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by William Shakespeare


  horn-book, hornbook child’s primer (the alphabet on a leaf of paper protected by a translucent plate of horn)

  horn-mad like a furious bull, with connotations of cuckoldry (cf. horn)

  horologe clock

  hose breeches; French hose = loose-fitting hose

  host lodge

  hot-house brothel

  house-clogs shackles

  housekeeper domestic woman; guard dog

  housewife hussy, prostitute

  howlet owlet or owl

  hox hamstring

  hoy small coasting vessel

  hoy-day, hoyday see hey-day

  hugger-mugger secrecy

  hull float with sails furled

  humorous damp; temperamental, capricious, whimsical (see humour)

  humour dampness; one of the four physiological ‘elements’ (melancholy, blood, choler, phlegm) governing disposition, hence temperament, mood, inclination

  Humphrey Hower (?) meal-time (‘to dine with Duke Humphrey’ = to solicit dinner invitations);(?) name of an unidentified contemporary individual

  Hungarian needy, hungry

  hunt’s up morning song to awaken a newly married wife

  hurricano waterspout

  hurry commotion

  husband sb. one who manages a household, accounts, etc.; v. cultivate; marry

  husbandry management (cf.husband), thrift; farming, cultivation

  huswife see housewife

  Hybla mountain in Sicily famous for honey

  Hydra legendary snake with many heads which grew back sevenfold when they were cut off

  hyen hyena

  Hymen, Hymenaeus god of marriage

  hyperbole figure of speech used for exaggeration

  Hyperion Phoebus, the sun god

  Hyrcan, Hyrcanian from Hyrcania, a region on the shore of the Caspian sea famous for tigers

  Hysterica passio type of hysteria in women (Lat.)

  Icarus son of Daedalus who, with his father, used artificial wings to fly from Crete, where King Minos had imprisoned them; flying too near the sun, he melted the wax in his wings and so fell to his death in the sea

  ice-brook stream of icy water, used in the tempering of sword blades

  Iceland dog lap-dog from Iceland

  idea image

  ides of March 15 March in the Roman dating system

  ignis fatuus (Lat.) will o’the wisp

  ignominy, ignomy disgrace

  Ilion, Ilium Troy; palace of Priam in Troy

  ill-favoured ugly, unpleasant (cf.favour)

  illness evil nature

  ill-tempered (of the humours in the blood) badly balanced (see humour)

  illustrous not lustrous, lack- lustre

  image archetypal image, perfect example

  imaginary imagining, imaginative

  imbecility feebleness

  imbrue pierce; spill blood

  imitari to imitate (Lat.)

  immanity barbarity, ferocity

  immediacy the position of being next in authority

  immediate direct; next in succession

  imminence impending danger

  immoment of no moment, insignificant

  immures enclosing walls

  imp sb. young offshoot, hence child; v. repair (a wing) by grafting on new feathers

  impale see empale

  impare inappropriate, unworthy

  impart say, reveal; provide

  impartment speech, communication

  impasted formed into a crust

  impawn pledge, stake

  impeach sb. charge, reproach; v. undermine, discredit

  impeachment charge; impediment, hindrance

  imperseverant (?) stubborn; (?) imperceptive

  impertinency irrelevance, nonsense

  impertinent Gobbo’s word for ‘pertinent’

  impeticos (?) pocket

  implorators implorers, beseechers

  import sb. weighty significance; v. signify; involve, concern

  importance significance, meaning; importunity, urgent request; question at issue

  importancy significance, importance

  important importunate, urgent

  importless without significance, trivial

  importment importance, significance

  importune demand, urge

  imposition command; accusation; penalty, burden

  imposthume, impostume abscess

  imprese allegorical representations used in heraldic decoration (Ital.)

  impress sb. conscription; v. press into military service

  imputation attribution, reputation

  in capite‘at the head’ (Lat.), used of tenants holding land direct from the king

  In hac spe vivo‘In this hope I live’ (Lat.)

