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A glossary of Tudor and Stuart words, especially from the dramatists

Skeat, Walter W. (Walter William), 1835-1912; Mayhew, A. L. (Anthony Lawson), 1842-1916 [Editor]· 5 chapters· 170,391 words

concave continent’, iv. 1 (1543); scene 11. 15 (W.); p. 172, col. 1 (D.). Cp. ‘Judging the concave circle of the sun To hold the rest in his circumference’, Greene, Friar Bacon, iii. 3 (1122); scene 9. 36 (W.); p. 167, col. 1 (D.).

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4. scene 2. 89 (W.); p. 156, col. 1 (D.). ‘Pick-pack’ (or ‘a pick-pack’) is

=pickthank,= a flatterer, a mischief-maker. 1 Hen. IV, iii. 2. 25; Beaumont and Fl., Maid’s Tragedy, iii. 1 (Evadne); _pickthank tales_, tales told to curry favour, Dekker, Shoe...

1. scene 9. 62 (W.); p. 167, col. 2 (D); ‘Luna, . . . trembling upon her

concave continent’, iv. 1 (1543); scene 11. 15 (W.); p. 172, col. 1 (D.). Cp. ‘Judging the concave circle of the sun To hold the rest in his circumference’, Greene, Friar Bacon,...

2. scene 6. 136 (W.); p. 162, col. 2 (D.).

=han,= _pres. pl._ have. Spenser, Shep. Kal., May, 168. This plural form is still in prov. use from Yorkshire to Shropshire, see EDD. (s.v. Have). ME. _han_: ‘Thei han Moyses an...

5. Act v (Lodovico). Hence, _tarrest_, terraced, provided with terraces;

=tarre on,= to set on a dog, to incite him to bite, King John, iv. 1. 117; Hamlet, ii. 2. 370; ‘To tarr on’, meaning to excite to anger, is in common use in Cheshire (EDD.). ME....

3. Act v (Lodovico). See Nares.

=may,= a maiden. Spenser, Shep. Kal., Nov., 39; Greene, Description of the Shepherd, l. 57; ed. Dyce, p. 305. Of frequent occurrence in Scottish Ballads, see EDD. (s.v. May, sb....