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1. † abrook, v. View full entry 1594
...trans. To endure, tolerate, abide. Cf. brook3....
2. ˈapoplex, v. View full entry 1604
...To strike with apoplexy, paralyze, benumb....
3. aroint | aroynt, v. View full entry 1608
...In aroint thee! (? verb in the imperative, or interjection) meaning apparently: Avaunt! Begone!...
4. arouse, v. View full entry a1616
...To raise or stir up (a person) from sleep or inactivity; to awaken....
5. † aˈskance, v. View full entry 1594
...To turn aside....
6. assubjugate, v. View full entry 1609
...To reduce to subjugation....
7. † aˈttask, v. View full entry 1608
...To take to task, to blame....
8. aˈttorney, v. View full entry a1616
...To perform by attorney or proxy....
9. bail, v.3 View full entry 1609
...To confine. rare....
10. barber, v. View full entry a1616
...trans. To dress the beard and hair of, to trim. Also fig....
11. † barn, v. View full entry 1594
...To house or store in a barn; to garner. Often fig....
12. bass, v.2 View full entry a1616
...To utter or proclaim with bass voice or sound....
13. bedabble, v. View full entry 1600
...trans. To wet with dirty liquid, or in such a way as to make untidy or dirty....
14. bedazzle, v. View full entry a1616
...Intensive form of dazzle; to dazzle thoroughly, confuse by dazzling....
15. beetle, v.1 View full entry a1616
...intr. To ‘lift up beetle brows’ (Sidney), look with beetle brows, scowl; taken by modern writers as simply ‘to project, overhang’; but probably used by Shakespeare with some reference to eyebrows....
16. beˈfortune, v. View full entry a1616
...intr. and with dat. obj. To befall, happen, chance....
17. behowl, v. View full entry 1600
...trans. (and refl.) To howl at; to bewail with howls....
18. † belee, v. View full entry a1616
...trans. To get (a ship) into such a position that the wind is intercepted from her; also fig....
19. belly, v. View full entry 1609
...trans. To cause to swell out....
20. † beˈlock, v. View full entry a1616
...Intensive of lock...
