The Complete Works of William Shakespeare - Israel Gollancz William Shakespeare [3637]
BILBOES - shackles on an iron bar locked to the floor
BILL - a bill-hook, a weapon
BIN - been, are
BIRD-BOLT - a bolt to be shot from a crossbow at birds
BIRDING - part hawking at partridges
BIRTH-STRANGLED - killed at moment of birth
BIS COCTUS - twice cooked
BISSON - blinding
BLANK - the white mark in the middle of a target
BLENCH - to move; flinch
BLENT - blended
BLIND-WORM - small, venomous snake
BLOOD-BOLTERED - hair matted with blood
BLOOD-DRINKING - "blood-drinking sighs" - reference to the belief that every sigh causes the heart to lose a drop of blood
BLOW - to inflate
BOARD - to make advances to; accost
BOB (1) - to taunt
BOB (2) - to cheat
BOB (3) - to bang or thump
BODGE - to give way
BODKIN - dagger; long pin for the hair
BOLD - to embolden
BOLLEN - swollen
BOLTED - sifted, refined
BOLTER - a sieve
BOLTING-HUTCH - a hutch in which meal was sifted
BOMBARD - a barrel, a drunkard
BOMBAST - padding
BONA-ROBAS - a harlot
BOND - that to which one is bound
BOOK - learning; writing on a tablet
BOOT - help, use
BOOT - advantage
BOOTLESS - without advantage, useless
BOOTS - bots, a kind of worm
BORE - calibre of a gun
BOREAS - the north wind
BORES - stabs
BOSKY - covered with underwood
BOSOM - wish, heart's desire
BOTS - worms which infest horses
BOTCHER - cobbler
BOTTLE - a bundle of hay
BOURN - a boundary
BRACE - armour for the arm, state of defence
BRACH - a hound bitch
BRAID - deceitful
BRAVE - handsome, well-dressed
BRAVE - boast
BRAVERY - finery
BRAWL - a dance
BREAST - voice (Twelfth Night, 23)
BREATHE - to exercise
BREATHING - exercising
BREECHING - liable to be whipt
BREED-BATE - a breeder of debate, a mischief-maker
BREESE - the gadfly
BREWAGE - brewed drink
BRIBE-BUCK - a stolen buck
BRING - to attend one on a journey
BRINDED - striped
BRING - to attend one on a journey
BROCK - a badger, a term of contempt
BROKE - to act as a procurer
BROKEN - having lost some teeth by age
BROKEN MUSIC - the music of stringed instruments
BROKER - a sly and crafty knave
BROTHERHOOD - trading company
BROWNIST - a follower of a sect of Puritans
BRUIT (1) - noise, report, rumour
BRUSH - rude assault
BUBUKLES - pimples
BUCK - suds or lye for washing clothes in
BUCK-BASKET - the basket in which clothes are carried to the
BUCKING - washing
BUCK-WASHING - washing in lye
BUG - a bugbear, a spectre
BULLY-ROOK - a bragging cheater
BURGONET - a kind of helmet
BURST - to break
BUSKY - bushy
BUTT-SHAFT - a light arrow for shooting at a target
C
CABIN - temporary shelter; a cave; the den of an animal
CABIN'D - to imprison or confine
CABLE - scope (a nautical metaphor used in Oth 1217)
CACODEMON - evil spirit
CADE - small barrel or keg (a barrel of herrings in 2kh6 4236)
CADDIS - worsted tape or binding used for garters
CADENT - falling
CADMUS - son of Agenor, King of Phoenicia, and the founder of Thebes
CADUCEUS - the wand of Mercury, around which two snakes are twined
CADWALADER - last king of the Welsh Known for his feats of valour against the Saxons
CAESAR - supreme ruler; emperor
CAGE (1) - a prison
CAGE (2) - a wicker-work basket
CAIN-COLOURED - red (supposed color of Cain's hair)
CAITIFF - a wretch (used to express pity)
CALCULATE - prophesy
CALIVER - a hand-gun, lighter than a musket
CALLET, CALLAT, CALLOT - a woman of bad character
CALLING - appellation; title
CALM (1) - to becalm
CALM (2) - confused with "qualm" in 2KH4 3439
CAMEL - derrogatory name for an awkward person
CAMELOT - the court of King Arthur
CAN - to know, be skillful in
CANAKIN - small can or drinking vessel
CANARY (1) - a wine brought from the Canary Islands
CANARY (2) - lively Spanish dance
CANARY (3) - mistaken for "quandary" by Mrs Quickly in Wiv 2261
CANCER - the fourth sign of the zodiac
CANDIDATUS - candidate for Roman office, named after the white gown worn by Roman senators
CANDLE - a light made of wax and a wick; the stars; the "light" of the human spirit
CANDLE-CASE - case to store candles
CANDLE-HOLDER