Glossing (basic) Flashcards
1.1
‘bloods’
- dispositions, moods affecting physiological and psychological states
1.1
‘his like’
- one who is his equal
1.1
‘sur-addition’
- additional name/ title given for commendatory service
as in Coriolanus after Caius Marcius
1.1
‘swathing clothes’
- cloths used to wrap and swaddle an infant
1.1
‘marry’
- a mild oath invoking the Virgin Mary
- reduction of ‘by the virgin mary’
1.1
‘dissembling courtesy’
- deceptively polite behaviour
1.1
‘fine’
- subtly, with nicety
1.1
‘tickle’
- flatter
1.1
‘cere up’
- shroud by wrapping a corpse in a cere-cloth (a waxed winding sheet)
- shut up in a coffin
- ie. Posthumus prefers to die rather than embrace a second wife
1.1
‘lustre’
- brilliance
1.1
‘vile’
- abhorrent
1.2
‘reflection’
- evidence/ indication
1.2
‘wit’
- intelligence
1.3
‘senseless’
- unfeeling
1.3
‘eye-strings’
- the nerves, blood vessels, tendons, or muscles of the eye which were thought to break at death or loss of sight
1.3
‘interest’
- entitlement or claim (to him)
1.4
‘crescent note’
- growing reputation
- Posthumus’ star is rising, like the increasing, crescent-shaped moon
1.4
‘furnished’
- equipped
1.4
‘mended’
- revised/ improved
1.4
‘signor’
- gentleman/ sir
1.4
‘approbation’
- proof
1.4
‘have articles’
- procure a legal agreement
1.5
‘cordial’
- restorative
1.5
‘earnest’
- the first payment to seal a bargain
1.5
‘closet’
- private chamber
1.6
‘seasons’
- strengthens/ tempers
1.6
‘Partition’
- distinction/ separation
1.6
‘trow’
- I wonder
1.6
‘cloyed will’
- lust overfed to the point of surfeit
1.6
‘raps’
- transports
1.6
‘peevish’
- irritable, ill-tempered
- temperamental
1.6
‘Gallian’
- someone from Gallia (the Latin name for Gaul)
1.6
‘wrack’
- ruin and loss
1.6
‘Slaver’
- slobber, to wet with saliva
1.6
‘stinking tallow’
- smelly candle made from animal fat
1.6
‘beggary’
- contemptible meanness
1.6
‘Recoil’
- degenerate
1.6
‘saucy’
- impudent, lascivious
- insolent (a stronger term than now)
1.6
‘to mart’
- should bargain, make a deal
- to do business (the verb derives from the noun ‘mart’ as in marketplace)
1.6
‘witch’
‘holy witch’
- a wizard or enchanter
- can be used for both genders
- a wizard who practises white magic, not black
2.1
‘pate’
- head
2.1
‘coining’
- devising
2.2
‘taper’
- candle
- this very localised source of light in the darkened room builds the tension of the scene by accentuating the darkness
2.2
‘voucher’
- piece of evidence
2.3
‘vantages’
- suitable opportunities
2.3
‘Prefer’
- recommended
2.3
‘meaner’
- socially inferior
2.3
‘squire’s cloth’
- servant’s clothing
2.3
‘pantler’
- a household servant in charge of the bread or pantry
- a lowly position
2.3
‘underhangman’
- an apprentice or assistant to the hangman
- a job that was generally despised
2.3
‘sprited’
- tormented, as by a spirit
2.3
‘Shrew me’
- an aphetic form of ‘beshrew me’, a mild oath meaning ‘the devil take me’
2.4
‘arrearages’
- overdue payments of tribute
2.4
‘tenor’
- substance/ content
2.4
‘fretted’
- elaborately adorned with cravings in decorative patterns, as in ‘fretwork’
3.2
‘senseless bauble’
- insentient trifle
- a trifle, without feeling
3.3
‘keep house’
- stay inside
3.3
‘jet’
- strut/ swagger
3.3
‘mellow hangings’
- ripe fruit
3.3
‘demesnes’
- territories
3.4
‘pander’
- pimp/ procurer
3.4
‘posting’
- swift/ speeding
3.4
‘panged’
- tormented
3.4
‘false struck’
- stricken with slander
3.4
‘waggish’
- mischievious
- roguish
3.4
‘gibes’
- taunts, jeers
3.4
‘soldier to’
- committed to, enlisted to
3.4
‘stomach qualmed’
- taken sick/ nauseous
3.5
‘packing’
- scheming
3.5
‘sirrah’
- a form of address to an inferior, in this instance contemptuous
- fellow
3.5
‘industry’
- diligence
3.6
‘churls’
(also ‘carl’)
5.2
‘drudge’
- peasants/ rustics (contempuous)
- slave/ serf
3.7
‘writ’
- written command, document
3.7
‘levy’
- recruitment (of soldiers)
3.7
‘vainglory’
- undue vanity
