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The king seeing this, started from where he sat, For, get you gone, she doth not mean away. Shaks. There was but an insensible diminution of the
Out from his trembling hand his weapon gat. He who attempts to get another man into bis ab- liquor upon the recess of whatever it was that got
Daniel. solute power, does thereby put himself into a state through the cork.

Boyle.
All things but one you can restore;

of war with him.

Locke. Although the universe, and every part thereof, The heart you get returns no more. Waller. Before your ewes bring forth, they may be pretty are objects full of excellency, yet the multiplicity 3. To win by contest.

well kept, to get them a little into heart. Mortimer. thereof is so various, that the understanding falls Henry the sixth hath lost

Helim, who was taken up in embalming the bo- under a kind of despondency of getting through so

dies, visited the place very frequently: his greatest All that which Henry the fifth had gotten. Shaksp.

great a task.

Hale. perplexity was how to get the lovers out of it, the If there should be any leak at the bottom of the He gat his people great honour, and he made

Guardian.

gates being watched. battles, protecting the host with his sword.

vessel, yet very little water would get in, because

no air could get out.
13. To prevail on; to induce.

Wilkins.
1 Maccabees,
To get the day of them of his own nation, would
Though the king could not get him to engage in

O bear'n, in what a lab'rinth am I led! be a most unbappy day for him.

I could get out, but she detains the thread! Dryd. 2 Maccabees.

a life of business, he made him however his chief Auria held that course to have drawn the gallies companion.

So have I seen some fearful hare maintain
Speclalor.

A course, 'till tir'd before the dog she lay; within his great ships, who thundering amongst 14. To draw; to hook. them with their great ordnance, might have opened With much communication will he tempt thee,

Who, stretch'd behind her, pants upon the plain,

Past pow'r to kill, as she to get away. Dryden. a way unto his gallies to have gotten a victory. and smiling upon thee get out thy secrets. Eccles.

The more oily and light part of this mass would Knolles. By the marriage of his grandson Ferdinand he

get above the other, and swim upon it.

Burnet. 4. To have possession of; to have. This got into bis family the kingdoms of Bohemia and

Addison

Having got through the foregoing passage, let us sense is comm

Hungary. monly in the compound

Locke.

go on to his next argument.

After having got out of you every thing you can preterit.

The removing of the pains we feel, is the getting spare, l'scorn to trespass.

Guardian.
Then forcing thee, by fire he made thee bright;

out of misery, and consequently the first thing to 15. To betake; to remove: implying haste

Nay, thou hast got the l'ace of man. Herbert.

be done, in order to happiness, absent good. Locke, or danger.

If, having got into the sense of the epistles, we 5. To beget upon a female.

Get you to bed on th' instant; I will be return'd will but compare what he says, in the places where These boys are boys of ice; they'll none of her: forth with.

Shakspeare. he treats of the same subject, we can hardly be sure they are bastards of the English, the French

Locke. Arise, get thee out from this land. Genesis. mistaken in his sense. never got them.

Shaksp. Lesi they join also unto our enemies, and fight I got up as fast as possible, girt on my rapier, Women with study'd arts they vex:

against us, and so get them up out of the land. and snatched up my hat, when my landlady came Ye gods destroy that impious sex;

Exodus.

Tatler'

up to me, And if there must be some t'invoke

He with all speed got himself with his followers Bucephalus would let nobody get upon him but Your pow'rs, and make your altars smoke,

to the strong town of Mega.
Knolles.

Addison.

Alexander the great.
Come down yourselves, and, in their place, 16. To remove by force or art.

Imprison'd fires in the close dungeons pent,
Get a more just and nobier race.

Waller,
Children they got on their female captives.

She was quickly got off the land again. Knolles.

Roar to get loose, and struggle for a vent; The roving fumes of quicksilver, in evaporating,

Eating their way, and undermining all,
Locke.
would oftentimes fasted upon the gold in such plen-

'Till with a mighty burst whole mountains fall. If you'll take 'em as their fathers got 'em, so

Addison ty, as would put him to much trouble to get them if not, you must stay 'till they get a bet- off from his rings.

Boyle.

When Alma now in diff'rent ages, ter generation.

Dryden.

Has finish'd her ascending stages,
Has no man, but who has kill'd

When mercury is got by the help of the fire out of a metal, or other mineral body, we may suppose

Into the head at length slie gets,
A father, right to get a child?
Prior.

And there in public grandeur sits, this quicksilver to have been a perfect body of its Let every married man that's grave and wise,

Prior. To judge of things.

Boyle.

own kind. Take a tartuff of known ability,

They would be glad to get out those weeds which I resolved to break through all measures to gel Who shall so settle lasting reformation;

Swift.

away. their own hands have planted, and which now have

First get a son, then give him education. Dorset.

taken too deep root to be easily extirpated. Locke. 2. To fall; to come by accident. The god of day, descending from above,

17. To put. Mixt with the day, and got the queen of love.

Two or three men of the town are got among

Shaks.
Get on thy boots; we'll ride all night.
Granville.

them.

Tatler. 6. To gain as profit.

18. To Get off. To sell or dispose of by 3. To find the way; to insinuate itself. Though creditors will lose one fifth of their prin- some expedient.

When an egg is made hard by boiling, since cipal and use, and landlords one fifth of their in

Wood, to get his halfpence off, offered an hun- there is nothing that appears to get in at the shell, come, yet the debtors and tenants will not get it. dred pounds in his coin for seventy in silver, Swift. unless some little particles of the water, it is not

Locke.
To Get, gêt.360 v.n.

easy to discover from whence else this change pro7. To gain a superiority or advantage.

ceeds than from a change made in the texture of 1. To arrive at any state or posture by

the parts

Boyle.
If they get ground and 'vantage of the king,
Then join you with them like a rib of steel. Shaks. degrees with some kind of labour, ef.

He raves; his words are loose 8. To earn; to gain by labour.

fort, or difficulty: used either of per- As heaps of sand, and scattering wide from sense;

So high he's mounted in his airy hopes, Having no mines, nor any other way of getting or sons or things.

That now the wind is got into his head, keeping of riches but by trade, so much of our Phalantus was entrapped, and saw round about

And turns his brain to frenzy.

Dryden, trade as is lost, so much of our riches must neces

him, but could not get out.

Sidney.

A child runs to overtake and get up to the top of sarily go with it. Locke. You knew he walk'd o'er perils, on an edge

his shadow, which still advances at the same rate If it be so much pains to count the money I More likely to fall in than to get o'er. Shaks.

that he does.

Locke. would spend, what labour did it cost my ancestors The stranger shall get up above thee very high,

Should dressing, feasting, and balls once gel to gel it? Locke. and thou shalt come down very low. Deut.

among the Cantons, their military roughness would 9. To receive as a price or reward. The fox bragged what a number of shifts and de

Addison

be quickly lost.
Any tax laid on foreign commodities in England
vices he had to get from the hounds, and the cat

The fluids which surround bodies, upon the sur-
raises their price, and makes the importer get more said he had but one, which was to climb a tree.

face the globe, get in between the surfaces of

Bacon. for them; but a tax laid on your home-made com

bodies, when they are at any distance. Cheyne. modities lessens their price.

Those that are very cold, and especially in their

Locke. 10. To learn.

feet, cannot get to sleep.

Bacon. 4. To move; to remove. This defect he frequently lamented, it being

I utterly condemn the practice of the latter Get home with thy fewel made ready to set;

times, that some who are pricked for sheriffs, and harder with him to gel one sermon by heart than to

The sooner, and easier carriage to get.

Tusser. were fit, should get out of the bill. Bacon. 5. To have recourse to. pen twenty.

Fell.

He got away unto the christians, and hardly
Get by heart the more common and useful words

The Turks made great haste through the midst escaped.

Knolles. out of some judicious vocabulary.

Watts.
He would be at their backs before they could get

of the town ditch, to get up into the bulwark to help 11. To procure to be.

their fellows.

Knolles. out of Armenia,

Knolles.
I shall shew bow we may get it thus informed, She plays with his rage, and gets above his an

Lying is so cheap a cover for any miscarriage, and afterwards preserve and keep it so. South.

and so much in fashion, that a child can scarce be ger.

Denham. 12. To put into any state.

The latitant air had got away in bubbles. Boyle. kept from getting into it.

Locke. Nature taught them to make certain vessels of There are few bodies whose minute parts stick so 6. To go; to repair,

a tree, which they got down, not with cutting, but close together, but that it is possible to meet with They ran to their weapons, and furiously assailed

with fire.

Abbot. some other body whose smali parts may get be- the Turks, now fearing no such matter, and were
Take no repulse, whatever she doth say

tween, and so disjoin them.
Boyle. not as yet all got into thg castle,

Knolles.

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High, will seek out the wisdom of all the ancients, Soon after it was given forth, and believed by same we ought to apply only to the manhood of Ecclesiasticus. many, that the king was dead. Hayward. Christ.

Hooker. He is much given to contemplation, and the

26. To Give the hand.

To yield pre

It is given out, that, sleeping in my orchard, viewing of this theatre of the world. More.

A serpent stung me. So the whole ear of Denmark They who gave themselves to warlike action and eminence, as being subordinate or in

Is, by a forged process of my death, enterprises, went immediately to the palace of Odin. feriour.

Rankly abused.

Shakop. Temple. Lessons being free from some inconveniencies, One that gives out himself prince Florizel, Men are given to this licentious humour of scoff- whereunto sermons are more subject, they may in

Son of Polixenes, with his princess. Shaksp. ing at personal blemishes and defects. L'Estrange. this respect no less take than in others they must It hath been given out, by an hypocritical thief

Besides he is too much given to horseplay in his give the hand, which betokeneth pre-eminence. who was the first master of my ship, that I carried raillery; and comes to battle like a dictator from the

Hooker. with me out of England twenty-two thousand pieces plough.

Dryden. 27. To Give over.

To leave; to quit; to

of twenty-two shillings per piece. Raleigh. I have some business of importance with her;

He gave out general summons for the assembly of but her husband is so horribly given to be jealous.

cease.

bis council for the wars.

Knolles. Dryden. Let novelty therefore in this give over endless The night was distinguished by the orders which What can I refuse to a man so charitably given?

contradictions, and let ancient customs prevail. he gave out to his army, that they should forbear all Dryden.

Hooker. insulting of their enemies.

Addison. 21. To resign; to yield up.

It may be done rather than that be given over.

32. To Give out. To show in false ap

Hooker, Finding ourselves in the midst of the greatest

pearance. wilderness of waters, without victual, we gave our

Never give her o'er;

For scorn at first makes after love the more. Shak. His givings out were of an infinite distance selves for lost men, and prepared for death. Bacon.

If Desdemona will return me my jewels, I will

From his true meant design.

Shaker. Who say, I care not, those I give for lost; And to instruct them will not quit the cost. Herbert.

give over my suit, and repent my unlawful solici- She that, so young, could give out such a seeming, tations.

Shaksp.

To seal her father's eyes up close as oak. Shaks. Virtue giv'n for lost; Deprest and overthrown as seem'd;

All the soldiers, from the highest to the lowest 33. To Give up. To resign; to quit; to Like that self-begott'n bird

had solemnly sworn to defend the city, and not to yield.

Knolles. From out her ashy womb now teem'd. Milton. give it over unto the last man.

The people, weary of the miseries of war, woald Those troops which were levied, have given over Since no deep within her gulph can hold

give him up, if they saw him shrink Sidney.

Clarendon. Immortal vigour, though oppress'd and fallin, the prosecution of the war.

He has betray'd your business, and given up, I give not Hear'n for lost.

Milton. But worst of all to give her over

For certain drops of salt, your city Rome. Shaksp

. 'Till she's as desperate to recover. Hudibras. For a man to give his name to christianity in those

The sun, breaking out with his cheerful beams, days, was to list himself a martyr.

South. A woman had a hen that laid every day an egg;

revived many, before ready to give up the ghost for Our's gives himself for gone; you 've watch'd she fancied that upon a larger allowance this hen

Knolles.

cold; and gave comfort to them all. your time; might lay twice a day; but the hen grew fat, and

He found the lord Hopton in trouble for the loss of He fights this day unarm’d, without his rhyme.

gave quite over laying.

L'Estrange.

the regiment of foot at Alton, and with the unexDryden. Many have given over their pursuits after fame,

pected assurance of the giving up of Arundel castle.

Clarendon The parents after a long search for the body,

either from the disappointments they have met, or

from their experience of the little pleasure which gave him for drowned in one of the canals. Addison.

Let us give ourselves wholly up to Christ in heart attends it.

Addison As the hinder feet of the horse stuck to the

and desire.

Taylor, mountain, while the body reared up in the air, the 28. 7. Give over. To addict; to attach to. Such an expectation will never come to pass; poet with great difficulty kept himself from sliding

Zelmane, govern and direct me; for I am wholly

therefore I'll e'en give it up and go and fret my•

Collier. off ' his back, insomuch that the people gave him for given over unto thee.

Sidney.

self. gone.

Addison.

When the Babylonians had given themselves over I can give up to the historians of your country the 22. To conclude; to suppose.

to all manner of vice, it was time for the Lord, who names of so many generals and herves which crowd Whence came you here, O friend, and whither had set up that empire, to pull it down. Grew.

Drylen

their annals. bound? I one thing ill, or gave myself so much over

He declares himself to be now satisfied to the All gave you lost on fair Cyclopean ground. Garth. to it, as to neglect what I owed either to God or the contrary, in which he has given up the cause. Drindo

world. 23. T. Give away. To alienate from

Temple.

The leagues made between several states disown

ing all claim to the land in the other's possession, one's self; to make over to another; to 29. To Give over. To conclude lost.

Since it is lawful to practise upon them that

have, hy common consent, given up their presences transfer.

Locke.

to their natural right. are forsaken and given over, I will venture to preThe more he got, the more he shewed that he

If they give them up to their reasons, then they

Suckling: gave away to his new mistress, when he betrayed

'Tis pot amiss, e'er y' are giv'n o'er,

with them give up all truth and farther enquiry, his promises to the former.

Sidney. To try one desp'rate med'cine more;

and think there is no such thing as certainty. Lettres If you shall marry,

We should see him give up again to the mold And where your case can be no worse, You give away this hand, and that is mine; The desp'ratest is the wisest course. Hudibras.

common of nature, whatever was more than wald

Locke. You give away heav’o's vows, and those are mine;

The abbess, finding that the physicians had given

supply the conveniencies of life. You give away myselt, which is known mine. Shak. her over, told her that Theodosius was just gone be

Juba's surrender, since his father's death, Honest company, I thank you all, That have beheld me give away myself fore her, and had sent her his benediction. Addison.

Would give up Africk into Cæsar's hands, Her condition was now quite desperate, all regu

And make him lord of half the burning zone. To this most patient, sweet, and virtuous wife.

Shalcsp.

lar physicians, and her nearest relations, having I know not how they sold themselves; but thou, given her over.

Learn to be honest men, give up your leaders,

Arbuthnot.
Yet this false comfort never gives him o'er,

And pardon shall descend on all the rest. Addison. like a kind fellow, gav'st thyself away gratis, and I thank thee for thee.

A popish priest threatened to excommunicate a
Shaksp. That whilst he creeps, his vig'rous thoughts can soar.

Northumberland squire, if he did not give up to bim Love gives away all things, that so he may ad

Pope. the church lands. vance the interest of the beloved person.

Not one foretells I shall recover;

Taylor. But we who give our native rights away,

But all agree to give me over.

Swift.

He saw the celestial deities acting in a confedeAnd our enslav'd posterity betray, 30. TO GIVE over.

racy against him, and immediately gave up a cause To abandon.

which was excluded from all possibility of success. Are now reduc'd to beg an alms and go The duty of uniformity throughout all churches

Addison On holy days to see a puppet-show. Dryden. in all manner of indifferent ceremonies, will be Alas, said I, man was made in vain! How is he

An old gentleman who had been engaged in an very hard, and therefore best to give it over. given away to misery and mortality! Addison.

argument with the emperor

, upon his friend's telle Theodosius made a private vow never to inquire

Hooker.

ing him he wondered he would give up the question,

Abdemeleck, as one weary of the world, gave after Constantia, whom he looked upon as given

when he had the better, I am never asbamed

, says over all, and betook himself to a solitary life, and aray to his rival, upon the day on which their mar

he, to be confuted by one who is master of fifts leo became monk,

Addison. riage was to have been solemnized. Addison.

Knolles.

gions.

Sleep hath forsook, and giv'n me o'er Whatsoever we employ in charitable uses, during To death's benumbing opium, as my only cure.

He may be brought to give up the clearest evi

dence. our lives, is given away from ourselves: what we bequeath at our death, is given from others only, as

The cause for which we fought and swore

Milton.

The constant health and longevity of men mest our nearest relations. So boldly, shall we now give o'er.

be given up also, as a groundless conceit Bentley. 24. 7. Give back. To return; to restore. 31. To Give out. To proclaim; to pub.

Hudibras. Have the physicians gio'n up all their hopes

; Cannot they add a few days to a monarch?Rowe

. Their vices perhaps give back all those advan- lish; to utter.

These people were obliged to demand peace, and tages which their victories procured. 25. To Give forth. To publish; to tell.

The fathers give it out for a rule, that whatsoever

give up to the Romans all their possessions in Sicily. Christ is said in scripture to have received, the

Every one who will not ask for the conduct of

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GLE'BOUS, gle'bús. adj. [from glebe.] the caverns of these mountains; whose inner parts, Ye gliding ghosts, permit me to relate Turfy.

Dict.
being hollow, afford them a bason, Cheyne.

Dryden.

The mystic wonders of your silent state.
Glesby, gle'bė. adj. [from glebe.] Turfy;

GLE'Ety, gléè'tė. adj. [from gleet.] Icho- |3. To move swiftly and smoothly along. perhaps in the following passage fat or rous; thinly sanious.

If one of mean affairs If the flesh lose its ruddiness, and the matter

May plod it in a week, why may not I fruitful, if it has indeed any meaning.

Glide thither in a day?

Shaksp.
change to be thin and gleety, you may suspect it Pernicious flatt'ry! thy malignant seeds

corrupting.

Wiseman.

Shoals of fish, with fins and shining scales, In an ill hour, and by a fatal hand

Glide under the green wave.

Milton.
Sadly diffus'd o'er virtue's gleby land,
GLEN, glén. n. s. [gleann, Erse.] A val-

He trembled every limb, and felt a smart With rising pride amidst the corn appear,

ley; a dale; a depression between two As if cold steel had glided through his heart. Dryd.
And choke the hopes and harvest of the year. Prior. hills.

All things are beheld as in a hasty motion, where GLEDE, glede. n. 8. [gliduglide, Saxon.] From me his madding mind is start,

the objects only glide before the eye and disappear.

Dryden. A kind of hawk.

And wooes the widow's daughter of the glen.

Spenser. Glide, glide. n. 8. [from the verb.] Lapse;
Ye shall not eat the glede, the kite, and the vul- ture.

Deuteronomy. Glew, glú. n. 8. [gluten, Latin.]. A vis-

act or manner of passing smoothly.

About his peck GLEE, gled. n. 8. [3l1gge, Sax.] Joy;

cous cement made by dissolving the

A green and gilded snake had wreath'd itself, merriment; gayety. It anciently signifi- skins of animals in boiling water, and Wło, with her head nimble in threats, approach'd ed musick played at feasts. It is not now drying the gelly. See Glue.

The opening of his mouth; but suddenly,
used, except in ludicrous writing, or with GLIB, glib. adj. [from arou. Skinner.] Seeing Orlando, it unlink'd itself, some mixture of irony and contempt.

And with indented glides did slip away 1. Smooth; slippery; so formed as to be

Into a bush.

Shaksp. She marcheth home, and by her takes the knight,

easily moved.
Whom all the people follow with great glce.

Gli'den, gli'důr. n. 8. [from glide.] One
Fairy Queen.

Liquid bodies have nothing to sustain their parts,
nor any thmg to cement them: the parts being glib

that glides. Many wayfarers make themselves glee by vexing

and continually in motion, fall off from one another, The glaunce into my heart did glide; the inhabitants; who again foreslow not to baigne

Burnet. them with perfume. which way soever gravity inclines them.

Hey ho the glider;
Carew. Habbakkuk brought him a smooth strong rope

Therewith my soul was sharply gride,
Is Blouzelinda dead? Farewell my glee!

Such wounds soon waxen wider. compactly twisted together, with a noose that slipt

Spenser,
No happiness is now reserv'd for me. Gay. The poor man then was rich, and liv?d with glee; 12. Smooth; volubie.

as glih as a birdcatcher's gin.

Arbuthnot.

GLIKE, glike. n. 8. [glig, Saxon. See
Each barley-head untaxt, and day-light free. Harte.

GLEEK.] A sneer; a scoff; a flout. Not

I want that glib and oily art GLEED, glede. n. 8. [trom głopan, Saxoni,

now in use. To speak and purpose not, since what I well intend, to glow.] A hot glowing coal. A pro-

I'll do 't before I speak.

Shaksp.

Where's the bastard's braves, and Charles his vincial and obsolete word.

There was never so much glib nonsense put to

glikes.

Shaksp.
GLE EFUL, glèe'fúi. adj. [glee and full.] gether in well sounding English.

Locke. To GLI'MMER, glím'můr. v. n. [glim- Gay; merry; cheerful. Not used.

Now Curl his shop from rubbish drains;

mer, Danish, to shine; glimmen, Dutch, Thres genuine tomes of Swist's remains; My lovely Aaron, wherefore look’st thou sad,

to glow.]
And then, to make them pass the glibber,
When every thing doth make a gleeful boast?

Shaksp.

Reviz'd by Tibbald, More, and Cibber. Swift. 1. To shine faintly. Be sure he's a fipe spoken man;

The west yet glimmers with some streaks of day, Gleek, glèék. n. 8. [gligge, Sax.] Mu-

Do but hear on the clergy how glib his tongue ran.

Shaksp. sick; or musician.

Swift. The truth appears so naked on my side,
What will you give us?- -No money, but the Glib, glib. n. s.

That any purblind eye may find it out.
gleek: I will give you the minstrel. Shaksp.

- And on my side it is so well appareld, The Irish have from the Scythians mantles and

So clear, so shining, and so evident,
T, Gleek, glèèk. v.a.[3ligman, in Saxon, long glibs; which is a thick curled bush of hair

That it will glimmer through a blind man's eye. is a mimick or a droll.]

hanging down over their eyes, and monstrously dis

Spenser. guising them.

Shaksp. 1. To sneer; to gibe; to droll upon.

For there no twilight of the sun's dull ray
I can gleek upon occasion.

Shaksp.

70 Glib, glib. v. a. [from the adjective.] Glimmers upon the pure and native day. Cowley,
I have seen you gleeking or galling at this gen- To castrate.

Oft in glimmering bowers and glades tleman twice or thrice.

Shaksp.

Milton. I'll geld them all: fourteen they shall not see,

He met her. 2. In Scotland it is still retained, and sig. To bring false generations; they are coheirs,

See'st thou yon' dreary plain, forlorn and wild, nifies to fool or spend time idly, with

And I had rather glib myself, than they

The seat of desolation, void of light, Should not produce fair issue.

Shaksp.

Save what the glimmering of these livid flames something of mimickry or drollery.

Gli'bly, glib'le, adv.[from glib.] Smooth- Casts pale and dreadful?

Millon,
To Gleen, glèen. v. n. To shine with

The sacred influence ly; volubly. heat or polish. I know not the original

Of light appears, and from the walls of heav'n Many who would startle at an oath, whose sto-

Shoots far into the bosom of dim night notion of this word: it may be of the machs as well as conscience recoil at an obscenity,

A glimmering dawn.

Milton, same race with glow or with gleam. I do yet slide glibly into a detraction,

Through these sad shades this chaos in my soul, have not remarked it in any other place. Gli'bness, glib'nės. n. 8. [from glib.]

Government of the Tongue.

Some seeds of light at length began to roll; Those who labour

The rising motion of an infant ray, The sweaty forge, who edge the crooked scythe, Smoothness; slipperiness.

Shot glimm'ring through the cloud, and promis'd
Bend stubborn steel, and harden gleening armour, A polish'd ice-like glibness doth enfold

day.

Prior. Acknowledge Vulcan's aid. Prior. The rock.

Chapman. Oft by the winds, extinct the signal lies; GLEET, glèét. n.8. [It is written by The tongue is the most ready for motion of any Or smother'd in the glimm'ring socket dies.

Gay.
Skinner glitt, and derived from glidan,

member, needs not so much as the flexure of a joint, When rosy morning glimmerd o'er the dales,

and by access of humours acquires a glibness too, He drove to pasture all the lusty males, Saxon, to run softly] A sanious ooze;

Pope.
the more to facilitate its moving Gov. of the Tongue. 2. To be perceived imperfectly; to appear
a thin ichor running from a sore. TO GLIDE, glide. v. n. [glidan, Saxon; faintly. A hard dry eschar, without either matter or

glijden, Dutch.
gleet.
Wiseman

On the way the baggage post-boy, who had been To Gleet, gleét. v. n. [from the noun.] 1. To flow gently and silently.

at court, got a glimmering who they were. Wotton. 1. To drip or ooze with a thin sanious ii.

By east, among the dusty vallies glide

The pagan priesthood was always in the druids; The silver streams of Jordan's crystal flood.

and there was a perceivable glimmering o the Jew- quor.

Fairfax.

ish rites in it, though much corrupted. Swift. stan thumb being inflamed and swelled, I made Broke by the jutting land on either side, GlI'MMER, glim'můr. n.8. [from the verb.] an incision into it to the bone: this not only bled, In double streams the bring waters glide. Dryden. 1. Faint splendour; weak light.

but gleeted a few drops.

Wiseman Just before the confines of the wood, 2. To run slowly.

2. A kind of fossil.
The gliding Lethe leads ber silent flood. Dryden. Vapours raised by the sun make clouds, which Where stray the muses, in what lawn or grove?

The lesser masses that are lodged in sparty and are carried up and down the atmosphere, 'till they In those fair fields where sacred Isis glides,

stony bodies, dispersedly, from their shining and bit against the mountainous places of the globe, and Or else where Cam bis winding vales divides. Pope.

glimmering, were an inducement to the writers of by this concussion are condensed, and so gleet down 12. To pass on without change of step.

fossils to give those bodies the name of mica sid
glimmer.

Woodword.

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I might well, like the spaniel, gnaw upon the Then I concur to let him go for Greece,

Who shall bemoan thee? Or who shall go aside chain that ties me; but I should sooner mar my And wish our Egypt fairly rid of him. Dryden.

Jeremiah.

to ask how thou dost? teeth than procure liberty.

Sidney. Go first the master of thy herds to find,

His horses go about
See the hell of having a false woman: my bed True to his charge, a loyal stain and kind. Pope. Almost a mile.

Shakspeare. shall be abused, my coffers ransack'd, my reputation 10. To move or pass in any manner, or to

I have endeavoured to escape into the ease and gnawn at.

