have to make it with,
It must not be with this.

Patched fool-fool in a particoloured coat. M. N. D. iv. 1, n.

But man is but a patched fool.

Patient (used as a verb). T. And. i. 2, a.

Patient yourself, madam, and pardon me. Patine-small flat dish used in the service of the altar. M. V. v. 1, n.

Look how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold. Path (v.)-walk on a trodden way, move forward amidst observation. J. C. ii. 1, n.

For if thou path thy native semblance on. Paucas pallabris-few words. T. S. Induction 1, s. Therefore, paucas pallabris.

Paul's walk. H. 4, S. P. i. 2, i.

I bought him in Paul's, &c.

Paved fountain. M. N. D. ii. 2, n.

By paved fountain, or by rushy brook.

Pax. H. F. iii. 6, i.

But Exeter hath given the doom of death,
For par of little price.

Pay down for our offence by weight-pay the full price of our offence. M. M. i. 3, n.

Thus can the demi-god, Authority,

Make us pay down for our offence by weight.

Pearls down sleeves-pearls set on down the sleeves. M. A. iii. 4, n.

Set with pearls down sleeves.

Peat-pet, spoiled child. T. S. i. 1, n.

A pretty peat; 't is best

Put finger in the eye-an she knew why.

Peel'd-shaven. H. 6, F. P. i. 3, n.

Peel d priest, dost thou command me to be shut out?

'Peg-a-Ramsey.' T. N. ii. 3, i.

Malvolio's a Peg-a-Rumsey, and Three merry

men we be.'

Peize (v.)-keep in suspense, upon the balance. M. V. iii. 2, n.

I speak too long; but 't is, to peize the time. Pelican. H. iv. 5, i.

Like the kind, life-rend'ring pelican. Pelleted-formed into pellets, or small balls. L. C. n.

Laund'ring the silken figures in the brine That season'd woe had pelleted in tears. Pelt (v.)-be clamorous. Luc. n.

Another smother'd seems to pelt and swear. Pelting-petty, contemptible. M. N. D. ii. 2, n. Have every pelting river made so proud. Pelting-paltry, petty. K. S. ii. 1, n.

Like to a tenement, or pelting farm. Pelting-petty, of little worth. L. ii. 3, n. (See R. S. ii. 1, n.)

Poor pelting villages, sheep-cotes, and mills. Pelting-petty. T. C. iv. 5, n.

We have had pelting wars, since you refus'd

The Grecians' cause.

Penalty of Adam. A. L. ii. 1, n.

Here feel we not the penalty of Adam. Penitent-in the sense of doing penance. C. E.i.

2, n.

But we, that know what 't is to fast and pray, Are penitent for your default to-day. Pense-pronounced as a dissyllable. M. W. v. 5, n. And Honi soit qui mal y pense,

Pensioners. M. W. ii. 2, i.

write.

Nay, which is more, pensioners. Pensioners-courtiers. M. N. D. ii. 1, n.

The cowslips taller pensioners be.

Pennies. M. W. ii. 2, i.

I will not lend thee a penny.

Penner-case for holding pens. T. N. K. iii. 5, n. At whose great feet I offer up my penner. Pennyworth of sugar. H. 4, F. P. ii. 4, n. (See H. 4, F. P. i. 2, i.)

To sweeten which name of Ned I give thee this pennyworth of sugar.

Pepper gingerbread-spice gingerbread. H. 4, F. P. iii. 1, n.

And leave in sooth,

And such protest of pepper gingerbread,
To velvet-guards, and Sunday-citizens.

Perfect-assured. W. T. iii. 3, n.

Thou art perfect then, our ship hath touch'd

upon

The deserts of Bohemia? Perfect-assured. Cy. iii. 1, n.

I am perfect

That the Pannonians and Dalmatians, for Their liberties, are now in arms. Perfuming rooms. M. A. i. 3, i.

Smoking a musty room.

Periap's amulets, charms. H. 6, F. P. v. 3, n. Now help, ye charming spells, and periapts. Period-end. M. W. iv. 2, n.

