nonce-For the, For the once, for the occasion, iv. 214; v. 28; vii. 191 (The original form was doubtless the Saxon for than anes: see Price's note on Warton's Hist. of Engl. Poet. vol. ii. p. 496, ed. 1824, and Sir F. Madden's Gloss. to Syr Gawayne, &c. : In comparatively recent writers the expression "for the once" is sometimes found; e.g. "In Dengy Hundred, neare to Maldon, about the beginning of his Maiestie's reigne, there fell out an extraordinary iudgement vpon fiue or sixe that plotted a solemne drinking at one of their houses, laid in beare for the once, drunke healths in a strange manner, and died therof within a few weekes, some sooner, and some later." Woe to Drunkards (a Sermon by S. Ward), 1622, p. 27). none so poor to do him reverence, "the meanest man is now too high to do reverence to Cæsar" (JOHNSON), vi. 658.

non-payment that the debt should double-For, viii. 256: "The poet was thinking of a conditional bond's becoming forfeited for non-payment; in which case the entire penalty (usually the double of the principal sum lent by the obligee) was formerly recoverable at law" (MALONE).

nook-shotten isle of Albion, iv. 458: "Shotten signifies any thing projected: so nook-shotten isle is an isle that shoots out into capes, promontories, and necks of land, the very figure of Great Britain" (WARBURTON).

north-The lordly monarch of the, v. 69: "The north was always supposed to be the particular habitation of bad spirits. Milton, therefore, assembles the rebel angels in the north" (JOHNSON): "The boast of Lucifer in the xivth chapter of Isaiah is said to be, that he will sit upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north'" (STEEVENS): “The monarch of the north was Zimimar, one of the four principal devils invoked by witches. The others were, Amaimon king of the East, Gorson king of the South, and Goap king of the West. Under these devil kings were devil marquesses, dukes, prelates, knights, presidents and earls. They are all enumerated, from Wier De præstigiis dæmonum, in Scot's Discoverie of Witchcraft, Book xv. c. 2 and 3” (DOUCE). northern man, a clown, ii. 230.

nose fell a-bleeding-It was not for nothing that my, ii. 367: Bleeding at the nose was formerly reckoned ominous.

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not, not only and that not in the presence Of dreaded justice, but, &c. vi. 198.

not ever The justice and the truth, &c. v. 559: “Not ever is an uncommon expression, and does not mean never, but not always" (MASON).

note o' the king-Even to the, "I will so distinguish myself, the king shall remark my valour" (JOHNSON), vii. 708.

294

NOTE-NUZZLING.

note-Upon the warrant of my, Upon the warrant of "my observation of your character" (JOHNSON), vii. 293.

note-Take this, Mark what I say, vii. 321.

notes, whose faculties inclusive were, More than they were in note, "receipts in which greater virtues were inclosed than appeared to observation" (JOHNSON), "More than they were in note, i. e. more than was written down of them" (GRANT WHITE), iii. 221. nothing!-Notes, notes, forsooth, and, ii. 97; admiring the nothing of it, iii. 483: In these passages there is, according to some critics, a quibble-noting.

nott-pated, having the hair cut short round and round, iv. 234, 238.

nousle, to nurse, viii. 17.

novice-That princely, That princely "youth, one yet new to the world" (JOHNSON), v. 378.

novum-Abate throw at, ii. 226: Novum (or Novem) was a game at dice, played by five or six persons. Its proper name was Novem quinque, from the two principal throws being five and nine: see fourth abate.

nowl, the head, ii. 292.

number'd beach-The, vii. 651: see note 31, vii. 742.

numbers-Such fiery, ii. 205: "Numbers are, in this passage, nothing more than poetical measures" (JOHNSON).

nuncle, a contraction of mine uncle (and the usual address, it appears, of the domestic fool to his superiors), vii. 266 (twice), 267 (twice), 268 (three times), 269, 274, 287, 295 (twice), 299, 305. nurture, education, breeding, i. 223; iii. 32.

