Read The Complete Plays Online
Authors: Christopher Marlowe
The Complete Plays (100 page)
| licentiate graduate | Â |
| liefest dearest | minx slut |
| linstock stick for holding spill to light cannon | miscreants heretics, unbelievers |
| Â | miss ( n ) lack of |
| list (i) desire, (ii) listen | mistrust suspect |
| litter vehicle for one person carried by two servants | mithridate (usually) antidote to poison |
| loadstar, lodestar guiding light | moe more |
| looseness sexual incontinence | monument record of achievement |
| lour frown | motion (i) movement, (ii) suggestion, (iii) desire |
| lown rogue (Scottish or northern dialect form) | Â |
| Â | mought might |
| lure imitation bird made of feathers and leather | mount earthwork used for fortification |
| lusty pleasant | Muff derogatory term for the Swiss (M?) |
| muscadel, muscadine, muscatel strong sweet wine | pate head |
| Â | pathetical emotive, persuasive |
| mustacho moustache | patience suffering |
| mystery secret art | paw claw |
| Â | pedant schoolmaster |
| native natural | pelf money |
| noisome stinking, offensive | pensiveness melancholy |
| nonce purpose; for the nonce purposely, expressly | perfecter more skilled |
| Â | perforce (i) by violence, (ii) necessarily |
| nonplus state of bewilderment | Â |
| nosegay posy | pericranion skull (technically, the membrane around it) |
| noted stigmatized, branded | Â |
| Â | period (i) end, conclusion, (ii) sentence |
| occupy possess, have sex with offencious causing offence | physic medicine |
| organon (i) bodily organs or fluids, (ii) philosophical works of Aristotle ( Organon ) | pickadevant short, pointed beard |
| Â | pickle-herring (i) pickled herring, (ii) an idiot |
| orient ( adj ) (i) eastern, (ii) brilliant (of gems) | pill ( v ) plunder |
| Â | pin nail which secures a clout ( q.v. ) in archery |
| orifex orifice, wound | Â |
| orison prayers | pined tormented |
| ostler stable-man | pioners sappers, those who dig mines |
| ostry hostelry, inn | Â |
| otherways otherwise | pitch breadth of shoulders |
| overdare surpass in daring (M) | pitchy pitch-black |
| overthwart across | places topics |
| overwatched (i) tired through constant vigilance, (ii) spied upon | placket (i) (slit in) a skirt or petticoat, (ii) vulva |
| Â | plage region |
| Â | plain ( v ) complain |
| painted colourful | plainer plaintiff |
| pale boundary, fence | plate piece of silver |
| paragon consort | platform ground-plan |
| paramour lover | plaud applause |
| parcel essential part | pleasant jocular |
| parley debate, dispute | pleasantness facetiousness |
| partial (i) unfair, (ii) incomplete | pledge drink toast |
| pash smash to pieces | pole-axe halberd |
| pass care | policy cunning |
| passenger traveller | poniard dagger |
| passing surpassingly | port gate |
| portague Portuguese gold coin | rack tear apart, violate |
| portend prophesy, suggest, foresee | racking driven before the wind |
| portly stately | ragged rugged |
| post ( n ) messenger, ( v ) ride fast | rampire ( n ) inner rampart, ( v ) fortify with ramparts |
| posy pious motto | Â |
| pottage (i) porridge, (ii) stew, soup, broth | range ( v ) roam |
| Â | rankle fester |
| power army | rape abduction |
| preachment sermonizing | rapine theft |
| precinct area of secure authority | raze (i) erase, destroy, (ii) graze |
| precise puritanical | reave take away |
| precisian puritan, radical protestant | rebated blunted |
| Â | reclaim reform |
| present(ly) immediate(ly) | recreant traitor |
| prest ready for action | rector a university principal |
| pretty (i) admirable, (ii) amusing | recure cure |
| prevent anticipate, forestall | redoubted fearsome |
| principality princely government | reflex shine |
| Â | refluence flowing back |
| problem scholastic disputation | refreshing refreshment, food |
| prolocutor herald, spokesman | regiment power, authority |
| proper own | regreet greet anew (M) |
| prorex viceroy | remorseful compassionate |
| protest swear, profess | renied apostate |
| prove test, experience | rent rend, tear |
| provender fodder | repair imminent arrival |
| puissant powerful | repeal recall (from banishment) |
| purchase win | repine complain |
| purgation an emetic | repute understand by |
| pyramid obelisk | reserve preserve |
| Â | resolve (i) determine to achieve, (ii) satisfy, (iii) melt |
| qualify mitigate | Â |
| quenchless unquenchable | respect particular circumstances |
| quick alive | rest remain |
| quicksilver mercury | resteth remains to be done |
| quiddity (i) the essence (of something), (ii) quibble | retire strategic withdrawal from battle |
| quinque-angle five-pointed, star-shaped | retorqued turned back on themselves (M) |
| quite (i) repay, acquit, (ii) requite | reverberate beaten back |
| quittance quits | rivelled twisted, plaited |
| road (i) roadstead, harbour, (ii) raid | silly feeble, simple |
| Â | silverling silver coin |
| room position, office | sink cesspool |
| round slop baggy trousers | sith since |
| roundly (i) with complete success, (ii) briskly | slack neglect |
| Â | snipper snapper whippersnapper |
| rout mob | Â |
| royalize crown, make celebrated | society community |
| rub polish | soil marsh |
| ruin falling | sollar loft, store-room |
| runagate renegade, runaway, vagabond | sometime formerly |
| Â | sophister specious reasoner |
| ruth suffering, pity | sort pack |
| rutter knight, cavalry | sound ( v ) (i) blow (of trumpet), (ii) resound, echo, (iii) measure (depth) |
| sack dry Spanish white wine | Â |
| sakar, saker small cannon | spials spies |
| salute greet | splendant bright, resplendent |
| sarell seraglio, harem | spoil plunder |
| sauce ( v ) season, flavour | spurca (Latin) filthy, base |
| savour ( n ) smell | spurn kick, disdain |
| scald contemptible | squib firework |
| scamble compete fiercely for money | stand upon understand |
| Â | standing ( n ) position, ( adj ) stagnant |
| scathe harm | Â |
| scholarism scholarship | starting holes refuges for hunted animals |
| scour beat, punish | Â |
| scutcheon escutcheon, heraldic shield | state (i) government, (ii) pomp, ceremony, (iii) throne, (iv) condition |
| sectious factious, sectarian | Â |
| seignory governorship | stature statue |
| sennet trumpet call | staying supporting |
| serge cheap woollen fabric | steel ( v ) sharpen |
| servitor servant | stern rudder |
| several separate | still constantly, continuously |
| shag-rag ragged, rascally | stilts crutches |
| shape (i) appearance, (ii) costume | stomach ( v ) resent |
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