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SWITZERS, Swiss mercenaries (em- Wint. 2.1, 82 0 thou thing 1')}
ployed as bodyguard at several 4. 2. 27
European courts at this period THOUGHT,* (i) melancholy con-
and still found at the Vatican); sideration (cf. Juh Caes. 2. 1.
4- 5- 97 187; A. & C. 3. 13. 1 'Think
and die'); 3. I. 855 4. 5. 187;
TABLE(S), writing tablet, memoran- (ii) (a) a trifle, a very little (cf.
dum book; 1. 5. 98, 107 Ado, 3. 4. 13 'a thought
TABLE BOOK, V. tablets); 2. 2, browner'; N.E.D. quotes from
1617 'A thought of time');
TAKE, strike with paralysis, be- (b) idea; 3. 2. 116
witch (cf. Wint. 4. 4. 118-20 THRIFT, profit; 1. 2. 1805 3. 2. 60
'daffodils,Thatcome.. .and take THROUGH AND THROUGH, right
The winds of March with, through (cf. A.T.L. 2.7. 59-60
beauty'); 1. 1. 163 'through and through Cleanse');
TARGET, light shield; 2. 2. 325 5. 2. 192
TARRE, provoke to fight, set dogs TICKLE O'TH'SERE. 'Sere' = part
by the ears (cf. Troil. 1. 3. 392); of the mechanism of a trigger,
2.2. 356 which if ' tickle' = ticklish, loose
TAX (vb.), (i) censure; 1. 4. I 8 J or unsteady, would 'go off' at a
(ii) take to task; 3. 3. 29 touch. Thus: 'tickleo'th'sere' =>
TELLUS, the goddess of the earth; ready to laugh on the slightest
2 I
3- - S4 provocation; 2. 2. 328
TEMPER (vb.), concoct, compound; TIMBERED, 'too slightly timbered,'
5. 2. 326 made of wood too light; 4. 7. 22
TENABLE, kept back, retained; TIME, the present circumstance,
1. 2. 248 the conditions of the moment;
TEND, attend, wait in readiness; 3. 1. 114, 3. 4. 107 (v. note);
1.3.8354.3.44 4. 7. n o , 148
TENDER (adj.), youthful; 4. 4. 48 TINCT, colour; 3. 4. 91
TENDER (vb.), (a) have regard for; To, in comparison with; 1.2.140;
4. 3. 40; (b) show, offer; 1. 3. 3- »• 52
107, 109 TOIL (sb.), net, snare; 3. 2. 350
TENT (vb.), probe (with the Too TOO. Emphatic reduplication
surgeon's knife); 2. 2. 601 of 'too'; like 'too much'
TERMAGANT, 'an imaginary deity capable .of qualifying the vb.
held in mediaeval Christendom (N.E.D. quotes Sir T. More
to be worshipped by Moham- 'make us too too shrink');
medans; in the mystery plays 1. 2. 129
represented as a violent over- TOP. 'In the top of,' 'on top of,'
bearing personage' (N.E.D.); lit. above, here louder than;
3. 2. 14 2. 2. 343, 443
TERMS, condition; 3. 3. 55 4. 7. 26 TOP (vb.), excel, outdo; 4. 7. 87
TETTER, an eruption of the skin; TOUCHED, tainted, guilty (cf.
1. 5. 71 A.T.L. 3. 2. 343 'touched with
THING, a term of contempt (cf. ...offences'); 4. 5. 206