C. T. Onions, A Shakespeare Glossary, margent

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half-check'd, cheek'd

half-kirtle * :

hand-in-hand * :

handkercher, -chief:

hangings: - haunch:

hive - honourable

honour'd: - howlet:

howsoever, howsoe'er: - Hydra:

Hyems: - hyssop:

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margent （‘margin’ is not a S. word)

1. edge, border, brink MND. II. i. 85 “the beached of the sea,” Compl. 39.

2. margin of a page of a book; hence, commentary (from the fact that the margin is used for a commentary on the text) Ham. V. ii. 162; esp. of the eyes as ‘illuminating’ the countenance LLL. II. i. 244, Rom. I. iii. 86 “written in the of his eyes,” Lucr. 102.

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

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