Without, 1) adv. a) on the outside, outwardly, externally: “within be fed, w. be rich no more,” Sonn. 146, 12. “if the devil be within and that temptation w.” Merch. I, 2, 106. Shr. IV, 1, 52. Troil. III, 3, 97. V, 8, 1. Rom. I, 3, 90. Cymb. III, 2, 22. V, 1, 33. == to the outside, out: “turned your wit the seamy side w.” Oth. IV, 2, 146. -- within and out == within and without, Wiv. V, 5, 60. cf. “without or in,” Troil. III, 3, 97.
b) out of doors, not in a house or room or other place: “here w. you shall be so received,” LLL II, 173. “here stays w. a messenger,” Merch. IV, 1, 107. H8 V, 3, 5. Tim. V, 4, 39. Mcb. IV, 1, 135. Hml. IV, 3, 14. IV, 5, 112. Oth. II, 3, 31.
c) in a state of not having: “if best were as it was, or best w.” Compl. 98.
2) prepos. a) out of, on the outside of: “w. the bed her other fair hand was,” Lucr. 393. “they are all perceived w. ye,” Gent. II, 1, 35. Mids. I, 1, 165. I, 2, 104. As III, 2, 179. R2 V, 2, 56. Troil. III, 3, 82. Rom. III, 3, 17. Mcb. III, 1, 47. Cymb. IV, 2, 307. Transposed: it (blood) “is better thee w. than he within,” Mcb. III, 4, 14.
b) beyond, not in the reach of: and deal in her (the moon's) “command w. her power,” Tp. V, 271 (without being subject to her pernicious influence). “w. the peril of the Athenian law,” Mids. IV, 1, 158.
c) except: “businesses which none w. thee can sufficiently manage,” Wint. IV, 2, 16 (or == wanting thee and thy help?).
d) not with; in the state of not having or not being with: Ven. 846. Ven. 846 Tp. I, 2, 74. Tp. I, 2, 74 II, 1, 160. II, 1, 160 II, 2, 177. III, 2, 100. V, 179. Gent. II, 1, 36. Gent. II, 1, 36 II, 2, 16. II, 4, 57. II, 4, 57 III, 1, 116. IV, 1, 29. V, 4, 62. Wiv. I, 1, 288. III, 3, 12. Err. I, 2, 67. II, 2, 88. 130 etc. etc.
3) conj., used by Speed, Dromio and Dogberry, == unless: “w. you were so simple, none else would,” Gent. II, 1, 38. “such a one as a man may not speak of w. he say 'Sir-reverence',” Err. III, 2, 92. “he may stay him; marry, not w. the prince be willing,” Ado III, 3, 86.
Shakespeare Lexicon. Alexander Schmidt. Berlin. Georg Reimer. 1902.
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