Dearth, 1) scarcity which makes food dear, famine: Sonn. 14, 4. R2 III, 3, 163. R3 II, 3, 35. Cor. I, 1, 69. Cor. I, 1, 69 I, 2, 10. Lr. I, 2, 158. Ant. II, 7, 22. Figuratively == want in general: “he with her plenty pressed, she faint with d.” Ven. 545. Sonn. 146, 3. Gentl. II, 7, 16. Followed by of: “a scarcity and barren d. of daughters and of sons,” Ven. 754.
2) high price: “and his infusion of such d. and rareness,” Hml. V, 2, 123.
Shakespeare Lexicon. Alexander Schmidt. Berlin. Georg Reimer. 1902.
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