Volume 1

A glossary, or, Collection of words, phrases, names, and allusions to customs, proverbs, etc., which have been thought to require illustration, in the works of English authors, particularly Shakespeare, and his contemporaries / [Robert Nares].

  • Robert Nares
Date:
1882
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Credit: A glossary, or, Collection of words, phrases, names, and allusions to customs, proverbs, etc., which have been thought to require illustration, in the works of English authors, particularly Shakespeare, and his contemporaries / [Robert Nares]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Indeed there is a woundy luck in names, sirs, And a maine mystery, an’ a man knew where To vind it. My god-sire’s name, 1’il tell you, Was In-and-inn Skittle, and a weaver he was, And it did fit his craft; for so his shittle Went in and, in still; this way, and then that way. And he nam’d me In-and-inn Median, which serves A joiner’s craft, because that we do lay Things in and in, in our work. Act iv, sc. 2. Ia the Chances, i, 4, it has only a punning allusion to this game. IN FEW, or IN A FEW, for, in short, in a few words. In few, his death (whose spirit lent a fire Ev’n to the dullest peasant in his camp) Being bruited once, took fire and heat away, &c. 2 Hen. IV, i,l. But in a few, Signor Hortensio, thus it stands with me. Tam. ofShr., i, 2. Warburton, not understanding the phrase, attempted to correct the latter passage; it has, however, been used by Milton, Dryden, and Pope. See Johnson in Few, 2. IN PLACE. Present, in company, here. If any hardier than the rest in place But offer head, &c. Daniel, Civ. Wars, ii, 1L See, as I wish’d, lord Promos is in place; Now in my sute God graunt I may find grace. Promos and Cass., Part I, act iii, sc. 2. INAIDABLE, a. Incapable of receiving aid. The congregated doctors have concluded That labouring art can never answer nature, From her inaiduble estate. All’s W., ii, 1. That is, “ In consequence of her de- sperate condition.” The word is rather unusual than obsolete. XNAQUATE and INAQUATION. Technical terms in theology, used by Gardiner and Cranmer, but never adopted. See Todd’s Johnson. fINAUSPICATE. Ill-fortuned. With me come burn these ships inauspicate; Bor I Cassandra’s ghost in sleep saw late. Virgil, by Vicars, 1632, -[INBORN. Aboriginal. Some have affirmed, that the people first seene in these regions were aborigines, [In-borne, homelings, home-bred. Mary. Note.'] called Celtse, after the name of an amiable king. ID Hand’s Ammianus Marcellinus, 1609. And being by true messengers advertised, that the barbarians were alreadie possessed of the hills, which on everie side with winding in and out mounted up aloft, and were passable for none but the inborne inhabitants that knew the wayes verie well. Ibid. INCAPABLE, a. Unconscious, not having any comprehension of circum- stance. Which time she chaunted snatches of old tunes, As one incapable of her own distress. Haml., iv, 7. IN C A 111) IN AT E, a. Incarnate. Whe- ther an unusual word, or an intended blunder of the speaker, sir Andrew Ague-cheek, is not quite clear. The count’s gentleman, one Cesario; we took him for a coward, but he’s the very devil incardinate. Twelfth Night, v, 1. To INCARNARDINE, or INCARNA- DINE, v. To make red, or of a carnation colour. See Carnardine. No, this my hand will rather The multitudinous seas incarnardine, Making the green one red. Macl., ii, 2. Though it is not exactly to the pur- pose of the present word, I cannot forbear remarking that, in the third line, Shakespeare surely meant only “making the green sea red.” The other interpretation, which implies its making “the green [sea] one entire red,” seems to me ridiculously harsh and forced. The punctuation of the folios supports the more natural construction. Others write it incarnadine; One shall ensphere thine eyes, another shall Impearl thy teeth, a third thy white and small Hand shall be snow, a fourth incarnadine Thy rosie cheek. Carew’s Poems, 1651, F 7.. The word was, for a time, thought peculiar to Shakespeare; but Love- lace is also quoted as using incarna- dine as an adjective. See Todd. To INCENSE, v.y more properly IN- SENSE. To put sense into, to in- struct, inform. A provincial expres- sion still quite current in Staffordshire, and probably Warwickshire, whence we may suppose Shakespeare had it. Think you, my lord, this little prating York Was not incensed by his subtle mother, To taunt and scorn you thus opprobriously ? Rich. Ill, iii, 2. He does not mean provoked, for the child had shown no anger; but in- structed, schooled. Indeed, this day, Sir, I may tell it you, I think I have Insens’d the lords o’ the council that he i3 (For so I know he is, they know he is,) A most arch heretick, a pestilence That doth infect the land. Ibid., V, 1. Who in the night overheard me confessing to this man, how Don John, your brother, insensed me to slander the lady Hero. Much Ado, v, 1. Minshew has the definition of to move, or instigate, under Incense/ but that does not quite meet the provincial usage here noticed, which is simply to inform. INCH, s. An Erse word for an island; still current in Scotland, in the appel-