nut-hook, (properly, a hook for pulling down the branches of nut-trees), a cant term for a catchpole, i. 349; iv. 397 (twice).

nutmeg-A gilt, ii. 229: This was formerly a common gift at Christmas and on other occasions of festivity (So in Barnfield's Affectionate Shepheard, 1594;

"Against my birth-day thou shalt be my guest:
Weele haue greene-cheeses, and fine silly-bubs;
And thou shalt be the chiefe of all my feast:

And I will giue thee two fine pretie cubs,

With two yong whelps, to make thee sport withall,

A golden racket, and a tennis-ball,

A guilded nutmeg, and a race of ginger,

A silken girdle, and a drawn-worke band," &c.

Sig. o 2).

nuzzling, nestling (“as a child with its nose [or nozzle] nestles into the breast of its nurse," &c. Richardson's Dict. in “Nousle,” which is only another form of the word), viii. 276.

O without a figure-An, "A mere cypher, which has no arithmetical value, unless preceded or followed by some figure" (MALONE), vii. 268.

O, any thing circular: this wooden O (the Globe Theatre on the Bankside, which ". was circular within," COLLIER), iv. 421; The little O, the earth, vii. 589; so full of O's (marks of the small-pox), ii. 212; fiery O's (orbs, stars), ii. 296.

oak-Close as, "Close as the grain of oak" (STEEVENS), vii. 422.

oak-His brows bound with, vi. 145: "The crown given by the Ro

mans to him that saved the life of a citizen, which was accounted more honourable than any other" (JOHNSON).

oathable, "capable of having an oath administered" (Johnson's Dict.), vi. 554.

oats have eaten the horses—The, iii. 148: "There is still a ludicrous expression used when horses have stayed so long in a place as to have eaten more than they are worth, viz. that their heads are too big for the stable-door. I suppose Grumio has some such meaning" (STEEVENS): Mr. Staunton compares a saying common in the stable now, The horses have eaten their heads off: Mr. Halliwell sees nothing here but a kind of blunder which was a favourite one with the early English dramatists."

ob, the abbreviation of obolum,-a halfpenny, iv. 246.

Obidicut, vii. 314: A variation of the name of the fiend called Hoberdicut and Haberdicut in Harsnet's Declaration of egregious Popish Impostures, 1603, pp. 119, 181; from which work Shakespeare seems to have borrowed the names of several of the fiends in King Lear.

objects-Subscribes To tender, vi. 75; swear against objects, vi. 553 : see note 151, vi. 598.

obligation, a bond: quittance, or obligation, i. 345; he can make obligations, v. 171.

obsequious, "careful of obsequies or of funeral rites" (JOHNSON), "absorbed in funeral grief" (Nares's Gloss.): so obsequious will thy father be, v. 268.

obsequious, belonging to obsequies, funereal: obsequious tears, vi. 353; obsequious sorrow, vii. 110; obsequious tear, viii. 364. obsequiously lament, funereally, as at obsequies, lament, v. 355. observance, observation: By what observance, I pray you? iii. 243; I have no observance, vii. 541.

observants, obsequious attendants, vii. 281.

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OBSERVATION-ODDS.

observation, observance (rites due to the morning of May): For now our observation is perform'd, ii. 307: see May, &c.

observe, to show respectful attention: I shall observe him, iv. 378; You should observe her every way, viii. 197; underwrite in an observing kind, &c., vi. 39 (see underwrite, &c.); if he be observ'd, iv. 377. observe and answer The vantage of his anger, "Mark, catch, and improve the opportunity which his hasty anger will afford us" (JOHNSON), vi. 179.

obstacle, a rustic corruption of obstinate, v. 75 (Walker is doubtless mistaken in supposing this to be a printer's error for "obstinate:" see his Crit. Exam. &c. vol. iii. p. 154).

occident, the west, iv. 149; vii. 706.

occulted, secret, vii. 155.

occupation, mechanics: the voice of occupation and The breath of garlic-eaters, vi. 215.

