The Faerie Queen, Volume 1
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particular word being glossed. For example, in the line:
Till some end they find, +or+ in or out,
it is the first "or" which is glossed.
Editorial policy in the Glossary is as follows. Words which
appear in modern concise dictionaries and whose meanings are
unchanged are rarely glossed. The reader is expected to
understand words such as "quoth", "hither", and "aught" in their
modern senses. Where an apparently modern form has a different
contextual meaning, it is glossed; and where the modern sense is
also to be understood, this is included in the definition.
Similar senses are grouped with commas; changes in sense are
indicated by semicolons. For example:
sad > heavy, heavily laden; sad
The commoner obsolete forms have been silently converted: "thee" to "you", "dost" to "does", "mought" to "might", "whenas" to "wh