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THOUGHT-SICK, sick with anxiety; III. iv. 51.

THRIFT, profit; III. ii. 71. THOROUGHLY, thoroughly; IV. v. 138.

TICKLE O' THE SERE, easily moved to laughter; used originally of a musket in which the "sere" or trigger is “tickle,” i. e. “easily moved by a touch"; II. ii. 348.

TIMBER'D; "too slightly t.," made

of too light wood; IV. vii. 22. TIME, the temporal world; III. i. 70.

TINCT, dye, color; III. iv. 91.
To, compared to; I. ii. 140.

To-Do, ado; II. ii. 379.

TOILS, makes to toil; I. i. 72.

Too TOO, (used with intensive force); I. ii. 129.

TOPP'D, overtopped, surpassed. (Ff. "past"); IV. vii. 89. TOUCH'D, implicated; IV. v. 210. TOWARD, forthcoming, at hand; I. i. 77.

TOY IN BLOOD, a passing fancy; I. iii. 6.

Toys, fancies; I. iv. 75.
TRACE, follow; V. ii. 127.
TRADE, business; III. ii. 358
TRANSLATE, transform, change;
III. i. 114.

TRAVEL, stroll, go on tour in the provinces (used technically); II. ii. 353.

TRICK, toy, trifle; IV. iv. 61; faculty, skill; V. i. 101; habit; IV. vii. 189.

TRICK'D, adorned; a term of heraldry; II. ii. 497.

TRISTFUL, sorrowful; III. iv. 50. TROPICALLY, figuratively; III. ii. 253.

TRUANT, idler; I. ii. 173.
TRUANT, roving; I. ii. 169.
TRUE-PENNY, honest fellow;
150.

I. v.

TRUMPET, trumpeter; I. i. 150. TRUSTER, believer; I. ii. 172. TURN TURK, change utterly for the worse; (a proverbial phrase); III. ii. 295.

TWELVE FOR NINE; this phrase, according to the context, must mean "twelve to nine," i. e. twelve on one side, to nine on the other; V. ii. 179. TYRANNICALLY, enthusiastically, vehemently; II. ii. 366.

UMBRAGE, shadow; V. ii. 128. UNANELED, not having received extreme unction; I. v. 77. UNBATED, not blunted, without a button fixed to the end; IV. vii. 139.

UNBRACED, unfastened; II. i. 78. UNCHARGE, not charge, not accuse; IV. vii. 68.

UNDERGO, bear, endure; I. iv. 34. UNEFFECTUAL; "u. fire;" i. e. in

effectual, being "lost in the light of the morning"; I. v. 90. UNEQUAL, unequally; II. ii. 510. UNGALLED, unhurt; III. ii. 291. UNGORED, unwounded; V. ii. 272. UNGRACIOUS, graceless; I. iii. 47.

UNHOUSEL'D, without having received the Sacrament; I. v. 77. UNIMPROVED, unemployed, not turned to account; (? "unapproved," i. e. "untried"; Q. 1, "inapproved"); I. i. 96. UNION, fine orient pearl; (Q. 2, "Vnice"; Qq. 3-6, “Onyx” or "Onixe"); V. ii. 294.

UNKENNEL,

discover, disclose;

III. ii. 90. UNLIMITED; "poem u.", i. e. (probably regardless of the Unities of Time and Place; II. ii. 432.

UNMASTER'D, unbridled; I. iii. 32. UNPREGNANT, unapt, indifferent to; II. ii. 616.

UNPREVAILING, unavailing, useless; I. ii. 107.

UNPROPORTION'D, unsuitable; I. iii. 60.

UNRECLAIMED, untamed, wild; II. i. 34.

UNSHAPED, confused; IV. v. 8. UNSIFTED, untried; I. iii. 102. UNSINEW'D, weak; IV. vii. 10. UNSURE, insecure; IV. iv. 51. UNVALUED, low born, mean; I. iii. 19.

UNWRUNG, not wrenched, ungalled; III. ii. 260. UNYOKE, your day's work is done; V. i. 60.

Up, “drink u.” (used with intensive force); V. i. 308. UPON; 'u. your hour,' i. e. on the stroke of, just at your hour; I. i. 6.

UPON MY SWORD, i. e. Swear upon my sword, (the hilt being in form of a cross); I. v. 147. UPSHOT, conclusion; V. ii. 406. UP-SPRING, the wildest dance at the old German merry-makings; I. iv. 9.

VAILED LIDS, lowered eyelids; I.

ii. 70.

VALANCED, adorned with a beard; II. ii. 458.

VALIDITY, value, worth; III. ii. 204.

VANTAGE; "of v.", from an advantageous position, or opportunity (Warburton); III. iii.

33.

VARIABLE, various; IV. iii. 26. VAST, void; (so Q. 1; Q. 2, F. 1, 'wast'; Ff. 2, 3, 4, 'waste'); I. ii. 198.

