Term for an old gossip: the wisest a., telling the

Auger, a carpenter's tool to bore holes: your franchises confined into an ―'s bore, Cor. IV, 6, 87.

Auger-hole, hole made by an auger: here, where our fate, hid in an a., may rush and seize us, Mcb. II, 3, 128.

Aught, any thing: Lucr. 546. Sonn. 38, 5. 125, 1. Compl. 68. Tp. I, 2, 51. Gentl. III, 2, 47. V, 4, 20. Err. II, 2, 179. 201. Ado V, 1, 292. LLL IV, 3, 354. V, 2, 803. Merch. II, 2, 128. 7, 21. III, 2, 105. V, 183. Tw. V, 111. Wint. I, 2, 395. John II, 511. R2 II, 3, 73. V, 1, 35. H5 IV, 1, 263. H6A I, 5, 37. II, 3, 46. III, 1, 4. H6B IV, 7, 74. R3 I, 2, 100. II, 1, 57. III, 1, 166. Cor. I, 1, 280. II, 3, 205. Troil. II, 2, 52. III, 3, 57. Rom. II, 3, 19. V, 3, 266. Mcb. 1, 3, 42. Hml. 1, 5, 86. IV, 3, 60. Lr. IV, 6, 49 etc. etc. I know but of a single part, in a. pertains to the state, H8 I, 2, 41. For a. I know to my knowledge: All's V, 3, 281. R2 V, 2, 53. Oth. III, 3, 104. Per. II, 5, 78. for a. thou knowest, Tit. II, 1, 28. for a. he knew, John V, 1,43. for a. I see, Merch. I, 2, 5. Shr. 1, 2, 33. H6A 1, 4, 68. for a. that I can tell, Mids. III, 2, 76. for a. that I could ever read, Mids. I, 1, 132.

Augment, vb. trans., to increase: make something nothing bying it, Lucr. 154. As II, 1, 43. H5 V, 2, 87. H6B III, 1, 169. H6C V, 3, 22. H8 I, 1, 145. Rom. 1, 1, 138. Caes. II, 1, 30. Mcb. II, 1, 27. Ant. III, 6, 55. Augmentation, addition: more lines than is in the new map with the a. of the Indies, Tw. III, 2, 85. Augre, v. Auger.

Augur, subst., prophet: the sad s mock their own presage, Sonn. 107, 6. shrieking harbinger, a. of the fever's end, Phoen. 7.

Augur, vb., to prophesy: my-ing hope says it will come to the full, Ant. II, 1, 10.

Augure (most M. Edd. augurs), augur or augury? -8 and understood relations have by magotpies and choughs and rooks brought forth the secret'st man of blood, Mcb. III, 4, 124.

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Augurer, soothsayer in ancient Rome: the a. tells Cor. II, 1, 1. the persuasion of his -8, Caes. II, 1, 200. the -S,.... plucking the entrails of an offering forth, II, 2,37. swallows have built in Cleopatra's sails their nests: the -s say they know not, Ant. IV, 12, 4 (O. Edd. auguries). you are too sure an a. V, 2, 337.

Augury, art of prophesying: if my a. deceive me not, Gentl. IV, 4, 73. we defy a. Hml. V, 2, 230. the―ies say, Ant. IV, 12, 4 (M. Edd. augurers). August, the eighth month of the year: Tp. IV, 134. H6A I, 1, 110.

Augustus, the first Roman emperor: Cymb. II, 4, 11. II, 1, 1 (A. Caesar). 63. V, 5, 82.

Auld, vulgar form for old: take thine a. cloak about thee, Oth. II, 3, 99.

Aumerle, son to the Duke of York in R2 1, 3, 1. 64. 4, 1. II, 3, 125 etc.

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Aunt-mother, uncertain whether to be called aunt or mother, being both: Hml. II, 2, 394.

Auricular, got by hearing: and by an a. assurance have your satisfaction, Lr. 1, 2, 99.

Aurora, the Goddess of the morning: Mids. III, 2, 380. Rom. I, 1, 142.

