Starting
Points

Advanced Search


whole word part of the word or phrase	or use Advanced Search
if you are searching for a compound word, note that it might appear in any of three ways, reflecting varied editorial practice: spaced ('house keeper'), solid ('housekeeper'), or hyphenated ('house-keeper')

Search results

Search phrase: local

Plays

2 result(s). alternate result(s)

Play	Key Line	Modern Text	Original Text
A Midsummer Night's Dream	MND V.i.17	A local habitation and a name.	a locall habitation, / And a name.
Troilus and Cressida	TC IV.v.244	That I may give the local wound a name,	That I may giue the locall wound a name,

Poems

0 result(s).

Glossary

6 result(s).

birth-child	native, local inhabitant
domestic	internal, to do with home affairs, local
leet	local court of justice, manorial court
provincial	subject to local church jurisdiction
scot and lot	[type of local taxation] in full, thoroughly
Strachy	[unknown meaning] possibly a local house or institution

Thesaurus

6 result(s).

inhabitant, local	birth-child
jurisdiction, subject to local church	provincial
justice, local court of	leet
local	domestic
local church jurisdiction, subject to	provincial
local inhabitant	birth-child

Themes and Topics

2 result(s).

Here, there, and where	... whereout tc iv v 245 i may give the local wound a name / and make distinct the ve...
London	... ii v 39 [unknown meaning] possibly a local house or institution strand ...

Words Families

1 result(s).

Word Family	Word Family Group	Words
LOCAL	BASIC	local adj

Snippets

0 result(s).