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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare - Israel Gollancz William Shakespeare [3650]

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- to cease

SURCEASE - cessation, end

SURPRISE - to capture by surprise

SUR-REINED - over-worked

SUSPECT - suspicion

SUSPIRE - to breathe

SWABBER - a sweeper of the deck of a ship

SWARTH (1) - dark-complexioned

SWARTH (2) - heap

SWASHER - swaggerer

SWASHING - dashing, smashing

SWATH - The same as 'swarth'

SWATHLING - swaddling

SWAY - to move on

SWEAR - to adjure

SWEAR OVER - to out-swear

SWIFT - ready, quick

SWINGE-BUCKLER - a bully

T

TABLE - a tablet, note-book

TABLE-BOOK - note-book

TABLES - backgammon

TABOUR - a small side-drum

TABOURER - a player on the tabour

TABOURINE - tambourine, drum

TAG - the rabble

TAINT - tainted

TAINTURE - defilement

TAKE IN - to conquer

TAKE OUT - to copy

TAKE UP - raise, levy

TAKING - malignant influence; state of agitation

TAKING UP - buying on credit

TALE - counting, reckoning

TALL - strong, valiant

TALLOW-CATCH - a lump of tallow

TANG - twang, sound

TANG - to sound

TANLING - anything tanned by the sun

TARRE - to excite, urge on

TARRIANCE - delay

TARTAR - Tartarus

TASK - to lay a tax upon; to occupy fully

TASKING - challenging

TASTE - to try

TAWDRY-LACE - a rustic necklace

TAXATION - satire, sarcasm

TAXING - satire

TEEN - grief

TELL - to count

TEMPER - to mix

TEMPERANCE - temperature

TEMPERED - mixed

TEND - to attend to

TENDER - to offer; regard, care

TENT (1) - bed hangings

TENT (2) - to lodge

TENT (3) - to probe

TENT (4) - roll of lint usd to clean a wound

TERCEL - the male of the goshawk

TERMAGANT - a ranting character in old plays

TESTED - pure, assayed

TESTERN - to reward with a tester, or six-pence

THARBOROUGH - a constable

THEE - you

THEORICK - theory

THEWES - sinews, muscles

THICK - rapidly

THICK-PLEACHED - thickly intertwined

THIRD-BOROUGH - a constable

THOU - you

THOUGHT - anxiety, grief

THRASONICAL - boastful

THREE-MAN BEETLE - a wooden mallet worked by three men

THREE-MAN-SONG-MEN - singers of songs in three parts

THREE-PILE - three-piled velvet

THRENE - funeral song

THRID - thread, fibre

THROE - to put in agonies

THRUM - the tufted end of a thread in weaving

THRUMMED - made od coarse ends or tufts

THY - your

TICKLE - ticklish

TIGHT - nimble, active

TIGHTLY - briskly, promptly

TIKE - a cur

TILLY-VALLY - int an exclamation of contempt

TILTH - tillage

TIMELESS - untimely

TINCT - stain, dye

TIRE (1) - head-dress

TIRE (2) - to feed upon like a bird of prey

TIRED - dressed, clothed

TANG - twang, sound

TOD - to yield a tod of wool

TOKENED - marked with plague spots

TOKENS - plague spots

TOLL - to exact toll; to strike

TOPLESS - supreme, without superior

TOUCH - stroke; trait or feature; dash, spice; touchstone for testing gold

TOUCHED - pricked

TOUSE - to pull, drag

TOWARD - nearly ready

TOWARDS - nearly ready

TOYS - trifles, foolish tricks

TRADE - beaten path

TRANECT - a ferry

TRANSLATED - transformed

TRASH - to cheque, as a huntsman his hounds

TRAVAIL - labour, toil

TRAY-TRIP - an old game played with dice

TREACHERS - traitors

TREATIES - entreaties

TRENCHED - carved

TRICK - custom, habit; art, knack; characteristic expression; touch

TRICK - to adorn, dress up

TRICKED - blazoned

TRICKING - ornament

TRICKSY - elegantly quaint

TRIPLE - third

TROJAN - a cant word for a thief

TROL-MY-DAMES - a game using balls and arches

TROTH-PLIGHT - betrothed

TROW - to trust, think

TRUE - honest

TRUNDLE-TAIL - a long-tailed dog

TUCKET-SONANCE - a flourish on the trumpet

TUNDISH - a funnel

TURLYGOOD - a name adopted by bedlam-beggars

TURN - to modulate

TWANGLING - twanging

TWIGGEN - made of twigs, wicker

TWILLED - Retained by woven branches

TWINK - a twinkling

TWIRE - to peep, twinkle

U

ULLORXA - lustful persons (a puzzling word to all editors)

UMBER - brown pigment

UMBERED - darkened, as with umber

UMBRAGE - shadow

UNABLE - weak, impotent

UNACCOMMODATED - not furnished with what is necessary

UNANELED - not having received extreme unction

UNAVOIDED - unavoidable

UNBACKED - unridden

UNBANDED - without a hatband

UNBARBED - unarmed

UNBATED - unabated,

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