| Aeacides | [pron: ee'asideez] alternative name for Ajax |
| alter | change, exchange |
| altering | afflicting, health-affecting |
| bend | change, alter, turn in a new direction |
| Boheme | [pron: 'bohheem] alternative name for Bohemia |
| boot | alternative, choice, better way |
| certainly | firmly, steadfastly, unalterably |
| choose, cannot | have no alternative, cannot do otherwise |
| collar | noose, hangman's halter |
| convert | change, transform, alter |
| council | intense debate, dispute, altercation |
| dependant | F alternative to 'depending' |
| difference | choice, alternative, option |
| dilemma | choice of action, alternative position |
| disfigure | stand for, disguise, alter the appearance of |
| drooping | failing, decaying, faltering |
| exchange | transformation, altered appearance |
| fig | Q1 alternative to 'jig' |
| fond | F alternative to 'fanned' |
| francoyes | Frenchman [Q alternative to 'Francisco'] |
| genius | alter ego, second self |
| halter | rope with a noose [for hanging] |
| halter | rope, noose [for leading a beast] |
| haltered | with a noose around it |
| halting | hesitation, wavering, faltering |
| halting | hesitating, limping, faltering |
| holy-horse | F alternative to 'hobby-horse' |
| hor-dock | Q alternative to 'burdock' |
| Hymenaeus | [pron: hiymen'eeus] alternative name for Hymen |
| inobled | F alternative to 'mobled' |
| invest | besiege, put pressure on [Q2 alternatve to 'invites' in Ham I.iii.83] |
| Jacob, Saint | in Christian tradition, an alternative name for St James |
| jady | Q alternative to 'jaded' |
| Jove | [pron: johv] alternative name for Jupiter, the Roman supreme god |
| kyth | Q2 alternative to 'tithe' |
| metamorphose | transform, alter one's disposition, change one's shape |
| move | shake one's resolve, alter one's position |
| nightly | F alternative to 'nighted' |
| onixe | Q2 alternative for 'union' large pearl |
| opposition | counter-proposal, alternative proposition |
| ordinate | F alternative to 'ordinant' |
| outscorn | Q alternative to 'outstorm' |
| overoffice | F alternative to 'overreach' |
| Pallas | alternative name for Athene |
| palter | prevaricate, deal evasively [with], quibble |
| paltering | evasiveness, equivocation, trickery |
| panyn | F alternative to 'pavin' |
| parle | argument, altercation, exchange |
| peize | F, Q alternative to 'piece' |
| pelicocks | Q alternative to 'pillicock' |
| perspective | picture in which perspective is altered so as to appear distorted unless seen from a particular angle |
| pleated | Q alternative to 'plighted' |
| pollax | F and QQ alternative to 'poleaxe' |
| powther | Q alternative to 'pudder' |
| prophane | Q2 alternative to 'fanned' |
| psaltery | type of plucked stringed instrument |
| question | fighting, conflict, altercation |
| raze | alter, take away, get rid of |
| reason | alternative, choice, possibility |
| remedy | help, relief, alternative |
| remedy | no question, no alternative |
| revolt | change sides, alter allegiance, desert |
| rope | [cry of derision, imitating a parrot's cry] hangman's rope, halter |
| russel | Q alternative to 'ruffle' |
| scalion | Q1 alternative to 'stallion' |
| scantle | Q alternative to 'cantle' |
| scullion | F alternative to 'stallion' |
| shag-eared | F alternative to 'shag-haired' |
| shift | as a makeshift, for lack of a better alternative |
| shrike | [Q variant] alternative spelling of 'shriek' |
| Sisters Three | alternative name for the Fates |
| solicity | F alternative to 'solicit' |
| squier | F, Q alternative to 'square' |
| stallion | F alternative to 'staniel' |
| statue | F alternative to 'statute' |
| steep | F alternative to 'step' |
| superfinical | Q alternative to 'super-serviceable' |
| swaddling clouts | Q1, Q2 alternative to 'swathing clothes' |
| swashing | Q4 alternative to 'washing' |
| tottered | Q1, Q2 alternative to 'tattered' |
| tranect | Q alternative to 'traject': ferry |
| translate | change, transform, alter |
| transpose | change, transform, alter |
| trans-shape | transform, transmute, alter the shape of |
| trapically | Q1 alternative to 'tropically' |
| turn | change, transform, alter |
| turn | adapt, alter, modify |
| wave | waver, vacillate, alternate |
| word | (plural) angry exchanges, altercations, recriminations |