Almost to jelly with the act of fear,
Stand dumb, and speak not to him.

Bestow'd-stowed, deposited. C. E. i. 2, n.

In what safe place you have bestow'd my money. Bestraught-distraught, distracted. T. S. Induction, 2, n. What! I am not bestraught.

Beteem (v.)-pour forth. M. N. D. i. 1, n.

Beteem them from the tempest of mine eyes.

Beteem (v.)—allow, suffer. H. i. 2, n.

So loving to my mother,

That he might not beteem the winds of heaven
Visit her face too roughly.

Better skill-with better skill.

Luc. n.

For burthen wise I'll hum on Tarquin still,
While thou on Tereus descant'st better skill.

Bevel-bent in an angle. So. exxi n.

I may be straight, though they theinselves be bevel.

Bevis of Southampton. H. 6, S. P. ii. 3, i.

As Bevis of Southampton fell upon Ascapart.

BLO

Challenged Cupid at the flight and my uncle's fool, reading the challenge, subscribed for Cupid, and challenged him at the bird-bolt.

Birds of Italy. M. V. v. 1, i.

The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark, &c.
Birds, deceiv'd with painted grapes. V. A. n.
Even as poor birds, deceiv'd with painted grapes,
Do surfeit by the eye.

Birnam wood. M. v. 4, i.

Siward. What wood is this before us?
Menteth. The wood of Birnam.

Birth-hour's blot-corporal blemish. Luc. n.

Worse than a slavish wipe, or birth-hour's blot.

Bishop, costume of. H. 4, S. P. iv. 1, i.

Whose white investments figure innocence.

Bisson-blind. Cor. ii. 1, n.

What harm can your bisson conspectuities glean out o this character?

Biting the thumb. R. J. i 1, i.

I will bite my thumb at them.

Black-dark. G. V. iv. 4, n.

That now she is become as black as 1.

Black-swarthy, dark. M. A. iii. 1, n.

If fair-faced,

She would swear the gentleman should be her sister;
If black, why, nature, drawing of an antic,
Made a foul blot.

Black Monday, origin of. M. V. ii. 5, i.
Black Monday.

Blasts-used as a verb neuter. Luc. n.

O rash false heat, wrapp'd in repentant cold, Thy hasty spring still blasts, and ne er grows old! Blenches-deviations.

So. cx. n.

These blenches gave my heart another youth, And worse essays prov'd thee my best of love. Blessed thistle, supposed virtues of. M. A. iii. 4, i. Carduus benedictus.

Blessing the marriage-bed. M. N. D. v. 2, i.
To the best bride-bed will we.

Blessing, begging of. H. iii. 4, n.

Block.

And when you are desirous to be bless'd, I'll blessing beg of you.

L.iv. 6, n.
This a good block!

Blood-letting. R. S. i. 1, i.

Our doctors say, this is no month to bleed.

Blood will I draw. H. 6, F. P. i. 5, n.

Blood will I draw on thee, thou art a witch, And straightway give thy soul to him thou serv'st. Blood-natural disposition. T. Ath. iv. 2, n. (See Cy. i. 1, n.)

Strange, unusual blood,

When man's worst sin is, he does too much good! Bloodless. H. 6, S. P. iii. 2, n.

Oft have I seen a timely-parted ghost,

Of ashy semblance, meagre, pale, and bloodless,
Being all descended to the labouring heart.

Blossoms-young men, flower of the nobility. L. C. n.
Whose rarest havings made the blessures dote.
Blows (v.)-swells. A. C. iv. 6, n.

This blows my heart.

BLU

Brue of heaven's own tinet. Cy. ii. 2, n.

The enclosed lights now canopied

Under these windows, white and azure, lac'd
With blue of heaven's own tinct.

Board (v.)-address. T. N. i. 3, n.

Accost, is, front her, board her, woo her, assail her.

Boarded-accosted. A. W. v. 3, n.

Certain it is I lik'd her,

And boarded her i' the wanton way of youth.

Boarded accosted. M. A. ii. 1, n.

I would he had boarded me.

Boar's Head Tavern. H. 4, F. P. ii. 4, i.

Eastcheap; a room in the Boar's Head Tavern.

Bob-rap. A. L. ii. 7, n.

