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Full Glossary for Macbeth

savage (69) bold

scotch'd (13) injured

scruples (127) doubts

second course (38) that is, at the banquet of life

security (32) overconfidence

sere (23) dry

shoal (6) sandbank

shoughs, water-rugs (93) rough-coated dogs

sightless couriers (23) invisible winds

Sinel (71) Macbeth's father.

skirr (35) scour

sleights (26) charms

sooth (40) truthfully

spacious plenty (71) at will

speculation (94) eyesight

stamp (153) coin

sticking-place (61) its limit

straight (11) straightaway

suborn'd (24) bribed

summer-seeming (86) youthful

surcease (4) death

surfeited (5) drunk

sway (9) command

swelling act . . . theme (128) the developing royal drama

taking-off (20) murder

Tarquin (46) murderous king of Rome

temple-haunting martlet (4) bird that nests in church porches

their charge (6) that is, Duncan

this great King (131) possibly a reference to James I (the king in Shakespeare's audience)

to friend (10) auspicious

trains (118) tricks

trammel up (3) obstruct, prevent

travelling lamp (7) the sun

treatise (12) tale

trifled (4) made trivial

trifles (125) trivial gifts

two delinquents (12) that is, the guards of Duncan's chamber

undivulg'd pretence (129) undisclosed plot of treason

unshrinking station (8) unyielding position

upbraid . . . faith-breach (18) rebuke his broken promises

utterance (71) utmost


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