Shaksp.

freedom of a private scene, where a man may go I thought I saw a thousand fearful wrecks,

his own way and his own pace.

Temple.
A thousand men that fishes gnaw'd upon. Shaksp,

Though the vicar be bad, the parson be evil,

15. To march in a hostile or warlike manGNA'wer, nåw'ůr.98 n. s. [from gnaw.]

Go not for thy tything thyself to the devil. Tusser.

ner. One that gnaws.

She may go to bed when she list; all is as she will.

Shakspeare.

You were advis'd his flesh was capable
Goo'MON, nổ môn.3 + . 8. [xy Lov.] The You did wish that I would make her turn,

Of wounds and scars, and that his forward spirit hand or pin of a dial.

Sir, she can turn and turn and yet go on. Shaksp.

Would lift him where most trade of danger rang'd;

Shakspeare.
The gnomon of every dial is supposed to repre-

Yet did you say go forth. I am glad to see your lordship abroad: I heard

We be not able to go up against the people; for sent the axis of the world, and therefore the two say your lordship was sick: I hope your lordship

Numbers. ends or extremities thereof must directly answer to

goes abroad by advice.

Shakspeare.

they are stronger than we. the north and south pole.

The mourners go about the streets. Harris.

Eccles. Let us go down after the Philistines by night, There were from great antiquity sun-dials, by the

The sun shall go down over the prophets, and the and spoil them until the morning light. 1 Samuel.
shadow of a style or gnomon, denoting the hours of

day shall be dark over them.
Maccabees. Thou art not able to go against this Philistine to

1 Samuel

fight with him.
Brown. Put every man his sword by his side, and go in

The remnant of Jacob shall be among the gen- GNOMONICKS, no-môn’iks.509 n. 8. [ywno-

and out from gate to gate throughout the camp,

Exodus.

tiles as a lion among the beasts of the forest; who, van.] A science which inakes a part The sun, which once did shine alone,

if he go through, both treadeth down and teareth in

Micah. of the mathematicks: it teaches to find Hung down his head, and wish'd for night,

pieces, and none can deliver. a just proportion of shadows for the When he beheld twelve suns for one

16. To change state or opinion, for better construction of all kinds of sun and Going about the world, and giving light. Herbert. or worse.

This seen, the rest at awful distance stood, moon dials, and for knowing what

We will not hearken to the king's words to go As if they had been there as servants set,

from our religion.

1 Maccabees, o'clock it is by means thereof; as also To stay, or to go on as he thought good,

The regard of the public state, in so great a danof a gnomon or stile that throws off the And not pursue but wait on his retreat. Dryden.

ger, made all those goodly things, which went so to shadow for this purpose.

Trevour.
Turn not children going, till you have given them

wreck, to be lightly accounted of in comparison of all the satisfaction they are capable of.

Locke. their lives and liberty.

Knolles.
To GO, gỏ. v. n. pret. I went; I have

History only acquaints us that his feet went up

They look upon men and matters with an evil
gone. [gan, Saxon.

This was pro- the Elbe, he having carried his arms as far as that

eye; and are best pleased when things go backward,
bably changed to gone, or gang, then river.

Arbuthnot.

which is the worst property of a servant of a prince contracted to go.

Went is the preterit

The last advice I give you relates to your beha-

or state.

Bacon
of the old verb wend.] viour when you are going to be banged, which,

All goes to ruin; they themselves contrive
either for robbing your master, for housebreaking, To rob the honey, and subvert the hive. Dryden. 1. To walk; to move step by step. or gving upon the highway, may very probably be

Landed men, by their providence and good hus- You know that love

Swift.

bandry, accommodating their expences to their inWill creep in service where it cannot go. Shaksp. Those who come for gold will go off with pewter

come, keep themselves from going backwards in the After some months those muscles become callous; and brass, rather than return empty. Swift. world.

Locke. and having yielded to the extension, the patient 11. To pass in company with others.

Cato, we all go into your opinion, Addison.
makes shift to go upon it, though lamely. Wiseman, 2. To move, not stand still.

Thou shalt again be adorned with thy tabrets, 17. To apply one's self.

and shalt go forth in the dances of them thai make Seeing himself confronted by so many, like a ree
Rise, let us be going.

Matthew. merry.

Jeremiah. solute orator, he went not to denial, but to justify 3. To walk solemnly.

Away, and with thee go the worst of woes,

his cruel falsehood.

Sidney. If there be cause for the church to go forth in That seek'st my friendship, and the gods thy foes. Because this atheist goes mechanically to work, solemn procession, his whole family have such bu

Chapman. . he will not offer to affirm that all the parts of the siness come upon them that no one can be spared. He goeth in company with the workers of iniqui- embryon could, according to his explication, be Hooker. ty, and walketh with wicked men.

formed at a time.

Benlley, 4. To walk leisurely, not run.

Whatever remains io story of Atlas, or his king- 18. To have recourse to. And must I go to him?

dom of old, is so obscured with age or fables, that Dare any of you, having a matter against ano- -Thou must run to him; for thou hast staid so it may go along with those of the Atlantick islands.

ther, go to law before the unjust, and not before the long, that going will scarce serve the turn. Shaksp.

Temple. saints!

1 Corinthians. 5. To march or walk afoot.

12. To proceed in any course of life good 19. To be about to do. I will only go through on my feet. Numbers.

So extraordinary an example, in so degenerate an 6. To travel; to journey.

And the Levites that are gone away far from me, age, deserves for the rarity, and, I was going to say, From them I go when Israel went astray, which went astray away for the incredibility of it, the attestation of all that

Locke. This uncouth errand sole.

Milton.

knew him, and considered his worth.

from me after their idols, they shall even bear their 7. To proceed; to make a progress.

iniquity.

Ezekiel. 20. To shift; to pass life not quite well. Thus others we with defamation wound,

13. To proceed in mental operations. Every goldsmith, eager to engross to himself as While they stab us; and so the jest goes round.

If I had unwarily too far engaged myself for the

much as he could, was content to pay high for it ra- ther than

Locke. present publishing it, truly I should have kept it by

without.
Dryden.

go 8. To remove from place to place.

me till i had once again gone over it. Digby.

Cloaths they must have, but if they speak for this Thus I have gone through the speculative consi-

stuff, or that colour, they should be sure to go with- I am in blood

Locke, deration of the divine providence.

Hale.

out it. Stept in so far, that should I wade no more,

Returning were as tedious as go o'er. Shakspeare.

I hope by going over all these particulars, you 21. To declinc; to tend toward death or

may receive some tolerable satisfaction about this 9. To depart from a place; to remove

ruin. This sense is only in the partici. great subject.

South from a place: the opposite of to come.

ples going and gone. If we go over the laws of christianity, we shall

He is far gone, and, truly, in my youth, I hope it be not gone, to tell my lord

ind that, excepting a few particulars, they enjoin That I kiss aught but him.

I suffer'd much extremity for love
Shakspeare. the same things, only they have made our duty more

Shakspeare At once good night: clear and certain.

Very near this.

Tillotson. Stand not upon the order of your going,

In their primary qualities we can go but a very

22. To be in party or design. But go at once.

Shakspeare,

Locke.

They with the vanquish'd prince and party go, And when she had so said she went her way.

I go over some parts of this argument again, and And leave their temples.empty to the foe. Dryden.

John. enlarge a little more upon them. Locke. 23. To escape. I will let you go, that ye may sacrifice, only you

They are not able all their lifetime to reckon, or Timotheus himself fell into the hands of Dosi- shall not go very far away.

Exodus.

regularly go over any moderate series of numbers. theus and Sosipater, whom he besought with much Colchester oysters are put into pits where the

Locke.

2 Mac,

craft to let him go with his life.
sea goeth and cometh.
Bacon. |14. To take any road.

124. To tend to any act. A young tall squire

Did from the camp at first before him go, Cowley.

I will go along by the highway; I will neither There be some women, Silvius, had they mark'd turn to the right hand nor to the left. Deut.

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well pretend to the next vacant captainship in the Mankind have been forced to invent a kind of wings over every place, and to make every one same regiment.

Wotton. artificial humanity, which is what we express by the sensible of his good will to mankind. Calamy. 12. Confirmed; attested; valid.

word good breeding,

Addison. How could you chide the young good natur'd Ha! am I sure she's wrong'd? Perhaps 'tis Those among them who return into their several

prince, malice;

countries, are sure to be followed and imitated as And drive him from you with so stern an air. Add.
Slave, make it clear, make good your accusation. the greatest patterns of wit and good breeding. 26. Favourable; loving.
Smith.

But the men were very good unto us, and 13. With as preceding. It has a kind of 22, Real; serious; not feigned.

were not hurt.

1 Samuel.
negative or inverted sense; as good as, Love not in good earnest, nor no farther in sport

Truly God is good to Israel even to such as are no better than. peither, than with safety of a pure blusb thou may'st

of a clean heart.

Psalms. in honour come off again.

Shakspeare. Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as

You have good remembrance of us always, de

siring greatly to see us, as we also to see you. good as dead, so many as the stars of the sky in 23. Rich; of credit; able to fulfil engage

1 Thessalonians. multitude,

Hebrews. ments.

This idea must necessarily be adequate, being 14. With as preceding. No worse.

Antonio is a good man: my meaning, in saying

referred to nothing else but itself, nor made by any
He sharply reproved them as men of no courage, that he is a good man, is to have you understand me other original but the good liking and will of him
which, being many times as good as in possession of that he is sufficient.

Shakspeare. that first made this combination.

Locke. the victory, had most cowardly turned their backs 24. Having moral qualities, such as are

27. Companionable; sociable; merry. Of- upon their enemies.

Knolles.
The master will be as good as his word for his

ten used ironically.

wished; virtuous; pious; religious: ap- own business.

L'Estrange. plied both to persons and actions. Not

Though he did not draw the good fellows to him

Clarendon. 15. Well qualified; not deficient.

by drinking, yet he eat well. bad; not evil.

Not being permitted to drink without eating, will If they had held their royalties by that title, ei- For a good man some would even dare to die. prevent the custom of having the cup often at his ther there must have been but one sovereign over

Romans. nose; a dangerous beginning and preparation to good them all, or else every father of a family had been The woman hath wrought a good work upon me. fellowship.

Locke. as good a prince, and had as good a claim to royal

Matthew. It was well kuown, that sir Roger had been a ty as these.

Locke, All man's works on me,

good fellow in his youth.

Arbuthnot. 16. Skitful; ready; dexterous.

Good or not good, ingraft, my merit those 28. It is sometimes used as an epithet Flatter him it may, I confess; as those are gene- Shall perfect, and for those my death shall pay.

of slight contempt, implying a kind of
rally good at flattering who are good for nothing

Milton. else.

South. What reward

negative virtue or bare freedom from I make my way where-e'er I see my foe;

Awaits the good, the rest what punishment. Milt.
But you, my lord, are good at a retreat. Dryden.

The only Son of light

My good man, as far from jealousy as I am from 17. Happy; prosperous.

In a dark age against example good,

giving him cause.

Shakspeare.
Behold how good and how pleasant it is for

Against allurement,

Milton. She had left the good man at home, and brought brethren to dwell together in unity.

Psalms. Such follow him, as shall be registred

away her gallant.

Addison.
Many good morrows to my noble lord!

Part good, part bad, of bad the larger scroll. Milt. 29. In a ludicrous sense.
-Good morrow, Catesby, you are early stirring. Grant the bad what happiness they would,

As for all other good women that love to do buf
Shakspeare. One they must want, which is to pass for good. little work, how handsome it is to louse themselves
Good e'en, neighbours;

Pope. in the sunshine, they that have been but a while in
Good e'en to you all, good e'en to you all. Shaksp. Why drew Marseilles' good bishop purer breath,

Ireland can well witness.

Spenser.
At my window, bid good morrow. Milton. When nature sicken'd, and each gale was death? 30. Hearty; earnest; not dubious.
Good morrow, Portius! let us once embrace.

Pope. He, that saw the time fit for the delivery he jo-
Addison. Such was Roscommon, not more learn'd than tended, called unto us to follow him, which we 18. Honourable.

good,

both, bound by oath, and willing by good will,
They cast to get themselves a name,
With manners gen'rous as his noble blood. Pope. obeyed.

Sidney.
Regardless whether good or evil fame. Milton.

No farther intercourse with Heav'n had he,

The good will of the nation to the present war has
Silence, the knave's repute, the whore's good

But left good works to men of low degree. Harte. been since but too much experienced by the suc- name,

Temple. 25. Kind; soft; benevolent.

cesses that have attended it. The only honour of the wishing dame. Pope.

Matters being so turned in her, that where at first

Good will, she said, my want of strength supplies; 19. Cheerful; gay. Joined with any words liking her manners did breed good will, now good

And diligence shall give what age denies. Dryden. expressing temper of mind.

will became the chief cause of liking her manners. 31. In Good time. Not too fast. They may be of good comfort, and ever go cheer

Sidney. In good time, replies another, you have heard fully about their own affairs.

2 Mac. Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, them dispute against a vacuum in the schools. Quietness improves into cheerfulness, enough to and good will toward men.

Luke.

Collier.
make me just so good humoured as to wish that Without good nature man is but a better kind of world well.

32. In Good 800th. Really; seriously.
Pope. vermin.

Bacon.

What, must I hold a candle to Here we are lov'd, and there we love;

my

shames? 20. Considerable; not small though not

Good nature now and passion strive

They in themselves, good sooth, are too too light. very great. Which of the two should be above,

Shakspeare.
A good while ago God made choice that the gen-

And laws unto the other give. Suckling. 33. Good. [To make.] To keep; to main-
tiles by my mouth should hear the word. Acts.

'Tis no wonder if that which affords so little glory The plant, having a great stalk and top, doth

tain; not to give up; not to abandon.
to God, hath no more good will for men.
prey upon the grass a good way about by drawing

There died upon the place all the chieftains, all

Decay of Piety. the juice of the earth from it.

Bacon.

making good the fight, without any ground given. When you shall see him, sir, to die for pity,

Bacon, Myrtle and pomegranate, if they be planted,

'Twere such a thing, 'twould so deceive the world,
though a good space one from the other, will meet.

He forced them to retire in spite of their dra- 'Twould make the people think you were good na-

Peacham.

goons, which were placed there to make good their tur'd.

Denham. retreat.

Clarendon, The king had provided a good fleet, and a body

To teach him betimes to love and be good na-
of three thousand foot to be embarked. Clarendon

Since we claim a proper interest above others in tured to others, is to lay early the true foundation We may suppose a great many degrees of little-

the pre-eminent rights of the household of faith, of an honest man.

Locke. ness and lightness in these earthy particles, so as

then to make good that claim, we are obliged above Good sense and good nature are never separated,

others to conform to the proper manners and virtues many of them might float in the air a good while

though the ignorant world has thought otherwise. Burnet.

that belong to this houshold. like exhalations, before they fell down.

Sprat.
Dryden.

He without fear a dangerous war pursues; They beld a good share of civil and military em-

Affability, mildness, tenderness, and a word

As bonour made him first the danger chuse, ployments during the whole time of the usurpation.

which I would fain bring back to its original signiSwift.

So still he makes it good on virtue's score. Dryden.

fication of virtue, I mean good nature, are of daily 21. Elegant; decent; delicate: with breed

Dryden.

34. Good. [To make.] To confirm; to ing.

This doctrine of God's good will towards men,

establish.
this command of men's proportionable good will to

I farther will maintain If the critick has published nothing but rules and observations in criticism, I then consider whether one another, is not this the very body and substance,

Shaksp.

Upon bis bad life to make all this good.
there he a propriety and elegance in his thoughts this the very spirit and life of our Saviour's whole To make good this explication of the article, it and words, clearness and delicacy in his remarks, institution?

Spral.

will be necessary to prove that the church, which wit and good breeding in his raillery. Addison, It was his greatest pleasure to spread his healing our Saviour founded and the apostles gathered,

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1. A young goose; a goose not yet full To do the office of a neighbour,

3. To manage; to restrain. groin.

And be a gossip at his labour.

Hudibras. Go after her, she's desperate; govern her. Why do you go nodding and waggling so like a

'Tis sung in ev'ry street, fool, as if you were hipshot? says the goose to her The common chat of gossips when they meet.

Shakspeare. gosling.

4. [In grammar.] To have force with re. L'Estrange.

Dryden. Nature hath instructed even a brood of goslings To Go'ssip, gôsʼsip. v. n. [from the noun.]

gard to syntax; as, amo governs the acto stick together, while the kite is hovering over 1. To chat; to prate; to be merry.

cusative case. their heads.

Swift. Go to a gossip's feast and gaude with me.

Listen, children, unto me, 2. A katkin on nut-trees and pines.

-With all my heart, I'll gossip at this feast.

And let this your lesson be,

Shaksp. GO'SPEL, gös'pél. n. 8. [goder spel, or

In our language evermore His mother was a votress of my order,

Words that govern go before. Mauger's Fr, Gr. God's or good tidings; évayyavov; 808- And in the spiced Indian air by night,

5. To pilot; to regulate the motions of a kel, skeal, suach, happy tidings, Erse.] Full often hath she gossipt by my side. Shaksp. ship. 1. God's word; the holy book of the christ

The market and exchange must be left to their T. Go'vern, gův'ůro.88 v. n. To keep suian revelation.

own ways of talking; and gossipings not be robbed of their ancient privilege.

periority; to behave with haughtiness

. Thus may the gospel to the rising sun

Locke,
Be spread, and flourish where it first begun. Waller.
He gives himself up to an idle gossiping conver-

By that rule, sation, All the decrees whereof scripture treateth are 2. To be a pot-companion.

Your wicked atoms may be working now Law.

To give bad counsel, that you still may govern. conditionate, receiving Christ as the gospel offers

Dryder him, as Lord and Saviour; the former, as well as

Nor met with fortune, other than at feast,
Full warm of blood, of mirth, of gossiping. Shaksp.

Go'vERNABLE, gův'ůr-nå-bl. adj. [from the latter, being the condition of scripture-election, and the rejecting, or not receiving him thus, the Gu'ssIPRED, gồs'sip-réd. n. 8. [gossipry,

govern.] Submissive to authority; subcondition of the scripture-reprobation. Hammond, from gossip.]

ject to rule; obedient; manageable. How is a good christian animated and cheered

The flexibleness of the former part of a man's

Gossipred or compaternity, by the canon law, is by a stedfast belief in the promises of the gospel. a spiritual affinity; and the juror, that was gossip to

age, not yet grown up to be headstrong, makes it Bentley

Locke. either of the parties, might, in former times, have

more governable and safe. 2. Divinity; theology.

been challenged as not indifferent, Davies. Go'vERNANCE, gův'ür-nånse. n. 8. [from To Go'spel, gôs'pél. v.n. [from the noun. Go'sting, gồs'ting. n. 8. [rubia.] govern. 7

An To fill with sentiments of religion. Gor, göt. The preterit of get.

herb.

Ainsworth. 1. Government; rule; management.

Jonathan took the governance upon him at that This word in Shakspeare, in whom alone I have found it, is used, though

Titus Lartius writes, they fought together; but

time; and rose up instead of his brother Judas,

1 Maccabees. Aufidius got off. so venerable in itself, with some degree If you have strength Achilles' arms to bear,

2. Control, as that of a guardian. of irony: I suppose from the gospel. Though foul Thersites got thee, thou shalt be

Me he knew not, neither his own ill, Lov'd and esteem'd. lers, who had long been held in con

Dryden. 'Till through wise handling, and fair goterland, These regions and this realm my wars have got;

I him recurred to a better will.

Spenser tempt. This mournful empire is the loser's lot. Dryden.

What! shall king Henry be a pupil still

, Are you so gospell’d When they began to reason about the means, how

Under the surly Gloucester's governance? Shaks. To pray for this good man, and for his issue,

the sea got thither, and away back again, there they 13. Behaviour; manners. Obsolete. Whose heavy band hath bow'd you to the grave?

were presently in the dark.

Woodward. He likest is to fall into mischance, Shaksp. Got, gôt. The part. pass. of get.

That is regardless of bis governance.

Spenser GO'SPELLER, gồs'pél-úr. n. 8. [from gos- Solyman commended them for their valour in Go'vernante, go-vår-nânt'

. n. 8. [gox. pel.] A name of the followers of

their evil haps, in a plot so well by them laid, more Wickliffe, who first attempted a re- than he did the victory of others got by good for

vernante, French.] A lady who has formation from popery, given them by tune, not grounded upon any good reason. Knolles.

the care of young girls of quality. The

A gentle persuasion in reasoning, when the first more usual and proper word is gou the papists in reproach, from their

point of submission to your will is got, will most professing to follow and preach only times do.

Locke. ihe gospel.

If he behaves himself so when he depends on us

Go'verness, gův'ůr-nès. n. 8. [gouver-
These gospellers have had their golden days, for his daily bread, can any man say what he will nesse, French, from govern.
Have trodden down our holy Roman faith. Rowe. do when he is got above the world? Arbuthnot. 1. A female invested with authority.

Thou wert from Ætna's burning entrails torn,
Go'ssaMER, gồs'så-můr, n. 8. [gossipium,
Got by fierce whirlwinds, and in thunder borne.

The moon, the governess of floods, low Latin.] The down of plants; the

Pale in her anger, washes all the air

, Pope.

Shakop long white cobwebs which fly in the Go'tten, gôt't'n. The part, pass. of get. 2. A tutoress; a woman that has the care

That rheumatick diseases do abound. air in calm sunny weather, especially Wisdom cannot be gotten for gold.

Job.

of about the time of autumn.

ladies. Hanmer. Few of them when they are gotten into an office,

young A lover may bestride the gossamour, apply their thoughts to the execution of it. Temple.

He presented himself unto ber, falling down upon That idles in the wanton summer air, GOUD, góůd. n. 8. Woad; a plant. Dict.

both his knees, and holding up his hands, as the And yet not fall, so light is vanity. Shaksp. Gove, gove. n. 8. A mow.

Tusser.

old governess of Danæ is painted, when sbe sud

denly saw the golden shower. Four nimble goats the horses were,

7. Gove, gove, v. n. To mow; to put in

Drayton. Their harnesses of gossamere.

His three younger children were taken from the The filmy gossamer now flits no more a gove, goff, or mow. An old word.

governess in whose hands he put them. Clarendont

. Nor balcyons bask on the short sunny shore. Dryd. Load safe, carry home, follow time being fair,

3. A tutoress; an instructress; a directress, Gove just in the barn, it is out of despair. Tusser.

Great affliction that severe goterness of the life 8.

of man brings upon those

souls she seizes on. More. rýb, relation, affinity, Saxon.] 1. One who answers for the child in bap- 1. To rule as a chief magistrate.

French; guberno, Latin.]

Go'vernmentmènt.

vernement, French.] tism.

This inconvenience is more hard to be redressed 1. Form of a community with respect to Go to a gossip's feast and gaude with me,

in the governor than in the governed; as a malady in

Shaksp. After so long grief such nativity.

the disposition of the supreme authority. a vital part is more incurable than in an external. At the christening of George duke of Clarence,

There seem to be but two general kinds of go

Spenser. who was born in the castle of Dublin, he made

vernment in the world: the one exercised accord

Slaves to our passions we become, and then both the earl of Kildare and the earl of Ormond

ing to the arbitrary commands and will of some sinIt grows impossible to govern men, Waller. his gossips.

Davies. 2. To regulate; to influence; to direct.

ders or laws introduced by agreement, or custom, 2. A tippling companion.

I am at present against war, though it puts the

and not to be changed without the consent of many. And sometimes lurk I in a gossip's bowl,

power into my hands, and though such turbulent and In very likeness of a roasted crab,

naughty spirits as you are govern all things in times And when she drinks against her lips I bob.

Shakspeare.

Davenant. The chief point which he is to carry always in

to be absolute. 3. One who runs about tattling like women

his eye, and by which he is to govern all his coun- 2. An established state of legal authority. at a lying-in.

sels, designs, and actions.

Atterbury.

GO'SSIP, gös'sỉp. n. 6. [from god and T. GOVERN, gåvůrn. v.a. [gouverner, Gover Next, güv'ůrn-mèt. n. t. [gox

gle person; and the other according to certain or

Temple. No government can do any act to limit itsell; the supreme legislative power cannot make itself vot

Lesley.

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GRACES, grà'siz.99 n. 8. Good graces for several gradations by which men at last come to duate as much silver as equalled in weight that

Tillotson. this horrid degree of impiety.

gold.

Boyle. favour is seldom used in the singular. Demand deliv'ry of her heart,

4. To heighten; to improve. 3. Order; sequence; series. Her goods and chattles, and good graces,

'Tis the curse of service;

Not only vitriol is a cause of blackness, but the
Hudibras. and person up to his embraces. Preferment goes by letter and affection,

salts of natural bodies; and diers advance and gra

duate their colours with salts. Not, as of old, gradation, where each second

Browon. GRA'CILE, gras'sil.140 adj. [gracilis, Lat.]

Stood heir to th' first.

Shaksp. GRA'duate, gråd'ů-åte.91 n. s. [gradué, Slender; small.

Dict.

4. Regular process of argument. GRA'CILENT, gras'e-lènt. adj. [gracilentus,

French; from gradus, Latin.] A man Certain it is, by a direct gradation of conse

dignified with an academical degree. Latin.] Lean.

Dict. quences from this principle of merit, that the obli-

of graduates I dislike the learned rout,
GRACI’LITY, grå-sil'e-té. n. 8. [gracilitas, į gation to gratitude tows from, and is enjoined by,

South. the first dictates of nature.

And chuse a female doctor for the gout. Bramstop Latin.] Slenderness, smallness.

GRACIOUS, grà'shús.314 adj. [gracieux,

GRA'DATORY, gråd’a-tür-4.612 n. 8. [gradus, Gradua'tion, gråd-4-4'shún. n. 8. [gra-

duation, Fr. from graduate.] French.]

Latin.] Steps from the cloisters into the church.

Ainsworth.

1. Regular progression by succession of 1. Merciful; benevolent.

degrees. Common sense and reason could not but tell Gradient, grd'de-ânt, or grá'je-ânt. 893

The graduation of the parts of the universe is them, that the good and gracious God could not be adj. [gradiens, Lat.] Walking; moving

likewise necessary to the perfection of the whole. pleased, nor consequently worshipped, with any by steps.

Grero. thing barbarous or cruel.

South.

Amongst those gradient automata, that iron spi- 2. Improvement; exaltation of qualities. To be good and gracious, and a lover of know- der is especially remarkable, which, being but of an ledge, are two of the most amiable things. Burnet.

of greater repugnancy unto reason is that which ordinary bigness, did creep up and down as if it bad

he delivers concerning its graduation, that heated 2. Favourable; kind.

been alive.

Wilkins.

in fire, and often extinguished in oyi of mars or iron, And the Lord was gracious unto them, and had GRA'DUAL, gråd'ú-ål, or gråd'ju-81.203 the loadstone acquires an ability to extract a nail compassion on them.