He that a fool doth very wisely hit

Doth very foolishly, although he smart,
Not to seem senseless of the bob.

Bodg'd. H. 6, T. P. i. 4, n.

But, out, alas!

We body'd again.

Bodkin-small sword. H. iii. 1, n.

When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin.

Bolingbroke. R. S. i. 1, i.

Then, Bolingbroke.

Boll'n-swollen. Luc. n.

Here one being throng'd bears back, all boll'n and red. Bolter'd-begrimed, besmeared. M. iv. 1, n.

For the blood-bolter'd Banquo smiles upon me. Bombast-from bombagia; cotton wool used as stuffing. L. L. L. v. 2, n.

As bombast, and as lining to the time. Bonneted. Cor. ii. 2. n. (See O. i. 2, n.)

And his ascent is not by such easy degrees as those who, having been supple and courteous to the people, bonneted, without any further deed to have them at all into their estimation and report.

Book of songs and sonnets. M. W. i. 1, i.

I had rather than forty shillings, I had my book of songs and sonnets here.

Book, sense of the term. H. 4, F. P. iii. 1, i.

By that time will our book I think be drawn.

Book uncross'd. Cy. iii. 3, n.

Such gains the cap of him that makes him fine,
Yet keeps his book uncross'd.

Boot-into the bargain. R. T. iv. 4, n.

The other Edward dead, to quit my Edward;
Young York he is but boot, because both they
Match not the high perfection of my loss.

Boot-advantage. M. M. ii. 4, n.

Could I, with boot, change for an idle plume.

Boot-compensation. R. S. i. 1, n.

Norfolk, throw down, we bid; there is no boot.

Boots. G. V. i. 1, í.

Nay, give me not the boots

Boord (v.)-accost. H. ii. 2, n.
I'll boord him presently.

Bores-wounds, thrusts. H. E. i. 1, n.

At this instant

He bores me with some trick.

Borne in hand-encouraged by false hopes. M. iii. 1, n. How you were borne in hand; how cross'd.

Borrower's cap. H. 4, S. P. ii. 2, n.

The answer is as ready as a borrower's cap. Bosm-wish, heart's desire. M. M. iv. 3, n.

And you shall have your bosom on this wretch.

Bison-boatswain. T. i. 1, n.

Where is the master, boson ?

Bound-boundary, obstacle. T. Ath. i. 1, n.
Our gentle flame

Provokes itself, and, like the current, flies
Each bound it chafes,

Bourn-boundary. L. iv. 6, a.

From the dread summit of this chalky bourn.

Bowls. L. L. L. v. 2, i.

A very good bowler.

Brach-dog of a particular species. T. S. Induction, 1, n.
Huntsman, I charge thee, tender well my hounds.
Brach Merriman.

Brach-female harrier. L. iii. 6, n. (See L. i. 4, n.)
Hound or spaniel, brach or lym.

BRU

Braid-crafty. A. W. iv. 2, n.

Since Frenchmen are so braid,

Marry that will, I'll live and die a maid. Brakes of ice. M. M. ii. 1, n.

Some run from brakes of ice, and answer none. Brass. H. F. iv. 4, n.

Thou damned and luxurious mountain goat,
Offer'st me brass?

Brave-bravado. J. v. 2, n.

There end thy brave, and turn thy face in peace Braved-made fine. T. S. iv. 3, n.

Thou hast braved many men.

Bravery-finery. A. L. ii. 7, n.
His bravery is not on my cost.
Brawls. L. L. L. iii. 1, i.

Is a strange brooch in this all-hating world.

Brooch'd-adorned. A. C. iv. 13, n.

Not the imperious show

Of the full-fortun'd Cæsar ever shall
Be brooch'd with me.

Brother father. M. M. iii. 2, n.

And you, good brother father.

Brother Cassius. J. C. ii. 1, n.

Sir, 't is your brother Cassius at the door. Brought you Cæsar home?—did you accompany Cæsar home i J. C. i. 3, n.

Good even, Casca: brought you Cæsar home? Brown bills-bills for billmen, infantry. L. iv. 6, n. Bring up the brown bills.

Brownists. T. N. iii. 2, i.

I had as lief be a Brotenist as a politician.

Bruit-report. H. 6, T. P. iv. 7, n.

