_individually_, indivisibly, inseparably. II, ii, 316.
_Infanta_, the title properly applied to a daughter of the King and
Queen of Spain or Portugal. IV, i, 75.
_issues_, actions, deeds. II, ii, 198.
_kinde_, agreeable, pleasant, winsome. _Court. Song._ l. 4.
_Lard_, an obsolete form of _Lord_. IV, i, 2. Cf. Congreve, _Old
Bach._, II, iii: “Lard, Cousin, you talk oddly.”
_League_, probably used for _Leaguer_ (so emended by M., f.): a
military camp, especially one engaged in a siege. III, i, 175.
_learnd_, informed. III, i, 156.
_legge_, an obeisance made by drawing back one leg and bending the
other; a bow, scrape. III, i, 124.
_lively_, _living_. II, i, 46.--gay, full of life. II, ii,
76.--life-like. II, ii, 232.
_map_, embodiment, incarnation. II, ii, 136. Cf. H. Smith, _Sinf. Man’s
Search_, Six Sermons: “What were man if he were once left to himselfe?
A map of misery.”
_mome_, blockhead, dolt, fool. Court. Song, l. 13.
_monument_, sepulchre. I, ii, 212.
_moue_, urge, appeal to, make a request to. IV, iv, 11.
_next_, shortest, most convenient or direct. V, i, 37.
_nice_, petty, insignificant, trifling. III, i, 442.
_note_, show forth; demonstrate. III, i, 504.
_Obiect_, bring forward in opposition as an adverse reason, or by way
of accusation. IV, iv, 174.
_obnoxious_, liable, exposed, open, vulnerable. III, i, 354.
_obsequious_, prompt to serve or please, dutiful. V, iii, 90.
_obseruers_, those who show respect, deference, or dutiful attention;
obsequious followers. IV, iv, 43.
_Orphants_, obsolete corrupt form of _Orphans_. I, ii, 206. It survives
in dialect. Cf. James Whitcomb Riley’s _Little Orphant Annie_.
_overcome_, usually, “conquer”, “prevail”; but here, “out-do”,
“surpass”. I, i, 187.
_parts_, function, office, business, duty. Formerly used in the plural,
as here, though usually when referring to a number of persons. I, i, 9;
ii, 9; V. iii, 39.--qualities. IV, iv, 105.
_pious_, used in the arch. sense of _dutiful_. I, i, 101.
_practicke_, practical work or application; practice as opposed to
theory. II, i, 2.
_Praecipuce_ (mis-print for _precipice_), a precipitate or headlong
fall or descent, especially to a great depth. III, i, 464.
_presently_, immediately, quickly, promptly. IV, iv, 89.
_president_ [variant of _precedent_], example, instance, illustration.
V, iii, 226.
_preuent_, anticipate. I, i, 64; ii, 17; IV, ii, 32.
_Prouince_, duty, office, function; branch of the government. I, ii, 23.
_punctual_, punctilious, careful of detail. IV, i, 42.
_purl_, the pleat or fold of a ruff or band; a frill. II, ii, 77.
_quick_, alive. I, ii, 178.
_Ram-heads_, cuckolds. II, i, 31.
_recent_, fresh. II, i, 19.
_roaring_, riotous, bullying, hectoring. IV, i, 203.
_sawcily_, formerly a word of more serious reprobation than in modern
usage: “with presumptuous insolence.” I, ii, 106.
_scandall_, to spread scandal concerning; to defame. I, ii, 58.
_sect_, class, order. V, i, 79.
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