2 Kings.
294 378 adj. [graduel, French.] Proceed- fastened in a wali.

Broron. Unblam'd Ulysses' house,

In which I finde receipt so gracious. Chapman.

ing by degrees; advancing step by step; 3. The act of conferring academical de- From now reveal from one stage to another.

grees. A gracious beam of light; from now inspire

Nobler birth

Grafy, gråf. n. 8. A ditch; a moat. See
My tongue to sing, my band to touch the lyre. Of creatures animate with gradual life,

GRAVE.
Prior. of growth, sense, reason, all summ'd up in man.

Though the fortifications were not regular, yet 3. Acceptable; favoured.

Milton.

the walls were good, and the graff broad and deep. Doctrine is much more profitable and gracious by Men still suppose a gradual natural progress of

Clarendon. example than by rule.

Spenser.
things; as that, from great, things and persons GRAFF, gráf. ?n.

[greffe, French.] He made us gracious before the kings of Persia,

should grow greater, 'till at length, by many.steps GRAFT, grâft.79 ] A small branch inserted so that they gave us food.

1 Esdras. and ascents, they come to be at greatest.

into the stock of another tree, and nou.
Goring, who was now general of the horse, was GRA'DUAL, gråd'ů-ål.88 n. 8. [gradus, Lat.] No more gracious to prince Rupert than Wilmot An order of steps.

rished by its sap, but bearing its owu had been.

Clarendon. Before the gradual prostrate they ador'd, fruit; a young cion. 4. Virtuous; good.

The pavement kiss'd, and thus the saint implor'd. God gave unto man all kinds of seeds and graffs Kings are no less unhappy, their issue not being

Dryden. of life; as the vegetative life of plants, the sensual gracious, than they are in losing them when they GRADUA'Lity, gråd-u-dl'e-tè. n. 8. [from of beasts, the rational of man, and the intellectual have approved their virtues. Shaksp. gradual. Regular progression.

of angels.

Raleigh. 5. Excellent. Obsolete.

This some ascribe unto the mixture of the ele.

It is likely, that as in fruit-trees the graft maThe grievous abuse which hath been of councils, ments, others to the graduality of opacity and light.

keth a great fruit, so in trees that bear no fruit it should rather cause men to study how so gracious a

will make the greater leaves.

Bacon.

Brown, thing may again be reduced to that first perfection. GRA'DUALLY, gråd'ú-al-le. adv. [from

'Tis usual now an inmate graff to see Hooker.

With insolence invade a foreign tree. Dryden. 6. Graceful; becoming. Obsolete. gradual.]

If you cover the top with clay and horse-dung in 1. By degrees; in regular progression. the same manner as you do a graft it will help to Our women's names are more gracious than their

heal the sooner.

Mortimer, Rutilia, that is, red head.

Camden.

When the moon passes over the fixed stars, and
GRA'CIOUSLY, gra'shús-lè. adv. [from
eclipses them, your light vanishes: not gradually,

Now the cleft rind inserted graffs receives, like that of the planets, but all at once. Neroton.

And yields an offspring more than nature gives. gracious.] The author of our being weans us gradually

Pope. 1. Kindly; with kind condescension. from our fondness of life the nearer we approach To GRAFF, gråf. ?

v. a. [greffer, Fr.] His testimony he graciously confirmed, that it

towards the end of it. was the best of all my tragedies. Dryden.

Human creatures are able to bear air of much i. To insert a cion or branch of one tree He heard my vows, and graciously decreed greater density in diving, and of much less upon

into the stock of another. My grounds to be restor'd, my former flocks to feed. the tops of mountains, provided the changes be made

gradually. Dryden.

Arbuthnot.

His growth is but a wild and fruitless plant;

I'll cut his barren branches to the stock, If her majesty would but graciously be pleased to 12. In degree.

Dryden.

And graft you on to bear. think a hardship of this nature worthy her royal

Human reason doth not only gradually but spe

With his pruning hook disjoin consideration.

Swift. cifically differ from the fantastick reason of brutes,

Grew.

Unbearing branches from their head, 2. In a pleasing manner.

And graft more happy in their stead. Dryden. T. GRADUATE, gråd’u-ate. v. a. [gra- 2. To propagate by insertion or inoculaGRACIOUSNESS, gra'shús-nés. n. 8. [from

duer, Fr. gradus, Latin.]

tion. gracious.]

1. To dignify with a degree in the univer1. Kind condescension].

Now let me graff my pears, and prune the vine, sity.

Dryden. The graciousness and temper of this answer made no impression on them.

Clarendon.

John Tregonwell, graduated a doctor and dub- 13. To insert into a place or body to which bed a knight, did good service.

Carew. 2. Pleasing manner.

it did not originally belong.

Concerning columns and their adjuncts, archi-
GRADA'TION, grå-da'shủn. n. 8. [grada-

And they also, if they bide not still in unbelief, tects make such a noise, as if the terms of archi

shall be graffed in; for God is able to graff them tion, French; gradus, Latin. traves, frizes, and cornices, were enough to gradu

in again.

Romans. ate a master of this art.

Wotion. 1. Regular progress from one degree to

These are th' Italian names which fate will join 2. To mark with degrees. another,

With ours, and graff upon the Trojan lige. Dryd. The desire of more and more rises by a natural

The places were marked where the spirits stood 4. To impregnate with an adscititious

at the severest cold and greatest heat, and according
gradation to most, and after that to all. L'Estrange.

branch.
to these observations he graduates his thermome-
2. Regular advance step by step.

ters.

Derham.

We're some old crab-trees here at home, that From thence,

will not By cold gradation, and well balanc'd form, 3. To raise to a higher place in the scale

Shaksp.

Be grafted to your relish, We shall proceed with Angelo.

Shaksp. of metals: a chymical term.

The noble isle doth want her proper limbs;
The psalmist very elegaotly expresseth to us the The tincture was capable to transmute or gra- Her royal stock graft with ignoble plants. Shaksp. * VOL. I.

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Thou hast spoken of thy servant's house for a In her every thing was goodly and stately; yet so, A favourite's business, is to please the king, a mi

2 Samuel.
great while to come.
that it might seem that great mindedness was but

Кеп.

nister's to greaten and exalt him. 5. Important; weighty.

the ancient-bearer to the humbleness.

Sidney. GREATHEA'RTED,

gráte-hårt'éd. adj. Make sure 14. Opulent; sumptuous; magnificent.

[great and heart.] High-spirited; unHer favours to thee, and the great oath take

Not Babylon,

dejected.
With which the blessed gods assurance make. Nor great Alcairo, such magnificence
Chapman. . Equail'd in all their glories.

Milton. The earl, as greathearted as he, declared that he Many

He disdained not to appear at great tables and

neither cared for his friendship, nor feared his hafestival entertainments.

tred.

Atterbury. Have broke their backs with laying manors on them

Clarendon.
For this great journey.

Shaksp. 15. Intellectually great; sublime. GRE'Atly, gråte'le. adv. [from great.] What is low raise and support,

This new created world, how good, how fair,

1. In a great degree. That to the height of this great argument

Answering his great idea.

Milton.

Thy sorrow I will greatly multiply. Millon. I may assert eternal Providence, 16. Swelling; proud.

2. Nobly; illustriously. And vindicate the ways of God to men. Millon.

Solyman perceived that Vienna was not to be

Yet London, empress of the northern clime, On some great charge employ'd

won with words, nor the defendants to be discouHe seem'd, or fix'd in cogitation deep. Milton.

By an high fate thou greatly didst expire. Dryden. raged with great looks; wherefore he began to batBy experience of this great event,

3. Magnanimously; generously; bravely. ter the walls.

Knolles. In arms not worse.

Milton.

Where are these bold intrepid sons of war, 17. Familiar; much acquainted. A low After silence then,

That greatly turn their backs upon the foe,

word. And summons read, the great consult began. Milt.

And to their general send a brave defiance? And though this be a great truth, if it be impar- Those that would not censure, or speak ill of a

Addison. tially considered, yet it is also a great paradox to man immediately, will talk more boldly of those

[from great.] men of corrupt minds and vitious practices. that are great with them, and thereby wound their GRE'ATNESS, gråte'nės. n. 8. Tillotson. honour.

Bacon. 1. Largeness of quantity or number. 6. Chief; principal. 18. Pregnant; teeming.

2. Comparative quantity. His eyes sometimes even great with tears. Sidney. We can have no positive idea of any space or Hear the king's pleasure, cardinal, who com

Their bellies great

duration, which is not made up of and commensuWith swelling vanity, bring forth deceit. Sandys. rate to repeated numbers of feet or yards, or days

Shaksp.
To render up the great seal presently.

This fly, for most he stings in heat of day,

or years, and whereby we judge of the greatness of 7. Venerable; acorable; awful From caitle great with young keep thou away. May. these sort of quantities.

Locke. Thou first art wout God's great authentick will,

All absent good does not, according to the great-
Interpreter, through highest heav'n to bring. Milt

. 19. It is added in every step of ascending
or descending consanguinity: as great

ness it has, or is acknowledged to have, cause pain 8. Wonderful; marvellous.

equal to that greatness, as all pain causes desire Great things, and full of wonder.

Milton, grandson is the son of my grandson.

equal to itself; because the absence of good is not I dare not yet affirm for the antiquity of our lan

always a pain, as the presence of pain is. Locke. 9. Of high rank; of large power.

guage, that our great-great-great grandsires tongue 3. High degree of any quality, Such men as he be never at heart's ease,

came out of Persia.
Whilst they behold a greater than themselves.

Shuksp
What we call great great grandfather they called

Zeal, in duties, shall be proportioned to the forthafader.

Camden. greatness of the reward, and the certainty. Rogers. Worthiest by being good,

Their holydays cloaths go from father to son, and 4. High place; dignity; power; influence; Far more than great or high.

Milton.

are seldom worn out till the second or third gene-
Of all the great how few

empire. ration; so that 'tis common enough to see a country-

Are just to heav'n, and to their promise true! Pope.

The most servile flattery is lodged most easily in
man in the doublet and breeches of his great grand- Misfortune made the throne her seat,

the grossest capacity; for their ordinary conceit father.

Addison.
Rowe.
And none could be unhappy but the great.

draweth a yielding to greatness, and then have 20. Hard; difficult; grievous. A pro- Despise the farce of state,

they not wit to discern the right degrees of duty.
The sober follies of the wise and great. Pope. verbial expression.

Sidney. The marble tombs that rise on high,

It is no great matter to live lovingly with good

Farewel, a long farewel to all my greatness. Whose dead in vaulted arches lie;

natured and meek persons.
Taylor

Shaksp. These, all the poor remains of state,

GREAT, grate. n. 8. [from the adjective.]
Adorn the rich, or praise the great. Parnel.

As will to greatness dedicate themselves. Shaksp. The whole; the gross; the whole in a

I beg your greatness not to give the law 10. General; extensive in consequence or luinp.

In other realms; but beaten, to withdraw. Dryden. influence

To let out thy harvest by great or by day,

Approaching greatness met him with her charms Prolifick humour softning all her globe, Let this by experience lead thee the way,

Of pow'r and future state,
Fermented the great mother to conceive. Milton.

He shook her from his arms.
By great will deceive thee with ling'ring it out,

Dryden. By day will dispatch.

Tusser. Themistocles raised the Athenians to their greal11. Iilustrious; eminent; noble; excellent.

It were behoveful, for the strength of the navy, tress at sea, which he thought to be the true and O Lord, thou art great, and thy name is great in that no ships should be builded by the great; for by constant interest of that commonwealth. Suift. might.

Jeremiah.

daily experience they are found to be weak and
The great Creator thus reply'd.
Milton.

5. Swelling pride; affected state. imperfect.

Raleigh.
The great Son return'd He did at length so many slain forget,

My lord would have you know, that it is not of Victorious with his saints,

Milton.
And lost the tale, and took them by the great.

pride or greatness that he cometh not aboard your

Bacon. Fair angel, thy desire that tends to know

ships.

Dryden. The works of God, thereby to glorify

Carpenters build an house by the great, and are 6. Merit; magnanimity; nobleness of mind.
The great work-inaster, tends to no excess

agreed for the sum of money.

Moxon. .

Greatness of mind and nobleness their seat
That reaches blame.

Milton. I set aside one day in a week for lovers, and in-

Build in her loveliest.

Milton Great are thy works Jehovah, infinite

terpret by the great for any gentlewoman who is 7. Grandeur; state; magnificence. Thy pow'r! what thought can measure thee, or turned of sixty.

Addison. Greatness with Timon dwells in such a draught, tongue GREA'TBELLIED, gráte-bél'id.23 adj.

As brings all Brobdignag before your thought. Relate thee! greater now in thy return

Pope. Than from the giant angels: thee that day

[great and belly.] Pregnant; teeming. Greave, grève. n. 8. [græf, Saxon] A Thy thunders magnified, but to create

Greatbellied women,
Is greater than created to destroy.
Milton, That had not half a week to go, like rains

grove.

Spenser.
The great luminary, In the old time of war, would shake the press.

Yet when there haps a honey-fall, Aloof the vulgar constellations thick,

Shaksp.

We'll lick the sirupt leaves, That from his lordly eye keep distance due,

A greatbellied woman, walking through the city

And tell the bees that theirs is gall Dispenses light from far

Milton. in the day-time, had her child struck out of her

To that upon the greaves.

M. Drayton. Here Cesar grac'd with both Minervas shone, womb, and carried half a furlong from her. Wilkins. GREAVES, grèvz n. s. [from greves, Fr.] Cesar, the world's great master, and his own. Pope. To GRE'ATEN, grà'ın. v. Q.

a from great] Armour for the legs; a sort of boots. It Scipio,

To aggrandize; to enlarge; to magnify.
Great in his triumphs, in retirement great. Pope.

wants the singular number.

Little used. 12. Grand of aspect; of elevated mien.

He had greaves of brass upon his legs. 1 Sam.
After they sought to greaten themselves in Italy A shield make for him, and a helm, fair greaves, Such Dido was; with such becoming state, itself, using strangers for the command of their

and curets, such
Amidst the crowd, she walks serenely great. Dryd.

armies, the Turks by degrees beat them out of all As may renown thy workmanship, and honour him 13. Magnanimous; generous; bigh minded. their goodly countries.

Raleigh. as much.

Chapman. VOL. I.

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be written grosser, from gro88, a large He might, to avoid illeness, work in a groove or our want only and imperfections do naturally in-
quantity; a grocer originally being one mine-pit thereabouts, which at that time was little duce us to be beneficent.

Smalridge. who dealt by wholesale; or from gros-2. A channel or hollow cut with a tool.

esteemed.

Boyle. But she dares never boast the present hour,

So gross the cheat, it is beyond her pow'r. Young, 3u8, a fig; which their present state

The screw-plate is a kind of steel well-tempered, 14. Inelegant; disproportionate in bulk. seems to favour. ]

with several holes in it, each less than other; and in The sun's oppressive ray the roseat bloom А

grocer

is a man who buys and sells tea, sugar, those holes are threads grooved inwards, which Of beauty blasting, gives the gloomy hue, and plums and spices for gain.

Watts. grooves fit the respective taps that belong to them.

And feature gross.

Thomson. But still the offspring of your brain shall prove

Moxon, 5. Dense; not refined; not attenuated; not
The grocer's care, and brave the rage of Jove. To Groove, gróðy. v.a. [from the noun.]
Garth.

pure.

To cut hollow. GROCERY, gró-sár-e. n. 8. [from grocer.]

It is manifest, that when the eye standeth in the

Of the box every joint was well grooved. Swift. finer inedium, and the object is in the grosser, things Grocer's ware, such as tea, sugar, rai- T. GROPE, grópe. v. n. [grapan, Sax.] shew greater; but contrariwise, when the eye is sins, spice. To feel where one cannot see.

placed in the grosser medium, and the object in the His troops being now in a country where they

finer.

Bacon's Natural History. My sea-gown scarf about me, in the dark were not expected, met with many cart loads of

Shaksp.
Grop'd I to find out them.

Of elements,
wine, grocery, and tobacco.
Clarendon.

The grosser feeds the purer; earth the sea;

We grope for the wall like the blind, and we GRO'GERAM,

Earth and the sea feed air. Milton's Paradise Lost. [gros,

grope as if we had no eyes.

Isaiah.

Light fumes are merry, grosser fumes are sad; GRU'GRAM, grôg'rům.

grain, Fr. They meet with darkness in the clearest light;

Both are the reasonable soul run mad. Dryden. GRO'GRAN,

grossogra-
And grope at noon, as if involv'd with night. Sandys.

Or suck the mists in grosser air below,
A boy was groping for eels, and laid his hand
nu8, low Latin. Ainsworth.] Stuff

Or dip their pinions in the painted bor. Pope. upon a snake,

L'Estrange. woven with a large woof and a rough This, no doubt, is better for men than that they

6. Stupid; dull. pile.

should in the dark grope after knowledge, as St.

If she doth then the subtile sense excel,

Locke.

Paul tells us all nations did aster God Certes they 're neatly cloath'd: 1 of this mind am,

How gross are they that drown her in her blood?

Davies.
Your only wearing is your grogeram.

Donne.

He heard us in our course, Natolia affords great store of chamelots and grog-

And with his outstretch'd arms around him grop'd.

And in clear dream and solemn vision,

Addison. Tell her of things that no gross ear can hear.
Sandys.

Milton. Some men will say this babit of John's was nei-

O truth divine! enlighten'd by thy ray,
ther of camel's skin nor any coarse texture of its I grope and guess no more, but see my way. Arbuth.

Some men give more light and knowledge by the
hair, but rather some finer weave of camelot, grog- To Grope, grópe. v. a. To search by

bare stating of the question with perspicuity and
Broren.
ram, or the bike.

justness, than others by talking of it in gross confu- feeling in the dark; to feel without sion for whole hours together.

Watts. The natural sweetness and innocence of her be-

being able to see.

17. Coarse; rough; not delicate. haviour shot me through and through, and did more

execution upon me in grogram than the greatest

How vigilant to grope men's thoughts, and to Fine and delicate sculptures are helped with
beauty in town bad ever done in brocade. Addison, pick out somewhat whereof they might complain.

Wotton.

nearness, and gross with distance. Plain goody would no longer down;

Hayward. 8. Thick; fat; bulky. 'Twas Madam in her grogram gown,

Swift.

They have left our endeavours to grope them out His stature was of just height and all proportionby twilight, and by darkness almost to discover that,

ate dimensions, avoiding the extremes of gross and Groen, gróin. n. 8. Lof uncertain deriva

whose existence is evidenced by light. Brown.

meager.

Fell. tion.] The part next the thigh.

But Strephon, cautious, bever meant

Gross, gróse. n. 8. [from the adjective. Antipleus, a sonne of Priam threw

The bottom of the pan to grope.

Swift.
His lance at Ajax through the preasse, which went Gru'pex, gro'půr. n. 8. [from grope.] 1. The main body; the main force.

The Belgians hop'd that with disordered haste One that searches in the dark.

On Leucus, wise Ulysses' friend: His groine it

The deep-cut keels upon the sands might run; smote.

Chapman. GROSS, gróse. adj. [gros, Fr. gro880, Or, if with caution leisurely we past, The fatal dart arrives,

Ital. crassus, Lat.]

Their numerous gross might charge us one by one. And through the boruer of his buckler drives;

Dryden. Pass'd throngh and pierc'd his groin; the deadly. Thick; bulky.

Several casuists are of opinion, that, in a battle, wound The crows and choughs, that wing the midway

you should discharge upon the gross of the enemy, Cast from his chariot, rolld him on the ground.

air,

without levelling your piece at any particular person. Dryden. Shew scarce so gross as beetles.

Shaksp.

Addison's Freeholder. There are two gross volumes concerning the pow-

GROMWELL, grôm'wèl. n. 8. [lithosper-

The gross of the people can bave no other pros- er of popes.

Baker.

pect in changes and revolutions than of publick bles-
mum, Lat.] Gromill or gray miil. A 2. Shameful; unseemly; enormous.

sings.

Addison. plant.

Miller.

He ripely considered how gross a thing it were 2. The bulk; the whole not divided into GROOM, groom. n. s. [grom, Dutch.]

for men of his quality, wise and grave men, to live its several parts.

with such a multitude, and to be tenants at will under 1. A boy; a waiter; a servant.

Certain general inducements are used to make them.

Hooker. saleable your cause in gross.

Hooker.
Then called she a groom, that forth him led

They can say that in doctrine, in discipline, in

Spenser. Into a goodly lodge.

There was an opinion in gross, that the soul was prayers, and in sacraments, the church of Rome

immortal,

Abbot. From Egypt's kings ambassadours they come;

hath very foul and gross corruptions. Hooker.

There is confession, that is, the acknowledging
Them many a squire attends, and many a groom.

So far hath the natural understanding, even of
Fairfax.

our sins to God; and this may be either general or sundry whole nations, been darkened, that they have

Think then, my soul! that death is but a groom

particular. The general is, when we only confess
not discerned, no, not gross iniquity to be sin.

in gross that we are sinful; the particular, when we
Which brings a taper to the outward room. Donne.

Hooker. mention the several sorts and acts of our sins. In the time of Edward VI, lived Sternhold, whom

There is a vain and imprudent use of their es-
king Henry bis father had made groom of his cham-

Duty of Man. tates, which, though it does not destroy like gross

Remember, son, ber, for turning of certain of David's psalms into

sins, yet disorders the heart, and supports in it senPeacham.

You are a general; other wars require you; suality and dulness.

Lar.

For see the Saxon gross begins to move. Would'st thou be touch'd

Dryden.

Notwithstanding the decay and loss of sundry
By the presaming hands of saucy grooms? Dryden. 3. Intellectually coarse; palpable; im- Amid the fold he rages, nor the sheep pure; unrefined.

trades and manufactures, yet in the gross, we ship
Their shepherds, nor the grooms their bulls can

To all sense 'tis gross

off now one third part more of the manufactures,
Drydent. keep. You love my son: invention is asham'd,

as also lead and tin, than we did twenty years past. 2. A young man. Against the proclamation of thy passion,

Child on Trade.
I presume for to intreat this groom,

To say thou dost not.

Shaksp. 3. Not individual, but a body together.
And silly maid, from danger to redeem. Fairfax.

Examples gross as earth exhort me. Shaksp. He hath ribbons of all the colours i' th' rainbow;

Belial came last, than whom a spirit more lewd they come to him by the gross. 3. A man newly married.

Shaksp.
Fell not from heaven, or more gross to love

I cannot instantly raise up the gross
By this the brides are wak'd, their grooms are

Vice for itself

Milion. or full three thousand ducats. Shakspeare. dress'd;

All Rhodes is summond to the nuptial feast. Dryd.

Is not religion so perfectly good in itself, above You see the united design of many persons to

all, in its Author, that, without the grossesl sensu- make up one figure: after they have separated themGROOVE, grồ ởv n. s. [from grave.]

ality, we cannot but admire it?

Sprat. selves into many petty divisions, they rejoin one by 1. A deep cavern or hollow in mines. It is a gross mistake of some men, to think that one into a gross.

Dryden.

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A foot in front, and thirty-three five sevenths And mortals by the pame of milky know; 3. To shoot in any particular form. deep, would bring in a ground rent of five pounds. The groundwork is of stars,

Dryden. Children, like tender osiers, take the bow, Arbuthnot. 2. The first part of an undertaking; the And as they first are fasbion'd, always grove. The site was neither granted him, nor giv'n; fundamentals.

Dryden. 'Twas nature's, and the ground rent due to Heav'n.

The main skill and groundwork will be to temper 4. To increase in stature.
Harte.

them such lectures and explanations, upon every I long with all my beart to see the prince; GRO'UND-ROOM, gròůnd'rôôm. n. A

opportunity, as may lead and draw them in willing

I hope he is much grouon since last I saw him. room on the level with the ground. obedience.

Milton.

Shaksp

. I beseeched him hereafter to meditate in a ground- 3. First principle; original reason.

The poor man had nothing, save one little emeroom; for that otherwise it would be impossible for

The groundwork thereof is nevertheless true and lamb, which he had bought and reared up; and it an artist of any other kind to live near him. Taller.

certain, however they through ignorance disguise grew up together with him and with his children. GRO'UNDEDLY, gróúnd'éd-le. adv. [from the same or througb vanity.

Spenser.

2 Samus. grounded.] Upon firm principles. The morals is the first business of the poet, as 5. To come to manhood from infancy: He hath given the first hint of speaking ground- being the groundwork of his instruction. Dryden.

commonly followed by un. edly, and to the purpose, upon this subject. Glanv. GROUP, gróðp.316 n. 8. [grounne, French;

Now the prince groureth up fast to be a inan, an! GRO'UNDLESS, gróủnd'lés. adj. [from groppo, Italian.] A crowd; a cluster; a is of a sweet and excellent disposition. Bacen. ground.] Void of reason; wanting hurdle; a number thronger togecher.

The main thing to be considered in every actioe ground.

In a picture, besides the principal figures which

of a child, is how it will become him when be is But when vain doubt and groundless fear compose it, and are placed in the midst of it, there bigger, and whither it will lead him when he is

groron up.

Locke Do that dear foolish bosom tear.

are less groups or knots of figures disposed at pro.

Prior. We have great reason to look upon the high pre

per distances, which are parts of the piece, and We are brought into the world children, ignorant tensions which the Roman church makes to miracles seem to carry on the same design in a more inferior and impotent; and we grow up in vanity and folly

.

Dryden. as groundless, and to reject her vain and fabulous

Atterbury. accounts of them.

I cannot doubt but the poet had here in view the 6. To issue, as plants from a soil, or as The party who distinguish themselves by their

picture of Zetus, in the famous group of figures branches from the main trunk. zeal for the present establishment, should be carewhich represents the two brothers binding Dirce to

They will seem not stuck unto him, but grøring the horns of a mad bull.

Addison. ful to discover such a reverence for religion, as may

out of him.

Dryden. shew how groundless that reproach is which is cast

You should try your graving tools upon them, of being averse to our national worship: To Group, groop. v. a. [groupper, Fr.]

On this odious group of fools.

Swift. 7. To increase in bulk; to become greater,

or more numerous. GROUNDLESSLY, gróủnd'lès-lé. adv. [from To put into a crowd; to huddie together.

Bones, after full growth, continue at a stay: 23

for nails they grow continually.

The difficulty lies in drawing and disposing, or groundle88.] Without reason; without

Then their numbers swell, cause; without just reason.

as the painters term it, in grouping such a multi- tude of different objects, preserving still the justice

And grow upon us.

Denhan Divers persons have produced the like by spirit and conformity of style and colouring. Prior.

Divisions grow upon us, by neglect of practick of vitriol, or juice of lemons; but have groundlessly

duties: as every age degenerated from primitire ascribed the effect to some peculiar quality of those GROUSE, gróůse.313 n. 8. A kind of fowl;

piety, they advanced in nice enquiries. Dec. of Piety. two liquors. Boyle. a heath-cock.

8. To improve; to make progress. GROʻUNDLESSNESS, gróůnd'lés-nės. n.

The 'squires in scorn will fly the house

For better game, and look for grouse, [from groundless. Want of just reason.

