Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 285 pages of information about Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I.

Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 285 pages of information about Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I.

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Daint, x, 2, dainty, delicate. 
Dalliaunce, ii, 14, trifling, light talk. 
Dame, xii, 20, wife. 
Damnify, xi, 52, injure. 
Darrayne, iv, 40; vii, 11, prepare (for battle). 
Deare, vii, 48, hurt, injury. 
Deaw-burning, xi, 35, bright with dew. 
Debonaire, ii, 23, gracious, courteous. 
Defeasaunce, xii, 12, defeat. 
Defray, v, 42, appease. 
Deitye, iii, 21, immortality. 
Derth, ii, 27, dearness, high value. 
Deryn’d, iii, 2, diverted, drawn away. 
Despight, ii, 6, resentment; iv, 35, 41, etc., malice, spite, contempt;
  vii, 49; xi, 17, injury. 
Despoile, x, 17, strip. 
Devise, xii, 17, plan. 
Diamond, ix, 19, adamant, steel. 
Dight, vii, 8; iv, 14, etc., arrange, dress, adorn. 
Disaventrous, vii, 48, ix, 11, unfortunate. 
Discipline, vi, 31, teaching. 
Discolourd, vii, 32, variegated. 
Discourse, xii, 14, description; xii, 15, to narrate. 
Disease, xi, 38, render uneasy. 
Dishonesty, ii, 23, unchastity. 
Dispence, iii, 30, pay for. 
Dispiteous, ii, 15, cruel. 
Disple, x, 27, discipline. 
Disseized, xi, 20, dispossessed. 
Dissolute, vii, 51, weak, unstrung. 
Distayned, xi, 23, defiled. 
Dites, viii, 18, raises (a club). 
Diverse, i, 44, distracting. 
Divide, v, 17, play (variations). 
Documents, x, 19, doctrines. 
Donne, x, 33, to do. 
Doom, ix, 38, judgment. 
Doted, viii, 34, foolish. 
Doubt, vi, 1, fear. 
Doughty, xi, 52; xii, 6, strong, brave. 
Dragonets, xii, 10, little dragons. 
Dreed, or dred, Int. 4; vi, 2, object of reverence. 
Drere, viii, 40, sorrow. 
Drery, v, 30, gloomy; vi, 45, dripping with blood. 
Dreriment, ii, 44; xi, 32, sorrow, gloom. 
Drest, ix, 54, prepared, arranged. 
Drift, viii, 22, impetus. 
Droome, ix, 41, drum. 
Drousy-hed, ii, 7, drowsiness. 
Dry-dropsie, iv, 23 (meaning doubtful).
  (1) Dropsy causing thirst (Warton).
  (2) A misprint for dire dropsie (Upton).
  (3) A misprint for hydropsie (Collier). 
Dye, ii, 36, chance, fortune (lit. a small cube used for gaming).

E

Earne, i, 3; vi, 25; ix, 18, yearn, long for. 
Edifyde, i, 34, built. 
Eeke, v, 42, increase. 
Eft, ix, 25, again. 
Eftsoones, x, 24, etc., forthwith. 
Eke, iii, 21, also. 
Eld, x, 8, old age. 
Embalme, v, 17, anoint, pour balm into. 
Embaye, ix, 13; x, 27, bathe. 
Embost, iii, 24, encased; ix, 29, fatigued. 
Embosse, xi, 20, plunge. 
Embowed, ix, 19, rounded. 
Emboyled, xi, 28, agitated, troubled. 
Embrew, xi, 36, imbrue, drench. 
Empassioned, iii, 2, moved to pity. 
Empeach, viii, 34, hinder. 
Emperse, xi, 53, pierce. 
Emprize, ix, 1, undertaking, adventure. 
Enchace, xii, 23, set off in fitting terms. 
Endew, iv, 51, endow. 
Enfouldred, xi, 40, shot forth (like a thunderbolt). 
Engrave, x, 42, bury, entomb. 

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