Rage, subst. 1) violent anger, fury: Lucr. 1419. Sonn. 23, 3. Compl. 55. Tp. I, 2, 276. LLL IV, 1, 95. Mids. V, 49. Mids. V, 49 Merch. IV, 1, 13. Tw. III, 4, 213. IV, 2, 137. John III, 1, 329. John III, 1, 329 John III, 1, 329 IV, 2, 261. IV, 2, 261 IV, 3, 49. IV, 3, 49 R2 I, 1, 19. R2 I, 1, 19 III, 3, 59. V, 1, 30. H5 III, 2, 24. IV, 7, 82. H6A IV, 7, 11. H6B III, 1, 174. IV, 1, 112. H6C I, 1, 265. I, 4, 28. R3 I, 2, 188. I, 3, 278. I, 4, 229. II, 1, 56. H8 III, 1, 101. Troil. I, 3, 52. V, 10, 6. Cor. II, 3, 205. III, 1, 241. III, 1, 241 III, 1, 241 V, 6, 137. V, 6, 137 Tit. IV, 2, 114. Tit. IV, 2, 114. I, 1, 91. III, 1, 66. Tim. V, 4, 39. Caes. II, 1, 176. III, 2, 127. Mcb. III, 6, 12. Hml. III, 3, 89. IV, 7, 93. Lr. I, 2, 182. IV, 4, 19. Oth. II, 3, 173. Ant. II, 5, 70. IV, 12, 44. IV, 14, 123. Cymb. I, 1, 77. Cymb. I, 1, 77 Per. I, 2, 107. V, 3, 97. Plur. --s: H5 IV, 7, 37 (Fluellen's speech). Cor. V, 3, 85. to be in r. Lr. II, 4, 299. to fall in r. Cor. II, 3, 266. took it in r. Per. II, 1, 138. in r. == furious: Lucr. 1671. Err. IV, 4, 79. Err. IV, 4, 79 H4A IV, 3, 100. H6A IV, 7, 80. H6B V, 3, 2. Tim. IV, 2, 45. Hml. II, 2, 494. Oth. II, 3, 243. a r. == r.: it moved her. Not to a r. Lr. IV, 3, 18. in a r. H6B I, 1, 147. in a desperate r. Lucr. 219.2) extreme violence, wild impetuosity, furious fighting: in fell battle's r. Lucr. 145. murder's --s, Lucr. 145 against the stormy gusts of winter's day and barren r. of death's eterral cold, Sonn. 13, 12. when sometime lofty towers I see down-razed, and brass eternal slave to mortal r. 64, 4 (mortal r. == r. of mortality). how with this r. shall beauty hold a plea, 65, 3. spite of heaven's fell r. some beauty peeped through lattice of seared age, Compl. 13. shall we give the signal to our r. John II, 265. to enjoy by r. and war, R2 II, 4, 14. dry with r. and extreme toil, H4A I, 3, 31. the king before the Douglas' r. stooped his anointed head, H4B Ind. H4A I, 3, 31 disguise fair nature with hard-favoured r. H5 III, 1, 8. left us to the r. of France his sword, H6A IV, 6, 3. quickened with youthful spleen and warlike r. H6A IV, 6, 3 if I die not with Frenchmen's r. H6A IV, 6, 3 commence rough deeds of r. IV, 7, 8. Used of the elements: a river . . . swelleth with more r. Ven. 332. qualify the fire's extreme r. Gent. II, 7, 22. so high above his limits swells the r. of Bolingbroke, R2 III, 2, 109 (like a river). when the r. allays, the rain begins, H6C I, 4, 146. the blasts, with eyeless r. Lr. III, 1, 8. the furious winter's --s, Cymb. IV, 2, 259. 3) headlong passion, vehement desire: his r. of lust by gazing qualified, Lucr. 424. this moves in him more r. Lucr. 424 when r. and hot blood are his counsellors, H4B IV, 4, 63. 4) raving madness: this present instance of his r. Err. IV, 3, 88. felt the vigour of his r. IV, 4, 81. till this afternoon his passion ne'er brake into extremity of r. V, 48. bearing thence rings, jewels, any thing his r. did like, V, 48 in this r. Rom. IV, 3, 53. the great r. is killed in him, Lr. IV. 7, 78. Applied, in contempt, to poetical inspiration: termed a poet's r. Sonn. 17, 11. 5) vehement sensation of pain: would give preceptial medicine to r. Ado V, 1, 24. I have a trick of the old r.; bear with me, I am sick, LLL V, 2, 417. send succours, lords, and stop the r. betime, before the wound do grow uncurable, H6B III, 1, 285. to give thy --s balm, Tim. V, 4, 16. 6) savageness: in Ajax' eyes blunt r. and rigour rolled, Lucr. 1398. nought so stockish, hard and full of r., but music for the time doth change his nature, Merch. V, 81. kiss the rod and fawn on r. R2 V, 1, 33. harsh r., defect of manners, H4A III, 1, 183. misery could beguile the tyrant's r. Lr. IV, 6, 63.