  incapable unable to take in; unable to understand, unaware

  incardinate Aguecheek’s word for ‘incarnate’

  incarnadine turn red

  incarnation Gobbo’s word for ‘incarnate’

  inch island; Saint Colme’s Inch = Inchcomb, an island in the Firth of Forth

  inchmeal, by inch by inch

  inclining sb. inclination, side; adj. ready to be persuaded

  income gathering in

  incomprehensible limitless

  incontinent adj. lacking self- restraint; adv. immediately

  incony darling; delicate

  incorporate united in one body

  incorps’d united into a single body

  incorrect uncorrected, incorrigible

  incredulous incredible, unbelievable

  Ind, Inde India

  indent sb. indentation; v. make an agreement; dart about

  index table of contents at the beginning or end of a book

  indifferency impartiality; unremarkable nature

  indifferent impartial, lacking prejudice or interest; mediocre, moderate; identical

  indigest sb. that which is amorphous; adj. crude, amorphous

  indign disgraceful

  indirect devious, wrongful

  indirection injustice; oblique method

  indirectly wrongly; obliquely; nonchalantly

  indisposition unwillingness

  indistinguishable of no recognized kind or function

  indistinguished indistinguishable; limitless

  individable (?) conforming to the dramatic unity of place; (?) not to be identified by divisions and subdivisions of genre

  indrench’d drenched, overwhelmed

  induction first step; opening scene

  infamonize Armado’s word for ‘infamize’ (make infamous, defame)

  infect infected

  infection Quickly’s and Old Gobbo’s word for ‘affection’ (see affection)

  infer bring in; allege; imply

  influence planetary emanation supposed to exert a determining effect upon people

  inform take on a form; give form to, fashion, direct; report

  informal deranged

  infuse pour into or onto

  ingenious mentally alert, responsive; crafty; crafted; appropriate

  ingeniously ingenuously, candidly

  inginer see engineer

  ingling fondling, caressing

  ingraft see engraffed

  inhabitable uninhabitable

  inherit possess; put in possession of; take possession of

  inhibited prohibited

  inhibition prohibition, ban

  initiate belonging to a beginner

  injurious abusive, offensive

  ink-horn small vessel for containing ink; inkhorn mate = bookish person

  inkle tape or yarn

  inland sb. interior of a land, especially its urban and prosperous parts

  innocent sb. idiot, fool; adj. simple, foolish

  inoculate graft a new shoot into (a plant)

  insane causing insanity

  insconce see ensconce

  insensible unable to be sensed

  insinuate flatter, wheedle; hint to

  i
nsinuation flattery, worming a way in

  insisture (?) persistence; (?) moment of stasis

  instalment installation; stall

  instance proof, sign, evidence; motive

  instruction information

  insuppressive unable to be suppressed or contained

  Integer vitae, scelerisque purus, / Non eget Mauri iaculis, nec arcu ‘The man of upright life and free from crime does not need the javelins or bows of the Moor’ (Lat., Horace)

  intellect message, meaning

  intelligence communication; secret information; spies

  intelligencer messenger; spy

  intelligencing carrying information

  intelligent carrying information; intelligible

  intendment intention

  intentively attentively

  intercept interrupt

  interessed given a right to or share in

  interest right to or share in

  interlude short comedy

  intervallum interval, pause

  intitled, intituled see entitled

  intreat see entreat

  intrenchant unable to be cut

  intrince intricate

  intrinsicate intricate

  investments robes; seiges

  Invitis nubibus‘in spite of the opposition of the clouds’ (Lat.)

  ipso facto‘by that very act’ (Lat.)

