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all at once-And, iii. 52; iv. 423; v. 304: see note 108, iii. 91. all hid, all hid, an old infant play, ii. 199: I think it plain that Biron means the game well known as hide-and-seek, though the following article in Cotgrave's Fr. and Engl. Dict. has been adduced to show that he possibly means blind-man's-buff; "Clignemasset. The childish play called Hodman blind [i. e. blind-man's-buff], Harrie-racket, or are you all hid."

all to, all good wishes to; All to you, vi. 522; And all to all, vii. 41. all to-naught, all to-topple. See to.

All-hallown summer, iv. 214: "i. e. late summer; All-hallows meaning All-Saints, which festival is the first of November." Nares's Gloss.: "Shakespeare's allusion is designed to ridicule an old man with youthful passions" (STEEVENS).

alliance!-Good Lord, for, "Good Lord, how many alliances are forming! Every one is likely to be married but me" (BOSWELL), ii. 93.

allicholy, a blunder of Mrs. Quickly for melancholy, i. 359. alligant, a blunder of Mrs. Quickly for elegant, i. 367.

all-obeying breath-His, His "breath which all obey; obeying for obeyed" (MALONE), vii. 559.

allow, to approve: That will allow me very worth his service, iii.

330; Of this allow, iii. 461; I for aye allow, iv. 170; do allow them well, iv. 371; allow us as we prove, vi. 50; if your sweet sway Allow obedience, vii. 289; did his words allow, viii. 340; my good allow, viii. 405; generally allow'd, i. 370; Not ours, or not allow'd, v. 494 ; her allowing husband, iii. 426.

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allow, to license, to privilege: go, you are allow'd (you are a privileged scoffer," JOHNSON; "you are a licensed fool, a common jester," WARBURTON), ii. 224; there is no slander in an allowed fool, iii. 337; Allow'd (" confirmed," SINGER) with absolute power, vi. 570. allow the wind, "stand to the leeward of me" (STEEVENS), iii. 275. allowance, approbation: Give him allowance as the worthier man,

vi. 26; A stirring dwarf we do allowance give, vi. 40; the censure of the which one must, in your allowance, o'erweigh, &c., vii. 153; put it on By your allowance, vii. 269; If this be known to you, and your allowance (" done with your approbation," MALONE), vii. 378. allowance-Of very expert and apprcv'd, vii. 396: "Expert and approv'd allowance is put for allow'd and approv'd expertness" (STEEVENS).

all-thing, every way: And all-thing unbecoming, vii. 31. alms-drink-They have made him drink, vii. 533: "A phrase, amongst good fellows, to signify that liquor of another's share which his companion drinks to ease him" (WARburton).

along by him- Go, Go along "by his house, make that your way

home" (MALONE), vi. 636: The enemy, marching along by them, "through the country of the people between this and Philippi" (CRAIK), vi. 672.

"Shakespeare has confounded The firebrand of Althea was

Althæa dreamed, &c., iv. 336: Althæa's firebrand with Hecuba's. real; but Hecuba, when she was big with Paris, dreamed that she was delivered of a firebrand that consumed the kingdom" (JOHNSON): But Mr. Knight suggests that here "the page may be attempting a joke out of his half-knowledge" (a joke!); and a more recent commentator very gravely tells us, "It is not Shakespeare, but (most appropriately and characteristically, a boy who has picked up a smattering of knowledge) the page, who trips," &c. Althæa burn'd Unto the prince's heart of Calydon-As did the fatal brand, v. 115: the prince of Calydon is Meleager: "According to the fable, Meleager's life was to continue only so long as a certain firebrand should last. His mother Althea having thrown it into the fire, he expired in great torments" (MALOne). Amaimon, i. 372; iv. 241: The name of a demon: Randle Holme, in his Academy of Armory and Blazon, B. ii. ch. 1, informs us that 'Amaymon is the chief whose dominion is on the north part of the infernal gulph'" (STEEVENS): "Amaimon, King of the East, was one of the principal devils who might be bound or restrained from doing hurt from the third hour till noon, and from the ninth hour till evening. See Scot's Discovery of Witchcraft, B. xv. ch. 3 [p. 393, ed. 1584]" (DOUCE).