There would be no period to the jest. Perish-used actively. H. 6, S. P. ii. 2, n.

Because thy flinty heart, more hard than they,
Might in thy palace perish Margaret.
Periwig. G. V. iv. 4, i. A colour'd periwig.
Perjure wearing papers. L. L. L. iv. 3, n.
He comes in like a perjure wearing papers.
Perspectives. R. S. ii. 2, 1.

Like perspectives, which, rightly gaz'd upon,
Show nothing but confusion,-ey'd awry,
Distinguish form.

Pervert (v.)-avert. Cy. ii. 4, n.

Let's follow him, and pervert the present wrath
He hath against himself.

Peruse (v.)-examine. H. iv. 7, n.

He, being remiss,

Most generous, and free from all contriving,
Will not peruse the foils.

Pew fellow-companion, occupiers of the same seat.
R. T. iv. 4, n.
This carnal cur

Preys on the issue of his mother's body,
And makes her pew fellow with others' moan.
Pheere-companion, mate. P. i. Gower, n.

This king unto him took a pheere,
Who died and left a female heir.

Pheese (v.)-to beat. T. S. Induction 1, n.
I'll pheese you, in faith.

Philip ?-sparrow! J. i. 1, n.
Gur. Good leave, good Philip.

Bast.

Philip?-sparrow!
Phill-horse-horse in the shafts. M. V. ii. 2, n.
Thou hast got more hair on thy chin than
Dobbin my phill-horse has on his tail.
Philosopher's two stones. H. 4, S. P. iii. 2, n.
And it shall go hard, but I will make him a
philosopher's two stones to me.
Phraseology of the time of Elizabeth. H. i. 2,i.
More than the scope

Of these dilated articles allow.
Pick (v.)-pitch. Cor. i. 1, n.
As high

As I could pick my lance.
Picked-trimmed. L. L. L. v. 1, n.
He is too picked.
Picked-spruce, affected, smart.

The age is grown so picked.

H. v. 1, n.

Picked man of countries. J. i. 1, n.

Why, then I suck my teeth, and catechise
My picked man of countries.

Pickers and stealers-hands. H. iii. 2, n.

So I do still, by these pickers and stealers. Pickt hatch. M. W. ii. 2, n.

To your manor of Pickt-hatch, go. Picture-person. G. V. ii. 4. n.

'T is but her picture I have yet beheld.

Pierced-penetrated. O. i. 3, n.

I never yet did hear

That the bruis'd heart was pierced through the

And all eyes blind

With the pin and web.

Pinch'd-painted. G. V. iv. 4, n.

And pinch'd the lily-tincture of her face. Pinch'd-petty, contemptible. W. T. ii. 1, n. He has discover'd my design, and I Remain a pinch'd thing.

Pinnace-small vessel attached to a larger. M. W. i. 3, n.

Sail like my pinnace to these golden shores. Pioned and twilled brims. T. iv. 1, n.

Thy banks with pioned and twilled brims, Which spongy April at thy hest betrims. Pipe-wine. M. W. iii. 2, n.

I think I shall drink in pipe-wine first with him. Pipes of corn. M. N. D. ii. 2, i.

Playing on pipes of corn.

Pittie-ward. M. W. iii. 1, n.

Marry, sir, the pittie ward, the park-ward. Place-abiding-place. A. L. ii. 3, n.

This is no place, this house is but a butchery. Places-honours. W. T. i. 2, n.

Thy places shall

Still neighbour mine.

Plantain-leaf. R. J. i. 2, i.

Your plantain leaf is excellent for that. Planched-planked, made of boards. M. M. iv. 1, n. And to that vineyard is a planched gate. Plantagenet. J. í. 1, i.

Arise sir Richard, and Plantagenet.
Plate armour. H. F. iv. Chorus, i.
With busy hammers closing rivets up.

and play pheers.

Play the men-behave like men. T. i. 1, n.
Where's the master? Play the men.

Pleach'd-folded. A. C. iv. 12, n.

Thy master thus with pleach'd arms.

