_curiosity_, elegance of construction. II, ii, 67.
_curious_, careful, studious, solicitous. IV, i, 102.--made with art or
care; elaborately or beautifully wrought; fine; “nice”. _Cit. Song._
l. 5.
_dag_, a kind of heavy pistol or hand-gun. IV, i, 170 _s. d._
_debate_, strife, dissension, quarreling. III, i, 443.
_decent_, becoming, appropriate, fitting. I, ii, 77.
_defeatures_, defeats. I, ii, 177.
_demonstrauely_, in a manner that indicates clearly or plainly. IV, i,
55.
_deserued_, deserving. II, ii, 189.
_determine_, decree. II, ii, 172.
_detract_, disparage, traduce, speak evil of. I, ii, 271.
_dis-become_, misbecome, be unfitting for or unworthy of. V, iii, 47.
_discouery_, revelation, disclosure. III, i, 91; V, iii, 194.
_distaste_, estrangement, quarrel. IV, ii, 1.--offence. V, iii, 15.
_doubtfull_, fearful, apprehensive. IV, ii, 88.
_doubts_, apprehensions. III, i, 246.
_earth’d_, buried. II, i, 126.
_edify_, gain instruction; profit, in a spiritual sense. IV, i, 62.
_engag’d_, obliged, attached by gratitude. III, i, 242.
_engender_, copulate. III, i, 423.
_engine_, device, artifice, plot. III, i, 157.
_ensignes_, signs, tokens, characteristic marks. I, i, 144.
_entertaine_, accept. V, ii, 82.
_entertainment_, provision for the support of persons in
service--especially soldiers; pay, wages. I, ii, 188.
_ernest_, a sum of money paid as an installment to secure a contract.
V, i, 44.
_except against_, take exception against. IV, iii, 19.
_exhaust_, “draw out”; not as to-day, “use up completely.” II, i, 103.
_expression_, designation. V, i, 33.
_factor_, one who has the charge and manages the affairs of an estate;
a bailiff, land-steward. I, ii, 135. Cf. Shakespeare, _Henry IV, Part
I_, III, ii, 147: “Percy is but my factor,” etc.
_familiar_, well acquainted. I, i, 3.
_feares_, fears for. IV, ii, 89.
_fit_, punish; visit with a fit penalty. III, i, 253.
_forespake_, foretold, predicted. III, i, 251.
_fortunes_, happens, chances, occurs. V, ii, 16.
_gallimaufry_, contemptuous term for “a man of many accomplishments”; a
ridiculous medley; a hodge-podge. II, ii, 95.
_gamesters_, those addicted to amorous sport. III, i, 33.
_Geometrician_, one who measures the earth or land; a land-surveyor.
IV, i, 21.
_get_, beget. I, ii, 246.
_gigglet_, a lewd, wanton woman. III, i, 308.
_honestie_, honorable character, in a wide, general sense. To the
Elizabethan it especially connoted _fidelity_, _trustiness_. II, i, 115.
_horslock_, a shackle for a horse’s feet; hence applied to any hanging
lock; a padlock. IV, i, 78.
_humanity_, learning or literature concerned with human culture: a
term including the various branches of polite scholarship, as grammar,
rhetoric, poetry, and esp. the study of the ancient Latin and Greek
classics. II, i, 3.
_humour_, used here in the specific Jonsonian sense of a dominating
trait or mood. I, i, 124; ii, 31.
_imployments_, services (to a person). I, ii, 28.
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