Swift.

Grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

2 Peter, He durst not cite the words either of my book or Grout, grøůt.313 n. 8. [grut, Saxon. In He then dispensed bis best of legacies, his bles sermons, lest the reader should have discovered the Scotland they call it groats.]

sings; most passionately exhorting the young grant notorious falshood and groundlessness of his calumny. 1. Coarse meal; pollard.

ing hopes of the family.

Fell

, Tillotson. King Hardicnute, 'midst Danes and Saxons stout,

As he grew forward in years he was trained ap GROUNDLING, ground'ling. n. 8. [from Carous'd in nut-brown ale, and din'd on grout:

to learning, under one Provapides, who taught the

Pope. ground.] A fish which keeps at the Which dish its pristine honour still retains,

Pelasgick letter invented by Linus. bottom of the water; hence one of the And when each pripce is crown'd in splendour 9. To advance to any state. low vulgar.

Hanmer. reigns.

King: Nature, as it grows again towards earth, It offends me to the soul, to hear a robusteous 2. That which purges off.

Is fashion'd for the journey dull and heavy. Shak

. perriwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to Sweet honey some condense, some purge the

They doubted whereanto this would grote

. Jcts. very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings.

grout;

The king, by this time, was greun to such an Shaksp. The rest, in cells apart, the liquid nectar shout.

height of reputation for cunning and policy, that Gro'undly, gróůnd'ld. adv. [from

Dryden.

every accident and event that went well was laid and imputed to his forcsight.

Bawit. ground.] Upon principles; solidly; not 3. A kind of wild apple. [agriomelum,

But when to ipen'd manhood he shall gror, superficially. Not in use. Latin.]

The greedy sailor shall the seas forego. Dryder, A man, groundly learned already, may take much To GROW, gro.324 v. n. pret. grew; [10. To come by degrees; 10 reach any profit himself, in using by epitome to draw other

part. pass. grown. [gropan, Sax. gro- state gradually. men's works, for his own memory sake, into shorter room.

Aseham.
uen, Dutch.

After they grew to rest upon number, rather 1. To vegetate; to have vegetable motion;

competent than vast, they grexo to advantages of GROUNDSEL, gróủnd'sil. n. s. [grund and

to increase by vegetation.

place, cunning diversions, and the like; and they rile, the basis, Saxon, perhaps from

It is not the growing of fruit that nourisheth

grew more skilful in the ordering of their battles

.

Bacon sella, Lat.] The timber or raised pave- man; but it is thy word which preserveth them. ment next the ground.

Verse, or the other harmony of prose, I have so

Wisdom. The window-frame hath every one of its lights

He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and

long studied and practised, that they are groven into

Dryden. rabbetted on its outside about half an inch into the herb for the service of man,

a habit, and become familiar to me.

Psalıns. frame; and all these rabbets, but that on the ground 2. To be produced by vegetation.

The trespasses of people are grown up to heaven,

and their sins are got beyond all restraints of law sel, are grooved square; but the rabbet on the In this country groweth abundance of that wood,

Rogers. groundsel, is levelled downwards, that rain or snow which since is brought into Europe to die red co- u. To come forward; to gather ground, may the freelier fall off. Moxon. lours.

Abbot.

Some seeing the end of their government wigh, GRO'UNDSEL, gróún’sil. n. 8. [senecio,

A bag, that groweth in the fields, at the first is hard like a tennis-ball, and white; and after grow

and tronblous practice growing up, which inay work Latin. A plant. eth of a mushroom colour, and full of light dust.

trouble to the next governour, will not attempt reGROUNDWORK, gróůnd' wůrk.

dress.

Bacon. [ground and work.

But say, where grows the tree? from hence how

far? 1. The ground; the first stratum; the first

Milton

began to grow fast ou: great rain, with terrible In colder regions men compose

thunder and lightning, and mighty tempests, then part of the whole; that to which the

fell abundantly. Poison with art; but here it grows. Waller. 12. To be changed from one state to an rest is additional.

Those tow'rs of oak o'er fertile plains might go, A way there is in heav'n's expanded plain, And visit mountains where they once did grow.

other; to become either better or worse; Which, when the skies are clear, is seen below,

Waller. to turn,

Spenser It was now the beginning of October

, and winter

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Incapable and shallow innocents!

Tell my royal guest

12. One who directs another in his con.
You cannot guess wbo caus'd your father's death. I add to his commands my own request. Dryden. duct,
Shaksp. 2. A stranger; one who comes newly to

While yet but young, his father dy'd, Let not your ear's despise my tongue for ever, reside.

And lest him to an happy guide. Wbichi shall possess them with the heaviest sound

O desarts, desarts! how fit a guest am I for you, They have all the same pastoral guides appointed, That ever yet they heard.

since my heart can people you with wild ravenous authorised, sanctified, and set apart by the appoint- -Hum! I guess at it.

Shaksp.

beasts, wbich in you are wanting? Sidney. ment of God by the direction of the spirit, to direct He that, by reason of his swist motions, can in

Those happier smiles

and lead the people of God in the same way of eterform himself of all places and preparations, should

That play'd on her ripe lip, seem'd not to know pal salvation. he noi very often guess rightly of things to come,

Pears. where God please tú not to give impediment?

What guests were in her eyes; which parted thence 3. Director; regulator.
Raleigh. As pearls from diamonds dropt.

Shaksp. Who the guide of nature, but only the God of There issue swarming bands

GUE'STRITE, gést'rite. n. 8. [from guest

nature? In him we live, move, and are. Those
Of ambush'd men, whom, by their arms and dress, and rite.] Offices due to a guest.

things which nature is said to do, are by divine art
To be Taxcallan enemies I guess.
Dryden.

performed, using nature as an instrument: ner is

Ulysses so dear
The same author ventures to guess at the parti-

there any such knowledge divine in nature berseli A gist esteem'd it, that he would not bcare cular fate wlich would attend the Roman govern-

working, but in the guide of nature's work, Hooker.
In his black fleete that guestrite to the war. ment.

Swift.

Some truths are not by reason to be tried,

Chapman. Nor can imagination guless,

But we have sure experience for our guide. Dryet. How that ungrateful charming maid

Gu'estCHAMBER, gést'tshåm-bůr. n. 8. Guideless, gyide’lės. adj. [from guide. My purest passion has betray'd.

Swift. [guest and chamber.] Chamber of en- Having no guide; wanting a governour 2. To conjecture rightly, or upon some tertainment.

or superintendent. just reason.

Where is the guest-chamber, where I shall eat the Th' ambitious Swede, like restless billows tost, One may giless by Plato's writings, that his mean- passover with my disciples?

Mark. Though in his life he blood and ruin breath`d,
ing, as to the inferiour deities, was, that they who To GUGGLE, gúg'g].406 v. n. [gorgolaire,

To his now guideless kingdom peace bequeath'd. would have them might, and they who would not,

Italian.] To sound as water running

Dryden. might let them alone; but that himself had a right

There fierce winds o'er dusky valleys blow, with intermissions out of a

Stilling fleet. opinion concerning the true God.

narlow Whose every puff bears empty shades away, To Guess, gés. V. a. To hit upon by ac

mouthed vessel.

Which guideless in those dark dominions stray

. cident; to determine rightly of any GUI'DAGE, Syi'diaje.90 n. s. from guide.] GUI'VER, gyi'důr.98 n. 8. [from guide.

[

Dryden thing without certain direction of the judgment.

GUIDANCE, gyi'dânse. n. 8. [from guide.]

Director; regulator; guide. Obsolete. If Xerxes was able to call every common soldier

Our guider come! to the Roman camp conduct Direction; government.

by his name in his army, it may be guessed he got

Suaksp. They charge me with neglecting the guidance of not this wonderful ability by learning his lessons by

That person, that being provoked by excessive wiser men.

Locke.

Spenser. heart

pain, thrust his dagger into bis body, and thereby,

As to those who live under the guidance of rea- instead of reaching bis vitals, opened an impist-
Guess, ges. n. 8. [from the verb.] Con- son alone, without the assistance of supernatural hume, the unknown cause of all his pain, and so

jecture; judgment without any positive light, it is highly probable that miracles, or a mes- stabbed himself into perfect health and ease, surely or certain grounds. sage from the dead would persuade them.

had great reason to acknowledge chance für bis The enemy's in view; draw up your powers:

Atterbury. chirurgeon, and providence for the guider of his Hard is the guess of their true strength and forces. Particular application must be left to christian hand.

South
Shaksp.

prudence, under the guidance of God's holy spirit, GUIDON, gyi'důn. n. 8. [Fr.] A stand- His gusse was usually, as near to prophecy as who knows our necessity before we ask, and our ig-

ard-bearer; a standard. Obsolete.
Fell.

norance in asking. This to the young-but thy experienc'd age

Rogers

. GUILD, gild.341 n. 8. [guidscip, Saxon, A poet must confess

His art's like physick, but a happy guess. Dryden.

Wants not the guidance of a former sage. Sewell. a fellowship, a corporation.] A society; It is a wrong way of proceeding to venture a

A prince ought not to be under the guidance or a corporation; a fraternity or company,

influence of either faction, because he declines
greater good for a less, upon uncertain guesses, before a due examination,

combined together by orders and laws
Locke.

from his office of presiding over the whole to be the

head of a party We may make some guess at the distinction of

Swist.

made among themselves by their things, into those that are according to, above, and 70 GUIDE, gyide, 160 v. a. [guider, fr.]

prince's licence. Hence the common contrary to reason.

Locke. 1. To direct in a way.

word gild or guildhall proceeds, being
This problem yet, this offspring of a guess,
When the spirit of truth is come, he will guide

a fraternity or commonalty of men gath-
Let us for once a child of truth confess. Prior.

you into all truth.

John. ered into one combination, supporting
No man is blest by accident, or guess, True wisdom

The new light served to guide them to their
the price of happiness. Young.

their common charge by mutual con- neighbours coffers.

Decay of Piety.
GUE'SSER, gés'súr. n. s. [trom gues..]

Cowell.

tribution.

Whosoever has a faithful friend to guide him in Conjecturer; onc wiio judges without the dark passages of life, may carry his eyes in

Towards three or four o'clock certain knowledge. another man's head, and yet see never the worse.

Look for the news that the guild hall affords, Shak. It is the opinion of divers good guessers, that the

South.

In woollen cloth it appears, by those aciert

guilds that were settled in England for this walle. last fit will not be more violent than advantageous. 2. To influence,

Pope. Upon these, or such like secular maxims, when

facture, that this kingdom greatly flourished in that

art. If fortune should please but to take such a nothing but the interest of this world guides men, crotchet, they many times conclude that the slightest wrongs

As when the long-eard milky mothers wait To thee I apply, great Smedley's successor, are not to be put up.

At some sick miser's triple bolted gate,

Kettlewell. For their defrauded absent foals they make To give thice lawn sleeves, a mitre, and rochet, 3. To govern by counsel; to instruct.

Pope.

A moan so loud, that all the guild awake. Whom would'st thou resemble? I leave thee a

For thy name's sake lead me and guide me.

GUILE, gyile.341 n. &. [guilte

, gille

, old
Swift.
gresser.
GUE'SSINGLY, ges'sing-le. adv. [from 4. To regulate; to superintend.

Psalms. French, the same with wile.] Deceit-
guessing.] Conjecturally; uncertainly.

ful cunning; insidious artifice; mis

Women neglect that which St. Paul assigns them chieyous subtilty. Not in use,

as their proper business, the guiding of the house.
I have a letter guessingly set down. Shaksp:

With fawning words be courted her awbile,

Decay of Piety. And looking lovely, and oft sighing sore,
GUEST, gest.384 n. 8. [gest, gist, Sax. Guide, gyide. n. s. [guide, Fr. from the

Her constant heart did court with divers guile;
Śwest, Weish.] verb.]

But words and looks, and signs she did abhor. 1. One entertained in the house or at the 1. One who directs another in his way:

Spenset. table of another.

When I have most need to employ a friend, Thou gavest them a burning pillar of fire to be a They all murmured, saying, that he was gone to

Deep, hollow, treacherous, and full of guile,
guide of the unknown journey.

Wisdom Be he to me! This do I beg of hear'n, be guest with a man that is a sinner, Luke. Can knowledge have no bourd, but must advance

Shalom

When I am cold in zeal to you or yours, Methinks a father

So far to make us wish for ignorance?
Is, at the nuptial of his son, a guest And rather in the dark to grope our way,

We may, with more successful hope, resolve That best becomes the table.

Shaksp.

To wage by force or guile eternal war.
Than, led by a false guide, to err by day? Denham.

Nor thou his malice and false guile contemu:

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HAI HAL

II AL
af rain frozen in their falling. Locke. 12. A single hair.

palace. In Gothick alh signifies a temThunder mix'd with hail,

Naughty lady,
Hail mix'd with fire, must rend th' Egyptian sky. These hairs which thou dost ravish from my chin,

ple, or any other famous building.
Milton, Will quicken and accuse thee.

Gibson's Carden.

Shakspeare.
To Hall, håle. v. n. To pour down hail.

Much is breeding;

HALBERD, hållbůrd.99 n. 8. [halebarde, My people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation Which like the courser's hair, hath yet but life, French; hallebarde, Dutch, from harde, when it shall hail, coming down on the forest. Isa.

And not a serpent's poison.

Shakspeare.

an axe, and halle, a court, halberds beHail, håle. interject. [hæl, health, Saxon: 13. Any thing proverbially small.

ing the common weapons of guards.] hail, therefore, is the same as salve of the

If thou tak'st more

A battleaxe fixed to a long pole. Or less than just a pound; if the scale turn

Latins, or wyscene of the Greeks, health

But in the estimation of a hair,

Advance thy halberd higher than my breast. be to you.] A term of salutation now Thou diest,

Shaksp. Merchant of Venice.

Shakspeare. used only in poetry; health be to you. He judges to a hair of little indecencies, and

Our halberds did shut up his passage. Shakesp It is used likewise to things inanimate. knows better than any man what is not to be written.

Four knaves in garbs succinct, a trusty band, Dryden.

Caps on their heads, and halberds in their hand,
Hail, hail, brave friend!

Draw forth to combat on the velvet plain. Pope. .
Say to the king the knowledge of the broil. Shaks. 4. Course; order; grain; the hair falling Her sick head is bound about with clouds;

in a certain direction.

HA'LBERDIER, håll-bůr-déer'. n. 8. [hal. It does not look as it would have a hail,

He is a curer of souls, and you a curer of bodies;

berdier, French, from halberd.] One Or health wish'd in it, as on other morns.

if you should fight, you go against the hair of your who is arined with a halberd.
Ben Jonson. profession.

Shakspeare. The duchess appointed him a guard of thirty hal-
The angel hail

HA'IRBEL, håre'bél. n. 8. A flower; the berdiers, in a livery of murrey and blue, to attend Bestow'd, the holy salutation us'd

hyacinth.

his person.

Bacon.
Long after to blest Mary, second Eve. Milton.
HA'IRBRAINED, håre'brán'd.859 adj. [This

The king bad only his halberdiers, and fewer of Farewell, happy fields,

them than used to go with him.

Clarendon
Where joy for ever dwells! hail horrors! hail should rather be written harebrained, Infernal world! and thou profoundest hell

unconstant, unsettled, wild as a hare.]

HA’LCYON, hål'she-ún.168 n. 8. [halcyo, Receive thy new possessor!

Milion. Wild; irregular; unsteady.

Latin.] A bird, of which it is said that
All hail, be cry'd, thy country's grace and love;

Let's leave this town; for they are hairbrain'd

she breeds in the sea, and that there is Once first of men below, now first of birds above,

slaves, Dryden.

always a calm during her incubation, Hail to the sun! from whose returning light And hunger will enforce them be more eager.

Such smiling rogues, as these, sooth ev'ry passion,

Shakspeare. Bring oil to fire, snow to their colder moods;
The cheerful soldier's arms new lustre take. Rowe.

HA'IRBREADTH, håre'brédth. n. s. [hair Renege, affirm, and turn their halcyon beaks
To Hail, hale, v a. [from the noun.]

and breadth.] A very small distance;

With every gale and vary of their masters. Shaksp. To salute; to call to.

Amidst our arms as quiet you shall be, the diameter of a hair.

A galley drawing near unto the shore, was hailed

As halcyons brooding on a winter sea.
Seven hundred chosen men left-handed could sling Ha'lcyon, hál'shehủn.387 adj. [from the

Dryden. by a Turk, accompanied with a troop of borsemen.

Knolles. stones at an hairbreadth, and not miss. Judges. I spoke of inost disastrous chances,

noun] Placid; quiet; still; peaceful. Thrice call upon my name, thrice beat your breast,

And’hail me thrice to everlasting rest. Dryden.

Of moving accidents by Dood and field;

When great Augustus made war's tempest cease; of hairbreadth 'scapes in th' imminent deadly His halcyon days brought forth the arts of peace. HA'ilshot, hále'shốt. n. s. [hail and shot.]

breach.
Shakspeare.

Denham. Small shot scattered like háil.

HAIROLOTH, håre'kloth. n. 8. [hair and

No man can expect eternal serenity and halcyon The master of the artillery did visit them sharp-

cloth.] Stuff made of hair, very rough

days from so incompetent and partial a cause as the ly with murdering hailshot, from the pieces mouuted

constant course of the sun in the equinoctial circle. towards the top of the hill, Hayward. and prickly, worn sometimes in morti

Bentley. HA'ILSTONE, hále'stóne. n. 8. [hail and fication

Hale, hale. adj. [This should rather be sione.] A particle or single ball of mail. It is composed of reeds and parts of plants woven written hail, from hæl, health.] Healthy;

Grew. You are no surer, no,

together, like a piece of haircloth.

sound; hearty; well-complexioned. Than is the coal of fire upon the ice,

HAIRLA'ce, nárc'lase. n. 8. [hair and lace.]

My scely slicep like well below,
Or hailstone in the sun,

Shakspeare, The fillet with which women tie up For they been hale enough I trow,
Hard hailstones lie not thicker on the plain, their hair.

And liken their abode.

Spenser. Nor shakea oaks such show'rs of acorns rain. Dryd.

Some worms are commonly resembled to a wo- Some of these wise partizans concluded the gor

man's hairlace or fillet, thence called tenia, Harv. erament had hired two or three hundred hale men, HA'Ily, he'le. adj. [from hail.] Consist.

Molly happens to be careless,

to be pinioned, if not executed, as the pretended ing of hail. And but neglects to warm her hairlace,

captives.

Addison. From whose dark womb a rattling tempest pours,

She gets a cold as sure as death.

Swift. His stomach too bogins to fail;
Which the cold north congeals to haily showers.

Last year we thought him strong and hale,
Pope. HA'IRLESS, háre'lės. adj. [from hair.]

But now he 's quite another thing:
HAIR, hare. n. 8. [hær, Saxon.]

Wanting hair.

I wish he may hold out 'till spring. Swift. 1. One of the common teguments of the Whitebeards have armı'd their chin and hairless 70 Hale, håle or håwl. v.a. [halen,

scalps body. It is to be found upon all the

Against thy majesty.

Shakespeare.

Dutch; haler, French.] To drag by parts of the body, except the soles of

force; to pall violently and rudely. the feet and palms of the hands. When Ha'iRiness, há're-nés. n. s. [from hairy.] The state of being covered with hair,

Fly to your house; we examine the hairs with a microscope,

The plebeians have got your fellow tribune, or abounding with hair.

And hale him up and down.

Shakspeare, we find that they have each a round

My third comfort, bulbous root, which lies pretty deep in As'ırv, há're. adj. [from hair.]

1. Overgrown with hair; covered with Starr'd most unluckily, is from my breast the skin, and which draws their nourish

Hal'd out to murder.

Shakspeare. hair. ment from the surrounding humours:

Give diligence that thou mayest be delivered from She his hairy temples then had rounded

him, lest he hale thee to the judge.

Luke that each hair consists of five or six

With coronet of flowers.

Shakspeare.

He by the neck hath hald, in pieces cut, others, wrapt up in a common tegu- Children are not hairy, for that their skins are

And set me as a mark on every butt. Sandys.

Bacon.

more perspirable. ment or tube. They grow as the nails

Thither by harpy-footed furies hal'd,

At certain revolutions, all the damn'd do, each part near the root thrusting 2. Consisting of hair.

Storms have shed Are brought

Milton, forward that which is immediately above

From vines the hairy honours of their head. Dryd. This sinistrous gravity is drawn that way by the it, and not by any liquor running along Hake, hake. n. 8. A kind of fish.

great artery, which then subsideth, and halelh the the hair in tubes, as plants grow. The coast is stored with mackrel and hake. Careto. heart unto it,

Brown.
Quincy. HA'kot, hâk'út. 166 n. 8.[from hake.] A kind Who would not be disgusted with any recreation,

Shaksp. My fleece of woolly hair uncurls.

in itself indifferent, if he should with blows be haled

Ainsworth. of fish.

to it when he had no mind?

Locke. Shall the difference of hair only, on the skin, be

In all the tumults at Rome, though the people a mark of a different internal constitution between Hal, hål, in local names, is derived like

Locke.

al from the Saxon healle, i. e, a hall, a proceeded sometimes to pull and hale one another a changeling and a drill?

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HA'NDBASKET, hånd'bås-kit. n. 8. A port- 11. Manual occupation; work performed

er's there to house and handle their colts six months able basket. by the hand.

every year. You must have woollen yarn to tie graft with, and Particular members of convents have excellent 4. To treat; to mention in writing or talk. a small handbasket to carry them in. Mortimer. mechanical geniuses, and divert themselves with

He left pothing fitting for the purpose HAND-BELL, hånd'bel. n. 8.

painting, sculpture, architecture, gardening, and

Untouch'd, or slightly handled in discourse

. Shake. by the hand.

several kinds of handicrafts.

Addison. Her eyes, her hair, her cheek, her gait

, bet

voice, The strength of the percussion is the principal 2. A man who lives by manual labour. Thou handlest in thy discourse. cause of the loudness or softness of sounds; as in The cov'nants thou shalt teach by candle-light Leaving to the author the exact handling of every

Shakop. ringing of a hand-bell harder or softer.

Bacon.

When puffing smiths, and ev'ry painful trade particular, and labouring to follow the rules o HA'NDBREADTH, håndbredth. n. A Of handicrafts, in peaceful beds are laid. Dryden. abridgment.

2 Nac. space equal to the breadth of a hand; a The nurseries for children of ordinary gentlemen, of a number of other like instances we shall palm.

and handicrafts are managed after the same man- speak more, when we handle the communication or A border of a handbreadth round about.

Gulliver.
Exod.

sounds.

Booon. The eastern people determined their handbreadth HANDICRA'FTSMAN, hân'de-kräfts-mân.88

By Guidus Ubaldus, in bis treatise, for the erby the breadth of barley-corns, six making a digit, n. 8. [handicraft and man.] A manu

plication of this instrument, the subtleties of it are and twenty-four a hand's breadth. Arbuthnot.

largely and excellently handled.

Wilkins. facturer; one employed in manual occuHA'NDED, nân'ded. adj. [from hand.

In an argument, handled thus briefly, every thing pation.

cannot be said.

Atterbury. 1. Having the use of the hand left or

O miserable age! virtue is not regarded in handi- 5. To deal with; to practise. right.

craftsmen.

Shaksp.

They that handle the law know me not. Many are right handed, whose livers are weakly He has simply the best wit of any handicrafts- 6. To treat well or ill. constituted; and many use the left, in whom that man in Athens.

Shaksp.

Talbot, my life, my joy, again return'd! part is strongest.

Brown. The principal bulk of the vulgar natives are til- How wert thou handled, being prisoner: Shakap. 2. With hands joined. lers of the ground, free servants, and handicrafts

They were well enough pleased to be rid of a Into their inmost bow'r men; as smiths, masons, and carpenters. Bacon.

enemy that had handled them so illo Clarendon. Handed they went.

Milton.

The profaneness and ignorance of handicraftsmen, 7. To practise upon; to transact with. HAÄN DER, hàn’dur. m. 8. [from hand.]

small traders, servants, and the like, are to a de-
gree very hard to be imagined greater, Swift.

Pray you, my lord, give me leare to question; Transmitter; conveyer in succession. It is the landed man that maintains the merchant

you shall see how I'll handle her.

Shakse

. They would assume with wond'rous art,

and shopkeeper, and handicraftsman. Swift. HA'ndle, hån’d1.406 n. 8. [handle, Sax.] Themselves to be the whole who are but part Of that vast frame the church; yet grant they were

HA'NDILY, hån'de-le. adv. [from handy.] 1. That part of any thing by which it is The handers down, can they from thence infer With skill; with dexterity.

held in the hand; a haft. A right to interpret? Or would they alone, HA'NDINESS, hån'de-nés. n. 8. [from

No hand of blood and bone Who brought the present, claim it for their own? handy.] Readiness; dexterity.

Can gripe the sacred handle of our sceptre, Dryden.

Unless he do profane, steal, or usurp. Sheken HA'NDFAST, hånd'fåst. n. s. [hand and Ha’NDIWORK, hån'de-wůrk. n. 8. [handy Fortune turneth the handle of the bottle, which fast. Hold; custody. Obsolete. and work.] Work of the hand; product

is easy to be taken hold of; and after the belly, which is hard to grasp.

Bacen If that shepherd be not in handfast, let him fly. of labour; manufacture.

There is nothing but bath a double handie, er at Shaksp. In general they are not repugnant unto the natu

least we have two hands to apprebend it. Tale". HA'NDFUL, hånd'fůl. n. 8. [hand and full.] ral will of God, which wisheth to the works of his

A carpenter that had got the iron work of an art, own hands, in that they are his own handiwork, all 1. As much as the hand can gripe or con

begged only so much wood as would make a bandk happiness; although perhaps, for some special cause

L'Estrate! tain. in our own particular, a contrary determination have

Of bone the handles of my knives are made, I saw a country ntleman at the side of Ro- seemed more convenient.

Hooker.

Yet no ill taste from thence affects the blade, sąmond's pond, pulling a handful of oats out of his As proper men as ever trod upon neats-leather

Or what I carve; nor is there ever left pocket, and gathering the ducks about him. have gone upon my handiwork.

Shaksp.
Addison. The heavens declare the glory of God, and the

Any unsav'ry haut goust from the haft. Ondan

,

A beani there was, on which a beachen pail 3. A palm; a hand's breadth; four inches;

firmament sheweth his handiwork.

Psalms. Take one vessel of silver and another of wood,

He parted with the greatest blessing of human 2. That of which use is made.

Hung by the handle on a driven nail. each full of water, and knap the tongs together nature for the handiwork of a taylor. L'Estrange.

They overturned him in all his interest by the about an handful from the bottom, and the sound HA'NDKERCHIEF, hång'kér-tshif.

sure but fatal handle of his own good nature. South, Tvill be more resounding from the vessel of silver [hand and kerchief:] A piece of silk or Ha'ndless, hånd'lės. adj

. [hand and leso. than that of wood.