Please you wit-be pleased to know. P. iv. 4, n.
Now please you wit

The epitaph is for Marina writ.
Plighted-plaited, folded. L. i. 1, n.

Time shall unfold what plighted cunning hides. Plot-spot. H. 6, S. P. ii. 2, n.

And, in this private plot, be we the first That shall salute our rightful sovereign. Pluck off-descend. H. E. ii. 3, n.

Old Lady. What think you of a duchess? have you limbs

To bear that load of title?

Pomegranate-tree. R. J. iii. 5, i.

Nightly she sings on yon pomegranate-tree. Pomewater-a species of apple. L. L. L. iv. 2, a. Ripe as a pomewater.

Poor fool is hang'd. L. v. 3, n.

And my poor fool is hang'd! No, no, no life.
R. J. i. 1, s.

Poor John-hake, dried and salted.

'T is well thou art not fish; if thou hadst, thou hadst been poor John.

Port-state, show. T. S. i. 1, n.

Keep house, and port, and servants, as I should. Port-appearance, carriage. M. V. i. 1, n.

By something showing a more swelling port. Portable. M. iv. 3, n.

All these are portable

With other graces weigh'd.

Portage-port holes. H. F. iii. 1, n.

Then lend the eye a terrible aspect;

Let it pry through the portage of the head,
Like the brass cannon.

Possess (v.)-inform. T. N. ii. 3, n.

Possess us, possess us, tell us something of him.
Possess'd-informed. M. V. i. 3, n.
Is he yet possess'd

How much you would.
Possess'd-informed. M. M. iv. 1, n.

And that I have possess'd him, my most stay
Can be but brief.

Possess'd. R. S. ii. 1, n.

Deposing thee before thou wert possess'd,

Which art possess'd now to depose thyself. Possessions; in two senses: 1, lands; 2, mental endowments. G. V. v. 2, n.

Thurio. Considers she my possessions?
Proteus. O, ay; and pities them.
Thurio. Wherefore?

Proteus. That they are out by lease.

Post indeed. C. E. i. 2, n.

If I return, I shall be post indeed.

Powder-flask. R. J. iii. 3, i.

Like powder in a skill-less soldier's flask.

Power of medicine, experiments upon the. Cy. i. 6, i. Your highness

Shall from this practice but make hard your heart.

Practice-craft, subornation. M. M. v. 1, n.

Or else thou art suborn'd against his honour
In hateful practice.

Practice-artifice. H. E. i. 1, n.

I shall perish

Under device and practice.

Prank'd up-dressed splendidly, decorated. W. T. iv. 3, n.

And me, poor lowly maid,

Most goddess like prank'd up.

Prayers cross. M. M. ii. 2, n.

Amen:

For I am that way going to temptation,
Where prayers cross.

Precise. M. M. iii. 1, n.

The precise Angelo.

Precisian. M. W. ii. 1, n.

Though love use reason for his precisian. Preferred-offered. M. N. D. iv. 2, n.

The short and the long is, our play is preferred. Premises of homage-circumstances of homage premised. T. i. 2, n.

In lieu o' the premises

Of homage, and I know not how much tribute. Presence. J. i. 1, n.

Lord of thy presence, and no land beside. Presents of wine. M. W. ii. 2, i.

Hath sent your worship a morning's draught of sack.

Prest-ready. M. V. i. 1, n.

And I am prest unto it.

Prest-ready. P. iv. Gower, n.

The pregnant instrument of wrath

Prest for this blow.

Prester John. M. A. ii. 1, i.

Bring you the length of Prester John's foot.

Pretence design. G. V. iii. 1, n.

Hath made me publisher of this pretence.

Pretence-design. W. T. iii. 2, n.

The pretence thereof being by circumstances partly laid open.

Pretence-purpose. L. i. 2, n.

I dare pawn down my life for him that he hath writ this to feel my affection to your honour, and to no other pretence of danger.

Pretend intend. H. 6, F. P. iv. 1, n.

And none your foes but such as shall pretend
Malicious practices against his state.

