The Arden Shakespeare Complete Works

by William Shakespeare

  unbreath’d unpractised

  uncape uncover (? a fox)

  uncase take off one’s outer garments

  uncharge exonerate, remove from suspicion

  uncharged unassailed, still standing

  unchary unsparingly, lavishly

  uncheck’d not denied or refuted

  unclasp open up, reveal

  unclew undo, be the end of (cf. clew)

  uncoined in its natural state, like gold bullion

  uncomprehensive unimaginable; unfathomable

  unconfirmed inexperienced; (?) not having had the sacrament of Confirmation

  uncouth unfamiliar, unknown

  uncovered without a hat; barefaced

  uncross’d with debts not crossed off

  unction ointment

  uncurrent out of the ordinary

  undeeded not having performed any deeds

  under beneath the sun, worldly; of the underworld; go under = bear; seem, be called

  underbear suffer under

  underborne edged

  undercrest have (a title) above one as one would a crest

  undergo go under, bear, be subject to

  underhand discreet

  underskinker junior tapster (one who serves drink in an inn)

  undertake take on; take in one’s charge; take responsibility

  undertaker one who takes on (a challenge)

  undervalued of less value

  underwrite accept

  underwrought undermined

  undeserving (?) sb. that which is undeserving; (?) adj. undeserved

  undistinguished see indistinguished

  undoubted free from doubt or fear

  uneared unsown, as with ears of corn

  uneath not easily, hardly

  unexperient person without experience

  unexpressive unable to be expressed

  unfair make no longer fair

  unfashionable lacking finished form

  unfenced unbounded; unprotected

  unfold open up, expose, reveal

  unfolding star star at whose rising shepherds let their sheep out of the folds

  unfurnished unprovided for, solitary, naked; unprepared

  ungalled unwounded, safe

  ungenitured sterile; (?) without genitals

  ungor’d unwounded

  unguem nail (Lat.), as used in the phrase ‘ad unguem’ (‘to the nail, exactly’)

  unhair’d without (facial) hair

  unhandsome unskilful; (?) unsoldierly

  unhappily, unhapp’ly unfortunately; adversely; with malice

  unhappy unlucky, cursed

  unhatched not yet hatched, embryonic

  unhoused not occupying or used to occupying a house

  unhousel’d not having received the eucharist in the last rites

  unimproved unchecked, unrestrained

  union pearl of fine quality; marriage

  unjust false

  unkennel unearth, uncover

  unkind acting against one’s family or the natural order

  unlimited observing no dramatic unities

  unluckily ominously

  unmann’d (of a hawk) untrained

  unmeet unsuitable

  unnerved enfeebled in sinew, strengthless

  unow’d unowned

  unpaved castrated

  unpink’d with the decorative holes (pinks) either unfinished or worn out

  unpitied merciless

  unplausive disapproving

  unpolicied lacking or outmanoeuvred in political skill

  unpregnant slack, unresponsive

  unprevailing pointless

  unprizable of little value; of great value

  unprized unvalued; priceless

  unproper shared; indecent

  unproportion’d unruly, unrestrained

  unprovide disarm

  unqualitied robbed of one’s nature, unmanned

  unquestionable irritable when spoken to

  unquietness disquiet, perturbation

  unraked (of a fire) not kept smouldering overnight

  unrecalling irrevocable

  unreclaimed untamed

  unrecuring past curing, fatal

  unrespective confused, without distinction or order; heedless

  unrolled dismissed from a fraternity

  unroosted knocked off the roost, henpecked

  unrough without facial hair, adolescent; of good family

  unscann’d unconsidered, rash

  unseasoned raw, unready; untimely

  unsecret open, forthcoming

  unseminared seedless, castrated

  unset unsown

  unshape unsettle

  unshaped fragmentary, incoherent

  unsifted untried, inexperienced

  unsisting (?) unresting; (?) insisting; (?) unassisting

  unsorted inappropriate

  unspeaking speechless, dumbfounded

  unsphere knock from a sphere or spheres (see sphere)

