ACORN

*Mast* [see also Oak*]

PROSPERO

Thy food shall be

The fresh-brook muscles, wither’d roots, and husks

Wherein the ACORN cradled.

—Tempest [Act I, sc. 2]

PUCK

All their elves, for fear,

Creep into ACORN-CUPS

and hide them there.

—A Midsummer Night’s Dream [Act II, sc. 1]

LYSANDER

Get you gone, you dwarf;

You minimus, of hindering knot-grass made;

You bead, you ACORN.

—A Midsummer Night’s Dream [Act III, sc. 2]

TIMON

The oaks bear MAST, the briers scarlet hips.

—Timon of Athens [Act IV, sc. 3]

POSTHUMUS

Like a full-ACORNED boar—

a German one.

—Cymbeline [Act II, sc. 5]

CELIA

I found him under a tree

like a dropped ACORN.

—As You Like It [Act III, sc. 2]