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Full Glossary for Othello

galleys (40) officers of the galleys.

galls (91) the ability to resent.

gastness (106) ghastliness, or terror.

gennets for germans (113) Spanish for relatives.

go by water (104) be rendered by tears.

grange (106) an isolated farmhouse.

grise (200) a degree or step.

gross in sense (72) perfectly clear.

haggard (255) a wild hawk.

hales (140) tugs at; hauls.

happily (238) [Archaic] haply, by chance.

heave the gorge (234) become nauseated.

heraldry (48) heraldic symbolism.

high-wrought flood (2) heavy sea.

hobby-horse (156) a prostitute; harlot.

hold her free (255) believe her to be guiltless.

home (165) to the point, bluntly.

A horned man's (63) a cuckold's.

humane seeming (241) courteous appearance.

Hydra (298) the many-headed beast killed by Hercules.

hyssop (323) a fragrant herb.

idle (140) barren.

imposition (260) a quality imposed by others.

in false gaze (19) looking the wrong way.

inclining (82) party; side.

incorporate (266) carnal, or fleshly.

indign (273) [Obsolete] unworthy.

infected (21) stricken with the plague.

inhibited (79) [Rare] prohibited; forbidden.


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