quicken with kissing, "Revive by my kiss [kisses]" (JOHNSON), vii.

582.

quiddits, and quiddities, legal quibblings, subtilties, equivocations, vii. 195; iv. 211.

quietus, vii. 149; viii. 412: "This is an Exchequer term. . . . . It

is the word which denotes that an accomptant is quit." Hunter's New Illust. of Shakespeare, vol. ii. p. 241: "Chiefly used by authors in metaphorical senses." Nares's Gloss.

quill-Deliver our supplications in the, v. 119: see note 20, v. 201. quillets, sly turns in argument, nice and frivolous distinctions, chicanery, ii. 205; v. 29, 149; vi. 554; vii. 195, 415.

quilt, a flock-bed how now, quilt! iv. 268.

quintain, iii. 15: "Tilting or combating at the quintain is certainly a military exercise of high antiquity, and antecedent, I doubt not, to the justs and tournaments. The quintain originally was nothing more than the trunk of a tree or post set up for the practice of the tyros in chivalry. Afterward a staff or spear was fixed in the earth, and a shield, being hung upon it, was the mark to strike at: the dexterity of the performer consisted in smiting the shield in such a manner as to break the ligatures and bear it to the ground. In process of time this diversion was improved, and instead of the staff and the shield, the resemblance of a human figure carved in wood was introduced. To render the appearance of this figure more formidable, it was generally made in the likeness of a Turk or a Saracen armed at all points, bearing a shield upon his left arm, and brandishing a club or a sabre with his right. The quintain thus fashioned was placed upon a pivot, and so contrived as to move round with facility. In running at this figure it was necessary for the horseman to direct his lance with great adroitness, and make his stroke upon the forehead between the eyes or upon the nose; for if he struck wide of those parts, especially upon the shield, the quintain turned about with much velocity, and, in case he was not exceedingly careful, would give him a severe blow upon the back with the wooden sabre held in the right hand, which was considered as highly disgraceful to the performer, while it excited the laughter and ridicule of the spectators." Strutt's Sports and Pastimes, &c. p. 104, sec. ed. There were other sorts of quintains; but the words of Orlando, a quintain, a mere lifeless block," seem to show that Shakespeare alludes to the kind above described.

quip, a sharp retort, a taunt, a repartee, iii. 73; quips, i. 306, 354; ii. 102; iv. 211.

quire, a company, an assembly: the whole quire hold their hips and loff, ii. 276.

quire, to sing in concert: Which quirèd with my drum, vi. 193; Still quiring to the young-ey'd cherubins, ii. 409.

quit, to acquit: But, for those earthly faults, I quit them all, i. 520; Till thou canst quit thee, iii. 36; Though yet he never harm'd me, here I quit him, iii. 285; God quit you in his mercy! iv. 442.

quit, to requite, to retaliate, to avenge: to quit their griefs (“to retaliate their mournful stories," JOHNSON), iv. 167; I sall quit you with gude leve ("I shall, with your permission, requite you, that is, answer you, or interpose with my arguments," JOHNSON), iv. 453; Unless the Lady Bona quit his pain, v. 284; Your children's children quit it in your age, v. 450; To be full quit of those my banishers, vi. 208; To quit her bloody wrongs upon her foes, vi. 287 ; To quit him with this arm, vii. 202; Or quit in answer of the third exchange, vii. 207; To quit this horrid act, vii. 311; God quit you, vii. 560; As he shall like, to quit me (" to repay me this insult,” JOHNSON), vii. 561; Then I shall quit you, viii. 169; Than I can quit or speak of, viii. 207; your evil quits you well, i. 520.

quit, to set free, to release: God safely quit her of her burden, v. 557. quit, quitted: the very rats Instinctively had quit it, i. 181; and quit the vessel, i. 183; took such sorrow, That he quit being, vii. 636. quittance, an acquittance, a release, a discharge: bill, warrant, quittance, or obligation, i. 345; omittance is no quittance, iii. 54. quittance, a requital: Rendering faint quittance (“return of blows," STEEVENS), iv. 317; quittance of desert and merit, iv. 439; All use of quittance ("All the customary returns made in discharge of obligations," WARBURTON), vi. 515.

quittance, to requite: As fitting best to quittance their deceit, v. 23

(“Oh, quoth hee, shall I be so ingrate as to quittance affection with fraude?" Greene's Neuer too late, First Part, sig. H 2, ed. 1611).

quiver, nimble, agile, active: there was a little quiver fellow, iv.

