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WOOLLEN-WORLD.

woollen-Lie in the, ii. 85: "I suppose she means-between blankets, without sheets" (STEEVENS).

woolward for penance—I go, ii. 247: To go woolward was to wear woollen, instead of linen, next the skin,-a penance often formerly enjoined by the Church of Rome.

("make

Their enemies like Friers wool-ward to lie."

Exchange Ware at the Second Hand, &c., 1615, sig. B.)

woo't, for wilt, vii. 420 (five times); viii. 335, 359.

word, a watch-word: Now to my word; It is, “Adieu," &c., vii. 328 (on which passage Steevens remarks, "Hamlet alludes to the watchword given every day in military service, which at this time he says is Adieu, adieu! remember me! So in The Devil's Charter, a tragedy [by B. Barnes], 1607, 'Now to my watch-word'"); Give the word. Edg. Sweet marjoram. Lear. Pass, viii. 96.

word, a motto: The word, Lux, &c., ix. 33; The word, Me pompæ, &c., ibid.; The word, Quod me, &c., ix. 34.

word-I moralize two meanings in one: see moralize.

words me-He, He plies me with words, viii. 373.

work, "a term of fortification" (STEEVENS): and let 'em win the work, v. 571.

workings, "labours of thought" (STEEVENS): our dull workings,

iv. 371.

workings, acts: mock your workings in a second body (“treat with

contempt your acts executed by a representative," JOHNSON), iv. 395. world-To go to the, To be married, to commence housekeeper, iii. 212; Thus goes every one to the world but I, ii. 94.

world—A woman of the, A married woman, iii. 86: see the preceding article.

world may laugh again-The, v. 147: "The world may look again favourably upon me" (JOHNSON); "Equivalent to-Fortune may smile again" (STAUNTON).

world to see—It is a, It is a wonder to see, ii. 120; iii. 139 (This expression was in use as early as the time of Skelton, who has in his Bowge of Courte,

"It is a worlde, I saye, to here of some.'

Works, vol. i. p. 47, ed. Dyce:

and it is found even in the Second Volume of Strype's Annals of the Reform., which was first published in 1725, and must have been written only a few years earlier; "But it was a world to consider, what unjust oppressions of the people and the poor this occasioned, by some griping men, that were concerned therein." p. 209).

WORLD-WITHOUT-END-WOULD.

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world-without-end bargain—A, "An everlasting bargain" (MALONE), ii. 250; the world-without-end hour, "the tedious hour, that seems as if it never would end" (MALONE), ix. 360.

worm, a serpent: the soft and tender fork Of a poor worm, i. 500; α worm, an adder, do so much, ii. 293; The mortal worm, v. 171; eyeless venom'd worm (the blind-worm), vii. 75; the worm, that's fled, vii. 250; the pretty worm of Nilus, viii. 375; all the worms of Nile, viii. 443.

worm, used in the sense of "creature," as a term of commiseration, sometimes of contempt: Poor worm, thou art infected, i. 239; the poor worm doth die for't, ix. 10; to reprove these worms for loving, ii. 209; you froward and unable worms, iii. 191.

wormwood to my dug-Laid, In order to wean the child, vi. 388. worship, honour, dignity: rear'd to worship, iii. 416; the worship of revenge, iv. 74; the slightest worship of his time, iv. 261; give me worship and quietness, v. 297; As I belong to worship, v. 470; Wherein the worship ("dignity, authority," JOHNSON) of the whole world lies, viii. 354; The worships of their name, viii. 32 (see note 36, viii. 32).

worship, to honour, to dignify: worship me their lord, v. 185; Not worshipp'd with a waxen epitaph, iv. 425 (see waxen epitaph, &c.). worth, substance, wealth: To be of worth and worthy estimation, i.

303; But, were my worth, as is my conscience, firm, iii. 362; They are but beggars that can count their worth, vi. 423; all my outward worth, viii. 91: see note 28, i. 303.

worth of contradiction—His, vi. 213: see note 151, vi. 213. worthied him, rendered him worthy, viii. 45.

