The Plays of William Shakespeare, Volume 6Riley, 1806 |
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... signification . See Florio's Italian Dictionary , 1598 : " Arruffare . To touze , to tug , to bang , or rib - baste one . " Malone . 2 no rogues : ] That is , vagrants , no mean fellows , but gen- tlemen . Johnson . One William Sly was ...
... signification . See Florio's Italian Dictionary , 1598 : " Arruffare . To touze , to tug , to bang , or rib - baste one . " Malone . 2 no rogues : ] That is , vagrants , no mean fellows , but gen- tlemen . Johnson . One William Sly was ...
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... signify a constable . Theobald . In the Personæ Dramatis to Ben Jonson's Tale of a Tub , the high - constable , the ... signifies a degenerate hound : but Edwards explains it a hound in general . That the latter of these criticks is ...
... signify a constable . Theobald . In the Personæ Dramatis to Ben Jonson's Tale of a Tub , the high - constable , the ... signifies a degenerate hound : but Edwards explains it a hound in general . That the latter of these criticks is ...
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... signifies a tumour . planation of the word will receive illustration from the following passage in the old comedy , entitled The Shoemakers Holiday , or the Gentle Craft , acted at court , and printed in the year 1600 , signat . C : 66 ...
... signifies a tumour . planation of the word will receive illustration from the following passage in the old comedy , entitled The Shoemakers Holiday , or the Gentle Craft , acted at court , and printed in the year 1600 , signat . C : 66 ...
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... signifies darling : " He has fault of a wife , that marries mam's pet . " i . e . He is in great want of a wife who marries one that is her mother's dar- ling . Steevens . 3 — so strange ? ] That is , so odd , so different from others ...
... signifies darling : " He has fault of a wife , that marries mam's pet . " i . e . He is in great want of a wife who marries one that is her mother's dar- ling . Steevens . 3 — so strange ? ] That is , so odd , so different from others ...
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... signifies bitter , severe . So , in As you Like it , sc . ult : " That have endur'd shrewd days and nights with us ... signified abusive language , without any determinate idea ; such language as parrots are taught to speak . So , in ...
... signifies bitter , severe . So , in As you Like it , sc . ult : " That have endur'd shrewd days and nights with us ... signified abusive language , without any determinate idea ; such language as parrots are taught to speak . So , in ...
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