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Properly, the membrane that covers the brain.

pitch (i. 1. 12), a technical term for the flight of a falcon, serving as a measure of its merits. So 'capacity'.

point-devise (ii. 5. 145), 'precisely', 'punctiliously'. See note.

points (i. 5. 20), 'laces' by which hose were fastened up. Properly, of the metal tips. See note.

policy, politician. Used rather in the more or less uncomplimentary sense in which we use 'diplomacy' and diplomatist' on the theory that policy does not agree with honesty. But the gradations between the best sense 'affairs of state, statesman', and the worst, 'trickery, trickster', must be decided according to the context.

possess (ii. 3. 126), 'inform', 'put in full possession of the facts'.

post (i. 5. 266), 'messenger'. Properly, regular stations on the roads; then the messengers whose business it was to go from one post to the next; then messenger generally. Low Lat. posta, Lat. positum.

praise (i. 5. 231), for 'appraise', 'reckon up'. Lat. pretium, 'price'. pranks (ii. 4. 86), 'decks'; but without the half-contemptuous suggestion of the word in its modern use. Connected with prick'.

presently (iii. 1. 180; V. I. 176), 'instantly'. So generally in Shakespeare. Softened since to 'bye and bye'. Cf. anon, supra.

prevent (iii. 1. 72), 'anticipate'. This, like the common modern sense, is derived from the primary sense of 'go before'; from Lat. prae, 'before', venire, to come'.

proof (iii. 1. 113), 'matter of experience', i.e. 'a thing proved'; not (as commonly) the means of proving'.

proper (iii. 1. 122), 'handsome', (v. 327), 'own'; from the two senses

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quaff (i. 3. 13), 'drink'. The 'ff has been substituted for the guttural, found in Scotch quaich, 'cup'.

quick (i. 1. 9), 'active'; fron the primary sense of 'alive', found in 'the quick and the dead', 'the earth opened and swallowed them up quick'. A.S. cwic; from the same root found in Lat. vivus, 'living'.

quirk (iii. 4. 224), 'temper', 'turn of mind': from Celtic root meaning 'turn'.

rascal (i. 5. 77), 'worthless fellow'; transferred from its technical sense of a 'lean deer'. Cf. 'jade', as a term of abuse transferred from its proper sense of a horse in bad condition.

receiving (iii. 1. 109), 'capacity', 'understanding'.

recover (ii. 3. 168), 'gain'. Properly, to 'get back', or 'get back to', but in Shakespeare often simply to 'gain' or 'reach'.

renegado (iii. 2. 61), 'apostate', 'one who denies the faith he has held'. Lat. re-, negare, 'deny'.

revels (i. 3. 190), 'merry-making'; properly, by night. Fr. reveiller, 'wake', 'be awake'.

round (ii. 3. 86), 'plain-spoken'; perhaps from the notion of thoroughness and completeness, the sphere being symbolic of perfec

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sad (iii. 4. 5), 'sober'; so often without the sense of sorrowful'. Der. sated, so 'heavy'.

scathful (v. 1. 50), 'harmful'.

schedules (i. 5. 227), 'lists', 'inventories'; from the sense 'scroll', Lat. schedula, a strip of paper; so spelt perhaps because borrowed from Greece, and derived from oxide, to cleave'; but there may have been a form scidula, from root scid, of scindere, 'to cut'.

semblative (i. 4. 33), 'like', 'resembling'. Shakespeare coined the word. Fr. sembler, 'seem'.

shent (iv. 2. 98), 'reproved'. A.S. scendan, 'put to shame'.

shrew, shrewd, shrewish, beshrew. The 'shrew mouse' being credited with a vicious temper, the name was applied to a sharp-tempered woman. So 'shrewish' is 'ill-tempered', 'shrewd'='sharp', 'cutting', and hence 'clever'; 'beshrew' is to 'call shrew', 'abuse'.

singularity (ii. 5. 135), 'aloofness'. The passage means 'act as one apart, a superior'.

skills (v. 1. 279), 'matters'. Scan. skill is properly 'discernment', 'power of distinguishing', 'differentiating'. Hence skill='make

a difference'.

skipping (i. 5. 185), 'foolish', 'flighty'.

