Define This?

When I do poetry units I give the students vocabulary quizzes. I pick words from the poems and they have to define them; for homework they can look up any words from the poems they don't know and write them in their notes, then use the notes on the quiz. So, they can make a cheat sheet. Some don't. The following are some definitions from the Renaissance Poetry unit quizzes I just graded. I put some of the actual definitions in ( ) as well as a few comments.

wanton - (loose, lascivious, immoral) 1. wish for or upon something; 2. to want something; 3. covered with snow; 4. Chinese soup

sickle - to be kind of sick

grove - (small wooded area) to be angry

myrtle - (the plant) 1. peace; 2. persuade or impel; 3. a dead girl in the bathroom at Hogwarts who has seen the Basalisk (There is a character in Harry Potter named Myrtle, I guess.)

gall - 1. a species of bird; 2. an area by the ocean

roam - wandy (No, I don't know what "wandy" means, nor what this person was trying to write)

woe - 1. to try to persuade; 2. another word for mating

woes - to stop or slow down (Yes, I put the same word on two different quizzes and some of them got it wring both times.)

kirtle - (a skirt; this one was defined for them IN THE BOOK) a pot used for coffee or tea

dumb - (as in mute) 1. a state of mind; 2. in love

folly - 1. a place with trees; 2. to be happy; 3. an area of land with water

tempest - 1. to be slightly tempted; 2. religious building; 3. a music person; 4. a high ranking religious person

sickle - ill

dun - (dull grayish brown) 1. to be finished; 2. idiot

foregone - to go somewhere before you're supposed to

Mr. Webster is rolling over in his grave...

J