I was then advertising and holy to your business.
Measure for Measure, v. 1.

ADVICE. Information; knowledge; caution;
deliberation; consideration; prudence.
How shall I dote on her with more advice,
That thus without advice begin to love her!
Two Gentlemen of Verona, ii. 4.
Rinaldo, you did never lack advice so much
As letting her pass so.

All's well that ends well, iii. 4.
Thy son is banish'd upon good advice.
Richard 2, i. 3.

We consider

It was excess of wine that set him on ; And, on his more advice, we pardon him.

AERY. A brood of hawks or other birds of prey; a nest.

Shall that victorious hand be feebled here,
That in your chambers gave you chastisement?
No know the gallant monarch is in arms;
And like an eagle o'er his aery towers,
To souse annoyance that comes near his nest.
King John, v. 2.

Your aery buildeth in our aery's nest.

Richard 3, i. 3. But there is, sir, an aery of children, little eyases, that cry out on the top of question, and are most tyrannically clapped for't. Hamlet, ii. 2.

Henry 5, ii. 2.

Richard 2, i. 4.

To be fond of; to adopt; to

For he does neither affect company,

Nor is he fit for't, indeed. Timon of Athens, i. 2.

I thought the king had more affected the Duke of Albany than Cornwall. King Lear, i. 1. Though it do well, I do not relish well Their loud applause and aves vehement : Nor do I think the man of safe discretion That does affect it. Measure for Measure, i. 1. I will something affect the letter, for it argues facility. Love's Labour's lost, iv. 3.

Cymbeline, iii. 5.

I'll write to my lord she's dead. O Imogen, Long mayst thou wander, safe return agen!

To AGGRAVATE.
Ford's a knave, and I will aggravate his style.
Merry Wives of Windsor, ii. 2.
AGLET-BABY. A figure carved on an aglet or
tag.

To augment; to enlarge.

Give him gold enough, and marry him to a puppet or an aglet-baby. Taming of the Shrew, i. 2.

To AGNIZE. To confess; to avow; to acknowledge.

I do agnize

A natural and prompt alacrity I find in hardness.

And botch the words up fit to their own thoughts.
Hamlet, v. 5.

That my discovery be not aimèd at.

Two Gentlemen of Verona, iii. 1.
I aim'd so near, when I suppos'd you lov'd.
Romeo and Juliet, i. 1.

To AIR. To live; to breathe; to enjoy the air; to give air to.

It is sixteen years since I saw my country: though I have, for the most part, been aired abroad, I desire to lay my bones there.

For her male issue

Winter's Tale, iv. 1.

ALLOWED. Invested; armed; licensed; privileged; admitted.

Therefore, so please thee to return with us,
And of our Athens-thine and ours-to take
The captainship, thou shalt be met with thanks,
Allow'd with absolute power, and thy good name
Live with authority. Timon of Athens, v. 1.
There is no slander in an allowed fool, though he
do nothing but rail.
Twelfth Night, i. 5.
You put our page out: go, you are allow'd.
Love's Labour's lost, v. 2.
These are such allow'd infirmities that honesty
Is never free of.

ALMAIN.

Winter's Tale, i. 2.

AMAIN. With speed; hastily.

Forslow no longer, make we hence amain.
Henry 6, P. 3, ii. 3.

To AMAZE. To perplex; to alarm; to startle; to confound.

You do amaze her: hear the truth of it.

Merry Wives of Windsor, v. 5.
Yet you are amazed; but this shall absolutely
resolve you.
Measure for Measure, iv. 2.
Now for the counsel of my son and queen!
I am amaz'd with matter.
Amaze the welkin with your broken staves!

Cymbeline, iv. 3.

Richard 3, v. 3.

A German.

AMBUSCADO.

Othello, ii. 3.

ALMS-DRINK. A double portion of liquor.

They have made him drink alms-drink.
Antony and Cleopatra, ii. 7.

ALREADY. Previously.

Falstaff, Bardolph, Peto, and Gadshill shall rob those men that we have already waylaid. Henry 4, P. 1, i. 2.

Ambuscade; ambush.

Sometimes she driveth o'er a soldier's neck,
And then dreams he of cutting foreign throats,
Of breaches, ambuscadoes, Spanish blades,
Of healths five-fathom deep.

Romeo and Juliet, i. 4.
AMENDS. Amendment; improvement.
Now, Lord be thanked for my good amends!
Taming of the Shrew, Induction, sc. 2.