The Complete Plays (99 page)
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Authors: Christopher Marlowe
| descried charted | écu French crown coin |
| despite scorn, contempt | effect meaning, gist |
| device handiwork | egregious distinguished |
| devoir duty | ell 45 inches |
| diadem crown | emboss decorate |
| diametarily diametrically | empale encircle |
| digested endured, got over | empery empire, rule |
| dirge mass for the dead | empyreal empyrean |
| discomfit defeat, rout | enamelled richly painted |
| discoursive protracted, wide-ranging | enchased adorned |
| Â | engine (i) instrument, (ii) siege weapon |
| dismissed redeployed | Â |
| dismount throw down from a gun-carriage | engineer maker of military hardware |
| dispensive subject to dispensation (M?) | English counter worthless coin, token |
| disport pastime, entertainment | enlarge free |
| disposition planetary situation | enow enough |
| disquiet ( adj ) unquiet, restless | entertain receive, take into service, welcome |
| dissever shatter, blow up | Â |
| distain stain | enthral enslave |
| entreat persuade | flagitious wicked |
| entreated treated | fleer jeer |
| envy ( n ) hatred, malice, ( v ) hate | fleet drift, float |
| epitome summary | flout mock |
| erect elevate (to the throne) | foil ( n ) metal placed behind a jewel to accentuate its brilliance, ( v ) (i) defile, (ii) defeat |
| erst before, formerly | Â |
| essay try, attempt | Â |
| estate rank, station | Â |
| eternize immortalize | follower servant, retainer |
| events outcomes | fond foolish |
| exclaim ( n ) exclamation | forslow waste |
| excruciate torment | forward ( adj ) eager, precocious |
| exequies funerals | fraught freight, cargo |
| exhaled turned into a fiery vapour | fray ( v ) frighten |
| exhibition stipend | French crown (i) coin of the reign of Henri III , (ii) the pox |
| exigent exigency, extremity | Â |
| expedition speed | frolic ( v ) play, ( adj ) frolicsome |
| expert experienced | front confront |
| exquisite excruciating | fruition enjoyment |
| Â | full restored to full strength |
| faced (i) outfaced, derided, (ii) trimmed | furniture armour, weapons |
| Â | furtherer helper, abetter |
| fact action, crime | fustian (i) flax cloth, (ii) nonsense |
| factious seditious | Â |
| factor agent | gat got |
| faggot bundle of wood | gear business |
| faint faint-hearted | gentry rank of gentleman |
| falchion sword | glaive broadsword |
| falconet small cannon | glass mirror |
| false ( v ) betray, violate | glass-windows spectacles |
| familiar evil spirit, attendant | glorious boastful |
| fancy ( v ) love | gloze flatter, dissimulate |
| fatal fated, fateful | gramercy thank you |
| favour (i) face, (ii) love-token | gratulate salute, welcome |
| favourless without beauty | gravel perplex, confound |
| fear ( v ) frighten | graving sculpture |
| feeling ( adj ) (i) sincere, (ii) sensual | grief pain, suffering |
| fell cruel | gripe seize tenaciously |
| fence ( v ) protect, defend | groat coin of small value (4d) |
| field-piece field-gun | groom menial, servant |
| figure likeness, image | guerdon reward |
| file defile | guilder Dutch coin |
| gull trick | imperial imperious |
| gum aromatic resin (in perfume and sacrifice) | import imply, signify |
| Â | imprecation prayer |
| Â | incense incite, set on fire |
| halberd long-handled weapon | incontinent immediate, ( adv ) immediately |
| halcyon kingfisher | Â |
| hale drag, draw | incony sweet |
| hap fortune | Indian Moor American Indian |
| hapless unfortunate | Â |
| haply perhaps | indifferent impartial |
| happy fortunate | influence (astrological) power |
| haught haughty, lofty | insinuate ingratiate |
| haughty high-minded, heroic | insult exult |
| headed beheaded | interdict forbid |
| heavy sad | intolerable incomparable |
| hebon ebony, the juice of which was considered poisonous | invention plot, plan |
| Â | investion investiture |
| hempen (i) of a noose of hemp rope, (ii) made of hempen cloth, homespun | issue ( n ) offspring, ( v ) come out, turn out |
| Â | Â |
| hest behest | iterating repetition |
| hippocras spiced wine | iwis indeed |
| hogshead 63-gallon cask | Â |
| hoise hoist | jack upstart |
| hold (i) bet, wager, (ii) stronghold | Jacob's staff surveying instrument, used for range-finding |
| horse-bread horse feed | Â |
| horse-courser horse-dealer | Â |
| hospital almshouse | janizary Turkish infantry-man |
| hostry hostelry, inn | jar fight, quarrel |
| hoy small trading boat | jealous (i) anxious for someone's well-being, (ii) suspicious |
| hugy huge | Â |
| humidum moisture | jennet small Spanish horse |
| humour bodily fluid responsible for health, hence mood | jesses leather thongs used to restrain hunting birds |
| Â | Â |
| hurdle sledge (to carry condemned to execution) | jesture (i) gesture, (ii) jest |
| Â | jet strut |
| hurly-burly confusion, commotion | jig (i) song and dance, (ii) scurrilous ballad |
| Â | keel ship |
| illustrate shed light on | kern peasant fighter |
| imbecility feeble-mindedness, weakness | kind ( adj ) (i) kind, (ii) natural |
| label strip of ribbon for attaching seals to documents | magnanimity courage in battle |
| Â | mail bag containing treasure |
| Lachryma Christi red wine of southern Italy | main overpowering |
| Â | malgrado (Spanish) in defiance of |
| lake dungeon | manage ( n ) conduct, ( v ) tame, control |
| lance slit open | Â |
| larded encrusted | mark (i) brand, (ii) watch, observe |
| lares Roman household gods | Â |
| largess largesse, generous reward | marry by Mary (an oath) |
| latest last | mask lurk in darkness, hide |
| latter last | massy solid, weighty |
| laund glade, open space | masty fattened on pig food |
| lavish (n) prodigious spilling, ( adj ) insolent, unrestrained | mate companion, ( v ) daunt |
|  | maximé maxim |
| lawn piece of fine linen | measures stately dances |
| leager state of besieging | meat food |
| league (i) unit of distance: 3 miles, (ii) alliance | meed merit, reward |
| Â | meet ( adj ) appropriate |
| leman sweetheart | members people |
| lenity pity | mends amends, reward |
| let hinder, prevent | meteor atmospheric phenomenon |
| level ( v ) (i) aim, (ii) deduce, guess at | mettle strength, material |
| Â | mew capture |
| libel subversive pamphlet | mickle much |
| liberal (i) well-educated, (ii) generous | minion (i) small cannon, (ii) sycophant, (iii) lover, favourite |
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