Auspicious, 1) favourable, propitious; always applied to higher powers: stand a. to the hour, Lucr. 347. my zenith doth depend upon a most a. star, Tp. I, 2, 182. a. gales, V, 314. fortune play upon thy prosperous helm as thy a. mistress, All's III, 3, 8. 0 lady Fortune, stand you a. Wint. IV, 4, 52. conjuring the moon to stand a. mistress, Lr. II, 1, 42.

2) showing joy, happy: with an a. and a dropping eye, Hml. I, 2, 11.

Austere, severe, rigid, stern: this a. insociable life, LLĻ V, 2, 809. with most a. sanctimony, All's IV, 3, 59. an a. regard of control, Tw. II, 5, 73. of grave and a. quality, Tim. I, 1, 54.

Austerely, severely: if I have too a. punished you, Tp. IV, 1, 1. Singular use: might'st thou perceive a. in his eye that he did plead in earnest? Err. IV, 2, This seems to mean: couldst thou perceive, by a very grave and severe expression of his eye, that he was in earnest?

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Austereness, strictness, severity: the a. of my life, Meas. II, 4, 155.

Austerity, the same: a. and single life, Mids. I, 1,90. with such a. as longeth to a father, Shr. IV, 4, 7. with the same a. and garb as he controlled the war, Cor. IV, 7, 44.

Austria the duke of Austria: our cousin A. All's 1, 2, 5. brave A. John II, 1. 414. III, 1, 114. III, 2, 3.

Authentic, of acknowledged authority: a. in your place and person, Wiv. II, 2, 235. all the learned and a. fellows, All's II, 3, 14. how could ... crowns, sceptres, laurels, but by degree, stand in a. place? Troil. I, 3, 108. yet after all comparisons of truth, as truth's a. author to be cited, 'As true as Troilus' shall crown up the verse, III, 2, 189.

Author, 1) he or she who first causes or creates any thing: he's a. of thy slander, Ven. 1006. thou (sc. Lucrece), the a. of their obloquy, Lucr. 523. 1244. Ado V, 2, 101. LLL IV, 3, 359. Tw. V, 361. R2 1, 3, 69. H6C IV, 6, 18. H8 II, 1, 139. Cor. V, 3, 36. Hml. IV, 5, 80. the Gods of Rome forefend I should be a. to dishonour you, Tit. I, 435. truth's authentic a. Troil. III, 2, 189 (he that is the source and prototype of fidelity).

Applied to things, cause: you may call the business of the master the a. of the servant's damnation, H5 IV, 1, 162. that which is the strength of their amity shall prove the immediate a. of their variance, Ant. II, 6, 138.

2) writer: where is any a, in the world, LLL IV,

3, 312. politic -s, Tw. II, 5, 175. our humble a. II4B V, 5, 143. their own -s affirm, H5 1, 2, 43. our bending a. hath pursued the story, H5 Epil. 2. not in confidence of's pen, Troil. Prol. 24. at the 's drift, Troil. III, 3, 113. Hml. II, 2, 464. Per. Prol. 20.

Authority, 1) legal and official power: art made tongue-tied by a. Sonn. 66, 9. use your a. Tp. I, 1, 26. thus can the demi-god A. make us pay, Meas. I, 2, 124. I, 4, 56. II, 2, 118. 134. IV, 2, 114. IV, 4, 29. Merch. III, 2, 291. IV, 1, 215. Wint. I, 2, 463. II, 1, 53. John II, 113. III, 1, 160. V, 1, 4. H4B IV, 2, 58. V, 2, 82. V, 3, 116. H6A V, 1, 59. V, 4, 135. H6C I, 2,24 (followed by over). H8 II, 4, 4. V, 3, 35. Cor. III, 1, 23. 208. Tim. V, 1, 166. Lr. I, 1. 308. IV, 6, 163. Ant. II, 2, 49. II, 6, 100. III, 6, 33. III, 13, 90. Per. IV, 6, 96. In the plural: a) = legal powers, lodged in different persons: when two-ies are up, neither supreme, Cor. III, 1, 109. b) the several attributes of power: redeliver ouries there, Meas. IV, 4, 6. so it must fall out to him or ouries, Cor. II, 1, 260. soaks up the king's countenance, his rewards, his―ies, Hml. IV, 2, 17. would manage those -ies that he hath given away, Lr. I, 3, 17.