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amaze, to confound, to perplex: You do amaze her, i. 416; You amaze me, ladies, iii. 11; Lest your retirement do amaze your friends, iv. 283; It would amaze the proudest of you all, v. 66; I am amaz'd, and know not what to say, ii. 301; I was amaz'd Under the tide, iv. 53; I am amaz'd, methinks, iv. 61; thou art amaz'd, iv. 171; Stand not amaz'd, vi. 430; I am amaz'd with matter (variety of business), vii. 708; amazing thunder, iv. 115.

Amen!-Come, i. 204: "Compare Captain Smith's Accidence, or the Path-way to Experience, 4to, Lond. 1626, p. 30, 'Who saies Amen, one and all, for a dram of the bottle'" (HALLIWEll).

ames-ace, both aces,-the lowest throw upon the dice, iii. 232. amiable siege-An, "A siege of love" (MALONE), i. 371.

amiss, misfortune, "evil impending or catastrophe" (CALDECOTT): prologue to some great amiss, vii. 180.

amiss, fault: salving thy amiss, viii. 366; urge not my amiss, viii. 424.

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anatomy, a skeleton: A mere anatomy, ii. 49; that fell anatomy, iv. 42; this anatomy, viii. 195.

anatomy, a body: I'll eat the rest of the anatomy, iii. 366; In what vile part of this anatomy, vi. 439.

anchor, an anchorite, vii. 159.

ancient, a standard-bearer, an ensign-bearer (now called an ensign): Ancient Pistol, iv. 342, 343, 434, 435; good ancient, iv. 344 ; vii. 397; his Moorship's ancient, vii. 376; Ancient, conduct them, vii. 387; to be saved before the ancient, vii. 406; Othello's ancient, vii. 456; consists of ancients, iv. 268.

ancient, a standard: an old faced ancient ("an old standard mended with a different colour," STEEVENS), iv. 268: and see

face.

and, used redundantly, as it occasionally is in old ballads: When that I was and a little tiny boy, iii. 395; He that has and a little tiny wit, vii. 296.

andirons, vii. 668: "The andirons were the ornamental irons on each side of the hearth in old houses, which were accompanied with small rests for the end of the logs. The latter [rests] were sometimes called dogs, but the term andirons frequently included both," &c. (Halliwell).

Andren, v. 484: see note 3, v. 573.

Andrew-My wealthy, ii. 346: the name of a ship: the conjecture that it was derived from the naval hero Andrea Doria is not a probable one.

angel-An ancient, iii. 157: see note 129, iii. 196.

angel of the air, bird of the air, viii. 122 (Angel in this sense is a Grecism,-yeλos, i.e. messenger, being applied to birds of augury: our early writers frequently use the word as equivalent to "bird;" so in Massinger and Dekker's Virgin-Martyr the Roman eagle is called "the Roman angel," Massinger's Works, vol. i. p. 36, ed. Gifford, 1813).

angel, a gold coin, which at its highest value was worth ten shillings: not I for an angel, ii. 97; This bottle makes an angel, iv. 267 ; your ill angel is light ("The Lord Chief Justice calls Falstaff the Prince's ill angel or genius; which Falstaff turns off by saying, an ill angel (meaning the coin called an angel) is light," THEOBALD), iv. 324; he hath a legion of angels (with a quibble), i. 324; twenty angels, i. 367; the angels that you sent for, ii. 37; his fair angels, iv. 28; Imprison'd angels, iv. 39: and see stamp about their necks, &c. angels' faces-Ye've, v. 529: An allusion to the saying attributed to St. Augustine, "Non Angli, sed Angeli."

angle, a corner: In an odd angle of the isle, i. 184. a-night, in the night, by night, iii. 26.

anon, anon, equivalent to the modern "coming," iv. 223, 233, 349, &c.

answer in the effect of your reputation, "answer in a manner suitable to your character" (JOHNSON), iv. 332.

answer must be made-My, "I shall be called to account, and must answer as for seditious words" (JOHNSON), vi. 629.

answer, retaliation: whose answer would be death, vii. 709; great the answer be Britons must take, vii. 714.

Antenor, vi. 14, 46, 53, &c.: "Very few particulars respecting this Trojan are preserved by Homer. But, as Professor Heyne, in his Seventh Excursus to the First Æneid, observes; Fuit Antenor inter eos, in quorum rebus ornandis ii maxime scriptores laborarunt, qui narrationes Homericas novis commentis de suo onerarunt; non aliter ac si delectatio a mere fabulosis et temere effusis figmentis proficisceretur'" (STEEVENS).

anthropophaginian, a cannibal, i. 404.