'slid, 'slight, &c. For 'God's lid', 'God's light'; a common form of swearing, of which the latest survival was zounds = 'God's wounds'.

slough (ii. 5. 133), apparel', metaphorically; from the slough of a snake, i.e. its cast skin.

sneck up (ii. 3. 85), 'go hang'. sooth (ii. 4. 46), 'truth'.

Sophy (ii. 5. 162). The Shah of Persia. The name is taken from the Safavi dynasty, which ruled from 1500 till supplanted by Nadir Shah in the 18th century.

sowter (ii. 5. 113), 'bungler', as if a name for a badly trained hound. Properly 'sowter' 'cobbler' (cf. 'botcher', supra), and so 'bungler'. The term in the proper sense survives in the north. Der. Fr. savatier.

spleen (iii. 2. 59), 'a violent fit of laughter'; the spleen being regarded as the seat of strong emotions, but less often of mirth than of melancholy.

squash (i. 5. 146), 'an unripe peas-cod'.

staniel (ii. 5. 105), 'kestrel'. stock (i. 3. 119), 'stocking'. stoup (ii. 3. 12), 'cup', of no definite measure.

stout (ii. 5. 152), 'surly'.

stuck (iii. 4. 253), a fencing term. Ital. stoccata, from stocco, a short sword.

suit, lit. following'; with verb 'sue', 'pursue'. Der. Lat. sequi, secutus, follow', Fr. suivre.

swabber (i. 5. 188), 'cabin-boy', applied by Viola to Maria. From the 'swab' or 'mop' used in cleaning decks.

swarths (ii. 3. 135), 'swathes', 'bundles'. Properly, of the bundle of hay formed by one stroke of the scythe.

syllogism (i. 5. 44), a term in logic for a particular form of demonstration, consisting of three statements, of which, if the first two are true, the third must be true also.

tabor (iii. 1. 2), a 'drum'. An Arabic word (tabl), whence also tambour, tambourine, timbrel.

taffeta (ii. 4. 74), ‘silk'. Der. Per. táftah.

take up (iii. 4. 267), 'make up' a quarrel, not 'take it on oneself', as we use the phrase.

tall (i. 3. 18), 'valiant', 'sturdy'. Tartar (ii. 5. 183), 'Tartarus',

the abode of the wicked in the nether world, in Greek mythology.

taste (ii. 4. 267), 'make trial of'. testril (ii. 3. 32), 'sixpence'. Corruption of Fr. teston, a small coin, so named from the 'head' (tête) stamped on one side.

trade (iii. 2. 83), 'business', like 'commerce', q.v.

tray-trip (ii. 5. 171), a game played with dice; so called from the importance of throwing the 'trey' or 'three'. See note.

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validity (i. 1. 12), 'value'

vice (iv. 2. 117), a character in the old 'morality' plays, who survives in the harlequin of modern pantomime. See note.

villain (ii. 5. 11), 'rogue'. Properly a 'serf', 'bondman'; from Low Lat. villanus, 'farm servant'. For the degeneration, cf. 'knave', supra.

viol-de-gamboys (i. 3. 23), 'violoncello'; so called because held between the legs. Ital. gamba, 'thigh'.

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INDEX OF WORDS.

(The references are to the Notes ad locc. Other words will be
found in the Glossary.)

abuse, iii. 1. 102.

access, i. 4. 15.

accost, i. 3. 45.
admire, iii. 4. 138.
advanced, ii. 5. 28.
advise, iv. 2. 90.
affect, ii. 5. 21.
affection, ii. 3. 134.
all, ii. 4. 100.
alone, i. 1. 15.
alter, ii. 5. 141.
answered, iii. 3. 33.
antique, ii. 4. 3.
approbation, iii. 4. 164.
apt, i. 4. 34; i. 5. 23.
aspect, i. 4. 27.
backtrick, i. 3. 109.
balk, iii. 2. 21.

barful, i. 4. 40.

barren, i. 3. 73; i. 5. 76.
bawbling, v. 1. 48.
bawcock, iii. 4. 103.
bent, ii. 4. 37.

birdbolts, i. 5. 85.

blazon, i. 5. 275.