Abstractum pro concreto: what a. surfeits on would relieve us, Cor. I, 1, 16 (i. e. those in office and power).

there is no fettering of to be of great a., and Wint. IV, 4, 830. the lies in our wills, Oth. H6A V, 1, 18. 5, 41.

2) Power in general: a. Alls II, 3, 252. he seems though a. be a stubborn bear power and corrigible a. of this 1, 3, 329. cf. John IV, 2, 211. H6B III, 1, 316.

3) Justification, countenance, warrant: thieves for their robbery have a. when judges steal themselves, Meas. II, 2, 176. wilt thou be glass wherein it shall discern a. for sin? Lucr. 620. words cannot carry a. so weighty, H8 III, 2, 234. yea, 'gainst the a. of manners, prayed you to hold your hand more close, Tim. II, 2, 147. by his a. All's IV, 5, 68. Lr. II, 1, 62 4) that which is claimed in support of opinions or measures: small have continual plodders ever won save base a. from others' books, LLL I, 1, 87. more a., name more, I, 2, 70. O, some a. how to proceed, IV, 3,287. my hope, whereto thy speech serves for a. Tw. I, 2, 20. bi-fold a., Troil. V, 2, 144. have studied physic, through which art, by turning o'er -ies, Per. III, 2, 33.

5) dignity, nobleness, majesty: 0, what a. and show of truth can cunning sin cover itself withal! Ado IV, 1, 36. that which I would fain call master. What's that? Authority. Lr. I, 4, 32. one that, in the a. of her merit, did justly put on the vouch of very malice itself, Oth. II, 1, 147.

Authorize, 1) to justify: -ing thy trespass with compare, Sonn. 35, 6. his rudeness so with his -d youth did livery falseness in a pride of truth, Compl. 104.

2) to accredit: a woman's story at a winter's fire, -d by her grandam, Mcb. III, 4, 66.

Autolycus, name of the vagabond in Wint. IV, 3, 24. 107 (cf. Hom. Od. XIX, 394).

Autumn, the season between summer and winter: Sonn. 97, 6. 104, 5. Mids. II, 1, 112. Merch. I, 3, 82. Shr. I, 2, 96. H6C V, 7, 3. Troil. I, 2, 139. Lr. IV, 6, 201 (laying —'s dust). Ant. V, 2, 87 (O. Edd. Anthony).

2) followed by of,

to profit by: but how of this can she a.? Meas. III, 1, 243.

3) transitively, to benefit, to be profitable to: it small -s my mood, Lucr. 1273. now will it best a. your majesty to cross the seas, H6A III, 1, 179.

Avail, subst., interest, profit: as heaven shall work in me for thine a. All's I, 3, 190. when better fall, for your -8 they fell, III, 1, 22.

Avarice, covetousness: Mcb. IV, 3, 78. 84. Avaricious, covetous: Mcb. IV, 3, 58. Avaunt, exclamation of contempt or of abhorrence, uttered to drive one away: childish fear, a.! Lucr. 274. rogues, hence, a.! Wiv. I, 3, 90. a., thou witch! Err. IV, 3, 80. LLL V, 2, 298. John IV, 3, 77. H4B 1, 2, 103. H5 II, 2, 21. H6A V, 4, 21. R3 I, 2, 46. Tit. I, 283. Mcb. III, 4, 93. Lr. III, 6, 68. Oth. III, 3, 335. IV, 1, 271. Ant. IV, 12, 30. Per. IV, 6, 126. Substantively to give her the a. = to send her packing, H8 II, 3, 10.

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Ave, subst., reverential salutation: their loud applause and vehement, Meas. I, 1, 71. Ave-Mary, a particular prayer with the Roman Catholics, whose chaplets are divided into a certain number of Ave-Maries and Paternosters: to number -ies on his beads, H6B 1, 3, 59. numbering our —ies with our beads, HCC II, 1, 162.

Avenge, to revenge: remember to a. me on the French, H6A I, 4, 94. shall I not live to be -d on her? H6B 1, 3, 85. and bed on cursed Tamora, Tit. V, 1, 16. till Caesar's three and thirty wounds be well-d, Caes. V, 1, 54. Used of divine retribution: O God! if thou wilt bed on my misdeeds, R3 I, 4, 70. if God will bed for this deed, 221 (Qq revenged).

