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Full Glossary for A Midsummer Night's Dream

Pard (37) leopard, or panther.

patched (202) wearing motley (many-colored garments).

patches (9) clowns.

Peascod (160) the pod of the pea plant.

peck of provender (27) one-quarter bushel of grain.

Perigouna (78) one of Theseus' lovers.

Phibbus' car (27) the chariot of Phoebus (Apollo as god of the sun).

Philomel (13) the nightingale (Philomela was a princess of Athens raped by Tereseus; the gods change her into a nightingale).

Phoebe (209) Artemis as goddess of the moon: identified with the Roman Diana.

preferred (28) presented for acceptance.

quern (36) a primitive hand mill, especially for grinding grain.

quill (105) the bird's piping song.

recreant (409) cowardly, craven.

reremice (4) bats.

roundel (1) round dance.

russet-pated choughs (21) reddish brown-headed crows.


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