4.2
‘yoke me’
- link myself
4.2
‘commix’
- mingle
4.2
‘runagates’
- runaways ie. Innogen and Posthumus
- vagabond
4.2
‘reck’
- care
4.2
‘enchafed’
- enraged, furious
4.2
‘Stark’
- stiff, rigid
4.2
‘leagued’
- linked, intertwined
4.2
‘Od’s pittikins’
- God’s pity, a colloquial form of ‘God have mercy’
- OED suggests that ‘od’ as a ‘minced form of God’ was introduced around 1600 to avoid overt blasphemy
4.2
‘lucre’
- greed/ financial gain
4.2
‘pickaxes’
- her fingers
4.3
‘it betid’
- has happened
4.4
‘cloyed importantly’
- obstructed or impeded with important matters
4.4
‘quartered fires’
- campfires in their quarters
4.4
‘cracked’
- weakened (with age), flawed
5.1
‘weeds’
‘habits’
- clothes
- garments
5.3
‘strait’
- narrow/ confined
5.3
‘full-hearted’
- full of courage and confidence
5.3
‘touched’
- wounded
5.3
‘dammed’
- blocked
5.3
‘Athwart’
- (positioned) across
5.3
‘striplings’
- youths passing from boyhood to manhood
5.3
‘bane’
- ruin
5.3
‘fly my friendship’
- run from me
5.3
‘silly’
- simple and rustic
5.4
‘gyves’
- fetters, shackles
5.4
‘clement’
- compassionate, merciful
5.4
‘dolours’
- sorrow
5.4
‘fangled’
- fashion-conscious, novelty-obsessed
5.4
‘counters’
- metal discs used for making calculations
5.5
‘naked’
- unprotected by armour
5.5
‘mortal mineral’
- deadly poison
5.5
‘razed out’
- scraped clean, removed by erasure
5.5
‘estate’
- spiritual condition
5.5
‘feat’
- deft
5.5
‘vassal’
- subject
5.5
‘viands’
- food, victuals
5.5
‘laming’
- making deficient
5.5
‘hook of wiving’
- bait for marriage
5.5
‘unspeaking sots’
- inarticulate idiots
5.5
‘amorous’
- faithful love
5.5
‘simular’
- pretended, simulated
5.5
‘benediction’
- blessing
5.5
‘fierce abridgement’
- drastically compressed account
5.5
‘stock’
- trunk
5.5
‘laud’
- praise, honour
1.1
‘dotards’
- old fools
1.2
‘haven’
- harbour
1.4
‘suffer the report’
- bear recounting
1.4
‘moiety’
- half
1.6
‘vaulting’
- sexually straddling
1.6
‘variable ramps’
- variety of whores
2.2
‘tinct’
- colour
2.3
‘bred of alms’
- brought up on charitable relief of the king
2.4
‘pudency’
- modesty
3.1
‘giglot’
- whore
- Fortune is often presented as such because she is fickle
3.3
‘franklin’
- a freeholder, below the rank of a gentleman
- a small landowner
3.7
‘outpeer’
- surpass
4.2
‘precious varlet’
- arrant rascal
4.2
‘obsequies’
- funeral rites
4.4
‘tanlings’ (note the similarity to ‘strip-lings’ as in youths)
- children tanned by the sun
4.4
‘rowel’
- small, rotating disc at the end of a spur
5.3
‘distaff’
- a pole used in spinning
5.3
‘rout’
- disorderly flight - a military term
5.3
‘shanks’
- legs
5.3
‘geck’
- dupe
5.3
‘fealty’
- allegiance owing to a lord
5.3
‘whelp’
- cub
5.4
‘carbuncle’
- a precious stone (red)
1.1
‘widow’
- implies that the Queen is not of royal birth
- king’s objection to Innogen’s choice of husband is thus in contradiction to his own choice to marry someone not noble
1.1
‘gall’
- bile, bitter bodily fluid
- ink - made of a bitter oak-gall (parasitic growth on oak bark)
1.1
‘manacle’
- can also refer to a shackle ie. derives from ‘manus’ meaning hand
- Posthumus’ use of the manacle in context suggests an attempt to contain Innogen’s sexuality in marriage in his absence
1.1
‘fraught’
- burden
1.1
‘needle’
- the female counterpart to a sword, in context an amusing image urging the men to fight
1.1
‘haven’
- harbour
1.4
‘battery’
- assault/ bombardment
1.4
‘less attemptable’
- less open to seduction
1.4
‘dram’
- an apothecary’s weight, 1/8th of an ounce
1.5
‘remembrancer’
- a person who reminds her
- word recalls ‘an official appointed to oversee certain affair, esp. debts’
1.6
‘‘th Arabian bird’
- phoenix
- mythical bird, symbolises perfection because it was believed there was only one
- symbolically linked to virginity
1.6
‘Parthian’
- horse-archers of Parthia were proverbially famous for their fighting techniques
1.6
‘‘Twixt fair and (foul)?’