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Cataian, ii. 3. 69.

ceremony, v. I. 154.
champain, ii. 5. 143.
chantry, iv. 3. 24.
character, i. 2. 51.
checks, ii. 5. 105.
cheveril, iii. 1. 12.
churchman, iii. 1. 4.
clerestories, iv. 2. 13.
cloyment, ii. 4. 99.
cockatrice, iii. 4. 177.
cockney, iv. 1. 12.
codling, i. 5. 146.
commerce, iii. 4. 159.
commodity, iii. 1. 40.
compact, v. I. 154.

compare, ii. 4. IOI.
competitor, iv. 2. 9.
comptible, i. 5. 163.
conceited, iii. 4. 269.
conduct, iii. 4. 222.
cons state, ii. 3. 134.
constant, iv. 2. 46.
convents, v. I. 369.
coranto, i. 3. 114.
cousin, i. 3. 4.
coystrill, i. 3. 37.
cozier, ii. 3. 82.
crow, i. 5. 81.

crowner, 5. 124.
cubiculo, iii. 2. 45.
curst, iii. 2. 36.

cut, ii. 3. 171.

cypress, ii. 4. 52; iii. 1. 110.

decays, i. 5. 69.

deceivably, iv. 3. 21.
delivered, i. 2. 42.

denay, ii. 4. 124.

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enlarge, v. 1. 270.

entertainment, i. 5. 200.
estimable, ii. I. 23.

except before excepted, i. 3. 6.
expressure, ii. 3. 143.
exquisite, ii. 3. 129.
extent, iv. I. 47.
extravagancy, ii. 1. 10.
fadge, ii. 2. 31.
fancy, i. I. 14.
fault, ii. 5. 117.
favour, ii. 4. 24.
fear no colours, i. 5. 5.
fell, i. I. 22.
firago, iii. 4. 252.
fond, ii. 2. 32.
for all waters, iv. 2. 60.
formal, ii. 5. 108.
fraught, v. 1. 55.
free, i. 5. 242; ii. 4. 45.
fustian, ii. 5. 100.
galliard, i. 3. 106.
gaskins, i. 5. 22.
geck, v. I. 336.
genius, iii. 4. 118.
gin, ii. 5. 76.

good my mouse, i. 5. 56.

gracious, i. 5. 244.
Greek, iv. I. 15.
grize, iii. 1. 113.
gull, ii. 3. 123.
gust, i. 3. 28.

haggard, iii. 1. 53.
having, iii. 4. 319.
his's, iii. 3. 25.
honesty, ii. 3. 80.
hull, 5. 188.

humour, i. 4. 4; ii. 5. 48.
importance, v. I. 351.
impressure, ii. 5. 85.

incardinate, v. I. 174.
incredulous, iii. 4. 73.
indifferent, i. 3. 118.
in grain, i. 5. 220.
ingrate, v. I. 107.
jade, ii. 5. 147.
jealousy, iii. 3. 8.
jewel, iii. 4. 190.
jump, v. I. 244.
kickshawses, i. 3. 102.
kind (plural), i. 5. 81.
know, iii. 4. 233.
lapsed, iii. 3. 36.
leasing, i. 5. 89.
lenten, i. 5. 8.
let, v. I. 241.
list, iii. 1. 65.

lovebroker, iii. 2. 31.
madonna, i. 5. 38.
marry, i. 3. 63.
maugre, iii. 1. 141.
minion, v. 1. 119.
misprision, i. 5. 49.
modest, i. 5. 166.
motions, ii. 4. 17, 98.
nayword, ii. 3. 123.
opposite, ii. 5. 134; iii. 2. 56.
orbed continent, v. 1. 263.
ordinary, i. 5. 77.
othergates, v. 1. 185.
owe, i. 5. 292; ii. 4. 103.
passion, ii. 4. 4.

pass upon, iii. 1. 38.

passy measures pavin, v. 1. 192.
patched, i. 5. 42.

pedant, iii. 2. 65.
perdy, iv. 2. 72.
perpend, v. I. 289.
perspective, v. I. 209.
pia mater, i. 5. 105.
pipe, i. 4. 31.
pitch, i. I. 12.

point devise, ii. 5. 145.
points, i. 5. 21.

politician, ii. 3. 69; iii. 2. 27.
possess, ii. 3. 126.

pranks, ii. 4. 88.

pregnant, ii. 2. 26.
prevent, iii. 1. 72.

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