Alexander Schmidt - Shakespeare Lexicon and Quotation Dictionary, Volume 2

Shakespeare Lexicon

and Quotation Dictionary

A COMPLETE DICTIONARY

OF ALL THE ENGLISH WORDS, PHRASES AND CONSTRUCTIONS

IN THE WORKS OF THE POET

BY

ALEXANDER SCHMIDT

THIRD EDITION

REVISED AND ENLARGED

BY

GREGOR SARRAZIN

IN TWO VOLUMES

VOLUME II

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The different Quarto editions are designated in the same manner as in the great Cambridge edition of Messrs. Clark and Wright.

By the initials the unchanged forms and words are meant, as they stand in the respective headings; inflected forms are denoted by their terminations preceded by a dash; f. i. under the article Grow g. means grow, s grows, ing growing, etc.

The quotations are from the Globe edition.

Asterisks inserted behind some articles or quotations refer to the Supplement.

Names of Authors quoted in the Supplement indicate, as a rule, editions of Shakespeares Plays and Poems, or other well-known books connected with Shakespeare, f. i. Wyndham = Shakespeares Poems by George Wyndham; D. H. Madden = The Diary of Master William Silence by D. H. Madden; S. Lee = A Life of Shakespeare by Sidney Lee.

This Dover edition, first published in 1971, is an unabridged republication of the third revised and enlarged edition as published by Georg Reimer in Berlin in 1902 under the former title Shakespeare-Lexicon.

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Nabuchadnezzar!, (M. Edd. Nebuchadnezzar) the famous Babylonian king: Alls IV, 5, 21 (cf. Daniel IV, 33).

Nag, a worthless horse: the forced gait of a shuffling n. H4A III, 1, 135. Term of contempt for a loose woman: know we not Galloways ? H4B II, 4, 205. you ribaudred n. of Egypt, Ant. III, 10, 10.

Naiad, a water nymph: Tp. IV, 128.

Nail, subst. 1) a pointed piece of metal by which things are fastened together: Tp. III, 2, 69. Gent. II, 4, 193. Alls II, 2, 26. Cor. IV, 7, 54. Lr. II, 3, 16. Proverbial phrase: is the old king dead ? as n. in door, H4B V, 3, 126 (cf. Door-nail ).

2) the horny substance covering the ends of the fingers and toes: Lucr. 739. 1472. 1564. Tp. II, 2, 172. Err. IV, 4, 107. Mids. III, 2, 298. IV, 2, 41. Alls V, 2, 31. Tw. IV, 2, 140. Wint. II, 3, 103. R2 V, 5, 19. H5 IV, 4, 76. H6A I, 4, 45. H6B I, 3, 144. R3 I, 2, 126. IV, 4, 231. Troil. II, 1, 115. Lr. I, 4, 329. Ant. IV, 12, 39. V, 2, 223. the parings of ones n. (a trifle) Err. IV, 3, 72. the very parings of ours shall pitch a field when we are dead, H6A III, 1, 102. to blow ones n. (in order to warm ones hands) LLL V, 2, 923. = to take patience: their love is not so great, but we may blow ours together and fast it fairly out, Shr. I, 1, 109. cf. H6C II, 5, 3.

3) a measure of about two inches: thou yard, three-quarters, half-yard, quarter, n. Shr. IV, 3, 109.

Nail, vb. to fasten with spikes of iron: ed on the bitter cross, H4A I, 1, 26.

Naked, 1) not covered with clothes: Pilgr. 80. Compl. 317. Wint. III, 2, 212. R2 I, 3, 298. III, 2, 46. H4B III, 2, 333. H5 III, 3, 38. V, 2, 321. 324. 325. H6B III, 2, 336. R3 II, 1, 117. Cor. II, 2, 141. Mcb. I, 7, 21. II, 3, 132. Lr. III, 4, 28. IV, 1, 42.46. Oth. IV, 1, 3. IV, 2, 143. Ant. V, 2, 59. who sees his true love in her n. bed, Ven. 397 (a person undressed and in bed was formerly said to be in naked bed. It may be observed that, down to a certain period, those who were in bed were literally naked, no night linen being worn. Nares). he doth despise his n. armour of still slaughtered lust, Lucr. 188 (a play upon the word).

2) not sheathed, drawn: with n. swords, Err. IV, 4, 148. Tw. III, 4, 275. H4B II, 4, 222. H5 IV, 2, 21. Rom. I, 1, 39.

3) unarmed: he but n., though locked up in steel, H6B III, 2, 234. n. as I am, I will assault thee, Oth. V, 2, 258. H6C V, 4, 42. R3 I, 2, 178. Cor. I, 10, 20. Cymb. V, 5, 4.

4) unprovided, unfurnished, destitute: some good conceit of thine in thy souls thought, all n., will bestow it (mv duty) Sonn. 26, 8. Meas. III, 1, 73. LLL V, 2, 805. John II, 387. R2 1, 2, 31. H4A IV, 3, 77. H4B 1, 3, 61. H5 V, 2, 34. H8 III, 2, 458. Tim. II, 1, 31. IV, 3, 228. Caes. IV, 3, 101. Hml. IV, 7, 44.

5) open, plain, undisguised: the n. truth, LLL V, 2, 716. H6A II, 4, 20. I clothe my n. villany with old odd ends, R3 1, 3, 336. let it go n., men may see