  Ira furor brevis est‘Anger is a brief madness’ (Lat., Horace)

  Iris messenger of Juno, represented as a rainbow

  irreconciled unreconciled (to God)

  irregular lawless, unruly

  irregulous see irregular

  iterance repetition

  iwis truly

  Jack, jack term of contempt, meaning fool, knave, trickster, also used in combinations, e.g. Jack-priest, Jack-slave

  jack mechanized human figure that strikes a clock bell; small wooden block in a keyboard (wrongly used of the keys themselves); (in bowls) small bowl aimed at by the players; soldier’s padded jacket; drinking vessel

  Jack-a-Lent brightly dressed puppet stoned by fun-seeking children during Lent

  jack-a-nape, jack-an-ape, jackanape, jackanapes, jack'nape performing monkey; fool

  jade sb. mangy or difficult horse; contemptuous term, usually for a woman; v. trick; harrass

  jad’ry a horse’s difficult behaviour (cf. jade)

  jakes latrine

  jaunce sb.(?) tiring business; v. prance

  jaw devour

  jay glamorous, immoral woman

  jealous anxious; suspicious, doubtful

  jealous-hood (?) jealous woman

  jealousy anxiety; suspicion

  jean kind of twilled cotton

  jennet Spanish horse

  jerk stroke, as of wit

  jerkin jacket

  jesses straps fastening a hawk’s legs to the falconer’s wrist

  jet strut self-importantly; jut (see jut)

  jig sb. merry tune or dance; v. sing or move in the manner of a jig

  Jockey Jack (John)

  John Drum’s entertainment a good beating

  jointress widow who inherits her husband’s estate

  joint-ring ring formed of two interlocking halves

  joint-stool stool that has been properly crafted

  jollity extravagant clothes

  jolt-head, jolthead fool

  jordan piss-pot

  journal daily

  Jove Jupiter (see Jupiter)

  Jovial of Jupiter, hence kingly, liberal, etc.; Jovial star = the planet Jupiter

  jowl strike, knock

  Judas (Iscariot) apostle who betrayed Christ, identifying him to the authorities by kissing him; popular legend gave him red hair and says he hanged himself

  Judas Maccabeus great Jewish warrior and freedom-fighter

  Jug Joan

  jump sb. risky move; adv. just, exactly; v. risk, chance; coincide, agree

  junkets sweetmeats, dainties

  Juno sister and wife of Jupiter, sometimes associated with marriage, otherwise imagined as formidably jealous and prone to anger

  Jupiter principal god in classical mythology, brother and husband of Juno but given to affairs with mortals (see Europa, Leda)

  just sb. jousting tournament; adj. precise; adv. precisely, indeed;just distance = half-way

  justicer judge

  justify verify; vindicate

  jut overhang, encroach

  jutty sb. part of a building that projects beyond the wall; v. overhang

  kam awry, perverse

  kecksies kexes, hollow stalks

  keech rolled lump of fat

  keel cool

  ken sb. sight; v. see; know

  Kendal green coarse cloth

  kennel gutter, open drain

  kern, Kerne Irish foot-soldier

  kernel little seed

  kersey plain, coarse cloth

  kettle kettle-drum

  key key for tuning a stringed instrument

  kibe chilblain, sore on the heel

  kickshaws fancy extra, trifle

  kicky-wicky (?) wife

  killen kill

  kiln-hole opening of a kiln

  kind sb. nature; lineage, family; way, manner; adj. natural; gracious

  kindle incite; bring forth young

  kindless unnatural

  kindly adj. natural, in accordance with one’s nature; adv. naturally; graciously; exactly

  kirtle gown consisting of a bodice and skirt

  kiss (in bowls) brush (the jack) with one’s bowl

  kissing-comfits sweetmeats (dried fruits, etc.) for sweetening the breath

  kite bird of prey; whore

  knack knick-knack, pretty artefact

  knap knock; bite

  knoll toll

  knot gang, small group; folded arms; flower-bed

  knot-grass plant supposed to inhibit growth

  knotted laid with flower-beds (cf.knot)

  knotty-pated block-headed

  La fin couronne les oeuvres‘The end crowns the deeds’ (Fr., proverbial)

  label append, as a codicil

  labour’d, laboured employed in labour; accomplished with labour

  laboursome finely worked; persistent

  labras Pistol’s word for ‘labra’(Lat.= ‘lips’)