Aver, to allege: -ing notes of chamber-hanging, pictures, Cymb. V, 5, 203.

Averdupois, v. Avoirdupois. Avert, to turn: to a. your liking a more worthier way than on a wretch, Lr. I, 1, 214. Avised = advised (q. v.): be a. and pass good humours, Wiv. I, 1, 169 (i. e. yield to reason). Are you a. o' that?: how came you by that wisdom? Wiv. 1, 4, 106. art a. o' that? Meas. II, 2, 132.

Avoid, 1) trans., a) to shun, to endeavour not to meet: that you might a. him, if you saw him, Wiv. 11, 2, 289. the fashion of the world is to a. cost, Ado I, 1, 98. II, 3, 198. V, 1, 270. LLL IV, 3, 264. As II, 5, 35. Tw. III, 4, 338. Wint. I, 2, 433. John I, 215. R2 I, 3, 241. II, 1, 264. H4A V, 5, 13. H4B IV, 5, 209. H5 III, 3, 42. H6C II, 2, 137. II, 6, 66. IV, 6, 28. V, 4, 37. R3 III, 5, 68. III, 7, 151. IV, 4, 218. 410. 411. Caes. I, 2, 200. II, 2, 26. Mcb. II, 3, 149. V, 8, 4. Hml. I, 1, 134. III, 2, 16. III, 4, 150. Lr. 1, 1, 126. Cymb. I, 1, 140.

b) to leave, quit: a. the gallery, H8 V, 1, 86. a. the house, Cor. IV, 5, 25.

c) to get rid of: what I am I cannot a. Wiv. III, 5, 152. I will no longer endure it, though yet I

know no wise remedy how to a. it, As I, 1, 27. how may I a. the wife I chose? Troil. II, 2, 65.

d) in pleading, to evade the allegation of the other party by setting up some new matter: as the matter now stands, he will a. your accusation: he made trial of you only, Meas. III, 1, 201. all these you may a. but the Lie Direct, and you may a. that too with an If, As V, 4, 102.

2) intr. to withdraw, depart: let us a. Wint. 1, 2, 462. here's no place for you; pray you, a. Cor. IV, 5, 34. Imperatively, be gone, avaunt: a.! no more! Tp. IV, 142. Satan, a.! Err. IV, 3, 48. 66. H6B I, 4, 43. Ant. V, 2, 242. Cymb. I, 1, 125.

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Avouch, vb., 1) to assert, maintain: to make trial of that which every one had before-ed, Lucr. Arg. 9. I speak and I a. Wiv. II, 1, 138. this -es the shepherd's son, Wint. V, 2, 69. if this which he -es does appear, Mcb. V, 5, 47. will prove what ised there, Lr. V, 1, 44.

2) opposed to disavow to own, to acknowledge, to answer for, to make good: you will think you have made no offence, if the duke a. the justice of your dealing? Meas. IV, 2, 200. then my account I well may give, and in the stocks a. it, Wint. IV, 3, 22. I'll a. it to his head, Mids. I, 1, 106. dare not a. in your deeds any of your words, H5 V, 1, 77. a. the thoughts of your heart with the looks of an empress, H5 V, 2, 253. what I have said I will a. in presence of the king, R3 I, 3, 115. if you'll a. 'twas wisdom Paris went, Troil. II, 2, 84. though I could with barefaced power sweep him from my sight and bid my will a. it, Mcb. III, 1, 120. is this well spoken? I dare a. it, Lr. II, 4, 240.

Avouch, subst., avowal, acknowledgment: I might not this believe without the sensible and true a. of mine own eyes, Hml. I, 1, 57.

Avouchment, used by Fluellen instead of the verb to avouch, II5 IV, 8, 38.

Avow, 1) to maintain, to assert: of which there is not one, I dare a., but will deserve... H8 IV,

2, 142.

2) to maintain, to make good: and dare a. her beauty and her worth in other arms than hers, Troil. 1, 3, 271.

Await, 1) trans., to wait for, to be in store for: what fates a. the duke of Suffolk? H6B 1, 4,

35.67.

2) followed by for, to expect, to look forward to: Posterity, a. for wretched years, HGA I, 1, 48.