361.

quoif, a cap, iv. 318; quoifs, iii. 472.

quote, to note, to mark,-formerly pronounced, and often written, cote; hence the quibble (quote=coat) in the first of the following passages: And how quote you my folly? Val. I quote it in your jerkin, i. 280; His face's own margent did quote such amazes, ii. 182; We did not quote them so, ii. 232; What curious eye doth quote deformities? vi. 401; Will quote my loathsome trespass in my looks, viii. 310; Her amber hairs for foul have amber quoted (Her amber hairs have noted or marked amber for ugly), ii. 199; He's quoted for a most perfidious slave, iii. 282; Quoted, and sign'd, to do a deed of shame, iv. 56; And quoted joint by joint, vi. 78; I had not quoted him, vii. 131; how she quotes the leaves, vi. 324.

R is for the dog, vi. 423: Even in the days of the Romans, R was called the dog's letter from its resemblance in sound to the snarling of a dog: Lucilius alludes to it in a fragment, which is quoted with various corruptions by Nonius Marcellus, Charisius, and Donatus on Terence, and which Joseph Scaliger amended thus, "Irritata canes quod, homo quàm, planiu' dicit”

("canes" being the nom. sing. fem.); and Persius has "Sonat hic de nare canina

Litera."

Sat. i. 109:

Ben Jonson, in his English Grammar, says that R "Is the dog's letter, and hurreth in the sound; the tongue striking the inner palate, with a trembling about the teeth." Works, vol. ix. p. 281, ed. Gifford and various passages to the same effect might be cited from our early authors.

:

rabato, a kind of ruff or band (Fr. rabat), ii. 114: "Menage saith it comes from rabbattre, to put back, because it was at first nothing but the collar of the shirt or shift turned back towards the shoulders" (T. HAWKINS).

rabbit-sucker, a sucking rabbit, iv. 243.

rabble, a band of inferior spirits: Go bring the rabble, i. 219. rable, rabble (so written for the rhyme), viii. 166.

race, inborn quality, disposition, nature: thy vile race, i. 188; my sensual race, i. 476.

race of heaven-None our parts so poor But was a, vii. 506: Here Warburton (with the approbation of Johnson) interprets was a race of heaven by "had a smack or flavour of heaven;" while Malone is "not sure that the poet did not mean 'was of heavenly origin.”” race or two of ginger—A, iii. 464; two races of ginger, iv. 224: “Raze of ginger; Theobald pretends that this differs from race of ginger, which means only a root, whereas this means a bale or package. .... I cannot believe that the words are really different. Both must be derived from the Spanish rayz, meaning a root, and might be applied indifferently to small pieces or large packages." Nares's Gloss.

rack, a mass of vapoury clouds: the rack stand still, vii. 144; That the rack dislimns, vii. 576; With ugly rack on his celestial face, viii. 365 ("The winds in the upper region, which move the clouds above (which we call the rack)," &c. Bacon's Sylva Sylvarum, or A Naturall Historie, § 115, p. 32, ed. 1658: Rack, as Horne Tooke first observed, is properly-vapour, steam, exhalation (that which is reeked): see Richardson's Dict. in v.: see too note 101 on The Tempest, i. 253).

rack, to move like vapour (see the preceding article): the racking clouds, v. 252.

rack, to exaggerate: then we rack the value, ii. 124.

rag, a term of contempt,—a ragamuffin: Away, thou rag, iii. 162; Thou rag of honour, v. 369; that poor rag, vi. 558; rags of France, v. 452.

ragged, broken, unequal,—rough: My voice is ragged, iii. 28; winter's ragged hand, viii. 352; The raggedst (roughest) hour, iv. 318. ragged, beggarly, base, ignominious: A ragged and forestall'd remission, iv. 390 (see forestall'd, &c.); a ragged name, viii. 312. raging-wood, raging-mad, v. 64: see wood.

