Changeable, 1) varying in colour: “the tailor make thy doublet of c. taffeta, for thy mind is a very opal,” Tw. II, 4, 76.*
2) inconstant: c., longing and liking, proud etc. As III, 2, 431. “report is c.” Lr. IV, 7, 92. “these Moors are c. in their wills,” Oth. I, 3, 352.
Shakespeare Lexicon. Alexander Schmidt. Berlin. Georg Reimer. 1902.
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