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(by fixing it upon a fairer eye); I. i. 82.

Dear, used intensitively (" dear groans "); V. ii. 867. Dearest, best; II. i. I. Debate, contest; I. i. 174. Depart, to part; II. i. 147. Dictynna (Dictisima, Dictissima, Dictima, in Folios and Quartos), one of the names of Diana; IV. ii. 37, 38. Digression, transgression; I. ii. 115. Disgrace, disfigurement; I. i. 3. Disposed, inclined to be somewhat wantonly merry; II. i.

250.

Dominical, the red letter which in old almanacs denotes the Lord's day; "red d. my golden letter" referring to the fashionable colour of Katherine's hair; V. ii. 44. Doubt; "made a d."="expressed a fear"; V. ii. 101. Dry-beaten, cudgelled; V. ii. 263.

Epitheton, epithet (used by Armado); I. ii. 14. Extemporal, unpremeditated; I. ii. 183.

Fadge, turn out well; V. i. 148. Fair, beauty; IV. i. 17. Fairings, presents (originally the nick-nacks bought at fairs); V. ii. 2.

Familiar, familiar spirit, demon; I. ii. 171.

Fasting, hungry; IV. iii. 121. Favour, leave, pardon; III. i. 68.

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Favour, a present, token of love; V. ii. 30; with a quibble on "favour"="face"; V. ii. 33.

Festinately, quickly; III. i. 6.
Fierce, ardent; V. ii. 857.
Filed, polished; V. i. 12.
Fire-new, brand-new; I. i. 179.
Fitted, equipped; II. i. 45.
Flap-dragon, a small substance
set on fire and put afloat in
a glass of liquor, to be swal-
lowed flaming; V. i. 43.
Flask, a powder-flask; V.ii.617.
Fleer'd, laughed; V. ii. 109.
Force, to care; V. ii. 440.
Form, bench, used quibblingly;
I. i. 209.

Fortuna de la guerra (Spanish), fortune of war (used by Armado); V. ii. 531. Frame, order; III. i. 192.

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82. Hereby, used by Jaquenetta in the sense of "as it may happen"; Armado takes it to mean close by "; I. ii. 135. Hid, vide "All hid." Hight, is called; I. i. 171. Hind, boor, peasant (with a quibble on "hind," the beast; hence "rational hind"); I. ii.

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or other transparent substance; applied also to an a b c tablet without horn; V. i. 46. (See illustration opposite.) Humorous, capricious; III. i. 176.

Imp, youngster; V. ii. 590.
Incision, blood-letting; IV. iii.
96.

Incony, nice, smart; III. i. 135.
Inkle, tape; III. i. 139.
Insanie (Folios and Quartos,
infamie), insanity, madness;
V. i. 126.

Intellect, signature; IV. ii. 136.
Inward, confidential; V. i. 96.
It, used with general reference
to a plural substantive pre-
ceding; I. i. 23.

Juvenal, juvenile, youth (used by Armado); I. ii. 8.

Keel, to cool by stirring, or
perhaps to scum the pot in
order to keep it from boiling
over; V. ii. 923.

Kersey, a coarse woollen stuff;
V. ii. 413.

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Kingly-poor (not hyphened in
Folios and Quartos); "K.
flout" (?) "poor mockery
of a king," or
66 poor mock-
ery given with the airs of
royalty" ("poor-liking."
"poor kingly," have been
suggested); V. ii. 269.

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our); taken with the m.," i.e. "taken with the thing stolen upon him"; I i. 205. Mantuan, Giovanni Battista Spagnoli, named Mantuanus, was the author of certain eclogues written in Latin, which were read in schools; Holofernes quotes the first line of the first eclogue; IV. ii. 96.

Margent, margin (an allusion to the custom of writing notes in the margin of books); II. i. 246.

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