All 4 Uses of
dwell
in
The Merry Wives of Windsor
- Go your ways, and ask of Doctor Caius' house which is the way; and there dwells one Mistress Quickly, which is in the manner of his nurse, or his dry nurse, or his cook, or his laundry, his washer, and his wringer.†
Scene 1.2dwells = makes one's home in; or lives in; or stays (in a place)
- She dwells so securely on the excellency of her honour that the folly of my soul dares not present itself; she is too bright to be looked against.†
Scene 2.2 *
- There is one Mistress Ford, sir,—I pray, come a little nearer this ways:—I myself dwell with Master Doctor Caius.†
Scene 2.2 *
- No. Master Brook; but the peaking cornuto her husband, Master Brook, dwelling in a continual 'larum of jealousy, comes me in the instant of our encounter, after we had embraced, kissed, protested, and, as it were, spoke the prologue of our comedy; and at his heels a rabble of his companions, thither provoked and instigated by his distemper, and, forsooth, to search his house for his wife's love.†
Scene 3.5
Definitions:
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(1)
(dwell as in: Don't dwell on it.) to think, communicate, or let attention stay on (or return to) something for a prolonged period
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(2)
(dwell as in: It dwells in the forest.) make one's home in; or to live in; or to stay (in a place)
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(3)
(dwelling as in: a modest dwelling) a house or shelter in which someone lives
- (4) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)