  unsquar’d unsuitable

  unstanched see unstaunched

  unstate rid of wealth and status

  unstaunched leaking; unquenched

  unsur’d unsure, uncertain

  untainted untouched; uninjured; uncharged

  untempering unable to melt or soften

  untented too deep to be tented (see tent)

  untoward perverse, unruly

  untraded little used, unfamiliar

  untrimmed sexually intact; stripped; set off balance

  untrussing undoing laces

  unvalu’d of no value; of inestimable value

  unwappered unexhausted

  unwarily unsuspectingly

  unweighed unconsidered; light

  unwitted made mad

  unwrung not chafed by the saddle

  unyok’d unbridled

  up up in arms; imprisoned; game is up = game is afoot; kill up = kill off; up and down = absolutely, entirely

  upcast (in bowls) throw

  uproar turn to uproar or chaos

  upshoot (in archery) the best shot until subsequently beaten

  upspring wild dance

  up-till up against

  urchin hedgehog; goblin or elf, esp. in the shape of a hedgehog

  urinal glass phial used to examine urine; (?) testicle

  usance usury

  use sb. custom, habit, way; interest; profit; v. be accustomed (to); keep company with; in use = in trust

  utis holiday merriment; noise, din

  utter advertise, sell

  utterance furthest point

  uttermost, to the (of a fight) to the death

  vacancy spare time; air; the vacuum created by a removal of air

  vade go away, fade

  vagary wandering or erring state

  vagrom Dogberry’s word for ‘vagrant’

  vail sb. setting; v. lower, abase (oneself)

  vails leftovers given to servants, tips

  vain sb. vanity; adj. foolish; flattering

  valanced decoratively draped

  validity value, worth; strength, efficacy

  valu’d, valued discriminating, listing individual qualities

  value evaluate, consider; compare; merit, be worth

  vambrace defensive armour for the arms

  Vanity a female role in the morality plays

  vantage advantage; opportunity; of vantage = also, in addition

  vara very (dial.)

  varlet servant, page; often a term of abuse with occasional sexual overtones

  varletry common people (cf. varlet)

  vastidity vastness

  vaulty vaulted, arched

  vaunt sb. first part; v. rejoice

  vaunt-couriers forerunners

  vaward vanguard, front of an army

  vein spirit, style; rub the vein of = encourage, flatter

  velure velvet

  velvet-guards those wearing fine clothes (cf. guards)

  Venetia, Venetia, Chi non ti vede, non
ti pretia ‘Venice, Venice, he who does not see you does not prize you’ (Ital., proverbial)

  veney see venue

  vengeance adj. terrific; adv. terrifically

  vent venting, discharge; (in hunting) scent, such as makes the hounds bark

  ventages holes

  ventricle chamber in the brain

  venue (in fencing) round, assault

  Venus goddess of love and lover of Mars (see Mars)

  Ver spring

  verbatim in speech

  verge rim; area surrounding the court

  Veronessa ship from Verona

  vestal sb. virgin or nun, as the Roman virgins who tended the fire in the temple of Vesta; adj. relating to Vesta or virginity

  via an expression of encouragement or impatience (Ital.)

  viands food

  Vice a comic villain in sixteenth- century moral interludes

  vice sb. grasp; screw; v. force

  vicegerent deputy (a royal title)

  vicious wicked; blameworthy; mistaken

  videlicet ‘that is to say’ (Lat.)