rake, to cover: Here, in the sands, Thee I'll rake up, vii. 329. rakes-Ere we become, vi. 135: Here, of course, the quibbling Citizen alludes to the proverb, "As lean as a rake."

rampallian, iv. 331: This term of low abuse may mean, according to Steevens, "a ramping riotous strumpet," according to Nares (in Gloss.) "one who associates with rampes or prostitutes." rang'd empire-The wide arch of the, vii. 498: "What in ancient masons' or bricklayers' work was denominated a range is now called a course" (STEEVENS): "rang'd, meaning-orderly rang'd; whose parts are now entire and distinct, like a number of wellbuilt edifices" (CAPELL).

rank, a row: The rank of osiers, iii. 63.

rank to market—It is the right butter-woman's, iii. 38: see note 78, iii. 89 (In a note on these words Mr. Staunton observes, "From a passage in Drayton's poem, 'The Shepherd's Sirena,' it might be inferred that 'rank' was a familiar term for chorus or rhyme;

'On thy bank,

In a rank,

Let thy swans sing her :""

but by "rank" Drayton assuredly means "row").

rank, exuberant, grown to great height: what, so rank? (“what, was he advanced to this pitch ?" JOHNSON), v. 497; rank Achilles, vi. 25; who else is rank? ("who else may be supposed to have overtopped his equals, and grown too high for the public safety," JOHNSON; but here Malone, wrongly, I believe, would understand rank as "replete with blood"), vi. 651; Rain added to a river that is rank (brimful), viii. 241; A ranker rate, vii. 178.

rank, gross in the rank garb, vii. 403; speeches rank, viii. 448. rank on foot-While other jests are something, " While they are hotly pursuing other merriment of their own" (STEEVENS), i. 407.

rank'd with all deserts, "covered with ranks of all kinds of men” [with all degrees of merit or demerit] (JOHNSON), vi. 509. rankness, exuberance: I will physic your rankness (high and inso

lent bearing), iii. 7; like a bated and retired flood, Leaving our rankness and irregular course (“ Rank, as applied to water, here signifies exuberant, ready to overflow; as applied to the actions of the speaker and his party, it signifies inordinate," MALONE), iv. 71; With the mere rankness of their joy, v. 547.

Rapine, Rape, vi. 344 (twice), 345 (twice).

rapture, a violent seizure: spite of all the rapture of the sea, viii. 24. rapture, a fit: Into a rapture lets her baby cry, vi. 164.

rarely, nicely, happily: How rarely does it meet with this time's guise, vi. 563.

rarely base," base in an uncommon degree" (STEEVENS), vii. 591. rascal, a deer lean and out of season: the noblest deer hath them as huge as the rascal, iii. 48; Come, you thin thing; come, you rascal, iv. 398; Not rascal-like, v. 57; Thou rascal, that art worst in blood to run, vi. 139 (a rather difficult passage; see note 13, vi. 241); You make fat rascals, Mistress Doll, iv. 341.

rash, quick, hasty, sudden, violent: no rash potion, iii. 429; His rash fierce blaze of riot, iv. 123; rash gunpowder, iv. 378; My matter is so rash, vi. 65; too rash, too unadvis'd, vi. 413; so startingly and rash, vii. 432.

rat, Irish: see Irish rat, &c.

rat without a tail—A, vii. 8: “It should be remembered (for it was the belief of the times) that though a witch could assume the form of any animal she pleased, the tail would still be wanting. The reason given by some of the old writers for such a deficiency is, that though the hands and feet, by an easy change, might be converted into the four paws of a beast, there was still no part about a woman which corresponded with the length of tail common to almost all our four-footed creatures" (STEEVENS).

rated from the heart-Affection is not, Affection is not driven out of the heart by chiding, iii. 118.

rated sinew—A, "A strength on which we reckoned, a help of which we made account" (JOHNSON), iv. 273.

rated treachery-Paying the fine of, &c., "The Dauphin has rated your treachery, and set upon it a fine which your lives must pay" (JOHNSON), iv. 70.

raught, reached: raught not to five weeks, ii. 193; raught me his hand, iv. 486; That raught at mountains with outstretched arms, v. 248.