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From Petra-Sancta de Symbolis Heroicis (1634). (This portable time-indicator is interesting because of the magnet by which the owner might "ascertain the proper position by means of the shadow cast from a line which opens with the top") (II. vii. 20).

of the sun; II. vii. 20. See Note and also Illustration.

Disable (verb), disparage (Schmidt); IV. i. 34.

Dishonest (adj.), dishonoured, unchaste; V. iii. 4.

Disputable (adj.), disputatious; II. v. 34. Lat. dis, apart, putare, to think. Antony and Cleopatra, III.

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13, 74.

Diverted (adj.), turned from its own kind; II. iii. 37.

Dog-ape (sub.), baboon; II. v. 25. Ducdame a nonsense refrain like

"hey ho and a hey nonino" or "hey diddle diddle do-dum-dee." No satisfactory explanation of it has ever been given; II. v. 54. Dulcet (adj,), harmless; V. iv. 67.

Effect (sub.), purport; IV. iii. 35. Effigies (sub.), likeness, image,

effigy (Schmidt); II. vii. 193.
Lat. effigies.

Emulator (sub.), one who is enviously
ambitious; I. i. 149. Emulation
= ambition in the bad sense; IV.
i. II.

Enchantingly (adv.), spellbound as
though by means of charms; I. i.
173.
Enforcement (sub.), assistant, sup-
port; II. vii. 118.

Entame (verb), subdue; III. v. 48.
Envenom (verb), poison; II. iii. 15.
Envy (verb), feel jealousy or mortifi
cation over; III. ii. 76.
Erewhile (adv.), a little while ago;
II. iv. 89.

Erring (part. adj.), straying, de-
viating hither and thither; III. ii.
133. Lat. Erro, to wander. Cf.
Hamlet, I. i. 154.

Erst (adv.), formerly; III. v. 95.
Estate (verb), settle as a possession
on, bestow; V. ii. 13.

Exempt (adj.), apart, separate, re-
mote II. i. 15.

Exercises (sub.), ordinary occupa-
tions and recreations; I. i. 74.
Expediently (adv.), quickly, smartly;

III. i. 18.

Extent (sub.), seizure (Schmidt);
III. i. 17.

Extermine (verb), destroy entirely,
clear away; III. v. 89.
Eyne (sub.), plural of eye; IV. iii.

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Fail (verb), miscarry; II. iii. 24.
Lat. fallere, to deceive. Cf. Cym-
beline, V. v. 57.
Falls (verb), to cause to fall; III.
v. 5.

False gallop (phrase), a kind of
jerky, irregular amble; III. ii. 116.
Cf. Much Ado About Nothing, III.

iv. 91.
Fancy (sub.), love (Schmidt); III.

v. 29; passion, V. iv. 156. Fancy-
monger one who deals in love;
III. ii. 373. Cf. fantasy; II. iv.
31.

Favour (sub.), appearance; IV. iii.
87; also the face; V. iv. 27.
Feature (sub.), look, figure, form;
III. iii. 3.

Feeder (sub.), shepherd; he who
feeds the flocks; II. v. 99. M.E.
feden; A.S. fidan for foedan, to feed.
Cf. 2 Henry IV., V. v. 63.
Fells (sub.), skins or hides with the
wool or hair on; III. ii. 55. M.E.
fel; A.S. fell; Goth. fill; Lat.
pellis; Gr. Téλa. Cf. King Lear,
V. iii. 24.

Figure (sub.), rhetorical construction

V. i. 43.

A.S.

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Fleet (verb.), make to pass swiftly;
I. i. 123. M.E. Aleten;
fleetan, to float; Ger. fliessen, to
float; fotian, to flit, occurs in A.S.
Chronicle. Cf. Sonnets, xix. 5.
Flout (verb), to jeer at, ridicule; I.
ii. 46.

Fond (adj.), foolish; II. iii. 7.
Fool (sub.), a term of endearment;
II. i. 22.

Forked (adj.), barbed; II. i. 24.
Forsworn (adj.), perjured; I. ii. 67.
Foul (adj.), ugly, hard-favoured; III.
iii. 35.

Free (adj.), innocent; II. vii. 85.
Function (sub.), duty, employment;
II. vii. 79.

Furnished (part.), attired, equipped;
III. ii. 253.

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I. ii. 324.

God buy you (phrase), a greeting, "God be with you," whence comes our "good-bye"; III. ii. 266; other greetings of a like kind are: "God 'ild you""God yield you," or God give you what you desire; III. iii. 74.

Golden world (phrase), golden age; I. i. 124.

Gondola (sub.), a boat used on the canals in Venice. See Illustration; IV. i. 38.

Headed (verb) come to a head, as, for instance, a tumour; II. vii. 67. Heap (sub.), great quantity, mass; I. ii. 68. M.E. heep; A.S. heap, a crowd; Dut. hoop; Ger. haufe. Cf. Timon of Athens, V. i. 155. Hind (sub.), farm-servant, fieldlabourer; I. i. 20.

Hire (verb), to engage in temporary service for wages; I. i. 14. M E. hire; A.S. hyr, wages; Dut. huur; Dan. hyre. Much Ado Nothing, V. i. 306.

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Hooping (sub.), shouting from wonder or surprise; also applauding; III. ii. 198.

