119 foils light swords, blunted for use in fencing
121 unbated not blunted
121 pass of practice treacherous thrust/deliberately planned thrust 122 Requite repay, have revenge on
125 unction ointment
125 mountebank quack doctor who traveled around selling various remedies 126 I ... it Laertes leaves unfinished the account of what happened when he did this; or perhaps he means "one need but dip a knife in it"; some editors prefer Quarto's "so mortal that, but dip"
127 cataplasm medicated plaster, poultice
127 rare excellent
128 simples medicinal herbs
129 Under the moon i.e. anywhere, though gathering herbs by moonlight was thought to lend them extra potency 130 withal with it
131 contagion poison
131 gall graze
135 fit ... shape suit our plan/fit us for the roles we are going to play 136 drift scheme, intention
136 look becomes visible
139 blast in proof explode when put to the test
140 cunnings skills (i.e. Laertes' and Hamlet's)
141 ha't have it
143 As i.e. you should
143 bouts rounds in a fight
145 nonce purpose
146 stuck thrust
151 willow a tree associated with sadness and fo
rsaken love 152 hoar grayish white
153 fantastic elaborate/fanciful
154 crow-flowers buttercups/ragged robins (both types of wildflower) 154 long purples a type of purple orchid; the roots resemble testicles, hence the grosser name
155 liberal freely spoken/licentious
155 grosser coarser/more vulgar
156 cold chaste
157 pendent drooping, overhanging
158 envious sliver malicious part of a branch
159 weedy made of wildflowers