Brother, we will proclaim you out of hand;

The bruit thereof will bring you many friends

Brutus and Cassius,-from North's 'Plutarch' J. C. i. 2, i.
Will you go see the order of the course?
Brutus and Portia,-from North's Plutarch.' J. C. ii. 1, i.
Let not our looks, &c.

Brutus and Antony, orations of,-from North's 'Plutarch.'
J. C. iii. 2, i.

Enter Brutus and Cassius, and a throng of citizens.
Brutus the night before the battle,-from North's 'Plutarch.'
J. C. v. 1, i.

Be thou my witness that, against my will, &c.
Brutus, death of,-from North's 'Plutarch.' J. C. v. 5, i.
Come, poor remains of friends, &c.

Buckle (v.)-bend. H. 4, S. P. i. 1, n.

And as the wretch, whose fever-weaken'd joints,
Like strengthless hinges, buckle under life.

Bucklersbury. M W. iii. 3, i.

Backlersbury in simple time.

Bugs-hobgoblins. T. S. i. 2, n.

Tush! tush! fear boys with bugs.

Bugs-terrors. Cy. v. 3, n.

Those that would die or ere resist are grown
The mortal bugs o' the field.

Bulk. O. v. 1, n.

Here, stand behind this bulk.
Bulk-the whole body. Luc. n.

May feel her heart, poor citizen, distress'd,
Wounding itself to death, rise up and fall,
Beating her bulk, that his hand shakes withal.

Bully-rook. M. W. i. 3, n.

What says my bully-rook ?

Bumbards-ale-barrels. H. E. v. 3, n.

And here ye lie baiting of bumbards, when
Ye should do service.

Burgonet-helmet. A. C. i. 5, n.

The demi Atlas of this earth, the arm
And burgonet of men.

Burn daylight-waste time. M. W. ii 1, n.
We burn daylight:-here, read, read.
Burst-broken. T. S. Induction, 1, n.

Pay for the glasses you have burst.
Burton Heath. T. S. Induction, 2, i.
Old Sly's son of Burton Heath.

Busky-bosky, woody. H. 4, F. P. v. 1, n.
How bloodily the sun begins to peer
Above yon busky hill.

But unless. T. S. iii. 1, n.

For, but I be deceiv'd,

Our fine musician groweth amorous.

But one, except one. A. W. ii. 3, n.

To each of you one fair and virtuous mistress

Fall, when love please,-marry to each-but one.

But poor a thousand crowns. A. L. i. 1, n.

It was upon this fashion bequeathed me by will, but

poor a thousand crowns.

But justly-but as justly. A. L. i. 2, n.

If you do keep your promises in love

But justly as you have exceeded all promise,
Your mistress shall be happy.

But except. J. iii. 1, n.

But on this day, let seamen fear no wrack.

But now just now. H. 6, S. P. iv. 9, n.

But now is Cade driven back, his men dispers'd.

But the love me-so thou do but love me. R. J. ii. 2, n.
And, but thou love me, let them find me here.
T. i. 2, n.
Where they prepar'd
A rotten carcase of a butt.

Butt.

CAN

By him-by his house. J. C. ii. 1, n.

Now, good Metellus, go along by him.
By'rlakin by our ladykin; our little lady. M. N. D. iii. 1, n.
By'rlakin, a parlous fear.

Byron's Bride of Abydos,' lines from. A. L. iv. 1, i.

Good youth, he went but forth to wash him in the
Hellespont, and, being taken with the cramp, was
drowned.

Byron's Stanzas for Music.' M. M. iii. 1, i.
For all thy blessed youth, &c.

C.

Caddis-garter-garter of ferret. H. 4, F. P. ii. 4, n.
Puke-stocking, caddis-girter, smooth-tongue, &c.

Cade cask. H. 6, S. P. iv. 2, n.

Cade. We, John Cade, so termed of our supposed
father,-

Dick. Or rather, of stealing a cade of herrings.
Cæsar and his fortune,-passage in 'Plutarch.' H. 6, F. P.
i. 2, i.

Now am I like that proud insulting ship
Which Cæsar and his fortune bare at once.

Caesar's fear of Cassius,-from North's Plutarch.' J. C. i.
2, i.

