ingener, an ingenious person, a deviser, an artist, a painter, vii. 396 : but the reading is questionable; see note 29, vii. 476. ingenious, intelligent, acute, lively: thy most ingenious sense, vii. 198; ingenious feeling Of my huge sorrows, vii. 329 (According to Warburton, "Ingenious feeling signifies a feeling from an understanding not disturbed or disordered, but which, representing things as they are, makes the sense of pain the more exquisite"). ingenious, ingenuous: ingenious studies, iii. 114 (So in a comparatively recent author; "But 'tis contrary to an ingenious spirit to delight in such service," &c. Defoe's Colonel Jack, p. 141, ed. 1738). ingeniously, ingenuously, vi. 531.

inhabitable, uninhabitable, iv. 107.

inherit, to possess, to obtain possession of: Yea, all which it inherit, i. 222; This, or else nothing, will inherit her, i. 303; inherit us So much as of a thought of ill in him, iv. 107; never after to inherit it, vi. 302; shall you this night inherit at my house, vi. 395; But to the girdle do the gods inherit, vii. 325.

inhibit, to prohibit, to forbid, vii. 41 (see note 65, vii. 86); inhibited, iii. 210, 383.

inhibition comes by the means of the late innovation-Their, vii. 140: "This passage probably refers to the limiting of public theatrical performances to the two theatres, the Globe on [the] Bankside, and the Fortune in Golden Lane, in 1600 and 1601. The players, by a 'late innovation,' were 'inhibited,' or forbidden, to act in or near 'the city,' and therefore 'travelled,' or strolled into the country. See 'History of Engl. Dram. Poetry and the Stage,' vol. i. p. 311, &c." (COLLIER).

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inhoop'd, at odds-His quails ever Beat mine, vii. 523 : "The ancients used to match quails as we match cocks" (JOHNSON): hoop'd. Inclosed in a hoop . . . . It appears now to be made out, that cocks or quails were sometimes made to fight within a broad hoop, to keep them from quitting each other. Mr. Douce has actually found a Chinese print [miniature painting] in which two birds are so represented. See his Illustrations, vol. ii. p. 86. . . . The substance of this [passage] is from North's Plutarch, as well as much more of the same drama; but the inhooped is the addition of our poet." Nares's Gloss.

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Iniquity-Justice or, i. 461; that gray iniquity, iv. 243; the formal Vice, Iniquity, v. 394: see Vice-Like the old, &c.

injointed, joined, united, vii. 385.

inkhorn mate, a bookish man, or a bookman, v. 39: "It was a term of reproach towards men of learning or men affecting to be learned" (REED).

inkle, a kind of inferior tape, ii. 186; viii. 61; inkles, iii. 472.

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inland bred, bred, brought up among civilised persons (inland being

used by our old writers in opposition to upland), iii. 32; an inland man, iii. 44.

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inly, inward the inly touch of love, i. 289; inly sorrow, v. 251. inly, inwardly: I've inly wept, i. 232; inly ruminate, iv. 468. inn-Thou most beauteous, iv. 166; shall I not take mine ease in mire inn? iv. 260: In the first of these passages inn, according to Steevens, means a dignified habitation ;" according to Mason, a house of entertainment, and is opposed to alehouse in the following line [the next line but one] ;" and according to Mr. Staunton merely "abode :" on the second passage Percy observes, "To 'take mine ease in mine inne' was an ancient proverb, not very different in its application from that maxim, 'Every man's house is his castle;' for inne originally signified a house or habitation [Sax. inne, domus, domicilium]. When the word inne began to change its meaning, and to be used to signify a house of entertainment, the proverb, still continuing in force, was applied in the latter sense, as it is here used by Shakespeare."

innocent, an idiot, a natural fool, a simpleton: a dumb innocent, iii. 266; Pray, innocent, and beware the foul fiend, vii. 305; the pious innocent, viii. 53; An innocent, viii. 180.

inquire, an inquiry: the most strange inquire, viii. 35.

inquisition, an inquiry, i. 178; iii. 23.

