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York, Scroop, Archbishop of, an enemy to the
King

York, Duke of, cousin to the King.

York, Richard Plantagenet, Duke of.

York, Richard Plantagenet, Duke of.

York, Richard; Duke of, son to Edward IV.
York, Duchess of, mother to King Edward IV.,
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The foregoing index of characters, which has been made with great care, will be
found available for use in connection with other editions of Shakespeare's works, as
a few of those characters which appear only in the doubtful plays are included in it.
The reader will have but little practical difficulty in using it, notwithstanding the
fact that the plays are variously divided into acts and scenes by different editors.

Of difficult words, and of expressions that have become obsolete, or have altered in meaning since Shakespeare's time,

ABATE, to depress, sink, subdue
Abjects, servile persons
Able, to qualify or uphold
Abortive, issuing before its time
Absolute, highly accomplished,
perfect

Abused, deceived
Aby, to pay dear for

Approve, to justify, to make good, to establish, to recommend to approbation

Approved, felt, experienced, con-
victed by proof
Approvers, persons who try
Aqua-vitæ, strong waters
Arbitrate, to determine
Arch, chief

Argentine, silver

Argier, Algiers

Action, direction by mute signs, Argosies, ships of great burthen,

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Acquittance, requital

charge, or accusation

Additions, titles or descriptions Address, to make ready

Action-taking, litigious

Addressed, or addrest, ready

Advance, to prefer, to raise honour

galleons

Argument, subject for conversa-
tion, evidence, proof

Arm, to take up in the arms
Aroint, avaunt, be gone

to A-row, successively, one after
another

Adversity, contrariety
Advertisement, admonition
Advertising, attentive
Advice, consideration, discretion,
thought

Advise, to consider, recollect
Advised, not precipitant, cool,
cautious
Afeard, afraid
Affect, love

Affection, affectation, imagination, disposition, quality Affectioned, affected

Affections, passions, inordinate desires

Affeered, confirmed
Aflied, betrothed

Affined, joined by affinity
Affront, to meet or face
Affy, to betroth in marriage
Aglet-baby, diminutive being
Agnize, acknowledge, confess
A-good, in good earnest
Aiory, the nest of an eagle or hawk
Aim, guess, encouragement, sus-
picion

Alder-liefest, beloved above all things

Ale, a merry meeting
Allow, to approve
Allowance, approbation
Amaze, to perplex or confuse
Ames-ace, the lowest chance of
the dice

Amort, sunk and dispirited
An, as if

Anchor, anchoret

Ancient, an ensign

An gut, in the night

Answer, retaliation

Anthropophaginian, cannibal

Antic, the fool of the old farces
Antiquity, old age
Antres, caves and dens

Apparent, seeming, not real, heir apparent, or next claimant

Appeal, to accuse

Appeared, rendered apparent
Appointment, preparation
Apprehension, opinion
Apprehensive, quick to under-
stand

Approbation, entry on probation
Approof, proof, approbation

Art, practice as distinguished from theory, theory

Articulate, enter into articles
Articulated, exhibited in articles
Artificial, ingenious, artful
As, as if

Aspect, countenance
Aspersion, sprinkling
Assinego, a he-ass

Assurance, conveyance, deed
Assured, affianced
Astringer, a falconer
Ates, instigation from Ate, the
mischievous goddess that incites
bloodshed

Atomies, minute particles discernible in a stream of sunshine that breaks into a darkened room, atoms

Atone, to reconcile

Attasked, reprehended, corrected
Attended, waited for
Attent, attentive
Attorney, deputation
Attorneyship, the

discretional

agency of another Attornied, supplied by substitu

tion of embassies Avaunt, contemptuous dismissal Averring, confirming Audacious, spirited, animated Audrey, a corruption of Ethel

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Aukward, adverse

Barbed, caparisoned in a warlike

manner

Barful, full of impediments
Barm, yeast

Barn, or bairn, a child
Barnacle, a kind of shell-fish
Base, dishonoured

Base, a rustic game, called prison

base

Bases, a kind of dress used by
knights on horseback
Basilisks, a species of cannon
Basta, Spanish, 'tis enough
Bastard, raisin wine
Bat, a club, or staff
Bate, strife, contention
Bate, to flutter as a hawk
Batlet, an instrument used by
washers of clothes
Batten, to grow fat
Battle, army

Bavin, brushwood
Bawcock, a jolly fellow

Bay, the space between the main beams of a roof

Bay-window, bow window, one in

a recess

Beak, the forecastle, or the boltsprit

Beard, to oppose in a hostile man-
ner, to set at defiance
Bearing, carriage, demeanour
Bearing-cloth, a mantle used at
christenings

Beat, in falconry, to flutter
Beating,

upon

hammering, dwelling

Beaver, helmet in general Beck, a salutation inade with the head

Becomed, becoming

Beetle, to hang over the base
Being, abode

Belongings, endowments
Be-mete, be-measure
Be-moiled, be-draggled, be-mired
Bending, unequal to the weight
Benefit, beneficiary

Bent, the utmost degree of any passion

Benumbed, inflexible, immoveable Beshrew, ill befall

Bestowed, left, stowed, or lodged Bestraught, distraught or distracted

Authentic, an epithet applied to Beteem, to give, to pour out, to

the learned

Awful, reverend, worshipful
Awless, not producing awe

BACCARE, stand back, give place
Bale, misery, calamity
Baleful, baneful
Balked, bathed or piled up
Balm, the oil of consecration
Band, bond

