valanced bearded.
variable service different courses.
ventages small holes or openings; vents.
vice of kings caricature of a king. Vice, who represented sin, was a stock character in morality plays.
videlicet (Latin) that is; namely.
Vulcan's stithy the workshop of the Roman god of fire and metalworking.
wassail revelry, carousing.
watch sleeplessness.
waterfly an insect without apparent purpose.
weak supposal poor opinion.
weal a sound or prosperous state; well-being; welfare.
what means what their income is.
wheaten garland a garland made of stalks of wheat; a symbol of prosperity.
whoreson a scoundrel; knave; a general epithet of abuse (literally, bastard).
will desire.
will he, nill he willy-nilly, whether he wishes or not.
windlasses roundabout means.
with sight with an indifferent eye.
withers the highest part of a horse's back, located between the shoulder blades.
woodcocks birds thought of as being stupid because they are easily caught; hence, a person who is a fool or a dupe.
Woo't colloquial and familiar form of wilt thou.
wormwood bitterness. (Wormwood is a plant with bitter qualities.)
yesty collection frothy collection of catchwords.
your only jig-maker I am the funniest man alive (ironic).