Bacon.

linen used to wipe the face, or cover The peaceful scabbard where it dwelt,

Without a hand. The rancour of its edge had felt; the neck.

Speak, my Lavinia, what accused hand For of the lower end two handful She found her sitting in a chair, in one hand Hath made thee hanilless?

Stukea. It had devour'], it was so manful. Hudibras. holding a letter, in the other her handkerchief,

His mangled myrmidons, 3. A small number or quantity.

which had lately drunk up the tears of her eyes.

Noseless, handless, hackt and clipt

, come to him,

Silney. He could not, with such a handful of men, and

Shakap

Crying on Hector.

He was torn to pieces with a bear: this avouches HA'NDMAID, hånd’måde. n. 8. A maid that without cannon, propose reasonably to fight a bat

the shepherd's son, who has not only his innocence, tle. Clarendon.

waits at band. but a handkerchief and rings of his, that Paulina 4. As much as can be done.

knows.

Shaksp.

Brave Burgundy, undoubted hope of France! Being in possession of the town, they had their

The Romans did not make use of handkerchiefs,

Stay, let thy humble handmaid speak to thee. handful to defend themselves from firing. Raleigh. but of the lacinia or border of the garment, to wipe

Shaksp. HAND-GALLOP, hånd'gål-Iủp. n. 8. A slow their face.

Arbuthnot.

She gave the knight great thanks in little speech, and casy gallop, in which the hand T. HA'ndle, hån'd1.406 v. a. [handelen,

And said she would his handinaid poor remain.

Fairfar. presses the bridle to hinder increase of Dutch, from hand.]

I will never set politicks against ethicks

, esper speed. 1. To touch; to feel with the hand.

cially for that true ethicks, which are but as a hando

Bacon, Ovid, with all his sweetness, has as little variety The bodies which we daily handle make us per

maid to divinity and religion. of numbers and sounds as he: he is always upon a ceive, that whilst they remain between them, they

Heav'n's youngest teamed star hand-gallop, and his verse runs upon carpet ground. hinder the approach of the parts of our hands that

Hath fix'd her polish'd car,
Dryden.

Locke. Her sleeping Lord with handmeld lamp attending,

Milton. HAND-GUN, hånd'gún. n. 8. A gun wield. 2. To manage; to wield. ed by the hand.

That fellow handles his bow like a crowkeeper.

Love ted them on; and faith, who knew them

best Guns bave names given them, some from ser

Shaksp.

Thy handmaids, clad them o'er with purple beams pents or ravenous birds, as culverines or colubrines: 3. To make familiar to the hand by fre

And azure wings, that up they flew so drest, others in other respects, as capnons, demicannons,

quent touching Camden.

And speak the truth of thee on glorious themes

An incurable shyness is the general vice of the Before the judge.
HA'NDICRAFT, hån'dè-kraft. n, .. Thand Irish horses, and is hardly ever seen in Flanders, 'Those of my

family their master slight, and craft.] because the hardness of the winters forces the breed- Grora despicable in my handmaid's sight

. Sgration

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himself against all sense of pain; but an example But full of fire and greedy hardiment,

There is hardly a gentleman in the nation who

hath pot a near alliance with some of that body. of a man like ourselves, that had a tender sense of

The youthful knight could not for aught be staid. the least suffering, and yet patiently endured the

Spenser.

Stifts
Tillotson. greatest.

On the gentle Severn's sedgy bank,

4. Grudgingly; as an injury. Years have not yet hardened me, and I have an In single opposition, hand to band,

If I unwittingly addition of weight on my spirits since we lost him. He did confound the best part of an hour,

Have aught committed that is hardly borne
Swift to Pope. In changing hardiment with great Glendower.

By any in this presence, I desire
5. To make firm; to endue with constancy.

Shakspeare. To reconcile me.

Shakspeare. Then should I yet have comfort? yea, I would

Zeal was the spring whence flowed her hardi- 5. Severely; unfavourably.

Job. harden myself in sorrow.

ment.

Fairfax.

If there are some reasons inducing you to think
One raises the soul, and hardens it to virtue; the HA'RDINEss, hår'de-nés. n. 8. [hardiesse,

hardly of our laws, are those reasons demonstra-
other softens it again, and unbepds it into více. French; from hardy.]

tive, are they necessary, or mere possibilities only? Dryden. 1. Hardship; fatigue.

Hooker.
T. HA'RDEN, hår'd'n. v. n. To grow

hard.

They are valiant and hardy; great endurers of 6. Rigorously; oppressively. The powder of loadstone and flint, by the addi-

cold, hunger, and all hardiness.

Spenser. Many men believed that he was hardly dealt tion of whites of eggs and gum-dragoa, made into

with,

Clarendon 2. Stoutness; courage; bravery.

paste, will in a few days harden to the hardness of

If we, with thrice such powers left at home,

They are now in prison, and treated hardly
Bacon. Cannot defend our own doors from the dog,

enough; for there are fifteen dead within two years.
HA'RDENER, hår'd'n-úr. n. 8. [from har.

Addison. Let us be worried; and our nation lose

den.] One that makes any thing hard. The name of hardiness and policy. Shakspeare. They have begun to say, and to fetch instances,

HARDFA'VOURED, hård'fà-vůr'd. adj. [hard Perkin had gathered together a power of all ua-

where he has in many things been hardly used.

Swift.
and favour.] Coarse of feature; harsh tions, neither in number, nor in the hardiness and of countenance.

courage of their persons contemptible. Bacon. 17. Unwelcomely; harshly;

He has the courage of a rational creature, and Such information comes very hardly and harshly When the blast of war blows in you ears,

such an hardiness we should endeavour by custom to a grown man; and however softened goes but ill Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood,

Locke. and use to bring children to.

Locke.

down.
Disguise fair nature with hardfavour'd looks, Then lend the eye a terrible aspect.

Criminal as you are, you avenge yourself against 8. Not sofily; not tenderly; not delicately.

Shaksp. the hardiness of one that should tell you of it. Spec. The brother a very lovely youth, and the sister |3. Effrontery; confidence.

Heav'n was her canopy; bare earth her bed;
So hardly lodg'd.

Dryden.
hardfavoured.

hård-mouth'd'. adj.
When Vulcan came into the world, he was so HARDLA'BOURED, hård-Ia'bůr'd.362 adj. HA'RD MOUTHED,
hardfavoured that both his parents frowned on him. [hard and labour.] Elaborate; studied; [hard and mouth.] Disobedient to the
Dryden.

rein; not sensible of the bit.

diligently wrought. HARDHA'NDED, hård'hân-ded, adj. [hard

How chearfully the hawkers cry

'Tis time my hardmouthed coursers to controul, and hand. Coarse; mechanick; that

Dryden.

Apt to run riot, and transgress the goal. A satire, and the gentry buy! has hands hard with labour.

While my hardlabour'd poem pines,

But who can youth, let loose to vice restrain?
-Hardhanded men that work in Athens here, Unsold upon the printer's lines.

Swift
When once the hardmouth'd horse has got the rein,

Dryden. Which never labour'd in their minds 'till now.

He's past thy pow'r to stop.
HA'RDLY, hård'le, adv. [from hard.]
Shakspeare. 1. With difficulty; not easily.

HA'rdness, hård'nės. n. 8. [from hard.]
HA'RDHEAD, hård'héd. n. 8. [hard' and Touching things which generally are received,

1. Durity; power of resistance in bodies.
head.] Clash of heads; manner of fight- although in themselves they be most certain, yet,

Hardness is a firm cohesion of the parts of matter ing in which the combatants dash their because men presume them granted of all, we are

that make up masses of a sensible bulk, so that the

Locke.

whole does not easily change its figure. heads together.

hardliest able to bring such proof of their certainty

From the various combinations of these corpus-
I have been at hardhead with your butting citi- as may satisfy gainsayers, when suddenly and be-

cles happen all the varieties of the bodies formed sides expectation they require the same at our hands. zens; I have routed your herd, I have dispersed

Hooker. out of them, in colour, taste, smell, hardness, and them.

Dryden.

Woodward. There are but a few, and they endued with great

specifick gravity.
HARDHE'Arted, hård-hårt'éd. adj. [hard ripeness of wit and judgment, free from all such as- 2. Difficulty to be understood.
and heart.] Cruel; inexorable; merci- fairs as might trouble their meditations, instructed

This label on my bosom
in the sharpest and subtlest points of learning; who Is so from sense in hardness, that I can less; pitiless; barbarous; inhuman; sav.

have, and that very hardly, been able to find out Make no collection of it.

Shakspeares age; uncompassionate.

but only the immortality of the soul. Hooker. 3. Difficulty to be accomplished.
Hardhearted Clifford, take me from the world; God hath delivered a law as sharp as the two- It was time now or never to sharpen my inten- My soul to heav'n.

Shakspeare. edged sword, piercing the very closest and most

tion to pierce through the hardness of this enter-
Can you be so hardhearted to destroy unsearchable corners of the heart, which the law of

prize.

Sidney,
My ripening hopes, that are so near to joy. Dryd. nature can hardly, human laws by no means, possi- Concerning the duty itself, the hardness thereof John Bull, otherwise a good-natur'd man was bly reach unto.

Hooker. is not such as needeth much art,

Hooker,
very hardheurted to his sister Peg. Arbuthnot.

There are in living creatures parts that nourish 4. Scarcity; penury. HARDHE'ARTEDNESS, hård-hårt'éd-nes. and repair easily, and parts that nourish and repair.

The tenants poor, the hardness of the times,
hardly.

Bacon. n. 8. [from hardhearted. Cruelty;

Are ill excuses for a servant's crimes. Swift.

The barks of those trees are more close and soft want of tenderness; want of compassion. than those of oaks and ashes, whereby the moss can

5. Obduracy; profligateness. Hardheartedness and cruelty is not only an in

the hardlier issue out.

Bacon,

Every commission of sin introduces unto the sou! buman vice, but worse than brutal. L'Estrange.

The father, mother, daughter, they invite;

a certain degree of hardness, and an aptaess to con- How black and base a vice ingratitude is, may

Hardly the dame was drawn to this repast. Dryd.

tinue in that sin.

South
be seen in those vices which it is always in combi- Recov’ring hardly what he lost before, 16. Coarseness; harshness of look.
nation with, pride and hardheartedness, or want of His right endears it much, his purchase more.

By their virtuous behaviour they compensate the compassion.

South.

Dryden. hardness of their favour, and by the pulchritude of
Hardheartedness is an essential in the character

False confidence is easily taken up, and hardly their souls make up what is wanting in the beauty of a libertine.

Clarissa. laid down.

South. of their bodies,

Ray.
HA'RDIHEAD, hår'dè-hed. 2 1.8. [from 2. Scarcely; scant; not lightly; with no 7. Keenness; vehemence of weather or
HA'RDIHOON, hår'ue-hůd.307 hardy. ] likelihood.

seasons, Stoutness; bravery. Obsolete. The fish that once was caught, new bait will

If the hardness of the winter should spoil them,
Enflam'd with fury and fierce hardyhead,

hardly bite.

Fairy Queen.

neither the loss of seed nor labour will be much. He seem'd in heart to harbour thoughts unkind, They are worn, lord consul, so

Mortimer. And nourish bloody vengeance in his bitter mind.

That we shall hardly in our ages see

8. Cruelty of temper; savageness; harsh-
Spenser. Their banners wave again.

Shaksp.

ness; barbarity. . Boldly assault the necromancer's hall,

Hardly shall you find any one so bad, but he de-

We will ask,
Where if he be, with dauntless hardihood, Milton.
sires the credit of being thought good. South.

That if we fail in our request, the blame 3. Alınost not; burely,

HA'RDIMENT, hår'de-mént. n. 8. [from

May hang upon our hardness. Shakspeare.

The wand'ring breath was on the wing to part, They quicken sloth, perplexities unty, hurdy, hardiment, adv. French.] Cour

Weali was the pulse, and hardly heav'd the heart. Make roughness smooth, and hardness mollify. age; stoutness; bravery. Not in use. :

Dryden.

Deniam.

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They break the bones, and make the solid armour Kings have to deal with their neighbours, their All places, that the eye of heaven visits, bend.

Dryden. wives, their children, their prelates or clergy, their Are to a wise man ports and happy havens. Shaksp,
To Have, båv.76 v. a. in the present I nobles, their merchants, and their commons. Bucon. HA'VENER, há'v'n-úr. n. 8. [from haven.]

have, thou hast, he hath; we, ye, they 17. To wish; to desire: in a lax sense. An overseer of a port.
have; pret, and part. pass. had. [ha-

I had rather be a door-keeper in the house of my These earls and dukes appointed their special

God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness. ban, Gothick; habban, Saxon; hebben,

officers, as receiver, havener, and customer. Carew.

Psalms.
Durch; avoir, French; avere, Italian.] I would have no man discouraged with that kind Halver, håv'ůr.98 n. 8. [from have.] Pos- 1. Not to be without. of life or series of actions, in which the choice of

sessor; holder. I have brought him before you, that after exa- others, or his own necessities, may have engaged Valour is the chiefest virtue, and

mination had, I might have something to write. Acts.

him.
Adilison. Most dignifies the haver.

Shaksp. 2. To carry; to wear.

18. To buy.

HA'ver, håv'ůr, is a common word in the Upon the mast they saw a young man, who sat

If these trifles were rated only by art and artful

northern counties for oats: as, haver as on horseback, having nothing upon him. Sidney. ness, we should have them much cheaper. Collier.

bread for oaten bread; perhaps properly 3. To make use of.

19. It is most used in English, as in other
I have no Levite to my priest.
Judges. European languages, as an auxiliary

aven, from avena, Latin. 4. To possess.

When you would anneal, take a blue stone, such verb to make the tenses; have, hast,

as they make haver or oat cakes upon, and lay it He that gathered much had nothing over, and he and hath or has, the preterperfect; and

upon the cross bars of iron,

Peacham. that gathered little had no lack.

Exodus.

had, and hadst, the preterpluperfect. HAUGHT, håwt. adj. [haut, French.] 5. To obtain; to enjoy; to possess.

If there had been words enow between them to 1. Haughty; insolent; proud; contemptu- Now, O Father, glorify me with thine own self,

have expressed provocation, they had gone together
with the glory which I had with thee before the

by the ears.

Congreve.

ous; arrogant; Obsolete. world was.

John.

The proud insulting queen, I have heard one of the greatest geniuses this 6. To take; to receive.

With Clifford and the haught Northumberland
age has produced, who had been trained up in all
A secret happiness in Petronius is called curiosa the polite studies of antiquity, assure me, upon his

Have wrought the easy melting king, like wax.

Shakspeare.
felicitas, and which I suppose he had from the felici- being obliged to search into records, that he at last

No lord of thine, thou haught insulting man;
ter andere of Horace.
Dryden. took an incredible pleasure in it.

Addison. Nor do man's lord.

Shaksp. 7. To be in any state; to be attended I have not here considered custom as it makes with or united to as accident or conco- things easy, but as it renders them delightful: and 2. High; proudly magnanimous.

though others have made the same reflections, it is

His courage haught, mitant.

possible they may not have drawn those uses from it. Desir'd of foreign foemen to be known, Have I need of madmen, that ye have brought

Addison And far abroad for strange adventures sought. Spen. this fellow?

I Sam.

That admirable precept which Pythagoras is said Ha'UGHTILY, håw'te-lé. adv. [from haugh8. To put; to take.

to have given to his disciples, and which that phi- ty.] Proudly; arrogantly; contemptuThat done, go and cart it, and have it away. losopher must have drawn from the observation I

ously. Tusser. have enlarged upon.

Addison.

Her heav'nly form too haughtily she priz'd; 9. To procure; to find.

The gods have placed labour before virtue. Add.

His person hated, and his gifts despis'd. Dryden. I would have any one name to me that tongue,

This observation we have made on man. Addis.

8. [from

HA'UGHTINESS, håw'te-nés. n.
that one can speak as he should do, by the rules of Evil spirits have contracted the body habits of grammar.

Locke.

houghty,] Pride; arrogance; the quali-
lust and sensuality, malice and revenge. Addison. 10. Not to neglect; not to omit.

There torments have already taken

root in them. ty of being haughty.

Addison. I cannot speak; if my heart be not ready to

By the head we make known our supplications,

That excellent author has shewn how every par- burst! Well, sweet Jack, have a care of thyself.

our threatenings, our mildness, our haughtiness, our ticular custom and habit of virtue will, in its own

Shakspeare.

love, and our hatred.

Dryden. Your plea is good; but still I say beware:

nature, produce the heaven, or a state of happiness, HA'UGHTY, hảw'tė.393 adj. [hautaine,
Laws are explain’d by men; so have a care. Pope. 20. Have at, or with, is an expression in him who shall hereafter practise it.

French.] 1. To hold; to regard.

Of the maid servants shall I be had in honour. denoting resolution to make some at. 1. Proud; lofty; insolent; arrogant; con-

2 Samuel. tempt. They seem to be imperative temptuous.
The proud have had me greatly in derision, expressions; have this at you; let this

His wife being a woman of a haughty and impe-
Psalms.

rious nature, and of a wit superior to his, quickly
reach you, or take this;

have with you; 12. To maintain; to hold opinion.

resented the disrespect she received from him.
take this with you; but this will not: ex-

Clarendon. Sometimes they will have them to be natural heat, whereas some of them are crude and cold;

plain have at it, or have at him, which I shall sing of battles, blood and rage, and sometimes they will have them to be the quali- must be considered as more elliptical;

And haughty souls, that mov'd with mutual hate,
ties of the tangible parts, whereas they are things as, we will have a trial at it, or at him.

In fighting fields pursu'd and found their fate.

Dryden. by themselves.

Bacon. He that will caper with me for a thousand maiks, 2. Proudly great. 13. To contain.

let him lend me the money, and have at bim. You have of these pedlars that have more in 'em

Shakspeatre.

Our vanquish'd wills that pleasing force obey:
Shakspeare. than you'd think, sister.

I can bear my part; 'tis my oecupation: have at

Her goodness takes our liberty away; I will never trust a man again for keeping his

Shaksp.

And haughty Britain yields to arbitrary sway. Prior. sword clean; nor believe he can have every thing I never was out at a mad frolick, thongh this is 3. Bold; adventurous; of high hazard. in him by wearing bis apparel neatly. Shaksp. the maddest I ever undertook: here with you, lady

Obsolete. 14. To require; to claim.

mine; I take you at your word.

Dryden. Who now shall give me words and sound
What would these madmen have?
HA'VEN, ha'v'n103 n. 8. [haven, Dutch;

Equal unto this haughty enterprize? First they would bribe us without pence,

havre, French.7

Or who shall lend me wings, with which from Deceive us without common sense,

ground 1. A port; a harbour; a station for ships. And without pow'r enslave.

Dryden. Love was threatened and promised to him, and Ha'ving, håv'ing. n. s.

My lowly verse may loftily arise? Fairy Queen. 15. To be a husband or wife to another. his cousin, as both the tempest and lraven of their

[from have.] If I had been married to him, for all he was in

Sidney.

1. Possession; estate; fortune woman's apparel, I would not have had him,

Order for sea is given:

My having is not much;
Shakspeare. They have put forth the haven.

Shaksp.

I'll make division of my present with you; 16. To be engaged as in a task or em- After an hour and a half sailing, we entered into

Hold, there's half my coffer.

Shaksp. ployment.

a good haven, being the port of a fa'r city. Bacon. 2. The act or state of possessing. If we maintain things that are established, we The queen bebeld, as soon as da ġ appear'd, of the one side was alledged the having a pic- have to strive with a number of heavy prejudices,

The navy under sail, the haven cleard. Denham. ture, which the other wanted; of the other side, the
deeply rooted in the hearts of men. Hooker. We may be shipwreck'd by her breath:

first striking the shield.

Sidney.
The Spaniard's captain never hath to meddle Love, favour'd once with that swe et gale,

Thou art not for the fashion of these times, with his soldiers' pay. Spenser Doubles his haste, and fills his sai 1,

Where none will sweat but for promotion; of the evils which hindered the peace and good 'Till he arrive, where she must pi ove

And having that do choak their service up,
ordering of that land, the inconvenience of the laws The haven, or the rock of love.

Waller. Even with the having.

Shaksp. was the first which you had in hand. Spenser. 2. A shelter; an asylum.

13. Behaviour; regularity. This is still

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I will play on the tabor to the worthies, Blood, cast out of the throat or windpipe, is spit

HAʼZARDRY, håz'ůr-dre. n. 8. [from haz-
And let them dance the hay.

Shaksp.
out with a hawking or small cough; that out of the

ard.] Temerity; precipitation; rash ad

This maids think on the hearth they see, gums is spit out without hawking, coughing, or vo

venturousness.

Obsolete. When fires well nigh consumed be,

Harvey. miting.

There dancing hays by two and three,

Hasty wrath, and heedless hazardry, 4. To sell by proclaiming it in the streets.

Just as your fancy casts them,

Drayton.

Do breed repentance late, and lasting infamy.
[from hock, German, a salesman.]

Spenser. The gum and glist’ning, which with art

His works were hawk'd in every street;

And study'd method, in each part

HAʼZARDOUS, ház'ür-důs. adj. [hazardeux, But seldom rose above a sheet.

Swift. Hangs down,

French, from hazard.] Dangerous; ex-
HA'WKED, håw'kêd.366 adj. [from hawk.]

Looks just as if that day Formed like a hawk's bill.

Snails there had crawl'd the hay.

Suckling. posed to chance.

Grant that our hazardous attempt prove vain,
Flat noses seem comely unto the Moor, an aqui- Hay, hå. n. 8. [from haie, Fr. a hedge.]

We feel the worst, secur'd from greater pain.
line or hawked one unto the Persian, a large and A net which encloses the haunt of an

Dryden. prominent nose unto the Ronan.

Brown.

animal. HA'WKER, håw'kůr.98 n. 8. [from hock,

HAʼZARDOUSLY, håz'ür-důs-lè. adv. [from

Coneys are destroyed by hays, curs, spaniels, or German.] One who sells his wares by

hazardous.] With danger or chance. tumblers, bred up for that purpose.

Mortimer. proclajining them in the street.

Ha'ymaken, há'ma-kår. n. 8. [hay and Haze, báze. n. 8.. [The etymology un- I saw my labours, which had cost me so much

make.] One employed in drying grass 7 Haze, haze. v. n.

known.] Fog; mist.
thought, bawled about by common hawkers, which

To be foggy or I once intended for the consideration the greatest

misty.

As to the return of his health and vigour, were persons.

Swift. To grace this honour'd day, the queen proclaims,

you here, you might enquire of his haymakers. To Haze, håze. v, a. To fright one.
Pope to Swift.

Ainsworth.
By herald hawkers, high heroick games:
She summons all her sons; án endless band HAZARD, håz'ůrd.88 n. s. [hazard, Fr. HAZEL, ba'z'l.102 n. 8. [basel, Saxon; Pours forth, and leaves unpeopled half the land.

azar, Spanish; haski, Runick, danger.] corylus, Latio.] Nut tree.
Pope. 1. Chance; accident; fortuitous hap.

The nuts grow in clusters, and are closely joined
HA'W Kweed, håwk'weed. n. s. A plant.

I have set my life upon a cast,

together at the bottom, each being covered with an Oxtongue is a species of hawkweed. Miller. And I will stand the hazard of the die. Shaksp.

outward husk or cup, which opens at the top, and

when the fruit is ripe it falls out. The species are HA’wses, håw'siz.99 n. 8. [of a ship.] Two

I will upon all hazards well believe Thou art my friend, that know'st my tongue so well,

hazelnut, cobnut, and filbert. The red and white round holes under the ship's head or

Shaksp.

filberts are mostly esteemed for their fruit. Miller. beak, through which the cables pass Where the mind does not perceive connection,

Kate, like the hazel twig,
Harris. when she is at anchor.

brown in hue

Is straight and slender, and there men's opinions are not the product of judg-

As hazel nuts, and sweeter than the kernels. Shak,
HA'WTHORN, hảw'thorn. n. s. [hægðorn,
ment, but the effects of chance and hazard, of a

Shaksp.

Her chariot is an empty hazel nut. mind foating at all adventures, without choice and Saxon.] A species of mediar; the thorn

without direction.

Locke. Why sit we not beneath the grateful shade, that bears baws; the white thorn. 2. Danger; chance of danger.

Which hazels, intermix'd with elms, have made?
The use to which hawthorn is applied in England

Dryden. We are bound to yield unto our Creator, the Fa- is to make hedges; there are two or three varieties

There are some from the size of a hazel nut to of it abont London; but that sort which produces the ther of all mercy, eternal thanks, for that he hath

that of a man's fist.

Woodward, delivered his law unto the world; a lasy wherein so smallest leaves is preferable, because its branches always grow close together..

Miller.

many things are laid open, as a light which other- Ha'zal, hà'z'l. adj. [from the noun.]

wise would have been buried in darkness, not with- There is a man haunts the forest, that abuses our

Light brown; of the colour of hazel.
out the hazard, or rather not with the hazard, but young plants with carving Rosalind on their barks;

Chuse a warm dry soil, that has a good depth of with the certain loss of thousands of souls, most un-

Mortimer, hangs odes upon hawthorns, and elegies on bram

light hazel mould. doubtedly now saved.

Hooker. bles.

Shaksp. Some in their hands, beside the lance and shield,

The hazard I have run to see you here, should Ha'ZELLY, hå'z'l-e. adj. Of the colour of
The boughs of woodbine or of hawthorn held.

inform you that I love not at a common rate. Dryd. hazel; a light brown.

Men are led on from one stage of life to another
Dryden.

Uplands consist either of sand, gravel, chalk,
Now hawthorns blossom, now the daisies spring.
in a condition of the utmost huzard, and yet with-

rock or stone, hazelly loam, clay, or black mould.
out the least apprehension of their danger. Rogers.

Mortimer.
Pope.
The hawthorn whitens.

Thomson 3. A game at dice.

HA'zy, ba'zé. adj. [from haze.] Dark; log

The duke playing at hazard, held in a great
HA'WTHORN FLY, hảw'thorn-fi. n. 8. An

many hands together, and drew a huge heap of gold. insect.

Our clearest day here is misty and hazy; we see
Swift

not far, and what we do see is in a bad light.
The hawthorn fly is all black, and not big.
T. HA'ZARD, bâz'ůrd, v. a. [hazarder,

Burnet.
Walton. Fr.] To expose to chance; to put into Oft engender'd by the hazy north,
HAY, ha. n. 8. [hieg, hig, Saxon; hey,

danger.

Myriads on myriads, insect armies wast. Thomson. Dutch.] Grass dried to fodder cattle They might, by persisting in the extremity of He, hê. pronoun. gen. him; plur. they; in winter.

that opinion, hazard greatly their own estates, and
Make hay while the sun shines.

gen, them. [hy, Dutch; he, Saxon. It
Camuden. so weaken that part which their places now give,
Make poor men's cattle break their necks;

Hooker.

seems to have borrowed the plural from
Set fire on barns and hay stacks in the night,

It was not in his power to adventure upon his own Bir; plural day, dative disum.]
And bid the owners quench them with their tears. fortune, or bearing a publick charge to hazard him- 11. The man that was named before.

