Alexander Schmidt, Shakespeare Lexicon and Quotation Dictionary

Abroad, 1) at large, in all directions: “the wind will blow these sands a.” Tit. IV, 1, 106.
2) without a certain confine, which may be conceived very differently; a) opposed to one's person: “like fools that in the imagination set the goodly objects which a. they find,” Compl. 137 (== in the world around them). all my offences that a. you see, 183 (committed against other people). “his hands a. displayed,” H6B III, 2, 172 (not kept close to the body, but stretched out and displayed). there's none (air) “a. so wholesome as that you vent,” Cymb. I, 2, 4 (none without you, out of the precincts of your body). “your means a., you have me, rich,” III, 4, 180 (those besides the resources of your own mind).
b) opposed to any habitation: “this cell is my court: here have I few attendants, and subjects none a.,” Tp. V, 167 (without it, out of it). “how features are a.” III, 1, 52 (out of this island). “to come a. with him,” Merch. III, 3, 10 (to leave the prison-house). “I am glad to see your lordship a.” H4B I, 2, 108. 109 (not confined to your chamber by illness). “rain within doors, and none a.” IV, 5, 9. “if you stir a.” H6C V, 1, 96 (without the fortress). “is he ready to come a.?” H8 III, 2, 83 (to leave his closet). “but to the sport a.” Troil. I, 1, 118 (out of the town). “thy spirit walks a.” Caes. V, 3, 95 (instead of keeping his confines). “no spirit dares stir a.” Hml. I, 1, 161. “no companies a.?” Cymb. IV, 2, 101 (in the neighbourhood of our cell). “what company discover you a.?” Cymb. IV, 2, 101 to go a. == to go out: R2 III, 2, 39. H8 I, 4, 5. Rom. I, 1, 127. III, 1, 2. Caes. III, 2, 256. Lr. I, 2, 186.
c) opposed to one's own country, == in or to foreign countries: Gent. I, 1, 6. Merch. I, 1, 17. Shr. I, 2, 58. Wint. IV, 2, 6. H5 I, 2, 178. H6C III, 3, 70. Tim. III, 5, 47. Mcb. V, 8, 66. Ant. I, 4, 36.
3) here and there, round about in the wide world: “other ventures he has, squandered a.” Merch. I, 3, 22. “so much feared a.” H6A II, 3, 16. “there are cozeners a.” Wint. IV, 4, 257 (== in the world); cf. “as knaves be such a.” Oth. IV, 1, 25. what news a.? (== what news in the world?): Meas. III, 2, 87. Meas. III, 2, 87 John IV, 2, 160. V, 6, 16. H4A II, 4, 367. H6C II, 1, 95. R3 I, 1, 134. II, 3, 3. H8 III, 2, 391. Lr. II, 1, 8. “all-telling fame doth noise a.” LLL II, 22. H4B Ind. LLL II, 22 H6C V, 6, 86. R3 IV, 2, 51. Mcb. V, 1, 79. “why should I carry lies a.?” Wint. IV, 4, 275 (spread them among the people). “it is thought a.” Oth. I, 3, 393. “what should it be that they so shriek a.?” Rom. V, 3, 190 (so publicly, so within everybody's hearing, instead of "speaking within door", as Iago says in Oth. IV, 2, 144). “and set a. new business for you all,” Tit. I, 192 (to trouble all the people with business that should be the care of one only or a few. F3. 4 abroach). “there's villany a.” LLL I, 1, 189 (== on foot). “there's toys a.” John I, 232.