A on; II. i. 185. =

Abuse, deceive; V. i. 112.
Aches (dissyllabic, pronounced
"aitches," like the letter H);
I. ii. 370.

Admire, wonder; V. i. 154. Advance, raise, lift up; I. ii. 408.

Adventure, to risk; II. i. 187. After, afterwards; II. ii. 10. Again, again and again; I. ii. 390.

A-hold; "to lay a ship a-hold,"

i.e. "to bring a ship close to the wind so as to hold or keep her to it"; I. i. 49. Amazement, anguish; I. ii. 14. Amen, used probably in the sense of "again! or perhaps merely with the force of "many "; others render it "hold, stop!" II. ii. 98. An, if; II. i. 181. Angle, corner; I. ii. 223.

Argier, Algiers; I. ii. 261. As, as if; II. i. 121. Aspersion, sprinkling of rain or dew (with an allusion perhaps to the ceremony of sprinkling the marriage-bed with holy water); IV. i. 18. Attached, seized; III. iii. 5. Avoid, begone; IV. i. 142.

Backward, distant, past; I. ii. 50.

Badges; "household servants usually wore on their arms, as part of their livery, silver 'badges' whereon the shield of their masters was engraved"; V. i. 267. Barefoot (used adjectively); II. ii. II. Barnacles, barnacle geese; "it was formerly thought that the barnacle shell-fish, which is found on timber exposed

to the action of the sea, became when broken off a kind of goose. Sometimes it is related that the barnacles grew on trees and thence, dropping into the sea, became geese" (cf. Sir John Maundevile's Travels); IV. i. 249.

Base, utter in a deep bass; III. iii. 99. Bat-fowling, a term used for

catching birds by night; thence the name of a thieves' trick for plundering shops about dusk by pretending to have lost a jewel near; II. i. 185.

Beak, bow (of a ship); I. ii. 196.

Bear up, i.e. take your course,

sail up; III. ii. 3. Bermoothes, i.e. Bermudas; "said and supposed to be inchanted and inhabited with witches and deuills, which grew by reason of accustomed monstrous thunder, storme, and tempest," etc. Stow's Annals; I. ii. 229. Berries, see Notes; I. ii. 334. Blue-eyed, with blueness about the eyes, with livid eyelids; I. ii. 269. Boil'd (ff. boile,' Pope's correction), frenzied; V. i. 60. Bombard, "black jack" of leather; II. ii. 21. (Cp. illustration.)

Bootless, profitless; I. ii. 35.
Bosky, wooded; IV. i. 81.
Bourn, boundary; II. i. 152.

From a specimen (no longer extant) at
Flixton Hall, Suffolk.

Brave, fine; I. ii. 411.
Bring to try; "to lay the ship

with her side close to the wind, and lash the tiller to the lee side"; I. i. 35. Broom-groves, rich copses of broom (Spartium scoparium); or perhaps woods overgrown with genista, pathless woods; IV. i. 66. Budge, stir; V. i. 11. Burthen, undersong; I. ii. 381. But, except that; I. ii. 414; otherwise than, I. ii. 119.

By and by, immediately; III. ii. 156.

Can, is able to make; IV. i. 27. Candied, converted into sugar, (?) congealed; II. i. 279 (v. Notes).

Capable, retentive; I. ii. 353. Capering, jumping for joy; V. i. 238.

Carriage, burden; V. i. 3.

Case, condition; III. ii. 29. Cast, to throw up; perhaps with a play upon 'cast" in the sense of "to assign their parts to actors"; II. i. 251. Cat (with reference to the old proverb that "good liquor will make a cat speak"); II. ii. 86.

Catch, a part-song; III. ii. 126. Certes, certainly; III. iii. 30. Chalked forth, i.e. chalked out; V. i. 203.

Cherubin, a cherub; I. ii. 152. Chirurgeonly, like a surgeon; II. i. 140.

Clear, blameless; III. iii. 82.
Closeness, retirement; I. ii. 90.
Cloudy, gloomy; II. i. 142.
Cockerel, the young cock; II. i.
31.

Coil, turmoil; I. ii. 207.
Come by, to acquire; II. i. 292.
Confederates, conspires; I. ii.

III.

Constant, self-possessed; I. ii.

207; my stomach is not c.,' i.e. "is qualmish "; II. ii. 119. Content, desire, will; II. i. 269. Control, contradict; I. ii. 439. Coragio, courage; V. i. 258. Corollary, a supernumerary, a surplus; IV. i. 57. Correspondent, responsive, obedient; I. ii. 298. Courses, the largest lower sails of a ship; I. i. 52. Crabs, crab-apples; II. ii. 171. Crack, to burst (with reference

to magic bands, or perhaps to the crucibles and alembics of magicians); V. i. 2.