  lace interlace, embroider; laced mutton see mutton

  lackey sb. page, footman; v. run around after, like a page

  lade drain, bale out

  lady-smock (?) cuckoo-flower

  lag late, behind

  Lammas-tide 1 August, an old harvest festival

  lampass a disease in horses

  land-damn (?) thrash; (?) scold

  lank become thin

  lantern turret with windows

  lap wrap, clad

  lapse sb. fall; v. slip, hence sin

  lapsed (?) fallen; (?) apprehended;laps’d in = (?) having let slip by

  lard baste, enrich; garnish

  large liberal, unrestrained; at large = in full; full-size

  lark’s-heels larkspur

  ’larum, larum see alarum

  latch catch, grasp; moisten

  latest final

  lath cheap wood

  latten brass or tinplate

  laud song of praise

  laund cleared space in a wood

  lavolt, lavolta dance involving high leaps

  law-days court sessions

  lay sb. wager; song; lay aboard = board (a ship); lay by the heels = put in fetters or stocks; lay for = waylay, beset

  lazar leper

  lead sb. lining of a wooden coffin; v. weight (a fishing line)

  leading command

  leads roof of a building

  leaguer camp

  Leander lover of Hero; every night he swam across the Hellespont and climbed up to her window to visit her

  leaping-house brothel

  learn teach

  leash sb.(of hounds) group of three; v. keep (three hounds) on a
leash

  leasing falsehood, lying

  leather-coats russet apples

  lecture lesson

  Leda maiden loved by Jupiter, who turned himself into a swan to visit her, and the mother of Helen of Troy

  leer cheek, complexion

  lees sediment

  leese loose

  leet court held by a lord of the manor

  Legion name of a host of evil spirits in the Bible (Mark v.9)

  legitimation legitimacy

  leiger resident ambassador

  leman lover, sweetheart

  lendings clothes; advance payment for soldiers

  Lent in the Christian calendar, forty days before Easter marked by fasting and abstinence from meat (the slaughter of animals required a special licence)

  lenten of Lent, hence thin, frugal

  l’envoy epilogue of a poem

  let sb. hindrance; v. hinder; forbear; (of blood) drain off; let slip = let (hounds) loose

  Lethe a river of the underworld; its water caused drinkers to forget their past

  letter, affect the resort to alliteration

  lettered learned

  level sb. line of fire, range; adj. unimpeded; v. aim; guess; by line and level see line; level with = equal

  lewd base, wicked

  lewdster rake, lecherous person

  liable subject; suitable

  liberal refined; unrestrained

  liberty right, prerogative; licence, licentiousness

  lie live, lodge; lie along = lie stretched out

  lief dear; have as lief = hold as dear, be as willing

  liege lord

  lieger see leiger

  lifter thief

  light sb. inkling; v. alight, descend, fall

  lighten flash, as lightning; enlighten

  like adj. likely; adv. alike, identically; v. please; liken; thrive

  liking physique

  limbeck alembic, a gourd-shaped vessel used in distillation

  limber limp, flabby

  Limbo region occupied by the souls of the virtuous who died before Christ (Limbo Patrum) or of unbaptized babies; prison

  lime sb. birdlime, a kind of glue used to trap small birds; v. flavour with lime; smear or catch with birdlime; bind with mortar

  limit sb. territory, precinct; appointed time; v. appoint;strength of limit = recovery after childbirth

  limitation time allotted

  line sb. equator; category; v. picture, draw; strengthen;by line and level = according to rule

  lined padded; financially provided for

  line-grove grove of lime trees

  linger protract

  link torch, flare

  linsey-woolsey mixture of wool and flax

  linstock stick which held the lighted match for detonating a cannon

  list sb. inclination; boundary; edge of a piece of cloth; see lists; v. desire; listen; hear

  lists arena for a contest

  lither unresisting

  little, in in miniature

 

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