  Videsne quis venit? Video, et gaudeo ‘Do you see who comes? I see and rejoice’ (Lat.)

  vie vie with, rival; multiply; (at cards) put down a stake

  vigil evening before a feast-day

  Vilia miretur vulgus: mihi flavus Apollo / Pocula Castalia plena ministret aqua ‘Let the common folk marvel at the everyday: golden Apollo shall serve me cups filled from the Castalian spring’ (Lat., Ovid)

  villain, villein person of low birth, servant

  villiago villain, rascal

  vinewed’st mouldiest

  viol stringed instrument, an early violin

  viol-de-gamboys see bass-viol

  violenteth rages

  vir sapit qui pauca loquitur ‘he is wise who says little’ (Lat., proverbial)

  virginalling pressing with the fingers, as one would the keys of a virginal (an early keyboard)

  virtue masculine virtue, courage; power; essence

  virtuous fertile, breeding; powerful, effective; inherent, lying within

  visitation infection

  visited punished by God; infected

  visitor one who visits the sick and distressed

  visor, vizor mask

  viva voce orally; speaking out loud (Lat.)

  vizaments Evans’s word for ‘advisements’; take your vizaments in that = consider that

  vizard see visor

  vocativo ‘in the vocative case’ (Lat.)

  vocatur ‘(it) is called’ (Lat.)

  voice sb. determining say, vote; v. vote, choose; in voices = reportedly

  voiding lobby corridor for entrance or exit

  Volquessen Rouen and district

  voluble moving smoothly and swiftly, fluent

  voluntary volunteer

  votaress female votary (cf. votarist)

  votarist, votary one under a vow, esp. in a religious order

  vouch sb. allegation, evidence; v. testify

  voyage enterprise

  Vulcan god of fire and cuckolded husband of Venus, represented as a smith

  vulgar sb. vernacular, native tongue; adj. of or among the ordinary people, common

  waft wave; turn; carry by boat

  waftage passage by boat

  wafture waving gesture

  wag go, go away, move

  wage pay (a wage to); risk; stake; struggle, vie

  wainropes waggon-ropes

  waist middle of a ship’s upper deck; garment for the waist

  wake sb. parish festival; v. not sleep, stay up

  wall-eyed glowering

  wanion, with a a phrase used to emphasize a statement

  wann’d became wan, paled

  want lack; feel the lack of

  wanton sb. exuberant joker; delicate youth; adj. vibrant, skittish; delicate; v. play

  wappen’d sexually exhausted

  ward sb. defence, defensive position; room in a prison; lock mechanism; v. defend

  warden type of pear or apple

  warder umpire’s baton

  ware adj. aware; wary; v. take heed of, beware

  warp turn; change

  war-proof, of experienced in war

  warrant sb. licence; assurance; v. approve, license; assure, guarantee

  warrantise, warrantize guarantee, pledge

  warranty sanction, licence

  warren enclosure for rabbits and other game

  warrener one who protects rabbits from poachers

  washing see swashing

  wassail drinking session; wassail candle = thick candle

  waste sb. damage done to a property by a tenant; v. consume, destroy

  Wat traditional name for a hare

  watch sb. fixed period of time; candle; watchword; v. catch by lying in wait for; train (a hawk) through sleep deprivation

  watchful sleepless, of sleeplessness

  water transparency in diamonds, used to grade their quality

  water-galls minor types of rainbow

  watering drinking

  water-rugs rough-haired water dogs

  waters, for all versatile, multi- talented

  water-standing full of tears

  waterwork painted imitation tapestry

  wave waver

  waxen adj. soft as wax; v. wax, increase

  ways, come your come on your way, come

  weal prosperity, well-being; state, society

  wealsmen politicians

  wealth prosperity, well-being (cf. weal)

  wear sb. thing worn, fashion; v. wear out; be in fashion; adapt

  weather, keep the be upwind, in a superior position

  weather-fends defends from the weather

  web and pin see pin (pin and web)

  weed piece of clothing

  week, in by the trapped, imprisoned

  ween think

  weet know, recognize

  Weïrd Sisters goddesses of wyrd (OE= ‘fate’)

  welkin sb. sky; adj. blue as the sky

  well to live well off, well to do

  well-a-day sb. saying ‘alas’, lament; int. alas

  well-a-near alas (cf. well-a-day)

  well-breath’d (?) well-trained; (?) breathing well

  well-favoured good-looking, attractive

  well-liking heavy

  well-respected properly considered, not rash

  Welsh hook a type of bill-hook or pike (without the ‘cross’ of a sword)

  weraday see well-a-day

  westward ho! Thames watermen’s call for passengers heading west

  wezand windpipe, throat

  wharf river bank

  wheel sb. sung refrain; v. move in an arc; on wheels = giddily; easily; turn i’th’ wheel = (of dogs) tread a wheel to turn a spit

