C. T. Onions, A Shakespeare Glossary, address

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accommodation - advantage

Achilles' spear:

advantage - agood:

amaze - antiquary:

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argal, argo: - assistance:

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address (most freq. in sense 2; 3 and 4 are rare)

1. to direct LLL. V. ii. 92, MND. II. ii. 143, Tw.N. I. iv. 15 “address thy gait unto her.”

2. to prepare, make ready MND. V. i. 106, Mer.V. II. ix. 19, H5 III. iii. 58 “To-morrow for the march are we addrest,” Cæs. III. i. 29, Ham. I. ii. 216 “it . . . did address Itself to motion.”

3. to get oneself ready Troil IV. iv. 146 “Let us address to tend on Hector's heels.”

4. to make one's speech Lr. I. i. 193.

A Shakespeare Glossary. C. T. Onions. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1911.

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