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 rig 65 items found
rigging, rope-ladder in the
ladder-tackle (n.)
right, demand as a
challenge (v.)
right, have a
pertain (v.)
right, legal
interest (n.)
right, one who puts things
rectifier (n.)
right, person asserting a
titler (n.)
right, requesting as a
requiring (n.)
right, set
right (v.)
right away
home (adv.)
right circumstances, in the
fit (adj.)
right granted by a monarch
royalty (n.)
right line to follow
vein (n.)
right manner of speaking
vox (n.)
right moment, at the
time, in good
right of entering
entrance (n.)
right of inheritance of the first-born child
primogenitive (n.)
right of leaving and return
egress and regress
right of property held by a woman from her deceased husband
jointress (n.)
right of succession
reversion (n.)
right opinion
reason (n.)
right quality, brought to the
tempered (adj.)
right side, of the [heraldry]
dexter (adj.)
right time, at the
fitly (adv.)
right time, coming at the
happy time, in
right to be knelt before
knee (n.)
right to command
authority (n.)
right to property, warrantor of a
voucher (n.)
right to rule, with no
untitled (adj.)
righteous individual
merit (n.)
rightful cause, drawn in a
right-drawn (adj.)
rightful claim, have a
entitule, intitule (v.)
rightful claimant
name (n.)
rightful title
blood (n.),name (n.)
rightfully
true (adv.)
rightly anticipate
level at (v.)
rightly-judging
just-dooming (adj.)
rights, bestowal of
benefit (n.)
rights, conjugal
bed-right (n.)
rights, damaging to one's
prejudicial (adj.)
rights, hereditary
blood (n.)
rights, joint
possession (n.)
rights, widow's
widowhood (n.)
rights of office
prerogative (n.)
rights of possession
interest (n.)
rigor mortis
obstruction (n.)
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