Let me have men about me that are fat, &c.
Cæsar, offer of the crown to,-from North's Plutarch.' J. C
i. 2, i.

Ay, Casca; tell us what hath chanc'd to-day.
Caesar, assassination of,-from North's Plutarch.' J. C. iii.
1, i.

All the senators rise.

Were there in arms, they would be as a call
To train ten thousand English to their side.

Call there-call it. A. W. ii. 3, n.

What do you call there.

Callet. H. 6, T. P. ii. 2, n.

A wisp of straw were worth a thousand crowns,
To make this shameless callet know herself.

Calling-name. A. L. i. 2, n.

I am more proud to be Sir Rowland's son,

His youngest son;-and would not change that calling,
To be adopted heir to Frederick.

Calm-used by Hostess for qualm. H. 4, S. P. ii. 4, n.
Sick of a calm.

Calphurnia's dreams,-from North's Plutarch.' J. C. ii. 2, i.
Thrice hath Calphurnia in her sleep cried out, &c.
Calves'-guts. Cy. ii. 3, n.

It is a voice in her ears, which horse-hairs and calves'-
guts, nor the voice of unpaved eunuch to boot, can never
amend.

The eating canker dwells.

Canker-dog-rose. M. A. i. 3, i.

I had rather be a canker in a hedge than a rose in his grace.

Canker-dog-rose. H. 4, F. P. i. 3, n.

Το down Richard, that sweet lovely rose, put And plant this thorn, this canker, Bolingbroke. Canker-blooms-flowers of the canker or dog-rose. So. lix. n. The canker-blooms have full as deep a dye As the perfumed tincture of the roses. Cannibals, imaginary nation of. T. ii. 1, i.

No kind of traffic, &c.

Cannibals-used by Pistol for Hannibals. H. 4, S. P. ii. 4, n. Compare with Caesars and with cannibals.

Canon. H. i. 2, n.

His canon 'gainst self-slaughter.

Cantle-corner. H. 4, F. P. iii. 1, n.

And cuts me, from the best of all my land,
A huge half-moon, a monstrous canile out.

Cantle-portion. A. C. iii. 8, n. (See H. 4, F. P. iii. 1, n.)
The greater cantle of the world is lost
With very ignorance.

Cantons-cantos. T. N. i. 5, n.

Write loyal cantons of contemned love.
Capable-able to receive. A. L. iii. 5, n.
Lean upon a rush,

The cicatrice and capable impressure,
Thy palm some moment keeps.

Capitulate (v.)-settle the heads of an agreement.

F. P. iii. 2, n.

H. 4,

The archbishop's grace of York, Douglas, Mortimer,
Capitulate against us, and are up.

Capocchia-shallow skonce, loggerhead. T. C. iv. 2, n.
Alas, poor wretch! a poor capocchia!
Captain-used adjectively for chief. So. lii. n.

Like stones of worth they thinly placed are,
Or captain jewels in the carcanet.

Captious and intenible-capable of receiving, but not of retaining. A. W. i. 3, n.

Yet, in this captious and intenible sieve,
I still pour in the waters of my love.

Capulet's feast, season of. R. J. i. 2, i.

This night I hold an old accustom'd feast. Carack-vessel of heavy burden. O. i. 2, n.

'Faith, he to-night hath boarded a land carack. Carbonado-rasher on the coals. H. 4, F. P. v. 3, n. Let him make a carbonado of me.

Carcanet-chain, necklace. C. E. iii. 1, n.
To see the making of her carcanet.
So. lii. n.

Carcanet-necklace.

Or captain jewels in the carcanet.

Card of ten proverbial expression. T. S. ii. 1, n. Yet I have fac'd it with a card of ten.

CEN

The purple violets, and marigolds,
Shall as a carpet hang upon thy grave.

Carpet knights. T. N. iii. 4, 1.

He is knight, dubbed with unhatched rapier, and on carpet consideration.

Carpets laid. T. S. iv. 1, n.

The carpets laid, and everything in order.

Carping-jesting. H. 4, F. P. iií. 2, n.

Mingled his royalty with carping fools.

Carriages in the time of Shakspere. A. W. iv. 4, 1. Our waggon is prepar'd.

Carriages. J. v. 7, i.

Many carriages.

Carrying coals. R. J. i. 1. i.

