Crocodile; "woo't eat a c.," referring probably to the toughness of its skin; V. i. 288.

Crook, make to bend; III. ii. 66. Cross, go across it's way (to cross the path of a ghost was to come under its evil influence); I. i. 127. Crow-flowers, (probably) buttercups; IV. vii. 171.

Crowner, coroner; V. i. 24. Cry, company (literally, a pack of hounds); III. ii. 286. Cue, catch-word, call (a technical stage term); II. ii. 584. Cuffs, fisticuffs, blows; II. ii. 373. Cunnings, respective skill; IV. vii. 156.

Curb, cringe; "c. and woo," bow and beg, "bend and truckle"; III. iv. 155.

Curiously, fancifully; V. i. 217.
Currents, courses; III. iii. 57.

Deliver, relate;

I. ii. 193.

Delver, digger; V. i. 15. Demanded of, questioned by; IV. ii. 12.

Denote, mark, portray; I. ii. 83. Desires, good wishes, II. ii. 60. Dexterity, nimbleness, celerity (S. Walker, "celerity"); I. ii. 157. Diet; "your worm is your only emperor for d.," a grim play of words upon "the Diet of Worms"; IV. iii. 23.

Difference, properly a term in heraldry for a slight mark of distinction in the coats of arms of members of the same family; hence a slight difference; IV. v. 183.

Differences; "excellent d.," distinguishing qualities; V. ii. 109. Disappointed, (?) unappointed, unprepared (Pope, "unanointed" ; Theobald, "unappointed"); I. v.

77.

Disclose, hatching; III. i. 174. Disclosed, hatched; V. i. 299. Discourse, conversation; III. i. 108. "d. of reason," i.e. the reasoning faculty; I. ii. 150. Discovery, disclosure, confession; II. ii. 305.

Disjoint, disjointed; I. ii. 20. Dispatch, hasten to get ready; III. iii. 3.

Dispatch'd, deprived; I. v. 75. Disposition, nature; I. iv. 55. Distemper; "your cause of d.," the cause of your disorder; III. ii. 344. Distempered, disturbed; III. ii. 308. Distill'd, dissolved, melted (so Quarto

2; Folio 1, "bestil'd"); I. ii. 204. Distract, distracted; IV. v. 2. Distrust; "Id. you," i.e. I am anxious about you; III. ii. 172.

Divulging, being divulged; IV. i. 22. Do; "to do," to be done ; IV. iv. 44. Document, precept, instruction; IV. v. 178.

Dole, grief; I. ii. 13.

Doom, Doomsday; III. iv. 50. Doubt, suspect, fear; I. ii. 257. Douts, does out, extinguishes (Folio 1, 99 "" doubts Quartos, Folio 2," drownes"; Folios 3, 4, "drowns "); IV. vii. 193. Down-gyved, pulled down like gyves or fetters (so Folio 1; Quartos 2, 3, 6," downe gyved"; Quartos 4, 5, "downe gyred"; Theobald, "down-gyred"; i.e. rolled down); II. i. 80.

Drab, strumpet; II. ii. 612. Dreadful, full of dread; I. ii. 207. Drift; "d. of circumstance," roundabout methods (Quartos, "d. of conference"; Collier conj., "d. of confidence"); III. i. 1. Drives at, rushes upon; II. ii. 491. Ducats, gold coins; II. ii. 383. Dull thy palm, i.e. "make callous

thy palm by shaking every man by the hand" (Johnson); I. iii. 64. Dumb show, a show unaccompanied by words, preceding the dialogue and foreshadowing the action of a play, introduced originally as a compensatory addition to Senecan dramas, wherein declamation took the place of action; III. ii. 146

Eisel, vinegar; the term usually employed by older English writers for the bitter drink given to Christ (=late Lat. acetillum); [Quarto (i.)" vessels"; Quarto 2, "Esill"; Folios, "Esile"]; V. i. 288.

Elsinore, the residence of the Danish kings, famous for the royal castle of Kronborg, commanding the entrance of the Sound; II. ii. 278.

