A Dictionary of the Language of Shakspeare

AN IF.

ANCIENTRY. Antiquity; gentry.

The wedding, mannerly-modest, as a measure, full of state and ancientry.

Much Ado about Nothing, ii. 1. For there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the ancientry, stealing, fighting. Winter's Tale, iii. 3. ANCHOR. An anchoret; a hermit. An anchor's cheer in prison be my hope.

ANDIRONS.

Hamlet, iii. 2.
Machines to burn wood upon.
Her andirons,-

I had forgot them,-were two winking Cupids
Of silver, each on one foot standing.

Cymbeline, ii. 4. ANGEL. A gold coin; a gull; a simpleton.

And, ere our coming, see thou shake the bags
Of hoarding abbots; set at liberty
Imprison'd angels.

But at last I spied

King John, iii. 3.

I will not stir, nor wince, nor speak a word, Nor look upon the iron angerly. King John, iv. 1. ANGLE.

Corner; nook; a fishing-rod.

Cooling of the air with sighs

In an odd angle of the isle.
Tempest, i. 2.
But I fear the angle that plucks our son thither.
Winter's Tale, iv. 1.

Give me mine angle,—we'll to the river.

Antony and Cleopatra, ii. 5.

ANGRY. Fierce; gaudy; showy.

What, thyself?-Ay.-Wherefore?-
That I had no angry wit to be a lord.

AN IF. If.

Timon of Athens, i. 1.

Noting this penury, to myself I said,
An if a man did need a poison now,
Whose sale is present death in Mantua,
Here lives a caitiff wretch would sell it him.
Romeo and Juliet, v. 1.

APE.

APE. A fool.

The ape is dead, and I must conjure him.

Romeo and Juliet, ii. 1.

APOPLEX. Apoplexy; fit.

This apoplex will certain be his end.

Henry 4, P. 2, iv. 4.

Thus to retort your manifest appeal,
And put your trial in the villain's mouth
Which here you come to accuse.

Measure for Measure, v. 1. And not resting here, accuses him of letters he had formerly wrote to Pompey; upon his own appeal seizes him. Antony and Cleopatra, iii. 5.

APOPLEXED. Obscured; weakened; lethargied. To APPEAL. To accuse.

Sense, sure, you have,

APPARENT. Open; evident.

It may be, these apparent prodigies,
And the persuasion of his augurers,
May hold him from the Capitol to-day.

Julius Cæsar, ii. 1.
What starting-hole canst thou now find out to
hide thee from this open and apparent shame?
Henry 4, P. 1, ii. 4.
To APPEACH. To accuse; to impeach.
Disclose the state of your affection; for your passions
Have to the full appeach'd.

All's well that ends well, i. 3.
Now, by mine honour, by my life, my troth,
I will appeach the villain.

Richard 2, v. 2.

APPLIANCE. Application; remedy; means.

Ask God for temperance; that's the appliance only
Which your disease requires.

Thou art too noble to conserve a life

Henry 8, i. 1.

In base appliances. Measure for Measure, iii. 1.
Diseases desperate grown

By desperate appliance are reliev'd. Hamlet, iv. 3.
With all appliances and means to boot.

Henry 4, P. 2, iii. 1. TO APPOINT. To equip; to furnish; to involve.

What well-appointed leader fronts us here?
Henry 4, P. 2, iv. 1.
Dost think I am so muddy, so unsettled,
To appoint myself in this vexation,
Without ripe moving to't? Winter's Tale, i. 2.

APPOINTMENT. Equipment; preparation; di-
rection; command.

Let's march without the noise of threatening drum,
That from the castle's tatter'd battlements
Our fair appointments may be well perus'd.

Richard 2, iii, 3.

King John, i. 1.
And often, at his very loose, decides
That which long process could not arbitrate.
Love's Labour's lost, v. 2.

ARBITREMENT. Decision; determination; investigation; examination.

I know the knight is incensed against you, even to a mortal arbitrement. Twelfth Night, iii. 4. The arbitrement is like to be bloody. Fare you well, sir. King Lear, iv. 7. And put thy fortune to the arbitrement Of bloody strokes and mortal-staring war.

King Lear, ii. 1.

ARCH. Consummate; thorough-paced; complete.

The tyrannous and bloody act is done,-
The most arch deed of piteous massacre
That ever yet this land was guilty of.

Richard 3, iv. 3.

AROINT.

Antony and Cleopatra, i. 5.

Avaunt; be gone.

-kirjat

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