Worthies-The Nine, ii. 221, 222; iv. 344: "The genuine worthies were Joshua, David, Judas Macabeus, Hector, Alexander, Julius Cæsar, Arthur, Charlemagne, and Godfrey of Bulloigne, or sometimes in his room Guy of Warwick. Why Shakespeare, in the five of them only whom he has introduced by name, has included Hercules and Pompey, remains to be accounted for" (DOUCE). worthy feeding-A, iii. 468: see note 104, iii. 468.

worts, all kinds of pot-herbs, and sometimes, as in the present passage, with a more confined signification,—coleworts, cabbages: Good worts! good cabbage, i. 364 (where Falstaff is ridiculing Sir Hugh's pronunciation of words).

wot, to know, i. 340, 391; iv. 129.

wo't, wilt, iv. 325 (four times).

would, equivalent to "would have:" Sorrow would solace, and mir▾ age would ease, v. 141.

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WOUND-WRITHLED.

wound with adders, enwrapped, encircled, by adders, i. 230. wounds Open their congeal'd mouths and bleed afresh-Dead Henry's, v. 342: "It is a tradition very generally received, that the murdered body bleeds on the touch [or the approach] of the murderer. This was so much believed by Sir Kenelm Digby, that he has endeavoured to explain the reason" (JOHNSON).

wrack, wreck, destruction, ruin, vii. 289; ix. 62, 241, 297, 395. wrath, wrathful, angry: Oberon is passing fell and wrath, ii. 271. wreak, revenge, vi. 229, 339.

wreak, to revenge, to avenge, vi. 340, 447.

wreakful, revengeful, wrathful, vi. 353; vii. 73.

wreaks, fits of rage or violence, vi. 342.

wren of nine-The youngest, iii. 360: "The wren is remarkable for laying many eggs at a time, nine or ten, and sometimes more; and as she is the smallest of birds, the last of so large a brood may be supposed to be little indeed; which is the image intended here to be given of Maria" (HANMER).

wrest, a tuning-key for drawing up the strings of musical instruments; used metaphorically in what follows: this Antenor, I know, is such a wrest in their affairs, vi. 66.

wretch, a term of endearment: The pretty wretch, vi. 388; Excellent wretch! viii. 186.

wretched, vile, hateful, utterly bad ("A wretched fellow, Deplorate

malus." Coles's Lat. and Engl. Dict.): The wretched, bloody, and usurping boar, v. 442 (but see note 95, v. 442); O wretched villain, viii. 229.

wring, to writhe with anguish: those that wring under the load of sorrow, ii. 135; He wrings at some distress, viii. 459.

wring it—An you'll not knock, I'll, iii. 119: "Here seems to be a quibble between ringing at a door and wringing a man's ears" (STEEVENS).

wringer, a person who wrings the water out of clothes, i. 369.

writ and the liberty-For the law of, vii. 348: see note 64, vii. 348. write, to write or style one's self, to write one's self as the possessor of something, "to call one's self, to be entitled, to use the style of” (Johnson's Dict.): I must tell thee, sirrah, I write man, iii. 238; About it; and write happy when thou hast done, viii. 111; I'd give bay curtal and his furniture, My mouth no more were broken than these boys', And writ as little beard, iii. 234; as if he had writ man ever since his father was a bachelor, iv. 314.

writhled, wrinkled, v. 33 (So in Sir J. Harington's version of the Orlando Furioso;

WRONG-YEAD.

"To scorne her writheld skin and evill favour."

