Read The Complete Plays Online
Authors: Christopher Marlowe
licentiate graduate | Â |
liefest dearest | minx slut |
linstock stick for holding spill to light cannon | miscreants heretics, unbelievers |
 | miss ( n ) lack of |
list (i) desire, (ii) listen | mistrust suspect |
litter vehicle for one person carried by two servants | mithridate (usually) antidote to poison |
loadstar, lodestar guiding light | moe more |
looseness sexual incontinence | monument record of achievement |
lour frown | motion (i) movement, (ii) suggestion, (iii) desire |
lown rogue (Scottish or northern dialect form) | Â |
 | mought might |
lure imitation bird made of feathers and leather | mount earthwork used for fortification |
lusty pleasant | Muff derogatory term for the Swiss (M?) |
muscadel, muscadine, muscatel strong sweet wine | pate head |
 | pathetical emotive, persuasive |
mustacho moustache | patience suffering |
mystery secret art | paw claw |
 | pedant schoolmaster |
native natural | pelf money |
noisome stinking, offensive | pensiveness melancholy |
nonce purpose; for the nonce purposely, expressly | perfecter more skilled |
 | perforce (i) by violence, (ii) necessarily |
nonplus state of bewilderment | Â |
nosegay posy | pericranion skull (technically, the membrane around it) |
noted stigmatized, branded | Â |
 | period (i) end, conclusion, (ii) sentence |
occupy possess, have sex with offencious causing offence | physic medicine |
organon (i) bodily organs or fluids, (ii) philosophical works of Aristotle ( Organon ) | pickadevant short, pointed beard |
 | pickle-herring (i) pickled herring, (ii) an idiot |
orient ( adj ) (i) eastern, (ii) brilliant (of gems) | pill ( v ) plunder |
 | pin nail which secures a clout ( q.v. ) in archery |
orifex orifice, wound | Â |
orison prayers | pined tormented |
ostler stable-man | pioners sappers, those who dig mines |
ostry hostelry, inn | Â |
otherways otherwise | pitch breadth of shoulders |
overdare surpass in daring (M) | pitchy pitch-black |
overthwart across | places topics |
overwatched (i) tired through constant vigilance, (ii) spied upon | placket (i) (slit in) a skirt or petticoat, (ii) vulva |
 | plage region |
 | plain ( v ) complain |
painted colourful | plainer plaintiff |
pale boundary, fence | plate piece of silver |
paragon consort | platform ground-plan |
paramour lover | plaud applause |
parcel essential part | pleasant jocular |
parley debate, dispute | pleasantness facetiousness |
partial (i) unfair, (ii) incomplete | pledge drink toast |
pash smash to pieces | pole-axe halberd |
pass care | policy cunning |
passenger traveller | poniard dagger |
passing surpassingly | port gate |
portague Portuguese gold coin | rack tear apart, violate |
portend prophesy, suggest, foresee | racking driven before the wind |
portly stately | ragged rugged |
post ( n ) messenger, ( v ) ride fast | rampire ( n ) inner rampart, ( v ) fortify with ramparts |
posy pious motto | Â |
pottage (i) porridge, (ii) stew, soup, broth | range ( v ) roam |
 | rankle fester |
power army | rape abduction |
preachment sermonizing | rapine theft |
precinct area of secure authority | raze (i) erase, destroy, (ii) graze |
precise puritanical | reave take away |
precisian puritan, radical protestant | rebated blunted |
 | reclaim reform |
present(ly) immediate(ly) | recreant traitor |
prest ready for action | rector a university principal |
pretty (i) admirable, (ii) amusing | recure cure |
prevent anticipate, forestall | redoubted fearsome |
principality princely government | reflex shine |
 | refluence flowing back |
problem scholastic disputation | refreshing refreshment, food |
prolocutor herald, spokesman | regiment power, authority |
proper own | regreet greet anew (M) |
prorex viceroy | remorseful compassionate |
protest swear, profess | renied apostate |
prove test, experience | rent rend, tear |
provender fodder | repair imminent arrival |
puissant powerful | repeal recall (from banishment) |
purchase win | repine complain |
purgation an emetic | repute understand by |
pyramid obelisk | reserve preserve |
 | resolve (i) determine to achieve, (ii) satisfy, (iii) melt |
qualify mitigate | Â |
quenchless unquenchable | respect particular circumstances |
quick alive | rest remain |
quicksilver mercury | resteth remains to be done |
quiddity (i) the essence (of something), (ii) quibble | retire strategic withdrawal from battle |
quinque-angle five-pointed, star-shaped | retorqued turned back on themselves (M) |
quite (i) repay, acquit, (ii) requite | reverberate beaten back |
quittance quits | rivelled twisted, plaited |
road (i) roadstead, harbour, (ii) raid | silly feeble, simple |
 | silverling silver coin |
room position, office | sink cesspool |
round slop baggy trousers | sith since |
roundly (i) with complete success, (ii) briskly | slack neglect |
 | snipper snapper whippersnapper |
rout mob | Â |
royalize crown, make celebrated | society community |
rub polish | soil marsh |
ruin falling | sollar loft, store-room |
runagate renegade, runaway, vagabond | sometime formerly |
 | sophister specious reasoner |
ruth suffering, pity | sort pack |
rutter knight, cavalry | sound ( v ) (i) blow (of trumpet), (ii) resound, echo, (iii) measure (depth) |
sack dry Spanish white wine | Â |
sakar, saker small cannon | spials spies |
salute greet | splendant bright, resplendent |
sarell seraglio, harem | spoil plunder |
sauce ( v ) season, flavour | spurca (Latin) filthy, base |
savour ( n ) smell | spurn kick, disdain |
scald contemptible | squib firework |
scamble compete fiercely for money | stand upon understand |
 | standing ( n ) position, ( adj ) stagnant |
scathe harm | Â |
scholarism scholarship | starting holes refuges for hunted animals |
scour beat, punish | Â |
scutcheon escutcheon, heraldic shield | state (i) government, (ii) pomp, ceremony, (iii) throne, (iv) condition |
sectious factious, sectarian | Â |
seignory governorship | stature statue |
sennet trumpet call | staying supporting |
serge cheap woollen fabric | steel ( v ) sharpen |
servitor servant | stern rudder |
several separate | still constantly, continuously |
shag-rag ragged, rascally | stilts crutches |
shape (i) appearance, (ii) costume | stomach ( v ) resent |