A Dictionary of the Language of Shakspeare

An you use these blows long, I must get a sconce for my head, and ensconce it too.

Comedy of Errors, ii. 2. An honest mind and plain, he must speak truth! An they will take it, so; if not, he's plain.

King Lear, ii. 2. 'A made a fine end, and went away, an it had been any christom child. Henry 5, ii. 3.

TO ANATOMIZE. To lay bare; to expose.

If not, the wise man's folly is anatomiz'd
Even by the squandering glances of the fool.
As you like it, ii. 7.

ANATOMY. A skeleton.

Then with a passion would I shake the world;
And rouse from sleep that fell anatomy
Which cannot hear a lady's feeble voice,
Which scorns a modern invocation.

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, steal-
ing, fighting.
Winter's Tale, iii. 3.

ANCHOR. An anchoret; a hermit.
An anchor's cheer in prison be my hope.

Hamlet, iii. 2. ANDIRONS. 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.

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.

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.

The duke's unjust,

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 ap-
peal seizes him.
Antony and Cleopatra, iii. 5.

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

Sense, sure, you have,

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.

Here to make good the boisterous late appeal
Against the Duke of Norfolk, Thomas Mowbray.

Richard 2, i. 1.

As I intend to thrive in this new world,
Aumerle is guilty of my true appeal.

Richard 2, iv. 1.

APPLIANCE. Application; remedy; means.
Ask God for temperance; that's the appliance only
Which your disease requires. Henry 8, i. 1.

Thou art too noble to conserve a life

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 in-

volve.

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.

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