Baudog, village dog or mastiff
Bank, to sail along the banks
Banning, cursing

Banquet, a feast, a slight refection,
a dessert
Bans, curses
Bar, barrier

permit, or suffer

Bewray, betray, discover
Bezonian, a term of reproach
Biding, place, abiding
Bigging, a kind of cip
Bilberry, the whortleberry
Bilbo, a Spanish blade of peculiar
excellence

Bilboes, a species of fetters
Bill, a weapon carried by watch-
men, a label, or advertisement,
articles of accusation
Bird-bolt, a species of arrow
Bisson, blind

Blank, the white mark at which an arrow is shot Blast, burst

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Burgonet, a kind of helmet
Burst, broken

Bury, to conceal, to keep secret
Bush, the sign of a public-house
Busky, woody. See Bosky
But, only, unless, except
Butt-shaft, an arrow to shoot at
butts with

Buxom, obedient, under good
command

By, according to, by means of
By'rlakin, by our ladykin or little
lady

Centuries, companies of an hun.
dred men each

Ceremonies, honorary ornaments,
tokens of respect
Ceremonious, superstitious
Certes, certainly, in truth
Cess, measure

Chace, a term at tennis
Chair, throne

Chamber, ancient name for London
Chamber, a species of great gun
Chamberers, men of intrigue
Champian, an open country
Cha geling, a child changed

CADDIS, a narrow worsted gal- Channel, a kennel
loon

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Bolted, sifted, refined

Bolting-hutch, the receptacle

in

which the meal is bolted

Bombard, or bumbard, a barrel

Bombast, stuffing of clothes

Bona-robas, trumpets

Bond, bounden duty

Caitiff, a prisoner, a slave, a
scoundrel

Calculate, to foretell or prophesy
Caliver, a species of musket
Call, to visit

Bony, or bonny, handsome, good- Callet, a lewd woman

looking

Book, paper of conditions

Boot, profit, advantage, something over and above

Bore, demean-d

Calling, appellation
Calm, qualm

Canary, a sprightly nimble dance
Candle-wasters, those who sit up
all night to drink

Bore, the calibre of a gun, the Canker, the dog-rose

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Caustick, candlestick

Character, description, hand-writing

Charácter, to write, to infix strongly

Charactery, the matter with which letters are made

Chares, task-work

Charge, to put to expense

Charge, commission, employment
Charge-house, the free-school
Chariest, most cautious
Chariness, caution

Charitable, dear, endearing
Charles's-wain, the constellation
called the Bear

Charneco, a sort of sweet wine
Charter, a privilege
Chaudron, entrails

Cantel, or Cantle, a corner or piece Cheater, escheator, an officer in

of any thing

Cantons, cantos

Bots, worms in the stomach of a Canvas, to sift horse

Bourn, boundary, rivulet

Bow, yoke

the exchequer, gamester Check, command, control Checks, probably for ethics

Canvas-climber, a sailor who climbs Cheer, countenance
to adjust the sails

Cap, the top, the principal

Brace, armour for the arm, state Cap, to salute by taking off the cap

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Capable, perceptible, intelligent,
quick of apprehension, ample,
capacious

Capitulate, to make terms
Capon, metaphor for a letter
Capricious, lascivious

Captious, capacious, or recipient

Breach, of the sea, breaking of the Carack, a ship of great bulk

Bea

Breast, voice, surface

Breath, breathing, voice

Breath, to utter

Breathed, inured by constant
practice

Breathing, complimentary
Breeched, sheathed

Breeching, liable to school-boy
punishment

Carbonadoed, scotched like meat
for the gridiron

Card, perhaps a sea-chart

Cherry-pit, a play with cherry

stones

Cheveril, soft or kid leather
Chew, to ruminate, consider
Chewet, noisy chattering bird
Chide, to resound, to echo, to
scold, to be clamorous
Chiding, sound
Chiding, noisy

Childing, unseasonably pregnant
Chopin, a high shoe or clog
Chough, a bird of the daw kind
Christom, the white cloth put on
a new baptized child

Care, to make provision, to take Chrystals, eyes

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Chuck, chicken, a term of endearment

Chuff, rich, avaricious

Cicatrice, the scar of a wound
Circumstance, detail of an argu-
ment, a circumlocution
Cital, recital

Brief, a short account, letter, or Carpet-consideration, on a carpet, Cite, to incite, to shew, to prove

Bridal, the nuptial feast

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a festivity

Carriage, import

Carried, conducted, managed
Carry, to prevail over
Cart, a chariot

Case, contemptuously for skin,
outside garb

Case, to strip naked
Cassock, a horseman's greatcoat
Cast, to empty, as a pond, to dis-
miss or reject

Castilian, an opprobrious term
Castiliano vulgo, a cant term of
contempt

Catalan, some kind of sharper
Catling, a small lute-string made
of catgut

Cavaleroes, airy, gay fellows
Caviare, a delicacy made of the
roe of sturgeon
Cautelous, insidious, cautious
Cease, decease, die, to stop
Censure, judgment, opinion

Bunting, a bird outwardly like a Censure, to judge

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Civil, human creature, anything
human

Clack-dish, a beggar's.dish
Claw, to flatter

Clear, pure, blameless, innocent,
quite, fully, perfectly
Clearest, purest, freest from evil
Clear-story, a species of windows
in a church

Cleave, to unite with closely
Cliff, a key in music
Cling, to shrink or shrivel up
Clinquant, glittering, shining
Clip, to embrace, to infold
Closely, secretly, privately
Clout, the white mark at which
archers take aim

Clown, a licensed jester in families
Clubs, a popular cry in a street-
quarrel

Coach-fellow, one who draws with
a confederate

Coasting, conciliatory, inviting
Cobloaf, a crusty, uneven loaf
Cock, cock-boat

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