Pretend (v.)-propose. M. ii. 4, n.
What good could they pretend?
Pretended-intended. G. V. ii. 6, n.
Of their disguising, and pretended flight.
Pretended-proposed. Luc. n.

Reward not hospitality With such black payment as thou hast pretended. Prevented-anticipated, gone before. T. N. iii. 1, n. I will answer you with gait and entrance: But we are prevented. Prevented-gone before, anticipated. H. 6, F. P. iv. 1, n.

But that I am prevented,

I should have begg'd I might have been employ'd.

Price of sheep. H. 4, S. P. iii. 2, i.

A score of good ewes may be worth ten pounds. Prick-song-music pricked, or noted down. R. J.

ii. 4, n.

He fights as you sing prick-song.

Pricket. L. L. L. iv. 2, n.

"T was a pricket.

Prince of cats. R. J. ii. 4, n.

Ben. Why, what is Tybalt?

Mer. More than prince of cats.

Principals-strongest timbers of a building. P. iii.

2, n.

Sir, our lodgings, standing bleak upon the sea,
Shook as the earth did quake;

The very principals did seem to rend,
And all to topple.

Princox-coxcomb. R. J. i. 5, n.

You are a princox; go.

Prizer. A. L. ii. 3, n.

The bony prizer of the humorous duke.
Probat-probable. O. ii. 3, n.

When this advice is free, I give, and honest,
Probal to thinking, and indeed the course
To win the Moor again?

Process-summons. A. C. i. 1, n.

Where's Fulvia's process?

Procures. P. P. n.

Prone-forward. Cy. v. 4, n.

Unless a man would marry a gallows, and beget young gibbets, I never saw one so prone. Prome-having inclination or propensity, self-willed, head-strong. Luc. n.

O, that prone lust should stain so pure a bed! Propagation. M. M. i. 3, n.

Only for propagation of a dower

Remaining in the coffer of her friends. Proper-false-handsome false. T. N. ii. 2, n. How easy is it for the proper-false

In women's waxen hearts to set their forms! Properties-a theatrical phrase. M. N. D. i. 2, n. In the mean time I will draw a bill of properties. Prophecies. L. iii. 2, i.

When priests are more in word than matter. Proposed-purposed. H. iv. 4, n.

Ham

Good sir, whose powers are these? Cap. They are of Norway, sir. Ham. How proposed, sir? Protest (v.)-declare openly. T. Ath. iv. 3, n. Do villainy, do, since you protest to do 't

Like workmen.

Proud to be so valiant-proud of being so valiant.
Cor. i. 1, n.

The present wars devour him: he is grown
Too proud to be so valiant.

Provost-keeper of prisoners. M. M. ii. 1, n.
Enter Angelo, Escalus, a Justice, Pronost.
Pruning-preening, trimming up L. L. L. iv.

3, n.

Or spend a minute's time

In pruning me.

Public shows. T. ii. 2, i.

Were I in England now, &c.

Puck. M. N. D. ii. 1, i.

That shrewd and knavish sprite,

Call'd Robin Good-fellow.

Pudder-pother. L. iii. 2, n.

Let the great gods,

That keep this dreadful pudder o'er our head. Pugging. W. T. iv. 2, n.

Doth set my pugging tooth on edge.

Puke-stocking-puce stocking. H. 4, F. P. ii. 4, n.

Nott-pated agate ring, puke-stocking.

Pull in resolution. M. v 5, n.

I pull in resolution, and begin

To doubt the equivocation of the fiend. Pump-shoe. R. J. ii. 4, n.

Why, then is my pump well flowered, Pun (v.)-pound. T. C. fi. 1, n.

He would pun thee into shivers with his fist. Pupil age-young age. H. 4, F. P. ii. 4, n.

Since the old days of goodman Adam, to the pupil age of this present twelve o'clock at midnight.

Purchase--theft. H. 4, F. P. ii. 1, n.

Thou shalt have a share in our purchase. Puritans. T. N. ii. 3, i.

Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale? Puritans, allusion to. A. W. i. 3, i.

Though honesty be no puritan, yet it will do no hurt; it will wear the surplice of humility over the black gown of a big heart.