Shaksp. self against a man of private condition. Hayward. All the conspirators, save only he,
We have heats of dungs, and of hays and herbs By dealing indifferently mercies to all, you may Did that they did in envy of great Cæsar. Shaksp. laid up moist.

Bacon. hazard your own share.

Sherlock.

If much you note him, Or if the earlier season lead

To HaʼZARD, håz'ůrd. v. n.

You shall offend him, and increase his passion;
To the tann'd hay cock in the mead. Millon. 1. To try the chance.

Feed and regard him not.

Shaksp. Bring them for food sweet boughs and osiers cut,

Nor all the winter long thy hay rick shut.

I am weary of this moon; would he would change. pray you tarry; pause a day or two,

May. Before you hazard; for in chusing wrong,

Shaksp. Some turners turn long and slender sprigs of

I lose your company.

Shaksp.

Adam spoke;
ivory, as small as an hay stalk.

Moron, 2. To adventure; to run the danger.

So cheer'd he his fair spouse, and she was cheer'd.
By some hay cock, or some shady thorn,

Milton. He bids his beads both even song and morn.

She from her fellow-provinces would go,

Waller.
Rather than heard to have you her foe.

When Adam wak’d, he on his side
Dryden.

Leaning half rais'd hung over her.

Milton.
The best manure for meadows is the bottom of HAʼZARDABLE, håz'ûr-da-bl. adj. [from Thus talking, hand in hand along they pass'd
hay mows and hay stacks.
Mortimer. hazard.] Venturous; liable to chance. On to their blissful bowers.

Milton.
Hay and oats, in the management of a groom, An hazardable determination it is, unto ductua-

Extol will make ale.

Swift. ting and indifferent effects, to affix a positive type

Hlim first, him last, hin midst.

Milton.
To dance the Hay. To dance in a ring; or period.

Brown. 2. The man; the person. It sometimes
probably from dancing round a hay HAʼZARVER, hâz'ür-dúr. n. 8. [from haz- stands without reference to any forego- cock.

ard.] He who hazards.

ing word.

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Heave, hève. n. 8. [from the verb.]

Oh heav'n-born sisters! source of art!

Against ill chances men are ever merry; 1. Lift; exertion or effort upward.

Who charm the sense, or mend the heart;

But heaviness foreruns the good event. Shakspeare. Who lead fair virtue's train along,

Let us not burtben our remembrance with None could guess whether the next heave of the

Moral truth, and mystick song!
Pope. An heaviness that's gone.

Shakspeare. earthquake would settle them on the first founda

Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop; tion, or swallow them.

Dryden. HEAVEN-BRED, hèy'v'n-bred. Produced

Proverbs.

but a good word maketh it glad.

or cultivated in heaven. 2. Rising of the breast.

Ye greatly rejoice; though now for a season ye There's matter in these sighs; these profound

Much is the force of heav'n-bred poesy. Shaksp.

are in heaviness, through manifold temptations. heaves HEAVEN-BUILT, hév'v'n-bilt. Built by the

1 Peter. You must translate; 'tis fit we understand them.

Shakspeare. agency of gods.

3. Inaptitude to motion or thought; slug3. Effort to vomit.

His arms had wrought the destin'd fall

gishness; torpidness; dulness of spirit; Of sacred Troy, and raz'd her heav'n-built wall.

languidness; languor. 4. Struggle to rise.

Pope. .
But after many strains and heaves,

Our strength is all gone into heaviness, HEAVEN-DIRECTED, hêv'y'n-de-rêk'ıéd.

That makes the weight.

Shakspeare. He got up to his saddle eaves.

Hudibras, 1. Raised toward the sky,

What means this heariness that hangs upon me?
HEAVE Offering, hève'of-fúr-ring. n. 8. An

Who taught that heav'n-directed spire to rise? This lethargy that creeps through all my senses? offering among the Jews.

Pope.

Addison. Ye shall offer a cake of the first of your dough 2. Taught by the powers of heaven.

He would not violate that sweet recess, for an heave offering, as ye do the heave offering of

O sacred weapon; left for truth's defence;

And found besides a welcome heaviness, the threshing floor.

Numbers.
To all but heav'n-directed hands deny'd;

Which seiz'd his eyes.

Dryden. HE'AVEN, hèv'v'n.103 284 n. 8. [heofon, The muse may give it, but the gods must guide.

A sensation of drousiness, oppression, heuviness, which seems to be derived from heofd,

Pope. and lassitude, are signs of a too plentiful meal.

Arbuthnot. the places overhead, Saxon.]

HE'AVENLY,hey'v'n-le. adj. [from heaven.] 1. The regions above; the expanse of the 1. Resembling heaven; supremely ex

4. Oppression; crusk; affliction: as, the

heaviness of taxes. sky.

cellent. A station like the herald Mercury,

As the love of heaven makes one heavenly, the 5. Dcepness or richness of soil.
New lighted on a heaven kissing hili. Shakspeare. love of virtue virtuous, so doth the love of the world

As Alexandria exported many commodities, so it Thy race in time to come make one become worldly.

Sidney.

received some, which, by reason of the fatness and Shall spread the conquests of imperial Rome;

Not Maro's muse, who sung the mighty man;

heaviness of the ground, Égypt did not produce; such Rome, whose ascending tow'rs shall heav'n invade, Nor Pindar's heav'nly lyre, nor Horace when a

as metals, wood, and pitch.

Arbuth not.
Involving earth and ocean in her shade. Dryden.

Dryden. HE'AVY, hèv'vė. 23* adj. [heafig, Sax.] The words are taken more properly for the air [2. Celestial; inhabiting heaven.

1. Weighty; ponderous; tending strongly and ether than for the heavens.

Raleigh. Adoring first the genius of the place,

to the centre; contrary to light. This act, with shouts heav'n high, the friendly band

Then earth, the mother of the heav'nly race. Dryd. Mersennus tells us, that a little child, with an

HE'AVENLY, hév'v'n-le. adv.
Dryden.

engine of an hundred double pulleys, might move Applaud. Some fires may fall from heav'n. Temple. 1. In a manner resembling that of heaven. this earth, though it were much heavier than it is.

Wilkins. 2. The habitation of God, good angels,

In these deep solitudes and awsul cells, and pure souls departed.

Where heav'nly pensive contemplation dwells,

2. Sorrowful; dejected; depressed. And ever-musing melancholy reigns,

Let me not be light; It is a knell

What means this tumult in a vestal's veinsPope.

For a light wife doth make a heavy husband. Shak. That summops thee to heaven or to hell. Shaksp.

2. By the agency or influence of heaven. 3. Grievous; oppressive; afflictive. These, the late Heav'n banish'd host, left desert utmost bell, Milt.

Truth and peace and love shall ever shine

Menelaus bore an heavy hand over the citizens, About the supreme throne All yet left of that revolted rout,

having a malicious mind.

2 Mac. Heav'n fall'n, in station stood, or just array, Of him, whose happy making sight alone,

Let not your cars despise my tougue for ever, Sublime with expectation.

Milton.
Our heav'nly guided soul shall climb. Millon. Which shall possess them with the heaviest sound

That ever yet they heard.

Shakspeare. 3. The supreme power; the sovereign of HE'AVENWARD, hév'v’n-wård. adv. [hea

If the cause be not good, the king himself hath a heaven.

ven and beard, Saxon.] Toward

heavy reckoning to make.

Shakspeare.
Now heaven help him!
Shakspeare, heaven.

Pray for this good man, and for his issue, The will

I prostrate lay,

Whose heavy hand hath bow'd you to the grave, And high permission of all-ruling heav'n By various doubts impelld, or to obey,

And beggar'd yours for ever.

Shakspeare. Left him at large.

Milton. Or to object; at length, my mournful look

Chartres, at the levee, The prophets were taught to know the will of

Heav'nward erect, determined, thus I spoke. Prior.

Tells with a sncer the tydings heavy. Swift.
God, and thereby instruct the people, and enabled HE'AVILY, hèv'e-le. adv. [from heavy.]

4. Wanting alacrity; wanting briskness to prophesy, as a testimony of their being sent by

of appearance. 1. With great ponderousness.

heaven,

Temple. 2. Grievously; afflictively.

My heavy eyes, you say, confess 4. The pagan gods; the celestials.

A heart to love and grief inclined.

Prior. Take physic, pomp;

Ease must be impracticable to the envious: they Expose thyself to feel wbat wretches feel, lie under a double misfortune; common calamities 5. Wanting spirit or rapidity of sentiment;

upanimated. That thou may'st shake the superflux to them,

and common blessings fall heavily upon them.
And show the heavens more just. Shakspeare.

Collier. A work was to be done, a heavy writer to be en- They can judge as fitly of his worth, 13. Sorrowfuily; with grief.

couraged, and accordingly many thousand copies
As I can of those mysteries which heaven

I came hither to transport the tydings,

were bespoke.

Swift.
Will not have earth to know.

Shakspeare. Which I have heavily borne. Shakspeare. 6. Wanting activity; indolent; lazy.
Heav'ns! what a spring was in his arm, to throw! This O'Neil took very heavily, because his condi- Fair, tall, his limbs with due proportion join'd;
How high he held his shield, and rose at every tion in the army was less pleasant to him. Clarend. But of a heary, dull, degenerate mind,

Dryden. blow,

Dryden. 4. With an air of dejection.

7. Drowsy; dull; torpid. 5. Elevation; sublimity,

Why looks your grace so heavily to-day?

Peter and they that were with him were heavy 0, for a muse of fire, that would ascend

-0, I have past a miserable night. Shakspeare.

with sleep.

Luke. The brightest heav'n of invention. Shakspeare. HE'AVINESS, héy've-nes. 6. It is often used in composition.

8. [from 8. Slow; sluggish.

But let thy spiders that suck up thy venom, heavy.] HEAVEN-BEGOT, hév'v'n-be-gôť. Begoti. Ponderousness; the quality of being 9. Stupid; foolish.

And heary gaited roads lie in their way. Shaksp. by a celestial power.

heavy; weight. If I am heav'n-begot, assert your son

This heary headed revel, east and west

The subject is concerning the heaviness of several By some sure sign.

Dryden.

Makes us traduc'd, and taxid of other nations Shak.

bodies, or the proportion that is required betwixt I would not be accounted so base minded, or HEAVEN-BORN, hêv'v'n-horn. Descended

any weight and the power which may move it. heavy headed, that I will confess that any of them from the celestial regions; native of

Wilkins.

is for valour, power, or fortune better than myself. heaven. 2. Dejection of mind; depression of spirit.

Knolles, If once a fever fires bis sulphurous blood,

We are, at the hearing of some, more inclined 10. Burdensome; troublesome; tedious. In ev'ry fit he feels the hand of God,

unto sorrow and heaviness; of some more mollified, I put into thy hands what has been the diversion
And heav'n-born flame.
Dryden. and softened in mind.

Hooker. of some of my idle and heavy hours. Locke.

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When alone, your time will not lie heavy upon HE'CTICAL, hêk'te-kål.? adj. [hectique, 1 To Hedge, hédje. v.a. [from the noun. your hands for want of some trifling amusement. HE'CTick, hêk'ulk.509 ] Fr. from öğes.] 1. To enclose with a hedge, or fenced

Swift. il. Loaded; incumbered; burdened. 1. Habitual; constitutional.

wood dry or growing. Hearing that there were forces coming against

This word is joined only to that kind of fever Hedge thy possession about with thoras. Eceles. him, and not willing that they should find his men

which is slow and continual, and ending in a con- Those alleys must be hedged at both ends, to keep

sumption, is the contrary to those fevers which arise out the wind. heavy and laden with booty, he returned unto Scot

Baren land.

Bacon.

from a plethora, or too great fulness from obstruc- 2. To obstruct. tion. It is attended with too lax a state of the

I will hedge up thy way with thorns.

Нас 12. Not easily digested; not light to the excretory passages, and generally those of the skin; 13. To encircle for defence. stomach. whereby so much runs off as leaves not resistance

England, hedg'd in with the main, Such preparations as retain the oil or fat, are enough in the contractile vesssels to keep them

That water-walled bulwark, still secure most heavy to the stomach, which makes baked sufficiently distended, so that they vibrate oftener,

And confident from foreign purposes. Shekip meat hard of digestion. Arbuthnot. agitate the fluids the more, and keep them thin and

There's such divinity doth hedge a king, hot.

Quincy. 13. Rich in soil; fertile: as, heavy lands.

That treason can but peep to what it would. Shake

A hectick fever hath got hold 14. Deep; cumbersome: as, heavy roads. of the wbole substance, not to be controul'd.

4. To shut up within an enclosure.

It must not be paid and exported in ready mores; Hea'vy, hév'vė. adv.

Donne. As an adverb it is 2. Troubled with a morbid heat.

so says our law: but that is a law to hedge in the only used in composition; heavily.

cuckow, and serves for no purpose: for if we er Your carriages were heavy laden; they are a bur

No hectick student scars the gentle maid. Taylor.

port not goods, for which our merchants have money den to the weary beast.

Isaiah.
HE'CTIOk, hêk'tik n.8. A hectick fever.

due to them, how can it be paid by bills of exchange. Come unto me all ye that labour and are heavy

Like the hectick in my blood he rages, laden, and I will give you rest.

Matther. And thou must cure me.

Shakspeare. 5. To force into a place already full

. This HEBDOMAD, héb’dó-måd. n. 8. [heb- HE'otor, hèk'tür.418 166 n. 8. [from the

seems to be mistaken for edge. To edge domas, Latin.] A week; a space of name of Hector, the great Homeric war

in, is to put in by the way seven days. riour.] A bully; a blustering, turbu

least room; but hedge may signify to Computing by the medical month, the first hebdo- lent, pervicacious, noisy fellow.

thrust in with difficulty, as into a hedge. mad or septenary consists of six days, seventeen Those usurping hectors, who pretend to honour hours and a half.

You forget yourself
Brown. without religion, think the charge of a lye a blot

Shaksp, Jul. Class

To hedge me in.

not to be washed out but by blood. HEBDOMADAL, heb-dôm'a-dál.5182 adj.

South.

When I was hasty, thou delayd'st me longer: HEBDOMADARY, heb-dôm'â-dår-e. [from

We'll take one cooling cup of nectar,
And drink to this celestial hector.

Prior.

I prythee, let me hedge one moment more hebdomas, Latin.] Weekly; consisting To HE'CTOR, hêk'tür. v. a. [from the

Into thy promise; for thy life preservd. Dryden. of seven days.

When you are sent on an errand, be sure to hedge noun.] To threaten; to treat with in- in some business of your own. As for hebdomadal periods, or weeks, in regard of their sabbaths, they were observed by the Hebrews.

solent authoritative terms.

To HEDGE, hédje. v. n. To shift

; to hide Brown.

They reckon they must part with honour together the head. To HE'BETATE, héb'è-tate. v.a. [he. with their opinion, if they suffer themselves to be

I myself sometimes, hiding mine bonou in my hectored out of it.

Gov. of Tongue. beto, Latin; hebeter, French.] To dull; The weak low spirit fortune makes her slave;

necessity, am fain to shuffle, to hedge, and to lurch.

Shakspeare to blunt; to stupify.

But she 's a drudge, when hector'd by the brave. The eye, especially if hebetated, might cause the

Dryden. HEDGE-BORN, hédje'bỏrn. adj. [hedge and same perception.

Harvey.

An honest man, when he came home at night, born.] Of no known birth; meanly born. Beef may confer a robustness on the limbs of my found another fellow domineering in his family, hec- He then, that is not furnish'd in this sort, son, but will hebetate and clog his intellectuals. toring his servants, and calling for supper. Arbuth. Doth but usurp the sacred name of knight

, Arbuthnot and Pope. T. HE'CTOR, hek'tür. v.n. To play the And should, if I were worthy to be judge

, HEBETATION, héb-e-ta'shủn. n. 8. [from

bully; to bluster.

Be quite degraded, like a hedge-born swain, hebetate.]

They have attacked me, some with piteous moans

That doth presume to boast of gentle blood. Skals 1. The act of dulling.

and outeries, others grinning and only shewing their HEDGE-OKEEPER, hédje-krée pår. 9.8.

teeth, others ranting and hectoring, others scolding 2. The state of being dulled.

and reviling.

[hedge and creen.] ‘One that skulks

Stilling fleet. He'betyde, héb'e-túde. n. 8. [hebetudo, One would think the hectoring, the storming, the

under hedges for bad purposes. Lat. Dulness; obtuseness; bluntness. sullen, and all the different species of the angry, HEDGE-FUMITORY, hědje-fu'me-tur-c. m.

should be cured. The pestilent seminaries, according to their

Spectator

A plant; fumaria sepium. Ainsworth.

Don Carlos made her chief director, grossness or subtilty, activity or hebetude, cause

That she might o'er the servants hector.

HEDGE-HOG, hédje'hôg. 1. s. [hedge and more or less truculent plagues. Harvey.

Swift.

hog; erinaceus.] He'braism, héb’rd-Ism.336 n. 8.[hebraisme, Hedera'ceous, hed-er-a'shús. adj. [hede. 1. An animal set with prickles, like thorns French; hebraismus, Latin.] A He

raceus, Latin.] Producing ivy. “Dict. A He- HEDGE, hédje. n.8. [hegge, Saxon.]

in a hedge. brew idiom.

Like hedge-hogs, which Milton has infused a great many Latinisms, as A fence made round grounds with prick-

Lie tumbling in my bare-foot way, and mount well as Græcisms, and sometimes Hebraisms, into ly bushes, or woven twigs.

Their pricks at my foot-fall. Shakweare. Spectator. It is a good wood for fire, if kept dry; and is very

Few have belief to swallow, or hope enough to HE'BRAIST, heb'rå-ist.603 n. 8. [hebræus,

useful for stakes in hedges.

Mortimer.
experience, the collyrium of Albertus

; that is to The gardens unfold variety of colours to the eye

make one see in the dark: get thus much, according Lat.] A man skilled in Hebrew. every morning, and the hedges' breath is beyond all

unto bis receipt, will the right eye of an kedganhong

, HE'BRICIAN, he-brish'ân. n. 8. [from He- perfume.

Pope. boiled in oil, and preserved in å brazen vessel

, efbrew.] One skilful in Hebrew.

Through the verdant maze
The words are more properly taken for the air or Of sweet-hriar hedges I pursue my walk. Thomson.

The hedge-hog hath his backside and flanks thick ether than the heavens, as the best hebricians un- Hedge, hédje, prefixed to any word, notes

set with strong and sharp prickles; and besides

, by derstand them.

Raleigh. something mean, vile, of the lowest

the help of a muscle, The nature of the Hebrew verse, as the meanest

class; perhaps from a hedge, or hedge-

globular figure, and so withdraw his whole under hebrician kooweth, consists of uneven feet. Peacham.

part, head, belly, and legs, within his thicket of born man, a man without any known

prickles.

Ray. HE'CATOMB, hek'a-toom. n. 8. Checatombe,

place of birth.

2. A term of reproach. French; εκατόμβη.] Α sacrifice of a

There are five in the first shew: the pedant, the

Did'st thou not kill this king? hundred cattle.

braggart, the hedge-priest, the fool, and the boy. In rich men's homes

Shakspeare. - Do'st grant me, hedge-hog?

Shakspeare I bid kill some beasts, but no hecatombs;

The clergy do much better than a little hedge, 3. A plant; trefoil; medica echinata. dire, None starve, none surfeit so. Donne. contemptible, illiterate vicar can be presumed to do? 4. The globe-fish; orbis echinatus

. din. One of these three is a whole hecatomb,

Saift

, HEDGE-HYSSOP, hedje-hiz'zip And therefore only one of them shall die. Dryden. A person, who, by his style and literature, seems Her triumphant sons in war succeed, to have been the corrector of a hedge-press in Little

[hedge and hyssop.] A species of wil. And slaughtered hecatombs around him bleed. Add.

Britain, proceeded gradually to an author Swift. lowort; gratiola.

can contact himself into 2

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earth, as tile and stone, yieldeth any moss or her by

Here nature first begins

Hereby', here-bi'. adv. [here and by.] By
Bacon. Her farthest verge.

Milton. substance.

this.

How wretched does Prometheus' state appear, HERD, herd. n. 8. [heord, Saxon.]

While he his second mis’ry suffers here! Cowley.

In what estate the fathers rested, which were 1. A number of beasts together. It is

To day is ours, we have it here,

Cowley.

dead before, it is not hereby either one way or other peculiarly applied to black cattle. 2. In the present state.

determined.

Hooker.

Hereby the Moors are not excluded by beauty: Flocks and herds are sheep and oxen

Thus shall you be happy here, and more happy

there being in this description no consideration of hereafter.

Bacon. colours.

Brown.
Not a wild and wanton herd, 3. It is used in making an offer or attempt. The acquisition of truth is of infinite concernment, Or race of youthful and unhandled colts,

Then here's for earnest:

hereby we become acquainted with the nature of Fetching mad bounds.

Shaksp. 'Tis finish'd.

Dryden. things.

Watts.
There fiod a herd of heifers, wand'ring o'er 4. In drinking a health.

HERE'DITABLE, he-réd'e-ta-bl. adj. hæres, The neighbouring hill, and drive them to the shore.

Here's to thee, Dick.

Cowley.
Addison.

Latin. Whatever may be occupied as

However, friend, here's to the king, one cries;
2. A company of men, in contempt or de- To him who was the king, the friend replies. Prior.

inheritance. testation.

5. It is often opposed to there; in one

Adam being neither a monarch, nor bis imaginary

monarchy hereditable, the power which is now in the Survey the world, and where one Cato shines, place, distinguished from another.

world is not that which was Adam's, Dryden.

Locke.
Count a degenerate herd of Catilines.

Good night, mine eyes do itcb; I do not remember where ever God delivered his Doth that bode weeping?

HE'REDITAMENT, hé-ré-dit'å-ment. n. oracles by the multitude, or nature truth by the

'Tis neither here for there.

Shaksp. [liæredium, Lat.] A law term denoting herd,

Locke. We are come to see thee fight, to see thee foigne,

inheritance, or hereditary estate,
3. It anciently signified a keeper of cattle, to see thee traverse, to see thee here, to see thee and in Scotland it is still used. [hýrd,

HERE'DITARILY, he-réd'e-tåré-lé. adv. there,

Shaksp. Then this, then that man's aid they crave, im-

[from hereditary.] By inheritance. Sax.] A sense still retained in compo

plore;

Here is another, who thinks one of the greatest sition: as, goatherd.

Post here for help, seek there their followers. Dan. glories of his father was to have distinguished and To Herd, herd. v. n. [from the noun.]

I would have in the heath some thickets made loved you, and who loves you heredilærily. 1. To run in herds or companies. only of sweet-briar, and honey-suckle, and some

Pope to Swift. Weak women should, in danger, herd like deer.

wild vine amongst; and the ground set with violets; HEREDITARY, hé-réd'e-tå-re. adj. Dryden. for these are sweet, and prosper in the shade; and

Thereditaire, Fr. hereditarius, Lat.] PosIt is the nature of indigency, like common danger,

these to be in the heath here and there, not in order.

Bacon. sessed or claimed by right of inherito endear men to one another, and make them herd together, like fellow-sailors in a storm, Norris.

The devil might perhaps, by inward suggestions, tance; descending by inheritance. 2. To associate; to become one of any have drawn in here and there a single proselyte.

To thee and thine, hereditary ever,

Government of the Tongue. Remain this ample third of our fair kingdom. Shak. number or party. Your city, after the dreadful fire, was rebuilt, not

These old fellows
I'll herd among his friends, and scem

presently, by raising continued streets; but at first Have their ingratitude in them hereditary. Shaksp. One of the number.

Addison
here a house, and there a house, to which others by

He shall ascend,
Run to towns, to herd with knaves and fools,

degrees were joined.

Sprat. The throne hereditary, and bound his reign
And undistinguish'd pass among the crowd. Walsh. He that rides post through a country, may be With earth's wide bounds, his glory with the hea-
To HERD, herd. v. a. To throw or put

Milton. able to give some loose description of here a moun- into a herd.

tain and there a plain, here a morass and there a Thus while the mute creation downward bend The rest,

river, woodland in one part, and sayanas in another. Their sight, and to their earthly mother tend,

Locke. However great we are, honest and valiant,

Man looks aloft, and with erected eyes
Are herded with the vulgar. Ben Jonson. 6. Here seemns, in the following passage, Beholds his own hereditary skies. Dryden.
HE'RDGROOM, hård'gróðm. n. 8. [herd

When beroick verse bis youth shall raise, to mean this place.

Dryden.

And form it to hereditary praise.

Bid them farewel, Cordelia, though unkind;
and groom.] A kecper of herds. Not in use.

Thou losest here, a better where to find. Shaksp. Herei'n, here-in'. adv. [here and in.] In
But who shall judge the wager won or lost? HEREA BO'Uts, here'd-bóůts. adv. [here

this. That shall yonder herdgroom, and none other. and about.] About this place.

How highly soever it may please them with words Spenser. I saw hereabouts nothing remarkable, except Au

of truth to extol sermons, they shall not herein offend us.

Hooker, HE'RDMAN, hérd'mån.

Addison. 88 n. 8. [herd , gustus's bridge.

My best endeavours shall be done herein. Shak. HEREAFTER, hère-åf'tůr, adv. [here and

Since truths, absolutely necessary to salvation, and man.} One employed in tending after.]

are so clearly revealed that we cannot err in them, herds: formerly, an owner of herds. d. In time to come; in futurity.

unless we be notoriously wanting to ourselves, hereA herdsman rich, of much account was he,

How worthy he is, I will leave to appear here

in the fault of the judgment is resolved into a preIn whom no evil did reiga, or good appear. Sidney.

cedent default in the will.

South. after, rather than story him in his own hearing. And you, enchantment,

Shaksp. HEREI'NTO, hère-in'tó. adv. [here and
Worthy enough a herdsman, if e'er thou

The grand-child, with twelve sons increasid, de- These rural latches to his entrance open,

into.] Into this.

parts
I will devise a cruel death to thee, Shaksp.

Because the point about which we strive is the
From Canaan, to a land hereafler call'd Scarce themselves know how to hold

Egypt.

Milton.

quality of our laws, our first entrance hereinto canA sheepbook, or have learn'd ought else the least

not better be made than with consideration of the

Hereafler be from war shall come,
That to the faithful herdsman's art belongs. Milt.

Hooker,

nature of law in general. And bring his Trojans peace.

Dryden.
There oft the Indian herdsman, shunning heat, 2. In a future state.

HEREO'F, hère-ot'. adv. [here and of.] Shelters in cool, and tends his pastucing berd, At loop-boles cut through thickest shade.

From this; of this.
Milton

You shall be happy here, and more happy here-
So stands a Thracian herdsman with his spear

afler.

