Othello

Othello Glossary

Accident

Incident or event; mischance or misfortune.

Acerb

Harsh to the taste.

Acknown

Knowing or acquainted; to admit to or confess.

Acquittance

Payment, retribution.

Agnize

To own with pride.

Anon

Soon, presently.

Antre

Cavern.

Aspick

Type of venomous snake.

Bauble

A trifle; useless plaything.

Blazon

To trumpet forth, to praise.

Bootless

Useless.

Caitiff

Wretch, slave.

Carrack

Large ship.

Clime

Region, country.

Clyster-pipe

A tube used for injections.

Cogging

Cheating.

Coloquintida

Bitter fruit.

Compt

Account, reckoning.

Conserve

To preserve or save; prevent destruction of.

Descry

To discover.

Edify

To instruct or inform.

Enwheel

To surround.

Fineless

Infinite.

Fordo

To undo or destroy.

Fulsome

Disgusting.

Guttered

Indented.

Gyve

To fetter or ensnare.

Iambic Pentameter

Lines consisting of ten syllables which alternate unstressed then stressed.

Indign

Unworthy or disgraceful.

Jennet

A kind of horse.

Jesses

Straps of leather or silk used to tie hawks by their legs.

Leet

Manor courts.

Lown

Base fellow.

Mandrake

A plant that was thought to be a narcotic.

Mountebank

A quack or cheater.

Parley

To conference, tending to come to an agreement.

Pate

Head, skull.

Peradventure

Perhaps.

Perdurable

Lasting.

Potation

A drought.

Prerogatived

Privileged, exempt from certain evils.

Probal

Calculated to bias judgement.

Quillet

Sly tricks or hair-splitting to win an argument.

Requite

To take vengeance on.

Shrift

A confessional.

Spleen

Part of the body responsible for a fit of passion.

Traduce

To censure, decry or defame.

Truncheon

A short club.