- may refer to a prostitute
1.6
‘furnaces’
- breathes heavily
1.6
‘by-peeping’
- gazing covertly, or intermittently
1.6
‘boiled stuff’
- referring to the ‘sweating tubs’ used to treat venereal disease
1.6
‘service’
- devotion or suit of a lover
1.6
‘Romish stew’
- Roman brothel
1.6
‘fan’
- winnow, blow upon to separate the chaff from the grain
2.1
‘jackanapes’
- a pert, impertinent fellow
2.1
‘jack-slave’
- knavish slave
2.1
‘strange’
- abnormal/ unnatural
- aloof/ distant
2.1
‘derogation’
- a detraction from one’s honour or dignity
2.2
‘Cytherea’
- the goddess of beauty and love
- known to the Greeks as Aphrodite
- to the Romans as Venus
2.3
‘horsehairs and calves’ guts’
- bowstrings and strings for a fiddle or lute
2.3
‘forbearance’
- restraint
2.4
‘more ordered’
- better disciplined
2.4
‘approvers’
- those who put them to the test
2.4
‘chimney-piece’
- a piece of sculpture, painting or tapestry used as an ornament over a fire
2.4
‘andirons’
- ornamented supports for the iron bars used to hold burning wood in a fireplace, sometimes called ‘fire dogs’
2.4
‘cognizance’
- a device or emblem borne for distinction by all the retainers of a noble house
2.4
‘colted’
- mounted in sexual intercourse
2.5
‘full-acorned’
- well-fed with acorns
- common food for pigs
3.1
‘Neptune’s park’
- refers to the British Isles because they are defended by a thick border of trees, and surrounded by dangerous water
3.1
‘ribbed and paled in’
- enclosed like the ribs around a body/ timbers of a ship’s hulk
3.4
‘jay’
- whore, strumpet
3.4
‘cravens’
- renders spiritless through fear
3.4
‘stomachers’
- the ornamental covering of the chest… worn by women under the lacing of the bodice
3.7
‘proconsul’
- provincial governor
provincial commander carrying out the duties of a consul
4.2
‘clotpoll’
- thick or ‘wooden’ head
- head made of a clod of earth
blockhead, dolt, numskull
4.2
‘jollity for apes and grief for boys’
- superficial joy and shallow grief
4.2
‘clouted brogues’
- a rough kind of shoe studded with nails
4.2
‘eglantine’
- sweet briar, a species of rose with delicately scented leaves
4.2
‘ruddock’
- robin redbreast
4.2
‘wench-like’
- girlish, womanish
4.2
‘fanes’
- oracles or temple-voices
4.2
‘confiners’
- inhabitants, those living within the confines
4.2
‘desperate bed’
- death bed
4.4
‘During their use’
- as long as they find us useful to them
4.4
‘shrinking slaves’
- recoiling from winter’s cold like slaves under the lash
5.3
‘country base’
- reference to a children’s game called ‘prisoner’s bar’
5.3
‘gilded pale looks’
- restored colour to the soldiers’ faces blanched with fear
5.3
‘the first beginners’
- those who first display cowardice
5.3
‘veriest hind’
- merest peasant or boor (a rough and bad-mannered person)
1.1
hourly
- continual
1.1
plight troth
- make a vow of marriage
1.1
pinch
pain
5.4
stomach
appetite
5.4
vile men
creditors, or usurers, who seize a portion of the money or goods belonging to their debtors
5.4
abatement
the reduced principal on a loan after the creditor has seized money or goods in partial payment
5.4
thunder-master
Lucina
Jupiter
Roman goddess of childbirth
5.4
Leonati seat
literally - the ancestral home of the Leonati family
figuratively - used to refer to his family’s honour
5.4
fealthy
loyalty to Tenantius, Cymbeline’s father
5.4
acquittance
deliverance (from debt as well as life)
5.5
peculiar care
personal concerns
5.5
boon
favour, request
5.5
Winnow
separate, as grain is separated out from chaff during threshing
5.5
straight-pight Minerva
straight-pitched, hence an erect, tall image of the goddess of the arts and war
5.5
staggers
giddiness, dizziness, usually with reference to diseases of horses that prompt them to walk unsteadily
5.5
spritely shows
ghostly visions
5.5
crooked
crookèd, referring to curling or twisting smoke
5.3
distaff
a long, cleft pole through which fibres of wool or flax were drawn to spin them into thread, and it came to symbolise women
5.3
drooping
faltering
1.1
neatherd
cowherd - one who looks after bulls, cows or oxen
1.3
vantage
with his next opportunity
1.4
atone
reconcile
irregulous
unruly, lawless, uncontrollable
