property (iv. 1. 40), tool, i. e. something not capable of independent action. Cf. the modern technical use of "stage properties."

protester (i. 2. 74), one who protests friendship. The word belonged to the fashionable slang of Shakespeare's day.

quarrel (ii. 1. 28), argument. Lat. querela, complaint; hence, a plea in court; hence, subject of dispute, protest, and the dispute itself. question (iv. 3. 165), discussion. In iii. 2. 40, and elsewhere, there is an additional idea of controversy. quick (i. 2. 29), lively. The primary meaning is merely "alive."

raise (iv. 3. 247), rouse. range (ii. 1. 118; iii. 1. 270), move up and down; from the movements of troops when setting themselves in rank, "arranging" themselves. rank (iii. 1. 152), in need of the surgeon's knife; from the sense of "festering," which arises from a confusion between O. E. ranc, strong, and O. F. rance, Lat. rancidus, foul.

rote (iv. 3. 98), lit. a beaten track. The same word as route, a way beaten or broken through forest. See rout.

rout (i. 2. 78), mob, herd; otherwise the breaking up of an army. The idea of disorder and of mixture, where ranks are not observed, is the predominant one. Lat. ruptum, broken.

rude (iii. 2. 33), uncivilized, barba

rous.

rumour (ii. 4. 18), noise. Lat. rumor, report.

sake (iii. 2. 70, 71), for Brutus' sake, thanks to Brutus.

scandal (i. 2. 76), defame. Scandal and slander are both derived, through Lat. scandalum, from Gr. σκávdaλov, stumbling-block. schedule (iii. 1. 3), note, piece of

paper. Lat. schedula.

security (ii. 3. 8), confidence. Lat. se (privative), cura, care. sennet (i. 2. 24), a particular set of notes on a trumpet. The same word as signet, and related to signal. Lat. signum, sign. shadow (i. 2. 58), reflection.

keen. O. E. schrewe, wicked, sharp.

sky (i. 3. 39), used here in the sense of "atmosphere."

slanderous (iv. 1. 20), calumnious. See scandal.

slight (iv. 1. 12), insignificant. smatch (v. 5. 46), smack, taste. soil (i. 2. 42), tarnish, blemish. speed (i. 2. 88), prosper (trans.). The primary sense of the noun is "success."

stale (i. 2. 73; iv. 1. 38), make com

mon.

stare (iv. 3. 280), stand stiff. Fixity is the primary idea of the word; connected with stand, Lat. stare.

stay (v. 1. 107), await. stomach (v. 1.66), courage (derived from sense, "appetite").

strain (v. 1. 59), race. O.E. streónan, "beget."

success (ii. 2. 6; v. 3. 65), fortune, whether good or bad. Like fortune and luck the word gradually acquired the favorable sense in place of the undecided one. Lat. succedere, follow.

sufferance (ii. 1. 115), suffering, dis

tress.

sway (i. 3. 3), established order. swear (ii. 1. 129, 131; v. 3. 38), cause

to swear.

swounded (i. 2. 249), swooned. Later form of swoun, now swoon, with excrescent d, as in sound, bound.

thews (i. 3. 81), muscles. thorough (iii. 1. 136; v. 1. 110), through. The two words were originally the same, representing two different developments of O. E. durh. In Shakespeare's time they were interchangeable; the distinction of meaning has arisen later. to-night (ii. 2. 1, 76), last night. unbraced (i. 3. 48), unfastened, or loosely fastened (referring to the doublet).

unluckily (iii. 3. 2), with evil omens.

unmeritable (iv. 1. 12), undeserving. use (ii. 2. 25), custom, precedent. ventures (iv. 3. 224), that which is adventured, more especially on board ship; and so sometimes of the vessels themselves.

vouchsafe (iii. 1. 130), guarantee, avouch secure. So, from persons in absolute authority being the only ones who can give such security, which involves condescension, it comes to mean "condescend to grant," or (ii. 1. 313) "condescend to receive."

wafture (ii. 1. 246), waving. The word does not occur elsewhere. warn (v. 1. 5), summon.

when (ii. 1. 5), interjection expressive of impatience.

whit (ii. 1. 148), thing. O. E. wiht; the same word as wight. wind (iv. 1. 32), turn, wheel around (term of horsemanship). wives (iii. 1. 97), women. worthless (v. 1. 61), not deserving. yearn (ii. 2. 129), grieve. The

Folio in this passage reads earnes, another form of the same word, or else the same word without the prefix y- (O. E. ge-). In Shakespeare's time more or less confused with the wholly unrelated word yearn, to long (for).