Emulate, emulous; I. i. 83.
Enact, act; III. ii. 107.
Enactures, actions; III. ii. 204.
Encompassment, circumvention; II. i.

10.

Encumber'd, folded; I. v. 174.
Engaged, entangled; III. iii. 69.
Enginer, engineer; III. iv. 206.
Enseamed, defiled, filthy; III. iv. 92.
Entertainment; 66 gentle e.,'
"show of
kindness; V. ii. 207.
Entreatments, solicitations; I. iii.

122.

Enviously, angrily; IV. v. 6.
Erring, wandering, roaming; I. i.
154.

Escoted, maintained; II. ii. 362.
Espials, spies; III. i. 32.
Estate, rank; V. i. 233-
Eternal, ?=infernal; V. ii. 368 (cp.
"(eternal) blazon ").

Even, honest, straightforward; II. ii. 298.

Even Christian, fellow-Christian; V. i. 32.

Event, result, issue; IV. iv. 41. Exception, objection; V. ii. 242. Excrements, excrescences, outgrowth (used of hair and nails); III. iv.

Extravagant, vagrant, wandering beyond its limit or confine; I. i. 154.

Extremity; "in ex.," going to ex

tremes; III. ii. 175. Eyases, unfledged birds; properly, young hawks taken from the nest (Fr. niais); II. ii. 355. Eye, presence; IV. iv. 6. Eyrie, a brood of nestlings; pro ́perly, an eagle's nest; II. ii. 354.

Faculties, peculiar nature (Folios,
"faculty"); II. ii. 589.
Faculty, ability (Quartos, "faculties");
II. ii. 317.

Fair, gently; IV. i. 36.
Falls, falls out, happens; IV. vii. 71.
Fancy; "express'd in f.," gaudy; I.
iii. 71.

Fang'd, having fangs (according to some, "deprived of fangs"); III. iv. 203.

Fantasy, imagination, I. i. 23; whim, caprice, IV. iv. 61. Fardels, packs, burdens; III. i. 76. (Cp. illustration.)

Fetch, artifice; "fetch of warrant," justifiable stratagem (Quartos, "f. of wit"); II. i. 38.

Few; "in f.," in few words, in brief; I. iii. 126.

Fierce, wild, terrible; I. i. 121. Fiery quickness, hot haste; IV. iii. 45.

Figure, figure of speech; II. ii. 98.
Find, find out, detect; III. i. 193.
Fine of his fines, end of his fines;
with a play upon the other sense
of the word; V. i. 111.
Fire (dissyllabic); I. iii. 120.
First, i.e. first request; II. ii. 61.
Fishmonger, probably used in some

cant coarse sense ((?) "seller of women's chastity"); II. ii. 174. Fit, prepared, ready; V. ii. 220. Fitness, convenience; V. ii. 201. Fits, befits; I. iii. 25. Flaw, gust of wind; V. i. 228. Flush, in full vigour (Folios, "fresh"); III. iii. 81. Flushing, redness; "had left the f.," i.e. had ceased to produce redness; I. ii. 155.

Foil, used with play upon its two senses, (i.) blunted rapier, (ii.) gold-leaf used to set off a jewel; V. ii. 258.

Fond, foolish; I. v. 99.

Fond and winnowed, foolish and overrefined (so Folios; Quarto 2, "prophane and trennowed"; Johnson, "sane and renowned"; Warburton, "fann'd and winnowed"); V. ii. 192.

Fools of nature, made fools of by nature; I. iv. 54.

Foot; "at f.," at his heels; IV. iii. 56.

For, as for, I. ii. 112; in place of, instead, V. i. 242; "for all,' once for all, I. iii. 131; "for and," and also, V. i. 99. Fordo, destroy; V. i. 233. Foreknowing, foreknowledge, prescience; I. i. 134.

Forestalled, prevented; III. iii. 49. Forged process, false statement of facts; I. v. 37:

Forgery, invention, imagination; IV. vii. 90.

Forgone, given up; II. ii. 308. Fortune's star, an accidental mark or defect; I. iv. 32. Forward, disposed; III. i. 7. Four; "f. hours," probably used for indefinite time (Hanmer "for"); II. ii. 160. Frame, order, sense; III. ii. 316. Free, willing, not enforced, IV. iii. 63; innocent, II. ii. 590; III. ii. 249.

