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A Shakespeare Glossary

R

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    • Rabato

    • a ruff

    • Rabbit-sucker

    • a weasel

    • Race

    • breed; inherited nature

    • Rack

    • wreck

    • Rack

    • to enhance the price of anything
      To drive as clouds

    • Rag

    • a term of contempt applied to persons

    • Rake

    • to cover

    • Rapt

    • transported with emotion

    • Rapture

    • a fit

    • Rascal

    • a lean deer

    • Rash

    • quick, violent

    • Rate

    • opinion, judgment

    • Rate

    • to assign, to value
      To scold

    • Ratolorum

    • a ludicrous mistake for Rotulorum

    • Raught

    • past tense of reach

    • Ravin

    • ravenous

    • Ravin

    • to devour

    • Rawly

    • inadequately

    • Rawness

    • unprovided state

    • Rayed

    • arrayed, served

    • Razed

    • slashed

    • Rear-mouse

    • the bat

    • Rebate

    • to deprive of keenness

    • Rebeck

    • a three-stringed fiddle

    • Receipt

    • money received

    • Receiving

    • capacity

    • Recheat

    • a point of the chase to call back the hounds

    • Record

    • to sing

    • Recorder

    • a flute

    • Recure

    • to cure, recover

    • Red-lattice

    • suitable to an ale-house, because ale-houses
      had commonly red lattices

    • Red-plague

    • erysipelas

    • Reduce

    • to bring back

    • Reechy

    • smoky, dirty

    • Refell

    • to refute

    • Refer

    • to reserve to

    • Regiment

    • government

    • Regreet

    • a salutation

    • Regreet

    • to salute

    • Reguerdon

    • requital

    • Relative

    • applicable

    • Remember

    • to remind

    • Remorse

    • pity

    • Remorseful

    • full of pity, compassionate

    • Remotion

    • removal

    • Removed

    • sequestered, remote

    • Render

    • to describe you

    • Render

    • account

    • Renege

    • to renounce, to deny

    • Repair

    • to renovate, comfort

    • Repeal

    • to reverse the sentence of exile. Two
      Gentlemen of Verona

    • Reproof

    • confutation

    • Repugn

    • to resist

    • Requiem

    • mass for the dead, so called because it begins
      with the words, Requiem eternam dona eis, Domine

    • Resolve

    • to satisfy
      To dissolve

    • Respect

    • consideration

    • Respective

    • respectful, thoughtful

    • Respective

    • corresponding

    • Respectively

    • respectfully

    • Retailed

    • handed down

    • Retire

    • retreat

    • Retire

    • to draw back

    • Reverb

    • to echo

    • Revolt

    • a rebel

    • Rib

    • to enclose as within ribs

    • Rid

    • to destroy

    • Rift

    • to split
      to split

    • Rift

    • a split

    • Riggish

    • wanton

    • Rigol

    • a circle

    • Ripe

    • drunk

    • Rivage

    • the shore

    • Rival

    • a partner

    • Rivality

    • equal rank

    • Rive

    • to fire

    • Road

    • the high road, applied to a common woman

    • Roisting

    • roistering, violent

    • Romage

    • unusual stir

    • Ronvon

    • a term of contempt applied to a woman

    • Rood

    • the crucifix

    • Rook

    • a cheater

    • Ropery

    • roguery

    • Rope-tricks

    • tricks such as are played by a rope-dancer

    • Round

    • to whisper
      To become great with child
      to finish off

    • Round

    • a diadem

    • Round

    • unceremonious

    • Roundel

    • a dance or song

    • Roundure

    • an enclosure

    • Rouse

    • carousal

    • Roynish

    • mangy

    • Rubious

    • ruddy

    • Ruddock

    • the redbreast

    • Rush

    • to push

    • Rushling

    • rustling