Shakespeare Dictionary - D

Shakespeare's word

Meaning (in the sample usage)

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Reference(s)

Sample usage

deal of

quantity of, greatness of, superiority of

17

Lear 2.2

1 HIV 1.3

1 HIV 2.4

And put upon him such a deal of man, / That worthied him, got praises of the king

what a candy deal of courtesy

this intolerable deal of sack

denay

denial

1

TN 2.4

My love can give no place, bide no denay.

denier

small French coin, 1/12^th of a sou

3

Rich III 1.2

My dukedom to a beggarly denier

descant

comment

4

Rich III 1.1

and descant on mine own deformity

deserving

reward, merit, desert

(noted here as a noun, more often as gerund/adj.)

19

Lear 3.3

Oth 1.3

This seems a fair deserving,

I confess me knit to thy deserving with cables of perdurable toughness

diaper

towel

1

Shrew Ind.

Another bear the ewer, the third a diaper

dispatch

1. verb - make haste
2. verb - send
3. noun - dismissal

74

Rich III 3.4

Lear 2.1

Dispatch, my lord; the duke would be at dinner: . . . he longs to see your head.

messenger from hence attend dispatch

draw

draw to

Lear 3.3

and must draw me That which my father loses;

dread, dreadful

terror, fear, awe

reverential or respectful fear; awe

112

Rich III 1.1

Rich III 3.1

Rich II 1.1

2 HVI 5.1

dreadful marches

Well, my dread lord; so must I call you now

Myself I throw, dread sovereign, at thy foot.

A messenger from Henry, our dread liege,

dulcet

pleasing to the ear, melodious

6

Mids 2.1

Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath