6closet chest or cabinet
10do...watching act as if awake
16meet fitting
17-18having...speech (the gentlewoman's report would amount to charging the king with murder, which would be treasonable)
19guise custom
20close concealed
42Thane of Fife Macduff
45starting flinching
46Go to, go to come, come
53sorely charged heavily burdened
55dignity high rank (i.e., as queen)
58practice professional skill
75annoyance harm, trouble
77mated defeated (cf. checkmate)
V.2 Open country near Dunsinane
s.d.Drum and Colors drummers and standard-bearers
3Revenges burn desire for revenge burns
4bleeding shedding of blood
5Excite incite; mortified dead
8file list
10unrough beardless
11Protest assert
15distempered diseased
16rule authority
18minutely every minute; revolts rebellions; faith breach broken faith
19in command under orders
23pestered tormented
27med'cine physician (i.e., Malcolm); weal state
30dew water
V.3 Within Macbeth's castle at Dunsinane
5mortal consequences human eventualities
8English epicures pleasure-loving English
9I sway by (1) that rules me, (2) that I rule by
11cream-faced pale (with fear); loon scoundrel
12goose foolish
16over-red paint red (i.e., with ruddy courage)
17patch fool
22push attack
23disseat unseat
25sere dry, withered
37horses horsemen; skirr scour
44Raze out erase
45oblivious causing forgetfulness
49physic medicine
52dispatch hurry
52-53cast...water analyze the urine (as a way of diagnosing illness)
60it i.e., the remaining armor
61bane destruction
V.4 Before Birnam Wood
2chambers private rooms (i.e., our homes);nothing not at all
5shadow conceal
6discovery (Macbeth's) reconnaissance
10setting down before laying siege to
11where...given as the opportunity presents itself
12more...revolt high and low (i.e., nobility and commoners) have rebelled against him
14just censures impartial judgment
15Attend...event await the actual result
20certain...arbitrate blows must decide the final outcome
21war army
4ague fever
5forced reinforced
6dareful defiant
11fell head
12dismal treatise frightening story
14Direness horror
15start frighten
18a time i.e., an appropriate time
31say insist
40cling shrivel; sooth truth
42pull in curb, check
43doubt suspect; equivocation double-talk
47avouches affirms
50estate order
52harness armor
V.6 Fields outside Dunsinane Castle
4battle battalion
6order battle plan
7power forces
V.7 The same
2course attack (like a bear tied to a stake and baited by dogs)
17kerns mercenary foot soldiers
18staves lances
20undeeded having done nothing
21note importance
22bruited indicated, noised
24gently rendered surrendered calmly (or nobly)
27itself professes declares itself
29strike beside us (1) fight on our side, (2) strike to one side of us
V.8 2Whiles...lives as long as I see living creatures
5charged burdened
8give thee out describe you
9intrenchant incapable of being cut
10impress mark
13charm magic
14angel guardian spirit; still always
18cowed made cowardly; better...man most of what makes me a man
19juggling deceiving, quibbling
20palter with us equivocate to us, trick us
23yield thee coward surrender as, or concede that you are, a coward
25monsters freaks
26Painted...pole depicted on a signboard
36go off perish; these i.e., these here assembled
42unshrinking station place from which he did not retreat
46Had...before were his wounds on the front of his body (i.e., was he running away)
50knolled tolled
52score reckoning
56compassed surrounded; kingdom's pearl what is most valuable in the kingdom (i.e., the assembled nobility)
61reckon settle accounts
62make...with repay our debts to
65planted...time done at the beginning of the new era
68ministers agents
70self and violent her own violent
73perform in measure, time duly perform at the appropriate time