Dear, zealous; I. ii. 179. Dearest, most precious object; II. i. 135.

Deboshed, debauched; III. ii. 29.

Decked, sprinkled; I. ii. 155. Deep, profound, wise; II. i. 266.

Deliver, relate; V. i. 313. Demanded, asked; I. ii. 139. Dew-lapped, having flesh hanging from the throat (a reference probably to victims of "goitre"), see wallets of flesh"; III. iii. 45.

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Dis, Pluto; IV. i. 89. Discase, undress; V. i. 85. Discharge, performance, execution; used probably as a technical term of the stage; II. i. 254.

Distempered, excited; IV. i. 145.

Distinctly, separately; I. ii. 200. Ditty, words of a song; I. ii. 405.

Doit, the smallest piece of money; eighty doits went to a shilling; II. ii. 33. Dollar, used quibblingly with "dolour"; II. i. 18.

Dowle, a fibre of down; III. iii. 65.

Drawn, having swords drawn; II. i. 308: having taken a good draught; II. ii. 150. Dregs (with reference to the liquor of the bombard," I. 21); II. ii. 42.

Drollery, puppet-show; III. iii.

21.

Dry, thirsty; I. ii. 112.

Dulness, stupor; I. ii. 185.

Earth'd, buried in the earth;

II. i. 234. Ebbing;

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'ebbing men," i.e.

men whose fortunes are declining"; II. i. 226.

Ecstasy, mental excitement, madness; III. iii. 108. Endeavour, laborious effort; II. i. 160.

Engine, instrument of war, military machine; II. i. 161. Entertainer, perhaps quibblingly interpreted by Gonzalo in the sense of "inn-keeper "; II. i. 17.

Envy, malice; I. ii. 258.

Estate, to grant as a possession; IV. i. 85.

Eye, tinge; II. i. 55.

Fall, to let fall; II. i. 296. Fearful, timorous; I. ii. 468. Feater, more becomingly; II. i. 273.

Featly, deftly; I. ii. 380. Fellows, companions; II. i. 274. Few; in few,' in few words, in short; I. ii. 144.

Fish, to catch at, to seek to obtain; II. i. 104.

Flat, low level ground; II. ii. 2. Flat-long, as if struck with the

side of a sword instead of its edge; II. i. 181.

Flesh-fly, a fly that feeds on flesh and deposits her eggs in it; III. i. 63. Flote, flood, sea; I. ii. 234. Foil, disadvantage; III. i. 46. Foison, plenty; II. i. 163.

Gaberdine, a long coarse outer garment; II. ii. 40. Gallows; cf. "He that is born to be hanged will never be drowned"; I. i. 30.

Gave out, i.e. gave up; V. i. 213.

Gentle, high-born (and hence

"high-spirited"); I. ii. 468. Gilded, made drunk (an allu

sion to the aurum potabile of the alchemists); V. i. 280. Gins, begins; III. iii. 106.

Glasses, hour-glasses, i.e. run

nings of the hour-glass; I. ii.
240, V. i. 223 (cp. VI. i.
186, 'three glasses'=' three
hours,' though the seaman's
'glass' was usually half an
hour).

Glut, to swallow up; I. i. 60.
Grudge, murmur; I. ii. 249.

Heavy; "the heavy offer," i.e. the offer which brings drowsiness; II. i. 194. Help, cure; II. ii. 97. Hests, behests; I. ii. 274. Hint, theme; I. ii. 134; occasion, cause; II. i. 3. His, its; II. i. 120. Hoist, hoisted (past tense of hoise" or "hoist "); I. ii. 148.

Hollowly, insincerely; III. i. 70.

Home, to the utmost, effectively; V. i. 71. Honeycomb, cells of honeycomb; I. ii. 329.

Lakin,

Ladykin," or the Vir

gin Mary; III. iii. 1. Land, laund, lawn; IV. i. 130. Lass-lorn, forsaken by his lass; IV. i. 68.

Laughter, possibly used with a double meaning; "lafter' was perhaps the cant name of some small coin; still used provincially for the number of eggs laid by a hen at one time; II. i. 33.

Learning, teaching; I. ii. 366. Licu, "in lieu of," i.e. in consideration of; I. ii. 123. Life; "good life," i.e. "lifelike truthfulness"; III. iii. 86.

Like, similarly; III. iii. 66. Lime, bird-lime; IV. i. 246. Line, lime-tree (with punning reference to other meanings of "line" in subsequent portion of the scene); IV. i. 235; cf. Note; and UNDER THE LINE."

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Line-grove, lime-grove; V. i. 10.