  Wheeson Whitsun (dial.)

  whelk boil

  whelked resembling the shellfish, twisting round

  when a cry of impatience

  whether which (of two)

  whey-face one blanching with fear

  whiffler one who clears the path of an approaching procession

  while until

  whileere a short time ago

  whiles while (see while)

  whilst while (see while)

  whipping-cheer a bellyful of whipping

  whipster whipper-snapper, boy

  whip-stock, whipstock whip handle

  whirligig spinning-top

  whist silent, still

  white sb.(in archery) bullseye; adj. afraid, cowardly

  white-limed daubed with lime

  whiting-time time for bleaching clothes

  whitsters professional bleachers

  whittle carving-knife

  whoo-bub hubbub

  whoreson bastard, used technically, offensively or affectionately

  wide failing to hit, off course, wrong

  widow provide (the widow) with the estate of the deceased

  wight creature, person

&nbs
p; Wild, the the Weald, an area of southern England

  wild sb. desert, wasteland; adj. headstrong, unthinking; wild mare = boys’ game of jumping on each other’s backs

  wilderness wildness, wild stock

  wild-goose chase a type of horse race

  wildly chaotically, haphazardly

  wildness madness, distraction

  wilful-blame blamable for too much self-will

  will sexual organ

  wimpled muffled, blindfolded

  wince kick out

  winch wince

  Winchester goose see goose

  Wincot a hamlet near Stratford- upon-Avon

  wind sb. breath; (in hunting) direction of the wind and thus of scent; v. get wind of; wheedle; wind up = fill; tune (a stringed instrument) by tightening its pegs

  windgalls tumours on the legs of horses

  windlasses deviations

  window-bars square patterns on a woman’s bodice

  windring both winding and wandering

  wink sb. shutting the eyes; v. shut the eyes

  winking with closed eyes

  winnow sift, refine

  winter’d, wintered during winter

  winter-ground (?) sb. ground in winter; (?) v. insulate, keep warm

  wipe branded stigma

  wise sb. way, fashion; adj. in one’s right mind; wise woman = expert in herbal medicine, witchcraft, etc.

  wishtly wishfully and/or wistly (see wistly)

  wisp of straw traditional target of a shrewish woman’s hectoring

  wistly earnestly, eagerly

  wit sb. mind, intelligence, cleverness; v. know; five wits = five mental faculties; wit, wither wilt? = catchphrase used to shut someone up

  wit-crackers teasers, jibers

  withal, prep. with; adv. therewith, with (something specified); do withal = do anything about it

  withers ridge between a horse’s shoulders

  withhold hold back, keep

  without outside, beyond

  without-door exterior

  witting knowing

  wittol husband who accepts his being cuckolded

  witty mentally sound, intelligent, clever

  wold open country

  woman-tir’d prey to a woman (see tire)

  wondered to be wondered at; capable of producing wonders

  wond’ring wondering at

  wood wild, frantic

  woodbine honeysuckle or similar plant

  woodcock a stupid, easily trapped bird

  woodman hunter; hunter of women

  woollen adj. dressed in coarse wool; in the woollen = in scratchy blankets

  woolward wearing a woollen shirt without a vest to stop it scratching

  woosel see ousel

  woo’t wilt (will you)

  working sb. mental working, perception; deed; adj. moving

  world sb. body (cf. microcosm); go to the world = reject the cloister, get married

  worm snake

  worn worn out

  worship dignity

  worshipped dignified