Awake, vb. (impf. and partic. awaked). 1) trans. to rouse from sleep: Tp. II, 1, 318. V, 235. Meas. IV, 2, 159. Merch. V, 110. R3 IV, 1, 85. Hml. I, 1, 152 etc. Metaphorically, to rouse from what resembles sleep, to put to action: -d an evil nature, Tp. I, 2, 93. and his untimely frenzy thus —eth, Luer. 1675. -s the enrolled penalties, Meas. I, 2, 170. Ado IV, 1, 199. Mids. I, 1, 13. All's I, 2, 38. Tw. III, 2, 20. V, 47. Wint. III, 2, 114. John V, 4, 43. Troil. I, 3, 251. Ant. I, 3, 61. it is required you do a. your faith, Wint. V, 3,95. we must a. endeavour for defence, John II, 81. my master is --d by great occasion to call upon his own, Tim. II, 2, 21. a. your dangerous lenity,

i.e. begin to be severe, Cor. III, 1, 98. a. God's gentlesleeping peace, R3 1, 3, 288, i. e. stir wars and strife. (cf. to wake our peace, R2 I, 3, 132; we will not wake your patience, Ado V, 1, 102). To awake one to sth.: -s my heart to heart's and eye's delight, Sonn. 47, 14.

2) intrans. a) to cease to sleep, to break from sleep: a., thou Roman dame, Lucr. 1628. Tp. I, 2, 305. II, 1, 305. 308. IV, 232. Wiv. III, 5, 142. Meas. IV, 3, 32. 34. Mids. II, 2, 82. III, 2, 117. IV, 1, 71. As IV, 3, 133. Shr. I, 1, 183. R2 V, 1, 19. H4B III, 1, 25. H6A I, 1, 78. R3 I, 4, 42. V, 3, 144. Troil. IV, 5, 115 (a. thee = a. thou, not a. thyself). Rom. IV, 1, 106. V, 3, 258 (Q2 awakening). Ant. IV, 9, 28. they have d, Mcb. II, 2, 10. bed, Mids. III, 2, 1. H4B V, 5, 55.

b) to be awake, to watch, not to sleep: such as you nourish the cause of his -ing (i.e. hinder him from sleeping) Wint. II, 3, 36.

Awake, adv., not sleeping, in a state of vigilance: it is my love that keeps mine eye a. Sonn. 61, 10. Tp. V, 100. 229. Meas. II, 2, 93. Ado II, 3, 18. Mids. III, 2, 69. IV, 1, 198. 203. Wint. IV, 4, 460. H4B V, 5, 55 (Q awaked) Troil. I, 3, 255. Tit. II, 2, 17. Caes. II, 1, 88. Cymb. III, 4, 46. V, 4, 127.

Awaken, the same as to awake; 1) trans.: Angelo, belike thinking me remiss in mine office, -8 me with this unwonted putting on, Meas. IV, 2, 119. ay, mistress bride, hath that -ed you? Shr. V, 2, 42. I offered to a. his regard for's private friends, Cor. V, 1, 23.

2) intr.: some minute ere the time of her —ing, Rom. V, 3, 258 (only in Q2; other O. Edd. awaking). Award, to adjudge, to decree: the court s it, Merch. IV, 1, 300. 303. lest the supreme king of kings a. either of you to be the other's end, R3 II, 1, 14. to a. one sth.: she that makes me sin, -s me pain, Sonn. 141, 14.

Away, 1) absent, far: thyself a. art present still with me, Sonn. 47, 10. or gluttoning on all, or all a. 75, 14. thou a., the very birds are mute, 97, 12. 98, 13. if the shepherd be a while a. Gentl. I, 1, 75. to discover islands far a. 1, 3, 9. far from her nest the lapwing cries a. Err. IV, 2, 27 etc. etc.

2) from a place: the sound is going a. Tp. III, 2, 157. blow not a word a. Gentl. I, 2, 118. to steal a. your daughter, III, 1, 11. get thee a. Err. I, 2, 16. be all ways a. Mids. IV, 1, 46. stand a. All's V, 2, 17; etc. etc. that I'll tear a. tear off, Gentl. I, 2, 125. do not tear a. thyself from me, Err. II, 2, 126.

