open (2 chiefly in “lay open”; 3 chiefly in “open hand”)
1.
public
Meas. II. i. 140
“an room,”
H8 II. i. 168
“We are too here to
argue this,”
Rom. V. iii. 193
“With outcry”
; so “in ,” in public
H8 III. ii. 405; also
adv.=publicly
Tw.N. III. iii. 37
“Do not then walk too
”
2.
patent, evident Wiv. I. iii. 26, Meas. II. i. 21,
1H4 II. iv. 254
“,
palpable,”
H5 II. ii. 142,
R3 III. v. 29
“his apparent open
guilt.”
3.
generous, liberal
2H4 IV. iv. 32
“a hand as day
for melting charity,”
Tim. V. i. 63
“open bounty.”
