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Glossary Entries

Word(s)	Definition	Image	Caption	Link	Source
A’ t’ other	at the other
Abate	lessen
Abhors	hates
Addled	beaten
Affliction	disaster
Affray	tear apart
Alack	(expression of grief)
Alderman	councilman
Aloof	at a distance
Ambling	dancing
Ambuscados	ambushes
Amerce	punish
Anon	right away
Answer it	accept
Apace	quickly
Aqua-vitae	liquor
Array	attire
Aspired	gone up towards
Asunder	apart
Atomies	miniscule creatures
Attending	attentive
Bad’st	advised
Baggage	useless woman
Bandy	throw
Bark	sailboat
Bauble	jester’s baton
Bawdy	indecent
Be forsworn	go back on my word
Be perverse	play hard-to-get
Be shrived	have confession
Bedaubed	smeared
Bedeck	decorate
Beggarly	small
Beguiled	deceived
Behooveful	necessary
Bent	intentions
Bescreened	concealed
Beseech	beg
Beshrew	curse
Bestrides	straddles
Bethink	think hard
Bier	coffin
Blaze	publicize
Blazon	describe
Bliss	heaven
Bondage	familial duties
Bosom	breast
Bound	indebted
Bower	give sanctuary
Brine	salt water; tears
Broad	fat
Caitiff	miserable; vile
Cankered	infested
Carelessly	without care
Carrion	rotting meat
Challenge	claim
Cheveril	stretchy leather
Chide	scold
Chidest	scolded
Choler	anger
Churl	selfish person
Close	concealing
Clout	piece of cloth
Collar	part of a harness
Colliers	coal miners
Complements	good manners
Conduit	fountain
Confounds	destroys
Confusions	yelling; commotion
Conjure	summon (as in a spirit)
Cordial	medicinal drink
Corns	foot calluses
Counsel	private thoughts
Countervail	equal
Crochet	a musical note
Crow-keeper	scarecrow
Culled	selected
Deal double	double cross
Deck	dress
Demesnes	lands owned
Descry	decipher
Desperate tender	risky offer
Despite	spite
Dirges	songs of lamentation
Discords	ugly noise
Discourses	communicates
Displant	displace
Dissemblers	liars
Distempered	troubled
Division	melody
Doff	remove, cast away
Doting	lovesick
Doublet	jacket
Down	in bed
Dram	small drink
Drawer	bartender
Dry-beat	thrash
Ducats	gold coins
Dug	breast
Dump	sad song
Effeminate	womanish; unmanly
Ell	forty-five inches
Enjoined	compelled
Enmity	hostility
Ensign	banner
Envious	malicious
Environed	surrounded; buried
Ere	before
Ethiop’s	Ethiopian’s
Fain	gladly
Fair	with civility
Faith	faithfulness; steadiness
Fast	fast asleep
Fearful	anxious
Fee-simple	ownership
Feeling	devastating
Fettle	prepare
Fiddlestick	sword
Fie	(expression of disgust)
Field	dueling-place
Flint	hardships of life
Fond	foolish
Form	formalities
Forsooth	truly
Forswear	swear off
Forth	gone
Fortnight	two weeks
Gadding	wandering
Gall	bitterness, bile
Gapes	opens
Ghostly	spiritual
Give	name
Gleek	insult
Good den	good afternoon
Good meaning	good intentions
Goose	sex worker
Gore	clotted
Gossamers	spider’s webs
Gossip	good friend
Grace	virtue
Grandsire	old man
Gravity	“serious” things
Hap	happening
Happy	fortunate
Hark	listen
Harlotry	unprincipled behavior
Haughty	arrogant
Heaviness	sadness
Hie	hurry
Hilding	worthless person
Hinds	peasants; servants
Ho	now
Homely	simple
Humorous	humid
Idolatry	worship
Ill	unskilled
Ill-beseeming	unnatural
Import	imply
In faith	truly
In post	by horseback
In twain	in half
Inundation	overflowing abundance
Invocation	appeal
Jack	fellow
Jealous	curious
Jesu	Jesus
Jocund	cheerful
Joiner	carpenter
Jointure	dowry
Knaves	fools
Like	likely
Livery	servant’s uniform
Lolling	loose
Look	be careful
Lustier	energetic
Maidenheads	virginities
Maidenhoods	virginities
Mammet	doll
Mantle	cloak
Marry	really
Martial	soldier-like
Masque	masquerade
Mattock	pickaxe
Maw	mouth
Misadventure	accident, or failed attempt
Modern	ordinary
Monument	Capulet family tomb
Mousehunt	a ladies’ man
Moved	provoked
Naught	evil
Near ally	close relative
Needly	necessarily
Nice	unimportant
Nothing	no wounds
Numbers	verse
Nuptial	wedding
Nuts	hazelnuts
O’erperch	fly over
Office	duty
Ope	open
Orisons	prayers
Overthrows	destruction
Paramour	lover
Parts	qualities
Pate	head
Pennyworths	money’s worth
Penury	extreme poverty
Peppered	done for
Perforce	by force
Peruse	examine
Philome	Film; fine thread
Physic	remedy
Poor	modest
Portentous	of a warning
Posterity	future children
Poultice	homemade ointment
Powder	gunpowder
Practice stratagems	play tricks
Prates	a stupid answer
Prating thing	burbling baby
Presage	foreshadow
Press	hurry
Procures	sends
Proof	immune
Provision	food and drink
Puling	whimpering
Pureblind	blind
Quince	fruit
Quit	pay you for
Quite	entirely
Rails	complains
Redress	relief
Resign	return
Resort	haunt
Roared	used
Rood	cross
Ropery	trickery
Rude will	desire
Rushes	the floor
Sack	destroy
Saucy merchant	con man
Scant	hardly
Sepulcher	burial place
Set	praised
Severing	parting
Shadows	dreams
Shape	body
Show	appearance
Shrift	absolution, confession
Simpleness	nonsense
Simples	herbs
Slip	counterfeit coin
Slugabed	sleepyhead
Small	not much
Soft	wait
Sojourn	stay awhile
Sped	done for
Spinners’ legs	spider legs
Spit	impale
Spring	source
Steads	benefits
Stifled	suffocated
Stock	breeding; pedigree
Sunder	cut off
Surcease	cease
Sweetmeats	candy
Ta'en	taken
Tallow	pale
Teen	misery
Temper	mix, or dilute
Thither	there
Traces	reins
True	honest
Trunk	chest
Tut	(expresses disapproval)
Unattainted	impartial
Unfurnished	unprepared
Unruly spleen	bad temper
Untaught	rude
Unthrifty	unfortunate
Validity	value
Vestal	virginal
Vexed	distressed; frustrated
Visage	face; expression
Visor	mask
Wanton	child or careless person
Ward	a child
Weak dealing	poor behavior
Weal	happiness
Weeds	clothes
Welladay	woe the day
Wherefore	why
Whither	where
Wink	shut
Wot	know
Wrenching iron	crowbar