Gregory, o' my word, we'll not carry coals. Case-skin. T. N. v. 1, n.

When time hath sow'd a grizzle on thy case. Case-outside. M. M. ii. 4, n.

O form!

How often dost thou with thy case, thy habit,
Wrench awe from fools!

Case of lives-several lives. H. F. iii. 2, n.

For mine own part, I have not a case of lies. Case-outward show. L. C. n.

Accomplish'd in himself, not in his case.

Cassius and Brutus, quarrel between,-from North's Flatarch.' J. C. iv. 2, i.

Most noble brother, you have done me wrong.

Cassius, death of,-from North's Plutarch.' J. C. v. iii. L. Fly further off, my lord.

Castilian. M. W. ii. 3, n.

Thou art a Castilian.

Castiliano-vulgo. T. N. i. 3, n.

What, wench? Castiliano vulgo for here comes s
Andrew Ague-face.

Castle stronghold, power. T. And. iii. 1, n.
And rear'd aloft the bloody battle-axe,
Writing destruction on the enemy's castle.

Cataian. M. W. ii. 1, n.

I will not believe such a Cataian. Cat and bottle. M. A. i. 1, i.

Hang me in a bottle like a cat, Cat i' the adage. M. i. 7, n.

and shoot at me.

Letting I dare not wait upon I would,
Like the poor cat i the adage.

"Catch that catch can,' notice of the work.

A. L. iv. 2, i

What shall he have that kill'd the deer?

Catling-lute-string. R. J. iv. 5, n.

What say you, Simon Catling? Caucasus, origin of the name of. R. S. i. 3, i. The frosty Caucasus.

R. S. i. 1, s.

Cause you come-cause on which you come.
As well appeareth by the cause you come.
Causeless. A. W. ii. 3, n.

To make modern and familiar things supernatura and causeless.

Cautel-crafty way to deceive. H. i. 3, n.

And now no soil, nor cautel, doth besmirch

The virtue of his will.

Cautelous-wary, circumspect. J. C. ii. 1, n.

Swear priests, and cowards, and men castelous.

Cautels-deceitful purposes. L. C. n.

In him a plenitude of subtle matter,

Applied to cauteis, all strange forms receives.

Caviarie. H. iì. 2, i.

"T was caviarie to the general.

Cawdor Castle. M. i. 3, i.

Thane of Cawdor.

Cease (v. used actively)-stop.

H. 6, S. P. v. 2, n.

Now let the general trumpet blow his blast, Particularities and petty sounds

To cease.

Ceilings ornamented. Cy. ii. 4, i.

The roof o' the chamber With golden cherubins is fretted. Censure (v.)-give an opinion. G. V. i. 2, n. Should censure thus on lovely gentlemen.

Censure opinion. H. 6, F. P. ii. 3 n.

To give their censure of these rare reports.

Whose death's, indeed, the strongest in our censure.
Censure (v.)-judge. H. 6, F. P. v. 5, n.

If you do censure me by what you were.

Censure comparison. H. E. i. 1, n.

And no discerner

Challenge, legal use of the word. H. E. ii. 4, n.

And make my challenge

You shall not be my judge.

Change-reverse. A. L. i. 3, n.

And do not seek to take your change upon you.
Change the cod's head for the salmon's tail-exchange the more
delicate fare for the coarser. O. ii. 1, n.

She that in wisdom never was so frail,

To change the cod's head for the salmon's tail.
Change (v.)-vary, give a different appearance to. A. C.
i. 2, n.

O, that I knew this husband, which, you say, must
change his horns with garlands!

Changeling-a child changed. W. T. iii. 3, n.

This is some changeling.

Changeling-child procured in exchange. M. N.,D. ii. 1, n.

She never had so sweet a changeling.

Channel-kennel. H. 6, T. P. ii. 2, n.

As if a channel should be call'd the sea.
Chapman-a seller. L. L. L. ii. 1, n.

Base sale of chapmen's tongues.
Character-description. W. T. iii. 3, n.

There lie; and there thy character.
Character-handwriting. L. ii. 1, n.

Ay, though thou didst produce

My very character.

Characters-the help of letters. R. T. iii. 1, n.

I say, without characters, fame lives long.