Hose (sub.), breeches; II. vii. 160. Humorous (adj.), changeable, vacillating, full of sudden likes and dislikes; I. ii. 268; II. iii. 8; IV. i. 20.

Hurtle (verb), clash, make a noise in colliding; IV. iii. 132.

Hyen (sub), hyæna; IV. i. 157. See

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From an ornamented post in Wenden Church, Essex (IV. i. 157).

Idle (adj.), useless, unprofitable; V. ii. 56. M.E. idel; A. S. idel, vain; Dan. idel; Dut. ijdel, vain. The original sense seems, according to Skeet, to have been "clear." King John, III. iii. 46. Ill-favoured (adj.), unprepossessing, hard-featured; V. iv. 60. Incontinent (adj.), immediately; V. ii. 42.

Intendment (sub.), purpose, determination; I. i. 139.

Invectively (adj.), mockingly, railingly; II. i. 58.

Irks (verb), troubles, distresses, impersonal form; II. i. 22.

Jar (sub.), harsh sound, discordant noise; II. vii. 5. Stands for the older form char: allied to Aryan root gar. Cf. King Lear, IV. vii. 16. Justly (adv.), precisely, truly; I. ii. 246; also note the use of "just" as an adverb of manner, and meaning "just so."

Kindle (verb), stimulate, urge to a
course of action; I. i. 178. Ice.
Kyndill; A.S. candel; Lat. candela.
Knoll (verb), ring, toll; II. vii. 114.
Knowledge (sub.), skill, experience;
I. ii. 69.

Labour (sub.), pains; II. vi. 14.
Labourer (sub.), one who does service
in the field; III. ii. 75.
Lack (verb), feel the want of, miss;
IV. i. 178.

Learn (verb), teach; I. ii. 5.
Leer (sub.), complexion, face; IV. i.

66. M.E. lere, the cheek, face: A.S. hleor, the cheek, hence the face. Limned (verb), drawn, painted (Schmidt); II. vii. 194.

In little (phrase), in miniature; III.
ii. 143.
Cf. Hamlet, II. ii. 382.
Loose (verb), set free; III. v. 103.
Lover (sub.), lady-love; III. iv. 42.

Make (verb), fasten, close; IV.i. 162. Manage (sub.), training of a horse or dog; I. i. 13.

Mannish (adj.), masculine; I. iii. 120.
Marketable (adj.), likely to find a
buyer; I. ii. 95.
Lat. mercatus,

pp. of mercari, to trade. Memory (sub.), that which calls to remembrance, memorial; II. iii. 3. Mewl (verb), whimper; II. vii. 144. A factitive verb, from mew.

Mines (verb), nullifies; I. i. 21. Misprise (verb), undervalue, slight; I. i. 176. Fr. mépriser, despise. Misuse (verb), abuse; IV. i. 200. Mocks (sub.), sneers, ridicu'e, derision; III. v. 33. From mockable, ridiculous, giving rise to derision; III. ii. 49.

Modern (adj.), trite, common, of

everyday occurrence; II. vii. 156. Moonish (adj.), changeable, inconstant, capricious; III. ii 421. M.E. mone; A.S. mona; Dan. maane. Literally, "the measurer of time." Mortal (adj.), human, "mortal in folly "human in folly; II. iv. 57. Mossed with (adj.), overgrown IV. iii. 105. Motley (adj.), parti-coloured; II. vii. 13; (sub.), the domestic personage whose duty it was to amuse by his wit; III. iii. 77; the dress of the fool; II. vi. 34. O.F. martele, clotted; M.E. mottelee. Twelfth Night, I. v. 58.

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Much (adj.), much of ironical; IV.

iii. 2.

Mutton (sub.), sheep; III. ii. 57.

(sub.),

handkerchief

Napkin
(Schmidt); IV. iii. 94.
Native (adj.), pertaining to home;
II. i. 63.

Natural (sub.), an imbecile, simple-
ton, idiot; I. ii. 55.
Naught (phrase), "Le naught awhile,"
is equivalent to the oath," you good-
for-nothing, go to the devil"; I.i. 57.
Needless (adj.), not requiring, having
enough; II. i. 46.

Neighbour (sub.), a fellow-creature ; II. vii. 78. Neighbourly (adv.), kind; III. v. 90. M.E. neig hebour; A.S. neahgebur, from neah, nigh and bur or gebur, a husbandman; Dut. boer, a boor. Richard III., I. iv. 136; Merchant of Venice, I. ii. 85. Nice (adj.), squeamish, capricious, not contented; IV. i. 15.

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From Calot's series of plates illustrating the Italian comedy (II. vii. 158). Parcels in (phrase), bit by bit; III. v. 125.

Passing (adv.), very marvellously; III. v. 138.

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Pathetical (adj.), used in this play with the force of a superlative, either of good or evil. The meaning probably is "case-hardened," conscionable," or the like; IV.i. 191. Payment (sub.), retribution, penalty; I. i. 165.

Peascod (sub.), the pod or husk containing the peas, used sometimes as a gift by rustic lovers; used also for purposes of divination; II. iv. 52. Peevish (adj.), petulant, querulous; Cf. Henry V., III. vii.

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III. v. 110. 136. Penny (sub.), silver pennies. popular coin in early England, weighing 22 grains, and in value or purchasing power was not far

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