Alexander Dyce, A General Glossary to Shakespeare's Works

curst shrewish, cross-grained, ill-tempered, fierce, irascible, angry: “She is curst,” THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA, iii. 1. 334 ; “she's too curst,” MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, ii. 1. 18 ; “curst wives,” LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST, iv. 1. 36 ; “I was never curst,” A MIDSUMMER-NIGHT'S DREAM, iii. 2. 300 ; “she is intolerable curst,” THE TAMING OF THE SHREW, i. 2. 87 ; “Katharine the curst,” THE TAMING OF THE SHREW, i. 2. 125 ; “a curst shrew,” THE TAMING OF THE SHREW, v. 2. 188 ; “be curst and brief” TWELFTH NIGHT, iii. 2. 39 ( “alludes to the proverb, ‘A curst cur must be tied short,’” DOUCE) ; “they are never curst, but when they are hungry,” THE WINTER'S TALE, iii. 3. 124 (bears) ; “be not so curst,” RICHARD III., i. 2. 49 ; “with curst speech” KING LEAR, ii. 1. 65 ; (“severe, harsh, vehemently angry,”JOHNSON) “Finding their enemy to be so curst,” VENUS AND ADONIS, 887.