Bilboes, stocks or fetters used for prisoners on board ship; V. ii. 6. (Cp. illustration.) Board, address; II. ii. 170. Bodes, forbodes, portends; I. i. 69. From a drawing by Fairholt. 66 vii. 155. Blastments, blighting influences; I. iii. 42. Blazon; eternal b.," publication of eternal mysteries (perhaps eternal = infernal, or used "to express extreme abhorrence "); I. v. 21. Blench, start aside; II. ii. 623. Bloat (Quartos, "blowt"; Folios, "blunt"); bloated; III. iv. 182. Blood, passion, IV. iv. 58; “b. and judgement," passion and reason, III. ii. 74. Blown, full blown, in its bloom; III. i. 165. Bodkin, the old word for dagger; III. 1. 76. Bodykins, diminutive of body; "the reference was originally to the sacramental bread"; II. ii. 550. "Bonnie Sweet Robin," the first words of a well-known song of the period (found in Holborne's Cittharn Schoole, 1597, etc.); IV. v. 187. Bore, calibre, importance of a question; IV. vi. 27. Borne in hand, deceived with false hopes; II. ii. 67. Bound, ready, prepared; I. v. 6. was bound; I. ii. 90. Bourn, limit, boundary; III. i. Capitol; "I was killed i' the C." (an error repeated in Julius Cæsar; Cæsar was killed in the Curia Pompeii, near the theatre of Pompey in the Campus Martius); III. ii. 109. Card; "by the c.," with precision (alluding probably to the shipman's card); V. i. 144. Carnal, sensual; V. ii. 384. Carouses, drinks; V. ii. 292. Carriage, tenor, import; I. i. 94. Carry it away, gain the victory; II. ii. 375. Cart, car, chariot; III. ii. 162. Carve for, choose for, please; I. iii. 20. Cast, casting, moulding; I. i. 73. Centre, i.e. of the Earth; II. ii. 159. Cerements, cloths used as shrouds for dead bodies; I. iv. 48. Chameleon, an animal supposed to feed on air; III. ii. 98. Change, exchange; I. ii. 163. Chanson, song (used affectedly; not found elsewhere in Shakespeare; "pious chanson"; so Quartos; Folios, pons Chanson"; pans chanson"); II. ii. 436. Character, hand-writing; IV. vii. 53. 66 66 From a Venetian specimen engraved in Douce. Cicatrice, scar; IV. iii. 62. Circumstance, circumlocution, detail; I. v. 127. "c. of thought," details of thought which lead to a conclusion; III. iii. 83. Clapped, applauded; II. ii. 355. Clepe, call; I. iv. 19. Climatures, regions; I. i. 125. Closely, secretly; III. i. 29. Closes with, agrees with; II. i. 45. Coagulate, coagulated, clotted; II. ii. 482. Cockle hat, a mussel-shell in the hat was the badge of pilgrims bound for places of devotion beyond sea; IV. v. 25. Coil; "mortal c.," mortal life, turmoil of mortality; III. i. 67. Cold, chaste; IV. vii. 173. Coldly, lightly; IV. iii. 64. Collateral, indirect; IV. v. 206. Colleagued, leagued; I. ii. 21. Collection, an attempt to col- of faithlessness; IV. v. 180. Combat, duel; I. i. 84. Comma; "a c. 'tween their amities"; the smallest break or separation; V. ii. 42. Commandment, command; III. ii. 324. my Comment; "the very c. of thy soul," all thy powers of observation (Folios, soul"); III. ii. 84. Commerce, intercourse; III. i. 109. Compelled, enforced; IV. vi. 17. Complete steel, full armour; I. iv. 52. Complexion, temperament, natural disposition; I. iv. 27. Comply, use ceremony; II. ii. 388. Compulsatory, compelling (Folios, "compulsatiue"); I. i. 103. Compulsive, compulsory, compelling; III. iv. 86. Conceit, imagination; III. iv. Congregation, collection; II. ii. 315. 66 Congruing, agreeing (Folios, coniuring "); IV. iii. 66. Conjunctive, closely joined; IV. vii. 14. Consequence; "in this c."; in the following way; or, "in thus following up your remarks (Schmidt); II. i. 45. Consider'd, fit for reflection; 'at our more c. time," when we have more time for consideration; II. ii. 81. Consonancy, accord, ship; II. ii. 294. 66 friend Constantly, fixedly; I. ii. 235. Contagion, contagious thing; IV. vii. 148. Content, please, gratify; III. i. 24. Continent, that which contains, IV. iv. 64; inventory, V. ii. I12. Contraction, the making of the marriage contract; III. iv. 46. Contriving, plotting; IV. vii. 136. Conversation, intercourse; III. ii. 60. Converse, conversation; II. i. 42. From a sketch by Fairholt of a speci men suspended in St. Alban's Abbey in 1844. Credent, credulous, believing; I. iii. 30. Crew, did crow; I. i. 147. Cried; "c. in the top of mine," were higher than mine; II. ii. 458. Cries on, cries out; V. ii. 367. Crimeful, criminal (Quartos, "criminall"); IV. vii. 7. Crocodile; "woo 't eat a c.." referring probably to the toughness of its skin; V. i. 288. Crook, make to bend; III. ii. 66. Cross, go across its way (to cross the path of a ghost was to come under its evil influence); I. i. 127. Crow-flowers, (probably) buttercups; IV. vii. 171. |