Characts-inscriptions, official designations. M. M. v. 1, n.

So may Angelo,

In all his dressings, characts, titles, forms,

Be an arch villain.

Char'd. T. N. K. iii. 2, n.

How stand I then?

All's char'd when he is gone.

Chares-work. A. C. iv. 13, n.

By such poor passion as the maid that milks,

And does the meanest chares.

Charge-burthen. P. i. 2, n.

Let none disturb us: why should this charge of
thoughts,-

The sad companion, dull-ey'd Melancholy,

By me so us'd a guest.

Chariest-most cautious. H. i. 3, n.

The chariest maid is prodigal enough,

If she unmask her beauty to the moon.

Charing Cross.-H. 4, F. P. ii. 1, i.

Chariot drawn by lion, at the baptism of Henry Prince of
Scotland. M. N. D. iii. 1, i.

A lion among ladies is a most dreadful thing.

Chariot of night. M. N. D. iii. 2, i.

For night's swift dragons cut the clouds full fast.
Charles' wain-constellation of the Great Bear. H. 4, F. P.
i. 1, n.

Charles' wain is over the new chimney.

Charm'd. Cy. v. 3, n.

CIC

I, in mine own woe charm'd,
Could not find death where I did hear him groan.
Charnel-house. R. J. iv. 3, i.

As in a vault.

Charneco-name of a wine. H. 6, S. P. i. 3, n.
Here's a cup of charneco.

Chaucer's Troilus and Cressida.' M. V. v. 1, i.

Troilus, methinks, mounted the Trojan walls.
Chaucer's Knight's Tale.' M. N. D. i. 1, i.

Hippolyta, I woo'd thee with my sword.
Chaucer's Knight's Tale.' M. N. D. iii. 2, i.
Even till the eastern gate.

Chaucer's Knight's Tale.' M. N. D. iv. 2, t.
Go one of you, find out the forester.

Chaucer's description of Hector and Troilus. T. C. i. 2, i.
That's Hector, &c.

Chaucer's description of the parting of Troilus and Cressida.
T. C. iv. 4, i.

Be thou but true of heart.

Chaucer's Troilus and Cressida,' extract from. T. C. v. 2,
Here, Diomed, keep this sleeve.

Chaudron-entrails. M. iv. 1, n.

Add thereto a tiger's chaudron,
For the ingredients of our caldron.
Cheater-escheater. M. W. i. 3, n.

I will be cheater to them.

Cheater. H. 4, S. P. ii. 4, n. (See M. W. i. 4, n.)
He's no swaggerer, hostess; a tame cheater.

Cheer-face. M. N, D. iii. 2, n.

All fancy sick, and pale of cheer.
Cheer-countenance. H. 6, F. P. i. 2, n.

Methinks your looks are sad, your cheer appall'd.
Chertsey, monastery of. R. T. i. 2, i.

Come now, toward Chertsey with your holy load.
Cheveril glove-kid glove, easy-fitting glove. T. N. iii. 1, n
A sentence is but a cheveril glove to a good wit.
Cheveril-kid-skin. II. E. ii. 3, n.

Of

The capacity

your soft cheveril conscience would receive,
If you might please to stretch it.
Cheveril-kid-skin. R. J. ii. 4, n.

O, here's a wit of cheveril, that stretches from an inch
narrow to an ell broad.

Chewet. H. 4, F. P. v. 1, n.

Peace, chewet, peace.

Chide (v.)-rebuke, resound. H. F. ii. 4, n.

That caves and womby vaultages of France
Shall chide your trespass, and return your mock.

Chief-eminence, superiority. H. i. 3, n.

And they in France of the best rank and station
Are of a most select and generous chief in that.
Child. W. T. iii. 3, n.

A boy, or a child, I wonder?
Childing-producing. M. N. D. ii. 2, n.
The childing autumn.

China dishes. M. M. ii. 1, i.

They are not China dishes, but very good dishes.
Chiromancy. M. V. ii. 2, i.

Go to, here's a simple line of life.

Chivalry, usages of. Luc. n.

Yea, though I die, the scandal will survive,

And be an eyesore in my golden coat;

Some loathsome dash the herald will contrive,

To cipher me how fondly I did dote.

Choppine. H. ii. 2, i.

By the altitude of a choppine.