| action | performance, acting, theatre presentation |
| acture | action, performance, process of acting |
| attorneyed | bound, acting as advocate |
| axletree, axle-tree | wooden beam acting as the pivot for a cart wheel |
| broking | acting as a broker, bargain-dealing |
| careful | protecting; watchful, acting as a safeguard |
| charming | acting as charms, exercising magic power |
| charming | acting as charms, protecting from evil |
| coactive | working together, acting in concert |
| commissioner | official acting for the king in his absence |
| confederate | acting as an ally, in league |
| cot-quean | man acting the housewife, meddler in household affairs |
| counterfeiting | pretending, feigning, acting |
| deputed | acting as a symbol of office |
| enticing | acting as a decoy, seductive |
| herald | message-bearing, acting as a herald |
| intelligencing | spying, acting as go-between |
| kind | showing natural feeling, acting by nature |
| niggarding | hoarding, begrudging, acting in a mean manner |
| onset | make a beginning with, start acting on |
| outward | acting as an external observer, looking from outside |
| packed | in league, acting as an accomplice |
| quick | vigorous, quick-acting, energetic |
| rash | sudden, quickly acting, operating immediately |
| sistering | acting like a sister; matching, corresponding |
| soon-speeding | quick-acting, rapidly working |
| stir | acting, stirring, activity |
| theme | reason for acting, ground of belief |
| thought-executing | acting as fast as thought; or: thought-destroying |
| vicegerent | official acting in place of a ruler during his absence |