VENTAGES, holes of the recorder; III. ii. 386.

VICE OF KINGS, buffoon, clown of a king; alluding to the Vice, the comic character, of the old morality plays; III. iv. 98. VIDELICET, that is to say, namely; II. i. 61.

VIGOR; "sudden v.", rapid power; I. v. 68.

VIOLET, emblem of faithfulness; IV. v. 187.

VIRTUE, power; IV. v. 157. VISITATION, visit; II. ii. 25. VOICE, vote, opinion; V. ii. 271. VOUCHERS; "double v., his recoveries," "a recovery with double voucher is the one usually suffered, and is so denominated from two persons (the latter of whom is always the common cryer, or some such inferior person) being successively vouched, or called upon, to warrant the tenant's title" (Ritson); V. i. 119.

WAG, move; III. iv. 39. WAKE, hold nightly revel; I. iv. 8. WANDERING STARS, planets; V. i 288.

WANN'D, turned pale; II. ii. 601. WANTON; effeminate weakling; V. ii. 321.

-, wantonly; III. iv. 183. WANTONNESS, affectation; III. i. 154.

WARRANTY, warrant; V. i. 259.
WASH, Sea; III. ii. 171.
WASSAIL, carousal, drinking bout;
I. iv. 9.

WATCH, state of sleeplessness;
II. ii. 150.
WATER-FLY (applied to Osric);
"a water-fly skips up and
down upon the surface of the
water without any apparent
purpose or reason, and is
thence the proper emblem of
a busy trifler" (Johnson); V.
ii. 84.
WAVES, beckons; (Ff. "wafts");
I. iv. 68.

WE; "and we,” used loosely after conjunction instead of accusation of regard, i. e. “as for us;" I. iv. 54.

WEEDS, robes; IV. vii. 81. WELL-TOOK, well undertaken; II. ii. 83.

WHARF, bank; I. v. 33. WHAT, who; IV. vi. 1. WHEEL, the burden or refrain of a song, (or, perhaps, the spinning-wheel to which it may be sung); IV. v. 174. WHETHER, (monosyllabic); II. ii. 17.

WHICH, Who; IV. vii. 4. WHOLESOME, reasonable, sensible; III. ii. 339.

WILDNESS, madness; III. i. 40. WILL; "virtue of his will,” i. e.

his virtuous intention; I. iii. 16. WIND; "to recover the w. of me," a hunting term, meaning to get to windward of the game, so

that it may not scent the toil or its pursuers; III. ii. 375. WINDLASSES, winding, indirect

ways; II. i. 65. WINKING; "given my heart a w.", closed the eyes of my heart; (Qq. 2–5, “working”); II. ii. 139. WINNOWED, (vide "Fond"). WIT, wisdom; II. ii. 90. WITHAL, with; I. iii. 28. WITHDRAW; "to w. with you," "to

speak a word in private with you" (Schmidt); III. ii. 373. WITHERS, the part between the shoulder-blades of a horse; III. ii. 260.

WITHIN'S, within this; III. ii. 140. WITTENBERG, the University of Wittenberg (founded 1502); I. ii. 113. WONDER-WOUNDED,

struck with

surprise; V. i. 289. WOODCOCKS, birds supposed to be brainless; hence proverbial use; I. iii. 115.

Woo'T, contraction of wouldst thou; V. i. 307.

WORD, watch-word; I. v. 110. WORLDS; "both the w.", this.

world and the next; IV. v. 136. WOULD, wish; I. ii. 235. WOUNDLESS, invulnerable; IV. i. 44.

WRECK, ruin; II. i. 113.

WRETCH, here used as a term of endearment; II. ii. 169. WRIT; "law of w. and liberty," probably a reference to the plays written with or without decorum, i. e. the supposed canons of dramatic art, "classical" and "romantic" plays; (according to some,= "adhering to the text or extem

porizing when need requires"); II. ii. 434.

YAUGHAN; "get thee to Y." (so F. 1; Q. 2, "get thee in and"); probably the name of a wellknown keeper of an ale-house near the Globe, perhaps the Jew, "one Johan," alluded to in Every Man out of his Humor; V. iv.; V. i. 69. YAW, stagger, move unsteadily;

(a nautical term); V. ii. 122. YEOMAN'S SERVICE, good service,

such as the yeoman performed for his lord; (Qq. 2, 3, 4, “yemans”); V. ii. 36.

YESTY, foamy; V. ii. 206. YORICK, the name of a jester, lamented by Hamlet; perhaps a corruption of the Scandinavian name Erick, or its English equivalent; (the passage possibly contains a tribute to the comic actor Tarlton); V. i. 206.

YOURSELF; "in y.", for yourself, personally; II. i. 71.

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