occupation—A man of any, a mechanic, vi. 624 (So Johnson explains the words; but Mr. Craik suspects that they mean more than that he does not add what; and Mr. Grant White queries if they signify "a man of action, a busy man"). "occupy;" which was an excellent good word before it was ill sorted

-As odious as the word, iv. 344: In illustration of this passage Ritson cites the following "jest" from Wits, Fits, and Fancies, ed. 1614; "One threw stones at an yll-fauor'd old womans owle, and the olde woman said: Faith (sir knaue) you are well occupy'd, to throw stones at my poore owle, that doth you no harme. Yea marie (answered the wag), so would you be better occupy'd too (I wisse) if you were young againe, and had a better face:" Here ill sorted means "ill associated." (Compare the 6th stanza of “As I was ridinge by the way," p. 29 of Loose and humorous Songs, printed from Percy's folio Ms. by the Early English Text Society: see too A Satyr on Ri. Fletcher, Bp. of London, in which his second wife, the widow of Sir Richard Baker, is termed, with a quibble, "a common occupier," p. xi. of the Memoir of Beaumont and Fletcher, prefixed to my ed. of their works.)

occurrents, occurrences, incidents, vii. 210.

odd with him-To be, To be at odds, to contend, with him, vi. 79. odd-even and dull watch o' the night-At this, vii. 378: "This. odd-even is simply the interval between twelve at night and one in the morning" (HENLEY; whose explanation is perhaps the right one).

oddly, unequally: oddly pois'd, vi. 25.

odds—I shall win at the, “I shall succeed with the advantage that I am allowed" (MALONE), vii. 205.

'ods pittikins! vii. 704 : "Steevens's derivation from God's my pity is not quite correct. It is rather from God's pity, diminutively used by the addition of kin. In this manner we have 'od's bodikins” (DOUCE).

œilliads, amorous glances, ogles (Fr. œillade), i. 354; vii. 321. o'er-count me of my father's house-Thou dost, vii. 529; O Antony, You have my father's house, vii. 536: "O'er-count seems to be used equivocally, and Pompey perhaps meant to insinuate that Antony not only out-numbered, but had over-reached him. The circumstance here alluded to our author found in the old translation of Plutarch [by North]; 'Afterwards, when Pompey's house was put to open sale, Antonius bought it; but when they asked him money for it, he made it very straunge, and was offended with them'" (MALONE). o'er-crows, crows over, triumphs over, overpowers, vii. 210. o'ergrown-So, vii. 709: see note 157, vii. 761.

o'erlooked, bewitched: o'erlook'd even in thy birth, i. 413; They have o'er-look'd me, ii. 380.

o'er-parted, having too considerable a part or character assigned to him, ii. 227.

o'er-perch, to mount over, to fly over (as a bird to its perch), vi.

412.

o'er-posting, getting quickly over, iv. 324.

o'er-raught, over-reached, cheated: o'er-raught of all my money, ii. 12.

o'er-raught, overtook, overpassed: certain players We o'er-raught on the way, vii. 148.

o'er-sized, smeared, daubed over, "covered as with glutinous matter" (CALDECOTT), vii. 143.

o'erstraw'd, over-strewed, viii. 277.

o'er-watch'd, worn out with watching, vi. 674; vii. 283. o'er-wrested, over-wound, over-strained (see wrest), vi. 21. of, on: of sleep (on sleep

a-sleep among other instances of "on sleep" cited by Malone ad l. is one from Gascoigne's Supposes, "I think they be on sleep"), i. 233; of one horse, iii. 151; of my hawk or hound, iii. 176; bestow some precepts of this virgin, iii. 252; bestow of him, iii. 368; the box of the ear, iv. 325; A pox of this gout! or, a gout of this pox, iv. 326; revenged of her, iv. 344; God's blessing of your good heart, iv. 349; Of him that did not ask, but mock, bestow, vi. 177; take vengeance of such kind of men, vi. 344; I have an eye of you, vii. 139; And of all Christian souls, vii. 185.

of all loves: see loves-Of all.

offering side-We of the, iv. 265: see note 104, iv. 301.