Joined to different verbs, it implies the idea of spending or destroying by the action: till thou hast howl'd a. twelve winters, Tp. I, 2, 296. I'll weep what is left a. Err. II, 1, 115. kissed his hand a. LLL V, 2, 324. dream a. the time, Mids. I, 1, 8. curse a. a winter's night, H6B III, 2, 335. see a. their shilling, H8 Prol. 12. Make a. (cf. make) to make away with, to destroy: so in thyself thyself art made a. Ven. 763. threescore year would make the world a. Sonn. 11, 8. To go a. to pass: which shall make it (the night) go quick a. Tp. V, 304. Away! begone: Tp. V, 298. Gentl. II, 3, 36. III, 1, 101. IV, 4, 66 etc. etc. Away with the rest! Tp. IV, 247 (i.e. take the rest; elsewhere the expression has another sense, cf. with). a. with us to Athens, Mids. IV, 1, 189. a. from me! H6B 1, 2, 50. a. thy hand! Hml. V, 1, 286 (Qq hold off).

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Mcb. IV, 1, 134. I am come to bid my king and master a. good night, Lr. V, 3, 235. a. hopeless to have the courtesy your cradle promised, Cymb. IV, 4, 27. the worth that learned charity a. wears, Per. V, 3, 94. In Per. III, 1, 63 some M. Edd. aye-remaining lamps (O. Edd. ayre).

Preceded by for, in the same sense: makes antiquity for a. his page, Sonn. 108, 12. whiles you to the perpetual wink for a. might put this ancient morsel, Tp. 11, 1, 285. and I for a. thy footlicker, IV, 218. this world is not for a. Hml. III, 2, 210. Mids. I, 1,

71. 90. III, 2, 387. R2 V, 2, 40. Troil. III, 2, 167. Tim. V, 1, 55. V, 4, 78.

Ayword: gull him into an a. Tw. II, 3, 146 (M. Edd. a nayword).

Azure, sky-blue, used of the colour of the veins her a. veins, Lucr. 419. these windows (sc. eyelids) white and a. laced with blue of heaven's own tinct, Cymb. II, 2, 22.

Azured, sky-blue: 'twixt the green sea and the a. vault, Tp. V, 43. the a. harebell, like thy veins, Cymb. IV, 2, 222.

B, 1) the second letter in the alphabet: LLL V, 1, 24. 50. fair as a text B in a copy-book, V, 2, 42, i. e. not fair, but black.

2) note in music: Shr. III, 1, 75.

Ba, to cry like a sheep: will not hear her lamb when it baes, Ado III, 3, 75. ba, most silly sheep, LLL V, 1, 53. a lamb that baes like a bear, Cor. II, 1, 12.

Baa, the cry of a sheep: will make me cry baa, Gentl. I, 1, 98.

Babble, subst., prattle: this b. shall not henceforth trouble me, Gentl. I, 2, 98. leave thy vain bibble babble, Tw. IV, 2, 105. there is no tiddle taddle nor pibble pabble in Pompey's camp, H5 IV, 1, 71 (Fluellen). Babble, vb., to prate, to twaddle: for the watch to b. and to talk, Ado III, 3, 36. for school fool, a -ing rhyme, V, 2, 39. the ing gossip of the air, Tw. I, 5, 292. vainness, —ing, drunkenness, III, 4, 389. our ing dreams, R3 V, 3, 308, i. e. blabbing, telling tales. the -ing echo, Tit. II, 3, 17. -ing gossip, IV, 2, 150. (In H5 II, 3, 17 many M. Edd. and a babbled of green fields).

Babe, generally a little child still at the breast: a nurse's song ne'er pleased her b. so well, Ven. 974. Lucr. 814. 1161. Sonn. 22, 12. 143, 3. Gentl. I, 2, 58. Err. I, 1, 73. LLL V, 2, 594. Shr. II, 138. IV, 3, 74. Wint. II, 2, 26. III, 2, 135. John III, 4, 58. H6A 1, 1, 49. II, 3, 17. III, 1, 197. III, 3, 47. H6B V, 2, 52. H6C II, 1, 86. V, 7, 29. Tit. II, 3, 29. IV, 2, 67. V, 1, 26. Rom. I, 3, 60. Tim. I, 2, 116. 117. IV, 3, 118. Mcb. I, 7, 21. 55. IV, 1, 30. Hml. III, 3, 71. Lr. I, 3, 19. Ant. V, 2, 48. Cymb. I, 1, 40. Per. I, 4, 42. III Prol. 11. III, 1, 28 etc.

