Macbeth - Page 103

120Stand...going i.e., don't bother about precedence

125Augurs auguries; understood relations comprehensible relations of causes to effects

126maggotpies, choughs magpies, crows (both, like rooks, capable of imitating speech, and all three birds of ill omen)

127secret'st man of blood best-hidden murderer

131by the way casually; send send a messenger

133fee'd paid to spy

134betimes (1) speedily, (2) early

135bent determined

141scanned analyzed

142season (1) the best time (when nature is "in season"), (2) the seasoning (what makes life palatable)

143self-abuse delusion, hallucination

144initiate beginner's; wants hard use needs much practice

III.5 An open place (a non-Shakespearean scene; see the Introduction)

2beldams hags, witches

7close secret

8bear my part participate

11wayward willful, disobedient

15Acheron one of the rivers of Hades

18vessels cauldrons

24a vap'rous drop profound a misty "exhalation" with deep, hidden properties

26sleights artifices

27artificial (1) deceitful, (2) produced by artifice

29confusion damnation

32security overconfidence

41We...you only you are missing

43'noint anoint myself (with a magic ointment)

46cull hug

64water's breach breaking waves

III.6 Somewhere in Scotland

1My former speeches what I have just said; hit coincided with

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