insane root-The, The root which causes insanity, vii. 10: Perhaps hemlock; or more probably henbane, as would appear from the following passage, cited by Douce; “Henbane... is called Insana, mad, for the use thereof is perillous; for if it be eate or dronke, it breedeth madnesse, or slow lykenesse of sleepe. Therefore this hearb is called commonly Mirilidium, for it taketh away wit and reason.” Batman Uppon Bartholome de propriet. rerum, lib. xvii. ch. 87. insculp'd upon-The figure of an angel Stamped in gold, but that's, ii. 371: Here insculp'd upon means "carved in relief, embossed on the coin."

insinuate, to soothe, to wheedle: Basely insinuate, and send us gifts, vi. 327; With Death she humbly doth insinuate, viii. 273.

insinuation-By their own, "By their having insinuated or thrust themselves into the employment" (MALONE), vii. 202.

insisture, fixedness, stability ("constancy or regularity," Johnson's Dict.; "regularity, or perhaps station," Nares's Gloss.), vi. 19. instance, a word used by Shakespeare with various shades of meaning which it is not always easy to distinguish,-" motive, inducement, cause, ground; symptom, prognostic; information, assurance; proof, example, indication:" my desires had instance and argument, i. 371; Gives me this instance, i. 502; Gave any tragic in

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stance of our harm, ii. 6; what's the instance? iii. 257; A certain instance that Glendower is dead, iv. 354; his fears are shallow, wanting instance, v. 398; Instance, O instance, vi. 88; no guilty instance gave, viii. 330; But not with such familiar instances, vi. 665 (where Mr. Craik chooses to explain instances by " assiduities"); The instances that second marriage move, vii. 158.

instrument this lower world-That hath to, "That makes use of this world, and every thing in it, as its instruments to bring about its ends" (STEEVENS), i. 216.

insuppressive, insuppressible, vi. 634.

intend, to pretend: intend a kind of zeal, ii. 95; I intend that all is done, iii. 155; Intend some fear, v. 410; Intending deep suspicion, v. 406; intending other serious matters, vi. 530; Intending weariness, viii. 290.

intend, to set forth, to make to appear (like the Latin intendo,— "intendere eruditionem"): if thou dost intend never so little show of love to her, ii. 300.

intended in the general's name,

pressing," &c. (STEEVENS), iv. 367.

understood, meant without ex

intendment, intention, iii. 8; main intendment (which Steevens explains "exertion in a body"), iv. 428; vii. 450; intendments, viii.

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intenible: see captious and intenible sieve.

intention, eagerness of attention or of desire: with such a greedy intention, i. 354; my intention, hearing not my tongue, i. 471; thy intention stabs the centre, iii. 424.

intentively, attentively, vii. 388. interess'd, interested, vii. 251.

inter'gatory, interrogatory, ii. 416; inter'gatories, ii. 416; iii. 266; vii. 733.

intermission, a pause, ii. 385; iii. 31; vii. 60, 284.

intermissive miseries—Their, "Their miseries, which have had only a short intermission from Henry the Fifth's death to my coming amongst them" (WARBURTON), v. 7.

interpret between you and your love, if I could see the puppets dallying-I could, vii. 159: An allusion to the interpreter, who at all motions or puppet-shows interpreted to the audience: see motion. into used for unto: into truth, i. 180; into thy attempt, iii. 222; into the drowsy ear of night, iv. 40; his whole kingdom into desolation, iv. 442.

intrenchant, "which cannot be cut" (JOHNSON), "not permanently divisible, not retaining any mark of division" (Nares's Gloss.), vii. 70.

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investments, vestures, dress, garb, iv. 364; vii. 119. invincible-That his dimensions to any thick sight were, iv. 362: see note 57, iv. 409: "The word [invincible]," says Singer ad l., “is metaphorically used for not to be mastered or taken in. See Baret's Alvearie in v. :" but in the ed. of Baret's work now before me, that of 1580, I find no such glosses, which, after all, would go little way to confirm the reading in our text.

invis'd, invisible, unseen, viii. 445.

inward, an intimate, a familiar friend: I was an inward of his,

i. 487.

inward, intimate, confidential: for what is inward between us, ii. 209; Who is most inward with the noble duke? v. 403. inwardness, intimacy, ii. 124.

