Macbeth

Ms. Fye (United States of America)
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  1. paddock
    a pen for horses
    Paddock calls.
  2. plight
    a situation from which extrication is difficult
    As seemeth by his plight, of the revolt
  3. disdain
    lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike
    Disdaining fortune, with his brandish'd steel,
  4. brandish
    move or swing back and forth
    Disdaining fortune, with his brandish'd steel,
  5. whence
    from what place, source, or cause
    So from that spring whence comfort seem'd to come
  6. dismal
    causing dejection
    Unto a dismal and a fatal end:
  7. deign
    do something that one considers to be below one's dignity
    Nor would we deign him burial of his men
  8. disburse
    expend, as from a fund
    Till he disbursed at Saint Colme's inch
  9. thither
    to or toward that place; away from the speaker
    But in a sieve I'll thither sail,
  10. surmise
    infer from incomplete evidence
    Is smother'd in surmise, and nothing is
  11. cleave
    separate or cut with a tool, such as a sharp instrument
    Like our strange garments, cleave not to their mould
  12. frieze
    an ornament consisting of a horizontal sculptured band
    Smells wooingly here: no jutty, frieze,
  13. purveyor
    someone who supplies provisions, especially food
    To be his purveyor: but he rides well;
  14. cherub
    an angel portrayed as a winged child
    Striding the blast, or heaven's cherubim, horsed
  15. adage
    a condensed but memorable saying embodying an important fact
    Like the poor cat i' the adage?
  16. mettle
    the courage to carry on
    For thy undaunted mettle should compose
  17. prate
    speak about unimportant matters rapidly and incessantly
    Thy very stones prate of my whereabout,
  18. multitudinous
    too numerous to be counted
    The multitudinous seas in incarnadine,
  19. incarnadine
    redden or make pinkish
    The multitudinous seas in incarnadine,
  20. constancy
    the quality of being enduring and free from change
    Your constancy
  21. equivocate
    be deliberately ambiguous or unclear
    Faith, here's an equivocator, that could swear in both the scales against either scale; who committed treason enough for God's sake, yet could not equivocate to heaven: O, come in, equivocator.
  22. requite
    make repayment for or return something
    That it did, sir, i' the very throat on me: but I requited him for his lie; and, I think, being too strong for him, though he took up my legs sometime, yet I made a shift to cast him.
  23. countenance
    the appearance conveyed by a person's face
    To countenance this horror!
  24. benison
    a spoken blessing
    God's benison go with you; and with those
  25. verity
    conformity to reality or actuality
    As justice, verity, temperance, stableness,
  26. dauntless
    invulnerable to fear or intimidation
    And, to that dauntless temper of his mind,
  27. jocund
    full of or showing high-spirited merriment
    Then be thou jocund: ere the bat hath flown
  28. nonpareil
    model of excellence or perfection of a kind
    Thou art the nonpareil.
  29. augur
    predict from an omen
    Augurs and understood relations have
  30. laudable
    worthy of high praise
    Is often laudable, to do good sometime
  31. avaricious
    immoderately desirous of acquiring something
    Luxurious, avaricious, false, deceitful,
  32. impediment
    something immaterial that interferes with action or progress
    All continent impediments would o'erbear
  33. abjure
    formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief
    Unspeak mine own detraction, here abjure
  34. forswear
    formally reject or disavow
    Unknown to woman, never was forsworn,
  35. malady
    impairment of normal physiological function
    That stay his cure: their malady convinces
  36. assay
    a test of a substance to determine its components
    The great assay of art; but at his touch--
  37. sanctity
    the quality of being holy
    Such sanctity hath heaven given his hand--
  38. benediction
    a blessing or ceremonial prayer invoking divine protection
    The healing benediction.
  39. epicure
    a person who takes great pleasure in fine food and drink
    And mingle with the English epicures:
  40. clamorous
    conspicuously and offensively loud
    Those clamorous harbingers of blood and death.
  41. abhor
    feel hatred or disgust toward
    Thou liest, abhorred tyrant; with my sword
  42. prowess
    a superior skill learned by study and practice
    The which no sooner had his prowess confirm'd
Created on Tue Nov 12 14:18:01 EST 2013 (updated Tue Nov 12 14:18:34 EST 2013)

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