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best: “to have the best,” to have the advantage 3H6 V. iii. 20 “having now the at Barnet field;—at the best,” (1) in the best possible way 3H6 III. i. 8, Oth. I. iii. 173 “Take up this mangled matter at the best” ; (2) in the best or most advantageous condition Rom. I. v. 123 “the sport is at the ,” Tim. I. ii. 159, III. vi. 30;—“in the best,” at best Ham. I. v. 27 “most foul, as in the best it is,” Pilgr. vii. 18 [102].
A Shakespeare Glossary. C. T. Onions. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1911.
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