dear employment important purpose.
dear import of serious concern.
death-darting eye of cockatrice a cockatrice is a fabulous serpent supposedly hatched from a cock's egg and having power to kill by a look.
death-mark'd doomed from the outset; fated.
deflowered by him having lost her virginity to him.
demesnes a region or domain. Here Mercutio uses it to refer bawdily to the female genitalia.
demesnes the land around a mansion; lands of an estate.
descry detect.
desperate tender bold offer.
dignity rank, or title.
discoloured bloodstained.
dishclout a cloth for washing dishes.
disparagement disrespect.
Displant a town transplant a town; that is, do the near-impossible.
disposition inclination.
distemperature a disordered condition, especially of the body or the mind.
divinest show excellent appearance.
do I live dead Romeo regards Rosaline's decision to remain chaste as a form of living death.
doff discard.
doom judgment.
doublet a man's close-fitting jacket with or without sleeves, worn chiefly from the 14th to the 16th centuries.
dram potion.
draw your neck out of collar Gregory puns on the word "draw" here, implying that Sampson will draw or slip his head out of a hangman's noose (collar).
drift intention.
drudge a person who does hard, menial, or tedious work.
dull earth Romeo's description of himself.
endart shoot as a dart.
enjoined ordered.
enmity hatred; hostility.
environ'd with surrounded by.
extremes severe difficulties.
faint cold fear fear causing a chilling faintness.
fatal loins fateful, unfortunate, offspring.
fay faith: used in oaths as here.
feasting presence presence chamber: the room in which a king or other person of rank or distinction formally receives guests.
feign to make a false show of; pretend.
fiddlestick the bow for a fiddle. Mercutio puns on the word as he draws his rapier.
field-bed bed upon the ground.
flirt-gills loose women.
foe supposed that is, because Juliet is a Capulet.
fond foolish.
fond tender and affectionate; loving; sometimes, affectionate in a foolish or overly indulgent way.
form of wax not a real man, no more durable than a wax figure.
forsooth yes indeed.
forsworn promised not to love.