Bacon. Hereof comes it that prince Harry is valiant. A future

Shaksp.
Full in the gap, and hopes the hunted bear." Dryd. HEREA'Fter, here-åf'tůr. n. 8.
The herdsmen, round

state. This is a figurative noun, not to Hexeo'n, hère-ôn'. adv. [here and on.] The chearful fire, provoke his health in goblets be used but in poetry.

Upon this. crown'd.

Dryden.
When their herdsmen could not agree, they part- 'T'is the divinity that stirs within us;

If we should strictly insist hereon, the possibility 'Tis heaven itself that points out an hereafter,

might fall into question,

Brown. ed by consent.

Locke. And intimates eternity to man,
HERE, here. adv. [her, Saxon, hier,

Addison. Hereo'ut, hère-out'. adv. [here and out.]

I stili sball wait Dutch]

1. Out of this place.

Some new hereafter, and a future state. Prior. 1. In this place.

A bird all white, well feathered on each wing, HEREA'T, hère-ål'. adv. [here and at,] At

Here-out up to the throne of God did fly. Spenser. Before they here approach,

this. Old Siward, with ten thousand warlike men,

2. All the words compounded of here and

One man coming to the tribune, to receive his do-
All ready at a point, was setting forth. Shaksp. native, with a garland in his hand, the tribune, of-

a preposition, except hereafter, are ob-
1, upon my frontiers here, fended hereat, demanded what this singularity could

solete, or obsolescent; never used in Keep residence. Milion. mean?

Hooker. poetry, and seldom in prose, by elegant

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Me he restored unto my office, and him he hanged. He cloath'd himself in coarse array,

Whate'er occasion keeps him from us now. Genesis. A lab’ring hind in shew. Dryden's Fables.

Shakspeare's Henry 12 2. Him was anciently used for it in a neu. HindBE'RRIES, hind'bêr-riz. n. 8. The

He met thee by the way, and smote the hindres tral sense.

Ainsworth. same as raspberries.

of thee, even all that were feeble behind. Desta

Let him retire, betwixt two ages cast, The subjunctive mood hath evermore some con- TO HI'NDER, hin'důr. v. a. [hındrian, The first of this, and hindmost of the last, junction joined with him.

Acciilence.
Hi'MSELF, him-self'. pron. [him and self:]
Saxon. To obstruct; to stop; to let; A losing gamester.

Drodenia to impede.

The race by vigour, not by raunts is won; 1. In the nominative the same as he, only

Hinder me not, seeing the Lord hath prospered

So take the hindmost, hell-he said, and run. Pape. more emphatical, and more expressive

my way.

Genesis

. Hinge, hinje.74 11. 8. [or hingle, from of individual personality.

The whole world shined with clear light, and hangle or hang] It was a sparing speech of the ancients to say, none were hindered in their labour,

Wisdom. [1. Joints upon which a gate or door turas. that a friend is another himself; for that a friend is

If the alms were hindered only by entreaty, far more than himself. Bacon. hinderer is not tied to restitution, because entreaty

Of hear'n arriv'd, the gate self-open'd wide, With shame remembers, while himself was one

took not liberty away from the giver. of the same herd, himself the same had done.

Taylor's Rule of Living Holy.

On golden hinges turning.

Then from the hinge their strokes the gates divorce, Denham. Solitude damps thought and wit; too much com

And where the way they cannot find, they ferce, 2. It is added to a personal pronoun or pany dissipates and hinders it from fixing. Temple.

Denken. noun, by way of emphatical discrimina

What hinders younger brothers, being fathers of families, from having the same right. Locke.

Heav'n's imperious queen shot down from higt; tion.

At her approach the brazen hinges fly, To Hi'NDER, hin'důr. v. n. To raise hinHe himself returned again. Judges.

The gates are forc'd.

Draudet God himself is with us for our captain.

derances; to cause impediment. Chron.

2. The cardinal points of the world, east, 3. In ancient authors it is used neutrally

You minimus of hindering knot-grass made!

Shakspeare.

west, north, and south. for itself.

If when the moon is in the hinge at east,
This objection hinders not but that the heroick She is advanc'd

The birth breaks forward from its native rest action of some commander, enterprised for the Above the clouds as high as heav'n himself. Shaks.

Full eighty years, if you two years abate, christian cause, and executed happily, may be writ

This station gives.

Creech's. Vonilin. 4. In the oblique cases it has a reciprocal ten.

Dryden. signification. Hi'nden, hin’dår.516adj. [from hind.] That 3. A governing rule or principle.

The other hinge of punishment might tum upse David hid himself in the field. Samuel is in a position contrary to that of the

a law, whereby all men, who did not marry by the 5. It is sometimes not reciprocal.

face: opposed to fore.

age of five and twenty, should pay the third part of I perceive it was not altogether your brother's Bears, fighting with any man, stand upon their

their revenue.

Temple

. evil disposition made him seek his death; but a pro- hinder feet; and so this did, being ready to give 4. To be of the Hinges. To be in a state voking merit set a work by a reproveable badness in me a shrewd embracement.

Sidney. himself. Shakspeare. As the hinder feet of the horse stuck to the moun

of irregularity and disorder. Nothing in nature can so peculiarly gratify the tain, while the body reared up in the air, the poet

The man's spirit is out of order, and off the hinga; noble dispositions of humanity, as for one man to

and till that be put into its right frame, be will be with great difficulty kept himself from sliding off see another so much himself as to sigh his griefs, his back,

Addison. perpetually disquieted.

Tillotson. and groan his pains, to sing his joys, and do and HI'NDERANCE, hỉn'důr-ânse. n. 8. [from

Methinks we stand on ruins, nature shakes feel every thing by sympathy. South.

About us, and this universal frame By HIMSELF. Alone; unaccompanied.

hinder.] Impediment; let; stop; ob.

So loose, that it but wants another push struction: with of, soinetimes with to, To leap from off its hinges. Ahab went one way by himself, and Obadiah went

Dryden. another way by himself.

Kings.

before the thing hindered; with to before To Hinge, hìnje. v. a. [from the noun. Hin, hỉn. n. 8. [.:77] A measure of liquids

1. To furnish with hinges. among the Jews, containing about ten False opinions, touching the will of God to have 2. To bend as a hinge. pints. things done, are wont to bring forth mighty and vio- Be thou a flatterer now, and hinge the knee

, lent practices against the hinderances of them, and With the one lamb a tenth deal of flour mingled

And let his very breath, whom thou 'It observe, those practices new opinions, more pernicious than

Blow off thy cap

Shakop with the fourth part of an hin of beaten oil, Exodus.

the first: rea, most extremely sometimes opposite To Hint, hint. v. a. [enter, Fr. Skinner. HIND, hind. adj. compar. hinder; superl. to the first.

Hooker. hindmost. [hýndan, Saxon.] Back- They must be in every christian church the same,

To bring to mind by a slight mention, ward; contrary in position to the face: except mere impossibility of so having it be the hin- or remote allusion; 10 mention imper

derance.

Hooker. fectly. as, hind legs. See HINDER and Hind

What hinderance have they been to the know- Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, ledge of what is well done? Dryden. Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike.

Pope Bringing its tail to its head, it bends its back so Have we not plighted each our holy oath,

In waking whispers, and repeated dreams, far till its head comes to touch its hind part, and so One soul should both inspire, and neither prove To hint pure thought, and warn the favour'd soul. with its armour gathers itself into a ball. Ray. His fellow's hinuerance in pursuit of love? Dryden.

Thomson. The stag

He must conquer all these difficulties, and re- To Hint at, hint. To allude to; to touch Hears bis own feet, and thinks they sound like more, move all these hinderances out of the way that leads And fears his hind legs will o'ertake his fore. Pope. to justice.

Atterbury.

slightly upon.

Speaking of Augustus's actions, he still rememHind, hind, n. 8. [hinde, Saxon, from hin- HI'NDERER, hỉn'důr-år. n. 8. [from hin.

bers that agriculture

ought to be some way kinted nus, Latin.]

der.] He or that which hinders or ob- at throughout the whole poem.

structs. 1. The she to a stag; the female of red

Hint, hint. n. s. [from the verb.] deer.

Brakes, great hinderers of all plowing, grow. 1. Faint notice given to the mind; remote

May. How he slew, with glancing dart amiss,

allusion; distant insinuation. A gentle hind, the which the lovely boy HI'NDERLING, hind'ůr-ling. n. 8. [from

Let him stricty observe the first stirrings and irDid love as life.

Fairy Queen.

hind or hinder.] A paltry, worthless, timations, the first hints and whispers of good and Canst thou mark when the hinds do calve: Job. degenerate animal.

evil, that pass in his heart. Nor Hercules more lands or labours knew,

HI'NDERMOST, hind'ür-měst. adj. [This 2. Suggestion; intiination. Not though the brazen-footed hind he slew. Dryd. word seems to be less

On this hint I spake,

than hind. 2. Chine, Saxon. A servant.

proper A couple of Ford's knaves, his hinds, were called most.] Hindmost; last; in the rear.

She lov'd me for the dangers I had past. Shaksp

. Actions are so full of circumstances, that

, as per forth by their mistress, to carry me in the name of

He put the handmaids and their children foremost,

observe some parts more than others, they take diffoul clothes to Datchet-lane.

Shakspeare. and Leah and her children aster, and Rachel and

ferent hints, and put different interpretations on

Joseph hindermost. 3. [hineman, Saxon.] A peasant; a boor;

Genesis.

them.

Like to an enter'd tide they all rush by, a mean rustick.

Hip, hip. n. 8. [from heopa, Sax.] The And leave you hindermost.

Shakspeare. The Dutch, who came like greedy hinds before,

fruit of the brier or the dogrose. HI'NDMOST, hind'móst. adj. [hind and To reap the harvest their ripe years did yield, Now look like those, when rolling thunders roar,

mo8t.] The last; the lag; that comes And sheets of lightning blast the standing field. in the rear.

roots; Dryden. 'Tis not his wont to be the hindmost man,

The oak bears masts, the briars scarlet kips. Shal.

Eating hips, and drinking watry foam. Hubberd

? Why should you want: Bebold, the earth bath

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They must be continually kept with weeding and Ho'lden, hòč’d’n.103 n. 8. [hoeden, Welsh; 6. To think of; to judge with regard to
hoeing.

Mortimer,

femina levioris fame, Latin.] An ill- praise or blame.
HOG, hög, n. 8. [hwch, Welsh.] taught awkward country girl.

I hold bim but a fool, that will endanger 1. The general name of swine.

To Ho'IDEN, hòè'd'n. v. n. [from the

His body for a girl that loves him not.
This will raise the price of hogs, if we grow

Shaksp. all

One amongst the fairest of Greece, to be pork-eaters,

Shaksp, noun.] To romp indecently.

That holds his honour higher than his ease. Shaksp. The hog that plows not, nor obeys thy call,

Some of them would get a scratch; but we al-

This makes thee, blessed peace, so light to hold, Lives on the labours of this lord of al}.

Pope.

ways discovered, upon examining, that they had Like summer's lies that fear not winter's cold. 2. A castrated boar.

been hoidening with the young apprentices. Swift.

Fairfar.
3. To bring Hogs to a fine market. To To Horse, hòèse. v. a. [hausser, Fr.]

Hold such in reputation.

Philippians fail of one's design.

He would make us amends, and spend some time To Hoist, hoist.

]

To raise up on high. with us, if we held his company and conference
You bave brought your hogs to a fine market.

'Tis the sport to have the engineer hoist up

with agreeable.

Bacon.
Spectator. his own petar,

Shakspeare. As Chaucer is the father of English poetry, so I
4. Hog is used in Lincolnshire for a sheep

Join you with me;

hold him in the same degree of veneration as the of a certain age, I think of two years.

We'll quickly hois duke Humphrey from his seat, Grecians held Homer, or the Romans Virgil. Dryd.
Skinner.

Shakspeare. Ye Latian dames, if any here

Hoise sai], and fly;
Ho'gcote, bôg'kôt. n. 8. [hog and cote.]

Hold your unhappy queen Amata dear! Dryden,
And in thy flight aloud on Cratis cry. Chapman. 7. To receive, and keep in a vessel. A house for hogs; a hogsty.

Auria had hoised sail, and was on his way toward

She tempers dulcet creams, nor these to hold
Out of a small hogcote sixty or eighty load of the bay of Naupactus,

Knolles, Wants ber fit vessels pure.

Millon. dung hath been raised.

Mortimer. They loosed the rudder-bands, and hoised up the
HO'GGEREL, hôg'gril.99 n. 8. A two year

mainsail to the wind, and made toward shore. Acts. 8. To contain; to receive into its capacity:

That man which prizeth virtue for itself, and as, a hogshead holds sixty-three galold ewe.

Ainsworth,

ca pot endure to hoise and strike his sails, as the lons; the sack is too little to hold the
Hogh, hó. n. 8. [otherwise written ho, divers natures of calms and storms require, must grain.
how, or hough, from hoogh, Dutch.] A

cut his sails of mean length and breadth, and con- tent himself with a slow and sure navigation.

9. To keep; not to spill. hill; rising ground; a cliff. Obsolete.

Raleigh.

Broken cisterns that can hold no water. Jer. That can well witness yet unto this day,

What made Absalom kick at all the kindnesses 10. To keep; to binder from escape.
The western hogh, besprinkl'd with the gore,

of his father, but because his ambition would needs For this infernal pit shall never hold Of mighty Goëmot.

Fairy Queen. be fingering the sceptre, and hoisting him into his Celestial spirits in bondage.

Milton.
Ho'GHERD, hỏg lễrd. 7. 8. [hog and father's throne.

South. 11. To keep from spoil; to defend. hýnd, a keeper.] A keeper of hogs.

We thought for Greece

With what arms
The terms hogherd and cowkeeper are not to be The sails were hoisted, and our fears release

We mean to hold what anciently we claim used in our poetry; but there are no finer words in

Dryden, Of empire.

Milton. the Greek,

Broome. They hoist him on the bier, and deal the dole,

12. To keep from loss.
And there 's an end.

Dryden.
HO'GGISH, hôg'gish. adj. [from hog.]

Man should better hold his place

What haste she made to hoist her purple sails! Having the qualities of a hog; brutish;

By wisdom.

Milton. And to appear magnificent in flight, greedy; selfish.

Drew half our strength away.

Dryden.

13. To have any station.
Suspicion Miso had, for the hoggish shrewdness Their navy swarms upon the coasts: they cry

Tbe star that bids the shepherd fold,
To hoist their anchors, but the gods deny. Dryden.

Now the top of heav'n doth hold. of her brain, and Mopsa, for a very unlikely envy.

Milion. Sidney.

Seize hım, take, hoist him up, break off his hold,

And now the strand, and now the plain they held;
HO'GGISHLY, hôg'gish-le. adv. [from hog-

And toss him headlong from the temple's wall.

Their ardent eyes with bloody streaks were fill’d.
Southern,

Dryden.
gish.] Greedily; selfishly.

If’t was an island where they found the shells,

Observe the youth who first appears in sight, HO'GGIShness, hôg'gish-nés. n. s. [from they straightway concluded that the wbole island

And holds the nearest station to the light. Dryden.
hoggish.] Brutality; greediness; selfish- lay originally at the bottom of the sea, and that it 14. To possess; to have.
was hoisted up by some vapour from beneath.

Holding Corioli in the name of Rome,

Woodward, Even like a fawning greyhound in the leash, HO'GSBEANS, högz'benz. HOLD, hold, in the old glossaries, is men.

To let him slip at will. HO'GSBREAD, hogz'bred.

Shaksp.

The castle, holden by a garrison of Germans, he

tioned in the same sense with wold, i.e. HO'GSMUSHROOMS, högz'můsh-rởómz.

commanded to be besieged.

Knolles. HO'GSFENNEL, hôgz'fén-nel.

a governour or chief officer; but, in Assuredly it is more shame for a man to lose that Plants.

Ainsworth, some other places, for love, as holdlic,

which he holdeth, than to fail in getting that which

he never had. HO'GSHEAD, hỏgs'hed. n. 8. [hog and

Gibson.

Hayvoard. lovely.

head.]

TO HOLD, hold. v. a. preter. held; part.

15. To possess in subordination.
1. A measure of liquids containing sixty- pass. held or holden. [haldan, Gothick;

He was willing to yield himself unto Solyman as

his vassal, and of him to hold bis seigniory for a three gallons.

haldan, Sax. henden, Dut.]

yearly tribute.

Knolles.
Varro tells, that every jugerum of vines yielded 1. To grasp in the hand; to gripe; to The terms too hard by which I was to hold six hundred urds of wine; according to this propor- clutch.

The good.

Milton.
tion, our acre should yield fifty-five hogsheads, and Lift up the lad, hold him in thy hand. Genesis. 16. To suspend; to refrain. a little more.

Arbuthnot. France, thou may'st hold a serpent by the tongue,

Men in the midst of their own blood, and so fu2. Any large barrel.

A fasting tyger safer by the tooth,

riously assailed, held their hands, contrary to the Blow strongly with a pair of bellows into a hogs- Than keep in peace that band which thou dost hold. laws of nature and necessity.

Bacon. head, putting into it before that which you would

Shaksp. Death! what do'st? O hold thy blow! have preserved; and in the instant that you with 2. To keep; to retain; to gripe fast; not to

What thou do'st, thou dost got know, Crashau. draw the bellows, stop the hole.

Bacon,

17. 10 stop; to restrain.
They slung up one of their largest hogsheads: I
drank it off; for it did not hold half a pint. Gulliver.

Too late it was for satyr to be told,

We cannot hold mortality's strong band. Shaks,

Fell, banning hag! inchantress, hold thy tongue. Or ever hope recover her again;

Ho'osty, hogʻsti. n. 8. [hog and sty.] The

Shaksp.
la vain he seeks, that having cannot hold. F. Queen. place in which swine are shut up to be

When straight the people, by no force compell’d,

Prove all things: hold fast that which is good. fed,

2 Thessalonians.

Nor longer from their inclination held, Break forth at once.

Waller. The families of farmers live in filth and nasti- 3. To connect; to keep from separation.

Unless thou find occasion, hold thy tongue; ness, without a shoe or stocking to their feet, or a

The loops held one curtain to another, Exodus. Thyself or others, careless talk may wrong. Denh.
house so convenient as an English hogsty. Swift: 14, 1o maintain as an opinion.

Hold your laughter, then divert your fellow-ser-
HoʻGWASH, hôg'wosh. n. 8. Chog and

Swift.
Thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of
wash.] The draff which is given to Balaam.

Revelation. 18. To fix to any condition. swine. 5. To consider; to regard.

His gracious promise you might, Your butler purloins your liquor, and the brewer I as a stranger to my heart and me

As cause bad call'd you up, have held him to.
sells you hogwash.
Arbuthnot. Hold thee from this for ever.

Shaksp.

Shaksp.

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The object of sight doth strike upon the pupil of

Where outward force constrains, the sentence 19. To keep; to save. the eye directly without any interception; whereas

holds; Stay but a little; for my cloud of dignity

the cave of the ear doth hold off the sound a little But who constrains me? Is held from falling with so weak a wind,

Millom. from the organ.

Bacon. .

None of his solutions will hold by mere mechaShaks. Tbət it will quickly drop: my day is dim.

I am the better acquainted with you for absence, nicks. 20. To confine to a certain state. as men are with themselves for affliction: absence

This unseen agitation of the minute parts wil The Most High then shewed signs for them, and

does but hold off a friend, to make one see him holl in light and spirituous liquors. Boule. held still the flood, till they were passed over.

truly.

Pope.

The drift of this figure holds good in all the parts 2 Esdras, 36. T. HOLD on. To continue; to pro

of the creation.

L'Estrange 21. To detain; to keep in confinement or

The reasons given by them against the worship of subjection. tract; to push forward.

images, will equally hold against the worship of ima.

They took Barbarossa, holding on his course to Him God bath raised up, having loosed the pains

ges amongst christians. Africk, who brought great fear upon the country.

Stilling feel,

It holds in all operative principles whatsoever, but of death, because it was not possible that he should

Knolles.

especially in such as relate to morality; in which not be holden of it. Acts, If the obedience challenged were indeed due,

to proceed, is certainly to go backward. South. 22. To retain; to continue. then did our brethren both begin the quarrel and

The proverb holds, that to be wise and love, These reasons mov'd her star-like husband's

hold it on.

Saunderson.

Is hardly granted to the gods above. Dryades heart;

37. TO HOLD out. To extend; to stretch As if th' experiment were made to hold But still he held his purpose to depart. Dryden.

forth.

For base production, and reject the gold. Dryden. 23. To practise with continuance.

The king held out to Esther the golden sceptre

This remark, I must acknowledge, is not so proNight that was in his hand.

Esther.

per for the colouring as the design; but it will held And chaos, ancestors of nature, hold

for both. 38. To Hold out. Eternal anarchy

Dryden Milton.

To offer; to propose. Our author offers no reason; and when aby body 24. Not to intermit.

Fortune holds out these to you as rewards. does, we shall see whether it will hold or no. Locke.

Ben Jonson. Seed time and harvest, heat and hoary frost,

The rule holds in land as well as all other com Shall hold their course.

To continue to do or
39. To Hold out.
Milton.

modities,

Locke, 25. To solemnize; to celebrate.

suffer.

This seems to hold in most cases, Addison. The queen this day here holds her parliament, He cannot long hold out these pangs,

The analogy holds good, and precisely keeps lo But little thinks we shall be of her council. Shuksp.

Th’incessant care and labour of his mind. Shaksp. the same properties in the planets and comets. He held a feast in his house, like the feast of a 40. To Hold up. To raise aloft.

Cheyne. king. 1 Samuel.

Sanctorius's experiment of perspiration, being to I should remember him; does he not hold up his

the other secretion as five to three, does not hold in 26. To conserve; not to infringe.

head, as it were, and strut in his gait? Shaksp. Her husband beard it, and held his peace.

this country, except in the hottest time of summer. The hand of the Almighty visibly held up, and

Arbuthnot on Aliments. Numbers. prepared to take vengeance.

Locke.

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; She said, and held her peace; Æneas went, 41. To Hold up. To sustain; to support Alike fantastick, is too new or old. Pove

. Unknowing whom the sacred sybil meant. Dryden. by influence or contrivance.

2. To continue unbroken or unsubdued. 27. To manage; to handle intellectually. There is no man at once either excellently good Our force by land hath nobly held. Skaka.

Some in their discourse desire rather commen. or extremely evil, but grows either as he holds him- 13. To last; to endure. dation of wit, in being able to hold all arguments, self up in virtue, or lets himself slide to viciousness. than of judgment in discerning what is true. Bacon.

Sidney.

We see, by the peeling of onions, what a holding substance the skin is.

Bacon 28. To maintain. It followeth, that all which they do in this sort

Never any man was yet so old, Whereupon they also made cogines against their proceedeth originally from some such agent as

But hop'd his life one winter more might hold. engines, and held them battle a long season. 1 Mac. knowetli, appointeth, holdeth up, and actually fram

Denhan. 29. To carry on conjunctively.

eth the same.

Hooker. The time misorder'd doth in common sense

4. To continue without variation. The Pharisees held a council against him. Matt.

We our state A while discourse they hold.

Milton.

Crowd us, and crush us to this monstrous form,
To hold our safety up.

Shaksp.

Hold, as you yours, while our obedience holds. Mil. 30. To prosecute; to continue.

And so success of mischief shall be born,

He did not hold in this miad long. L'Estronge. He came to the land's end, where he holding his course towards the west, did at length peaceably

And heir from heir shall hold his quarrel up. Shak. 15. To refrain.
Those princes have held up their sovereignty best,

His dauntless heart would fain have held pass through the straits.

Abbot.
which have been sparing in those grants. Davies. From weeping, but his eyes

rebell'd. Dryden 31. TO HOLD forth. To offer to exhibit; Then do not strike him dead with a denial, 6. To stand up for; 10 adhere. to propose. But hold him up in life, and cheer his soul

Through envy of the devil came death into the Christianity came into the world with the great- With the faint glimmering of a doubtful bope.

world, and they that do hold of his side do find it

. est simplicity of thought and language, as well as

Addison's Cato.

Wisdom life and manners, holding forth nothing but piety, 42. To keep from falling; materially. They must, if they hold to their principles, agrče charity, and humility, with the belief of the Messi- We have often made one considerably thick piece that things bad their production always as now they ah and of his kingdom. Temple. of marble take and hold up another, having purpose

have.

Hale Observe the connection of ideas in the proposi- ly caused their flat surfaces to be carefully ground When Grenada for your uncle held tions, which books hold forth and pretend to teach

and polished.

Boyle. You was by us restor'd, and he expellu. Dryden as truths, Locke.

Numbers hold
To HOLD, 'hold. v, n. My account is so far from interfering with Moses,

With the fair freckled king and beard of gold: that it holds forth a natural interpretation of his 1. To stand; to be right; to be without ex

So vig'rous aje his eyes, such rays they cast, Woodward. ception.

So prominent his eagle's beak is plac'd. Dryden. 32. TO HOLD forth. To protend; to put

To say that simply an argument, taken from man's 7. To be dependent on. forward to view. authority, doth hold no way, neither affirmatively nor

The other two were great princes, though hold. How joyful anú pleasant a thing is it to have a negatively, is hard.

Hooker.

ing of him; men both of giant-like bugeness and

This holdeth not in the sea-coasts. light held us forth from heaven to direct our steps!

Bacon. force.

Sidney Cheyne. The lasting of plants is most in those that are The mother, if the house holds of the lady, had 33. To Hold in. To restrain; to govern Jargest of body; as oak, elm, and chesnut, and this

rather, yea and will have her son cunning and bolt holdeth in trces; but in herbs it is often contrary. by the bridle.

Bacon,

The great barons bad not only great numbers of I have lately sold my nag, and honestly told his

When the religion formerly received is rent by knights; but even perts barons holding under them. greatest fault, which is, that he became such a lov

discords, and when the holiness of the professors of er of liberty, that I could scarce hold him in. Swift. religion is decayed, and full of scandal, and withal

My crown is absolute, and holds of none. Dryd 34. T. Hold in. To restrain in general.

the times be stupid, ignorant, and barbarous, you 8. To derive right. These men's hastiness the warier sort of you doth

may doubt the springing up of a new sect; if then not commend; ye wish they had held themselves also there should arise any extravagant and strange

'Tis true, from force the noblest title springs;

I therefore hold from that which brst made kings, longer in, and not so dangerously flown abroad.

spirit, to make bimself author thereof; all which Hooker.

Dries points held when Mahomet published his law. Bacon, 35. 7. Hold off. To keep at a distance.

Nothing can be of greater use and defence to the

9. To maintain an opinion. mind than the discovering of the colours of good and

Men hold and profess without ever having so Although 'tis fit that Cassio have his place; evil, shewing in what cases they hold, and to what

amined, Yet if you please to hold him off a while,

Shaksp. they deceive. You shall by that perceive him.

