Thesaurus
This is a thesaurus of all the glosses to the words in the Glossary, linked to the lines in the texts where these words are found.

The Thesaurus is the opposite of the Glossary. When consulting the Glossary, you know the word and you want to find out what it means. When consulting the Thesaurus, you know the meaning and you want to find out which Shakespearean words express it. How would he say 'arrogant' or 'companion'? The options are listed when you search for these words.

Disclaimer: our Thesaurus is a guide only to the words in the Glossary, and not an account of the way these words might be used elsewhere in the canon, or in Early Modern English as a whole. For example, we include Shakespeare’s use of mother to mean 'womanish qualities', but not in its ordinary sense of 'parent'. You can read more background about the thesaurus here.

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Search phrase fig 44 items found
fight, apprentice call for help in a
clubs (int.)
fight, individual
battle (n.)
fight, marshalled for
embattailed (adj.)
fight, someone overcome in a
subduement (n.)
fight, without a
gently (adv.)
fight against
law, go to
fight at close quarters
buckle (v.)
fight hard
lay about (v.)
fight out
try (v.)
fight stoutly
stand to it (v.)
fight to the very end
fight out (v.)
fight with lances
tilt (v.)
fighter on land [as opposed to sea]
landman (n.)
fighting, away
out (adv.)
fighting, bout of
excursion (n.)
fighting, confused
broil (n.)
fighting, die
die on (v.)
fighting, initiated into
fleshed (adj.)
fighting, signal to begin
alarm, alarum, 'larm, 'larum (n.)
fighting, valiant in
doughty-handed (adj.)
fighting back
repugnancy (n.)
fighting force
battle (n.),head (n.)
fighting like beasts
ears, by the
fighting position
range (n.)
figuratively
tropically (adv.)
figure, bodily
person (n.)
figure, carved
monument (n.)
figure, emblematic
device (n.)
figure, fine
person (n.)
figure, symbolic
moral (n.)
figure, with a tall
straight-pight (adj.)
figure nought
cipher (n.)
figure of a man who strikes a bell on the outside of a clock
jack (n.)
figure of fun
recreation (n.)
figure of speech
figure (n.)
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