"nerves");

Front, forehead; III. iv. 56.
Fruit, dessert (Folios 1, 2,
Il. ii. 52.

Fruits, consequences; II. ii. 145. Function, the whole action of the body; II. ii. 579.

Fust, become fusty, mouldy (Rowe, "rust "); IV. iv. 39.

Gaged, pledged; I. i. 91. Gain-giving, misgiving; V. ii. 216. Gait, proceeding; I. ii. 31. Galled, wounded, injured ("let the galled jade wince, our withers are unwrung," proverbial); III. ii. 250.

——, sore, injured by tears; I. ii. 155.

Galls, hurts, injures; I. iii. 39.
Garb, fashion, manner; II. ii. 390.
Gender; "general g.," common race
of men; IV. vii. 18.

General, general public, common people; II. ii. 456.

Gentry, courtesy; II. ii. 22; V. ii.

God kissing carrion, said of "the sun breeding maggots in a dead dog" (Warburton's emendation of Quartos and Folios, "good kissing carrion"); II. ii. 182. Good, good sirs; I. i. 70.

Good my brother, my good brother; I. iii. 46.

Goose-quills; "afraid of g.," i.e. afraid of being satirized; II. ii. 359.

Go to, an exclamation of impatience;
I. iii. 112.

Grace, honour; I. ii. 124.
Gracious, i.e. Gracious king; III. i.

43.

benign, full of blessing; I. i.

164. Grained, dyed in grain; III. iv. 90. Grating, offending, vexing; III. i. 3. Green, inexperienced; I. iii. 101. Greenly, foolishly; IV. v. 83. Gross, great, palpable; IV. iv. 46. "in the g.," i.c. in a general way; I. i. 68. Groundlings, rabble who stood in the pit of the theatre, which had neither boarding nor benches; III. ii. 12.

Grunt, groan; III. i.

Haply, perchance, perhaps; III. i.

179.

Happily, haply, perchance (according to some = luckily); I. i.

134. Happy; "in h. time," in good time (à la bonne heure); V. ii. 205. Haps, fortune; IV. iii. 70. Hatchment, an armorial escutcheon used at a funeral; IV. v. 214. Haunt; "out of h.," from the haunts of men; IV. i. 18. Have; "you h. me," you understand me; II. i. 68.

Have after, let us go after, follow him; I. iv. 89.

Have at you, I'll begin, I'll hit you;
V. ii. 305.

Haviour, deportment; I. ii. 81.
Head, armed force; IV. v. 101.
Health; "spirit of health," healed
or saved spirit"; I. iv. 40.
Hearsed, coffined; I. iv. 47.
Heat, anger; III. iv. 4.

Heavy; 'tis h.," it goes hard; III. iii. 84.

Hebenon (so Folios; Quartos, “hebona"), probably henbane, but possibly (i.) the yew, or (ii.) the juice of ebony; I. v. 62.

Habit; "outward h.," external politeness; V. ii. 190. Handsaw heronshaw, or hernsew,

heron ("when the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a h.," for the birds fly with the wind, and when it is from the south, the sportsman would have his back to the sun and be able to distinguish them; II. ii. 397. Handsome; "more h. than fine" "handsome denotes genuine natural beauty; fine artificial laboured beauty" (Delius); II. ii. 465. Hap, happen; I. ii. 249.

revenge (dissyllabic); III. ii. 266. Hectic, continual fever; IV. iii. 68. Hedge, hedge round, encompass; IV. v. 123.

Height; "at h.," to the utmost; I. iv. 21.

Hent, hold, seizure; III. iii. 88. Heraldry; "law and h.," i.e.

heraldic law; I. i. 87. Herb of grace, rue; IV. v. 182. Hercules and his load too; possibly an allusion to the Globe Theatre, the sign of which was Hercules carrying the Globe; II. ii. 378. Herod, a common character in the mystery plays, represented as a furious and violent tyrant; III. ii. 16.