Bacon. [10. 7. Hold forth. To harangue

, to

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Of lost mankind, in polish'd slavery sunk, Fair Ascanius, and his youthful train,

Mad frantick men, that did not inly quake!
Drove martial horde on horde with dreadful sweep, With horns and hounds a hunting match ordain. With horn foot horses, and brass wheels, Jove's And gave the vanquish'd world another form.

Dryden. storms to emulate.

Hakewill.
Thomson. 3. The extremity of the waxing or waning [HO'RNOWL, hỏrn'óůl. n. 8. A kind of horn-
HORIZON,ho-rozôn.603 3.8.[ews.Thu moon, as mentioned by poets.

ed owl.

Ainsworth,
line that terminates the view. The ho- She bless'd the bed, such fruitfulness convey'd,
rizon is distinguished into sensible and That ere ten moons had sharpen'd either horn,

HO'RNPIPE, hỏrn'pipe. n. 8. [horn and real: the sensible horizon is the circu.

To crown their bliss, a lovely boy was born. Dryd,

pipe.] A country dance, danced com- The moon

monly to a horn. lar line which limits the view; the real Wears a wan circle round her blunted horns.

A lusty tabrere, is that which would bound it, if it could

Thomson That to thee many a hornpipe play'd, take in the hemisphere. It is falsely 4. The feelers of a snail. Whence the Whereto they daupcen each one with his maid.

Spenser.
pronounced by Shakspeare, ho'rizon. proverb, To pull in the horns, to re- When the morning sun shall raise his car

There many a hornpipe he tun'd to bis Phyllis, press one's ardour.

Raleigh.
Above the border of this horizon, Love's feeling is more soft and sensible,

Let all the quicksilver i' the mine
We'll forward towards Warwick and his mates. Than are the tender horns of cockled snails. Shak.

Run to the feet veins, and refine
Shakspeare. Anfidius,

Your firkum jerkum to a dance She began to cast with herself from what coast Hearing of our Marcius's banishment,

Shall fetch the fiddlers out of France,
this blazing star should first appear, and at what Thrust forth his horns again into the world,

To wonder at the hornpipes here
time it must be upon the horizon of Ireland. Bacon, Which were inshell'd when Marcius stood for

Of Nottingham and Derbyshire. Ben Jonson. In his east the glorious lamp was seen,

Rome,

Florinda danced the Derbyshire hornpipe in the
Regent of day; and all th' horizon round,

And durst not once peep out.
Shaksp.

Tatler. Invested with bright rays.

presence of several friends.
Milton. The morning lark, the messenger of day, 5. A drinking cup made of horn.

HO'RNSTONE, horn'stone. n. 8. A kind of Saluted in her song the morning gray; 6. Antler of a cuckold.

blue stone.

Ainsworth. And soon the sun arose with beams so bright,

If I have horns to make one mad,

HO'RNWORK, horn'wůrk. n. 8. A kind of
That all th’ horizon laugh'd to see the joyous sight. Let the proverb go with me, I'll be horn mad.
Dryden.

angular fortification. Shakspeare

. Ho'rt, hör'ne, adj. [from horn.] When the sea is worked up in a tempest, so that Merchants vent'ring through the main,

the horizon on every side is nothing but foaming bil- Slight pyrates, rocks, and horns for gain. Hudibras. 11. Made of horn.

lows and floating mountains, it is impossible to de- 7. Horn mad. Perhaps mad as a cuckold. 2. Resembling horn. scribe the agreeable horrour that rises from such a I am glad he went not in himself: if he had, he He thought he by the brook of Cherith stood, prospect.

Addison would have been horn mad.

Shaksp. And saw the ravens with their horny beaks
HORIZO'NTAL, hôr-e-zôn'tål. adj. [horizon. HornBE'Ak, hỏrn'beek. n.s. A kind of Food to Elijah bringing even and morn. Milton;
tal, French, from horizon.
HORNFI'sh, hỏrn'fish. S fish. Ainsw.

The horny or pellucid coat of the eye doth not lie

in the same superficies with the white of the eye, but i, Near the horizov.

HO'RNBEAM, hỏrn'bème. n. 8. [horn and

riseth up above its convexity, and is of an hyperbo- As when the sun, new risen,

beam, Dut. for free, from the hardness

lical figure.

Ray on the Creation,
Looks through the horizontal misty air, of the timber.]

Rough are her ears, and broad her horny feet. Shorn of his beams; or from behind the moon, It hath leaves like the elm or beach-tree. The

Dryden. In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds

timber is very tough and inflexible, and of excellent The pineal gland was encompassed with a kind On half the nations.

Milton.

Addison. of horny substance.

Miller.
2. Parallel to the horizon; on a level. HO'RNBOOK, horn'bôôk. n.8. [horn and

As the serum of the blood is resolvable by a small An obelisk erected, and golden figures placed ho-

heat, the greater heat coagulates it so as to turn it
rizontal about it, was brought out of Egypt by Au-

book] The first book of children, co

horny, like parchment; but when it is thoroughly gustus.

Broron. vered with fiorn to keep it unsoiled.

Arbuthnot.

putrified, it will no longer concrete.
The problem is reduced to this; what perpendicu- He teaches boys tbe hornbook. Shaksp. 3. Hard as horn; callous. lar height is necessary to place several ranks of rows Nothing has been considered of this kind out of

Tyrrheus, the foster-father of the beast,
ers in a plane inclined to a horizontal line in a given the ordinary road of the hornbook and primer. Locke. Then clench'd a hatchet in his horny fist. Dryd. angle?

Arbuthnot on Coins. To master John the English maid

HORO'GRAPHY, hó-rôg'grå-f&.618 n. 8. [ho-
HORIZO'NTALLY, hỏr-e-zôn'tål-e. adv.

A hornbook gives of ginger-bread; And that the child may learn the better,

rographie, Fr. ápa and ypáow. An ac-
[from horizontal.] In a direction paral-

As he can name, he cats the letter.

Prior. count of the hours, Jel to the horizon.

HO'RNED, hỏr'něd. adj. [from horn.] Fur- Hu'ROLOGE, hôr’ó-lôdje. n. 8. [horolo- As it will not sink into the bottom, so will it pei-

nished with horns. ther float above, like lighter bodies; but, being near

Ho’ROLOGY, hỏ-rôlb-je.888 gium, Latin.] in weight, lie superficially, or almost horizontally

As when two rams, stirr'd with ambitious pride; Any instrument that tells the hour: as, unto it.

Brown. Fight for the rule of the rich deeced flock,

a clock; a watch; an hourglass.

Their horned fronts so fierce on either side The ambient ether is too liquid and empty to im-

He'll watch the horologe a double set,
pel them horizontally with celerity. Bentley.
Do meet, that, with the terrour of the shock,

If drink rock not his cradie.

Shaksp. Astonish'd both stand senseless as a block.

F. Q.
HORN, nòrn. n. 8. [haurn, Gothick; horn,

Thither all the horned host resorts,

Before the days of Jerome there were horologies,
Saxon; horn, Dutch.]

Denham. To graze the ranker mead.

that mcasured the hours not only by drops of water 1. The hard bodies which grow on the Thou king of horned Boods, whose plenteous urn

in glasses, called clepsydra, but also by sand in

Brown.

glasses, called clepsammia. heads of some graminivorous quadru.

Suffices fatness to the fruitful corn. Pruden: HồROMETRY, hỏ-rỏme-tre.51 HO'RNER, bór'nůr.98

7. 8. [ho

[from horn.] peds, and serve them for weapons.

No beast that hath horns bath upper teeth. Bacon.

On that works in horn, and sells horns.

rometrie, French; ape and uitpow.] The Zetus rises through the ground,

The skin of a bull's forehead is the part of the

art of measuring hours. Bending the bull's tough neck with pain, hide made use of by horners, whereupon they shave

It is no easy wonder how the horometry of anti-
Addison.
That tosses back his horns in vain.

their horns.
Gret.

Brown.

quity discovered not this artifice.
All that process is no more surprising than the HO'RNET, hórénét. n. 8. [hýrnette, Sax. Horo'scope, hôr’ró-skópe. n. s. [horo-
eruption of horns in some brutes, or of teeth and from its liorns.] A very large strong

scope, French; . po TxaT.1 The confi-
beard in men at certain periods of age. Bentley.

stinging fly, which makes its nest in guration of the planets at the hour of 2. An instrument of wind musick made of

hollow trees.

birth. horn.

Silence, in times of sufl'ring, is the best;

How unlikely is it, that the many almost number- The squire 'gan nigher to approach,

'Tis dangerous to disturb a hornet's nest. Dryd.

less conjunctions of stars, which occur in the pro-
And wind his horn under the castle-wall,

Hornets do mischief to trees by breeding in them,

gress of a man's life, should not match and counterThat with the noise it shook as it would fall. F. R.

Mortimer.

vail that one horoscope or conjunction which is found There's a post come from my master, with his I have often admired how hornets, that gather dry

at his birth?

Drummond.
horn full of good news.
Shaksp. materials for building their nests, have found a prom

A proportion of the horoscope unto the seventh The goddess to her crooked horn

per matter to glue their combs.

Derham.

house, or opposite signs every seventh year, oppresa Adds all her breath: the rocks and woods around,

seth living creatures,

Broron, And mountains, tremble at th' infernal sound.

HO'RNFOOT, hòrn'fút. n. 8. [horn and foot.]

Him born beneath a boding horoscope,
Dryden. Hoofed.

His sire the blear-ey'd Vulcan of a shop,

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pot; yet the former corruption is now |HoʻTSPURRED, hôt'spůr’d.369 adj. [from 1. To hamstring; to disable by cutting
generally used.] A mingled hash; a hotspur.] Vehement; rasiv; heady. the sinews of the ham. mixture; a confused mass.

To draw Mars like a young Hippolytus, with an Thou shalt hough their horses.

Joshua.
Such patching maketh Littleton's hotchpot of our effeminate countenance, or Venus like that hotspur- 2. To cut up with a hough or hoe.
tongue, and, in effect, brings the same rather to a red Harpalice in Virgil, this proceedeth from a 3. To hawk. This orthography is uncom- Babellish confusion than any one entire language.

senseless judgment.

Peacham.

mon.

See To Hawk.
Camden. Hove, hỏve. The preterit of heave. A mixture of many disagreeing colours is ever Ho'vel, hồv'il.90 n.8. [diminutive of hofe,

Neither could we hough or spit from us; much less could we sneeze or cough.

Grew.
unpleasant to the eye, and a mixture of holch-potch
of many tastes is unpleasant to the taste. Bacon.

house, Saxon.]

HoʻULET, hóů’lét. n. 8. The vulgar name Nor limbs, nor bones, nor carcass would remain; 1. A shed open on the sides, and covered for an owl. The Scots and northern

But a mash'd heap, a hotchpotch of the slain. Dryd. overhead.

counties still retain it.
HoroO'OKLES, hôt-kók’klz. n. 8. [hautes

So likewise a hovel will serve for a roome Hoult, hóůlt. n. 8. [holt, Saxon.] A coquilles, Fr.] A play in which one

To stacke on the pease, when harvest shall come. small wood. Obsolete.

Tusser, covers his

eyes, a and guesses who strikes

Or as the wind, in hoults and shady greaves,

If you make a hovel, thatched, over some quanhim.

A murmur makes among the boughs and leaves. tity of ground, plank the ground over, and it will

Fairfax.
The chytindra is certainly not our holcockles; for breed saltpetre.

Bacon.

HOUND, hỏúnd.3 that was by pinching, not by striking. Your bay it is mow'd, your corn it is reap'd,

n. s. [hund, Saxun;
Arbuthnot and Pope. Your barns will be full, and your hovels heap'd.

hund, Scotish.] A dog used in the
As at hotcockles once I laid me down,

Dryden. chase. And felt the weighty hand of many a clown, 2. A mean habitation; a cottage.

Hounds and greyhounds, mungrels, spaniels, curs, Buxoma gave a gentle tap, and I

The men clamber up the acclivities, dragging Are cleped all by the pame of dogs. Shakspeare.
Quick rose, and read soft mischief in ber eye. Gay. their kine with them, where they feed them and

Jason threw, but failed to wound,
HOTHEA'ved, hôt'něd-ed. adj. [hot and milk them, and do all the dairy-work in such sorry The boar, and slew an undeserving hound,
head.] Vehement; violent; passionate. hovels and sheds as they build to inhabit in during And through the dog the dart was pail'd to ground. One would not make the same person zealous for

the summer.
Ray on the Creation.

Dryden.
a standing army and publick liberty; nor a hothead- To Ho'vel, hôv'il. v. a. [from the noun.]

The kind spaniel and the faithful hound, ed crackbrained coxcomb forward for a scheme of To shelter in a hovel.

Likest that fox in shape and species found,

Prior. moderation,

Pursues the noted path and covets home.
Arbuthnot.

And was't thou fain, poor father,
Ho'THOUSE, hỏt’hỏnse. 7. 8. [hot and To hovel thee with swine and rogues forlorn, To Hound, hound. v.a. [from the noun.]
house.]

In short and musty straw?

Shakspeare. 11. To set on the chase.

God is said to harden the heart permissively but
1. A bagnio; a place to sweat and cup in. Hoven, ho'v'n.103 part. pass. [from
Now she professes a hothouse, which is a very ill

heave.] Raised; swelled; tumefied. not operatively nor effectively; as he who only lets
house too.

Joose a greyhound out of the slip, is said to hound
Shakspeare's Measure for Measure. Tom Piper hath hoven and puffed up cheeks;

him at the hare.

Bramhall. 2. A brothel.

If cheese be so hoven, make Cisse to seek creeks.

Tusser.

2. To hunt; to pursue. Where lately harbour'd many a famous whore,

To Ho'ver, hův'ůr.165
A purging bill, now fix'd upon the door,

If the wolves had been hounded by tygers, they
V.n. [hovio, to hang should have worried them.

L'Estrange.
Tells you it is a hothouse; so it may,

over, Welsh.] And still be a whorehouse: th' are synonyma.

Ho’UNDFISH, hỏúndfish. n. 8. [mustela 1. To hang in the air overhead, without

Ben Jonson.

lævis.] A kind of fish. Ainsworth.

flying off one way or other. Hoʻtly, hôt'ld. adv. [from hot.]

HOUNDSTO'NGUE, hoảndz'tůng. n.8. [cy

Some fiery devil hovers in the sky, 1. With heat; not coldly.

And pours down mischief.
Shakspeare.

Miller.

noglossum, Latin.] A plant. 2. Violently; vehemently.

Ah, my poor princes! ah, my tender babes! Ho'UNDTREE, hỏůnd'tréė. n. 8. [cornus.]
The stag was in the end so hotly pursued, that he If yet your gentle souls fly in the air,

A kind of tree.

Ainsworth.
was driven to make courage of despair. Sidney.

And be not fix'd in doom perpetual, I do contest

Hover about me with your airy wings,

Houp, hủpe. n. 8. [upupa, Latin.] The
As hotly and as nobly with thy love,
And hear your mother's lamentation. Shakspeare. puet.

Ainsworth, As ever in ambitious strength I did

A hovering mist came swimming o'er bis sight, HOUR, óúr.394 318 n. 8. [heure, French, Contend against thy valour.

Shakspeare.

And seal'd his eyes in everlasting night. Dryden. hora, Latin. ]
The enemy, now at hand, began hotly to skirmish Great flights of birds are hovering about the
in divers places with the christians. Knolles.

bridge, and settling upon it.

1. The twenty-fourth part of a natural

Addison.
Though this controversy be revived, and hotly 'Till as the earthly part decays and falls, day; the space of sixty minutes, agitated, I doubt whether it be not a nominal dis- The captive breaks ber prison's mould'ring walls;

See the minutes how they run: pute.

Boyle.
Hovers a-while upon the sad remains,

How many makes the hour full compleat, 3. Lustfully.

Which now the pile, or sepulchre, contains,

How many hours bring about the day,
Voracious birds, that holly bill and breed, And thence with liberty unbounded fies,

How many days will finish up the year,

Prior.

Impatient to regain her native skies,
And largely drink, because on salt they feed. Dryd.

How many years a mortal man may live. Shaksp,

Some less relin'd, beneath the moon's pale light, 2. A particular time.
HoTMOUTHED, höt'mòůth'd. adj. [hot Hover, and catch the shooting stars by night. Pope.

Vexation almost stops my breath,
and mouth.] Headstrong; ungoverna- 2. To stand in suspense or expectation. That sunder'd friends greet in the hour of death. ble. The landlord will no longer covenant with him;

Shakspeare. I fear my people's faith, for that he daily looketh after change and altera-

When we can intreat an hour to serve,
That hormouth'd beast that bears against the curb,

tion, and hovereth in expectation of new worlds. We'll spend it in some words upon that business,
Hard to be broken. Dryden's Spanish Fryar.

If you would grant the time.
Spenser on Ireland.

Shakspeare, 3. To wander about one place.

The conscious wretch must all his arts reveal,
Ho'rness, hôt'nės. n. 8. [from hot. ] Heat;

From the first moment of his vital breath,

We see so warlike a prince at the head of so violence; fury.

To bis last hour of unrepenting death.
great an army, hovering on the borders of our con-

Dryden.
HO'TSPUR, hôt'spůr. n. 8. [hot and spur.] federates,

Addison, 3. The time as marked by the clock. 1. A man violent, passionate, precipitate,

The truth and certainty is seen, and the mind The hour runs through the roughest day. Shaks.

Our neighbour let her floor to a genteel man, wbo and heady.

fully possesses itself of it; in the other, it only ho- vers about it.

Locke. kept good hours

Taller. My nephew's trespass may be well forgot; It bath the excuse of youth and heat of blood,

HoUGH, hỏk.393 m. 8. [hoa, Saxon. ]

They are as loud any hour of the morning, as our own countrymen at midnight,

Hadison.
A harebrain'd hotspur govern'd by a spleen, Shaks. 1. The lower part of the thigh.

Ho'URGLASS, óůr'glås. n. 8. [hour and Wars are begun by hairbrained dissolute captains,

Blood shall be from the sword unto the belly, and
parasitical fawners, unquiet hotspurs, and restless dung of men into the camel's hough. 2 Esdras. glass.]

Burton. 2. [huë, Fr.] An adz; a hoe. See Hoe. 1. A glass filled with sand, which, run
2. A kind of pea of speedy growth. Did they really believe that wan, by houghs ning through a parrow hole, marks the of such peas as are planted or sown in gardens, and an ax, could cut a god out of a tree?

time.
the hotspur is the speediest of any in growth.

Stilling fleet.

Next morning, known to be a morning better by
Mortimer. To Hough, hồk.382 v. a. [from the noun.] the hourglass than the day's clearness, Sidney, VOL. I.

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[louse and keep.] Domestick; useful to housewife.] With the economy of a 3. For what reason; from what cause. a family. careful woman.

How now, my love? Why is your cheek so pale?

How chance the roses there do fade so fast? Shaks. His house for pleasant prospect, large scope, and Ho'USEWIFERY, hůz'wif-re. adj. [from

How is it thou hast found it so quickly? Gen. other housekeeping commodities, challengeth the

housewife.] Skilled in the acts becompre-eminence. Carero.

4. By what means. HO'USEKEEPING, höůs'kėép-ing. n. ing a housewife.

Men would have the colours of bird's feathers, if

[from they could tell how; or they will have gay skins inHospitality; liberal and plentiful table. Ho'usewifery, hůz'wif-ré. n. 8. housewife.

stead of gay clothes.

Bacon. I hear your grace hath sworn out housekeeping.

Shakspeare. 1. Domestic or female business; manage- 5. In what state. His table was one of the last that gave us an

For hou shall I go up my father? Genesis. ment becoming the mistress of a family. example of the old housekeeping of an English no

Whence am I forc'd, and whither am I born?

You will think it unfit for a good housewife to stir bleman: an abundance reigned, which shewed the in or to busy herself about her housewifery. Spenser. [6. It is used in a sense marking proporr

Hou, and with what reproach shall I return? Dryd. master's hospitality.

Prior.

He ordain'd a lady for his prise, Ho'usel, hỏủ'zél. n. 8. [hus], Sax. from Generally praiseful; fair and young, and skill'd in tion or correspondence. hunsel, Gothick, a sacrifice, or hostia, housewiferies.

Chapman's Iliad. Behold, he put no trust in his servants, how much dimin, hostiola, Latin.] The holy eu

Little butter was exported abroad, and that dis- less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose credited by the housewifery of the Irish in making foundation is in the dust?

Job. charist.

Temple. A great division fell among the nobility, so much To Ho'usel, hdů'zél. v. a. [from the 2. Female economy.

the more dangerous by how much the spirits were noun.] To give or receive the eucharist.

Learn good works for necessary uses; for St.

more active and high,

Hayward.
Both the noun and verb are obsolete. Paul expresses the obligation of christian women By how much they would diminish the present
Ho'useleek, hỏůs'lèék. n. 8. [house and

to good housewifery, and charitable provisions for extent of the sea, so much they would impair the
their family and neighbourhood. Taylor.

fertility, and fountains and rivers of the earth.
Miller,
leek.] A plant.
Ho'USING, hóů'zing. n. 8. [from house.]

Benlley. The acerbs supply their quantity of cruder acids;

7. It is much used in exclamation. as juices of apples, grapes, the sorrels, and house-1. Quantity of ivhabited building.

Samuel.

How are the mighty fallen! leek.

Floyer.

London is supplied with people to increase its inhabitants, according to the increase of housing.

How doth the city sit solitary as a widow! Lam. Ho'USELESS, hóůz'lès. adj. [from house.]

Graunt,

8. In an affirmative sense, not easily exWanting abode; wanting habitation.

2. [from houseau r, heuses, or houses, Fr.] plained; that so it is; that. Poor naked wretches,

How shall your houseless heads, and unfed sides,

Cloth originally used to keep off dirt,

Thick clouds put us in some hope of land, know

ing how that part of the South-sea was utterly unYour loop'd and window'd raggedness, defend you. now added to saddles as ornamental.

known, and might have islands or continents. Shakspeare: Ho'USLING, hỏůs'ling. adj. [from house.]

Bacon. This hungry, houseless, suffering, dying Jesus, fed

Provided for entertainment at first en- HOWBE'It, hỏů-be'lt. adv. [how be it.] many thousands with five loaves and two fisbes.

West, trance into a house; housewarming. Ho'wbe, hòů'be.

Nevertheless;
Ho'USEMAID, hóůs'måde. n. 8. [house and

His own two hands the holy knot did knit, notwithstanding; yet; however. Not in

That none but death for ever can divide; maid.] A maid employed to keep the

His own two hands, for such a turn most fit, house clean.

Siker thou speak'st like a lewd lorrel,
The housling fire did kindle and provide. Fairy Q.

Of beaven to deemen so,
The housemaid may put out the candle against Houss, hóús. n. 8. [from houseaux or the looking-glass.

Swift.

Hoube I am but rade and borrel,
houses, French.] Covering of cloth ori-

Yet nearer ways I know.

Spenser. Ho'USEROOM, hỏús’rôôm. n. 8. [house and

ginally used to keep off dirt, now ad- Things so ordained are to be kept, houbeil not room.] Place in a house. ded to saddles as ornamental; housings.

necessarily, any longer than 'till there grow some Houseroom, that costs him nothing, he bestows;

Hooker.

urgent cause to ordain the contrary. Yet still we scribble on, though still we lose. Dryd. This word, though used by Dryden, I

There is a knowledge which God hath always reHo'USESNAIL, hòủs'sndle. n. 8. A kind of do not remember in any other place. vealed unto them in the works of nature: this they snail.

Six lions' hides with thongs together fast,

honour and esteem as profound wisdon, horobeit His upper parts defended to his waist;

this wisdom saveth them not.

Hooker. Ho'USEWARMING, hous'wår-ming. n. And where man ended, the continued vest,

There was no army transmitted out of England, [ house and warm.] A feast or merry- Spread on his back, the houss and trappings of a howbeit the English colonies in Ireland did win making upon going into a new house. beast.

Dryden. ground upon the Irish.

Daries. HO'USEWIFE, hůz'wif.144 n. s. [house and HOW, hòů.923 adv. [hu, Sax. hoe, Dut.] Howdy'e, hoủ'de-yé. [contracted from wife. This is now frequently written, 1. To what degree.

how do ye.] In what state is your huswife, or husey.]

How long wilt thou refuse to humble thyself be- health? A message of civility. fore me?

Erodus. 1. The mistress of a family.

I now write no letters but of plain business, or
How much better is it to get wisdom than gold;
You will think it unfit for a good housewife to stir

plain howlye's, to those few I am forced to corres-
and to get understanding, rather to be chosen than
in or to busy herself about her housewiferySpens.

pond with.

Pope. silver?

Proverbs. I have room enough, but the kind and hearty

Hovo oft is the candle of the wicked put out; Howe'ver, hóů-év'vůr. adv. [how and housewife is dead.

Pope.

And how oft cometh their destruction upon them? ever.] 2. A female economist.

Job. 1. In whatsoever manner; in whatsoever Fitting is a mantle for a bad man, and surely for O how I love thy law, it is my meditation. a bad housewife it is no less convenient; for some

Psalms.

degree. of them, that be wandering women, it is balf a How many children's plaints and mother's cries!

This ring he holds wardrobe.

Spenser on Ireland.
How many woeful widows left to bow

In most rich choice; yet in his idle sire,
Let us sit and mock the good housewife, fortune, To sad disgrace!

Daniel's Civil War. To buy his will, it would not seem too dear, from her wheel, that her gifts may henceforth be Consider into how many differing substances it

Howe'er repeated of,

Shakspeare. disposed equally Shakspeare.

To trace the ways

Boyle. may be analyzed by the fire, Farmers in degree, 2. In what manner.

Of highest agents, deem'd however wise. Milton,
He a good husband, a good housewife she. Dryden.

Mark'd you not

12. At all events; happen what will; at Early housewives leave the bed, How that the guilty kindred of the queen

least. When living embers on the hearth are spread.

Look'd pale, when they did hear of Clarence' death? Our chief end is to be freed from all, if it may be,
Dryden.

Shakspeare. however from the greatest evils; and to enjoy, if it The fairest among the danghters of Britain shew

Prosecute the means of thy deliverance

may be, all good, however the chiefest. Tillotson. themselves good stateswomen as well as good house

By ransom, or how else.

Milton. 3. Nevertheless; notwithstanding; yet. wives.

Addison.

We examine the why and the how of things. 3. One skilled in female business.

In your excuse your love does little say;

L'Estrange. You might howe'er have took a fairer way. Dryd. He was bred up under the tuition of a tender 'Tis much in our power how to live, but not at

Its views are bounded on all sides by several mother, till she made him as good an housewife as all when or how to die.

L'Estrange.

ranges of mountains, which are however at so great herself: he could preserve apricocks, and make jel

It is pleasant to see how the small territories of

a distance, that they leave a wonderful variety of lies.

Addison. this little republick are cultivated to the best ad- beautiful prospects.

Addison.
Ho'USEWIFELY, hůz'wif-le. adv. [from

vantage,

Addison on Italy.

I do not build my reasoning wholly on the case of