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B. xx. st. 76).

wrong-I fear you've done yourself some, "I fear that in asserting yourself to be King of Naples, you have uttered a falsehood which is below your character, and, consequently, injurious to your honour" (STEEVENS), i. 215.

wrongs, and chase them to the bay-To rouse his, iv. 141: see note 142, ii. 226.

wroth-Patiently to bear my, ii. 372: "The old editions read 'to bear my wroath.' Wroath is used in some of the old books for misfortune; and is often spelt like ruth, which at present signifies only pity, or sorrow for the miseries of another. Caxton's Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye, &c., 1471, has frequent instances of wroth. Thus, also, in Chapman's version of the 22nd Iliad,

'born to all the wroth

Of woe and labour'

(STEEVENS):

Qy. have we not here only a various spelling of wrath for the sake of the rhyme? and does it not mean "angry vexation" ("torturing anger," Richardson's Dict. sub "wrath ")?

wrought, worked, agitated: Would thus have wrought you, iii. 506; my dull brain was wrought, vii. 214.

wrying, swerving, going astray, viii. 483.

Y.

yare, ready, brisk, active, nimble, handy, i 195, 196, 272, 523; iii. 370; viii. 317, 334, 376 (twice).

yarely, readily, briskly, actively, handily, i. 195; viii. 283.

yaw, to move on unsteadily, to swagger, to vacillate ("To yaw [as a ship], huc illuc vacillare, capite nutare." Coles's Lat. and Engl. Dict.), vii. 427 (The substantive "yaws" occurs in Massinger's Very Woman, Works, vol. iv. p. 297, ed. 1813,-where Gifford remarks, "A yaw is that unsteady motion which a ship makes in a great swell, when, in steering, she inclines to the right or left of her course").

y-clad, clad, v. 106.

ycleped, called, named, ii. 167.

ycliped, another form of the preceding, ii. 244 (where this spelling is required for the quibble, "clipt," in the next speech).

Yead, an abbreviation of Edward, i. 365.

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YEARN-YOUR.

yearn, to grieve, to vex, i. 419; iv. 441 (twice); yearn'd, iv. 192; yearns, iv. 487; vii. 142.

Yedward, a familiar corruption of Edward, still retained in some counties, iv. 208 (Towards the end of the first act of Shadwell's Lancashire Witches, Clod, who speaks in the Lancashire dialect, says, "Why, 'tis Sir Yedard Hartfort's ").

yellow, the colour of jealousy: 'mongst all colours no yellow in't, iii. 435.

yellowness, jealousy, i. 374.

yellows-The, iii. 148: "Jaundice, commonly called the yellows is the introduction of bile into the general circulation. . . . . The yellowness of the eyes and mouth, and of the skin where it is not covered with hair, mark it sufficiently plainly," &c. The Horse, by Youatt, p. 311, ed. 1848.

yeoman, a sergeant's or bailiff's follower: Where's your yeoman?

iv. 324.

yeoman's service-It did me, vii. 424 : "i.e. as good service as a yeoman performed for his feudal lord" (CALDECOTT).

yerk, to jerk, to fling out, to kick: Yerk out their armèd heels, iv. 499. yerk, to strike with a quick smart blow: yerk'd him here under the ribs, viii. 138.

yest, "the spume on troubled water, foam" (Johnson's Dict.), iii. 453. yesty, spumy, foamy, frothy, vii, 261, 429.

yew: see double-fatal yew, &c.

yield, to requite: the gods yield you for't! viii. 336.

young, early: this is yet but young, v. 525; Is the day so young? vi. 379.

young ravens must have food, i. 371: Ray has "Small birds must

have meat," Proverbs, p. 80, ed. 1768: "Either Shakespeare, or the adage, if it be one, has borrowed from Scripture. See Psalm cxlvii. 9, or Job xxxviii. 41" (DOUCE).

younker, a youngster, a young gallant: like a younker or a prodigal, ii. 364; Trimm'd like a younker, v. 247.

younker, a novice, a greenhorn: will you make a younker of me? iv. 264.

you're, you were: Madam, you're best consider, viii. 437.

your release—They cannot budge till, They cannot budge till the release of them by you, i. 263; Your wrongs do set a scandal on my sex, The wrongs done by you do set, &c., ii. 278; I am sorry For your displeasure, I am sorry for the displeasure you have incurred, viii. 181 see note 131, i. 268.