Antonaid-The, the name of Cleopatra's ship, vii. 551.

antres, caves, caverns, vii. 387.

ape-The famous. See unpeg the basket, &c.

ape, in the corner of his jaw, &c.-Like an, vii. 175: see note 107, vii. 233.

apoplex, apoplexy, iv. 380,

appaid, satisfied, contented, viii. 313.

apparent, heir-apparent, next claimant: he's apparent to my heart, iii. 425; as apparent to the crown, v. 259.

apparent, plain, evident: apparent foul-play, iv. 52; apparent prodigies, vi. 636.

apparition of an armed Head rises—An, vii. 47; An apparition of a bloody Child rises, vii. 48; An apparition of a Child crowned, with a tree in his hand, rises, ibid.: "The armed head represents symbolically Macbeth's head cut off and brought to Malcolm by Macduff. The bloody child is Macduff untimely ripped from his mother's womb. The child with a crown on his head, and a bough in his hand, is the royal Malcolm, who ordered his soldiers to hew them down [each] a bough and bear it before them to Dunsinane" (UPTON,-whose explanation is at least very ingenious): I may add here a remark of the truly learned Lobeck; "Mortuorum capita fatidica jam multo ante Bafometum et illud galeatum phantasma, quod in fabula Shakspeariana introducitur, memorat Phlegon, Mirab. iii. 50, &c." Aglaophamus, p. 236 (note).

appeach, to impeach, to accuse, to inform against, iv. 171, 172; appeach'd, iii. 220.

appeal the duke, iv. 105; appeal each other of high treason, iv. 106;

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appeals me, iv. 113: "Appeal, v.a. This word appears to have been formerly used with much latitude; and sometimes in such a way that it is not easy to find out what those who used it precisely meant by it. But according to its most ancient signification, it implies a reference by name to a charge or accusation, and an offer, or challenge, to support such charge by the ordeal of single combat. And something of this, its primary sense, may still be descried in all its various applications. Thus, an appeal from one person to another, to judge and decide; or from an inferior to a superior court, is to transfer the challenge from such as are deemed incompetent to accept it, to those who may be competent and, as 'a summons to answer a charge,' it is nearly equivalent to an actual challenge. 'And likewise there were many Southland men that appelled others in Barrace to fight before the King to the dead, for certain crimes of lese majesty.' Pitscottie, p. 234. Here the word clearly means challenge; as in the preceding page the laird of Drumlanerick and the laird of Barrice are said to have provoked (which also means challenge[d]) others in Barrace to fight to death, '. . . . . but being appealed (challenged) by the Lord Clifford, an Englishman, to fight with him in singular combat.' Hist. of Scotland, f. 365.

'hast thou sounded him,

If he appeal (charge or accuse, and challenge) the duke on ancient

malice?'

Against the Duke of Hereford that appeals me.'

Richard II. i. 1.

Id. i. 3."

Boucher's Glossary of Arch. and Prov. Words. appellant, challenger, iv. 106, 112, 114; v. 137 (twice); appellants, iv. 159. See appeal, &c.

apperil, peril, vi. 516.

apple-John, a sort of apple, called in French deux-années or deuxans, because it will keep two years, and considered to be in perfection when shrivelled and withered, iv. 258, 340; apple-Johns, iv. 340 (twice). ("Apple-John, John-Apple. We retain the name, but whether we mean the same variety of fruit which was so called in Shakespeare's time, it is not possible to ascertain. Probably we do not. In 2d pt. Hen. IV. Prince Hal certainly meant a large round apple, apt to shrivel and wither by long keeping, like his fat companion. This is not particularly characteristic of our Johnapple." Forby's Vocab. of East Anglia.)

apply, to apply oneself to, or, rather (see notes in the Var. Shak), to ply: Virtue, and that part of philosophy Will I apply, iii. 114. appointed, accoutred, equipped: To have you royally appointed, iii. 483; You may be armed and appointed well, vi. 327; like knights appointed, viii. 173; With well-appointed powers, iv. 319; What wellappointed leader, iv. 364; The well-appointed king, iv. 449; the Dauphin, well-appointed, v. 56; very well appointed, v. 255.