William Shakespeare Dictionary
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| VADE
to fade
VAIL
to lower
VAILING
lowering
VAINNESS
vanity
VALANCED
adorned with a valence or fringe often applied to the beard
VALIDITY
value
VANTAGE
advantage
VANTBRACE
armour for the front of the arm
VARLET
a servant, valet
VAST
A gulf
VASTIDITY
immensity
VASTLY
like a waste
VASTY
vast, waste
VAUNT
precedes
VAUNT-COURIERS
forerunners
VAWARD
the van, vanguard, advanced guard of an army, the first of anything
VEGETIVES
herbs
VELURE
velvet
VELVET-GUARDS
literally velvet trimmings applied metaphorically to the citizens who wore them
VENEW
a bout in fencing, metaphorically applied to repartee and sallies of wit | VENEY
a bout at fencing
VENGE
to avenge
VENTAGES
holes in a flute or flageolet
VERBAL
wordy
VERY
true, real
VIA
off with you!
VICE
to screw, the buffoon in old morality plays
VIE
to challenge, a term at cards, to play as for a wager
VIEWLESS
invisible
VILLAIN
a lowborn man
VINEWED
mouldy
VIOL-DE-GAMBOYS
a bass viol
VIRGINALLING
playing as on the virginals, a kind of a spinet
VIRTUE
the essential excellence valour
VIRTUOUS
excellent, endowed with virtues
VIZAMENT
advisement
VOLUBLE
fickle
VOLUNTARY
volunteer
VOTARIST
votary, one who has taken a vow
VULGAR
the common people
VULGARLY
publicly |
Interpreting Elizabethan / Shakespearean Manuscripts and Original Documents
Vital, but little known, information about the Elizabethan alphabet is essential when looking at copies of original manuscripts of the period - examples of which can be found in Shakespeare's ' First Folio '. An understanding of the Tudor / Elizabethan alphabet will no doubt clarify many questions that the differences of the Tudor / Elizabethan alphabet have raised such as "Couldn't Elizabethans spell properly?" and "Why is there so much confusion with the letters 'u' and 'v' and 'i' and 'j' ?" Comprehensive information regarding the Elizabethan alphabet can be accessed via the following link and will prove a useful addition to the details provided in the Shakespearean Dictionary. William Shakespeare Education - the Elizabethan Alphabet - Differences only 24 letters - Deciphering manuscripts of the era William Shakespeare - Language, Vocabulary and Dictionary |