But sometimes children of some growth are called so: Love is a b., Sonn. 115, 13. holy writ in -s hath judgment shown, when judges have beens, All's II, 1, 141 (cf. St. Matthew XI, 25). those that do teach young -8, Oth. IV, 2, 111. at three and two years old, I stole these. -s, Cymb. III, 3, 101. It is used of young Rutland: R3 1, 3, 183; of the sons of Edward IV: R3 II, 2, 84. IV, 1, 99. IV, 3, 9. IV, 4, 9. of the children of Macduff: Mcb. IV, 1, 152. IV, 2, 6.

Baboon (baboon in Tim. I, 1, 260; báboon in Mcb. IV, 1, 37 and perhaps Per. IV, 6, 189), the animal Cynocephalus: Wiv. II, 2, 9. H4B II, 4, 261. Tim. 1, 1, 260. Mcb. IV, 1, 37. Oth. 1, 3, 318. Per. IV, 6, 189.

Baby, 1) the same as babe: Meas. I, 3, 30. | Ado V, 2, 37. Shr. IV, 3, 67. Wint. II, 1, 6. John V, 2, 56. H6B 1, 3, 148. Troil. 1, 3, 345. III, 2, 43. Cor. II, 1, 223. III, 2, 115. Tit. V, 3, 185. Hml. I, 3, 105. II, 2, 400. Ant. V, 2, 312. child in general: H5 III Chor. 20. R3 IV, 1, 103.

2) a doll: protest me the b. of a girl, Mcb. III, 4, 106.

Baby-brow: Mcb. IV, 1, 88.

Baby-daughter: Wint. III, 2, 192.

Babylon, the famous ancient town: when as I sat in Pabylon, Wiv. III, 1, 24 (Evans' song). there dwelt a man in B., Tw. II, 3, 84. the whore of B. H5 II, 3, 41.

Baccare: baccare! you are marvellous forward, Shr. II, 73 (Nares: “a cant word, meaning, go back, used in allusion to a proverbial saying, 'Backare, quoth Mortimer to his sow;' probably made in ridicule of some man who affected a knowledge of Latin without having it." cf. Notes and Queries II, 8, p. 527).

Bacchanals, 1) the revels of Bacchus: shall we dance now the Egyptian B., Ant. II, 7, 110. 2) Bacchants: the riot of the tipsy B., tearing the Thracian singer, Mids. V, 48. 339.

Bacchus, the god of wine: LLL IV, 3, Ant. II, 7, 121.

Bachelor, a man unmarried: Meas. IV, 2, 3. Ado I, 1, 201. 248. II, 1, 51. II, 3, 252. Mids. II, 2, 59. Merch. III, 1, 127. As III, 3, 62. All's II, 3, 59. Tw. I, 2, 29. H4A IV, 2, 17. H4B I, 2, 31. H5 V, 2, 230. H6C III, 2, 103. R3 I, 3, 101. Tit. I, 488. Caes. III, 3, 9. 18. In Tp. IV, 67 (whose shadow the dismissed b. loves) it signifies a young man looking out for a wife. cf. H4A IV, 2, 17. In Rom. 1, 5, 114 the nurse addresses Romeo with the word, so that it should seem to mean a young man in general; but it may also be there a very young knight, a knight bachelor.

Bachelorship, state of a bachelor: HGA V, 4, 13.

Back, subst., 1) the upper, resp. hinder part of the body: Ven. 300. 396. 594. Tp. II, 1, 115. III, 1, 26. V, 91. Wiv. V, 5, 58. Meas. III, 1, 26. LLL I, 2, 75. V, 2, 476. Mids. II, 1, 150. Shr. Ind. 2, 9. R2 1, 2, 51. H6A I, 1, 138. II, 5, 43. H6C III, 2, 157 etc. etc. making the beast with two-s, Oth. 1, 1,