Irish rat—I was never so be-rhymed since Pythagoras' time, that I was an, iii. 40: “She alludes to the Pythagorean doctrine, which teaches that souls transmigrate from one animal to another, and relates that in his time she was an Irish rat, and by some metrical charm was rhymed to death. The power of killing rats with rhymes Donne mentions in his Satires, and Temple in his Treatises," &c. (JOHNSON): It would be easy to quote sundry passages concerning the rhyming of rats to death.

irregulous, disorderly, lawless, vii. 704.

isle-Fertile the, iii. 449: see note 57, iii. 514.

issu❜d-No worse, No worse descended, i. 179. iterance, iteration, repetition, vii. 463.

iteration, repetition, iv. 212; vi. 52.

I wis, ii. 376; iii. 115; v. 365; viii. 19: That in our earlier literature I wis is one word (i-wis), the Saxon genitive gewis used adverbially, and meaning "truly, certainly," admits of no dispute: see Sir F. Madden's Gloss. to Syr Gawayne, where he remarks that "although satisfied about the origin of i-wis, he still has his doubts whether it was not regarded as a pronoun and verb by the writers of the fifteenth century:" For my own part, I cannot help believing that the writers of Elizabeth's time and later, ignorant of the original meaning of I wis, employed it as equivalent to "I ween :" and see, under occupy, the quotation from Wits, Fits, and Fancies, where we have the spelling “I wisse.”

jack, the small bowl (sometimes called also the mistress) aimed at in the game of bowling: when I kissed the jack, vii. 657: "To kiss the jack' is a state of great advantage" (JOHNSON).

Jack, a common term of contempt and reproach (fellow, knave, rogue): you are Jack Rugby, i. 357; Jack priest, i. 358, 373; play the flouting Jack, ii. 79; twangling Jack, iii. 132; a swearing Jack, iii. 136; the prince is a Jack, iv. 260; then am I a Jack, iv. 287; Since every Jack became a gentleman, v. 365; thou art as hot a Jack (where Jack is merely equivalent to "fellow," and used jocularly), vi. 427; Hang him, Jack! vi. 461; this Jack, vii. 559, 560; braggarts, Jacks, milksops, ii. 131; bragging Jacks, ii. 392; insinuating Jacks, v. 364; twenty such Jacks, vi. 422.

Jack, the Jack-o'-lantern or Will-o'-the-wisp: your fairy.... has done little better than played the Jack with us, i. 224.

Jack, an automaton that in public clocks struck the bell on the outside: Jack o' the clock, iv. 179; like a Jack, thou keep'st the stroke, v. 422; minute-jacks, vi. 546 (where Nares thinks that minute-jacks mean "fellows who watch the proper minutes to offer their adulation." Gloss. in v.).

Jack guardant, a Jack-in-office, vi. 223.

Jack shall have Jill, ii. 304; Jack hath not Jill, ii. 235: A well-known proverbial expression: Ray gives, "Every Jack must have his Gill." Proverbs, p. 124, ed. 1768.

Jack-a-Lent, a puppet thrown at during Lent, as cocks were thrown at on Shrove-Tuesday, i. 381, 414.

jack-an-apes, an ape, iv. 502.

Jack-sauce, a saucy Jack, iv. 490.

jacks, the keys of the virginal: those jacks that nimble leap, viii. 413: "The virginal jack was a small flat piece of wood, furnished on the upper part with a quill, affixed to it by springs of bristle. These jacks were directed by the finger-key to the string, which was struck by the quill, then forced past the string by the elastic spring, giving it liberty to sound as long as the finger rested on the key. When the finger was removed, the quill returned to its place, and a small piece of cloth, fixed on the top of the jack, resting on the string, stopped its vibration" (FAIRHOLT).

jacks fair within, the gills fair without-Be the, iii. 150: “A play upon the words jack and jill, which signify two drinking measures, as well as men and maid-servants" (STEEVENS).